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Dual Language program in schools in
development… 3
Two beachgoers lose
limbs in shallow-water
shark attacks… 9
LeBron is confident
Cavaliers can hold
off Warriors… B1
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O le Tama e saili
e le ola fia ‘aai
lona aiga… 17
The 2015 Manu’a High
School graduating class — there
were thirteen of them — during
Commencement Exercises held
on June 5th, at the Laumua lava
o le Sega’ula i Ta’u Manu’a. Paramount Builders, Inc. continues
to sponsor coverage of the 2015
Graduation season in the Territory. See story below, with more
photos inside. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
online @ samoanews.com
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
$1.00
Chicken pox vaccine was
never brought to territory
Congratulations says the Dept. of Health
Class of 2015
13 Fa’au’u mai le
Laumua o le Sega’ula
— Manu’a High 2015
tusia: Leua Aiono Frost
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O le taeao o le aso Faraile, Iuni 5, 2015 na savalia mulimuli
ai e le to’a 13 Segaula fa’ai’uaso lo latou Laumua, ua tapena
le latou malaga e aga’i atu e tausaili le atamai fa’aonaponei, ia
fa’aau’upegaina i latou ae a faiva i le lumana’i.
Na auai atu le afioga le Kovana Sili Lolo Matalasi Moliga
ma le Faletua Cynthia Malala Moliga fa’apea le fa’atonusili
o A’oga Vaitinasa Dr Salu Hunkin-Finau, ma molimauina le
fa’ai’u manuia e le vasega fa’aiuaso o latou a’oa’oga maualuluga i Manu’a High.
O le tama’ita’i Pulea’oga, Mrs Patricia Fuiava sa ia saunoa
fa’afeiloa’i ma fa’alauiloa le susuga le Fa’afeagaiga Toeaina
Iosefa Autele, o le sa atofa e si’itia le fa’afetai ma le vi’iga o le
Atua e amatalia ai le fa’amoemoe taua o le fanau fa’au’u.
‘E Leai se Malosi e Maua, pe a Leai se Tauiviga (‘Where
there is no Struggle, there is no Strength)’ - o le auau lena
o le fanau fa’au’u 2015. Ma sa aufa’atasi lea ma le finagalo
fa’aalia o le Kovana Sili i lana folasaga, “Ua tonu la outou
manulauti, aua o le olaga lena o le Manu’atele, e tetele lu’iga
ma tauiviga i lo tatou ola ai ma ao’oga i Manu’a. Ua outou
filifili e tausaili i’inei lo outou ala i fafo atu o le tatou malo,
o le tele o le tauiviga, o le tele fo’i lea o le malosi ua outou
maua.”
“Ia outou ave la outou manulauti i la outou savaliga umi o
le a faia nei, tauivi aua le paie, e leai ma se tasi ua fai se tala i
se tasi e paie. Aua e le mafafai e le paie ona galulue ona lima
i se mea e tasi.”
O le fa’alauiloaga o le tulaga sili ma le tulaga lua o le
vasega fa’ai’uaso na folasia lea e le tama’ita’i faia’oga sa avea
ma faufautua a le Vasega fa’ai’uaso Donna Mataese: O le na
maua togisilia o le tamaitai o Jan Fa’auila, ae tulaga lua ai le
tama’ita’i o Aliitasi Ah Sui.
O le pese fa’ai’u a le fanau fa’ai’uaso, sa maligi ai loimata
o le to’atele fa’apea fo’i le vasega, aua sa le faigofie le latou
tauasaina mai o le vaofilifili o fa’afitauli o lenei tausaga, peita’i,
ua toe fa’amaonia mai e Fuiava, “Ua se’ei nei Manu’a High
School ma le latou agava’a mai le Asosi o Kolisi ma A’oga
maualuluga mo le isi tolu tausaga o lumana’i.”
(Continued on page 14)
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
Department of Health has never carried a vaccine to prevent chicken pox, according to DOH
Medical Director, Dr John Tufa last week. In a
press conference last Friday, Tufa explained to
Samoa News that this vaccine is very sensitive
and there are certain measures that DOH has to
take in order to procure the vaccine.
Last week LBJ’s infection control officer,
Charmaine Mageo confirmed to Samoa News
that the hospital is experiencing cases of chickenpox in the territory, mainly with children, and
all they can do is treat them for the symptoms of
fever and itchiness.
At the time DOH Epidemiologist, Scott Anesi
confirmed on the phone that chickenpox cases
have increased.
As reported earlier DOH does not bring down
the chicken pox vaccine. However, acting DOH
Director Fara Utu told Samoa News that DOH’s
freezers are ready to receive the vaccine, however
the problem is that the airline is not capable of handling and bringing down the vaccine at this time.
According to Mrs. Utu, Yolanda Masunu,
who heads the Immunization Department, is currently working with Hawaiian Airlines to enable
them to bring down the vaccine. She says it must
be handled properly, otherwise the vaccine will
be of no use, if it’s not stored properly. Samoa News asked Mageo earlier why LBJ
does not bring down the vaccine and she stated
that immunization falls under the umbrella of the
Department of Health, which is supposed to provide vaccines as preventive measures.
Successful Samoan barber Mark-Jason Solofa is bringing back the old fashioned type of cut and
[photo: Jeff Hayner]
shave in his barbershop in Berkley, California, Read story inside for details. Page 2
samoa news, Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Bluesky helps Koroseta
Butler fulfill her dreams
by B. Chen-Fruean, Samoa News Correspondent
One of the five checks for $3,500 that was presented last week
under Bluesky Communication’s inaugural “Future of American
Samoa Scholarship Program” was awarded to Koroseta Butler of
Atu’u and Tafuna.
Koroseta is the daughter of Brett and Sherry Butler.
She is 18 years old and is a 2015 graduate of South Pacific
Academy.
In high school, Koroseta was as a member of the National
Honor Society and graduated with high honors.
(ANSWERS on page 14)
STRANGE BUT TRUE
By Samantha Weaver
✖ It was U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey who made the following sage observation:
“Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”
✖ Chop suey is not actually a Chinese dish; it was invented in California.
✖ Dick Simon, one of the founders of the Simon and Schuster publishing company, was
struggling in his business when he visited his aunt in 1924. She had been looking for a book of
crossword puzzles to give to her daughter, but the puzzles being relatively new (first appearing
in newspapers in 1913), there was no compilation available. Seeing an opportunity for his
fledgling business, Simon and his partner, Lincoln Schuster, published a book of puzzles
right away. The puzzle book was an instant best seller, and its revenues supported Simon and
Schuster while the publishing company was establishing itself.
✖ You might be surprised to learn that in 1967, the Monkees chose Jimi Hendrix to be the
opening act for their summer tour of the U.S. The pairing didn’t last long, though; Hendrix
discreetly left the tour after he was banned by the Daughters of the American Revolution for
being too sexually suggestive.
✖ If you have a particularly quiet friend, he or she might suffer from laliophobia, a fear
of speaking.
✖ Those who study such things say that if you’re playing a game of Monopoly, you’re most
likely to land on B&O Railroad and Illinois Avenue.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • Thought for the Day • • • • • • • • • • • • •
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all
experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.”
— Albert Schweitzer
Koroseta Butler, 18, is an aspiring accountant who received
a $3,500 check under Bluesky’s “Future of American Samoa
[photo: courtesy]
Scholarship Program” last week.
During a special presentation ceremony last week, a beaming
Koroseta thanked Bluesky Communications for selecting her as
one of the scholarship recipients.
“I’d like to thank Bluesky for this big help in assisting us
with our college plans and I hope to return to American Samoa
someday to serve the people of our community,” Koroseta said.
In a brief interview with Samoa News, Koroseta revealed her
plans for the future, including her goal to major in accounting and
open up her own accounting firm in the future.
Koroseta has been accepted and will attend Brigham Young
University in Provo, Utah in the fall.
Along with five other local students, Koroseta was selected
to receive money under Bluesky’s scholarship program totaling
$30,000.
The program will be an annual offering, according to Bluesky
official Sherry Sele who, along with Country Manager Filifotu
Vaai-Tinitali, presented the scholarship awards last week.
The awards are for the current year only, and recipients can
apply again next year for the scholarship.
Also, as explained by Bluesky’s head of human resources,
Lisa Gebauer, all the scholarship recipients, if they wish to return
home next summer, can work as interns at Bluesky in the area in
which they are pursuing degrees.
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samoa news, Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Page 3
Dual Language program in public Pope’s stance leaks; calls for
urgent
action
on
environment
schools is in developmental stage
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
The local Department of Education has established two committees to develop and assess
the Dual Language Program in public schools,
according to the DOE’s fiscal year 2016 second
quarter performance report covering the period
of Jan. 1-Mar. 31, 2015.
Dual Language — using both English and
Samoan languages — as a teaching tool in
classrooms was proposed during the Education
Summit in October 2013. DOE officials told lawmakers that the plan is to use the Samoan language in the lower levels or beginning classes —
Kindergarten to Grade 5.
DOE’s latest performance report revealed that
there are two committees in the areas of Leadership and Teachers that are bringing the Dual Language program to reality.
Leadership Committee “will develop readers/
materials in both languages”, it says. “They are
to translate and edit, both English and Samoan,
with the assistant of the Samoan Language Consultant” Galumalemana Hunkin.
DOE stressed that this is an “ongoing and
complex process that requires monitoring, revision and application.”
The Teacher Committee, is tasked with
working and developing the themes that align
with the DOE standards. Further they will
develop Lesson Plans that will utilize reading,
poetry, storytelling and visual aids for grades
ECE to Level 1.
According to DOE, all of the reading materials will be translated with the assistance of technology, such as e-books and smart boards — to
garner the attention of children through visual
aid and creativity. “All these plans must correlate
with the standards of the program, and will be
ongoing,” the report says.
DOE says the Language Program is also preparing for workshops and training, with tests conducted in April this year, to identify and assess
the students for the Dual Language Program.
These tests will determine the children’s
existing knowledge of the Dual Language Program. It will also reveal the level of understanding of the students with words and knowledge of both languages.
Prior to implementation of tests, training was
conducted to ensure the correct methods and
processes were in place with teachers. Additionally, training for eight teachers — identified as
‘trainers’ — to promote Dual Language awareness was conducted by Galumalemana.
The DOE performance report also pointed
out that projected training and workshops were
held to continue the development, reviewing,
aligning, editing and finalizing the programs
objectives and goals.
“Training highlighted the benefits of bilingualism, strategies and methodologies as well
as comparing the achievements and successes
experienced in other Pacific nations,” the DOE
report says, and noted that the department is
working on acquiring Samoan dictionaries so
that all teachers have access to word usage in the
Samoan language.
Earlier this year, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga
informed Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular
Affairs that Dual Language education is in its preparatory stages and is important because Samoan
is the indigenous language of Samoans; because
learning languages is easier for children than it is
for adults; and, the opportunity to expand one’s
knowledge of cultures and languages is inherently valuable.
He says the challenge is to find teachers competent in both Samoan and English language
instruction.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A draft copy of Pope Francis’ eagerly
awaited encyclical on the environment calls for urgent action to
protect the Earth and fight global warming, which the pope says
is “mostly” due to human activity and the burning of fossil fuels.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the
document that was leaked to the Italian newsweekly L’Espresso and
published on its website Monday was not the final version and that the
official encyclical would still be released as scheduled on Thursday.
The L’Espresso draft, which was published in galley form in Italian,
makes many of the same points that Francis and his advisers have
been making in the months-long rollout of the document.
Francis lays out the scientific and moral reasons for protecting
God’s creation, noting that the poor are suffering the most from air
pollution and toxic dumping and will continue to bear the brunt of
rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions. Population growth
isn’t to blame for ecological problems but rather the consumerist,
wasteful behavior of the rich. Francis backs up his comments with
science showing the impact on the planet of the continual loss of
biodiversity in Amazonian rainforests, the melting of glaciers, the
overfishing of the seas and the pollution of the world’s water supply.
Francis has said he wanted the encyclical to be read by everyone
— not just Catholics — and he notes in the introduction that the
document is now part of the formal teaching “magisterium” of the
Catholic Church. That could be read as a warning of sorts to climate
skeptics, including many Catholics in the U.S. who have suggested
they simply will ignore the encyclical since the pope’s views on the
environment clash with their doubts about climate change.
Francis in September will travel to the United States and address
both the United Nations and the U.S. Congress. Some Republicans
are vocal climate skeptics and many conservatives have criticized
the pope from even taking up the environment in an encyclical, the
most authoritative teaching document a pope can issue.
Francis has said climate change is “mostly” man-made and that
humankind has a moral imperative to radically change its behavior
to protect the planet for future generations — as well as to prevent
the poor from suffering due to the sins of the rich.
In the draft, the pope repeats that scientific studies have shown
that global warming is due “mostly” to human activity and the
emission of gasses that prevents heat from dispersing in the atmosphere. He says that is worsened by a development model based
on using fossil fuels as the main source of energy in the world.
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ASTCA goes “live”
with O3b Networks
O3b Link doubles the Total Backhaul
Capacity for entire Samoan Archipelago
Press Release — St. John, Jersey, Channel Islands/ Pago Pago,
American Samoa (PRWEB) — June 15, 2015 — O3b Networks
today announced that the American Samoa Telecommunications
Authority (ASTCA) has deployed its O3bTrunk.
The contract includes a commitment for 1.2Gbps which more
than doubles its backhaul and Internet capacity for the entire
Samoan archipelago and provides a safety net in the event of a
failure of its submarine fiber system. Prior to the O3b launch American Samoa and the Independent State of Samoa were serviced only
by the aging American Samoa Hawaii (ASH) submarine cable.
ASTCA’s unique and innovative implementation of its
O3bTrunk blends satellite broadband with submarine fiber optic
capacity. With this implementation customers will see a blended
latency of less than 90ms throughout the day.
Low latencies are required for many critical manufacturing,
financial, and business applications, and ASTCA can now deliver
flexible low latency capacity, with redundant reliability, anywhere
in American Samoa via their brand new Fiber to the Premises
(FTTx) network that is due for completion by June 30, 2015.
“We are excited and pleased with the launch of the O3bTrunk
solution and how well it has blended with the existing submarine
fiber optic capacity. Internet access is extremely important to the
way our Territory is changing and greatly impacts our ability to
integrate with the world economy and participate in opportunities that require technological foundations,” said Roy Hall, Jr.,
ASTCA Board Chairman. “The O3b Trunk is also critical to the
success of our Broadband Linking the American Samoa Territory
(B.L.A.S.T.) Project which will link the main islands of American
Samoa making it possible to deliver true broadband services to
every household, business, and critical institution in the Territory.”
The data explosion happening everywhere in the developed
world is artificially constrained in many remote areas like American
Samoa by a single aging fiber cable or traditional geostationary satellite connections. The increased capacity, lower latency, resiliency,
and redundancy of the O3b Networks constellation releases those
constraints and provides a scalable, strategic infrastructure to support
online education, telemedicine, e-government, and social media.
“We’re proud to have been integral to ASTCA’s delivery of
affordable, state-of-the-art broadband capacity to all citizens, visitors, and businesses in American Samoa,” said John Finney, Chief
Commercial Officer for O3b Networks. “Their efforts have doubled the broadband capacity available to territory residents, which
has significantly improved network speeds, network reliability,
and provided redundancy for the submarine fiber optic system.”
Study: Medical marijuana laws
don’t lead to more teen toking
NEW YORK (AP) — Medical marijuana laws don’t trigger an
increase in teen pot smoking, a new study concludes.
Some opponents of medical marijuana have said that legalizing
the medicinal use of marijuana could send a message to young
people that smoking pot is no big deal, ultimately encouraging
them to experiment with marijuana and harder drugs.
Pot smoking by teens has been increasing, and earlier research
has shown that fewer of them see marijuana as risky. But the new
study suggests that medical marijuana laws are not the reason.
The research showed no significant increase in 21 states with
medical marijuana laws. “Our findings provide the strongest evidence to date that marijuana use by teenagers does not increase after
a state legalizes medical marijuana,” lead author Deborah Hasin, a
researcher at Columbia University in New York, said in a statement.
The study is based on an ongoing government-funded survey
of 8th, 10th and 12th graders, which asks about marijuana use
in the previous month. The researchers reviewed responses from
more than 1 million students in 48 states, from 1991 through 2014.
They found that marijuana use tended to already be higher in
states that went on to adopt medical marijuana laws. But they did
not see an additional spike after the law was passed.
In fact, the researchers saw a decline in marijuana use by 8th
graders in those states. The laws may have caused 8th graders to
be less likely to think of pot as a recreational drug, the researchers
speculated. Or it’s possible the new laws resulted in some parents
working harder to stop kids from trying it, they added.
The study shows why it’s important to use rigorous research
to check out theories — even those that seem reasonable, wrote
Dr. Kevin Hill, a substance abuse expert at McLean Hospital in
suburban Boston, in an editorial accompanying Hasin’s article.
The results were published online Monday by the journal
Lancet Psychiatry and were also presented at a medical conference in Phoenix.
Journal: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/onlineFirst
OP-ED: Protect American
Samoa’s Environment…
by Jared Blumenfeld
(Jared Blumenfeld is EPA’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest,
home to more than 48 million people in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the
Pacific Islands and 148 tribal nations.)
This week, I am joining environmental leaders from across the Pacific as we
gather in Pago Pago for the 28th Pacific Islands Environment Conference. The topics
we are discussing range from ensuring safe drinking water to installing more renewable
energy to eliminating marine debris. But the issue where stakes are the highest for the
Pacific is climate change. We know sea level rise can threaten life on low-lying islands.
Global warming may be the cause of this year’s record number of tropical storms
or typhoons in the Pacific. And what is not so easy to see is that the ocean is rapidly
becoming acidic, which poses a directly threat to the vitality of coral reefs and the fisheries that depend on them.
EPA and our partners have already been doing a lot to address climate change. EPA
proposed practical new rules to cut carbon pollution from existing and new power plants.
