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SILETZ NEWS Siletz News Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians P.O Box 549 Siletz. OR 97380-0549 Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Delores Pigsley, Tribal Chairman Brenda Bremner, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Vol. 37, No. 4 April 2009 KNIGHT library acquisition dept / series EUGENE OR 97403-1205 Presorted First-Class Mail U.S. Postage Paid - Permit No. 178 Salem, OR SCA OrColl S523 no. 4 April 2009 Jenifer Metcalf and Mia Hutchinson cheer for the teams entered in the tournament that was played at Siletz Valley School. Please see more photos of the tournament on page 13. Sidney Rilatos of the Tobacco Smashers attempts to score against the Corsair team which won the championship of the 7h-9*h division. Siletz Tribe Receives $1 Million USDA Grant Money Will Help Tribe Construct a New Water Storage Tank, Improved Water Lines in Siletz by Brent Merrill The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians has been awarded a $l million federal U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Program grant that will enable the Tribe to develop and construct a new water storage University of Oregon Library £ facility and new water lines in the Siletz area. Received on: 04-08-09 p A ceremony for the award was held in Siletz at the Tribal administration building on March 18. At the Siletz news (Siletz, Or. : | check presentation ceremony, Rosanne Volker-Bronson 1998) from the USDA’s Rural Development office in Corvallis e said the work being done by the Tribe in the community § was important. HONORED - Tina Retasket, Tami Miner, Delores Pigsley, Jim White, Mike “We are currently working on the paperwork and Holden, Karen Gerttula, Kelley Ellis, Lillie Butler and Reggie Butler Sr. celebrate planning for the project, which has been fully funded,” said Tribal Council member Tina Retasket. the Siletz Tribe being named the 2009 recipient of the Terrill Award. According to Retasket, the project will require an agreement between the Tribe and the City of Siletz because the tank must be on Tribal property and belong to the Tribe. “An agreement must be reached so that we can ' Tina Retasket hook up to the city’s water system,” said Retasket. “This by Diane Rodriquez is a project requested by the city to help with water storage for those times when they The Confederated Tribes of Siletz “I was very proud to accept the Terrill cannot treat water.” Indians has received the 2009 Robert and award; it was a complete surprise,” said Dorothy Terrill Award from the North Pigsley. “The Tribe has never in its history See Water on page 7. Lincoln Hospital Foundation. been in a position to be able to contribute In a ceremony on March 5, Tribal to worthy charities such as the North Lin Chairman Delores Pigsley accepted the coln Hospital Foundation and others. I am What’s Inside award in recognition of the Tribe’s dona grateful to the foundation for its recogni Chairman’s Report 2 Notices 14 tions of $99,166 since 2002 to various Tribal Program News tion of the Tribe’s contributions.” 3 Siletz Clinic 18 programs at Samaritan North Lincoln Tribal Council Timesheets The donations have come from the Si 9 Chinook Winds 19 Hospital, the North Lincoln Hospital Tribal Member News letz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund 10 Letters to the Editor 22 Foundation and Samaritan Early Learn S.T.Y.L.E. Basketball 13 Passages 23 See Award on page 7. ing Center. Siletz Tribe Receives Top Hospital Foundation Award —--------------------------------- ------- -------------
