December 06, 2008. -- Si'oto 'Ofa JOURNAL -- Volume 01 Number 01
Si‘oto ‘Ofa JOURNAL
"Sēnelo Si‘oto ‘Ofa"
3007 South Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah 84165 USA
Ko e kuaea 'a e Siasi Uesiliana (Methodist) 1300 South State Street, Salt Lake City. Talēkita ko 'Atonio Ma'u.
600-tupu Kāinga Tonga 'i
he Pōhiva Kilisimasi 2008
Fa'u 'a Sione A. Mokofisi, 'ētita-pule
(Editor-in-chief)
Na'e 'ikai ta'ofi 'e he sinōú mo e momokó 'a e fononga mai 'a e Hou'eiki mo e Kāinga Tonga siasi kehekehe 'o 'Iutā ́ 'i he efiafi Sāpate, 14 'o Tīsemá, ke nau fanongo mo mamata 'i he ngaahi hiva mo e ifi Pōhiva Kilisimasi Ta'u-15 'a e National Tongan-American Society (NTAS). Ko e fakahoko e pōhiva ni na'e loto-fiefia 'a e kāingalotu 'o e Siasi Uēsiliana (Methodist) Laumālie Mā'oni'oni 'o Salt Lake Citý, Utah, 'oku faifekau ai 'a Rev. Havili Mone, ke nau talitali 'a e kātoanga Kilisimasi ní.
Ko e falelotu ni foki ko e Huufi 'E he 'Ene Afio Langitō, Taufa'ahau Tupou IV 'i he 2004, 'o Ne Fakahuafa ko e Falelotu Laumālie Mā'oni'oni.
Na'e me'a 'i he pōhiva ni 'a Hou'eiki Siosefa Alematea Vaha'i ko e fakaafe fakalangilangi mei Tonga, pea mo e Fakafofonga Kakai (Dem.) ki he Fale Alea 'Ameliká ko Jim Matheson. Ko e lea Pōpōaki Kilisimasi mei he Pule'anga 'Ameliká na'e malanga'i ia 'e he Fakafofonga Kakai Matheson. Pea hiva'i solo 'a e Fasi 'o e Pule'anga 'Ameliká 'e he ta'ahine finemui le'o faka'ofo'ofa ko Sulieti Tu'ifua, mei he kāingalotu Siasi Laumālie Ma'oni'oní. Na'e foaki e lea Pōpōaki Kilisimasi mei Tongá 'i he me'a 'a Hou'eiki Vaha'i, pea tā mai 'e he Kauifi To'utupu Siasi Tongá (Tataki ifi 'a Tū'uta Sēkeni) 'a e Fasi 'o e Tu'i Tongá.
Ko e Fakafofonga Kakai (Dem.) ko Jim Matheson.
Na'e fakahokohoko 'a e ngaahi kuaea hiva 'a e ngaahi siasí mo e ongo kauifi palasá, 'o kau ai mo e ngaahi kuaea 'a e fānau iikí, pea mo e kau hiva 'a e ngaahi kulupu 'o e to'utupú. Ne 'i ai e ngaahi hiva himi 'anitema, pea lahiange e ngaahi hiva himi 'o e ngaahi siasi lotú, ka e si'isi'i e ngaahi hiva faka-fiefia 'o e fa'ahita'u Kilisimasí. Ko e tokolahi 'o e ngaahi kuaeá, neongo e mālie 'enau ngaahi hivá, ne hangē pe 'a e Pōhiva Kilisimasi ni ia ha faka'ali'ali 'enau ngaahi hiva lotú. Ne taitaitaha ke fai ha ngaahi hiva mo ha ngaahi fasi Kilisimasi totonu 'a e ngaahi kuaeá, tukukehe 'a e kau fefine hiva solo 'i he talitali mo e fakanofonofo 'o e kātoangá.
'Oku kau eni he ngaahi polokalama 'aonga ki he maheni mo e feohi 'a hotau kakai Tonga 'i 'Iutā ní. Ko e ngaahi le'o mālie na'e fanongo ki ai e kakaí 'oku hāhāmolofia ke tau fanongo ai. Ko e tokosi'i pē 'oku nau fa'a faka'ali'ali honau ngaahi talēnití 'i he Friendly Islands Festival 'a e NTAS 'oku fai ma'upē 'i 'Aokosi 'o e ta'u kotoa. 'A ia ko e tu'o ua pē he ta'u 'etau ma'u faingamālie 'o fanongo mo mamata ai ki he ngaahi talēniti faka'ofo'ofa ni.
Kau hiva 'a e Talavou mo e Finemui te'eki ai 'ohana 'o e Siasi 'o Sisū Kalaisi 'o e Ngaahi 'Aho Ki Mui Ní.
(This article is still in progress; please visit our Image Gallery to view the photojournalism work of editor Sione A. Mokofisi and other photographers. For more news articles please visit our Website often.)
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS NEEDS
NTAS VOLUNTEERS
The NTAS Board of Directors has a few vacant seats that needed to be filled with interested volunteers who wished to help and make a difference in the life of Tongan-Americans in health, education, the arts, sports, and administration.
