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Oct 22 - 28, 2015 Vol. 28, No. 8

YOuR FRee Guide

to our islands’ happenings

WILLY T VIRGIN’ S CUP RACE SATURdAY

OCTObER, 24Th

AlsO this week: Ntl Of Mice And Men @ hlsCC • BVi Cancer society walk/Run for a Cure • Myett’s local Arts & Crafts

Photo by Todd VanSickle

This Week’s Feature Story by Arlena Smith

NTL: Of Mice And Men ‘humbled’ to be chosen.

"I can't think of a greater honor that could be bestowed on this production of Steinbeck's masterwork than to have an opportunity for millions of theatre lovers around the world to see our production under the auspices of National Theatre Live," he added. Of Mice and Men is directed by Anna D. Shapiro and features Leighton Meester famously known for her role in Gossip Girl.

This is the second show from the BVI Theatre Series being brought to us

by Appleby and HLSCC this season.

The National Theatre Live was launched in June 2009 with a broadcast of Phèdre starring Helen Mirren.

Since then they have shown more than twenty other productions live from the National Theatre, and on occasion other theatres in the UK and around the world.

Don’t miss your chance to catch to catch this classic production. Tickets available at House, Digicel and the Watering Hole, $15 in advance, $20 at the door and $10 for students and HLSCC staff.

Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Milk) and Tony Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, Girls) star in the hit Broadway production Of Mice And Men. This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner, John Steinbeck’s 1937 play is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament of friendship and will be aired on Saturday, October 24th at 7pm at HLSCC. The symbiotic relationship between smart, scrappy George (Franco) and his hulking, brain-damaged friend, Lennie (O’Dowd), is at the heart of this 1937 play about the broken, homeless men (bindlestiffs, they were called) who wandered the country, living from farm job to farm job, during the great depression.

Of Mice and Men will be the National Theatre Live’s (NTL) first Broadway production to be screened live in cinemas around the world.

The NTL said it was "thrilled" to add US theatre to its roster of live screenings, which began five years ago.

The play's producer, David Binder, said he was

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Vol. 28, No. 8 • Oct 22 - 28, 2015

Ask Koren

Your personal E-therapist, is in the house!

Fussing Time AskAbout Koren Dear Koren, I would like some advice on dealing with my fiancée. We are planning to get married next year December and I’m trying to hustle to make enough money to pay down on a house. I’m holding down two jobs but she keeps stressing that I’m not spending enough time with her and it’s frustrating me because I can’t be in two places at once. I’m trying to do the right thing and still being made out to be the bad guy. What should I do?

– Fiance

solid foundation for your future because the wedding is not your only priority, but the marriage moreso and you would appreciate her understanding. Let her know that her wishes are also important, so you will do your best.

If she is the organized type, then try to schedule at least one date night per week and then throw in some unexpected ones; nothing gets a woman more than surprise “thinking of you” texts or unexpected lunch dates. When she sees you making the effort, she will appreciate it. Also, talk to her about your plans.

Perhaps she is just seeing that you are absent and not understanding why. Start planting the seeds of compromise and communication from now and it will ripen and bear fruit for now and for the future….sweet fruit you will enjoy when you have a happy lady at your side.

Dear Fiancé, It’s nice to see that you are planning a solid future for you and your wife-to-be and I believe that you have good intentions, which is very important. It sounds like your head is on straight. However, don’t make the mistake of focusing so much on the destination that you miss the journey. The here and now is just as important as the future. You could be so busy setting things up for next year that next year could come and you realize that you have grown apart.

The trick here is to compromise; to give quality time when you can’t give quantity time and to not argue with her when she complains of not seeing you enough. It’s a nice thing that she enjoys being with you. Explain to her that you are working on building a

Lime ... “to hang around idly” or “to go out on the town.”

Source: The Dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole by the late educator and historian Lito Valls.

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Vol. 28, No. 8 • Oct 22 - 28, 2015

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By Jan Critchley

The Virgin’s Cup A great fun event to get the yacht racing season of to a flying start is The Virgin’s Cup, taking place this Saturday, 24th October with the first start at 11am from Nanny Cay. This fun and spirited race, follows the adage - "Ladies First” and the most important rule is that there can only a female at the helm. The race finishes at the “Willy T” on for some well earned cool drinks and partying! Registration will be at Sharky’s at the RBVIYC from 6:30pm to 8pm this Friday, 23rd

music and much more and don’t forget “Sunday

October. Go the ladies!

Brunch” with bottomless mimosas – where the beat

Fight Against Cancer

goes on!

The BVI Cancer Society have a host of events

Fashion’s A Go Go

planned for October as it is Breast Cancer Awareness

Fashion takes center stage on Friday, 23rd October

month. This week, on Friday, October 23rd there will

at 4:30pm when the “Clash of the Public Officers

be a free health fair at Scotia bank from 10am-noon.

