Spilyay Tymoo
March 21.1980 Pace 3
76 employees receive awards
- The 4th Annual Employee
Awards Banquet recognized
the time and efforts of 76 „
employees who have worked
for the Confederated tribes
three years or longer. Each
received a C o n fe d e ra te d
Tribes’s pin and recognition for
his service.
The awards were given at
Kah-Nee-Ta following a buffet
style banquet in which 458
employees and guests were
served.
. Special recognition was
g iv e n to K e n S m ith ,
Confederated Tribes General
Manager, for 20 years work
with the Confederated Tribes.
The awards ended with a
surprise event, a marschino
cherry stem tying contest. The
contestants were Bob Jackson,
Zane (The Politician) Jackson
and Ken Smnh. The outcome
was difficult to determine
am idst the laughter. All
contestants succeeded in tying
at least one knot.
“Oregon Bound” provided
e n t e r t a i n m e n t f o r th e
remainder of the evening.
Everyone enjoyed the dancijig
and socializing after a fine meal
artd an enjoyable awards
ceremony.
The evening, however, was
not without its problems as is
indicated by the following 20 YEARS SERVICE—Ken Smith began his work with the
Confederated Tribes 20 years ago in the accounting department.
letter from the Employee In
recognition of his work with the Tribe he was awardedthe
Banquet Committee.
specially designed Confederated Tribes pin set with two
diamonds. He also received a gift of luggage.
Spilyay Tymoo Photo by Shewczyk
Letter to employees
During the past four years
the Employee Awards Banquet
Committee has very mucn
looked forward to and really
enjoyed planning the Annual
Employee Awards Banquet.
The original intent of this
function was to provide a
relaxing social atmosphere in
which to honor our employees
for their years of service to the
tr ib e , w ith th e A w ard
Ceremony intended as the
highlight of the evening.
We were very disappointed
to see what was planned as an
‘employee function’ turn into a
free-for-all, and later a GET—
Y O U R — P U N C H E S — IN
affair.
First of all, we’d like to point
out that in our memos to tribal
em ployees, we trie d to
emphasize the limited amount
of space that was going to be
available for our guests.
Obviously, we were not specific
enough about who was invited
and who wasn’t.
U n fo r tu n a te ly , m any
employees who did not attend
supposedly gave permission to
others to go in their places;
some employees even took it
upon themselves to invite
friends, relatives, etc., knowing
full well they were entitled to
one guest —preferably their
spouse.
This was unfortunate—we
had very limited space and were
only interested in having
employees; it made an already
crowded situ atio n alm ost
unbearable—not to mention
the unnecessary expense to the
tribe.
And then there was the old
line, ‘I’m a tribal member, you
can’t tell me that I can’t come
in’, or ‘I ’m just going in to see
my mother, brother...’, or ‘I’m
not here to eat, I’m just here for
the dance.’ Many of these
unsolicited guests were also
m in o rs. We w ere la te r
informed that several minors
who were not allowed in
through the front door came in
through the back doors—
presumably with the assistance
of someone inside.
It is with a lot of regret that
members of our committee
have listened to all of the gripes
and complaints from legitimate
employees who attended this
function and had their evening
ruined listening to some of the
i n s u lts b e in g s h o u te d ,
observing fights or themselves
being victims of some of our
destructive guests.
It is also with a lot of regret
that this will probably be the
last Employee Award Banquet
our committee will plan. Due
to many unfortunate circum
stan ces, it will be the
re c o m m e n d a tio n of th e
committee that service awards
to employees be handled in a
different fashion in the future.
Members o f the Employee
Award Banquet Committee
Hydro project advertised
It was announced Wednes
day, March 19, that the Tribes
will begin advertising as of
March 21 the excavation
c o n tra c t p o rtio n of. the
h y d ro e le c tric pow erhouse
facility. This announcement
came immediately after the
trib e s fin a liz e d th e ir
negotiations with C harlie
Jackson.
Bids for the project will
formally open April 15 and,
TEN YEAR AWARD —-Eugene Greene received a ten year pin assum ing the bids a re n ’t
from Delbert Frank at the Employee A wards Banquet on March rejected, construction will start
7. Eugene has been employed in Natural Resources since June of shortly therefter.
According to deputy project
1969.
