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I m v w April 28, 19957 Spilyay Tymoo Warm Springs, Oregon The Clover by Crystal & Arlcne A tribal elder once shared the following story: Every person, each with diverse back ground, abilities, talents, and personalities, is placed in this world as part of the human race to nourish.strcngthcn and help other grow. Look at the forest. See how tiny pine trees eventually gave way to majestic pines, and how the alfalfa lives in harmony with grass. That is way you are different from me. Our differences are meant to be placed together like a jigsaw puzzle so the world can see a perfect picture of harmony and peace. From: Don Addy Ft. Belknap Extension Services (article taken from Families a publication of summer of 1992) Arlene Boilcau has received this letter from the Warm Springs 4-H Search and Rescue Cadet Program Re: Conclusion of the Warm Springs 4-H Search and Rescue Cadet Program This is to announce the ending of the Warm Spring 4-H Search and rescue Cadet Program. Our last official meeting Monday evening 3-20-95. There are several reason for the con clusion of the 4-H club, but mainly it is lack of funds, the youths of this program are the greatest. Even to the point of being recog nized as one of the best in the nation, as the 653rd Point Of Light. Being the only Search and Rescue program in the United States to be put in the Congressional Record, which is written history. These youths have accom plished many obstacles and challenges, tne last 712 years with these kids, have been the Changing in our by Norma L. Simpson During the recent Inservice Training at Oregon State University, extension home eco nomics agents learned about changes in our bodies as we grow older. Connie Georgiou, OSU nutrition professor outlined much of the research that we have needed for years to help older people eat properly and add food supple ments when they are needed. This is the first of two articles for Spilyay about these changes. Keys to good nutrition in the older years Be Physically Active even if you are home in a chair. We have seen the benefits when the Honor Seniors Day and the Root Feast are held. While some people can no longer dance around the Longhouse, their feet and hands are moving to the beat of the drums. Be Socially Active, eat with other people, listen to music and sing the songs on Talking Drum, chat with grandchildren and teach them the languages that are important in your life, tell stories of your life that family members can write down in your "Book of Memories." Then have them retell the stories or read back the stories to be sure the details are correct. Eat A Variety of Foods like whole grains, fresh vegetables and fruits, lean meats, poul try and fish and low-fat dairy products. Taste a small amount of new foods both to see if you like them and to see if they agree with your body. Stockman's Round up: Charolais and its crosses- 1,1 by Bob Pawelek OSU Livestock Agent Charolais is a French breed, originally from the province of Charolles in Central France. The breed is noted for its large size, growth thrust and bred-in red meat. When Charolais arrived in the United States, crossbred steers were being marketed from grass when they were four to five years old. Soon after the end of World War I, a young Mexican industrialist, Jean Pugibet, arranged a shipment of two bulls and 10 heifers to his ranch in Mexico. In 1934, Maximo Michaelis of Kyle, Texas saw these Charolais cattle on the Pugibet ranch. The Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, General Perez Trevino, gave Michaelis two Charolais bulls. These were the first Charol ais to enter the United States. Charolais are horned, light tan at birth. The color changes within a few weeks to a cream white. Charbrav From Charolais X Brahman crosses, usu ally 34 Charolais and i4 Brahman, the vre.Y r Speaks best in life. Keith Baker Recognition Recognition nite is a special event for the leaders, members & volunteers. The event is when all the 4-hcrs are recognized for the special skills that they have been learning and getting out of 4-H. If you have not turned in your registration form, please bring them in, Crystal will then enter the informa tion in the 1 -2-3-4-h program. The program lets our staff know how many years you are to be recognized. Chatcolub:Stepping stones to leadership Chatcolab is what? a leadership laboratory;a week of individual develop ment opportunities;an exchange of ideas and techniques Chatcolab is who? People working with people; anyone who is 15 years or older; persons interested in self development and recrcationChatcolab is why? To promote leadership through recre ation; supportive atmosphere for personal & professional growth; CEU's are avail ablcChatcolab is where? Camp Gifford; on the shores of Deer Lake; 40 miles north of Spokane Washington; Chatcolab is how much? $180.00 regular (incudes meals and lodging); $160 (seniors 60 full time stu dents); $35 patron members (notebook & chat chat newsletter); Early bird ($20 dis count if registered by May 15); Scholar ships (limited number available for first year participants). In-depth Workshopsgames leadcrship for the fun of it; environmental crafts; musi cal activities andor off instruments; high ropes course; campfire programming; Mini-workshops: quilting; adventure; recreation; stress management; decorative boxes; star gazing; dance; legal liabilities; event planning; power up your program with music; low ropes course; and much, much more. If you are interested in the workshop you may contact Crystal at the OSu Extension office at 553-32383239. Crystal will be more than glad to answer