PAGE 2 August 19,1994
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
White owns and
Chorlcne White is the owner and
operator of the Quail Trail Day Care
Center located at her home in Greeley
Heights since January 3, 1994, when
she decided to open a family day care
center. After working at the Early
Childhood Center for eleven years
White decided to open Quail Trail
Day Care Center to provide a child
care service to the community and
enjoy her new home by working "at
home."
The Quail Trail Day Care Center
is registered with the state of Oregon
to run a family day care in her home
and has requirements as far as
enrollment and age groups. She
qualifies for the Block Grant offered
at the ECE Center and she is
reimbursed by the USDA for one
third of the food provided to the
children. Food is prepared by White
and the children eat breakfast, lunch
and snacks on a regular schedule,
daily.
Quail Trail has an enrollment of
ten children ranging from ages 3 to
1 1 years. Tocnroll your child at Quail
Trail Day Center you must contact
White, she will put the information
on her waiting list When an opening
becomes available then she will refer
to the waiting list. Her rates are $ 1.25
an hour until September the rate will
change to $1.50 an hour5JiXJ a
month. You must be able to pay the
fee to be considered for enrollment
She is open from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m.
A typical day at the Quail Trail
Day Care consists of play time
indoorsor outdoors, artwork, puzzles,
and an occasional movie. Someday
she will include peabody learning
activities into their daily activities,
and Indian language.
The children get along very well
considering they are of varying ages.
It is White s intentions to provide a
family environment for the children,
Fire danger very high; Hot Shot crew in
Now that the LeClaire Fire is a
memorable part of the past, it's time
to take a look at current fire condi
tions and what the Warm Springs
Hot Shot crew is up to.
The 20-member crew is currently
helping contain the treacherous Tyee
Creek Fire in the Wenatchee Na
tional Forest. The crew left Warm
Springs August 10 after a four-day
rest following dispatch to numerous
fires in the Okanagan National for
est, also in Washington. The crew is
expected to be on the Wenatchee fire
lines for three weeks before their
Grant to fund
President Clinton recently
announced that the Department of
Energy (DOE), the Earth
Conservation Corps and the
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission will receive an
AmeriCorps National Direct Grant
from the Corporation for National
and Community Service.
The $2 million grant will fund the
Salmon Corps, a project that includes
enlisting 72 AmeriCorps volunteers
from the tribes to work on restoring
Columbia River salmon and their
habitat.
"We are proud to be part of
President Clinton's AmeriCorps
team", said CRITFC Executive
Director Ted Strong.
At The Museum at Warm Springs
String quartet to perform Aug. 18
The Sunriver Music Festival
String Quartet will perform at The
Museum at Warm Springs on
Thursday, August 18, at 3 p.m. in the
Changing Exhibit Gallery, as part of
the Festival's community outreach
program.
Concert admission is free.
The string quartet consists of
members of the Sunriver Music
Festival Orchestra, including S tephen
Redfield of New Braunsfels, Texas;
Virginia Lawrence of Albuquerque,
Spilyay Tymoo
Staff Members
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operates Quail Trail
and they do feel like a family. When
any child is on vacation the other
children miss that childand ask "when
is heshe coming back?" Because
White provides child care to nieces
and nephews she is Auntie Charlcne
and her husband is Uncle Dennis.
It had taken her about three months
of hectic daily schedules until she
taken a routine of daily activities,
providing care for the children,
cooking and preparing meals and
snacks for the children. She gets help
from her family members who are
also child care providers at the ECE
Center and her husband Dennis, who
the children know as "Uncle Dennis."
Chorlene White operates her day care
children their mid-morning snack.
return home.
According to fire management
manager Mark Jackson, assignment
to other fires has been curtailed be
cause of imminent fire danger on the
reservation. Even though tempera
tures are lower, fire danger remains
"very high" because of low fuel
moisture.
Three engines from the South
west area, particularly the Navajo
reservation, are in Warm Springs to
assist in fire fighting if the need arises.
Jackson explained that the reciprocal
fire fighting agreement, the brain
salmon restoration project
"The Salmon Corps project is a
step in building a true working
relationship between the federal
government, Native American
governments and other public and
private partners in the Columbia River
region, said DOE Secretary Hazel
O'Leary.
The Earth Conservation Corps, a
non-profit organization based in
Washington, D.C., works with
community leaders building
partnerships between youth and the
environment. The Yakama, Warm
Springs, Umatilla and Nez Perce
tribes, who make up CRITFC, will
participate in the Salmon Corps
project along with the Shoshone
Bannock tribe.
