August 6, 1982 Page 3
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Employees picnic____ ___ _
Time to pig out and play
Andy Lucas, master of ceremonies at the tribal employees picnic,
raffles off items at the close o f the evening's festivities.
by Donna Behrend
Ah, summer, sweet summer.
Summer, hot summer? No
•natter. Even though summer
brings hot, sometimes humid
days, most of us lavish in the
w a rm b a lm y e v e n in g s .
Jum m er means swimming and
other outdoor activities and
family outings, such as picnics.
When a picnic is mentioned,
it brings to mind fried chicken,
baked beans, potato salad and
watermelon. Tribal, Bureau,
IH S a n d K a h - N e e - T a
employees were treated July 22
to just such a picnic, except the
chicken was salmon and there
were more salads, melons and
desserts than one could believe.
The seventh annual picnic
gave employees who don’t
normally see one another
during a regular workday the
opportunity to visit and catch
up on the “news.” Spouses and
children of employees were
included in the festivities,
which made the number in
attendance over 400.
A popular feature of every
picnic has been the “dunk
tank.” Screams could be heard
rising from a borrowed dunk
tank set up to dunk employees
who had been recruited to sit
on the ledge and to be willingly
“soaked” by strong-arm ed,
sharp-eyed ball throw ers.
Tribal Judge Dave Harding
prodded throw ers to take
careful aim—with a slight
warning. “If you get me now,
111 get you later.” he cautioned
the throwers. The dunk tank
netted over $ 150 for next year’s
picnic.
“Yuks” and “blechts” “a rose
during the egg toss as partners
failed to toss/catch the flying
ovals properly and the eggs
smashed in hair and on arms
a n d legs. S e v e ra l eggs,
how ever, su rv iv ed crash
landings without cracking up.
Spectators and participants
alike thought surely the eggs
were hard-boiled.
A tug-o-war, popular at
many picnics, was a real hit as
p a r tic ip a n ts g ru n te d and
groaned for extra strength.
T h ro u g h elim ination, and
survival of-the-strongest the
C om m unity C enter team ,
which consisted mostly of
Personnel director, Lloyd Smith, helps the picnic queen, Norma Smith, with her royal
accountrements.
.om en and children, was
awarded the winner’s trophy
after defeating the “toe-strong”
Fire Control team.
A kissing, booth, featuring
such biggies “Wowie Howie,”
“ H o t L ips C a lic a ,” and
“Thriller Miller,” was not as
successful as hoped. The booth
netted only $1.
Raffle tickets sales had been
on-going since Ju n e and
Norma Smith, who sold at least
300 tickets, was crowned
“ Picnic Queen”, in traditional
Warm Springs style. Personnel
m a n a g e r L lo y d S m ith
presented Norma with a crown
and banner. Over $650 were
raised in the raffle to purchase
next year’s, raffle prizes. See
page 5 for raffle results.
As the evenings shadows
grew longer and longer and
employees began to head for
home the questions arose,
“Why can’t we do this more
often?” and “Why couldn’t our
employee’s picnic be an all-day
event?” Maybe those are
suggestions to be considered
:next year.
Food was the biggest attraction at the picnic. Louise Helen cuts
melon in preparation for the evening meal.
Spllyay Tymoo
photos
by
Marsha Shewczyk
The tug-of-war contest took all the strength participants could muster up. The Community
team walked away with the trophy.