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Spily^y Tymoo
December 29, 2010
Letters to the Editor
Thank you, sponsors
By Duran Bobb
Last week, the Portland of
fices of the FBI came to the
reservation with an offering in
the holiday spirit.
“We put names on a tree,”
Holly Fauerso, Community Out
reach Specialist for the FBI said,
“and we had employees take
names. People could take a
clothing tag or a toy tag...or both,
if they wanted to. They went
out shopping and we had a wrap
ping day - we really just had a
lot of fun!”
A list of names was made
with the help of Warm Springs
CPS, V ictim s o f Crime, and
ECE, Nancy Seylor said.
A nd in the
end, there were
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enough gifts to
provide for 13 Y Speaks
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needy families in
Warm Springs.
Beth Anne Steele, who issues
the regional press releases for
the FBI, was on hand to greet
W arm Springs Public Safety
GM Stan Suenaga, Police Chief
Carmen Smith, Nancy Seylor,
and advocates from VOCs.
“We’ve done other versions of
this in the past,” Holly said as
the gifts were being prepped for
delivery, “but we’ve never done
this many. This year, we have
71 children.”
The FBI Academy Alumni’s
Association, which serves all of
Oregon, also donated for the
occasion.
2010 will be history in a mat
ter of hours. These words, these
stories will go into the archives
and yellow with time as the res
ervation and our people march
forward.
Maybe some day far into the
distant future, a young man or
woman will read about the gen
erosity of the good people at the
FBI and remember that they
were one of the children who
received a special gift that year.
2010 will not be completely
gone, oh no. Some of us will
continue writing that year down
on anything that we sign well
into February.
We were here for it. And
we’re charging on to be here for
whatever 2011 holds for us.
Next June the reservation will
be 156 years old. That’s a long
time for some things to change.
Even longer for other things
to stay the same.
Happy Holiday wishes to Rob
ert, Gunner, Bryce, Jaren and
Terrell. Love and miss you all.
Dad.
I want to wish M i Reina
J a m e y W., H ap p y N ew
Year! M atthew Ortiz.
I ’d like to say, ‘What’s up?’ to
the whole Warm Springs reserva
tion, and wish mi familia up on
Bark Heights a Happy New Year!
I love and miss everyone. Trom
Matthew Orti £
Spilyay makes a New Year’s
resolution to go to church.
“In the beginning,” the pas
tor says loudly, “there was noth
ing! Then God said, Let there
be light!”
“I bet He could see the noth
ing a lot better then,” Spilyay
said.
ing quality of life and address
ing the medical, psychological,
social, emotional and spiritual
needs of the patient, their fam
ily and significant others.
Hospice respects patient’s
Fun event
Courtesy photo.
Tysen Green competed recently at the Indian National Finals.
Thank you to all those who
donated to my trip to the Indian
National Finals in Las Vegas:
Tami Ferrest, Janell Smith,
Lisa Putnm, Evon Frost, Molly
Semm, Brenda Parrish, Sean
Lynn, Carol McDaniel, Sauel
Minnick, Tara Frank, Darlene
Hoffman, Linta Smith, Candy
W atson, M em a and E laine
Lewis, JoAnn Smith, Tom Cat
Logging, Suzie Green, Angie
Blackwolf, and Power and Wa-
ter Enterprises, Kah-Nee-Ta, the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, Central Oregon Live
stock Auction. Also to all those
who came to the fundraiser at
the Longhouse that my grand
m other L ucinda and Starla
Green held. Thank you.
A big thank you to my mom’s
family and my dad’s family for
all their love and support. Thank
you.
Tysen Green
The future
A big thank you to everyone
who turned out to the Warm
Springs Christmas Family Fun
Event, and to those who made
it possible as well.
The Prevention Coalition is
following that event with an
other one on Jan. 8, 2011 from
2-4 p.m. called the “Elvis Birth
day Bash.”
It will be held at the Com
munity Wellness Center social
hall. It’s a contest where 24
competitors will win prizes in a
lo o k-a-like, sing-a-like, and
dance-a-like contest.
We need contestants.
M ich ael H. M artinez,
Children’s Protective Services
Meth and Suicide Prevention
In itiative Team. 553-3205/
(971) 678-0387.
Grief support
Mountain View Hospice will
host a winter grief support group
beginning from J an. 18-March
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Terry Courtney Sr. on the scaffolding and fishing float in the
Jefferson County Fair Parade.
Where do we go? We defi
nitely aren’t in tune with our
natural world—woe is me! What
can we really, really do? Where
is the w isdom o f life? The
knowledge has changed and not
for the tribes’ benefit. Helter
skelter. Unity— ears that don’t
hear, eyes that don’t see, voices
Sending much love and re
spect to the Warm Springs and
Yakama Nation, and those fami
lies I have effected by past be
havior. W arm Springs folks
have maintained in contact with
me while dealing with this life
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(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
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not heard, that drift on the winds
to nowhere. There is little re
spect, hardly any honor left that
all our ancestors lived by. Who
will be the last traditional per
son and how many years will
pass before this happens?
