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VOL. 14 NO. 21
Coyote News
In Brief
Abuse victims have
someone to talk to
The Victim Assistance
Board and volunteers
want abuse victims to
talk to them. They are
community people who
care.
Page 2
Family Planning Clinic
opens
An inter-agency clinic
provides information
about birth control, dis
ease and pregnancy.
Confidential services are
provided.
Page 2
Teachers guided In
Indian language
Instruction
Workshops are enabling
teachers to instruct Head
Start students in the
Indian language.
Page 3
Child neglect, abuse
have lifelong impact
Statistics show that 14
percent of reservation
youth are seen in court
after suffering neglect
and abuse.
Page 3
NCAI meets in
Oklahoma
A resolution calling for
published financial
reports was adopted at
the NCAI convention
October 2-6 in ,
Oklahoma.
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Information Fair
3-8:00 p.m
Thursday, October 19
Information provided will
be helpful when discuss
ing the 1990 operating
budget.
Deadline for the next
Issue of Spllyay Tymoo
Is October 27.
Weather
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News
Students practice fire
Warm Springs Fire and Safety volunteer firefighter Rick Ribeiro helps
October 7 to 11, 1989 was Fire
Prevention Week throughout the
United States. The Warm Springs
Fire and Safety department in con
junction with the Fire Management
department had Smokey the Bear
Voters to decide bond issue
An $8.3 million bond issue will
be put before voters at the sche
duled November 7 election. The
bond issue requests funds for con
struction and remodeling of School
District 509-J classrooms and for
removal of asbestos is school build
ings. Each building is currently being
pressed to meet space needs. New
programs and an increasing number
of students makes it necessary to
rearrange space and add some new
classroom areas.
Although discussions are con
tinuing regarding new educational
facilities in Warm Springs, imme
diate space needs demand atten
tion. Suggested renovations total
SI 43,000 and include: converting
part of one classroom into gy m
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visit the Warm Springs Elementary
School.
During an assembly, a slide
presentation was shown to teach
the children what to do in case of a
fire. After the presentation, the
storage and expanding another class
room into a Chapter-I room. Other
changes include remodeling the
ERC room, adding a handicapped
modified toilet, a shower and a
changing room, adding a time-out
room and private office, removing
an existing wall, moving the music
room into a modular unit, moving
the Chapter-I room to the old
music room, removing and build
ing a new handicapped ramp, add
ing space to the library for a com
puter room and adding windows in
a work area. Funds are included to
purchase two modular classrooms
for general classroom use.
An estimated $914,900 will pro
vide solutions to space problems at
Madras Elementary. The building
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P.O. Box 870
Warm Springs, OK 97761
Address Correction Requested
Springs Indian Reservation
SPRINGS, OR 97761
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kindergartener Louis Smith out of
children got to visit the E.D.l.T.H.
trailer (which means: Exit Drill In
The Home) to practice what they
had learned from the presentation.
To make the visit as realistic as
possible, a bed and two windows
Society approves purchase
The Middle Oregon Indiah His
torical Society has approved the
third and last purchase of the 1989
year.
Artifacts listed below will be
accepted for appraisal and must be
an antique with special value with
(50) years of history:
1. Historical photographs from
tribal members family photograph
collection with 50 years of history.
2. "Sallie" Bags Indian hemp
root bag with natural dye designs.
Request antique bags with skeletal
and human being design, stur
geonfish design, deer design with
50-100 years of history.
The Accessions Committee will
be meeting on November 8, 1989.
Forms must be filled prior to this
meeting date. These forms are a
vailable at the MOI HS office. 2 1 48
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window during drill.
are inside to look like a bedroom.
One window opens by sliding side
to side while the other opens by
being pushed up. Before the child
ren enter the trailer, they are asked
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Kota Street.
Deadline is October 31, 1989
with no acceptions after the dead
line. For more information contact
the MOIHS office staff: Liz Cross,
Beulah Calica or Mico Chase at
553-3331 or 553-3338.
Keep your ghosts
Excitement fills the air for young
trick or treaters as they run from
house to house on Halloween to fill
their sacks with goodies. But over
tired, over-excited children may
take unnecessry chances.
Avoid accidents on Halloween
by discussing basic pedestrian safety
rules with your chiMicn V - !
evening's advc-nuiii? i
that extra caution is needed at
night and provide them v i:h cos
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OCTOBER 20, 1989
Up five percent...
Proposed 1990
budget posted
The proposed 1 990 budget was
posted earlier ths month and the
bottom line shows a five percent
increase over the 1 989 operating
budget. To help explain the budget,
numerous community events have
been scheduled, the first of which is
the Information Fair set for Thurs
day, October 1 9 beginning at 3
p.m. at the Agency Longhouse.
Tribal member heads of house
holds received weighty packets early
this week that detail the $ 1 8.545, 1 50
operating budget. Also included in
the packet is information regard
ing the projected revenue for 1990
and specific goals and priorities for
branches and departments for the
ensuing year.
With an eye on the future, tribal
CEO Ken Smith explained that
we can t put a budget together if
we don't know where we want to
go. Directing the way is the I ribal
government mission which states.
The government is charged with
securing and protecting the per
petual health and prosperity of the
Tribes." This can be accomplished
by preserving and strengthening
the sovereign status of the Confed
erated Tribes; protecting the treaty
rights of the Tribes; and, creating a
community environment which
affords every tribal member the
opportunity to attain good health,
self-sufficiency, pride and self
esteem. Directed toward the mission are
tribal government standards in
cluding improvement in theeduca
tion level of the community, house
holdindividual income, tribal
government income, adequacy of
housing, employment level, total
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Four die in
cartruck crash
Three members of a Warm
Springs family and another person
were killed in a car-log truck acci
dent Wednesday, October 4 near
Zig Zag, Oregon.
Dead at the scene of the accident
were Doris Wolfe, age 53, her 26
year-old son Lowell Thompson and
her 21 year-old daughter Jeannine
Thompson. Also killed was 23 year
old Steven Paul, of Lewiston,
Idaho.
The mid-afternoon accident
occurred when the station wagon,
which the four occupied, crossed
over the meridian and collided with
a fully loaded logging truck driven
by Charles Steen of Sandy, l he
crash sent the truck through a
guardrail and down a 20-foot
embankment. Steen was not seri
ously injured. Lowell Thompson
was thrown out of the station
wagon. The impact crushed the car
to about half its original size.
Toxicology tests on the victims
showed that Wolfe, who was driv
ing, had an estimated blood-alcohol
level of .24. Lowell Thompson's
blood-alcohol level was estimated
at .30. Paul's blood-alcohol level
was .05. There was no evidence
that Jeannine Thompson had been
drinkine.
and goblins safe
tumes that have some reflective
tape. Give them flashlights to light
their av
Boundaries and curfews should
be set up for the older kids, too. No
children should be allowed to roam
all over town at late hours
Caution your trick or treaters to
.nni.l sardine their trc.
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Halloween happy and safe.