Masks, Dances, and Dates!
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Early Fall Newsletter
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Recent Grants
The Lelooska Foundation would like to acknowledge two recent grants, the first received from the Colf Family Foundation, and the second from Leann and Paul Googins. Made in loving memory of Emily R. Googins, this generous grant will provide us with new moons! The rivalry between Half Moon and Full Moon is one of our…
Oregonian Article
The Oregonian just ran an article on the Lelooska family — check it out here! It’s accompanied by a nice photo essay
Silent Auction, April 20th 2013
Mark your calendars! The Lelooska Foundation’s Silent Auction fundraiser and Donor Program will be held on April 20th, 2013. Bidding opens at 4pm and closes at 7:30, followed by a special donor program. The auction has been a vibrant outlet for community involvement here at Lelooska for the past nine years. Not only has it…
Tree Day
February 2nd, 2013, Groundhog’s Day, dawned so promising that any oversized, den dwelling rodent up here in Ariel, WA would certainly have heralded an early spring. However, here at Lelooska our attention was not on the what was in the ground, but rather who was up in the trees. A team of seven volunteer arborists…
Julia Hart Stoll
Julia Hart Stoll, wife of Chief Tsungani Fearon Smith of the Lelooska Family, mother of Mariah Reese & Lottie Stoll-Smith, mother-in-law of Eric Reese, grandmother of Mara and Isaac Reese passed away on September 6, 2012 at 12:16 am surrounded by her family after battling breast cancer for 17 years. Julia was an accomplished contemporary…
Memorial Potlatch
Chief Lelooska died on September 5, 1996. Following the death of a clan chief a family must wait at least four years before potlatching. At Lelooska’s 1996 memorial service, the chieftaincy and Lelooska’s name Gixken was passed to Tsungani. Preparations for the potlatch began. In July of 2001, the Lelooska Family traveled to Campbell River…