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VOL. 18 NO. 3
Coyote News
In Brief
Immunizations -
Important
Not only are current
immunizations necessary
for a child to attend
school, they are also
important in providing
protection for children and
their friends.
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Comments on logging
units requested
The Bureau of Indian
Affairs is asking for
comments on two
proposed logging units.
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Valentine's Day Is In the
air
Response to Spilyay's
rom loct tn"Pomomhor
your Valentine" was very
successful.
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Buffs continue winning
streak
Madras High School White
Buffaloes defeated
Ontario 78-56 last
Saturday making them 4-0
in league play.
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Basketball schedule
provided
Buff boy's and girl's
basketball is scheduled
through March 6.
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Children need to learn
money management
Young children can learn
about money
management as early as
six years of age with an
allowance.
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Report cards were
sent home this week.
Have you talked with
your child about his or
her's?
Early Childhood Education
Center
powwow Is scheduled for
February 1 1 , 1 0-1 1 :30 a.m.
Deadline for the next
issue of Spilyay
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is February 12, 1993
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WSFP1 employees (left to right) Emerson Smith, Employees Advisory Committee member, Lloyd Thurman and Janice
Committee, take tour of mill with TOC safety consultant Dave Black to identify possible safety hazards.
Safety committee identifies
A tour with safety consultant
Council from Eugene, Oregon revealed some potential safety problems at
Warm S prines Forest Products Industries that need to be addressed. The tour
also served to help WSFPI Safety Committee become aware of what to look
for when trying to prevent accidents around the plant.
I he balcty Committee was organized in Wovcmbcr lyyi with the
Family histories requested
March 20, 1993 will kick off a year
long observance of the 150th anniver
sary of the great migration on the Or
egon Trail. Since the native peoples of
Oregon are a very important part of this
story, the Oregon Trail Coordinating
Council is seeking family histories to
be published in a special section of The
Orcgonian in March. Brief, type
FireBusters program teaches safety lessons
Warm Springs Fire and Safety is
one of the many agencies working
with numerous school districts
throughout the state to provide fire
safety training for young people.
Parents are urged to encourage their
children to take part in FireBusters, a
program that teaches children about
fire safety and provides them with an
opportunity to win prizes for their
participation.
A worksheet with live important
safety topics on it was sent home to
every child in grades kindergarten
through fifth. Each night during the
week of February 1-5, channels 21
and 2 and KWSO 9 1 .9 FM broadcast
the answers to the fire safety topic
questions. Here are the answers to
the questions.
Hazard Hunt
1. Is your second way out clear?
2. Keep things that can burn away
from things that get hot.
3. Tell a grown-up to install a
smoke detector in vour bedroom.
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written submissions are preferred,
and please include a telephone num
ber for the editors' use.
Please mail your family histories to:
The Orcgonian Oregon Trail Sec
tion, 1320 SW Broadway, Portland,
OR 97201. For further information,
please contact The Museum at Warm
Springs at 553-3331.
Fire Facts
1. About half of all battery oper
ated smoke detectors don't work.
2. Your room can fill up with
smoke in about two minutes.
3. Most burn injuries occur in the
kitchen.
Earthquake Preparedness
1. When inside and the earth
shakes, duck, cover and fold.
2. Stay away from anything that
could break or fall.
3. A family needs enough supplies
for three davs.
Drowning
1. Always swim with a friend.
2. Put on your life jacket when
you go near water.
3. Always know what's under the .
water before you dive or jump.
Practice Outdoor Safety All
Year round
1. Always make sure vour camp
fire is out.
2. Play away from outdoor cook
ing. 3. When camping always take a
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purpose of involving employees in
According to safety officer Theresa
and people who work in those areas
employees and to themselves.
Members of the Safety committee
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February 12, 13 and 14
Lincoln's Powwow scheduled
It's February and that means,
around Warm Springs at least,
Lincoln's Birthday Powwow is about
to begin. The 17th annual powwow
and self-governmentsovereignty
celebration will get underway Friday,
February 12 and conclude Sunday,
bucket, shovel and axe.
' Students who complete the
worksheet and return it to school will
be entered in a local drawing for
FireBusters sweatshirts and one grand
prize of a bicycle donated by Kah-Nee-Ta
Resort. This bicycle was
purchased from Madras Coast-To-Coast
store at below dealer cost. Also,
the students will be eligible for the
statewide drawing for a trip for four
to Disneyland.
Please take a few minutes each
night during FireBusters week to go
over the worksheets. In the past two
years, there has been a dramatic re
duction of children involved in
fireplay. This is due to a great in
volvement from parents correctly
dealing with each of the topics
mentioned in the questionnaire.
