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Elders' garage sale seeking donations
' Tribal Elders are regularly seeking donations of items for their
fundraising garage sales. To donate an item or items, call Tribal
Elder Linda Brandon at 971-267-0918. O
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Exiting Tribal Engineer Eric Scott, stcond from right, receives thanks
for a job well done from Tribal member and Director of Development
Pete Wakefield, second left, and Natural Resources staff members,
from left, Mike Wilson, manager of the department, Jeff Nepstad,
Silviculture and Protection coordinator, center, and Kelly Dirksen,
right, Fish and Wildlife coordinator. Scott started as an engineering
consultant for the Tribe in 1 993. He began working for the Tribe
full-time as director of Public Works in 2000 and was named
Tribal Engineer in 2002. He is leaving the Tribe to work for Shaw
Environmental and Infrastructure Group to manage installation of
a power transmission line that will go through Wyoming, Colorado,
Utah, Idaho and Oregon.
Elder's bingo changes days
Bingo at the Elders' Activity Center has been moved to the second and
fourth Fridays of the month.
Potluck starts at 6 p.m. and bingo starts at 6:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Elder Activity Assistant Daniel Ham at
503-879-2233. B
PSU receives funds to start American
Indian Urban Teachers program
PORTLAND Portland State
University's Graduate School of
Education is recruiting student
candidates for its new project, the
American Indian Urban Teachers
Program, funded by the Office of
Indian Education in the U.S. De
partment of Education.
Portland State applied for the
four-year professional develop
ment grant in conjunction with
the Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde, Confederated Tribes of Si
letz Indians, Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation
and the Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation.
The first group of students will
begin classes in July to earn a
teaching license.
Native American students en
rolled in the program will be award
ed tuition, fees and books and a
living allowance, including depen
dent care. The program will train
18 Native American teachers dur
ing the next four years to teach in
schools with significant numbers of
Native students enrolled.
Portland State is one of eight col
leges and universities nationwide
awarded the funding. To apply
or receive a program application,
students should contact Marilyn
Quintero at quintempdx.edu or
503-725-9943.
The link to the Graduate School
of Education Web site is www.pdx.
edueducation and the link for the
program is www.pdx.eduaiutp.
Students interested in enrolling
for the 2012 teacher education pro
gram should contact the program
office to receive an application as
early as possible. The deadline of
Dec. 1, 2011, requires an online
application be submitted to both
Portland State and the Graduate
Teacher Education Program, as
well as the submission of three let
ters of recommendation and copies
of transcripts.
While graduate students are
not required to take the Graduate
Record Exam, teachers applying
for a state license are required by
the Teachers Standards and Prac
tices Commission to take either the
CBEST or the Praxis. Each aca
demic department also may have
other testing requirements prior to
admission. B
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