The Love City Pan Dragons and Baby Pan Dragons will perform at their annual Christmas Steel Pan concert in Cruz Bay Park at 6 p.m. Dec. 9.
There will be refreshments for sale at the concert, which is supported in part by a grant from the V.I. Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Call 693-9160 or 693-8807 for more information.

Police cars were lined up Friday morning at Drake's Seat where normally 15 vendors selling T-shirts, tropical drinks and souvenirs would be found. As one vendor tried to set up his wares, he was gently reminded that his permit had been revoked and was asked to comply with the law.
Sen. Alicia Hansen joined Sen.-elect Celestino White, police and displaced vendors, making the scenic overlook on St. Thomas's North Side almost as congested as on a normal business day.
Battle lines were drawn months ago when, in frustration over government inaction, the owners of the land the overlook occupies, the heirs of the estate of Homer Wheaton, withdrew their easement agreement with the government and had their representatives tell the vendors to leave. The easement explicitly forbids commercial use of the area, according to previously published reports.
One vendor, Iris Martinez, asked, "If this is private property, why are we paying [the government] $900 a year to be here?" as she displayed a memorandum of agreement between herself and the Housing, Parks and Recreation Department.
One condition of the agreement reads: "The government will reserve the right to cancel the month-to-month permit without notice." And that is what happened this week when Housing Commissioner Ira Hobson served letters on the vendors Thursday informing them they were to be relocated to an area near Vendors Plaza in downtown Charlotte Amalie.
White, however, said the land isn't private and that he has documents that prove it was deeded to the government in 1947. "The land we're sitting on is government land," he said.
White said a 36-foot-wide strip of land running from the Louisenhoj Castle well past the Drake's Seat overlook was deeded to the government to build a roadway and that the overlook lies within that 36 feet.
"I'm not saying the government doesn't have the right to move the vendors," he said, but he claims it isn't up to the landowners anymore. And, he said, it is time for the governor to step in.
White also claimed that Licensing and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Andrew Rutnik, who earlier this week initiated the action to move the vendors, has a personal interest in getting them out of the area. White accused Rutnik of "working for people who want to buy the property" and said these people are the owners of Mountain Top. "They want to erect a restaurant right here," White said.
Vendors have lashed out at Rutnik, too. For days there have been protest signs up on the portable toilet at the overlook site, and on Friday vendors carried signs disparaging the commissioner.
Rutnik said on Friday that White's charges concerning him are "absolutely not true. There is no agenda on my part, and I have no knowledge of any restaurant, bar or, in fact, anyone who is interested in buying that land."
Calling White "a negative leader who gets involved in rumor and innuendo," Rutnik added, "If he has any proof [of his charges], let him come forward with it."
Rutnik said he has turned the matter over to his enforcement officers.
White and Rutnik appear to agree on one thing. Rutnik, too, said, "it is all up to Government House."
He said he expects at some point to find a suitable permanent new site for the displaced vendors, probably at Vendors Plaza.
On Friday, the Drakes' Seat vendors were not happy with having to move, complaining of having to buy umbrellas and displace taxi drivers who normally park where the vendors are now to be set up.
One vendor said, "It's in a flood zone."

A World AIDS Day memorial and candlelight gathering will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at Emancipation Garden, featuring an address by Pastor Derek King, nephew of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, a choir, a dance group and possibly a steel orchestra.
The candlelight vigil, sponsored by the St. Thomas-St. John chapter of the American Red Cross, is held each year in memory of friends and loved ones who have died from AIDS.
King will speak on "Men Making a Difference," the theme of this year's HIV/AIDS prevention program.
King's career has closely followed that of his famous uncle. He has taught religion and sociology at several Southern colleges, been pastor of many Southern congregations, is active in youth development and teaching "Kingian Nonviolence" workshops, and is an instructor in African American HIV/AIDS Fundamentals, sponsored by the American Red Cross.
The Caribbean Interdenominational Gospel Choir will provide song and a dance ensemble from the Bethel Baptist Church will perform. Tables will be set up around the garden with information from various organizations active in AIDS prevention.
Yvonne Zinicola, local Red Cross chapter manager, said she is still working on more musical offerings for the evening, including, hopefully, a steel orchestra. Data from the Virgin Islands show almost everyone in the territory knows someone whose life has been affected directly, or indirectly, by AIDS.
For more information, call Zinicola at 774-0375.

