The Association of Concerned Native Virgin Islanders, Inc., will hold a general meeting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27, at the Amerivan Legion Hall in Sub Base.
All members and interested Native Virgin Islanders are invited.
ASSOCIATION OF CONCERNED NATIVE VIRGIN ISLANDERS
The Association of Concerned Native Virgin Islanders, Inc, will be holding a general meeting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27, at the American Legion Hall in Sub Base.
All members and interested Native Virgin Islanders are invited.
All members and interested Native Virgin Islanders are invited.
NATIVE VIRGIN ISLANDERS GROUP TO MEET
The Association of Concerned Native Virgin Islanders, Inc., will hold a general meeting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27, at the American Legion Hall in Sub Base.
All members and interested Native Virgin Islanders are invited.
All members and interested Native Virgin Islanders are invited.
NEW FIREARMS BUREAU HOURS
Temporary hours for the Firearms Bureau effective Wednesday, June 20, to Monday, July 9, will be 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Regular hours will resume at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, July 10.
Regular hours will resume at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, July 10.
NEW FIREARMS BUREAU HOURS
Temporary hours for the Firearms Bureau effective Wednesday, June 20, to Monday, July 9, will be 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Regular hours will resume at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, July 10.
Regular hours will resume at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, July 10.
OLYMPIC DAY RUN SALUTES VOLUNTEERS
The 15th Annual Olympic Day Run will be held on Saturday at the University of the Virgin Islands St. Croix Campus.
The annual event is organized world-wide by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in cooperation with the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF), the world governing body for track and field. This year the IOC/IAAF is coordinating with the United Nations in celebrating the International Year of the Volunteer.
The St. Croix event will include the usual two-mile race, followed by a fun/fitness run/jog/walk around the one-mile loop course, for those who choose not to race. Awards will be presented to the top finishers in the race; to the school with the most participants and the V.I. Olympic Committee Federation with the most participants. Special Olympic Day tee-shirts and official Virgin Islands Olympic Pins will be given to the first 100 participants. Each participant will receive a special Olympic certificate.
Participants will also have the opportunity to purchase a raffle ticket for a trip to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece (one raffle drawing in 2004 at the 18th Annual Olympic Day Run).
"The Virgin Islands Olympic Committee is making a special effort to identify those who have volunteered over the years to keep the Virgin Islands Olympic movement alive and well," said Dr. Marlon Williams, St. Croix Vice-President of the VIOC and founder of the Boys to Men, Girls to Women Foundation. "We want to have as many volunteers as possible, to take part by participating in the run and/or submit their name so that they can be recognized as volunteers and receive their special Olympic certificate."
Hans Lawaetz, president of the VIOC, encourages the involvement of school children in the Olympic Day Runs which are held in St. Croix and St. John annually.
"Without the children to develop into Olympic athletes and the continued support of volunteers, the movement basically doesn't exist," he said.
Olympic Federations have been invited to take part in the event by designating six or more participants to represent the many volunteers who help to make their Olympic sport possible. They have been invited to provide information about their sport by passing out material, showing videotapes, etc. at a special session following the run.
Wallace Williams, of the Virgin Islands Pace Runners, the event organizer, is urging "all those people we see exercising on the roads, the beach, and elsewhere, to take this opportunity to make their workout a special part of the Olympic movement by participating in the Olympic Day Run, which is free of charge."
The Olympic Day Run – St. Croix is a joint effort presented by the International Olympic Committee and the International Amateur Athletic Federation and sponsored by Coca-Cola. In the Virgin Islands it is presented by the Virgin Islands Olympic Committee, hosted by the University of the Virgin Islands St. Croix Campus with the support of the Boys to Men, Girls to Women Foundation, and is sponsored in part by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company and organized by the Virgin Islands Pace Runners.
For more information call: 340-777-0258 or 340-773-5327 or logon to click here.
The annual event is organized world-wide by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in cooperation with the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF), the world governing body for track and field. This year the IOC/IAAF is coordinating with the United Nations in celebrating the International Year of the Volunteer.
The St. Croix event will include the usual two-mile race, followed by a fun/fitness run/jog/walk around the one-mile loop course, for those who choose not to race. Awards will be presented to the top finishers in the race; to the school with the most participants and the V.I. Olympic Committee Federation with the most participants. Special Olympic Day tee-shirts and official Virgin Islands Olympic Pins will be given to the first 100 participants. Each participant will receive a special Olympic certificate.
Participants will also have the opportunity to purchase a raffle ticket for a trip to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece (one raffle drawing in 2004 at the 18th Annual Olympic Day Run).
"The Virgin Islands Olympic Committee is making a special effort to identify those who have volunteered over the years to keep the Virgin Islands Olympic movement alive and well," said Dr. Marlon Williams, St. Croix Vice-President of the VIOC and founder of the Boys to Men, Girls to Women Foundation. "We want to have as many volunteers as possible, to take part by participating in the run and/or submit their name so that they can be recognized as volunteers and receive their special Olympic certificate."
Hans Lawaetz, president of the VIOC, encourages the involvement of school children in the Olympic Day Runs which are held in St. Croix and St. John annually.
"Without the children to develop into Olympic athletes and the continued support of volunteers, the movement basically doesn't exist," he said.
Olympic Federations have been invited to take part in the event by designating six or more participants to represent the many volunteers who help to make their Olympic sport possible. They have been invited to provide information about their sport by passing out material, showing videotapes, etc. at a special session following the run.
Wallace Williams, of the Virgin Islands Pace Runners, the event organizer, is urging "all those people we see exercising on the roads, the beach, and elsewhere, to take this opportunity to make their workout a special part of the Olympic movement by participating in the Olympic Day Run, which is free of charge."
The Olympic Day Run – St. Croix is a joint effort presented by the International Olympic Committee and the International Amateur Athletic Federation and sponsored by Coca-Cola. In the Virgin Islands it is presented by the Virgin Islands Olympic Committee, hosted by the University of the Virgin Islands St. Croix Campus with the support of the Boys to Men, Girls to Women Foundation, and is sponsored in part by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company and organized by the Virgin Islands Pace Runners.
For more information call: 340-777-0258 or 340-773-5327 or logon to click here.
SENATE OKS FUNDING FOR TOWN PARKING GARAGE
June 18, 2001 – Funding for the design and construction of a parking garage and "vending facility" in Cruz Bay was approved by the Legislature in its special session Friday as part of the bill to pay step increases for government workers.
The Senate appropriated $900,000 from the St. John Capital Fund for the project, bringing the total amount available for the facility to $1.2 million, Sen. Almando "Rocky" Liburd said in a release.
Liburd noted that he had secured the initial $300,000 in 1994.
The Senate appropriated $900,000 from the St. John Capital Fund for the project, bringing the total amount available for the facility to $1.2 million, Sen. Almando "Rocky" Liburd said in a release.
Liburd noted that he had secured the initial $300,000 in 1994.
PUBLIC HEARINGS SET ON CASINO APPLICATION
June 18, 2001 — Next week, almost eight months after Golden Gaming LLC filed an application to develop a casino-hotel on St. Croix, the Casino Control Commission will hold public hearings on the proposal.
The hearings, set to begin on Monday and run through Wednesday if necessary, are the culmination of eight months of background investigations into Golden Gaming by the V.I. Gaming Enforcement Division. All casino applicants are subject to a background check before the CCC will approve a project.
Golden Gaming's casino license application is the fourth filed with the commission since 1996; only one has resulted in a casino-hotel being operated on St. Croix.
Golden Gaming’s application is for a Tier II hotel-casino to be built on the east end of St. Croix. For a Tier II hotel, which must have 300 to 1,400 rooms and a 10,000-square-foot casino, the fees are $200,000 for the first two-year license and $175,000 for the one after that.
St. Croix’s first casino, at the Divi Carina Bay Resort, opened in March 2000. A second application, by a Colorado-based company, was rejected by the commission after the company said it would need to add the mandated number of rooms over time.
The third application was from St. Croix businessman and attorney Mario de Chabert. His project, an eight-story, 193-room casino-hotel on his family's property near Sunny Isle Shopping Center, is in limbo because de Chabert is suffering from health problems.
