LEITERS TO THE EDITOR
To the editor:
The Royalty Court, Royalty Advi
sors, and chaperones would like to thank
everyone who donated their time and ef
fort to make our raffle and taco feeds a
success. We cannot thank you enough for
everything that you did to help us raise
money to go to the Gathering of Nations
Pow-Wow in Albuquerque, N.M.
Thank you to the following people
and committees: Angela Ramirez,
Angeline Easter, Bev Youngman, Carlene
Easter, Danise Barker, Darcy Lal,
DeAnna Pearl, Delbert and Sharon Bell,
D.M. Miller, Education Committee,
Felicia Carmona, Holly John, Jennifer
Flores, Larry Hammons, Lisa Brown,
Pow-Wow Committee, Selene Rilatos,
Shannon Cook, and Vicki Morace.
We would like to give a special thanks
to Anne Marie Biddings for taking the time
to make the fry bread for both of our
taco feeds. We couldn’t have done it with
out you.
Thank you again,
Royalty Court, Royalty Advisors,
and Chaperones
To the editor:
The Siletz Royalty Court members
and the volunteer Royalty Committee
would like to thank everyone who has
helped us raise money to fund our trip
to the Gathering of Nations Pow-Wow
in Albuquerque, N.M., on April 27-29.
While we where there, we went to the
Miss Indian World Pageant. There were
over 2,000 registered dancers and hun
dreds of visiting royalty from all over
America and Canada.
There where 28 ladies running for
Miss Indian World. Their talents ranged
from the Warm Springs paddle dance to
the explanation of tribal flags.
We all had fun and hope the commu
nity and tribal members will continue to
support the Siletz Royalty in future fund-
raising events.
Holly John
To the editor,
I would like to express my deep grati
fication and sincere thanks to everyone
in Siletz housing, in particular Rob Smith,
who helped me so much in making my
home habitable.
Mr. Smith took the time to help me
with the application process by listening
and understanding the issues in my home
that adversely affected me. He coordi
nated with a local contractor to address
those problems to provide me an environ
ment that will require much less worry,
where I hope I can live the rest of my life!
It was a very humbling experience to
have to ask for help, but I had no one else
to turn to with my limited resources. Rob
Smith was very professional and treated
me with great respect. He is truly an as
set to Siletz and every day I am grateful
for his help along with the help of a com
mitted support staff that I worked with.
I want everyone to know how truly
thankful and proud I am of the accom
plishments that we as a tribe have made
after all our ancestors have been put
through. There are still struggles ahead,
but our people still stand united and sup
port one another in the best ways that we
know how.
John Gardner, Jr.
To the editor:
My name is Danny Mura, a newly
enrolled Siletz elder.
On April 28, I traveled to Siletz and
had the privilege to meet with Tina
Retasket. Tina helped me sign up for a
computer and gave me a list of names
and numbers to help my daughter, who
lives in Portland, with information on jobs
and scholarships.
It was such a great experience to
talk with someone who was so nice and
helpful.
Thank you, Tina, for all your help.
Joan and Danny Mura
To the editor:
I would like to thank Donna Strong
Kessinger and her kids and also Norma
Jimenez for the return of this helmet. This
will always stay in the true Strong fam
ily. The story behind this helmet is that
my father, the late Stanley Strong, during
WWII shot and killed this German sniper
and took his helmet.
To the editor:
It’s been a while, but I read about
people blaming the tribe for the problems
with the Cage cashiers. It actually is not
the tribe’s fault. This you can blame on
the new Cage manager. Another one of
those people from Vegas trying to run a
little tribal casino like Vegas. They need
to be told they are not in Vegas anymore.
The Cage manager is doing so many
things wrong. First she thinks that if there
are too many people in line, then the su
pervisor needs to open a window. There
are so many things wrong with that. If a
customer needs a supervisor, what do you
tell them, “Sorry, our supervisor is work
ing a window right now.”
She took over doing the schedules
and is now making supervisors work
entire shifts in a window. Her new thing
is that she wants to know what all the
cashiers do on days off. This was brought
up a few months ago and she told all the
cashiers to write down all the activities
they do on their time off. Wrong, you
can’t do that.
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Editor-in-Chief: Brenda Bremner
Editor: Diane Rodriquez
Assistant: Natasha Kavanaugh
Member of the Native American
Journalists Association
To Norma Jimenez, all the Strong
brothers agree that you are the only one
who looks like your mother.
To Donna Strong Kessinger and
Josephine H. Strong, from the Strongs -
a Happy Birthday in the month of June.
Royce A. Strong
Another new thing she is doing - she
wants to know why people are taking PTO
(vacation). When filling out the request,
the employee has to put why they want
time off. Wrong, again you can’t do that.
The cage is so short-handed that
people are working six days. Nothing
wrong with that, it happens. But when you
make people work six days for more than
two weeks straight and on their sixth day,
make them work a late shift. Not only that,
when a person works six days and asks
to leave two hours early and is told no,
but the manager lets another person work
ing six days leave two hours into his shift,
that is wrong. 1 really think she needs a
reality check.
The general manager is aware of
some of the things, but again, he is only
being told what he wants to hear and not
what he needs to hear. 1 know that when
Jim hears the rest of the story, things will
start changing.
George Blacketer
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