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
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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.
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A Few Summer Highlights
June - Swimming, Roller Skating,
Shell Gathering. Bicycle Rodeo
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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
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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
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