Virgin Islands Daily News – July 29, 2013 (mixed local news, ads, and opinion pieces)

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Umpire, owner and player inducted into Cooperstown hall Page 61 For Eagle, quitting was not an op.tion , , Matthew P!lge 2 Edwards 3 minion hear pope in Rio Pages 20-21 , Vj§jt popular.combrlof . .. ',' .. __________ __________ ...................................................................................... �l r--- � - , 2'iThe Vi·rgij;:f I:a'Mds:tlaljy:-N�1&.si. ',," f.x:.,.::,...,.:-,,; :. :: -Yni(;IN 'i:stAm>S; Monoay; July 29; 201-3 : Sc�§ir:e.�ii���{tb'i;, � ,;3t ' national Jamboree ,. fo�· . � . . �� - " �' ;;.:� �' . '""� P4 ��... '" : :- __ �_ - .. ... . � /,-:�_ '-_1.-; iiiu " .• • _.� ... ":: � .. _L-" .... , a;:;:. ,.:( ,oj."", _--'----:-----'-- " - !twas reallY-cool becalJse we all leamed teamwork. We had some problems at first, but then we got more comfortable wolting, together, working as a team:-' - Marcus Narkaitis, 14, patrol leader • at ge�mg up OD: ·nm.e aauy, genmg tnelr mealS . prep'a(Od, and cleaning up. The hot;,humid weather "in West Virginia was also a chatJenge, as was the-size of the new site for the - jamboree, . according to Brooks, The new reserve is so large, the group sometimes 1.(1, ·BQy·'Scouis.arrive· Friday at ROhlsen AlrRort on St ' Croix after spending 10 days at the National had to walk tor more than an hour to get . to an activity, he· said. .. ,. Because the �5 �couts who were part of the " • Scout Jamboree in West Virginia. . group included'scouts from St. Thomas, St, : : • . if-:: ', -'., . . . . Croix and Washington, D,C" who did not necesteamwork," Norkaitis said, "We had some sarily kn.ow each other, one of the challenges - . i(wiIs. his fiis _t}liii.QIlJ'i jarnh!>ree. HI � 'it.�as a .. v«:ry productive jamboree: It problems at first, but then we got more com- was getting them to work together, Brooks said, bfstorms ... and some was a wonderful �xperience," he said. "It was . a historical ex�ence." fortable working together, working as a team." Making the scouts from different areas into a The 25 scouts from the territory included: cohesive group that worked well together was ��vities, i.ti�ludlng the group had 'schedit Norkaitis said it was historical because it was the first national jamboree at the new reserve. boys from II. to 17 years ol� from both- isl"!ld • .. on� of the major challenges, according to districts. They joined up with 10 SCOUIs from Brooks. � a "great trip" that For years, lbe national jamboree liad been held the District of Columbia for the ja_m_bore.;,�" "In doing that, they made friends for life," he at Fort AP. Hill in Vrrginia. Brooks said. The VlIgin Islands District is part ",id,')'AlI in all, our scouts. came back with a how ,to deal with disapand a patrol leader, said The group also learned to work together, he said. "It was really cool because we all learned of tl>e National Capitol Area Council ' in D.C,;' - sense of accomplisinnent, asenSe of-friendShip, "Brooks said. and a.sense of being able.to safely do wha1ever Among the challenges the-scouts faced was. task they were' asked to do,". . . . " I . , :) �\,. - . - . lUI,;. "'j. � "lA I C rh _ AI '"' ... �'"' rV'lcHLr-n:::VV L.UVVa I U� '�'., � .... � BV'!JOy'BLACK'BURN - Daily News Staff . �"P;' " � \': ' . 'ST: CROIX - Local Boy Scout which are specifically required; 'and successfully complete a commumty:- related service project, the p� release said. . Matthew Edwards recently earned the Maitbew's project involved a major highest advancement award the Boy cleanup at Buck Island Reef National Scouts of America offer, becoming an Eagle'Scout Monument "I worked with the National Park "We]e delighted, We are very Service and I coordinated and then'. , prQud 9rhin! ', said Dale Edwards, helped them carry out a coastline/trail , ¥atthew's failler, on Friday as he and cleanup on Buck Island," Matthew Matthew's mother, Lori Edwards, said, The cleanup occWTed as Buck waited for other so�. to return from Island Reef National Montunent was the National Scout' Jamboree, "He .. worked very hard for it" celebrating its 50th anniversary. Matthew, who has a brother who is . Oilly 4 percent of all 'Boy Scouts already an Eagle Scout and two other beCome Eagle Sc'outs, according to a �iess release about Matthew·attaining brothers who are working toward attaining the Eagle rank, said he has 1h� I Eagle rank . ,- - been involved in �uting since he was . To become an Eagle Scout, a candi- little, and he assumed he would become �,bas.to earn 21 merit badges, II of . 'im Eagle Scout - although he lost :,", ., � . ' ISSf,l2159-;J019 ::..,;,;.�. '. � Virgin Tsll.nds Dait,l'ews Publi.shillg �. S� ; _' " , �I",,'_!' ��. '0 '-'" . � ' bird" . Sh'm"" '" � J I>AILY. NEWS, Gommlll'licatiolls pubislles The Virgin � Islands Daily News � (;f d,aiy.·ucelll Sunday, �ONIC"'� ClllislmasOay and New Yea(s Day. at t1!i5E5Ul1I Thomas. Charlotte Amalie, Sl Thamas,-VI 0lI02. Fim class postage paid atDlIMtta Amllie, Sl Thomas. U.S.V.I U,SPSl44-180 'POSTMASTEfl. Hnd Form 3S19, Notice of Address Chanlle, to: Circulatioll Director. Daily News";9155 Eflate Thomas. Sl Thorn"-VI 0080l ' . ,if! """Ii� f'rUe.wi"nI", -.,..,.. .' • © 2013 Dally News Publishing Co. Calendar." ............... 49 Nation & World .... 10-28 Classifieds ......... .inside Comics ..... ........ :.50'53 . Cros$word ............... 53 Cruise Ships ............... 7· Horoscope ......... : ..... 51 Lottery Results ........ 20 Opinions ............. 30-31 Police Reports ........... , 8 'l�hiO_\/o�' C"-OLa.+in'n'�·''hinhact 'r�nlt a vi II G V Gil VVV U L II I.�" I II �,I ]\.".:'"'. I "" I In .. . �. .. . interest for awhile when he got into high schooL .' . " . do something you're not poiiifortable But when he became a senior, �p . doing. it's fulfilling." ";"'-'; . � � . decided to comptete what he started -Matthew is home-sChoole<\,and his and earn the rank of Eagle, he said, "I wanted to know the accomplish, ment of finishing it," he said, addjrig immediate plan aftet.giaduation is to p:irticipate in a five'-month disc,ip)e$ip lraining schpol\\jth a focus;orl worship that he also felt like it was a family; and music, MQugh Youth With a expectation. : .".' -'. Mfssion, accot4i�g\. to' the press So he plunged back into it . ." ,'- "I think it definitely, gave me 'f.Iot of perseveilince and pusbilig through," he release. ,'" ' .' . , . He will be recognized as an !;agle' , SCQut in a' cer�niony at 6:30 p:�. said "A lot of it vyas a lot of paperwoik Fqday:' at ·the :Howard M:-Wall Sqput ''To be willing to put yourself ou1 ttieri>, and organizing," - ". ' ": " Camp," -.