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2 MARCH 15, 2004 Smoke Signals ATTENTION: ODS MEMBERS CONTINUE TO USE YOUR ODS MEDICAL CARDS On March 1, 2004, Tribal members were informed that the Tribal Health Plan Administrator would change from ODS to United Medical Resources (UMR). Due to unforeseen circumstances, this transition will not take place on April lf 2004 as originally planned. PLEASE CONTINUE TO USE YOUR ODS IDENTI FICATION CARD for all medical & dental services until you receive notification of the new effective date. If you are a Tribal member on the Tribe's employee health plan, this de lay does not affect you. Please watch future Smoke Signals for updated informa tion as it becomes available. Please call the Tribe's Member Services Department at 800-442-0346, 503-879-2490 or 503-2221 if you have any questions. ATTENTION ELDERS Beginning with your April 10th Elder Security monthly payment, we will be offering the service of Federal Income Tax withholding. At this time, no state income tax withholding is available. A sign-up form for Federal Income Tax withholding is being mailed to all members receiving Elder Security monthly payments. Please fill out and return this form to the Tribe if you want Federal Income Tax withheld from your monthly payment. This service is an option, so if you don't sign up, no tax will be withheld. If you have any questions, please contact your tax consultant or the Tribal Elder Tax Consultant, Doris Rose at 1-800-422-0232 ext. 1477 or 503-879-1477. If you would like to request a form contact Amy Whisler in the Member Services Department at 1-800-442-0346 or 503-879-2223. Dear Smoke Signals, I have recently began to receive your publication and enjoy the articles very much. I'm incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice where we have a Native American Circle "The Four Winds of the Red Road." About 40 brothers strung from various Tribes. We give thanks to the Great Spirit for outside information such as yours and keep all in our prayers. Sincerely, Robert Rawles Gatesville, Texas Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to ask for your help. My 23 year-old son, Ricky Young is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. In No vember of 2001 he was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. In July of 2002 he had an unsuccessful Stem Cell Transplant. In order to live, my son needs a bone marrow transplant. His family has been tested and no match was found, so now we are dependant on an unrelated donor. The problem we are facing is that there are very few American Indians on the bone marrow registry. As of December 31, 2002, there were less than 61,000 American Indians regis tered. Only 66 American Indians received transplants last year. That is not very many considering that more than 30,000 people each year are diagnosed with a life threatening blood disease and over 70 percent of those depend on an unrelated donor. Thank you, Glenda Young P.O. Box 832 Oakridge, OR 97463 e-mail: lovefrogsl960aol.com Dear Smoke Signals, First, I would like to announce that my daughter Tiffany Hudson is working very hard for her nursing license. She is studying to be a Regis tered Nurse, and I know she would like to thank the Tribe for helping her financially and the support and all the information she needed from the ladies in the Education Department to get through with how far she has gotten. She has made the Dean's List, all the while she has had a baby and a very dangerous delivery and the baby had to be life-flighted to a bigger hospital, (she lives in Clovis, New Mexico at the Air Force Base there). The baby is fine now and a beautiful baby. But, Tiffany is still struggling to make it, she along with her two brothers, Sam and Brad to having lost their father of a tragic, unneccesary death. On top of all that her husband just left for Iraq. I don't want to forget my other daughter who had surgery on her arm and is recooperating at home. So ha, I re membered you too. Lori....Get well.... Lana Takhar Roll 807 mm PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 1-800-422-0232 FAX: 503-879-2173 www.grandronde.org flirt BRENT MERRILL PUBLIC INFORMATION MANAGEREDITOR 503-879-2321 brent.menillgrandronde.org 1 JUSTIN PHILLIPS GRAPHIC DESIGNER 503-879-2190 lustln. phllllpsgrandronde.org ISSUE, PATE Fri., Max. 19 APR. 1 . 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