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this home,” Zach said. “Grand Ronde is a beautiful place to be in.” Added Bryanna, “I’m so excited to decorate the house.” Their advice for other young Tribal members who want to buy a home is not to give up. “Stick with the process and ask for help from the Housing Department or people you know who can give you good advice,” Bryanna said. “We’re really thankful for this opportunity and excited to be here.” McKnight and his wife, Rebecca, are thrilled to be in their first home after nearly five …

, “the family interactions, the smiles, the laughter, the smells,” bring back those childhood years of helping out. Two years ago, he said, “my cousin presented their food truck to us, and was like, ‘Hey, do you want to buy it?’” They thought it through, Quenelle said, and “it was something we didn’t have to think long and hard about. It was a direction we knew we wanted.” The Quenelles’ grown children, who range in age from 19 to 26, sometimes work in the truck as well, along with nieces and nephews …

their management not just on obtaining revenue from logging, but on improving overall forest health. It requires a different approach, Trammel said, one that benefits trees, wildlife and Tribal cultural practices. That focus, he noted, has not hurt the Tribe’s ability to sell timber; if anything, it increases quality. “We have high demand,” he said, listing companies that buy as many logs as the Tribe will sell and ask for more. Footage from Smoke Signals' tour of Tribal lands with Tribal Timber …

of Salmon River Highway. An animal complaint was reported in the 9600 block of Salmon River Highway. A suspicious vehicle was reported in the area of Agency Creek Road. An animal complaint was reported in the 29000 block of Joe Day Way. Officers assisted an outside agency on an alarm call in the 200 block of Washington Street. A suspicious vehicle was reported in the area of Fire Hall and Andy Riggs roads. Sunday, Oct. 15 Officers assisted an outside agency on a warrant service at the Willamina …

, historic preservation and public safety. This quarter's recipients included the Black Parent Initiative of Portland, a 6-year-old nonprofit that uses parent training and coaching to bring about family stabilization in Multnomah County, said Charles McGee, president and CEO of the nonprofit. The $20,000 award will enable Black Parent Initiative to increase services to 250 families from the 200 it served before the award. This was the first Community Fund grant award for the group. Many of this year's …

a fast turnaround is important if you want your vote to be counted. Thank you for your time. Leroy Good Roll #892 Dear Tribal members: This is the last call for signing the Per Capita Payment Petition. We have had a great response to our Per Capita Payment Petition and have already met our initial goal of 200 signatures. As I write, we are now exceeding our goal as we receive various numbers of signatures almost on a daily basis. Five former Tribal Council members have signed our petition …

23 wildland fires, according to Jeff Nepstad, Silviculture and Fire Protection Program manager. "Nationwide, California and the Pacific Northwest are where most of the action is this year," Nepstad said. The Tribe owns six fire engines, five able to hold 200 to 400 gallons of water and one with a 1,000-gallon capacity. The larger engine and one of the smaller engines stay in Grand Ronde for potential fires. The other four are rented out for fires within federal jurisdictions beyond the local area …

continued conservation work at the sites. "The vision of the Ceded Lands Plan is to build on these successes and create ways for the Tribe to protect and recover its ceded lands," Reibach said. The Ceded Lands Plan will be released in three versions: an executive summary for the general public, a consultation document that is still "public safe" that can be distributed to other agencies and a full plan more than 200 pages long that will contain sensitive cultural information that is for internal …

," Lorenz said. Bath facilities were brought into rooms. A new patient care section emerged with a central nursing center. By 1998, the second phase had turned the old patient areas into management offices and surgery suites. The remodel, along with satellite facilities that brought in patients from the surrounding area, resulted in a hospital doing 160 births a month, 2,000 emergency visits and 200 surgeries. "We were hopping," Lorenz said. By then, half of the 80 medical providers were women …

classes attending, all are pre-school, but only Chak Chak and Mawaich are HeadStart-funded programs. The philosophy of the SMART program is to help children acquire essential skills early. "Also," said Jong, "if they develop this interest early, they'll read for the rest of their life." SMART provides the Grand Ronde program with 200 books each year. Pre-schoolers are invited to take one book home a month. For the October-May program, about half of this year's books are gone, said Tribal Librarian …