Rules already in place have reduced the CO2 emissions from cars and trucks. EPA and
our Pacific Island partners have been using the power of the Clean Water Act to limit pollution and erosion, to keep coastal waters healthy in the face of climate change. And we
are partnering with NOAA and the Department of the Interior to develop climate adaptation plans for coral, to help improve the resilience of coastal reefs.
I am pleased to tell you that earlier this year EPA selected American Samoa as one of
a handful of communities across the United States to participate in our “Making a Visible
Difference” initiative. One reason for choosing American Samoa was the environmental
leadership you have already shown, being the first state or territory to ban both plastic
bags and scuba fishing.
Our Making a Visible Difference project has two top priorities: drinking water and
climate change. We are working with ASPA to make drinking water safer and end boil
water notices on Tutuila. With respect to climate change, we are supporting American
Samoa’s efforts to make the Manu’a Islands among the first islands in the world to be
100% powered by renewable energy. In addition, we are working with AS-EPA and
ASPA to introduce electric vehicles to the territory. We intend to complete all of these
goals by the end of 2016.
These actions are all encouraging, as are the efforts by members of the public everywhere to recycle more, drive less, and use Energy Star appliances. But we all need to
commit to doing more – and that’s why Pacific island environment leaders and EPA are
meeting this week in American Samoa.
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Mark-Jason Solofa
— an old fashioned
gentleman’s barber
in the East Bay…
By Jeff Hayner, Samoa News Reporter
It’s getting harder and harder to find, old fashioned style barbers
that will give you not only a hair cut, but a straight razor shave as
well — all in an old style setting — this Tonsorial Art (the original
barbershop experience) appears to be a thing of the past. But Samoan
barber Mark-Jason Solofa from Tafuna, who is a 1987 graduate of
Samoana High School, has found his way back to the days of old
and is bringing that original barbershop experience to his customers.
Before opening his own successful old-fashioned style barber
shop in Berkeley, California (where he would soon gain a following thanks to social media — he has almost 10,000 followers
on Instagram) this single father of his 11 year daughter Jordan,
was on the verge of being laid off after 17 years of working in the
world of banking and insurance.
Wanting to spend more time with his daughter, he made a leap
of faith to pursue his dream of becoming a barber.
After becoming a successful business owner with ‘A Gentleman’s Grooming & Shave Parlor’ located in Berkeley since 2012,
he has not only started to gain an international following through
social media, he was voted 2014 ‘Best Men’s Barber’ in the East
Bay, Northern California area by the East Bay Express newspaper.
“When I first opened my shop, I had one chair — I had no clients and one chair,” he said. “Now I am booked solid. I started to
have so much overflow, I hired my first employee in November of
last year,” he said.
Wanting to give his clients the old fashioned experience of a
cut and shave, he explained that his shop is set up like the shops of
days gone past. He even has music such as Frank Sinatra playing
during his client’s cuts and shaves.
“Every time I went into a barbershop, the barbers always looked
like they enjoyed what they did. Fellowshipping with the customers… music was always playing, lots of laughter and smiles, and
the barbers were always dressed sharp and well groomed. That is the
kind of experience I want to give my customers,” he explained.
“I am proud to be Samoan in this type of business and I share
my culture with my clients and on my posts on social media. I like
to hear stories from the older men who share their stories about
how they still remember when their father took them to get their
first haircut. I want to give each client a great experience, an experience they will remember,” he said.
To each Samoan that might want to get into this type of business, he said to use that Samoan hospitality and maintain a high
quality level of service, whether it is here on island or abroad.
After visiting family — and making visits to some of the local
barbers — Solofa left on last night’s flight for California.
You can follow Solofa on Instagram on the Brand page at: mjsolofamensgrooming where he offers daily motivation and inspiration to
his audience as well as his Gentlemen’s etiquette at: theartofbeingagentleman — where he shares his insights on the values of old
fashioned gentlemanly values in a modern world. He is also featured
in ‘The Nomad Barbers’ web-series on Youtube.com.
23-year prison sentence for
woman in slow cooker death
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit woman who was drunk when
she killed a friend with a slow cooker during an argument over
presidential politics was sentenced Monday to at least 23 years in
prison. A judge followed the recommended sentence in a plea deal
between prosecutors and Tewana Sullivan, who has a history of
bipolar disorder but was declared competent to go to trial.
Sullivan, 51, beat Cheryl Livy, 66, with a slow cooker at the
victim’s Livonia apartment in October. At the time, Sullivan’s
blood-alcohol level was 0.41 — five times the level for drunken
driving in Michigan, defense attorney John McWilliams said.
“I didn’t take my medication like I was supposed to, so I did
mess up,” Sullivan told Wayne County Judge Michael Hathaway.
“Without me taking my medication, that was the worst thing I
could ever have done.”
McWilliams said the two were arguing about the 2016 race for
president. “One was for one major political party and the other
was for the other major political party,” he said.
In May, facing a first-degree murder charge, Sullivan pleaded
guilty but mentally ill to second-degree murder. She will be eligible for parole after 23 years and will get mental health care in
prison. Her maximum sentence is 50 years.
She said she fears she’s “not going to make it” in prison and
suggested the plea deal was a mistake.
Michael Hurley, a South Carolina author who lost his storm-battered sailboat on a failed Atlantic
crossing, left, poses for a photo with Maine Maritime Academy junior Gabrielle Wells on the stern of
the training vessel State of Maine, Saturday, June 13, 2015, in Portland, Maine.
Wells was student officer of the deck when Hurley’s distress call was received Wednesday, leading
(AP Photo/David Sharp)
to Hurley’s rescue around 500 miles south of Newfoundland.
Legal Notice
If You Worked Around Gaskets or
Packing Containing Asbestos
The Garlock Bankruptcy May Affect Your Rights.
Certain Personal Injury Claims Must be Filed by October 6, 2015
There is a bankruptcy involving claims about exposure to asbestos-containing gasket and packing
products. Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, The Anchor Packing Company, and Garrison Litigation
Management Group, Ltd. (“Debtors”) have filed a plan of reorganization to restructure their business
and pay claims.
The products were used in places where steam, hot liquid or acids moved through pipes, including
industrial and maritime settings.
Who is Affected by the Garlock Bankruptcy?
Your rights may be affected if you:
• Worked with or around Garlock asbestos-containing gaskets or packing, or any other asbestoscontaining product for which Debtors are responsible, or
• Have a claim now or in the future against the Debtors for asbestos-related disease caused by any
person’s exposure to asbestos-containing products.
Even if you have not yet been diagnosed with any disease or experienced any symptoms, your
rights may be affected. The Court has appointed a Future Claimants’ Representative (“FCR”) to
represent the rights of these future claimants. Future claimants do not need to file a claim at this time.
What Does the Plan Provide?
The Plan is the result of a settlement agreement between the FCR, the Debtors, and the Debtors’
parent company. The Plan proposes to use $357.5 million to pay, in full, all pending and future
asbestos claims against Garlock and Garrison. If necessary, up to $132 million in additional funding
will be provided. If the Plan is approved, you will no longer be able to file claims directly against
the Debtors or affiliated companies. If you have claims only against Anchor, you are not expected to
recover anything, as that company has no assets and will be dissolved.
Who Must File a Personal Injury Claim?
You must file a claim by October 6, 2015, if you:
• Have a claim against Garlock or Garrison based on an asbestos-related injury diagnosed on or
before August 1, 2014,
• Have not settled with the Debtors, and
• Filed a lawsuit against any other defendant or a claim against any asbestos trust as of August 1,
2014.
If you do not file a claim, you may lose your right to bring your claim in the future. Individuals
diagnosed with disease after August 1, 2014 do not have to file a claim at this time, but may be able
to vote or object to the Plan.
Who Can Vote on or Object to the Plan?
All identifiable asbestos claimants or their attorneys will receive the “Solicitation Package”. This
includes the Plan, Voting Ballot, and other information. If you have not filed a claim yet, you can
vote on the Plan by providing certified information about your claim, or making a motion to vote as
described in the Solicitation Package available online or by calling the toll-free number.
You will need to vote on the Plan by October 6, 2015. The FCR will support and vote to accept the
Plan on behalf of the future claimants. You may also object to the Plan and the adequacy of the
FCR’s representation of future claimants by October 6, 2015.
When will the Court Decide on the Plan?
A hearing to consider confirmation of the Plan will begin at 10:00 a.m. ET on June 20, 2016, at the US
Bankruptcy Court, Western District of North Carolina, 401 West Trade Street, Charlotte, NC 28202.
For Information:
www.GarlockNotice.com 1-844-Garlock
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Dwayne Johnson accepts the “Hero” award at the 2015 Spike TV Guy’s Choice Awards at Sony Stu(Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision/AP)
dios on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif.
COURT
R E PORT...
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
MICHAEL SENE ADMITS TO SEX ACTS
A 20-year man taken into police custody for allegedly entering a woman’s home and touching
her private parts has entered into a plea agreement with the government. The defendant was facing
charges of trespassing and sexual assault to which he pled guilty. However, when Associate Justice
Lyle L Richmond asked the defendant what crime he had committed to which he was pleading guilty,
the defendant stated that while he admits that he did trespass in the home, he only woke up the girl
and said he did not touch her in her private area.
The matter was then postponed to the next day and when the defendant came before the court
again, he admitted that he did touch her inappropriately while she had her clothes on.
The defendant stated that this incident occurred when he was intoxicated and that he was fulfilling
his lust for the girl. He said this followed a drinking session he participated in with his friends.
According to court information, police were contacted by a member of the victim’s family just before
1a.m. for help. Upon arrival at the scene, police were informed by the victim of what allegedly occurred,
according to court documents. It’s alleged when the victim managed to get away from the defendant, she
ran over to turn on lights near the door, which she then opened and screamed for help. By this time, the
defendant had stood up and jumped out of the window. Police were able to locate the defendant, who
was taken into custody for questioning. At the police substation, police noticed a strong odor of alcohol
from the defendant’s breath and officers also noticed blood-shot eyes as well as scratches on his feet.
The plea agreement was accepted and sentencing has been scheduled for next month.
PLEA NEGOTIATIONS IN AH KIONG TALAMOA’S CASE
Chief Justice Michael Kruse has rescheduled the government’s case against Ah Kiong Talamoa
also known as Ationo following a request from his attorney, Assistant Public Defender Mike White,
who stated that there are ongoing negotiations in this case. The defendant is facing unlawful possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a
controlled substance, methamphetamine, unlawful possession of controlled substance, marijuana and
two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon. Each of the two meth charges carries a jail term
from five to 20 years; while the marijuana count is punishable from five to 10 years. The weapon
charges, which are misdemeanors, are punishable by up to one year in jail.
According to the government’s case, police executed a search warrant at Talamoa’s house and
allegedly found in and around his house illegal drugs, drug paraphernalia and a weapon with pellets.
Talamoa, who was not in the house at the time of police search, was seen by police officers exiting
another house on the property, which was duly searched, where more drugs, a gun and live ammo,
other drug paraphernalia, and cash were found. White stated that there are issues that need to be
sorted out and he believes that they are close to a plea deal which would settle this matter.
STATUS ON CASE OF FLAG DAY DON BOSCO VISITORS
The absence of Public Defender Douglas Fiaui to represent the Don Bosco adult volunteer, Vaega
Anderson and two students, Falesefulu Susuga and Nomani Tepa led to the postponement of the
alleged sex case. Each defendant who has been in jail since April is being held on bail of $100,000.
This is in connection with allegations that the three had sexual intercourse with a minor girl.
The trio are each charged with criminal counts of rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse in the first
degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
Assistant Public Defender Joel Shiver pointed out to the court last Friday that Fiaui is the main
attorney for this case, however he’s off island. He said that no one in their office is more knowledgable in this case, than the PD himself and then asked the court for a 30- day continuance. However
Kruse allowed the continuance for a week and this matter has been put back on calendar this coming
week for pre-trial conference. According to the government’s case, the incident came to light when
a man walked into the police station with two minor females. The man was concerned after observing
the two females allegedly fraternizing with some of the Don Bosco students in the evening hours at
Utulei during the weekend of April 16-19, 2015.
Further investigation by the Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division (CID),
had one of the minor females admitting to having consensual sexual intercourse with two students
and one adult from Don Bosco at an abandoned house in Utulei. The Court filings say that Tepa, 19,
and Susuga, 19 also admitted to having sex with the two minors.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Actor Dwayne Johnson hits a
parked truck in Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — Actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson says he
sideswiped a truck while filming his latest movie in Massachusetts.
The “San Andreas” action star took to Instagram on Monday to
say he’d recently hit a parked truck and damaged its side mirror
while on route to the movie set.
Johnson says truck owner Audie Bridges recognized him and
refused to accept money for the damage. He thanked the Wakefield resident for “being so cool about the whole thing” before
posing for a picture with him by the damaged truck.
The Boston Globe reports Bridges confirmed Monday the incident happened about a month ago and he was able to fix the damaged mirror himself. Johnson is in Massachusetts filming “Central
Intelligence,” an action comedy also starring Kevin Hart.
Obama: World too often underestimates young minority men
(AP) — President Barack Obama says the world too often
underestimates young minority men. The president is challenging
a group of such youth to strive for success to change that narrative.
Obama spoke Monday to high school students who participated
in the first White House Leadership and Mentorship Program.
The program included more than two dozen students from the
Washington metro area. The event in the Blue Room honored the
program’s nine graduating seniors — all heading to college.
Obama says he spent quite a bit of time with the students
recently — joining their resume workshop, hosting them for lunch
and playing basketball on the White House court. He says one student who wants to be attorney general spent a day job shadowing
former Attorney General Eric Holder.
Earthlings, NASA send toast
to Martians: Happy New Year!
MARS, Pa. (AP) — Earth to Mars: Happy New Year! That’s
the sentiment being offered this weekend in Mars, Pennsylvania, as
NASA and other space enthusiasts gather to honor the red planet.
The Martian New Year occurs about every two Earth-years. On
Friday and Saturday, NASA will sponsor exhibits and activities in
the borough of Mars, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
The agency hopes to encourage young people to study science
and technology fields that will further NASA’s goal of sending
humans to Mars in the 2030s. Mars on Earth has a population of
about 1,700 and a sculpture of a flying saucer in the heart of town.
Its festival includes a science fiction costume contest.
The next celebration is scheduled for May 5, 2017.
12 passengers become ill on
flight from Fiji to Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Twelve passengers who became ill on
a flight from Fiji to Los Angeles have been examined and released.
Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles says Fiji Airways Flight 810 arrived from Nadi International
Airport at about 1:45 p.m. Monday. The crew reported a dozen
passengers were sick with stomach problems. Multiple agencies,
including the CDC, responded and examined the patients. Castles
says responders determined all of them were fine to continue on
with their journeys. One opted to go to a hospital.
The 12 passengers were not traveling together but all stayed at the
same hotel in Nadi. The situation was resolved by 2:15 p.m. when the
last of 272 people aboard the flight were cleared to leave the plane.
3 lions, 2 wolves and 1 tiger
found dead at Tbilisi zoo
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Three lions, two wolves and a tiger
have been founded dead at the city zoo in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi,
as the water recedes from Sunday’s flash floods that killed at least 15
people. Ten people are still missing after an intense downpour and
high winds on Sunday turned a stream that runs through a section
of Tbilisi into a sweeping torrent. Dozens of wild animals escaped
from the ravaged zoo and roamed the streets. Some were shot by the
police while some could still be wandering the hills around Tbilisi.
Ivane Daraseliya, chief veterinarian of the city zoo, told reporters on
Tuesday that staff have found the bodies of six animals in the flooded
enclosures as the water receded but are still looking for others.
After lead scare, Nestle India
to destroy $50 Mil. of noodles
NEW DELHI (AP) — Nestle India says it will destroy instant
noodles worth 3.2 billion rupees ($50 million) following a sales
ban imposed by Indian food safety authorities for unsafe levels
of lead. India’s food safety panel says tests conducted across the
country found that Nestle’s Maggi noodles contained lead at levels
far higher than legally allowed.
The tests also detected the chemical flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate, or MSG, which is not mentioned in the product’s
list of ingredients. Nestle insists the noodles are safe and is challenging the ban in a Mumbai court.
Nestle said in a statement that the company was in the process
of collecting stocks of the noodles from shops, factories and distribution centers and destroying them.
Interim rule: Fishing effort by US ships
may be used up by June or July 2015
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
A federal report says that it’s
likely that the high rate of purse
seiner fishing in the Effort Limit
Area for Purse Seine (ELAPS)
is due to decreased number of
fishing days available to the
U.S. purse seiner fleet in the
Kiribati exclusive economic
zone (EEZ).
Last month the U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) issued
a public notice on the interim
rule, which establishes a limit
for calendar year 2015 on the
fishing effort by U.S. purse
seiner vessels in the U.S. exclusive economic zone and on the
high seas (the two combined
areas are referred to in U.S. regulations as Effort Limit Area
for Purse Seine or ELAPS) in
accordance with the Convention on the Conservation and
Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western
and Central Pacific Ocean. (See
Samoa News edition June 10
for details)
NOAA National Marine
Fisheries Service issued an
impact review report on the
implementation of the interim
rule.
The impact review looked
at, among other things, the
likelihood of the fishery being
closed in the ELAPS in 2015.
It points out that the rate of
purse seine fishing effort so far
in 2015 has been great or more
compared to previous years.
Based
on
preliminary
data available to date, NMFS
expects that 1,828 fishing days
could be used in the ELAPS by
June or July of 2015, adding
that the relatively high rate of
fishing in the ELAPS so far in
2015 “is likely related to the
very limited number of fishing
days available to U.S. purse
seine fleet in 2015 in the Kiribati” EEZ.
It explains that an interim
arrangement for 2015 under the
South Pacific Tuna Treaty provides the fleet with a substantial
number of fishing days in the
EEZs of the Pacific Island parties to the SPTT — the number
is comparable with the numbers
of fishing days available under
the SPTT in 2013 and 2014.
