Board games, auction planning highlight Head Start activities in March
By Lori Jay-Linstrom, Parent Involve
ment Coordinator
All of our Head Start centers will have
a family game night on March 10. This is
a wonderfully fun evening for families.
We start with dinner and then pull
out the board games. Head Start kids just
love to play Candyland, Chutes and Lad
ders, Hi Ho Cherrio and any other games
geared for kids. What they really like is
playing these games with their parents.
Spring break will be from March
21-25. Classes will resume on March 28
for all sites except Siletz and our Tenas
Illahee site. They will return March 30.
Don’t forget about the Siletz Tribal
Head Start annual raffle fundraiser. Our
parents and staff were busy in January
and February collecting raffle items. If
you have any raffle items you would like
to donate, you can take them to your local
area office or Head Start classroom.
We will accept donations through
April. During March and April, parents
and staff will sell raffle tickets. The draw
ing will be conducted in May by our Head
Start Policy Council.
Several awesome speakers have
attended our parent meetings. Topics of
interest have included nutrition, dental,
health and safety in the home, literacy
and rental assistance. We have been lucky
enough to have staff from the different
area offices do several of our presenta
tions. A big thank you to Sharon Mason,
Courtesy photos from
Siletz Tribal Head Start staff
The afternoon class (above) from Siletz
Tribal Head Start in Salem goes trick-
or-treating at Chemawa Indian School.
The morning class (right) in Salem
visits Salvadore’s Bakery.
Verdene McGuire and Dr. Megan Saxton.
Cecilia Tolentino and Lindy Taylor are
scheduled for April.
Head Start wants parents of 3- and
4-year-olds to fill out an application
for our program. We have Head Start
centers in Portland, Salem, Lincoln City
and Siletz.
Please call 800-922-1399 or 541-
444-2532 for an application or for more
information about Head Start.
Morales Clifford Singer -1973-2011
Morales Clifford Singer, or “Maui”
as some of his close friends called him,
was not just your average guy. He was a
one-of-a-kind.
If you asked anyone who knew him,
many descriptive words come to mind -
Navajo, passionate Ducks fan, handsome
man with long black hair, nice, helpful,
dedicated, loyal, family-oriented, respect
ful, intelligent and reliable. The list could
go on and on but in the end, he was a lov
ing father of three teenagers, a good son to
retired parents, a doting uncle to his niece
and a lil’ brother to three older siblings.
Morales Singer was born and raised
in Salem, Ore., on Aug. 23, 1973, and his
young 37-year-old life came to a sudden
end on Jan. 26, 2011. He was a product
of Salem-Keizer public schools (Sumpter
Elementary School, Judson Middle
School) and a proud Sprague High School
class of 1991 graduate.
Morales was baptized as a Christian
at Calvary Baptist Church and was a spiri
tual man strong in faith. He was a lifelong
resident of Salem.
Morales was proud of his American
Indian heritage and exhibited Native pride
in many ways. He was a full-blooded
Navajo enrolled in the Western Agency
of the Navajo Nation. He was from the
To’dichii’nii’ Clan (Bitter Water) born
for the To’aah’ni’ (Near The Water) Clan.
His late maternal grandparents were
John and Maggie Billy of (Kin Hozhini)
Manuelito, N.M., and his late paternal
grandparents were Clifford Sr. and Clara
Singer of (To’denas zhaii) Kayenta, Ariz.
One of Morales’ paternal grandfa
thers, Richard Singer Sr., was a Navajo
Code Talker who served in World War II
and received posthumously a Silver Star
for his service as a U.S. Marine. Morales
carried great pride knowing his grand
father and many Navajo people served
proudly in the Armed Services.
Morales was a master of his domain,
which was the Singer family home front.
He was both a “Mr. Mom” to his three kids
and also was a caregiver to his retired par
ents and a young niece. He was a jack-of-
all-trades with juggling household duties
such as cooking, cleaning, chopping
wood, grocery shopping, maintaining the
yard and the family vehicles and conduct
ing neighborhood watch in addition to a
whole host of other things he truly enjoyed.
He had a passion for all things sports
(Oregon Ducks football, Portland Trail
blazers basketball, Washington Redskins
pro football), a love of classic rock music,
an interest in public affairs and was a fan
of the classics (the Marx Brothers movies
and cartoons).
He loved the great outdoors, espe
cially the Oregon Coast, Three Pools at
the Little North Fork, the high deserts of
Central Oregon and his other home, the
Navajo Indian Reservation in the south
western United States.
Morales is survived by his parents,
Sam and Irene; three siblings, Marcie
(Josh), Mike (Carolyn) and Michelle;
three children, Cody, Elijah and Jaliene;
one niece, Shaelee; and many relatives •
who span the western United States.
Internships now
available at IARC
The School for Advanced Research,
Indian Arts Research Center (IARC)
offers two nine-month internships to
American Indian individuals who are
recent college graduates, current graduate
students or junior museum professionals
in the expanding field of museum studies.
The internships, located in Santa Fe,
N.M., include a $2,200 monthly stipend,
housing, book allowance, travel to one
professional conference and reimbursable
travel to and from SAR.
The deadline to apply is March 30,
2011. All application materials must be
postmarked or time stamped by this date.
Established in 1978, the IARC houses
a collection of more than 12,000 items
of Native art of the Southwest. For more
information, visit http://iarc.sarweb.org
Interns will devote their time to work
ing on IARC education and programs,
directed research and writing activi
ties, and collections management and
registration. In addition to daily duties,
specific requirements include presenting
a research paper at the SAR Colloquium
Series, attending a national conference,
providing tours of the IARC collection
and working on outreach initiatives to
Native communities.
The internship period is Sept. 1,2011,
to May 31, 2012. Visit our website to
download the application at http://intem-
ships.sarweb.org
March 2011
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