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PACE 2 June 15, 1990 Warm Springs, Oregon Spilyay Tymoo r. Av ."i- v. - f v, , r i " - . , .v; 3 . . 40 Slip slidin' wy A fter nearly four months of work on the grade south of Warm Springs, an ancient slide was reactivated. The slide has caused new fill material to break away and fall into the canyon. State highway officials are not yet sure how the slide will be handled. Slide- Continued from page 1 Construction "orV will continue as blasted materials will be hauled away. Motorists can now expect delays of up to one-half hour. Every precaution to ensure safety for the traveling public will be taken, state officals say. Tom Garner, project manager for the State Highway Division, ex plained that crews will repair the sinking section of the highway by carving deeper into the hillside, thus putting the road bed behind the slide plane and curtailing travel on the southbound lane of the highway. He attributed the reacti vation of the slide to a shift in weight, excessive water from recent rains and internal movement of the earth. Project blasting, he said, "does not seem to have affected the area at all." Completion of the project will be delayed. Garner said. Crews will complete as much of the top and bottom portions of the project as possible, leaving the affected area alone. "By the time those portions are completed, we should have a plan" as to how to take care of the problem, Garner explained. Costs to stabilize the area will be "sub stantial. But I think we can keep the costs down and still cure the problem," he added. "The entire hillside in that area is affected," said Garner. Long cracks and shifts can be seen along the canyon walls below the roadway. Garner said the cracks are evident along the creek at the bottom of the canyon as well. "The affect on the roadway itself is probably not too great an area. However,"Garner concluded, "the entire slide is huge." McConnville to present workshop Warm Springs tribal Culture and Heritage Department curriculum developer Art McConnville will be holding a workshop at the lenth Annual National American Indian Cultural Curriculum Development Conference set for July 9-13, 1990 in Juneau, Alaska. i v - I v i """'' f .v JLJ I rr- 4 f i f "X. , ' It,. - 0- . 'pr lHjj -if V. i- tc f3k Warm Springs tribal curriculum developer Art McConnville has been Invited to present a workshop at the national A merlcan Indian Cultural Curriculum Development workshop scheduled for July. VFW, Auxiliary meetings held Heath puts truck driving skills to work Roosevelt Heath finished a train ing stint at Commercial Truck Driving School in Portland in April. In less than a month's time, Roose velt had already put those newly learned skills to use at Deschutes Ready Mix in Madras. Roosevelt's position at the cen tral Oregon aggragate company was made available through the tribal pre-entry work program. The program will pay Roosevelt's wages for the first two months, after which time he will become a full time employee of the company. According to Marcia Soliz, em ployment services director, Roose velt attained his GED in May, 1986. His first contact with the program was in July, 1989. "He was undecided at that time" as to what he wanted to do, Soliz stated. After completing his training, Roosevelt attempted to find em ployment with reservation logging contractors as a driver. However, he lacked enough actual driving experience to qualify. Employment Services contacted Rodney Hess, manager at the Madras branch of Deschutes Ready Mix, and presented him with the pre-entry program proposal. By late April, Roosevelt was working. Soliz explained that employment services can help students return ing from school, "through the tran sition until they find a job.. .We're set up to help people gain the expe rience required for full-time posi tions." As an employment coordina tor coach, Frances Allen talks with prospective clients and conducts intakes and two separate assess ments to determine a client's job interests. "If there are no jobs avail able, the client continues to check with our office on a regular basis." The two assessments determine career interests and personality traits. The assessments "help pin point what a person would be best at.. .People are finding out things about themselve," said Soliz. "The assessments are real thinking tools." Job skills and job interests are matched up. This helps clients con trol their job choice and they aren't forced into taking jobs that don't particularly interest them. Hess has been keeping 24-year-old Roosevelt busy. He's driving truck back and forth to job sites and helping out around the plant. In a very short itme, hell be work ing on the museum project and homes in the Sunnyside subdivi sion. Working at Deschutes Ready Mix will give Roosevelt a "lot of good experinece,"said Hess. "Well make a work horse out of him." Full time employment has helped Roosevelt and he appears pleased with his position. He's a family man now, and has a wife and young child to support. "Things are a lot better at home now that I have a job." For more information about em ployment services, call 553-3225. fitU Ytr l I : - ID Joint meetings were held on both meeting dates of May to consoli date the efforts of Post 4217 and Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign Wars. May 8 Present were Spud Lang nese, Jeff Sanders, Jim Foltz, Nel son Zomont, Jean Danzuka, Kat hleen Foltz, Caroline Tohet, Mary Danzuka, Nancy Johnson, Beulah Calica. A request was submitted for a school loan by a veteran, which is to be paid back when school is complete at the end of June. The Auxiliary agreed to go half if the . Post decides to go ahead with the approval of a few of the members. Discussion ensued on the condi tion the Hall was left in by the group that held a dance that wee kend. A