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adults and youth trying to navigate the often complicated maze of treatment options. People who needed help weren’t getting it because there were no local options. So, he began researching ways to fill in the gaps. The tipping point came after a colleague’s son was battling heroin addiction. Although she had access to resources many in the area did not, she still struggled to find help for her son. This, combined with his own experience going to an inpatient treatment center, motivated Dickie to base …

Tribal Government & News General Council briefed on capital improvement projects 03.14.2024 Danielle Harrison General Council By Danielle Harrison Smoke Signals editor Tribal Engineering and Planning Manager Ryan Webb briefed the membership on various capital improvement projects on and off the Reservation during a Sunday, March 3, General Council meeting held via Zoom and in Tribal Council chambers. “It really is a pleasure to provide an update to the membership on everything that we’ve been …

. “He is kind, young kids look up to him and he’s one of the hardest working kids I know. He has never let a single thing get in the way of the success he’s had on the court. He really is the best son I could have ever imagined…made it really easy being his mom. I can’t wait to see what he does in the future, on and off the basketball court.” When he’s not practicing basketball, Cohen enjoys playing the guitar. He’s also an honor roll student and was inducted into the National Honor Society last …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor - March 15, 2016 03.14.2016 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : I want to thank everyone for coming and helping me celebrate my 104 th birthday. I want to thank people for all the wonderful cards and gifts. The chocolate-coverage strawberries were wonderful, as was all the other candy and flowers. Also, the beautiful necklace made by Jon A. George. Hope to see you all again next year. Pearl Lyon Roll #3662 Dear honorable General Council …

was the Tribe’s General Council meeting in Grand Ronde. Tribal Elder Val Grout said to the membership that if you have a good idea and you didn’t speak up, it was on you. “I left that meeting with those words embedded in my heart,” said Adams. Adams said she had a moment of “clarity” after Grout spoke and she applied for a grant from the Northwest Indian Area Health Board to begin the Renewing Spirits events. “My world changed,” said Adams. “So here we are today. This is for our Elders …

of everything that took place,” Vickery said. “There are other events that occurred after the game and things posted on video on Facebook, so things have continued.” However, she said, she had learned enough to institute the ban, noting that the person is banned from ever being on district property, not just for sporting events. She said that she and Willamina School District Superintendent Mike Gass met with the student’s family on Saturday, Feb. 15. “We had a very good conversation,” she said …

to know and understand what it is they’re trying to do. … If you give people hope, they are less likely to reoffend.” Myranda’s perspective Tribal member Myranda Bradshaw was at volleyball tryouts just a few weeks into her freshman year of high school when she received the news that her mother was going to jail. Bradshaw grew up with her father in Molalla, but maintained a good relationship with her mother, calling Plummer her “best friend.” Her mother’s sudden incarceration lead to a challenging …

had ever been arrested, let alone charged with multiple felonies. McNeel then entered her own personal hell while detoxing off heroin in jail with no medical supervision or even Gatorade to help ease dehydration caused by severe vomiting and diarrhea. “I thought I was dying,” she says. “I was so sick that all I wanted to do was smoke a little heroin to make it go away. But once I got my brain back in order, I couldn’t believe it had destroyed my life in only a year.” After two weeks in jail …

Oregon City. Among the buildings scheduled to be demolished are two that housed paper machines, Mill D and one known as the Butler Building. The work was scheduled to start in late February and take four to five months to complete. “We could not be more grateful or excited about this next phase of work kicking off to bring us that much closer to realizing our vision for Willamette Falls,” Tribal Council Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy said in a press release. “We’ve already come so far. To see …

a Native Club at its schools. Leo said that approximately 3 percent of Banks’ 1,100 students identify as Native American. Banks, which is northwest of Portland off of Highway 26, is within the traditional homelands of the Tualatin Kalapuya, one of the myriad Tribes and bands that were forced to move to the Grand Ronde Reservation in the 1850s and confederate after signing three treaties with the federal government. Public school districts that do not enter into an approved agreement with an Oregon …