- " . '- Matthew said, that becoming wi" Matthew Edwards is the iith sCout Eagle Scout requited diligence aDd to become an Eagle Scout in Troop dedication - but it was wprth it. 227, ,which was chartered by Country His advice for otherS who would like to become Eagle Scouts? Day SchooL' - Contact reporler Joy Blackburn "Just not to give' up because it's a I 714 - 91 4 5 0 r em a i I worth it once you've �one it," he said, [email protected]. Contact us Publisher Jason Bobbins 714-9107 [email protected] Executive Editor .Ger,yY'mdel 714-9106 gyande,[email protected] Sports ..........: ...... 54-64 Sudoku .......·............. 51 Editor At 'Large TV Schedule .....,48-49 J. Lowe Davis Weather ................... 12 714-9138 [email protected] Advertising News SI. Thomas-SI. John SI. Thomas-SI. John '714-9141 or 714-9147' Fax: 774-6886 714-9106 Fax: 776-0740 St. Croix 773-4425 Fax: 719-30 00 Classifieds SI. 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ONUNE SUBSCRIPTIONS: • virglnislandsdailynews:newspaperdlrect'.CO,m , " .'';;: " j -.. -4- . c .. .� t Mon,qaYpJlJly 29" 201;3,' v.IRGlN ISL;WPS.' .- T)1e \(irgiri.lslal)ds Daily, �ews '3", Struggling Havensight merchants see r�nt-abatement as last chance for them to resuscitate their businesses By AMANDA NORRIS Daily News Staff ST. THOMAS - For mercbants at Havensight mail, it's summer time, but the living is anything but easy. After being granted six months offrec rent by the mall's owner, tbe Governnient Employees Retirement System, mauy said this has been the worst off-season they -have experienced. They cited a perfect storm of prolonged road construction in front of the man, fewer cruise ships docking in St. Thomas Harbor, competition from Crown Bay mercbants and skyrocketing utility costS". Whcn tbe GERS board voted to relieve.the tenants of rent obligations from July 1 to Dec. 31, tbey. did so because tenants had accumulated a delinquency of more than $2 million and reported tbat tbey could no longer sustain the cost of doing business. The board discussed tbe closure of Dockside Booksbop, wbich'has announced tbat it will close witbin tbe next two weeks aftcI 35 years in business. GER·S. Administrator Austin Nibbs presented tbe board with two options: forego rent for six months altogether witb tbe stipulation that tenants pay all arrearages by April 1 or give tenants a 25 percent reduction in rent over the next 24 months. Tbe board decided tbe six month abatement, which would cost GERS a little more tban $3 million, would be tbe most feasible way to give tenants a chance to pay' the $2 million in back rent owed. "I don't like this rent abatement, but if we want'to continue· to have tenants, we are· going to have to belp them," Nibbs said. At the meeting, some board members were under the impression that another Havensight business, -an office supply store called The Draugbting Shaft, was also scheduled to clqse, but. according to· Th� Draughtiog Sbaft owner, Terry Robinson, that was never the case. Nevertheless, Robinson said, he bas had discussions witb GERS board members and attended meetings to inform them of the adverse conditions that had caused him to fall bebind in his rent. Robinsoo said his business, unlike ID3I1Y of the boutiques and stores that cater primarily to tourists, had been unduly hit by prolonged construction. with orange bamcades diverting traffic into and out of the . mall's parking lots.' Daily News File Photo Dockside Bookshop in Havensight Mall is scheduled to close within the next . two weeks after 35 years in business. "Many of our customers are locals . and residents, and many have called and said they just don't want.to come in because they don't want to deal with, it," Robinson said of the construction. Robinson i's among a number of long-time Havensight merchants who say they have been in business for decades but never had to weather , . , . . . " . � . anything quite like tbe last six months . "I remember in the 80s the slow season was only three months. now it is a full six. months," Ram Mirpuri, president of tbe Havensigbt Merchants Association said. Mirpuri's son, Minoj Mirpuri, owns . Bliss Jewelers. Ram Mirpuri said he hoped tbe � . Daily News File "Photo Havensight Mall merchants say because of the ongoing Long' Bay road project, rising \1.1. Water and Power Authority bills and other issues that they , have had their worst off-season ever. The Government Employees R_etirement System, the mall's owner, has granted the merchants six months of free rent to help them repay $2 million in . ov.9"fdue rent. --- " - We were almost closing down. ,,(here was no way we could survive_ We are extremely grateful for 'the abatement. It will be a big help. six-month abatement would be the "springboard" Havensight merchants need to recover. If not, about 30 percent of the association's.membership bad reported that they would go under this year or the next, he said. 'The mall has been burting since Crown Bay opened. We lost about 500,000 passengers because of that," Mirpuri said. He added tbat the larger Carnival cruise ships, the Oasis of the Seas and tbe Allure of the Seas, dock at Crown Bay, where the harbor can support them. Projections are that. with !TIOre cruise sbips scbeduled tbrough 2014, businesses on tbe brin,k of closure might be able to use the abatement to get througb to a breakthrough season in the winter of .2014, Mirpuri said. . Other mercbants said their WAPA bills had tripled or quadrupled since they opened, leaving them to wono der if an abatement would be enough to counter the rising rates. "WAPA is killing us," Sonny Panjabi, owner·of the Casa Branca jewelry store, said. Utility bills total $3,000 during the busy season, and - Sonny Panjabi, jewelry store owner $2,000 during the slow season, when hours of operation are cut back, he said. ' . "We were almost closing down. There was no way we could swvive. We are extremely grateful for the abatement. It will be a big help," be said. Since the recession hit, travelers "seem to spend all their money on the trip itself, and they come with less disposable income/' according to Jerry Woodhouse, president of St. John's Bay Rum, a fragrance company that supplies otber Havensigbt stores and has offices be·hind the mall. Woodhouse also said that in the last decade hotels, whicb used to provide transportation to shopping districts, have shifted to providing as many amenities as possible to guests and have limited the excursions to beaches ratber than sbopping districts. "They want to grab as much revenue as possible per customer while tbey are staying at tbe bote 1," • Woodhouse said. - Conlocl Amanda Noms at 714-9104 oremail"[email protected]. • • • 4 Th�-Y.i(9iD.lsl<tQsh;oDili!y.NeYII� WR&Ii'lI.ISJ"M'U>S r.