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DECEMBER 1,2008
Food Bank seeks help
The Grand Ronde Community Resource Center is seeking addi
tional part-time volunteer help at the Food Bank in Grand Ronde.
-Help is needed in various activities, such as unloading freight,
stocking and labeling shelves, food distribution activities and cleri
cal work.
Duties will be assigned based on volunteers' skills and abilities.
If you have the time and would like to volunteer a few hours per
week, call the Resource Center on Monday or Friday at 503-879-5731
for more details or to obtain an application. U
2008 Tribal Marketplace dates
B Dec. 5 & 6 Elder's Bazaar
2009 Tribal Marketplace dates
B Jan. 3 & 4
BFeb. 7 &8
B March 7 & 8
BApril4&5
B May 2 & 3
B June 6 & 7
B July 4 & 5
(Possibly 73 for the three-day holiday weekend)
B Aug. 1 & 2
B Sept. 5 & 6
B Oct. 3 & 4
B Nov. 7 & 8
B Dec. 5 & 6
Dates subject to change due to conflicting Tribal or SMC events.
Located across from Cedar Plank Buffet.
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Photo by Michelle Alalmo
Tribal member Clifford Olson checks out the longhouse being built
at Lane Community College in Eugene recently. The Spirit Mountain
Community Fund has donated $1 50,000 to the longhouse, which is
more than 50 percent complete and is in need of $600,000-$700,000
more to complete it. Donations can be made to the LCC Foundation and
sent to LCC Foundation, 4000 E. 30th Ave., Eugene, OR 97405. Specify
on the check that the donation is for the longhouse.
Every Wednesday 4- 5 p.m., Youth Education Building
Contact Lisa Leno at 503-879-1471 or Travis Mercier
at 503-879-2143 for more information.
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Chief Bogus was one of eight
Tribal members who died on
that march. At the end of the
trail, Bogus's son was adopted
by the Warren family and took
the Warren name.
Cecille's father was the senior
David Leno.
Cecille and John Warren
had 14 children but only four
survived: Nora, Philip, Maude
Hudson and Pauline Johnson.
Johnson, among other relations,
is grandmother to Tribal Chair
woman Cheryle A. Kennedy.
They raised their family in
hard times. In one year alone,
Margaret Provost said, "(Ceci
lle) buried two children."
Margaret has been caring for
Nora since Lorcn walked on in
2000. "He really wanted to be
100," Margaret said. "He got
pretty far." He made it to 95.
Nora stays sharp and keeps
going, though her friends are
mostly gone and things are dif
ferent than they used to be for
her, from food to community.
Still, said Margaret, "She
knows just what she wants to
eat, and her doctor said, 'No
matter what it is, if it's dough
nuts first thing in the morning,
let her have them. She knows
what she's doing.' "
And she does, Margaret said.
What happened in 1908?
The year Nora Kimsey was born, General Motors was founded.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the year at 86.15, up from
58.75 at the end of 1907.
The first electric typewriter was introduced.
The company Ex-Lax started that year.
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game" was a hit song.
Mother's Day was first observed.
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series, and Ty Cobb and Honus
Wagner led their respective leagues in batting average.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid supposedly were killed by
soldiers in Bolivia.
London hosted the fourth summer Olympics.
Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, was bom, along with
Louis L'Amour, the great western writer, and Ian Fleming, inventor of
Bond, James Bond.
Buddy Ebsen, Milton Berie and Bette Davis were bom, too.
"She knows her accounts and what
they're serving for lunch at the
Community Center." She keeps up
with local events by watching the
local cable channel.
During World War II, 1941-45,
Nora was a part of the Blue Star
Mothers of America, which pro
vided support for mothers who had
sons or daughters in the active ser
vice. She made quilts and things for
Tribal members, and put together
boxes for soldiers.
"Mark Mercicr's house today was
their clubhouse," Margaret said.
"All the others from the club are
gone, though Tribal Elder Mabel
Gaston, the Mercier ladies."
Nora and Loren also worked at the
shipyards during the war. Nora was
a welder and Loren a pipe fitter. They
lived in Orient, outside of Gresham.
After the war, Nora and Loren
moved back to Grand Ronde, to the
house on Andy Riggs Road where
she has lived most of her life since.
She worked at Blue Lake Cannery
in Salem and sometime before Ter
mination in 1954 she worked at the
cannery at Agency and canned food
for the Tribe.
She was among the Elders who
baked, canned and dried goods to be
sold to raise money for Restoration.
She was on the original Enrollment
Committee.
"She made pies all her life
and dozens of quilts," Marga
ret said. "She did a real pretty
Apache Trail quilt, wedding
designs, sunflowers. She has
embroidered pillows all her
life. She was always busy doing
something."
Every year in August, the
family would go to the hop yard
in the SalemIndependence area
and pick hops for three weeks.
In the first part of the summer,
they would pick berries over at
Orient for a few weeks.
Margaret remembers that her
mother used to salt food, dry it
and, later on, can it, whether it
was fruits or lamprey or game.
They went to Oregon City to
catch lamprey.
Later on, when the children were
all grown, she and Loren used to
work summers as campground
caretakers in Pacific City.
Margaret also remembers
that Nora and Tribal Elder Ila
Dowd were good friends and
made a Chinuk Wawa jargon
video together.
"Her and Tribal Elder Corde
lia Kneeland speak jargon yet,"
Margaret said.
There will be a photo taken of
Nora and her family during the
Dec. 7 General Council meeting,
and the Kimwy family asks that
all of Nora's relatives attend the
meeting to be included in the
photo. D