any question for you. We do have the applications for the chatcolab work shops. Rainbow Dancers: The rainbow dancers are starting up their meetings, calls have been received asking for the rainbow dancers. The first meeting is March 30, 1 995 at 7 pm. We will be discuss inu our calendars, countv fairs, state fair. fund raising, and what is expected. If you bodies as we grow older: first of two series , mr .ii- fhoz-aWioc hut tint hnlnnrcH nn the nutrients. rect the miKrle n IIco Voootahlf. Oil in MnnVratinn rather than animal fat like bacon grease, lard or lots of cheese. These animal fats contain cholesterol which is hard for the heart. Some people need multiple vitamin and mineral supplements or calcium and or Vitamin D supplements. The supplements , needed depend on the functions of age and activity. Current recommendations for energy you eat and how you use it Chose foods that are rich in nutrients that your body needs. That need not rich in fats, but rich in the nutrients like the vitamins and minerals that will keep your body healthy. The professor observed one nursing home with a 1 00 year old woman that wouldn ' t eat lunch or dinner. But she loved the rice crispies for breakfast. The cooks were told to serve the elder what ever she wanted to eat, which meant rice crispies for all three meals, if that pleased her. What she needed were NUTRIENTS. And rice crispies gave her more nutrients that the other foods she refused to eat. We all commented, that when you are 100 years old, should be able to eat anything your heart desires. What is ideal is having the balance be tween the calories in the foods and the nutrients. A steady diet of chocolates is heavy on Charbray is a breed of its own with its association. The Charbrav has the growth thrust of the Charolais and the heat-insect tolerance of the Brahman. A slight hint of the Brahman dewlap remains. Charford From Charolais X Hereford crosses, usu ally 34 Charolais and 14 Hereford, the Charford is not yet accredited to an associa tion of its own. Color combinations are varied, ranging from solid red to tiger-striped to light tan and white. The Charford is bred for the packer, as the carcass hangs in the weight range that the packer is looking for. Chianina From Central Italy in the province of Tuscany, the Chianina is of very ancient origin, going back to the days of the Roman Empire. Chianina is the largest breed of cattle in the world. Mature bulls stand about six feet tall (18 hands) at the withers and weigh up to 4,000 pounds. Mature cows weigh up to 2,400 pounds. The breed is also noted for trimness of middle; fineness of head, horn and bone. There is an absence of excessive dewlap and brisket. They're horned, with a narrow head, porcelain white hair, black switch and dark skin. The growth rate and leanness of the breed give Chianina bulls an important role as a terminal cross in a crossbreeding pro gram. Corriente Corrientes are raised primarily for rodeo sports, i.e., team roping and bulldogging in the U.S. and for Charreadas in Mexico. Not to be confused with Mexican fight ing bulls, or even Texas Longhorns, the Corriente is a small, agile, athletic animal with heavy horns. The cattle are narrow with high withers and a short, peaked rump. Corriente can fatten and finish and steers grown too big to rope have a mature frame and can put on bulk in about ninety days. Devon Devon is an English breed, having origi nated in the counties of Devon and Somerset. are interested in getting your family involved come on in to the office and fill out registra tion forms. We do ask that the parents be involved also. Burnout-What is it and what can you do to avoid it? 1 ) Set realistic goals.dcfinc your goals as precisely as possible, staying attuned to what is possible as well as to the mission and job requirements of your organization; 2) Focus on your successes, not on your failures. No one can help everyone. Allocate time and energy to make major efforts where they'll to do the most good; 3) focus more upon the process than the result. There is a great deal more to helping people than seeing the cures at the end of the tunnel. For example, recog nize the significance of developing a good rapport with clients and the pleasure of doing an important job well; 4) Keep a time per spective. Don't expect results right away. Much of the good you do may happen in your client's lives long after they have left you. For example, think of the teachers whose influence you did not appreciate until much later in your life. Wilderness camp Wilderness camp committee is well on their way with meetings. If you are interested in volunteering to help at camp, contact Arlene Boilcau at 503-553-3238. The camp is going to be great this year. We would love the have volunteers. Help wanted for 4-H camp Positions needed for Warm Springs 4-H Wilderness Enrichment Camp at Trout Lake : Full time cook, Full time cooks helper I, Full time cooks helper II, Full time Rec. Director, Full time Water Safety Director (Life Guard), Full Time Art Director, Storytelling (part time), Sweat house (knowl edgeable), Drumming (Teacher) Beginning & advance, Cultural Teachers, Bead work Teachers .Beginning & Advance. If you would be interested in filling any of these position please call 553-3238 and ask for Arlene Boileau, or come into the OSU Extension Office in the Warm Springs Edu cation Building on 1110 Wasco Street and we will have further information on these positions see you soon the calories but not balanced on the nutrients. Chose two types of exercise: Practice aero bic exercises which stimulate your heart, lungs and circulation. These things you can do from a