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Warm Sprinas, Oregon
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D.E. Project to host open house October 8
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The Business and Economic De
velopment Divisionof the Confeder
ated Tribes of Warm Springs invites
all tribal members to attend the D.E.
Manufacturing Enterprise Open
House on Thursday, October 8 from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the old plywood
plant building of Warm Springs For
est Products Industries.
The purpose of the open house is
to inform Warm Springs community
members what the product is about
and what is has to oiler to the com
munity. The proposed manufacturing fa
cility would be located in the WSFPI
plywood plant and be 100 percent
owned and operated by the Confed
erated Tribes.
The products to be manufactured
there are fire-rated door cores for
commercial use and thermally
insulative refractory blocks for fur
ber preference basis. This translates
to an estimated annual payroll of
$1.6 million.
With the growing concern in the
depletion of the tribes' limber lands,
the D.E. Manufacturing Enterprise
will enable the tribes to conserve
these natural resources for future
generations.
For further information, video
tapes on the D.E. project can be
viewed at the Administration Build
ing, Senior Citiens Center, Com
munity Center, Macy's Market and
HIS. Copies of this video may also
be check out free of charge at the
Burger Inn for viewing at home.
If you have additional questions,
contact Lori Nathan-Smith at 553-3-168.
We look forward to seeing you
at the D.E. Manufacturing Enterprise
open house on October 8.
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Incumbant Secretary of State Phil Keisling visited with Warm Springs Tribal Council members recently during a
campaign swing through Central Oregon. Keisling, as Secretary of State, is responsible for government financial
accountability.
CPS awarded $55,000 BIA Indian Child Welfare grant
Warm Springs Children's Protec
tive Services is pleased to announce
the award of a grant from the Bureau
of Indian Affairs under the Indian
Child Welfare Act grant program.
The award is for $55,000 and will
provide specialized treatment for
adolescents who arc experiencing
trouble at home with the law and
courts; or at school due to drugs or
alcohol; violence, behavioral or
emotional problems or in need of
specialized treatment services.
The grant will fund the newly
formed Juvenile Services arm of
Children's Protective Services. This
will allow CPS to more fully serve
families in need of special services to
prevent out of home placement of
adolescents or when necessary, to
speed the placement of juveniles into
treatment.
The overall "philosophy of the
program is to strengthen families in
accordance with the CPS mission to
"protect children by strengthening
Code); in need of supervision (drug
alcohol use, truancy, violate curfew,
etc.), or who may be beyond parental
control. The goal is:
(1) To serve 15 families per year
in need of services and at risk due to
delinquency;
(2) Thirty families per year in
need of supervision due to alcohol
drug related problems or related be
haviors; and
(3) To prevent the placement of
adolescents out of their home into
cither long-term or short-term treat
ment. This is accomplished by hiring a
juvenile services specialist to carry a
fulltimc caseload. In addition CPS
will acquire about $10,000 for resi
dential treatment for delinquent ju
veniles. For more information, please feel
free to contact Jon Grant, CPS Di
rector at 553-3209.
St. Pat's Cowdeo
October 17, 18, 1992
Jefferson Co. Fairgrounds
Kids 6-14 are eligible
Registration is now open through October 10, 1992
Contact Kathryn Bain at 475-2130 to register
naces in the aluminum and other in
dustries. Diatomaccous Earth, or D.E. is a
natural organic material that is com
prised of silica from the skeletal re
mains of Diatoms, microscopic ma
rine creatures from prehistoric limes.
The most significant characteristics
of this material are its incredible
insulative properties and fire rctar
dant capability Proprietary, patent
pending formulas have been devel
oped utilizing diatomaccous earth as
a component in the plant's products.
The markets for these products
are worldwide and sales are in the
billions annually. The D.E. Manu
facturing Enterprise of fcrs the Warm
Springs community the opportunity
to enter these markets with lower
cost, earth friendly products which
are superior to those currently on the
market.
The new industrial concept would
provide new employment opportu
nities for tribal members and would
generate profits. Approximately 68
permanent hourly positions within
12 months of production start-up
would be available on a tribal mem
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A D.E. Project employee prepares refracctory block form at the facility located
in the old plywood plant at Warm Springs Forest Products Industries.
