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NFL All-Star
Football
Camp.
Section 1,
page 17.
Honoring
Willie
Jones.
Section 1,
page 8.
Lummi
Strong.
Section 2,
pag 1.
Honoring of Chat ex 't
30 years of Leadership
Recipe of the
Month: Fresh
Kelp Salsa.
Section 2,
page 10.
Featured
Artist
Dan
Friday
Above: Artist Dan
Friday and his sister Ray
Friday.
Submitted by Julie A.
Jefferson & Daralee Ridley
tion and Tribes across the
United States.
On Thursday, June 27,
2013, family, friends, Tribal
leaders, and LIBC members
gathered to honor William E.
Jones, Sr., Chat ex't, for his
30 years of leadership, sacrifice, and the ongoing fight for
tribal rights and sovereignty
for people of the Lummi Na-
Guest speakers included leaders from tribes
across Indian Country, Self
Governance, and SENSE
shared stories of how they
met and worked with 'Uncle
Willie'. Sharing stories of
how many often heard his
niece, Maureen Kinley, al-
ways refer to him as 'Uncle
Willie', as they often attended many of the same
meetings and conferences,
and began to call him 'Uncle
Willie' themselves.
Many Hy'shqes were
spoken on behalf of the
council by Chairman Ballew,
one of many leaders asked to
speak by the Jones family.
Silheng-Otel
Standing Together
for Wellbriety in the community. Community members,
families, youth, elders, many
S t a n d i n g T o g e t h e r , are participating in marches
Lummi Strong, a movement throughout the community
by the people of the Lummi banning together to bring
Nation to declare the need awareness to the effects of
Submitted by Julie A.
Jefferson
drugs and alcohol.
If you have attended one
or more marches/parades
in support of Wellbriety you
must have heard it’s not
about pointing fingers it’s
Jim Thomas was the main
speaker led the evening introducing many guests and
family, including Johnny
and the Crew (drum group),
the Jefferson Girls (song
group), and Father Twohy.
Granddaughter of
William Earl Jones Sr., Akesha Martin-James, shared
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about wellness, protecting
our families, healing our
community. Loss has deeply
impacted our community
with displacement of children and families, and loss
of lives. Many have shared
stories of loss and grief and
statements including ‘We’re
tired. What are we doing
to make this a better place.’
Now they share stories, testimonies, prayers, and unite
together to strengthen our
community.
Standing Together, Lummi Strong, meet daily and are
continuing to plan marches,
and other events and Invite
all in the community to participate.
Lummi Squol Quol
2565 Kwina Road
Bellingham, WA 98226
360-312-2135
“ To P r e s e r v e , P r o m o t e , a n d P r o t e c t o u r S c h e L a n g e n ”
Dan Friday is this
months featured artist at
Tacoma Museum of Glass.
Starting July 1st and running throughout the month
of July featured artist Dan
Friday will show his work
Mondays and Tuesdays
from 10 am to 5 pm.
Dan Friday, an enrolled member of the Lummi Nation, is the son of the
late Charles Friday, and
grandson of the late Edna
Hillaire. Dan has been
working with glass for over
17 years. He and his sister
Ray are both artists and
often travel to share their
work and learn from other
artists.
Dan produces small
and large pieces and can
take orders. Dan can be
reached at fridayglass@
yahoo.com
You can visit: http://
museumofglass.org/visit
to view the Events Calendar for your visit.
(Additional photographs on on page 3)
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Community Updates
NOTICE: Anyone involved in
fishing/clamming or any aqua
culture industry
Lummi Homes I located on Little Beaver
Road at the southern end of the Mackenzie
subdivision is accepting applications for 2 3 and a 4 bedroom home. Anyone interested
in applying, please contact Lummi Housing,
2828 Kwina Road, 360-312-8407.
Requirements in addition to employment
in the above listed industries are: applicants
must have a $3,000 minimum yearly income
from one of the listed industries; must have
a prior history in the industry and plan
to continue working in the industry; total
family income cannot exceed 40% of the area
medium based on family size.
Please call for further information and
application forms 360-312-8407
August’s Squol Quol Deadline
Thursday, July 25th ~ 4:30PM
SQUOL QUOL
The Lummi Squol Quol (SQ) is
the official publication of the Lummi
Nation. Published monthly by Lummi
Communications – the SQ welcomes
articles and information including: letters
to the editor, news tips, photographs,
information and events.
Items printed in the SQ, in no way
directly reflect the opinions of the Squol
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Business Council (or their employees),
unless otherwise noted. All editorials,
letters and guest columns are encouraged
for submission with the understanding
that all material are subject to editing for
content and/or space.
Julie A. Jefferson
Communications Director
360.312.2134
julieaj@lummi-nsn.gov
Candace Solomon
Communications Producer
360.312.2135
candaces@lummi-nsn.gov
Henry Hillaire
Video Tech/Computer Tech
360.312.2136
henryh@lummi-nsn.gov
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Video Tech/Videographer
360.312.2137
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Video Technician
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Bellingham Tides July 2013
Bellingham Tides Aug. 2013
Lummi
mailboxes
are being
destroyed
This needs to stop,
please
Did you know
mailboxes are
considered to be
Federal Property?
TITLE 18, SECTION
1705 OF THE U.S.
CODE
Lummi nation
(Maliciously damaging,
destroying, defacing
or tearing down
mailboxes)
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Those found guilty
can be fined or be
sentenced up to 3
years in prison for each
count.
Please stop knocking
over our mailboxes, it’s
not fun trying to repair
them when they did not
do anything to you
--A sad Lummi Tribal
Member
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Elder meeting to plan
July 12th Elder’s Day
The Senior Advisory Committee will have
weekly meetings for the planning of the Elder’s Event, Friday, July 12th. We want to
invite all elders to come and participate in
the planning.
Monday, nights at 5 o’clock
Little Bear Creek
360-758-3500
(Featured Artist Dan Friday
continued from page one.)
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Community Updates
A word from Lummi Dental
How do exams appointments work?
First day of the week, new appointments open. Exams are
filled on a first come first serve basis. (CALL OR STOP BY)
We will accept calls for exams until all exam appointments
are filled.
Unfortunately, EXAM APPOINTMENTS are limited in
July and August.
Lummi Dental will be working with the kids enrolled in
summer school at Lummi Nation School.
Walk in and regular appointments will still be
available.
Same Day Service for Urgent Dental Needs
Walk in is for URGENT DENTAL CARE (swelling,
pain)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
•
Walk in time:8am
•
All other appointments are scheduled appointments
Thursday
•
Afternoon walk in starts @ 12:30pm
LUMMI INDIAN BUSINESS COUNCIL
CURRENT JOB
OPENINGS
How to Apply: Submit a complete application packet no later than 4:30 p.m. of the closing
date. If you’re enrolled in a federally recognized tribe, attach a copy of your enrollment
card/verification to the application in order to qualify for the Native Preference Policy. Fax
(360) 312-9834, E-mail: Carolyn Peters at carolynp@lummi-nsn.gov Mail ATTN: HR 2616
Kwina Rd., Bellingham, WA. 98226. If you have any questions feel free to contact the HR
office at (360) 384-2398. Current as of May 29, 2013
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Job Title
Department
Closing Date:
Receptionist/Office Assistant
Office of the Public Defender
7/2/13
Physical Therapist
Early Learning
7/2/13
Housekeeper & Grounds Maintenance- Facilities
7/8/13
Assistant
Legal Assistant
Office of Res Attorney
7/9/13
Transportation Planner/Transit Manager
Planning
7/9/13
Middle School Science Teacher
Lummi Nation School
7/10/13
Senior Outreach Nurse Practitioner
Little Bear Creek
7/25/13
Licensed Mental Health Provider
Behavioral Health
Until Filled
Chemical Dependency Counselor (2)
Lummi Counseling
Until Filled
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner LTHC
Until Filled
Transit Operator
Planning
Until Filled
On-Call
Bus Driver Lummi Nation School Until Filled
On-Call
Custodian
Lummi Nation School
Until Filled
On-Call
Residential Assistant
Safe House Until Filled
On-Call
Caregiver
Home Care Agency
Continuous
On-Call
House-Keeper
Planning
Continuous
On-Call
Fitness Attendant
Fitness Center
Continuous
On-Call
Substitute Teacher Lummi Nation School Continuous
Sub TA
Day Care Until Filled
Commissions/Board of Directors
Department
Closing Date:
NWIC Board of Trustees (2)
NWIC
Until Filled
Exclusion Committee
Law & Order Until Filled
Exclusion Panel
Law & Order Until Filled
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Government
Chairman’s Update
and begin to plan for a better tomorrow.
Tim Ballew II, LIBC
Chairman
We held the grand
opening of the new Lummi
Nation Administration
Building on June 14, 2013.
Our facility is the fulfillment of a dream from our
past leaders, current leaders, and community members. It is the new home
where we can better serve
our people. This facility will
provide tribal members
with the ability to receive
almost all services in one
location.
It was honorable and
appropriate that we raised
our Lummi Nation Flag
and U.S. Flag with the
newly adopted Anthem of
the Lummi Nation – Che
Shesh Whe Wheleq (Survivors of the great flood). We
survive and succeed, because of our ability to adapt
to our environment and
our innovative spirit. Our
innovation gave rise to the
reef net technology (which
is represented in the lobby
of our new facility). With
the reef net we were able to
sustain our people and rise
to prominence. As a people,
sometimes we have been
forced into certain conditions, such as taking on our
modern day governmental
structure. With our innovative spirit, the Lhaqtemish
were one of a few tribes
that took a leadership role
in embarking upon tribal
self governance in 1988.
Lummi nation
The (New Administration Building) represents
the 8th facility that the
tribe has built. We can now
shed the Navy barracks we
moved into many years ago
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Thank you to the men
and women who built the
facility, and we look forward to the day when we
can build facilities constructed entirely by Lummis from start to finish. We
encourage our future workforce to pursue a dream in
architecture, construction,
landscaping, and tribal service. Also, a big thanks to
our partners at USDA who
have helped us with financing for the new building.
This was a dream that has
been long coming.
Over the last six months
we began the process for
putting the off-reservation
property near I-5 into trust
status. As many of you
know the Fee-to-Trust process is an unreasonable
exercise and takes too long
and is too burdensome. An
example of the trustee’s
poor processing of feeto-trust application is the
application for Gooseberry
Point (which has taken
more than 10 years). We
will see the administrative
process through and get
our property into trust.
On a similar note, as
a result of Lummi’s 2001
settlement with the City
of Blaine, the Nation will
soon be taking ownership
of the property intended
to be the sewer treatment
center near Semiahmah.
