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Page 2 December Yj, J Spilyay Tymoo BIA awards— Power failures hit community Employees recognized Where were you when the lights went out on December 13 and 15? No doubt many local residents remember because of the inconvenience of being without electricity for hours. On Sunday, December 13, the power in the Warm Springs area went out around 4:00 p.m. due to a line that fell from a power pole. The fallen line was located just east of Macy's store. Ron Fox, spokesmen for Pacific Pow er and Light Co., stated that the difficulty in restoring the power arose when the repairmen found the area of the break located in a “brumble patch.” The inaccessibility of the area, due to undergrowth, delayed repairmen in getting to the line. An access road had to be cleared before the men could get to the line. An attempt was made to re ro u te pow er in to the community through a line on • he west sid e, b u t was unsuccessful due to the heavy power load of the area. Some areas of the community had power restored with four hours but for others it was a 12- hour wait. The outage on Tuesday, December 15, was the result of freak winds in the Round Butte-Culver area, according to Fox. The winds blew over tw o p o w e r p o le s a n d subsequently a mainline was broken. The PP & I. repairmen Candle were able to patch together the wire so service was restored within four hours. Suggestions for assisting Program nears completion— Administrative personnel at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Warm Springs took the time to recognize some of their local employees during an incentive a w a rd s p r e s e n ta tio n on D ecember 10. Employees gathered a t the forestry w arehouse w here W arm Springs Superintendent Merrit Youngdeer and BIA program analyst officer Anne Higgins opened the ceremony. An added attraction in the early stages of the wards ceremony was a speech from r e t i r e d W a rm S p r i n g s superintendent Jim Cornett. He worked for many years with some of the people who were honored at the ceremony. It was fitting that he was present, people believed. The first to be recognized were new employees invarious departments of the bureau. T h e y in c lu d e d : M e r r it Youngdeer, superintendent, Dan Neuman, realty officer; Brian Spears, range conserva tionist; Bill Elliot, criminal investigator; Cheryl Patterson, ro a d s s e c r e ta r y ; R o b e rt Harned, forest manager; James Campbell, forestry technician; Kurt Wiedenmann, forester; Power P a u l H o ffh in e , fo r e s tr y your pow er com pany in te c h n ic ia n ; J o h n K elly, restoring power after an outage fo re ste r; R o n ald P elo ck , has occurred can be found on forester; Margie Workinger, page five. clerk typist in forestry; Eugene Keane, forestry technician; Greta Kalama, calculating machine operator in forestry. Time was set aside during the ceremony to recognize and remember two people who were long time BIA employees. In memory, Vernon Tane- washa’s work experience with the BIA was reviewed along with that of Byron Patt. Vernon Tanewasha worked approve funding for construc tion of the $30 m illion as an engineering equipment powerhouse May 15, 1979. operator for 12 years. For the G roundbreaking ceremonies past 20 years Byron Patt took place April 22 of this year worked as civil engineering following extensive excavation technician. The loss of these two men was felt by many. and preparatory work. Awards accompanied by, When the power plant checks for varying amounts becomes operational in June, it were then presented to those will generate 81 million who special contributions to kilowatt-hours of electricity the Bureau of Indian Affairs at which the Tribes will sell to P P Warm Springs. Forester Paul Brna was & L. presented with a certificate of recognition for his plan for invidivual safety awards for Employment dropping at dam With the concrete work winding up at the Tribe's hydro project at Pelton Reregulating Dam, some 50 workers have been let go over this past month. From a high of 157 p e o p le on th e A .S .C . C o n s tr u c to r s p a y ro ll in November, there are now just slightly over 100 and the number is dropping. “Well be through placing the concrete in a month,” said R o b e rt M o o re, re sid e n t engineer. “After the concrete work is done, personnel will consist mainly of mill wrights and electricians to finish the job," he said. “We will probably lose 50 to 60 (more workers) in the next month,” he predicted. From late January to the first of June, A.S.C. will most likely maintain a work force of 50 plus when, after testing, the project becomes operational. Tribal members voted to forestry branch employees. N o n - r e c u r r in g sp e c ia l achievement awards were given to three foresters. Robert Bolton has functioned in the temporary position of forest manager for a three month period. Ray Welch, acting superintendent at the time, stated,” Robert has performed a creditable job of oversight of ongoing activities within the branch....Overall Mr. Bolton assumed an extremely complex task and yet, and by the application of perseverance and good judgem ent has transformed a bad scene into a tolerable situation.” “Mr. Bolton worked closely with the enterprise logging supintendent and was able to successfully represent the bureau’s interests and also foster an atm osphere of improved communication and accomodation.” A special achievement award also went to Richard Inman for his work pertaining to the installation and use of a computer. Besides getting the m a c h in e in s ta lle d a n d functioning, Inman’s largest c o n t r i b u t i o n c a m e in implementation and repro gram m ing of engineering programs. The third special achieve ment award went to William Apgar for his work on the Warm Springs forest inventory analysis. The project involved over nine months of sustained performance at a high level in order to produce the final 406 page report which was approved by Tribal Council on June 16, 1981 and by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on July 17, 1981. Special achievement awards for quality performance went to forester Franklin Marsh; forester Jean Rogers; forester Bill Donaghu; forester Michael C unningham ; m aintenance foreman Pete Courtney; civil engineering technician Dick Souers; highway engineer Don Schmith; soil conservationist Dean Elliot; agency special officer Mark Werner; program analyst officer Anne Higgins; social service representative Pat K ahm ann; education C a r r o ll B a n k s to n ; a n d education technician Mary Anstett. S p ily a y T ym oo * * * * * * * tSpllyay Tymoo Staff* * * * ♦ * * * MANAGING EDITOR ................... ........... ........Sid Miller ASSISTANT EDITOR ................................... Sandy Ranglla PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIALIST/WRITER Donna Behrend ft- t ; HH If ■ ¿3 1 1 HH f REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHERS i Pal Lano Martha Shewczyk TYPESETTER ................................... Prtacllla Squlemphen We wish all our readers a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a safe holiday. AWARDS CEREMONY— Worm Springs superintendent Merritt Youngdeer and Jormer Warm Springs superintendent James Cornett open ceremonies at the BIA Incentive A wards Presentations. Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk
