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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