SMOKE SIGNALS - February 1, 1996 Page 5
Computer Training
Schedule
FEBRUARY - 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Beginning Word - Thursday, Feb. 1
Beginning Excel -- Tuesday, Feb. 6
Into to PC's and Beginning Windows -
Thursday, Feb. 8
Beginning Word - Tuesday, Feb. 13
Intermediate Excel -- Thursday, Feb. 15
Intro to PC's and Beginning Word -
Tuesday, Feb. 20
Beginning Excel - Thursday, Feb. 22
Intro to PC's and Beginning Windows -
Tuesday, Feb. 27
Intermediate Excel - Thursday, Feb. 29
MARCH - 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Beginning Word - Tuesday, March 5
Beginning Excel - Thursday, March 7
Intro to PC's and Beginning Windows -
Tuesday, March 12
Intermediate Excel - Thursday, March 14
Advanced Word -- Tuesday, March 19
Beginning Excel - Thursday, March 2 1
Intro to PC's and Beginning Windows -
Tuesday, March 26 .
Beginning Word - Thursday, March 28
Computer training classes are FREE to
Grand Ronde tribal members and staff;
$10 fee for non-tribal members.
To make your reservation,
please call Penny at 879-2476 or
Sam at 879-2487 or 1-800-422-0232.
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Instructor: Shelley Hanson
Location to be announced
PART I:
You and Your Business Idea,
helps potential business owners
understand the requirements of
business success.
March 6 and 13 - $10 fee
PART II:
Starting a Successful Business,
helps avoid costly potential mis
takes of business start-up. It pro
vides the framework for success
ful business start-up by assisting
students in writing a bankable
business plan and training them
to prepare a successful applica
tion for financing.
March 20 to 22 - $100 fee
Tribal members wishing to take
ONABEN business classes may
qualify to have tuition paid by
Short Term Training Program ob
tained through the Education De
partment. For more information,
please contact the Tribal Educa
tion Division at 879-2275.
IMPROVING CHILDREN'S SERVICES: A meeting was held January 16 at the
Grand Ronde Grade School where discussion was generated on how to form
more and better community services to local children. ABOVE: Representa
tives from the PTO, Title V, and the Tribal Education Division were present.
Pog alert to parents
Some send unhealthy messages to kids
Kids like to collect things. Baseball cards, action fig
ures, and marbles are a few of things we may have liked
to collect and trade when we were younger. But these
days, a hot collector's item with the young people is pogs.
Pogs are flat, round discs that resemble the tops of old
milk containers. These days, they have printed messages
on them and can be purchased from candy machines.
Although most pogs have harmless jokes and cartoons on
them, there are some circulating that have lewd drawings,
drug-related humor, and profanity.
There have been reports of pogs with drawings of an aerosol can, alluding to the sniffing
of fumes that has resurfaced as a cheap high for kids. Another showed an eight ball with a
crack in it, and other with a purple circle with an A more drug-related suggestions. If
your child collects pogs, be aware. Some may be sending the wrong message.
3rd Annual
MOLAR ROLLER SKATING PARTY
and DENTAL HEALTH FAIR
WHEN: Friday, February 9 from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: St. Michael's Church in Grand Ronde
FOR CHILDREN: 6 to 12 years old
Activities will include:
Dental Health Fair Puppet Show
Magic Tricks Tooth Healthy Snacks
Face Painting Games Prizes
and Fun!
Please join us as we
celebrate National Childrens
Dental Heath Month.
Sponsored by Grand Ronde Tribal Dental Program
Wellness and Women
Conference to be held
OThis year's theme: "Walking
Toward a Balanced Path. "
The seventh Wellness and Women Con
ference will be held March 1 8-22 at the Red
Lion Jantzen Beach Hotel in Portland.
The theme this year is "Walking Toward
a Balanced Path," and will feature guest
speakers from Oregon and other states.
Conference objectives are to obtain in
formation on health issues affecting Native
women today; learn new strategies and
skills for working with co-workers, family,
and partners; gain renewed physical spiri
tual, and emotional wellness; and network
with other native women from all over the
United States.
The conference is sponsored by Health
Promotion Programs at the University of
Oklahoma. Registration fee is $180. Please
call (503) 283-4466 for reservations. For
more information, call (405) 325-1790.
Co-sponsors of the conference are the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and
Portland Area Indian Health Service. These
organizations may be able to send you a
registration form.
Advisory Board forming
Art Anderson, the Willamina School Dis
trict Superintendent, is asking tribal mem
ber parents to form an advisory board on
issues and concerns facing our tribal youth.
This group is just beginning, so if you are
interested, contact Shawn in the Tribal Edu
cation Division at 879-2275.
Looking for a
new experience
this summer?
The Student Conservation Associa
tion (SCA) has several opportunities
for you all across the nation. The
SCA is a non-profit, educational or
ganization which provides high
school students, college students and
other adults with the opportunity to
volunteer their services for the better
management and conservation of our
nation's parks, public lands, and natu
ral and cultural resources.
SCA program participants gain
work experience that furthers aca
demic, career, and personal goals.