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NOTICES Congratulations to SVS Students of the Month for November We would like to congratulate the staff' and you as a parent for helping our children achieve a strong rating on our report card from the state of Or egon! Each year the state evaluates schools based on academic achieve ment and student behavior and gives them a rating. Only two other schools in Lincoln County received this high of a rating (Eddyville Charter School and Isaac Newton Magnet School). We wish you all a safe and happy holiday season! May the joy of the holi days continue throughout the New Year! K-5th Grade Kindergarten, Ms. Douglas: Owen Akiyama, Bella Christensen r Grade, Ms. Colvin: Joseph Brandt, Austin Davis 2nd Grade, Ms. Gilliam: Brandon Lal. Eva Walton 3rd Grade, Ms. Bowen: Shania Trapela- Driver, Shaunde' Goodell 4lh Grade, Ms. Butler: Skyler Larson. Tyler Sjostrom 5th Grade, Ms. Rogers: Austin Doty, Analisa Walton Middle School 6,h Grade, Ms. Scott: Logan Butler, Kai Skidmore 7th Grade, Ms. Rajput: Jasmine Elmore, Autumn Roberts 8’h Grade, Ms. McGraw: Cody Blacketer, Rita Gilliam PE - K-12’h Grade Mr. Anderson and Ms. Marks: Payton Palmer, Steven Lindstrom High School Mr. Akiyama, Language Arts: Alec Hawk, Tim Lindstrom Mr. Baker, Math: Kandi Barker, Chris Williams Ms. Craven, Social Studies: Alex Flores, Chris Garza J. Haxel, Science: Kal lee Abbas, Rachelle John Public Lecture on Siletz History Jan. 31, 2008 The Break-Up of the Great Siletz Reservation Professor Charles Wilkinson University of Colorado Law School and Author of Upcoming History of the Siletz Tribe Based on his research for the tribal history he is currently writing. Professor Wilkinson will address central questions about land and community in western Oregon. What was Native land ownership like before white people came? How and why was the 1855 Coast Reservation - one of the largest and most won drous of all Indian reserves - broken up in the nineteenth century? How did the ancestors hold the tribal community together after all the loss? Should the United States now restore some ancestral land to the Siletz Tribe? The event will be held at Oregon State University in Corvallis at the Gill illan Hall Auditorium. 2601 SW Orchard Ave. (directly North of Wilkinson Hall) on Jan. 31, 2008, at 7 p.m. Both the comfort station at the pow-wow grounds in Siletz (below) and Chinook Winds in Lincoln City (right) sustained damage from the December storm, (photo below by Laurel V. Johnson; right photo courtesy of Chinook Winds) Storm, con’t from page 1 and landline phone service, and inter mittent closures of roads from downed trees or power lines, or mudslides. Damage to tribal properties in cluded broken playground equipment at the Tenas Illahee Child Care Center; a fiberglass root over the deck of the TLC building that blew away; and sev eral downed trees, including one lean ing against the comfort station, at the Pauline Ricks Memorial Pow-Wow Grounds. Chinook Winds Casino Resort seemed to suffer the worst damage when a large section ot the stucco sid ing on the south side of the building (the outside wall of the showroom) blew away on the first day of the storm. “While there was widespread dam age at varying levels, we were glad that no one in our communities was injured as a result of the Worm.” said Brenda Bremner, tribal general manager. The Siletz River crested at 19 feet on Dec. 3, about three feet above flood stage, with minor flooding in low- lying areas. Much of the area endured sustained winds of more than 50 mph and gusts of 66 mph at the Hatfield Marine Sci ence Center in Newport, 125 mph in Lincoln City, and 129 mph in Bay City in Tillamook County. Power outages occurred through out the county, including one affect ing about 500 customers in Siletz. By Dec. 5, the power had been restored to a majority of households. Gov. Ted Kulongoski declared a state of emergency on Dec. 3, allow ing him to dispatch all necessary state resources to assist affected counties. In the letter to President George Bush on Dec. 5 requesting an expe dited federal declaration of emergency. Gov. Kulongoski stated that on Dec. 3, he launched the execution of the State Emergency Plan and issued a State Emergency Statewide for Clatsop. Columbia. Lincoln, Tillamook and Yamhill counties, and the lands of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and the Confederated Tribes ot Grand Ronde. President George Bush granted a federal declaration of emergency on Dec. 7. opening the way for FEM A to help assess damage and start provid ing relief to stricken areas. January 2008 • Siletz News • 13
