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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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thrre-and-one-half days it took to repair and replace them.
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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
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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-
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