PACK 2 May 15, 1992
Warm Springs. Orfgon
Spilyay Tymoo
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Of OBIGON
Air Life is a medical transport
system designed to quickly reach se
riously injured or ill patients and
transport them to advanced medical
care in the fastest manner possible.
Air Life supplements ground ambu
lance systems and responds both to
accident scenes and requests for
hospital transfers.
The Air Life helicopter operates
within a 150-mile radius of Bend.
This area extends north to Ilcppncr,
south to Lakevicw, cast to Burns and
John Day, Oregon and to Air Life
affiliate hospitals west of the Cas
cades. This region of Central and
Eastern Oregon covers 63,000 square
miles and includes 250,000 people.
It is the largest region served by a
helicopter ambulance in Oregon.
Central and Eastern Orcgonians
live, work and play in high desert
open spaces, scenic mountain passes
and recreational wonders. This spa
cious environment can place residents
Official Grand Opening
of the
Warm Springs Branch of
the State
AFS office will be
May 14 beginning at 2 p.m.
All community members are iitvited
Refreshments will be served
Office Is located In the Commodities
Warehouse
IHS eye clinic scheduled for May 28
An eye clinic for patients with
diabetes will be held at the IHS Clinic
on Thursday, May 28 from 8:00 a.m.
to 1 1 :00 a.m. It is very important for
patients with diabetes to see an eye
doctor every year. Diabetes can
damage the smaller blood vessels
(capillaries); this in turn affects the
eyes.
Why does this happen to small
vessels? No one knows exactly why
this happens. It is believed that high
blood sugar levels can damage these
blood vessels over a period of time.
How can diabetes affect the eyes?
Retinopathy is a disease of the retina
in the eye. The retina sends the pic
tures of what we see to the brain.
When the blood sugar levels are too
high, the blood vessels in the retina
may become weak over time. The
weak spots in the blood vessels bal
loon out into small pouches. These
pouches are fragile and can break
easily. Blood leaks into the retina. A
scar forms at the broken spot. This is
called background retinopathy. In this
type of retinopathy, there is usually
no change in sight, unless the central
part of the retina is affected.
Is there another type of
retinopathy? The second type is called
proliferative retinopathy. In this type,
new blood vessels grow over the
retina and out into the clear jelly that
fills the eyeball. The new vessels can
break and leak blood. You may be
able to see signs that this has hap-
!ened. Your vision may be like
ooking through blood or a spider
web, or you may see black floating
spots. As the broken vessels heal,
bands of scar tissue form. Prolifera
tive retinopathy is very serious. It
can lead to blindness unless it is
treated.
Sometimes the bands of scar tis
sue pull the retina away from where
it is attached. This is called retinal
Spilyay Tymoo
Staff Members
MANAGING EDITOR SID MILLER
ASSISTANT EDITOR DONNA BEHREND
PHOTO SPECIALIST MARSHA SHEWCZYK
REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER...SAPHRONIA KATCHIA
TYPESETTERRECEPTIONIST SELENA THOMPSON
FOUNDED IN MARCH, 1976
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and visitors needing immediate and
sophisticated medical attention at
great distances from medical care.
Air Life is able to quickly dispatch a
skilled healthcare team to the scene
a team which can provide advance
life support and accompany the pa
tient on a swift flight to the closest
medically appropriate facility.
Air Life serves the Northwest with
a fixed-wing air ambulance service
with a 600 mile radius of Bend as
well as the helicopter. With the in
troduction of the airplane component,
patients can now be transported to
the hospital of their choice for other
than medically necessary (life
threatening) reasons.
Ovcr2,W)0 life-threatening patient
missions have been flown. In addi
tion, Air Life has saved hundreds of
thousands of dollars in potential
disability costs by bringing sophis
ticated medical care and equipment
to accident scenes quickly. All this
has reduced recovery times and costs
for patients.
