Vol. 13, No. 12 Citizen Band Potawatomi Tribe December, 1991

Vol 13, No. 12 • December, 1991 • HowNiKan • Page 3
learning A New Craft
Tribal members and others participating in the elderly nutrition program also enjoy a variety of craft classes. One of the most recent involved learning
how to make macrame seat covers for aluminum lawn chairs. In the photographs above, Ruby Harris, left, uses bright purple on her chair, while
at right, Hazel Threlkeld works with a rusty brown color.
Tribal member arranges donation
of ambulance for lakota reservation
(From The Mount Washin~t('" Star·
Review, California) - Jason Bloomberg's
quiet voi~e wd::; mure than loud enough
Friday to inform a select gathering at the
Southwest Museum of the medical flight
faced by residents of the Oglala Lakota
alion, by living on the Pi Ill' Ridge
Reservation in South Dakota.
Bloomberg, an emergency medical
technician who is fire chief of the Oglala
Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Service,
\·V3S in Los Angeles to accept the donatinn
of an ambulance form Coodhcw Ambulance
Service.
Bloomberg said his service now has,
with the (1rjdition, five ambulances to
serve the 1600 square mile reservation.
The true need, he said, would be in the
neighborhood of 19 or 20.
Blomberg said for years federal authorities
denied the needs existed for Clnergency
medical services. When the volunteer
program was finally started, with
another donated ambulance, the calls
came in and they never stop.
Bloomberg spoke of some injured and
illtribesmembers brought (or treatment in
open trucks, sometimes in weather \Nith 65
below winG chill factor. Sometimes the
trip can be 80 to 100 miles, he said.
The donation of the ambulance was
arrnnged through the efforts of