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Tafuna Warriors senior captains along
with Gov. Lolo M. Moliga pose with the coveted ASHSAA Football Perpetual Trophy
after defeating the Samoana Sharks 44-6
in Saturday’s Varsity Championship game.
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Tua’au Kereti Mata’utia
Jr. announces his candidacy for US Congress
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
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The 2014 General Election set for Nov. 8, 2014 is less than
a year away and the first Congressional candidate to throw
his name into the hat is Tua’au Kereti Mata’utia Jr., who ran
unsuccessfully for the same post during the 2012 election.
Next year’s election will include only faipule seats in the
Fono and a Delegate at Large to Congress.
Tua’au, who is currently the
Assistant Senior Policy Advisor
in the Governor’s Office said his
reason for running in the congressional race is because of his
love for the people of Tutuila,
Aunu’u and Manu’a.
“It’s obvious from the last
election that the message from
me is really about the people.
I’m not in it for myself, but
it stems from deep within my
heart for public service,” he told
Samoa News. One of the issues
that Tua’au is keen on is developing the economy.
He spoke briefly about the
minimum wage which he said
should be a local issue rather
than a federal one. “American
Samoa’s economy cannot be compared to any US state’s
economy… I am trying to have the federal law implementing
the minimum wage [hike] delayed because it will take a toll
on our local economy. Our business community cannot take
it,” he said.
Tua’au said his philosophy on the issue is: “leave the local
minimum wage issue to be developed locally within in our
Legislature. It should not be a federal issue; after all, we the
locals will be greatly affected by it.”
“To move forward is thinking backward,” is Tua’au’s
slogan for his campaign.
When asked if he’s informed Governor Lolo Matalasi
Moliga that he’ll be running in the upcoming election,
Tua’au said, “I’ve yet to inform the Governor; however, this
is a private matter and our laws are very liberal. Running for
office is a fundamental right of every person entitled to run
for office.”
Tua’au was born in Vatia and is married to Nora Academia
Lacamiento of Hawaii and the Philippines. They have two
children — John K. L. Mata’utia and Caroline I. A. Mata’utia. He graduated from Manu’a High School in 1984.
As the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy once said, “Each
time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot
of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current which can
sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
(Continued on page 15)
Monday, December 2, 2013
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Commissioner carries out
reshuffle of DPS personnel
TCF Warden is removed, assigned to Records Office
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
“Due to the urgency for the improvement”
of the Department of Public Safety, Police
Commissioner William Haleck has made several personnel changes, including the removal
of prison Warden Lumana’i Maifea from the
Tafuna Correctional Facility.
The changes are noted in a memorandum
leaked to Samoa News over the weekend. The
memo was disbursed on Friday afternoon and
the changes went into effect yesterday.
Urgency to improve the DPS, while not elaborated on in the memo, Samoa News points out
that to date, there have been numerous breakouts from the TCF as well as Corrections officers that have been criminally charged and convicted for allowing inmates to leave the TCF
compound to go shopping for items like alcohol.
In addition, police raids on the prison — at least
two in the past 6 months — have netted contraband items like cell phones, alcohol and large
amounts of cash.
According to the memo, TCF Warden
Maifea is now assigned to head the Records
Office, a move that is being questioned by some
DPS officials. Maifea is to report to the Chief of
Police Vaimaga Maiava.
Efforts to contact Haleck and Maifea for
comments were unsuccessful as of press time
yesterday afternoon.
Captain Fo’ifua Fo’ifua Jr. who was the
Commanding Officer in Charge of the Tafuna
West Substation replaces Maifea.
Fo’ifua’s role at the Tafuna West Substation is now with Captain Muagututi’a John
Cendrowski.
A tiny traditional fale made of natural materials including sennit and seashells is one of the
ornaments created by local high school students for the National Christmas Tree in Washington
D.C. Judyann Fagalilo, Roseanne Hall and Nona Tui from Nu’uuli VocTech High School are the
[photo: Don Hoffman]
proud artists and wish everyone — Ia manuia le Kerisimasi. Page 2
samoa news, Monday, December 2, 2013
OSHA official: “Fines are not
our goal — our goal is safety
and protection of the worker”
by Fili Sagapolutele, Samoa News Correspondent
In God we trust,
maybe, but just
not each other
WASHINGTON (AP) — You can take our word for it.
Americans don’t trust each other anymore.
We’re not talking about the loss of faith in big institutions
such as the government, the church or Wall Street, which fluctuates with events. For four decades, a gut-level ingredient
of democracy — trust in the other fellow — has been quietly
draining away.
These days, only one-third of Americans say most people can
be trusted. Half felt that way in 1972, when the General Social
Survey first asked the question.
Forty years later, a record high of nearly two-thirds say “you
can’t be too careful” in dealing with people.
An AP-GfK poll conducted last month found that Americans
are suspicious of each other in everyday encounters.
Less than one-third expressed a lot of trust in clerks who
swipe their credit cards, drivers on the road, or people they meet
when traveling.
“I’m leery of everybody,” said Bart Murawski, 27, of Albany,
N.Y. “Caution is always a factor.”
Does it matter that Americans are suspicious of one another?
Yes, say worried political and social scientists.
What’s known as “social trust” brings good things.
A society where it’s easier to compromise or make a deal.
Where people are willing to work with those who are different
from them for the common good. Where trust appears to promote economic growth.
Distrust, on the other hand, seems to encourage corruption.
At the least, it diverts energy to counting change, drawing up
100-page legal contracts and building gated communities.
Even the rancor and gridlock in politics might stem from
the effects of an increasingly distrustful citizenry, said April K.
Clark, a Purdue University political scientist and public opinion
researcher.
“It’s like the rules of the game,” Clark said. “When trust is
low, the way we react and behave with each other becomes less
civil.”
There’s no easy fix.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is currently reviewing all
new information provided by Paramount Builders Inc. and discussions have not been completed
regarding any reduction of fines against the locally based construction company.
Paramount Builders was cited by OSHA for six serious, one willful and one repeat violation
of workplace safety and health standards. The federal agency proposed fines totaling $107,910
and Paramount Builders owner, Papali’i Lauli’i Alofa told Samoa News on Tuesday he does not
plan on challenging the fines or contesting the violation.
Papali’i also said that the company has addressed “most” of the violations.
When asked for an update on this case, OSHA’s Honolulu Area Office director Galen Blanton
told Samoa News on Wednesday that OSHA is still reviewing information provided by Paramount Builders, adding that the employer is required to provide certain documents during this
process, within 15-days from the time the company first receives the citation and proposed fines.
As to whether OSHA will reduce the fines, Blanton said that because the case is still open and
under review, any final decision on the fines will be part of the negotiations involved in the case.
Additionally, the fatal fall in May this year of a Paramount worker at Samoa Tuna Processors
Inc. construction site — which prompted the OSHA inspection— was the first fatal accident for
the company.
“We are discussing [with the employer] any details about this case that didn’t come up during
our inspection,” Blanton said in a telephone interview from Honolulu. “And during the discussion, we look at what has been done differently going forward.”
He said that fines and penalties are not the most important aspect for OSHA, but rather,
worker safety and protection is their goal.
“Our goal and aim is to make sure that workers are protected and that the employers provide
safe and healthful workplaces and follow the law’s requirements and provisions for safety and
health,” Blanton said. “While fines are necessary as a result of an enforcement action, the end
result are not fines, penalties or citations. We are not in the business of fining or issuing citations.”
He continued, “Our goal is to ensure safety and health in the workplace and to enforce standards, provide training, offer educational resources, and provide assistance so that workers are
protected anytime, anywhere.”
OSHA training for local employers was one of the issues raised by Paramount Builders owner
Papali’i, who said this has not been available on island.
Blanton said OSHA is planning to do a “safety day” training in the territory sometime in
June next year for about two or three days, covering a wide range of issues that come under its
jurisdiction.
He said that they are also looking at a program with the American Samoa Community College, who approached him a few years ago about a health and safety curriculum which would
thereafter issue a certificate to participants upon completion of training. However, he said, discussions will continue on that.
OSHA did say last week that for employers in American Samoa, OSHA has arranged for its
publications and other materials to be available at ASCC, where the contact person is Michael
Le’au, Dean of Trades and Technology Division (699-9155 ext. 369).
Meanwhile, there are three OSHA Training Institute Education Centers in the Pacific— all
located in California:
• California State University of Dominguez Hills, College of Extended Education (www.
csudh.edu/OSHA)
• Chabot-Las Positas Community College District (www.osha4you.com)
• University of California - San Diego (http://osha.ucsd.edu)
(all ANSWERs on page 14)
samoa news, Monday, December 2, 2013 Page 3
Miss South Pacific Janine Tuivaiti (Samoa) is escorted through the Honiara International
Airport after the traditional welcome by members of one of the panpipe groups from the Malaita
Province, Solomon Islands.
Tuivaiti along with the ten contestants vying for the title of Miss South Pacific this year, arrived
throughout last week and were all warmly greeted.
Pageant week runs from the December 1-7 with the grand finale, crowning night taking place
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Senator Galeai: Only senior officers 5%, 10%, 20%, 25%, 50%
should be trained to carry weapons
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
Sen. Galeai M. Tu’ufuli, a former police
commissioner, says he has no problem with
arming police officers, as long as the governor
declares such a move an “emergency” situation and that only senior officers are trained and
allowed to carry weapons in the course of their
duties.
The Department of Public Safety has
received a shipment of twenty four Glock-17
handguns and Police Commissioner William
E. Haleck plans to begin training in mid-2014
for certain officers to be armed. The selected
officers for training will undergo psychological
evaluations (See Samoa News story on Nov.
26th for more details).
Being a former police commissioner, Galeai
was asked by Samoa News for his reaction
to the move by Haleck and Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga who has received and is currently
reviewing approval policies and procedures
regulating the arming of police officers.
Galeai told Samoa News that arming police
officers is “nothing new” and it occurred when
he was police commissioner during former
Gov. A.P. Lutali’s first term in 1985. At that
time, and in accordance with the law, the sitting governor “declares an emergency situation
exists to arm officers,” he said.
Samoa News should point out that the last
time an emergency declaration was issued for
officers to carry weapons was in March 2003
during the Tauese Administration when then
Lt. Gov. Togiola Tulafono, who was acting
governor at the time, declared it necessary for
detectives and senior officers of the Criminal
Investigation Division to carry weapons in the
investigation of the disappearance of Wyatt
Bowles Jr.
Togiola told reporters in front of the EOB
that the move to arm officers followed information received by the government that some
people — where police were trying to execute
search warrants — are “carrying very serious
and heavy weapons” and police needed to protect themselves.
In a phone interview over the weekend,
Galeai said that he and Lutali agreed at the time
to arm senior police officers. “I was given the
authority to arm my officers after Gov. Lutali
issued the official emergency declaration,” he
recalled.
“The only officers who were allowed to be
armed while on duty were senior officers, such
as captains, lieutenants, and investigators with
the Criminal Investigative Division as well as
undercover police officers,” said Galeai, adding
that those officers had more than 10 years of
experience in the police force.
If Haleck plans to arm officers, Galeai recommends the police commissioner first obtain
approval from the governor, or the governor
issue an emergency declaration for such a
need, and that only senior officers with 15 or
more years of police work are selected to carry
firearms.
“Detectives and investigators with CID must
be among those allowed to carry weapons due
to the nature of their work,” he said.
Galeai said he agrees with rigorous training
for selected officers to carry weapons, but
quickly added that patrol officers — even if
they go through such training — should not be
allowed to carry weapons.
“I have some serious reservations when it
comes to young new officers on the force carrying weapons,” said Galeai, adding that he is
concerned with new officers ending up misusing
the authority given to them to carry weapons.
There had been mixed reactions from lawmakers this year about arming police officers
when the issue was first raised by Haleck in the
Fono. During budget hearings in September,
Sen. Mauga T. Asuega called on DPS not to
rush into arming officers but thoroughly review
its merits and needs.
Some lawmakers reached by phone since
last Friday for comments, told Samoa News that
they will wait until the Fono returns in January
for the 3rd Regular Session before making any
public comments on the matter, which deserves
committee hearings to get more information such as the need for it and details of training from Haleck and the Lolo Administration.
The move to arm officers was sparked following a deadly incident in July 2010 when
Police Det. Lusila Brown was gunned down in
broad daylight in front of the temporary High
Court building in Fagatogo.
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Workshop on explosive
remnants of World War
II concludes in Palau…
(BASED ON A PRESS RELEASE)—, 25 November 2013—
A workshop on ‘Addressing Explosive Remnants of War (ERW)
Contamination in the Pacific’ has concluded in Koror, Palau.
The workshop, which was held from 18 to 22 November
2013, was organized by the Geneva International Centre for
Humanitarian De-mining (GICHD) in close collaboration with
the Government of Palau and the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS). Funding for the workshop was provided by the
Government of the United States.
Nine Forum Island countries - the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New
Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu – remain
contaminated by explosive remnants from battles fought during
World War II. For almost 70 years now, these leftover explosive
remnants have and continue to pose a very real threat to the safety
of Pacific communities – in particular children and young people.
In many cases, the presence of ERW has restricted the ability
of communities to use or develop land for socio-economic
development.
“The ERW scattered across these islands pose a great hazard
to the inhabitants as well as to visitors of the islands,” explains
GICHD Director Stephan Husy. “In addition to the cost on
human wellbeing and safety, the presence of these leftover remnants also has an impact on livelihoods.”
In his opening remarks, Palau’s Minister of State, Mr Billy
Kuartei stated that “unexploded and explosive remnants (UXO)
from World War II have been a long standing humanitarian, security and environmental threat to the Republic.” Mr Kuartei further
highlighted that to manage the threat, Palau, by executive order,
has formed a “UXO Advisory Committee tasked to organize
Palau’s clearance work and to initiate work toward establishing
Standards and Procedures to guide work involving UXO.”
The workshop provided a further opportunity for participants to discuss and consider a more technical and operational
focus on topics such as techniques in ERW clearance operations,
humanitarian underwater de-mining, national capacity development support, and information management training.
Similar meetings on ERW and UXO were also held in Palau
in October 2012 and in Brisbane, Australia in June 2013.
AG in Montana appeals
teacher’s rape sentence
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana attorney general’s
office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to throw out a
30-day sentence given to a teacher who raped a 14-year-old girl,
saying the punishment was illegally lenient.
The state formally filed its arguments in the appeal of the
highly criticized sentence for Stacey Rambold, who was released
from Montana State Prison in September.
District Judge G. Todd Baugh sparked outrage when he commented in August that victim Cherice Moralez was “older than
her chronological age.” Moralez killed herself before the case
went to trial.
The judge later apologized and said his comments were based
on videotaped interviews with Moralez that have not been publicly released.
The state argues the child was not legally capable of consent
and that the judge’s sentence was illegal.
The brief argues the minimum legal sentence would have
been two years in prison. But prosecutors said they still believe
a sentence of 20 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, would
be appropriate.
Baugh relied on a different section of the same law cited by
prosecutors when he gave the defendant 15 years with all but 31
days suspended and a one-day credit for time served.
Rambold’s attorney, Jay Lansing, has not responded to
repeated requests for comment on the case. His office said
Wednesday that he had no plans to do so.
The attorney general’s office said Rambold’s sentence should
be vacated and remanded for sentencing.
Prosecutors said that “there is no legitimate hypothetical that
allows blame to be placed on a 14-year-old student who has
been victimized by her 47-year-old teacher.”
Recently, several advocacy groups asked the Supreme Court
to be allowed to file supporting arguments in the appeal. They
argued they can provide expertise in legal and social advocacy
for women’s rights. The judge’s statements reflected “stereotypical, prejudicial, and generally false beliefs regarding sexual
assault,” the groups say.
Rambold has registered as a level 1 sex offender, meaning
he’s considered a low risk to reoffend. He will remain on probation through 2028 unless the original sentence is overruled.
His Excellency Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, President of the Republic of Fiji delivering the opening
address at the ICAAP Pacific satellite session in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013.
[courtesy photo]
Pacific HIV response gets
attention – internationally
(PRESS RELEASE)—Monday, 25 Nov. 2013—Secretariat of the Pacific Community
(SPC)—SUVA, FIJI—A packed Pacific satellite session at the International Congress on AIDS
in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) in Bangkok, Thailand last week catapulted Pacific perspectives,
data and successes onto the international stage.
