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.
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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