4 JUNE 15, 2005
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Tribal Elders Honored As Grand Marshalls In Keizer Parade
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Grand Elders On Saturday, May 2 1 , Grand Ronde Tribal Elders Kathryn Harrison, Cherie Butler, Louise Coulson and Sharon Hanson enjoy a ride in a '59
Ford Fairlane during the 2005 Kiezer Iris Festival Parade while acting as Grand Marshals. The Ford Fairlane that the Elders traveled in won the Judge's Choice
Award. TribalYouth Orrin John, Leland "Brother" Butler and Halona Butler also participated in the parade as Veterans' Royalty. All Nations provided drumming.
New Names Added To The West Valley Veterans' Memorial
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Ongoing Oregon Memorials recently added names to the Veterans' Memorial. James Copeland
stencils the new names and prepares them to be sandblasted. Kelly Breeding uses the sandblaster to
engrave the names into the granite just in time for the Tribes Memorial Day Ceremony in Grand Ronde.
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Veteran Help On Thursday, May 26,Tribal Veteran Gene LaBonte, Vet
eran Carl Lambert and community member Mark Allen volunteered their
time to paint the flag pole at the Grand Ronde Post Office. They wanted to
clean the flag pole up in honor of Memorial Day. The next day, Veteran Norris
Merrill painted the gold ball at the top of the pole.
Native rnercian Day At CLasmo
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Native Art Shown here at
Native American Day at the Spirit
Mountain Casino, artist John
Hawks (Chiricahua Apache, at
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in the area. Most recently, his
funding and support helped make
a success of the Juliette's House
benefit to help prevent child
abuse. Above is Tribal member
Dakota Whitecloud.