His Excellency Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, President of the Republic of Fiji, opened the session
entitled ‘The Pacific Voyage: the five year response to HIV and other STIs and a glimpse beyond
2013’ while Ms Joey Joleen Mataele, Tonga Leitis Association President, astounded all by
singing the opening prayer in a strong, operatic voice.
Nine speakers from across the Pacific, including three from SPC’s Public Health Division,
participated in the session, which featured the latest data on HIV epidemiology in the Pacific, and
the successful rollout of rapid HIV testing, enabling faster diagnosis of HIV in all targeted Pacific
Island Countries and Territories.
‘In the last 5 years, the smaller countries of the Pacific and its larger sister nation Papua
New Guinea have responded to both the HIV and STI epidemics in a structured and considered
manner, tackling the behavioral, social, cultural, legislative, health systems and economic factors that drive or hamper our responses to both HIV or STI epidemics,’ said H. E. Ratu Epeli
Nailatikau.
‘This satellite session pulls together some of the work that has been done, both in Papua New
Guinea and the smaller island nations of the Pacific. We share our stories with you today in a celebration of our united efforts and to offer you the new direction and the approach that the Pacific
will take in addressing what we consider to be the key challenges facing our people,’ he said.
The Pacific satellite session was organized by the Oceania Society for Sexual Health and HIV
Medicine (OSSHHM) and made possible due to support from the Australian aid program and the
Pacific Islands HIV and STI Response Fund. The topics and speakers are included below.
* Rapid diagnosis of HIV infections in Pacific Island Countries and Territories - Tebuka
Toatu, SPC
* Keeping Pacific Island countries HIV free - Ian Wanyeki, SPC
* Adherence, Side-effects and Support: Experiences of Treatments among People Living with
HIV in the Pacific Islands, Hilary Gorman, Cook Islands National HIV, STI & TB Committee
* The Role of People Living with HIV in the Pacific HIV Response -Rebecca Kubu, Pacific
Positive Working Group
* Church Beliefs and Professional Practice: How Christian Health Workers Respond to HIV
in PNG- Lalen Simeon and Christopher M. Sohenalo’e, Pacific Adventist University, PNG
* OSSHHM Pasifika Training-of-Trainer program on HIV and STIs: a south-south collaboration - Jason Mitchell, OSSHHM
* Foreskin Cutting Practices and the Acceptability of Male Circumcision for HIV prevention
in PNG - Rachael Tommbe and David MacLaren, Pacific Adventist University/ James Cook
University
* The Pacific Regional Sexual Health Shared Agenda 2014 - 2018: Achieving Zero - Michelle
O’Connor, SPC
* PNG HIV Epidemic: an Update and the Way Forward - Dr Moala Robert Kariko, Papua
New Guinea AIDS Council Secretariat
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
PAGO PAGO AMERICAN SAMOA 96799
Proclamation
NATIONAL DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING (3D)
PREVENTION MONTH 2013
WHEREAS, motor vehicle crashes kill over 40,000 people and injure three million every year, at a cost
to society of some $150 billion annually; and
WHEREAS, alcohol-related crashes account for approximately 40 percent of those deaths and injuries;
and
WHEREAS, last year in American Samoa there were 13 related DUI crashes, 4 injured from DUI crashes,
and 146 drivers arrested for drunk driving; and
WHEREAS, the December holiday season is traditionally one of the most deadly times of the year for
alcohol-impaired driving; and
WHEREAS, for thousands of families across the nation, the December holidays bring a somber
reminder of the loved ones they lost to an impaired driver during a previous holiday season or at any time
during the year; and
WHEREAS, community-based programs involving consumer education, effective laws, and police
enforcement have proven to be successful in reducing impaired driving; and
WHEREAS, organizations from our territory are joining the Department of Human Social Services and
the Department of Public Safety in promoting the “Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month” and
“Drive Sober Or Get Pulled Over” campaigns this December by supporting anti-impaired driving program and
policies; and
WHEREAS, American Samoa is a partner in that effort to make our roads and streets safer;
NOW, THEREFORE, I Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga do hereby proclaim December 2013 as
National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month in American Samoa and hereby call upon all citizens,
government agencies, business leaders, hospitals, schools, and public and private institutions in American
Samoa to promote awareness of the impaired driving problem, to support programs and policies to reduce
the incidence of impaired driving, to promote safer and healthier behaviors regarding the use of alcohol and
other drugs, and to provide opportunities for all to participate in the Over the Limit Under Arrest campaign
this December holiday season and throughout the year.
LOLO M. MOLIGA
Governor of American Samoa
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Bethlehem’s
Christmas season
gets earlier start
BETHLEHEM, West Bank
(AP) — The Christmas season
begins a little earlier this year.
Several thousand people
gathered Sunday to watch the
lighting of the Christmas tree
in Bethlehem’s Manger Square,
near the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born. Last
year, the more than 12,000 tiny
lights on the 15-meter-tall (50feet) artificial tree were only
switched on in mid-December.
Toni Musleh of the Bethlehem city council says the holiday festivities were launched
earlier this year to expand the
season and attract more visitors.
Tourism is important to the
economy of the Palestinian
town near Jerusalem. In the
past, Israeli-Palestinian fighting
and Israeli movement restrictions kept down the number of
visitors. In Sunday’s ceremony,
Bethlehem Mayor Vera Baboun
and Palestinian Prime Minister
Rami Hamdallah switched on
the tree lights as bands played
Christmas songs.
NJ police: Thanksgiving snub led to
machete threat
NEW MILFORD, N.J. (AP)
— Authorities say a northern
New Jersey man used a machete
to threaten a family who
excluded him and his son from
their Thanksgiving Day celebrations. New Milford police tell
NJ.com that 48-year-old Joseph
Hoo, of Upper Montclair, was
charged with weapons offenses
and making terroristic threats.
Police responding to the
family’s home at around 2 p.m.
Thursday stopped a van leaving
the residence. Police say Hoo
Department of Youth
and Women’s Affairs
Public Notice
The Department of Youth and Women’s Affairs will host a Women’s Bazaar on
December 20, 2013 at 8:00 am to 12:00 p.m., and a Pre-Christmas Variety Show and
Concert at 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. We are inviting all women who attended and
completed training (s) in sewing, culinary, flower arrangement, fine mats weaving,
handcrafts making, and hair styling, to display any items for sale.
Event: Women’s Bazaar
Date: Friday, December 20, 2013; 8:00 am to 12:00 pm
Venue: Su’igaula o le Atuvasa
The Bazaar will display all items created by women throughout this year and the public
are welcome to view and purchase.
Event: Pre-Christmas Variety Show and Concert
Date: Friday, December 20, 2013; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Venue: Su’igaula o le Atuvasa
Local artists will showcase their talents in promoting the month of December as National
Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month.
Please register if interested to participate in our events by contacting Saini Vele or
Tapumanaia Galu Satele Jr. at 633-2836. Registration will close on Monday, December
9, 2013.
and his 18-year-old son were
in the vehicle, and officers soon
found an 18-inch machete and
two baseball bats inside the van.
Hoo was released on his own
recognizance but ordered to not
have contact with the family.
Bird steals camera
in Australia,
records journey
SYDNEY (AP) — A brazen
bird snatched a video camera
that was recording crocodiles
in northwest Australia and
captured fascinating footage
of its 110-kilometer (70-mile)
journey across the country’s
remote landscape.
Wildlife rangers in Western
Australia’s Kimberly region
released video on Monday that
reveals the sea eagle’s caper.
The bird’s flapping wings can
be seen as it grabs the device
and takes off, and the eagle
later poses for a selfie, poking
its face into the camera lens.
Rangers set up the motionsensor camera along the Margaret River in May, hoping to
record images of crocodiles.
The camera, which is about 10
to 15 centimeters (4 to 6 inches)
long and 5 centimeters (2
inches) wide, disappeared soon
after and the rangers figured it
had fallen into the water.
The rangers recently found
out the device had been found
near the Mary River, about 110
kilometers (70 miles) away,
ranger Roneil Skeen told the
Australian Broadcasting Corp.
When they examined the
footage inside, the real culprit
was revealed.
The rangers plan to bolt
down their cameras from now
on, Skeen said.
Man cited after
tossing cash at
Mall of America
BLOOMINGTON, Minn.
(AP) — A 29-year-old Minnesota man who says he was
trying to spread holiday cheer
by tossing 1,000 dollar bills
over an upper floor railing at the
Mall of America has been cited
for disorderly conduct.
Serge Vorobyov, of Apple
Valley, admitted throwing his
“last $1,000” from the fourth
floor on Friday as a choir
performed “Let it Snow.”
Vorobyov said he also kept
tossing cash as he continued
down the escalator.
Vorobyov said he’s going
through a divorce, lost his car
hauling business and hoped
the positivity of throwing the
money would come back to
him. “I wanted to do some sort
of pay it forward kind of thing,”
Vorobyov said Sunday.
He invited his estranged
wife to try to win her back but
she didn’t show up, he said.
Instead, Vorobyov was cited
by Bloomington police and
released at the scene. He also was
ordered not to go into the mall for
a year. Vorobyov had stamped the
bills with his YouTube address
and on his Facebook page he
called the event a publicity stunt.
When asked why he wanted the
publicity, he said he wanted his
cat back from his estranged wife.
Mall of America spokeswoman Sarah Schmidt said it’s
the first time anyone has ever done
something like that in the mall.
She said Vorobyov disrupted the
performance and could’ve caused
a serious situation.
Israel’s former
leader slams p.m.
Netanyahu over US
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) —
Former Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert says his successor
has severely damaged the country’s relations with the United
States. Speaking before a security conference, Olmert said
Sunday that Benjamin Netanyahu’s public criticism of the
American-led nuclear deal with
Iran was provocative and counterproductive. He said he too
would differ with the American
president, but always made sure
to do so in private.
In an apparent response,
Netanyahu responded that in
contrast to others when it came
to the vital security of Israel’s
citizens “I will not be silent.”
Netanyahu has called the
interim deal with Iran a “historic
mistake” and declared Israel
not bound by the agreement.
Netanyahu believes Iran is
determined to produce a nuclear
bomb and offering it relief from
sanctions at this time amounts
to appeasement.
Man faces felony
charge over trimming city shrubs
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Trimming overgrown shrubs may
have won Juvencio Adame
praise from neighbors, but it also
brought the San Diego man a
felony charge from prosecutors.
Adame, 46, was charged
with defacement, damage and
destruction in excess of $400
after he pruned shrubbery on
city land next to his Ocean
Beach property in July, U-T San
Diego reported on Saturday.
Adame, who is known as
“Vince,” told neighbors that the
shrubs in the neighborhood popular with surfers had become
a haven for homeless people
to sleep and litter. He declined
to comment on the case, citing
advice from his lawyer. He is
due in court on Thursday.
The district attorney’s office
also declined comment.
Neighbor Glenn Goss said
the case is a waste of taxpayer
money and that Adame is being
prosecuted for doing the kind of
pruning that city workers ought
to do. “Here’s somebody who’s
going out of his way (to trim
the trees),” Goss said. “It’s not
his job, it’s the city’s job. Then
they do this ridiculous thing.
It’s mind-boggling.”
It isn’t the first time residents have been prosecuted for
trimming shrubs, though more
often the victim is a neighbor,
not a government, the newspaper reported.
Man charged with molesting
his nieces - 9 & 13 years old
by Joyetter
Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
A man who is alleged to
have molested his nieces — 9
and 13 years old — by touching
them sexually and furnishing
porn for them to watch, has
been arrested and charged with
child molesting, sodomy with
a child, sexual abuse in the
first degree, furnishing pornographic materials to a minor,
and endangering the welfare
of a child.
He made his initial appearance in the District Court last
week and his arraignment is set
for today in the High Court.
In the interest of protecting
the identity of the minor victims, Samoa News is withholding the names of all parties
involved in this case.
Currently, the man, identified by the two victims as their
great uncle, is in custody at the
TCF and is being held on bail
of $50,000
According to the government’s case, the incident was
reported to police last Monday,
Nov. 25
Court documents state the
defendant came to live with
the victims in August 2011. It
is alleged that the uncle would
perform sexual acts on the
girls by touching their private
parts and exposing himself to
the girls when their parents
weren’t around.
The girls told police that
their uncle would invite them
into his bedroom to watch
pornographic movies and he
would make the girls touch his
manhood.
In addition, according to the
girls, their uncle would touch
himself sexually and make
them watch “numerous times”.
The girls told police that
their uncle had penetrated
them both and the 9-year-old
recalled how her uncle performed oral sex on her. In addition to the girls, their younger
brother also told police that he
witnessed their uncle placing
his 9-year-old sister’s hand on
his private area while the girl
was carrying their baby sister
in the other hand.
Court filings say that on
November 21, 2013 the defendant called the younger victim
into his bedroom where he
was watching a porn movie.
“Victim covered her eyes
with her hands but defendant
would slap her hands away
from her face,” say court filings. According to the girl’s
mother, the victim did not
attend school that day because
she was feeling sick.
Police contacted the defendant via cell phone to inform
him that they were investigating allegations against him
and the defendant voluntarily
agreed to meet police officers at a shopping center in
Nuuuli. The two parties met
there before heading to the
CID office.
According to court records,
when questioned by police,
“Defendant was teary-eyed and
his speech was slurred, as if he
was about to cry.” The Defendant told police, “what I did
was wrong, and I’m afraid.”
In his written statement,
the defendant said that sometime in 2012, he penetrated
the 9-year-old victim and he
did so 6-7 different times. He
even admitted to performing
oral sex on her and said all
the incidents occurred in his
bedroom. He admitted that he
would make the victims touch
his private area, and that he
would touch himself sexually
while the girls were looking.
The defendant told police
that he made the girls watch
porn about 6 times and said he
told the girls not to tell their
parents. He also told police
that he would give the girls
money.
The older victim, the
13-year-old, told police that she
awoke one time to the defendant
rubbing her breasts while she
was in the room sleeping with
the baby. She said her uncle left
the room after she told him that
she was going to tell her mother
about what he did.
She also told police that one
day, her uncle asked her if he
could perform oral sex on her
and she said no.
The older girl told police
that one time, she and her sister
were both standing outside
their uncle’s bedroom door and
when he passed by, he grabbed
both of their private areas at
the same time. He also fondled
them both through their pants
on one occasion when they
were sleeping in their room.
According to the 13-yearold, their uncle would give
her and her sister $2-$3 every
Thursday or Friday.
This past Friday, a post-Thanksgiving celebration was held on
the east side of the territory where different kinds of turkey costumes were on display by human models. Pictured here is Autasi
Ah Kiong, a Faga’itua High School student who was dressed up
as a Samoan turkey, donning the ‘ie toga, tuiga, and a custommade yellow and red feathered turkey tail that ties everything
[photo by B. Chen]
together and definitely completes the look.
“A TAFEA LE UTO, IA MAU PEA LE MAENE:
TO MOVE FORWARD IS THINKING BACKWARD”
Talofa Samoa, e muamua ona ou fa’apoipoi lili’a
pei ole fetalaiga i MALAE o TUPU, le malae na
ta’ape ai ulua’i tofiga se ia pa’ia Agalega aua e mau
e fa’alele, mau fo’i e matau. E faigata aua o paia o
Samoa o le fatu e le gae’e o le atunu’u tofi e le o se
nu’u taliola.
Fa’atulou atu fo’i feoi o le Talalelei mo talosaga
aua se manuia o Samoa pe’i o le mavaega a le
Tuimanu’a ma le Malietoa ia tapua’i Samoa i le
Atua e afua mai ile Taisamasama se’ia paia le
Taiulaula o Nafanua na ilo ai malo.
Toe nei o se aga ona taulau lea o le te’i a le tai
fana’e aua le fa’amoemoe mo le tofi Faipule ile
Laumua i Uasinitone ile tausaga 2014.
Ua ta fia inu i le taufa na momo’o ai le TUPU o
TAVITA. O le mea lea, finagalo malie ae lafo mai le
pule e tautua ai mo le atunu’u ma le malo.
Afai ua iai se upu ua lape po’o se aleu, lafo ia i
nu’u le aina ma ia natia i fatualavai. Ia mamao ni
lagi fa’atafatafa ma solo i tua ao nai gagaifo. Toe talanoa atili. Ia fa’amamalu aao alofa ole
Tapaau ia Samoa. Ia manuia le Kerisimasi male Tausaga Fou.