As you remember the city
and its contractor damaged
the site in 1999. In efforts
to find a resolution to the
damage done, the city will
soon be transferring the
property over to the Lummi Nation. When the Land
transfer is completed we
will put the property into
trust. We acknowledge
the emotional and spiritual
damage that this incident
has caused. We hope that
bringing closure can begin
the process for community
healing.
General Council meeting is
scheduled for Tuesday July
9, 2013 – 5 p.m. at Wexliem
Community Building to address ‘Health & Wellness”
in our community.
Please keep a prayer in
your hearts for our families
that are in mourning and
As you each may be sorrow.
aware, the Lummi ComHyshq’e
munity has rallied unified
--Lulhalmun (Timothy
support to curtail the drug
activity operating within Ballew, II) Chairman
our homeland. A special
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Community Updates
Treasurer’s Update
Darrell Hillaire, LIBC
Treasurer
From June 1st, the
Treasurer’s office shared
in the work for the stage
play “What About Those
Promises?”. The month
before was intense preparing for this historical event.
After selling out so quickly
at Bellingham High School,
Darrell Hillaire decided to
host an encore presenta-
tion on June 16th at the
Silver Reef Event Center.
We had over 850 people attend this event as well. The
actors, stage hands, cast
and crew did an amazing
job. As usual, Miss Ramona
Morris captured the hearts
of everyone. She has the
right element of sass, savvy,
and wit to express Lummi’s
story about the Point Elliot
Treaty. The experience was
largely described as powerful… not only by the ticket
holders, but also by the
cast/crew and volunteers.
The Treasurer’s office hosted our 2nd Public
Hearing, FY2014 & 2015
Projected Revenue, at the
SRC Event Center on June
4th. We had 66 Tribal
members attend. We re-
(Honoring of Chat ex ‘t continued from page 1)
some of her grandfathers
personal history and stories like this one. Young
Willie grew up at the Kwina
estate, where the present
day N.W.I.C. dorms are
located, with a man he
called Sileh or grandpa.
This man was blind and his
name, Chief Ottis Martin.
"The things that I did for
the reservation were due
to him giving me the ability
to dream. Dream the things
that were not there and do
it. Everything that he did
he believed he could do
even though he was blind."
Willie learned to read that
blind man. They also share
their Indian name.
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Sports are a big piece
of Willie's life. Jones was
the only Lummi who tried
out for the Ferndale middle
school basketball team, and
one of only a few Lummi's
who played football. He
is also said to have come
from a line of paddlers. An
abundance of his children
can say that Uncle Willie
was an incredible skipper.
The business man now
owns three racing canoes;
Lady Rose and two others.
Willie's son and grandchildren are carrying on the
tradition of canoe racing
today. 'Chairman Willie'
also enjoys watching the
Blackhawks, while filled
with pride by how they are
progressing every year.
"Today Willie is stronger than ever and his job
definitely isn't done….We
love you so much, you are
our hero," Akesha, granddaughter expressed the
family's love.
ceived a handful of general
council comments. The
staff will be compiling all
comments at the end of
the budget process (before
approving a final budget)
and provide a matrix of all
information from the general council so the Budget
Committee and LIBC are
making informed decisions
on all budgetary needs. The
last of our series of 3 public
hearings is tentatively for
mid September.
On June 10th we met
with some GC members on
our LIBC financial statements. We had 7 participants, which was valuable
to allow each of them an opportunity to ask questions
and actually receive more
one-on-one attention from
speaking the Lummi Language. He actually didn't
know that he could still
speak X'lemi Chosen until
he took class at the college.
Jones became a Language
teacher once he relearned
it.
William was a student
at the Lummi College of
fisheries on Lummi Island,
which soon closed due to
lack of funding. Willie had
a vision from then on to
find home for the young
people to just be them".. the calm and spirselves.
itual qualities of Uncle
In order to get the com- Willie which he advocates
munity college started, in his visioning process
Chairman Willie went to always infused the message
Washington D.C. to meet echoed in Washington DC
with the person in charge about the Lummi warof funding at the B.I.A.. riors." -Juliet Pittman. "I
The man told Willie that he for one am so very gratedidn't have time to meet. ful to have been a part of
'What did Jones do?' he this chapter of history in
waited outside his office the Lummi Indian Nation,
until the man made time. but more importantly to
Willie was told to provide be asked to share a special
evidence of an actual col- time in lives of people that
lege within two weeks. I consider to be friends and
'Uncle Willie' got some family, hy'shqe."
other leaders involved and
" 'Uncle Willie is a man
drove around the reserva- who sees things that are
tion, successfully recruiting people to sign up for
classes. Today that college,
Northwest Indian College,
has developed into one of
the leading tribal colleges
in the country. "Willie did
that for you and all of your
future generations…. with
his persistence, his vision.
It was with great honor
that I was able to meet Willie Jones Sr. and work with
him." shared Cheryl Crazybull. As the tribe was negotiating the land settlement
for the college, Chairman
Jones conveyed, "Thats my
home, their going to build
the college on my home.
I grew up there. I walked
across there to come over
to the Lummi Day School.
Thats my home that your
building that college on."
the financial staff. We will
be having another meeting
like this in mid September.
This process will not only
help the GC become more
financially savvy, but it
allows the staff to understand how to compile and
explain information that
is understandable to our
General Council.
The General Council,
Budget Committee, and
LIBC met to discuss Title
28 revisions. There were
key goals and objectives
identified at the 1st meeting in May, and we were
able to go more in-depth
and set timelines for the
work to get done. We will
be preparing a comprehensive appropriations process that establishes the
not there, the strange thing
is that Uncle Willie eventually gets you to see them
too," shared Jerry Folsom.
Willie was one of the delegates on the Federal Tribal
Negotiated Rule Making
Committee of Title 5. They
completed the work to be
passed by congress in 5
months, all the while Title
4 was completed by another committee in 4 years.
'Uncle Willie's rule making
committee got a secretarial
award for reducing four
years to five months.
The evening filled with
such memorable stories
also was filled with laughter. Jim Thomas, (Tlingit),
called upon Justin Guillory to stand and then said
"from this evening, in the
name of Willie there has
been so much history you
should give everyone in
this room 3 hours of college
importance of work plans
and performance measures
rather than focusing on
numbers. This is definitely
a new approach, so there
will be a number of educational meetings and guidance needed to help make
this a success. We will be
meeting with all the department directors, managers,
and CBC chairpersons to
explain our process.
As always, please feel
free to contact my office
at 360.312.2147 or email
RosaRJ@lummi-nsn.gov
or JustinF@lummi-nsn.
gov any time to discuss
any concerns or questions.
Hy’Shqe’!
Darrell Hillaire, Treasurer
credit,” the audience applauded and laughed.
Uncle Willie wore many
hats. Willie was a musician
in a band, he used to play
the guitar and sang, he was
also the Director of Fisheries, Education Director
"Willie was always really
a team player….his constant challenge was keeping us together,” shared
Larry Kinley. To the family: "Thank you for letting
'Uncle Willie' spend the
time and service to the
people."
Many community
members, family, and coworkers spoke very kind
and beautiful words about
'Uncle Willie'. 'Uncle Willie' was honored and his
many years of leadership
recognized, history shared,
and the night was treasured
by all in attendance.
Young Willie grew up
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From the Office of the Vice Chair
diploma, a certificate! All
of those documents will
someday benefit you, if
they haven’t already.
Candice Wilson
LIBC Vice Chair
“Our people from the
Lummi Nation,” we want
to take this opportunity to
share with you how proud
and how speechless we
are about our new Lummi Tribal Administrative
building, of how well Stommish turned out, and of the
play “What about those
Promises?.” We witnessed
many Lummi Nation members participating, and
contributing to the many
celebrations over the past
month. Your contributions
do not go unnoticed. Congratulations to our Lummi
Nation Graduates, from
the Headstart program to
the college level of education!
Lummi nation
If you ever see my
tears, they are tears of
happiness for our people.
We are all proud leaders
to witness a Lummi Tribal
member who has graduated from Medical School,
and will one day be our
lead doctor in our Lummi
Health Clinic. Good job
Dakota Lane! Dakota is
the son of Galen Lane and
Lydia Bennett; Grandson
of late Vernon Lane and
Nancy Lane. It is the time
to celebrate those that accomplished their degree, a
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To those who are grieving, no words can express
how we all feel for you. We
have loved and we hope
to share it day in and day
out. We hope that our love
is shared enough to help
each and everyone know
that you are not alone. We love you!
Office of the Vice
Chair Initiatives
1. Journey to Wellness
We want to take this
time to acknowledge
all those that have
participated in walking in the Journey
to Wellness and Sobriety Parade. This
is an act of courage,
pride, and commitment to keep our
Nation strong. We
all deserve a safe
and healthy place to
raise our children.
You are our HEROS!
We would like to
thank the Journey to
Wellness staff, and
most importantly
thank all those that
were volunteers.
They contributed
towards a successful event, and their
participation in the
Wellness and Sobriety Parade shows
that we are heading
in the right direction and is creating
awareness to reach
out to the community. Without your
support, a successful
event and a social
movement would
not happen without you! It takes a
community to make
a change. We also
would like to thank
Kathleen Terry Hillaire for feeding the
people and at the last
minute you stepped
up on behalf of your
people. Thank you!
We all know that we
need to continue to
help, or we need to
dedicate more of our
time to help towards
making a change in
our community. We
are true believers
that AA, NA, AA, and
Al-Non is a “We program,” and we know
that not one person,
not one program, or
not one leader can
do this alone. With
that in mind we will,
and we are going to
do it together. We
are here to continue
to listen, and to let
you know that we
are doing our best we
can to make change
happen on an organizationally.
2. Grandparent Committee
The Grandparent
Committee has been
continuing to hold
the line on behalf of
all the Grandparents
that refuse to give up
their inherent rights.
The inherent right to
be the Grandmothers
and Grandfathers of
their Grandchildren
is the rights to be
able practice their
traditional rights to
raise their family
and extended family.
The Memorandum
of Understanding
(MOU) will soon be
signed and sent off to
the DSHS Children
Administration. The
document will make
Washington State
accountable to provide for the needs of
our Lummi children,
but it will also bring
awareness to the
four areas of concern
addressed in the following: (1) What is
an Indian Expert
Witness?, (2) Indian
expert is a witness
that speaks on behalf of the children
and their families
are they engaging in
wellness activities,
(3) Are they caring
for their children?,
and (4) The importance of families to
be reunited, which
includes the cultural aspects into the
child’s life.
3. The 64th Annual
Stommish Water
Festival
thank you for getting the
team together! The Stommish Festival kicked-off
with the Kwina Mile. Good
Job Lummi for such a great
turn out, and to all those
that made it such a success.
The Commod Squad fed the
500+ runners and walkers.
Thank you for your endless
support!
Secondly, we celebrated
the Lummi Nation Pageant
hosted by Cynthia Wilson.
