6 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. Smoke Signals photo reprint policy See a photo you like in Smoke Signals? Want a copy, or several copies? Want to see if a photo that was taken but not printed in Smoke Signals because of space limitations might be something you’d like hanging on your living room wall? Tribal members can order 8-by-10-inch copies of photos taken by Smoke Signals staff members regardless of if they were published in the newspaper. Charge is $1 for each print ordered. Reprint orders must be pre-paid with a check made out to Smoke Signals. A photo reprint order form is available in the Publications Office of the Tribe’s Governance Building in Grand Ronde, or can be mailed upon request. All photos contained in Smoke Signals’ current archive are available for purchase, but people interested in going through the archive must make an appointment to review photos for possible purchase. No rush orders are permitted and requestors must allow 30 days for delivery. Requestors must be Tribal members. In addition, reprint re- questors must agree that the reprint is for personal use only, and not for use in an ad, or for commercial, political or promotional purposes. Smoke Signals reserves the right to decline a reprint request. To re- quest a reprint order form, write to Smoke Signals at 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347, or call Michelle Alaimo at 503-879-1961 or 800-422-0232. n 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