Editor's note: Tourism Commissioner-designate Rafael "Raffie" Jackson issued the following statement through the government's public relations agency, Martin Public Relations:
There has been a great deal of news coverage about my statements regarding two specific tourism issues contained in the five-year economic recovery plan developed by Gov. Turnbull's task force. I want to make sure that my intentions are clear, and from what I've seen and heard in the local media, it could be confusing to the public.
Two issues in particular have caused quite a bit of debate and confusion. Those issues are the proposed "privatization" of Tourism, and the future of the department's off-shore offices. Both of these subjects deserve further explanation and clarification because of their importance and because of the misperceptions that currently exist in the Virgin Islands community about my plans.
First, with respect to the privatization issue, I must clarify what has been reported in some outlets. I am not opposed to a tourism advisory council by any means. There is a big difference between a privately owned tourism authority operating with the government's tax dollars and an advisory council or board of directors which would help create policies, plans and other initiatives with and for the Department of Tourism. Let me point out that none of our peers/competitors have a private sector-owned tourism authority, not even the often-cited Puerto Rico Tourism Company. That organization is still owned by the government of Puerto Rico.
What I am against, for the record, is a tourism authority that is 100 percent owned by the private sector and operated by taxpayer dollars. That does not make sense to me. However, I am not against a Tourism advisory council or Tourism board of directors which would work with the department for the good of the territory's tourism economy.
Now, the situation with the Department's offshore offices continues to be a great source of debate and examination, and that is good. Direct sales efforts to travel agents is a key component to a successful tourism industry. We need to increase the offshore offices' visibility and impact on travel agents and the traveling public. There are definite, clear areas that need improvement, and those improvements are necessary. However, I don't believe that getting rid of the offices at this time is the best way to increase USVI awareness in the states and abroad.
Again, for the record, I am not opposed to the future closings of some of these offices; in fact, I am looking to close at least two of them within the next year or two. What I am opposed to is closing these sales offices at a time when we need to increase our visibility and we don't even have the official Tourism web site available yet to help offset the loss of the offices' work. Now is not the time to pull back and shut down our offices, but to improve them. Yes, some of our current level of spending on rent is too high, and we will remedy that at the earliest possible opportunity. However, again, closing them at this time is not prudent.
I'd also like to point out that these offshore offices are not isolated folly on behalf of the Virgin Islands government. Most of our Caribbean neighbors also have offshore offices in the cities where we are located. In fact, several of our Caribbean neighbors — including the Bahamas, Barbados, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica — are even located in the same specific areas (buildings or blocks) as our New York City and Los Angeles offices. There are valid business reasons why these areas are popular locations for Caribbean tourism boards.
I am not pointing this out to defend excessive spending on rents, but to explain that there was some reasoning behind the original decision to locate in those areas. Perhaps the time has come, however, to re-examine those locations and find nearby offices that cost us less money.
I often hear members of the community making the plea for increased visibility and advertising. Tourism must promote itself in a three-pronged attack: through advertising, public relations and — sometimes most importantly — direct sales. It is through the offshore offices that most of our direct sales take place. Yes, we want to improve the performance of these offices, but closing them is not in my short-term agenda.
I hope this statement clarifies my position on these two issues to all concerned Virgin Islanders who are rightfully interested in the future of tourism in our islands. I encourage that interest and positive input, and thank them for it.
Rafael Jackson
St. Thomas

Editor's note: Tourism Commissioner-designate Rafael "Raffie" Jackson issued the following statement through the government's public relations agency, Martin Public Relations:
There has been a great deal of news coverage about my statements regarding two specific tourism issues contained in the five-year economic recovery plan developed by Gov. Turnbull's task force. I want to make sure that my intentions are clear, and from what I've seen and heard in the local media, it could be confusing to the public.
Two issues in particular have caused quite a bit of debate and confusion. Those issues are the proposed "privatization" of Tourism, and the future of the department's off-shore offices. Both of these subjects deserve further explanation and clarification because of their importance and because of the misperceptions that currently exist in the Virgin Islands community about my plans.
First, with respect to the privatization issue, I must clarify what has been reported in some outlets. I am not opposed to a tourism advisory council by any means. There is a big difference between a privately owned tourism authority operating with the government's tax dollars and an advisory council or board of directors which would help create policies, plans and other initiatives with and for the Department of Tourism. Let me point out that none of our peers/competitors have a private sector-owned tourism authority, not even the often-cited Puerto Rico Tourism Company. That organization is still owned by the government of Puerto Rico.