Greetings, soon we will enter another election year to elect our delegate to Washington D.C., in
November 8, 2014. In the last election, victory was not on the horizon, but I am confident that
hope will endure and the dream lives on.
Therefore, my fellow citizens, we can either exile or renew our calling to serve the public. In
this regard, I will seek the office of delegate and I respectfully ask for your support for U.S.
Congress. An official declaration will be forthcoming soon. For now, I wish you a Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year.
Ma le ava tele,
Tua’au Kereti Mata’utia, Jr., J.D., Juris Doctorate of Law
Paid for and authorized by Tua’au Kereti Mata’utia Jr., for U.S. Congress
Fagatogo Square, Suite 211 • P.O. Box 6211, Pago Pago, AS 96799 • Ph: 684-256-4606 • www.tuauk.com • tuaau4congress@yahoo.com
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Get pampered & look great this
holiday season at Salon Sophia
by B. Chen, Samoa News Correspondent
Pictured here are the newest additions to the Salon Sophia family:
Siala “Cece” formerly of Super Cuts in Hawaii who is the new barber,
and Ms. Jachelle who will take care of all your waxing, pedicure, and
manicure needs.
Right now, Salon Sophia is offering 20% off all chemical treatments
in celebration of the holidays, and prices on all other services have
been slashed as well. Read story for full details.
Look and feel your best during the holidays with pampering services being offered at
Salon Sophia in Nuuuli.
Whether it’s a new hairdo, color enhancement, chemical treatment, wax, or a long
overdue manicure or pedicure, Salon Sophia can do it all. They have been serving the
people of American Samoa for over 15 years and the quality of service is unsurpassed.
With their current holiday special prices in effect, right now is the best time to take
advantage of their services - and products - which are priced to fit any budget.
Get rid of all that unwanted hair with a wax that starts at $10
If nail enhancements are on your “to do” list this Christmas, mini manicures and pedicures are now priced at $25 and up while regular/French gel tips start at $35 for a full set.
Just let Jachell know what you want and she’ll take care of the rest.
To cater to those who need barber services, Salon Sophia owner Ms. Sophia Aulava has
brought in Siala “Cece”, formerly of Super Cuts in the Aloha State.
Cece can hook you up with a regular cut starting at $8 while high profile styling services/
fade will cost you $9 and up, depending on what you need done.
For chemical treatments (highlites, low lites, curly perms, and relaxers) Katie and Miah
have what it takes to get you looking fabulous and feeling beautiful. Right now, Salon
Sophia is offering 20% off thermal “Japanese” straightening treatments which are always
in demand and very popular with local women who want to get rid of the ‘kink’ and experience smooth, silky, straight hair.
In addition to their regular in-house services, Salon Sophia also offers packages for weddings, which include hair styling and make-up services that can be carried out in their Nuuuli
location or wherever you choose. Also, Salon Sophia wants to honor the local elderly population and soon, they will be offering a “Seniors Only Day of Pampering.” More details on
that special service will be available shortly.
Celebrate the holidays in style. Book your appointments today to get pampered at Salon
Sophia by calling 699-4091 or 258-6188
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federal Retrial opens for
ex-officer in Katrina shooting
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For the second time in three years,
a federal jury is set to hear the Justice Department’s case against
a former New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a man
outside a strip mall in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath.
Jury selection for David Warren’s retrial is scheduled to start
Monday in New Orleans. Warren was convicted in 2010 of manslaughter in the death of 31-year-old Henry Glover, whose body
was burned in a car by a different officer.
Warren was serving a prison sentence of nearly 26 years when
a federal appeals court overturned his convictions. A panel from
the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled he should have been
tried separately from four other officers charged with participating
in a cover-up designed to make Glover’s shooting appear justified.
people in Trinidad shaken after
girl, 6, found beaten and raped
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — People in Trinidad are
demanding better child protections after the body of a 6-year-old
girl was found stuffed in a plastic bag after police said she had
been beaten and raped.
Gender, Youth and Child Development Minister Clifton De
Couteau told reporters late Friday that legislators would soon
debate bills that would create a national child registry and punish
people who fail to report crimes against children.
The announcement comes as an autopsy revealed that Keyana
Cumberbatch died of massive trauma to the head.
Police have arrested a male relative whom they say was supposed to take care of Keyana after school while her mother was at
work. No one has been charged. The girl’s mother found the body
inside her house several days after the girl disappeared.
Puerto Rico to debate
daylight saving time plan
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Legislators in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico are expected to debate a proposal that would
create a daylight saving time like the one imposed in the U.S.
mainland. Sen. Margarita Nolasco says the bill she submitted
would allow people to maximize daylight hours and help lower
power bills. The U.S. territory would wind its clocks back one
hour starting in late October until early April.
The island’s Senate office said Friday that lawmakers are
expected to debate the bill in coming weeks.
A former Puerto Rico governor had signed a bill to create a
daylight saving time in 2000, but the law was quickly revoked
by a new governor the following year amid doubts that it would
actually lower power bills or stimulate the economy. The tropical
island currently operates on Atlantic Standard Time.
Speed a factor in crash
that killed action star
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fans of “Fast & Furious” star Paul
Walker erected a makeshift memorial near the site of his fatal
automobile crash, as investigators worked to determine the cause
of the fiery weekend wreck that also claimed the life of his friend.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said speed was
a factor in Saturday’s one-car crash, though it will take time to
determine how fast the car was going.
Roger Rodas, Walker’s friend and financial, also died,
according to Walker’s publicist, Ame Van Iden. She said Walker
was a passenger in the 2005 red Porsche Carrera GT when they
drove away from a fundraiser in the community of Valencia,
about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Sheriff’s deputies found the car engulfed in flames when they
arrived at the site of the crash, near the fundraiser at Rodas’ sport
car dealership. Officials have not identified either person found in
the car. Because Walker is so closely associated with the underground culture of street racing portrayed in the popular film franchise, the accident had an eerie quality — a tragic end for a Hollywood hero of speed.
On Sunday, fans of Walker, 40, gathered to leave flowers,
candles and memorabilia from the action movies. His “Fast &
Furious” co-star Tyrese Gibson broke down when he visited the
crash site. “Paul is the heartbeat of this franchise and we’re gonna
see to it that his energy and presence lives on forever,” Gibson
later posted on his Instagram account.
Sheriff’s deputy Peter Gomez said investigators were trying
to determine how fast the car was traveling and what caused it to
go out of control, including whether the driver was distracted or
something in the road prompted him to swerve.
After the Porsche crashed into a light pole and tree, it burst into
flames. The downed light pole had a speed limit sign of 45 mph.
Walker rode the “Fast & Furious” franchise to fame, starring
in all but one of the six action blockbusters, beginning with the
first film in 2001. He had been on break from shooting the seventh
installment; production began in September and while much of
the film has been shot, it’s incomplete.
Universal Pictures has not said what it plans to do with “Fast &
Furious 7,” which currently is slated for release in July.
Walker and Rodas had thrown a fundraiser benefiting victims
of the recent typhoon in the Philippines. The event was held by
Reach Out Worldwide, a charity Walker founded in 2010 to aid
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Young Writers
CONTEST
Level 6
Niumalina Fuata
Aua
Level K-5
Amazeyah Mapu
Tafuna Elem.
I see mom.
I see dad.
I see cat.
Level 1
Sonny Amituanai
Masefau
THE CAT
Level 2
Leka Ioramo
Matatula
Thanksgiving
I like my Thanksgiving Day because there are many food to
cook. My mom invites all my cosigns, my aunty to come to
celebrate party. Will be lots of food. re I’m gonna cook
chicken, porkchop, and ribs. I thank you Lord for all these
food that I’m gonna cook and eat.
Level 3
Malo Matau
Le’atele
Minnesota
When I was a little boy I went to visit my aunt at the
Minnesota is was a gret place to visit because I really had fun
there. I stayed with my aunt at her house. Everyday, I went
ridding in the car with my aunt at the city. I saw a lot of
buildings, house, and stores. One day my aunt took me to the
museum. It was a big place to visit with many memories,
artifact and fossils from the past. I even went to the biggest
mall called shopping free mall, where hundreds of small
stores in it. The other day my aunt and I went to visit the
biggest hotel in the city and we spent a night there. I went
swimming in the pool, and I believed I was the only Samoan
there on that day. I even visit the Minnesota movie place
where I watch a movie called Toy Story. I even went to the
park right beside my aunt’s house where I met a lot of friends.
I am very happy I visited Minnesota and I’m sure it is a great
place to visit. I came back to America Samoa and I really
missed this great place called Minnesota.
Level 4
Daiana Siaosi
Lupelele
Christopher’s Store
My favorite store is Christopher. We buy our food over
there. We buy our materials for clothings at Christopher store.
There are boards to do Science project. There are also a
posters to do Math in Art. Tomorrow we will go at
Christopher’s store. Every day after school we always go to
Christopher’s store to buy what we want and what we need.
They have a lot of important things in it. I like to go there
because they have a lot of thing I like and need. I love
Christopher’s store.
Level 5
Rebecca Ioane
A.P. Lutali Elem.
What is the importance of teamwork?
The importance if teamwork is to work together as a team
because when you need help the other person is there to help
you. It is good to work as a team to provide good points for
such work given by the teacher or other people. Teamwork is
very important because I like to share my thoughts with my
friends and the people around me.
Sometimes I like to shower with my cousins because they
can’t reach the water so this is where we find teamwork.
Helping out others is one important factors of teamwork. We
work together to help pursue whatever we have come up with.
In conclusion, I believe that teamwork will help out with
whatever we come up with. Teamwork can happen in a
school, at home, at work or anywhere. Without teamwork
nothing is possible. We need to work together to help shape
up something or a child’s life.
SOLAR INC.
Level 9
Juliana Rajamohan
South Pacific Academy
Family Reunion
My cat name is kona.
I love my cat so much.
I take my cat with me.
Brought to you in the spirit of
community service by
On June 24, 2006, I went with all of our family in
America because of our Family Reunion. I was very excited
because im going to meet all of my cousins. All of our family
were there. Our family reunion was held in Long Beach,
California.
Some of our family came from Portland, Texas, San Diego
and Hawaii. Some came from the otherside of California.
When I see all of my cousins, they are not the same as the
first time I saw them. They are fat and tall.
On Sunday all of our family went to church. We all went
in a Catholic Church in Orange Country in California. After
we had a feast with all of our family in Orange Country. After
we go to sleep.
Then on the next day we all went to Long Beach. We stay
there for a whole week. We dance, sing, and have fun with
all of our cousins. Then after a whole week we went back to
Orange Country. We stay there for the last two days.
On the next day we went to Disneyland. After we went to
Hollywood. My mom took a picture of me and a actor. We
all had fun that day. When we came back to American Samoa
all of our family didn’t want to come back.
“How to make fire using an orange”
“Rub rub tap tap! Fire!” this is how caveman discovered
the concept of fire. The basic discovery fire takes us back
precisely to the earliest inhabitants. The existence of fire is a
broad historical topic ranging from charred evidences in
different countries. In spite of the discovery, fire is extended
to be mastered from scientific forms to magical theory based
on various tricks. One interesting yet surprising way of
creating fire is through an orange. Have you tried using an
orange to make fire? Well, listed below are the materials and
the procedures of creating fire. The materials you need for
this experiment are quite simple household items. You will
need a knife, rock, stick and of course an orange. To bring
the process, wash your hands thoroughly and keep all the
things needed close by for ease. For the first step, take the
knife and cut the top most of the orange skin. This will cerate
a cup like shape curving up at thecorner of the casing. Later,
slide the rock into the orange cave lather forming a fit
position. Last but not the least, using the stick to create the
actual fire. Take a dry stick and place it on top of the rock,
then move the stick gently rubbing on your palm benevolently.
Now you can see a serious of sparks gradually flaming from
the orange. You might wonder how the orange and the other
Level 7
objects caused the fire. Well, the rubbing of the rock and the
D’andre Si’imalevai
stick causes friction between the 2 substances. Not only that,
Faleasao
strong citric acid and the orange oil are believed to have
Why Our Veterans Should Be Honored the
contributed in this reaction. Oranges or generally not highly
Veterans, what is a veteran? A veteran is a former member flammable however; this experiment makes the orange stand
of armed forces, especially in war. A person who fought for out like a seasonal candle. With these few steps, you can try
our freedom. The one who has much experience and many this trick for any upcoming seasons or festivals and highlight
skills throughout their act of duties. A person whom I call the dinner table without any messy wax candles. It will bring
my hero. A person who we thank and honor.
elegancy to your sweet home.
That’s why we should honor our veterans, because of
their sacrifices they make for our country. They fought for Level 10
Virginia Siatu’u
you and me to have a good life. Because everything we have
Tafuna HS
in this life, they sacrificed and worked for. They give their
lives for the voluntary sacrifices they make to the country that Recycling Should Be Mandatory for Everyone
they love.
Recycling should be mandatory for everyone! Each and
They have worked hard and gave their lives so that other every day people go on and on about littering, but the sad
people around the world and at home may live in heros who truth is once in a while everyone litters. Sometimes it’s tiring
bring peace to our country. And we should respect them. being tidy, but it’s worthwhile. Keeping our community clean
Because every single freedom we have today is from them. makes people happy, sets a good example for future
To show respect to our veterans who helped fight for our generations, and is healthy for the environment.
freedom is honoring them. That’s why we celebrate every
Recycling helps trees and people are happy to be with
year throughout Veterans Day as an act of thankfulness.
their environment. They realize the importance of saving and
Because these are the people who have risked their lives for maintaining a litter-free environment. As we know today,
you and me. For you and me to live and enjoy life.
there are thousands probably millions of companies that
So therefore, I’m glad and happy to give respect and a manufacture products and technologies we use today, which
big thank you to our veterans. Because of their act of
mean that we are over using our resources. If we don’t tend
patriotism and love for our country. that why we should
to them, they will cease to exist.
honor and respect our veterans here and abroad,
Recycling is a good habit to have. It not only maintains the
clean environment, but as well as the habits of young
Level 8
children. If we can’t and do not change our ways at the
Jan Francisci
present time then it will be hard to change in the future.
St. Theresa
Children are very important for the continuation of mankind
“I can make a difference”
as well as the welfare of the environment. This is why
I grew up in the beautiful island of American Samoa. It recycling is important.
may be a small island, but it’s a place where you fell at
Recycling is also helpful because it maintains a healthy
home. The people are friendly, the tourist sights are
and abundant environment. After all, who would want to live
breathtaking and the beautiful ocean in which we are proud in an environment filled with trash and unnecessary objects?
of. But, I want to make changes that will affect the island in It keeps our island clean and beautiful, it also reflects our
a good way. I want to make a difference.
love for the communities we live in. It may be hard and
First, I want to clean the entire American Samoa. I want boring, but in the end it’s the right choice. We chose to live
to pick up every trash I see; I want our island to be clean so here so it’s our responsibility to look after what we have just
that when tourist come and tour around the island they don’t like a parent’s responsibility to care for his or her child.
see American Samoa as a dump. Another one is to boost up
Recyling is not a big step, but choosing to do makes a big
more programs, children can go to after school. Just like difference. We are part of our community just as our
the “Boys and Girls clubs.”
community is a part of us. Some people say that we are what
We need more programs like that. Programs kids go to we live for which is true. I we live a life full of trash and do
after school to do homework, more extra credits, even
not the the common sense to clean u after ourselves, then we
sports programs will get a big progress. Kids can go
would lead an unhealthy, unorganized, and unprepared life.
somewhere for help; they don’t need to go hangout anywhere We would make mistakes, excuses, and try to hold someone
anymore, they can do something.
responsible when we are the ones to blame. Recycling is
The entire community can help in making changes like important, not only for the environment but for ourselves as
these to strengthen the future for the generation and the
well.
generations to come. If these ideas can be done, I believe
that American Samoa will be known throughout the world, I Level 11
Johnathan Lei
know I can make a difference, I know you can.
Iakina Adventist Academy
Domestic Violence in American Samoa
Have you tried to abuse someone, or bully them to give you
money? In my experience I have never tried to bully anyone to
give me money. According to government law, if you abuse
someone physically, and that person gets bruised or hurt, you
will risk getting arrested and appear in court and may be
locked up for five years. In my opinion, a person that
backstabs another person will be that person’s enemy. This is
what happens when you tease another kid. You will be
embarrassed in front of others and your feelings will be hurt.
