PACE 2 June 15, 1990
Warm Springs, Oregon
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Vkitors aplenty A group of Chinese visitors was in Warm Springs May 28 as part of a two-week lour.