Fashion Show” takes place as part of the govern-

Then, on Saturday, October 24th there is the

ment’s annual Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Walk/Run for a Cure from Noel Lloyd Park to Ebenezer

week in collaboration with UMI Fashions. The event

Thomas Primary School and back – register with the

will take place in the grounds of the Central Admin

BVI Cancer Society 441-0023 and the walk starts at

Complex and all are invited to attend. For more infor-

5:30am. So do your bit and fight the big fight against

mation call EAP on 468-3701 ext. 4352.

this disease.

Myett’s Arts & Crafts Festival

Youth in Business Expo Visit the 2015 Youth in Business Expo on Friday,

Don’t miss Myett’s Arts & Crafts Festival that takes

October 23rd between noon and 6pm at Noel Lloyd

place this Sunday, October 25th (and the last Sunday

Positive Action park and get inspired! The Expo is

of every month) from 1pm till 5pm where you can buy

hosted by the Dept of Youth Affairs and Sports is

some local art and crafts while browsing through the

designed to encourage youth entrepreneurship for a

stalls of local crafts. The BVI is full of talented artists

vibrant economy, so go along and speak to someone

so look out for them at the festival, and they will be

about your burning business idea! There will also be

happy to talk to you about their craft and inspirations.

entertainment and a fashion show at 5pm, so don’t

As well as all things creative, there will be winetasting,

miss it.

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Vol. 28, No. 8 • Oct 22 - 28, 2015

live music • events • concerts •

THURSDAY - OCT 22

CANE GARDEN BAY

ROAD TOWN

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour w/ $2 Carib & Coors Lights w/special priced bar menu. Evolution

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

Band play live at 7pm.

SOPER’S HOLE ELM’S BEACH BAR — Lunch Daily 11am-4pm.

D’BEST CUP — Open daily from 7am till 5pm for great coffee and delicious breakfasts till 2pm.

CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour w/ Candyman. $2 Carib & Coors Light & special priced

Dinner 6-9pm SATURDAY - OCT 24 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

bar menu ELM’S BEACH BAR— Lunch Daily 11am-4pm.

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm

CENTRAL ADMIN COMPLEX — 42nd Anniversary of BVI-USVI Friendship Day at 9:45am with cultural displays, music and sampling of local dishes.

NOEL LLOYD PARK — Walk/Run for Breast Cancer

FRIDAY - OCT 23

to Ebenezer Thomas Primary School. Walk starts at

ROAD TOWN

5:30am

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

SAVE THE SEED — Basketball. 5pm Jr Avengers vs

NOEL LLOYD PARK — 2015 Youth in Business

Young Starz (Jr) 6:30pm West Gunners vs Starz; 8pm

Expo from noon till 6pm. Fashion show at 5pm.

Bayside Blazers vs Warriors; 9:30pm Knights vs New

CENTRAL ADMIN COMPLEX — Clash of the

Heights.

Public Officers Fashion Show at 4:30pm.

NANNY CAY

SHARKY’S — Registration for the RBVIYC’s Virgin’s

NANNY CAY — The Virgin’s Cup Yacht Race. First

Cup from 6:30pm till 8pm.

start at 11am to the Willy T.

SCOTIA BANK – Free Health Fair 10am till noon.

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from

SAVE THE SEED — Basketball. 6:30pm West

CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour $2 Carib Beer & Coors Lights & special priced bar menu. Buy one dinner entrée get one free!

Gunners vs Starz; 8pm Talk Done vs Splash Brothers.

9:30pm Warriers Vs Bayside Blazers.

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Beach BBQ w/ Live Music. Serving Caribbean Fusion

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ts • parties • sports • movies and more

ELM’S BEACH BAR— Lunch 11am-4pm. Happy

CANE GARDEN BAY

Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm

MYETT’S — Mexican Monday with 2 for 1 spe-

BREWER’S BAY

ciality Margaritas & Munchies. Sunset Happier

BONE CRUSHER CHARITY SWIM — 8am Start.

Hour w/ Candyman 5-7pm. Live entertainment

5.3 mile open water swim or SUP to JVD - to raise

TUESDAY - OCT 27

funds for 11 year old T’Shonda’s medical expenses.

ROAD TOWN

Swimmers/SUP’s needed - call 340-2179.

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

SUNDAY - OCT 25

CANE GARDEN BAY

ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm SAVE THE SEED — Basketball. 5pm Jr Winners from Sat vs Swaggas (Jr); 6:30pm Knights vs New Heights; 8pm Splash Brothers vs Talk Done; 9:30pm Bayside Blazers vs Warriors (if necessary) CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Arts & Crafts Festival with music and winetasting. Sunday Brunch w/Bottomless Mimosas till 3pm. Sunday Social w/ DJ from 3-7pm, the Ultimate Sunset Party.

ELM’S BEACH BAR — Lunch Daily 11am -

MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour with Candyman with $2 Carib & Coors Lights w/ special priced bar menu.

ELM’S BEACH BAR— Lunch Daily 11am-4pm.

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm WEDNESDAY - OCT 28 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Buy one dinner entrée get one free!

Sunset Happier Hour with $2 Carib & Coors Lights

UPCOMING HAPPENINGS

Anegada Lobster Fest Nov 28 & 29

TICO Wine & Spirits Expo — Oct 29 Paint the Town Pink — Oct 30 Foxy’s Catfight BVI & Masquerade Ball — Oct 31 Hullaween Party w/ Dexta Daps & Kalado @ Myett’s Beachfront — Oct 31

& special priced bar menu. Dinner & Dance 7pm.

