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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1976)
JULY 23, 1976 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON PAGE 3 Comprehensive Plan - Update Completion Dates Predicted Hollywood Road. Coats’ firm will also do the road leading to the rodeo grounds and long- house. Tentative plans are being considered to begin con struction of the road to the site of the new Senior Citizen’s housing. Warm Park EMPLOYEES OF R.A. CHAMBERS and Associates lay the foundation for the new by Olney Patt, Jr. At the time the first issue of Spilyay Tymoo was printed, a number of projects under the Warm Springs Community Comprehensive- Plan were in the final planning stages or were not bid upon yet. Since that time, a bid of $1,091,000.00 has been accepted and construction is underway on the Tribal Administration Center. Rough grading and pipe placement has begun on the 30 new mobile home park lots and Title X workers have completed the fencing ’of res ervation cemeteries and are currently at work building forms for the foundation of the visitor’s information center near Alice’s Restaurant. Tribal Administration Center Groundbreaking took place in early June on the Tribal Administrative Center, located east of West Hills on the Tenino Creek Valley road. Low bidder for the project was the contracting firm of R.A, Cham bers and Associates - head quartered in Eugene - with Dennis Bradstreet as construc tion foreman. An increase in Tribal bus iness interests, as well job opportunity program grants, have caused overcrowding of the available office space in the old Tribal Office, nec- ceessitating the new complex. Quanc - Anyone and everyone is welcome to come learn how to prepare “Quanc”, that black moss delicacy, Wednesday July 28th and Thursday, July 29th at the Community Center Park. The demonstration will be gin on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Participants should plan to meet on Thursday at 8 a.m. to conclude the lesson. The pre paration of Quanc is being demonstrated by Pruni Will iams. It is the first of several Indian food preparation dem onstrations to be sponsored by the Warm Springs Extension Office. Questions can be an swered by calling Sue Gangler, Extension Agent, at 553-1161, ext. 46. disrupting the daily routine or losing records. Administrative Manager Doug McClelland hopes that the move can be made in a week. Completion date is pre sently set for March of 1977, and occupation for April. Mobile Home Park, Phase II The 30 new mobile home lots, located south of the pre sent park, are due to be completed in the late fall of 1976 - possibly November - according to Roads Depart ment Supervisor Don Schmith. Roads Department survey ors were the first on the scene, plotting the course for the road and marking the locations for the lots. Heavy equipment op erators are presently grading and preparing the roads for the paving contractors. A Construction and Main tenance crew is also deployed at the site trenching and in stalling a water supply line. The project is being jointly funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Public Health Ser vice, and The Confederated Tribes. Kah-Nee-Ta Matching funds of $138,900 have been approved by both Until August 20th Tribal Court Offers Legal Representation Paving -. Old Hollywood Road Don Schmith and R.L. Coats of Jefferson County Redi-Mix held a preconstruc tion conference to finalize plans for the paving of Old Youth Activities Planned The Yakima Indian Nation Youth Activities Program is working on a proposed concert and cultural day with an art show, poetry readings, and drama for a proposed date of the last weekend in August. The plan is for a least five or six bands, musical groups, or acts for this event. The intent is to begin the program around noon and let it be a full day program. Any craftsman, group, individuals who would like to sell beadwork or jew elry at this time are welcome. There will be a very small fee but nothing that would break anyone. An art show is planned by Indian artists to be set up as Community Drawings are due back this month from the State Parks and Recreation Department on proposed projects in the Warm Springs Community Park, ac cording to Tribal Planer Dale Parker. The drawings must be ap proved by the Parks and Rec reation Dept, before funds can be allocated by the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, said Park er. The park projects include underground irrigation, a pic nic shelter, and night lighting and curbing for the baseball field parking lots. Tribal Administrative Center, expected to be completed in March of 1977. Photo by Olney Patt, Jr. As it stands, many of the Tribal departments are housed in older buildings (or tem porary quarters) that are spread across the community. For example: Data proces sing is quartered in a modified mobile home behind the Tribal wing of the present office; Housing and Urban Develop ment and the Housing Author ity are located in the old Rehab building; Personnel, Education, and Social Services have their offices in the old girl’s dorm. All of these departments, as well as the Council, Steno Pool, the Committees, the Bur eau of Indian Affairs, Account ing, Plaiming, Vital Statistics, Purchasing, and Administra tion will move to the new cen ter. Cost of the center was nearly the amount predicted; Building and parking lot - $1,094,000; Furnishings - $120,000; Architectural $120,000; Legal and Auditing - $10,000; Interest Expense (to financier, Farmer’s Home Ad ministration) $38,000; and $120,000 for unforseen expen ses. One of the problems that will face the organization at it’s completion will be how to move the staff and employees of the tribes without seriously Springs the Bureau of Outdoor Rec reation and Title X for the Kah-Nee-Ta Day Recreation area. The day recreation area will consist of a children’s playground, a picnic shelter, a playfield, a play court, and a foot bridge. A portion of the funds will also go toward a paved parking lot and overflow parking (the latter to be lo cated across the rpad, near the horse corral, and will not be paved), as well as landscaping. Visitor’s Information Center Taking shape near Alice’s Restaurant on Highway 26 is the Visitor’s Information Cen ter, expected to be completed sometime in late September of early October. It is expected that it will provide employ ment for four to six people, and will include a gift shop. The $66,000 cost of the structure was covered by Title X Job Opportunities Grant Funds, and will include land scaping, and includes paving Alice’s parking area. part of the program. Also dur ing the program there will be poets doing their readings, and skits put on by the local people to make this the cultural show of this event. There has to be a program worked out and all Indian Newspapers, Newsletters, or publications are being con tacted for coverage. This is a fund raising event for their youth program on the reser vation so people will be able to share and experience some thing of this nature. A concert was held last September, 1975 and all in all it was a success. The plan is to draw more people and it is preferred that this will be through the Indian Media. TRIBAL COURT legal aides Doug Hutchinson and Cathy Wilson. Photo Olney Patt, Jr. by Olney Patt, Jr. Since June 21st, persons appearing in Warm Springs Tribal Court have had an op portunity to be represented by legal counsel. Sponsored by the American Indian Lawyers Training Pro gram, Cathy Wilson and Doug Hutchinson play opposing roles in the workings of the Tribal Court; she as defense counsel, and he as prosecutor. Miss Wilson, a Nez Perce from Kamiah, Idaho is pre paring for her second year in a three year law degree program at Arizona State University, Tempe. Upon completion of the program she hopes to return to her reservation to work with their law and order system. There is, she says, no estab lished tribal court system on the Nez Perce reservation. Hutchinson, an Osage from Oklahoma, makes his home in Boise, Idaho and will start his second year in a similar pro gram at the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. Part of their duties as in terns will be to review the Warm Springs Law and Order Code, and to leave recommen dations to the Law and Order Committee before their de parture, on August 20th. Both have also been assigned pro jects by the A.I.L.T.P. Miss Wilson’s project involves na tural resources; a report on the reservation’s conservation practices, usage, etc. Hutchin son is doing a study on the jurisdictional boundaries of the various law enforcement agen cies in the area: state, county, city, etc. Both conur that Warm Springs has a good court sys tem that “concentrates on the human aspects; culture, family background, income, and past record. . .” Reception to the new service has been good, and most of those the interns have been assigned to repre sent have been cooperative. The program will wind up on August 15-16-17, when all sixteen of the A.I.L.T.P interns nationwide will gather at Kah- Nee-Ta Lodge.
