Let us remember...

On this Memorial Day, let us remember all those soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, who sacrificed their lives, so that we may be safe from harm. They will always be remembered!

Join us for the D204 Lions Clubs Summer Saturday Story Time - June 6, 2026

Join us for the D204 Lions Clubs Summer Saturday Story Time on June 6, 2026, via Zoom or in person at the Hagatna Public Library.  Register at https://bit.ly/lionsclubreading.  We look forward to seeing you there! 🦁📚🚤🌴☀️😃

Biba Kumpleanos, EvaDior! 🎂

Biba Kumpleanos to my beautiful goddaughter, Neni EvaDior! 🎂🎉💖🌺🥰

I am so proud of the amazing, kind, and beautiful young lady you are becoming. May this year bring you happiness, love, laughter, and endless blessings. Keep believing in yourself and shining bright.  Your future is so beautiful ahead.

Love you always, and I’m beyond proud of you! 🎂✨ Hu guaiya hao! 🥰🌺

Biba Ha’anen Man Nana❣️

Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible mothers everywhere! Your strength, love, and sacrifices never go unnoticed. Today, I want to honor my Amazing Mom with a special poem I wrote for her❣️

Hu Guaiya Hao, Mom

Mom –

If I haven’t said it enough,

if the words ever felt too small

or came too late –

hear me now.

Hu guaiya hao.

I love you.

I always have.

I always will.

You are more than one role –

You are the heart of our home,

the strength of our family,

the quiet force of inafa’maolek –

bringing harmony, holding us together

even when life tries to pull us apart.

Like the steady stone of the latte,

You stand firm –

rooted in faith,

grounded in love,

carrying generations before you

and lifting those who come after.

You are a healer and guide,

teacher and protector,

a driver of dreams down long island roads,

a keeper of memories beneath the sun

and the sound of the ocean’s embrace.

Through every sacrifice –

seen and unseen –

You gave pieces of yourself

so I could become whole.

Even when I didn’t say thank you,

even when my actions fell short,

your love never wavered.

It stayed.

It held.

It believed in me

when I didn’t believe in myself.

So today, and always, I say it with my whole heart –

Si Yu’os Ma’åse’, Mom.

For your love, your strength, your endless giving.

And if I forget to say it,

if life moves too fast and I get lost in it –

please remember this truth:

I carry you in everything I am.

Your strength is my strength.

Your love is my foundation.

Because of you, I know what it means

to care deeply,

to give freely,

to love without condition.

Mom –

Hu guaiya hao.

Now and always,

You are my home.

© Matilda Naputi Rivera