Questions surround
man shot near gate
at Arkansas air base
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Guards at a sprawling Air
Force base in Arkansas perceived a threat when they shot and
critically wounded a man who crashed his SUV near an entrance
and got out of the vehicle holding a rifle, the base commander said.
But authorities have not released the identity of the man or
said why they think he tried to drive Monday onto Little Rock Air
Force Base, which is about 15 miles northeast of its namesake city.
Two guards stationed at the base’s main gate shot the man,
who was a civilian, base commander Col. Charles Brown Jr.
told reporters. He said it wasn’t immediately clear whether the
man fired his weapon, how many shots were fired or if the man
exchanged words with the two guards.
“We do feel the threat has been mitigated. There is no additional threat to the Little Rock Air Force Base,” Brown said during
a Monday afternoon news conference near the main gate.
The base issued a statement earlier Monday saying the man
was hospitalized in critical condition. A person described as a
bystander was treated and released for “unrelated medical care,”
though no details about the person or the injuries were released.
Brown said it was unclear why the man wanted to get on the
base, which is a major C-130 training facility and home to more
than 8,000 active-duty military personnel and civilian employees.
The C-130, an aircraft with a roughly 129-foot wingspan capable
of carrying more than 40,000 pounds, is used to move troops and
equipment into hostile areas.
The incident was reported around 9:15 a.m. near the main gate
along busy U.S. 67 in Jacksonville, the city that abuts the base.
Heavily armed security personnel quickly sealed off access to the
base, and the main gate wasn’t reopened until late Monday afternoon.
Brown said traffic that time of day is usually heavy enough that
it would have been difficult for the man to speed up to the gate.
The commander said as the SUV approached, it hit and jumped
a curb and knocked over a street sign. He said the man, whom
Brown only described as white, then started to get out of the
vehicle while holding a rifle. “It appears he may have lost control
of the vehicle,” Brown said.
No one from the base was injured, and investigators were interviewing the guards, Brown said. Jacksonville Police Sgt. Dustin
Brown also had no information about the man.
The FBI is offering assistance during the investigation,
according to Deb Green, a spokeswoman for the Little Rock FBI
office. She declined further comment.
However, there are limits on
where the fishing days can be
used, the most constraining of
which is that only 300 fishing
days are available in the Kiribati
EEZ, which has traditionally
constituted important fishing
grounds for the U.S. fleet, the
impact review report points out.
Moreover, effective January
1, 2015, Kiribati has prohibited commercial fishing in the
Phoenix Islands Protected Area
— a large portion of the Kiribati EEZ is around the Phoenix
Islands.
Another factor that might
contribute to the high rate of
fishing in the ELAPS, according
to the report, are pan-Pacific oceanic conditions, particularly with
respect to El Nino – Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) patterns.
Specific details of the report
are found on the federal regulatory portal at www.regulations.
gov
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Congratulations
Second Lieutenant
JOSEPH JOO
WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY
MAY 23, 2015
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➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Mexico officials keep
wary eye on Pacific
Hurricane Carlos
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP)
— Officials are keeping a close
watch on Hurricane Carlos as it
spins just out to sea, brushing
by fishing villages, port cities
and tourist resorts on Mexico’s
southwestern coast.
Civil Protection officials in
Michoacan, the next state in
Carlos’ sights after it battered
the shoreline of neighboring
Guerrero, warned of heavy rain
and possible hail. Waves were
forecast to reach nearly 15 feet.
Farther to the north in Jalisco
state, home to the resort city of
Puerto Vallarta, officials were
inspecting coastal areas and preparations ahead of rains predicted
for Tuesday, but ports, schools
and airports remained open.
Late Monday, Carlos was
centered about 100 miles southwest of the port city of Lazaro
Cardenas with top sustained
winds of 75 mph, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center said.
The storm was moving westnorthwest about 6 mph.
The center predicted Carlos
would lose strength and become
a tropical storm by Wednesday.
Over the weekend, high surf
kicked up by Carlos swamped
some boats and washed away
small palm-frond beach huts in
Acapulco, while strong winds
knocked down trees and billboards. No major damage or
deaths were reported.
12-year-old girl’s
wedding leads to
probe of mayor
GUATEMALA CITY (AP)
— A Guatemalan mayor who
allegedly authorized the marriage of a 12-year-old girl to
a man 11 years her senior is
facing investigation and possible prosecution.
Mayor Edgar Leonel Lopez
de Leon of the southwestern
town of Almolonga in Quetzaltenango department is also
suspected of performing the
wedding ceremony in late 2012.
Prosecutors said Monday
in a statement that a court has
lifted the mayor’s immunity
of office and authorities are
investigating.
Child marriages nearly
always involving girls are relatively common in Guatemala,
especially in rural areas.
Guatemalan law prohibits
nuptials for girls under age 14,
including with parental consent,
while the minimum age for
boys is 16.
Activists have urged Congress to raise the minimum marriage age to 18.
Philippine volcano
spews ash, no violent
eruption expected
MANILA, Philippines (AP)
— A Philippine volcano has
spewed plumes of ash but volcanologists say the steam-driven
explosions do not indicate an
imminent violent eruption.
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology director
Renato Solidum said Mount
Bulusan southeast of Manila
ejected ash up to a kilometer
(0.6 mile) high for about 10
minutes on Tuesday. A smaller
explosion followed hours later
and lasted a minute.
He said there were no indications that the volcanic activity
involves magma rising from
below.
A permanent danger zone is
being maintained within a radius
of 4 kilometers (2.5 miles).
Bulusan is one of 23 active
volcanoes in the Philippines but
has not had a violent eruption
since 1918.
Court to rule
on tribal courts’
powers over others
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Supreme Court has agreed
to hear an appeal from Mississippi over the authority of
tribal courts to try civil lawsuits
involving non-Indians.
The justices on Monday
stepped into a lawsuit over allegations of sexual abuse of a teenager at a Dollar General store
located on the Mississippi Band
of Choctaw Indians reservation.
The family of the teen identified in court papers as John Doe
filed a lawsuit in tribal court in
2005 seeking $2.5 million from
the owners of the store and the
man who allegedly molested
him. The man has since been
dismissed from the suit. The
teen was taking part in a triberun job internship program.
The issue for the Supreme
Court is whether the non-Indian
owners of the store can be sued
in tribal courts.
Continued from page 8
NYC toddler dies
after falling off
changing table
NEW YORK (AP) —
New York City police say a
2-year-old girl has fallen off a
changing table at her home and
died after striking her head on
the floor.
The New York Police
Department tells the Staten
Island Advance that Lilly
Jurgens was unconscious
and unresponsive when rescuers arrived at around 9 a.m.
Monday.
Police say Lilly’s mother
was changing her when Lilly
accidentally fell.
The Fire Department of
New York says emergency
responders found the girl in cardiac and respiratory arrest.
She was pronounced dead at
a hospital.
Pool incident investigation turned over
to Texas Rangers
MCKINNEY, Texas (AP)
— Prosecutors have called in
the Texas Rangers to investigate an incident in which a
white police officer Is seen on
video pushing a bikini-clad
black teenage girl to the ground
and brandishing his gun at other
black teens.
The June 5 incident involving
McKinney police Officer Eric
Casebolt sparked criticism, protests and eventually Casebolt’s
resignation from the McKinney
Police Department.
In a statement Monday,
Collin County District Attorney
Greg Willis said he has “full
confidence” in the McKinney
Police Department’s ability to
investigate the incident.
However, he said he believes
an independent investigation
will “add an important layer of
transparency to the process.”
Groups that have organized
rallies to protest Casebolt’s
actions have called for criminal
charges against him.
Shooting suspect,
officer wounded in
an exchange of fire
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP)
— Long Beach authorities say
a 31-year-old man was arrested
after an exchange of gunfire in
an apartment complex left him
and a police officer with nonfatal wounds.
The shooting occurred about
9 p.m. Sunday after a woman
called 911 to report a man firing
a gun inside the apartment
complex.
Police say when officers
arrived the man stepped out of
an apartment and opened fire on
one of them.
Three officers returned fire
and the shooter and one of the
officers were hit.
Police say the man then
dropped his gun, but a struggle
to take him into custody followed and another officer suffered minor injuries.
Eric Arroyo of Long Beach
was booked for investigation of
attempted murder on a police
officer.
He and the wounded officer
remained hospitalized Monday.
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Emergency responders assist a teenage girl at the scene of a shark attack in Oak Island, N.C.,
Sunday, June 14, 2015. Mayor Betty Wallace of Oak Island, a seaside town bordered to the south by
the Atlantic Ocean, said that hours after the teenage girl suffered severe injuries in a shark attack
(Steve Bouser/The Pilot, Southern Pines, N.C. via AP)
Sunday a teenage boy was also severely injured.
Two beachgoers lose limbs in
shallow-water shark attacks
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OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — Beachgoers
cautiously returned to the ocean Monday after
two young people lost limbs in separate, lifethreatening shark attacks in the same town in
North Carolina.
A 12-year-old girl lost her left arm below the
elbow and suffered a leg injury Sunday afternoon; then about an hour and 20 minutes later
and 2 miles away, a shark bit off the left arm
above the elbow of a 16-year-old boy.
Both had been swimming about 20 yards offshore, in waist-deep water.
A shark expert says the best response after
one of these extremely rare attacks is to temporarily close beaches that lack lifeguards.
Local officials acknowledged Monday that
they didn’t make a concerted effort to warn
people up and down the town’s beaches until
after the second attack.
Most beachgoers near the spot alongside a
fishing pier where the first victim was attacked
were staying in very shallow water or on the
sand Monday.
Holly Helmig, 39, of Raleigh watched her
6-year-old son bobbing on a boogie board in
shin-deep water instead of splashing in the
waves farther out. Her 5-year-old daughter Zoe
shoveled sand in a bucket next to her.
“I feel bad for the shark but I think he’s hiding
somewhere in the ocean,” Zoe said.
Deputies saw a 7-foot shark Sunday in an
area between the two places where the attacks
happened, Sheriff John Ingram said.
Sharks of that size are common along the
coast, Oak Island Town Manager Tim Holloman
said, and authorities are not trying to hunt one
down. But safety officials scouted for sharks
from boats and a helicopter Monday. One was
spotted Monday morning, Holloman said.
Recordings of 911 calls released Monday
include several people calling each attack in,
some sounding nearly hysterical.
The victims — a girl from Asheboro and a
boy from Colorado Springs, Colorado — were
bleeding heavily, and other beachgoers applied
makeshift tourniquets.
“His arm is gone!” one upset female caller
near where the boy was attacked.
Randy Giles, 52, was sitting on the sand with
his fiancee, Schalane Wolford, when he heard
the girl scream, and called 911 immediately,
before she was carried to the beach.
“At first I thought it was a jellyfish sting, but
when (the man next to her) pulled her out of the
water, she was bleeding and a lot of her arm was
bit off, so I knew it was a shark,” Giles said.
As people screamed to get out of the water,
Giles said Wolford ran over to give the family
her towels, and someone else used a cord from a
boogie board as a tourniquet for the girl’s arm.
After the second attack, town employees
drove along beaches urging people to get out,
but the instructions were voluntary and not
mandatory.
The town has no ordinance authorizing officials to order the surf cleared even if sharks
present a threat, Holloman said.
As a result, they take their direction from a
state law guaranteeing public access to beaches.
Just four days earlier, a 13-year-old girl suffered small lacerations on her foot from a shark
bite on Ocean Isle Beach, about 15 miles from
Oak Island. Both towns are on barrier islands
just off the coast.
Surgeons amputated the girl’s left arm below
her elbow, and she has tissue damage to her lower
left leg. The boy’s left arm was removed below
his left shoulder. Both were in good condition
Monday at the New Hanover Regional Medical
Center in Wilmington, where Dr. Borden Hooks
operated on both victims.
There were only 72 unprovoked shark attacks
on humans around the world in 2014, including
52 in the U.S., according to the International
Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of
Natural History. Three of them — all outside the
U.S. — were fatal.
Shark researcher George Burgess, who oversees the database, said he’s aware of only two
other multiple shark attacks on the same beach
in one day. “It may be that there are big schools
of fish out in the surf zone that are attracting the
sharks,” he said.
Even if lifeguards were on duty, the amount
of area closed and the duration of a closure is
always a question, said Tom Gill, spokesman for
the U.S. Lifesaving Association.
“At the end of the day, it’s the ocean,” he
said. “It’s an uncontrolled environment, which is
why we think lifeguards are so important.”
Conditions that contribute to shark attacks
include: swimming near piers, murky water that
confuses sharks and beaches with few people in
the water, Gill said.
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Second wildfire forcing
evacuations in Alaska
HOUSTON, Alaska (AP) — Fire crews are
battling a second wildfire in Alaska and officials
say hundreds of homes have been evacuated and
six structures have burned.
The fast-moving blaze erupted Monday on the
Kenai Peninsula, roughly 100 miles south of major
wildfire that started a day earlier near Willow in
the heart of the state’s sled-dog community.
The new fire was first reported in the early afternoon as a 1-acre grass fire near the community of
Sterling, but by early evening it had expanded to
640 acres was threatening some 200 homes.
Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources
says in a news release that the “explosive wildland fire on the Kenai Peninsula forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes,” but did not provide a more precise figure.
It said that it’s still unclear if the burned structures are homes or some other type of buildings.
There have been no reports of any injuries
in the new blaze. Two emergency shelters have
been set up for evacuees.
Sikh college student wins battle
with Army over hair, turban
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Sikh college student from New York said Monday he is excited
about a federal court decision that will permit
him to enroll in the U.S. Army’s Reserve Officer
Training Corps without shaving his beard, cutting his hair, or removing his turban.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman
Jackson issued the ruling Friday in Washington,
D.C., saying 20-year-old Iknoor Singh’s adherence to his religious beliefs would not diminish
his ability to serve in the military.
“I didn’t believe it at first when I heard about
the decision,” said Singh, who lives in the New
York City borough of Queens.
He told The Associated Press in a telephone
interview Monday: “It was kind of surreal. This
is something I have been fighting for for two or
three years. I’m excited and nervous; very excited
to learn.”
Singh, who will be a junior next fall studying
finance and business analytics at Hofstra University on Long Island, said he has had a lifelong
interest in public service. He speaks four languages
— English, Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu — and he
said he wants to work in military intelligence.
Stockton officers shoot, kill
man following high-speed chase
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Police in
Stockton said two officers shot and killed a man
after he led them on a high-speed chase and
threatened them with a stolen vehicle.
Officer Joe Silva told the Stockton Record
the pursuit began Sunday when officers on patrol
saw a man hitting a woman on a city street. When
they approached the man, he fled in a stolen car
and led them on a chase.
Silva said other officers who got involved in
the chase rammed the suspect’s car to stop him.
When they got out of their squad car to arrest
him, Silva said the suspect drove toward the officers, prompting them to fire at him several times.
The suspect was taken to a hospital, where he
died. His name has not been released.
South Korean schools reopen
despite widespread MERS fear
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The death toll
continued to mount in South Korea’s MERS outbreak on Tuesday even as schools reopen and
people recover from the virus.
Nineteen people have died in the largest outbreak of the disease outside the Middle East, with
three more dying since late Monday, the Health
Ministry said. More than 150 have been infected
with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and
nearly 5,600 have been quarantined.
The government says the outbreak is slowing,
but there’s still widespread fear and misinformation. Health workers are spraying disinfectant at
karaoke rooms and other businesses, and teachers
are sprinkling salt on school grounds in a misplaced attempt to protect themselves as many
schools reopen this week.
About 365 schools and kindergartens were
closed as of Tuesday afternoon, compared to as
many as 2,900 last week.
Denmark’s Lykketoft elected as
next General Assembly president
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United
Nations General Assembly on Monday unanimously elected Denmark’s former parliament
speaker Mogens Lykketoft as president of its 70th
anniversary session where he said his top priorities will be to ensure that world leaders “join
hands” to eradicate extreme poverty, keep climate
change at bay, and promote economic growth.
Lykketoft, who will start his year-long presidency in September, said he also wants leaders
gathering for the anniversary in late September to
“focus on the road ahead for peace, security and
human rights.”
The current assembly president, Sam Kutesa
of Uganda, announced Lykketoft’s election by
acclamation on Monday as diplomats from the
U.N.’s 193 member states burst into applause.
Lykketoft, who was also applauded when he
announced that he would turn 70 years old during
the upcoming session, said his theme for his yearlong presidency will be: “The U.N. at 70, a new
commitment to action.”
While great progress has been made since the
United Nations was founded in San Francisco in
1945, he said the world today is suffering from
armed conflicts, terrorism, violent extremism,
nuclear proliferation and an increasing risk of
new tensions among major powers. Lykketoft
urged all countries and their leaders “to strive to
build a more fair and stable world,” stressing that
“the 92 wealthiest dollar-billionaires own more
than the poorest half of humanity.”
Soldier faces court-martial in
2nd soldier’s shooting death
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) — A Fort
Carson soldier faces a military trial on charges of
killing another soldier while they were deployed
in Jordan.
The court-martial for Spc. Jeffery T. Page
is scheduled to start Monday. Page faces three
counts of murder in the May 2014 shooting death
of 19-year-old Spc. Adrian M. Perkins. If convicted, he could face life in prison.
Page’s attorneys have argued the shooting
was an accident and that Page tried to save Perkins’ life after the shooting.
Charging documents say Perkins was shot
with an M4 rifle. Few other details have been
released. Page is from Perrysburg, Ohio. Perkins
was from Pine Valley, California. Both were
assigned to Fort Carson.
protesters detained after
trying to stop Shell oil rig
SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says
it temporarily detained two dozen protesters who
formed a blockade with kayaks and other vessels
as Royal Dutch Shell’s drill rig left Seattle on its
way to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean.
Coast Guard Lt. Dana Warr says the protesters who violated the safety zone around the
Polar Pioneer early Monday were scooped from
the water. They were given violation notices and
later released. Petty Officer Amanda Norcross
said late Monday night that the Coast Guard had
not had interactions with any more protesters as
the rig continued its voyage.