What I am against, for the record, is a tourism authority that is 100 percent owned by the private sector and operated by taxpayer dollars. That does not make sense to me. However, I am not against a Tourism advisory council or Tourism board of directors which would work with the department for the good of the territory's tourism economy.
Now, the situation with the Department's offshore offices continues to be a great source of debate and examination, and that is good. Direct sales efforts to travel agents is a key component to a successful tourism industry. We need to increase the offshore offices' visibility and impact on travel agents and the traveling public. There are definite, clear areas that need improvement, and those improvements are necessary. However, I don't believe that getting rid of the offices at this time is the best way to increase USVI awareness in the states and abroad.
Again, for the record, I am not opposed to the future closings of some of these offices; in fact, I am looking to close at least two of them within the next year or two. What I am opposed to is closing these sales offices at a time when we need to increase our visibility and we don't even have the official Tourism web site available yet to help offset the loss of the offices' work. Now is not the time to pull back and shut down our offices, but to improve them. Yes, some of our current level of spending on rent is too high, and we will remedy that at the earliest possible opportunity. However, again, closing them at this time is not prudent.
I'd also like to point out that these offshore offices are not isolated folly on behalf of the Virgin Islands government. Most of our Caribbean neighbors also have offshore offices in the cities where we are located. In fact, several of our Caribbean neighbors — including the Bahamas, Barbados, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica — are even located in the same specific areas (buildings or blocks) as our New York City and Los Angeles offices. There are valid business reasons why these areas are popular locations for Caribbean tourism boards.
I am not pointing this out to defend excessive spending on rents, but to explain that there was some reasoning behind the original decision to locate in those areas. Perhaps the time has come, however, to re-examine those locations and find nearby offices that cost us less money.
I often hear members of the community making the plea for increased visibility and advertising. Tourism must promote itself in a three-pronged attack: through advertising, public relations and — sometimes most importantly — direct sales. It is through the offshore offices that most of our direct sales take place. Yes, we want to improve the performance of these offices, but closing them is not in my short-term agenda.
I hope this statement clarifies my position on these two issues to all concerned Virgin Islanders who are rightfully interested in the future of tourism in our islands. I encourage that interest and positive input, and thank them for it.
Rafael Jackson
St. Thomas

Dear Source,
I think our community needs to have more articles or opportunities to put a "human face" on the tragedy that's engulfing us. This is especially true of our young people. I wonder sometimes if they comprehend what it means to kill someone; for someone to die.
The permanence of it. Maybe they need to see the dead bodies in the morgue. Do they realize that the person who is killed or maimed had a future; some potential to do good and, more important, was loved by someone(s) and will be missed.
Maybe they need to spend some time talking with the loved ones of the victims or, as in the case of the young man your paper features, talking with the victims themselves. Will it help to stop the violence if they feel the pain and the love? What will help them to appreciate and respect the humanity of other human beings?
Congratulations on putting a human face on another tragedy.
Rosalie Ballentine

Editor's note: Tourism Commissioner-designate Rafael "Raffie" Jackson issued the following statement through the government's public relations agency, Martin Public Relations:
There has been a great deal of news coverage about my statements regarding two specific tourism issues contained in the five-year economic recovery plan developed by Gov. Turnbull's task force. I want to make sure that my intentions are clear, and from what I've seen and heard in the local media, it could be confusing to the public.
Two issues in particular have caused quite a bit of debate and confusion. Those issues are the proposed "privatization" of Tourism, and the future of the department's off-shore offices. Both of these subjects deserve further explanation and clarification because of their importance and because of the misperceptions that currently exist in the Virgin Islands community about my plans.
First, with respect to the privatization issue, I must clarify what has been reported in some outlets. I am not opposed to a tourism advisory council by any means. There is a big difference between a privately owned tourism authority operating with the government's tax dollars and an advisory council or board of directors which would help create policies, plans and other initiatives with and for the Department of Tourism. Let me point out that none of our peers/competitors have a private sector-owned tourism authority, not even the often-cited Puerto Rico Tourism Company. That organization is still owned by the government of Puerto Rico.
What I am against, for the record, is a tourism authority that is 100 percent owned by the private sector and operated by taxpayer dollars. That does not make sense to me. However, I am not against a Tourism advisory council or Tourism board of directors which would work with the department for the good of the territory's tourism economy.