We would also like thank
Cynthia Wilson for your
patience and your commitment to our young people
that participated in this
event. The 2013 Lummi
Stommish Winners are:
Senior Princesses: Samantha Wilson, daughter
of Candice Wilson and Bob
Wilson
Senior Warrior: Jonah
Ballew, son of Casimir and
Mary Donna Ballew
Jr. Princess: Samantha
Bob, daughter of Doug Bob
and Tammy Leathers
Jr. Warrior: Trazil
Lane, son of Theresa Lane
and TJ
Tween Jr. Princess:
Sadie
Olsen, daughter of
The Lummi Nation
Stommish Festival Parade Troy Olsen and Shirley
and the Bellingham Ski Williams
to Sea Parade was blessed
Tiny Tot Princess: Diato make things happen mond Scott, daughter of
so quickly. There were Nick Scott and Delina Lobmany members from CARE dell.
that helped out with the
We also want to recogStommish float and all by
nize
the Canoe Families and
making a few phone calls.
to
thank
Autumn WashingBy working together, the
ton
on
all
the work she has
Lummi Royalty, Lummi
done
for
the Stommish
Singers, Lummi Drummers
were able to share part of Committeee. The followour traditions. We thank ing are the winners of the
you and love you all. Josie, Stommish Canoe Races:
Friday, June 14, 2013
1st
2nd
3rd
Singles
7 & U Girls
Sacora Morris
Natalie
Megan Roberts
7 & U Boys
Louis Williams
Julius Charles
Solomon Starr
10 & U Girls
Janelle Paige
Kayla
Ruby Starr
10 & U Boys
Jasper Morris
Moses Seymour
Jamyz
13 & U Girls
Gina McCaulley
Cie’j Gagnon
Sacara Harry
13 & U Boys
Hamilton Seymour
Michael Billy JR
CJ Greene
16 & U Girls
Treena Humphreys
Ceona Rabang
Delores
16 & U Boys
Hamilton Seymour
Michael Billy Jr
CJ Greene
19 & U Girls
Sarah Scott
Treena Humphreys
Delores
19 & U Boys
Darian Williams
Wayne Daniels
Bobby Phillips
1st
2nd
3rd
Doubles
10 & Under
Moses Seymour &
Andrew Williams &
Madeline Morris &
Jasper Morris
Alayla
Karalynn Morris
13 & Under
Hamilton Seymour
Gina McCaulley &
Michael Billy Jr &
& CJ Greene
Cie’J Gagnon
Jonas
16 & Under
Michael Wyse Jr &
Jonathon Casimir &
Keeghan Jojola &
Donald White
Dashawn Lawrence
Matt
19 & Under
Jacob Roberts &
Jennifer Jack &
Victor Washington
Darian Williams
Wayne Daniels& Hank Hoskins Jr
4 Man
13 & Under
skipper: Buddy Gray
Lightning
Little Rich
LummiCowichan
16 & U Girls
Lil Geronimo
Rainbow
Amanda Rose
Saanich
Chemainus
Lummi
16 & U Boys
Kitaka
Amanda Rose
Little Mitzy
Nanaimo
LummiNorth Vancouver
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(Vice Chair report continued)
Community Updates
11 Man
10 & Under
Rainbow
Lady Rose
Ocean Thunder
Chemainus
Lummi
Makah
Saturday, June 15, 2013
1st
2nd
3rd
11 Man
13 & Under
Ocean Thunder
Lady Esther
Tsesqel
Makah
Saanich
Scowlitz
16 & Under
Lady Rose
Island Brave
Flaming Star
Lummi
Nanaimo
Cowichan
Women
Lady Rose
Rikkole Cree
Lady Esther
Lummi
NooksackSaanich
Men
River Spirit
Geronimo
Island Brave
Skwah
Saanich
Nanaimo
6 Man
13 & Under
Little Ceecee
Little Thunder
Xwexwos
Cole Bay
Makah
Skwah
16 & Under
Amanda Rose
Kitaka
Little Ceecee
Lummi
Nanaimo
Cole Bay
Women
Lil Cree
Xwexwos
Blue Jay
Nooksack
Skwah
Lummi
Men
Xwexwos
Lil’ Cree
Brother Lantze
Skwah
Nooksack
Chehalis
Doubles
13 & Under
Hamilton Seymour &
Gina McCaulley &
Moses Seymour &
CJ Greene
Cei’J Gagnon
Ethan
16 & Under
Michael Wyse Jr &
William Jones III &Brandon Chappell &
Donald White
Keeghan Jojola
Hamilton Seymour
Doubles
Women
Nikki Charlie &
Natasha Miranda &
Lindsey Morris &
Jamie Charlie
Emmy Morris
Ceecee Pelkey
Men
Leonard Morris Jr &
George Horn &
Ivan Washington &
Joe Seward
Gus Morris
Darren Malloway
Mixed
Shannon Campbell &
Jewel Francis-Leon &
Daisy &
David Williams
Chris George
Thomas
45 & Over
Michelle Julian &
Ces Ballew &
Rachel Venske &
Chuck Basaillion
John Ballew
Lauri McCaulley
Singles
13 & Under
Brandon Price
Hamilton Seymour
Gina McCaulley
16 & Under
Donald White
Michael Wyse Jr
Brandon Chappell
Women
Lona Johnson
Nicki Charlie
Natasha Miranda
Men
David Williams
Leonard Morris Jr
Darren Malloway
45 & O Women
Rachael Venske
Michelle Julian
Debbie Alexander
45 & O Men
Wayne Paige
Michael Wyse
John Ballew
Sunday, June 16, 2013
1st
2nd
3rd
11 Man
13 & Under
Ocean Thunder
Lady Esther
Tsesqel
Makah
Saanich
Scowlitz
16 & Under
Lady Rose
Lady Esther
Island Brave
Lummi
Saanich
Nanaimo
Women
Lady Rose
Rikkole Cree
Eyam Thale
Lummi
Nooksack
Chehalis
Men
Lady Christine
River Spirit
Geronimo
Nanaimo/Nooksack
Skwah
Saanich
6 Man
13 & Under
Lil Ceecee
Xwexwos
Little Rich
Cole Bay
Skwah
Cowichan
16 & Under
Amanda Rose
Kitaka
Lil Ceecee
Lummi
Nanaimo
Cole Bay
Women
Blue Jay
Lil Cree
Miss Mary
Lummi
NooksackNookack
Men
Xweswos
Lil Cree
Lil Geronimo
Skwah
Nooksack
Saanich
1st
2nd3rd
Double
Women
Jamie Charlie &
Natasha Miranda &
Lauri McCaulley &
Nicki Charlie
Emmy Morris
partner
Men
David Williams &
Joe Seward &
Ivan Washington
Justin Williams
Leonard Morris Jr& Darren Malloway
Mixed
Shannon Campbell
Tyrell Williams &
Michelle Julian &
David Williams
Darian Williams
Walter Point
Singles
Women
Lona Johnson
Natasha Miranda
Debbie Alexander
Men
David Williams
Leonard Morris Jr
Darren Malloway
Iron Man Mixed
Rikkole Cree
Lady Rose
River Spirit
Nooksack
Lummi
Skwah
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The Stommish continued with the Annual
Family Night, which over
700 people came out enjoyed a beautiful night with
their families. Once again
much thanks to the Commod Squad for feeding our
people! Thank you for all
stepping up and willing to
represent at all our gatherings. We look forward to
having many more successful events.
In closing, I would like
to God Bless and lets stay in
prayer for all of the families,
especially for our children.
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Government
Lummi nation
Honoring Willie Jones
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Hello my name is
Reatha Tom, I am the Wellness Activities Coordinator
at Lummi Fitness Center.
Wellness is a passion of
mine and I am currently
living the journey to wellness by example. I am thirteen years clean and sober,
I model a healthy and active lifestyle through my
own personal activities and
share this with my family,
friends and community.
Advocating for spiritual,
emotional and physical
health has blessed my life
and I do believe that it is a
calling of mine to share this
with those who are interested. Working throughout
Indian Country and here
locally with the surrounding communities of the
Lummi Nation has given
me the ability to create
good working relationships
and resources for advocacy,
communication, collaboration and coordination. I
volunteer for the First Na-
tion Snowboard Team USA
- Lummi as a coordinator to
promote the participation
of First Nations and Native
American youth to experience snow sports at no cost
to them - while teaching
individualism, sportsmanship, health, nutrition and
respect for yourself and
your others. My lifestyle
reflects the passion that I
have for health and wellness through my lifestyle,
volunteering and offering
my skills of event coordination, organization and
resourcefulness for weddings, race organization,
team fundraising, data collection, digital media, community events and advertising to promote wellness
in a fun and enjoyable way.
I also because participate
in running groups, exercise
classes, holistic medicine
and self development such
as attending motivational
speaker events on nutrition, fitness, health and
wellness.
I am so excited to be
given the opportunity to
work with all who come
to workout and encourage more to support your
own Journey to Wellness.
I firmly believe that fitness
is an important ingredient
in a balanced life.
News from the
Lummi Tribal Court:
The Lummi Jail AlterThe Lummi Tribal
Court is in the swing of natives program is running
efficiently. Should an elder
Summer!
be in need of outdoor asThe Lummi Tribal sistance, please contact the
Court and Lummi Proba- Bambi Solomon with the
tion Department are now Lummi Probation Departmoved to the beautiful new ment at 360- 312-2104 with
Administration Building. requests.
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Welcome Reatha
Tom to Lummi
Fitness Center
Community Updates
Lummi Fitness Center
Mon. – Fri. 5 AM to 9 PM
Sat. & Sun. 8 AM to 4 PM
Got an important message you’d like to share? Do you have a
service or program you’d like to highlight?
Sponsor a noon walk!
Sponsoring a noon walk gives you an opportunity to meet
community members face to face, offer promotional items,
and even make a party out of your advertising. Contact us by
phone 360-384-2274 or by email reathat@lummi-nsn.gov or
donl@lummi-nsn.gov and we will be happy to assist you.
Today’s wellness tip: What is a calorie? The definition is.
The energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water
through 1 degree Celsius. What does that mean to you? Calorie
= Energy. The goal with maintaining, gaining and losing weight
it to find the balance between calories in vs. calories out OR
energy in vs. energy out.
Nutritional content??? To be continued.
Fireworks Are
Not Allowed!
Effective immediately, tenants and their
guests are not allowed to discharge any
fireworks in any Lummi Nation Housing
Authority sites, including McKenzie,
Smokehouse Village, Kwina Village, Balch
Road, Tiopi Loop and Little Bear Creek.
Tenants will be cited for any Violations
which may result in termination. Thank you for
your immediate attention to this matter.
What to do to report an
incident:
Please contact our Security office at
758-9924 or cell phone at 393-5894.
