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The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, ‘People of the Sands’
CHEHALIS TRIBAL

NEWSLETTER

January-February 2021 FIND HISTORY, HERITAGE, RESOURCES AT CHEHALISTRIBE.ORG

inside COVID-19 updates Women’s heart health
Help ease toddler troubles / 6 Rental assistance / 10 Raffle, vaccine rollout and Employees wear red to
K-12 seeks grad information / 7 Lucky Eagle Casino welcomes Wellness Clinic numbers support worthy cause
Robert “Bob” Wertz obituary / 7 new Hotel Manager / 10
February-March birthdays / 8-9 Powerhouse nettles / 12 pages 2-3 page 11

Expansion Housing

mainstay

helps to fill retires after

clinic need 35 years

Virginia ‘Dolly’ Canales
saw major developments
New space offers negative air during tribal tenure
pressure to prevent infectious Chehalis tribal member and
disease spread along with prominent community elder
overnight rooms, trauma Virginia “Dolly” Canales recently
area, ambulance entrance retired from the Chehalis Tribal
Housing Authority following her
35-year tenure with the program.
Dolly began her career as a
counselor on Feb. 1, 1985. She
explained that the program was
classified as Public Housing when
she first started. It eventually
switched to Tribal Housing,
meaning services were only
available to Native American
people. When the transition
happened, Dolly took on a new
role in Tenant Services.
“Housing is a very important
component of the tribe because
everybody needs a place to live,”
Dolly said.
See RETIRES, page 5
INSIDE: Tiny Homes purchased with Cares Act funds
offer emergency housing near Wellness Center / 4

portion of the Centers the tribe’s main responses to AHBL published an article
for Disease Control and the pandemic and includes a on its website that provided
Prevention grant funding reception area, five exam rooms, additional details on how many
A received by the Chehalis an emergency dental office, a entities were granted COVID-19
Tribe was used to build a 3,500 trauma room and an emergency response funds and more
square-foot expansion to the ambulance entrance. information about the Wellness
Wellness Center. The AHBL engineering team Center’s expansion.
Funding provided to states collaborated with KMB architects The project was scheduled
and tribal governments is to design the new space. The to be complete in February.
assisting in COVID-19 recovery two companies are completing Manufacturing and supply
through relief efforts such as numerous building and design delivery delays caused by the Virginia “Dolly” Canales celebrates
testing to combat the disease. projects for tribes across the her retirement with Daniel “Bones”
The clinic addition is one of Pacific Northwest. See EXPANSION, page 12 Gleason and Joan Martin.