Bobby Henry Sends Rain To Burning N. Florida
By Peter B. Gallagher
TAMPA - For several weeks, all sorts of people had been begging Bobby Henry to make it rain.
Friends who live in Northeast Florida, an Orlando radio station, even others in the Seminole Tribe. A severe drought, combined with record high temperatures, was scorching much of Northeast Florida with fires causing millions of dollars in damages, 50 square miles of devastation and the forced evacuation of tens of thousands of Florida residents. (continue...)
MIAMI - Seminoles William Osceola, 14, and his mother Peggy. are among 50 Indians from the Americas whose three-dimensional likenesses are on display at the Miami Science Museum this summer. 
TEMPE, Ariz. - The Seminole Tribune took four awards, including two first places, and Seminole Broadcasting won a first prize, June 19, at the annual Native American Journalists Association Convention at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel. 
HOLLYWOOD - The Seminole Tribal Council approved the purchase of a new airplane and passed several important Seminole Tribal Housing Department resolutions June 26, during a special joint Council-Housing session at the Tribal headquarters' auditorium. 
Sound Of America Records (SOAR) of Albuquerque, N.M., has signed Seminole Chief Jim Billie and will release his new CD "Alligator Tales" Aug. 31. Producer John McEuen says the CD will include 12 songs and one legend ("The Rabbit and the Bear") and will be submitted for a Grammy nomination. For more information check the Chief's Internet site at www.chiefjimbillie.com 
Betty Mae Recovers 
BRIGHTON- Stop by the Brighton Field Office or the Billy Osceola Memorial Library and it is likely you will find a studious Alice Snow busily compiling notes, researching history and writing term papers. The grandmother, known to many in the Seminole Tribe as a medicine carrier, has been going to college. 
SINGAPORE - It was 6:30 in the morning and we were white knuckled in a speeding car, careening through the teeming streets of this Asian metropolis. Like everyone else, we were riding on the wrong side of the road. The driver, an (India) Indian man named Sam, was talking on his cell phone and gesturing wildly with his hands. I knew he was driving very badly when another driver gave a little gay toot on his horn, behind us. In Singapore, rare is the hooligan who dares to give the finger, honks in road rage, spits on the sidewalk, throws a butt on the ground or chews gum in public. 
HOLLYWOOD - They posed atop a big bull gator. They rode air boats and took a swamp buggy tour into the deep wilds of the Billie Swamp Safari jungle. They tried venison and rattlesnake and gator tail. They hung out with Charles Hires and Joe Don Billie. Each one went home with a Seminole jacket.