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NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO APPLY FOR THE Tribal Enrollment
USDA FOOD PROGRAM!
If you need to enroll your child this year please stop by and pick up
Many people have misconceptions about the food offered by the South enrollment office for an application.  If the biological father is an
Puget Intertribal Planning Agency Food Distribution Program. It’s enrolled tribal member a DNA test is required. Make sure you get your
definitely not just about the cheese now days, although we do still offer application in by August 29, 2015. 
that! There are more frozen meats and in season fruits and produce being
offered now than ever before. Below is a partial list of what is available. If you need a Tribal Identification Card please call at least one day in
advance.
Whole Kernel Corn Mixed Vegetables Green Beans Sliced Potatoes
Carrots 1% Milk Dry Milk Spaghetti & Tomato Sauce Fresh For more information contact Chris Ortivez at 360-273-5911.
Carrots Onions Celery Cauliflower Cabbage Broccoli Romaine
Lettuce Blocked & Sliced Cheese Egg Noodles Rice Macaroni & BURN BAN NOTICE
Cheese Spaghetti Noodles AP & Wheat Flour Cornmeal Red &
Russet Potatoes Broccoli Cauliflower Applesauce Apricots Peaches Please be advised that effective June 24 at 12:00 PM a burn ban will
Pears Raisins Grapes Bell Peppers Zucchini Squash Yellow be in effect on the Chehalis Indian Reservation and all off-reservation
Squash Fresh Apples Grapefruits Oranges Fruit Juices Canned Tribal owned lands and allotment lands under the jurisdiction of the Tribe
Beans Dry Beans Whole Chicken Canned Chicken Ground Beef (collectively, the “tribal property”).
Roast Beef Chicken Breasts Pork Chops Peanut Butter Bakery Mix
Butter Vegetable Oil Refried Beans Dry Beans Beef Stew Cereals With the drought conditions a fire can get out of control very quickly.
Soups Crackers Peanut Butter Mixed Fruit & Nuts Roasted Peanuts Please be responsible and safe.

If you, or a member of your household, are enrolled in a federally NO OUTDOOR BURNING WILL BE PERMITTED
recognized tribe, or you live within the reservation boundaries of NO FIREWORKS
the Chehalis, Nisqually, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, or Port Gamble
S’Klallam Tribes you may be eligible. There have been recent changes For questions please contact Mark White, Natural Resources Director or
enacted by the USDA that make it much easier to qualify. Glen Connelly, Environmental Programs at 360-273-5911.

Please call the SPIPA Food Distribution Warehouse at Disclaimer: Information displayed on any flyer, in email or on our
360-438-4216
website calendar is subject to change without notice. Please refer to this
Monday through Friday flyer’s contact person for the latest update.
between the hours of 8:00 AM till 4:00 PM
Our staff will be happy to assist you in applying for this program.

Chehalis Tribal Newsletter

~ USDA Food Program ~ The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation...

“People of the Sands”

Articles and opinions expressed in this publication are not

Distribution Dates necessarily the opinions of this publication or the Chehalis Tribal

Business Committee.

August 20 The Chehalis Tribal Newsletter encourages tribal members to submit letters,
September 24
Pickup is at the Community articles, photographs, and drawings to be considered for publication. These are
October 22 Center from
November 19 subject to editing.
9:45 AM to 1:30 PM
Contributing writers, artists, and photographers include Chehalis tribal

community members and staff. Submission deadline: Changed to the first of each

month (printed monthly). Business Committee

Tribal Center (360) 273-5911 Don Secena, Chairman
Harry Pickernell, Sr., Vice Chairman
Northwest University Digital Libraries of Edward S. Curtis 420 Howanut Road Farley Youckton, Treasurer
Oakville, WA 98568 Cheryle Starr, Secretary
Interested in finding history? Here is the “html” to the Northwest (360) 709-1726 (office)
University Digital Library Collections. It is Volume 9 and was published (360) 273-5914 (fax) Dan Gleason, Sr., 5th Council Member
by Edward S. Curtis from 1907-1930. He wrote about his contacts with
various coastal tribes in North America Indian. fshortman@chehalistribe.org

http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/viewPage. Chehalis Tribe’s Vision Statement Chehalis Tribal
cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.09.book.00000025&volume=9#nav To be a thriving, self-sufficient, Newsletter Staff:

sovereign people, honoring our past Fred Shortman,
and serving current Communications
Coordinator
and future generations

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