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for families to heln cnorrfinnipn wr- a w
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vices to adolescents in need of ser
vices." The focus of the Juvenile Services
Program is adolescents who are de
linquent (broken Tribal La w & Order
Children's Protective Services is
pleased to announce an award of
$200,000 to continue the Family
Preservation Services Program. This
project is funded under a grant from
Information Center closure set for fall
After 16 years at the Information
Center, manager Faye Wahcncka will
be relocating at the new Museum gift
shop when it opens in March of 1 993.'
The Information Center will be
closed this fall and Wahcncka is cur
rently marking down many items in
the shop to reduce inventory. Many
of the unique items will be transferred
to the Museum gift shop when it
opens. 1
Local artisans and craftsmen are
looking at the Information Center
building as a place to work and dis
play their art. At this time, however,
its use in the future has not been
decided.
the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human
Services and the National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect.
The Family Preservation Services
Program began as a project of the
CPS Director, Jon Grant, to help re
duce the number of families being
broken up due to substance abuse
related neglect. The first year of the
grant will end September 30, 1992.
The start up of the project began
December, 1991, with the program
beginning to see families April 1,
1992. Since that time 24 families
have been referred; 18 families are
or have been served; 4 are pending;
and 5 have been screened out for
various reasons.
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Many hydrants
tested regularly
According to Bob Sjolund, fire
and safety prevention and training
officer, fire hydrants within the com
munity are tested at least once a year.
However, due to shortage of man
power, only half of the near 400
hydrants have been tested, Sjolund
said. Many of those tested do not
have adequate water pressure to run
them. One reason for low pressure
can be attributed to the fact that the
community hydrants are directly
connected to the domestic water
supply and when the system is being
heavily used through watering lawns,
flushing, showering, etc., pressure
drops substantially. The one hydrant
in question was tested just over a
year ago and was found to operate
adequately.
The Family Preservation Services
Program is an intensive home-based
services program designed to serve
high risk families whose children
may be or have been removed by
Tribal Court. The level of services is
based on the needs of the family and
the safety of the children. The pro
gram encourages families to draw
upon their own strengths and avoids
Jabcls on being detrimental to
strengthening families. In explaining
the program, CPS Director Jon Grant
states, "families have their own
special wisdom and strengths. Fam
ily Preservation seeks to help fami
liesdiscover their strengths and build
upon them. It is the belief of the CPS
that children are best protected when
families are strong." In addition to
direct services and family services,
Family Preservation Services coor
dinates services from other agencies
such as Community Counseling and
encourages the growth of spiritual
and family support systems.
The program began with Family
Preservation Specialist Nellie Hall
who was largely responsible for the
program development. Nellie has
since left to work on her home res
ervation. Carol Wewa joined Family Pres
ervation as the Family Treatment
Coordinator in February, 1992. Carol
is a tribal member who is a lifelong
resident of Warm Springs. Carol has
since taken over the Family Preser
vation Specialist position.
Suzanne Leecy joined Family
Preservation Services in August,
1992. Suzie is a Warm Springs tribal
member who transferred from legal
aide. She has an extensive back
ground in legal services, working
with families and providing coun
seling. Suzie is the Family Treatment
Coordinator and her main responsi
bility is development and operation
of the day treatment center for
families.
Jeffcry "Luke" Sanders joined
Family Preservation Services as a
Child Specialist under the Family
Treatment Program. Luke is a Warm
Springs tribal member who recently
returned from college.
Under the new funding for 1993,
an additional position was created to
help fill a service gap. This entailed
the creation of the new Family Intake
Coordinator. This position was re
cently filled by Roxannc Langncsc
Cascy, a Warm Springs tribal mem
ber. Roxannc joins CPS from the
Bureau of Indian Affairs. She recently
returned from Idaho where she
completed her bachelor's degree in
Fine Arts and social work. Koxannc
will be responsible for providing
emergency crisis intervention to
families helping families find treat
ment services, and assisting CPS and
Family Preservation identify families
in need before they get out of hand.