Air Life ison-call 24 hours a day,
ready to respond to accidents and
emergencies. Careful consideration
is given to weather and the nature of
the request when accepting any re
quest lor Air Life's services. With
the addition of the air plane and twin
engine hclicoptcr.fcwcrmissions arc
declined because of the added aircraft
capabilities. The Air Life helicopter
can carry two patients and up to three
medical attendants. The airplane can
transport one patient and up to three
detachment, which is also very seri
ous. You may lose sight suddenly in
one or both of your eyes, or it may
seem as if a curtain has been pulled
over part of your eye. It's important
to call your doctor if this happens.
How is retinopathy treated? There
are new ways to treat retinopathy. If
it is caught early and treated in the
right way, most blindness can be
prevented.
How will I know if I have
retinopathy? There usually aren'tany
early signs of this problem. Only a
specially trained doctor can tell if
you have retinopathy. It is very im
portant that patients with diabetes
see an eye doctor every year.
How else does diabetes affect my
eyes? Vision may become blurred
when blood sugar is too high. The
blurred vision will usually go aw?y
when blood sugar levels come down.
People with diabetes have cata
racts and glaucoma more often than
people who don't have diabetes. A
Wildfire is a helpful
Many of us easily accept the no
tion that wildfire is a part of the
natural development process of our
forests and range lands. Unfortu
nately, at the turn of the century many
professionals encouraged the idea it
was not a part of the natural processes
and should be suppressed and pre
vented. As residential and business
areas expanded into the wildlands
this understanding of the destructive
forces of fire became paranoia, a
delusion that has justified spending
millions of tax dollars to prevent a
common understanding of natural
processes in western forest and range
lands.
Today, professionals dealing with
medical attendants.
Air Life complements the efforts
of your local ambulance service. All
regional ambulance services are net
worked with Air Life. It is common
for the two to work together to get a
patient to medical care quickly and
safely.
Air Life's charges are based on a
lift-off fee plus a loaded (with patient
on board) mileage fee. Charges for
helicopter missions range between
$2,000 and $6,000. It is less expen
sive to be transported by plane than
by helicopter. The fixed-wing trans
port limes arc longer as our fixed
wing staff is on call, versus on duty,
as is the helicopter staff.
Air Life is funded by payments
from insurance companies (66 per
cent) and membership fees (22 per
cent). The remaining 12 percent
comes from affiliate hospital support
as well as individual contributions.
An individual's insurance company
usually pays a percentage of the cost.
Amounts paid by insurance compa
nies vary according to the individual's
level of coverage. If the patient is not
an Air Life member, he or she is
obligated to pay the balance.
Air Life membership provides in
surance bene fits should the subscriber
or any member of their family use
Air Life for quick transport to a
hospital. It also provides essential
financial support lor Air Life's daily
operations.
For $45 a year per family (hus
band, wife and dependent children
Veterans' help-line
The Deportment of Veterans Af
fairs (VA) has inaugurated a special
toll-free telephone help-line for vet
erans who were exposed to radiation
luring military service.
Current information on VA ben
efits and services, medical research
related to radiation exposure and
legislation, as well as assistance in
filing or reopening disability com
pensation claims related to radiation
exposure will be offered.
The 24-hour, toll-free number
1-800-827-0365 is available to
veterans and family members week-
in Warm Springs
cataract happens when the lens of the
eye becomes cloudy. This causes your
vision to become cloudy, too. Glau
coma is when there is too much fluid
inside the eye. This causes high
pressure in the eye. Glaucoma can
cause vision loss if it is not treated.
Both cataracts and glaucoma can be
treated if they are found early enouch.
C?n eye problems be prevented?
Good blood sugar control can prevent
or delay eye problems. Most blind
ness in people with diabetes can be
prevented it treated early enough.
One of the best things you can do for
yourscit is to see the eye doctor.