Some protesters indicated they hoped to confront it off Port Townsend on Washington’s
Olympic Peninsula. However, Norcross noted a
gale warning was in effect in that area.
Trial begins for ex-CalFire
chief in girlfriend’s slaying
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A jury trial
is beginning for a former California fire battalion chief charged with murder in the death of
his 26-year-old girlfriend. Orville Fleming was
arrested following a 16-day manhunt in May 2014
after Sarah June Douglas was found fatally stabbed
in the south Sacramento home they had shared.
Opening statements in his trial are set to start
Monday before Sacramento County Superior
Court Judge Sharon Lueras. The 56-year-old
Fleming has pleaded not guilty.
Fleming taught at the California Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection training academy.
His arrest triggered a separate California
Highway Patrol investigation of the academy that
led to 16 CalFire employees being disciplined.
Prosecutor: Ex-police
chief killed a man on
trumped-up warrant
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white former South Carolina
police chief should be found guilty of murder because he sought
a trumped-up warrant against a black man after an argument and
then shot him as he tried to drive away from his arrest, a prosecutor said in court Monday.
But the lawyer for former Eutawville Police Chief Richard
Combs said in his opening statement that Combs had a legitimate
obstruction of justice warrant signed by a judge and feared for his
life because he was trapped by the door of the man’s pickup truck
as he tried to back away.
Combs is on trial a second time for murder. His first trial in
January ended in a deadlocked jury after 12 hours of deliberations.
This week’s trial was moved about 50 miles from Orangeburg
County to Richland County after prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed there had been extensive pretrial publicity.
Combs faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted of murder.
The judge in his first trial allowed jurors to consider a voluntary
manslaughter charge, which carries two years to 30 years in prison.
Prosecutors haven’t said whether they will ask the judge to allow
jurors to consider that lesser charge again.
Combs and Bailey first confronted each other in spring 2011
when the small town police chief pulled over Bailey’s 20-yearold daughter for a broken taillight. Bailey lived only a few blocks
away, and his daughter called and asked him to come. Bailey and
the police chief argued, and both thought things were going so
badly that Combs called for backup and Bailey called 911 to have
another officer sent to the scene, prosecutors said.
Three days later, Combs sought an obstruction of justice warrant against Bailey — a charge that can carry up to 10 years in
prison. But he didn’t try to serve it for nearly seven weeks, until
Bailey came to Town Hall in May to discuss his daughter’s ticket,
Solicitor David Pascoe said.
Bailey left Combs’ office and got into his truck to leave. Combs
followed him out and fired three shots, which all hit Bailey,
including a point-blank shot to the chest. He died almost instantly,
his foot on the brake of his truck, the solicitor said.
“Dead because of a broken taillight,” Pascoe said. “Dead
because of the defendant’s horrible judgment.”
But a defense lawyer said Combs was a police officer doing his
duties who feared that he would be run over by Bailey, who had
already ignored several commands to stop.
“It was a lawful warrant, signed by a judge,” said Combs’
lawyer, Wally Fayssoux.
Combs also had no choice but to shoot Bailey because the town
of 300 didn’t give him a Taser, pepper spray, body armor or anything else beyond a badge and a gun, Fayssoux said.
The case is a tragedy for everyone, but what Combs did was
legal, his lawyer said.
“Bernard Bailey will never go home,” Fayssoux said. “Chief
Combs’ life will never go back to where it was.”
School district to pay $15M
in sexual molestation case
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The families of four girls sexually
molested by their second-grade teacher settled a lawsuit for $15
million with a California school district on Monday.
The settlement in Santa Clara County Superior Court with the
Evergreen School District follows the 2012 conviction of school
teacher Craig Chandler on charges of committing lewd and lascivious acts on a minor.
One family had originally sought $30 million but attorney Bob
Allard, who represented the girls’ families, says the agreement
prevents the girls from testifying again and reliving the trauma.
“Subjecting the girls to further trauma was weighing on their
families and that’s what motivated the settlement,” Allard said.
The families sued Evergreen School District saying it
neglected to protect the students by ignoring signs that Chandler
was abusing individual students.
In settling the civil suit, the district didn’t admit to any wrongdoing. “We believe the settlement will allow the young women
impacted by this man’s actions to move forward and heal,” the
school district said in a brief statement.
Chandler was convicted of molesting five girls at San Jose’s
O.B. Whaley Elementary School. Prosecutors said Chandler kept
the 7- and 8-year-old students in his classroom during recess
and put blindfolds on them while pretending to play a feel-andtouch game. The girls testified in court about feeling something
inserted into their mouths.
Chandler, 36, was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison.
The family of one of the five girls reached a settlement with
the school district last year, Allard said.
China says South China Sea
island building to finish soon
BEIJING (AP) — China
will complete land reclamation
projects on its disputed South
China Sea territorial claims as
planned within days, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, in
an apparent bid to reassure its
neighbors over moves seen as
sharpening tensions in the strategically vital region.
However, in a sign that
developments were far from
over, a statement posted to the
ministry’s website said China
would follow up by building
infrastructure to carry out functions ranging from maritime
search and rescue to environmental conservation and scientific research.
“It is learned from relevant
Chinese competent departments that, as planned, the land
reclamation project of China’s
construction on some stationed
islands and reefs of the Nansha
Islands will be completed in
the upcoming days,” the statement said, using the Chinese
term for the Spratly islands,
which lie at the heart of the
South China Sea territorial
dispute.
Apart
from
satisfying
defense goals, it said the main
purpose of such projects was
civilian in nature and not targeted at any third parties. It
said the projects fell within
the scope of Chinese sovereignty and were “lawful, reasonable and justified,” while
causing no harm to the marine
environment.
The statement, attributed to
ministry spokesman Lu Kang,
said the projects “do not affect
the freedom of navigation
and overflight enjoyed by all
countries in accordance with
international law in the South
China Sea.”
That assertion will likely be
scrutinized by the U.S. military following an incident last
month during which a U.S.
Navy plane flying near one
of the reclaimed islands was
repeatedly challenged by the
Chinese military and told to
leave the area.
The disputed islands lie
amid some of the world’s
busiest shipping lanes, rich
fishing grounds and a potential
undersea wealth of oil, gas and
minerals. China claims virtually the entire South China
Sea, while Vietnam, Malaysia,
Brunei, the Philippines and
Taiwan also they own parts or
all of it.
The U.S. says it takes no side
on the sovereignty questions,
but insists on the right of free
navigation and urges all parties
to negotiate a settlement.
The reclamation work has
sparked fears China will use
the artificial islands as military bases and to assert control over navigation in the
South China Sea.
According to the U.S., Beijing’s building program on
reefs and atolls now totals more
than 2,000 acres (800 hectares)
and includes up to two airstrips
capable of handling large military planes.
The announcement is a sign
of transparency showing that
China is proceeding according
to its pre-established schedule,
said Ruan Zongze, of the
Foreign Ministry think tank
China Institute of International
Studies, speaking on state
broadcaster CCTV.
“China is showing that it has
its own timetable,” Ruan said.
That could be an attempt to
reassure others that the projects
are not open-ended, in hopes of
limiting the damage to China’s
relations with its neighbors.
Beijing attempted to keep
the issue out of the headlines during a low-key visit
to Washington this month by
Defense Minister Fan Changlong, during which Defense
Secretary Ash Carter called
on China and others to “implement a lasting halt on land
reclamation” and cease further
militarization.
Vietnam, with whom China
has clashed bitterly over the
Spratlys and other islands, is
sending its defense minister to
Beijing this week for talks.
China also doesn’t want the
issue to overshadow President
Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington in September.
Tuesday’s statement was
a form of crisis management”
intended to reduce speculation
and lower tensions, said Zhao
Kejin, an international relations
expert at Beijing’s Qinghua
University.
“It’s better to squelch problems before his (Xi’s) visit,
since there are more important
things to be dealt with,” Zhao
said.
93-year-old attends Stanford
graduation — decades later
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Bonnie “Chuck” Gould got a master’s degree in education from Stanford University in 1954, but it
wasn’t until this week that the 93-year-old formally graduated.
Gould attended commencement ceremonies Sunday, receiving
a standing ovation from the 208 other Graduate School of Education graduates when he took the stage, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. His family, including his wife, 10 grandchildren and
13 great-grandchildren, were also on hand.
“I tried to get him to go to this all those years ago. But we had the
children and he had the work and he was so devoted,” his wife, Margaret Gould, said as she watched him walk across the stage. “But
now, my heart is pounding. I am so excited. It’s like me up there.”
Gould didn’t walk in the 1954 ceremony in part because he
was busy teaching elementary school and raising four children.
As the years went by, it didn’t seem like a priority, he said.
“Back then, I thought other things came first,” he said.
Gould went on to become superintendent of the Redwood City
School District. But the fact that he never attended his graduation
continued to nag him.
Then a family member, Crystal Sturgis, who is putting together
a history of Gould, contacted Stanford.
“To have someone who’s had such a remarkable career and
who contributed so much locally — well, it was a no-brainer that
we would want to celebrate him,” said Eamonn Callan, associate
dean of student services.
Gould, a decorated World War II veteran, said attending the
ceremony was an honor.
“At my age, I’m just glad to be anywhere,” he said. “But this,
today, this feels great.”
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In this photo made Sunday, June 14, 2015, Crystal Gould Sturgis applauds her grandfather,
Bonnie Gould, as he rehearses his graduation on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif.
Bonnie “Chuck” Gould got a master’s degree in education from Stanford University in 1954, but
it wasn’t until this week that the 93-year-old formally graduated. Gould attended commencement
ceremonies Sunday, receiving a standing ovation from the 208 other Graduate School of Education
(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
graduates when he took the stage. Report says UN not equipped
to tackle today’s challenges
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations and other global institutions aren’t equipped
to tackle today’s global challenges ranging from massive violence in fragile states to runaway
climate change and global economic shocks, a high-level commission said in a report released
Tuesday.
The Commission on Global Security, Justice and Governance issued a series of proposals
aimed at reforming the U.N., strengthening cooperation at all levels of society to deal with these
challenges, and putting greater focus on preventing conflicts and restoring peace to countries
emerging from violence.
“World leaders must grapple with new ways to approach 21st century threats posed by climate
change, conflict and cross-border economic shocks,” said former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who co-chaired the commission. “A failure to adapt effectively risks prolonging
and deepening these global crises.”
The release of the 158-page report coincides with the 70th anniversary of the United Nations
and September’s gathering of world leaders to adopt new goals to reduce poverty, promote development and address the root causes of climate change.
“Our small, dense, interconnected world cannot prosper if more than a billion inhabitants fail
to cross a basic threshold for a safe, dignified life, or if rising sea levels, extreme drought, powerful floods and storm surges, trafficking gangs, and networks of violent extremists threaten the
security, well-being, and survival of millions,” the report said.
It said climate change, economic shocks and cyber-attacks are likely to have far-reaching and
long-lasting consequences, and “the marked and visible increase in mass atrocities in one country
after another has reversed the trend of declining political violence that began with the end of the
Cold War.”
The commission called for the creation of a cadre of experienced U.N. mediators to prevent
crises and conflicts, and transformation of the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission to a more powerful and better financed Peacebuilding Council.
To help tackle global warming, it called for “a green technology licensing facility” within the
Green Climate Fund, which is intended to become a key channel of money to help poor countries
take action to fight climate change and deal with its impacts, and an advisory board to review all
experiments involving atmospheric modification.
The commission also called for improved coordination between the Group of 20 major economies and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to prevent the spread of cross-border
financial shocks. And it urged increased Internet access in poor countries and development of a
global network of cybercrime centers to help deal with cyber-attacks.
As for global institutions, the commission backed an expansion of the U.N. Security Council
and restraint in the use of the veto by its five permanent members, the U.S., Russia, China, Britain
and France. It called for expanded acceptance of the World Court’s jurisdiction and a new U.N.
Global Partnership to give a greater voice to underrepresented policy issues such as women’s
rights, migration and workforce training.
“These proposals offer a smart path forward for regions, states, and peoples facing challenges
of conflict, climate change, and a volatile globalized economy, toward solutions that promote both
security and justice,” said commission co-chair Ibrahim Gambari, a former Nigerian foreign minister and U.N. undersecretary-general for political affairs.
The 14-member commission — including leaders who have served in government and nongovernment posts — said just presenting their proposals to world leaders isn’t enough. It called
for action to mobilize global support to implement the reform program by the 75th anniversary of
the United Nations in 2020, and said its partners, The Hague Institute for Global Justice and the
Stimson Center, a Washington-based global security think tank, will be tracking implementation.
Honda adds 1M Civics, Accords
to passenger air bag recall
DETROIT (AP) — At the insistence of U.S. safety regulators,
Honda is adding more than a million of its most popular vehicles
to a growing recall for air bags that can explode with too much
force. The company said Monday it’s expanding a previous recall
of passenger air bag inflators from high-humidity states to the
entire nation. That will add just over a million 2001 to 2005 Civics
and 2003 to 2007 Accords to the recall. The two sedans are Honda’s No. 2 and No. 3 sellers so far this year in the U.S.
Two weeks ago Honda said it would recall about 350,000 of
the cars in high humidity areas. But the recall was expanded after
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration demanded
that it be done nationally. A driver’s side recall already is being
done across the nation. The ammonium nitrate propellant in air
bag inflators made by Takata Corp. can burn too quickly, blowing
apart a metal canister and sending shrapnel into drivers and passengers. The problem has been blamed for at least seven deaths
and more than 100 injuries worldwide.
Man suspected of domestic
violence found dead after standoff
LA PUENTE, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff’s
officials say a 61-year-old man suspected of domestic violence
was found dead after barricading himself in a home for nearly
12 hours. Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez says the body of Chien
Yu was discovered Sunday in La Puente with an apparent selfinflicted gunshot wound. Yu’s wife reported earlier to deputies
that she was assaulted by her husband. She said Yu was armed
with a rifle and had threatened to kill her and himself.
Deputies evacuated several nearby homes after spotting Yu
pacing near a garage armed with a gun.
Yu then barricaded himself in the home and ignored repeated
attempts by a crisis negotiation team to get him to surrender.
Yu’s wife was treated for minor injuries.
Judge denies Toyota new trial
in fatal Minnesota crash
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has denied a new
trial for Toyota Motor Corp. in a lawsuit resulting from a fatal
crash in Minnesota. U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery ruled
Monday the jury reached a reasonable conclusion that an accelerator defect was the key factor in the 2006 crash.
The Star Tribune reports Montgomery rejected Toyota’s arguments and affirmed most of the $11 million the jury awarded the
plaintiffs. In addition, the judge added interest that pushes the
amount past $13 million.
In February, a jury determined that Toyota was 60 percent to
blame for a crash that killed three people and seriously injured two
others in St. Paul. Koua Fong Lee, driver of a 1996 Camry, was
found 40 percent responsible for the crash.
Toyota says it’s considering its options.
Amish mourn trooper who comforted
them after schoolhouse massacre
NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) — Members of the Amish community are mourning the death of a Pennsylvania state trooper
who comforted and befriended survivors of a 2006 schoolhouse
shooting rampage. Trooper Jonathan Smith died at home Friday
of pancreatic cancer. He was 47.
Smith was one of the first troopers to force his way into a barricaded one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines where a
milk truck driver fatally shot five girls and wounded five others
before killing himself.
The trooper helped carry the wounded girls outside. He also
went on to befriend the survivors and the victims’ families.
Amos Fisher tells LNP newspaper members of the Amish community took comfort in knowing Smith was looking after them.
Fisher says the trooper “helped ease the pain.”
Caribbean court rejects appeal
by ex-army officer in Grenada
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — A Caribbean appeals court on
Monday dismissed an attempt to become a lawyer by one of 17
men convicted of murder in a bloody 1983 coup in Grenada that
triggered a U.S. invasion.
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court rejected the appeal by
former army officer Ewart Layne, who hoped to gain admittance
to Grenada’s legal bar.
In 2013, a Grenadian judge ruled that Layne must be blocked
from the legal profession because of his coup conviction. In her
decision, Justice Margaret Price-Findlay said Layne’s admittance
to the island’s legal bar would “send an inconsistent message to
members of the public and to the profession as a whole.”
On Monday, the Caribbean court rejected Layne’s appeal of
that decision, saying it found “no unfairness” in the judge’s ruling.
The regional court is currently hearing cases on the island of
Dominica.
Layne’s lawyers said they will appeal to the Britain-based
Privy Council, the court of last resort for a number of Caribbean
countries.
Layne was part of the “Grenada 17,” the group arrested for the
killings of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, four Cabinet ministers
and six supporters on Oct. 19, 1983.
Distracted GOP lawmaker accidentally
approves California budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker accidentally cast his party’s first vote for the California budget in years
because he was distracted by Facebook.
Assemblyman Scott Wilk was the sole Republican to vote for
California’s record $117.5 billion spending plan Monday.
The Santa Clarita lawmaker later clarified he accidentally supported the bill in the Capitol while opposing it on Facebook. He
posted on Twitter “My wife is right — I can’t multitask!”
California’s budget is being negotiated between Gov. Jerry
Brown and Democratic legislative leaders. They have yet to reach a
final deal. Wilk’s blunder won’t show up on the official legislative
record because the Assembly allows lawmakers to change their
official votes. He did so after session ended, receiving applause
from fellow Republicans and boos from Democrats.
Defense begins in sex abuse
trial involving Kenyan orphans
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A defense attorney for a 20-yearold Oklahoma man accused of sexually abusing children at a
Kenyan orphanage is scheduled to begin presenting evidence to
jurors. Testimony resumes Tuesday in the trial of Matthew Lane
Durham. He faces 17 charges, including aggravated sexual abuse
and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. Durham
has pleaded not guilty. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Durham’s defense attorney, Stephen Jones, is scheduled to
begin questioning witnesses on Durham’s behalf. Federal prosecutors wrapped up their case Monday after questioning 24 witnesses, including five children. Durham is accused of molesting
children between April and June 2014, while he was a volunteer at
the Upendo Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya.
