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Dec 7th, 6:00p - 8:00p Virtual Anishinaabemowin class Dec 8th Traditional Medicine Clinic - Sault Dec 8th St. Ignace Wellbriety Dec 8th Manistique Talking Circle and Wellbriety Group Dec 8th, 5:00p - 7:00p Virtual Anishinaabemowin class Dec 9th Newberry Children’s Drive-Thru Christmas party Dec 10th, 4:00p - 6:00p Wellbriety - 12 Steps in the Native Way! Dec 10th, 6:00p - 8:00p Rock Your Mocs Workshop with Jackie Minton Dec 11th - Dec 12th Unit II Children’s Christmas Drive-Thru Dec 11th, 1:00p - 4:00p Unit III Children’s Drive-Thru Christmas Party Dec 12th, 5:00p - 7:00p Traditional Medicine Clinic - Sault Dec 13th Update: Sault Children’s Drive-Thru Christmas Party Dec 14th - Dec 15th Traditional Medicine Clinic - St. Ignace Dec 14th Wellbriety - 12 Steps in the Native Way! Dec 14th, 6:00p - 8:00p LANGUAGE English CLICK HERE for COVID-19 Vaccination Lottery Information CLICK HERE for COVID-19 RESCUE ACT MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANCE INFORMATION Read more: COVID-19 Immunization Information... Sault Tribe’s services, facilities and postponed events during COVID-19 pandemic Due to the continuing presence of COVID-19 cases across the tribe’s seven-county service area, Sault Tribe continues to ask staff and the public to practice social distancing and wash their hands often. Masks are required in tribal health clinics. Plans will be updated as needed. Miigwech. New entries will be added to the top of list. Read more: Sault Tribe’s services, facilities and postponed events during COVID-19 pandemic Sault Tribe Board meets Dec. 7 in Sault Ste. Marie Category: News Published: 02 December 2021 SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. —The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Board of Directors will hold a regular meeting beginning 5 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the Sault Kewadin Casino, in person or via Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/96906911516. “Matters Raised by the Membership” will be held at 4 p.m. in person or by virtual attendance. The link is available Sault Tribe website under membership assistance for the meeting link and Membership Form that must be completed. The deadline to submit a form is 3 p.m. on meeting day. The link is https://zoom.us/j/96906911516. Resolutions on the agenda: Cultural - After School Ojibwe Language; Nat. Resources - Collaborative Fish. Wildlife, Ecosystem; Nat. Resources - Ruffed Grouse; DeMawating - Tanglewood Marsh; Gov’t Industrial Warehouse Complex/MEDC Warehouse; Continuing Funding FY22 Jan - Dec; Transportation - 2022-2025 TIP; Mac Co Cooperative Agreement; Approve Contract - ReConnect Broadband Consultant; Auth to Apply for Grant - MEDC/Tamarack Bus. Center; Auth to Neg - Gladstone Medical; Sault Tribe Corp Charter Appointment; Reaffirm/Reapprove Loans from SS Funds; Auth. Temporary Management Agreement - S.T. Inc.; Approving Financial Policies and Procedures; Auth of a Direct Mailing of Voter Registration; Elec. Code Strict Adherence & Conformity with Constitution; Expand PRC Service Area - Emmet/Cheboygan Counties; Re-Open Rolls to Eligible Individuals; Establishing a Minimum Wage; Retirement of Board Pension/Retirement; Board Participation in Social Security Retirement; Forensic Audit - Signature Authority; and Forensic Audit - Casino Developers. Under New Business, the Board will consider Mask Mandate; Vacation Hours; Ramification of Financial Policies by Legal, CRO, Ex Direct.; Referendum to Invite Sault Tribe Voters to Approve/Disapprove of the Temporary Oversight of the Tribal EDC Operations STI or any external or quasi external entity; and Board Concerns. December 7 Meeting Resolutions Important ACFS Notice Category: ACFS News Published: 02 December 2021 Anishnaabek Community and Family Services is no longer accepting Over-Income Essential Worker Applications for child care subsidies because it has reached its capacity. Emergency Health Order Revised 12-02-21 Category: Health News Published: 02 December 2021 Please read over the attached Updated Covid-19 Emergency Health Order & Mitigation Strategies Revision 4 dated Dec. 2, 2021. Emergency Health Order and Chart Rev4 12-02-21 Sault Tribe Saturdays at Northern Hospitality Category: Northern Hospitality News Published: 02 December 2021 Attention all tribal members! Starting Dec. 11, we will offer a special deal every second Saturday the month—Sault Tribe Saturdays! 