Family Preservation is a service
of Children's Protccti ve Services. For
more information, please contact
Carol Wewa at 553-3575 or Jon Grant
at 553-3209.
Fire Prevention Week October 4-10....
Organization helps develop secretarial skills
Vhat makes a great secretary? First and foremost, a good secretary
must have command of all the basics typing and word processing,
impeccable language skills (a secretary can 't say, "I ain't got no...), office
procedures such as telephone skills and message taking, and basic math.
In fact, many companies now feel that basic math skills arc a reliable
indicator of secretarial success, citing a logical, rational thought process
as essential to the position.
If all of these basic qualifications arc met, you still don't have a great
secretary. Command of the basics is only a start. Next, comes experience.
Nothing teaches like experience. Along with experience, goes the knowl
edge of business conventions business law, economics, accounting and
communications.. Given that a candidate has all of those skills as well,
you still don't have a great secretary.
You want someone with outstanding human relations skills working
with and relating to people; someone who is good at public relations;
who is adaptable, flexible, and has good old common sense. Find
someone with all of that, and then you have a great secretary!
If you are looking for a way to expand your career opportunities, to
keep current on trends in the office and in the work place, to grow both
personally and professionally, then you should join and support your
local Professional Secretaries International chapter, Mt. Jefferson. For
membership information, please contact Tricia Courtney-Ike CPS, 553-3225.
Campaign focuses on smoke detectors, home safety
Information Center manager Faye Waheneka takes inventory. Information
Centerwill be closing thisfall with Waheneka moving to the Museum gift shop
when it opens in March 1993.
As Fire Prevention Week runs
October 4 through 10, Warm Springs
Fire and Safety is targeting a press
ing, tragic problem that affects at
least one-third of the homes in
Amcrica smoke detectors that don 't
work due to old or missing batteries.
The fire serves have seen count
less cases where people perished in
fires in homes that had smoke detec
torsbut the smoke detector didn't
work. You can imagine the pain a
family must feel when they realize
they could have prevented their child
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SPILYAY TYMOO 1992
Is Vour Smoke
Detector Working?
More Americans have smoke detectors than ever before.
But nearly half don't work.
Without a working smoke detector as an early warning
device, fire can spread unnoticed through the household,
blocking escape routes and filling rooms with deadly smoke.
Make sure you're protected. Start a lifesaving habit this
October 25. When you
change your clock from
daylight-saving time, change
the batteries in your smoke
detectors.
A message from your fire
department
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from dying is they had simply re
placed the battery in their smoke
detector.
As part of Fire Prevention Week,
Warm Springs Fire and Safety is
issuing a challenge to Warm Springs
residents to help ensure that every
home has a working smoke detector,
or simply added one to the residence.
Fire prevention officials say many
Americans have a false and dan
gerous send of security about
smoke detectors. While more than
85 percent of American homes have
a least one smoke detector installed,
as many as one-third of them would
not work in an emergency because of
old or missing batteries. Inoperable
smoke detectors contribute to many
of the 6,000 deaths and 130,000 inju
ries that occur each year in home
fires.
It has been found that one of the
most common reasons for residential
fire deaths is the failure to have a
working smoke detector. AH resi
dents are encouraged to replace their
smoke detector batteries annually and
to check the operation of the detector
monthly.
To help fight the problem, Warm
Springs Fire and Safety will be par
ticipating in an annual national pub
lic education program called "Change
Your Clock, Change Your Battery".
The program encourages people to
make a habit of changing the batter
ies in their smoke detectors every fall
when they change their clocks back
to standard time. For 1992, the date
of the time change is Sunday, Octo
ber 25.
The program is sponsored nation
ally by the International Association
of Fire Chief and Encrgizer batteries.
The percentage of American homes
that have working detectors remains
less than 60 percent. There has been
little progress in 13 years, when half
of American homes had smoke de
tectors. The difference today is that
the number of households with non
working detectors outnumber those
with no detectors at all.
According to Warm Springs Fire
Prevention Officer Bob Sjolund, re
placing the batteries in a smoke de
tector can double a person 's chances
of surviving a fire.
Watch for special fire prevention
events at Warm Springs Elementary!