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About the administrator

Welcome to American Samoa and to pagopago.com I hope you will enjoy your visit and return often to see what I have been up to.

About the webmaster You might be interested to know a bit about me. I came to American Samoa in 1966. I am a printer and graphic artist by trade.During the past 40 years I have been in many business ventures and enjoyed many adventures. I have always enjoyed bringing new, leading edge things to American Samoa. Now I am winding down and attempting to keep up with technology. One of my favorite projects has been producing the local telephone directory, which you can find on this site.I consider this site development a real challenge and it keeps me busy just trying to learn all this new stuff. If you see faults in my site please let me know. About this site This web site has been many things over the past 10 years. I started off showing a bunch of pictures and trying to learn how to build a site. In 1999, I decided to try e-commerce. That was a big job in those days. I never sold much and I learned how difficult it can be to create attractive web pages to sell products. Next, I changed the title of the site to Ugly American Samoa because I was sick and tired of seeing these beautiful islands destroyed by the litter of modern times. There were hundreds of photographs showing what a mess we had here. I took considerable criticism but, at the end of the day, all the problems I showed on the site were corrected or work was undertaken to make improvements.

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1. Patrick said,
   
   

   on February 18th, 2008 at 9:20 am

   Administrator, “Way to Go” on the photographs, sometimes you have to expose a problem to get something done. You should run for a government office. I happened upon your site while visiting various sites in the south Pacific. I actually run a local Sales and Service Retail store in addition to an e-commerce site for Outdoor Power Equipment, parts, and supplies. I have Google Earth and have viewed your island. Quite the place from a NASA point of view. Being from Arkansas and having once lived in Hawaii, I prefer the mainland, but certainly envy the peacful islanders of the South Pacific. Perhaps some day I will visit.
   Patrick from Arkansas

2. Hawkeye said,
   
   

   on May 11th, 2008 at 9:13 am

   There are still many negative photos in my archives that I would be happy to share. There are also many photos of positive inprovement’s that have been made to our surroundings over the past 22 years.
   The earlier photos by the site administrator definitely had a positive impact.
   While there is much to be done in the way of Island Litter, it takes an all hands effort to succeed. This, as I see it, is not happening.
   As we enter in to hosting one of the most important event’s in the history of American Samoa, “The Tenth Pacific Arts Festival,” we are still “BOUND BY LITTER!”
   I maintain that as long as the local govenment continue to sponsor clean-up details, that the litter problem will not go away.
   I believe the answer is to impliment somewhat of a “Singapore Effect,” in the enforcement of local litter laws. Granted, there are extremes either way, but as long as our government continue to pay people to clean up after those who litter, we will continue to loose the battle.
   We want visitors to leave our shores with positive thoughts, and comments.
   There is an old saying: “Good News Travels Fast.” “Bad News Travels Faster!”
   In conclusion, it is our citizens who will make it happen in the end.
   Thank you.

3. Hawkeye said,
   
   

   on May 11th, 2008 at 9:19 am

   On a different note, What Really happened to the Volinteer Members of the Church of Scientology?
   I passed by their tents on my way to lunch one day, and there were about 7 uniformed officials in the tent.
   When I returned 1 hour later, there were no tents left standing. They were all appearently in the yellow container which is sitting at the intersection of the scrap yard and the Military PX. today.
   Were these people forced to leave Island dur to expired Visas, or was it the pressure from the various religious denominations that caused them to flee?
   “Hey,” “Just Asking.

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