--Lummi Nation Housing Authority
Lummi Indian Business Council
General Council Meeting
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Tuesday ~ July 9, 2013
Wellbriety ~ 5:00PM ~ Wexliem
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Community Updates
Law enforcement Torch
Run ~ May 29-May 31, 2013
Lummi Nations Officers participated in the Law
Enforcement Torch Run along with other Officers
and Deputies from the County and State
at the Lakewood Police
Department for a special
ceremony for all fallen officers. During the ceremony
the law enforcement officers from each run route
will simultaneously light
one torch that will be carried by a Special Olympics
athlete and law enforcement representative who
will then light the official
The officers, who are “Flame of Hope” cauldron
traveling from various parts that watches over the Sumof the state, will all meet mer Games.
Law enforcement officers from across Washington State are running the
Special Olympics “Flame
of Hope” across the state to
the Special Olympics Washington Opening Ceremonies of the annual Summer
Games on May 31, 2013 to
be held at Joint Base Lewis
McChord.
Role of the father
Submitted by Linda
Ehrlich, Public Health
Nurse
Lummi nation
The harmful effect of
a father’s absence is well
known for the negative
consequence it has on a
child’s life, both emotionally and in school. Children
in fatherless households are
20 times more likely to end
up in prison and to have
behavioral problems.
It has also been found
that mothers need the father’s emotional support
during the pregnancy. Children whose fathers were
present during pregnancy
enjoy better health both
physically and emotion-
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ally.
The role of father might
be said to begin just AFTER
conception. Mothers-tobe are more apt to take
care of themselves, if there
is support and reinforcement from a partner. For
example, this might mean
father encouraging mom
to give up certain habits
like smoking and starting good habits like eating
more nutritious foods. It is
as important for the father
of the baby to maintain a
healthy lifestyle as well. It
is the father who carries
the seed that will grow into
life within the mother. So
these practices of changing
to a healthier lifestyle are
something a couple can do think about how you will you become a new family
together.
and keep sharing as things
provide for them.
change.
It has been found that
Think about your circle
if Dad is involved dur- of support. Who are they?
Communities are being this early time, he is Aunts, uncles, grandpar- ginning to have Dad’s
also more emotionally ents, parents, health care Group’s. Recently such a
involved in the child’s givers, friends….you don’t group, started in Bellinglife and more prepared have to do it all.
ham at Brigid Collins Famto stay involved after the
ily Support Center. Phone #
Talk to some other Dads 360 734-4616 Thursdays:
child is born, whether the
pregnancy was planned or that you trust. Find out Noon – 1:30PM Drop In
what they think the best and try it! It’s Free!
unplanned.
thing is about being a FaIt may be difficult for ther? What is the most difTaken from: 1) “Prea father to know how to ficult? What advice would natal Parenting Informasupport his partner when they give?
tion- -Children Suffer in
she is feeling tired or ill.
Many Ways from a Father’s
It is normal to feel ner- Absence”; 2) “The Coming
Take your partner to her
prenatal visits and later vous about becoming a of the Blessing”–March
Childbirth Classes, where parent. Find a way to talk of Dimes 3) Promoting
you can get your ques- with your partner about Maternal Mental Health
tions answered too. Plan your concerns, hopes and During Pregnancy- JoAnne
for your child’s needs and dreams. Work together as Solchany
Elder’s Birthday Luncheon
Thursday, July 18th ~ 11:30AM ~ Little Bear Creek
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Harrison Hot Springs 13 & under
2013 champions
The photo by Karli Jefferson
The Lady Rose Canoe Club, coached by Willie Jones Jr.,
won the Buckskin and Jr. Buckskin Championships at Harrison Hot Springs last weekend. The attached photo has the
Jr. Buckskin (13&U) crew on the beach after the race and the
Buckskin (16&U) crew heading out to the race. The Jr. Bucks
also got 2nd in the 6-man and the Bucks got 1st in the 6-man.
Lummi Nation
Enrollment Office
New tribal building Summer is here.
address and new phone
School begins in less than
numbers:
65 days from now.
Address:
2665 Kwina Road, Belling- Is your child enrolled?
ham WA 98226
Give us a call 360-312-2398
Phone
N u m b e r : let us help you be ready.
1-360-312-2398
Current lummi enrollment information
Enrolled
4790
Female
2361
Male
2429
2013 Deaths reported 20
Relinquishments
3
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Age groups
0 - 12
832
13 - 19
574
20 - 54
2611
55 - 61
359
62 and over
414
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Community Updates
Hatcheries are vital to Lummi’s way of life
Submitted by Natural
Resources staff
Hatcheries are crucial
to the Lummi community
because they make up for
what the river is no longer able to do—provide
an abundance of salmon.
Hatchery operations are
facing increasing legal,
financial and political challenges, and these challenges are putting our fisheries
and our Schelangen at risk.
Because Lummi identity
and culture depends on
an abundance of salmon,
without successful, well
supported hatchery programs we risk losing who
we are. We must support
and invest in hatcheries— it
is like giving ourselves life
sustaining medicine on our
Journey to Wellness.
Hatcheries provide
Fish for our People
Ken Lawrence tagging juvenile South Fork Chinook.
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Lummi fisheries and additional hatchery production of Coho and Chinook
for Lummi fishers. The
multi- year, multi-agency
program started releasing
juvenile spring Chinook in
2011, and it is estimated
that up to 1 million will
be released by 2016. The
objective is to help seed the
South Fork river habitat
with returning adults to
boost the abundance of the
native salmon population. Bill Finkbonner, Marlin Dennis, and Ken Lawrence
However, the success of the transferring South Fork Chinook from raceways to
program relies on a healthy ponds at Skookum Hatchery.
habitat, and Lummi Nation
and Nooksack Indian tribe,
who lead restoration efforts in the South Fork are
racing against the clock to
implement projects before
the returning adult Chinook.
A similar hatchery program to recover North Fork
early Chinook exists on the
Kendall Hatchery. This
past spring, hatchery origin
early Chinook in excess of
those needed for hatchery
broodstock were harvested
in a pilot tangle net spring
G l e n w o o d S p r i n g s fishery.
hatchery run by Long Live
Heavy Scrutiny
the Kings on Orcas Island
also provides Fall Chinook,
All hatchery programs
with the majority of their are required to meet the obreturning adults caught in jectives of the Endangered
Nooksack/Samish Net fish- Species Act and thus have
eries. This production also been heavily scrutinized
supports Killer Whales as by NOAA and others. The
well as sports fisheries and Nooksack early Chinook as
commercial fisheries in the a major population group
US and Canada.
of the ESA listed Puget
Sound Chinook EvolutionHatchery programs to
ary Significant Unit has
recover listed stocks
seriously impacted the
Hatchery programs are treaty fishing right in the
also used to help recover Nooksack Samish terminal
ESA listed early Chinook. area, as well as restricting
Lummi’s Skookum Creek opportunities in the Pacific
hatchery released 156,000 Salmon Treaty fisheries in
juvenile South Fork Spring Lummi’s home areas in the
Chinook as part of the SF southern Georgia Straits,
Chinook rescue program, San Juan Islands and the
a key factor in the effort Strait of Juan de Fuca.
to rebuild the South Fork Because of concerns that
Chinook stock and re- hatchery produced Coho
move ESA constraints to and Fall Chinook may impede the recovery of the
early Chinook, hatchery
production of these stocks
Lummi nation
Hatcheries are required
to providing an abundance
of salmon for our terminal
area fisheries and the ability to meaningfully exercise
treaty rights. Hatchery
operations are mitigation
for the habitat lost to development that no longer
fully supports the Lummi
Schelangen. In our area,
five hatcheries including
Lummi Nation’s Lummi
Bay Sea Ponds and Skookum Hatcheries are essential in providing salmon to
our terminal area fisheries
and the ability for Lummi
to meaningfully exercising treaty reserved fishing
rights. This spring, a total
of 2,081,500 Coho salmon
and 1,726,000 Fall Chinook
were released from Lummi
Hatchery programs to provide salmon for Treaty and
non-treaty fisheries. The
Skookum Creek Hatchery
is responsible for an average of 50,000 coho taken
in the terminal area fishery dominated by Lummi
fishers.
Because the ability to
raise salmon is limited in
part by facility capacity
and funding, a co-manager
effort is required to ensure
that hatchery programs at
all facilities are working in
concert to provide for the
treaty right fisheries and
to recover listed spring
Chinook stocks. WDFW’s
Samish Hatchery also provides for our fisheries with
their 4 million fall Chinook releases. Without the
Samish Hatchery’s capacity to raise fall Chinook,
Lummi’s ability to release
fall Chinook to the benefit of our people would be
severely diminished. We
have been working for 10
years to develop a Lummi
Bay Fall Chinook brood
stock but the 1.7 million
Fall Chinook released this
spring from Lummi Bay
Sea Ponds and Bertrand
Creek were provided by
Samish Hatchery in efforts
to meet the co-manager
goal of creating a local
broodstock at Lummi Sea
Ponds.
Linda Delagado and Bill Revey monitor Coho releases
at Lummi Bay Sea Ponds.
were reduced by 70-80% get cuts are once again
in the early 2000s. This threatening to close the
has seriously reduced har- doors at WDFW Samish
vest in the terminal area Hatchery. In an effort to
without improvement in maintain this important
the productivity of early program, Lummi Natural
Resources Director, Merle
Chinook.
Jefferson sent a letter to
Locally, the fall Chi- Governor Jay Inslee’s ofnook program was the pro- fice reminding him of the
gram hardest hit by cuts in importance of the Samproduction. When com- mish Hatchery to Lummi’s
paring average hatchery access to an abundance of
releases for the 1980s and harvestable salmon, and
the 2000s, fall Chinook that closing Samish Hatchreleases were reduced by ery would limit Lummi’s
65% and Coho by 60%. ability to exercise their
Overall, releases from all treaty rights.
hatcheries providing for
In his letter, Jefferson
Nooksack terminal area
harvest have been reduced stated, “We are strongly
by an average of 61% when opposed to and concerned
comparing average release about closing this facility.”
numbers for the 1980s and
With the latest State
2000s.
budget debacle, we are also
Average Hatchery Re- hearing from WDFW that
leases by decade for the five Kendall hatchery operaNooksack terminal area tions may be threatened.
hatcheries.
Glenwood Springs
Hatchery is also in dire
Threats to Agency
financial straits due to the
Hatchery Programs
poor economy and fundWashington State bud- ing cuts. They are seeking
$50,000 to continue their
operations. Without an
infusion of funding, their
program could be lost, and
with it the abundance of
salmon provided to our
fisheries.
Bill Finkbonner, Marlin Dennis, Ken Lawrence, and
Dave Hopkins measuring and weighing South Fork
Chinook.