Tribal elder, Terry Courtney
Sr.
altering experience here in state
prison in Washington. You allow
ing a fellow to call here and there
has been such a release of stress
and em otions. Sen d in g the
people of Warm Springs an as
surance that I have not avoided
any self help workshops offered
to us here at Whitman College,
quarterly anger m anagem ent
and alcohol and chemical depen
dency classes. T here’s much
change in my life as to what was
and is today. I understand the
past, dependent on abusing the
booze, using this as an excuse
to deal with hurt and a lot of
pain from loved ones lo st,
through painful dreams and hot
sw eatlodges. My spirit feels
strengthened and a clarity of
what is expected o f a family
m em ber in any com m unity
should and will become more
responsible to you, my family
and relations. Included is a mail
box where anyone who wishes
to give me an earbeating may
contact, please do so. To our
elders, yo u ’re alw ays in my
prayers. Ram on C ald era,
714460, West Complex IMU/
South B-16, Washington State
Pententiary, 1313 N. 13th Ave.,
Walla Walla, WA 99362.
The group will meet weekly
every Tuesday from 10:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. in the Juniper Con
ference Room, basement level
at Mountain View Hospital, 470
NE “A” Street, Madras.
Pre-registration is required as
enrollment is limited. To regis
ter or for more inform ation,
please contact Mountain View
Hospice at 541-460-4030.
Mountain View Hospice is a
dedicated team of trained pro
fessionals and volunteers com
mitted to providing compassion
ate care to terminally ill patients,
their families and significant oth
ers. Terminally ill patients are
defined as patients who are no
longer responding to aggressive
curative therapies or treatment.
Our goal at Mountain View
Hospice is to focus on improv
wishes to die a natural death in
a fam iliar environm ent with
comfort (pain free), peace, and
dignity.
For more information, please
visit www.mvhd.org.
Indian Business Talk
Credit card thieves
using new technology
B y Bruce Engle
W.S. Credit Enterprise
With respect
TOE NESS...
W ishes...
If your credit card is in your
wallet or purse, can your ac
count inform ation be stolen
without the wallet or purse be
ing stolen?
Yes!
A small portable “reader”
can be passed w ithin a few
inches of your wallet and your
card type and number are in
stantly gone.
It is that quick, that easy, and
that devastating to your account
and your feelings of security.
Then, the thief can quickly con
vert your card information to
“purchases” or “withdrawals”
that you will be billed for.
Your first hint of the prob-
lem might be a phone call from
the credit card company. They
are sensitive to certain kinds of
transactions.
Or, you might not know of
the problem until you have
opened your monthly statement
and gotten up after reading it
and fainting.
Solutions:
You can search on line for
RFID wallets or card protectors.
Some sites will sell you several
for under $30 including shipping.
Wal-Mart advertises them.
Don’t use credit cards.
The credit card industry will
probably solve the problem in
the near future but it’s difficult
to predict how near that future
may be.
Veterans have new drivers
license option starting in 2011
The Oregon Department of
Motor Vehicles wants to make
you aware of a change that may
affect you.
On January 1, 2011, Oregon
residents who are military vet
erans will be eligible to have their
status as a veteran placed on
their driver license, driver per
mit or identification card.
Veterans may request this
designation when they apply for
their driver license, permit or ID
card, or when they renew or
replace their card.
Applicants who qualify for
the veteran designation will have
the word ‘Veteran” placed above
the issue date on the front of
the card.
To qualify, veterans m ust
provide proof of veteran sta
tus, in addition to meeting all
other Oregon requirements for
driving privileges or ID—includ
ing payment of the original, re
newal or replacement fees.
There is no additional fee for
the veteran designation. To
prove veteran status, veterans
must present a Certificate of
Release or Discharge from Ac
tive Duty—form D D 214-or a
correctio n to D D 214—form
DD215.
The option for a veteran des
ignation on driver licenses, per
mits and ID cards is the result
of Oregon legislation passed
earlier this year. The law, set to
take effect January 1, allows the
designation only for veterans as
defined by ORS 408.225.
A ccording to the Oregon
Department of Veterans Affairs,
there are about 351,000 veter
ans in Oregon who may request
the designation.
If you have questions about
the new law, p lease v isit
www.OregonDMV.com; or call
your local DMV office.
Sincerely,
Tom McClellan, adminis
trator, Oregon Department of
Transportation.
Fencing project
Courtesy photo.
Tribal Construction Enterprises installing the lower Dry Creek riparian fence.
The Branch of Natural
Resources Fish Habitat De
partment would like to in
form the Warm Springs com
m unity o f the Lower Dry
Creek Riparian fence enclo
sure that the N atural Re
sources staff has installed.
We worked with other de
partments and with local live
stock owners that utilize the
area where the fence enclo
sure is located.
The enclosure is along High
way 3 and the landfill turnoff
road. You can see that it is 4-
strand barb wire w ith m etal
cable for the water gaps for the
live stock to be able to get to
fresh water.
We would like to thank the
Warm Springs C onstruction
crew that was working on this
project and employing 11 total
tribal members for the summer
installing this enclosure, which
is a total of just under four
miles.
If you have any questions
for comments on the fence
enclosure or any ideas to
better the range or stream
bank protection for fish,
p lease co n tact Jo h n n y
Holliday Sr. at the Natural
Resource Office, 541-553-
2001 .
Scott Struhs, Natural Re
sources.
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