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.
December 2004
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