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Author: Beverly Bidney

Beverly Bidney has been a reporter and photographer for The Seminole Tribune since 2012. During her career, she has worked at various newspapers around the country including the Muskogee Phoenix in Oklahoma, Miami Herald, Associated Press, USA Today and other publications nationwide. A NAJA award winning journalist, she has covered just about everything over the years and is an advocate for a strong press. Contact her at beverlybidney@semtribe.com.

Immokalee Boys & Girls Club uses federal grant for mentoring, fitness

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IMMOKALEE — Shortly after the Immokalee Boys & Girls Club upgraded to a stand-alone club in February, it received a $20,000 grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to provide mentoring and fitness activities to the club’s 122 youth through the SMART Moves program. "Based on statistics,

Hollywood preschoolers rock Christmas

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HOLLYWOOD — Hollywood preschoolers showed their families and friends how to rock Christmas Dec. 17 during their A Rockin’ Christmas show at Tribe Headquarters. Students performed "Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree" with inflatable guitars, sang "O Christmas Tree" decked in patchwork created for them by the Hollywood Culture Department and

Past success helps fuel NIGA drive

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HOLLYWOOD — More than 400 representatives from Tribes throughout Indian Country convened in Hollywood for the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) mid-year conference at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Nov. 2-4. The conference highlighted several legislative issues NIGA is tackling in Washington, D.C. and touted its 30 years

President’s office spreads holiday joy

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FORT LAUDERDALE — President Mitchell Cypress, his office staff and the Seminole Hard Rock kick-started the giving season Nov. 18 with a donation to Essie "Big Mama" Reed’s Team of Life organization, which donates food to the needy for Thanksgiving and toys for children at Christmas. A $5,000 check was presented

AIVMI begins push for memorial funds

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HOLLYWOOD — American Indian Veterans Memorial Inc. (AIVMI) President Stephen Bowers and his wife, Elizabeth Bates, kicked off a major effort Nov. 12 to raise $10 million toward building a Native American veterans’ exhibit at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The AIVMI initiative began in 2010 as an effort

Bowers says farewell to Gaming Commission

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HOLLYWOOD — Truman Bowers, who served on the Seminole Tribe’s Gaming Commission from 2007 to July 2015, commemorated his service surrounded by family and friends Nov. 4 during a celebratory dinner at the Chef’s Table at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood. Bowers’ term recently ended with the

Leaders tackle Indian Country issues at White House conference

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WASHINGTON — The challenges facing Native American youth and strengthening government-to-government relationships between Indian Country and the U.S. government were among the focal points Nov. 5 at the annual White House Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, D.C. For the seventh consecutive year, President Barack Obama hosted the conference, which drew representatives

Seniors show skills at military-themed Trike Fest

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BIG CYPRESS — Eight days after Veterans Day, military pride remained on display Nov. 19 as the theme of the 11th annual Senior Trike Fest. Forty-seven seniors from Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood and Immokalee showed their patriotism while competing for glory and trophies in Big Cypress. "It’s an annual social gathering,

PECS students send taste of home to troops overseas

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BRIGHTON — Traci Mendez’s eighth-grade reading class at Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School recently learned how much magazines, letters and snacks mean to troops serving overseas when Gina Buhlmaier visited Nov. 13 to tell them about Loving Our Heroes. Buhlmaier founded the nonprofit organization several months after her son Kory was deployed

Red Ribbon Week filled with camaraderie

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Across reservations, in keeping with the Red Ribbon mission, communities gathered to present a unified and visible commitment to a drug-free future. From color runs, poster contests, marches against drugs, pledges and promises, the Seminole Tribe stood strong against drugs and celebrated the week’s theme, "Respect Yourself, Be Drug Free." The Red

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