Along with the intensive business management background check, other steps taken before a application is approved include:
— Verification of the project's financial viability.
— A feasibility study to determine if the island can support a second casino.
— Public hearings.
— Payment of remainder of the license application fee.
Those wishing to testify at the public hearings, which are to start at 9 a.m. Monday at the Casino Control Commission building in Orange Grove, should file a written request to do so with the commission by Friday, June 22.
The hearings, set to begin on Monday and run through Wednesday if necessary, are the culmination of eight months of background investigations into Golden Gaming by the V.I. Gaming Enforcement Division. All casino applicants are subject to a background check before the CCC will approve a project.
Golden Gaming's casino license application is the fourth filed with the commission since 1996; only one has resulted in a casino-hotel being operated on St. Croix.
Golden Gaming’s application is for a Tier II hotel-casino to be built on the east end of St. Croix. For a Tier II hotel, which must have 300 to 1,400 rooms and a 10,000-square-foot casino, the fees are $200,000 for the first two-year license and $175,000 for the one after that.
St. Croix’s first casino, at the Divi Carina Bay Resort, opened in March 2000. A second application, by a Colorado-based company, was rejected by the commission after the company said it would need to add the mandated number of rooms over time.
The third application was from St. Croix businessman and attorney Mario de Chabert. His project, an eight-story, 193-room casino-hotel on his family's property near Sunny Isle Shopping Center, is in limbo because de Chabert is suffering from health problems.
Along with the intensive business management background check, other steps taken before a application is approved include:
— Verification of the project's financial viability.
— A feasibility study to determine if the island can support a second casino.
— Public hearings.
— Payment of remainder of the license application fee.
Those wishing to testify at the public hearings, which are to start at 9 a.m. Monday at the Casino Control Commission building in Orange Grove, should file a written request to do so with the commission by Friday, June 22.
BERRY SAYS TURNBULL A CHANGED POLITICIAN
June 18, 2001 – As Sen. Lorraine Berry sees it, her fellow Democrat, Charles W. Turnbull, has kicked off his campaign for a second term as governor.
In a release Monday evening, Berry said she is "astonished at the change that has taken place" in Turnbull in the last six months, "apparently hinged on his desire for another term in office," despite his having promised in his 1998 campaign that he would serve for only four years.
She was especially indignant at the governor's reason given at a press conference earlier Monday for his having met with the Senate majority bloc but not with the non-majority legislators a week ago before announcing a tax windfall of $100 million and his plans to use $30 million of it to bring government workers on step.
"Can you imagine his daring to say he didn't include us in the momentous meeting regarding dispensation of this windfall because he couldn't reach us because of time constraints?" Berry railed in the release.
While lauding the cost-saving measures cited by Turnbull at the press conference, Berry took issue with what she termed his "failure to rightfully attribute the recent windfall obtained from two investors as being responsible for his proposal."
The "one million here, the two million there that the governor saved from austerity measures were obviously used to keep the government payroll afloat," Berry said. "As recently as May and June, the governor told the Legislature the government couldn't afford certain appropriations … It was only when two huge sums were deposited into the treasury that the step proposal became possible."
In a release Monday evening, Berry said she is "astonished at the change that has taken place" in Turnbull in the last six months, "apparently hinged on his desire for another term in office," despite his having promised in his 1998 campaign that he would serve for only four years.
She was especially indignant at the governor's reason given at a press conference earlier Monday for his having met with the Senate majority bloc but not with the non-majority legislators a week ago before announcing a tax windfall of $100 million and his plans to use $30 million of it to bring government workers on step.
"Can you imagine his daring to say he didn't include us in the momentous meeting regarding dispensation of this windfall because he couldn't reach us because of time constraints?" Berry railed in the release.
While lauding the cost-saving measures cited by Turnbull at the press conference, Berry took issue with what she termed his "failure to rightfully attribute the recent windfall obtained from two investors as being responsible for his proposal."
The "one million here, the two million there that the governor saved from austerity measures were obviously used to keep the government payroll afloat," Berry said. "As recently as May and June, the governor told the Legislature the government couldn't afford certain appropriations … It was only when two huge sums were deposited into the treasury that the step proposal became possible."
