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At the Yakama Nation Cultural Center Winterlodge, Toppenish WA
Sat. March 16th, 9am-5pm
Sun. March 17th, 9am-3pm
The Spilyay-Mi Native American Arts and Crafts Club, which sponsors this show provides Native artists, craftsmen and Western artists a showcase for their work. All arts, crafts, and artifacts must be Native made or Western-style craft and exhibited by owner.
Fine Arts, Crafts, Entertainment, Baby Contest and much MORE!
HOURS
Saturday, March 9, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, March 10, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
See the latest Seattle Bike Expo news!
TICKETS
Adult admission:
$10 – single-day pass
$12 – two-day pass
(Kids 15 or younger are free!)
Please note: We accept CASH ONLY at the door.
An ATM will be available.
Cascade Bicycle Club members can receive
a $2 discount on a single-day pass by showing a membership card. This does not apply to the $12 two-day pass.
LOCATION
The 2013 Seattle Bicycle Expo will be held once again in the deluxe, two-story Smith Cove Cruise Terminal, which overlooks the Puget Sound and features a magnificent view of downtown Seattle and the Olympic Mountain range.
PRESENTATIONS AND FEATURES
No matter how experienced or what style of bicyclist you are, Bike Expo features a plethora of interesting, informative and entertaining programming. Take your pick of three separate stages and presentation areas, plus a full slate of interactive and fun activities for kids.
EXHIBITS
Expo is the largest consumer bicycle show in the United States! Exhibitors from the United States and Canada fill more than 250 booths with exhibits of bikes, gear, travel, health and fitness. Expo is the official kick-off party for everyone’s bicycle season in the Puget Sound. Every top event producer in the region is here as our most of all tour companies, local bike shops and top national manufacturers. This year we are featuring an expanded Dirt Zone and many new booths offering fun, cutting-edge products and “Made in the Northwest” custom items.
FOOD COURT
Enjoy a tasty treat selection of lunch items, espresso and fresh pastries.
PHOTO CONTEST
The popular and fun Photo Contest will return for the sixteenth year running! Visit the Photo Contest page for more info and to enter your own bicycle related photos.
EXPO DRAWING
Be sure to swing by the festivities at the Cascade Bicycle Club booth to enter the drawing to win great prizes – no purchase necessary.
VOLUNTEER
Want to help…and squeeze in for free on the “guest list”? It takes the help of more than 200 wonderful volunteers to produce the Seattle Bike Expo. You can sign up for one of many different positions here. All volunteers receive a complimentary T-shirt plus free admission on both days. It’s a great way to help Cascade, meet new friends and get a “backstage pass” to the biggest consumer bike show in the US!
Donate your bike to Bike Works* & Get a free ticket to Bike Expo!
Donate your used bikes to Bike Works, a local non-profit, at this year’s Expo! Bike Works will get your old bike up and running again, and into the hands of someone in the community through our youth and adult programs. In exchange, your bike donation gets you a free ticket to the Bike Expo! 50 tickets available per day to the first 50 bike donors — bring your bike to the parking lot at the Bike Expo and drop off at the Bike Works truck located next to the Bus Shuttle pick-up zone.
(*All donations to Bike Works, a 501-C3 non-profit organization, are tax deductible.)
By Kirk Boxleitner, Marysville Globe
TULALIP — The closest Wayne Brady has been to the Tulalip Resort Hotel and Casino is Seattle, but he told The Marysville Globe and The Arlington Times that he’s eager to try out a new venue.
“I’ll go wherever the audience is, from Manhattan to small towns,” Brady said, as he looked forward his two showings on March 29 in the Orca Ballroom. “And this won’t necessarily be the last time I’ll be here, either.”
Although Brady’s work in the entertainment industry ranges from starring roles in Broadway musicals to guest-starring parts on scripted TV shows and voiceover work for cartoons, many people probably know him best from his long-running stint as part of the cast on the improvisational comedy show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” which will be returning with new episodes later this year. However, Brady has never seen such high-profile jobs as the end goal of his career, because throughout the rest of his hectic schedule he’s always found time to stay on the road.
“There are stand-ups who land those sitcom gigs because that’s what they were aiming for, but I’ve never stopped performing live,” Brady said. “It’s how I’ve stayed sharp. No matter what I’ve done, whether it was ‘Chicago’ or ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ it would have suffered if I hadn’t kept doing that.”
According to Brady, he thrives on contact with live audiences, and described the sense of immediacy in their interactions as difficult to duplicate even in live television.
