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"Spifyajf Spoalts" Let's help keep Information Center going
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Looking at the calendar I
noticed it was seven years ago
on May 18, 1980, that I has just
returned from my vacation in
Hawaii and that was the day
Mt. St. Helens blew her stack.
For days and days before that
Mt. St. Helens was constantly
on the news. Everyone expected
the eruption but no one knew
just when she would explode.
Everyday there was an update
on the mountain behavior and
progress toward an eruption.
There was rumbling going on
and from all the scientists reports
this could be a big one.
When she finally erupted it
was with such devastating force
it was just bye-bye Harry Tru
man and all the living creatures
around his home near Spirit
Lake. It was even good-bye Spirit Lake for a while. The force of
the explosiion was many, many times greater then several atom
bombs. Trees looked like natch sticks. The river had so much
force behind it devouring everything in its path. It would have been
a miracle if anything came out alive after it had passed by. Clouds
of smoke and dust darkened the sky. Vehicles were at a stand still
because of the dust and ash. Motorists who were in the path were
stranded because of the dust and ash. There was a bowling team
who had to spend more time than they had planned in Spokane,
because of the smoke and the dust. . .Yep! it was just seven short
years ago Mt. St. Helens blew her stack.
To the Editor,
I wonder how many people have
reason to say "Thank You Faye".
I have to pay my light bill, my
phone bill, buy diapers or milk or
go to a funeral. All the stories you
must hear. Thank you again Faye!
I started to write a very bitter
letter because I heard our big wigs
wanted to close you down, because
you were in the red. Well I wonder
why they always cut the little peo
ple off first. Why don't they look
around their own meeting room
and see the snakes or the council
member sitting their asleep these
are expenses too that can be cut
why all the waste?
I know already someone is
thinking. "The Information Cen
ter" is too expensive, "but thats our
fault, because we want top dollar
for our work. Are we worth all the
money we are paid? Let's stop and
think of the resale price when we
say how much we want for our
work. If you can get more money
someplace else than "go for it."
Don't expect Faye to buy it and
resell it at the sa me price, remember
she has a mark up too. Where else
can we go if we can't go to Faye?
Kah-Nee-Ta won't buy. So lets
help keep the Information Center
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Information Center located on highway 26 in Warm Springs k a shop providing local artisans an outlet for
their handicrafts.
going and spend a few cents there
once in a while after all it is a
money making tribal business. We
need to keep the money going
around on this side of the river so
we can get per capita or a bonus or
a loan. If we spend it all some
where else then soon we won't have
any money for the things we are
used to.
Any way I just wanted Faye to
know from the bottom of my heart
I'm so thankful she's there for us.
We love you and we thank you
again and again.
Maxine and
Delton Switzler &
family
Children are forced to "pay the price"
Message to the Parents of Warm
Springs Children,
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Spllyty Tymoo photo by Bthnnd
Jodel Johnson (left) and Ada Billey are rodeo royalty for this year's
Pi-Ume-Sha rodeo. Queen Ada and Princess Jodel were handsomely
outfitted by the Warm Springs Rodeo A ssociation from the top of their
charcoal hats to their fuschia boots.
Mobile home for sale
For sale-l 977 Shelby 14x60 mobile
home, 3 bedrooms, 1 lA bathrooms,
tipout, woodstove, range and re
frigerator, dish washer. Call 53-
ext. 275 from 8 a.m. to 5
Monday through Friday.
After 5:30 p.m. call 553-1018.
1161,
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Johnny Carson said, "Now that Gary Hart dropped out of the presiden
tial race, all the other candidates are making sure that they get home so
they can spend the weekend with their own wives for a change. YIKES
SS SS SS
We believe it is time that we,
parents, build up a defense for our
selves and most of all for our pre
cious children. Our children are
being taken from our homes and
placed into so-called "foster homes"
here on the reservation, without
investigation of home conditions
nor of the stable and moral stand
ards of the adult members of these
foster homes. In this type of situa
tion the poor children are the ones
that must "pay the price."They are
the ones who suffer and must endure
the situation on their own all by
themselves. What defense do they
have on their own? They are con
fused, hurt, scared and lonely, and
totally bewildered by it all. Who
can explain this to a three-year-old
child?
