Keeping The Friends & Family OF pOarch inFOrmed VOlume 32 * issue 4 tasahce-Rakko (april) Parch C reek ews NCokv-Tvlvme/Newspaper Grand Opening of New Facilities Pg 16 James A. Rickard Pg 36 & Brothers Good Hunting! Pg 20 Veterans Of The Month Playgrounds & Pavilion Now Open Pg 54 Birthday Wishes Pg 22 Poarch Creek News TasahCe-Rakko (apRil) a reminder OF Our Gayle Johnson, Media specialist deadlines The poarch Creek News is > the official newsletter of the Poarch Band of Creek publication. The deadline to submit Indians. information to be published in the newsletter is the 5th of the month We reserve the right to edit or refuse prior to the month of publication. 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The poarch Creek News is generated the month immediately following the com and the information may not be one month prior to the month of birth. received. 2 Hokkolen www.pci-nsn.gov Poarch Creek News TasahCe-Rakko (apRil) 36 Veteran of the Month cOnTenTs Boys & Girls Club News & 37 Information There are 3077 Tribal members Education Department News & 38 Information OF The pOarch creeK indians Environmental Department News & 43 Information 02 Deadline Reminders Family Services Department News & 05 Chairman’s Corner 44 Information 06 Tribal Council Health Department News & 07 Council’s Corner/Arthur Mothershed 47 Information 08 Election Notice & Calendar Housing Department News & 48 09 Request for Absentee Ballot Information 12 Collaborations With Family 49 Legal Department News & Information 14 April Breakfast Briefing/Archives Office Of Archives & Records Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting of 52 16 Management News & Information New Tribal Facilities Recreation Department News & 54 17 Addendum to Tribal Census Update Information Stay Up To Date 56 PCI Wellness/Your Health Matters 18 Keep Your Contact Information Updated Senior Services Department News & 58 Financial Education Classes Information 19 Tax Counselling for the Elderly 59 Tribal Court News & Information 20 Good Hunting! Tribal Gaming Commission News & 59 Tribe Donates to University Of South Information 21 Alabama to Launch Native American Tribal Police Department News & 60 Studies Program Information 22 Birthday Wishes Creek Indian Enterprises Development 24 Turtle Point Fun & Educational 61 Authority Anniversary Wishes 25 In Loving Memory/Ethan D. Warden 62 NRCS News & Information 26 In Loving Memory/Eva Nell Burkett Conservationists Descend On 63 27 Tribal Member Submissions Montgomery 30 Sharing Our Culture & Traditions 64 Advertise in Poarch Creek News 31 Southeastern Indian Festival Creek Indian Art Show 32 66 On The Lighter Side Photos of Grand Opening/Ribbon 34 Cutting of Buford L. Rolin Health Clinic and Lavan Martin Assisted Living Facility 68 Monthly Calendar www.pci-nsn.gov Tutcenen 3 Poarch Creek News TasahCe-Rakko (apRil) Did you know…. DID YOU KNOW……. At Premier Family Eye Care Tribal Members receive 1 free eye exam a year Once a month we offer a free Retinal Screening We are open to everyone We offer a wide selection of brands such as Maui Jim, Kaenon, Ray Ban etc... Have you had your eye Premier Family Eye Care exam this year? 5811 Jack Springs Rd. Atmore, AL 36502 Call and schedule today! 251.446.3937 4 Osten www.pci-nsn.gov Poarch Creek News TasahCe-Rakko (apRil) T ribal c hairman’s O C uncil Corner march 2014 Buford L. Rolin, Tribal Chairman/[email protected] The Tribal Council and I were very honored to wonderful closing of life at the same place where participate in the grand opening and ribbon their lives began. cutting ceremonies for the Buford L. Rolin Health Clinic and the Lavan Martin Assisted Living I hope you all will have a great Easter and enjoy Facility. It is the honor of a lifetime to have the spending time with your families. All around the new health clinic bear my name. I hope the legacy Poarch community you can see the fresh growth of of my work will be long lives of healthy families spring. The recent rains will ensure rapid growth that benefit from having this building and these of grass and the sound of lawn mowers and weed services here. eaters will resonate in your neighborhood and throughout the community. Lavan Martin was a good friend to so many of us. He was committed to taking care of our Tribal As I mentioned last month, Tribal Elections will Members. Lavan was a fellow who quietly fought be held on June 7, 2014. The field of candidates for what he thought was right. He would have grows daily. I encourage you to participate in the loved the new facility that bears his name. Thanks process even if it is only to vote on Election Day. to Lavan’s work, we are now able to take care of There are so many ways you can participate that our elders right here at home. We can give them a will help make your voice heard. and ponder its industry and ingenuity.... Life is More Everything was possessed of personality, “In talking to children, the old Lakota only differing from us in form...Interest, would place a hand on the ground and wonder, admiration grew, and the fact was explain: ‘We sit in the lap of our Mother. appreciated that life was more than mere From her we, and all other living things, human manifestation; it was expressed in come. We shall soon pass, but the place a multitude of forms... where we now rest will last forever.’ So Life was vivid and pulsing; nothing was we, too, learned to sit or lie on the ground casual and commonplace. The Indian and become conscious of life about us in lived - lived in every sense of the word - its multitude of forms. from his first to his last breath.” Sometimes we boys would sit motionless Chief Luther Standing Bear (Teton Sioux) and watch the swallows, the tiny ants, or perhaps some small animal at its work celebrate-american-holidays.com/Native-american-poems.html www.pci-nsn.gov Cahkepen 5 Poarch Creek News TasahCe-Rakko (apRil) yOur 2014 Tribal cOuncil ouncil C ribal T stephanie Bryan, Vice chair David Gehman, secretary Robert McGhee [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] sandy hollinger, at-large keith Martin, at-large kevin McGhee, at-large [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] The Council’s Purpose our love for our people and our commitment to their future drives us to make tough decisions and stand by them to provide stable governance.