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Department Manager Leslie Riggs and other Tribal Education employees in creating the job description, conducting job interviews and selecting the family advocate. “I would say, for Rebecca, family outreach has always been a passion of hers even as a classroom teacher at Willamina Elementary,” Zimbrick said. “So when this position came about, she got really excited and came and talked to me about applying and leaving the classroom to do this work.” Zimbrick said talking about chronic absenteeism …

Tribal members as you can, meeting with as many Tribal members as you can. … That’s what I tried to do.” George said she met with Tribal members all spring and summer in 2016, driving all over the state for candidate forums and family reunions in southern Oregon that she was invited to, and she developed a website. She also didn’t just preach to the choir, she said. “I really did prioritize having conversations with people who I knew didn’t completely hold the same views as me, and that’s important …

Christine Svetkovich, started the meeting with some bad news – Oregon is one of the worst states in the nation in keeping its water quality permits current. “We have the second worst backlog of work on our federal water quality permits,” Whitman said. “For me, as director of the agency and I think for the agency itself, that is not an acceptable situation.” Whitman cited federal law that allows permit holders to extend their five-year permits indefinitely if they apply for renewal before …

a long time to accomplish. She cited the effort to remove the “S” word – squaw – from Oregon geographical names as an example. “Change doesn’t happen from the top down, but it happens from the bottom up,” Brown said. “I think, for me, it’s really important that we continue to move forward. That we work from the bottom up and not from the top down.” Brown said that as she moves forward in the last year of her current term and hopefully during a new four-year term as governor that she wants …

met a movie star or someone like that,” Sanchez said. “That’s what I’m doing here. She always believed in me. She always believed in all of us. She planted that seed inside of us and said, ‘Let the seed grow.’ She always did the best she could.” Daughter Christine Contreras said her mother was strong and that she loved to dance with her children when they were younger. “The strength of an Indian woman cannot be compromised,” Christine said. “My mom was a great friend. I know my mom loved us. She …

thought that since we’re here, we’ll just take a look at this,” Mike said while viewing the partially consumed sun at 9:45 a.m. “The main reason was powwow, but this came in second,” Tammy added. Tribal Elders Marcella Selwyn and Marilee Norwest sat on their porch, watching the eclipse through widely distributed safety glasses. “It’s kind of exciting,” Selwyn said. “I had seen one awhile back, but I can’t remember when. It kind of scared me because I had never seen it before. Now, I know …

and to at least got a call before it went public no matter what side of the fence we are on,” Freund wrote. “We are still Elders and deserved that much.” “It was disrespectful and shameful for Tribal Council to publicly disregard the board’s recommendation to re-appoint me to this position and to publicly announce the newly appointed board members without any discussion or justification,” Gleason wrote in a letter that also was submitted to Smoke Signals . Gleason and Freund attended the Tribal …

is that the bar to me has been set really, really high in terms of the kind of work that we can hope for for districts and their Tribal partners.” Banks, which is west 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 treaties with the federal government. Leo testified that the Banks School District has already removed its old …

with high quality, affordable health insurance. “It’s not a question of defending the status quo,” Wyden said. “It’s indefensible. It’s a question of how do we get from where we are going forward, and I think we have found a way to do it.” Wyden also told Grand Ronde resident Patrice Qualman, who attended with her wheelchair-bound 14-year-old son Cody, that he would fight to preserve Medicaid funding and against those who want to unravel the health care safety net in the United States. “This, for me …

by Tribal Council Secretary Cheryle A. Kennedy and Tribal Council members Chris Mercier, Tonya Gleason-Shepek and Ed Pearsall. “I’m so grateful to be here today,” said Cunliffe as she introduced her colleague Kanyako. “Thank you so much for inviting us,” said Kanyako. “These are 25 fellows that are young professionals with a proven track record of change in their communities. For me, it’s the classic citizen exchange program. This is really exciting. We are honored to be here and we look …