chair or a bed as well as on the floor Until my mother died at age 87, she could still touch her toes and do all the stretching exercises that kept her much more limber than I am. For years when I visited her, we watched the 10 pm newscast on TV while we stretched, rolled and kicked up our heals. Practice strenth-huildingexercises which turn the protein we eat into muscles for our body. If we don't build and repair the muscles, we loose muscle and the protein goes to fat that piles up on our lumpy places. If we care for an elder person, we need to help them get some kinds of exercise that build muscles so they well be able to pick up and hold the grandchildren and participate in the other wonderful activities that happen to them in family and community life. The Disabilities Act has made it possible to do many more things with less effort. Ramps and wide doors and porta-toilets for wheel-chair bound people. But there is lots more we can do that relate to nutrition, that require that we under stand the changes in the body as it relates to the foods we eat. Energy needs decrease with age Resting Energy Use: When we sleep or They are sometimes referred to as "Ruby Red," as a rich dark red is preferred by the breed association. Dexter Small size with short legs, the Dexter is an Irish breed. Mature bulls do not generally exceed 1 ,000 pounds. The Dexter is difficult to discern from Angus except for their small ish frame. Fleckvieh Evolved from Simmental cattle which originally came from Switzerland, Fleckvieh were bred in Southern Germany around 1 895. In Germany, the red and white spotted ani mal is considered a dual-purpose breed with emphasis on beef. The progeny testing and selection pro gram of the Fleckvieh in Bavaria is, without doubt, one of the best in the world. To be licensed as a dam of a herd sire, a cow must be in the top 5 of the breed on milk produc tion; classified by a committee for size and conformation, and must meet rigid standards for calving intervals, calving ease, milking ease, disposition, and pedigree. Next time: Hereford, Limousin, and an Australian pedigree. NAFTA Sparks Increased U.S. Beef Exports by Bob Pawelek Cattle producers reaped some benefits in 1994 under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) including huge in creased in U.S. beef exports to Mexico and the formation of a working trade group con sisting of beef producers from each country. The value of U.S. beef exports to Mexico increased 54 percent during the first six months of 1994 as compared to the same period in 1993. Total volume of U.S. beef exports to Mexico increased 35 percent dur ing the same period. Additionally, cattle producers from each OREGON STATE UNfVFRSTTV EXTENSION service OSU Extension Staff; Arlene Boileau 4-H & Youth Bob Pawelek Livestock Norma Simpson Home Economics Crystal Winishut 4-H Assistant Tim Wojtusik Agriculture Clint Jacks Staff Chair, Madras The above individuals are devoted to extending research-based information from Oregon State University to the people of Warm Springs in Agriculture, Home Economics, 4-H Youth, Forestry, Community Development, Energy and Extension Sea Grant programs. Oregon State University, United States Department of Agriculture, Jefferson County and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs cooperating. The Extension Service offers its programs and materials equally to all people. EDUCATION THAT WORKS FOR YOU Canning booklets available by Carolyn Raab, OSU food & nutrition specialist & Norma L. Simpson Asparagus always announces the begin ning of spring. If you're planning to preserve any asparagus, do it safely. Home-canned asparagus can be deadly if it isn't processed the right way. Like other low acid foods, asparagus must be processed in higher than the boiling point of water. These high temperatures are needed to destroy the spores of bacteria that cause botulism, a sometimes fatal illness from food poisoning. Process pints of either hot or raw packed asparagus for 30 minutes at 240 degrees (15 pounds pressure with a weighted gauge; 12 pounds on a dial gauge). Quarts require 40 minutes of processing. The pounds pressure and timing are from 2000 to 4000 feet eleva tions Warm Springs Indian Reservation. The pressure adjustments will be different at other elevations so contact the county Extension Service offices where you are canning the asparagus. If you don't have a pressure canncr, con rest, the muscle or lean tissue of our body uses less energy than when we were younger. If we eat the same amount of food we ate when we were younger, we tend to get heavier. The energy we have, goes to keep ing the fat tissue supplied. If we are heavier, we have more fat cells, using more of our energy when we rest. Physical Activity Use: Think of all the things that you use to, do. Amazing the en ergy we had then, but don't have now. What we must think about is how to match the activities we like to do today, to the amount of food it takes to do the activity at the level we want. I use to love to fish, but I have not had my line in the water since I came to Warm Springs. During the Sports Festival at the Jefferson County Fair grounds, I got my first line in the water, to learn to fly cast. Let's hope this year that I can get a fly or a spinner and hook on the line and in the water rather than the tassel of red yarn. Factors that influence on how older people eat OSU Nutrition professor, Connie Georgiou, highlighted seven influences that affect how older people eat today: Economics Status: Nearly all older people have a reduced economic status, either be cause they have stopped working, or they of the three NAFTA countries