N.M.; Jennifer Roberts of Colorado
Springs, CO; and Andrew Ehrlich of
Portland.
The performance is the second of
the festival's community outreach
program concerts. The first was held
in Madras last year.
The music festival also offers
master classes for young musicians,
including instruction in strings, piano
and voice, as part of its educational
outreach program.
Day Care Center
White is satisfied with what she
has accomplished in starting her own
business. She cares for the well-being
of the children of this community as
they are the leaders of tomorrow.
She keeps in mind the tribes goal to
be the healthiest community by 2000.
Providing child care is her way of
working toward that goal by working
with the children and teaching them.
She knew that there was a need for
child care in the community. When
she worked at the ECE Center she
was always taking in calls from
parents checking how far their child
was on the wailing list. She saw the
need for child care and acted on it.
center alt by herself. Here she serves
Washington
child of Jackson and Walt Sixkiller,
is among the BIA Albuquerque,
Phoenix, Navajo and Portland area
offices. The fire seasons for the Warm
Springs and Navajo reservations are
different, with the Southwest seeing
their highest fire danger in the spring
and fall and Warm Springs fire danger
the highest in the summer. Fort
Apache sent two engines here two
years ago and Warm Springs sent
two engines to the Southwest last
year in June. If the agreement did not
exist, the fire fighters could have
been unemployed.
Participants will work "hands-on"
to help rehabilitate salmon spawning
and rearing habitat in the basin.
Members of the Salmon Corps will
restore in-stream structures and
riparian vegetation and erect pole
fencing to restrict livestock access.
Along with the field work, team
members will receive training, attend
seminars at DOE sites, and receive
mentoring from scientists and
technicians at fisheries and
environmental agencies and local
DOE facilities.
Salmon Corps members will be
selected from tribes in the region and
the national AmeriCorps pool. The
project will be funded for one year
and may be renewed for an additional
two years. Start up date is September
1994. Volunteers will receive an
annual stipend of $8,000 and an
educational grant of $4,725 upon the
successful completion of one year of
AmeriCorps service.
For more information, contact
your tribal fisheries program manager
or Jim Heffernan at CRITFC, 503-238-0667.
King Royal Bros. Circus
The Texas Based King Royal
Bros. Circus will present an old
fashioned "Under the Big Top" 3-
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King Royal Bros. Circus is coming
Diminished fish runs-Continued from page 1
many Snake River fall Chinook as
possible return to spawning grounds).
"The dams usually kill more than
90 percent of these fall Chinook and
yet NMFS has issue "no jeopardy"
rulings for the hydrosystem," said
Strong.
The Yakama, Warm Springs,
Umatilla and Ncz Perce treaty re
served fishing rights were reaffirmed
in the 1969 court case United States
v. Oregon. The Court also said that
government conservation measures
must not discriminate against the
tribes and must use the least restric
tive means in limiting tribal fisheries.
"The tribes were already forging
a conservation season through the
US v Oregon process and NMFS
comes along and says the tribes have
to do more," said Charles "Pete"
Hayes, Chair of the Nez Perce Tribe.
As a result of months of discussion
between the stales, the four treaty
tribes and the US Fish and Wildlife
Service (USFWS).a tribal harvestof
149 Snake River fall Chinook was
going to be allowed during the fall
season fishery.
Weather or not,
If you like it hot, this summer has
been the time to be in Warm Springs.
The average high temperature For
June was 77 degrees with an average
low of 49 degrees. June 22 was the
warmest day of the month with a
high of 93 . J une 7 saw the lowest low
of 36 degrees.
During July, the average high
temperature was 91 degrees and the
average low was 55 degrees. The
mercury hit 107 two days running,
July 21 and 22, and the lowest low
for the month was on July 4 and 5 at
46 degrees. The temperatures soared
Tribal Crafts Fair
Labor Day Weekend
September 3, 4 and 5
The Museum at Warm Springs
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day
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ring Wild Animal Circus which will
be here on Saturday, September 10
and will be located at the Pi-Ume-
to Warm Springs Saturday, September 1 0.
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"Because of the dams, 368 Snake
River adult fall Chinook will be lost
between the dams and their reser
voirs, and because of adult passage
problems, the 149 fish saved by
closing the tribal fishery equate to
only 65 actual spawncrs," said Hayes.