{Ip,l;ldljy" Jllly 2�,.m;3, . , . ". . . . ; ' . . ' . . . Tiny� bo:ats, big speeds . . . , ,tt".,:;;:. ., - - ' :;.. . . to I navigat� th� Daily Ne'NS Photos by JASON BRONIS . . 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The fiscal 2014 operating budget contains' money for 52 positions, and to further meet fiscal obligations, the bureau ·intends to -leave unfilled two more General Fund . positions, according to Browne's testimony. Bureau of Motor Vehicles Director A critical hiring plan leaves room Jerris Browne defended a General for five vacant positions to be filled, Funq appropriation of $ I ,642,010 as however, Browne testified. sufficient to· meet the bureau's The bureau's accomplishments needs. The request is a 5 percent for fiscal 2013 include: completing decrease, or $86,422, less than the a REAL ID card Concept design 2013 appropriation. which allow for forensic analysis Eighty-eight percent will go and provides specialized identificatoward personnel services and fringe lions to government employees; benefits, and the budget will be sup- integratting- facial recognition softpiemented by a projected income of ware, providing 24 hour access to $1 million from the bureau's revolv- the BMY database for law enforceing funds and another $643,854 . ment,·installing additional security from the personalized license plate . cameras and completing two grant fund, for a total operating budget of packages for Division of Higheay $3,285,864. .Safety awards totalling $730,000 to To meet fiscal constraints imposed be used to fund the motorcycle safeby the governor's 5 percent cuts to ty education program and to accommost departments to balance the fis-, modate online vehicle registration. Public Services Commission P'ublic Services Commis.sion Executive Director Keithley Joseph testified that it is the commission's mission's goal to move from being a "government organization that is reactive to a proactive public policy making agency with results-based management." The Public Services Commission is primarily funded through assessments levied on the utilities it regolates. Joseph testified that the fiscal 2014 budget request from the V.I. government for the 'commission would be $1,6io,740. This represents an increase of $57,373, or 3.54 percent, from its fiscal 2013 revenu ... ssessment of $1,563,367. Pursuant to VIrgin Islands Code establishing the commission and stipulatiog that it be 100 percent funded by fees levied to the utilities it regulates, the commission's budget request reflects what it needs to maintain operations while it collects outstanding assess'ment from communications, water and electric, and public transportation companies, Joseph said. The commission's uncollected revenues from fiscal 2013 are $384,630, according to Joseph's testimony. It·is anticipated that in fiscal 2014, the commission will collect a total of $1,620,739 from the V.1. Water and Power Authority; VITELCO, Innovative Cable, Varlack Ventures, Transportation Services and the v.1. Waste Management Authority, according to testimony. A to1al of$I,081,H3 will go toward "personal services and fringes," according to testimony. V.I. Economic Development Authority V.l. Economic Development Authority Chief Executive Officer Percival Clouden requested a General Fund appropriation of $5,043,274. This amount represents an increase of $325,574, or 6.9 percent over the fiscal 2013 appropriation. According to Clouden, !lie additional.money·is needed to match federal funds for a small business incubator program, to institute a more aggre . ssive marketiog strategy for the E c'o n om i c .of D e ve lop men t Commission's tax incentive program and to enhance computer data analys.is programs for the Economic Development Commission and'the lending divisions, according to Clouden's testimony. DUring fiscal 2013, the authority received $2 milliolil in grants from the United States Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration to assist small and mid-size businesses in the territory. The authority also relocated its offices on St. Thomas, realizing a 20 percent savings rental costs, 48 percent in utilities and 15 percent in other related expenses, Clouden said. Also during fiscal 2013, the authority realized a 4 percent increase in collections and saw a 37 percent decrease in the number.of delinquent borrowers due to enhanced litigation efforts, Clouden said. To date, the authority has approved $692,606 in new 2013 loans and collected $842,224 in outstanding accounts, The number of delinquent borrowers standa at 242, for a to1al of $7,470,534, according to Clouden's testimony. -Conta:tAmallia Norris at 714-9104 or email [email protected]. Exclusive 925 Designer Jewelry J{and crafted Swiss 'Timepieces A. Ltlllge & Sohne Bourne & Mercier· Blancpain Bv/gori • Bregue, Cani,,· Chane! • Ebet . Glashutte • Gucci • !We Longines • Movado Paneroi· Phillip Stein· Piage, Roger Dubl4is • 1i � sot There'sa new option f9r treating uterine fibroids. It·s non:surgical and:doesn't require a hospital stay. It·s uterine ·fibroid embolization (UFE) performed·by SI. Thomas Ra�iology Associ,,!es. Learn··DlQTe at www.radi.ol.ogy.vi .or can 774-0265 f.or Ii' c.onsultati.on. 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CROIX -After two weeks of significant increases in wholesale . gasoline prices in the territory, some. of the prices slipped slightlY'downward today as HOVEN SA adjusted its rack rates. , The changes lowered the rack Independent gas' station operators iri the tenitory now are ' paying $3.45 per gallon, for regular gasoline rates - the price of fuel purchased . . The rack rates influeDce retail wholesale at the HOVENSA truck- gasollDe prjc,�� in th� territory loading statioD OD St. Croix - for because iDdependeDt gas statioD regular gasoline by 4 cents per gal- operators can buy lheir gasoline at , 10D and foi premium gasoline by a the loading station, theD resell it to ptnny per gallon, while diesel fuel their customers. The new rates are inereased by 4 ceots per gallOD. effective through Sunday. UDder today's adjustmeDts, indo- On'the retail side, average retail peodeDt gas statioD operators in the gasoliDe prices iD the V.S. OD territory now are paying $3.45 per Thursday were also slightly down galloD for regular gasoline, $3,79 from a week ago, according to the per gallon for premium gasoline, American Automobile Association. and $3.57 per gallOD for diesel fuel The'average retail gasoline price 'wheD they buy their fuel'wholesale-' in the V.S. on Thursday was $3.648" at HOVENSA. Those prices include per galloD for regular, $3.976 per the 14-cen!s-per-gaUoD tax that the gaUon for prernium, and $3. 