Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Education and Development, Inc.

Greetings Community, we will be having our annual Board of Directors Elections on Saturday, February 28th at the SCIHP Senior Site. Polls will be open from 10:00am-4:00pm with tallying immediately following. Included on this year's ballot will be a referendum vote to amend our 1998 By-Laws that have not been amended in it's entirety since 1998. Please vote to approve/disapprove the 2015 By-Laws changes. Hard copies will be available at Ya-Ka-Ama and SCIHP. See you at the polls...

The Board of Directors will host Ya-Ka-Ama's Annual Meeting this coming Saturday. We look forward to seeing the community. Please take note that the location has changed. On Monday we will update the flyers at Ya-Ka-Ama and SCIHP. Have a great week!

Congratulations to the "Native Ballers"!!!! They took the Championship at Ya-Ka-Ama's Ball Tournament this weekend. Thanks to all the teams who came out to play. Hope to see everyone again next time.

The Officers for the Ya-Ka-Ama Board of Directors have been busy. Chairperson Mario Hermosillo, Jr., Vice-Chair Robert Olivarez, Treasurer Joe Pina and myself, Secretary Sherry Steele raised over $4,000 in one day! We managed parking for the Mud Run hosted by the SRJC Shone Farm and charged $10 per car. It was a fun day and wildly successful. This weekend we are at it again. The Officers worked together to host a Baseball Tournament at the Land. Special thanks to Vice-Chair Robert Olivarez, Treasurer Joe Pina and Joe "Cappy" Silva for going the extra mile to make this event come together. Good Luck to all the teams!!!

My name is Sherry Steele. I am the Secretary of the Ya-Ka-Ama Board of Directors. I want to introduce the community to an exciting project I started working on last year. Ya-Ka-Ama applied for a Low Power Radio Station license. This is a rare opportunity for our own Native Radio Station. Keep your fingers crossed! It is looking like we are going to beat out the competition. I will keep you posted. Many thanks to the other officers for all their hard work on this project and many others - Chairperson Mario Hermosillo Jr., Vice-Chair Robert Olivarez and Treasurer Joseph Pina.