If you have diabetes and have not
seen the eye doctor in a year or more,
please plan to attend the Diabetic
Eye Clinic on Thursday, May 28 at
the IHS Clinic from 8:00 a.m. to
1 1 :00 a.m. If you have any questions
about the eye clinic or about the
Warm Springs Diabetes Program, call
Candace Reich at the Clinic at 553
1196. natural process
natural resource management have
begun a new understanding of fire's
relationship to developing ecosys
tems and how this development re
lates to property and resource in
vestments. Fire is a necessary part of
western plant communities and can
be integrated into common manage
ment techniques tooptimize resource
management goals. Fire can also be
destructive, erasing years of labor
and investments. It also threatens life
and property as homesites continue
to expand into the wildland urban
interface. We identify these situa
tions as needing some kind of man
agement action to reduce the threat
of catastrophic fire.
Wildfire is a natural process and
is predictable. We know from his
torical information how often certain
plant communities burned. We can
also predict how intensely a fire will
bum using factors that describe fuels,
weather and topography. We are now
aware that fire can be a management
tool used to provide long term re
source benefits. The use of fire as a
management tool at Warm Springs is
long and rich with pioneering intel
ligence. There are documented
projects of understory burning in
natural fuels to reduce fire hazards
and reduce the presence of incense
cedar in pondcrosa pine stands. These
projects took place during the 1930s
through 1950s. This vision of rein
troducing fire using prescribed con
ditions to help resource management
was started by Harold Weaver who
developed much of his management
philosophies here at Warm Springs.
Fire Control Officers like Vic Sisson
had the courage to implement these
ideas and leave tracks for us to follow.
These people recognized that a
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under age 23), subscribers receive an
Air Life membership. If a family
member uses the service under medi
cally appropriate circumstances, Air
Life bills the member's insurance
carrier and accepts the insurance
payment as payment in full. In effect,
Air Life absorbs any deductible as
sociated with the service. There is no
direct charge to the member.
In addition to the insurance ben
efits, members will receive the Air
Life newsletter "Air Currents-, Air
Life membership stickers and mem
bership cards, and accesi to infor
mation about Air Life on a periodic
basis. Perhaps more importantly, you
will have the comfort of knowing
that whenever and wherever you
travel, work or play in our region, Air
Life will be available. You can also
enjoy the satisfaction of providing
the financial support that keeps Air
Life's services available.
To sign up, simply fill out an
application, sign it and enclose $45
for payment. Checks should be made
out of Air Life of Oregon. Mail the
payment and application to Air Life
at 2500 NE Ncff Road, Bend, OR
97701-6098. Membership becomes
effective three days following receipt
of the completed application.
For more information about Air
Life or an application form, contact
the Air Life staff at 1-800-522-2828
or 382-4321, ext. 7391.
available
days from 8 a.m to 5:30 p.m. Eastern
time, and is staffed by counselors at
the VA Regional Office and Insur
ance Center in Philadelphia. After
hours and weekend callers may leave
a recorded message, which will be
returned the following business day.
More than 200,000 veterans were
potentially exposed to radiation as a
result of atomic weapons testing be
tween 1945 and 1962, as prisoners of
war in Japan during World War II, or
as members of occupation forces in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki after World
War II. Exposure also could have
resulted from a variety of military
occupations or from X-ray therapy.
This new information help-line
supplements statewide toll-free ser
vice for information on VA benefits
and programs at all VA regional of
fices. The Philadelphia Regional
Office and Insurance Center also
maintains a national toll-free number
for information about government
insurance policies. That number is:
1-800-669-8477.
Madras Jr. High
Worm Springs Fish Hatchery biologist
Throughout the school vear
seventh grade students have
learned scientific procedure
and scientific principles. They
have just completed looking at
verteorate and invertebrate
animals.
Since 1981. the Warm
Springs Fish Hatchery has
taken the time to bring suckers
to the science room so students
have the opportunity to learn
about fish. Biologist Steve
Turner brought enough large
scale suckers to the school so
10 classes could receive in
struction on the biology of a
ish and DarticiDate in dissec
tion of one.
