ground breaking ceremony
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The official ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the “Pago Pago, American Samoa Temple” for on Ottoville Road that was held last Saturday comes at a time when the Church’s membership has grown to more than 16,000 in the territory. And its roots began in...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, Police Commissioner Le’i Sonny Thompson, along with ASG officials and others turn the soil during yesterday’s ground breaking ceremony for a new inmate security building at the Territorial Correctional Facility. Silva Construction has been awarded the contract for $810,...

![Among the VIPs who were in the first group to turn-the-soil at last Saturday’s Ground Breaking ceremony for the Pago Pago, American Samoa Temple on Ottoville Road at the Central Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Those in the first-group included First Lady, Ella Perefoti Mauga (fourth from left) with Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga (fifth from left) and Elder K. Brett Nattress (sixth from left) of The Church’s Pacific Area Presidency. [photo: FS] First Lady, Ella Perefoti Mauga (fourth from left) with Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga (fifth from left) and Elder K. Brett Nattress (sixth from left)](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_n_temple_ceremony.jpg?itok=ImxCXmx4)
