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i'1'.f J1 Ml'A'M T33 PI OR NEWSPrtPEf? PRO J. LO LIBRARY SYSTEM PC UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE OR P, 03-1203 ill..l..,l,l((( 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i 1 1 1 It 1 l.i!!..I.I.I.I.,l.i.,.II( PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID SALEM. OR PERMIT NO. 178 i rvrn cn w A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe hjiV.i f'- irw .i.imifl,-.,r-.ri,n . from gmoIceOgisnal;. -.n i- nil. J DECEMBER 15,2008 tiff" Vr - www.grandronde.org MOLALLA ca ROGUE RIVEB KALAPUYA CHASTA wcrira!9 5ippDLn)fts SJccrfecBFgi Tribal Council member to serve three-year term on Meth Task Force By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor Tribal Council member Wink Soderberg is battling meth. Soderberg, 74, has been involved on a Tribe's Meth Task Force run by Social Services that combats drug use in the Grand Ronde area since it was formed three years ago. He also is Grand Ronde's rep resentative on a Tribal task force that fights illicit drug use among Oregon's nine federally recognized Tribes. And about three months ago, he be came the Tribal rep resentative on Gov. Ted Kulongoski's MethamDhet- amine Task Wink Soderberg Force, which was formed in Janu ary 2004. The state Meth Task Force is under the auspices of the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission and has been critical in helping Oregon develop a successful strategy for combating meth use. The task force's stated goal is to "lead an effort to crush metham phetamine production, distribution and use in Oregon." Soderberg said he started fight ing meth use in Oregon as part of a local task force addressing meth use in the Grand Ronde area. Then, with former Tribal Council Vice hum ' Photos by Michelle Alaimo Tribal Elder Nora Kimsey turned 1 00 ytar old on Tuesday, Dec. 2. Har birthday was calabratad during tha General Council meeting on Sunday, Dec 7, In the Tribal Community Center and many of Nora's extended family members were in attendance. Tribal Council members, from left, June Sell-Sherer, Kathleen Tom, Vice Chair Reyn Leno and Secretary Jack Giffen, Jr., give Tribal Elder Nora Kimsey 100 $1 coins on behalf of the Tribal Council during her 100th birthday party In tha Elders' Activity Center on Tuesday, Dec. 2. At right, Nora's daughter, Tribal Elder Margaret Provost, looks on. Chair Angie Blackwell, he joined the nine Tribes task force. After Blackwell was not re-elected in 2007, he became the lone Grand Ronde Tribal member attending the quarterly Tribal task force meetings. It was the Tribal task force that submitted his name to the Gover nor's Office for appointment to the state Task Force. So far, Soderberg has attended one state Task Force meeting in See SODERBERG continued on page 5 Grand Rondo Community Resource Contor socks help Need during the holidays increasing locally By Ron Karten Smoke Signals staff writer To quote a sign in the office of Tribal member Connie Holmes, Grand Ronde Com munity Resource Center Board sec retary: "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Sir Winston Churchill The Grand Ronde Community Resource Center is at the end of First Street. You turn right at the back corner of Bunnsville and go over a rickety one-lane bridge. At Thanksgiving, the road was so jammed with cars that drivers be came volunteers and delivered food boxes to the other cars to loosen up the logjam. Including deliveries, 155 Thanksgiving boxes went out to families in the community. In 2007, 107 families were served. Resource Center Manager Patrice Qualman said. The hubbub out front and inside the Resource Center building was "so loud that you couldn't hear yourself speak," Qualman said. The Resource Center serving the community, not just the Tribe is supported by many individual gifts of food, blankets and money, by gifts from the Tribe and Spirit Mountain Casino, by grants from nonprofit agencies, by gifts from businesses and by the Marion-Polk Food Share in Salem. See FOOD continued on page 9