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
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