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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS Thank, you to Alison Noble and Marika Pullam for their work at Culture Camp this year, and special thanks to Marika, who worked before and after Culture Camp prepar ing for the Memory Quilt and then put the quilt together Come into the clinic and see the beautiful quilt to which so many Culture Camp children contributed. TLC Attitudes of Gratitude by Lynn Whitlow We have a lot to be grateful for at the TLC. Funding has been restored to have weekend staff coverage, so we can have children living at our transi tional living center with their mothers! We also were able to hire a profes sional carpet cleaner to deep clean all the TLC carpets. We will be able to re place the much-aging floor covering in the kitchen/dining area and we are buying a new dishwasher to replace the current leaking machine! Thank you. Tribal Council, for pro viding the financial support to make these necessary services and items possible! Women who are working to reunify with their children often can have the pro cess accelerated if they have a safe, drug- free environment in which to take their children. We now can provide that service. This summer, we have been fortu nate to participate in the tribe’s TYEE Youth Employment Program. Because of the efforts of our three young work ers, we have been able to spruce up the A&D/TLC yard and grounds. Many a dandelion and noxious buttercup have fallen prey to Dillon, Aiden, and Darod’s weed poppers! Also, because of the services of these young men - Darod and Dillon help ing do the preparation work, washing and taping, plus Dillon and Aiden paint ing with their site supervisor - the floor of the ropes course yurt now has two coats of paint and looks great! We at A&D are so grateful to these youth for their sweat labor and to the TYEE youth program for providing this much-needed service that helps get jobs done that there isn’t normally time to do. It also gives youth “world of work” job experiences, a win-win situation. During the summer all-staff gath ering in July, George Nagel and Walt Klamath joined me in doing some long- awaited chores at TLC and A&D. We are thankful for the “commu nity service” opportunity and are very happy with the repaired greenhouse door hinges, carpentry work on the outside shed, pre-installation trimming of kitchen light diffusers and planted flower bed in the back yard. George came back another day to repair a tot tery picnic table. Thanks, George! Thank you also to Siletz resident Bill Wheeler for bringing your Mantis tiller and working the ground for the flower bed. We have a lot to be grateful for! We still are searching for women to volunteer their time to spend a night here weekly or monthly. Especially with children in the house, it’s impor tant to have coverage. If you would like to serve, please call me at 541-444-8238 or 1-800-922- 1399, ext 1238. Not only are you pro viding an immediate, much-needed ser vice, you also could be helping to save a life. At the very least, you help im prove quality of life. Put Sept. 5 on your calendar for the monthly Women’s Talking Circle. Be cause of the Run to the Rogue regis tration and dinner, we are moving it up one week. If you have any questions, call me at the number above. Narcotics Anonymous Meetings Monday - 7:30-8:30 p.m. Atonement Lutheran Church 2315 N Coast Highway (101). Newport Thursday - 8-9 p.m. St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church 1226 SW 13th St.. Lincoln City Tuesday - 7:30-8:30 p.m. TLC - A&D Building 565 Old River Road. Siletz Friday - 7:30-8:30 p.m. Atonement Lutheran Church 2315 N Coast Highway ( 101 ),Newport Tuesday - 8-9 p.m. St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church 1226 SW 13,h St., Lincoln City Saturday - 6-7 p.m. Siletz VFW 143 SE Eggbert St., Siletz Toll-Free Help Line - 1-877-233-4287 Cut Wood for the Elders Day The Tribal Natural Resources Com mittee and Natural Resources Depart ment will sponsor another “Cut Wood for the Elders Day” on Sept. 8. The woodcut will be held at the old log yard at the tribe's Toledo Mill prop erty. We need lots of volunteers to help cut and split firewood for tribal elders. Bring your chainsaws, hydraulic wcxxJ splitters, splitting mauls, axes, and lots of energy. Even if you don't have any of those, we can use the moral support! Lunch, drinks, and snacks will be provided. We will meet at the tribal adminis tration building at 8 a.m. and caravan to the mill. For anyone wishing to come later, directions to the mill will be posted on