Al-Qaida confirms US strike
killed leader of Yemen affiliate
CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida has confirmed that Nasir alWuhayshi, its No. 2 figure and leader of its powerful Yemeni affiliate, has been killed in a U.S. strike. In a video statement released
early Tuesday by the media wing of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the group confirmed his death and said his deputy, Qassim
al-Rimi, has been named its new leader.
Al-Wuhayshi was the deputy of al-Qaida leader Ayman alZawahri and once served as Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary.
390,000 people tied to the DHS
may have had data breached
WASHINGTON (AP) — As many as 390,000 current and
former Homeland Security Department employees, contractors
and job applicants may have had their private data compromised
in a newly disclosed computer hack discovered last year.
DHS spokesman S.Y. Lee said internal notices about the data
breach discovered in September at KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc. were sent to employees starting April 27. The KeyPoint
hack is separate from the hacks of the Office of Personnel Management attacks disclosed earlier this month.
Notifications have taken longer for those outside the department. In a letter to one former job applicant dated June 5, the government advised that the data breach was “initially discovered in
September.” A copy of the letter was obtained by The Associated
Press. KeyPoint officials did not immediately respond to emailed
requests for comment Monday. Lee said the hack is a separate
breach than one involving the same government contractor that
was disclosed by the government in December.
Virginia man pleads guilty to
attempted espionage charge
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A 35-year-old Virginia man has
pleaded guilty to attempted espionage for providing schematics of
an aircraft carrier under construction to someone he believed was
an Egyptian intelligence officer. Mostafa Awwad of Yorktown
entered the plea in federal court in Norfolk on Monday.
Court records say Awwad tried to steal technical data in the
designs of the USS Gerald R. Ford in October. The Ford is the first
of the United States’ next generation of aircraft carrier. Awwad
provided computer drawings downloaded from the Navy to an
undercover FBI agent. Awwad worked as a civilian engineer at a
Navy shipyard. He could face a maximum penalty of life in prison,
but his plea agreement recommends a sentence of no more than 11
years. His sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 21.
White House won’t confirm
Prince performed for Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prince performed some of his greatest
hits at a weekend White House party for President Barack Obama
and his wife, Michelle. But although guests put details on social
media, White House spokesman Josh Earnest is refusing to confirm the “Purple Rain” singer’s attendance. Earnest says he has no
details about the private event. A reported 500 lobbyists, corporate
executives, celebrities and other guests attended.
Earnest says the Obamas threw the party “on their own dime.”
He didn’t say how much it cost or what they would pay for.
The Rev. Al Sharpton tweeted Sunday after leaving the White
House that it was “awesome” to see Prince and Stevie Wonder
together on the keyboards.
Prince performed in town Saturday at the Warner Theater.
High School Fisheries & Marine
Resource Summer Course
June 22 - July 9
Learn about our fisheries and the careers available in fisheries and marine
resource management. Experience fishing methods and visit the local and
federal agencies that protect our oceans and coasts. Get CPR & first aid
certification as well as water safety & swimming training. Learn to cook
seafood from one of our top local chefs.
Contact Mr. Alex Baker to sign up at 252-3983 or via email at
bakeral6123@gmail.com. Space is very limited so students will be
selected on a first come first served basis.
Rachel Dolezal’s world crumbles after racial identity flap
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rachel Dolezal
carefully constructed a life as a black civil rights
activist in the last decade in the inland Northwest,
but that world is falling apart following the disclosure by her parents that she was a white woman
who for years has posed as African-American.
Dolezal has resigned as president of the local
branch of the NAACP, lost her position as a parttime African studies instructor at a local university, lost her job as a freelance newspaper columnist and become the subject of a probe by the city
Ethics Commission.
The furor has touched off national debate over
racial identity and divided the NAACP itself.
“In the eye of this current storm, I can see
that a separation of family and organizational
outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP,”
Dolezal, who was elected the Spokane chapter’s
president last fall, wrote on the group’s Facebook
page Monday. “Please know I will never stop
fighting for human rights.”
Dolezal, a 37-year-old woman with a light
brown complexion and dark curly hair, graduated
from historically black Howard University and was
married to a black man. For years, she described
herself as black and complained of being the victim
of racial hatred in the heavily white region.
The uproar that led to her resignation began
last week after Dolezal’s parents said their
daughter is white with a trace of Native American heritage. They produced photos of her as a
girl with fair skin and straight blond hair.
Her mother, Ruthanne Dolezal of Troy, Montana, said Rachel began to “disguise herself” as
black after her parents adopted four black children
years ago. Rachel initially dismissed the controversy, saying it arose from a legal dispute that has
divided the family. But she came under increasing
pressure from NAACP members to resign.
Kitara Johnson, an NAACP member in Spokane, welcomed Dolezal’s resignation as “the
best thing that can happen right now.”
Dolezal has been widely credited with reinvigorating Spokane’s moribund NAACP branch.
In her resignation letter, she boasted that the
branch acquired an office, increased membership,
improved finances and made other improvements
under her leadership.
Members of Spokane’s civil rights community held a short rally Monday night, in which
they criticized Dolezal while vowing that the
NAACP’s work would go forward. The rally
included black, white, Native American and Hispanic residents of the city of 210,000 people.
“That (resignation) letter never addressed the
people that she hurt,” Johnson said before the
rally. “She turned her back on all of us.”
“I feel duped,” said Charity Bagatsing of Spokane, a rally organizer. “Our goal was to hold
Rachel accountable for her lies and deceit.”
“Her lies have done damage to the people who
trusted her,” said Blaine Stum, chair of the Spokane Human Rights Commission.
The controversy drew conflicting views from
other NAACP leaders.
“I care that she was trying to make the world a
better place every day,” said Frank Hawkins Jr.,
the NAACP president in Las Vegas. “The color
of a person’s skin does not matter.”
Don Harris, a white man who heads the
NAACP in the Phoenix area, criticized her,
saying, “What do you gain in saying, ‘I’m an
African-American’ when you’re not?”
Dolezal has not returned numerous calls to her
home and offices from The Associated Press.
In 2002, Dolezal sued Howard University,
where she attended graduate school, for discrimination based on “race, pregnancy, family responsibilities and gender, as well as retaliation,”
according to a 2005 District of Columbia Court
of Appeals ruling in the case.
Dolezal, who then went by her married name,
Rachel Moore, claimed the university blocked
her appointment as a teaching assistant, failed
to hire her as an art teacher upon graduation and
removed some of her pieces from a student art
exhibition in favor of works by African-American students. The appeals court upheld a lower
court’s ruling throwing out the lawsuit.
Dolezal was fired Monday as a weekly columnist for The Pacific Northwest Inlander, Spokane’s alternative weekly.
Her contract as an instructor at Eastern Washington University was not renewed.
City officials are investigating whether she lied
about her ethnicity when she landed an appointment to Spokane’s police oversight board. On her
application, she said her ethnic origins included
white, black and American Indian.
On Friday, police said they were suspending
investigations into racial harassment complaints
Dolezal filed before the uproar.
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➧ Chicken pox vaccine…
Dr. Tufa told Samoa News that “most of us have not been vaccinated before. Why… it’s because of the immunity borne within
us which is much stronger than any drug invented in the world.
“Drugs are poisonous, you have to be very careful in deciding
which one to give the vaccine to,” he stated.
Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), and
it used to be a common illness among kids. “It’s an itchy rash of
spots that look like blisters and can appear all over the body and
be accompanied by flu-like symptoms.”
Mageo said chickenpox is very contagious, so an infected child
should stay home and rest until the rash is gone. She said chickenpox often starts with a fever, headache, sore throat, or stomach
ache. These symptoms may last for a few days, with fever in the
101°-102°F (38.3°-38.8°C) range.
“Chickenpox causes a red, itchy skin rash that usually appears
first on the abdomen or back and face, and then spreads to almost
everywhere else on the body, including the scalp, mouth, arms,
legs, and genitals. The rash begins as multiple small red bumps
that look like pimples or insect bites, usually less than a quarter of
an inch wide.”
Password service warns users
to change their, yep, passwords
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A popular web service that promises to help people keep their passwords secure has reported
hackers may have obtained some user information — although
not actual passwords — from its network.
Security experts say it’s just another indication that any online
information is subject to attack.
LastPass, which makes a program that stores multiple passwords in encrypted form, warned Monday that it had detected
“suspicious activity” on its own computer system, which led to the
discovery that some users’ email addresses, password reminders
and encryption elements were compromised. The company said it
had blocked the attack and its investigation found no evidence that
individual passwords or user accounts were breached.
The Fairfax, Virginia, company is advising users to change
their LastPass master passwords, which are used to retrieve
encrypted individual passwords for the users’ other online services or accounts. But it said they don’t need to change individual
passwords for all their accounts. It’s also taking steps to verify the
accounts of users who log in from a device or router they have not
used before. “We are confident that our encryption measures are
sufficient to protect the vast majority of users,” CEO Joe Siegrist
said in a blog post, while apologizing to users for the inconvenience of changing their passwords.
When users are signed into their LastPass account, its software
then automatically enters the appropriate password for each service or website as required. Many security experts recommend
using password managers, like LastPass and other similar services,
because they make it easier to have a different, hard-to-crack password for each online account, without having to remember each one.
Several experts praised LastPass for disclosing the apparent
breach and said users shouldn’t be overly alarmed. But they agreed
that users should change their master passwords and refrain from
clicking on links in emails that claim to be from LastPass.
O le tama’ita’i na maua le tulaga sili i le
vasega fa’ai’uaso — Jan Fa’auila.
[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
O le tama’ita’i sa ia mauaina le tulaga lua o
le vasega fa’ai’uaso: Ali’itasi Ah Sui.
➧ 13 Fa’au’u mai le Laumua o le Sega’ula…
Mai itulau 1
Na ia fa’afetaia le afioga le Kovana ma lana
Kapeneta mo mea uma sa tapena mai le latou
vaega mo lea agava’a ia toe fa’amautuina mo
le isi tolu tausaga. Sa tele fo’i lana fa’afetai i le
Fa’atonu o A’oga ma lana taupulega ona o lea
fo’i galuega tele ua a’emalo nei. O le isi vaega o
lana fa’afetai o tama’ita’i ma ali’i faia’oga uma
i le Laumua o le Sega’ula ona o le latou tinou i
galuega ma tiute fa’atino o le a’oa’o o le fanau.
O le vaega o le fa’afetai sa ia tu’uina mai i le
vasega o faia’oga mai le World Teach, ua atoa le
ta’i lua ma le tolu tausaga o nonofo lava i latou i
Manu’atele ona o lo latou loto i le galuega sa latou
tauto ai, fa’afetai aua o le a tu’ua Manu’a High e le
to’atele o i latou i le mae’a ai o lenei tausaga a’oga.
Mai le Komiti o Sikolasipi a le malo, sa
taua’aoina ai le 2 tausaga sikolasipi mo Jan
Fa’auila i le Kolisi Tu’ufa’atasi o Amerika Samoa
ma le tasi o tamaiti a’oga ua talia lana nogatupe
Ali’itasi Ah Sui e aoga ai i le Kolisi Tu’ufa’atasi.
O Faufautua e to’atolu mo le vasega fa’ai’uaso
e aofia ai: Koluse Leano, Bryan Williams ma
Etueni Tyrell.
Lisi o le au
fa’ai’uaso
Aoga Maualuga
Manu’a 2015
1. Ali’itasi Ah Sui*
2. Alfonzie Sega
3. Charlie Logoleo
4. Fiasili Ioane
5. Lana Gogo
6. Saini Auma’aga
7. Tuisauta Mose
8. Ann Niuma’ana
9. Apineru Apineu
10. Darius Mutini
11. Jan Fa’auila **+
12. Letini Fala
13. Talaluma Moea’i.
** Valedictorian
• Salutatorian
+ National Honor Society Member
Escaped killers elude NY capture
DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Two escaped
murderers remained at large as a woman charged
with helping the killers flee from a maximumsecurity prison by providing them hacksaw
blades, chisels and other tools made a second
appearance in a New York court.
More than 800 law enforcement officers on
Monday kept up a methodical search for Richard
Matt and David Sweat, who escaped from the
Clinton Correctional Facility near the Canadian
border on June 6.
Prosecutors say Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor who had befriended the
inmates, had agreed to be the getaway driver but
backed out because she still loved her husband
and felt guilty for participating.
Mitchell, 51, made her second court appearance in Plattsburgh on Monday wearing a
striped prison jumpsuit and a bulletproof vest.
She waived a preliminary hearing, and the case
headed to a county court.
“Basically, when it was go-time and it was the
actual day of the event, I do think she got cold
feet and realized, ‘What am I doing?’” Clinton
County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said
Sunday. “Reality struck. She realized that, really,
the grass wasn’t greener on the other side.”
Wylie said there was no evidence the men had
a Plan B once Mitchell backed out, and no vehicles have been reported stolen in the area. That
has led searchers to believe the men are still near
the prison in Dannemora.
Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without
parole for killing a sheriff’s deputy. Matt, 48, was
doing 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture
and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss.
Mitchell was charged Friday with also supplying a punch and a screwdriver to the two
inmates. Her lawyer entered a not guilty plea on
her behalf. She has been suspended without pay
from her $57,000-a-year job overseeing inmates
who sew clothes and learn to repair sewing
machines at the prison.
Authorities say the convicts used power tools
to cut through the back of their adjacent cells,
broke through a brick wall, then cut into a steam
pipe and slithered through it, finally emerging
outside the prison walls through a manhole.
Wylie says they apparently used tools stored by
prison contractors, taking care to return them to
their toolboxes after each night’s work.
Workers have welded shut three manholes,
including the one from which the convicts
climbed out.
Congratulations
In this Wednesday, May 13, 2015 photo, a boat crosses the Parana river from Paraguayan side
to Brazil, in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Set on the Parana River, across from Brazil and a stoneís
throw from Argentina, Ciudad del Este long has been a transit point where Paraguayan smugglers
could buy pirated merchandise, some of it brought in by small boats during the night, then carry the
(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
goods across the border.
Obama, GOP try to revive trade
agenda, but the hurdles await
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack
Obama and his legislative allies scrambled
Monday for ways to revive his severely wounded
trade agenda, although Democrats and Republicans alike said all options face serious hurdles.
Obama talked with House Speaker John
Boehner, R-Ohio. And White House Chief of
Staff Denis McDonough spoke with Rep. Nancy
Pelosi, the House Democratic leader whose rejection of Obama’s pleas capped Friday’s stunning
setback delivered mainly by his own party.
But key lawmakers and aides said significant
political and legislative challenges complicate the
“many different options” cited Monday by House
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. House
Republican leaders sought to give themselves
more time, seeking a new deadline of July 30 for
the legislation. The House was slated to vote on an
extension on Tuesday.
The situation deeply frustrates Obama’s supporters on trade, because in some ways, success
seems almost within reach.
The House on Friday narrowly approved the key
component of the president’s trade agenda: granting
him “fast track” authority to negotiate agreements
that Congress can reject or ratify, but not change.
And there’s reason to believe the House would
approve the legislative package’s other main element — renewal of an aid program for workers
displaced by international trade — if it were
decided on a stand-alone vote. Democrats overwhelmingly support it, and it costs so little that
that numerous Republican consider it a reasonable
price to get fast track.
But three legislative realities are thwarting any
easy solution:
— The Senate combined the two elements into
one bill, which it sent to the House after a bruising,
lengthy battle.
—It turned out that House Democrats opposed
fast track so strenuously, they were willing to
sacrifice the displaced workers’ aid to scuttle the
whole package.
—The administration and others are loath to
start over and give the Senate another crack at
dragging out, and possibly killing, the entire trade
package.
The original strategy assumed a left-right combination would ratify the Senate-passed legislation. Nearly all House Democrats would support
the worker aid program, joined by enough Republicans for a majority, the thinking went. Then, a big
majority of House Republicans, and just enough
Democrats, would approve the fast track portion.
But Democrats, urged on by unions and Pelosi,
foiled the plan Friday by killing the aid program,
known as Trade Adjustment Assistance, or TAA.
Even some colleagues called the tactic cynical,
and Obama had specifically asked them not to
do it.
All weekend, House Republicans gleefully distributed headlines about the Democrats’ rebuke
of Obama. The fact remains, however, that the
failed fast track legislation was a top priority of
Congress’ Republican leaders and crucial GOP
allies, including the Chamber of Commerce and
Business Roundtable.
Pro-trade lawmakers were weighing possible
paths Monday. McCarthy said the best option was
for Democrats to “come to their senses” and pass
TAA, by reversing Friday’s outcome. Several Democrats called that highly unlikely, noting that 144
House Democrats opposed the measure Friday.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat
who supports fast track and spoke with White
House officials over the weekend, said, “I think
it’s going to be a very heavy lift to try to change
the outcome on TAA.”
Connolly said he worries that Republicans will
somehow enact fast track without the displaced
workers’ aid. “Why Democrats want to actually
be the handmaiden of that, I do not know,” he said.
Another possibility is to have the House revise
the Senate-passed bill and send it back to the Senate
for a new round of debate and votes. But strategists
in both parties said trade opponents would welcome another chance to suffocate fast track.
A third option calls for the House — which last
week voted separately on fast track and TAA — to
revisit the combined package with a single up-ordown vote.
No new Democrats are likely to vote for fast
track. But the House voted 219-211 for the fast track
component Friday, and some advocates hope the
same margin might prevail on a revised approach.
GOP aides, however, say it’s highly likely
that more than four Republicans would switch to
“nay” to avoid endorsing TAA, which they consider a sop to unions. That would be enough to
sink the legislation.
The congressional impasse jeopardizes hopes
to complete the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership that the United States and 11 other nations
have been negotiating for years.
Pro-trade advocates aren’t giving up. “The differences are so small and the prize is so large that
I think they’ll be some creative efforts at solving
this,” said Jim Kessler, a pro-trade supporter and
vice president of the Democratic-leaning group
Third Way.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the most prominent
Democrat running for president, tip-toed around
the trade issue again Monday even as her Democratic rivals loudly condemn fast track.