Encourage your friends and even your family not to bully
because what goes around comes around. Pray to God and
tell him about your problems. He will answer your prayers
and provide for your needs.
I am a person that can forgive and forget bad things others
may say to me. I try to encourage my family and friends not to
hang around people that are involved with alcohol and drugs
because it will mess up your life. Be all you can be and stay
drug free. Try to be friendly to your neighbors. Bullying does
not make you popular. God will take away your pride if you
bully. As life goes on, we learn more and more about
domestic violence and why we should not bully.
In conclusion, some kids cut themselves with sharp objects
as a result of being bullied. Bullying comes in many different
forms, from cyber bullying, physical bullying and even verbal
bullying. It’s all wrong and it has to stop. Bullying has a real
negative evict on the victim’s life. Those who are constantly
bullied can be pushed to the breaking point where they could
end up hurting themselves. Why do students bully their
classmates? I believe students bully others because they are
insecure and lack confidence. They use bullying tactics to
impress other students. Bullies thrive on attention they get
from their fellow classmates. Their hurtful actions make them
feel powerful and popular. Bullies pick on students who they
think are weak in physical stature, unpopular with their peers,
easily intimated, or discriminated against. Bullying occurs on
a regular basis in many schools. It’s usually started by the
same person or ring leader who gets a few other students to
join on the bullying. I never had been bully since I was a high
school student. I was experience not to be a bully when I was
a A little kid, but it was happen, I didn’t bully anyone in my
classmates or my family and especially at church. A little
advice to the students of American Samoa read your Bible and
pray every day, then God will planned a great goal for you in
the future.
Level 12
Alphina Liusamoa
Manu’a HS
“Learn from the past to build your future”
Your future is very important to toy. Your past is something
that you will forever cherish in your heart. Your past comes
with lessons, teaching, and stories of your ancestors. Your
future is something that you have to sit down and think about.
You have to accept your past. then you have to learn and keep
you r past in your heart. Then you use it.
Accept it first, then you’ll be able to move on. You can
never take another step in life, without accepting anything.
Your past helps you build or plan your capacity for your
future. Accepting your past, who you are, is one of the most
significant value of life. Why? Because once you accept who
you are and you are not ashamed to show your past, then you
are ready to learn from your past.
Learning is one way to put the puzzle pieces together. Once
you learn your past, then you can keep past. Learning is like a
staircase. You have to learn from stage one, up to stage ten.
Learning is one of the hardest stages of all values of life. Why?
Because you have to be able to learn, understand, and keep
what you’ve learned in you. Then if you pass this level, then
you are able to use your past to build your future.
Using what you just learned about your past is one of the
most easiest and hardest thing anyone could. It might be hard
because you might not know a way to use it, then you can use
it in your daily life. But what’s so important about using it, is
that you don’t even know that you are using your past and
building your future at the same time.
“Learn fro the past, to build your future.” To you, what
does this simple sentence means and say to you? to me, it
says, “You have to learn from your culture, learn from the
teachings and lessons of the past, to build and make a plan for
your future. I’ve done this before, When I was in L-8 I went
to the stages of life, and here I am a freshman, and very proud
one. So, right now, go learn from your past to build your
future of your capacity for life-long learning.
Young Writers’ Contest NOVEMBER Entries 2013
GRADE K-5
Ulua’ifiu Tinofili, AFONO
Romeo, FALEASAO
Lilien Ve’e, FITIUTA
Jocelyn, LE’ATELE
Luafaletele Leaupepe, MANULELE
Veronica Fuataga, MATAFAO
Emele Tulafono, MATATULA
Noel To’omaga, MT. ALAVA
Jaymie Huang, OLOSEGA
Tiva Duffy, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Elelohe Uale, SPA
Amazeyah Mapu,TAFUNA
GRADE 1
Naomi Naiuli, AFONO
Tafa’ilagi Toelupe, AUA
Puleisili, FALEASAO
Miracle Sunui, FITIUTA
Jaedah Sauni, LAULI’I
Harmony Simanu, LE’ATELE
Felicity Iotamo, MANULELE
Destiny Pese, MARIST ST. FRANCIS
Sonny Amituanai, MASAFAU
Denzel Tuato’o, MATAFAO
Colin Sautia, MATATULA
Seuvaai, MT. ALAVA
Loretta Tinoisamoa, OLOSEGA
Ersi Tang, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Waiholani, SILIAGA
Teuila Su’a, SOUTH PACIFIC ACADEMY
Faith Lim, ST. THERESA
Tafaoata Finau, TAFUNA
GRADE 2
Angelica Sa’au, A.P. LUTALI
Troy West, AFONO
Tyreen, ALOFAU
Aukuso Fruean, AUA
Vaelua Faaita, FALEASAO
Kapiolani Te’i, FITIUTA
Telesia Sasila, LAULI’I
Tulimalefoi, LE’ATELE
Felicia Iotamo, MANULELE
Jonaliu Young, MANUMALO
Maeva Koroi, MARIST ST. FRANCIS
Jessica Martinez, MASEFAU
Patricia Leiua Ta, MATAFAO
Leka Ioramo, MATATULA
Jarylak Tauala, MT. ALAVA
Jaylene Huang, OLOSEGA
Thomas Ino, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Ngaire Cendrowski, SILIAGA
Gabrielle Gayapa, SPA
Henani Fa’apale, ST. THERESA
Tallah Niu, TAFUNA
GRADE 3
Yvon Athena Nili, A.P. LUTALI
Emmanuel Latu, AFONO
Yvon Athena Nili, ALATAUA LUA
Kirstin Manamea, ALOFAU
Nydorrari Leota, AUA
Toasamoa Amituanai, FALEASAO
Joshua Hicks, FITIUTA
Genovia Epaia J. Pan, LAULI’I
Malo Matau, LE’ATELE
Telecia F. Fuiava, LUPELELE
Julie Tominiko, MANULELE
Erica F. C. Pen, MANUMALO
Fasili Taito, MASEFAU
Priscilla Lokan, MATAFAO
Fefiloi, MATATULA
Silise Tuiasosopa, MT. ALAVA
Fa’alilo Lesa, OLOSEGA
Leolemau Young, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Angelica, SAMOA BAPTIST ACADEMY
Francis Vaofanua, SILIAGA
Jacob Double, SOUTH PACIFIC ACADEMY
Lelei Fuiava, ST. THERESA
Irette Sialega, TAFUNA
GRADE 4
Apotala Su’a, A.P. LUTALI
Maselino Satama, AFONO
Apotala Su’a, ALATAUA LUA
Analiz, ALOFAU
Chardonnay Iose, AUA
Aloalii Maui, FALEASAO
Kelemete Paulo, FITIUTA
Hannah Esekia, LAULI’I
Virginia Togi, LE’ATELE
Daiana Siaosi, LUPELELE
Dora Malila, MANULELE
Herene Tagaloa, MANUMALO
Jona Jean Calunsog, MARIST ST. FRANCIS
Lisa Martinez, MASEFAU
Nu’umotu Sasala, MATAFAO
Laulaau Leuta, MATATULA
Marcus, MT. ALAVA
Jayden Tamasaga, OLOSEGA
Julius Laulu, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Blaze Atofau, SAMOA BAPTIST ACADEMY
Va’afuti Va’afuti, SILIAGA
Abigal Shalhout, SOUTH PACIFIC ACADEMY
Siusamoa Matai’i, ST. THERESA
Kristina Timoteo, TAFUNA
GRADE 5
Rebecca Ioane, A.P. LUTALI
Elia Henry, AFONO
Fiatuiga Amilale, ALOFAU
Toalei Toelupe, AUA
Dea-rhay, FALEASAO
Cina Suafo’a, FITIUTA
Mauola Jr., IAKINA ADVENTIST ACADEMY
Jayden Mark Sauni, LAULI’I
Allen Seagai, LE’ATELE
Latuaoa Ah Poi, LUPELELE
Gideon Temese, MANULELE
Themis Palemene, MANUMALO
Jessica Siuta, MASEFAu
Taeiao Liufau, MATAFAO
Lomitusi Uiagalelei, MATATULA
Faauma Togiaso, MT. ALAVA
Marianne Va’atausili, OLOSEGA
Liv Sebastian, PACIFIC HORIZONSAV’IA’A
Joel-Samuel, SAMOA BAPTIST ACADEMY
Tauva’a Fuaga, SILIAGA
Zoey Mavaega, SOUTH PACIFIC ACADEMY
Maria Lobetos, ST. THERESA
Pauline Leapai, TAFUNA
GRADE 6
Marinae Tilialo, A.P. LUTALI
Talitonu Suitulaga, AFONO
Micah F., ALOFAU
Niumalina Fuata, AUA
Salatielu Milo, FALEASAO
Janzen Muasau, IAKINA ADV. ACADEMY
Milaneta Esekia, LAULI’I
Ietitaia Lafitaga, LE’ATELE
Kionasina Faletoi, LUPELELE
Gladys Fa’aitaita Aita,MANULELE
Kutori Temese, MANUMALO
Va’a Sila, MASEFAU
Virginia Lyn Boton, MATAFAO
Blessing Talaina, MATATULA
Ramona Matau, MT. ALAVA
Luao Valolo, OLOSEGA
Tatiana Jackson, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Faith Aukuso, SAMOA BAPTIST ACADEMY
Tagiilima, SILIAGA
Hanisi Ledua, SOUTH PACIFIC ACADEMY
Sialofi Misa, ST. THERESA
Janaya V. Tuimavave, TAFUNA
GRADE 7
Taleni Sagale, A.P. LUTALI
Margaret West, AFONO
Kadynna Velega, ALOFAU
Paulina Ioane, AUA
D’andre Si’imalevai, FALEASAO
Tumusa, Tei ,FITIUTA
Falepule Faatili, LE’ATELE
Ashley Ta’atasi, LUPELELE
Alexi Tominiko, MANULELE
Henery Aiava, MANUMALO
Justiin Wulf, MARIST ST. FRANCIS
Imo Cassandra Viliamu, MASEFAU
Talosaga Vaoga, MATAFAO
Fatu Utu, MATATULA
Walter Nevile, OLOSEGA
Shayne Ellis, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Gloria Park, SAMOA BAPTIST ACADEMY
Roelyhn Fuimaono, SILIAGA
Maata Lena, SOUTH PACIFIC ACADEMY
Amazora Taiapisi, ST. THERESA
GRADE 6
Orion Tilialo, A.P. LUTALI
Laufau A., AFONO
Manalei S., ALOFAU
Tuugaolo Filisi, AUA
Notoao A., FALEASAO
Rienara Talo, LAULI’I
Otilia V., LE’ATELE
Max Aperaamo, LUPELELE
Anna Marie Kutty, MANULELE
Kattleya Leigh T. Go, MANUMALO
Etevise, MARIST ST. FRANCIS
Deutronomy Tafaovale , MASEFAU
Lydia Amisone, MATAFAO
Onti Vaa, MATATULA
Sanele Passi, MT. ALAVA
Finora Sal, OLOSEGA
Pauline Vaivao, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Tuilei S., SAMOA BAPTIST ACADEMY
Tomasipani, SILIAGA
Michelle Miller, SPA
Jan Francisco, ST. THERESA
Torch Taula, TAFUNA
GRADE 9
Rita Jennings, FAGA’ITUA
Marina Ofeira Taumua, KANANA FOU
Tamotu E. Salave’a, LEONE
Claire Anita Lauofo, MANUA
Glysa Blanco, FAASAO MARIST
Jack Tuiolosega, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Brieanah Fruean, SAMOANA
Juliana Rajamohan, SPA
Kiso Skelton, TAFUNA
GRADE 10
Tofiga Tufele, FAGA’ITUA
Louaivasa La’ulu, KANANA FOU
John Ma’a, LEONE
Hueina Hemaloto, FAASAO MARIST
William Prescot, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Ula Marcela Lefiti, SAMOANA
Fiasili Aga, SOUTH PACIFIC ACADEMY
Virginia Siatu’u, TAFUNA
GRADE 11
Jewelniece Sanele, FAGA’ITUA
Anamnesis Muasau, KANANA FOU
Payge Fuimaono, LEONE
Danielle Yamson, FAASAO MARIST
Johnathan Lei, IAKINA ADV. ACADEMY
Kyrstene Lin, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Clarence Villanueva, SAMOANA
Taylor Jessop, SPA
Tiuli Chan, TAFUNA
GRADE 12
Delora-Jean Tuato’o, FAGA’ITUA
Beka Moli Malio’o, KANANA FOU
Ula Pele, LEONE
Louie Amurao, FAASAO MARIST
Shalina Prescott, PACIFIC HORIZONS
Lindsey Aga-Laupola, SAMOANA
Suluga Taliau, SPA
Ricka Mae Mallari, TAFUNA
Calif police officers on
trial in homeless death
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP)
— More than two years after
his son died in a violent confrontation with police, Ron
Thomas still hears the echoes
of that night.
Audio recordings and surveillance video taken during
the incident show 37-year-old
Kelly Thomas calling for his
father nearly 30 times. As the
minutes tick by, Thomas’ desperate screams for his father
trail off into groans of “Daddy”
and then stop altogether as he
loses consciousness.
Ron Thomas was nowhere
near the scene that night as
police kneed, shocked and
pinned his son down in a
nearly 10-minute brawl, but he
has stood by him ever since,
championing a call for justice
that heads to court Monday
for two of the six officers
involved.
One of them, Manuel
Ramos, is charged with
second-degree
murder,
marking the first murder trial
of a uniformed police officer
in conservative Orange County’s history.
“It’s like a wound you keep
opening,” said Ron Thomas,
who says his son was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
“One of the last things, I think,
he was able to slowly moan
out is: ‘Daddy, they’re killing
me.’ I lay there at night and
think about that. It’ll get you
to the point where you can’t
function and you just cry a
lot.”
Ramos, 39, has pleaded not
guilty to second-degree murder
and involuntary manslaughter.
Jay Cicinelli, 42, has pleaded
not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and use of excessive
force. Both are free on bail. A
third officer will be tried separately on charges of involuntary manslaughter and excessive force. Three other officers
were not charged.
The case garnered national
attention at the time and fueled
months of local protests that
led to the resignation of the
police chief and a recall election in the small college town.
The six-week trial promises
to re-ignite those passions: A
judge has banned the family’s
supporters — a loose coalition that calls itself “Kelly’s
Army” — from wearing pins
and T-shirts that might inflame
the jury and district attorney’s office itself plans to use
Twitter daily to update the
public on its case.
Thomas, who some called
“Crazy Kelly,” was known
around town for his disheveled
red beard and erratic behavior
and was already familiar to
police. Ramos himself had
been called on seven previous
occasions to remove him from
private property and Thomas
had been written up for trespassing, urinating in a fountain
and vandalism, among other
things.
The altercation that led to
his death started in much the
same way, with Ramos rolling
up to a police call about a
man who was trying to open
car doors at Fullerton’s busy
transit center. This time, however, things escalated — and
much of it was captured on the
surveillance tape that promises
to be the trial’s centerpiece.
District Attorney Tony
Rackauckas has said investigators
overlaid
recordings from the officers’ body
microphones with the tape,
allowing prosecutors to provide a blow-by-blow narrative
of an “impending beating by
an angry police officer” and
verbatim quotes from the officers and Thomas as the scene
unfolded.
Initially, Ramos chides
Thomas for his evasive
answers: “It seems like
every day, we have to talk to
you about somethin’ ... Do
you enjoy it?” Ramos asks
Thomas, according to a prosecution transcript.
Within minutes, Ramos
grows angry as Thomas
refuses to cooperate. He snaps
on latex gloves, holds his fists
in front of Thomas’ face and
says, “Now see my fists? They
are getting ready to (expletive)
you up.”
Thomas stood up and
pulled away, prosecutors said,
and Ramos chased him down,
tackled him and punched him
in the ribs as he pinned him
down.
Cicinelli, who arrived
moments later, is accused of
kneeing Thomas twice in the
head and using a Taser on him
four times before hitting him
in the face with the blunt end
of the stun gun eight times.
The coroner listed the cause of
death as mechanical compression of the thorax, which made
it impossible for Thomas to
breathe normally and deprived
his brain of oxygen.