Spilyay Tymoo Photo by Shewczyk manager Dick Welsh, sixteen
construction companies have
already asked for construction
specifications. Those com
panies are: General Construe-,
tion Company of Portland,
Reidel International (formerly
W illa m e tte W e ste rn ) o f
Portland, Fred H. Slate of
Portland, . S.J. Groves of
Redmond, Washington, Harry
Clate*rbos of Astoria, Peter
Kiewit Sons Company of
V a n c o u v e r, W a s h in g to n ,
Babler Brothers of Portland,
R.A. Heintz Construction
C o m p an y of P o rtla n d ,
Gibbons and Reed of Portland,
Lord Brother Contractors Inc.,
of Portland, Eagle Construc
tion of Loveland, Colorado,
J. W. Presley Company of
Portland, Morrison-Knudsen
of Boise, Idaho, Elting, Inc. of
Clackamas, Jarl Construction
Company of The Dalles and
W arm S p rin g s L o g g in g
Construction Company of
Warm Springs.
C o n stru c tio n bids are
ex p ected to ran g e from
between one and two million
dollars. Welch also stated that
the . construction project will
employ about 85 people. The
contract will be written so that
Indian preference will apply.
Heavy equipment operators
and truck drivers as well as
a secretarial worker will be
needed.
Land use status changed
The Tribal Council voted
unanimously Monday, march
17, to adopt the referendum
that removes over 9,000 acres
from conditional use status and
places them in commercial
forest status.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
branch of forestry originally
proposed to change the status
of nearly 14,000 acres from
conditional and commercial
forest use, but the Council
decided against the change for
the Upper Whitewater and
Bald Peter areas because of
their aesthetic value.
W SFPI board of directors
chairman Paul Sanders, and
BI A forestry manager and
assistant forest manager Ken
E n g e lb r e ts o n a n d B ill
Donaghu presented Council
members with maps depicting
each area in conditional use
status. Each area was carefully
discussed with special attention
given to the Upper Whitewater Tribes to cut their forest forever.
The other areas recom
and Bald Peter areas.
These two areas totalled mended fqr commercial use are
5,650 acres of timbered land Blue Lake (2,730 acres); Upper
and qould have possibly Metolius (1,391 acres); Shitike
profitted the tirbes $193,000 Creek (2,301 acres); and
once logged, but Council M utton M ountains (2,785
suggested that the areas remain acres). Most of the logging will
in conditional use status until a be done by cable or helicopter
later date. It was difficult for method so as not to damage the
Engelbretson to estimate the land too severely.
T w o y e a rs a g o , BIA
value of the forest because,
until the areas are appraised, it presented Council with another
is unknown what the actual proposal which changed 1,195
'conditional use acres in the
stumpage is.
Lower Metolius and Beaver
Since 1972, the annual Creek areas to commercial
allowable cut for the Tribes has forest use. No other action has
been 81,000,000 board feet. It been taken since. There are
was questioned by a council over 66,000 acres of timber on
member how long the loggers the reservation and less than
can cut at the 81 million board 16,000 acres are recommended
feet rate and not deplete the for harvest.
forest. The BI A expects to
complete its forest inventory by
Spilyay Tymoo intends to do
November 1980 and they will an indepth study on forest
then be able to announce the m anagem ent in a future
allowable cut that will allow the edition.
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Cottontail tournament
I Beginning Friday, evening, that Kim Manion from Seattle
April 4 through Sunday April 6 University will be playing with
the Warm Springs Bravettes them.
will be sponsoring the 12th
The Bravettes placed 2nd in
Annual All-Indian Cottontail
the Omak, Washington games,
itorunament to be held at the
2nd in Nespelem, Washington
Community Center.
and won a championship in
Several teams from the
Toppenish, Washington. They
northwest will be playing along
are looking forward to the
with the Nevada Babes from
tournament ait Fort Hall, Idaho
Reno, Nevada, the Tribettes
as their big final.
from San Jose, California, and
Awards will be given at the
from Los Angelos the team
C o tto n ta il to u rn a m e n t
formerly known as the L.A.
including first place satin
Jacks.
jackets, ten all-star wind-
On the W arm Springs
breakers, a sportsmanship,
Bravettes team are Kimiko trophy, sponsored by the
Danzuka, Deanie Johnson, ¡W arm S p r i n g s p o l i c e
Pam Jones, Mina Shike, Jolene department, a Miss Hustle
E stim o , L eslie C h a rlie ,
trophy, a high score trophy and
SAurolyn S tw yer, S a n d ra ¡1st through 4th place trophies.
jTanewasha. The team is hoping