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Smoke Signals 3 JUNE 1,2009 Skookum Health Plan benefit update effective July 1, 2009 There will be an emergency room benefit change to the Skookum Health Plan occurring on July 1, 2009. Currently, the health plan covers a non-emergency visit to the emergency room with a 50 per cent co-insurance; after July 1, 2009, non-urgentnon-emergent use of the emergency room will no longer be a covered benefit. Tribal members who go to an emergency room to receive nonurgentnon-emergent services will be responsible for the entire charge. The reason for this change is over utilization of the emergency room. Many of the claims received from emergency room visits are for services that should be received through a physician's office or an urgent care setting. For non-emergency service, the average cost of an emergency room visit is close to $500, while the same service in a provider's office or urgent care setting is only around $100. Use of the emergency room for non-urgentnon-emergent services results in higher costs to the Tribe. If you or someone you know is in need of medical attention and you do not know if you should go to the emergency room or not, take the time to contact the 24-hour Nurse Line at 800-970-7138 or your personal physician. If you are instructed to seek services at the emergency room by the Nurse Line or by your physician's office, it will be covered by the Skookum Health Plan. If you have questions about this important benefit change, contact Barbara Steere at 503-879-2487 or Jim Holmes at 503-879-2221. D OoirDsiDdDcrDS iraeedldl The Grand Ronde Community Resource Center has a few fundraisers and other projects planned this year and is seeking donations, etc., for the fol lowing: Spaghetti Feed and Auction in September: Seeking donated items for a live and silent auction andor food donations for the meal. The center will provide documentation of your donation for tax purposes. Community Cookbook: Looking for your favorite recipe. If you have a recipe you'd like to share, please e-mail it to grcrchotmail.com or mail to GRCRC, P.O. Box 55, Grand Ronde, OR 97347. Please include the name of dish, recipe, your name for publication in the cookbook and a phone number to contact you if there are any questions. The center will advertise sale of the Community Cookbook as soon as they become available. Food Preservation: The center is still seeking food dehydrators for its food preservation program. If you have one you'd like to donate, please e mail or call and leave a message at 503-879-5731. Coupon Program: The center is looking for food and non-food item cou pons for its coupon program. Casino hosts second boxing night Roy Jones Jr. and Square Ring Inc. return to Spirit Mountain Casino with "Perfect Storm," a seven-fight boxing event featuring Dewey Welliver (18-18-1, 6 KOs) of Spokane, Wash., taking on Daniel "The Haitian Sensa tion" Edouard (21-2-2, 12 KOs) of West Palm Beach, Fla., in a 10-round middleweight battle on Sunday, June 12. Tickets range from $25 to $100 and are available online at www.startick etsplus.com or by calling 800-585-3737. Tickets also can be purchased at the casino's Coyote Club desk and at www.spiritmountain.com. Doors open at 7 p.m. with the first bout beginning at 8 p.m. in the casino's Events Center. 'We owe the veterans a debt we never can repay' MEMORIAL DAY continued from front page the Oregon Senate. 1 "It's a great honor to share the1" podium with those who have been on this land for thousands of years," Schrader said. "The civilian au thorities have your backs," he told the veterans in attendance. "Our soldiers stand as a model for all of us." "We owe the veterans a debt we never can repay," said U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley's field representative Katie Gautier, and promised for the senator to "give our veterans our highest and best treatment." Dayton High School custodian Jeff Biglin sang the national an them at the beginning of the cer emony and "God Bless the U.S-A." at the end. "He sang at our (May 1) Veterans Appreciation Day at Dayton High School," Rife said. "After I heard him sing, 'God Bless the U.S.A. I was sold." Rife said he invited him to sing for the Grand Ronde event. In the Tribal Community Cen ter, Tribal members Kristy DeLoe, Tribal Food Service coordinator, and cook technician Kevin Camp bell along with cook Mike Burton whipped up elk stew for 500 to eat after the Memorial Day program. The elk came through a recently approved process overseen by the Tribal Cultural Hunting Board. It made 40 pounds of stew meat and 80 pounds of ground elk, Campbell said. Leftovers will be served at other cultural events or regular Elders' meals until it is finished Taylor served as master of cer emonies on a bright day, so windy that the flags had to be taped to the rails of the West Valley Veterans' Memorial. Former Tribal Chairwoman and Tribal Elder Kathryn Harrison gave the invocation. Chaplain Bud Abbott recited a poem about the universal soldier that he has been telling for 25 years, he said. "Remember the families who lost their loved ones," Marce Norwest said. B Dayton High School custodian Jaff Biglin tang tha national antham at tha start of tha Mamorlal Day caramony. Bahind him, from laft, ra Congressman Kurt Schradar, Tribal Chairwoman Charyla A. Kannady, San. Jaff Marklay's flald raprasantatlva, Katia Gautiar, Tribal Council mambar Val Shakar, Tribal Council Vka Chair Rayn La no and Chaplain Bud Abbott (saluting). Memorial additions Names added to the West Valley Veterans' Memorial for the 2009 Grand Ronde Memorial Day observance were: Army: Larry C. Bittner, William C. Boyce, Leonard D. Collins, Michelle Dickison Cooper, David L. Foster, Paul O. Franklin, Glenn Fuller, Jonathan M. Halstead, Olen Hammons, Dan A. Harris, Gary E. Josephson, James R. LeTourneux, Douglas E. Littlejohn, Roger Moore, Michael D. Parazoo (Tribal member), David L. Peery, Sigurd K. Ramberg, Richard R. Ridgeway, Harold J. Russie and Ronald A. Slane (killed in action). Navy: Edwin R. Bender II, Neil A. Brouwer, Hugh E.D. Colson, Robert Hammons, Kelly R. Johnson, Lloyd Lock wood Jr., Daniel L. Michelson, Curtis W. Russell Jr. (Tribal member), Lloyd G. Subriar, Patrice S. Qualman and Larry L. Wattier. Air Force: Roger C. Epps, Loma Hammons, Matthew J. Le Tourneux, Theodore E. Mansell Jr. and Jacob J. Vollmann. Marines: Loran C. Davison Sr. (Tribal member). . (I WIN! w 'J !fi ) nr. mi .i . 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