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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1993)
ii. . . .. .. Winn Ciimiwx' Hnrnnv Spilyay Tymoo i Air, z April juf ivvj iwutM...,.....,- m m m ' r-m m w l m. .-m ' w m m m w m m a Mi v " ; . . i r K 1 o Fourth graders Sharondei Mitchell, left, and Larisa Napver work on bird hnut nrniert as oart of the ornhholon unit being studied in school - r J r 9 Respond if You Please to local volunteer R.S.V.P. Usually when people sec these initials, it is on the bottom of an invitation to an event, such as a wedding. It is asking for the person to respond to the invitation and let the sender know who and how many guests will be attending the vent, so that they can plan accordingly. It is a French expression which literally means "respond if you please . However, it has taken on new meaning in the community of Warm Springs. ; Fire and Safety has a paid staff of eight full timeand two part-time EMT firefighters. This paid staff has re sponsibility for coverage both here and at Simnasho. There is one EMT firefighter on duty 24 hours per day, seven days a week at both stations, with responsibility for coving the entire reservation. The Fire and Safety department has relied on volunteers for many years to fill in the empty spots when it comes to fires, car accidents, rescue and search efforts and medical emergency calls. Many of thee volunteers have taken classes on their own time and at their wn expense to become certified kMTs. Many also have a regular job ; A' A K The Jr. Buff sixth grade class of Mr. Macintosh, made an all day field trip to the Columbia River Gorge, and while there they visited the Bonneville Dam site, the Cascade Locks , a fish hatchary, and also had a lecture from one of the Fish and Wildlife representitives from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs regarding the In-lieu fishing sites the Confederated Tribes retain from the signing of the treaty of 1855. There are several sites along the river where the members of the Confederated Tribes can fish. The usual customary places run from the Cascade Locks area above the John Day Dam. The Class thoroughly enjoyed the trip. Spilyay Tymoo Staff Members MANAGING EDITOR SID MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR DONNA BEHREND PHOTO SPECIALIST MARSHA SHEWCZYK REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER SAPHRONIA KATCHIA REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER SELENA BOISE FOUNDED IN MARCH, 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Ouroffices are located in the basement of the Old Girls Dorm at 1 1 1 5 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761 PHONE: (503) 553-1 644 or (503) 553-3274 FAX No. 553-3539 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Within U.S. - $9.00 Outside U.S. -$15.00 SPILYAY TYMO0 1992 " 3 i i iimiMi ii . J I I 1 i i 1 w I .. a I mm I It I j ii I; r -1. and give up whatever free time they have to respond when an alarm is sounded for a fire, search and rescue or medical emergency call, regard less of the time of night. In order to recruit volunteers, the department has a policy of paying a stipend of $5 per rescue call and $ 1 9 per ambulance transport Needless to say, the funding tor this program docs not allow for any extras, such as training, uniforms, coats, pants or boots. In other words, there isn't an incentive program to recruit and re tain volunteers in the organization. With the present budget crunch on the national, state and local level (including the reservation), the em phasis has been on using volunteers a much as possible. With that in mind, several of the active volunteers de cided to start an organization (with the blessing and support of the Fire and Safety regular staff) for volun teers. The volunteers adopted a set of by-laws, elected officers and chose a name for the organization. The name is R.S. VP., which stands for Rescue Search Volunteer Program, and means Respond If You Please, which is exactly what the organization wants i , t nyrrrn i , . i vim jW WW ' , f--,7f.-'V'-' ;t V-;.tv I - . , VI --J-1 Hammers and nails rang loud and clear on Monday, April 12 as students in Mrs. iMPage's fourth grade class build bird houses as part of thltr ornithology unit(a study of birds). The students made houses to attract the local songbirds around their hornet. The wood used to construct the houses Hflj donated by Miller Lumber in Madras and the nails used were donated by Coasl-to-Coast, also In Madras. The class expressed their appreciation of the donations by saying, "We appreciate their generosity to our project" its members to do. R..S.V.P. held its first fund raiser April 17 and 18 at the Jefferson County Sports and Recreation Show at the Fairgrounds. The members had an Indian taco and fry bread booth. To everyone's delight, the endeavor put a few hundred dollars into the volunteers' bank account. But, it would not have been the success it was, were it not for the many busi nesses and friends who donated items needed for the booth. The volunteers would like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank the follow people for their donations: Macy's Market, Deschutes Crossing, Kah-Ncc-Ta Resort, Presbyterian Church, Con federated Tribes Senior Program and Tiger Mart in Madras. A special thank you to Carol Craig for making up all the dough and spending two days cooking fry bread. Without Carol's knowledge and help, we wouldn't have had anything to sell. Also, a special thank you goes to Jay and DccAnn Bushard. Both of these people spent countless hours obtaining the necessary paperwork to get the booth, buying and picking r"' The crime of vandalism strikes again as 37 highway signs were damaged on Jackson l rail Koaa aunng ine weeKtna oj pru i uumu&c approxilympostlJ ZKSdWproZutiely$300.ThecV ilTsBynothnlin these signs present, the persons responsible for the vandalism endangered the lives of anyone who was driving on Jackson Trad