the front door of the building. The goal of this event is to stock pile firewood for future delivery to el- ders. Elders Coordinator Angela Ramirez, maintains a list of elders who burn wood for their winter heat. People willing to haul firewood to elders outside of the Siletz area, please contact Angela at I-800-922-1399. ext. I 225, or 541-444-8225 and she will pair you up with an elder in need. We especially need folks who can haul wood to the Eugene. Salem, and Port land areas. The last two woodcuts that we've had were well-attended by tribal youth. Let's keep this new tradition going strong! If you have parents or grandpar ents who burn wood in the winter to stay warm, you need to help out at this event. Now's the time to get the elders their winter wood supply before the cold weather sets in. Walt’s Words of Wit and Wisdom by Walt Klamath Hard to think of something I haven't written about, about the old-timers any way, and some of the places and things that were that are now history. Sitting here arguing with this stupid machine, I thought about the old fish hatchery on Little Rock Creek. The hatchery used to be at a falls upstream from where it is now. I have known a couple of people who were in charge of it, Nicholson and Hankins. Every year, I don't remember how the fish were trapped but Ed Hankins would let the Siletz people get fish from the tanks. He said that by letting the Indians have fish, he could select what to give them and save the hens. Ed also was the game warden. One time some of us young bucks went driving up some of the old roads that went to homesteads. This particular day we had gone up to the old Taylor place up Steer Creek. On the way back, a darn deer got in the way and was knocked down, of course. Anyway, to make things a little more quiet, we hit it in the head with a two-pound hammer and put it in the back seat of the old ’29 Ford Model A. On the way home, we were a little nervous. We came to the hatchery. Ed was by the road, so being neighborly we stopped and talked for awhile, then we decided to go home. Then Ed says to us. “Better put them feet down where they can't be seen." In later years, the Fish Commission put a rock dam in the stream. That is about the time I went to work for the hatchery. There was Bill Harms. Sam Brantener. U>u Curtis and myself working. We built a fish ladder on the moun tain side of the dam. Well, guess both sides are mountain but on the right hand side going to Nashville. We did lose some wheelbarrow loads of con crete in the stream. Ed Hankins and Bill Harms did the mixing in the gas-driven cement mixer and three of us - Sam, Lou and myself - wheeled the darn stull. Lou Curtis had bladed out ravines for the fish tanks. Then we made forms I would guess 5 inches wide and then wheeled concrete to the structures. I might add when Lou cleared the area, we found an old still. I have the cop per coil from it yet in my shop; don't know what to do with it. Anyway, we built four or five of eight to be that summer. I think I was a junior in high school. I think it was ’48, I graduated in '49 from Siletz High. I don't know why it had to be changed, must have been a good reason though. Bill Harms considered himself a geologist, claimed that there was gold in the local area. Had a vial that he said came from this area. Some thought it was from the Lonyear place, but he would never confirm any of our suspicions He claimed he had a mine in Idaho - maybe so, maybe not, I don't know. Said that people would go crazy if they knew where it came from. He did say any where there was granite, there was gold. Eddie Donkel may have found some thing. His house was very elaborate, it was a beautiful house As kids, we would look in it hoping to find something, but never did. Eddie had long gone by then. When the logging companies come in. they bulldozed all the old homesteads, a crying shame. I think of all the history there. S(x>n all will have been forgotten, not too many of us remember the old places. Some knew the people. I never did. I heard a few years ago that Maggie Hampton was still living, but who knows. Well anyway, come hunting season when these places are passed, a little remembrance of those who used to be there and have crossed, some were tribal members of long ago. Lou Curtis had a two-cylinder Cletrac he kept busy with. I think his specialty was getting to the big cats that got stuck or the tracks come off in the woods. I don't know what Sam Brantener did. except when I returned from the ser vice he was working for Moser Lum ber Company, as was I. September 2007 • Siletz News • 11
