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Another teenager from our community, Ophylia Mona Lisa Afuha'amango, committed suicide this week. She was friends of Seema Singh and Maikeli Iongi who both died tragically last month. A local young leader put it into descripttive words this week when he said, "Our community is on fire." Most especially, the Pacific Islander community has gone through many trials. Please continue to pray for the youth in East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park. While there are less gunshots and homicides right now, kids are still dying. This is the second suicide of a young person, both hangings, in the last two weeks. The Palo Alto Daily News reports : Students Mourn Classmate At the start of her sophomore year at Menlo-Atherton High School, Ophylia Mona Lisa Afuha'amango wrote a letter to one of her teachers. "Something that I'd like you to know is that I'm striving to get back into AS English next year and hopefully AP Lit my senior year. ... I'm excited for this yea...

I mentioned about a young lady who was murdered last Monday. Seema Singh was a former student at BCM. The San Jose Merc reported further about her life: "Singh was driving alone in a Honda Accord about 7 p.m. Monday near Westminster Avenue at Alberni Street when she was shot once in the left temple, police said. The gunshot caused her to career into a power pole. No one knows much about the shooting, but Prasad said he spoke with a mutual friend the night Singh died and learned that she left home about 7 p.m. and was headed to the home of a friend named Ronald. She never made it. For Singh, it was a tragic ending to a difficult life. She had a history of family troubles and she had left high school early. But Prasad said Singh had begun to turn things around, studying at a college and working security at a San Mateo mall. Singh's father died several years ago and Singh lived with her mother and sister in a home in East Palo Alto, which Prasad said was in a ``scary-ish neighbo...