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NOVEMBER 15, 2014
Tribal member to perform Nov. 20
Tribal member Anthony Hudson, a Portland artist and performer,
will be staging a “cabaret spectacular” entitled “Carla Rossi Sings
the End of the World” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Alberta
Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E. Alberta St., Portland.
Hudson received a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture
Council to put on the show, which, he says, “marks a significant
moment for my work and reaches further than ever before with
what I want to achieve as an LGBT Native artist. Carla Rossi is a
project I’ve been working on for four years, and I focused my thesis
work around her as a way of talking about my ‘mixed’ identity as
a half Native/half white and queer person.”
The semi-one-woman cabaret will tell the story of two star-crossed
lovers: Weimar Germany and contemporary America.
The show will compare the whirling, progressive creativity and
freedom of 1920s Berlin with America today via a piano-accompa-
nied songbook of Berlin theater standards and dance support from
cabaret girls The Dolly Pops.
Rossi will guide the audience through this doomed romance with
a winking eye and banter, asking what became of Weimar Berlin
and could that happen to us?
Tickets, at $15 in advance and $20 at the door, are available
through the Alberta Rose Theatre’s box office at albertarosethe-
atre.com.
The show will be presented with American Sign Language inter-
pretation and is intended for those 21 and older. n
Are you pregnant or plan
on getting pregnant?
If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant and are eligible for
the Skookum Health Assistance Program (SHAP), this is important
information for you.
If you do not have primary health insurance coverage and are preg-
nant, you will need to apply for coverage through your state’s assistance
program and provide documentation about your eligibility before claims
will be paid by SHAP.
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Please contact Loretta Meneley, Certified Application Assister, for
application assistance at 503-879-1359, or Tresa Mercier, Business
Office manager, at 503-879-2008 or 800-775-0095. n
Elders Bazaars scheduled
Elders Bazaars will be held in November and December at Spirit
Mountain Casino.
The remaining schedule is Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14-15, at
Spirit Mountain Casino, and Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12-13, also
at Spirit Mountain Casino.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
Tables cost $20 per day per table at the casino.
To sign up for a table or tables, contact Elder Activity Assistant
Dan Ham at the Elders Activity Center at 503-879-2233. n
Val Grout’s Reunion set for Nov. 29
A Reunion for Tribal Elder Val Grout will be held beginning at
noon Saturday, Nov. 29, in the Community Center.
The potluck is for all relatives and friends. Attendees will eat
around 1 p.m.
Bring good stories and pictures to share.
Grout served on Tribal Council for 14 years and still attends
most Tribal Council meetings.
For more information, call Sharon at 971-241-5800. n
Diabetic Support Group to meet
A Diabetic Support Group will meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18,
at the Tribal Community Center.
A healthy meal will be served after the meeting.
For more information, contact Community Health Manager Kari
Culp at 503-879-2016 or kari.culp@grandronde.org. n
‘They’re better after a rain’
MUSHROOMS continued
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said the mushrooms are growing all
over the Reservation.
“The committee has been wanting
to do this for years,” said Lyon.
“This year I said I’m going to do
it.” He contacted Exeter to give the
presentation and the idea sprouted
to life.
Lyon said he has been hunting
mushrooms for 25 to 30 years and
today he distinguishes edible from
the merely distasteful and poison-
ous through his own experience.
And, after all these years, he says,
he still uses a reference book.
Al Miller, a member of the Vet-
erans Special Event Board and
also a past-president of the Salem
Mushroom Society, also attended.
Not everybody responds the
same, even to edible mushrooms.
“Line up 100 people,” said Exeter,
“and some report an upset stomach
while others find them good to eat.
Take a small bite the first time you
eat them,” he advised, “and see how
you do.”
Although most of the more than
14,000 varieties of mushrooms are
edible, they are not easy to distin-
guish.
“Some of these are edible,” Exeter
said, referring to a whole family of
mushrooms.
Distinctions he made came in
the form of differences among caps
and gills, stipes (or stems), colors
orange to black and white.
Some of them change color
when they are touched.
Squirrels eat some that
people also consume and
some that are poisonous to
humans. Groups of them
grow together, and some
are parasites growing on
hardwood trees, others
on spongy, decaying wood.
Mushroom names in-
Photo by Michelle Alaimo
cluded Chicken of the
Ron Exeter, a botanist with the Bureau of
Woods, Slippery Jacks,
Land Management, was the instructor of the
Poison Pax, Tube (also
mushroom identification seminar held at the
called Boletes), Club, Cor-
al and Tooth fungi. Puff
Elders Activity Center on Monday, Nov. 10.
Balls, Cauliflower and
and spores.
Jelly fungi are edible, but Cauli-
Tribal Elder Leonette Galligher
flower get wormy and Puff Balls
said the technical terms went right
resemble a poisonous variety. The
by her, but she enjoyed the overall
only way to tell is to cut them in
presentation.
half, Exeter said.
“It was interesting,” she said.
There are slime molds that also
“Tons of people in the U.S. eat
are called Deer Puke. “They have
them,” said Exeter, adding that peo-
patches of yellow, and I guess
ple do die from eating mushrooms.
they look like deer puke,” said
Over the past 35 years, an average
Exeter. Some have the odor of fish
of two to three people per year die
or shrimp; some ooze a substance
of mushroom poisoning in the Unit-
called “latex” when cut, though not
ed States, according to the North
the kind of latex found in paint.
American Mycological Association.
Red or orange latex mushrooms are
It is no wonder with the range
edible, but other latex mushrooms
of mushrooms out there. Along a
may be inedible.
few tables that stretched across
Asked whether he is now ready
the front of the lunch room, mush-
to hunt mushrooms himself, Trib-
rooms were everywhere. They were
al Elder Duane Wheeler deferred.
grouped according to family, and
“No. I think I’ll buy mine at the
some were edible, others were not.
grocery store,” he said.
Colors ranged from yellow and
Galligher said she remembered
that Pike Place Market near the
wharf in Seattle has “tons of mush-
rooms,” all in neat little sections.
“I know they’re good,” she said,
“because they picked them out.”
Senior Services Cook Kevin
Campbell said he has cooked reg-
ular button mushrooms for many
Elders’ lunches, but has neither
hunted nor cooked the more exotic
varieties at work. Asked if, follow-
ing the presentation, he would cook
these other varieties, he said, “Any
time. If they want to pick them and
bring them in, I’ll make them.”
At home, he said, he sautés lob-
ster and chanterelle mushrooms
with peppers and other vegetables.
They go on spaghetti or over ham-
burgers, he said.
Donn Grishaber said he has hunt-
ed mushrooms a couple of times,
bringing a book along. “They’re real
interesting to me. They’re better
after a rain.”
“I didn’t realize there were so
many so nearby,” said Galligher.
Tribal members can obtain a free
30-day gathering permit from the
Natural Resources Department to
gather mushrooms on the Reser-
vation. However, if they plan on
selling the mushrooms, they must
pay a $5 fee.
The event was sponsored by Trib-
al Council, the Fish and Wildlife
Committee, and the Education and
Land and Culture departments. In
addition to the presentation, there
were door prizes and dessert. n