“There’s just this rush of instant reaction,” Brady said. “If you’re doing comedy onstage, you don’t have to wait for a critical review or a Nielsen rating. The club or theater or whatever the venue is will let you know, yea or nay, how they think you’re doing. It can be through a hush in the crowd or in the rattling of drinks, or more positive affirmation if you’re doing good. Either way, you get that feedback right away.”
Brady sees the challenges of live performance as akin to the enjoyable challenges that he feels everyone should choose to take on, regardless of their professions.
“The joy of live performance is that it’s live,” Brady said. “Nothing can replace it. Not everyone can do live performances, but we should all challenge ourselves, whether at work or in our lives.”
While Brady promised his Tulalip audiences that he would arrive fully engaged, he requested that they return the favor.
“I’m happy to come out here and bring my A-game, but I’d only ask that those who come out to see me do the same with their suggestions,” Brady said. “I’m going to challenge you guys too. This isn’t just going to be a show where you sit back and put your feet up. It’s improv, so you need to be ready for me to do anything, even if it means coming out into the crowd and interacting with you.”
Brady’s 8 p.m. show on March 29 is already sold out, but as of March 4, tickets were still available for his 11 p.m. show later that same night. For more information, log onto www.tulalipresort.com/entertainment/orca-ballroom.aspx.
Indian Country Today Media Network
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced March 6 in a U.S. Department of Justice news release that Ruben Dean Littlehead, 38, Lawrence, Kansas, and Brian K. Stoner, 32, Ponca City, Oklahoma, are charged with unlawfully selling feathers from eagles and hawks covered by a federal law protecting migratory birds. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in Douglas County, Kansas.
Federal law (Title 16, United States Code, Section 703) prohibits taking, killing or possessing migratory birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service maintains a National Eagle Repository in Colorado for the purpose of providing eagle feathers to Native Americans for use in Indian religious and cultural ceremonies. (For more information, see: Fws.gov/le/national-eagle-repository.html.)
The indictment alleges:
On September 15, 2008, Littlehead sold a bustle made with 68 feathers from a Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos).
On November 22, 2008, Littlehead sold 11 tail feathers and a wing from a Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos).
On February 26, 2009, Littlehead and Stoner offered for sale parts of a Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), a Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and a Crested Caracara (Mexican Eagle, Caracara cheriway). They sold a tail feather fan made from feathers of a Bald eagle.
On February 26, 2009, they sold a bustle made of feathers of a rough-legged hawk and ferruginous hawk (Bueto lagopus and Buteo regalis).
If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on each count. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Hendershot is prosecuting.
Court documents were not immediately available for review. Ruben Littlehead, Northern Cheyenne, is a top pow wow dancer and MC, who has emceed at major events such as the Gathering of Nations.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/07/two-native-american-men-indicted-unlawfully-selling-eagle-and-hawk-feathers-148053
Melissa Cavender, Tulalip Tribes Health & Safety Specialist
Living a healthy lifestyle means living a way of life where you make healthy choices that contributes to your own health and wellness. It’s about practicing good eating habits to maintain a healthy weight and to prevent infections and diseases.
A healthy lifestyle also includes practicing healthy habits such as exercising, and avoiding harmful habits. It also comprises of having the right and positive attitude about life and living, loving your work or whatever you do and being in a healthy relationship.
Your body requires lots of water. But how many glasses of water can you drink in a day? And it needs fresh vegetables too. Too little water rich food, having too much food consisting of carbohydrates, proteins and high fat food and eating beyond moderation are among the causes of weight problem and low energy.
And this is why eating fruits is good for you. All fresh fruits provide nutrients, enzymes and are water rich and contain the natural sugar, fructose. And almost all of them contain fiber, protein and vitamins. They act as your body cleansing agent to eliminate waste. Dried fruits like figs, prunes, and raisins are equally healthy and provide medicinal benefits.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the easiest thing to do, provided you know the right tricks. Excess stress jolts your mind and you will see its spill-over effect in every aspect of your life. The key to counter daily pressures and stress is to lead a healthy life and develop healthy habits. You will find your productivity visibly enhanced and your mental framework quite positive, if you follow a healthy way of life.
March 9, 2013
Muckleshoot Tribal School Gym, 15209 SE 376th Street, Auburn, WA 98092
Grand Entry 7pm
(CBS) – On Thursday afternoon, President Obama signed into law the re-authorized Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The act, originally passed in 1994, provides federal funding for programs and research aimed at preventing and prosecuting domestic and sexual violence.
The new version of the law includes several new measures, including granting Native American tribes jurisdiction to prosecute non-native perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence against native women. Previously, tribes had no jurisdiction over non-tribal members, even if they are married to native women or reside on native lands.
