First woman elected to Yap's state legislature

Weekender #38

You’re reading The Husk's Friday Saturday edition, our Weekender, a countdown/roundup of miscellanea from Micronesia, Guam, and Earth.

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things to know about the first woman elected to Yap’s state legislature

• Her name is Anne Marie Lamaar¹

• With 1,009 votes, Lamaar was the second-highest vote-getter among the candidates, per the Pacific Island Times.

• Lamaar is the operations manager for JC Company, her family’s construction firm, and the former manager of Community AYUW Services Credit Union, the Pacific Island Times reported.

stories featuring Micronesians

• FSM boys are in Guam competing in FIBA’s Under 15 Oceania Championships for the first time. In their first game, team FSM beat the CNMI.

• Marshallese culture is highlighted in a mural painted in a Walmart in Arkansas. Here’s another cool story from K-Andrea Evarose Limol, a reporter with the Marianas Variety.

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climate migration story

• Tuvalu announced plans to become the first digitized nation in the metaverse. Simon Kofe, Tuvalu’s foreign minister, said,

  “Since COP26, the world has not acted and so we in the Pacific have had to act. We've had to take our own precautionary steps with a Future Now project. As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become the world's first digital nation.”

Every week (that the Weekender comes out) we’ll leave you with a send-off song curated by my brother, Henry, whose musical tastes have left a lifelong impression on me and, now hopefully, you.

This week’s song is “Change the World.”

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I hope your Thanksgiving weekend is going well! I am grateful for all of you who have subscribed to or have read The Husk. This is one big experiment on my part and I’m honestly amazed that anyone, let alone you! a spectacular being! is willing to come along for the ride. If you ever have any thoughts, I’m an email away.

-Jasmine

1. I was first alerted about this momentous election by a reader, Frances. Thank you, Frances!