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SOCIAL SERVICES
LOW INCOME ENERGY
ASSISTANCE
SENIORS AND HANDICAPPED ONLY
If you had assistance last year, you can call: (503) 623
8429 - The Dallas Resource and Referral Center.
Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday. 9 am to
12 noon & 1 pm to 4 pm.
ALL OTHERS:
For those wanting low income energy assistance;
applications will be accepted beginning JANUARY 12,
1988. It will be a first come, first serve basis, because
funds are so limited.
Program Representative, Ann Bond, will be at the
Tribal Office on TUESDAY MORNINGS, from 9 am
to 11 am, the the Willamina Library from 1 pm to 3 pm.
Tribal members wishing this assistance, should make
sure they get to the Tribal Office EARLY, as this
service is on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE BASIS.
All persons needing low income energy assistance please
be sure to sign up as early as possible because funds are
limited and late applications will probably not be
processed. Contact your local community action agency
for more information.
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USDA DISTRIBUTION
For those of you who had a problem getting your USDA
food the week of December 7-llth, we apologize. Siletz
personnel were experiencing some unforseen problems,
but should have the program back on track by the time
you read this. If you have problems, don't hesitate to
call Siletz at 1-800-922-1399, and request the USDA
program.
Our Tribe is presently unable to negotiate for a program
of our own until the reservation is passed. If you have
any questions, feel free to call Siletz, toll free, or Joann
McClary at (503) 879-5211.
Social Services would like to thank Jim Butler, Gene
Hudson, and Diane Lane for all their hard work they put
into helping out at the USDA food program.
THANKS GANG!!!
YOU'RE APPRECIATED!!!
Georgia Renfrow turned 100 years old in September.
THANK YOU!!!
The Social Services Department would like to express
their thanks to those people who did so much to make
our holiday baskets projects such a success.
Patti Hoopingarner
Ida Mae Ring
Val Grout
Penny DeLoe
Ellen Calder
Linda Jirek
We could not have had such full and beautiful gifts
without the hard work done by these ladies. Our
department has received numerous complements on the
home baked goodies.
A special thanks also goes to Toby McClary, J.D. Butler,
Cindy Martin and Michael Childers for their help in
delivering the goodies to the recipients.
We are already looking forward to repeating this project
next year!
Twenty-five boxes of canned salmon and home baked
items were delivered to our older Tribal members. .
LOOK: KINDERGARTEN
PHILOSOPHY
Most of what I really need to know about how to live,
and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergar
ten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school
mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play
fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found
them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that
aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies
and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life.
Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing
and dance and play and work some every day.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the
world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the
plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up
and nobody knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the
little seed in the plastic cup...they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and
the first word you learned, the biggest word of all:
LOOK.
Everything you need to know was there somewhere in
kindergarten. The Golden Rule and love and basic
sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the
whole world - had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock
every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for
a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations and
other nations to always put things back where we found
tiem and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still
true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into
the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
JoAnn McClary
Social Services Researcher