Smoke Signals
2 JANUARY 15, 2010
NOTICE Monthly Tribal Council Wednesday Meetings
DATE TIME
Wednesday, Jan. 27 4 p.m.
Pleat note that these timet and dates are subject to change tf needed. Call Dakota
Whitecloud, Tribal Council Relations Coordinator, at 503-879-1309 to confirm.
General Council meeting
Sunday, Feb. 7 10 a.m.
Monarch Hotel Pacific Ballroom
12566 S.E. 93rd Ave.
Clackamas, OR
Dear Smoke Signals:
The Bill Knight family is so thankful to have such wonderful family and
friends who have been such a comfort in our time of grief. We lost a special
man who now is in the arms of our Lord. Thank you everyone.
"My loving Dad."
Loretta Sisemore
Chewelah, Wash.
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
The Tribe started e-mailing a Tribal electronic newsletter on Friday,
Jan. 15, to the more than 800 Tribal members who have signed up on
the "members only" side of the Web site at www.grandronde.org.
The brainchild of Tribal members Chris Mercier and Toby McClary, the
electronic newsletter is designed to communicate important Tribal in
formation to Tribal members in a less expensive, faster e-mail format.
"At this point, we feel it in our best interest and those of the member
ship to explore more ways to communicate with the general membership,"
Mercier wrote in the introductory Tribal Voices column.
"A growing number of members are turning to our Tribal Web site on a
daily basis, and an electronic newsletter provides advantages on a daily
basis, and an electronic newsletter provides advantages that are consid
erable, namely being cheap, timely and at little cost in staff time."
The first electronic newsletter features a Tribal Voices column by
Mercier, links to recent Smoke Signals stories, an overview of the Jan.
10 General Council meeting and a Q&A feature.
"We anticipate that this newsletter will evolver over time," Mercier
wrote. 'This online publication is extremely flexible and will continue
to get better as we come to incorporate more multi-media features, such
as videos, for example."
Creation of a Tribal electronic newsletter does not mean the print edi
tions of Smoke Signals or Tilixam Wawa will disappear.
"Those publications will continue because most of our membership
still prefer their news in newsprint," Mercier said.
To receive the Tribe's electronic newsletter, Tribal members must
be registered members of the Tribal Web site. See the ad on Page 7 in
today's Smoke Signals for instructions on how to sign up for the Tribal
Web site.
The electronic newsletter is a cooperative effort of Tribal Council, the
PublicationsPublic Affairs staff and the Tribe's Information Systems
Department. D
Tribal offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 18, in observance of
Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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