The Youth Services program may
have been a good idea once but we
feel it has turned into the crudest
joke ever played on the children of
this reservation. It appears that
program staff is either under trained
or not trained at all. It seems to be
just a job to most, for they appear
to lack humane compassion with
the families they work with. This
problem of child abuse has spread
like a wild fire. Some adults are
perhaps guilty and some are totally
innocent. The innocent must endure
and suffer through the terrible
damages of being falsely accused of
child abuse. Perhaps they will never
see their homes and families again.
Guests will
be returning
To the Editor,
I'm taking this time to write and
say thanks to Hamilton Greeley for
guiding our group April 9-12. It
was through our contact with
Hamilton that the trip to Warm
Springs Reserve was so successful.
A special thanks to Mayann and
Ivan Gabriel for letting us stay in
their home. It helps to have a cou
sin in the right places!
The SPICE II Group raised funds
for the field trip from the beginning
of the year, with bake sales, a fish
barbeque and a raffle of a painting.
The students were supported by
their parents, teachers and the staff
oftheC.E. Barry Middle School in
Hope, B.C.
The field trip participants were:
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Still, we must consider the child
ren, who thinks of them? Why were
their happy little lives and homes
and parents taken away, why does
this happen? Why was it all des
troyed for the children? Will they
ever see their father or mother
again? It is hard to sit at home hurt,
mad and defenseless and at a total
loss. It is the children who pay the
real price!!
When a person is falsely accused
and weighed down by a vicious and
damaging lie, there is not much
hope except to try to prove their
innocence. Doing that is by far eas
ier said than done, especially when
the people that have placed the lie
on a person and that person has so
very much to lose. If the truth is
ever to be known to the public, we,
the Saunders family has lived under
just such a lie for two long years. It
has affected our lives socially. Peo
ple we have known for years now
have had their trust replaced by
doubt because of this damaging lie.
It is hard for me to find a job
because of the slander of this cor
rupt, vicious and perverted lie. No
one trusts me anymore. The affects
of this lie have totally ruined the
lives of my wife and myself.
As long as this lie exists we will
remain being thought of as guilty
by those who don't really know.
We will remain defenseless and
without hope. Our home is but an
empty shell filled with precious
memories of a happier time and the
laughter of our children. Pictures
of our children are on the walls and
the little items the children left
behind are all that we have left to
remind of a happy and content life
we once had.
Still, my wife and I cling to our
prayers and hopes that justice will
prevail and that a miracle, the real
truth will at last become known.
We will be set free to try to undo
the damages to our lives and rebuild
our home to show our babies that
we never stopped loving them, they
have lived in our thoughts and
hearts each day, week, month and
year that they were away from us.
God is our real witness and He is
our only witness. The solution to
this problem is to work together,
help each other because alone we
are powerless but together we can
be powerful.
For the children, let's do our
very best to bring them back to our
homes.
Thank you,
The Saunders family
Madras Jr. High
Academic Awards Assembly
June 2, 1987
7:00 p.m. at Madras Junior High
Comunity Meeting Notices
June 3, 1987 at 7:00 p.m.
Agency Longhouse
Purpose: Discuss Town Center,
Survey Results
and get further input
June 10, 1987 at 7:00 p.m.
Agency Longhouse
Purpose: Meet with tribal members
interested in starting a business.
j (Cut-out and send to Tribal Planning Office, P.O. Box C, j
jWarm Springs, Oregon 97761) S
j 1. 1 am interested in learning more about starting a business in ;
the planned Shopping and Town Center.
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D Yes, I am will be attending the June 10 Meeting 7:00 p.m. at j
the Agency Longhouse). j
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jschedule another time to find out more about starting a
Dusiness.
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