Now, the situation with the Department's offshore offices continues to be a great source of debate and examination, and that is good. Direct sales efforts to travel agents is a key component to a successful tourism industry. We need to increase the offshore offices' visibility and impact on travel agents and the traveling public. There are definite, clear areas that need improvement, and those improvements are necessary. However, I don't believe that getting rid of the offices at this time is the best way to increase USVI awareness in the states and abroad.
Again, for the record, I am not opposed to the future closings of some of these offices; in fact, I am looking to close at least two of them within the next year or two. What I am opposed to is closing these sales offices at a time when we need to increase our visibility and we don't even have the official Tourism web site available yet to help offset the loss of the offices' work. Now is not the time to pull back and shut down our offices, but to improve them. Yes, some of our current level of spending on rent is too high, and we will remedy that at the earliest possible opportunity. However, again, closing them at this time is not prudent.
I'd also like to point out that these offshore offices are not isolated folly on behalf of the Virgin Islands government. Most of our Caribbean neighbors also have offshore offices in the cities where we are located. In fact, several of our Caribbean neighbors — including the Bahamas, Barbados, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica — are even located in the same specific areas (buildings or blocks) as our New York City and Los Angeles offices. There are valid business reasons why these areas are popular locations for Caribbean tourism boards.
I am not pointing this out to defend excessive spending on rents, but to explain that there was some reasoning behind the original decision to locate in those areas. Perhaps the time has come, however, to re-examine those locations and find nearby offices that cost us less money.
I often hear members of the community making the plea for increased visibility and advertising. Tourism must promote itself in a three-pronged attack: through advertising, public relations and — sometimes most importantly — direct sales. It is through the offshore offices that most of our direct sales take place. Yes, we want to improve the performance of these offices, but closing them is not in my short-term agenda.
I hope this statement clarifies my position on these two issues to all concerned Virgin Islanders who are rightfully interested in the future of tourism in our islands. I encourage that interest and positive input, and thank them for it.
Rafael Jackson
St. Thomas

Almost every day at her famed food stand, Shela Powell changes the menu. About once every two years, a local artist comes and changes her sign. One thing that had not changed in 20 years was where Shela's Pot was parked.
Until Monday evening.
As twilight crept across Pillsbury Sound on Monday, Powell and some friends moved her "mobile food stand" 50 feet away from the sidewalk in front of Cruz Bay Park where she has been dishing up home-cooked lunches since Nov. 8, 1980.
"I was issued a permit from the police to be there, and suddenly Housing Parks and Recreation said I was on their property. I was on the sidewalk," she said.
Her agreement to relocate reportedly came after a visit last week from HPR officials. She hired a lawyer to take a stand in defense of her stand, she said, and they finally settled on a one-year agreement with an annual renewal option.
Customers ready to line up for boxes of chicken wings and rice, oxtail stew, barbecue and fish on Tuesday found the place to do it was between the bandstand and the Morris F. deCastro Clinic.
The relocation comes at a time when Licensing and Consumer Affairs Department authorities are telling mobile food vendors they must obey the law requiring them to pack up their stands and move them away overnight. But Powell says it was St. John administrator Julien Harley who prompted her move.
Harley confirmed Monday night that he had spoken with Powell several months ago.
He said Cruz Bay Park is like Emancipation Garden on St. Thomas or Buddhoe Park on St. Croix: "There's not supposed to be any vendors there. She's a mobile vendor. Mobiles are supposed to move. But she hasn't moved in five years."
Readily admitting Harley is off by 15 in his count, Powell said she hasn't moved at all. "It's a landmark. How can you move a landmark?" she said of her stand.
But now Shela's Pot is in a new place. The canvas canopy is back up, and the wooden picnic table has been shunted behind the bandstand. And the old familiar spot by the Emancipation statue where Powell served customers for so long looks, well, naked.
"That's what everyone's been telling me," she said.

Barely 48 hours before a scheduled vote on whether to become unionized, St. John Westin Resort workers got a pep talk Monday night from United Steelworkers local president Luis "Tito" Morales.
Many of the hotel employees at the meeting in Cruz Bay said they had been subject to a Westin management campaign to persuade workers to reject the union. Another employee meeting reportedly was scheduled at the resort Tuesday.
