TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS
USDA Sets Distribution
News from Enrollment
by Lisa Norton
Salem
Monday, March 6
3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 7
8 a.m. -7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8
8 a.m. -5 p.m.
Hello again!
Missing Moccasins. Please review this
Death Benefits - If you haven’t list to see if you may have an address
updated your beneficiary designation for these people. Unfortunately, if they
form lately, give me a call so we can are on the list, they probably don’t have
verify that the person you have access to Siletz News, so it’s up to you,
Siletz
designated is still the person you want their family and friends, to let us know
Monday, March 13
8 a.m. -3 p.m.
to take care of this. This is especially how we can reach them.
Tuesday, March 14
8 a.m. -3 p.m.
important for those of you who have
Wednesday, March 15 8 a.m. -3 p.m.
Every year, there are many
turned
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in
the
last
couple
of
years
Thursday, March 16
complaints about tribal members not
8 a.m. -3 p.m.
because
the
form
your
guardian
Friday, March 17
getting ballots or important mailings, but
8 a.m. -3 p.m.
completed for you is no longer valid.
it is each person’s responsibility to make
Some of you may have
USDA is open every day in Siletz
sure that the Enrollment Department has
designated a person who has since
except for the days we are in Salem. The
an accurate address. It only takes a
passed
away
or
maybe
you
were
Siletz warehouse is closed the last two
minute to call and confirm your address
recently
married
or divorced. Whatever
working days in Siletz for inventory
or to fill out the address change form
the reason, it only takes a couple of
USDA thanks the following
published in every newsletter.
minutes and it works to your family’s
people for their work at our warehouses:
Please keep in mind that we’re
benefit in the long run.
Larry Russell, Lily Rilatos, Charlene
not all working off the same address list.
Missing
Moccasins
*
-
Minjarez, and Randy Butler for their hard
If you change your address with one
Unfortunately, the list of people for whom
work in Salem; and Sage Butler, Duane
department, it may not get forwarded to
the Enrollment Department has no valid
Endres, Edd Wilson, Daniel Brown, Lily
other departments. You will either need
Rilatos, Terry McAlpine, and Steve Nye address is growing. In this issue of Siletz to call each department or ask that
News, I have once again listed the
for helping to unload the truck in Siletz.
department to forward your address to
USDA welcomes Manuel Bayya at our
the rest of us.
Siletz warehouse.
Addresses and Confidentiality
- For those of you who are not aware,
Tribal Council passed a resolution
Siletz Tribal Charitable Ad-Hoc Committee
awhile back stating that addresses are
Recommendations
no longer confidential. This means that
if a person or organization calls this
18t Quarter Distribution
Approved by Tribal Council - Feb. 19, 2000
department and requests an address, I
am authorized to release that
Name of Organization
information. Those of you who do not
Amount
want your address released must write
CTSI-Royalty
a request to the Council secretary
1,500
NARF
stating that your address should not be
1,000
VFW Post 732
released. Once we receive this, we will
200
Cultural Heritage Committee
no longer release your address for any
2,975
Siletz Head Start
purpose other than within tribal
2,000
Lincoln Co. School District- Dianne Hall-Siletz School
operations (i.e., newsletter, social
3,700
Siletz School Technology Center
services, health).
2,500
Toledo High School Basketball
Office Hours - I work Monday
1,200
Lincoln Co. School District-Siletz Middle School
through Friday and am in the office from
1,175
Toledo High School Track Team
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you call and I don’t
2,000
Toleuo Sports Complex-Committee/Booster Club
1,000
answer, please leave a message on my
Oregon Web Sites & Watershed for
voice mail and I will get back to you. I
Siletz River Days Activity
2,500
am often on the other line or just away
North Lincoln Hospital Child Development Center
1,000
from my desk for the moment. Your calls
PSU Native American Center Fund-raiser
1,000
are important and I will return them.
CTSI-Hatchery Project
3,000
Again, if you have any questions
Lincoln Co. School District-Siletz School
6,300
or you want to follow up on something
Total
33,050
in this article, give me a call at
1-800-922-1399, ext. 258, or my direct
Tribal Council will schedule a public distribution of funds
line at 541 -444-8258, or write to me.
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