2 APRIL 15, 2006
Smoke Signals
Attention Tribal Members:
2006 GENERAL COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE
Sunday, May 7 Grand Ronde
Sunday, June 4 Grand Ronde
NOTE THAT ALL GENERAL COUNCIL MEETINGS START AT 11 A.M.
PUBLICATIONS OFFICE
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NOTICE Monthly Tribal Council Meetings
DATE TIME
April 19 5 p.m.
Attention Tribal Members
The Ad-Hoc Enrollment Requirements Committee was appointed
in August of 2005 by Resolution 071-05. Since then, the committee
has been meeting twice per month. The purpose of this committee
is to research current and past enrollment requirements, seek input
from Tribal members and develop recommendations to Tribal Council
for possible changes to the Tribe's enrollment requirements. The
committee plans to have the recommendation complete by Septem
ber, 2006. -
Committee members are as follows: Chairman Debby Larsen,
Vice-chairman Khani Schultz, and Secretary Marilyn Portwood,
and members, Barbara Feehan, Diana Norton, Nancy Renfrow and
Duane Wheeler.
The meetings are usually held on the second and fourth Sundays
of each month at 1 p.m. at the Grand Ronde Education Building. The
committee will also be holding community meetings in several towns
throughout Oregon and Washington sometime this Spring please
watch for dates and places to be announced in Smoke Signals.
The committee encourages Tribal member & descendant partici
pation, therefore, dedicates the last 30 minutes of each meeting to
hear from those affected by the 1999 enrollment amendment. The
committee also welcomes written statements which may be mailed .
no later then August 15, 2006 to: CTGR, attn: Debby Larsen, 9615
Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 or via e-mail: debby.
larsengrandronde.org. ' '
Dear Smoke Signals Staff,
My heartfelt thank you for sending me your newspaper. Words cannot
express how much I enjoy each issue and look forward to many more.
When I finish reading it, I pass it along to my family and other Tribal
members. We all enjoy it.
Many thanks,
Nita Johnson
Dear Tribal members,
Greetings to all of you from Alexandria, Virginia. Many of you have
been wondering why I have moved back east again and I wanted to let
all of you know why. There was just no refcl good job opportunities for
me in Oregon and since Oregon's job economy was not so good and back
east was better I made the very hard choice to move back east once again.
Yes, it was a hard choice since my family lives in Grand Ronde and the
surrounding area, but after the death of my beloved Grannie Goose it was
just to hard for me to stay in Oregon any more. Since moving back east
life has been very good to me and I have some good news to report. In a
short time I achieved the rank of floor supervisor at McDonald's and I am
in the process of becoming a manager. I also have earned several awards
from McDonald's, 20 in a month, something which no employee has ever
done. I am now up for the next McDonald's Olympics in 2008. This is
where they open a special McDonald's at the Olympics for the athletes at
the Olympic games and they send the 300 best of McDonald's employees
out the entire world. I found out on March 28, 2006 that I am up for this
special honor. This includes and all expenses paid trip and includes ac
commodations. Well my friends, my brothers and sisters have a wonderful day.
Veronica Gaston
Roll 2332
(SGnraftETIB
In the special edition pullout of the March 15 issue on page 4 we
misidentified Tribal member Anthony Rock as a student from Che
mawa Indian School.
DEADLINE PATE ISSUE DATE
Thursday, Apr. 20 , MAY I
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Monday, June 5 JUNE 15
Tuesday, June 20 JULY 1
Wednesday, July 5 JULY 15
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