Our own Lummi Nation hatcheries also require
tribal support. As outside
funding sources dry up,
we will need to step up
and fund our own operations. Currently, Skookum
Hatchery is seeking tribal
funding to purchase land
that some of hatchery fa-
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cility leases from Longview
Timber. Lummi ownership of the property will
greatly increase our ability
to control our destiny, provide greater security to the
facility, and a much needed
source of additional water.
Lummi Natural Resources is working in other
ways to maintain and maximize hatchery outputs to
provide salmon for our
our tribe so that they can
continue to provide salmon
people. We are working for our people and sustain
towards rebuilding a Chum the Lummi Schelangen in
program, and maximizing perpetuity.
our Coho and Fall Chinook
Lummi Natural Reproduction. We see the
sources
staff are working
need to support all hatchery programs that provide to maintain and maximize
for our fisheries, and these these important hatchery
include the WDFW’s Ken- programs by seeking the
dall and Samish Hatcher- appropriate technical, poies, and the Long Live the litical, and financial supKing’s Glenwood Springs port, but we cannot do it
hatchery. These hatcher- alone. Our hatcheries are
ies require support from primarily funded through
grants, however the shrinking economy brings budget
cuts that threaten hatchery
programs. The retirement of US Representative
Norm Dicks creates an air
of uncertainty in terms
of political support for
hatchery programs, and
surmounting legal battles
also threaten the legality
of hatchery programs. We
need support from the tribe
and the tribal community
to be successful.
“We can’t ask others
to do for us what we won’t
do for ourselves” says ESA
Policy Representative Randy Kinley.
Hatchery programs
play a large role in ensuring
an abundance of salmon for
their future and the survival of Lummi’s identity and
culture. The future of our
people and our Shelangen
is held in the investments
we make today. What will
we choose?
Fish for our future
Bill Finkbonner giving Lummi Nation 1st Grade class
a tour of Skookum Hatchery.
Submitted by Natural
Resources staff
our ways and to give them
hands on experience and
inspiration to become the
On May 29th, 1st grad- future Natural Resources
Lummi students feed juvenile Chinook with the help of their teacher.
ers from Lummi Schools technicians and leaders.
had the opportunity to
the salmon held in the Finkbonner and the rest
There were a lot of seeing and learning about
get a closer look at the
of the Skookum Hatchery
raceways.
the
entire
facility
from
the
Skookum Hatchery, when wide-eyes and questions
staff. Both Skookum and
Heath™ trays used for eyethey toured the hatchery from the students. The stu“Wow, this is so awe- Lummi Bay hatcheries
ing eggs to the area where
with Skookum manager, dents watched with awe as
some,” said one child.
plan to hold tours for the
returning adults enter the
Bill Finkbonner. The tour the juvenile Chinook were
hatchery. The highlight
Once the tour was com- school children in the fuwas part of a greater ef- transferred to the holding
was
at
the
end
when
the
plete,
the students gave a ture to continue to teach
fort to teach our children pond in preparation for
kids
were
allowed
to
feed
chorus
of “Thank you!” to our children our ways.
and the future generations release; and they enjoyed
Hours:
Cafe’ Snack
7:30AM - 3:30PM
Now open for your convenience
Hot & cold drinks
Breakfast
sandwiches
Cold sandwiches
Salads
Hot food
Appetizers/side
orders
Wraps
Beverages
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Located on the
first floor of the
LIBC Tribal
Administration
Building
2665 Kwina Road,
Bellingham WA
360-380-6999
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Community Updates
Lummi nation
Kwina Mile ~ June 11th
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5th Annual Michael Koenen/Jake
Locker NFL All-Star Football Camp
Paddle to Quinault Meeting
Thursday, July 11 ~ 10 AM
Council Chambers
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Records & Archives
Mission Statement: To
Ops-251/269 or 93%
serve the Lummi Nation by
complete
preserving and protecting
the historical and business • P l a n n i n g f i l e s
scanned – 100%
records of the Tribe, and to
complete
provide records management services to LIBC and • 8 Council Operations
Tribal Community.
Boxes Prepped and
Scanned
June Monthly Update
The month of June has
flown by. We have seen
the transition into the new
administration building go
smoothly, we have experienced having an LIBC wide
photo taken of the staff,
Kwina Mile has come and
gone again, and Stommish
was successful for another
year. This has been a pretty
active month for all concerned. It was really nice
to be told by some of the
representatives that came
through during the Grand
Opening, from USDA and
other government agencies how important our
job is here in Records and
Archives.
Records Inventory
conversion 55% complete.
This is the process of entering the records files into the
new database and attaching
all the paper work that goes
along with the accessions to
electronic format..
• 56,913 pages or 1564
documents scanned
• S u p e r v i s o r D r u g
Training completed-3 staff members
• Supervisor Training
– 2 staff members
completed
Lummi nation
We continue to work
out of both building as we
still do not have enough
room to move our Archival
The numbers for June inventory over to the new
are as follows:
building. This month we
will see the addition of 448
• 22 -2013 resolutions
more spaces to the records
scanned and certified
stacks but that in no where
• 22 Resolutions addenough for our inventory.
ed to H:drive for
We slowly work on disposelectronic access
als to make more room but
this is not an overnight job
• 34 file requests from
and scanning takes even
various departments
more time as we have to
• 14 files returned
prep all the papers: taking out staples, unfolding
• 21 box d isp os e d
corners, removing from
of for Council
binders or booklet form,
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Be
safe
box listing and preparing
break sheets for each document. Once it is scanned
we have to verify that it
went to the right place on
the g:drive and then transfer to the H:drive. It has
taken me over 8 months
to get through 251 of the
269 council operations
boxes that were approved
for disposal. We have over
4000 boxes in the records
inventory so we are looking
at years to be able to purge
these boxes and convert
what is left into electronic
format. HOW CAN I GET
THIS POINT ACROSS
MORE CLEARLY?
3464 boxes moved to
new building-3148 spaces
filled in record stacks with
565 boxes stored in library,
copy center, storage room,
and the old stacks and 693
boxes being held in departments because we have no
where to put them. Even
with the additional 448 extra spaces that will be added by adding one row to the
stacks will still leave us 565
boxes short and this does
not include the additional
boxes that are waiting to be
picked up. As mentioned
above we still have to move
the Archival inventory from
the vault in the old building
plus all of our supplies and
equipment.
Once again we encourage you to submit pictures
(we can make copies), birth
announcements, death
certificates, wedding photos or invitations, graduation announcements or
photos, sporting events,
class pictures, yearbooks
or annuals, naming, etc. to
begin or add to your family history. If you need to
schedule us to come into
your home to scan these
documents please call us
at 360-312-2061. And remember we are just a holding place for preservation
unless you release them to
us, you control who has access to them.
Director: Janice
“Honetia” Benson
360-312-2061 janiceb@
lummi-nsn.gov
Staff: 12 (11 Lummi
Tribal, 1 other tribal)
Staff: Cheryl
Solomon, Records
Tech Supervisor
360-312-2061
cheryls@lummi-nsn.
gov
Wilfred LaClair
Jr.., Scanning
Tech Supervisor
360-384-2236
wilfredl@lummi-nsn.
gov
Daniel Neil, Records
Tech I
Sarajean Wilson,
Receptionist/Records
Tech
4 FT-Temporary
Employees, 2PT
Temporary Scanning
Project
Contact Information:
2616 Kwina Road,
Building J (next to
Courthouse)
Bellingham, WA 98226
Fax:
360-312-8742
Dept.. Divisions:
Archives & Records
Management
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Lummi Housing Authority
It is the Mission of the application please attach
Lummi Housing Authority the following information:
to promote and provide
• Proof of Homeownopportunities for all tribership (must proal members in obtaining
vide a Copy of Title
housing that is descent,
for Trailer or a Copy
safe, sanitary and afford•
of Deed for Land or
able.
a Title Status Report (TSR) that you
What is Repair & Remay obtain from the
hab.? The Repair & Rehab
Planning DepartProgram provides assisment (The Trailer
tance to Lummi Tribal
cannot be older than
Home Owners. By as•
1976 in order to be
sisting clients with most
eligible).
repairs needed inside of
home as well as the roof.
• Home owners Insurance (Submit a copy)
The first step is to fillout a repair & rehab. ap• Income Verification
plication which you can
(ALL household
pick-up at the housing of•
members 18 & over,
fice. When returning your
must provide a copy
of income i.e. pay
stubs for one month,
bank statements,
OR W2 forms) (Sign
release enclosed in
application)
Veteran (A copy of
Veterans Card or
Discharge Papers
dd214) (This places
you at a higher priority)
Tribal Enrollment
Verification (All
household members
must provide a Copy
of Tribal Card or go
to Enrollment Office
and get a CIB
Upon completion
of a Repair & Re-
hab application,
we will request a
Status of Environmental Review (EA)
through our office
here at LNHA, it
will be generated.
Lummi Nation does
have Flood Zones at
which Flood Insurance is a must (in
specified flood zone
areas) and the Status Report will tell us.
What happens next?
Each application is reviewed case by case since
no two applications are
the same.
we will review your current housing situation.
Lummi Housing Authority
will determine if you have
an emergency need, then
you will immediately go
into the screening process.
If your situation is nonemergent, your application
will be placed on the waiting list.
For more information
contact: Virginia “Ginny”
Alaniz, 2828 Kwina Road
Bellingham, WA 98226
360-312-8407 Ext. 2400
Fax: 360-383-0625
Email: VirginiaA@lhalummi.com
Once all paperwork is
completed and turned in,
Lummi Indian Business Council Telephone Directory
Department Extension Direct number
North Wing Downstairs
Restorative Justice .................................................................... 2107 ......................................... 360-312-2107
Family Services Administration ............................................... 2133 ......................................... 360-312-2133
Employment & Training Center ............................................... 2072 .........................................360-312-2072
Records & Archives ................................................................... 2061 ......................................... 360-312-2061
Behavioral Health ..................................................................... 2019 ......................................... 360-312-2019
Victims of Crime ....................................................................... 2015 ......................................... 360-312-2015
North Wing Upstairs
Council Office ............................................................................ 2142 ......................................... 360-312-2142
Schelengen Dept. (Culture) ......................................................2260 . .......................................360-312-2260
General Manager’s Office ......................................................... 2162 ......................................... 360-312-2162
Communications ....................................................................... 2135 ......................................... 360-312-2135
Information Technology (I.T.) . ................................................2036 . .......................................360-312-2036
Reservation Attorney’s Office .............................call routed through switchboard................... 360-312-2000
South Wing Downstairs
ACCOUNTING ...................................................call routed through switchboard................... 360-312-2000
Enrollment ................................................................................ 2265 ......................................... 360-312-2265
Dislocated Fisherman Program................................................. 2391.......................................... 360-312-2391
Payroll..................................................................call routed through switchboard................... 360-312-2000
Purchasing/Mailing Center....................................................... 2173...........................................360-312-2173
Child Support............................................................................. 2235.......................................... 360-312-2235
Public Defenders........................................................................2228..........................................360-312-2228
South Wing Upstairs
Natural Resources . ................................................................... 2392 .........................................360-312-2392
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Planning ....................................................................................2380 . .......................................360-312-2380
TERO . ....................................................................................... 2245 ......................................... 360-312-2245
Human Resources . ...................................................................2023 . .......................................360-312-2023
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Lummi Nation Service Organization
Submitted by Nancy
Jordon, Executive
Director LNSO/Ventures
As spring turns to summer we are set to coast
along. July generally signals a breath of time before
the flurry of activity begins
again. We would like to
celebrate some successes
along the way.
