S moke S ignals
march 1, 2014
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EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
College Placement Testing off ered
College Placement Testing offered on-site at the Adult Education Build-
ing for Chemeketa Community College, Linn-Benton Community College
and Mount Hood Community College. The Placement Test is one of the
fi rst steps to beginning college classes. Call 503-879-2282 to sign up for
your placement test – allow about one week for scheduling purposes. n
Northwest Indian Housing Association Scholarship
Applicant must be 23 years old or younger
on the date of the deadline.
Due March 31, 2014
Applications available at:
http://nwiha.org/youth-scholarship-program/
Workshop facilitators for micro-
enterprise business classes wanted
MERIT is a microenterprise program that provides business training and
one-on-one business counseling to residents of Marion, Polk and Yamhill
counties who are in the process of starting their own businesses.
A microenterprise is defi ned as a very small (or micro-) business, having
fewer than fi ve employees (usually a single self-employed person or fam-
ily), minimal capital needs, and whose owner has some social, cultural,
economic or physical barrier to overcome that prevents access to traditional
business training and counseling resources.
We are looking for individuals who possess the best practices in workshop
facilitation, instruction and classroom management to facilitate discussion
and student information exchange on the topic of business development.
Our goal is to create a safe, interactive, non-critical learning environment
that encourages self-refl ection and learning. We are looking for individuals
who will build trust with each student to ensure they become completely
engaged in the course to the best of their ability.
Application Instructions: Please send your resume and a bio to the
MERIT Program Manager Mona Edwards at medwar44@chemeketa.
edu. n
LIBRARY HOURS:
Monday – Friday: 9 A . M . – 6 P . M .
(closed Monday - Friday: noon – 1 P . M .)
Saturday: 10 A . M . – 2 P . M .
Movie Night: First Thursday of the month at 4 p.m. This
series of movies features General–PG, family type movies. Youth
ages 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult, 18 or older.
• March 6: “Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief”
• April 3: “Hotel For Dogs”
“Get Fired Up for Reading”: This Reading Incentive program
started Jan. 15 and ended Feb. 28. For each book that is read, we
added a dragon scale that states the book title and reader’s name.
The more books that are read, the bigger our dragon became. In
2013, 211 books were read. We were reading to break that record
in 2014! As of Feb. 19, 144 books have been read. This program
was for all ages; we had readers younger than 4 and older than
60 this year.
Book Review
“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
Pi is the son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, India. At birth he
was given the name Piscine, but shortened it to Pi when he went
to school. The story around getting his nickname is thought-pro-
voking and comical.
Pi is an “out of the box” thinker. He is very spiritual and believed
it OK to practice more than one faith. Pi, who is Hindu, also prac-
ticed Christianity and Islam.
The setting in this novel takes place when Pi’s father decides to
leave India. He closes the zoo and arranges to distribute some of
the animals to other facilities around the world. The family boards
a Japanese cargo ship, along with some of the zoo animals, and sets
sail into the Pacifi c Ocean toward their new home in Canada.
Tragedy strikes when the ship sinks and Pi survives along with a
zebra, hyena, orangutan and 450-pound Bengal tiger named Rich-
ard Parker. The story is about Pi’s journey of survival, overcoming
his fears and grieving the loss of his father, mother and brother
on the sinking ship.
Pi’s only refuge is a lifeboat that he shares with the surviving zoo
animals. One by one the animals are killed until the only survivors
are Pi and Richard Parker.
This novel is full of ideas, interesting people and exciting situa-
tions. Each reader could spend a lot of time pondering the spiritual
implications of the deep relationship that develops between Pi and
Richard Parker over the course of their confi nement together.
“Life of Pi” is available for check out at the Tribal Library. I en-
courage anyone who likes adventure, believes in faith and marvels
at personal growth through adversity to read this novel.
- Carmen Mercier
Donations: Many thanks to the following contributors to the
library collection: Mark Mercier and Margo Ordaz for DVD dona-
tions.
Reminder: The library no longer accepts: VHS or cassette tapes
and/or paperback books (mass-produced). Donated items must be
clean and in good condition. Thank you.
The Tribal Library is a CCRLS Circulation Site: Use your
Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Services library card to
place electronic holds on resources in the 18 partner libraries and
items will be couriered here for check out and can be checked back
in here as well.
Inter-Library Loan services: The Tribal Library partners with
Oregon State Library to offer “library to library” inter-library loan
services. By completing the inter-library loan form, library patrons
may request items from the Oregon State Library collection. OSL
lending policies apply for return of items.