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march 15, 2014
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Tribal member Michael
reyes, a sophomore at
Willamina High School,
defeated elijah Conlon
of riverside to win the
Class 3A state wrestling
title at 120 pounds during
the OSAA Wrestling
Championships.
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MEMBERS WITH CONTRACT
HEALTH SERVICES
As most of you are aware, Contract Health Services (CHS) is a
federally funded program and a payor of last resort. With all of the
health care changes recently, we would like to take a minute to re-
mind you that ANY alternate resource you have needs to be utilized
correctly. That means in order for CHS to cover a “patient respon-
sibility,” you must use providers that are in-network with whatever
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who are in-network or receive services that are not covered, you will
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this may cause you, but to keep serving our Tribal community, we
must exhaust all other resources available to our membership.
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Photo by Susan Ragan
reyes wins title
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Tribal member Michael Reyes,
a sophomore at Willamina High
School, won the Class 3A state
wrestling title at 120 pounds
on Saturday, March 1, during
the OSAA Wrestling Champi-
onships held at Memorial Coli-
seum in Portland.
Reyes pinned Elijah Conlon
of Riverside at the 5:46 mark to
take the title.
To reach the finals, Reyes
defeated Emmet Earlywine of
Rainier High School 6-2.
At the March 2 General Coun-
cil meeting, Tribal Chair Reyn
Leno mentioned Reyes’ accom-
plishment on the mat, but also
said he was a straight-A student
who beads.
Reyes is the grandson of Bon-
nie Tom.
Leno spent the previous two
days at the wrestling champion-
ships watching his grandson,
Justin Fasana, compete for
Willamina High School.
Tribal member Matt Hofen-
bredl, who attends Dallas High
School, lost in overtime at 126
pounds in the Class 5A compe-
tition.
Hofenbredl, a state champ his
first two years of high school,
was upset in a 4-2 decision
against Hood River Valley’s
Christian Marquez.
Hofenbredl, who battled a
knee injury most of this season,
almost had Marquez turned in
the third period, but he was
ruled out of bounds.
Late in overtime, Hofenbredl
shot in on Marquez, but Mar-
quez took him down for the
win.
To get to the finals, Hofen-
bredl beat Valen Wyse of Herm-
iston High 7-2. n
Includes information from the
Salem Statesman-Journal.
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