2 AUGUST 15, 2009
Smoke Signals
NOTICE Monthly Tribal Council Wednesday Meetings
DATE TIME
Wednesday, Aug. 19 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, Sept. 13 11 a.m.
Tribal Community Center
Dear Smoke Signals:
I want to thank everyone for all the prayers in my behalf during my recent
illness. The thoughtfulness was appreciated by my family and me very much.
I believe the prayers played a big part in my rapid recovery.
KANAWI NAYKA TILIXUM
(all my relation)
Peace,
Beryle Contreras
Roll 384
Dear Tribal membership:
This year, it has been decided that candidates who are running for Tribal
Council are required to go through a mailing service to send out their cam
paign materials.
It has been less than convenient.
I know one candidate that was at the mailing service the day after nomina
tions wishing to have his letter sent. The letter was not sent until three days
later. People in California, Washington and North Carolina got it three and
four weeks later and our family members in Georgia have yet to receive it.
In any election, timing is very important. This same candidate had a com
pleted post card sit at the mailing company for a week and-a-half as they had
to wait until there were enough printing jobs to batch together.
This same person was not informed by the mailing company that he could
have a return address on the envelope. Later to find out after spending $1,700
for that mail-out that adding a return address was an option and the lack of
information was a mistake made by the representative of the mailing service.
I'd like to add that without the return address, it appeared to be "junk mail"
or an unwanted advertisement.
It is something we (including Tribal Council) should all be thinking about.
This particular candidate spent several thousands of dollars for mail-outs that
have still not reached their destination and maybe never will.
If you were running for Tribal Council and were depending on a mailing
company to provide a service that would assist you in your campaign, how
confident and trusting would you be? It is very likely that after having spent a
great deal of money on campaign materials, the membership may not receive
them before the election is over, if they receive them at all.
Respectfully,
Joann Mercier
Roll 546
Corrections: In the Aug. 1 issue of Smoke Signals, the story, "Grand
Ronde area swimming holes," requires an update and a correction. The
property holding the "Little Hawaii" swimming hole has recently been
sold by Stimson Lumber to Hancock Forest Management and the swim
ming hole is now closed to the public, according to Polk County Forestry
officer Shane Zook. And the swimming hole labeled St. Johns Falls in the
story is actually Jahn's Falls, according to Glennys Wright, daughter of
Otto Jahn, the farmer who once owned the property. "I learned to swim
in that hole," Wright, 78, said, "and we never did have a saint there."
Smoke Signals regrets the errors.
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