According to science teacher
Vic Delamarter, the students
anticipate the activity with
some trepidation," but once
thev stan dissecting the fish
and seeing how it works "they
enjoy it."
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watershed is stored
What is watershed?
We can think of watershed using
the simplest description as the land
on which water falls from the atmo
sphere, is stored within the soil, and,
over a period of lime, is released
downslonc toother locations. AH land
is port of a watershed.
We also visualize each watershed
as a catchment area divided from the
next watershed by topographic fea
tures like ridgctops. The water that
falls withinawatcrshcdorcatchmcnl,
but isn't used by existing vegetation,
will seek the lowest poinis-ulumatcly ,
it should appear in the streams and
rivers draining the system. All life
depends on the soil, the water falling
on that soil, and the air above and
within that soil. Entire societies have
disappeared because they didn't
properly understand andcarc for their
soil resource.
No other resource comes close to
the soil's importance. Without
healthy productive soil, plants and
animals - and people probably
couldn't exist.
Wc don't directly manage soil,
for the most port Wc manage the
vegetation that grows in the soil. Wc
directly manage domestic grazing
animals; we indirectly manage
YOUTH CHALLENGES
Tuesdays, June 2, 1992 (1st ) to July 7, 1992 (6th)
six sessions 6:15 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Coordinating School Skills with Prevention Skills
at the Warm Springs Senior Citizen Center
June 2nd session one - Introduction, overview of sessions.
Identify "Feelings, Home and School."
June 9th session two - What's communication in Home and
School? Self Identification. Bring an object that represents something
about you. Your choice, something you made, earned or you feel
proud about.
June 16 session three - Alcohol and Drugs, Nutrition. The
effects, in the Home and School.
June 23rd session four - RclatioashipsCommunication;
"Family, Home, School and in the community."
June 30th session five - Coping Skills; building your own
creativity and self esteem.
July 7th session six - The Choices I make. "Challenges, Cul
tural and Spiritual Awareness."
Sessions are open, free of charge to all youth and adults who
care and want to support family and community unity. This can
be a start for a support group also.
Memorial, other ceremonies scheduled
Memorial for the late Maggie
Waters Jim of Cclilo, Oregon, and
name giving for Daisy Bcgay, June
20, 1992 at Cclilo Longhousc,9:00
a.m. Also a stone setting for Maggie
students study aquatic biology
Steve Turner explains the sensory
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Madras Jr. High seventh grade students Jerrod Miller (left) and Sean
Brunoe (right) dissect large scale sucker during science class.
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grazing wildlife. Wc also alter the
soil surface on forest and rangclonds
by building roads and by mining;
both activities directly affect the
water cycle. With respect to water
sheds, the water cycle refers to those
processes in which water falls in ci
ther liquid or solid form and:
is captured so it has an opportu
nity to move into the soil,
stays and is retained in the soil,
or
moves through the soil by grav
ity into springs, streams, rivers, lukes
and ultimately the sea.
From that liquid form, it can then
return to the atmosphere by evapora
tion and start the cycle again.
According to company represen
tatives, counterfeit versions of
Ivomcc 1 (ivermectin) and I vomcc
F (ivcrmcctin-clorsulon) injections
have been distributed in various parts
of (he United States.
Only the 500 ml containers arc
involved. The counterfeit products
do not contain ivermectin or
clorsulon. Counterfeit packaging
closely resembles that of the genuine
product, but is different.
The company will replace any
counterfeit product at no charge.
Contact our off cc, your veterinarian,
or veterinary supply dealer for details.
and her brother Bocus Charley.
Starling at 9:00 a.m.
Chief Howard Jim, Bronsco Jim
& family, Lester Jim, Ronald Jim,
Lucille Begay & family, Marcella
Jim.
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