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NOTICES Yellowstone Recruits for 2003 Youth Conseration Corps Program Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Suzanne Lewis has announced that recruiting for the park’s 2003 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program has begun. YCC is a summer employment program for young men and women age 15- 18. Through work projects done in the park, YCC provides enrollees with a better understanding of their environment and management of our natural resources. The 2003 YCC program will run for eight weeks from June 14 through Aug. 11 and participants will be required to live on location. Room and board will be provided at a minimal cost to enrollees. Wages will be set at the federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour. 2003 Siletz Tribal Athletic Commission Applications Due Deadline for consideration for 2003 committees is March 13, 2003 Any tribal member interested in serving on the commission for a three- year term must fill out the following form and return it to the address below prior to March 13, 2003, to be considered for the commission. Please send or fax your application to: Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon Attn: Executive Secretary to Tribal Council P.O. Box 549 Siletz, OR 97380-0549 The program will consist of a 30-member camp with enrollees selected nationwide. Participants must be at least 15 years of age by June 14, but must not turn 19 until after August 11. Applications must be postmarked by March 15, 2003. Selections will be made randomly from all qualifying applicants. Crews will focus their efforts on projects dealing with rehabilitation of trails and backcountry areas, campground restoration, and a wide variety of resource management, maintenance, and research projects. A wide spectrum of environmental education programs will be offered, as well as an extensive recreation program. For more information and/or an application, please contact the YCC program manager at Yellowstone National Park headquarters by calling 307-344-2148 or by writing the park, Attention: YCC Program, P.O. Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. The application also is available at www.nps.gov/yell/technical/jobs/ycc.htm. Completed applications should be sent to the address above. Fax: 541-444-8325 Name: Roll No: Address:______________ __ __________________________________________ City: State: ZIP Code: Telephone: Day ( ) Evening ( ) Tribal Council will review applications and approve an appointment at the regular Tribal Council meeting on March 15-16,2003. If you have any questions, please call Gayla Jones or Sue Lemaster at 1 -800-922-1399 or 541 -444-2532. Let’s Kick It With “Rez Robies” DreamCatchers has joined forces with The Northern Navajo Medical Center Health Promotions Program of Shiprock, N.M., to produce a health and fitness two-video set entitled “Rez Robies” and “Rez Robies for Couch Potato Skins.” The project was inspired by the fact that diabetes has become one of the most serious threats to the health of Indian people both on reservations and in urban settings. “Rez Robies” is a full-fledged aerobics video mixing pow-wow dancing and martial arts with normal aerobics movements. “Rez Robies for Couch Potato Skins,” which in November 2(M) 1 won the Best Public Service Announcement Award at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, is a half-hour comedy featuring two prominent Native actor/ comedians - Elaine Miles {Northern Exposure, Smoke Signals) and Drew 12 □ Siletz News □ the up- and-coming comedian who calls himself “300 pounds of love.” For more information on “Rez Robies” and on how to receive the two- video set free of charge, go directly to http://www.dreamcatchers.org/ rezrobicsZorder_info.html. The “Rez Robies” two-video set is free to Indian people. We’ll be glad to send you the free videos if you follow the directions below: For Indians living on or near the Navajo Nation: Contact Navajo Health Promotions at 505-368-6499. March 2003 For Indians outside the Navajo Nation: Send a self-addressed envelope or box large enough to fit two videos, padded to avoid damaging the videos during shipping. The _ padded envelope or box must have enough postage to cover the cost of shipping the videos to you. We recommend $5 of postage for priority mail using stamps, not metered postage (metered postage won’t work when mailed from a different location or on a different date). Send the self addressed and stamped envelope or box to Dreamcatchers, 23852 PCH #766, Malibu, CA 90265. For Native organizations with duplication capabilities: If you represent a Native organization with resources to professionally duplicate and distribute copies of “Rez Robies” free of charge to your community, you can receive betacam sp master copies by sending a request on your organization’s letterhead with a money order for $ 125 (U.S.). This will include the rights to make as many copies as you wish as long as no money is charged forthem. Send to Dreamcatchers, 23852 PCH #766, Malibu, CA 90265. For non-Indians: The “Rez Robies” programs were produced to fight diabetes in American Indian com munities. If you are non-Indian and want a set of videos, please consider making a donation of at least $40 to Dream catchers to assist in the free distribution of the programs to Indian people. As a gift of gratitude, we'll send you a set of videos. Send to Dreamcatchers, 23852 PCH #766, Malibu, CA 90265.