883 per refiDery collects for the gallOD for diesel· fuel, according to· government AAA. ' of' Daily News PhQlOS by JASON'BRQNIS Shoppers browse vendors' tables during the first Virgin Fresh Value Added Market Day qn Saturday at the Rudolph Shulterbrandt , Agriculture Complex on SI. Croix. The event showcased' vendors who use locally grown-food .to produce processed or packaged items. !fems for, '�ale 'included jams. jellies •. hOi S�UC9;' dressings. seasonings. fruit juices, smoothies and mead wine. • Foods made with locar mangoes are displayed. , \ . , Medicaid reimbursements ·to increase � - . . � ---=-=-----"'-- ' Daily News Staff ·/ST. CROIX - The VI. HumaD Services Department on .Friday released a notice of intent·to.amend the VI. Medicaid State Plan CODcerning the reimbursement of enrolled physicians .. The statement indicates that Medicaid.reimbursement·in the tenitory may be mcreasing. For services provided in the territory, ''upon approval by the CeDters for Medicare and Medicaid Services with a target effective date of Aug. 1, 2013, physicians in private practice enrolled ·as VI. Medicaid PrograJ)l eirrolled providers will be eligible to receive reimbursement from the U.S. VIrgin IslandS Medicaid program for both inpatient and outpatient services" at 100 percent of the V.I. Medicare allowable rate, the release sfutes. "All such services must be authorized from the department or its agents," the release said. For physician services provided outside the territory, the V.I. Medicaid Program will reimburse physicialls enrolled in the VI. Medicaid Program for both inpatieDt and outpatient services at the Medicare rate in the state where the service was rendered, according to· the release; , TradeWinds Galleria STORE SECURELY 46', 20', 10', 8' Units 10', 13', 20' Mobile Offices • Red Hook. St. Thomas (340) 775-5595 340-774-4494 508-314�5276 � St�rage On Site' � storageonsitevi.coin .' Monday, July 29; 201:3 VIRGIN ISLANDS CORE· spruces up Caret Bay area The Virgin Islands Daily News 7 . Cruise Ships Today, July 29 . Carnival Valor (2,974) Tuesday, July 30 Oasis of the Seas (5,400) Wednesday, July 31 Carnival Dream (3,646) Freedom of the Seas (3,600) . Disney Fantasy (4,000) Thursday·Saturday, August 1·3 . No ships Sunday, August 4 Jewel of the Seas (2,500) Monday, August 5 Carnival Valor (2,974) . 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. noon to 7 p.m. , 6:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Havensight 8 a.m. to 5. p.m. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Havensight Crown Bay Havensight Havensight Havensight Havensight Numbers in parentheses indicate passenger capacity. 5 Scotia bank solided The CORE Foundation collected several bags full of trash Saturday near the Caret Bay dumpsite on S1. Thomas. Furniture, household appliances, tires and an assorted list of other discarded items were gathered and' deposited into the dump. CORE president John Rubattino, board members Jason Quetel, Kitty Edwards and Edythe Dirks, • and a number of volunteers, including youngster Kendrick Dietsch, participated in the cleanup. ". 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THOMAS - Although a sweep for unregistered sex offenders netted nine unregistered offenders in rccent 'wceks, an unknown number still remain at large in the territory. The Virgin Islands Department of Justice paIred with local police and U.S. marshals to sweep the islands for unregistered sex offenders last week, primarily targeting ones that have been convicted within the Virgin Islands. AU but two local unregistered offenders .last week were arrested and charged with fail, ing to register. Local police and U.S. Marshals initially arrested five unregistered offenders on St. Croix and three. on St. Thomas in just seven days, and then arrested another at th¢ very end of last week on St. Thomas - bringing the total to nine. . The department, however, has little + Funeral Schedule + way of knowing how many unregis' tered offenders ate b�ere from. other jurisdictions. Within lhe telTitory, offenders are .required to' register anoually, thougli offenders sometimes' come to the islands without noti1Ying their jurisdiction of their move. "They are suppos�ḍ to notify someone," said Virgin Islands Attorney General Vincent Frazer. "We go out and look for them, but · someorfe has to notify us:." The sweep last week was the sec- Name Date of death Service . Arrangements St, Thomas Ova lda Millin Andre ................... :.July 18, 2013 ............... .. . Pending ....... , ............................... Davis Cyril Belleau ..................................................................... Pending .................. ............. .... , ... Oavis Robert Evans Sr . ............... : ........ June 15, 2013 . ..... ... .. ...... Pending ............................... ........ John Thomas Robert E. Francis ................... ..... July 18, 2013 . ..... ............ Aug. 10 ........ ......... .. . : .................. Davis Sylvanie Gilber t ........... .......... ..... July 3, 2013 ........... .... ..... Pendin g ................ ..... ...... : ........... Turnbull's Jean A. Hatchett ........ ... ............ July 25, 2013 .... ... .... ..... . Pendin g ....... ............... , ........ ........ John Tho mas Samuel A. Henry ........................ July 15, 2013 ... .......... .. , .. Pending ... : ........ ......... .................. Tu rnbu ll's Berna rd O. Lake .: ....................... July 18, 2013 ....... ........... Pendin g ............. ........ .................. Davis · Daniel LaPlace ........................... July 13, 2013 ....... .... .. .. ... PendiQ g .......................... ....... ....... John Thomas Winthrop Gregory Lewis ......... , .... July 24, 2013 . ...... ........... Pendin g ..... : ........................... : ..... Davis Elizabeth Marshall ...................... July 20, 2013 ..... ...... ... .... Pendin g .. : .............. ... : ............. , ... . TU rnbull's Lillian Agatha Matthew ................ July 20, 2013 ...... ......... ... Pendin g .......... ............................. Turnbull'S Lucia L. FranciS Mulraine ... : ...... .. July 23, 2013 . .. ... ... ...... ... Pending .. ..... , ............................... Davis Cornelius Powell Sr . .................... July 22, 2013 ...... .... ......... Pending .: .... .... ... ............ ...... ........ Turnbull's Francis Howard Pratt .... .. ............. July 17, 2013 ... ... .... ... : .... Pending ........ ... ......................... , .. John Thomas Craig Lester Schneider . ... ... .. .. ,.:.July 22, 2013 .............. .... Today ... ... ... ........... ................ ....... Golden Gate Elma Van terpool .......... : .: ........... July 20, 2013 . ..... .... . :, .... : Pending .. : .. ................ .................. Tu rnbull's Today No meetings. . . Tuesday The Culture, Historic Preservation, Youth and Recreation Committee will· Conipassionate and .Professional Senate Agenda. meet at 10 a.m. in Ottley Legislative Hall on Sf. Thomas to hear bills on: • Making the queen conch shen the official shen of the Virgin Islands. • Authorizing the Department of' . Sports; Parks and Rec(elltion to devel· • op a master plan for creating a public · park and recrea�ional area at Altona Lagoon on Sf. Croix. • Redefining the use ofth" Enid M. Baa Library and Archives Bililding. • Naming the archives division of the Charles Wesley. Turobull Regional Library the "June Lindquist Archives Division." • Conducting a feasibility student to establish a festival and cultural park . . on St Thomas. Wednesday No meetings. Thursday The Student Public Health Foruro will be held from 10:30 a.m.· to noon in Ottley L,egislative Hall on St. Thomas. . , Voted Best Office Supplies & Office Furniture! 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Police Reports St. Croix Incidents in the police blotter over the weekend included: Assault - 6:39 p.m. Friday, Strawberry; 3:01 p.m. Saturday, Queen Street, Chrisiiansted; 3:23 p.m. 'Sa�urday,- Prince' Streetm ' Frederiksted; 12:0� a,m. Sunday, La Reine;.2:38 p.m. Sund�y, Mars Hill; 6: 17 p.m. Sunday, no loc�tion given. Burglary -3:43 p.m. Sunday, Hanoah's Rest. FIghtIng - 9:0 I p.m. Friday; . Harbour View Housing COmIDunity; 5:57 p.m. Saturday, Union arid Mt. Washington; 7:55 p.m. Saturday, MarS Hill; 1l:31 a.m. Sunday, Peters Rest; II :57 a.m. Sunday, Welcome; 4:37 p.m. Sunday, Plessen; 6: 18 p.m. Sunday, Frederiksted. Larceny - 9:47 a.m. Saturday, Lower Love; 2: 19 p.m. Saturday, Christiansted; 6: 19 p.m. Sunday, Diamond· Ruby. OutsIde fire - 8:34 p.m .. Friday, . La Grange; 9: 15 a.m. Sunday, Marys Fancy;' 4:2.0 p.m. Sunday, New Street, Frederiksted. Reckless E1Idangerment ' - 6:42 a.m. Sunday, MutuiU Homes. . Robbery -5: 14 p.m. Sunday, . Yellow Cedar. . , Weapons - 8:09 p.m. Friday, La Grange; 10:46.p.m. Friday, Mutual Homes Housing Community; ·11:34 p.m. Friday, Profit; 4:39 p.m. nusSICtRl8l1llVlIGIIISlDlIS 29tUIINUU: · CHfIbW' ,COOK� . SUlon .UGUST 18. 2013 BRlWEIISBJACI Tlit.ipad,� lip; SBS GROupl� ;"�� 'I n .. '';j';'y C.Nia,;;.. I""' '''' . 3oI().774-m7 · -"".sh\sroUP-!l� gov to access the registry and view the list of sex offenders in the Virgin Islands. The department also asked that anyone knowing the whereabouts of an unregistered sex offender to contact it at 774-5666 on St. Thomas or 773-0295 on St. Croix and provide information to one of the Sex Offender Registry ·coordinators. - Contact reporter Jenny Ka ne at 714-9/02 or email [email protected]. . Saturday Harbourview . HQ�sing Community; 5:40 p.m. Prince Street, Frederiksted; 9: 16 p.m. Saturday, Bellvue; 4:26 a.m. Sunday, Castle Coakley; 6:14 a.m. Sunday, Mountain; 5:57 a.m. Sunday, Luis Hospital. St. Thomas Incidents in the police blotter over the weekend included: , . Assault - 10:10 p.m.,Friday, Hull Bay; '-0:21 p.m. Friday, Bordeaux; 1:40 P .m. Saturday� no location given. . . Burglary - 6:38 p.m. Friday, Nadir; 7:06 p.m. Friday, Frenchtown; 9: 16 a.m. Saturday, Charlotte Amalie; 4:29 p.m. Saturday, Altona. Indecency - 4:06 p.m. Saturday, Red Hook . Larceny - 1:-r8 p.m. Saturday, Frenchman's Bay; 1:32 p.m. Soiberg; 3:58 p.m. Saturday, Altona; 11:42 a.m. Sunday, no location given. Robbery - 9:58 a.m. Sunday, no . location given. Runaway - 8:32 a.m. Sunday, Lucinda Millin Home. VehIcle fire - 9:52 p.m. Friday, Black Point Hill; 2:39 p.m. Sunday, Estate Frydendahl. Watercraft In dIstress - 7:15 p.m. Sunday, Magens Bay Beach. St. John Incidents in the police blotter over the weekend included: Runaway - 5:04 p.m. Sunday, Westin Resort. ****************************** • • i BIG LEE : i CISTERN SERVICE : : f�-: More than 28 Years .. .. ",.,.. * * �) � - : .. '* t.:.. l> . .. : . 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Detroit should draw attention and debate to a challenging issue underlying all these public insolvencies: What level of public services will we protect and guarantee for U.S. cities? The Bankruptcy Court will have to fa ce that question. It will have to determine whether Detroit can cut ' into current services any more than it already has. Unless. the state or federal government steps in with funds for operating costs, the bahkruptcy will function as a zero-sum game, with residents fighting creditors for a share of city revenue. Creditors have contracts to monetize what they are seeking, but how should the court detennine the public spending that residents need today 'and tomorrow? Politicians and judges who manage local fiscal crises speak of maintaining basic services and e'nsuring residents' minimal health and safety, but these concepts are sbort on specifics. While our laws provide an entitlement to a public education, and we have long struggled to interpret what constitutes a legally adequate ed�cation, there is little to nothing that would tell us what other services the local public sector must provide. . As a matter of law, ther,e is no such thing as a crime rate that is too high or an ambulance response time that is too long. Should tbere be? For now, it is left: to politics and mora/ judgment to determine whether it is acceptable that less than one in three streetlights are operational