Fire and Safety is proud to serve
the community of Warm Springs;
hopefully, the community found
FireBusters series interesting and
informative. The program will be
effective only through efforts made
by local children and their families.
Any questions concerning fire safety
can be answered by call ing 553-1 634.
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place hazards
the safety issues of their work place.
VanPelt, "Safety is a work place issue"
are the ones who see hazards to fellow
were selected from their various
February 14 at the Simnasho
Longhouse. This year's event features
$20,000 in prize money.
Senior citizens will be honored
with a recognition contest, there will
be an open grass dance contest and
three hand drum round dance contest.
Other categories include men's and
women's traditional 17 and over;
men's and women's fancy and grass
jingle 17 and over; teen boys and
girls traditional 13 through 16; teen
boys and girls fancy and grassjingle
13 through 16; boys and girls tradi
tional 6 through 12 and boys and
girls fancy and grassjingle 6 through
12. There will be no registration for
children five years and under. Grand
entry on Friday will be at 7:30 p.m.;
Saturday's grand entries will be at 2
and 7:30 p.m. with Sunday's events
beginning at 2 p.m.
Queen candidates Sharon Jones,
Eileen Frank and Rose Kirk arc each
selling raffle tickets for S 1 each. Fea
tured in the raffle will be a saddle,
star quilt, beaded bag, hand drum,
cash prizes, Pendleton blanket, shawl
and sweater, a buckskin vest, denim
jacket with beads, fringed shawl, his
and her designer sweaters, ribbon
shirt, beaded earrings and other
prizes.
The final fundraising auction will
be Sunday, February 7 following
services at noon. All are welcome to
attend.
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Town W Around
to feature bits 'n'
pieces of news
Beginning with this issue, Spilyay
willbcginancwcolumn litlcd.Town
V Around". The column will in
clude bits and pieces of news from
Warm Springs and other items of
interest (hopefully, concerning
Northwest tribes. We would like our
readers' help in obtaining informa
tion for this column. If you know (or
even hear) of something newsy,
something that doesn't quite make
sense or even something silly, give
the Spilyay a call. We'd love to hear
from you. The number is 553-3274
or stop by the office in the basement
of the Community Counseling Cen
ter. Snow Removal
With the snows of December and
January now just a cold, bitter
memory, maybe it's time to take a
look at who got the white stuff off the
roads so drivers could actually town
around.
First of all, U.S. Highway 26
maintenance is the responsibility of
the Oregon Department of Trans
portation. The trucks in Madras arc
responsible for clearing and sanding
the roads from County (Crook) Line
to County (Wasco) Line, from U.S.
97 to Antelope, the Culver Highway,
trom Madras to the junction of
highways 197 and 97 just under
300 miles total. Warm Springs
Junction, at milcpost 73 near Pine
Grove, maintains the rest of High
way 26 (from the County Line road)
on the reservation and points north.
Reservation roadways, other than
U.S. 26, are taken care of by the BIA
Roads department. The folks in
Roads, specifically Pete Courtney
and Larry Seibel, have stacks upon
stacks of records documenting ev
erything from time spent on road
maintenance to how much that
maintenance costs per mile.
Some Warm Spnngs folks may
have been angry that BIA was not
removing snow from their driveways.
The BIA, by law, cannot maintain
private roadways. Larry says that
would be a misuse of funds "Can't
spend federal money on private
property," he says.
lhere are lib miles in tne BIA
public road system. For every one of
those miles, Roads plow and sandcr
operators travel 14.2 miles (mainly
because of the location of the cinders
and the number of trips it takes to
clear, widen and sand a stretch of
road.)
Since late November, the BIA has
spent about $70,000 on snow and ice
control and dumped 2,370 cubic yards
(almost twice the 10-year average)
of cinders on icy reservation high
ways. Speaking of cinders, the Road's
gravel coffers, like so many others,
reached an all-time low and load
after red load was being dumped near
the Roads offices last week for future
use. Larry explained that, ideally, the
cinders would be allowed to com
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Get your
taxes done
Attention tribal members!
On February 9, from 1 to 5 p.m.
and February 10 and 1 1 from 8 a.m.
to 12 noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. two
tax preparers from Islerand Company
will be in the Housing Conference
Room assisting with 1992 income
tax filing (excluding Schedules C
and F). Electronic filing for federal
returns will be provided at nocharge.
(Oregon does not provide electronic
filing at this time.) Appointments
must be made by calling 553-3217
and will be scheduled 49 minutes
apart. Please be sure to arrive at your
scheduled time and bring with you a
copy of your 1991 tax return alone
with all 1992 W2's, 1099's and any
other pertinent forms that need to
accompany your return.