There were six young
parents that brought their
children to the Teen Parent
Child Development Center
that graduated from High
School or received their
GED certification. This
makes a total of about 15
young parents that have
given their children a legacy
of learning and have taken
the opportunity to set high
goals for themselves and
their young families.
We also have great news
from our other partners as
well. At the half year mark
TERO reports that more
than 500 people have successfully gone through our
Re-Licensing program, and
NWIC reports over 1,100
have taken Financial Literacy Class. We have had
more than 80 people com- ping, packing, and hidden
plete the Indianpreneur- balloon payments.
ship course and written
We can be lured into
Small Business Plans.
dealing with predatory
Thank you to everyone lenders by mail, phone, TV,
who participated in the or even a personal door-toSmall Business Resource door visit. Think before you
Team’s Business Fair and accept any of these offers.
survey. We had a great If the offer is too good to
turnout at our first Busi- be true, then it usually is.
ness Fair. We expect to Always try to figure out or
host another later in the ask why the lender is tryyear. In the meantime, let ing to save you money. Ask
us know your suggestions questions; do not sign any
to better support Lummi papers without consulting
entrepreneurs, or if you with others, such as your
would like to take our sur- friendly business trainer
at Lummi Ventures (direct
vey.
line 312-2411).
Note from our Small
Look for hidden fees.
Business Trainer…
Look for longer terms. Look
If one were to use the for higher interest rates.
words such as “fraudulent, Look for lower monthly
deceptive, discriminatory, payments. Look for cash
or unfavorable,” in one back to you. Look for equity
sentence, you would prob- returned to you. Look for
ably describe the practice better credit rating. If these
of predatory lending.
are some of the promises
The borrower or victim being made to you, then
is usually passive, con- you are about to become
fused, indebted, cash-daz- a victim. Spread the word;
zled, and payment-myopic. tell your family and friends.
The predator uses practices If you must, Facebook!
such as equity stripping, Warmest regards,
bait-and-switch, loan flipAdib
Lummi Gateway
Center News!!
carry local products as they
become available.
If you haven’t heard,
Lummi Gateway Center has
a bead supply store that is
owned by Earline Hansen.
Earline prides herself in
the fact that she is saving
community member’s time
from having to order and
wait for their beading supplies. If you have not visited
Earline’s shop, stop and say
“Hi!”
Don’t forget we have
entertainment on the first
Friday night of every month
through September with
Swil’ Kanim. Swil’ Kanim,
performs from 7-8:30 pm.
Congratulations to all
the graduates of Youth
Build. Youth Build held
their graduation at the
Lummi Gateway Center
on June 20. Good luck all
For the artist searching graduates.
for an agent to represent
Have you ever thought
their art work contact Kym
about opening up your own
Goes Behind at Tribal Imbusiness? Lummi Gateway
ages. Kym takes great pride
Center has space available
in representing the local
for Tribal members to opartist and her shop. Kym
erate their own business.
does a fantastic job of workPlease contact Scott Kining with the public to build
ley at 306-8554 and disvalue in Authentic Native
cuss what’s available at the
American art work. Kym
Lummi Gateway Center.
does this by explaining the
time and energy that goes 5060 Pacific Highway
into each piece.
Ferndale, WA 98248
(360) 306-8250
Have you been to the
www.lumminationservice.
Sche’Langen Seafood Marorg
ket lately? If not stop and
www.lummigatewaycensee what’s new! Currently
ter.com
we have Fresh Alaskan
www.lummiventures.org
Salmon available. We also
Lummi nation
Wellbriety ~ June 11th
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Community Updates
News from the TERO Office
Submitted by Alisha
Pierre, Administrative
Assistant
phone numbers to
be dispatched.
Once you have started
the
process on getting on
DIRECT Line:
the
TERO
Temp list it can
360.312.2245
take up to 3-5 business days
REFERRAL APPLICA- before you are cleared to go
TION: All Clients need to out on the job.
update personal informaA majority of our temp
tion yearly. Remember to
update any information – positions are 1-2 weeks.
phone numbers, address, For our temp Flaggers only
if the job is more then 3
etc for 2013.
months long the positions
We refer laborers, will be rotated to give our
flaggers and reception- other flaggers work as
ists through our TEMP well.
SERVICE to date we have
placed on projects/depts. Projects for 2013 may
change!
for 1-2 weeks:
Temp Services:
• Northwest Indian
College
Please see Teresa Ray
for paperwork. She will • Library (Carry into
2014)
assist you in applying for
the required positions. In • Coast Salish (carry
order to be qualified for the
into 2014)
Temp service you must be
• Haxton/Kwina Rd
willing to:
Roundabout (Tem• Work on call and
porary on hold until
have work boots,
further notice)
clothes, and safety
• Sandy Point Recirgear ready before
culation
the job start date.
• Have an updated
referral form for 2013
• Lummi Housing at
Mckenzie
• Read & Sign a Job
Description.
• Lummi Housing at
Kwina Village (2014
start)
• Pass a Background
and Drug & Alcohol
Test
• Check in weekly to
see if any new positions have opened
• Keep the TERO office updated with
current address and
For more information
about these projects please
contact the TERO office.
Assistance for tools,
union dues etc… We are
going to be requesting additional funding to assist
clients with tools, union
dues, work clothes, etc….
One time only assistance.
RE-Licensing
Assistance Program
to Lummi Tribal
Members Only!
BTC
We will be completing
an agreement for services
to provide Roberts Rules
of Order for Commissions,
Committees and Boards
Alisha Pierre is the Rel- with BTC. Time and place
icense Coordinator and she will be announced.
will assist you. If you plan
Up and Coming
to get assistance please
opportunities
provide the following information:
• We still assist students who are trying
• Washington State ID
to get a career in the
• Documents from
Unions and hopecourts or collection
fully will be providfor fine amounts.
ing an opportunity
to two of our young
• Tribal ID
women to become
The relicense program
members of the
is a one time assistance to
Plumbers, Pipefithelp Lummi Tribal memters Union thanks
bers to get their
to Gordon Sansaver.
More information
License reinstated .We
will be shared once
will help you get set up on
we have the people
a payment plan, also pay
who will want to go
first months insurance if
through with a 5 year
needed. We do not assist
training opportunity.
with insurance only.
• Any training opporTraining
tunities which LumNWIC
mi members want
to participate will
We have not scheduled
need to have prior
to date any training with
approval through
NWIC for June and July.
the TERO Training
We will be posting trainCoordinator before
ing as it becomes available.
payment will be made.
We have completed the
following training: Abate- • We will post by email
ment-Asbestos Removal
all new training opCourse VOCC 188C, Inportunities please
dustrial 1st Aid, CPR, AED
stop by a leave your
Course VOCC 188D, IE
most updated phone
RSO Course VOCC 188F,
number and email
and Career Exploration
address.
Course HMDV 188 A.
Constance (Connie)
Martin, Training Coordinator
Director: Ron
Finkbonner Sr. ext.
2383
Compliance Officer:
Rachel Phair ext.
2344
Relicense Coordinator/
Administrative
Assistant: Alisha
Pierre ext. 2330
Dispatch/Referral:
Teresa Ray Sanders
ext.2245
Training Coordinator:
Connie Martin
ext.2335
Direct Line:
360-384-2245
FAX 360-380-6990
TERO Commissioners
• Kathy Pierre, Chair
• Andrea Johnson
• Clint Cagey
• Steven Toby, Council
Rep.
• Penny Carol Hillaire
• Vacancy
Meetings are every 3rd
Thursday of the month…all
are welcome to attend.
TERO MISSION
Develop and maintain
a cooperative working relationship with contractors
and subcontractors while
working under the guidelines of the TERO Ordinance. Referring qualified
tribal members for employment and training.
“To Preserve, Promote
and Protect our Sche Lang
en
Lummi TERO “It’s the law”
Lummi nation
Paddle Families prepare for Paddle to Quinault
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Natural Resources
South Fork Early
Chinook Program
Submitted by Natural
Resources staff
ESA Division
Chinook Pilot
Project Concludes
Successfully.
The Pilot Chinook Selective Fishery operated
regularly for 11 weeks from
April 1 and June 13th. The
total catch was 233 Early
Chinook, with 27 natural
origin Chinook released
from the net to contribute
to the spawning population,
and 206 Hatchery Origin
Fish retained to contribute
to the ceremonial needs of
the community for the First
Salmon Ceremony, the Memorial Day Ceremony and
Stommish. The 206 Chinook retained exceeded the
average of 51 Chinook the
community harvested annually from 2009 to 2012.
Due to ESA restrictions, the
Southern US harvest rate
on natural origin Nooksack
Early Chinook must be
not exceed 7%. In the past
we have had to stop the
spring fishery when a predetermined number of fish
were caught to meet ESA
targets. An agreed 60%
survival rate of tangled and
released Chinook allowed
us to harvest the hatchery
origin Chinook surplus to
needs of the North Fork
hatchery supplementation
program. The preseason
projection of the proportion of the natural origin
Chinook in catch, 12.5%,
was accurate. The Harvest
Plan restricted harvest after
June 15th. This constraint
is artificial and information gathered this year
will assist us in extending
the season. There were
four encounters remaining
when the project ended on
June 15th. Processing of
information gained during this year’s project will
provide more insight into
the survival and timing of
the hatchery and natural
origin early Chinook.
The release of 156,000
sub-yearling South Fork
early Chinook into the
South Fork Nooksack River
from the Skookum Creek
hatchery, represented impressive progress in the
results of the program with
1,989 released in 2011 and
32,677 released in 2012.
We would expect to see
about 800 returns in the
2016-2017 period at a conservative .5% survival rate.
The program protects the
population while extensive habitat restoration
work is being done in the
watershed and then jumpstarts the population in the
restored habitat. The subyearlings were produced
from young of the year
collected by Lummi in the
South Fork, and included
in a captive broodstock
program at WDFW Kendall
Creek Hatchery and NOAA
Manchester Laboratory.