FRANCKE BROTHERS MAKE THEIR CREATIVE MARKS
June 18, 2001 – Moby and Justin "Dewey" Francke, both graduates of San Francisco's Academy of Art College, distinguished themselves in artistic fields recently on opposite sides of the globe. But it was just a couple more milestones in the lives of these creative brothers who grew up on St. Thomas.
On May 18, Moby Francke received a $3,000 award from the Starr Foundation at the New York Society of Illustrators annual student competition for his oil painting illustration. He received a similar award from the society last year.
Eight days later, Dewey Francke received the National Product Design Award in Taipei, Taiwan, for his design of a disk array, a computer component.
They are the sons of Rosemarie Francke, a longtime St. Thomas artist known for her tropical floral paintings. Now a resident of Ormond Beach, Fla., she attended the gala event in New York where Moby received his award.
Also among those present were former St. Thomas residents Frank and Sonja Peterson, who now live in Massachusetts, where she is the dean of the University of Massachusetts School of Nursing and he is chair of the Bristol County Estate Planning Board; and Gita Roy, of St. Croix and St. Thomas, a University of the Virgin Islands graduate who recently received a master's degree in sociology at Fordham University.
Moby, who graduated this year from the Academy of Art College, also has received recognition for his artwork in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently works for Lucas Productions. On St. Thomas, he attended Sibilly, All Saints and Sts. Peter and Paul Schools. He taught watersports at Caribbean Boardsailing for many years before moving to San Francisco.
Dewey's award-winning design topped 140 international entries in the Taiwan competition. The ceremony was attended by major product designers from throughout the world.
Dewey, who attended All Saints School and UVI on St. Thomas, was attracted to product design at an early age. He purchased his first kit car, a Frazier Nash, and assembled it by the time he was old enough to drive. He was frequently to be seen in the driveway of the family home on Skyline Drive, tearing cars apart and re-assembling them.
His project of cutting the hard-top off a Fiat X19 and refashioning the rear for a radical look made the cover of a Fiat owners' magazine. That was when he decided to study product design in earnest. He enrolled at the Academy of Art College, where he studied industrial design and graduated last year with honors.
He now lives with his wife, Angie, a fellow product designer, in Taipei, where he works at I+U Design.
On May 18, Moby Francke received a $3,000 award from the Starr Foundation at the New York Society of Illustrators annual student competition for his oil painting illustration. He received a similar award from the society last year.
Eight days later, Dewey Francke received the National Product Design Award in Taipei, Taiwan, for his design of a disk array, a computer component.
They are the sons of Rosemarie Francke, a longtime St. Thomas artist known for her tropical floral paintings. Now a resident of Ormond Beach, Fla., she attended the gala event in New York where Moby received his award.
Also among those present were former St. Thomas residents Frank and Sonja Peterson, who now live in Massachusetts, where she is the dean of the University of Massachusetts School of Nursing and he is chair of the Bristol County Estate Planning Board; and Gita Roy, of St. Croix and St. Thomas, a University of the Virgin Islands graduate who recently received a master's degree in sociology at Fordham University.
Moby, who graduated this year from the Academy of Art College, also has received recognition for his artwork in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently works for Lucas Productions. On St. Thomas, he attended Sibilly, All Saints and Sts. Peter and Paul Schools. He taught watersports at Caribbean Boardsailing for many years before moving to San Francisco.
Dewey's award-winning design topped 140 international entries in the Taiwan competition. The ceremony was attended by major product designers from throughout the world.
Dewey, who attended All Saints School and UVI on St. Thomas, was attracted to product design at an early age. He purchased his first kit car, a Frazier Nash, and assembled it by the time he was old enough to drive. He was frequently to be seen in the driveway of the family home on Skyline Drive, tearing cars apart and re-assembling them.
His project of cutting the hard-top off a Fiat X19 and refashioning the rear for a radical look made the cover of a Fiat owners' magazine. That was when he decided to study product design in earnest. He enrolled at the Academy of Art College, where he studied industrial design and graduated last year with honors.
He now lives with his wife, Angie, a fellow product designer, in Taipei, where he works at I+U Design.
