# Appendix Odds and Ends.... # Glossary I use a bunch of terms in the journal that meant something at the time, some of which I have forgotten. The Peace Corps had it's own set of acronyms and abbreviations. **Here are some of them, in no particular order:** PT - Physical Therapist which became Physiotherapist and just "Physio" during our service. non-matrixed spouse - Part of the "package" with no defined placement in country. COI - Close of invitation - DRop dead date to apply and be accepted by the Peace Corps for service. NAC -National Agency Check - Federal background check..very thorough,,, CHP - A consulting firm that provided training for {eace Corps volunteers UWI - University of the West Indies E.C. - EC- Eastern Caribbean PCV - Peace Coprs Volunteer COS - Close of Service B'Dos - Short for Barbados A.T. - Appropriate Technology EC-33 - Our Peace Corps group followed by EC-34's, 35's, 36's, 37's, and 38's (which we never met...) CaDEC - Christian Action for Development in the Caribbean SVG - St. Vincent and the Grenadines HR - Human Resources OECS - Organization of Eastern Caribbean States SVGPS - St. Vincent Public Service USAID - United States Agency for INternational Development (great organization...or was...) CAID - Canadian Agency for International Development CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency (might be the same org as above) VSO - Volunterr Service Overseas - the British version of the Peace Corps KGH - Kingstown General Hospital ET - Early Termination P.S. - Public Service RC - Roman Catholic MCW - Ministry of Communications and Works DFS - Deputy Financial Secretary CBI - Caribbean Basin Initiative - a Reagan-era program to foster business growth in the Caribbean CITS - Caribbean International Travel Service (travel agent...remember those?) LIAT - Leeward Island Air Transport (or Leave Island Any Time) AG - Agriculture Department Ministry of T&A - Ministry of Trade and Agriculture - also MTA CPU - Central Planning Unit ORD - Organization for Rural Development PM - Prime Minister MIU - Marketing Intelligence Unit APCD - Associate Peace Corp Director # Various and Sundry Pictures, some of which you have already seen We took a couple of hundred slides when we were in St. Vincent and I took a few prints as well. The slides have been tranferred to a digital image (not great, some of them) but they give you a flavour of what life in St. Vincent was like. (They are in no particular order) [![02-83 Soufriere trip.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-83-soufriere-trip.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-83-soufriere-trip.JPG) **The climb to Soufriere** [![01-84 Bequia Whale Boat.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/01-84-bequia-whale-boat.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/01-84-bequia-whale-boat.JPG) **At the whaleboat blessing in Bequia** [![01-84 St Vincent Marathon.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/01-84-st-vincent-marathon.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/01-84-st-vincent-marathon.JPG) **Downtown Kingstown for the SVG Marathon** [![01-84 SVG Marathon - John Hopkins PCV.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/01-84-svg-marathon-john-hopkins-pcv.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/01-84-svg-marathon-john-hopkins-pcv.JPG) **Runners in the Marathon** [![02-83 Kingstown Harbor.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-83-kingstown-harbor.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-83-kingstown-harbor.JPG) **Kingstown harbour** [![image.png](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/Ip2image.png)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/Ip2image.png) **Climbing Soufriere** [![02-83 Soufriere Climb (3).JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-83-soufriere-climb-3.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-83-soufriere-climb-3.JPG) **Climbing Soufriere** [![05-83 Mustique Excursion - Grenadine Star.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/05-83-mustique-excursion-grenadine-star.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/05-83-mustique-excursion-grenadine-star.JPG) **There was a LST from WW II that was used for sea transport for "excursions" (trips). This one was to Mustique** [![02-84 Boy outside his home in Fancy SVG.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-84-boy-outside-his-home-in-fancy-svg.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-84-boy-outside-his-home-in-fancy-svg.JPG) **A boy at his home in Fancy, a far north village of most Carib natives.** [![02-84 Home in Sandy Bay.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/02-84-home-in-sandy-bay.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/02-84-home-in-sandy-bay.JPG) **Typical Vincentian housing. This one in Sandy Bay.** [![04-84 Banana Harvest.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/04-84-banana-harvest.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/04-84-banana-harvest.JPG) **Our one and only attempt at growing bananas.** [![06-84 Shaker Church Baptism Edinboro.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/06-84-shaker-church-baptism-edinboro.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/06-84-shaker-church-baptism-edinboro.JPG) **The "beach" in front of our house was sometimes used for baptisms (Shakers, in this case)** [![07-84 arnival Tuesday John Tom Play Mass.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/07-84-arnival-tuesday-john-tom-play-mass.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/07-84-arnival-tuesday-john-tom-play-mass.JPG) **Carnival was a big event and some PCV's got into the action directly ("Play Mass" - John and Tom)** [![07-84 Carnival Tuesday Costume (2).JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/07-84-carnival-tuesday-costume-2.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/07-84-carnival-tuesday-costume-2.JPG) **Some of the Carnival costumes were pretty elaborate** [![10-83 Richmond.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/10-83-richmond.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/10-83-richmond.JPG) **Richmond was on the Leeward coast - a starting point for a hike to Soufriere** [![08-83 Arnos Vale Airport.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/08-83-arnos-vale-airport.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/08-83-arnos-vale-airport.JPG) **Arnos Vale Airport in St. Vincent - notice the road that cuts directly across the runway!** [![11-82 Community meeting - Sligoville.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/11-82-community-meeting-sligoville.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/11-82-community-meeting-sligoville.JPG) **The Training Centre in Sligoville, Jamaica** [![11-82 Spanish Town.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/11-82-spanish-town.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/11-82-spanish-town.JPG) **Spanish Town, Jamaica - where our homestay was** [![image.png](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/yanimage.png)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/yanimage.png) **Kingstown, St. Vincent - Our Peace Corps home** [![Cooking SVG Style - Yabus on coal pot.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/cooking-svg-style-yabus-on-coal-pot.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/cooking-svg-style-yabus-on-coal-pot.JPG) **We cooked many a meal on this coal pot (bottom) and the Yabas pot (above). We still have the Yabas but the coal pot got shattered on the trip home.** [![Fruit from our yard.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/fruit-from-our-yard.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/fruit-from-our-yard.JPG) **We had many fruit trees on our lot and sometimes we could harvest the bounty before someone else did!** [![View from road to Lower Edinboro.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/view-from-road-to-lower-edinboro.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/view-from-road-to-lower-edinboro.JPG) **Some of the housing in lower Kingstown. That is the hospital in the background.** [![IMAG0044.JPG](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/imag0044.JPG)](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/imag0044.JPG) **I could fill an entire page with the tropical flora we saw in St. Vincent** # Newsletters sent from St. Vincent Artwork on the newsletter provided by Debbie. We'd send the newsletter to my folks in SLC and then they sent out the newsletters to our mailing list. Unfortunately these are the only originals that my folks saved. Some were lost. This is LONG before email was a thing or the Internet was as ubiquitous as it is now. [December 1982 Newsletter](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/1) [January 1983](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/3) [February 1983](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/4) [March 1983](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/5) [April 1983](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/7) [June 1983](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/8) [August 1983](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/9) [September 1983](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/10) [October 1983](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/11) [September 1984](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/12) [November 1984.pdf](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/13) - Our last update from St. Vincent **Also a bit of "bragging" about the MIU project as described in various local newspapers** **[The\_Vincention February 1984](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/14)** **[The\_Vincention March 1984](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/15)** **[Weekend\_Nation March 1984](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/16)** **[Advocate Magazine April 1984](https://pcvbook.helgren.com/attachments/17)**