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SSO< L,r»«S«y Con’ ,.^4 j)y. I Wizard of Qz). and Charles (pronounced •Sharles’ ) a poodle from France A direct In our ongoing pursuit o1 mental health, we spent the weekend at CeliIo Village, celebrating the return of the salmon w ith the River People I know, I know In the face of re a lity, a spring salmon feast seems quaint To the River People, it s a holy day A time for the Columbia Basin tribes to gather, renew old friendships and pray, dance to the drums, sing the old songs, and share their food w ith strangers Venison and elk meat, fry bread, dried berries and roots And, of course, the fir s t salmon, ritu a lly caught by honored young men of the tribes This year, things being as they are, and aren t. the young men came back w ith a total of five fish The salmon that fed the hundreds. Indians and settle rs alike, came from trib a l freezers It could be a long w inter on the riv e r But then, it's usually the case that, when you're hungry, the poor are more likely to f i l l your plate than the rich Go figure A photographer from National Geographic was there This may not be a good sign Three images of the weekend stand out The fir s t, a speech in the longhouse (there are always many) to welcome the Celilo's guests Listen 'The government says we kille d off the salmon It's a lie They're the ones who b u ilt the dams and made the d r ift nets Were the ones who pray for the salmon ’ Even the BPA would admit they have a point The second took place in the house of Warner Jim , chief of the Pine Creek band of the Yakima Indian Nation We'd come w ith our attorney, Indian Jack Schwartz, the only Jewish member of the Cel»Io tribe Warner Jim isn't there, which makes me a stranger in the house There are perhaps twenty people spanning at least three generations living there I haven't even closed the door when a lit t le g irl of three comes toddling over, bright eyed and sm iling, to o ffe r me the chicken drumstick she's eating The history of Indian Country is what happened when a culture based on giving met a culture based on taking It has yet to be pretty The last glimpse of Cel I Io only seems an ticllm a tlc Sunday afternoon, not long before leaving, I m standing outside the longhouse, leaning against a post, smoking a cigarette and watching the dancers fine tune their feathers and deerskin robes for the grand entry Boggled as always by their beauty, I'm thinking it s no supnse National Geographic is there taking snapshots If the River People were a tribe in Borneo, the Birkenstock liberals of Portland would be outraged at their situation Enough perhaps to w rite a le tte r So anyway, there we are The sun is shining, the drums are beating, the Eagle S p irit Singers are singing the old songs A small clutch of teenage w arriors head into the longhouse One of them is wearing a t-s h irt w ith a message for us all "He who has the most toys when he dies s t ill dies* j A . * s • ■z- * The Loft Restaurant descendant of the lap dog who ate cake from the hands of fiarie Antoinette His latest shave job features a heart-shaped tu ft of fur on his bum V Owner Dogs Dogs found in close proxim ity to owners Moon Frailey (deceased). Bear Frailey (deceased). Pita, Bear Ogilvey, Myron, X, Ruby Begonia, Harpo, and Buster ABC Television featured our own Barney Swedenborg fetching home a bag of cookies from the Cannon Beach Cookie Co Barney is retired now, under doctor s orders Many pretenders, including Clancey Sroufe before his recent demise, would lurk around the cookie company sponging sweet bits, posing as the celebrity ’ Look, mom, that's Barney, the dog from T V f . a lit t le g irl would say ’ Let s give him a cookie and he II take it homer A disbelieving child looked on. stunned, as Clancey inhaled the cookie During Easter observances several years ago, Clancey shocked the lunch crowd downtown "The Kid", Jay Schwehr, appeared a ttire d ,n his pink Easter Bunny suit Clancey leapt forward at sight of Jay like a greyhound leaving the blocks, and shagged "the Kid" down Hemlock Street on a dead run Pugslie Hawkins, a former resident, gained some notoriety here when he took 2nd Prize in a Seaside "Ugliest Dog" Contest Those who knew Pugslle fe lt the contest had been rigged Pugslie deserved top honors if any creature did His shrivelled toad body and terminal hot spots frequently staunched noontime appetites on Osburn's Porch August "dog days" intensified his itch torture, leaving the beast tw itching and wriggling on his back in the street Compassionate drivers stopped for fear the animal had been struck by an auto and abandoned Bear Ogilvey, a back seat m astiff and scrap muncher, has attained senior status this year His owner te lls me Bear s eyes are fa ilin g Thrown balls and sticks elude him now Brandon. Bear s owner, thinks a "seeing eye" cat may be the answer for Bear in his doterage George Robert)-Mizener, step-dog of Steve McLeod, dog about town and bon vivant, epitomizes that independence of character and s p irit so dear to us in Cannon Beach George has ranged the woods, beaches, and coastal headlands chasing the elusive spoor His gala birthday dinner at the Bistro Restaurant was an occasion of great celebration For many years George rode shotgun w ith the garbage men of Cannon Beach Sanitary Service Few dogs have attained such heights If every dog has his day, then the dogs of Cannon Beach have had at least their share Nn Suit* H i» # « In many ways, it appears to be the end For the nonce, at least, and most probably forever, salmon fishing as a way of making a living is dead The independent loggers are disappearing, those that remain, as quickly as a February snow in a Chinook wind Suburban development in the Tualatin basin drains the effluent from m ultiple thousands of to ile ts and toxins from th e ir pesticides and herbicided lawns into the Tualatin River Meanwhile the DEQ nearly forces a dairyman w ith 60 cows out of business because some runoff from his fields may enter the river Andy Kerr, Conservation D irector for the Oregon Natural Resources Council, te lls a group in Lakeview they may as w e ll start removing cattle from the range because to u rists don't like cow manure on their Reeboks An alienation has divided the urban and suburban population from the rural Those who provide the food, fiber, building materials, the fuels without which modern life would be impossible, are looked upon and often treated as if they were only venal exploiters bound on the destruction of the environment for personal p ro fit The rules have changed, some say But they are rules changed by people who enter an unpaved area as if they were v is itin g Disneyland and know about as much about it as they do about the maintenance requirements of that charming cultural experience We decry the disappearance of the fam ily farm but think of such an enterprise as something between what we see on the "Green Acres" TV show and movies from Mr Disney's ilk, then regulate them out of r x is t a n c e w i t h r u le s based in a la rg e p a r t on Ignorance and w ishful thinking Each time I hear someone on the tube ra g in g about an e n v iro n m e n ta l o u tra g e , I make a lit t le bet w ith myself that the culprit w ill be a farmer, a fisherman, a logger, rancher or miner More often than not I win Inevitably, in time, they, v irtu a lly the last independent men and women, w ill lose Yet no one w ill have even one word to say against the ultim ate, the single source of all pollution I mean, of course, parenthood & • FEATURING STARBUCKS COI I I I • WIDE SELECTION OF MAGAZINES • HEALTHFUL SNACKS H in ' " Bruce K. 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