CORRECTION
A Samoa News
story on Saturday's edition says that Utu Abe Malae was the first
chief executive officer for ASPA. However, Utu said that he
was not the first CEO, adding that there were 2 CEOs from the
states and a third acting CEO before he took over the post in
the mid 1980s.
Utu said he was
director of Public Works for less than 10 months before the ASPA
board (under Chairman John Ward) asked him to take over ASPA
in May 1986. Governor Lutali asked him to assume both roles:
Director of PW and CEO of ASPA, which he did until June 1987
when he concentrated on ASPA.
Samoa News apologizes
for the error.
"THANK
YOU"
Dear Editor,
Although it still
makes no sense at all to me, I just want to thank the person
who responded to my letter. Hey, I have nothing against anyone
at the PX or anywhere else, it's just so sad, that with all that
happening, no one is doing anything about.
I can understand
the part where, I can go in there and buy a whole bunch of stuff
for anybody, then when the card holders come to buy stuff, it's
all gone. But the people I would buy for will be the people who
have children in the military, but cannot come into the PX because
there will be too much to handle if we brought in guests???
Anyway, if you
write a letter again, please make sure that you don't offend
anyone by mentioning "a small store in Manu'a". Do
you even know how many small stores there are in Manu'a? And
if anyone in Manu'a read that letter, they would feel offended
by that. Especially if there was only one store in Manu'a! All
in all, we CAN get along, and I am glad that I got someone's
attention on this.
Take care and
God bless. Pray for the safe return of our 400th CSP Army Reserve
Unit. Hooah!!!
S.A.N.V.
A Proud Military Wife
"LONG
OVERDUE"
Dear Editor,
I totally agree
that the Lt. Governor should step down. As I said before, ever
since his 'quiet' arrest by the FBI, he has never formally addressed
the people of American Samoa about this issue.
It's absolutely
ridiculous. It's like nothing ever happened! With all the corruption
that's been going on, the argument about innocent until proven
guilty is getting pretty old right now.
The real issue
here is protecting the integrity of the office he holds and his
duty to the people who put him in office. I can't even fathom
that he's running for office again.
As someone else
said, is this the type of message that we're sending our children,
the other Pacific island nations, and the world? If he truly
cared about the people of this island, he would have done the
right thing already and stepped down!
Taulogologo Lemotusa
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