The St. Thomas Soccer Association announced Thursday the postponement of this year's Leeward Islands Football Association (LIFA) finals, originally scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, to an as-yet undetermined date in January 2001.
The Antigua/Barbuda Football Association, one of the participants, indicated that they were "experiencing difficulties securing U.S. visas and confirming travel arrangements for the National players." They requested "that the tournament be postponed from Dec. 2 & 3, 2000" to "allow for adequate time to acquire visas for the players".
In light of the postponement, St. Thomas Soccer Association men's league action will continue this weekend at Lionel Roberts Stadium. On Friday, the Strikers will play Waitikubuli at 6:15 p.m. and United We Stand Upsetters will play Uprising at 8:15 p.m. On Sunday, there will be a youth game beginning at 2 p.m., followed by a women's game at 4:15 p.m., and two men's game after that. UWS will meet Uprising at 6:15 p.m., and the Strikers will meet MI Rockmasters at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

The threat of a garbage strike got St. Croix trash haulers exactly what they wanted: the ear of the government.
After a meeting on Thursday with Lt. Gov. Gerard Luz James II and Department of Public Works officials, trash haulers backed off their pledge to stop picking up the government’s garbage. Earlier this week, the haulers said they would strike because they are owed almost $1 million by the government and because of a decision by Public Works to cut house-to-house trash collection from two days a week to one.
The representatives of Dan’s Trucking, Paradise Waste Management Systems, Bates Trucking and Fergutrax met with government officials Thursday. According to Lloyd Daniel of Dan’s Trucking, the meeting put everything back on track.
Lt. Gov. James guaranteed the companies that he would see that monies promised to haulers in a March contract are delivered, while Public Works has rescinded its decision to cut back on service. The haulers were concerned that reducing pickups from two days a week to one would mean their crews would have more work to do in less time.
"It was well overdue," Daniel said of the meeting. "We’re satisfied. We’re actually encouraged."
At the meeting with James and Acting Public Works Commissioner Wayne was Assistant Tourism Commissioner Pamela Richards, who explained the impact a strike would have on island tourism.
The threat of a strike follows actual job actions in the summer of 1999 and earlier this year. The 1999 work stoppage ended after James appropriated approximately $420,000 and arranged new hauling contracts. The strike last February saw trash pile up at dumpster sites around St. Croix after more than a week. That stoppage was also resolved after James marshaled the government’s team through negotiations with the haulers.

A mugging on the Christiansted boardwalk has left a cloud hanging over the downtown walkway just a day before its official opening.
St. Croix Deputy Police Chief Novelle Francis said that at about 10 p.m. Wednesday, a man was pistol-whipped and robbed by two attackers. Francis said the victim, a long-time island resident, was carrying a .357 magnum handgun, which was taken from him by the assailants.
The victim was taken to Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital for wounds to the head.
The incident occured not much more than a day before Gov. Charles Turnbull is scheduled to dedicate the boardwalk extension, Friday morning.
The mugging follows at least three robberies on the new section of walkway west of Queens Cross Street, in the part of town heavily frequented by visitors to the island and residents.
The other incidents spurred Turnbull to order more police patrols downtown despite a lack of resources within the V.I. Police Department. However, the department, with the help of downtown residents, has beefed up its bike patrol unit and implemented an overtime program to ensure coverage for downtown.
Francis said the Wednesday night attack came in between patrols of the area.
"We had individuals who were actually casing" the area, he said, adding that he wanted to dispel the rumor that police have not been on the boardwalk. "That’s not true," he said.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for 10 a.m. Friday on the boardwalk at Queens Cross Street.
The recently completed boardwalk addition was the first phase of extending the waterfront walk. Phase IA and II are scheduled to begin during the 2001 calendar year. Phase IA will extend from the new terminus of the boardwalk near the Holger Danske Hotel to the seaplane ramp. Phase II will run from Fort Christiansvaern to Gallows Bay.

Darius Samuel "Dagan" Joseph of William's Delight died Monday, Nov. 27 at Juan F. Luis Hospital. He was 51.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4 in the Hope Seventh Day Adventist Church at the entrance of Estate Bijou. Viewing will begin at 1 p.m.
Burial will be at Kingshill Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Ineta Joseph; daughters, Esterlyn and Tishanie Joseph; grandchildren, De Andre and De Shawn Asson; brother, Charles Joseph; sister, Pearl Joseph; uncle, Robert Joseph.
He is also survived by his aunts, Doris Industrious and Estella Simon; nieces, Sharon. Joseph and Brenda Joseph; nephew, Reginald Joseph; cousins, Esterlyn Walwyn, Jacqueline Joseph, Carly Thomas, Roan Joseph, Lesroy Joseph, Carol Joseph and Albertine Lake; close friends, Robert Vaughn, Deroy Jeremiah, Arrimintha Mondesire, Ernestine Joseph, Geneta Sam, Frank Hackett. Randy Jermain, Arthur Smith. Sister Brooks, Sister Douglas, Mrs. Brooks, Jackie and Naomi; and many other relatives and close friends.
Funeral arrangements are in the care of Thomas Hyll Memorial Funeral Chapel.

