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.