Another Win for the Boston Red Sox Again

Another night, another win. This time it was 6-1 or something like that. We are easily in first place.

The lads will all be invited to St. John in the fall, after the world serious.

No mention of closets here

There will be no mention in this forum of the closet I just built. You'll have to look elsewhere.

This forum is usually about the St. John Yacht Club.

Building a closet today

Today is the day -- actually the day before the day. I cleaned out the closet yesterday, and today we will be going through all the stuff and throwing bunches away. A closet, as we all know, gets as full of stuff as it is big.

Poigt

This post is about a poigt. A poigt is an imaginary solid, like a u-shaped block at the top, but turning into three round legs at the bottom. An optical illusion. Naturally, Captain G. Piecost can draw one. As with a potrzebie, a poigt came out of Mad Magazine. And in a few months, a search for poigt will produce this post.

Read The St. John Source for info about St. John

This article was in The Source recently. About the Constitutional Convention.

'Native' Definition Tweaked by Constitution Committee
by Lynda Lohr

St. John resident Paul Devine stalks out of Friday's meeting.
June 13, 2008 -- A Constitutional Convention committee tweaked its definition of a V.I. native Friday, adding the word "domiciled."
The definition now reads: "A Native Virgin Islander shall be defined as any person born or domiciled in the Virgin Islands prior to 1927 and who was not a citizen of any other country or nation and any person who is an offspring of parent or parents born or domiciled in the Virgin Islands prior to 1927 and who was not a citizen of any other country or nation."
The change was made by the Citizenship, Virgin Islands' Rights, Environment and Cultural and Historical Preservation Committee of the Fifth Constitutional Convention. Remaining unchanged is the provision, "or any person born outside the Virgin Islands to native V.I. parent or parents while that parent or parents was studying abroad, employed abroad, or in active military service."
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The year 1927 is when V.I. residents received citizenship from the United States. The change came about to include people living in the territory but not born in the Virgin Islands when citizenship was granted.
Meeting at the Legislature building on St. John, the committee also upped the number of years for people to be considered V.I. citizens from one to five. About 20 people attended the meeting.
While most of the delegates favored including a definition of native in the constitution, former Gov. Charles Turnbull begged to differ.
"It creates a hanger on which to hang discriminatory legislation," he said. "I see icebergs ahead for this ship."
Turnbull is a veteran of five constitutional conventions.
St. John resident Paul Devine, who has drafted a constitution himself and given it to delegates, opposed inserting any native definition.
"Why would one segment of our society be included in the constitution and not another?" he asked.
He later walked out of the meeting after former Sen. Adelbert Bryan, who serves on the committee, harangued him for his constitutional efforts.
"I take offense to Mr. Devine writing a constitution," Bryan said. "Who gave him the right to write for us?"
It went downhill from there, with Bryan continuing to reproach Devine, Devine yelling at Bryan, Delegate Stedmann Hodge standing up to chastise Devine, and Devine stalking out of the meeting.
"Goodbye and good luck," Devine said as he left the meeting. A handful of other St. John residents followed.
Devine was one of three people testifying at Friday's meeting.
Natives are simply people born in the territory, said St. John resident Myrtle Barry.
"Taking it further gets it complicated," Barry said. Although her parents were not born in the Virgin Islands, Barry said, she was.
Lorelei Monsanto sided with those who want the native Virgin Islander definition as it currently stands.
"This is about the Virgin Islands and about my future," she said.
People born or domiciled in the Virgin Islands before 1927 are a special group of people, said Delegate Gerard Emmanuel.
"They are charter members of V.I. society," he said.

I built a sky hook

I built a sky hook yesterday. It holds up a swing in a deck area with no roof. How did I do it? Magic. Some 4x4 stock, screws, bolts, and loads of talent.

St John Cottages

Here is a list of Cottages for rent on St. John. From the web site
St John Villa Rental.

1-Bedroom Cottages
Captain's Cabin
Catch 'n Keep
Coconut Cottage
Coral + Blue
Fishbone
In Harmony Retreat
Meritage Cottage
Siempre Azul
Tradewinds Cottage
Tranquility
Trinidad Charlie's Eco Cottages

2-Bedroom Cottages
Caneel Trailside Cottage
Carnival Beach House
Horizons Cottage
Louisenhoj
Woodrose99

3-Bedroom Cottages
Coconut Hill Cottage
Stone Cottage

Caribbean Yacht Clubs on St. John

The St. John Yacht Club is a Caribbean Yacht Club. Located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The website is www.stjohnyachtclub.org. You can find anything you want about the St John Yacht Club on the website.

Tax Information from The Source today

This was in today's The Source. Not a single mention of www.stjohnvillarental.com, but a lot of stuff about taxes.

Tax-Clearance Letters Will Serve as Proof of Property-Tax Payment
by Lynda Lohr
June 11, 2008 -- Tax-clearance letters are one method property owners can use as proof of payment for delinquency notices, Tax Assessor Roy Martin said Wednesday.
"In any instance where a property owner has been issued a delinquency notice, that property owner can present a tax-clearance letter to the Finance Department or the office of the Tax Assessor as conclusive proof of payment," Martin said in a news release.
However, the tax-clearance letters in question are the ones used in real estate transactions, said Shawna Richards, spokesman at the Lieutenant Governor's Office.
As an example, she said that when a property is sold, the seller has to provide proof that the real-property taxes are paid with a tax-clearance letter.
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Last week many residents received letters that their property taxes were delinquent. Letters went out to owners of 47,000 parcels with about $50 million owed in back taxes. Many residents say they paid those bills a long time ago and are now scrambling to locate proof that they paid.
"Unfortunately, the burden is on the taxpayer," Richards said.
The Tax Assessor's Office agreed that there were errors.
"The records we have inherited suffered from poor recordkeeping," Richards said.
Collection of property taxes is in the midst of being transferred from the Finance Department, which kept the records manually, to the Tax Assessor's Office, which will automate the records.
"We've been making preparations to fully integrate the system," Richards said.
Martin apologized to the public for any undue anxiety and inconvenience caused by the receipt of delinquency letters.
"I ask for the public's continued patience as the property tax office works diligently to clean up data records, a move in the direction of implementing a fully computerized system, which I am confident when completed will improve our levels of customer service," Martin said.
This is a problem that has existed for years, Martin explained, and "we are working to correct many of these issues during the period of time in which the government is transitioning the collection of property taxes from the Finance Department to the Tax Assessor's Office."
"I encourage anyone having questions about the tax status of their property, or who believe that they have been wrongly reported as delinquent, to visit the Collections Office at the Finance Department to provide proof of payment, or contact the Tax Assessor's Office to request copies of bills for individual tax years," Martin said.
He said his office "is reviewing all administrative options to add certainty to real-estate transactions and to insure that both purchasers and property owners have assurances that they are taking title free and clear of any possible tax problems years later."

Villa Callaloo, St. John

The best villa on St. John built in the old West Indian style is Villa Callaloo. This is listed in www.stjohnvillarental.com and www.frankbayvillas.com, which list over 100 villas for your vacation rental.

Celtics and Red Sox Both Won

As I told you yesterday, the Celtics and Red Sox both won.

Yacht Club Commodore's Log for June

Just think, only 6 more Commodore's Logs to do before someone else is commodore of the St. John Yacht Club. Probably Jim Swan, or maybe Larry Boxerman. Who knows?

But my term will be over shortly.

Captain G. Piecost
www.stjohnyachtclub.org