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MAY 1, 2020
Smoke Signals
General Council meeting
sNok signflz
11 a.m. Sunday, May 3
Tribal members can participate remotely
through the Zoom website. 503-879-2304.
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DATE
TIME
Wednesday, May 13.............................................................................4 p.m.
Wednesday, May 27.............................................................................4 p.m.
Please note that these times and dates are subject to change if needed.
Memorial Day
event canceled
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Tribal Council member Steve
Bobb Sr. announced that the
annual Memorial Day ceremony
held at the West Valley Veterans
Memorial will not be held on
Monday, May 25.
“We held out hope, but believe
at this time that we need to an-
nounce the cancellation of this
Memorial Day, reading of the
names and the ‘Roll the Dice’ car
show at the casino,” Bobb said in
an e-mail on Wednesday, April 29.
Army veterans Douglas D.
Stake, Alden H. Clark, Linden
W. Frederic, Donald E. Holsclaw,
David W. Weaver and Mervin J.
Holmes and Navy veteran Ra-
mona L. Quenelle will have their
names etched on to one of the
four black granite pillars – one
for each major branch of the U.S.
military. Clark and Quenelle are
Grand Ronde Tribal members.
Bobb said a contractor will
still come out to Grand Ronde
in the near future to etch the
names in the granite columns.
This year’s ceremony would
have been the 18th held after
the memorial was dedicated in
2003. It was designed by Bobb, a
Vietnam War-era Marine Corps
veteran, and features a man and
woman dressed in traditional
Native clothing standing side by
side reaching for the sky.
The four pillars feature the
names of Tribal and community
members from Grand Ronde,
Willamina and Sheridan. The
addition of seven more names
will bring the total on all four
pillars to 2,369. n
WIC visits Community Center monthly
Pregnant? Breastfeeding? Does your family include a child under
the age of 5?
If so, you may qualify for the Women, Infants and Children
program. With WIC, people can receive answers to nutritional
questions and access fruits and vegetables, whole grains, eggs,
milk, cheese, juice, cereal and more. A WIC representative visits
the Tribal Community Center on the third Tuesday of the month,
which will be May 19.
Walk-ins are welcome between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 503-
879-2034. n
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DEAN RHODES
PUBLICATIONS
COORDINATOR
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FROST
TIMOTHY J.
GONZALEZ
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KOCH
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ISSUE DATE
tuesday, may 5 ..................... may 15, 2020
wednesday, may 20 ............ june 1, 2020
Friday, june 5 ..................... june 15, 2020
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Monday, May 25, in observance of Memorial Day.
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