in Detroit O( that th� city has 80,000 abandoned and blighted structures that it cannot afford to demolish. In Detroit, as in many other struggling cities, dramatic police layoffs mean that the average wait time after a 911 call for a police officer is 58 . minutes, and a resident can rarely summon an officer at all jf the . reported crime is not in progress and violent. As for other public functions that a high-poverty city (especially one with..severe winters) might hope to have - such as reliable bus service, playground equipment, indoor basketball F0urts, after-school programs, active libraries and community centers for the elderly - these Michelle Wilde Anderson services are decades into deep cuts ' and widespread closures. Indeed, having curtailed everything beyond . emergency services, it would be tempting to refer to a government like Detroit's as a night-watchman state - the libertarian ideaJ of a government focused only on publ'ic . safety, That is, we'd be tempted 'to use such a term for Detroit, and cities like it, were it not such a cruel irony: Detroit had'more than 15,200 violent crimes and, 500 acts of arson in 2012. The night watchmen are understaffed and underpaid. According to a 2012 study by economists Aaron' Chalfin and Justin McCrary, public spending in Detroit on each police officer (including all . wages, benefits and retirement costs) is less than 'two-thirds what it is just 45 miles away in the prosperolls university town of Ann Arbor. As a political and moral matter, as much as a legal one, Detroit represents an opportunity to take a stand· for urban habitability. What belongs on our list of minimum standards for a city? Detroit invites us to have a public conversation about what services and public spaces we expect from city governments for human dignity and for humans to flourish, We have a chance to say that no one should have to wait hopelessly for an ambulance, that a violent crime in a neighborhood every few hours . is intolerable. Paying for such commitments should not just be the burden of creditors, Many of the city's creditors are rank-and-file public employees and reHrees who have counted on a public pension and are not eligible for Social Security. Detroit's bankruptcy plan could send them into poverty in their old age. Basic services and safety in our cities are the responsibility pf states, the fe deral government, the private sector and voters. It is all of them - alt of us - who have a role to play in the stabilization that Detroit ·is seeking. through bankruptcy. All of us have a responsibility to help them give basic ·health and safety real meaning, and to make this bankruptcy a safety net, not a punisliinent. - Michelle Wilde Anderson is .an assistant professor of law ..at UC Berkeley School of Law. Mrs. Anthqny We iner is Hillary 2.1 I sat there watching the television screen as Anthony Weiner squirmed . the weight of the offenSive conducl. • • Chnstme M. Flowers It's a cross between an "1 can't believe before the microphones for the second time in two years, and realized that one say rafting?) Vince Foster? he did this to me" and a "boys will be boys, God bless their randy little this was a deja vu moment. . (personal tragedy, nothing more.) And hearts." Then, you gaze sadly ·at the At first 1 thought it was because the then came the stream of women: perpetrator as he stares into the camera former congressman and aspiring Gennifer (no relation,) Paula (a genumayoral and apologizes for the second, candidate was, once again, ine victim) and, of course, "A little bit third or 13th time fo r being a pervert apologizing for tweeting and cheating of Monica." with his privates. Then, you allow him without really meeting. And then I Anyone who thought that Hillary to draw a line in the sand where he took one look at Weiner's wife and was going to let the Bimbo Bombs says he might be sorry but he won't realized that this had absolutely noth- destroy her carefully constructed plans go gentle into that good campaign and ing to do with the fe llow. clearly didn't know just who they is continuing to seek the mayoral Huma Abedin might have creamy were dealing with. Our first lady stood prize. olive skin, beautiful brown eyes and by her philandering man and rode the And then you spring into action. long dark hair; but you don't need to cre�t of a sympathetic wave into the You straighten your shoulders, raise put her in a pantsuit and slap a head- Senate. Mrs. Wynette Goes To you» pointed chin, allow a few wisps band on her tresses to realize that we Washington, so to speak. of that luxuriant velvet hair to fall are now in the presence of Hillary . And who did she take with her on across your delicately drawn cheek Ctinton, version 2.1. We all remembet the pre-Sen"!te, that long and fruitful journey, ever . upward, ever more successfully? Why and assume a stoic posc. You love· him, you say. You believe in him, you pre-State Department Hillary who none other than Mrs. Weiner, the loveinspired say. Yoti fo rgive him, you say. You both awe and revulsion' for ly, inscrutable Hulna. idiot, we say. her asiault on the East Wing. Never Hillary once said �at she had one But you do not hear us speaking, before had we been treated to a first daughter, but thal,if she had another it because you do not care what the peanut lady who so. blatantly and brazenly would be her beloved personal gallery thinks. This is not about sought equal status with the guy we'd assistant. the crowds massed to watch this public actually elected. HumaAbedin has·been by her men- shaming. This is' Dot even about Eleanor Roosevelt, her idol, had tor's side for almost two decades, and . your husband who, truth be told, is exercised a considerable amount of it is Flscmable to think that she spent probably sleeping in the garage these weight behind the scenes. But it a large part of that time taking notes days, which is why he has both the wasn't until Franklin died that she about how to thrive and survive in the time and the inclination to tweet. really came into her owo. Not so Mrs, political jungle. 