TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS
2005 First Quarter Incentive Awards 2005 Second Quarter Incentive Awards
Melanie Liddell
Superior
Accomplishments
Oscar “Max” Hoover and
Tamara Morrow
Janet Wicklund
Superior
Accomplishments
Major Acts of Merit
Bonnie Petersen, Pam Ben, and
Sharon Edenfield
Employee of the Quarter
Employee of the Quarter
Outstanding Service
Jody Greene, Nancy McCrary,
Arlen Kentta, Debbie Rudy, and
Carol Reed
Incentive Award Committee
Sara Bell, Carol Reed, Katy Kaady,
Patricia Valet, and JoAnn Miller
The Forestry Crew
Outstanding Service
Cost Savings or
Inventions
Kari Burns and the Housing Staff
Mari Kramer and Jay Christensen
Top: First quarter
incentive award
winners (I).
Second quarter
incentive award
winners (r).
Below: The annual
Summer All-Staff
meeting included a
chance for staff to
challenge each
other in a battle of
Tug-of-War.
The winning team was "Not The Wimpy Maintenance Boyz,'
(I). Above, the Maintenance Boys are defeated.
Walt’s Words of Wit and Wisdom
by Walt Klamath
A little girl maybe 2 or 3 kinda in
spired me this time. Seems she and her
dad were walking a trail and she was right
behind him chattering away. As they were
walking, guess that she quit chattering and
her dad looked around. She was 10-15 feet
behind now, engrossed in something on
the ground.
While he was talking to me about her,
it got me to thinking, which is a little un
usual. In this day and age of computers, TV,
and cell phones, I think that we're losing
something, losing touch with Mother Earth.
There is a whole world out there that we
don't take time to look at or appreciate.
So let’s take a safari out into the back yard.
Pick a rock turn it over. By golly,
there is life under that rock. There are
bugs that are fascinating to young minds
and we who are older have forgotten how
we were when we would find bugs.
There are bugs of all different colors,
maybe not under the same rock because
some of them are looking for dinner.
There may be worms. Angle worms? To
me. that meant fishing.
When 1 was a kid. anything to get out
of work. But there were all kinds of worms,
some big ones, some tiny, some white,
some red. Turn over another rock, maybe
spiders would scurry around. Another,
maybe ladybugs, sometimes several dif
ferent types of bugs. Guess they weren't too
hungry or at least had learned to get along.
Maybe there would be a log or chunk
of wood with loose bark and under that bark
would be a black lizard of some sort, not a
salamander. They may be 2 or 3 inches long.
Pick them up; they are friendly. Let
them crawl over your hands. Of course,
if they were over 3 inches long, they were
too big to trust. They might bite, but I
don't know because I never took a chance.
Then the anthills - watch them do
their work, they are amazing. In the wild,
they will carry loads much bigger than
themselves. They run all over each other
and don't seem to get irritated about it.
Poke them with a stick and watch the whole
colony perk up and become very active.
These little fellows can bite too. first
hand experience. They have trails a long
way from their homes that they travel
constantly. Don't know if they have any
natural enemies or not, but they will be
over 100 feet from their hill.
Then the water - a w hole new world.
Sit back and watch for awhile.
A stick w ill sprout legs and start mov
ing. Touch that little stick and like a turtle,
the bug will go back into the stick. We
used to call them stick worms. They also
made good fish bait by taking them out
of the stick.
Then there were the rock worms that
looked like a conglomerate of rocks with
legs. They too will pull themselves back
into their home when bothered. As one
stands or sits watching, it seems the whole
stream bottom is alive with something.
There are little mudcats maybe half
an inch long. Crawdads look for them and
probably the worms too. As we ponder,
we may see little fish that are less than a half
inch long. We won’t see them unless we look
for them, but when we spot them there
are thousands of them almost invisible.
Under the rocks in the stream hide
the crawdads, all sizes of them. Some are
blue, some are red. and all have pinchers
except the ones that have been in a fight
and have lost it to the opponent, which
eats it and the crawdad too if he doesn't
get out of the way.
Then move on to the swamp. Now we
find these red salamanders. I guess we
called them water dogs, many of them.
They don't bite and get to be about half
an inch in diameter and maybe 5 inches
long. They move quite slowly.
Then there are the ones I don't know
what kind of bug. but they sound like a four-
motored plane when they fly, about 3 inches
long and hideous looking. I didn't touch
them, so 1 don't know if they bite or not.
They climb up on the grass in the swamp.
Once in awhile when a rock’s turned
over, we find a little lizard faster than greased
lightening and very inquisitive. They’re al
most faster than the eye can see. I think
they're called a genki or something like it.
The other kind of lizard likes to leave
its tail behind for some reason. It seems
as if they feel threatened, so they will shed
their tail and keep on running.
Go out at night, you may see some
glowworms. Can’t see them during the day
because they're so small, but at night they
have a big glow. Sometimes at night after a
rain, the old rotted alder stumps will glow
because they're the fcxxl for the glowworms.
Just about anywhere one looks, there
is some kind of life other than the grass,
trees, and brush. It seems that it takes a
little child to appreciate it.
Maybe we should bring out that little
child in ourselves and look for the beauty
of our Mother Earth and all the gifts that
she has for us. just take the time to look.
Then there is the little bug called a bee.
Now that little fellow commands a lot of
respect. They guard their nest pretty well.
Some go into the ground like the yel
low jackets. some on trees like the hornet,
then the honeybee tree. They do get irri
tated easily. so it's best not to bother them.
They are busy little bees, especially
the honeybee. They go a mile or two from
their home to gather pollen.
July 2005
Siletz News
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