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Northwest Colors On Display The beauty of this time of year is emphasized by the amazing color display on the trees in the Northwest
as the season changes from summer to fall. Smoke Signals' Photographer Peta Tinda captures that unique beauty here for you to see.
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Pumpkin Play - Casey Knight (left), 4, and Austin Blakeslee, 4, play with pump
kins during recess at the pre-school playground in Grand Ronde. Indian summer has
been particularly nice in Grand Ronde this year, with warm days and cool, brisk nights.
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Health & Wellness Center
Celebrates Five Years
Anniversary
Tribal member Patti
Tom-Martin (center in
black) told those
gathered at the
Tribal Health &
Wellness Center's 5th
Anniversary Celebra
tion that the clinic is
a way to make
"wellness a way of
life."
By Ron Karten
It was a simple enough party some cake, some vegetable bits, nothing too
overwhelming for 10 a.m. but there was a heartfelt effort to remember just
how significant the start of the Health & Wellness Center really was.
Tom Austin, former Executive Director of the Health & Wellness Center, said
the Tribe should be very proud of the building and the programs that have
developed in five years. He pointed to the quality of the staff, and to Patti Tom
Martin as an example of that quality.
"(The Wellness Center) didn't just show up one day," said Tom-Martin, one of
the Tribe's first employees, now manager of the Vocational Rehabilitation sec
tion of the Social Services department. "There were studies done with the Cen
ters for Disease Control. We found out basic things about ourselves that we
didn't know. We wanted to see if we could impact negative behaviors with
positive behaviors and make wellness our way of life."
"We were the second Tribe in the nation that had a bond sale to build this
facility. We didn't wait for Indian Health Services to fund the facilities if we
did, we'd still be waiting. We had to have a sound financial and business plan."