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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1978)
PAGE 8 JUNE 30, 1978 SUMMER WORK PROGRAM OFFERS CAREER EXPOSURE From bed-making to brush clearing, from range riding to filing, kids have found summer) employment on the reservation! through the Tribes’ Summer! Work Program. About 100 youths from 14 to) 21 started work June 19 in positions at Kah-Nee-Ta, within the BIA and with the Tribes. The program which will be in oper ation until August 11 this year offers not only the minimum wage in most cases, but ex posure to a variety of careers and some practical experience. Components making up the Summer Work Program include three tribally funded programs, the Student Trainee Program, the Boys and Girls Work Pro gram, Brush Clearing (which used to be called Tree Thin ning), and the federally funded CETA program. The Student Trainee Pro gram is for High School gradu ates and college students, the Boys and Girls Work Program is for those from 14 to 18, Brush Clearing is for 16 and older, and the CETA summer program is. for 14 to 18 year-old youths. Although the process of matching the students up with summer jobs has gone parti cularly smoothly this year, there have been problems finding half day jobs for those attending summer school, according to program director Lilly Ann Moses. New to this year’s program is a series of eight career awareness classes every Thurs day afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. All participants in the Summer Work Program are required to attend these weekly sessions as part of their work-week. Refer red to as mini-workshops, the sessions include exposure to careers in the field of land oper-. ations, health, and alcohol and drug abuse. There will also be tours of Warm Springs Forest Products Industries and Kah- Nee-Ta, an afternoon with tribal administration personnel, a les son in personal grooming and a class on legends. An outgrowth of the Boys and Girls Youth Camps which operated until the early 1960’s, the Summer Work Program has HEADSTART TRAILER-DAY CARE Annette Holliday, Sandra Shike, Robin Smith, Edith John son. DAY CARE TEACHER AIDE Felicia Rhoan, Martina Heath. COMMUNITY CENTER Activity Aides Trudee Clements, Annette Jim, Nathan Jim Jr., Melissa Johnson. Secretary Aide Mariam Tias % day. Swimming Aide Rhonda Miller, Agnes Law rence, Tim Kneeland. Groundskeepers Tracy Graybael % day, Sterling Kalama day, Dixon Davis % day, Tim Wainanwit ¥2 day, Mark Johnson. Housekeepers LuCinda Heath, Julie Gove- nor Mt day, Leslie Charley, Rosa Wallula turn, Reva Johnson % day, Raydene Johnson Mt day. BRUSH CLEARING Barbara Earl, Deb Fiala, Carmel Squiemphen, Madene Meanus, Duane Miller Jr., Don ald Hoptowit, Dewayne Heath, Raymond Hurtado, Raymond Jim, Forrest Leonard, Brent Graybael, Warren Wallulatum, Renee Sohappy, Curtis Thomp son, David Yazzie, Harrison Davis Jr., Rodney Strong, Mur ray Kalama, Desmond Wheeler. BIA FACILITIES Alices Jim (Secretary aide) Ground Crew Jacob Frank Jr. Mt day, Jay Suppah, Austin Greene. BIA SOCIAL SERVICES Winona Spino During their first week on the job as Kah-Nee-Ta housegirls, Ellen Gilbert, 17, and Betty Kalama, 14, learned how to make beds the Kah-Nee-Ta way. They are employed in the Summer Work Program. Sandy Rangila Photo day, Duane Winishut, Avon evolved into what it is today. It PURCHASING Catherine Katchia - General Scott, Kevin Smith. is a response to tribal growth These kids help clean up and provides a centralized and Office work, typing public areas as well as helping coordinated clearinghouse which TRIBAL GARAGE Lois Estimo - % day - Filing, senior citizens pull weeds and helps find summer jobs for kids clean up their yards. and temporary help for tribal inventory, record keeping. CULTURAL HERITAGE PHS LAB AIDE and BIA departments. The personnel department OFFICE Becky Quinn Nancy Sooksoit - Nathan advises that there are still a few positions available for those Jim ’s