“This is a case where the
district attorney’s office is
fighting for what law enforcement is supposed to be in
Orange County and for our
community. It’s not OK for
police officers to commit
crimes,” said Susan Kang
Schroeder, the district attorney’s chief of staff.
Defense attorneys, however, portray a very different
encounter and are seeking
to introduce evidence that
Thomas had a history of violence and suffered from psychotic episodes due to prolonged
methamphetamine
abuse.
The surveillance video
doesn’t begin until 25 seconds
into the confrontation and
doesn’t show, for example,
how Thomas reached repeatedly for Cicinelli’s weapon as
they struggled, according to
defense motions.
In the audio recordings,
Cicinelli can be heard telling
others that Thomas must be
“on something” because it
took three officers to get him
in handcuffs. Ramos adds
that Thomas tried to bite him
through his pants.
The judge will allow
defense attorneys to tell the
jury about Thomas’ prior
conviction for assaulting his
grandfather with a fireplace
poker and about a restraining
order that his mother sought
against him after he held
her by the throat during an
argument.
The defense team also plans
to present its own expert who
will testify that Thomas had an
enlarged heart due to chronic
methamphetamine abuse, providing an alternate cause of
death.
The prosecution has painted
a “false image of Kelly Thomas
being this sort of compliant,
non-violent homeless person
and that is belied by the other
incidents,” Ramos’ attorney,
John Barnett, said at a recent
pre-trial hearing.
He added outside court
that there was no evidence
of schizophrenia, but that
Thomas “took meth and LSD
since the 10th grade and ruined
his cognitive abilities.”
Thomas’ father is angered
by talk of drug abuse and
points out his son didn’t have
anything in his system that
night.
“It doesn’t matter what
my son did in his life, it just
doesn’t matter. It’s what the
officers did that night,” he
said. “That’s what this trial’s
about.”
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OF AMERICAN SAMOA
The Secretary of American Samoa wishes to inform all residents interested in
obtaining a Notary Public Commission, or in renewing a Commission, that the
next course on Notary Law and Ethics will be offered at the American Samoa
Community College, Room TED 2, on Tuesday, December 10th, Wednesday,
December 11th, and Thursday, December 12th, 2013, 5:00pm to 7:00pm. As is
required by the Notary Act of 2007, Public Law 30-18, as amended, anyone who
wishes to obtain a Notary Public Commission must undergo and successfully
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Memorial mulled
for Calif. teenager
killed by a deputy
A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask gives the victory sign in front of a burning police
vehicle set afire by protesters, near Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013.
Several hundred students and supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president joined to
protest the death of Mohammed Reda, a student who was killed in clashes on Thursday, Nov. 28,
(AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)
2013, near Cairo University. ➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
victims of natural disasters.
Shark kills teen body boarder
off the Australian coast
SYDNEY (AP) — A shark killed a teenager
off Australia’s east coast Saturday in the nation’s
second deadly attack this month, police said.
Zach Young, 19, was body boarding with
three friends about 100 meters (330 feet) offshore at Riecks Point, near the northern New
South Wales city of Coffs Harbour, when he was
bitten on the legs, New South Wales police said
in a statement.
Young’s friends got him back to the beach,
and bystanders tried in vain to save him before
paramedics arrived, a New South Wales ambulance police spokeswoman said. Young had
serious injuries to his legs and suffered cardiac
arrest. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him, but he
was pronounced dead a short time later.
Beaches in the area were closed for 24 hours.
There was no information immediately available
on the type of shark involved.
It was the second deadly attack in Australia
this month. On Nov. 23, a 35-year-old surfer
was fatally mauled by a shark off a beach near
the Western Australia community of Gracetown.
Three surfers have been killed in Gracetown in
the past decade.
Although sharks are common along Australia’s coastlines, fatal attacks are relatively rare.
The country has averaged just more than one
fatal attack per year over the past 50 years.
Strong earthquake hits
Indonesia; no casualties
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong,
shallow earthquake rocked parts of eastern Indonesia early Sunday, but there were no immediate
reports of damage or injuries.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.3-magnitude quake was centered 343 kilometers (212)
miles northwest of Saumlaki, a coastal town in
Maluku province, at a depth of 9 kilometers (5.5
miles) beneath the sea.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Earthquake and Geophysics Agency put its preliminary magnitude at
6.7 and said that the quake was unlikely to trigger a
tsunami, said Suhardjono, the agency official who
like many Indonesians uses a single name.
The world’s largest archipelago, Indonesia is
prone to earthquakes due to its location on the
Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and
fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
In 2004, a monster temblor off Indonesia’s
Aceh shores triggered a tsunami that killed
230,000 people in a dozen countries. Most of the
deaths were in Aceh.
New Zealand airline reveals
image of Hobbit dragon
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New
Zealand’s national airline unveiled a giant image
Monday of the dragon Smaug on one of its planes
to celebrate the premiere of the second movie in
the Hobbit trilogy.
Air New Zealand showed the 54-meter (177foot) image that’s featured on both sides of a
Boeing 777-300 aircraft. The plane is scheduled
to fly to Los Angeles in time for the premiere of
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” which
screens Monday, Pacific Standard Time at the
Dolby Theatre. It was the first time fans got a
chance to see director Peter Jackson’s interpretation of Smaug. In the first movie, the director
revealed only the dragon’s eye.
The Hobbit trilogy was filmed in New Zealand and is based on the book of the same name
by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The movie opens in theaters in mid-December.
The image is a decal, or giant sticker, produced by special effects studio Weta Digital,
which also worked on the movie.
Air New Zealand spokesman Andrew Aitken
said it intends to keep the decal on the plane for at
least a year, until the opening of the third Hobbit
movie. The airline also used a decal to celebrate
the opening of the first movie. New Zealand has
sought to use the popularity of the movies as a
way to market itself and boost tourism.
Report: Iran needs more
nuclear power plants
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran’s nuclear chief said
Sunday that the Islamic Republic needs more
nuclear power plants, the country’s official news
agency reported, just after it struck a deal regarding
its contested nuclear program with world powers.
Ali Akbar Salehi said the additional nuclear
power would help the country reduce its carbon
emissions and its consumption of oil, IRNA
reported. He said Iran should produce 150 tons of
nuclear fuel to supply five nuclear power plants.
“We should take required action for building
power plants for 20,000 megawatts of electricity” in the long term, Salehi said.
The comments come after Iran agreed to freeze
part of its nuclear program in return for Western
powers easing crippling economic sanctions.
The deal requires Iran to cap its uranium enrichment level at 5 percent, far below the 90 percent
threshold needed for a warhead. That 5 percent
uranium can be used at nuclear power plants.
Iran also pledged to “neutralize” its stockpile
of 20 percent enriched uranium — the highest
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Local lawmakers are considering building a memorial park in the Northern California neighborhood where a teen was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy.
Sonoma County supervisors will consider the memorial and
several other possible responses to the shooting at its meeting
Tuesday, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported Sunday.
Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy Erick Gelhaus shot 13-yearold Andy Lopez on Oct. 22 as the teen walked in the Santa Rosa
neighborhood where he lived.
Gelhaus told investigators he believed the airsoft BB gun
Lopez was carrying was an assault rifle.
The shooting led to numerous protests in the predominantly
Latino community. Protesters are demanding Gelhaus be criminally charged for the shooting. Lopez’s parents have filed a
federal lawsuit in San Francisco alleging that Gelhaus gunned
down their son too quickly and without legal justification.
Gelhaus’ attorney earlier told the newspaper that the deputy
was saddened by the event but believed his life was in danger
when he opened fire.
Along with the proposal to build a park named after Lopez,
the supervisors will consider creating a task force to explore
police and community relations. Also under consideration is
whether to support state and federal legislation on gun and replica weapon control and exploring law enforcement training for
alternatives to lethal force.
Democratic lawmakers in both houses of the California Legislature said they will introduce legislation in January that would
ban the manufacture and sale of imitation firearms like the one
Lopez was carrying. The supervisors are also mulling the cost
and feasibility of outfitting deputies with lapel cameras. There
are no videos of the Oct. 22 incident.
Supervisors and county officials have planned to build a park
in the low-income neighborhood for years. Supervisor Susan
Gorin said the neighborhood is in need of a park and the shooting
has given the issue renewed attention.
“In light of the tragedy, it is totally appropriate that we look
at what kind of funding might be available” for acquiring the
property to build a park, Gorin said.
Activists have recently planted a young oak tree near the
shooting site, where a large wooden memorial and assorted
small playground toys have been placed.
US intelligence committee
heads: Terror threat rising
WASHINGTON (AP) — The terrorism threat against the
United States is increasing and Americans aren’t as safe as they
were a year or two ago, the leaders of the House and Senate
intelligence committees said. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said there
are more terrorist groups than ever, with more sophisticated and
hard-to-detect bombs. The California Democrat said “there is
huge malevolence out there.”
Rep. Mike Rogers said there’s enormous pressure on U.S.
intelligence services “to get it right, to prevent an attack.”
The Michigan Republican said that job is getting more difficult because al-Qaida is changing, with more affiliates around
the world. He said those are groups that once operated independently of but have now joined with al-Qaida.
Rogers also said terrorists are adopting the idea that “maybe
smaller events are OK” and still might achieve their goals.
“That makes it exponentially harder for our intelligence services to stop an event like that from happening,” he said in a joint
interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that aired Sunday.
Although neither lawmaker offered specifics about what
led them to their conclusions, Feinstein spoke generally of “a
real displaced aggression in this very fundamentalist jihadist
Islamic community, and that is that the West is responsible
for everything that goes wrong and that the only thing that’s
going to solve this is Islamic Sharia law and the concept of the
caliphate.” The caliphate is an Islamic state led by a religious
and political leader, or caliph, considered a successor of the
prophet Mohammed and who governs by Sharia law.
Rogers said al-Qaida groups have changed their means of communication as a result of leaks about U.S. surveillance programs,
making it harder to detect potential plots in the early planning
stages. “We’re fighting amongst ourselves here in this country
about the role of our intelligence community that it is having an
impact on our ability to stop what is a growing number of threats.
And so we’ve got to shake ourselves out of this pretty soon and
understand that our intelligence services are not the bad guys.”
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➧ DPS personnel…
Lt. Siaosi Aiono who was with the Criminal Investigation
Division, is the new head of the Traffic Division and he is to
report to the Chief of Police.
Lt. Maturo Ta’afua who was with the Leone Substation has
now been reassigned to the CID. He is to report to CID Commander Lavata’i Ta’ase Sagapolutele.
Other personnel changes include the removal of Captain Fuamoli Ah Mu and Simeamativa Maloata from the Juvenile Detention Center to the TCF.
Lt. Pene Ta’afua from the TCF is now assigned to the Juvenile Detention Center. In addition to the new role, Ta’afua will
also support Mara Brown, a counselor with the Juvenile Detention Center who will administer all the Juvenile Detention Unit
Programs.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Haleck has confirmed that Lt.
Solova’a Mageo has been suspended without pay for 30 days,
effective last month.
In an earlier interview with Samoa News, Haleck said
Mageo’s suspension was a result of an internal investigation
which uncovered a lot of “dishonesty in carrying out sworn
duties and so much more.”
Haleck said that initially, he was looking at recommending
termination for Mageo; however, he opted to suspend him.
He pointed to a folder that was on his desk, which contained
over 500 pages compiled from an internal investigation of
Mageo, but declined to go into details.
Haleck said there were two other officers whom he has recommended for termination to the Human Resources Director:
Vaughn Sagapolutele and Rocky Tua.
“Vaughn asked for a hearing and we gave him a hearing date
but he did not show up and we are pursuing termination. Likewise for Tua, he was acquitted of the charges filed against him,
but I can terminate him administratively,” said Haleck.
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
level acknowledged by Tehran — by either
diluting its strength or converting it to fuel for
research reactors, which produced isotopes for
medical treatments and other civilian use.
v.p. Biden to visit DMZ
while in South Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe
Biden is preparing to visit the Demilitarized
Zone, the heavily armed border between South
Korea and North Korea.
The White House is releasing details of
Biden’s itinerary for his weeklong trip to Asia
aimed at showing the U.S. remains focused on
the region. Biden departs Sunday for Japan,
China and South Korea.
Biden will visit the DMZ Saturday following
a ceremony honoring U.S. troops who died
during the Korean War, which ended 60 years
ago. The border visit will likely highlight the
conflict over North Korea’s nuclear program.
In Tokyo, Biden will meet with Japan’s prime
minister and lawmakers. He’ll meet with China’s president in Beijing and with South Korea’s
president in Seoul. Biden will also give a speech
in South Korea on U.S. policy in Asia.
Al-Qaida’s American spokesman accuses US of piracy
CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida’s American
spokesman says the U.S.’s kidnapping of an
al-Qaida suspect from Libya is a crime of
piracy, urging Libyans to attack U.S. interests
everywhere.
Adam Gadahn, a former Osama bin Laden
spokesman, said in an audio speech posted on
militant websites late Saturday that Abu Anas alLibi had no role in the 1998 bombings of two
U.S. embassies in Africa because he had left alQaida and formed a new group.
U.S. special forces snatched al-Libi off the
streets of Tripoli in October and detained him on
a U.S. warship before bringing him to the U.S.
to stand trial.
“The kidnapping is a new episode in a series
of U.S. crimes of piracy,” he said, urging Libyans to “stand up for revenge” and attack U.S.
foreign and domestic interests.
China launches first moon
rover, the ‘Jade Rabbit’
BEIJING (AP) — China launched its first
rover mission to the moon Monday, sending a
robotic craft named Jade Rabbit to trundle across
the lunar landscape, examine its geology and
beam images back to Earth.
A rocket carrying the rover aboard an
unmanned Chang’e 3 spaceship successfully
blasted off early Monday from a launch center
in southwestern China and was scheduled to
arrive on the moon in mid-December, the official
Xinhua News Agency said.
“We will strive for our space dream as part
of the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation,”
Xichang Satellite Launch Center director Zhang
Zhenzhong said.
If the Chang’e 3 successfully soft-lands on
the moon, China will become the third country
to do so, after the United States and the former
Soviet Union. A soft landing does not damage
the craft and the equipment it carries. An earlier
Chinese craft orbited and collected data before
intentionally crash-landing on the moon.
“Chang’e” is a mythical Chinese goddess of
the moon, and “Yutu” — or “Jade Rabbit” — is
her pet.
Central American mothers
look for missing children
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Fifty Central
American mothers have gathered in Guatemala
to begin their trek through Mexico to look for
their missing sons and daughters who disappeared there on their way to the United States.
The mothers from Nicaragua, Honduras, El
Salvador and Guatemala will cross into Mexico
on Sunday, and travel as far north as the state of
San Luis Potosi.
Caravan organizer Elisabel Hernandez said
Saturday that this year the mothers won’t make
it all the way to Mexico’s northern border states
because authorities say they can’t guarantee their
safety. This is the seventh year the group has
made the trek hoping to find their loved ones or
at least bring attention to the plight of migrants
who have disappeared in Mexico.
5 East African states sign
common currency deal
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The five
nations in the East African Community regional
economic bloc have signed an agreement to
adopt a common currency. The presidents of
Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
met Saturday in the Ugandan capital, Kampala,
to sign a protocol for the creation of a monetary
union to be established in 10 years.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, the new
chairman of the EAC, says the monetary union
will lower transaction costs in the region by
eliminating losses incurred in exchange rates.
The EAC began 13 years ago with the goal
of creating a common customs union, market,
monetary union and a political federation of East
African states. Progress has been slowed, however, due to concerns of the member countries
about the impact of the bloc’s decisions on their
individual economies.
Guyana police say girl,
13, raped; family killed
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Police
in Guyana are looking for a man they say raped
a 13-year-old girl and killed her mother and
brother in an attack near a rural mining town in
the South American country.
Police spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker said
Saturday that 33-year-old Molly James and her
15-year-old son, Aaron, were stabbed to death
on their farm near Linden. He said the man had
run away after raping the girl but later returned
to kill her family after learning police were
looking for him. Whittaker said the girl escaped
the attacker after being sexually assaulted.
NY crash victim was headed
to famed Christmas tree
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the people killed
after a New York City commuter train derailed
was headed to midtown Manhattan to work on
the famed Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center.
Longtime friend Janet Barton says James
Lovell was taking the Metro-North to New York
City Sunday to do lighting and sound work on
the giant tree. She called the 58-year-old Cold
Spring man beloved and said he enjoyed wind
surfing and playing guitar.
