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By Alex Randall - 9/6/2010


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Today is Labor Day – federal holiday – schools, banks and government offices are all closed WAPA, ICC and other offices are closed for the holiday.. Many businesses are open.  Call before you go.  Here’s irony, the Dept. of Labor phones are on the fritz.  Call St. Croix at 773-1994. Wait. It’s labor day. Call tomorrow.

September is Labor Awareness month. Governor John DeJongh issued a proclamation asking everyone to recognize the hard work of working people who built our economy and he asks everyone to be aware of the need to get excellent training to play a part in the growth of our whole community.

the remnant low of gaston...located about 525 miles east of the northern leeward islands...is producing a small but persistent area of showers and thunderstorms that has become a little more concentrated near the center of circulation.  upper-level winds are expected to become more conducive for development over the next day

or so...and moisture surrounding the low should gradually increase as it moves westward at about 15 mph.  there is a high chance...70 percent...of this system becoming a tropical cyclone again during the next 48 hours.  heavy rains and gusty winds could begin to affect portions of the leeward islands late today and tonight...

 

Meanwhile WAPA says Sunday night that electrical service has been substantially restored to the residents of St. Thomas. Water island got power late Sunday evening.  Work crews continue to respond to trouble spots in Smith Bay, Anna’s retreat, Nazareth, Mafolie, Est Elizabeth, Tabor and Harmony, Peterborg< Magan’;s Bay, Fredendahl and New Herrnhut and at Addie’s house.  If you are still out, call 777-9272.  On St. Croix call 713-9272. If you have a damaged weather head you will have to call your electrician to repair that weather head.

Governor John DeJongh had a Big Thank You for the crews in the Police Department, VI Fire Service, Department of Public Works< Waste Management Authority, WAPA, Department of Planning and Natural Resources and many other agencies of government who responded to the call during the recent storm. He asks us all to look out for our neighbors and friends until everything is back to normal.

Kean School track is inching forward.  Governor John DeJongh signed a contract with Elipse Consultants to access a watershed on East End of St. Thomas for the proposed site of the Ivanna Eudora Kean School Track and Field facility.  The hydrological study will take 45 days and cost 80,000.

Is your cistern water safe? Perhaps but maybe not. Department of Planning and Natural Resources is reminding residents to disinfect cistern water before drinking it. You can boil water or use common household bleach using 6 ounces per thousand gallons of water to disinfect cistern water.

The Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. presents: It's Annual Grandparent's Day Luncheon at Palm's Court Harbor View Hotel on Sunday, September 12, 2010 from 12 noon - 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $45.00 each and can be purchased from  from any of the honories, or call Mrs. Beverly Lettsome at 775-0122

The 5th annual“ Dollar fo' Dollar 'Pitch It In The Harbor' Culture & History Tour: A Remembrance of the 1892 Coal Workers Strike on St. Thomas” will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, with a ferry tour around St. Thomas Harbor and Hassel Island, followed by a bamboula march to Market Square. The free, interactive tour is held annually in celebration of the hundreds of 19th century coal laborers and Queen Coziah who led a successful protest in the streets of Charlotte Amalie for better pay. Participants will meet at Emancipation Garden for tour orientation at 3:30 p.m., then proceed to King's Wharf to board the Native Son vessel,“Lady Virginia,” at 4 p.m. For more information, call 643-5851

Colette Monroe, Chief of Staff for Senate President Louis P. Hill wrote " on behalf of the residents of Water Island to express sincere appreciation to the WAPA linemen who spent all day Sunday bringing electrical service to Water Island which has been out since 5:00 Monday morning of last week.  It came back on at around 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening. Like many Virgin Islanders, we were fortunate to have minimal damage to our community, suffering most of the damage to our power lines and to our town center at Honeymoon Beach.  Also a big thanks to the motorbarge "Saint" for transporting the WAPA trucks and equipment, and to  Honeymoon Restaurant operator Heidi Erwig who provided lunch for the workers.  Mr. Hugo Hodge and the entire WAPA crew deserve our utmost gratitude for their untiring efforts." That from  Colette Monroe, Chief of Staff for Senate President Louis P. Hill.


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Current Weather for 9/6/2010

It's 86° Fahrenheit 30 Centigrade in Crown Bay St. Thomas, 65% humidity. Partly cloudy skies Wind out of the East at 12 mph. Water temp: 85° in Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas 83 in Lameshur Bay St. John We had trace of rain in the last 24 hours. Doppler radar shows: Scattered Showers Satellite Photo Shows: Tropical Storm hermine is in the Gulf of Mexico – not our problem. The national weather forecast calls for Partly cloudy. Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms in the morning...then isolated showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 89. East winds around 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. 40% tonight 70% tomorrow



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