Morales reminded the workers that by law all electioneering had to end 24 hours before the start of voting Wednesday night. He told them to report any attempts to persuade them after 10 p.m. Tuesday. Until then, he said, hotel officials were as free as the union to try to influence employees.
He said it was up to those present to go back and persuade others in the 256-member bargaining unit to vote for union representation. "I am the messenger. I can only tell you like it is. You have to make the decision," he said.
Since some hotel workers decided to seek union representation earlier this year, reports to the Steelworkers office have ranged from the subtle to the contrived, Morales said. In February, 10 landscapers who had signed union cards were laid off without being offered jobs in other departments. In early May, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that those workers were eligible to cast ballots in the union ratification vote but said their reinstatement hinges on the outcome.
Hotel management has said the 10 layoffs and several other staff reductions were part of a structural reorganization. However, workers at the Monday meeting said a number of Haitians and Santo Domingans have been added to the hotel staff since March. One employee said some new workers speak little English but have whispered to co-workers that they should vote "no" to the union.
Morales told those at the meetings not to look harshly on the new hires, as many come from places where they earned very little. He showed workers a copy of the official election notice, which the union has posted on the Westin premises in English, Spanish and French.
When voting begins at 10 p.m. Wednesday, Morales said, lawyers working with the National Labor Relations Board will be on hand to observe the process. He asked some workers to watch the ballot boxes, to help guard against irregularities.
A number of worker complaints against Westin management have been filed with his office, he said, and he intends to file another grievance with the NLRB over some of them.
Morales, who was recently re-elected by the Steelworkers rank and file to serve as president for another two years, urged the hotel workers to vote in favor of the union for their own sakes and those of their families.

Second of three parts
Pam and Terry Kennedy were working at their small hotel on Tortola when they got the telephone call at about 10 minutes to 4 p.m. on April 25. Their 19-year-old son, Geoffrey Brian Kennedy, had been shot on St. Thomas an hour earlier and was in the emergency room of the Roy L. Schneider Hospital.
The 4 o'clock ferry to St. Thomas "was the Native Son, and they held the boat for us," Pam Kennedy recalls, speaking slowly and precisely in a voice resonating with stress. When they got to the St. Thomas hospital, she says, "My son was on the table. He said, ‘I love you, Mom.' He explained that he had no sensation from the waist down; he couldn't feel his feet or legs. He was very thirsty. Of course, he couldn't drink anything, because they didn't want that bullet moved. I kept wetting his lips."
The bullet was lodged in his back, close to the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body. It got there, Geoff Kennedy says, when he tried to flee a youth who had first tried to sell him drugs, then demanded his wallet and then shot him in the back as he tried to get away.
Also in the emergency room were two young people from St. John — Lesley Castle, Geoff Kennedy's former girlfriend and still best friend, and another of their friends, Jerome O'Connell.
The young people had all been planning to have dinner on St. John that night to celebrate Lesley's 18th birthday. Instead, "we received a call from the Roy L. Schneider Hospital with the news that Geoff was hurt," Lesley's mother, Mary Castle Bartolucci, says. "He was conscious and asked the nurse to call Lesley to come and be with him. At that point, we were not aware of what had happened other than that it was serious and his parents were on their way from Tortola.
"When Lesley arrived, the first thing Geoff said to her was ‘Happy birthday, Lesley.' This was while he was lying in the trauma room with a bullet in his back and a great deal of pain."
At the hospital, Pam Kennedy relates, her son "was coherent, he was able to speak, he was able to move his arms. They did a cat scan on him and had seen the bullet, between the 9th and 10th vertebrae, between his shoulder blades. The doctor in charge told us, outside the room, not in Geoff's presence, ‘He won't be walking again.'"
That night, Geoff Kennedy was transported to Puerto Rico by air ambulance. "They allowed only one person on the medevac," his mother recalls. "Terry went." He would spend the better part of the next month in Puerto Rico while she kept their hotel operation going.
Meantime, their older son, Craig, was finishing his senior year at Dennison University in Ohio. When the 21-year-old heard what had happened, "He wanted to come home, but we said no, to complete his exams and finish up and graduate on time," his mother says. She flew to Ohio for his graduation while her husband stayed with Geoff. When she returned, Craig came home with her. He'll be in the islands until mid-summer, when he starts a job on the mainland.
Geoff Kennedy spent six days in intensive care and another 18 in intermediate care. Last week, he took up residence in Health South, a rehabilitation center, where he is expected to remain until July.
