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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1999)
NOVEMBER 15, 1999 3 DEPUTY UPDATE Motorists should slow down in school zones Public Information Office 9615 Grand Ronde Road Grand Ronde, OR 97347 1-800-422-0232 (503) 879-2190 FAX: (503) 879-2173 DIRECTOREDITOR TRACY DUGAN 879-2254 tracy.dugangrandronde.org :! STAFF WRITER BRENT MERRILL 879-2321 brent.merrillgrandronde.org GRAPHICS SPECIALIST KIM MUELLER 879-2264 kim.muellergrandronde.org PROGRAM SUPPORT JUSTIN PHILLIPS 879-2190 justin.phillipsgrandronde.org j. .n .pi, m - LZEEESJ SND Members of: B Native American Journalist Association D Society of News Design D Associated Press SMOKE SIGNALS, a publication of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, is published twice a month. We have established an Edi torial Policy to encourage input from readers about sto ries printed in SMOKE SIGNALS, and other tribal issues. However, all letters must be received at the news paper office with author's signature, address, and phone number in order to be considered for publication. SMOKE SIGNALS reserves the right to edit any letter for clarity and length, and to refuse publication of any letter or any part of a letter that may contain libelous statements or personal attacks. Not all letters are guar anteed publication upon submission. Published letters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SMOKE SIG NALS, tribal employees, or Tribal Council. DEADLINE ISSUE DATE Nov. 19. December 1 Dec. 6 ..December 15 Dec. 20 January 1 Submissions must reach the SMOKE SIGNALS office by the dates listed. Printed on recycled paper. 31 The Clinic and All Tribal Offices will be closed on the following days: RESTORATION Closed Mon., Nov. 22 THANKSGIVING Closed at noon on Nov. 24 Closed Thurs., Nov. 25 Closed Frl., Nov. 26 CHRISTMAS Closed at noon on Dec. 23 Closed Fri., Dec. 24 NEW YEARS Closed at noon on Dec. 30 Closed Fri., Dec. 31 At the last Grand Ronde Service Integration Team meeting, funding was made available for the purchase of two yellow safety signs soon to be posted in front of the elementary school on Grand Ronde Road. These signs will be posted and re moved daily by the school crossing guards. Ex pect to see the signs during the times of the day that the children will be present. The signs will announce the presence of the children and will be either on the center line or just off the side of the roadway in easy view. The signs will be displayed when the school crossing guard is present and will say "Slow Children Present." The law requires that motorists slow to a speed no greater that 20 mph in a school zone when children are present. Just a reminder that traffic fines double during the times these signs are present. Other new changes we can expect to see shortly effect Highway 18. Recently passed HB 3085 re quires ODOT to establish two safety corridors with posting signs that double the fines for traffic vio lations. Highway 18 and the Hood River High way have received these designations. The new law took effect on 102399 but will not be enforced until ODOT can post the appropriate signs warn ing of the fines doubling within the safety corri dor. This could occur over night. Recently wet roads and poor visibility attributed to a motor vehicle accident involving a large tour bus and a small station wagon at Grand Ronde Road and Highway 18. Injuries appeared to be slight but the potential was frightening. We all know how busy Grand Ronde Road has become. This fact and the increase of traffic on Highway 18 make this corner particularly dangerous. Please exercise patience here this winter. Drive safely and enjoy the holidays. The Grand Ronde Deputies Dear Editor, I am writing to you about some genealogy infor mation you may want to pass on to anyone who is connected to the LaChance-Pepin family. In 1983, when I first met my cousin, Tom LaChance, he said he'd like to take the family history back to France. This information takes the family back to France in the 1600s. If you have access to the Internet at the library, just type this address in the Search Box and click Go. www.geocities.comyosemitegorge3221pepin.htm. This is the website of Kevin Peppin. He invites us to visit him. He has three different families histories at this site. i If you click on Andre Pepin, that is our family back to the 1600s. Kevin's website of Andre Pepin is about 50 pages long. He doesn't list Guillame as a child of Francois Pepin and Veronique Trudel on the website, but Kevin researched it for me and he tells me, Guillame is a child of Francois and Veronique. We have verified marraiges through George Brown's book Family and Friends on the French Prairie and a marriage index record of Guillaume and Catherine Gendreau (m: 27 Feb 1810 at St. Laurent, I.O. son of Francois Pepin and Veronique Trudenne m: 2 Feb 1768 at L'Ange Gardien), which was found by Kevin. Another interesting website was given to me by my cousin, Josephine Dreyer, is about when Pierre worked for the Hudson Bay Company and it also lists some of the Pepins from the book, The Catho lic Records of the Pacific Northwest by Harriet Munnick. That site is: http:members.tripod.com LisaPeppanpierre.html. The information about Pierre Pepin and his fam ily was submitted to this site by Anne Morton and Georgene Shafer of Grand Ronde, Oregon. We owe Anne, Georgene, and Kevin our sincere thanks for their work and for sharing this information about our family with us. Also thanks to Tom, George Brown, Harriet Munnick, June Olson, Cindy Gulledge, and Josephine for all their work on genealogy for our family. Rosemary Good Jameson Roll 883 4255 Thomas Road Freeland, Michigan 48623 e-mail jamesonrmindnet.org Dear Editor: In nearing the time for another Restoration Cel ebration, I want to reflect on this part of the Tribe's history a bit. I don't know how many tribal members are aware of exactly how the idea of "Restoration" for our tribe was conceived. I hope the names I'm about to mention here are familiar to everyone who reads this. If they aren't they really should be. Merle Holmes, Marvin Kimsey and Margaret Provost started the effort that is so evident every where you look here in Grand Ronde as well as many outlying areas. I can just see the three of them sitting around Marvin's kitchen table, cof fee cups in front of each, talking about what they thought would have to be done to start the pro cess. I can guarantee that none of them envi sioned the work that lay ahead when they decided to call that first meeting at the Grand Ronde Li brary over 20 years ago. But, even as each (and there were many) hurdle appeared, an assessment of how to make it past that particular one was made, and it was done. I am fortunate to have a Dad that cares enough about the Tribe, and did even in the late '70's to call me in Amity and tell me to get out here and start working for "my people." Thanks Dad. There have been other people who became in volved since Merle, Marv and Margaret started with just an idea. We had many of the local com munity tribal members serve on Council who gave freely of their time without compensation. There were others like Kathryn Harrison, who moved to Grand Ronde in the 1980's and began working for the Tribe as funding became available. Her expertise gained while working with Siletz in their Restoration effort was applied as she began serv ing on our Tribal Council. The one "constant" group who provided their support from the onset and should also be remem bered forever in association with our Restoration, are our Elders. Even when our General meetings were held on days when it was so easy to find something else to do, they were there with their potluck dishes plus a dessert. They were al ways there. Their presence helped when things seemed to be going so slowly at times. Each year around Restoration time, I keep think ing that maybe this will be the year something is done or at least said to recognize these three indi viduals. When you think of the 6.6 million dollars that has been given to organizations through the Community Fund, it's really sad that nothing has been done to show our appreciation for everything we have now. It would be almost impossible to find a way to thank Merle, Marvin and Margaret enough for what they did. But let's try. Why not double their Elder pensions or something compa rable? After all, there would be no Elders' Pen sion Fund or any other benefits if our tribe hadn't gotten recognized again by the federal government in 1983. Council, you have it within your power to show how grateful you are on behalf of the Tribe. I hope you look inside yourselves and real ize what an opportunity you have. We've lost so many that have helped us achieve the success we have. Let's honor those who started it now. Jackie Whisler Roll 545
