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JULY 20, 1981
S tro k e victim s
both home now
muscles, she said. When asked
C o-u n c i 1 w o m a n Karen
W a llu la tu m and N a tu ra l if she was allowed to smile, she
Resources D irector Gene laughed—which is undoubt
edly also good th e a p y .
G re e n e , b o th o f w hom
suffered strokes in July, have Although she talks quite slowly
been released from the hospital yet, her speech has improved a
and are now home recuperating great deal and she sounds in
After nearly a month in good spirits.
In about two weeks Karen
hospital beds, following two or
possibly three strokes, Karen is will go in for a tread mill test
“thankful to be back home.” which will help determine how
She was released from St. she is progressing. The cause of
Charles Medical Center in her strokes was still unknown
at the time of the interview, but
Bend August 6.
not all the test results were back
Since paralysis caused by the
strokes affected her left arm yet.
“I had an awful lot of prayers
and left side of her face and
mouth, Karen has been doing from people,” she said, “and
I’m very thankful to be back
special exercises to strengthen
the muscles in those areas.
home.” Until the upcoming
She said in a phone interview
tests, she said she will be
that at first she couldn’t do any sticking pretty much at home,
of the hand exercises that the walking around the house and
therapist had prescribed.
trying to stay cool during the
Three young Warm Springs residents know how to keep cool in above 100 degree weather. (Left to Although she still has weakness heat wave.
Gene Greene, who was hit by
right) Willos Sequan Qunneke, LaDonna Zamora and Trish Tanewasha navigate a rubber kayak at in her left hand, she can now do
all the exercises which she a stroke while at work on July
The Cove State Park.
20, was released from the
Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewcxyk intends to keep doing.
She is also supposed to hospital Saturday, August 1.
practice “making ugly faces” to He said in a phone interview
strengthen her face and other l
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Truck wreck spills liquid coolant on highway
Simnasho appeared to be a Muniz the driver explained
busy metropolis for several that he wasn’t watching his rear
hours on Monday morning, view mirror. “He looked back
August 10, as all traffic was and saw his trailer going off the
diverted from Highway 26 in road. He tried to correct it but
both east and west directions. it was already too late. The
A tanker had flipped over on trailer hit the rail and just
the grade approximately five flipped, him over.”
miles west of Warm Springs
Both the truck and trailer
blocking all through traffic. were filled with a liquid coolant
Those who were in a hurry for electrical transformers on
found it necessary to travel east its way to Redmond. Diesel
or west via Simnasho.
fuel from both the truck and
The tru ck causing the the trailer had leaked out and
rerouting of traffic was a tanker was flowing down the highway
and trailer driven by 25 year- while the truck was on its side.
old Kenneth James Akerill of And for a while there was
Vancouver, Washington for concern that the stream of
A s b u r y T r a n s p o r t a t i o n coolant would enter a nearby
Company of Portland. The water supply system. However
truck was heading east down firefighters diverted the flow of
the grade and around a curve coolant to the roadside, later
when the trailer turned over covering it with straw and sand.
then causing the truck to flip.
Traffic resumed its normal
The call for assistance came flow after the slippery coolant
at 7:20 a.m. and was answered had been covered and the truck
by the Warm Springs Fire and had been set back on its wheels.
Safety department and the It’ll probably be a while before
W a rm S p r i n g s P o lic e
Simnasho will once again see so
department. They were assisted many trucks and automobiles
by the N orth U nit Fire on its streets again in such a
Department from Madras.
short period of time.
According to firefighter Fred
Coolant Spill—Coolant flows from a tanker and trailer after they overturned on the grade heading
east on highway 26 five miles from Warm Springs. N o one was injured.
Photo by Don Gold