The Kennedys' decision to have their son stay in Puerto Rico for rehabilitation therapy was based on two things, his mother says: "First, the facilities — they are excellent. And second, we would be able to go over and visit him. If he were in the States, it would be almost impossible for us to fly back and forth."
Three things weigh heavily on Pam Kennedy. The first is how her younger son will cope with the difficult times ahead. The second is how she and her husband will adapt their daily lives to accommodate Geoff's needs. And the third is the fact that they have been given no indication that police on St. Thomas have done or are doing anything to investigate the shooting.
At the Schneider emergency room, Terry Kennedy says, a uniformed officer asked his son some questions. "She seemed to have all the answers," he recalls. He says his son told the officer his assailant "had come up and tried to sell him some dope and had hit him over the head several times with the pistol."
Pam Kennedy later contacted the policeman who had gone to the scene of the shooting, Sgt. Anthony Hunt. "He had some emergency medical training," she says of the officer. "He alerted everybody not to touch Geoff, so that the bullet would not dislodge. The bullet was very close to the aorta, and my son could have been dead."
The family had no further contact with police, Terry Kennedy says, until Sgt. Reynold Fraser called the hotel where he has been staying in Puerto Rico and left a message. He returned the call to the officer, who asked how Geoff was doing and when he could show him some photographs. "But they've never called back or come over to see him," Terry Kennedy says.
Back at home on Tortola last week while his son was going through his first week of intensive rehabilitation therapy at Health South, Terry Kennedy said, "He's angry; he's worried. I'm angry. The doctors say . . . he may be able to stand with braces and crutches, but will not be able to walk."
They've been short-handed at the hotel, and meanwhile, "My wife is up all hours of the night on the Internet looking for things that might help. I'm walking around and thinking, ‘How do people get around here with wheelchairs?' It's something I had never thought about. He's saying, ‘I can't go there anymore because of the steps.' You don't know how much of the world is turned off to a person. . ."
Pam Kennedy has been trying to learn where they can acquire "a special type of wheelchair because of the terrain. All the information I have is for typical city chairs."
Terry Kennedy served in the Merchant Marine and loved the seafaring life. He understands the anguish when his son, who has done a couple of sailboat ocean-crossing deliveries, talks about "how he was going to sail boats all over the world."
And yet, the father says, his son "wants to come back to Tortola. He wants to be where his friends are. I said, ‘We can go back to the States,' and he said, ‘But I don't have any friends there. My friends are in the Virgin Islands.' He moved here at 9, and he said, ‘This is my home.'"
Hope for the Kennedys has been a yo-yo. His second week in the hospital, he developed meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes enveloping the spinal cord; but medication brought it under control. About the same time he felt "a slight tingle in his right toe," his mother elatedly e-mailed a friend. What did it mean? Maybe something, maybe nothing; only time will tell.
Then came the additional blow they didn't need. "Our insurance does not cover the physical therapy," Terry Kennedy says quietly. "They turned us down. Therapy for a month to two months. All the changes we have to make in the house and everything. . ."
The family has made inquiries regarding the territory's Crime Victims Compensation Fund and is hoping that some financial support may be forthcoming. Friends are talking about organizing a fund-raising effort.
Reports circulating to the effect that Geoff Kennedy was the victim of a drug deal gone wrong infuriate his father. "This is absolutely asinine," he says. "Geoff is not a drug user. To have someone insinuate something like that is ridiculous."
"What keeps me going," Pam Kennedy says, "is the fact that my son is a good person and he thinks about people quite a bit. I have had his friends from St. Thomas and St. John call and e-mail, and I've had community support in the forms of prayers and well-wishes on Tortola."
Her hu sband adds, "We've gotten tons of e-mail. We've had prayer groups all over the place via the Internet. It shows you that there is good in the world, that there are still among the rotten apples a hell of a lot of good, nice people."
The Internet has been an interesting element of the family's support system in yet another way. Friends turned Geoff Kennedy on to a chat room for people who are facing challenges comparable to those before him now.
Meantime, the young man's popularity has prompted outpourings of concern and support on Tortola, his father says. "I called up the electric company to ask how long a blackout was going to last, and the person on the other end of the line said, ‘We don't know — but how is Geoff doing?' Another day I called the bank to check on a balance, and an employee there that Geoff knows — a lady who's handicapped — said, ‘Tell him to keep up hope.'
