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6 MAY 15,2011
Smoke Signals
2006 Tribal Community Meetings were under way in Canyon
ville, Eugene, Grand Ronde, Federal Way, Wash., and Portland,
providing the widest access ever for Tribal members who live in the
Pacific Northwest. Tribal Planning & Grants Development Manager
Kim Rogers said the meetings concentrated on off-reservation and
non-Indian gaming proposals "and the need for the Tribe to plan
for these challenges."
2001 Tribal Chairwoman Kathryn Harrison was honored at
the May General Council meeting for her years of dedicated service
to the Tribe. She had announced that she would not be seeking
re-election to Tribal Council. Tribal Council Secretary Reyn Leno
pinned an honor corsage on her lapel while Tribal members gave
her a standing ovation.
1996 Spirit Mountain Casino was advertising for positions in its
"shiny new restaurant" Legends Steakhouse, which was scheduled
to open July 1. The casino was advertising for cooks starting at $10
an hour, dishwashers starting at $7 an hour and bussers starting
at $6 an hour, among other jobs.
1991 Grand Ronde Tribal Health Director Cheryle A. Kennedy
received the 1991 Minority Health Conference's Outstanding Indi
vidual Award. She was nominated by the Tribal Health Committee.
Kennedy has been Tribal Health director since October 1984.
1986 Tribal Council authorized the start-up of the Social Ser
vices Program, which will be BIA-funded and designed to provide
counseling and family assistance to Grand Ronde Tribal members.
The program also had responsibility for the Indian Child Welfare
Act, but did not provide financial payments to Tribal members.
Yesteryears is a look back at Tribal history in five-year
increments through the pages of Smoke Signals.
Camp's theme is 'Art of the Canoe'
"Art of the Canoe: Looking and Making Art from the Native People of
the Pacific Northwest" is the theme of this year's summer camp offered by
the Oregon College of Art & Craft's "Journeys in Creativity: Explorations
in Native American Art" program.
The program is a pre-college camp for Native American, Native Hawai
ian and other indigenous teenagers ages 15 to 19. The camp is free to all
students involved with the exception of travel to and from the camp.
It will be held Aug. 8-21 on the Oregon College of Art & Craft campus in
Portland. Students will live on campus with a chaperone for up to two weeks.
Teens 15 to 17 years of age stay for one week while those 18 and 19 can
stay the two weeks. The applications process is competitive and qualifying
youth are selected by a review panel of Native American artists and college
administrators. Completed applications must be received by June 1.
For more information, contact Shirod Younker by e-mail at syounkerocac.
edu or by phone 971-255-4148. The application can be found at the college's
Web site, http:ocac.edu, under the Community Programs tab. B
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Free to all Tribal members!
Diabetes Wellness Screening
11 a.m.- 2 p.m. Monday, May 30
(Coincides with the Memorial Day celebration)
Tribal Community Center
Screening is also open to Tribal spouses on Skookum Health
Care Plan Special prize for all participants
Drought to you by: Tribal Council and the
CTGR Health & Wellness Center
EFFECTIVE MAY 1,2011
Changes to Social Services Emergency Assistance
and Medical Gas Voucher Program
For all income criteria programs, wage verification for past 60 days
(wage stubs) will need to be submitted. If client has not worked for a
period of time, client will need to submit a printout from their State
Employment Office or printout from Oregon Self Sufficiency Office as
verification of income. Rentaldeposit or utility assistance may be uti
lized only one time in a 24-month rolling calendar period and is not to
exceed the maximum contribution of $1,000 per household within any
24-month rolling calendar period.
Medical Gas Vouchers
Social Services will not provide gas vouchers for medical appointments,
counseling or drug & alcohol treatment. The only exception to this is for
scheduled treatment plans, (i.e.: radiation, chemotherapy, surgery, etc.)
and has caused hardship on the family, medical gas vouchers can be distrib
uted to meet the need of the circumstances. A copy of all scheduled treat
ment plans must be received before client is eligible to receive this service.
Assistance will end on the date of the last treatment appointment.
For a complete copy of policy or questions, please contact Tammy C.
Garrison at 503-879-2077. H
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The Grand Ronde Saddle Club is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday near the
former Grand Ronde Food Bank west of Grand Ronde Road.
The Saddle Club is closed on Thursday and Sunday.
Everyone is invited to visit the horses and go for a ride.
For more information, contact Tribal member Clint Folden at 503-559-1977.
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Wednesday, May 25
5:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
Please join the Recreation and Youth
Education programs for dinner
and a friendly game of family softball.
We will be serving the meal and eating at
the covered area behind Youth
Education, then playing softball at the
ball field next to the gymnasium.
This event will serve as the kickoffto
the weekly Wednesday
evening family softball events that
were so popular last summer.
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Even if you don't play, please come
out for the dinner, good
times and to root on your family and
friends.
Please remember to bring your glove
and any softball equipment you
may have. We do have softballs and
bats, but are limited in extra gloves.
In the case of bad weather, we will be
holding the rec activity in the
gymnasium.
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