Road the thrre-and-one-half days it took to repair and replace them. Li, i M r i m in i i program; help save lives, up many of our supplies, running errands, donating time, money and supplies to our effort and spending two days keeping the booth going, from set-up to lake-down and every thing in between. Their commitment to the effort was invaluable. We would also like to say thank you to the following individuals for their contribution to the success of Smith picks up Six Oregon educators have re cently returned from Los Angeles, where they collected $25,000 each for a total of $150,000 in awards at the 1993 Milken Family Foundation National Education Conference. The following educators from Or egon will be honored at the confer ence: Daniel Tilson, a teacher at Eastwood Elementary School, Roscbury; Ron Nicholson, a teacher at Alsca School, Aisca; Patricia Mack, a principal at Walker Middle School, Salem; Kathryn Portcrficld, a teacher at Lynch View School, Portland; Dawn Smith, an assistant principal at Warm Springs Elemen tary School, Warm Springs; and Bonnie Elliot, a teacher at Bend Se nior High School, Bend. These educators joined more than 1 00 of their counterparts from across the country considered among the nation ' s top K-1 2 educators in col lecting a total of $3 million in a single evening. The awards ceremony marked the culmination of the three-day educa tion conference, held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles March 25-27. Each of the 120 educators, recipi ents of the 1992 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards, was presented $25,000, no strings attached. "By presenting each recipient a major financial award," said Lowell Milken, presidentof the Foundations of the Milken Families, "we are telling these educators that their contributions and expertise are greatly valued by the Foundation and by society." The 120 current recipients were caught totally by surprise this past fall when they were told in most cases by a state superintendent or commissioner of education that they were to receive the Milken Na tional Educator Awards. Because there is neitheran application process nor a nomination procedure, recipi ents had no idea they even were be ing considered for the awards. Instead, blue-ribbon selection .. i our first fund raiser. Starla Green, Karla and "Bear" Tias, Tom Wright, Donnic Baglcy, Erma Garcia, Holly Spino, Larry and Cheryl Holliday, Heather Crow-Martinez, Robert Redden, Donna Smith, Bob Smith, Phil Johnston and Sharon Orr. We arc planning on holding more fund raisers in the future in order to be able to pay for staffvolunteer Milken award Dawn Smith, assistant principal at Warm Springs Elementary, received the Milken Family Foundation award at recent ceremonies in Los Angeles. committees, composed of education professionals and appointed by each state's department of education, op erated quietly and anonymously to select the recipients. The awards program has grown to include 20 states. In each, six K-12 teachers and administrators were se lected last summer and honored at a state banquet in the fall. These ban quets are a significant clement of the awards program, said Milken, be cause there the educators are recog nized publicly by their peers and the community. Another important component, he said, is the profes sional development opportunity provided for award recipients at the Conference. Today these educators from 20 states as far-flung as Hawaii, Alaska, Connecticut and Georgia are back home, with ideas to share and stories to tell of Michael Jackson perform- Mail-in ballots due out soon Mail-in ballots will be in local mail boxes early next week. Voters will be asked (wo questions: Should money be appropriated to build a middle sthix)l (see page 3), and, should a levy of $1.9 million be ap proved for tic operation of county programs. Jefferson County currently opcr aicsona I914tax base and the County frequently appeals to voters to ap prove operating levies. The County, says Judge Dan Ahem, has been "fairly aggressive" in applying for grams that benefit the Confederated Tribes. In 1991, for instance, the County received, in the Tribe's be half, a $325,000 regional strategy grant for The Museum at Warm Springs. This year, more than $250,000 will be received to upgrade the Greeley Heights water system and to construct toilets in Chinook Island at the Cove State Park. Of the total $2.3 million County budget, 41 percent goes to the sheriff's office, 12 percent to the assessor's office, eight percent to the district attorney's office, five and one-half percent to the county court nna another 30 percent is split among departments such as the juvenile of fice, OSU Extension, library, plan ning, public works, environmental general and mental health and the fairgrounds. Deadline for submitting ballots is Tuesday, May 18. get involved training (EMT, firefighter, search and rescue), equipment and supplies and future department needs. R.S.V.P. is trying to get a recruitment program going in the community to get more people interested in being a volunteer. If any community members are in terested, contact Karla Tias, Sharon Orr or RaNcva Dowty at Fire and Safety, 553-1634. in LA ing at their awards ceremony, In addition to the 120 current award recipients, the 312 former re cipients were invited to the Confer ence, a practice followed eacn year. Twenty state superintendents and com missioners of education took part in the full agenda of presentations, workshops and discussions and met there with recipient-educators from their own states to discuss educational issues. Kansas Governor Joan Finney, and Nevada Governor Bob Miller and FirstLady Sandy Miller participated, as did leaders from the entertainment, :ommunicalions and business com munities. The theme of the Conference was "The Interaction of Schools, Families and Communities." Keynote ad dresses were delivered by sociolo- Continued on page 3 r k f ID Tl - Iaib M f