15 percent off any item in stock, furniture and flooring! Stop in and see us at 827 Ashmun St. in Sault Ste. Marie. For questions, call 906‑635‑4800. We need you! Category: ACFS News Published: 30 November 2021 Are you or someone you know interested in becoming a foster parent? Anishnaabek Community and Family Services (ACFS) is in need of tribal foster homes. Make the difference in the life of a child, consider being a foster parent. Contact ACFS at 906‑632‑5250, or by email at acfs-fosterhomes@saulttribe.net, for more information. The impact of a foster parent lasts a lifetime! Anthony “Tony” Nertoli Category: News Published: 29 November 2021 A life well lived…Anthony “Tony” Lewis Nertoli, 1946 – 2021 A great man who had a big, generous heart for his family and community, Anthony “Tony” Louis Nertoli, has crossed over to the spirit world to join his parents, Lucille (Hatch) Nertoli and Germano (Joe) Nertoli, his sister Barb (Edward “Pie”) Pine, and brother Phillip (Penny) Nertoli. Of all the things he accomplished in life, Tony’s greatest love was family. A member of the Bear Clan, Tony was known as M’kwa Ogimaa ba (Bear Chief), also Dad, Uncle, Papa-Misho, Nert, Papa Nert and Big Brother. Tony is survived by his son, Thomas (Michaela) Dangler and grandson, William; and sisters, Jolene Nertoli and Catherine (Nertoli) DeVoy. Tony counts 68 nieces and nephews, including Michael (Becky) Pine and sons Christopher, David, Douglas; Debra Ann (Christopher Hall) Pine and children Alexia, Jada, Justin, Nick; Steven (Carrie) Pine and children Hunter, Samantha and Chance; Mariea (Dan) Pine-Mongene and children Joe, Jolene, Melinda; Priscilla Pine and daughter Aubrie; Becky Nertoli and children Jen, Nathan, Jordan and Brandon; Phillip Nertoli Jr.; Angela (Todd) Nertoli-Filback and children Donald, Jessica, Jocelyn, Kaitlynn; Luci (Holly) DeVoy; Rita DeVoy and daughter Luna; Tony (Amy) Nertoli; and many more great, great, great nieces and nephews. Tony’s life was blessed by two additional families that he also deeply loved…his tribe and baseball. A decades long career began in Tony’s last year of college working for TV 9/10 as a camera man. He often told the story of being the only reporter allowed behind the barricade lines during the Bay Mills Indian Community’s protest over treaty fishing rights. Tony began work for his second family, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Tony served his tribe in many ways—as an elected tribal board member, a community developer, as well as one of the tribe’s first appellate judges, before settling in as the director of the USDA Commodity Food Program. During his tenure, Tony and his staff provided food to thousands of tribal citizens in Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. In this role, Tony assumed additional service at the national level as president of the Native American Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (NAFDPIR). Because of his efforts, the Sault Tribe became a national leader in addressing food insecurity in Indian Country. Serving four consecutive, two-year terms, Tony was most proud of the achievement of developing Food Distribution Centers nationwide that provided needy families with respect and dignity as they shopped for what they needed, including fresh foods. Tony’s third family was the Sault Baseball Team. Tony’s love for the game came from his parents. He said, “I owe everything I’ve achieved to them. My dad loved baseball.” Generations of players have passed through the Sault program while Tony coached. Lovingly called “Papa-Nert” by his players, Tony said, “You are a coach to them for a few years and then you’re a part of their lives. That’s what makes it so worthwhile—the relationship that you create.” Tony’s baseball career included induction into the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2000) and the Gordon Malcolm Sportsman of the Year award (1997). After a brief retirement, Tony came back as assistant coach to the Sault High JV team. Tony coached and mentored many of his players to go on to bigger and better life achievements. When needed, he took care of them like his own kids, earning the nickname, Papa-Nert. Tony told his players that there are three things that would be fine for a coach to be remembered for: “Win more than lose, play with pride, know that someone cared.” Tony will always be remembered for his inspiration to achieve, his pride in who he was and where he came from, and especially for the great love he so generously shared with his personal family, his tribal family and the hundreds of players and parents who were his baseball family. Tony will lay at the Niigaanagiizhik Ceremonial Building from his entrance ceremony Monday, Nov. 29, afternoon until the final ceremony at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Burial will be held at Donaldson Catholic Cemetery. Arrangements are in the care of C.S. Mulder Funeral Home and Cremation Services. Condolences may be left online at www.csmulder.com. 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