The maturing adults in
the captive brood will be
moved to Skookum Creek
in August and the process
will begin all over again.
We expect to exceed 1 million sub-yearling releases
as the peak of the program
in 2016.
Forestry Division
Balch Logging Unit
The Balch logging unit
is located east of Balch
Road and north of Smokehouse Road. It has approximately 360,000 board feet
of timber on 25 acres. This
sale includes 8 individual
Indian parcels belonging to
local Lummi Tribal Members. Forestry advertised
the sale on May 30, 2013
and did not receive any
bids for the timber. The
Balch logging unit will be
re-advertised for 15 days
and the bid opening will be
on July 2, 2013.
Burn Permits
Property owners are
reminded to call Tom Bran-
son, Lummi Natural Resource Forest Manager,
at his new number (360)
312-2325 to set up a time
to come into the forestry
office located on the south
wing second floor for a burn
permit. Burning permits
are required all times of the
year and will not be issued
during burn bans.
week of June.
During this fishery, Lummi
harvested approximately
50,000 lbs. Crab testing
in Region 1 will take place
during the week of June
24. Results will be posted
in the LNR office. A R1
opening will be scheduled
once it is determined that
the crab have completed
their molt.
Division staff participated in several meetings related to addressing the increasing fecal
coliform bacteria levels in
the Nooksack River watershed and Portage Bay.
This effort has resulted in
a substantial increase in
water quality monitoring
Halibut
Water Resources in the Nooksack River watershed and an increase in
Division
Lummi’s total harvest of
the number of compliance
halibut
for the 2013 season
enforcement inspections
In addition to moving conducted.
was 79,687 lbs, from 313
into the new administrative
landings over four openWork related to the ings.
building and continuing
the surface and ground wa- Lummi Nation Wetland
Salmon
ter ambient water quality and Habitat Mitigation
monitoring activities on Bank continued and inChinook is fishing is
the Reservation, the Water cluded meetings with land- scheduled to open August
Resources Division staff owners about property ac- 1 in management areas 7B,
reviewed storm water pol- quisitions and conducting 7C, 7D and 77B. Sockeye
lution prevention plans for field visits to the Phase 1A fishing in Areas 7 and 7A
several tribal development site with both the Conser- is tentatively scheduled for
projects, conducted site vis- vation Easement holder August 2, targeting a treaty
its, reviewed Lummi land (Northwest Indian Fisher- share of approximately
use permit applications, ies Commission) represen- 192,000 fish. The 7 and 7A
and continued the develop- tative and the Interagency pink fishery is scheduled to
ment and maintenance of Review Team.
begin August 31, targeting
several databases.
366,000 fish. The fishing
Restoration
schedule and target harFrank Lawrence III,
Division
vest for sockeye and pinks
Victor Johnson, Jamie
change in-season as test
Mattson, Hilary Cosencatch data in marine and
The
Restoration
Divitino, and Jeremy Freimund
fresh water become availsion
has
recently
been
participated in a Water
able to the Fraser River
awarded
funds
to
start
a
Symposium during the end
Panel.
Lummi
Nation
Tribal
Conof May. The purpose of
servation
Corps,
as
part
of
the symposium, which was
Sea Cucumbers
attended by approximate- the AmeriCorps Program.
Lummi divers agreed
ly 150 Whatcom County Lummi youth, ages 17-25
will
obtain
on-the-job
to
limit
their fishing efresidents, was to increase
skills
with
various
natural
fort
on
sea
cucumbers to 3
the dialogue about water
resources
departments,
days/week, in an attempt to
resources management
learning
about
fish
biolensure allocation remains
and the Lummi Nation and
ogy,
salmon
habitat,
imthroughout the duration
Nooksack Tribe litigation
portance
of
native
plants
of the season. Generally,
requests. Speakers from
and
trees,
water
quality
the fishery is open Tuesday
Lummi at the Symposium
and
water
resources.
Amethrough Thursday each
included Diana Bob, Harry
riCorp
members
will
be
week.
Johnson, and Jeremy Freable
to
earn
education
imund.
funds to pursue a postNotice
Hilary Cosentino and secondary degree in their
Jeremy Freimund partici- chosen field.
With the move to LIBC’s
pated in a one-day spill drill
new administration buildHarvest
at the Phillips 66 refinery
ing, all harvest manageduring the first week of
Management
ment staff have new phone
June.
numbers. You can reach
Division
Ben Starkhouse (harvest
Frank Lawrence III,
manager) at 312-2300, DolCrab
Victor Johnson, Jamie
ly James (harvest manageMattson, Hilary Cosentino
A crab fishery was held ment assistant) at 312-2305
participated in a two-day in Region 2 West (Port
workshop in Portland, Ore- Townsend to Edmonds) and Karl Mueller (dive safegon on contaminant source from June 15 to June 22. ty officer/shellfish bio) at
312-2316.
tracking during the second
Lummi Indian Business Council
General Council Meeting
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Wellbriety ~ 5:00PM ~ Wexliem
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Lummi Tribal Sewer and Water
District Water System #105300002
2012 Water Quality Report
Is my water safe?
Last year, as in years
past, your tap water met
all U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
drinking water parameters,
except for the Arsenic noted below. Lummi Tribal
Sewer and Water District
(LTSWD) safeguards it
water supplies. This report
is a snapshot of last year’s
water quality. Included are
more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water
than the general population. Immuno-compromised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons
who have undergone organ
transplants, people with
HIV/AIDS or other imDo I need to take
mune system disorders,
special precautions?
some elderly, and infants
Some people may be can be particularly at risk
details about where your
water comes from, what it
contains, and how it compares to standards set by
regulatory agencies. We
are committed to providing
you with information because informed customers
are our best allies.
from infections. These
people should seek advice
about drinking water from
their health care providers.
EPA/Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) guidelines
on appropriate means to
lessen the risk of infection
by Cryptosporidium and
other microbial contaminants are available from
the Safe Water Drinking
Hotline (800-426-4791).
Where does my water
come from?
Our water sources are
wells located in an aquifer
under the Lummi Nation.
Lummi Tribal Sewer and
Water occasionally purchases treated water from
the City of Bellingham.
Bellingham obtains its water from Lake Whatcom.
Results from Bellingham’s
Consumer Confidence Report are included in this
report
Source water
assessment and its
availability
Both the City of Bellingham and the LTSWD
conduct multiple analyses
of water quality from the
sources and distribution
systems. Every effort is
made to protect the quality of drinking water and
provide customers with
safe and reliable water.
Lummi nation
Why are there
contaminants in my
drinking water?
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Drinking water, including bottled water, may
reasonably be expected
to contain at least small
amounts of some contaminants. The presence
of contaminants does not
necessarily indicate that
water poses a health risk.
More information about
contaminants and potential health effects can be
obtained by calling the
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Safe
Drinking Water Hotline
(800-426-4791). If present, elevated levels of lead
can cause serious health
problems, especially for
pregnant women and
young children. Lead in
drinking water is primarily
from materials and components associated with
service lines and home
plumbing. LTSWD is responsible for providing
high quality drinking water, but cannot control the
variety of materials used
in plumbing components.
When your water has been
sitting for several hours,
you can minimize the potential for lead exposure
by flushing your tap for
30 seconds to two minutes
before using water for
drinking or cooking. If you
are concerned about lead
in your water, you may
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Where can I get more
information?
Please contact LTSWD
at 360-758-7167, if you
have any questions about
water quality or utility operations.
Monitoring and reporting of compliance data violations
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All monitoring and reporting requirements were
met for 2011. Some of the
wells the District uses for
potable water have Arsenic
in excess of the EPA’s recently lowered MCL of 10
ppb. The highest amount
of Arsenic found in our
water is 15 pp. The District
has purchased a treatment
plant to reduce the amount
of Arsenic to below the 10
ppb level and this should be
installed by the end of 2012.
Arsenic is a natural occurring element that comes
from the passage of water
through rocks.
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wish to have your water
tested. Information on lead
in drinking water, testing
methods, and steps you can
take to minimize exposure
is available from the Safe
Drinking Water Hotline or
at www.epa.gov/safewater/lead. (From National
Primary Drinking Water
Regulations Part 141.154, in
the section called “Required
Additional Health Information”)
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Lummi Elders - Senior Scene
By: Diana Dixon
Happy 4th of July!
Happy Birthday America!
Lummi nation
Are we are ready to
celebrate the signing of the
Declaration of Independence? It was approved by
the Continental Congress
in 1776 and is the most
“American” of all holidays.
The Native Americans were
placed on reservations not
allowed traditional singing, ceremonial dancing,
celebrating and cultural
trading of gifts. However,
the government agents for
the reservations allowed
these activities on the 4th
of July thereby teaching us
patriotism. A lot of tribes
turned the 4th of July into
a big celebration. We sang,
danced, smudged, play
bone games and enjoyed
the occasion. To us it was a
big potlatch where we could
cut loose. Today, tribes
have special powwows not
specifically celebrating the
intended holiday but a
chance to light fireworks
and have a great time.
and Ste’li, aka Bop, drove
through the crowds listening to the sounds of the
children at the carnival and
the smell of BBQ salmon.
Ts’elsimia, Marge Case
had an awesome visit with
friends from the Philippines. She indicated she
didn’t ride any of the rides.
However, Whe’chos’e’hot,
Buster, wanted to go on
the rides but the ride jocks
wouldn’t allow him to take
his walking stick (bummer). Sa’lx’ia, Alta Phair
was pleased and got a kick
out of all the people who
attended this year’s celebration. Lots of people,
lots of fun!
In 1916, President
Woodrow Wilson initiated
Flag Day. However Congress did not pass legislation supporting his decision until 1949. The flag
is revered by all veterans
who fought in the wars
defending our country. It
is celebrated each year on
June 14th.
Father’s Day took on
a new meaning of pride to
those men who are single
dads raising their children.
To all father’s, near and far,
especially those in harms
way in a troubled land, our
love and prayers.
Please be aware that
fireworks are dangerous.
Fireworks are explosives
made with gunpowder. You
can be seriously injured including life threatening injuries. Please be extra careThe Elders welcome
ful. Fireworks purchased
on reservations are illegal Combat Warrior, Bradley
to use and/or transport off Loyd, home from Afghanistan. He is stationed at Fort
of the reservation.
Riley, Kansas. He is waiting
June was a time for orders to deploy back to the
Stommish, Celebrating war. He is the grandson of
Flag Day, Honoring the Sti’le Anita Bop Johnson.
Veterans, and Father’s
Day! We were busy doing Honoring the Elder’s
Day 2013
all sorts of exciting things.
