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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS Siletz Tribal Head Start Enrollment Application Return this application to: Siletz Tribal Head Start, P.O. Box 549, Siletz, OR 97380-0549. For more information, call 1-800-922-1399, ext. 1264, or 541-444-8264. 1. Child’s name:2. SSN: - 3. Child’s sex: M F Returning student: Yes No 4. Child’s date of birth:// 5. Does your child have any condition that may be considered a disability or special need? No Yes, explain:_________________________________ ______________________________________ (please attach verification) 6. Is child member/descendent of a federally recognized Indian tribe? Y N Roll #:Tribe(s):________________ (please attach verification) Primary language spoken in the home 7. Parent/Guardian (1): SSN:- Street and mailing address:__________________________________________ City/State/ZIP:_____________________________________________________ Telephone (h):(w):(msg): Parent/Guardian (2):SSN:- Street and mailing address:__________________________________________ City/State/ZIP:_____________________________________________________ Telephone (h):(w):(msg): 8. A preference for enrollment can be given to families that face any of the following conditions: single-parent household, parent separated or divorced, child is a victim of abuse or neglect, or child suffers from a non-handicapping condition. If your family meets this criteria and you would like to claim that preference, please list the condition(s) here: 9. List all other household members by name: 1. 2. 5. 6. 10. Financial statement: Monthly income (attach verification of these benefits). Check all that apply: Employed Child Support Social Security General Assistance Veteran’s Benefits College Grants/ Scholarships Other (explain):_______________________________________________________ Unemployed TANF Disability 1. With my signature I certify that the above information is accurate: Signature: For office use only 12 □ Siletz News Date received: □ June 2004 Date: Staff initials: Walt’s Words of Wit and Wisdom by Walt Klamath Hello again - golly the months go fast. They sure didn’t go that fast when I was going to school. Well, I guess the summer months did, but then it was good to get back to school to get out of all the farm work that could be found (not by me). I’m going to do some crying here. I’ve written about it before. Quite often I take the fire truck out and do some cruising on the roads, looking at homes and the access to them. One thing that I see, to my dismay, is the lack of house numbers or num bers that are so small they can’t be read easily. These numbers should be large, maybe four inches tall and reflective. I see some numbers on houses that cannot be seen from the roadway. These aren’t too much help, especially for medical calls. For fire calls, if there’s smoke or flames, then it’s quite possible that we don’t need the numbers so badly. But sometimes we’ve had a hard time find-ing a burning house that was up on a hill behind a forest screen. I don’t know too much about any where from Twin Bridges to Siletz. But on the roads to Moonshine Park and Steer Creek, there must be numbers. I don’t know how many of them are tribal members or if any of them are. Another frustration is that we have a hard time getting volunteers for the Logsden substation. At this time, I’m the only one there. Legally, I don’t think I’m supposed to respond alone. But I do for fires or auto accidents, but not for medical calls. It’s lonely and scary. The chance of being first on scene is great. There’s always the possibility that a firefighter will be at Moonshine, but also a low possibility that they’ll have their turnouts with them. One cannot do much by oneself, like getting the hoses laid out and ready to charge as soon as someone gets there. Usually, firefighters from the Siletz area will get there within eight minutes. But eight minutes is a lifetime in a fire. A fire squares every minute. So you see, there’s no time in a fire. I used to know everyone on Moon shine Road, but I don’t anymore. If the people calling would say something like the Gail Evens, Mariman, Jones, or Schaffer place, but they probably don’t know the old tribal lots or homesteaders. We’ve been very fortunate this past year. We had two house fires and two car fires. The house fires were devastating. Volunteers from Siletz beat me there, and I live a mile from the fire hall. Please put numbers up, big ones that can be seen from the road, on a post or a tree. If one doesn’t have a number, put one in, any kind. If the numbers are tough, tell us how far we are from Siletz or Logsden (they’re like mileposts). Give the firefighters ? break; help them out so they can help you out. We hope never to have to respond to your address. It’s fun to play with the trucks. Per sonally, I’d like to keep it that way. We run the roads once in a while to make it visible that we’re there and to see if numbers are up. I keep repeating myself about num bers; they’re so very important that I can’t say enough about them. While on the subject of fire safety, by golly, wherever you are, check your smoke detectors. They’re lifesavers. You might think that the smoke would wake a person up. That’s wrong because the carbon monoxide will put you into a deeper sleep. The noise from a smoke detector will wake you up. If the detector isn’t wired into the house, check the batteries. If the detector is wired into the house correctly, put one or two battery-operated detectors in. One study I saw a few years ago said that more than half of the smoke detectors didn’t work after the fire was out and when the detector was retrieved, it was inoperable. So my good friends and neighbors, make sure that we can find you when you call, make sure all your safety devices work, and may you never see your local fire department on official business. Engineer, Engine 5202, Logsden Substation