For more than 15 years, fall fish
ing has been the backbone of tribal
fisheries for both subsistence and
commercial purposes. "We used to
fish year round, but beginning in the
1960s the tribes quit fishing on weak
stocks; I don't know if any one else
has done that," said Eugene Greene,
Sr., chair of the Warm Springs Fish
and Wildlife Committee and of
CRITFC.
After completion of the Snake
River dams in the mid-70s, tribes
have faced severe cutbacks. There
has been no tribal commercial fish
ery on summer Chinook since 1964
and none for spring Chinook since
1977, and no commercial sockeye
fishery since 1988.
"During those dam building years, '
there were no mitigation plans for
fall Chinook above Snake River dams
it's been HOT!
above 100 degrees for five consecu
tive days, July 21 through 24, aver
aging out at 105. Lightning activity
was seen on July 23, 24 and 25.
For August, so far, the average
high temperature has been 91 de
grees and the average low has been
55. The highest temperature, at 97,
was on August 1 3, while the month's
lowest low was 48 degree on August
8.
The last measurable precipitation,
.14 inches, fell on June 19. Traces of
rain, mostly at Sidwalter, fell on July
2.
to play in Warm Springs
Sha field behind the Community
Center. Show times will be at 3:30
and 6:30.
or for sockeye, and these are two of
three Snake River runs listed under
the ESA," said Greene. "There was
no mitigation planned for coho in the
Snake Ri vereithcr. Snake River coho
can't be listed today because they
were extinct in 1984," he said. There
have been no jeopardy rulings issues
against any other fishery or activity
that affect ESA-listcd salmon.
"By trying to further curtail our
fisheries, NMFS is again avoiding
taking meaningful action in favor of
doing something that is both inef
fective and illegal," said Strong.
"Now that it's the last minute for this
year's run, NMFS wants to assign
the entire conservation burden to the
tribal fishery and a small sports
fishery," Strong said. "What NMFS
is proposing may appear to be only
modifications to the treaty fishery, '
said Don Sampson, chair of the Con
federated Tribes of the Umatilla In
dian Reservation. "But, in fact, its
proposals would reduce the overall
' tribal catch by at least 90 percent.
"One main issue is production.
For over ten years, the Lyons Ferry
Hatchery has been taking wild Snake
River fall Chinook primarily at Ice
Harbor Dam. If the juveniles pro
duced form these wild fish were put
back in the river, they would make
up for the tribe's proposed harvest
almost tenfold," Sampson said.
"The Senate Energy and Water
Development Subcommittee has al
ready proposed a $9 million appro-
Eriation to support Snake River en
ancement projects, including the
outplanting of 400,000, to 600,000
fall Chinook smolts from Lyons Ferry
Hatchery in 1995. But NMFS is
saying no you can't do that, even
though the subcommittee has already
put the money in place," Sampson
continued.
"The tribes arc disappointed to
find the federal trustees' proposed
actions single out and discriminate
against the treaty tribal fishery, while
allowing other fisheries to proceed
and allowing other far larger sources
of mortality to continue unchecked,"
wrote Strong in an August 3, 1994
letter to Douglas K. Hall, assistant
secretary for the Department of
Commerce. NMFS is part of the
Department of Commerce.
"I'm concerned that we are mov
ing away from established processes,
away from the federal court's fish
management plan and away from the
standards of conservation," Strong
said. "NMFS's proposal may take us
back to 1960s-style confrontation."
The Circus is, in fact, the oldest
form of entertainment in recorded
history. And in America, the circus
has traditionally been a favorite of
both young and old for many
generations. Before the advent of
Television , circus provided a unique
form of entertainment that made it's
coming to town a holiday. Today,
with modern electronics dominating
our lives, the public seldom
experiences the traditional circus
that brings live exotic animals and
fearless performers to audiences. The
King Royal Bros. Circus allows the
opportunity to look back and relive a
glorious page of our nations rich and
colorful history. The King Royal
Bros. Circus features an exciting
collection of more than a dozen
exciting acts, including wild cats and
their trainers, aerial and acrobatic
performers, clowns, elephants and a
exotic petting zoo for the children.
It's 100 minutes of thrills! And all
under one giant big tent
The event is being sponsored by
the Warm Springs Recreation
Department. Advanced tickets will
be available at $4 for children and S6
for adults. The day of the circus they
will cost $6 for children and S 10 for
adults. They may be purchased
through CR Begay at the Warm
Springs Community Center. For more
information you may call 553-3244
or 3243.