The fast track bill, Clinton told reporters, “is
a process issue. The issue for me is what’s in the
deal” for the Pacific Rim nations, assuming it
reaches final form.
“I will wait and see what the deal is and then I
will tell you if I would vote for it,” she said.
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O le Tama e saili e le
ola fia ‘aai lona aiga
tusia Ausage Fausia
E leai se isi talitonuga e pele i le loto o le susuga a Fiamatai
Foalima nai lo le talitonuga lenei, “O le Tama na tofia e le Atua na
te tausi ma fa’apelepele i lona aiga, e le tatau fo’i ona ola fa’alolo
le aiga pe fia ‘aai, ae tatau ona galue malosi le Tama mo le manuia
o lona aiga.”
A o aga’i atu ai le atunu’u fa’apea le lalolagi i le fa’atauaina o
le Aso o Tama i le fa’aiuga o lenei vaiaso, ua manatu ai le Samoa
News e faia sana auaunaga fa’apitoa e aloaia ma fa’alauiloa ai
le soifua tautua o ni isi o Tama o le atunu’u, se’i aumai fo’i so
latou lagona e fa’atatau i le soifuaga tausi aiga i le tele o tausaga
ua mavae. Ma o lenei tautua o lo’o lagolago mai ai le The Corner
Kitchen a le KS Mart.
O le susuga a Foalima, ua 73 tausaga o lona soifua, o lo o alala
nei o ia ma lona aiga i le afioaga i Pago Pago. E to’a 11 ona ‘alo ae
to’a 38 fanau a lana fanau. O ni isi o i latou nei o lo o alala i vaega
eseese o Amerika ma o latou aiga, ae o ni isi fo’i o lo o aumau pea
i Amerika Samoa nei.
E 34 tausaga na galue ai Foalima i le kamupani i’a a le StarKist
Samoa, ma malolo litaea mai ai loa i le 2006. O le taimi nei, o lo
o galue pea o ia mo le Ofisa o Tagata Matutua (TAOA) mo le 6
lenei o tausaga.
Ina ua fesiligia e le Samoa News ia Foalima i sona finagalo
e tusa ai o le olaga faigaluega i tausaga ua mavae, na soisoi o ia
ma saunoa e fa’apea, “o se olaga e ese le faigata, e tele naua mea
e mana’omia i totonu o le aiga, ae sau le totogi i le kamupani i
na aso, e na o le $40 ma ona tupu le kilia e maua mai, ona tau
fa’asoasoa ai lava lea o lenei tupe e ola ai le aiga i le vaiaso atoa
e aofia ai ma mea fa’alelotu i le Aso Sa, e fa’atali ai le siaki o le
isi vaiaso.”
(Faaauau itulau 20)
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Le tama saili malo ia Fiamatai Foalima mai le afioaga o Pago
[ata: AF]
Pago.
Se tasi o sui o le au si’isi’i u’amea mamafa a Amerika Samoa mo Ta’aloga a le Pasefika i Saute,
[ata: AF]
Jenade Ferlin Ausage ao pisi ai i ana koleniga i le vaiaso na te’a nei.
Sauni tamaita’i ia Jenade
mo Taaloga a le Pasefika
tusia Ausage Fausia
E ui e le’i manuia taumafaiga a le tama’itai
talavou o Jenade Ferlin Ausage i lana ulua’i
ta’amilosaga fa’avaomalo i le si’isi’i u’amea
mamafa mo Amerika Samoa, lea na tausinio ai
i le Oceania Weightlifting Championship i Niu
Kaletonia i le tausaga na te’a nei, peita’i sa ia
fa’aalia le avea o lana ulua’i tauvaga o se lu’itau
lea mo ana tapenaga, ao sauni atu mo Ta’aloga a
le Pasefika i Papua Niu Kini i le masina fou.
“Ua ou sauni ou te tauva i Papua Niu Kini, e
le gata ua tapena lo’u mafaufau ae fa’apea fo’i i
le malosi o le tino e fa’atino ai le ta’aloga, pau le
tulaga o lo o o’u fa’atali i ai, o le taimi ou te ulufale ai i totonu o le ta’amilosaga,” o le saunoaga
lea a Jenade i se fa’atalatalanoaga ma le Samoa
News i le taeao ananafi.
I le totoe ai o aso e 17 ona amata aloaia loa lea
o Ta’aloga lona XV a le Pasefika, ua fa’amaonia
mai ai e le Komiti o Ta’aloga o le Olimipeka
i Amerika Samoa (ASNOC) le aofia ai o le
igoa o Jenade i le aofa’i e to’a 85 o ‘au taaalo
ua fa’amaonia lo latou sauni atu e fai ma sui o
Amerika Samoa i Papua.
O le tama’ita’i talavou o Jenade, 16 tausaga
le matua o lo o aoga o ia i le Iakina Adventist
Academy i le Vasega 10, o ia e ulumatua i ‘alo e
to’atolu a ona matua, le afioga Pau Roy Ausage
ma Gloria Ausage o Lepuapua.
O le tausaga na te’a nei 2014 na avea ai o ia
ma sui o Amerika Samoa i le ta’amilosaga si’isi’i
u’amea mamafa a le Pasefika lea sa fa’agasolo i
Niu Kaletonia, lea na ia tauva ai i le ta’amilosaga
o le ‘Oceania Weightlifting Championship’
(OWC) i le vaega o le ‘Youth’, faapea ai ma le
ta’amilosaga a le ‘Junior Weightlifting Championship’ (JWC).
Na toeitiiti lava manuia taumafaiga a Jenade
i le pine apamemea i le ta’amilosaga a le OWC,
i le maualuga o lana si’i e 55kg i le ‘snatch’, ae
70kg i le ‘clean and jerk’, ma maua ai le aofaiga
e 125kg, ae 130kg le si’i a le tama’ita’i sa ia maua
le pine apamemea.
E tulaga fa Jenade i le OWC ae tulaga lima i
le JWC, e tusa ai o fa’amaumauga sa mafai ona
maua e le Samoa News mai le vaega a le OWF
(Oceania Weightlifting Federation).
Ina fesiligia e le Samoa News ia Jenade pe
sa i ai sona lagona fa’avaivai ina ua le manuia
lana ulua’i taumafaiga mo se pine, na taua e le
tama’ita’i e fa’apea, “ou te le’i manatu ou te
fa’avaivai mai la’u ta’aloga ina ua le manuia
la’u ulua’i taumafaiga mo se pine, ae sa atili ai
ona lu’i lo’u mafaufau ina ia ou fa’amalosi pea
ou te koleni ina ia tini lo’u fa’amoemoe mo se
pine.”
“Sa ou iloa o la’u taleni lenei na aumai e le
Atua, o le mafua’aga fo’i lena ou te fa’amalosi ai
pea ou te koleni i aso uma, ina ua ou talitonu, ou
te mafaia mea uma lava e ala i le fa’atasi mai o
le Atua ia te a’u.” o le isi lea saunoaga a Jenade.
(Faaauau itulau 20)
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FAASALALAUGA
AIGA SA TUANA’ITAU
Ae ou te lei taiaina ao o Maugaloa ma tatala le Ta’afi Tualua,
lea na ifo ai le aso o le “AIGA SA SA’UMANI”, ou te mua’i
faaete fimalie ma ou seu malu lupe o le foaga aua lau
faafofoga Samoa. Ae muamua ona ou faatulou atu i le paia
ma le mamalu o Samoa, aemaise le Aufaigaluega a le Atua o
lo’o tatalo i le ao ma le po, ae a se manuia mo tagata uma.
Ia fa’ata’alolo atu la’ia o paia na.
A’o lenei fa’asalalauga ua faia ona o le Suafa o
TUANA’ITAU i Pava’ia’i. O le paia lava lea i le Afio o le
Sa’o, Susu ai Te’i, Afio ai le-Na-Mua i Malae. Afifio ai
Taumafalofi, Fetalaiga i Matua, Nofo-Tualauta, faapea le
Lufilufi ma le Salemeana’i.
Fa’amolemole, e taalo atu i Suli uma e fa’asino tonu i le suafa
TUANA’ITAU, o le a faia le tatou fonotaga ia Iuni 20,
2015 i le 2:00 i le aoauli i le Maota o Tuana’itau, i
Pava’ia’i lava.
O lou le auai, o le a le taofia ai le finagalo o aiga.
O se va’aiga i ta’ita’i na auai i le “Folasaga mo le Ulu a Samoa” sa fa’atautaia lea i le potu fono
o le DOC i le Maota o le Malo i le taeao ananafi. L-R Fata Failautusi Avegalio UH, Fa’atonusili
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FAASALALAUGA
AIGA SA TIVAO
Epa maia i ou fala matu o lo’o teumau i ou maota ma laoa
tapua’i. O lo’o teuteu fuluula ai le manu’ula, aua le saofaiga
o le aiga o SAmoa.
Ou te fa’atulou atu ai ma le fa’aaloalo tele e seu fo’i ae seu
sisila. Aua o lo’o ala le mafua a tautai ali’i.
Ae fa’apito augafa lenei fa’asalalauga i le aiga Sa TIVAO o lo’o
i Samoa ma atunu’u i fafo. Taluai ona o le faigata o auala e
malaga ai i Olosega, Manu’a, o lea o le a toe faia le talanoaga
a lo tatou aiga i le aso 20 o Iuni 2015 i le potu fono a le Ofisa
o Mataupu Tau Samoa i Utulei i le 9:00 i le taeao.
O lou le auai o le a le taofia ai se finagalo autasi o aiga i lea
lava aso.
Ma le Fa’aaloalo Tele Lava,
Va’amua Henry Sesepasara
tusia: Leua Aiono Frost
FALAOAMATA O LE ULU - AOGA TELE
O le ali’i sa fa’atautaia le su’esu’ega mae’ae’a i le ituaiga o falaoamata e mafai ona gaosia mai le
Ulu a Samoa, Dr Alvin Huang o le Iunivesite o Hawaii i Manoa, sa faia lana folasaga i le potu fono
o le Matagaluega o Fefa’ataua’iga i le aso ananafi.
O lana folasaga ua ia fa’amaonia ai le tulaga ese o le aoga ma le lelei fo’i o taumafa e fa’aaoga
ai le falaoamata o le Ulu, e pei ona latou mua’i faia i Hawaii, ma ua ia fa’amalosi mai ai i le
Matagaluega o Fefa’ataua’iga, le vasega o faipisinisi tumaoti, fa’apea ma tagata faifa’ato’aga
uma o le atunu’u, “Ia va’ai mamao, ma ia auai i lea li’o e naunau e la’asia lea la’asaga fou o
ituaiga falaoamata e gaosia mai le Ulu, ia tele lona tupe e fa’ao’o i le vasega o faifa’ato’aga
Samoa.”
O lea folasaga sa fa’afofogaina e nisi o faifa’ato’aga ma sui o le malo, e aofia ai le vasega o e
faigaluega i le Matagaluega o Fefa’ataua’iga, ina ia tima’ia le atunu’u i lea fo’i atina’e lelei mo tatou
tagata, aua e ola lava le ulu i so’o se nofoaga o le atunu’u e o’o i tafatafa o maota ma laoa o aiga.
Ua fa’ailoa mai, o ala o suesuega ma sailiga ina ia mautu ma maua’a lea alamanuia pe afai e
mafuli tagata Samoa e fa’atino lea atina’e. O le tasi o vaega o sailiga o le umi e toto ai le ulu ona
mafai loa lea ona fua mai, ma fa’aaoga mo le atina’e.
Ua mafai nei ona suia mai lea umi mai le 6-7 tausaga fa’ato’a fua le ulu, i le ulu o le fa’amiliga
fou lea ua fua mai i le 3-4 tausaga ua fa’aaoga mo le atina’e. O se tasi vaega o le sailiga, ua
fa’amautu mai ai, e eseese le ituaiga o falaoamata e maua mai le araisa lea tatou e fa’aaogaina i le
taimi nei, ma le falaoamata o le Ulu.
“Ua fa’amaonia e tele atu le polotini i le falaoamata o le Ulu ma e samasama vaivai lava lona
lanu. E vave ona vela lelei ma e tele ai le vitamanini A ma le C, ae a fa’aaogaina i mea taumafa e le
maua ai se isi i le ma’i faigata o le “scurvy.”
O lo ua mafai ona maua uma mai fa’amaumauga lelei nei mai le Matagaluega o Fefa’ataua’iga.
FONOTAGA LONA 28 - SIOMAGA O LE PASEFIKA
O le taeao ananafi sa amatalia ai le fonotaga amata e tapena ai le amataga aloa’ia o lea fonotele
e fefa’asoa’i ai sui lautogia mai malo eseese o le Pasefika, i lu’iga o i ai mo latou si’omaga, o a
galuega ua tapena e fa’aleleia ai, atoa ma ni si tapenaga e fa’amautu atili ai le mautinoa ua fa’aleleia
le si’omaga o atumotu o le Pasefika.
E lua laulauatofi sa amatalia le tatalaga o le fonotaga lea, ma sa mua’i fa’atula’ia ai le vasega o
sui lautogia mo vaega e fa’auia ai fa’amaumauga aoga uma mo so’o se atunu’u e feso’ota’i ai, ma
ia fa’aaogaina mo latou galuega fa’aleleia atili ai le si’omaga o atumotu ta’itasi.
Peita’i ina ua mae’a folasaga na fa’atautaia e laulauatofi nei e lua, sa fesiligia le vasega o tupulaga talavou sa auai e fai ma sui o le Kolisi Tu’ufa’atasi ma A’oga Maualuluga i le atunu’u, “Po’o
lava lea iloa e mafai ona fa’aleleia ai le siomaga mo le isi lima tausaga o lumana’i?”
Na tula’i se tasi o tupulaga talavou sa auai ma fa’ailoa, “Pe afai e a’oa’oina mo fa’ailoga i nei
matata, e mafai ona fa’aleleia ai lo’u atamai, peita’i, o le fa’atinoga e ao ina loloto atu nai lo le
a’oa’o i tusitusiga ma so’otaga fa’ainiteneti ua mae’a tapena lelei nei. E mo’omia ona feso’ota’i
lelei ma tua i nu’u ma aiga ta’itasi o aotelega i na nu’u, ia latou iloa le aoga o nei galuega mo le
lumana’i manuia o aiga ta’itasi, ona fa’ato’a mafuli lea o tagata uma o lena nu’u e sapaia le galuega
fa’aleleia atili o le si’omaga.”
O le folasaga a le tamaita’i o Fatima Sauafea mai le NOAA, sa ia fa’ailoa ai, “E moni lelei fanau
talavou, e le tofusia aiga ma ni masini komipiuta e mafai ona feso’ota’i ai ma nei folasaga tapena
i luga o upega tafa’ilagi, e ao ina matua savalia nu’u, fa’ailoa i ai ata video tapena lelei ua mae’a i
luga o nei ala feso’ota’i.
“Ona iloa lea e aiga e vave ona magoto o latou talafatai pe a le suia le faiga tuai o mea e feso’ota’i
ma le si’isi’i o le maualuga o le suavai, ma tetele atili ai tafega o timuga ma vai tatafe i afio’aga, o
fa’apogaia nei o isi mea uma fa’aleagaina ai le gataifale o fia fagogota i ai mo se tausami sa masani
ai Samoa ma ona tagata.”
Fonotele mo le Siomaga o le Atuvasa o le a tatalaina aloaia i le taeao nei i le Fale Laumei, Utulei.
Friend who witnessed Michael
Brown’s death appears in court
tusia Ausage Fausia
TU’UAIA SULU
ATIA’E UMIA
FA’ASOLITULAFONO
FUALAAU FAASAINA
O le alii lea na tu’uaia i
lona fa’ao’olima i se isi ali’i
i Pava’ia’i i le vaiaso na te’a
nei, ua tu’uaia nei i lona umia
fa’asolitulafono o vaega o le
fualaau fa’asaina o le mariuana,
ina ua maua e leoleo ni sikaleti
mariuana i totonu o se tama’i
pepa iila sa i totonu o le taga o
lona ofu sa fai i le taimi na taofia
ai o ia e leoleo.
O lo o tu’uaia e le malo ia
Sulu Atia’e i le moliaga mamafa
o le umia faasolitulafono o
vaega o le fualaau fa’asaina o le
mariuana, faapea ai ma moliaga
mama e lua, o le fa’aoolima i le
tulaga tolu atoa ai ma le fa’atupu
vevesi i nofoaga faitele.
I fa’amaumauga a le
fa’amasinoga o lo o taua ai e
fa’apea, o le aso 8 Iuni 2015
na logo ai e ni molimau le ofisa
o leoleo i Tafuna mo se fesoasoani, ina ua latou vaaia ali’i se
to’alua o lo o fufusu i luga o le
alatele e latalata i Pava’ia’i.
Na taua i fa’amaumauga
a le fa’amasinoga e fa’apea,
e fetaui lava le taunu’u atu o
leoleo i le nofoaga sa tula’i mai
ai le fa’alavelave, ae fa’alogoina
loa e leoleo le alaga leotele atu
o Atia’e i le ali’i na a’afia e
fa’apea, “aua e te toe tu mai i le
fanua,” ona valaau atu fo’i lea o
le ua molia i tagata o lo o tutu i
ona tafatafa, ina ia la’u atu ma’a
e tapuni ai le auala.
Na musu Atia’e e ave o ia i
le falema’i mo togafitiga, ina ua
maitauina e leoleo se manu’a
i lona muaulu, pau le itu sa ia
naunau e fia iloa mai leoleo, pe
aisea ua le lokaina ai le ali’i sa la
vevesi. Na taua e le ali’i na a’afia i
leoleo e fa’apea, ao aga’i atu lana
ta’avale i le auala, sa fa’afuase’i
ona ia vaaia le ta’avale a le ua
molia ua afe atu ma poloka lana
ta’avale, e le’i umi ae ona vaaia
le ua molia ua oso i fafo ma lana
ta’avale ae palauvale atu i le ali’i
na a’afia, a o i ai fa’atasi o ia (le
na a’afia) ma lana fanau i totonu
o le latou ta’avale.
