Convalescent Center News
JULY 22, 2005
We miss you and Good Luck to Hazel Whitney, LPN. We had
Hazel’s retirement party at CTCC on June 24.
A huge Thank You to the Colville Business Council who donated
$300.00 to CTCC to purchase fireworks for the residents to
watch, we had 17 residents who watched the fireworks. Thank
you to Rusty Porter NAR, Freda Semoe NAC, & family for helping
with shooting off the fireworks.
A huge Thank You to “Mission to Save the World” Christian
children for painting the entire inside of the building and
for singing and entertaining the residents at lunch time.
New Residents: Sam Miller. New Employees: Connie Williams,
Housekeeper; Judy Bell, NAR; Kristy Brown, NAR; Loretta
Johnson, NAC.
July 4 through July 9 the residents went to the 4th of July
encampment grounds events. July 29th the residents went to
Keller Park for a picnic.
Thank You,
Sally Hutton, Administrator
AUGUST 16, 2006
Good luck… We miss you… to Alice James, NAC, who retired from
CTCC. We gave her a retirement party on July 21, 2005 at CTCC.
CTCC had 5 NAC students graduate on August 4, 2005. They are
Kristy Brown, Rusty Porter, Judy Bell, Jennifer Clark and
Linda Yallup. We have employed Kristy Brown, Rusty Porter and
Judy Bell as Nursing Assistants at CTCC.
We gave our Summer Youth a Thank You Party on August 10, 2005.
Once again a Big Thank You to Sterling George, Gary George,
Ann Thomas and Cassie Vargas for helping CTCC during the
summer. The residents and staff really enjoyed having you
here.
Eight residents and 5 employees went to the Thursday night
rodeo performance at the Omak Stampede on August 11, 2005.
Thank you to the Omak Stampede Office for donating 13 tickets
to CTCC. The residents attending were: Joe Waters, Ace
Williamson, Emmett Agapith, Jean Betty Arcasa, Jerry Sam,
Marcella McCraigie, George Quintasket and Ellen Abeita. Staff
attending were: Tina Drywater LPN, Nichole Hertado NAC, James
Kinnard NAC, Ann Thomas, Summer Youth and Cassie Vargas,
Summer Youth.
CTCC wants to express a Huge Thank You to the Colville
Business Council for purchasing a new commercial washing
machine for CTCC.
New employee is Ashley Long, Dietary Aide.
Thank you,
Sally Hutton, Administrator.
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Colville Tribal Museum
In our Colville Tribal Museum, located at 512 Mead Way, Coulee
Dam, WA, we sell a lot of items that reflect our upstairs
Museum exhibit. We have books about our area and other Tribes
form the Plateau. We also sell CD movies like Pow-Wow Highway,
Dances With Wolves and other Native American movies. We try to
find items that reflect what we have in our main exhibit area,
like 150 photos of our tribal people from the 1900-1930’s and
our beautiful beaded bags, beaded gauntlet gloves and cedar
baskets dating from 1900. We also have a diorama about Kettle
Falls and a fishing exhibit with artifacts from the same era.
Our Museum store is not like Barnes and Noble where you have
to go to the New Age section to buy Native American music. We
have the current CDs of pow-wow traditional drum music by
Pipestone Creek, Eyabay and Black Stone. You won’t find
traditional drum music at Barnes and Noble book stores in
Spokane. We also have traditional flute music by R. Carlos
Nakai, Douglas Spotted Eagle and Robert Tree Cody. We are very
proud of our selection of traditional and contemporary Native
American music. We have a Colville Tribal Member and a
contemporary Native American Musician, Jim Boyd; all his CDs
are now in stock.
We didn’t just stop in stocking our Native American music. We
have a good selection of bead work from coin purses, hair
barrettes, belt buckles and beautiful beaded handbags. We have
bead working supplies, needles, beads and hand tanned leather
for purchasing at our museum store. We also have a museum
staff person who can do custom orders or demonstrations of
bead work, like beaded sports caps, necklaces and coin purses.