But, said Obama Thursday, “as soon as I sign this bill, that ends.”
According to Tina Olson, co-director of Mending the Sacred Hoop, an advocacy group dedicated to fighting violence against native women, as many as 50 percent of native women marry non-native men. This means that if they become victims of domestic violence, they have little recourse through the tribal justice system.
“It’s not as if native women want something unique,” says Olson. “They just want the justice other women get.”
Olson says she has “high hopes” about how the new law will help tribal women, but is taking a “wait and see” attitude until funds for enforcement – and consequences for failing to enforce – arrive.
In addition to the new provisions aiming to protect Native American women, the re-authorized VAWA allows groups representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered men and women to apply for grants to prevent sexual violence and care for victims. The new law also includes the SAFER Act, which aims to whittle down the backlog of DNA tests – often known as “rape kits” – in police storage around the country; and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act which provides services to victims of human trafficking.
VAWA expired in September 2011 and stalled in Congress after the House of Representatives balked at some of the new provisions in the version passed by the Senate. House Republicans drafted an alternative bill, but it failed when brought for a vote on Feb. 28. Later that day, the House voted 286 -138 to pass the Senate version.
Ariel Zwang, the CEO of SafeHorizon, a group that provides shelter and services to victims of domestic violence, says that as important as the new protections the reauthorized VAWA provides is the message the passage of the law sends to victims and perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence.
“Before VAWA, society’s response to domestic violence was basically to tell the guy to go walk around the block,” says Zwang. The law, she says, makes a national statement that “this is wrong, it’s a crime, and we’re going to talk about it and prosecute it.”
President Obama agreed, saying Thursday afternoon that the original law “made it possible for us to talk about domestic abuse.” The new law, he said, assists immigrant women whose status may be tied to an abusive spouse and “expanded housing assistance so that no woman has to choose between a violent home and no home at all.”
The signing coincides with a new report by the Department of Justice that shows that after declining between 1995-2005, the rate of sexual assault in the U.S. leveled off between 2005-2010. The new report also shows that fewer women are reporting sexual assault to police: in 2003, 56 percent of sexual assault victims reported to authorities, compared to just 35 percent in 2010.
Jerry Dale Kline (Cope)
June 2, 1959 – Feb. 15, 2013
Jerry passed away on February 15, 2013 at the young age of 53 at Harborview Medical Center due to injuries from a serious bicycle accident. Jerry was born June 2, 1959 in Port Angeles, WA to Dale and Leona Cope.
Jerry was an enrolled member of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe in Blyn, WA. Jerry went to school in Lowell, Snohomish and Lake Stevens. He worked as a roofer, and in construction all of his life.
Jerry led a very full life and loved his family and friends. He lived most of his entire life in Snohomish. Everyone he touched has a treasured memory which they will carry with them throughout their life.
He is survived by his mother, Leona; special love of his life, Annette Houde; son, Jeremy Cope; brothers, Ken (Marcy) Kline; Wayne (Shannon) Cope; sisters, Theresa (Sony) Lehmen, Deborah Hutsell, Renee (Ken) Hoerath, Donnita (Darren) Petersen; two grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and other family.
A Celebration of Life reception will be held on Saturday, March 9, 2013 from 2-5 p.m. at the Snohomish North Depot, 1011 Maple Ave., Snohomish, WA. A second celebration will be held on June 2, 2013 from 1-4 p.m. at the Red Cedar Hall of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in Blyn, WA.
Contributions can be made in his name to Tulalip Boys and Girls Club, 7707 36th Ave NW, Tulalip, WA.
Charmaine Louise Harrison – Fleming, 60, passed away March 3, 2013 at her daughter’s home.
She was born November 12, 1952 in Everett to Orville and Violet Harrison. She worked as a Pit Boss at the Tulalip Casino for eight years, and later she worked as a Gaming Commissioner at the Tulalip Tribes.
She is survived by her parents, Glen and Lee Parks; her daughter, Gina Harrison (Thesesus James); son, Alex Salinas (Lanadan, Amber); siblings, Teresa (Jerry), Les (Tracy), Lori (Eddy), Angie, Lora, George, Roman, Port, Bernie (Chris), Dee Dee; special grandson and caregiver, Josh, and eight other grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; special friends Carol Waugh, Carol Hunter, and Rhonda Gobin; her special aunt, Betty; and numerous other relatives and friends.
Visitation will be held Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at Schaefer-Shipman with an Interfaith service following at 6:00 p.m. at the Tulalip Gym. Funeral Services will be held Friday, March 8, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at the Tulalip Gym followed by burial at Mission Beach Cemetery.
