2 APRIL 1,2009
Smoke Signals
NOTICE Monthly Tribal Council Wednesday Meetings
DATE TIME
Wednesday, April 8 5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 22 5 p.m.
Please note that these times and dates are subject to change if needed. Call Dakota
Whitecloud, Tribal Council Relations Coordinator, at 503-879-1309 to confirm.
General Council meeting
Sunday, April 5 11 a.m.
Tribal Community Center
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Dear Smoke Signals:
A special thank you to Marjorie Miller of Tillamook, Ore., for her con
tribution for Matthew Hofenbredl to go to Danville, 111., to wrestle for the
Dallas Middle School tournament.
It is so gratefully appreciated.
Thank you so much.
Matthew, Leland, Larry and Priscilla Hofenbredl
Rolls 4399, 1037, 1036 & 260
Dear Smoke Signals:
A heartfelt thank you to all who helped with Gilbert Towner's services:
Canoe Singers, Bobby Mercier for flag bearers, Butch LaBonte and all
who knew and loved him.
Thank you all so much.
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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Secretary of Stat Kata Brown, right, meats with Tribal Council
members, clockwise from left, June Sell-Sherer, Steve Bobb Sr.,
Chris Mercier, Valorie Sheker, Kathleen Tom and Tribal Secretary Jack
Giffen Jr., not pictured, in council's meeting room in the Governance
Center on Monday, March 1 6. The conversation touched on topics such
as getting better voter turnout among Tribal members and connecting
the online version of the Oregon Blue Book with the Tribal Web she.
West Valley veterans sought
Veterans from or currently living in the West Valley area Wil
lamina, Sheridan and Grand Ronde are being sought to have their
names engraved on the West Valley Veterans Memorial.
Veterans can be either Tribal members or non-Tribal members.
Veterans who would like their names etched on the memorial should sub
mit a copy of their discharge papers to Val Adamson at 503-843-2525.
New names of veterans will be added to the memorial in April.
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