8 MAY 1,2012
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Tribal Senior Service Cook Michael Burton, right, puts pieces of
cut beef round roast in a bowl as he and Tribal Senior Service
Cook and Tribal member Kevin Campbell cut the meat for the
next day's birthday meal of beef tips and noodles at the Elders'
Activity Center on Tuesday, April 24. Each month the Elders
have a birthday meal to celebrate the birthdays of Elders that
month. On birthday meal days, the cooks plan to feed 125 to
1 50 Elders, both on site and through meal deliveries.
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Tribal Senior Service Cook Michael Burton unloads clean silverware as he
washes dishes after lunch at the Elders' Activity Center on Tuesday, April 24. In
addition to preparing the meals, the cooks wash and put away the clean dishes.
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Tribal Food Services is a department of three people who prepare almost
30,000 meals each year for Tribal Elders and Tribal events. In addition to
the actual cooking, once a week they shop for the food for the meals. The
only food they have delivered is produce. Tribal Food Service Coordinator
and Tribal member Kristy DeLoe also leads cooking classes for Elders once
a month, food education classes for parents whose children attend the Tribal
preschool and Youth Education's Summer Cooking Camp. For the last two
years she also has cooked for Youth Education's Spring Break Camp. D
Tribal Senior
Service Cook and
Tribal member
Kevin Campbell
loads a tray of
coleslaw on to a
speed rack as he
prepares lunch for
Tribal Elders at the
Elders' Activity
Center on Tuesday,
April 24. Four
days a week lunch
is prepared for
about 90 Elders.
Of those, about 50
are served on site
and the rest go to
the Tribe's Adult
Foster Care and
delivered to Elders
in Grand Rondo,
Willamina and
Sheridan.
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Tribal Food Service Coordinator and Tribal member Kristy DeLoe make a meatloaf
dinner for the "Making Parenting a Pleasure" class on Tuesday, April 24. In addition to
making lunch for the Elders four days a week, Tribal Food Services fills Tribal catering
orders. In 201 1, they made more than 1 2,000 meals for catering requests.
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Tribal Senior Service Cook and Tribal member
Kevin Campbell closes bag lunches of an egg salad
sandwich, coleslaw, potato chips and an orange at the
Elders' Activity Center on Tuesday, April 24. About
40 lunches are delivered each day to Elders in Grand
Ronde, Willamina and Sheridan.
Photos by Michelle Alaimo