1987-11-11 Char-Koosta News

              Even Washington is interested in Blue Bay Center, says speaker
"The Blue Bay Healing Center has caught people's interest all the way to the White House. There was spirit in the paper [that the grant request was written on]."
Those are the words of Cathleen Brooks who, along with Anna Whiung-Sorrell, director of the Tribes' alcohol program, spent four evenings last week explaining a dream to whoever would listen at dinner meetings from Elmo to
Arlee.
The dream is a world without the pain of alcoholism. Here on the Flathead, the dream is in the hearts of many people, who will be pooling their resources at the Blue Bay Healing Center (BBHC) northeast of Poison.
Brooks, who is the founder of the nationwide Children of Alcohlics organization and a fourth-generation alcoholic herself, told audiences in Elmo, Pablo, St. Ignatius and Arlee, that the Tribes' grant request to fund the healing center ranked fifth in a field of thou-
sands received this year in Washington, D.C.
Part of the grant's attraction, she said, was that it said the people of the Flathead Reservation wanted to begin healing themselves using local resources. The grant didn't have a lot of clinical words and concepts in it, just sincerity and spirit. It wasn't a matter of saying, 'We need this much money to help others', but rather, 'We'll start with ourselves and help that healing to spread until it touches everyone on the Reser-(Continues on page two)
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Uncertified election results......................
Incumbents all survive primary easily
Approximately 800 Tribal members took time last Saturday to visit their neighborhood polling place and vote for the six people they felt should be given the chance to lead the Tribes in the next two years. Here are the uncertified results of the Nov. 7 primary election, pending certification on Nov. 11.
ARLEE—the two-year term: Floyd Nicolai, 347; John E. Malatare, 169; Kathleen Plante, 154; Terry McDonald, 110.
ARLEE — four-year term: Louis Adams, 455; Henry "Hank" Baylor, 216; "Swede" Emmett Couture, 116.
DIXON — Sonny Morigeau, 383; Rio Liberty, 214; Charles "Fred" Morigeau, 205.
HOT SPRINGS — Mickey Pablo, 594; Leroy O'Bennick, 195.
PABLO — Vic Stinger, 240; Lloyd Irvine, 176; Catherine Hamel, 163; Bob Houle, 131; Britton Salois, 65; George Garcia, 40.
ST. IGNATIUS — Ron Therriault, 253; Joe Felsman, 214; Greg DuMon-tier, 167; Michael Durglo, 121; Francis Cahoon, 54.
About 120 absentee or contested ballots remain uncounted, pending certification Nov. 11.