recommendation that a rent fee be charged was discussed and approved at a rate of $25. Discussion was made on a build ing code list to be made by jim Foltz concerning insurance stand ards. A 20-inch bicycle was purchased as a donation for the Pi-Ume-Sha raffle. May 22 Present were Jean Danzuka, Ray Calica, Sr., Iris Smith, Woody Smith, Sr., Kirby Heath, Sr., and Beulah Calica. Discussion included requests for money-raising project, Memorial Day flag lowering, changing the meeting time, signs for building and meeting days,' cleaning the trailer, and flag bearers for Museum cornerstone ceremonies. Elliot Palmer Post and Auxil iary will be the hosts for the 1991 Installation Ceremonies. The Post requests the donation of a freezer before Pi-Ume-Sha. VFW and Auxiliary meetings are set for June 12 at 7:00 p.m. to finalize Pi-Ume-Sha plans and June 26 at 6:00 p.m. which is potluck night. McConnville has developed cur riculum based on traditionalcul tural knowledge from several west ern tribes for alcohol and drug programs and youth projects. He is proficient in video production techniques, curriculum de velopment and interpretive graphic illustrations. The developer has trained early childhood specialists in video production and editing. He has also developed six legend projects with a total of 120 illustra tions for early childhood education teacher manuals. Consultant work includes a con tract with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society in Boulder, Colorado to create in terpretive illustrations. Mc Connville explains that interpre tive illustrations are drawings tha( can be done only through having lived an experience. It's not somc-j thing you can simply look at, "It's a spiritual thing," he says. The sub-; jeet of his illustrations relates to alcohol and native Americans. ; McConnville was selected as work shop presenter by director of the American Indian Institute Anita Chisholm. During the session he will work with conference partici-i pants on interpretive illustrations, maps to document traditional use sites, and developing classroom curriculum for native American students. McConnville attributes his ac quisition of self-discipline and self management to courses from the following schools and workshops: University of Utah, Eastern Oregon Community College, Central Ore gon Community College and the curriculum development workshops sponsored by the American Indian Institute, University of Oklahoma in 1987 and 1989. atxxp 1 "... ?v -t ?f ' i -J't 3t,fT ,-rv X& ' L dtew 1 ; She's Okay A rlene David and Ruby Torres learned the proper way to help clients out of a wheel chair during a workshop held at the Senior Citizens center. WSFPI employee dies... Exact cause of death not yet known Behind the wheelRoosevelt Heath is working under the tribal pre-entry work program at Deschutes Ready Mix. A fter two months, Heath will become a full-time employee of the company. A 15-year employee of Warm Springs Forest Products Industries was found dead Friday, June 8, 1990 in the mill's powerhouse. Leslie Gann, 41, was apparently conducting routine maintenance of a sump area in the powerhouse using a cleaning solvent that is commonly used to clean the area. Autopsy reports show that he did not die of a heart attack or blood clot. However, the report did not show exact cause of death. Skin tissues were submitted to a Port land lab for microscopic evaluation. According to Chief of Police Jeff Sanders, "mysterious first and second degree burns" were found on his left shoulder. He stressed that "these burns were not caused by electrical shock." Co-workers administered CPR and efforts to revive him were con tinued by Warm Springs Fire and Safety crew members. Gann was pronounced dead by doctors at the Warm Springs clinic. r, Officials continue to investigate the incident. Chinese entourage visits Warm Springs reservation for a day Spilyay Tymoo Staff Members MANAGING EDITOR SID MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR DONNA BEHREND PHOTO SPECIALISTWRITER MARSHA SHEWCZYK REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER TINA AGUILAR FOUNDED IN MARCH, 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the base ment of the Old Girls Dorm at 1 1 1 5 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, PO Bo 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761 PHONE: (503) 553-1644 or (503) 553-3274 Annual Subscription Rates: Within the U.S. $9.00 Outside the U.S. $15 00 Administrators and Presidents of five different ethnic groups in The Republic of China arrived in Warm Springs May 28. They were previously visiting Oregon State University in Corvallis. They arrived in the United States to study the development of economics and education in the U.S. They also were interested in culture so they came to Warm Springs to see Indian culture. The two-week tour started in Corvallis then came to Warm Springs to see Kah-Nee-Ta Resort, Warm Springs Forest Product Industries and were shown slides of the culture and life on the Warm Springs Indian Res ervation by Rudy Clements. They were also given presentations by Marcia Soliz and Francelia Miller. This being the first time they had ventured out of their country, the group traveled with a translator and four teachers from OSU. John Young, Dick Ross, Catherine Ross and Liu Zinguw, all anthropolo gists at Oregon State. The tourists then returned to Corvallis and traveled to the Uni versity of Southern California. The individuals who arrived in Warm Springs trom China were Su Ke Ming, Haji Ibrahim Sha Zhi-Y van Research. Ha Jing Ziong- Profes- ser, Wang Yingguo Vice Presi-: dent, Ha Bao Xin- Director and Tevekcool- Associate Professor. - " "iinn7ilill" i " "' Uhu IM H Bt l h 1 ' . Ill ..'I'ij--: HI iHiiif VMhJi If W M J Vkitors aplenty A group of Chinese visitors was in Warm Springs May 28 as part of a two-week lour.