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TRIBAL MEMBER NEWS Staggs Returns from Iraq by Your Aunties George Siniscal stands in front of Golden Bear Video in Lincoln City. Golden Bear Video Celebrates One-Year Anniversary by Lisa Norton George Siniscal, a graduate of the Starting a Successful Business program offered through the tribe, recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of Golden Bear Video. Golden Bear Video is a video rental business he co-owns with partner Charles Boston in Lincoln City, Ore. It originally opened in the Taft area on March 12, 2003. In January 2004, they decided to move farther north to a less- expensive and better location. Since then, George says business has been booming. In fact, he’s opened at least 200 new accounts in the short time since the move. Further, March was his best month ever. He says that it took awhile to start making a profit, but now that he is, things couldn’t be better. When asked why he chose to go into business for himself, George said he’d been thinking about it for a long time. After he retired, the opportunity arose and he figured, “Why not?” According to George, “It's been a lot of fun.” It’s obvious that he enjoys the business because when he’s not visiting with customers, he can always be found rearranging his store to make it look the best he can. Further, he can tell from memory where each video is located in the store. I had the opportunity to visit with him at the store one day and he took great pride in showing off his creation. 18 □ Siletz News □ I asked him why he thought he was so successful and he replied, “Small business can succeed if the location is right, if you have great customer service, a good selection, and a good value.” It’s obvious that George has just those things. •••••••••••••• Golden Bear Video is located at 1800 SE Highway 101 in Lincoln City and is open every day from noon to 9 p.m. George usually is in the store on Tues day afternoons and all day Wednesday through Friday. He invites you to stop in, say hi, and rent a video or two. Golden Bear Video specials include three movies for three days for $3 on older videos. It also offers pre-paid rentals as a way to save money and will rent to folks from out of town. If you have questions or would like to contact George, the phone number is 541-994-5437. May 2004 Long Makes Dean’s List Chadwick Long has made the Dean’s List at Oregon Coast Com munity College for the winter 2004 term. The Dean’s List includes students with a 3.50 to 3.74 GPA for six or more graded college credits. Congratulations! Abraham Lawney Staggs is home from Iraq, where he served for 355 days. He was honored at a ceremony March 16 at Fort Hood, Texas. He served in the Mili tary Police, U.S. Army, 4th Infantry Division. Abe is the son of Kenneth Staggs and the grandson of Charles (Chuck) Staggs and Gladys (Tom) Staggs. We want to welcome Abe home and tell him how much we appreciate his giving one year of his life, time without family and friends, leaving behind all of those precious little daily events to go into battle to secure our freedom. We are proud of you, Abe, for your willingness to fight for our country and freedom, that same freedom we all enjoy as American citizens. Our prayers have been answered. We can never express how proud we are of you! Welcome home! Abraham Lawney Staggs Garden of Eden by Racheal Croucher Right now, everyone in the world could be relaxing in a paradise world. There would be no worries or fears. This paradise world is called the Garden of Eden. We would all be happy and content. We would not have to work hard or feel pain. One day many, many years ago, The Lord God put Adam in the Garden of Eden. God told Adam that he could eat any of the fruit in the garden, except the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. He also told Adam that if he ate the fruit, he would die. God created animals so Adam would not be alone. God created a helper for Adam. “I will call her Woman,” said Adam. The woman’s name is Eve. Of all the animals in the garden, Snake is the most clever. He tricked Adam and Eve into eating some of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. When God heard about the snake tricking Adam and Eve into eating the fruit, he punished the snake, Adam, and Eve. Now women will have pain during childbirth; men have to work hard for their food. Now life is difficult. We have to work hard for food and we feel pain. If there was one thing in the world that I could change, it would have to be Eve’s choice to eat the fruit. If Eve wouldn’t have eaten the fruit, we would all be living like kings in paradise. When you ask somebody if they could change one thing in the world, most people would say “world peace” or “end of homeless people.” In this theory, if you changed Eve’s actions, we would all truly live happily ever after. •••••••••••••a This was evaluated and graded at Toledo Middle School on ideas and content, organization, word choice, voice, sentence structure, and conventions (the analytical trait scoring system). Racheal earned straight 6s, the highest score available.
