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2 APRIL 1, 2021 General Council meeting 11 a.m. Sunday, April 11 Smoke Signals sNok signflz Being held remotely using the Zoom teleconferencing program. PUBLICATIONS OFFICE NOTICE — Monthly Tribal Council Wednesday Meetings 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 1-800-422-0232, FAX: 503-879-2173 DATE TIME Wednesday, April 7............................................................................10 a.m. Wednesday, April 21..........................................................................10 a.m. Please note that these times and dates are subject to change if needed. Website: www.smokesignals.org E-mail: news@grandronde.org Editorial.Board@grandronde.org LIHEAP program open in service area www.facebook.com/SmokeSignalsCTGR/ The Tribal Social Service’s LIHEAP – Low Income Home Ener- gy Assistance Program – is open to eligible Tribal members in the six-county service area and Clackamas County. This is a first-come, first-served program and income criteria ap- plies. LIHEAP is federally funded through the Department of Health and Human Services and is designed to help low-income households with home heating costs. For more information, contact Social Services at 503-879-2034. Congressional Art Competition seeks entries WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici is accepting submissions for the 2021 Congressional Art Competition, which is open to any high school student who lives in or attends schools in her district, which includes Washington, Yamhill, Clatsop and Columbia counties and part of Multnomah County. Local artists will select the winning student artist whose work will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol for a year. All students who participate in the competition will be invited to a virtual reception with Bonamici where the winner will be announced and all submissions shown. Students interested in submitting artwork should visit bonamici.house. gov/services/art-competition on the Internet. Deadline for submissions is Friday, April 30. Art can be mailed to Bonamici’s Beaverton office at 12725 S.W. Millikan Way, Suite 220, Beaverton, OR 97005. Staff members will be available to receive art outside the front entrance to the building from 8 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 28, and 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 30. BURIAL FUND ORDINANCE OPEN FOR COMMENT The Tribal Council is considering amendments to the Burial Fund Ordinance. The proposed amendments were given a First Reading at the Feb. 10, 2021, Tribal Council meeting. The proposed amendments increase the Burial Benefit from $6,000 to $7,000, and may also include minor technical (i.e., formatting, typographical, housekeeping) modifications. Tribal Council invites comment on the proposed amendments to the Burial Fund Ordinance. For a copy of the proposed amendments, please contact the Tribal Attorney’s Office at 503-879-4664. Please send your comments to the Tribal Attorney’s Office, 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 or by e-mail to legal@gran- dronde.org. Comments must be received by Thursday, April 15, 2021. Clarification — An article in the March 15 edition of Smoke Signals con- tained information provided by a source that requires clarification: When an Elder becomes eligible for Tribal foster care, the cost is determined by 75 percent of their income, such as Social Security, per capita payments or a pension from a job. The Elders pension received as a Tribal member is not included in determining how much is paid for adult foster care. Twitter: CTGRSmokeSignal www.youtube.com/c/SmokeSignalsChannel DEAN RHODES PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR 503-879-1463 DANIELLE HARRISON TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ STAFF WRITER 503-879-4663 PHOTOJOURNALIST 503-879-1961 dean.rhodes@grandronde.org danielle.frost@grandronde.org timothy.gonzalez@grandronde.org SAMUEL F. BRIGGS III JUSTIN PHILLIPS KAMIAH KOCH GRAPHIC DESIGN SPECIALIST 503-879-1416 PAGE DESIGNER 503-879-2190 SOCIAL MEDIA/ DIGITAL JOURNALIST 503-879-1461 samuel.briggs@grandronde.org justin.phillips@grandronde.org kamiah.koch@grandronde.org DEADLINE DATE friday, april 9.................... april 15, 2021 monday, april 26 ...................may 1, 2021 monday, may 10 .................... may 15, 2021 monday, may 24 ................... june 1, 2021 Editorial Policy smok signflz , a publication of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Communi- ty of Oregon, is published twice a month. No portion of this publication may be reprinted without permission. Our editorial policy is intended to encourage input from Tribal members and readers about stories printed in the Tribal newspaper. However, all letters received must be signed by the author, an address must be given and a phone number or e-mail address must be included for verification purposes. Full addresses and phone numbers will not be published unless requested. Letters must be 400 words or less. smok signflz reserves the right to edit letters and to refuse letters that are determined to contain libelous statements or personal attacks on individuals, staff, Tribal administration or Tribal Council. Not all letters are guaranteed publication upon submission. Letters to the editor are the opinions and views of the writer. Published letters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of smok signflz . Members of: Native American Journalists Association Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association 2021 Tribal Council tribalcouncil@grandronde.org Cheryle A. Kennedy Tribal Council Chairwoman Letters welcome Letters should be exclusive to smok signflz. Letters should be 400 words or less and must include the writer’s name, address, phone number and Tribal roll number. You will be contacted to confirm authorship. All letters are subject to editing for space, grammar and, on occasion, factual accuracy. Only two letters per writer are allowed during a three- month period. Letters written in response to other letter writers should address the issue at hand and, rather than mentioning the other writer by name, should refer to the date of the letter published. Discourse should be civil and people should be referred to in a respectful manner. Letters deemed in poor taste will not be printed. Send letters via e-mail to news@ grandronde.org, or submit in person at the Tribal Governance Center in Grand Ronde, Ore., or mail to smok signflz, 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR, 97347. ISSUE DATE — ext. 2352 cheryle.kennedy@grandronde.org Chris Mercier Tribal Council Vice Chair — ext. 1444 chris.mercier@grandronde.org Jon A. 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