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Courtesy photos by Alicia Keene
Rocky Gonzalez Jr., Roberto Gonzalez, Junior Gonzalez, Louis Ferguson and
Jennifer Easter (above) enjoy a roller skating session at Skate World in Spring-
field, Ore., during spring break, along with Felisha Howell, Julia Trachsel and
Bristo Bayya (below).
To the editor:
The SVFOL’s (Siletz Valley Friends of the Library) fundraiser at the Little Chief
on April 6, 2014, was a grand success! We raised over $2,000.
We started serving lunch at 11:30 a.m. and continued until 6 p.m. Thank you so
much to all the people in the Lincoln County communities who came out and helped
to make our lasagna dinner such a great sensation! Thank you to all of the volunteers
who helped make the day so fruitful and a huge big thank you to Rita for the use of
the Little Chief Cafe and to TJ for coming in and helping us out!
We would like to extend a thank you to Larissa, Amy’s daughter, for making sev-
eral helpings of lasagna too, what a girl! We had a great time and again thank you to
all the folks who helped us achieve our fundraising goal.
The funds raised will help pay for a permanent art display. The theme is baskets. Our
divsplay will hopefully broaden one’s mind on the impact of art and its historical importance.
Baskets are more than functional, they are also artistic and they show how art can
be three-dimensional. Stories can be woven through the artistry of the pieces, thereby
creatively preserving a culture or historical event.
Traditionally, baskets were used for gathering and storing. Our library is not
dissimilar to these baskets in that the Siletz Library serves as a vessel for people to
gather and store information. Thank you again to all who came out to our fundraiser!
Audrey Casper, Siletz Valley Friends of the Library Board Member
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First Nations works with FINRA, SeC
to raise awareness of investment fraud
LONGMONT, Colo. – In observance
of Financial Capability Month in April,
First Nations Development Institute (First
Nations) is working closely with the
FINRA Investor Education Foundation
(FINRA Foundation) and the Securities and
Exchange Commission’s Office of Inves-
tor Education and Advocacy to conduct
outreach in American Indian communities
to raise awareness about investment fraud.
Investment fraud affects thousands
of Americans each year and American
Indian investors are increasingly becom-
ing targets of scams.
According to the Financial Fraud
Enforcement Task Force established by
President Obama in 2009, there were
more than $8 billion in securities, com-
modities and investment fraud losses in
2010 alone.
The FINRA Foundation and the
SEC’s Office of Investor Education and
Advocacy both have a range of tools and
resources useful for investors as they
consider their investment options.
In addition to offering unbiased infor-
mation and tools, the FINRA Foundation
maintains a fraud center on the Saveand-
Invest.org website where consumers can
access a variety of resources to learn to
spot and avoid fraud.
The SEC’s Investor.gov website
includes investor alerts and bulletins to
educate investors on frauds and other
information relevant to investing.
Investment scams take many forms
- including Ponzi schemes, advance-fee
fraud and affinity fraud, where salespeo-
ple rely on their affinity with a particular
group to gain trust – and investment fraud
criminals use sophisticated tactics to get
people to part with their money.
Some common signs of fraud include
the dangling of a “hot stock tip,” a guar-
anteed rate of return on a security or use
of unregistered products. It is important
for consumers to learn these red flags so
they can spot and avoid fraud before it’s
too late.
First Nations conducts financial educa-
tion events each year and, in partnership
with the Office of the Special Trustee for
American Indians, takes requests from Tribal
leaders to help with financial education.
“First Nations is actively engaged in
Native American communities across the
country and they have developed direct
relationships with many Tribal treasur-
ers and Tribal investment committees,”
said Gerri Walsh, president of the FINRA
Investor Education Foundation. “Our
coordination with First Nations and the
SEC’s Office of Investor Education and
Advocacy will allow us to provide Native
Americans with the tools and resources
they need to help keep their money safe
from fraud.”
“Our efforts initially arose because
of frauds targeted at those who received
payouts from the Cobell Indian Trust
Settlement,” noted Lori J. Schock, director
of the SEC’s Office of Investor Education
and Advocacy. “We believe it is important
to share information with Native American
investors so they can avoid investor fraud.”
“First Nations is honored to work with
national partners on this important inves-
tor education topic,” added First Nations
President Michael E. Roberts. “We believe
this will leverage all of our resources. We
look forward to working with the FINRA
Foundation and the SEC’s Office of Inves-
tor Education and Advocacy.”
Anyone interested in a fraud aware-
ness workshop for their Tribal investment
committee, Tribal Council or community
group can contact First Nations at info@
firstnations.org for more information.
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May 2014
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