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PRESORTED STANDARD MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND, OR PERMIT NO. 700 General Council briefed on TERO — pg. 9 MAY 15, 2015 Vets Memorial to add 31 names If you go 13th annual Memorial Day Ceremony Where: Tribal Community Cen- ter, 9615 Grand Ronde Road When: Meal starts at noon, ceremony at 1 p.m. Why: Thirty-one names of West Valley veterans, including two veterans of World War I, will be added to the Veterans Memorial on the Grand Ronde Tribal campus. By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor T hirty-one names, including those of two World War I veterans, will be added to the West Valley Veterans Memo- rial during the 13th annual Me- morial Day Ceremony beginning at noon Monday, May 25. Veterans Special Event Board Chairman Steve Bobb Sr., a Viet- nam War-era Marine Corps veter- an, said it is rare to add the names of World War I veterans because RIWKHGLIÀFXOW\LQREWDLQLQJWKH proper paperwork to verify their military service. The two World War I veterans, both of whom served in the Army, are Tribal member Abraham Tom and Jacob J. Schryvers. The West Valley Veterans Me- morial was designed by Bobb and erected to honor Tribal and non- Tribal veterans from the West Valley communities of Sheridan, Willamina and Grand Ronde. The memorial, dedicated in 2003, is the location of the Tribe’s annual Memorial Day observance. The 31 new names bring the total number of men and women hon- ored on the memorial’s four black granite pillars, which represent the four major branches of the armed services, to 2,314. Memorial Day festivities start at 8 a.m. with a service honoring veterans buried at the Tribal Cem- etery. Events continue at noon in the Tribal Community Center with a traditional meal of ceremonial meat stew prepared by the Tribal Nutrition Program. Beginning at 1 p.m., Bobb will give the invocation and act as master of ceremonies. The Grand Ronde Drummers will perform a See MEMORIAL continued on page 16 Willamina board postpones decision on Tribe’s flag request By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor W ILLAMINA – After listening to 42 min- utes of sometimes emotional comment from Grand Ronde Tribal members and School District residents in support of the 7ULEH·VUHTXHVWWRKDYHLWVÁDJKXQJLQWKHKLJK school gym, the Willamina School Board decided not to act on the request at its Wednesday, May 12, meeting and said it would make a decision at its June 23 meeting. The failure to make a decision appeared to only let the controversy fester. As School Board members left the meeting following a brief executive session on another matter, Tribal members who had remained hoping for some sort of action asked why a decision could not be rendered that night. School Board Chairman Craig Johnson brought the meeting to an end with a loud bang of his gavel and definitive, “This meeting is adjourned.” Eleven people spoke in favor of the Tribal re- quest, including Tribal member Angela Fasana, who served for eight years as the Grand Ronde Tribal liaison to the School Board. No one spoke in opposition to the proposal and School Board members did not explain why they would not address the request. Fasana broached the idea of hanging the Trib- DOÁDJLQWKHJ\PLQ0DUFKWRRXWJRLQJ:LOODP- ina School District Superintendent Gus Forster after she visited the Pendleton School District and saw the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla 7ULEDOÁDJKDQJLQJLQWKHKLJKVFKRROJ\P She sent an e-mail request to Forster, who placed it on the School Board’s April 14 agenda as an action item. However, Johnson pulled the item for discussion and no action was tak- en. During that meeting, School Board mem- See FLAG continued on page 21 Photo by Michelle Alaimo Lifelong West Valley resident Christa Hosley is the new clinical nurse supervisor at the Tribal Health and Wellness Center. Her first day on the job was Monday, April 27. Switching gears Christa Hosley joins Health and Wellness staff By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor G rand Ronde Health and Wellness Center Clinical Nurse Supervisor Christa Hosley does not remember an epiphany when she realized that a health care career would be her lifeway. It was a series of things, she says. Baby-sitting. A love of science. Satisfaction from helping people. A desire to cure diseases. “I just knew early on that I had a real curi- osity for the medical profession,” Hosley says. After graduating from Willamina High School in 1989, she enrolled in the pre-nurs- ing program at Chemeketa Community See NURSE continued on page 11
