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Elkins memorial car wash slated
The sixth annual Sam Elkins memorial car wash will be held from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at D&R Masonry, 8890 S.E.
McLoughlin Blvd., Milwaukie.
There will be free barbecue and a live band.
All proceeds will benefit the Sam Elkins Memorial Fund, which
benefits Clackamas Youth Sports and the Dougy Center.
Elkins was a Tribal member who walked on in 2010. 
Gooseneck School reunion set
Former Gooseneck School students and their families will hold a reunion
and potluck on Saturday, May 21, at the school, 21345 Gooseneck Road,
Sheridan.
Gooseneck School was a one-room schoolhouse for students in first
through eighth grades. It closed in the 1950s. The reunion will offer the
opportunity to visit the old school, enjoy the company of old friends and
share memories.
For more information, contact Barry Ford at 503-583-1165 or Carl Lam-
bert at 503-879-4222. 
Course hoped to be offered
in Grand Ronde again
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have there. I think that is a bond
that won’t be broken.”
Cherry credits Stack with making
the course interesting and compel-
ling.
“He (Stack) brings it,” she said.
“He makes learning very fun. He
has a very strong presence. I like
that about him. I haven’t had an
opportunity to pick up that phone
one time. Not one time. It should
be like that all the time. It should
be like that in your day-to-day in-
teractions with people, with guests,
with your team, in your meetings.
It’s very liberating.”
Willis said she wants to be like
Stack.
“He is so good at it. He just is,”
said Willis. “You watch him and
how comfortable he is speaking and
you think, ‘I want to be able to do
that’. I want to be able to get up and
just be funny and impromptu and
comfortable. He is so engaged with
the class. He’s been very inspiring.”
Stack said he took the Dale Carne-
gie course after graduating from Or-
egon State University in Corvallis
in 1984 while working for an office
supply company in the San Francis-
co area. He had been taking myriad
trainings to learn about the office
equipment he was selling when the
company offered to pay for half of
the Dale Carnegie course and take
the other half out of his paycheck.
Stack said after participating as
a team leader in a sales class, he
started thinking about becoming
a trainer.
After 11 months in California,
Stack moved back to Oregon and
began his career with Dale Carn-
egie in 1985.
Stack said he enjoyed being in
Grand Ronde and that he hopes to
return annually.
“One of the unique things about
Dale Carnegie training is every
class is different,” said Stack. “Our
sessions are always the same, but it’s
the makeup of the people that always
make the course fun. I really liked
teaching the class in Grand Ronde
and one of the unique things about
Hospital employees
put together ceremony
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Just ask Tribal member Deborah
Gilbert Simmons of Independence.
She expected to give birth to her
daughter in about four weeks and
had scheduled to marry her fiancé,
Shane Callandret, also of Indepen-
dence, on Monday, March 28, in
Tribal Court.
But her unborn daughter had
other plans.
Simmons’ water broke at 4 a.m.
of her wedding day and the couple
traveled to Salem Health Family
Birth Center, where doctors dis-
covered that Deborah was not yet
in labor. However, they were not
letting Deborah leave the medical
facility just to be sure.
Deborah shared with her nurse
that the couple had planned to
marry that day in Tribal Court. The
nursing team told her it could still
happen if she was interested, but in
her hospital room instead.
More than a dozen hospital em-
ployees scrambled to obtain flow-
ers and make decorations, while
the hospital’s Nutrition Services
Department provided snacks and
drinks, non-alcoholic of course, for
the impromptu ceremony.
Salem Health’s Lead Chaplain
Ken Morse performed the wedding
after the couple had their marriage
license faxed from Tribal Court to
the hospital.
“They were scheduled to get mar-
ried in Tribal Court at 11 a.m.,” says
Tribal Court Administrator Angela
Fasana. “It was the first marriage
license issued since passage of the
Marriage Ordinance and the first
marriage ceremony scheduled.”
“I think it was absolutely amaz-
ing and a beautiful, wonderful
thing that they did for my husband
and me,” Deborah says.
“I thought it was really genuine
of the nurses and the staff, and it’s
a beautiful thing,” Shane says.
“It’s just a blessing to be able
to care for families and to be able
to make each part of their story
happen,” says Terri McCarrell,
assistant nurse manager with the
Labor and Delivery Unit at Salem
Health Family Birth Center.
Aponi Callandret was born less
than 24 hours later at 7:14 a.m.
Tuesday, March 29, and weighed
5 pounds, 6 ounces and was 18
inches long. Aponi (up-pah’-nee) is
Blackfoot for butterfly.
“We are humbled by all of the at-
tention about our wedding and birth
of our daughter,” the Callandrets
said in a hospital press release.
“We appreciate the outpouring of
support by family, friends, the com-
munity and Salem Health staff.”
Salem Health produced a vid-
eo about the wedding that can
be viewed at www.youtube.com/
watch?v=gSnyBsEYCg4&fea-
ture=youtu.be. 
Photo by Michelle Alaimo
At left, Mike Stack, president of The
Stack Group and instructor of the
Dale Carnegie Training course, talks
to the class about making effective
introductions before they broke
into pairs to prepare to make those
introductions in class on Monday,
April 4.
the Grand Ronde class is that it has
the elements of a family business.
There are a lot of family relationships
there and yet it doesn’t dominate the
class. Everybody is there taking the
class to better themselves. It now
becomes up to the individuals to keep
putting that (learning) to work.”
O’Harra said he hopes to offer the
course again and that he will work
with the Tribal Employment Rights
Office, Education Department and
Human Resources co-workers to
make it happen.
“We had the blessing of all the
different departments that were
working together and then we pre-
sented to Tribal Council and got
their blessing,” said O’Harra. “It’s
truly been a joint effort between
areas and that is the whole idea
behind the Tribal Employment
Services Center is to be working
together, providing opportunities
for Tribal members.” 
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