have formed a voluntary alliance to review beef industry disputes among Canadian, Mexican and U.S. cattlemen before seeking government reso lutions. The NAFTA Beef Working Group, as it is referred, consists of members of the National Cattlemen's Association, the Cana dian Cattlemen's Association and the Mexi can Confederation National de Ganadereia. To foster better understandings on issues which could hold back trade, the Beef Work ing Group has met several times since NAFTA's implementation. Labeling, meat inspection requirements and animal health regulations are now being considered. Car monitors alcohol level by Norma L. Simpson For years I have wondered why vehicles do not come with some device to prevent drunk drivers from driving cars both for their safety and for the safety of people who now come in contact with drunk drivers. I remember years ago reading about cars be ing tested with breathilizers what prevented the car from starting if alcohol on the driver's breath was too high. Nothing seemed to ma terialize from that invention. When the Tech Update section of the April 1995 Popnl.ir Mechanics magazine reported about drunk-proofing cars in a brief article, I thought that new hope existed. But the invention is very complex. Here's how the device works. Two steering wheels monitor the drivers blood alcohol levels and react accordingly. "Both wheels measure alcohol content through sensors that soak up palm perspira tion. In each case, the driver must grip the Information provided bv: OSU Extension at Warm Springs 1110 Wasco Street 553-3238. sider pickling the asparagus. High acidity in pickling prevents growtn ol tne narmiui botulism bacteria. If you are uncertain about the safety of home-canned asparagus in your cupboard, boil it for 10 minutes before you eat it. Boiling that long will destroy the botulism toxin or poison produced by the bacteria in the jars. It takes the same length of time in the microwave as on top of the range. This extra margin of safety could be a life-saver if canning procedures weren't correct. Canning booklets are available in the OSU Extension Office. For Canning Veg etables ask for PNW 1 72. For pickling Veg etables ask for PNW 355. These two publications were prepared especially for the Pacific Northwest or PNW publications. That is important when it has to do with botulism because the soil in Oregon, Washington and Idaho have more botulism in the soil than in other states in the USA. Botulism bacteria live in the soil, which is why we pay special attention to canning of low acid fruits and vegetables which must be pressure canned. had limited savings to permit them to eat they way they did in the past. Others have in creased medical expenses such as medica tions or supplies and equipment for blood test monitoring. Some older people say their social security payment is not adequate to buy food and medical supplies. They must go without one to pay for the other. If they are caring for grandchildren without compensa tion from the parents of the children, and SS or AFDC do not provide money for the chil dren, the economic of status of the elder provides food for only one not more people. Household Composition: Generally as children grow up and leave home, the com position of the household decreases. Women being use to preparing for a large number of people, often prepare too many servings, and the food spoils before the food is eater. If they were not in the habit of freezing left-overs, the food is wasted. On the other hand, if children do not leave when they grow up, they may continue to treat the household kitchen as a free cafeteria which also drains the food budget for the older people with reduced income. Psychological Factors: People who like to have children and grandchildren around may not eat adequate, regular meals when they are alone. Diabetics find they may must get into a strict schedule as part of the treatment which means that thev will not be as flexible as other people would like them to be. If the older people stick to their schedule to feel good, then they may avoid others for com panionship. Food Preferences: Most people prefer to eat the food that they grew up on. It hurts some older and younger people to have to give up their favorite foods. For example Fry Bread with lots of sweet huckleberry jam or syrup. They tend to withdraw from the table when everyone else gets to eat their favor ites. Or worse yet for the older person is to eat bites of "forbidden" foods that they have stored way. A nutritionist told me they are "Sneaky" eaters. My weakness is "Choco late." I can smell chocolate if it's in the house and I will sneak into it until it is all gone. Though I tell myself that Carob has the same flavor, I don't believe it. To be continued in the next issue. steering wheel for 10 seconds, and gloves aren't allowed. The sensor checks for un usual levels of acidity that signal the pres ence of toxins. They then double check spe cifically for alcohol for alcohol. "If the driver is beyond the legal limit, the systems respond. One version shuts down the engine and triggers an alarm. The other also sets off an alarm and if the subject attempts to drive, blinks headlights and sounds the horn every few seconds. The second systems also monitors blood choles terol and sugar levels." The device was developed by Biological Interaction Transports Systems (BITS). While the article has an Atlanta, Georgia byline, the facility is not listed in Atlanta phone directory. Until devices like these are installed, we have to rely on the "Designated Driver" to prevent accidents to safe the people we lflve from death and injuries by drunk drivers.