Our local government likes to take days off. This article was in today's Source, the online newspaper at www.stjohnsource.com.
Easter is this Sunday. In normal places, people take off Easter, which is a Sunday so it's no big deal.
Here, we start with Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Saturday off because it is a weekend, Easter Sunday, and then Easter Monday of all things.
Pretty pathetic.
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A long holiday weekend kicks off Wednesday with Transfer Day. The Easter holiday then begins Thursday with Holy Thursday. Friday is Good Friday.
On Saturday, most government offices are closed as usual. Sunday is Easter and Monday is Easter Monday.
Transfer Day ceremonies, which commemorate the 93rd anniversary of the 1917 transfer of the former Danish West Indies to the United States, will be held Wednesday on St. Thomas and St. Croix.
"It's probably the one event that helped to set the modern Virgin Islands. It came at a time of great economic downturn, and had repercussions on the culture, history and society," said David Edgecombe, an assistant to Gov. John deJongh Jr.
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