May 2017
![[photo: Ausage Fausia]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/port%20awards%200749.jpg?itok=Bfz8fYPI "[photo: Ausage Fausia]")
![[l-r] Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga, Port Administration director Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Poumele, Port employee Sunia Davetawalu, Port employees Timoci Loloma, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, Harbor Master Silila Patane, Port employee Joseph Fa’agata, and Port Administration deputy director Chris King, yesterday morning at the Governor’s Office Conference room at the conclusion of a brief recognition ceremony. (See story inside for details of the quick actions of the 3 Port employees that saved Patane’s](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/port%20awards%200765.jpg?itok=vuBYn90R "[l-r] Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga, Port Administration director Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Poumele, Port employee Sunia Davetawalu, Port employees Timoci Loloma, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, Harbor Master Silila Patane, Port employee Joseph Fa’agata, and Port Administration deputy director Chris King, yesterday morning at the Governor’s Office Conference room at the conclusion of a brief recognition ceremony. (See story inside for details of the quick actions of the 3 Port employees that saved Patane’s life.) [photo: AF]")
Territorial Elementary History Day Competition
Tavilla Collin Puni of Iakina Academy won the Territorial Elementary History Day Competition for the Individual Documentary category.
Lolo commends ASPA board for their achievements
![Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and First Lady Cynthia Malala Moliga (head of table), along with lawmakers, senior ASG officials, and Secretary of Samoan Affairs Mauga T. Asuega during an executive lunch at the new Satala Power Plant, after it was dedicated Thursday morning, May 25. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lolo%20group%201055.jpg?itok=kj8IfelF "Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and First Lady Cynthia Malala Moliga (head of table), along with lawmakers, senior ASG officials, and Secretary of Samoan Affairs Mauga T. Asuega during an executive lunch at the new Satala Power Plant, after it was dedicated Thursday morning, May 25. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]")
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has praised the American Samoa Power Authority board of directors for that they have achieved in the last five years by producing “some good results for our people.”
Writer launches children's book as part of NZ Samoan language week
![Helen Tau'au Filisi is holding an art exhibition and releasing a new children's book as part of Samoan language week. [photo: EMILY FORD/FAIRFAX NZ]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoan%20books.jpg?itok=TiYCmjIK "Helen Tau'au Filisi is holding an art exhibition and releasing a new children's book as part of Samoan language week. [photo: EMILY FORD/FAIRFAX NZ]")
Becoming a published author was always Helen Tau'au Filisi's dream.
STP cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Samoa, Tokelau
![Tri Marine's closure of Samoa Tuna Processors means a windfall for neighbouring Samoa and Tokelau. [photo: SO via Asia-Pacific Report]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Tri-Marine-plant-AmericanSamoa-SObserver-680wide.jpeg?itok=KEbOJDHt "Tri Marine's closure of Samoa Tuna Processors means a windfall for neighbouring Samoa and Tokelau. [photo: SO via Asia-Pacific Report]")
After the closure of one of its tuna canneries, American Samoa is looking to recover by giving away tonnes of the fish to its neighbours, a move welcomed by Tokelau.
Taoto fautuaga Kovana pe tatau ona fa’aauau pea Ofisa Turisi pe leai
Lulu aao le afioga i le ali’i kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga ma sui o lana kapeneta. [ata AF]
Se tasi o atina’e ua maitauina le faatupulaia i le atunu’u i le taimi nei, le atina’e o turisi. [ata AF]
Ua taoto atu nei se fautuaga mai le afioga i le ali’i kovana o le atunu’u i le Fa’atonusili Lagolago o le Ofisa o Turisi a le malo, ina ia toe fetu’una’i e le Ofisa o Turisi le tulaga tonu e tatau
Student mural in American Samoa
![Students from Wahtonka Community School pose in front of a 38-foot-by-13-foot mural they painted in an open-air high school cafeteria in American Samoa. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/students%20mural.jpg?itok=CImKW67e "Students from Wahtonka Community School pose in front of a 38-foot-by-13-foot mural they painted in an open-air high school cafeteria in American Samoa. [courtesy photo]")
An April trip to American Samoa by eight Wahtonka Community School students saw them paint a huge mural at an open air high school cafeteria in the island territory.