Holiday break for cannery workers and school kids is over

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — StarKist Samoa, with more than 2,000 workers, is scheduled to resume production today, after its two-week annual end of the year holiday shut down. At the same time, all public and the majority of private school students return to class today, which means busy early morning traffic.

Last week, StarKist issued a reminder to its workforce of the planned resumption of production today. Some cannery departments — such as Quality Assurance and Butchering — began their shifts yesterday evening (Sunday).

(See last Friday’s Samoa News edition for information).

Along with StarKist, Talofa Systems American Samoa Inc., the can plant in Satala, also resumes production today, although certain shifts were back on schedule early last week.

Students return to the classrooms today after the annual two-week holiday break.