Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Siletz news / (Siletz, OR) 199?-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 2005)
TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS SVS Students of the Month Siletz Valley School has announced the students of the month for October. On the first Monday of every month at our morning assembly, students in grades K-8 are recognized for citizenship and aca demic achievements. Based on performance, teachers nominated the following students: K-Ms. Irwin: Aaron Glickert, Eva Walton K-Ms. Miller: Jacob Helton, Kyhli Sherman Is': Jostan Brown, Bobby Butler, Anita Jo Duarte 2nd: Chelsea Stokes, Kateri Whitehead 3rd: Morgan Crawford, Analisa Walton 4th: Logan Butler, Savannah Worman 5th: Steven Lindstrom, Avery Perkins 6th: Kaylee Clark, Sophie Hendrix 7th: Kohdi Sherman, Nicholas Wallace 8th: Alex Flores, Tim Lindstrom PE 3rd: 4,h: 5th: 6th: 7th: 8th: Tacoma Brown, Anna Hendrix Kai Skidmore Steven Lindstrom, Morgan Woltring Joseph Blom, Angelia Priest-Lamadrid Nichole Fisher, Derek Frame Chris Williams Thanks to Our Volunteers and Local Businesses We are very fortunate to have the help we receive from the community. Individu als like Candy Spelbrink; Emma’s Project for giving us backpacks; Denise Thomp son, our new store manager; and for our volunteers who worked 208 hours in Oc tober. Thank you to all of you who con tinue to give because you love our stu dents and want to see them succeed. We had a very successful Halloween parade thanks to our local businesses. Even though it rained, we had our parade down the hallway of the school. The busi nesses came to the school to pass out the candy or they gave it to the school to dis tribute. A big thank you to our local busi nesses that continue to support our school and students - Bank of the West, Little Chief Restaurant, Noel’s Market, Sweet River Café, Wilkison’s Video, city hall, and Siletz Gas & Mini-Mart. The Siletz Tribal Charitable Contri bution Fund awarded Siletz Valley School $50,000 to help defray operational costs for the 2004-2005 school year. This much-needed funding is greatly appreci ated by the students and staff and we thank you for your generosity in your support of the school. Right, above: The third-grade class at Siletz Valley School leads the student body in singing the national anthem at the Veterans Assembly in November. Right, below: Ray Taylor, Tom Downey, and Frank Simmons are honored for their service to our country. Walt’s Words of Wit and Wisdom by Walt Klamath Well by golly, hunting season is over for most of us. Still some diehards out there, I guess. First and second season are still to come at this writing. Hopefully, I will run into that bunch at the old Speakman place, Huckleberry and some other character now some kind of doctor. Been doing some thinking again about the “used to be’s,” all the games and such that we used to play. One was kick the can. We would put a can out and someone would be “it.” Someone would kick that can and we would all run and hide somewhere. The “it” would have to go look for the hidees, who would try to kick the can before the “it” could reach the can and count to three. Sometimes it did get tough on the shins. This would be good for several hours of roughing it. Then the game of “Annie Over.” We would yell “Annie Over” and toss the ball over the woodshed or some other build ing that we could throw the ball over. If the ball was caught, the catcher could run around the building and throw the ball at someone. Can’t remember what the point was. but it too smarted once in a while. This went along with the apple core game. Seems all of the younguns ate apples. After eating the apple to the core, 10 • Siletz News • the phrase would be “Apple Core, Balti more, who’s your friend.” Whoever the friend was would get the apple core thrown at them; sometimes it connected. Some of the bams had some pretty good rope course obstacles. Played like Tarzan on some of the ropes, maybe try ing to land on a crossbeam in the bam. Then sometimes would run a rope across the hay mow. Incidentally, the hay was not in bales as it is today. We would tighten that rope and pursue walking the rope across the hay. Luckily, it was loose hay. Then sometimes it would be a big swing. At that time, it seemed extremely high. Then on occasion, there would be the scavenger hunts. These were quite fun to do. This was in the Siletz school mostly, sometimes at a home party when a bunch of young people got together. There would be several lists; I don’t know who made them up. We were in teams and each team would get a list of things that they had to come up with. Some of the things were not so nice, seeing as how we all came from farms somewhat. Maybe getting horsetail hair, a rusty nail - one can’t name all the ar ticles that were to be gathered, I think the lists were made of our parents, though. December 2005 We did have a lot of parental support for the activities that we did. Sometimes we would go to Newport or Toledo to play the jukebox. It cost 5 cents or six records for a quarter. The booths had their own little music boxes that one would put a nickel in. The king of activities was the taffy pull. This was the stickiest stuff one would ever get wrapped up in. It really was not all that welcomed in homes, for some odd reason. This stuff would be mixed up and then had to be pulled - grab a handful, pull it, wrap it up, pull it, wrap it up, pull it. Seemed like hours until it would harden, but it had to be hardened in a cer tain size because it was candy and would be eaten, flavored with vinegar. When we got through, talk about a mess! Maybe this is why it was not whole heartedly accepted in the house. Also, this was a winter activity. But it did taste pretty good, 1 think. Another advantage of a taffy pull - guess what that is? Hah! Talk about clean hands! My goodness, we had the cleanest hands in the neighborhood, even the fin gernails were clean. It was deep cleaning for the hands. Of course, at that time we didn’t think of things like that. Many times we made our own root beer. We would get extract from some where and a big 10-gallon crock and mix water and this extract together. For some reason, it had to “cure” or something. If it was bottled too soon, the dam bottle would break. This did happen several times in the many years. These bottles would sound like a rifle shot going off, but after all the bottles had “cured,” it was a tasteful delight, maybe because we as a team had done it and it did teach us a certain amount of patience and to follow instructions somewhat. The car tires of that day were quite a bit larger then today’s tires. At the Logsden school, we would get these tires and get inside of them and roll down the hill. The teachers didn’t really appreciate us doing that, guess they thought that we would get hurt or something. Well actu ally, the only hurt was the whipping we got for doing it. We as young people - this is between the third to the sixth and ninth to the 12th grade - were creative in putting fun things together. We didn’t get hurt too badly, no broken bones. Don't know how that was avoided, but we could work together and play together, with a lot of parental and community support.