Na taua e le ali’i na a’afia i
leoleo e fa’apea, sa ia oso fo’i
i fafo i le taimi lea ma lafo atu
fo’i ana ia upu palauvale i le ali’i
ua molia, i le mae’a ai lea ona
fa’afefe e le ua molia o ia, ma
fa’afuase’i ai loa ona tu’i e le ua
molia ona foliga, ma faasaga atu
ai loa ua la fufusu.
A o fesiligia e leoleo le ua
molia i le potu fono a le Ofisa o
Leoleo i Tafuna, sa vaaia e se tasi
o leoleo le tago o le ua molia ma
aveese mai se tama’i taga pepa
iila sa i totonu o le taga o lona
ofu ae togi i lalo o le nofoa sa
nofo ai. Na piki e se ali’i leoleo
le pepa iila i luga ma iloa ai ni
sikaleti se lua ua uma ona taai o
lo o i ai, lea na faia i ai se suega
ma iloa ai, o ia sikaleti e lua o ni
sikaleti mariuana, ae ina ua saili
atili e leoleo le tino o Atia’e,
latou te le’i maua i ai ni isi vaega
o fualaau fa’asaina, se’i vagana
ai le malosi o le manogi pia sa
alu atu i lona tino, faapea ai ma
lana tautala e fa’atosotoso loloa.
O le aso 7 Aokuso lea ua
fa’atulaga e faia ai le ulua’i
iloiloga o le mataupu a Atia’e
i luma o le fa’amasinoga, ma o
lo o taofia pea o ia i le toese i
Tafuna i le taimi nei, ina ua le
mafai ona ia totogiina le $10,000
sa fa’atulaga e le fa’amasinoga e
tatala ai o ia. Afai ae afa e Atia’e
ona totogi le tupe e tatala ai o ia
i tua, ua poloaina o ia e aua ne’i
ona toe taumafai e fa’afeso’ota’i
le ali’i na a’afia i lenei mataupu
i soo se auala, ma aua ne’i ona
toe soliina se tulafono a le malo.
MIKAELE AULAUMEA
O le aso 29 Iuni lea ua
faatulaga e faia ai le iloiloga
faapitoa o le mataupu a le alii
o Mikaele Aulaumea, lea o le a
iloilo ai e ali’i faamasino mau
a le malo pe fa’amaonia ua le
usita’i Aulaumea i tuutuuga o
lana nofovaavaaia sa tu’uina
atu i ai, ina ua ta’usala o ia e
le fa’amasinoga i le tausaga
e 2011 i le moliaga o le gaoi,
ma poloaina ai loa lona totogi
o le salatupe e $1,000 i le
fa’amasinoga.
O le aso ananafi na tula’i
ai Aulaumea i luma o le
fa’amasinoga maualuga, ina
ua faila e le malo sa latou talosaga i le fa’amasinoga ina ia
fa’aleaoga tuutuuga o le nofovaavaaia a le ua molia, ae
tu’uina atu loa i totonu o le toese
mo le tuli fa’amae’aina o masina
o lo o totoe o lana nofovaavaaia,
ina ua ia le usitaia poloaiga a le
fa’amasinoga.
O lo o tumau pea le tatalaina
i tua o Aulaumea e fa’atali ai le
aso lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai
lana ulua’i iloiloga.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The friend who was with Michael Brown
last summer when 18-year-old Brown was shot and killed by a
Ferguson police officer made his first court appearance Monday
on a misdemeanor charge linked to an unrelated incident involving
police last month. Dorian Johnson, 23, declined to comment to The
Associated Press after the brief hearing ultimately postponed until
July 13 after neither of his attorneys showed up. Neither attorney
responded to messages seeking comment.
Prosecutors on May 7 charged Johnson with resisting arrest or
interfering with a lawful stop or detention, alleging that he tried to
hinder the previous day’s arrest of his younger brother, 21-yearold Demonte Johnson, “by using or threatening the use of violence, physical force or physical interference.”
Johnson and Brown were walking in a Ferguson street last
August when white police officer Darren Wilson confronted them.
Wilson shot and killed Brown, who was black and unarmed, following a scuffle.
Brown’s death led to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson
and other U.S. cities, spawning a national “Black Lives Matter”
movement seeking changes in how police deal with minorities.
A St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department
declined to charge Wilson, who later resigned. But the Justice
Department released a scathing report that cited racial bias and
racial profiling in Ferguson policing and in a profit-driven municipal court system that frequently targeted blacks.
Dorian Johnson’s arrest last month came exactly a week after
he sued Ferguson, Wilson and the city’s former police chief.
Demonte Johnson, who after last month’s confrontation was
charged with resisting arrest and a misdemeanor count of assault on
a law enforcement officer, is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.
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O se va’aiga i nisi o Faia’oga ma Matua sa auai i le aso fa’au’u o le fanau i le Manu’atele. Matagofie mea uma, e o’o i le a’oga ua mae’a pasia lona agava’a mo le isi tolu
tausaga o lumana’i.
➧ O le Tama e saili e le ola fia ‘aai lona aiga…
➧ Sauni tamaita’i ia Jenade…
Ina ua fa’atoa ulufale mai Foalima i Amerika
Samoa nei mai lona aiga i Fasitoo-tai i Samoa, sa
ese le olaga sa ia maitauina i lea taimi, e foliga mai
e na o le faigaluega le auala e mafai ai ona maua se
tupe e tausi ai lona olaga ma saili ai se aiga mo ia.
E lei umi ae tu’u fa’atasia loa le la aiga ma lona
faletua ia Tafaoga mai le afioaga o Pago Pago, ma
amata ai loa le aiga fou.
“Ou te manatuaina taimi fa’atoa ou faigaluega ai
i le kamupani i’a i se vai taimi o le 1970, o taimi na
sa na o le $1.32 i le itula le totogi sa ou maua, ae a
maua mai la le kilia i le vaiaso, e i le va o le $30 i le
$40, o le tupe la lea ou te alu ma a’u i lo’u aiga,” o le
saunoaga lea a Foalima e toe manatua ai aso faigata
o le olaga ua mavae.
“E laki na aso sa maua ni isi o oloa i le ta’i
10sene, e ui lava la sa laiti totogi sa maua i na aso,
ae sa tau feololo fo’i le tau o oloa i nai faleoloa laiti
sa i ai.”
“E le galo taimi e tula’i mai ai se manaoga tupito i
totonu o lo’u aiga, ma ua mana’omia ai se tupe, ae o
le taimi fo’i lea ua tula’i fa’atasi mai ai ma manaoga
tau tupe a le Ekalesia, ma ua le iloa ai e le mafaufau
poo fea le manaoga e tatau ona fa’amuamua, ae ou
te fa’afetai i le Atua, e ui i le tau fa’asoasoa o le
olaga i na aso, ae sa agalelei mai lava le Ali’i,” o
le saunoaga lea a Foalima, o se Tama fo’i e malosi
lona fa’atuatua i vavega e faia e le Atua i le olaga o
le tagata e fa’amaoni ia te ia.
Ina ua fesiligia Foalima, po o fea tonu le taimi o
lona olaga tausi aiga na te lagonaina ai le fiafia mai
galuega sa ia fa’atinoina, na saunoa o ia e fa’apea,
“O le taimi e te vaaia ai le aai fiafia o lou aiga i mea
sa maua mai i galuega a ou lima.”
I le tupu a’e ai i lona aiga i Samoa o se tagata e
malosi i le galue ma tele fo’i taleni eseese sa foa’i
e le Atua ia te ia, na saunoa ai Foalima e fa’apea,
“O le olaga o le avea ma Tama i na aso, e le o se
olaga faigofie, aua fo’i e le tatau i se Tama ona usu
e ti’eti’e pasi pe moe moe loloa ai lava e leai ma
O se tasi o itu na taua e le tama’ita’i si’isi’i u’amea
mamafa na ala ai ona lu’i lona mafaufau, ina ia sili atu
se isi tulaga na te ausia i le lumana’i, ona sa latou malaga
uma fo’i ma nai ona tuaa i Niu Kaletonia, lea fo’i sa la
fa’amalosi ‘au atu ia te ia ina ia fa’amalosi e koleni e toe
oso fo’i le la.
“Ua ou iloa ua i ai le suiga i la’u tapenaga mo Papua i le
taimi nei, ua ou le toe tepa fo’i i la’u ta’aloga sa ou tausinio
ai i le tausaga ua mavae, ae ua taula’i la’u vaai mo ta’aloga
i Papua ma le fa’anaunauga, ia ou ausia le tulaga maualuga
ma maua se pine mo le tapuaiga a le atunu’u, aemaise ai
o lo’u aiga o lo o lagolago malosi i la’u taumafaiga,” o le
saunoaga lea a Jenade.
Na taua e le Faiaoga o le au si’isi’i u’amea mamafa mo
Papua, le afioga a Alo Lopesi Fa’agu i le Samoa News, le
tele o le suiga ua i ai le si’i a Jenade i le taimi nei talu mai le
ulua’i taimi na tausinio ai o ia i le tausaga na te’a nei.
“O lo o maualuga le vaai i le tulaga lea ua i ai tapenaga
a Jenade i le taimi nei, pe a fa’atusatusa i le maualuga o
lana si’i sa i ai i Niu Kaletonia i le tausaga na te’a nei, e le
gata o lo o malosi pea ma fiafia e koleni, ae o lo o tele le
avanoa e mafai ai ona ia ausia se pine mo Amerika Samoa
i ta’aloga a le Pasefika i Papua,” o le saunoaga lea a Alo
i le Samoa.
O le tausaga e 2013 na amata koleni ai Jenade i le au
si’isi’i u’amea mamafa a Amerika Samoa, i le mae’a ai
lea ona fautuaina o ia e lona tama e alu e koleni i le au
si’isi’i.
“E tele isi ta’aloga eseese sa ave ai a’u e lo’u tama ou te
ta’alo ai ae ou te le’i mana’o ai lava, ae ina ma asiasi i le
ta’aloga si’isi’i u’amea mamafa, o i’ina na tosina ai loa lo’u
loto ou te koleni ai, ma fautuaina ai fo’i a’u e lo’u tama ou
te fa’amaoni ou te koleni, lea lava ua oo mai i le taimi nei
o lo o fiafia ai pea lo’u loto ou te koleni ai,” o le sanoaga
fa’ai’u lea a Jenade.
E to’a 6 le aofa’i o le au si’isi’i u’amea mamafa lea ua
sauni e tausinio i ta’aloga a le Pasefika i Papua, o lea ‘au e
to’atolu ali’i to’atolu fo’i tama’ita’i.
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se manatu i se tupe poo se meaai mo le Tina ma le
fanau.”
Na toe fa’afo’i le finagalo o Foalima i le vaitau o
le 1970 e oo mai i le 1980, o taimi pito sili lea ona
faigata o le olaga tausi aiga i lona fo’i vaitaimi, ae
sa avea le fatu na toto e ona tuaa i le latou mafutaga
a’o laititi ma auala na faavae mai ai lona olaga tausi
aiga, seia oo lava fo’i ina fa’amanuia le Atua ia te ia
ma lona olaga.
I le tau o le soifuaga sa i ai i na aso, na taua e
Foalima le taugofie o le tau o oloa sa iai, ae ina ua
oo mai i se taimi o le 1980, o iina na amata ai loa
ona vaaia le amata si’i i luga o le tau o ni isi o oloa i
pisinisi a tagata mai Asia, ae o le fa’afitauli sa maitauina, sa tumau pea totogi sa i ai.
“O le olaga i aso ua mavae, sa tele mea na mana’o
i ai le loto e fa’atino mo le aiga, ae o le fa’afitauli
e le lava totogi sa maua, o isi taimi ua fa’amisi isi
manaoga a le aiga ina ua le lava le fa’asoa, ae fai na
o nai vaega itiiti e pito sili ona mana’omia,” o le isi
lea saunoaga a Faolima.
Ae ui i le tulaga pagatia sa i ai le tau amataina
mai o le olaga i aso ua mavae, na taua e le susuga a
Faolima lona fiafia ina ua oo mai i le taimi na malolo
litaea ai mai lana galuega i le kamupani, i le tuana’i
ai lea o tausaga e 34 o lana tautua, ae o le taimi fo’i
lea ua ia vaaia ai le i’u manuia o aoga a le fanau.
“O se lagona fiafia tele pe a nofo ma toe mafaufau i le olaga faigata sa asa mai ai, lea ua selesele
fa’amanuiaga i le galuega, ua matutua fo’i le fanau,
ma ua le toe i ai se isi vaega e popole i ai le mafaufau, o lea ua fesoasoani mai le fanau i le tausiga o
le aiga,” o le saunoaga lea a Foalima.
Na fa’ai’u lana saunoaga i lana fautuaga i Tama
uma atoa ai ma fanau e fa’apea, “E mafua ona manuia
se aiga, ona o le ola tauivi ma le le fa’alogologo tiga
o se Tama, ae mafua fo’i ona maua e le Tama lea
ituaiga olaga, pe afai e alofa ma tausi i ona matua
i aso a’o talavou, ona fa’amanuia ai fo’i lea o ona
matua ia te ia.”
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TAUASO LE ALOFA Nofovaavaaia le ali’i
[E toe fa’atalofa atu i le mamaluo le aufaitau i lenei aso, atonu sa outou maua se vaiaso fiafia ma le
manuia, ae alo mai loa, o le toe sosooina lenei o le tatou fagogo, lea na gata mai i le vaiaso na te’a nei i le
taimi lea ua talatalanoa to’alua ai na o Keli ma Silia i le falema’i.]
Na umi se taimi o tauanau e Silia ia Keli e ta’u atu se mea o lo o i lona loto e fa’atatau ia Koso lona tuagane, peita’i e le’i manatu le alii o Keli e toe talanoa i le faalavelave na mafua ai ona tau fa’aolaola o ia i le
falema’i, aemaise ai le fa’alavelave lea ua mafua ai ona tula’i mai se va tele i le va o aiga e lua i totonu o le
nu’u. “Keli, afai e te le o ita i lo’u tuagane, aisea ete le fa’apea mai ai ua e fa’amagalo ia Koso,” o le talanoa
atu lea a Silia i le ali’i o Keli, ao taoto ai le ali’i i luga o le moega ma le tiga o ona manu’a. “Vaai oe Silia, ou
te le o ita ia Koso, pau le itu lea ua oo mai i lo’u mafaufau, o le ta mafutaga, aua o le mafua’aga moni lena o
le vevesi e pei ona fasi ai a’u e lou tuagane, ina ua iloa e Koso le ta talanoaga i le taimi o faiga lotu i le afiafi
lea na fasi ai a’u ...” Na umi se taimi o fefa’asoaa’i manatu ma lagona a le to’alua lea i totonu o le falema’i,
ona o lea lava e le o mautonu le mafaufau o Keli i le mafua’aga tonu na fasi ai o ia e Koso ma ona uso laiti,
ao lea e le’i mautu se la tuugatala ma Silia, pe o le mea ea ua i ai se faiga uo i lo la va.
A tau le mafaufau o Keli i gaioiga, o upu ma tala sa faia i le po na tula’i mai ai le fa’alavelave, ona ata
lea ma lulu lona ulu, e foliga mai o se mea malie ia te ia, ae a toe tau lona mafaufau i le taimi na fasi ai o ia e
Koso ma ona uso laiti i luga o le ala laupapa, ona tagi lea o le ali’i ma fa’apea ona mafaufauga, “aisea lava ua
ita fa’amo’imo’i ai faapea Koso ia te a’u, po ua tauaso ea lona alofa ia te a’u o lo o taua e le nu’u o lona uso.”
O le mae’a ai o le lua vaiaso talu ona taofia Keli i le falema’i, na maua ai loa le ripoti mai le foma’i Initia sa
faia lona taotoga, ua atoatoa lona malosi ma ua tatau fo’i ona te’a i tua i lona aiga, e tau savali mai ai mo ona
fusiga atoa ai ma ana talavai. O se aso ese lea i le tamaititi o Keli, ona o lea ua aloaia le faaiuga e toe fo’i atu
ai i lona aiga ma lona nu’u. O aga masani lava a le nuu, soo se tasi e saili fofo i le falema’i ae taofia ai mo se
taimi umi, e alu i ai le alalafaga a le faifeau ma le nu’u atoa pe afai e te’a mai i tua ma le falema’i, ma, o le
tulaga tonu lena ua oo i ai le gasegase o Keli. Na pei o le tafe o le alia le salalau o le tala i tulimanu e fa o le
nu’u, o lea ua te’a i tua le tamaititi o Keli, ma ua sauni o le afiafi o le aso lea e taunu’u atu ai le ta’avale i tuå
e momoli atu ai o ia, o lona tina ma le tama’ita’i o Silia lea sa tausima’i i le falema’i. “Ua fa’afekai i le Ali’i
ua maguia lou sailiga fofo, e ui i se kulaga makuia sa kula’i mai i se kaimi ua ke’a, leai se fai aso le Alii, lea
ua fo’i maguia mai oe le akali’i, fa’afo’i laia o le viiga i le lugå,” o le lauga fa’aumiumi lea a le tama a Koso
i le latou alalafaga ia Keli, ae vaaia loa le savali ane o Koso i le pito i tua o le fale o Keli ma saofa’i mai ai.
OLAGA POLOGA
[E toe fa’atalofa atu i paaga masani a le tatou polokalame i lenei fo’i vaiaso, malo le soifua laulelei,
malo fo’i le onosa’i, ae o le toe sosooina lenei o le tatou fagogo, lea na gata mai i le vaiaso na te’a nei i le
taimi lea ua manatu ai le tamaititi o Lami, ua tatau ona alu e saili sana galuega e tausi ai laua ma lona tina.]
