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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS Strengthening Tribal Families SHERMAN BROS The Siletz Tribal Youth Services Team invites Tribal youth and their families to take part in summer ac tivities! Look for a detailed calendar August - Recreation Center, Smoke- free Bingo, Osborn Aquatic Center, Day at Ona Beach of events and sign-up information to Calendars and permission forms will be available at the following locations: trucking u come. Pre-registration will be required and strictly enforced for summer activi ties as to accommodate as many fami lies and youth as possible with enough food, transportation and activity fees. PU o 1 ■ ■ CTJ Ú at E Thank you ! A Few Summer Highlights June - Swimming, Roller Skating, Shell Gathering. Bicycle Rodeo E d Teacher Misty and the Siletz Tribal Head Start class in Eugene take a field trip to Sherman Bros. Trucking. She reports that they had a blast riding in the big trucks! July - Smoke-free Bowling, Street Dance, Pick Up a Butt Day, River Float, Bike Rodeo, Field Day Tribal Administration Building — front desk Housing - front desk Clinic - Tobacco Prevention desk A&D - front desk Return permission forms to the Tribal administration building only, please! Contacts: Alissa Lane - 541-444-8373 Jamie Mason - 541-444-9659 Angela Martin - 541 -444-8310 DeAnna Pearl - 541-444-8267 Siletz Tribe Hosts Quarterly Charitable Giving Event by Brent Merrill N 3 O’ I £ 1) o o Cheryl Lane of the Siletz Tribal Chantable Contribution Fund presents a check to Michael Lee and some of the players on the Waldport ASA softball team. Overall, the Siletz Tribe has distributed more than $7.3 million thi ough the STCCF and other Tribal resources. Kristi Martin- Bayya helps Denise Riding In during the first Cultural Activities Night at the Tribal Community Center in May. Denise continued to work on a ribbon shirt she started earlier this year in a class taught by Tina Retasket. The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians hosted its quarterly Tribal Charitable Con tribution Fund distribution and reception event May 1 at the Chinook Winds Hotel. The Tribe has shared more than $5 million throughout the state of Oregon since the inception of the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund and awarded $286,240 in charitable donations this quarter. The charitable distribution covers cultural activities like the support that goes to 13 Grandmothers of Grants Pass. The $17,000 shared with them covers expenses like lodging, meals and transportation to important cultural events and activities. Donations go to support education at all levels - including a $306,000 annual Eligibility for money from the grant to the Siletz Valley Charter School Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution system and several thousand dollars going Fund is limited to two categories: to Newport High School, Toledo Junior and Senior High Schools, Salem-Keizer Entities and activities located Schools and Portland State University in the Siletz Tribe’s 11 -county among others. service area (Lincoln, Tillamook, The Taft Cemetery Association of Lin Linn, Lane. Benton. Polk, Yam coln City received $1,500, Faith Commu hill, Marion, Multnomah, Wash nity Services received $4,700 to help with ington and Clackamas counties) its program of serving homeless men in the Native American entities and community and the Newport Graduation activities located anywhere in the Night Committee received $1,000 for its United States alcohol-free and drug-free event efforts. Youth athletics continue to be sup The next deadline to submit ap ported by the Siletz leadership and Wald plications is June 19, 2009. Applica port ASA Softball received $1,290 from tions now can be submitted via e-mail the Tribe’s Charitable Contribution Fund at stccf@ctsi.nsn.us. for insurance expenses and two tournament Applications and requirements fees. The Newport Swim Team received can be obtained at www.ctsi.nsn.us/ $2,400 that was used for swimmer scholar charitable-contribution-fund: froin ships and to cover the NST Swim Meet last Kelley Ellis at 800-922-1399. ext. August and the Toledo High School Track 1227, or 541-444-8227; or by mail Team received $2,950 to cover the expense at Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribu of track meet timers and judges, five new tion Fund, P.O. Box 549, Siletz, OR starting blocks, a timing system and a new 97380-0549. starting gun. Public Safety continues to receive sup- port from the Tribe with $20,000 going to the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District and another $10,000 going to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. Oregon s Children s Theatre received $2,(XX) for a resource guide, workshops and classes, and the Siletz Parks and Recreation Department received $2,400 for advertis ing and supplies. The Siletz Tribe is honored to be in a position to be able to share our success with the community we live in and with important cultural and educational support that makes all of our lives better,” said Delores Pigsley, Tribal chairman. “We are proud to be in this position and we know our ancestors would be proud of the contributions we are making to support people in the arts and in public safety.” June 2009 • Siletz News • 9
