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I ire center, pow-wow ins, cultural activities •ages 5, 7, and 10 SCfì OrCo 11 F 78 . 06 Outstanding freshman, engagement, new babies Page 11 1 | I ............... I... Eye care and diabetes, parents I and the 5 stages, pharmacy cards I | Page 16 | I V. 35 no. 2 February 2007 Cash storm, Bob Eubanks, appraise-a-thon, craft fair Pages 18-19 । N ews Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Vol. 35, No. 2 February 2007 Dan Smith, former mayor o f Siletz; Sally Jennings, president of Siletz I alley Friends of the Library; and Diedre Conkling, district librarian. Lincoln County Library District cut the gold ribbon to officially open the Siletz Public Library on Jan. 6. See additional photos on page 7 and a letter on page 2. (------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A 60-foot boom crone with a “grappling hook attached sits on barge in Longview, Wash., equipment for STBC s new business. River Reclamation Group, Inc. . Century-old documents and books are donated to tribe and library. See article on page 12. v_______________________________________________________________ > STBC Creates New Underwater Logging Business by Dennis Lancaster The Siletz Tribal Council recently approved the creation of a new busi ness by the Siletz Tribal Business Cor poration (STBC). River Reclamation Group, Inc. (RRG) was created to lo cate and retrieve timber lost in river waters over the past decades, a prac tice sometimes referred to as “under water logging.” STBC has been working with Ross Bennett for several months, firming up a strategy to develop the business and begin operations. RRG will use state- of-the-art sonar technology and re cently purchased retrieval equipment to recover logs lost in past timber trans portation and milling operations. The initial focus of RRG will be on the Columbia River between Portland and Astoria. Although a fairly new concept in the western United States, underwater logging has been growing throughout the East and Great Lakes regions. Timber operations of the past some times included transporting cut logs through waterways in “rafts” or using large bodies of water next to mills as storage for logs before being cut into finished lumber. A few of the floating logs would sink to the bottom and their retrieval may not have been cost-effective. These sunken logs - called “sink ers,” “snags,” and “deadheads” - are gaining attention as hazards in water ways. Also, because the water has pre served the quality of the sunken logs, a small percentage of them have be come a highly valued commodity in the lumber market. In some cases, old growth timber can be retrieved from the water in the What’s Inside 2 3 4 I I 12 Siletz News Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians P.O. Box 549 Siletz. OR 973X0-0549 Delores Pigsley, Tribal Chairman Brenda Bremner. General Manager and Editor-in-Chicf PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 178 SALEM. OR See River on page 6. <------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - --------------- -—-------------------------------- —.......... ..... —............ . ” Letters to the Editor Chairman's Report Tribal Program News Tribal Member News Notices The Siletz Tribal Commnity Center is covered with several inches of snow in mid-January as a winter storm created snowy and icy conditions for several days throughout Lincoln County. Tribal Council Timesheets Siletz Clinic Chinook Winds Passages I 5 I6 I 7 20 --------- ----------------- ---- - ---------- _______ ✓ KNIGHT LIBRARY ACQUISITION DEPT. 1299 UNIVERSITY 0 EUGENE OR 97403-1 University of Oreoon Library Received on: 02-02-07 Siletz news (Siletz. Or. : 1998)
