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RESTORATION
Above: Dancing Again Singers
Above, right: Head Start students
and staff
Left: Healyah Hunt
Middle, left: Saul Jurado
Middle, right: A women's traditional
dancer
Below, right: The Apache Crown
Dancers from Chemawa
Indian School
Thanks for a Great Restoration
by Tina Retasket
Marcie Taylor, Bobby Brandt, and
Brenda Howell for helping me load
up and transport all those boxes and
things for the Restoration event;
Delores Pigsley, Rosemary Landis, Don
Pigsley, Cora Lundy, Ann Donat,
Amy Garrett, Marcie Taylor,
Brenda Howell, and Bobby Brandt
for helping to stuff the lunch boxes
for giveaway at Restoration;
Chinook Winds for the donation of bottled
water, commemorative coins, and
necklaces to put in the lunch boxes;
Marcie Taylor, Diane Rodriquez,
Natasha Kavanaugh, and Michele
Metcalf for helping out with the
registration tables;
Natasha Kavanaugh and Diane Rodriquez
for their wonderful picture display;
Robert Kentta and Selene Rilatos for
the culture room across the hall
from the main event;
Robert Kentta for speaking at the Res­
toration event;
Nick Sixkiller for emceeing the event;
DeAnn Brown, Robin Limbert, all the
Head Start staff and parents - and
mostly, all the Head Start kids - for
their wonderful performance;
Siletz Tribal elders and Angela Ramirez
for making the beautiful center­
pieces for the tables;
All of the Pow-Wow Committee and
volunteers who took care of the
pow-wow portion of the Restora­
tion celebration, especially Kelley
Ellis and Tami Miner;
Cascade Sound for providing the mi­
crophones and sound system for the
Restoration event and pow-wow;
And, a great big thank you to Chinook
Winds banquet, kitchen, and main­
tenance staff for all their hard work
in meeting all our space and food
needs throughout the event.
If I missed anyone, I sincerely apolo­
gize. So many people always work
behind the scenes for any event of
this size, but no one should be missed
to say thank you for all the hard work.
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