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Warm Springs, Oregon
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Peggy Fowler, vice-president of generation and transmission for Portland General Electric, recently presented a $5,000
check to MOWS museum director Michael Hammond, right. Project manager for Round llutte, Jim Wyatt, Wasco
Chief Nelson Wallulatum, Fowler and
Northwest Holiday Career Fair
Native American Students
Higher Education Workshop
at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort, Warm Springs, Oregon
December 29, 30, 1992
Registration: $1 0.00 per student; $1 5.00 per adult
Includes 3 meals, 2 lunches and 1 banquet meal
Sponsored by:
JOM Committee, Education Services, Employment Services
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Martinez Heath was one of the many honored veterans at the Annual
Veterans Powwow held at the Agency Longhouse November 6, 7, 8, 1992,
participates in the owl dance with Celia Berry.
POWWOW reSUltS-Continued from page 1
gins, Satus; 2nd place - Brian Nelson, 1st place - Millie ColwashTony
Arizona; 3rd place - Joe Sweowat, Suppah; 2nd place - Ina JimJoe
, Yakima. Sweowat; 3rd place - Bridgctt Scott
Owl Dance Special Brian Nelson.
Start planning for bazaar
With the recently held Arts &
Crafts show, the 17th annual Christ
mas Bazaar will be held December
12, 1992.
Registration for tables and space
PSU students plan powwow
The United Indian Students of
Higher Education has scheduled their
Christmas Holiday Powwow at Port
land State University for December
12, 1992 from 6 to 11 :00 p.m..
The host drum will be Big Crane
Singers from Montana. Master of
Ceremonies will be Jerry "Fry Bread"
Brown. WhipmanArcna Director is
going to be Vince Wannasay.
This is UISHE's annual canned
food and toy drive. We are asking
people to bring canned foods andor
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Hammond took a quick walk-through of
will start November 1, 1992 at the
Warm Springs Community center.
There will be a fee charged.
For more information contact
Carol Allison at 553-3243.
toys as admission to this event. Pro
ceeds to benefit families in need. A
community Christmas feast will be
served at 4:00 p.m. in the Viking
Room located on ground level of
Smith Memorial Center.
Arts & Crafts tables will be avail
able but space is limited.
For more information call
U.I.S.H.E. at 725-5671.
Absolutely NO alcohol or drugs
allowed.
the museum, due to open in mui-Marcn.
Native American
Once again Christmas is just
around the corner, and so is the 3rd
Annual Native American Christmas
Bazaar. This year we've added an
extra day and another weekend.
Making it two weekends in Decem
ber. The first weekend is set for De
cember 5-6, and the second is De
cember 1 9-20. The doors will open at
7 a.m. for craftcrs set-up. Bazaar
Nominations for
members being accepted now
Farmers are reminded that the
Jefferson County ASCS office is now
receiving nominations for ASCS
county committee election candi
dates. Sam Brown, County Executive
Director, encouraged farmers to use
this opportunity to nominate their
farm neighbors as candidates in the
ASC committee election.
Brown said the ASC committee
provides the important service of ad
ministering government farm pro
grams in the local community. The
election will be conducted by mail
from November 27 to December 7.
Eligible farm voters will be provided
with instructions for filling out the
secret ballot and returning it to the
county ASC office.
Most resident farmers are eligible
to hold office as ASC committee
members. If a farmer would like de
tailed information concerning eligi
bility requirements, he or she should
contact either a present committee
member or the county ASCS office.
In filling out a petition, farmers
Drinking alcohol while pregnant could
Doctors have documented that
drinking alcohol while pregnant is
harmful but many teens are not aware
of the dangers it can cause their fu
ture babies.
To promote the hazards of drink
ing while pregnant, the Association
for Retarded Citizens is kicking off a
campaign to inform junior high stu
dents about the dangers of alcohol.
ARC, with national headquarters
in Arlington, has developed a unit for
eighth grade science, home eco
nomics and health classes. The unit
focuses on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,
which occurs when a woman drinks
during pregnancy.
ARC staff said they want to get
the curriculum used by school dis
tricts nationwide. They have tested it
at area schools, including a Nichols
Junior High life science class.
