S moke S ignals
MAY 1, 2018
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Emergency Management
planning community event
Smoke Signals file photo
Tribal youth JC Rogers sings the national anthem during the Tribe’s 15th
annual Memorial Day Ceremony at the West Valley Veterans Memorial in
2017. Rogers will sing the national anthem again at this year’s Memorial Day
event on Monday, May 28.
The Tribe’s Emergency Man-
agement staff is planning a com-
munity event from 3 to 7 p.m.
Wednesday, May 23, in the Tribal
gym, 9615 Grand Ronde Road.
The event will be a Health, Safe-
ty and Preparedness Fair.
To hear more about the event
and emergency preparedness in
general, visit www.spreaker.com
and search for “Smoke Signals
podcasts” to listen to Emergency
Operations Coordinator Steve
Warden and Emergency Manage-
ment Assistant Brandy Bishop
talk about the event in a podcast that was posted on Wednesday,
April 11.
For more information, contact Bishop at 503-879-1837.
Twelve names being
added to memorial
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with Steve Bobb Sr., chairman of
the Tribe’s Veterans Special Event
Board and a Marine Corps veteran
from the Vietnam War era, giving
the invocation and serving as mas-
ter of ceremonies.
Grand Ronde drummers will play
a memorial song, Tribal youth JC
Rogers will sing the national anthem
as she did in 2016 and ’17 and Grand
Ronde Royalty and Veterans Royalty
will perform “The Lord’s Prayer.”
The Grand Ronde Honor Guard
will post the colors and speakers
will include Mitch Sparks, acting
director of the Oregon Department
of Veterans’ Affairs, and Wayne
Crowder of Polk County Battle
Buddies, a group that meets to help
counsel veterans.
Names being added to the West
Valley Veterans Memorial this
year are Navy veteran and Tribal
member Dana D. Stephens; Air
Force veterans Maurice C. Yoder,
Alton B. Weiss and William L.
McMahon; Army veterans Roy H.
Tucker, Raymond H. Tucker, John-
ny Morales, William F. Barrett and
Dustin L. Conde; and Marine Corps
veterans and Tribal member James
E. Turner, Daniel W. Helfrich and
If you go
16th Memorial Day Ceremony
When: Noon Monday, May 28
Where: Tribal Community Center
& West Valley Veterans Memorial,
9615 Grand Ronde Road
More info: 503-876-3118
Troy J. Harris.
Former Tribal Council Chairman
Reyn Leno, a Vietnam War-era
Marine Corps veteran, will read
the names.
The addition of 12 names brings
the number of veterans honored on
the pillars to 2,347.
The ceremony will close with Bud
Abbott reciting his traditional poem
“Remember Me, America” and Rob-
ert Thornburg performing taps on
the trumpet.
The West Valley Veterans Memo-
rial, which was dedicated in 2003,
was designed by Bobb and features
a man and a woman dressed in tra-
ditional Native clothing standing
side by side reaching to the sky.
Surrounding them are four black
granite pillars, which feature the
names of Tribal and community
veterans from Grand Ronde, Wil-
lamina and Sheridan.
Community Health Program
Medical Transport
Services
Medical transportation
services are available to
Tribal members within
the six-county service
area when an alternate
means of transportation
is not available. Advance
notice required.
Please call 503-879-2078
to schedule a reservation.
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