The Board is also welcoming interested responsible people wishing to extend NTAS's services in other states. Interested individuals are encouraged to contact the NTAS Salt Lake City Office to inquire and receive training in preparation to open a new NTAS chapter.
2008 NTAS Diabetes Seminar Attendantees
Volunteers are needed in these services:
Health
Community heal services
Medicare, Medicaid
Social Security Benefits
Family
Education
Children
Reef of Today
- High School
- Colleges
Training the Trainer
Recurrence Training
Tu'ipelehakes' Leadership Scholarships
NTAS Program Director 'Ivoni Nash at the Salt Lake City office.
(Photo by SAMokofisi)
The current Board Members:
Lupe Prescott - President
Fāhina Pasi - Director
'Ivoni Nash - Program Director
Dr. Brenda Ralls - Health
Siu'ea Kupu - Pharmacy & medicine
Sioeli 'Uluakiola - Inter-faith Liaison
'Alamā 'Ulu'ave - Education
Sione K. Lui - Tongan Culture, Traditions
Nola V. Lātu - Insurance
Tonga Kulaea Taulanga - Nurses, health
Rebecca Ward - Aging Services (hospice)
Supi Ma'ilei - Parenting
Sione A. Mokofisi - Sports Director
Please contact the NTAS Salt Lake City Office, or contact us via e-mail if you wish to promote the services offered in your field of expertise.
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FIEMA'U KAU TOKONI
KI HE POATĒ´
'Oku 'oatu heni 'a e fakaafe ki a kinautolu 'oku fie tokoni ke mou hoko ko ha kau mēmipa 'o e Poate 'a e NTAS. Ko e ngaahi tu'unga ngāue tokoni ní 'oku lava ke mou tokoni ai ki he Hou'eiki mo e kāinga Tonga nofo 'Ameliká.
'Oku fakaafe atu foki ki he Hou'eiki mo e kāinga 'oku nofo 'i he ngaahi siteiti 'o 'Amelika ní ke mou fakahoko 'a e ngaahi tokoni 'a e NTAS 'i homou ngaahi koló takitaha. Fetu'utaki mai ki he 'ofisi 'i Salt Lake City ke 'oatu e ngaahi fakahinohino ke ako 'i he ngaahi potungāue tokoni 'a e Sōsaietí.
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Hibiscus flower (matala'i kaute) is best worn as a sei above either ear, or used for decorations in special events.
"Si'oto 'Ofa
Journal"
Published
A quarterly on-line newsletter is published by the National Tongan-American Society (NTAS) to provide information, and to solicit feedbacks and inputs from members and friends, and the publication is called the "Si'oto 'Ofa Journal".
In Tongan, Si'oto 'Ofa (lit. My Love) is an endeared greeting to one's beloved relative, friend, or anyone the greeter had missed and longed to see for a while.The selection of the name for the NTAS newsletter is appropriate to describe our longing to communicate with you, our beloved members and friends, whom we have not seen or heard from in a while. We anticipate that your receiving the Si'oto 'Ofa Journal (SOJ) will provide some useful information for you and your kāinga (extended-family), that you would also let us know how you are doing, and how we could find opportunities to benefit us all.
Journalist Sione Mokofisi named editor
Named as editor-in-chief is experienced journalist Sione Ake Mokofisi. His writings had been published both in Tongan and English in Taimi 'o Tonga, Tonga Star, Tau'atāina Tonga and distributed in the U.S. Mainland, Hawai'i, Tonga, New Zealand, and Australia.
Mokofisi began his journalism career as reporter, photojournalist, and editor of Ke Alaka'i student newspaper of Brigham Young University - Hawai'i where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree; and later earned a graduate degree in Master of Business Administration from the School of Advanced Studies, University of Phoenix where he is currently studying for a doctoral degree in international business administration.
His full-time career is in travel industry management involving airlines customer service management, hotel management, travel and tour companies management. His journalism experience also included reporter for the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, Billings (Montana) Daily Gazette; the weekly Alaska Business Journal; the Alaska Oil and Gas News magazine columnist; editor, Tundra Drums; Officiating.com magazine columnist.
Print Publication Planned
SOJ is published quarterly electronically for now, but we hope to publish a print version as well to be mailed to our kāinga who do not have access to the Internet. It is published in English and in Tongan, and the editors wished to add other Polynesian and Paicific Islands languages when Sāmoan, Māori, Tahitian, Hawaiian, Fijian, and Micronesian writers joined the staff.
SOJ coverage will include news and commentaries on issues concerning NTAS members and friends.
PHOTOS BELOW: Utah Gov. John Hunstsman hosts Tonga's Crown Prince Tupouto'a now King George Tupou V who was crowned August 1, 2008. (See related Coronation article in this issue).
