"Mua'i tigaina mulia'i fa'aeaina! Sacrifice comes before success” - le manulauti na fa'ataua e le vasega fa'ai'uaso a le A'oga Maualuga a Leone mo lenei tausaga i le fa’au’uuina i le taeao o le aso Faraile o le vaiaso ua te’a, i le fale ta’alo a le aoga. Na tutula'i le susuga le faife'au Rev. Fa'alili Otineru o le EFKAS i Fagali'i, ma ia tapena se upu tomua mo le aso fa’amoemoeina. "Mua'i ositaulaga mulia'i Manuia" o le fa'aleagaga lea o le manulauti. O le tama'ita'i pule a'oga, Mrs. Mataua Aasa Matai sa fa'afeiloa'ia le au vala'aulia mamalu. Mai le to'a 140 o le ‘au fa'au'u, ua maua ai le togisilia i le vasega e le tama'ita'i o Stephanie Lynn Sagapolutele Floor mai Iliili. O ona matua o Patricia Ann Zecchini (ua tu’umalo) ma Carl Sagapolutele Floor, ma na soifua mai o ia ia Fepuari 9, 2000. E to’alua i la’ua ua mauaina le tulaga lua: Al Joe Aumua mai Pavaia'i. Na soifua mai o ia i le aso 15 Iulai, 2000 i ona matua o Sofeni ma Su'isu'i Aumua. O lana Ekalesia o le New Beginning United Pentecostal Church lea e tausia e ona matua fa'aleagaga Rev. Elder Taualai ma Eleitino Fa'ate'i. Elizabeth Liua Tevaseu Kepaoa, na soifua a'e o ia i Queensland, Ausetalia ia Aperila 29, 2000, ae ua aoaoina ma alaala tumau nei i Amerika Samoa. Na amata ana a'oa'oga i le Manumalo Baptist Academy i ana a'oa'oga tulaga muamua 2003 - 2012 ona fa'au'u lea i le vasega 8 mai le St Theresa Elementary i Leone i le 2014 ma amatalia ai ana a'oga maualuga i Leone.

Two local fighters representing American Samoa during the 2018 Oceania Youth Boxing Championships, which was also a Qualifier Championship for the Youth Olympics Games in Argentina this year, Falaniko Tauta and Jolando Taalo, posing with the American Samoa flag. Tauta has qualified for the 2018 Youth Olympics Games

CODY WOOD

The American Samoa Government’s fiscal year 2019 budget threshold is set at the same ceiling as the current fiscal year, and last Friday was the deadline for proposed budget submissions, according to the Office of Program Planning and Budget director Catherine D. Saelua’s budget call letter, which went out earlier this month. The ASG FY 2018 approved budget stands at $394.76 million.The decision to keep the FY 2019 ceiling at the current fiscal year’s ceiling was based on “close consultation with our budget and revenue experts,” said Saelua in the budget call letter, which was approved by the governor, and sent to all Executive branch departments and agencies.Saelua informed directors that budget negotiations would be scheduled if needed, upon receipt of the respective agency/department’s budget submissions prior to being finalized.