New York state Sen. Greg Ball said Lovell
was a caring member of his community and a
family man. Lovell was the husband of Nancy
Montgomery, a local elected official.
Federal officials are investigating how the
train derailed rounding a riverside curve in the
Bronx early Sunday morning, killing four people
and injuring more than 60 others.
Star Chinese director
admits defying 1-child rule
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese director Zhang
Yimou has admitted flouting his country’s strict
family planning rules by having three children
with his wife, but rejected rumors that he had
fathered seven children with several women.
Zhang’s office issued an open letter through
its verified microblog account on the Twitter-like
Sina Weibo site late Sunday saying the director
and his wife, Chen Ting, have two sons and a
daughter, in violation of China’s one-child limits.
Zhang and his wife “expressed their sincere
apology to the public for the negative social
impact that this has created,” the letter said.
This is the first time Zhang, 62, has responded
to reports that circulated online in May that the
director of “The Flowers of War,” starring Christian Bale, had seven children from two marriages
and relationships with two other women.
At the time, the People’s Daily newspaper, the
ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece, reported
that Zhang could face a fine of up to 160 million
yuan ($26 million).
People caught breaking China’s family planning policy must pay a “social compensation
fee” based on their annual income.
The letter said Zhang and his wife were
willing to be investigated by the family planning
committee in Chen’s hometown, the eastern city
of Wuxi, and would accept whatever penalty the
couple might incur. It did not provide details on
how the couple had been able to evade family
planning authorities thus far.
➧ In God we trust, just not each other…
In fact, some studies suggest
it’s too late for most Americans alive today to become
more trusting. That research
says the basis for a person’s
lifetime trust levels is set by
his or her mid-twenties and
unlikely to change, other than
in some unifying crucible such
as a world war.
People do get a little more
trusting as they age. But beginning with the baby boomers,
each generation has started off
adulthood less trusting than
those who came before them.
The best hope for creating
a more trusting nation may
be figuring out how to inspire
today’s youth, perhaps united
by their high-tech gadgets, to
trust the way previous generations did in simpler times.
There are still trusters
around to set an example.
Pennsylvania farmer Dennis
Hess is one. He runs an unattended farm stand on the honor
system.
Customers select their produce, tally their bills and drop
the money into a slot, making
change from an unlocked
cashbox. Both regulars and
tourists en route to nearby
Lititz, Pa., stop for asparagus
in spring, corn in summer and,
as the weather turns cold, longneck pumpkins for Thanksgiving pies. “When people
from New York or New Jersey
come up,” said Hess, 60, “they
are amazed that this kind of
thing is done anymore.”
Hess has updated the old
ways with technology. He
added a video camera a few
years back, to help catch
people who drive off without
paying or raid the cashbox.
But he says there isn’t enough
theft to undermine his trust in
human nature.
“I’ll say 99 and a half percent of the people are honest,”
said Hess, who’s operated the
produce stand for two decades.
There’s no single explanation for Americans’ loss of trust.
The best-known analysis
comes from “Bowling Alone”
author Robert Putnam’s nearly
two decades of studying the
United States’ declining “social
capital,” including trust.
Putnam says Americans
have abandoned their bowling
leagues and Elks lodges to
stay home and watch TV. Less
socializing and fewer community meetings make people
less trustful than the “long
civic generation” that came of
age during the Depression and
World War II.
University of Maryland
Professor Eric Uslaner, who
studies politics and trust, puts
the blame elsewhere: economic inequality.
Trust has declined as the
gap between the nation’s rich
and poor gapes ever wider,
Uslaner says, and more and
more Americans feel shut out.
They’ve lost their sense of a
shared fate. Tellingly, trust
rises with wealth.
“People who believe the
world is a good place and it’s
going to get better and you can
help make it better, they will be
trusting,” Uslaner said. “If you
believe it’s dark and driven by
outside forces you can’t control, you will be a mistruster.”
African-Americans consistently have expressed far less
faith in “most people” than the
white majority does. Racism,
discrimination and a high rate
of poverty destroy trust.
Nearly 8 in 10 AfricanAmericans, in the 2012 survey
conducted by NORC at the
University of Chicago with
principal funding from the
National Science Foundation, felt that “you can’t be too
careful.” That figure has held
remarkably steady across the
25 GSS surveys since 1972.
The decline in the nation’s
overall trust quotient was
driven by changing attitudes
among whites.
It’s possible that people
today are indeed less deserving
of trust than Americans in the
past, perhaps because of a
decline in moral values.
“I think people are acting
more on their greed,” said
Murawski, a computer spe-
➧ Tua’au Kereti Mata’utia Jr…
For these reasons, Tua’au has devoted his life to public
service.
He was an intern at the ASG Attorney General’s Office and
served as a special assistant to the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye
(D-HI), U.S. Senate, Washington DC.
He is also a former Equal Employment Opportunity Officer
at DHR; a Senior Director of Human Resources at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center; Private Business Professional Trainer at Private Human Resources Consultants Limited; Senior Director of
Human Resources at the American Samoa Community College;
Adjunct Lecturer at College & University; and Pacific Islander
Federal Healthcare Board Member for the Federal Healthcare
Policy Initiative.
Education wise, Tua’au holds a Juris Doctorate of Law
(JD) from Southern California Institute of Law, an MBA in
Accounting and Finance, a Master’s in Human Resources Management from Hawaii Pacific University, a Bachelor’s degree
in International Relations and Affairs, as well as Pre-Law and
Human Behavior from the United States International University, and an AA degree in Pre-Law, Business/Commerce from
the American Samoa Community College.
Tua’au also attended the University of Phoenix, the John F.
Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Medical School
were he received ACCME/AMA honors.
cialist who says he has witnessed scams and rip-offs.
“Everybody wants a comfortable lifestyle, but what are you
going to do for it? Where do
you draw the line?”
Ethical behavior such as
lying and cheating are difficult
to document over the decades.
It’s worth noting that the early,
most trusting years of the GSS
poll coincided with Watergate
and the Vietnam War. Trust
dropped off in the more stable
1980s.
Crime rates fell in the 1990s
and 2000s, and still Americans
grew less trusting. Many social
scientists blame 24-hour news
coverage of distant violence
for skewing people’s perceptions of crime.
Can anything bring trust
back?
Uslaner and Clark don’t see
much hope anytime soon.
Thomas Sander, executive director of the Saguaro
Seminar launched by Putnam,
believes the trust deficit is
“eminently fixable” if Americans strive to rebuild community and civic life, perhaps by
harnessing technology.
After all, the Internet can
widen the circle of acquaintances who might help you find
a job. Email makes it easier
for clubs to plan face-to-face
meetings. Googling someone
turns up information that used
to come via the community
grapevine.
But hackers and viruses and
hateful posts eat away at trust.
And sitting home watching
YouTube means less time out
meeting others.
“A lot of it depends on
whether we can find ways to
get people using technology to
connect and be more civically
involved,” Sander said. “The
fate of Americans’ trust,” he
said, “is in our own hands.”
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O le aso Faraile na te’a nei, Novema 29, na tuuina atu ai se
poloaiga faalaua’itele a le afioga i le Komesina o Leoleo ia William E. Haleck, e faalauiloa ai nisi o suiga tetele i totonu o le
Matagaluega o Pupuiga Lautele, po’o le vaega o leoleo.
I se vaega o lea poloaiga, na taua ai e Haleck e faapea, o nei
suiga ua faia ina ia siitia ma faaleleia ai auaunaga i totonu o le
matagaluega, ae talu ai o le taua tele o le vave aloaia o nei suiga,
sa ia faalauiloa ai loa le tatau lea ona aloaia suiga nei, i le aso 1
Tesema, 2013.
O le ulua’i suiga e aofia ai le aveese mai o le susuga a Captain
Lumana’i Maifea mai le puleaina o le Toese i Tafuna, ae tofia e
faauluulu i ai le Ofisa o Faamaumauga a le matagaluega, e ripoti
fo’i o ia i le Taitai Leoleo ia Maimaga Maiava mo ni faatonuga.
O le susuga Captain Fo’ifua Fo’ifua Jr o lo o avea ma Ta’ita’i
i le Ofisa o Leoleo i Tafuna, ua alu ese mai lea tofiga ae ua tofia
e avea ma pule le tumau o le toese i Tafuna.
O Captain John Cendrowski lea o lo o Taitaia le Traffic Division, ua alu ese mai lona tofiga ae tofia e galue i le Ofisa o Leoleo
i Tafuna.
O Captain Fuamoli Ah-Mu ma Sgt. Simeativa Maloata lea
o lo o galulue i le Falepuipui o Tamaiti (Juveniles Detention
Center), ua o ese mai la tofiga e pei ona i ai ae ua tofia e
galulue i le toese i Tafuna, i lalo o le vaavaaiga a le susuga
Capt. Fo’ifua Jr.
O Lt. Siaosi Aiono lea sa galue i le vaega o Leoleo Suesue, ua
alu ese mai lona tofiga ae tofia e pulea le Traffic Division, i lalo
o le vaavaaiga a le ta’ita’i leoleo ia Maiava.
O Lt. Pene Taafua o lo o galue i le falepuipui i Tafuna,
ua alu ese mai lona tofiga ae tofia e galue i le Falepuipui o
Tamaiti, i lalo o le vaavaaiga a le pule le tumau o le toese ia
Capt. Fo’ifua Jr.
O Lt. Maturo Taafua lea sa galue i le Ofisa o Leoleo i Leone,
ua alu ese mai lona tofiga ae tofia e galue i le Vaega o Leoleo
Suesue, i lalo o le taitaiga a Cmdr. Lavata’i T. Sagapolutele, ma
le suiga mulimuli, o Mara Brown lea o lo o avea ma faufautua
mo le Falepuipui o Tamaiti, ua tofia na te vaavaaiga ma pulea
polokalame uma mo le Falepuipiu o Tamaiti.
I se faatalatalanoaga a le Samoa News ma le afioga i le alii
Komesina i le amataga o le vaiaso nei, sa ia faamaonia mai ai
nisi o suiga o lo o fuafua le matagaluega e faia faasaga i nisi o
leoleo o lo o galulue i le taimi nei, ona o tulaga i amioga le taupulea o lo o aafia ai i latou i le faatinoina o latou tiute.
Na faamanino atili e le alii komesina e faapea, o faaiuga ma
suiga o lo o fuafua e faia, e aofia ai faaiuga faasaga i ni leoleo
ua sauni le matagaluega e faamalolo mai a latou galuega, atoa
ai ma se tagata faigaluega e toatasi o lo o tuli sona faasalaga
faafalepuipui i le taimi nei, ae o lo o tumau pea ona faigaluega
mo le matagaluega.
Na faasino e le alii komesina i le Samoa News se faila
mafiafia sa i luga o lana laulau, o le ripoti lea o se suesuega sa
faia faasaga i se tasi o Leoleo Ta’ita’i o lo o galue i le lala o le
Ofisa o Leoleo i Tafuna, susuga Lt. Solovaa Mageo, ma faia
ai loa le faaiuga e faamalolo o ia mo le 30 aso e aunoa ma le
maua o lona totogi.
O le isi alii leoleo mai le ofisa o leoleo i Tafuna ua faamalolo
tumau e pei ona faamaonia mai e le alii komesina, o le susuga
ia Vaughn Sagapolutele, ma o lea faaiuga sa faia ina ua maea se
suesuega lotoifale a le ofisa o leoleo sa faia faasaga ia Sagapolutele e tusa ai o le amio e tatau ona tausisia e le alii leoleo, ma
maitauina ai lona le ausia o le tulaga maualuga sa tatau ona i ai
lana auaunaga faaleoleo.
Mo le susuga a Lt. Mageo e pei ona saunoa le alii komesina,
sa i ai le faaiuga e faamalolo o ia ona o le tulaga sa i ai le faaiuga
o le suesuega sa faia faasaga ia te ia, ae ina ua latou toe iloiloina
le tulaga i lana tautua i le matagaluega, sa faia ai loa le faaiuga
o le a le faate’aeseina o ia, ae o le a faamalolo mo le 30 aso e
aunoa ma se totogi, a maea lea faasalaga, ona toe vaavaai lea e
le matagaluega le tulaga o lana galue ma lana amio i totonu o le
matagaluega.
O isi alii leoleo e toalua e pei ona saunoa le alii komesina, o i
laua ia sa galulue i le toese i Tafuna, lea na tuuaia e le malo i lo
la faataga lea o ni pagota e o e faatau mai ni fagupia toe fo’i atu
ai i totonu, o le susuga ia Fiti Aina ma Rocky Tua.
O Aina ua mae’a ona ta’usala o ia e le faamasinoga maualuga
i le moliaga mamafa o lona fesoasoani lea i se pagota e tuua
le toese, ma ua faamalumalu le tuuina atu o sana faasalaga i
totonu o le 6 masina, ae o Tua e le’i fa’amaonia tuuaiga a le malo
faasaga ia te ia, ina ua maea lana faamasinoga iloilo ae tuuina
mai ai le faaiuga a alii ma tamaitai faamasino, e le nofosala o ia
i moliaga mamafa e lua sa tuuaia ai o ia e le malo.
(Faaauau itulau 22)
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tusia Leua Aiono Frost
Ua fa’ailoa mai e tamaita’i ma ali’i foma’i ua galulue punoua’i nei i le taumafaiga e faamaumau le aofa’iga ma le to’atele o fanau a Amerika Samoa ua a’afia o latou fatu i le fa’ama’i
Rheumatic Heart Disease - o le ituaiga ma’i fatu lea sa matua ta’atele i Amerika i le vaitau a’o
le’i maua le vaifofo o fuala’au penisini lea e togafitia ai nei.
E le o tu’u mamaina e le vasega o foma’i fatu, foma’i a tamaiti i le talavai o le piliaki i
falema’i lea lava fa’ama’i e afaina ai pea le fanau.
Ua amatalia le latou galuega tima’i, o le su’esu’ega amata ua mae’a ona fa’atautaia, talu mai
le masina o Iuni o lenei tausaga, ua sofa’i mai lava e i latou le tatou atunu’u, ina ia mautinoa
ua togafitia a tatou fanau.
“Ona o Amerika Samoa o le teritori o Amerika, ua mae’a tamau i le maliliega na fa’avae
lenei malo fa’ateritori e ao ina togafitia gasegase tumau fa’apenei i on a tagatanu’u, e aunoa ma
se totogi,” o se tala amata lea a le tama’ita’i foma’i ta’ita’i o lenei galuega tima’i, Dr. Laurie
Armsby mai le aai o Portland, i le setete o Oregon.
Ua ia fa’ailoa mai ma le mautinoa, o se i’uga fo’i o ni su’esu’ega ua mae’a faia i fanau
talavou a le atunu’u, “O Amerika Samoa o le isi lenei atunu’u o le lalolagi, o lo’o ua maualuga
ai le aofa’iga o le fanau ua maua i le ma’i fatu a’o laiti lava.”
“E to’afitu fanau ua tatau ona vave faia togafitiga ma fa’atulaga loa taotoga ina ia toe lipea
ai alatoto o latou fatu, ae to’a sefulu i latou ua tatau on a amatalia talavai e toe fa’aleleia ai ni
ogaoga o lo’o alia’i mai i latou fatu, o se mea lava ua tatau on a faia.”
Ua to’atele fo’i le fanau, ua mae’a fa’atonuina e foma’i fatu nei ina ia o’o ane i le falema’i
mo le isi toe siakiga lelei o le tata o latou fatu, ma fa’amautinoa atili le maua ai o le fanau, pe o
lo’o i tulaga lava e mafai ona inumia vai, ma toe siaki atili, pe ua fa’aleleia ai le tata o latou fatu.
“Ua i ai nisi o fanau ua fa’alogoina o lo’o maua i le fatu ua tele, nai lo le latou tino la’ititi
lava. O nisi o le fanau ua iloga mai e ta’a’alo football i a’oga tulaga lua, ae o lo’o i ai fa’afitauli
i o latou fatu. Ua fa’ailoa mai, ‘O le ituaiga tata lea, e oso fa’afuase’i lava le ma’i fatu ma maliu
loa, e le tau fa’atali se’ia matua le tamaititi’,” o le saunoga lea a Dr. Armsby.