“Tina, ua ou vaaia le pologa o le olaga o lo o ola ai lou tuagane ma lona aiga, e le lava le totogi e tausi ai o
ia ma lona aiga toe tausi atu ai ma taua. Sa ou polomisi i lo’u tama i le aso na tatou fa’amavae ai, o le a ou tausi
ma le fa’amaoni ia te oe lo’u Tina, o le mafua’aga lea ua ou manatu ai, ua tatau ona ou alu e saili sa’u galuega e
fesoasoai ai i le ta aiga,” o le talatalanoa atu lea a le tamaititi o Lami i lona tina o Sei, a’o la taotooto na o laua i
totonu o le la tama’i faleo’o lea e sosoo ma le faleoo o lo o nonofo ai le tuagane o le fafine ma lona aiga i Palisi.
E lei gagana le fafine o Sei i se tala, e le’i manatu fo’i e vave fai atu sana tali ia Lami, ae ua na o le taotooto o
le fafine ma pupula to’a i foliga o le tamaititi o lo o taofo mai i ona tafatafa, ona fa’apea lea o ona mafaufauga,
“O le tamaititi lenei na mafua ai ona ou alu ese mai ma lo’u aiga, ina ua ou agaleaga ma fa’apologa ia te ia, ma
avea ai ma itu na feita ai tagata o le nu’u ia te a’u, ao lea ua ou fa’alogo atu i lona manatu, e moni lona alofa ia
te a’u.” O mafaufauga fai vavale lea a le fafine o Sei, ae na te’i ina ua toe fesili atu le tamaititi o Lami ia te ia,
“Tina, ou te iloa e te le mana’o ou te alu ou te faigaluega, ae pau lena o le auala e mafai ai ona maua se tupe
mo taua,” o le toe talatalanoa atu lea o le tamaititi o Lami i lona tina, ona ea lea i luga o le ulu o le fafine ma
fa’apea atu isi ana tama, “Vaai oe Lami si a’u tama, e ese le mamafa i lo’u mafaufau o lau talanoa mai, leaga
o lo’u tiute fo’i lena e tatau ona fai, o le saili o se tupe e tausi ai oe ma le ta aiga, ma fesoasoani ai fo’i i le aiga
o si o’u tuagane ma si ana fanau to’atele, a’o e talatalanoa mai, o lo o tau fetu’una’i lo’u mafaufau i se mea e
tatau ona fai, pe tatau fo’i ona ou alu ou te faigaluega e saili mai ai se isi tupe mo taua.”
E lei iloa e le fafine o Sei le taimi na moe ai, ae ala ai lava na o le tamaititi o Lami ma fa’alogologo lana
leitio, i polokalame o pese ma alofaaga a le 2AP, ma moomoo ai le tamaititi maimau pe ana i ai sana telefoni
e vili atu ai ma se alofaaga isi ona tama o lo o fa’amuli to’atasi na o ia i lo latou aiga i Savai’i. Na te’i lava ua
fa’apea atu le tamaititi o Lami, “O le pese lenei e aualofa atu ai isi o’u tama o Tomasi, o lo o fa’amuli to’atasi
na o ia i lo matou aiga i Savai’i. Ia manuia lava le po Dad ae aua ete popole mai o lea e manuia fo’i maua ma
Mom i Apia nei, o alofaaga na e avatu ia Lami i Palisi.” Na te’i le tamaititi o Lami ina ua ‘ala i luga lona tina
ma fesili atu i ai, “Sole, o ai na e te lua talanoa,” ae na ata le tamaititi ma fai mai, o lea e momoli o’u alofaaga
i lo’u Tama i le polokalame a le 2AP lea e fa’asalalau tu’u sa’o mai i luga o le leitio.”
VAVAU A SAMOA
TAGATA POLENISIA MA O LATOU TUPUAGA — VAEGA 2
I le agai mai ai la o le tala faasolopito i tagata Polenisia ae maise ai o Samoa, e talitonu ai tagata Samoa i
aso ua mavae, o tagata Samoa na fai lava i totonu o Samoa, e lo latou atua o Tagaloa. Atonu o le a le avea lenei
talitonuga ma itu e ta’ta’iina sese ese ai talitonuga o tagata soifua uma i le olaga nei, o le Atua Soifua, o Ia e ou
le atulaulau ma mea o loo tumu ai, o ia foi na faia le tagata i lona faatusa, peitai, ona o le taumafai e faamanino
tulaga o tala i vavau ma mea sa talitonu ai Samoa ma atumotu eseese o le Pasefika i aso anamua, o le itu lea o
le a manatu ai le tusitala, o le a le afaina lea i se finagalo, peitai, e tumau pea lo tatou faaaloalogia o galuega o
le Foafoaga a le Atua, lea o loo molimau ai le tusi o Kenese, na faia e le Atua le lagi ma le lalolagi i le amataga,
o ia foi na faia le tagata, o le palealii lea o ana galuega, ina ua maea ona ia faia le lagi ma le lalolagi.
E i ai le talitonuga a Samoa i aso uma mavae i le nofoaga e taua o Pulotu, lea e potopoto uma i ai agaga o
tagata pe a oti, ma o iina latou te talitonu, e toe fausia mai ai isi tagata, mai agaga o tagata ua oti. E i ai foi le talitonuga o tagata Polenisia e faapea, o Pulotu, o se nofoaga lea e mamao ese mai le latou nofoaga poo le nuu moni
o Hawaiki, ma e talitonu nisi, e tutusa Pulotu ma le nofoaga lea e taua o Burutu poo Bureto lea o loo i le motu
o Mesopotamia. O loo taua foi i ia talitonuga sa manatu e faapea, o le vaa tele lava a tagata mai Mesopotamia
na folo e le i’a tele e taua o le Palata. O le ala ua taua ai nei talitonuga, ona o loo i ai le fesootaiga ma le mau a
tagata Samoa, ona fai mai o le talatuu i le folauga i Pulotu, e masani ona fetaui ai tagata folau mai Mesopotamia
ma agaga o tagata ua oti i le vasaloloa. Fai mai o nisi agaga latou te fetaui e fetagisi atu, o isi agaga e to to e ma
pepese atu i luga o le vasa, o nisi agaga latou te fetaui o loo fai atu a latou mea malie ae o isi o loo ta ta a latou
laau pese ma fai atu a latou fiafiaga i luga o le vasaloloa. O le mau a tagata Samoa fai mai o Pulotu e i ai le vaituloto, lea fai mai a pa’i i ai le agaga o le tagata ona toe ola lea e le toe oti. O loo i ai foi le tolotolo tupito lava i
le motu o Upolu fai mai e i ai le mea e taua o Fatuosofia, fai mai o iina e i ai ma’a e tu tu ai agaga, ona faaee lea
mo le malaga atu i Salafai, i le nofoaga o loo i ai le Fafa o Saualii lea o loo i ai i le taufaasi’usi’uga o Savaii, ma,
o le isi igoa o le Fafa e taua o le Luao poo Luavai, ma, fai mai e mau a Samoa, o Luavai lea e taua e tagata Maori
o Honi-Wairua, lea e potopoto i ai agaga o tagata oti, ma o se mea loloto lava e i ai le faitoto’a, lea e ulufale atu
ai i le ala e tau atu i Pulotu, ma e aliali mai la i lenei tala, e peiseai e lua ni loto o loo agai atu i Pulotu, o le tasi o
le Lualotoalii ae o le isi o le Lualoto o tufanua, ae o le leoleo o le Fafa o Saualii, o Leosia.
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ua talia e le fa’amasinoga maualuga fautuaga a le Ofisa Nofovaavaaia
ma loia a itu e lua, ina ia fa’anofovaavaaia o ia ae aua ne’i tu’uina atu i
ai se fa’asalaga fa’a falepuipui.
Na ulua’i tu’uaia e le malo ia Gataivai Talamoa i moliaga o le talepe
fale i le tulaga lua, fa’aleagaina o meatotino atoa ai ma le fa’atupu
vevesi i nofoaga faitele, ae i lalo o se maliliega sa sainia e Talamoa ma
le malo, lea fo’i na talia e le fa’amasinoga maualuga i le masina o Me
na te’a nei, na tali ioe ai le ua molia i le moliaga mamafa ua toe teuteu
e le malo, ina ia fa’ailoa ai le solitulafono o le fa’aleaga meatotino i le
tulaga muamua, atoa ai ma le moliaga mamafa o le fa’atupu vevesi i
nofoaga faitele, ae solofua e le fa’amasinoga le moliaga o le talepe fale
i le tulaga lua. I luma o le fa’amasinoga maualuga i le taeao ananafi, na
fa’atoese ai Talanoa i lona tuafafine, lea fo’i sa i ai i totonu o le potu
fa’amasino, e tusa ai o lana solitulafono sa faia.
Sa ia fa’atoese fo’i i lona aiga atoa e tusa ai o le ta’uleagaina o le
igoa o le latou tama i le solitulafono sa ia faia. Na taua e Talamoa e
fa’apea, e lei i ai se manatu e tula’i i luma o se fa’amasinoga i lona olaga
atoa, peita’i o le sese sa tula’i mai, o le a le toe tula’i mai, ma fa’ai’u ai
loa lana talosaga i le fa’amasinoga ina ia fa’amagalo o ia e tusa ai o lana
solitulafono sa faia.
Na finau le loia a Talamoa o Karen Sherren i le fa’amasinoga ina ia
talia le fautuaga o lo o i totonu o le ripoti a le Ofisa Nofovaavaaia, e ala
i le fa’anofovaavaaia lea o le ua molia, ina ia mafai ai pea ona alu o ia
e faigaluega. Na taua e le tama’ita’i loia e fa’apea, o le vevesi na mafua
ai ona ta’usala Talamoa i luma o le fa’amasinoga, o se vevesi lava sa
tula’i mai i le lotoifale o le aiga, ma e le’i manatu le aiga e oo atu i se
tulaga fa’apea lenei mataupu.
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a le itu tete’e, ina ia fa’anofovaavaaia Talamoa, peita’i na fa’amanatu
e le loia a le malo i le fa’amasinoga, le matuia o le gaioiga sa faia e le
ua molia i le aso na tula’i mai ai le fa’alavelave. Na taua e Bargmann e
fa’apea, o le matuia o le mea sa tula’i mai i lea aso, o le alu lea o Talamoa
i le fale o lona tuafafine ma le fa’amoemoe e fa’aleaga le fale, e ala i lona
tuuina o mea sa ia fa’aaoga i le solitulafono i tua o lana ta’avale.
Na taua e le malo e fa’apea, e le gata na taei fa’amalama o le fale,
tata’e le faitoto’a, ae sa ulufale faamalosi fo’i Talamoa i totonu o le fale
a lona tuafafine ma fa’aleaga le ogaumu fou sa i ai, sosoo ai ma lona
sasa’a o le kesi i luga o le fola o le fale.
Na faailoa fo’i e Bargmann i le fa’amasinoga e faapea, e ui o le
ulua’i solitulafono lenei a Talamoa i Amerika Samoa, peita’i e le o se
taimi muamua lenei ua ta’usala ai o ia i se solitulafono, ona o lea fo’i
sa ta’usala i le solitulafono mamafa o le fa’ao’olima i le tausaga e 2006
i le setete o Arizona, lea na fa’anofovaavaaia ai o ia e le fa’amasinoga.
Na finau Bargmann i le fa’amasinoga ina ia poloa’i Talamoa e toe
totogi le tupe e $1,000 mo le ogaumu a lona tuafafine sa ia fa’aleagaina,
pau fo’i lea o le meatotino o lo o manatu lona tuafafine e toe totogi atu
e le ua molia, ae le o manatu lona tuafafine e toe totogi atu isi vaega sa
fa’aleagaina i totonu o le fale, e le o manatu fo’i lona tuafafine e fa’asala
le ua molia i se fa’asalaga e sili atu ona mamafa.
O ni isi o tuutuuga o le nofovaavaaia e 5 tausaga a Talanoa, o
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Ae sili ai i lo lena e pei ona saunoa Saelua, o pili tupe e tolu lea
ua mae’a ona pasia e le Fono Faitulafono, o le a mafai ai ona maua
mai ni isi o tupe fou e fesoasoani i le fa’amalosia o le aga’i atu i le
fa’aiuga o le tausaga tupe lenei.
E ui i fa’afitauli sa maitauina i lenei tausaga tupe, ae o lo o tumau
pea le faigamalo i lana anavatau e pei ona fa’alauiloa i le amataga o
lenei tausaga, ina ia mafai ai ona tali atu i manaoga o tagata.
“O le a tumau pea ta’iala e pei ona tatou galulue ai i lenei tausaga
tupe, pe afai tatou te ulufale atu i le tausaga tupe fou, e pei o le avea
lea o le fa’amuamua i le sailiina o ni galuega fou, fa’aleleia tulaga ia
a’oa’oga, atoa ai ma le fa’amalosia o le itu tau i le soifua maloloina
o tagata uma, ae fa’ai’u ai loa i le fa’aleleia o atina’e eseese e aofia
ai le fa’aleleia o auala ina ia lelei ma mautu,” o le saunoaga lea a le
tama’ita’i fa’atonusili.
“E ui ua tele galuega lelei ua mafai ona tatou ausia, o le mea
moni lava, e tele naua fo’i isi lu’itau e mana’omia ona faia ina ia
lelei ma mautu le soifua tautua o nai o tatou tagata.”
O ia lu’itau e pei ona taua e le tama’ita’i fa’atonu, o le i ai lea o
ni auala e mafai ai ona maua alaga tupe e ese mai i tupe o lo o sasa’a
mai e le feterale, ina ia mafai ai ona fausia ma fa’atino manaoga o lo
o mana’omia i le atunu’u, e pei ona i ai galuega fa’atino a le Komiti
o le Pone a le malo (ASEDA).
O se tasi o ta’iala e pei ona tuuina mai ai se fautuaga mai le
Komiti o le Pone a le malo, o le paleni lea o le fa’aaogaina o tupe i
le paketi a le malo o lo o i ai nei, ina ia mautinoa e leai se tupe e ova
ai le fa’aaoga nai lo tupe sa pasiaina i le paketi.
Na taua e Saelua e fa’apea, ina ia mafai ai ona saili e le Komiti
le auala tonu e fuafua i ai tulaga o tupe maua mo le Pone, ua latou
taliaina ai le fautuaga i latou e i ai le tomai i itu tau tupe mo Amerika
Samoa, ina ia paleni le paketi a le malo a Amerika Samoa i le
fa’aiuga o le tausaga tupe lenei.
Ua fautuaina fa’atonusili uma ma fa’auluuluga o matagaluega ma
ofisa a le malo, ina ia iloilo toto’a paketi a latou ofisa ta’itasi, ina ia
mautinoa e le sili atu le tupe e fa’aaoga mai le tupe sa pasia i le paketi.
Mo le paketi fuafuaina o le tausaga tupe fou 2016, ua fautuaina
ai faatonusili uma, ina ia 10% e fa’aitiitia ai a latou paketi uma lava
mai le paketi le aofa’i sa pasia i le paketi o le tausaga tupe lenei 2015.
Ua fautuaina fa’atonusili ina ia tapena lelei ta’iala ma vaega uma
mo a latou paketi o le tausaga tupe fou 2016, o avanoa faigaluega
uma lava o lo o i ai e le’i fa’atumuina, e le tatau ona aofia ai i
totonu o le paketi o le tausaga tupe 2016, ae mo si’itaga fuafuaina i
la’asaga o totogi (increments) ua fautuaina le tatau lea ona aofia ai
i totonu o le paketi.
Mo isi alaga tupe ma manaoga tau tupe o lo o i totonu o paketi a
ofisa ta’itasi, ua fautuaina le tatau lea ona fa’atulaga lelei uma, ina
ia mafai ona faalauiloa vaega ta’itasi uma e maua mai ai alagatupe.
O le aso Faraile o le vaiaso nei, aso 19 Iuni ua fa’atulaga e
fa’amuta aloaia ai le toe tauaaoina atu o paketi a ofisa, ina ia vave
ona tu’u fa’atasia le tusi paketi ao lumana’i ai le tauaao atu i le Fono
mo le latou iloiloina. O lenei tusi mai le tama’ita’i fa’atonusili sa
fa’amaonia lea a le afioga i le ali’i kovana.
Feso’otai’ mai i le tusitala ia ausage@samoanews.com
O se va’aiga i le matagofie o le toniga ma laufofoga fiafia o le aufaigaluega a le ASEPA lea ua
sauni mo le taligamalo i le latou “Fonotele mo le Si’omaga o le Pasefika lona 28.”
American Samoa Government
OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT
INVITATION FOR BIDS
IFB-045-2015
Issuance Date: June 20, 2015
Closing Date: June 26, 2015
No later than 2:00pm (local time)
1. INVITATION
Sealed bids are invited for the Fagali’i Elementary School Site Development, located
at village of Fagali’i, Territory of American Samoa.
2. RECEIPT & OPENING OF BIDS
Sealed bids will be received by the Acting Chief Procurement Officer, American Samoa
Government, Tafuna, American Samoa 96799, until 2:00 p.m. (local time), Friday, June
26, 2015 at which time and place the sealed bids will be publicly opened and read.
2. PRE-BIDC ONFERENCE
A MANDATORY Pre-Bid/Site Visit Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 18, 2015 at
10:00 a.m. at the Office of Procurement – Conference Room. Bids will not be accepted
from bidders who are not present at the pre-bid conference and site visit.
4. CONTRACTD OCUMENTS
Electronic copies of contract documents, including Plans and Scope of Work can be
examined or obtained from the Office of Procurement during regular business hours
free of charge.
5. The American Samoa Government reserves the right not to accept the lowest or any bid.
6. The American Samoa Government reserves the right to waive any informalities in
bidding as may be in the best interest of American Samoa Government.
“Equal Opportunity Employer / Affirmative Action”
DR. ORETA MAPU CRICHTON
Acting Chief Procurement Officer
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“Argosy University, Hawaii’s Campus in American
Samoa CONGRATULATES all of the territory’s
graduates. Interested in obtaining your degree without
leaving the island or quitting your job?
Contact Admissions Representative,
Pele Chun, at 258-9645 or visit their office at
Tradewinds Hotel, Room 110”
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