Nichols teacher Lori Nelson said
she was impressed by the material
she presented during a human r
production unit.
"I think it's needed in thdlcurricu
lum," Nelson said. "The use of drugs
and alcohol doesn't start at the high
school level anymore it's starting
in junior high. Students need to be
made aware of the consequences."
FAS is a pattern of mental, physi
cal and behavioral birth defects de
veloped in an unborn child when the
mother drinks alcohol during preg
nancy. Birth defects include severe men
tal retardation, behavioral problems,
visible facial abnormalities like cleft
palate, kidney defects, bone and joint
or heart defects.
The U.S. Public Health Service
estimates FAS occurs in two of every
1,000 live births, increasing to 10 to
12 babies afflicted with less severe
alcohol-related birth defects, said to
Dr. Jerry Adams, FAS program di
rector. The effect of alcohol in unborn
babies is so profound because they
cannot absorb it as easily as an adult,
Adams said.
"Any alcohol the mothers drinks,
goes into the child's bloodstream
too," he said. "The mother has the
enzymes that help pass the alcohol
November 3 election results-Continued
cent, or 209, voted yes on the mea
sure. Measure 4: Wc will continue to
sec triple-trailer rigs on Oregon
highways as voters soundly defeated
the measure. Warm Springs voters
alsodid not approve of the ban as 1 74
voted against passage and 166 voted
for the measure.
Measures 5 and 6: Both 5 and 6
were defeated state-wide, leaving
Trojan open until I "Gil closes the
facility within the next four years.
I lowcver. Warm Springs voters were
in favor of closing the facility imme
diately, with 184 voting yes on 5
and 196 voting yes on H6. Both mea
sures were defeated in Jefferson
County.
Measure 7: Like voters across
the County and slate, Warm Springs
voted against the increase in rental
property tax rates. Sixty-five percent,
or 222, voted no, w hile 1 20 voted yes
on 7.
Measure 8: Fifty-nine percent
Commodity Department
Diabetic Screening
November 23, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Warehouse Lobby
For more information call 553-3422.
Bazaar to be held in Chiloquin
hours will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
both weekends.
The bazaar will be located at the
Masonic Hall on Main Street in
Chiloquin, Oregon.
The price per tablespace will be
$25.00 for the weekend, or $15 per
day.
The people participating in the
ASCS committee
should be careful to include the name
of only one nominee, the signatures
of at least three eligible ASC voters
who support the nominee and certi
fication that the nominee is willing to
serve if elected. Petitions must con
tain this information to be accepted.
The completed petition should be
dated and mailed or hand-delivered
to the county ASCS office no later
than November 2. ;
ASC committee elections are open
to all eligible ASC voters without
regard to race, color, religion, sex,
age, handicap or national origin.
Brown explained that any concerned
farmer with an interest in serving
fellow producers would be an asset
to the ASC committee. For this rea
son, farmers are urged to petition for
the farmers of their choice. The in
dividual producer will benefit in the
long run from a responsible, con
cerned team of ASC committee
members in the local administrauon
of the U.S. government farm pro
grams, Brown said.
out of the body, but the baby's liver
cannot do that. The alcohol can stay
in its system for as long as 24 hours."
A high alcohol level in the blood
stream of a fetus can affect develop
ment of the nervous system, brain or
other organs, Adams said.
The curriculum consists of manu
als, a booklet illustrated with car
toons and a Monopoly-style educa
tional game called "Friends and Ras
cals." Tapes and videos are planned,
said former teacher Elizabeth
Howard, an ARC program specialist
who helped write the curriculum.
The texts describe how the risk to
a fetus increases with the number of
drinks taken by a mother per day.
An average of more than four
drinks per day can increase the risk
of mental retardation. Two drinks a
day can contribute to low birth weight.
Even drinking a few times a week or
month can contribute to irregular
(202) of Warm Springs voters ap
proved the restriction of km or Co
iumhia Kiver fish harvest methods.
However, the measure was defeated
soundly across the slate.