O nisi o foma’i o lo’o aofia i lenei taumafaiga malosi, o Dr. Beth Parker MD, Dr. Huang
ma nisi o foma’i na malaga fa’apitoa mai lava i le fesoasoani tupe na taua’aoina e le Kamupani a le Star Kist Samoa i le fa’ailoaina o le latou 50 tausaga talu ona fa’avae ma faipisinisi
i Amerika Samoa.
O nei foma’i, ua iloga se aoga o latou galuega tima’i, aua e i ai nisi o le fanau, sa fa’avave
lava ona auina atu i fafo, ua mae’a fo’i ona faia taotoga o nisi, ma ua fa’asaoina le soifua.
O le afaina lea, e so’ona fa’aleagaina ai alatoto o le fatu, o nisi o alatoto e papa ai, ma e le
mafai ona toe lipea alatoto nini’i o le fatu. O le galuega e tatau ona fai, o le a’otauina lea o ali’i
ma tama’ita’i foma’i o galulue i’inei ina ia iloa lelei faitau le ituaiga tata o fa’alogoina i fatu o
tamaiti, ma ia iloa lelei le ituaiga tata e mautinoa lava o le ma’i fatu lea ua maua ai le tamaititi.
O le isi mana’oga, ia so’ofa’atasi atu le taumafaiga lenei ma le vasega o Foma’i Fa’apitoa o
le fatu i Setete uma i sisifo o le Iunaite Setete, ia le maumau se ola o se tamaititi ae le’i matua
ma aoga i lona aiga ma lona malo ma on a tagata.
O se va’aiga lena i le vasega o foma’i fa’apitoa mo gasegase o le fatu ai le aai o Portland,
Oregon, lea ua latou va’aia nisi o le fanau a’oga tulaga lua a le atunu’u ma ua iloga ai e fa’ateleina
le afaina o fatu o le fanau, ma ua tima’i i latou, ina ia togafitia vave. O lo’o galulue lea vaega o
[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
foma’i i le Surgical Ward i le falema’i i Fagaalu.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
PAGO PAGO AMERICAN SAMOA 96799
Proclamation
TATALAGA ALOAIA O LE MASINA MO LE PUIPUIGA O LE AVETA’AVALE ONA,
ONA O LE TAGOFIA O LE AVA MALOSI MA FUALA’AU FA’ASAINA
TESEMA 2013
TULAI, o ta’avale lavevea ua maliliu ai le silia i le 40,000 tagata, ma manunu’a ai le tolu miliona, ma le
tau e tusa e 150 piliona tala i tausags ta’itasi; ma
TULAI, o fa’alavelave e feso’ota’i ma le ava malosi ma fuala’au fa’asaina, o lo’o mafua ai le 40 pesene o
maliu ma manu’aga ia; ma
TULAI, o le tausaga ua te’a i Amerika Samoa, e 13 ta’avale na laveveaa ona o le aafia i le ava malosi, e
to’a 4 na manunu’a i fa’alavelave ma le 146 aveta’avale na pu’eina fa’apagota ona o le ave
ta’avale ona ma
TULAI, o aso malolo ia Tesema o taimi ia e matua tele ai e maliliu ona o le aveta’avale ma le ona ma
TULAI, mo le afe ma afe o aiga o le malo tele, o aso malolo ia Tesema e fa’amanatu mai ai aiga pele ua
maliliu ona o aveta’avale onana i so’o se taimi o le tausaga; ma
TULAI, ona o polokalama e faia i nu’u e pei o a’oa’oga, le tausiga ma le fa’amalosiga o tulafono, ua
fa’amaonia lo latou aoga mo le fa’aitiitia o le aveta’avale ona ma
TULAI, o fa’alapotopotoga i le atunu’u ua galulue fa’atasi ma le “Vaega o Alaga Manuia Eseese” (DHSS)
ma le Ofisa o le Puipuiga Lautele, e fa’alauiloa le masina o Tesema mo le puipuiga o le
aveta’avale ona e mafua i le tagofia o le ava malosi ma fuala’au fa’asaina, ma le taumafaiga e
“Aveta’avale Le Ona, Pe Fa’atafa Lou Sa” ma
TULAI, o Amerika Samoa o se pa’aga ii le taumafaiga ia saogalemu o tatou auala ma nofoaga.
O LE MEA LEA, O a’u o Lolo Matalasi Moliga, Kovana o Amerika Samoa, out e fa’ailoa atu
fa’alaua’itele le masina o tesema 2013, e avea ma masina mo le puipuiga o le aveta’avale ona ona o le tagofia
o le ava malosi ma fuala’au fa’asaina, ma out e talosaga atu i tagatanu’u, ofisa o le malo, ta’ita’i o pisinisi,
falema’i, a’oga ma so’o se fa’aloapotopotoga, ina ia fesoasoani e fa’alautele le iloa e tagata o le fa’afitauli o le
aveta’avale ona, ia lagolago atu i polokalama ma fa’ai’uga uma ia fa’aitiitia ai le fa’afitauli; ia saili auala
saogalemu na aga talafeagai o le fa’aaogaina o le ava malosi ma fuala’au fa’asaina, ma saili avanoa mo tagata
uma e auai i taumafaiga e puipui ai le aveta’avale on, a e maise lava i le masina o Tesema atoa ma le tausaga
fou.
LOLO M. MOLIGA
Governor of American Samoa
Fuafua se tulafono taofi ai le
toe aumaia o talo mai Samoa
tusia Ausage Fausia
Ua amata nei ona galulue le
Matagaluega o Faatoaga a le
malo ma le Ofisa o le Loia Sili,
i le tau faataotoina lea o se tulafono e tuuina atu i le Fono Faitulafono, e taofi ai le toe aumaia
o le talo mai Samoa e faatau
i le teritori nei, ae maua ai le
avanoa o le aufai faatoaga a le
atunuu e faatau atu a latou talo
i pisinisi ma faleoloa i totonu o
le teritori.
O lea manatu e pei ona faamaonia mai e le faatonusili o
le Matagaluega ia Lealao M.
Purcell i le Samoa News, na
alia’e ina ua maea le Faaaliga
a le Aufai Faatoaga sa faia i
le vaiaso na te’a nei, ma maitauina ai le oo atu o taumafaiga a le au fai faatoaga, i le
tulaga ua latou gafatia ai ona
sapalai le meamata e pei o le
talo, taamu ma le fa’i i pisinisi
ma faleoloa i le teritori o lo o
manaomia lea oloa.
Saunoa Lealao e faapea, o
le fesili sa tula’i mai pea i le
tele o tausaga, pe gafatia e le
aufai faatoaga a le atunuu ona
sapalai meamata aemaise lava
le talo i pisinisi ma faleoloa i
le atunuu o lo o manaomia lea
oloa.
O lea fesili e pei ona toe
saunoa Lealao, na toe fesiligia
ai fo’i o ia e nisi o taitai o le
atunuu i le vaiaso na te’a nei,
e aofia ai ma ni alii faipule e
to’alua, i lo latou fia malamalama lea i le malosi ua i ai
faatoaga talo i le atunuu.
“O la’u tali le atunuu, ua
leva ona sauni le aufai faatoaga
a le atunuu latou te sapalaia le
meamata e pei o le talo,” o le
saunoaga mautinoa lea a Lealao.
“O fua o faaeleeleaga e pei
o talo, taamu, fa’i atoa ai ma
fualaau ‘aina sa maimoa i ai le
atunuu i le vaiaso na te’a nei o
le faaaliga a le aufai faatoaga,
ua na o se vaega laiti lea o fua
o faaeleeleaga na aumai e le
aufai faatoaga e faalauiloa, ae
i ai fo’i le manatu e le o fai
faatoaga uma ia na auai i le
faaaliga, atonu sa i ai nisi e le’i
lesitalaina o latou igoa ona o
le pisi ma le tuatuagia i nisi o
fuafuaga faaleaiga, ae o le mea
moni, ua lava ma totoe faatoaga e tali ai lea manaoga pe a
tula’i mai,” o le saunoaga lea a
le alii faatonu.
E toatele nisi o le aufai faatoaga na o latou faaalia i le
Samoa News i le vaiaso na te’a
nei, ua oo i le taimi ua tatau
ai i le malo ona taofi fua o
faaeleeleaga mai fafo o lo o ulufale mai i le teritori, ina ia maua
ai e le aufai faatoaga le avanoa
latou te inuina ai le tamaoaiga e
maua mai i a latou faatoaga.
“E le o se mea matagofie
le alu atu o le fai faatoaga
Amerika Samoa ma ana talo
e faatau atu i se faleoloa, ae
alu atu ua uma ona faatau e le
faleoloa talo mai Samoa, o fea
la o le a ave i ai e le fai faatoaga
a le atunuu ana talo e faatau
ai pe afai o lo o tatala lava le
avanoa e talia ai talo mai fafo,”
o le saunoaga lea Lafoga Nuu
o Pava’ia’i.
Ae na saunoa le susuga a
Keneti Onosa’i o Tafuna e
faapea, o le mataupu lenei sa
latou finauina mai i le tele o
tausaga ua mavae ao nofoia e
le afioga i le matua ia Togiola
Tulafono le nofoa mo le taitaiina
o le atunuu, peitai o le tali na
aumai, e le o lava faatoaga e tali
ai manaoga o pisinisi.
“Ou te talitonu la a’u i le
taimi nei, ua fau ma soloi faatoaga e tali atu ai i manaoga a
pisinisi ma faleoloa, ma ou te
lagolagoina ai loa se manatu,
ua tatau ona taofi le toe aumaia
o le talo mai fafo,” o le saunoaga lea a Onosa’i.
O le isi laasaga lea ua sauni
le Matagaluega o Fa’atoaga e
faalauiloa i se taimi e le o toe
mamao, o le fuafuaina lea o
ni polokalame fou e unaia ai
tagata fai faatoaga a le atunuu,
e faavae ni a latou pisinisi fou
laiti e fesoasoani ai i le atina’e
ma le tamaoaiga o aiga i le
atunuu.
I le taimi lava fo’i lea e tasi,
o le a unaia ai fo’i ma pisinisi
lotoifale ina ia ave la latou
faamuamua e faatau mai fua
o faaeleeleaga mai le aufai
faatoaga, ina ia fesoasoani ai
fo’i latou i le atina’e a le aufai
faatoaga.
O polokalame e pei ona
saunoa Lealao, e aofia ai le
taumafai o le matagaluega e
faatulaga ni auala e unaia ai
tagata fai faatoaga o lo o i ai
isi agavaa faaopoopo e pei o
le kuka ma le fagota, e faavae
sina pisinisi fou laititi e fesoasoani ai i le atina’eina o le aiga.
“O le a taumafai fo’i le
matagaluega ia faalautele nisi
avanoa e la’u aga’i i ai fua o
faaeleeleaga a le aufai faatoaga,
ina ia unaia ma faamalosia ai
pea loto o le aufai faatoaga e
toaaga e toto faatoaga ina ia
maua ai latou tupe,” o le saunoaga lea a Lealao i se faatalatalanoaga ma le Samoa News.
(Faaauau itulau 22)
Le alii fai faatoaga mai Malaeloa ia Sekone (itu taumatau)
i le taimi na faalauiloa ai ana talo i le faaaliga a le aufai faatoaga sa faia i le vaiaso na te’a nei, i le malae o le Su’igaula a le
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E muamua pea mea i Matautusa, ma o tatou fa’afo’i le
vi’iga ma le fa’afetai i le Atua
Soifua, ona o Lana tausiga
alofa mo i tatou e le mavae,
lea o lo’o tatou maua ai le ola
fa’apea ma Ana fa’amanuiaga
i aso uma mo i tatou. ia manuia
le alo faiva o le atunu’u i feau
ma galuega o le feagai ai i
lenei aso.
Na muta mai la tatou tala,
ina ua maliu le Tama’ita’i
Sa, i totonu o le falema’i i
Ngliema lea na ave i ai mo
ona togafitiga, peita’i, ua le
manuia ma na maliu ai lava.
Ae i totonu o le falema’i lava
lea sa i ai se tama’ita’i tausi
ma’i e igoa i a Mayinga N. O
le tama’ita’i lenei, sa gafa ma
SUBSTITUTE IN ANY COMBO FOR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE
le tausia po’o le va’aiga o le
Tama’ita’i Sa o M.E.
E le tau mate pe na pa’i lima
o lenei tama’ita’i tausima’i i le
toto po’o puaiga lanu uliuli o
le Tama’ita’i Sa, lea ua mafua
ai ona maua o ia i le virusi. Na
iloa lelei e Mayinga ua ma’i,
peita’i, sa taumafai pea ina ia
‘aua ne i iloa e se tasi. O Mayinga e sau mai se aiga e lima
vaivai, ae sa ia maua le sikolasipi e mafai ai ona fa’aauau
ana a’oa’oga i Europa. Fai
mai le fa’amatalaga, o lenei
tama’ita’i, e sogasoga lona
mafaufau e atamai fo’i, ma o
le ala lea na taumafai ai ina
ia faigaluega i totonu o le
falema’i lenei, e tapena ai mo
lana a’oga i Europa.
Na popole tele lenei
tama’ita’i, ona ua ia manatu
ifo, afai ae ma’i, o lona uiga o
le a le mafai ona alu i Europa
mo ana a’oa’oga. Ina ua amata
ona tiga lona ulu, sa ia tu’ua ai
loa le falema’i i Ngaliema ma
alu ‘ese mai ai. E lua aso o alu
‘ese Mayinga mai le falema’i,
ae o le mafua’aga na taumafai
e alu i le a’ai, ina ia faia lona
pemita e mafai ai ona malaga
mo ana a’oa’oga i Europa.
O le aso muamua na alu
‘ese ai mai le falema’i o le
Aso 12, o le masina o Oketopa
1976, na alu le aso atoa o tu
i le laina e fa’atalitali ai lona
taimi e mafai ai ona ia feiloa’i
i le Minisita o Femalaga’iga
i totonu o Zaire mo ona pepa
malaga.
A’o le aso na soso’o ai, Aso
13, o Oketopa, na ia fa’alogoina
ai ua amata ona tigaina, e le
i alu i lana galuega, ae sa toe
alu i le a’ai mo le faia o ona
pepa malaga. Ina ua ma’ea, na
alu ai loa i le tama’i ta’avale i
le falema’i tele i Kinshasa, ua
fa’aigoaina o le Mama Yemo.
O le taimi lea, ua amata ona
luluti ona tiga, e le gata i lona
ulu, ae ua fa’apea ona tiga ma
lona manava.
Na umi ona fa’asolo tagata
mo togafitiga, a’o lea lava
e fa’atalitali ai ma Mayinga
ina ia maua sona avanoa e
va’ai ai le foma’i. Fai mai le
fa’amatalaga a le tusi tala o
Richard Preston, sa faigata
lava ona talia i le loto ma le
mafaufau o Mayinga ua maua
o ia i le fa’ama’i. Ae fai mai,
o se teine e amio lelei ma ua
luasefulu ona tausaga, o ia
o le i oi mata o ona matua, o
se tama’ita’i e naunau i lana
a’oga, ae maise ai, o lea o le
a malaga i Europa ona o le
sikolasipi na ia mauaina e toe
fa’alautele ai lona atama’i i
tulaga tau foma’i.
Na maua lona avanoa e
va’ai ai le foma’i, ma ua fai
nei lona tui puipuia, ma le
fa’atonuga a le foma’i, e tatau
ona taofia o ia mo togafitiga,
peita’i, e le lava potu, e le lava
fo’i moega e tao’oto ai tagata
mama’i i totonu o le falema’i
lea, ma o le ala lea na toe alu
‘ese ai Mayinga.
Ua toe alu nei le tama’ita’i
i le ta’avale la’u pasese ma
fa’atonu le ave ta’avale e ave
ia i le isi falema’i e igoa o le
University Hospital, ma lona
fa’amoemoe o le a maua ai se
togafitiga mo ia. Ua lagona le
popole ma le atuatuvale o le
loto ma le mafaufau o Mayinga ona o tulaga pagatia ua
o’o nei ia te ia. O tulaga fo’i ua
i ai nei le toe fa’aauauina o ana
a’oa’oga i Europa, ua fesiligia
nei, ona o se sikolasipi sa ia
taumafai malosi ia maua, ona
o lona alofa i ona matua, ae
maise o lona aiga e lima vaivai
ma le tagolima, o lea ua fesiligia fo’i, pe taunu’u pe leai.