'fh:erefore, it is not This is about something far more Clinton, or, ·rather, Mrs. Rodham surprising that she (I) chose to marry inipprtant to you, perhaps almost as Clinton. an animal indigenous to that environ- important as the future ·of the child It was painfully obvious to anyone ment i.e., a cheetah, and (2) figured you and the Tweeter have in common. paying attention that Bill's wife was out how to make sure that she could ., This is about your political surVival. hell bent on giving us that two-for-one withstand whatever wounds he manbargain Hurna Abedin learned at the feet of that the couple had promised aged to iqflict on their shared a master, someone who might very during the campaign. Say what you ambitions. well parlay her experience as scorned will about her, Hillary was a force to Anthony's wife has taken a page wife ·into an office in the West Wing. be reckoned with. And praised. And from her pseudo-mama's dog-eared Huma is a bit more modest, of course. loathed. Even her most strident ene- book and has perfected the art of dammies Seems she'd be content to redecorate didn't underestimate·her survival age control. Gracie Mansion. instincts. FirSt, you assume a posture of dig- - Christine M Flowers is a lawyer HealtJi care? (If at first you don't nified disappointnient, wherein your and columnist for the Philadelphia succeed ... .) Whitewater? (Did any- _ ' whole body seems to just "sigh" under Daily News. , . . " • , • • • • • , Monday, July 2.9, 2013 , OPINIONS � , ! • I • Luring elephants into big tent . , ! , , The Virgin Islands Daily News �1 Time to hard-delete Carlos Danger Republican national chairman Reince C. Priebus could take a lesson from history in his efforts to William Hershey & John e. Green herd his fellow elephants into a big tent. Nobody did a better jol> of coaxing feuding Republicans to strongest and most effective anti-Communist organizacooperate than Ray C. Bliss, the Akron, Ohio, tion in the United States. I question your motives." inswance man who chaired the national committee Bliss wasn't bothered by the criticism. "I don't from 1965 to 1969. His success is worth have the fixation I have all the answers," he told remembering. reporters, "everything is compion1ise.'� When Briss became chairman .ill 1965, the . His second step was leading Republicans to com- Repubiicans. were in much wor�e shape than in mon ground. " . 2013: President Lyndon Johnson had won a land- The means was the RepublicaIi Coordinating slide r.e-election OVt'1r Ar'izona Sen. Barry ·Committee. Its members were a cross-section of Goldwater, and the Democrats held large majorities the party: Eisenhower and four former presidential in both houses of Congress and the statehouses. candidates - Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Alfred The party waS deeply divided between "moder- Landon and Thomas Dewey - as well as goverates,�' su;ch as New York Goy. Nelson Rockefeller� nors, members of Congress, state l�gisll;ltors.and and "conservatives," like Goldwater. The latter party leaders. '. appeared to bless strident voices when he famously Eisenhower was a key to the committee's work. proclaimed, ':Let ine remind you that extremism in "He backed me up in the early'days of my chairdefense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation.in pursuit of justice is no manship," Bliss reported, , "He had the respect of all factions." virtue." . The method was face-to-face dialogue. Although best known as a "nuts-and-bolts" party "You don't say anything nastY, at least not pubmechanic, Bliss used a two-step approach to ticiy, about somebody you're going to dinner with address these ideological rifts. toillght," Bliss said. The fust step was to challenge voices that made Republicans look extreme to voters. On Nov. 5, 1965, he issued an even,handed eritique of "radicals" on the The cOnll]llttee eventually produced 48 policy proposals, offering an alternative to piesident . ', .. Johnson's "Great Society" program. left and right,.singling out a staunchly anti-communist . In the end, Bliss got the results he want¢: t!l${lOP , firebrand Robert Welch: , ''One of my major concerns in the matter of extremmade a huge comeback in the )966 eleetions; and in ' 1968, it won back the White House.' ism of the radical right.is that honest, patriotic and'con- Of course, 2013 is nor! 965, Miti Romney is no scientious conservatives may be misjndged because of Barty Goldwater, nor is the party division identical . . irresponsible radicals such as Robert Welch, who has . And the GOP may lack an Eisenhower to rally around accused President Eisenhower of being a 'dedicated, . 'Still, Chairman Priebus could ta)<e a lesson from coilscious agent of the Communist conspiracy. '" Chairman Bliss' success in herding the elephants into a "We've got to get this (party) in the middle of the. big tent. . " . ..-,' road," Blis� explained; "Eisenhower and his people , . . - William Hershey is a fo rmer, Knigh(-R,idder have taken.enough." . . . . . :. Washington correspondent and Columbus bureau chief . There was a sharp ' backlaSh. One letter Writer call ..! . fo r the Akron Beacon Journal and Dayton Daily News. Bliss "sneaky" and further: . "You recently asktld all Repnhlicans to get 0)11 of the John Green is director of the' 13liss .Inslilute of Applied Politics at the University 6fAkrOn.. .: . -', ... .' . ". A N@N'Sioo<iJaiCSTS ':" '%1 "'17% CfAMrn\CANG:'·. Mt LlVlNC? (N A WO{(l-V . OF ctuJSlGN� S�PARA1g; COM?tmL'( &av\ �L\1Y. . ' . � " ''''� " , CONGR�§S ., .: APPROVAL . RATING .��. / 17% .. , When you puzzle over why the elegant Huma Abedin ·is propping up·the Maureen Dowd eel-like Anthony Weiner, you must remember one thing: Huma was raised wrong with you?" in Saudi Arabia, where women are Hwna gained renown, movie star suittreated worse by men than anywhere ors and a Vogue spread as the stylish else on the planet. Muslim Garbo silently and efficiently Comparatively speaking, the pol parting the waves for fIi\lary. She had to from Queens probably seems like a be resilient to work her �ay up from prince. Even though he's a punk. After intern to consigliere �n 'tough he got caught sexting and flashing Hillaryworld, and she saw firsthand how women onfine in 20 II, he pronused to the Cliotons beat �ack foes. ''never, ever" do that to his family again They love Huma, but the Clintons, and slouched away from Congress .. He now showcasing pbilanthropy and public cyber-ereeped other young women in a· pervy bout of tweet du seigneur as his . service PrePara!Ory to Hillary's 2016 run, are not happy aoout getting dragged into wire traveled the world with Hillary thdewd spectacle that is a low-budget Clinton while she was secretary of movie version oftbeir·masterpiece. · state. . . . The former president is distancing Yei, while married to the