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Children collect Easter eggs during
last year’s Easter egg hunt held in
Tribal housing. This year’s hunt will
be held on Saturday, April 19.
Easter egg hunt
set for April 19
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
T
his year’s Easter egg hunt
starts at 10:05 a.m. sharp on
Saturday, April 19.
Organizer Deborah Kroeker,
Tribal Housing Services coordina-
tor, strongly advises parents to
bring their children to the covered
area centrally located in the Tribal
housing complex on time.
“It will last around two minutes,”
Kroeker said. “That’s why I tell
people not to be late.”
Two minutes is about the time it
will take for about 100 children to
pick up 2,000 eggs.
Children will hunt in four adja-
cent areas, all starting at the same
time. They will be split into age
groups that give all the children an
equal shot at the eggs: 1- to 2-year-
olds; 3- to 4-year-olds; 5- to 8-year-
olds; and 9- to 10-year-olds.
Parents are reminded to bring
cameras for action photos and
portraits with the Easter Bunny,
again played by Tribal Elder Steve
Bobb Sr.
Other Easter egg hunt volunteers
include staff from the Tribal Hous-
ing and Wellness departments,
Kroeker said.
Big prizes are inside the eggs,
chosen again this year because they
fi t in the eggs, and everybody loves
the smell of candy in the morning,
Kroeker said.
Tribal Council again supported
the effort with $500. n
Tribal Attorney
Rob Greene leads
an informational
session about the
upcoming Grand
Ronde Constitutional
Amendment election
with a PowerPoint
presentation at
Portland Community
College on Saturday,
April 12.
Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Tribal Elders Kathryn Harrison, front, and Joyce Ham look at photos that they are part of displayed in the “kuri-
tsfqw tilixam: River People of the Willamette” exhibit during the Tribal opening held at the Willamette Heritage
Center at The Mill in Salem on Thursday, April, 10.
Historical partners
Tribe opens ‘River People of the Willamette’ exhibit at Heritage Center
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
S
ALEM – The Confed-
erated Tribes of Grand
Ronde opened its fourth
consecutive exhibit at the Wil-
lamette Heritage Center at The
Mill on Thursday, April 10, com-
memorating Tribal ancestors
who plied the Willamette River
as a waterway for commerce
and trade.
The new exhibit, “kuri-tsfqw
tilixam: River People of the Wil-
lamette,” concentrates on the
Native peoples who populated
the shores of the Willamette
River. Those Native peoples oc-
cupied many villages and towns
up all of the tributaries on the
Willamette River to Willamette
Falls, and managed the fi sheries
at the falls.
The exhibit features the mid-
dle Chinook Tribes, who were
the river people of the Willa-
mette River, and concentrates
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Tribal members briefed on
June 6 constitutional election
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
P
Photo by Ron Karten
ORTLAND — Tribal Council Vice
Chair Jack Giffen Jr. introduced
the fi rst of two informational ses-
sions held on Saturday, April 12, about
proposed amendments to the Tribal
Constitution.
Tribal Attorney Rob Greene led the
engaged discussion with attending Trib-
al members at Portland Community
College’s Sylvania campus. The vote on
the amendments will be held Friday,
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