Ko e talitali 'e he Kōvana 'Iutá John Hunstman 'a e Tama Pilinisi Kalauni Tupouto'a kimu'a pea hoko ko Tu'i Siaosi Tupou V 'i he hilifaki kalauni 'i 'Aokosi 01, 2008. Vakai ki he fakamatala 'o e hilifaki kalauní 'i he peesi 2. (Photographers: left and right photos by Mat Mataele; center photo by SAMokofisi).
SOJ coverage will also include:
- NTAS services in health and education,
- Legal and immigration issues (U.S., and Tongan dual citizenship),
- Events such as seminars, clinics, social services training, sports, and festivals,
- The arts such as concerts, cultural performances, training,
- News, and commentaries on issues concerning NTAS members and friends.
Please contact us with your questions, concerns, requests, and wishes to our e-mail address, or write and call our address in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Pulusi Sēnolo Si'oto 'Ofá
ke Fakalakalaka Fetu'utakí
'Ētitá: Sione A. Mokofisi
(Photo: Mat Mataele)
Kuo pulusi 'e he NTAS 'a e nusipepa 'Initaneti kuo fakahingoa ko e Sēnolo Si'oto 'Ofa ko e faka'amu ke fakalakalaka 'a e fetu'utakí mo e kāinga kotoa 'oku fie ma'u tokoni mei he National Tongan-American Society.
'I he lea Tongá, ko Si'oto 'Ofá ko e lea talitali 'o ha kāinga 'ofa, koha maheni 'ofa, pe ko ha taha pē kuo fuoloa 'ene mama'o atu mo e fuoloa e ta'e fesiofakí. 'Oku faka'aonga'i 'e he NTAS 'a e lea Tonga faka'ofo'ofa ni ke fakaofiofi mai hotau kāingá moe ngaahi maheni 'i ha 'atau toutou fetu'utaki.
'Ētita Maheni Faiongoongo
Kuo fokotu'u ai 'a e tangata Tonga faiongoongo mo faitohi maheni 'i 'Amelika ni 'i he lea Tongá mo e 'Ingilisí ko Sione Ake Mokofisi ki he fatongia ko e 'ētita-pule. Kuo pulusi 'ene faiongoongo mo e faitohi 'i he ngaahi nusipepa lea Tonga mo e 'Ingilisi ko e Taimi 'o Tongá, Tonga Star, Tau'atāina Tonga 'o tufaki 'i 'Amelika Lahi, Hawai'i, Tonga, Nu'usila, pea mo 'Aositelelia.
Na'e kamata 'e ne faiongoongo mo e faitohí ko e 'ētita 'o e nusipepa 'a e Brigham Young University-Hawai'i (B.Sci.), hokoatu 'o ngāue ki he ongo nusipepa faka-'aho ko e Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News mo e Billings (Montana) Daily Gazette; ko e nusipepa faka-uike ko e Alaska Business Journal mo e makasini ko e Alaska Oil & Gas News. Kuo 'i ai hono M.B.A. mei he University of Phoenix.
Ke Pulusi Nusipepa
'Oku 'oatu 'a e Sēnolo Si'oto 'Ofá 'i he 'Initanetí ka 'oku mau faka'amu ke pulusi ha nusipepa 'o tufa ki he ni'ihi 'oku 'ikai ke nau faka'aonga'i 'a e komipiutá. 'Oku paaki atu eni 'i he lea Tonga mo e Pilitāniá, ka 'oku 'i ai e faka'amu ke tānaki mai ha kau fa'utohi 'i he lea Ha'amoa, Māuli, Hauai'i, Tahiti, Fisi, pea mo e kakai Maikolōnīsiá.
'E 'oatu heni 'a e ongoongo mo e fakaikiiki 'o e ngaahi me'a 'oku mahu'inga ki he Hou'eiki mo e kāinga kotoa 'oku 'oatu ki ai e ngaahi tokoni 'a e NTAS.
'Oku paaki atu heni e ngaahi ongoongo fekau'aki moe:
- Ngaahi potungāue tokoni 'i he mo'ui leleí, mo e akó,
- Fakalao, visa mo e paasipooti 'Amelika mo e Tongá,
- Ngaahi fakataha, seminā, kilīniki, sipoti, mo e ngaahi fakafiefiá,
- Ko e ngaahi ouau fakafonua, koniseti, ngāue fakamea'a, tāvalivali, hiva mo e ngaahi faivá,
- Ngaahi ongoongo mo e faka'uhinga'i 'o e politikale moe fakalakalaka 'i he mītia faiongoongó, tekinolosia, 'ikanōmika mo e fakapa'angá.
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Si'oto 'Ofa Journal (SOJ) online newsletter is published by the National Tongan-American Society (NTAS) to communicate, educate, entertain, and to keep its members properly informed. In Tongan, Si'oto 'Ofa (lit. My Love) is an endeared greeting to one's beloved relative, friend, or anyone the greeter had missed and longed to see for a while. Si'oto 'Ofa Journal staff members are dedicated to journalism accuracy and business professionalism. As a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization, NTAS is limited by Internal Revenue Service codes from promoting certain political activities. However, thought-provoking commentaries and creative journalistic views are encouraged by the Society in this newsletter, and on this Website.
(Edited on the MacBook)