claSsy, gor- · himse� one associate said, noting; "He's geous mother of. his infant son .. aild· not getting anywhere near that grenade." planning a redemptive lim for mayor, . Huma's friends are "sIapping-my-fore he told a Facebook friend and phonesex partner he had never met-that he head astounded :' as one put it, that ' Weiner would get in the race knowing · loved her. Then he told her to "'hard, '. the online land mines that .would rock delete" all their corre�PQndence - if Huma's world, again and torpedo the that is what you call it. " campaign. • . .. ,- Aside from his zany Zorro-!ike nom Weiner wooed Huma assiduously, · de porn, �Ios DangtI;, Weinet has been c3lled many thijigs. HiS1digitai girlfriend showing up at the Westchester airpQrt in the wee hours to pick ,her up when and fellow extreme exlnbitionist, Sydney she carne back from trips with Hillary. .Leathers (whose name sounds like a nom "They were two hyperdrive young de porn), said thaiWeiner described bim- �' �iiis thai just clicked," said a friend. se!fto her accurately as "an argurnenta- . "She liked his Borscht Belt humor." tive, perpetually horny middle-aged Her circle understaods that "you love man." who you love," as one put it, marveling . But Weiner's GOya-esqtie grotesquetie earns hidi another me: the ''Rosemary's at Weiner's .... ma<\onna:"'hore" com­ .plex played 'out online. But that doesn't · Baby" of the Clihtons.. 'mean'that you ask peo.pḷe to vote for Bill and Hillary Clinton transformed the way we look.at·sex·scandals. 'They · plowed th!ough the· ridipule, retused to slink away in·shi!in. like Gary Hart, said someone·who's dreadfully . flawed (or . . majo�.offige;Jiist bec�use Y9u roile him. . · . \ i .� . ." .: . .. " . "'I;'hey are� w:<iirjed thai liWna's deciit'f3S old news, and argued !hal if Hillary sion:tu vouch fQr her litisBaild is .start- , " I �X9!i!n't obj"\'l, Why shoUi!l yoters? : , ing,Jo,: �urt hei, ti!e one pet S?n lhey all , .) .Poppy Bl!Sh thoughtAI\>en� would assumed'woUld'never be'ensnared m .. " ,. rej ect Bill'Clioton in 1992 because ofhis anything weirq ·Qr.bad. ''The hard stink : lascivious ways, \ he Il"'ined that vot- of this one isi�mg to gei. on every",ne ... ers are more concerned'with how their involved," said"one friena;· ... , . . , " own lives will be changed than they are Another a� "As soo� as she stood wItIi politicianS' dUplicitoUS private lives. up to 'say thoscl.Words she changed her- Americans. keep moving the marlcer of self from a sophisticated, mysterious acceptable behavior, partly as a reflection guiding intelligence and beauty next to of the coarsening of society and partly as a public acknowledgment that many pols Hillary Clioton to the wife of a tarnished Anthony Weiner." with complicated personal lives have been good pnhlic servants. They fear Huma leanied the wrong lesson from Hillary , given that Bill was a Now; detiniiig deviancy downward, roguish genius'while Weiner's aJ'Ceepy Senor and Senora Danger are . using the � Clioton playbook. _ The diffetence is, there's nothing in Weiner's public life that is redeeming. In loser. ''Bill Clinton was the greatest political and policy mind of a generation," said one. "Anthony is behaving similarly 12 years in Congress, he managed to get only one minor bill passed, on behalf of a without the chops or resume." As often as Bill apologized, he didn't donor, and he do�sn:t work well with' prpmise he would "never, ever" do it people. He knows how to be loud on again, as Weiner did cab)e and wave his Zorro sword in our fuces. ''What people won't forgive is lying in the apology," said the Clinton pal. "It has Some sex scandals, like Mark to be sincere, and it sure as hell has to be Sanford's, fall into the reabo of flawed accurate." human nature, and some, like Weiner's, • - Maureen Dowd is a New Yo rk fall into the reaIm of "Seriously, what is TImes cO/W1Inist. SHA�EYOUR VIEWS: Send letters to the Editor and Opinion .column proposals to Daily News Opinions, 9155 EstateThomas, S1. Thomas, VI 00802 or [email protected]. Monday:Juh,t 29,2013 .' J ' " s'Po'R't'S" ,--, Team �ew ZeClI�nd defe'ats ltaly .i;n America's· Cup' challenger 'trials Th.e Associated Press ' SAN'FRANCISCO - Emifat�s Team New Zealand beat Italy's Luna ,Rossa by 3 minutes , 21 seconds- 'in their final meeting of the round-robins iri,.tIie America's ' Cup challenger trials Sunday on,San,F.rancisbo Bay, ' As the points I�ader in the rountl-robins;.fue'Kiwis' had the choice of advancing straight to the Louis Vuitton . Cup final or picking their opponent for the se!lliflDals, Skip pe r Dean lIarker said that while the r:rew Zea!an . �� considered gettmg in more racmg tnne, they've deCided. to advance straight to the finals in order to continue development of their 72-foot catamaran. That leaves Luna Rossa to 'face Artemis Racmg of' Sweden in the semifinals starting Aug. 6, Artemis' only recently launched, its.new boat and hasn't sailed in the round-robins, The syndicate has been slowed by the fatal capsize of its first boat on May 9, ' " The Louis Vuitton Cup finals begin Aug, 17, with the winner advancing to face' Oracle Team USA in the 34th America's Cup starting Sept. 7. . � , • File Photo by ASSOCIATED PRESS Emirates Team New Zealand: Team New �d ha,i'a slight lOad at thi &1art Sunday and built its lead at every turning mark on the seven-leg course. 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" ' , . .. , Daily News Photos by THOMAS LAYER Coaches S�ip Sherman, right, of ,Genesee Com'munjty College in Batavia, N.Y., and ,Scott Dulin, of , Fisher College in Boston, Mass" holding a radar gun, scout baseball prospects at the VJ Future Stars' annual Summer Baseball Showcase .on Saturday at Lionel Roberts Stadium o,n St. Thomas, There were also representatives from Southern Conneticut State University, the �an Francisco Giants, St. -Louis Cardinals and Colarado Rockies, The showcase, organized,by ' A,-Future Stars president Daren Canton gives local players the opportunity to display their athletic skills for college and professional scouts, ' - , ... I c;':,>2,,< . -. -"" '. ' <-' . . -', ;s,s-_7' :-:C--I Above, Malik Mitchell, a pitcher in his second year at Genesee College, throws § " pitch for scouts, At left, Leroy Simmonds, a shortstop and f<ir�er student at St. 'Croix Centr�I, High School, makes a, play to get a ,. runrier out at first base, • (:,-!,;, "I�' ".' 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