secretary (“a real chal groundkeeper Laurel LaMere interested in summer work. For lenge” ) information, contact Lilly Ann ACCOUNTING GROUP HOME Marla Patt Moses in the Summer Programs Willette Boyd % day. office in the tribal office build UTILITIES Oswald Tias, Darrin Tewee ing. MICRO-FILMING The following is a listing of ASSEMBLY PLANT Allen Langley Jr. % day, Elfreda Mitchell, Etta Ar Mona Greene departments which have taken POLICE DEPARTM ENT on summer workers, who the thur. Tricia courtney, Rodney EXTENSION students are, and what they are SUMMER PROGRAM AIDE Mitchell. Pamela Keo, Althea Scott - Bullneck - Crewboss doing. Robert Tanewasha, Daniel KAH-NEE-TA Mt day. NATURAL RESOURCES Greene, Eric Mitchell, Dallas Tim Greene, Alex LaMere FIELD PROJECTS CREW Appaloosa Room buspersons Crew Boss - Dawn Squiem- Winishut, Henry Stwyer. Jr., Spencer Keo, Robert Heath - phen. Roland Kalama ¥2 day, Selena Thompson, Russell % day. GIFT SHOP Charley. Each of these four students Anthony VanPelt % day, De- Leontyne Tanewasha, Davis Lodge Housegirls is working on an alternating wayne Charley, Raymond Shike Stwyer. Jr., Doug Manion, Robert Macy,. Ellen Gilbert, Betty Kalama schedule which includes working Lodge Houseboys with the range riders, game Yahteen Frank, Ralph Wallula- PLANNING DEPT. William Wood Andy Leonard patrol, fish and wildlife work, tum, Vernon Tias % day, Tam Village Bathhouse Attendant and experience in parks and out my Robinson % day, Val Law C.H.R. rence Mi day, Lawrence Shike % Margaret Still Wilfred Jim, Jr. door work. EARLY BIRDS GET THE YCC JOBS ON THE RESERVATION March seemed awfully early in the year to start looking for a summer job, but in order to land a job with the Youth Conserva tion Corp (YCC), applications had to be in to the Tribal Education department by mid- March. Twenty-four 15 to 18 year-old students, three group leaders and their director are working for YCC this year clearing trails near Trout and Blue lakes, picking up litter on the Jackson Trail and Kah-Nee-Ta roads, building range fences and doing some maintenance work at the Dry Creek campground. Enthusiasm for a job well done abounds among the 28 people attem pting to make a more attractiv e reservation. Bud Raisio has been director of the YCC program since it began in Warm Springs three years ago. He attributes the program’s success to such group leaders as Alicia Elston, who has been a group leader for three years, Jerry Berning, who has worked as a group leader for two years, and Darrel Johnston who is new to the YCC program this year. “It was rough when we were all new to the program . But now, with past y e a r’s experience, everything gets easier and runs smoother,” said Raisio. There is time for work and a time for play for those on the YCC crew. They work 30 hours per week ancT receive the mini mum wage. Ten hours per week are dedicated to educational and recreational activities. Raisio says of the program, “ YCC is a good program that not only gives the young adults a chance to earn money, but also to associate, work, and recreate with people that they normally would not. The enrollees this year have shown already that they really do appreciate having the job and, therefore, this improves the total picture as far as YCC is concerned. The YCC has more than proven its worth to the Warm Springs reservation in the past three years.” The YCC program will end August 4, but Raisio’s work will not be finished until he tabulates what the work would have cost if a private contractor had been hired to do the sam e job. This method determines the value of the work to our particular area. Last year, the figure was nearly equal to the total budgeted amount of $28,000. Thirty hours of work, and ten hours of educational and recreational activities are required weekly for all YCC participants. Alicia Elston, who has been a group leader for YCC for three years, frequently serves as catcher for softball games on recreation days. DLB Photo
