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8 FEBRUARY 15, 2022 Smoke Signals Are you frustrated with your diabetes control? Do you have questions about diabetes? Do you need help managing your diabetes? If so… Call the Medical Clinic today at 503-879-2002 To schedule an individual diabetes education appointment CONTRACTOR CERTIFICATION TRAINING GRAND RONDE 2022 TRAINING DATES REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND Contributed photos “North Cascades,” painted in 2010 by late Tribal Elder Frank Kowing, will be on display at Linfield University in McMinnville from Feb. 9 through March 19. He graduated from Linfield in 1966 and had a lifelong career as a painter and exhibition curator. Linfield to exhibit artwork of late Tribal Elder Frank Kowing By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor McMINNVILLE – One of Lin- field University’s first studio art graduates will have his work dis- played in the Linfield Gallery from Wednesday, Feb. 9, through Friday, March 18. Frank Kowing’s paintings, sculp- tures and sketch books will be part of “Breathing the High-altitude Ether of Discovery.” The Linfield Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. Kowing was a member and Elder of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. He was born in McMinnville on April 1, 1944, and attended Sheridan and Ballston elementary schools. He graduated from McMin- nville High School in 1962 and from Linfield in 1966. After serving in the U.S. Navy until 1968, he studied painting at the Rieveld Academy in The Neth- erlands and subsequently obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Penn State Univer- sity in 1973. He was involved for several years in New York with art galleries and served in the Peace Corps in Tunisia, teaching art to developmentally disabled students. “Tree of Life,” painted in 2011 by late Tribal Elder Frank Kowing, will be on display at Linfield University in McMinnville from Feb. 9 through March 18. He traveled throughout the world before settling in Maryland where he continued his lifelong career as a painter and curator of exhibitions in galleries and museums. “Deep communion with the moun- tains is as necessary to me as ox- ygen,” he said before his death in September 2016. “Nature beckons hypnotically and one must give in to the call.” Political satire and poetic au- thenticity coalesce in Kowing’s impressionist and abstract expres- sionist paintings and found-object creations. Kowing also published “Monu- ments, New and Selected Poems,” a collection of poetry, in 2009. The exhibit is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series and Linfield Department of Art. The Lacroute Arts Fund provides programs fea- turing artists in the areas of music, art and visual culture, and theater and communication arts. The gallery is located inside the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center on the university’s campus in McMinnville. Face coverings are required inside all Linfield buildings. A reception will be held 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16. https://www.grandronde.org/services/tero or on the ODOT website at: https://www.oregon.gov/odot/business/ocr/pages/index.aspx Please return completed registration form to Grand Ronde TERO no less than 5 days prior to the training date. 1ST QUARTER TRAINING March 3, 2022 Employment Service Center, Building C 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 2ND QUARTER TRAINING June 2, 2022 Employment Service Center, Building C 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 3RD QUARTER TRAINING Sept. 1, 2022 Employment Service Center, Building C 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 4TH QUARTER TRAINING Dec. 1, 2022 Employment Service Center, Building C 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 *VIA ZOOM IF APPLICABLE TERO Contractor Certification Training Fee of $450 will be charged per company. One-on-one trainings will be charged $750. Registration fees are non-refundable. For information please contact Grand Ronde Tribal Employment Rights Office (TERO) 503-879-2188 TERO@GRANDRONDE.ORG STUDY WHERE YOU LIVE Stay in your community and build connections in a new one while earning your degree online from Oregon State University. ecampus.oregonstate.edu/native ONLINE Paid ad