Free wrestling clinics ongoing at DYWA Youth Center
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 12:18pm
![Aspiring wrestlers from around the territory were at the DYWA Pago Pago Community Youth Center yesterday morning to take advantage of the free wrestling clinics being conducted by Alex Ramirez (back row far left), an educator and high school wrestling coach from southern California. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/future%20wrestlers.jpg?itok=NgFTJTAc "Aspiring wrestlers from around the territory were at the DYWA Pago Pago Community Youth Center yesterday morning to take advantage of the free wrestling clinics being conducted by Alex Ramirez (back row far left), an educator and high school wrestling coach from southern California. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
![Two of the youngest participants who showed up yesterday for the free wrestling clinics being held at the DYWA Pago Pago Youth Center and taught by visiting coach Alex Ramirez. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/little%20boys.jpg?itok=ryMtaZ6_ "Two of the youngest participants who showed up yesterday for the free wrestling clinics being held at the DYWA Pago Pago Youth Center and taught by visiting coach Alex Ramirez. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
![DYWA Deputy Director Pa'u Roy Ausage with Alex Ramirez, a volunteer wrestling coach from southern California who is in the territory conducting free wrestling clinics for locals at the Pago Pago Community Youth Center. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/DYWA%20Deputy%20and%20coach.jpg?itok=PYlZjZrK "DYWA Deputy Director Pa'u Roy Ausage with Alex Ramirez, a volunteer wrestling coach from southern California who is in the territory conducting free wrestling clinics for locals at the Pago Pago Community Youth Center. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
Alex Ramirez shares the same vision as American Samoa Wrestling Association (ASWA) President Irene Kane.
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![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Pago%20Dist%20Court%20014_26.jpeg?itok=2MJFLEA2 "[SN file photo]")
![Staghorn corals killed by coral bleaching on Bourke Reef, on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, November 2016. [Photo: Greg Torda / ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/coral.jpg?itok=P_gKosJ- "Staghorn corals killed by coral bleaching on Bourke Reef, on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, November 2016. [Photo: Greg Torda / ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies]")
Villages helping Villages
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 11:58am
![Illegal dumping along the road to and from Fagasa, where households, contractors and others dump along the steep slopes everything from construction debris, auto parts, and kitchen trash. Yes everything including the kitchen sink. [Courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Illegal%20Dumpig%202%20Pic.jpg?itok=rkkLnwhS "Illegal dumping along the road to and from Fagasa, where households, contractors and others dump along the steep slopes everything from construction debris, auto parts, and kitchen trash. Yes everything including the kitchen sink. [Courtesy photo]")
Villages helping Villages is the motto of the American Samoa Illegal Dumping Task Force, a group established last year to combat the problem of illegal dumping.
King tides expected to arrive in territory on Friday
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 11:52am
The National Weather Service is advising of the KING TIDES expected arrival for all of American Samoa this Friday, June 23 and Saturday, June 24, 2017 around 06:00 a.m. and 07:30 a.m.
ASTCA workers being forced by Interim CEO to retire or resign
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 11:43am
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As reported in Samoa News yesterday, Chairman/Interim CEO of the American Samoa Tele Communications Authority, Hon. Pulelei’ite Li'a Tufele Jr.
Min wage hike will be final nail in coffin for local economy, says DOC
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 11:41am
![Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lafaele%206495_1.jpg?itok=lB00B9Mc "Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele [SN file photo]")
Another federally mandated minimum wage hike following last year’s closure of Samoa Tuna Processors (STP) Inc., would be a devastating blow to American Samoa’s economy an
Free Wrestling Clinics
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 11:33am
A young boy squares up against the only local female that showed up for the first session of the free wrestling clinics conducted by PRIMAL executive Alex Ramirez, in collaboration with the America
Experts: US exiting climate pact may doom some small islands
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 10:59am
![In this Nov. 5, 2015 file, aerial photo a small uninhabited island that has slipped beneath the water line only showing a small pile of rocks at low tide on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. [AP file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Majuro%20Atoll.jpg?itok=0rlUnlLL "In this Nov. 5, 2015 file, aerial photo a small uninhabited island that has slipped beneath the water line only showing a small pile of rocks at low tide on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. [AP file photo]")
WASHINGTON (AP) — To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S.
Molia se ali’i Faifeau mai Savai’i fa’ao’olima ma le fa’atupu vevesi
Thu, 06/22/2017 - 5:31am
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Na fa’ai’u puta le malaga a se ali’i Faifeau mai Savai’i lea na ulufale mai i le vaiaso na te’a nei e auai i le fa’alavelave a lona aiga i Amerika Samoa nei, ina ua taofia o ia i le toese i Tafuna