The Virgin Islands government intends to move up to 15 vendors at Drake's Seat to a section of Vendors Plaza in downtown Charlotte Amalie on Friday, marking an end to the longstanding selling of frozen drinks, T-shirts, souvenirs and other ware at the historic lookout on the St. Thomas North Side.
The move is expected to come one day after the latest deadline to move the vendors. Government officials have been threatening to relocate the vendors for months.
Licensing and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Andrew Rutnik said Thursday the vendors will move to an area that is now a loading/unloading area just north of the plaza west of Fort Christian and south of Emancipation Garden.
"Effective Friday morning, the vendors will move downtown," Rutnik said. "We will mark out their spots and place them to an area that is ready for them to carry on their business."
He said the previously identified site in Long Bay was simply not ready yet.
"We have contacted Clive Rivers (the vendors' attorney) about our decision and I assume he will be meeting with the attorney general to discuss the relocation," Rutnik said.
Rutnik said Housing Commissioner Ira Hobson was to serve letters on the vendors Thursday informing them of their relocation to downtown.
The estate of the late Homer Wheaton owns the Drake's Seat land. The overlook was built in the 1950s after an easement was granted that the Wheaton estate and the government maintain forbids commercial activity.
Earlier this week, Sen.-elect Celestino White said he would move to have the government reclaim the property by eminent domain in January 2001 when the 24th Legislature takes office. White is slated to be majority leader.

St. Croix’s dilapidated Louis Brown Villas, the territory’s largest housing community, is being demolished to make way for a new mixed-income neighborhood.
The V.I. Housing Authority recently began the demolition of 436 units at the housing community just off the Melvin Evans Highway. Since Hurricane Hugo in 1989, many of the mustard-colored units in the community have been nothing more than empty shells.
The four-phase construction project will cost between $40 million and $50 million, said Housing Authority Director Conrad Francois, and take about four years. The demolition, being done by St. Croix’s Zenon Construction, is expected to take six months.
Once the project is completed, the 80 families currently housed in the 26-year-old development will be living in a mixed-income community of rental townhouse units and single-family units available for first-time homeowners, Francois said.
"We’ll be lowering the density from 436 units to slightly under 300," he said. "We want to replace Luis Brown Villas the way it currently exists with a mixed-income development that includes commercial activity."
The addition of stores and services within the community is an effort to develop a viable neighborhood rather than a place to house low-income people.
"We basically want to get away from building developments that warehouse the working poor and instead develop neighborhoods," Francois said.
The Housing Authority will solicit bids early next year for a firm to develop the project, Francois said. Funding for the demolition is coming from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Hope VI program to eradicate severely distressed public housing.
The remainder is being supplied by V.I. Housing Finance Authority bonds and low-income tax credits, Francois said.

The highest-ranking African-American ever to serve in Congress paid a visit to the Julius E. Sprauve School Wednesday where, fittingly, he exhorted students to "learn, learn, learn."
Fitting not only because of the setting but because William H. Gray III has for nearly the past decade served as president of the United Negro College Fund. "Getting an education is the most important thing that ever happened to me," Gray told seventh, eighth and ninth-grade students.
George Lewis Jr., a graduate of Sprauve School, invited Gray, who owns a home on St. John, to visit the school and speak to students. Principal Shirley Joseph arranged an assembly for students to listen and talk to Gray.
President of the UNCF since leaving the political arena in 1991, Gray said that since the end of "American apartheid" only 16 percent of African-Americans attend historically black college and universities yet these schools accounted for one-third of all African-American graduates.
In 1985 and '86, Gray authored bills instrumental in implementing sanctions against then-apartheid South Africa. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1978, Gray earned a reputation as a consensus-builder and eventually rose to the post of majority whip.
The former Democratic congressman said he has been coming to the Virgin Islands for more than 12 years. Most of that time, he joked, he has taken on Lewis in tennis and though Lewis has beaten him every time, he is determined to keep coming back and play until he wins.
Born in Louisiana, Gray grew up in North Philadelphia, an area so poor, he said, that all of St. John would be considered rich by comparison.
The former congressman's message dealt with what he sees as the four keys to success: Getting an education and having a "Learn, learn, learn attitude" is most important to achieving any goal one may have; If you "think big and believe in yourself" you will be able to accomplish any goal that you have set for yourself; "You have to work hard for what you want; nobody is just going to give it to you."
Lastly, one "should always give back to your school, family, and community and help others. It is a good way to say thanks," he said.
Gray credits much of his success to positive influences on his life. Both parents were educators and conveyed the importance of education to the family. His father was also a Baptist minister and college president. He personally knew people like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. D. C. Wright, and Washington State Supreme Court Justice Charles D. Smith, who encouraged him to expand his life.
There were "great opportunities; doors were opened and I was crazy enough to enter."
Seventh grader Buster Brady asked, "Have you ever been discouraged, and what did you do to overcome it?" Gray said he "kept my eyes on my goals because the goal is stronger than any discouragement. Discouragement does not last forever, and don't be afraid to ask for help" from parents, teachers, or friends. "Keep fighting."