At the same time, the parents recognize that the outpouring will be hard to sustain. "Right now there is a lot of pathos," Pam Kennedy reflects. "But in six months, there's going to be Christmas parties. He's going to need friends then."
"Geoff has a very clear memory of what happened" and has described the incident in detail to family and friends," Bartolucci says. "My question to the police is, ‘What is being done?' Why hasn't anyone gone to see him in Puerto Rico?"
She adds, "It angers me when we start to question the victim and ignore the criminal. When are we going to get angry enough to say ‘Enough!'? For anyone who thought, ‘Oh, he was probably in the wrong place and trying to buy drugs,' let me assure you: It could have been your child."
The week before Geoff Kennedy was transferred to the rehabilitation center, Bartolucci wrote to the Source: "Does the community realize that there is a criminal out there with a .38 who has already severely injured someone and the next time may kill? This was not a frightened kid who did this. This is a person without conscience. Have we become so desensitized that when a young man full of promise is shot and paralyzed, it doesn't matter?"
Similarly, Pam Kennedy wonders, "When are all these perpetrators going to get caught? When are they going to have justice done to them for how they have hurt society? They took away somebody's future — I don't know, for money to spend on Carnival? Drugs? Maybe if some of them had to go through the hurt that they had caused other people, some of it would stop. . ."
Lesley Castle has put her indelible impressions of encountering her best friend in the emergency room into written form. To read what she wrote, click on Open Forum.
Wednesday: The status of the criminal investigation

Editor's note: The following was written by Geoffrey Kennedy's close friend Lesley Castle a few days after she and another friend, Jerome O'Connell, rushed from St. John to the Roy L. Schneider Hospital emergency room after learning he had been shot and paralyzed from the waist down.
Through the long, cold corridors, Jerome and I walked hand in hand to uncover the destiny of our dear friend Geoffrey Brian. It was my 18th birthday, and fear had fallen upon my shoulders. Into the white room of machines, purged emotions, a medical bed and tears, I saw Geoff lying on a soiled stretcher, half alive. "Happy birthday, Lesley," he whispered at my side. A bullet had been shot into his spine, and blood was across his body.
What is the route of life? Where have we made our mistakes? And why does it happen to us? These are the ever-present questions that hover upon our minds.
On April 25, 2000, I reevaluated my concept of life. My friend had just been shot from random violence on St. Thomas, and the doctors said he might be paralyzed from the waist down. Lying flat on a large, concrete platform in front of the dreary hospital, I looked high into the stars and cried. My life was a series of worries, of deadlines, of social positions, dreams and passing time. Life is here to live. Yet, how many people truly live their deepest desires unrestricted?
In a 19-year-old boy, there is a silver stream of wisdom. His name is Geoff Kennedy; he is my ex-boyfriend and my best friend. I learned on the day of his shooting that nothing in life really matters but the innocence of love and truth. Geoff, however, already knew this.
Each day of his life is an expression of the Latin term carpe diem — "seize the day." With spirit, determination, caring and laughter, Geoff Kennedy is the person I most admire. He is a first-rate surfer, an avid mountain biker and an experienced sailor. In our three years together, Geoff has taught me the intrinsic lessons of loyalty, the resounding beauty of simplicity and the omnipresent importance of each moment.
In the hospital in Puerto Rico, Geoff has accepted this strike of destiny, yet believes in the power of will to walk again. I know no other person who is stronger. This wake of reality will forever imprint the outlook of my mind. I will watch a sunset tonight in his honor.
Lesley Castle
St. John

The Red, White and Blue Golf Tournament, sponsored by the Prosser ICC Foundation, will be held on Sunday, June 25, at Mahogany Run. Tee time is 9 a.m.
This tournament is to benefit the Humane Society of St. Thomas. There will be prizes, raffles, and an awards luncheon caterd by the Banana Tree Grill.
For additional information contact the Mahogany Run Pro Shop at 777-6880 or the Humane Society at 775-0599.

The Red, White and Blue Golf Tournament sponsored by the Prosser ICC Foundation, will be held Sunday, June 25, at Mahogany Run. Tee time is 9 a.m. Golfers may register at the Mahogany Run Pro Shop.
This tournament is to benefit the Humane Society of St. Thomas. There will be great prizes, raffles and an awards luncheon catered by the Banana Tree Grill.
for additional information contact the MAhogany Run Pro Shop at 777-6880 or the Humane Society at 775-0599.