Measure 9; Probably the most
controversial measure on the ballot,
9 was deleated state-wide, Warm
Springs soundly deleated the measure
by a 62 percent margin, with 209
voting against and 129 voting for the
ML View Nursing Home residents plan
Thanksgiving dinner for November 26
Thanksgiving dinner plans arc
being made by the residents of
Mountain View Nursing I lomc. This
year's mid day meal will include
dishes prepared by the residents and
the District's dietary department.
Family members arc encouraged to
join their loved ones for dinner on
Thursday afternoon. The meal will
Ik served at mxin. Visitors may ar-
first weekend will have first choice
at the spaces for the second weekend.
Native Americans with traditional
and non-traditional arts and crafts
arc urged to participate.
For more information please call:
Lucy Jackson (503) 783-2445 or
CccJay Jackson at (503) 882-6952
Home, (503)885-3405 Work.
Students collecting beverage tabs
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Save your can tabs.
be hazardous to your baby's health
brain formation.
Howard said she is proud of one
feature in the unit which polls stu
dents to indicate belief systems that
could lead to alcohol problems.
Attitudes include "beer and wine
are not as harmful as hard liquor,"
"everybody drinks" and "it's all right
to get drunk on special occasions."
Nearly a quarter of the students in
the pilot test were in the high-risk
range, with another quarter in the
borderline area. Adams said the re
sults could have been even higher if
the poll had been given under more
controlled conditions.
"It was really shocking to find that
so many of the kids were in the me
dium to high risk area," said Nelson.
"It was just the things they consid
ered were okay to do that really
aren't."
ARC plans to contact major school
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from pago 1
measure. Jefferson County, like many
other conservative central and east
ern Oregon counties, passed the
measure.
1 he 509-J u base was narrow ly
defeated in the County, with 2.875
voting against the proposal and 2,838
voting lor. However, Warm Springs
voters heartily approved the issue,
w ith 230 voting lor and 106 voting
against.
range for the purchase of a pest tray
by contacting live facility s dietary
department prior to Thanksgiving.
Cora Burshe. Harold Lees and
Lillian Meyer w ill celebrate birthdays
in November. The monthly birthday
party will be held at 1:30 p.m., Fri
day. November 20, 1992.
The highlight of October was the
eleventh annual I lallowccn festivity.
Over I. (XX) children passed through
the halls of the home gathering I lal
lowccn treats.
Again this year, the residents will
be celebrating a "Community
Christmas" party. Family and com
munity members arc encouraged to
attend the Community Christmas
party on December 1 1 between 2:00
and 4:30 p.m. The event will be an
opportunity for sharing during the
holiday season.
Study Hall
Open to any student
Monday through Wednesday
5-7:30 p.m.
at Warm Springs Elementary
Madras Jr. High School is cur
rently involved with a pop tab col
lection drive in which they will be
helping Oregon kidney patients by
doing. The drive is to collect the
aluminum opening tabs from bever
age cans (pop, beer and juice) from
any or all community members. The
metal tabs can be pulled off the cans,
and will not interfere with refunds of
cans.
The tabs arc turned in by the
pound. For example, it takes 1,000
tabs to equal one pound. Beverage
companies then buy the tabs and the
money goes to help pay for kidney
dialysis, transplants, and also the cost
of transportation of patients. The
drive is a year long event between
seventh and eighth grade students at
MJHS.
All students were encouraged to
make posters and take donation jars
around to different businesses for
collection of tabs from local residents.
Donations can also be given to a
student or brought to MJHS. Resi
dents arc encouraged to help. "You
CAN make a difference."
districts across the country about in
serting the unit in their regular cur
riculum. The organization will dis
tribute packets to Civitan, a service
club.
"One of the big selling points for
this curriculum is that we've done a
correlation with Texas Essential El
ements (curriculum guidelines)," said
Howard. "If we can please Texas, we
will please 99 percent of the other
states."
Although the dangers of alcohol
abuse are discussed, Howard said the
intent is not to give students another
lecture on alcoholism, ignored by
many in the high-risk groups.
"We're doing alcohol education
rather than alcoholism prevention,"
Howard said. "We're taking a
lifestyle approach, not necessarily
reform them but to save the child."
For more information on the pro
gram, call ARC at 640-0204.