Archive - Feb 2012 - Article (News Story)

“Giving love is doing, and there is always more to do.” “Randy Travis.” [Recovering Alcoholic.]

Good day to all fans of Hawkeye on this fine Presidents Day. Hawkeye and Leanor placed our Flag its place on the roof for all to see. Hawkeye for one thinks that the Stars & Stripes are the most beautiful sight to behold, streaming in a gentle breeze.

The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society held its fall 2012 induction ceremony on Friday, February 17, welcoming 16 new members who took the oath of allegiance into the nationwide organization. Family and friends of new and existing PTK members joined members of the ASCC faculty and administration for this prestigious event, held in the ASCC lecture hall.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii— The Pearl Harbor Historic Sites has launched its new website, PearlHarborHistoricSites.org. The website features descriptions containing historical information, tour operation and other facts on all four Pearl Harbor historic sites and also includes a calendar of events, map and tips on how to plan your visit.

PETER Rockford Espiritu, the director of of the theatrical play Vaka: The birth of a Seer, was stunned by the response to the opening night show at the USP's Pacific ICT Theatre on Wednesday.

Mr Espiritu, who's also the writer and choreographer of the play, said the response was an encouragement to the theatrical industry.

"It was a stunning opening night," he said.

"It's been a long road for the production team and opening night was what we were all looking forward to. The cast and the crew rose to the occasion

HONOLULU -- More than 5,000 people applied for 175 flight attendant positions at Hawaiian Airlines, a record for the company.

Lines spilled out the doors at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall, everyone eager to land a job. The interviewing process is broken up into three steps, and most of the applicants won't get a job.

Amanda Hancock flew in from Maui, hoping to follow her mother's flight attendant career.

"I've grown up flying with her. (I) love the airport, love airplanes, love people, so I thought, 'Why not take it to the sky?"' Hancock said.

Guam - Guam is welcoming 30 participants from American Samoa who will be the first workers to benefit from a regional workforce center.

The workers will be the first students at a new regional training center created through the efforts of  the Guam and American Samoan Governments.The aim of the program is to provide the workers with the construction skills they need to get a job.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Their hometowns stretched from Connecticut to California. One young man was soon to become a father, another had just gotten engaged. One was a former youth pastor, while another was the son of one.

They were among the seven Marines killed in one of the Corps' deadliest aviation training accidents in years.

As their families grieved and shared memories, crews worked to clean up the accident site on a sprawling desert range near Yuma, Ariz.

OHANNESBURG (AP) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalized Saturday for a test to determine what is behind an undisclosed stomach ailment, and the country's current leader said the much beloved 93-year-old icon was in no danger.

Mandela, a Nobel peace laureate who spent 27 years in prison for fighting racist white rule, has officially retired and last appeared in public in July 2010. He became South Africa's first black president in 1994 and served one five-year term.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- On his way up, he fooled them all: judges, journalists, investors and companies.

Then the man who renamed himself Kim Dotcom finally did it. With an outsized ego and an eye for get-rich schemes, he parlayed his modest computing skills into an empire, becoming the fabulously wealthy computer maverick he had long claimed to be.

The foamy looking water in this photo is brine mixed with fish blood and oil that is draining from a fishing boat while it’s unloading its catch into a freezer — in this case the freezer facility is located at the StarKist Samoa cannery.

The brine (a mix of sea water & salt) is used to freeze the fish in transport. However, when the fish is unloaded, the brine has to be ‘dumped’ — right where the unloading is being done — in order for the fish to be easily transferred to the freezer(s).