We honored the Veterans
Will take place on July
with breakfast at Little Bear
12th at Wexliem. We are
Creek and joined in the
in need of volunteers and
Veteran’s parade. We thank
donations from the comthem for their courage unmunity. Please step up and
der fire keeping America
help us out. We love our
Free. Our hands are raised
elders. We have learned
to you Hy’sqe. \0/
so much from them. They
know more than any hisElders on the Gotory book could possibly
Stommish
teach us. Our heritage, our
Whe’chos’e’hot, Bust- culture, our way of life, the
er James enjoyed Stom- stories of our ancestors.
mish, walking among the Volunteers are needed to
people reminiscing about assist with serving food
the good old days. Qwot o and beverages. We need
lomo, Mary Helen Cagey donated goods for prizes.
made her rounds on her Bring your donations to
bright blue power chair Little Bear Creek or call to
visiting with friends. Chief arrange for pick-up. Please
Tsi’li’xw, Bill James was on call Se at ne, Ernestine
hand to cheer our pullers. Washington at Little Bear
It was amazing to see the Creek 758-3500 for further
Elders in full form laugh- information.
ing and having a wonderful time. Tel tal ten, Jack Know the Elders: Che
Whel ten Aut, Edith
Cagey entertained us with
Rena Ballew
traditional song and dance.
Kwoselwet, Diana Dixon
Che Whel ten Aut, like
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many of our elders, she
came into this world on
Portage Island delivered by
her Aunt Edith. At that time
she was given the name
Edith Rena Lane. However Aunt Sadie Celestine
(Jones) changed it to Rena
Edith. As a youngster growing up in Lummi she was
friends with Vesta Lane.
They grew up together picking berries and helping
the family by watching
her younger siblings and
cousins. Her family always
took in boarders. Having
a house full to cook and
clean for. She graduated
from Chemawa Boarding
School and later worked at
the Bumble Bee Cannery in
Bellingham. Che Whel ten
Aut worked at Headstart for
nineteen years cooking for
our youngsters. Rena and
her lady friends gathered
at her home to making
quilts. She made a goose
down comforter. Her boys
hunted the geese for food
and feathers. She raised
her family on traditional
foods; deer, wild berries
and mushrooms, ducks,
elk, and seafoods. She was
an Euchristic Minister for
the Catholic Church. She attended Kateri Conferences
in many cities. She and her
mate had their marriage
blessed six times by the
Bishop. Needless to say
she is devote in her religion
teaching her children the
Doctrine of the church. She
has the deepest respect for
all religions. Che Whel ten
Aut respects the youth of
today. She wants a drug free
place for our kids to grow.
She says everyday there is
always something to learn
and they don’t need to learn
drugs. She loves her Lummi
people and Lummi roots.
She said we all came from
the islands and Lummi is
our home. Hy’sque \0/
Little Bear Creek
Estongets Woch
• Sit & Be Fit chair
exercise every Monday at noon with Bob
Stallings, Northwest
Indian College Instructor.
• Diabetic Support
Group meets every
Tuesday 10:00-11:00.
• Counseling every
Wednesday, walk-in
or by appointment,
Debbie Pobst
• Toe nail trimming
the 2nd Wednesday
of every month at
12:15 p.m. Contact
Anneke Zwick, RN,
Lummi Tribal Health
Center 384-0464
EXT: 2528. Need a
trim? Bring them in!
• Arts and Crafts M-F
in the activity room.
Se at ne, Ernestine
Washington, Activities Coordinator will
assist you with sewing, beading, weaving whatever you
would like to work
on. Any questions,
please call Se at ne,
or Tel tal ten, Jack
Cagey, Activities Director at 758-3500.
• Weaving class every Monday evening
Ernestine Gensaw
along with guest
weaver, Saalmathlat, Ethyl HillaireWarbus, 5:30-7:00
• Senior lunch served
daily at 12:00 noon
with the exception
of Brunch Fridays,
brunch served at
11:30. Non-Elders
$3.00 minimum
donation. Transportation provided.
Please call the transportation office at
758-3500 for pick-up.
• Elders only lunch at
the Silver Reef Casino, every 2nd Tuesday of the month.
Must be 55 and over,
No children please.
• Birthday lunch every
3rd Thursday of the
month.
• S e n i o r A d v i s o r y
Council Meets every
third Wednesday of
the month at 5:30 p.m.
We are currently working on a Juan Cruise featuring cracked crab dinner.
Cruises are now thru September 14th, (Fridays and
Saturdays only) departing
at 6:30 p.m. returning at
9:00 p.m. Discounted rates
are available for groups of
20 or more. If you are interested in a crab-feast cruise,
please let us know by calling
758-3500. We want to hear
from you.
Diabetes - Type ll
A lot of people have
diabetes (high blood sugar)
and don’t realize it. The
symptoms are so common
place that we tend to ignore the subtle changes
our are bodies are making. Some symptoms are:
feeling tired or thirsty all
the time. Changes in the
clarity of vision that can
lead to blindness. Weight
loss, the urgency to urinate
frequently. To safeguard
yourself, have your blood
tested for Diabetes at least
once a year. Always keep
in mind that this disease is
known as the silent killer.
Please call your health care
professional or Lummi
Tribal Health Center at
384-0464 to make an appointment to talk to your
doctor. Find out the facts
before it finds you.
Hearing loss
Blockage or pressure in
the ear canal can be a sign
of hearing loss. According
to the Hearing Healthy
Foundation, hearing loss
affects 1 in 5 persons. One
cause of blockage causing
hearing loss is the build up
of wax in the ear. Repetitive
load noise can damage your
ability to hear. Concerts
can actually make your
ears bleed. Air Shows with
roaring aircraft or soldiers
returning from combat often suffer hearing loss from
constant noise. Loud noise
can permanently damage your hearing. Please
take precautions when
you are going to a noisy
environment. Use earplugs
for protection. Any questions, please contact your
clinician or the Lummi
Tribal Health Center at
384-0464.
Travel Policy
Getting together with
friends and relatives is
an important part of the
Senior Program. A lot of
planning goes into our
trips especially overnighters. We just don’t hop on
and off the bus. Planning
a trip is not an easy task. It
involves several person(s)
to put a trip together. What
we take for granted is a
behind-the-scenes process
including total cost, mileage, accounting, accommodations, rest stops, per
diem. The travel policy is
a work in progress. A brief
update. You must sign up
for all travel activities with
the transportation staff
at Little Bear Creek. No
call-ins and no persons
signing up for you. Elders
over 55 permitted on trips,
caregivers allowed to assist however they are not
eligible for per diem. No
power chairs allowed on
the busses. Power chairs
take up too much space.
No more than 60 persons
per trip. Privately owned
vehicles are permitted
however you are responsible for incurred costs. We
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Ralph Horne
Gerald James
Regina Jefferson
James Jeffries
Betty Johnnie
Anita Bop Johnson
Mark Julius
Victoria Julius
Gerald Kinley. Sr.
Roland LaClair
Carl Lane, Sr.
Elaine Lane
Glen Lane
Mary Lowe
Ronald Lutz
James N. Lyness
Delores Manson
Charles Miller
Helmar Miller
Kathleen Payne
Patricia Phair
Martina Placid
Norbert Plaster
Elsie Point
Ernest Revey, Sr.
Rosalee Revey
Owen Ringer
Rose Roberson
Darryl Rosario
Anita Rutherford
Darryl Scarborough
Rosalie Scott
Robert Solomon, Sr.
David Solomon
Nicki Solomon
Ralph Solomon
Claudia Spencer
James Swan
Renee Swan-Waite
Lawrence Tom
Frederick Victor, Jr.
William Washington, Jr.
Linda Weller
Karen Williams
Lorraine Williams
May your pathways
continue to be joyful and
peaceful. May the grace of
God be with you now and
always in your ensuing
days. Wishing you a very
warm and Happy Birthday.
July, a beautiful month.
A time for picnics and camp
outs, BBQs and outdoor
get-togethers, beach combing and spending time in
the sun. Just be careful not
to spend too much time out
in the harmful rays of the
sun. Remember to use sunscreen, wear a hat, enjoy
summer’s fun. Hug your
kids, grandkids, friends,
significant other and hug a
Veteran. Call or text your
loved one in the military.
Until next time, Each in
his own words. Each in
his own way. For a world
united in peace, let us bow
our heads and pray,
*July Travel Schedule
Function
Date
Day
Depart LBC
Blackjack SRC
2nd
Tuesday
6:15 p.m.
Shop Bellingham
5th
Wednesday 1:00 p.m.
Elders Lunch SRC 9th Tuesday
11:15 a.m.
Black Jack SRC
9th
Tuesday
6:15 p.m.
Shop Bellingham
10th Wednesday 1:00 p.m.
Grand Ronde
15th-17th Mon-Wed 8:30 a.m.
Black Jack SRC
23rd Tuesday
6:15 p.m.
Shop Bellingham 24th Wednesday 1:00 p.m.
Black Jack SRC
30th
Shop Bellingham
31st
Tuesday
6:15 p.m.
Wednesday 1:00 p.m.
Please call the Transportation Office for availability on
all travel activities. PH: 758-3500. All travel activities
limited to 60 persons.
*Subject to change
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over. The busses are scheduled to depart Little Bear
Creek at 8:30 a.m. on the
15th. Departing Grand
Ronde at 9:00 a.m. on the
Bus drivers are respon- 17th. Please be prompt.
sible for your safety. We enJuly Birthdays
joy our bus rides; singing,
joking, telling stories, and
Birthdays are always
teasing each other. Arrivspecial.
You have touched
ing at destination is an all
together different story. the lives of so many. May
There’s confusion; arguing your birthdays shine like
with the drivers over room your life. Warm wishes
assignments and luggage. for a Happy Birthday and
The hotel is responsible for wishing you best of Blessrooms. You and your care ings and much Wisdom to
giver, if applicable, are re- come.
sponsible for your personal Ron Alexander
affects. Please keep in mind Marie Ballew
that the drivers are not por- John Bill
ters. They assist as much as Geraldine Blas
possible. Remember, while Theresa Bob
we were enjoying our ride, Ernest Brewer
they were driving through Shirley Butcher
some pretty deplorable Alma Chastain
and stressful road condi- Diana Jones Dixon
tions including detours, Carolyn Dougall
inclement weather and Leona Downs
bumber-to-bumper traffic. Betty Finkbonner
When arriving at destina- Roy Doboer
tion, please don’t converge Sandra Finkbonner
on the drivers. As much as John Friday
they would like to assist Marilyn George
you, they too are tired.
Michael Gordon
The next overnight trip Mary Gray
is scheduled for July 15-17 John Greene, Sr.
to Grand Ronde, Oregon. Joanne Hall
This is a two night stay Ed Hanks
Geraldine Hootchew
cannot pay your mileage. A
72-hour advance notice is
required for cancellations
on all overnight trips.
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