The museum also sells specialty items like original art work
from Tribal members by Ric Gendron, Virgil Marchand, John
Grant and Mike Semoe. We purchase from other Native Artists
from the Plateau and the Southwest tribes. We have turquoise
jewelry from the southwest, which includes necklaces, earrings
and rings. What makes our museum store so great is we can only
purchase from Native American artists, Tribal businesses or
Tribal people selling their arts and crafts.
Our museum store also sells Pendleton blankets like the Chief
Joseph robe and the Coyote and the Huckleberry sisters. The
Pendleton products that we do sell are the Pendleton coffee
mugs with blanket designs on them. We sell dopp bags, CD case
holders, backpacks, suitcases and brief cases. We mainly sell
our Pendleton blankets to our tourists who come to see our
museum. However, the Pendleton blanket is used for give-aways,
graduation and recognition gifts for our Tribal membership. We
sell Native Threads, shirts, sports caps and jerseys. We also
sell Native Pride coats and vests. We didn’t just stop there;
we have Pendleton coats and Pendleton bags made by Tribal
businesses. We feel that we have done a great job in providing
items in our museum store that reflect what we have in our
main museum exhibit area.
We owe a great deal of thanks to our upper management in
allowing this to happen and we are most pleased about our
profit increase in the month of June, about three thousand
dollars more than we made last June. The rest of our tourist
season looks promising; we are averaging about $500.00 a day
now. We also owe thanks to our Tribal patrons, who come in and
purchase items from our store and make suggestions on items to
purchase for our museum store.
Thank You!
Cheryl A. Grunlose
Museum Manager
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CCT Planning Department
Take your junk cars, appliances, lawn mowers, bicycles and
other metal goods for crushing
In 2003 the Colville Business Council adopted resolution
2003-386 enacting Chapter 6-14, Vehicle, Manufactured and
Mobile Home Removal. At that time an emergency had been
declared to exist that abandoned vehicles, mobile or
manufactured homes create a public nuisance and pose a hazard
to the health and safety of all tribal communities. It was
also identified that rodents are moving into abandoned and
junked vehicles to establish a home. In turn they started
moving into people’s homes, posing safety and health related
concerns and issues.
With all of that said, the regulating staff of the Colville
Tribes has all mechanisms in place to start enforcing the
code. This will include all areas of the reservation but will
focus on the Colville Indian Housing Authority (HUD) sites,
Public Works Rental sites and mobile parks and private sites
with a high build of up junk vehicles. If you are the owner of
an abandoned or junk vehicle(s) at one of these sites you do
have options, they are:
1. Contact the Tribes Planning department to voluntarily have
the vehicle picked up and crushed at no expense to you.
Headache gone.
2. Allow us to mail you a letter stating that you are being
sited for the vehicle, impound the vehicle and crush it after
the waiting period- all at your expense.
Don’t wait until it is too late – act now. We have sites
designated in each district to take your junk cars,
appliances, lawn mowers, bicycles and other metal goods for
crushing. This will be your opportunity to clean up your
property and get rid of the eyesores that may have accumulated
over the years. Call Pete Palmer at the Tribes Planning
Department to get more information (509) 634-2577.
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Nez Perce National
Historic Trail
The Nez Perce National
Historic Trail starts near Wallowa Lake, Oregon and follows
the route the Nez Perce traveled during the War of 1877 and
ends at the Bear Paw Battlefield, Montana. The Nez Perce Trail
Foundation has undertaken the effort to extend the Trail from
the Bear Paw Battlefield to include their eight year exile at
Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and return to the
Northwest. To start the process a ceremony and a sign
describing the war and the Nez Perce stay at that location is
posted and dedicated.
Last November we held a ceremony at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas,
where representatives from the Umatilla, Nez Perce and
Colville Tribes participated. We are working to have the sites
dedicated this fall at Baxter Springs, Kansas, Quapaw
Reservation and Tonkawa, Oklahoma.
This coming year we plan to have the sites at Wallowa, Oregon
and Nespelem, Washington dedicated. The ceremony at the
proposed sites will start the process to have Congress
designate those sites as part of The Nez Perce National
Historic Trail.
For more information call Paul Wapato, President, (509)
466-3125 or Charlie Moses, Jr., Treasurer, (509) 633-3555.
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