Adult CHAIR-ity Event — Nov 6

Fusion Dinner 6-9pm

ELM’S BEACH BAR— Lunch Daily 11am-4pm.

Taste of Tortola — Nov 7

MONDAY - OCT 26

Happy Hour 4-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion

ROAD TOWN

Dinner 6-9pm. 2 for 1 specials on Painkiller &

PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm

Rum Punches

4pm.Beach BBQ w/ Live Music. Serving Caribbean

On the Rocks Bar Crawl — Nov 21 “Divorce Papers” Feat.

Oliver Samuel — Nov 23 VISAR Governor’s Gourmet Gathering — Nov 27

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Vol. 28, No. 8 • Oct 22 - 28, 2015

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By Jan Critchley

Swim for a Cause One aspect of living in the BVI that I really enjoy is the fact that it is a relatively small community, so when people hear of others in need – help is close at hand.

One heart warming example of this, is the Bone Crusher Charity Swim event that is being held this coming Saturday, October 24th at 8am – a breath-taking 5.3 mile swim from Brewer’s Bay to Jost Van Dyke to raise money for T’Shonda Dore a bright, funny and outgoing eleven year old girl who is battling with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS). Without treatment AIS is a debilitating disease that has meant that she even had difficulty attending school as she was unable to sit upright.

The Bone Crusher Charity Swim open water swim or SUP is being spearheaded by the team at Alternative Energy Systems (AES) and supported by Prosolar Systems, Deloitte and Maples.

Thankfully, T’Shonda has now had her emergency surgery (off-island), which was a success and she is coping well with her mother at her side. They have even recently moved out of the hospital to try and keep costs down, however T’Shonda still has a long way to go.

The medical bills are rising and are already over $17,000 and that is without the hospital charges and on-going doctors appointments and rehabilitation.

So, it was awesome news to find out that Richard

Branson has offered his support by committing to match dollar for dollar any funds raised at the charity swim event. He has donated $5,000 in advance to help the family’s immediate needs and $3,000 has been raised so far of that matched amount. So that is a huge encouragement for all involved and a timely reminder for all us to try and help in anyway that we can to help reach the fundraising target of $65,000.

So, what can you do? To register for the swim, SUP call Caroline on 346 8125 or Cayley on 340 2179.

Cheques can also be made out to Maples and Calder who are managing the payments towards T’Shonda’s expenses.

You can make all the difference by making a donation, sponsoring one of the swimmers or joining in the swim or SUP. As of last week four swimmers had registered and it’s still not to late to try an open water swim for a great cause!

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Vol. 28, No. 8 • Oct 22 - 28, 2015

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By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway

Game Officials Always Get ‘Bad Call’ that when others have been losing, they’ve found In my 30 years of covering sports I’ve never seen every excuse in the book to blame the referee, to a game official bat, bowl, catch, shoot, throw or kick a blame the league committee and even his being on ball nor tag anyone out. the committee – which he found laughable – and with “Referees are never credited with a victory,” the blame, they create malice and confusion.

Basketball referee clinician Darel Lamps once said “It’s a tradition in the BVI that they blame the refwhen I interviewed him. “But, they sure gets criticized erees for everything, but what I’ve when a team loses.” said consistently, is that the same No matter the team sport in referees you see refereeing in the particular, someone never likes a Hon. Julian Fraser Save The Seed call made against them and the Basketball League, are the same unsportsmanlike conduct that referees that referee in Virgin often follows is simply ludicrous.

Goda, they referee in the BVI No one wants to take responsibiliBasketball Federation League and ty for creating a foul and the offenthey referee in some of the other sive player always think they’re district leagues,” he explained. right and fans often contribute to “Therefore, I don’t understand the mayhem as they too – from why they are so critical of them their position in the stands, a when they referee at Save The totally different angle to the game Seed, but, you go to Virgin Gorda official – chastise the official for they are there; you go to the missing or making what the perA player begging for a call Federation League, they are there, ceive to be a ‘bad call.’ so my thing is, lets be sportsmanlike. Stop blaming When the Hon. Julian Fraser Save The Seed people for your loss. Stop blaming the referees. The League defending champs Bayside Blazers lost to referees are human and they have a job to do,” he West Gunners 111-67 last week in a blow out, managadded. “And, most often they are carrying out their er Julian Willock summed it up best with the referee duties.” situation.

Willock reiterated the difference between the “The difference between Bayside Blazers and its Bayside Blazers loss and other teams, is that they do management and the defeat, we are not going to play not play the blame game. “We lost the game to West the blame game,” Willock stated. “We are not going Gunners – they won fair and square,” he said. “Our to blame the referees for bad decisions; we are not thing is lets get ready for the playoffs.” going to create fights; we’re not going to disrespect Perhaps more teams need to take a page out of referees—we aren’t going to do those kind of things.” the Bayside Blazers’ playbook.

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Vol. 28, No. 8 • Oct 22 - 28, 2015

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