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S moke S ignals
JANUARY 1, 2018
Tribal Elder Deitz
Peters reacts to
seeing what he won
as he unwraps a
present during the
Elders Christmas
Party held at the
Elders Activity
Center on Friday,
Dec. 15. Next to him,
Tribal Elder Sharon
Wattier watches
him unwrap a food
chopper. Almost 100
Elders attended the
annual party.
Elders Christmas Party
Tribal Elder Jenny VanAtta picks a present from the table to hand out to a
raffle winner during the Elders Christmas Party held at the Elders Activity
Center on Friday, Dec. 15.
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reprint order form is available in the Publications Office of the Tribe’s
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Tribal Elders, from left, Penny DeLoe, her mother
Val Grout and Joyce Ham look at old photos during
the Elders Christmas Party held at the Elders
Activity Center on Friday, Dec. 15.
Photos by Michelle Alaimo
Tribe’s video, streaming
services down on website
By Danielle Frost
Smoke Signals staff writer
Tribal members trying to watch
the Wednesday, Dec. 27, Trib-
al Council meeting remotely via
livestreaming were met with no
connection.
Likewise, Tribal members trying
to watch videos of previous Tribal
Council meetings also are probably
feeling frustration.
The problem? Most of the Tribe’s
video services are down and there
is not yet an estimate of when they
will be up and running again.
Tribal video streaming services
are provided by Influxis, based in
Southern California. Audio/Video
Technician Wendell Olson said
services are hosted from the area
near the Thomas Fire, which has
raged since Dec. 4.
“I had assumed the fire was the
problem since the video services are
hosted from the area near the fire,”
Olson said. “However, I have not ver-
ified that with them and they have
not disclosed the actual problem oth-
er than mentioning that their drives
are damaged and they are working
to repair the data center.”
The livestream and recorded vid-
eos from the past year are affected
by the outage. Olson also sent out
an e-mail to all Tribal employees
letting them know about the issue
on Thursday, Dec. 28.
Influxis issued the following
statement.
“We do not yet have an ETA. We
are working to restore the data and
repair the drives at the moment
and it does look like we might be
able to recover the data.” n