E faia pea…
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THANK YOU!
We, the Dental Professionals of American Samoa, from both the Department of Health and the L.B.J. Hospital would like to
acknowledge and sincerely thank all of the individuals, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and businesses who
graciously and generously supported us during our very first Dental Scientific Seminar, on November 22nd and 23rd. Through
their sponsorship and “in kind” donations, we were able to host a successful seminar.
We would like to sincerely thank Dr. Rodel Nordora - World Health Organization for providing the opportunity to certify 12 of our
local dental assistants under the Pacific Open Learning Health Net (POHLN) and the speakers who presented during our seminar.
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Special Thanks:
• Stake President Edward Lotulelei and wife Wendy Lotulelei.
• Honorable Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga and 1st Lady Cynthia Moliga.
• Dr. Rodel Nodora.
• Dr. Akapusi Ledua.
• Apia Dental Association.
Major Sponsors:
• Bluesky Communications. (CEO Adolfo Montenegro.)
• World Health Organization/POLHN. (Dr. Rodel Nodora.)
• Department of Health. (Director Motusa Tuileama Nua.)
• LBJ Medical Staff. (Dr. Annie Fuavai.)
Individuals:
• Honorable Speaker of the House: Savali Talavou Ale.
• Senator Soliai Tuipine Fuimaono.
• Senator Galea’i M. Tu’ufuli.
• Representative Vui Florence V. Saulo.
• District Governor of Manu’a Misaalefua Hudson & Mrs. Lina Hudson.
• Eastern District Governor Alo Paul Stevenson & Mrs. Sharon Stevenson.
• Director of Youth & Womens Affairs: Roy Ausage.
• Bishop Howard Afualo & children.
• Harbor Master Silila Patane.
• HTC Moananu Va.
• Tapumanaia Galu Satele Jr.
• Mrs. Ursula Te’o Martin & crew. (Hot Hula.)
• J-Smooth. (Joe Iosua.)
• Attorney at Law: Counselor Kereti & Nora Mata’utia.
• Mr. Aitkan &Mrs. Ila Ieremia.
• Emanuelu “Luscious” Uso. (Island night décor.)
• Valoaga Te’o. (Island night décor.)
• Sally Faumuina.
Private Sector:
• Ae Designs (Mrs. Ella Ae-Gurr & Mr. Mel Ae.)
• All Star Signs. (Mr. Natuitasina & Mrs. Tuai Mua.)
• Lemala Photography.
• Scotland Rentals (Fa’aua & Katerina Elisara.)
• Colgate Co. (Fiji.)
• Starkist Co. (Mr. Brett Butler.)
• Apia Dental Association
• HC Leilua Roy Sr. & Mrs. Miriama Willis (Roy Willis & Sons Construction.)
• Blue Angel Co.
• Trophies & Things (Ernie Seva’etasi.)
• ACE Hardware.
• Panamex.
• Impex. (Sa & Olive Mavaega.)
• GHC Reid (Representative Archie Soliai & Olivia Reid-Gillete.)
• Lima Fesoasoani. (Leilani Alama.)
• CBT Ho Ching. (President Beaver Ho Ching.)
• ASCO Motors.
• Skyview Rentals.
• Florence Saulo & Associates.
• Sili Burger. (Tyrone Atuatasi.)
• Nana’s Inc. (Mrs. Pa’i Fruean)
• ASI (Mr. Robert Toelupe)
• Vai’s Flowers. (Mrs. Fou Imo.)
• Drug Store.
• Development Bank of American Samoa. (Mr. Jason Bethem.)
• Alanoa Petals. (Milo “Miranda” Sili – All white décor.)
• Solar Environmental (Soia Solaita - All white dessert buffet.)
• Flower Power.
• Toa Bar & Grill. (George Reid & Chef Tafa Satele & Staff.)
• Don’t Drink the Water. (Leilua Stevenson.)
• F.J.&P. Kruse Inc. (Luisa Kruse.)
LBJ Medical Center:
• CMO Office. (Kalala Fa’ali’i.)
• MIS-(Grayson Togilau, Pam Faumuina, Shon Lealofi,
Tavita Ilaoa, Lysyj Paopao.)
• Dietary Services.
• Laundry Services.
Thank you very much for your kind donations and support. Fa’afetai tele lava.
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➧ Leoleo…
Mai itulau 17
E ui e le o nofosala Tua
e tusa ai o tuuaiga a le malo,
peitai na faamanino e le alii
komesina e faapea, e tusa ai
ma suesuega faalotoifale a le
matagaluega o leoleo sa faia,
ua latou talitonuina ai sa i ai
le aafiaga o le alii leoleo lea i
tuuaiga sa faia faasaga ia te ia.
Saunoa Haleck e faapea, e
le toe manaomia e le matagaluega o leoleo ituaiga tagata
faigaluega faapenei, ona o lea
ua manino i suesuega lotoifale
a le matagaluega sa faia, le le
toe talitonuina o lenei alii i le
faatinoina ai o ona tiute faaleoleo o le toese i totonu o le
matagaluega.
Ua maea ona tuuina atu e
le alii leoleo lea ma lana loia
sa laua talosaga i le Faamasinoga o Mataupu tau Pulega a
le malo, mo se poloaiga e toe
faafoi ai o ia i lana galuega ma
ia agavaa i itula faigaluega sa
tatau ona totogi ai o ia, peitai e
le’i totogiina ona sa faamalolo
mai le galuega, a’o faagasolo
ai taualumaga o lana mataupu
i luma o le faamasinoga.
O le tagata faigaluega
mulimuli na taua e le alii
komesina o le a faamalolo, o se
alii fuimu o lo o tuli sona faasalaga faafalepuipui i le toese i
Tafuna, ae o lo o tumau pea ona
faigaluega i le Vaega Fuimu, le
susuga ia Iuliano Tavale.
I lalo o le tulafono, e le
tatau ona toe faa faigaluega e
le malo sana tagata faigaluega
ua ta’usala i soo se solitulafono mamafa, po o se tasi fo’i
na faasala i le falepuipui mo le
umi e silia i le 30 aso. O Tavale
o lo o tuli sona faasalaga faafalepuipui e tasi le tausaga, ina
ua ta’usala o ia i le solitulafono
o lona faatamala ua mafua ai
ona oo le maliu i lona atalii sa
le malaga i se ta’avale.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia
ausage@samoanews.com
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(684) 633-0179
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American Samoa’s only full time Pest Control
Company. We provide a very affordable and friendly
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GHC Reid
Aluminum Can and Plastic Bottle Recycling Competition
RULES:
July 2nd to December 31, 2013.
• Only school and youth groups can register
• Register with Department of Youth and
Women’s Affairs
• Only aluminum beverage cans are acceptable
• Only plastic beverage bottles are acceptable
• All aluminum beverage cans and bottles must be
weighed in at the GHC Reid Company building
in Tafuna.
• Original receipt of pounds recorded at GHC
Reid must be submitted to DYWA office for
tallying within two days after weighing.
• GHC Reid will pay $0.25 per pound of
aluminum cans.
• GHC Reid will pay $0.00 per pound of plastic
bottle.
• Individuals and/or family members
participating can give pounds recorded to
youth group of their choice.
• Pounds of aluminum cans and bottles collected
by each youth group will be made known every
Friday through media outlets;
First Prize. . . . . . . . .$1,000.00
Second Prize. . . . .$ 750.00
Third Prize........$ 500.00
Fourth Prize. . . . . .$ 250.00
Fifth Prize. . . . . . . . .$ 100.00
6th to 10th place Prizes $75 and
consolation prizes for all participants.
Complimentary prizes for
all other participating youth
groups to be donated by
the business community
and indviduals.
For more information, contact
Roy Ausage at 733-4337.
Fa’alauiloa Kereti
Mata’utia Jr lona toe
tauva tofi Uosigitone
tusia Ausage Fausia
O le vaiaso nei lea ua faalauiloa aloaia ai e le afioga Mua’au
Kereti Mata’utia Jr lona faamoemoe, e toe fia tauva mo le nofoa
a le atunuu i le Konekeresi, e ala i le palota o le tausage 2014.
O se faasalalauga Mua’au i luga o le Samoa News i le aso, o
lo o faalauiloa aloaia ai lona faamoemoe.
“Ua ta fia inu i le taufa na momo’o i ai le Tupu o Tavita, o
le mea lea, finagalo malie ae lafo mai le pule e tautua ai mo le
atunu’u ma le malo,” o se vaega lea o le saunoaga a Mua’au i
lana faasalalauga i luga o le Samoa News.
Ina ua fesiligia o ia i le aso ananafi i sona finagalo e tusa ai
o lona faamoemoe, na taua ai e Mua’au e faapea, ua mafua ona
vave faalauiloa lona faamoemoe mo le palota i le tausga fou, ina
ia lava le taimi e alu ai e mafuta ma feiloa’i ma le atunuu.
“I le taimi muamua na ou tauva ai i le tauvaga na te’a nei,
ou te iloa e le’i lava se taimi na ou faaalu ou te mafuta ma faamasani atu ai i le atunuu, ou te talitonu o le isi lea ki atoa o le
faamoemoe lenei, o le silafia lelei lava e le atunuu o le sui tauva,
e tatau foi ona malamalama le sui tauva i lagona ma finagalo o le
atunuu,” o le saunoaga lea a Mua’au.
O le palota mo le nofoa i Uosigitone i le 2012, na toe filifilia
ai e le atunuu le tofa Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin e fai ma o latou
sui i le konekeresi, mo lana nofoaiga sosoo lona 13.
Mai sui e to’alima na tausinio i le 2012, e 7,221 palota na
maua e Eni; sosoo ai Aumua Amata e 4,420; Rosie F. Tago Lancaster e 543 ana palota; Mua’au e 411 ana palota, ma Fatumalala
Leulua’ialii A. Al-Shehri e 300 ana palota sa maua.
Na taua e Mua’au, o le isi laasaga o le a soso ai nei, o le amata
loa lea ona faapolokalame taimi na te asia ai afioaga ma itumalo
taitasi o le atunuu, ina ia tele se taimi e faaalu e faalauiloa ai le autu
o lona faamoemoe, atoa ai ma le faamasani atu i tagata o le atunuu.
“E leai lava se isi mafuaaga ua ala ai ona ou manatu ou te toe
taumafai mo le tofi, ona ou te iloa, o lo o i ai le agavaa ma le naunautaiga ia te a’u, e fia ofo atu lo’u tagata e tautua ai Amerika
Samoa, e ala i le tofi faipule i Uosigitone,” o le saunoaga a Mua’au.
Ina ua fesiligia sona finagalo i mataupu e tatau ona ave i ai
lana faamuamua pe afai ae faapaleina o ia i le tofi, na saunoa ai
Mua’au, “ou te manatu e ave la’u faamuamua i le faaleleia lea o
le tamaoaiga o le atunuu, aemaise lava i le tulaga o taofia lea o le
tulafono e siitia ai totogi maualalo i Amerika Samoa.”
Na saunoa Mua’au e faapea, na te le lagolagoina le tulafono a
le feterale lea ua siitia ai totogi amata i Amerika Samoa.
“Afai e manuia lo’u faamoemoe o le tofi, o le aso lava ou te
taunuu ai i Uosigitone, o le aso fo’i lena e aveese ai ma Amerika
Samoa le tulafono lea na pasia e le konekeresi, ina ia sii le maualuga o totogi amata i le atunuu, ae tuu mai pea totogi amata e
iloilo e Amerika Samoa, fuafua lava i le tulaga malosi o lo o i ai
lona tamaoaiga,” o le saunoaga lea a Mua’au.
Saunoa le sui tauva e faapea, e le o Amerika Samoa o se setete,
e laiti fo’i pisinisi o lo o maua i le teritori, e le gafatia ai le tulaga
o le siitia maualuga o totogi maualalo mo tagata faigaluega.
Ae ina ua fesiligia le susuga Mua’au pe faapefea nisi o le
atunuu aemaise lava tagata faigaluega e maualalo la latou tupe
maua i le tausaga, lea o lo o finau mai ina ia sii totogi amata ona
ua taugata le tau o le soifuaga aemaise ai o le maualuluga o le tau
o oloa ua i ai i le atunuu, na saunoa ai Mua’au e faapea, e i ai le
auala e mafai ona ia uia e fesoasoani ai i tagata faigaluega nei, e
pei o le faaulu lea o se tulafono i le konekeresi e faaitiitia ai tupe
o lo o tipi a le feterale, ae maua ai le avanoa e tele ai le tupe e fo’i
ma le tagata i lona aiga.
O le isi auala e pei ona ia saunoa e mafai ona fesoasoani atu ai i
tagata e maualalo le tamaoaiga, o le saili lea o se auala e mafai ai e le
malo ona faaitiitia lafoga o lo o faaee atu i oloa mai fafo, ina ia mafai
ai ona faataugofie le tau o oloa e faatau atu e pisinisi i le atunuu.
Na taua e Mua’au e faapea, talu ai e le o i ai se tulafono e faatonutonu ai tau o oloa i le atunuu, e mafai e le malo ona faaitiitia
lafoga mo oloa mai fafo a le aufai pisinisi, ina ia mafai ai foi e le
aufai pisinisi ona faataugofie a latou oloa e faatau atu i le atunuu.
➧ Fuafua se tulafono taofi…
Mai itulau 19
“O le isi polokalame ua fuafua le matagaluega e faia, o le
unaia lea o faleoloa ma pisinisi i le atunuu, ina ia o e faatau mai
fua o faaeleeleaga a le aufai faatoaga e pei o talo, fa’i ma ta’amu,
aemaise ai fualaau ‘aina taumafa mata ma fualaau ‘aina, ina ia
maua ai pea e le aufai faatoaga le avanoa e faatau atu ai a latou
fua o faaeleeleaga, nai lo le faatau mai i maketi i fafo,” o le saunoaga lea a le alii faatonu.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia ausage@samoanews.com
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HURRICANE
SEASON
NOVEMBER - APRIL
VAI
TAU
AFA
NOVEMA - APERILA
We have witness the devastation Ua tatou molimauina le faigata ua
in the Philippines as Typhoon
iai nei le atu-Filipaina ona o le
Hyian (Yolanda) blows through… malosi o le Afa o Hyian (Yolanda)…
Prepare now by putting a
EMERGENCY SUPPLY KIT
together for your family
Water/Vai
Tapena nei ma tu’u fa’atasi ni
OLOA FA’ALEOLEO
mo lou aiga
Radio/Leitio Flashlight/Batteries
Moli-uila/Ma’a
Food/Mea’ai
Medication/Prescription
Fuala’au/Vaila’au fa’atonuina
First Aid Kit/Oloa mo manu’a
-
1 gallon of WATER per person per day
Battery powered RADIO
FLASHLIGHT and batteries
FOOD
FIRST AID KIT
MEDICINE including prescription
-
1 le kalone VAI mo le tagata i le aso
LEITIO e ola i ma’a moli-uila
MOLI-UILA ma ma’a
MEA’AI TAUMAFA
OLOA mo lavea ma manu’a
FUALA’AU ma vaila’au mo ma’itaga
BE HURRICANE READY / SAUNI MA TAPENA
NEI MO AFA MA
MATAGI
MALOLOSI
Message from ASDHS – TEMCO
Report any landslides, flooding or other emergencies that
need assistance to the EOC at 699-3800, or call 911.
Afai e va’aia tulaga i sologa ma lologa, vala’au ane mo se
fesoasoani i le 699-3800 (EOC), po’o le 911.
FUNDED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
www.facebook.com/pages/American-SamoaDepartment-of-Homeland-Security
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Department of
PUBLIC HEALTH
MANU’A
Tau Dispensary Team Health awareness drive to observe Diabetes Month
(November) and the push for NCD - Non-Communicable Disease awareness
in the Manu’a Islands.
The idea was to bring a message to school children that Non-Communicable
Diseases can be prevented if we maintain a healthy life style.
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Manu’a High School - Trukey Run
Tau Dispensary Team - (sitting): Dr. I.Vimoto - (standing) l-r: Martin, Lyn (LPN),
Adelle, Agaletaua, Lealofisa (back): Time
Manu’a High School - Zumba
Faleasao ElementaryS chool
Fitiuta Elementary School

A Section Mon 12-02-2013

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