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Coyote News
In Brief
Tom to be featured in
national magazine
Nine-year-old tribal
member artist Preston
Tomwill appear in the
next issue of "Indian
Artist".
Arthur has fond
memories of past
Featured senior citizen
Taylor Arthur recalls his
past and questions his
future.
Art show opens
The works of tribal
members artists are
featured in second
annual show at The
Museum.
General Assistance
Program defined
Statistics show that
those who receive
General Assistance
really don't want to be
where they are and are
willing to work to get off
public assistance.
Fish tagging a
success
The Warm Springs
National Fish Hatchery
successfully complete
their annual tagging
program recently. One
tagger offers her
"Musings".
School's almost out
Warm Springs
Elementary, along with
all other District schools,
will soon be empty as
the last day of school
nears.
Tom works hard for
name in team roping
Sixteen-year-old Justin
Tom has worked since a
very young age to
become the best in his
chosen sport.
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Pi-Ume-sha Run set
The annual Pi-Ume-Sha
Run is set for June 24. A
registration form is
available for those
interested in the 1 0K
and two-mile runs.
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Sugars defined
OSU Extension offers
the lastest information
on the various kinds of
sugars currently on the
market.
Deadline for the next
Spilyay Tymoo Is
Friday, June 2, 1995
Spilyay Tymoo
( Coyote News)
General
Council
Meeting
Ibesday,
June 13
Agency
Longhouse
6 p.m. Dinner
7 p.m. Meeting
Agenda:
Kah-Nee-Ta
Annual Report
Oregon
Symphony
sets local
performance
As part of its annual Meyer Me
morial TrustNational Endowment
for the Arts Regional Touring Pro
gram, the Oregon Symphony will
visit Warm Springs Sunday, June 4,
for a performance at the Community
Center at 10 a.m. The concert is part
of the Symphony's third annual re
gional tour, which also features stops
in La Grande, John Day and Bend
during the end of May and the first of
June. The performance will be spon
sored locally by Kah-Nee-Ta Resort,
Warm Springs Forest Products,
Warm Springs Power Enterprise, the
Tribe's Secretary Treasurer's office
and Public Relation's office. The
Oregon Symphony will present a light
classicaleducation concert led by
Oregon Symphony Resident Con
ductor Murry Sidlin.
One of fhe largest arts organiza
tions in the Pacific Northwest, the
Oregon Symphony is an institution
of national repute. The oldest major
orchestra in the West, it has been
ranked "first class" by Gramophone
magazine and "a virtuoso ensemble"
by the Washington Post.
Early historical records indicate
that Portland's first symphonic con
cert took place at Oro Fino Hall, June
1 5, 1 866. Just 2 1 years after the city ' s
founding and a little less than 11
years after representatives of the
Wasco and Warm Springs Tribes
signed the Treaty of 1855.
It was not until 1886 that the Port
land Symphony Society was founded.
The first orchestra in the West, and
one of only six major orchestras es
tablished in America before 1900.
W. H. Kinross conducted the initial
concert at the Marquam Grand
Theater on October 30th of that year.
By 1899 the Symphony was giving
an annual concert series, and in 1902
embarked on its first tour, to Eugene
and Corvallis, for its first world
premiere performance.
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District 509-J to
sponsor lunch
program
Jefferson County School District
509-J announced recently the spon
sorship of the Summer Food Service
Program for Children. Meals will be
made available at no charge to at
tending children 18 years old and
younger. All meals are available
without regard to race, color, national
origin, age, sex or handicap. Any
person who believe that he or she has
been discriminated against should
write immediately to the Secretary
of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
20250. Meals will be provided at the
Warm Springs Community Center at
200 Hollywood Blvd. Warm Springs.
Lunch will be served between 1 1 :45
a.m. and 1:30 p.m. June 26 through
August 11.
Annual Cake Walk and Art Fair held at Warm Springs Elementary
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Snake River experiment not representative of typical conditions
During the week of May 7, Na
tional Marine Fisheries Service re
searchers, accompanied by consult
ants hired by the Direct Service In
dustries, discovered that 71 juvenile
salmon held in net pens below Ice
Harbor Dam in the Snake River had
died, apparently from exposure to
high concentrations of dissolved gas.
The group which was to serve as
controls were also dead as a result of
the net pen in which they were held
breaking free from its anchor. One
net pen held the fish within one meter
of the surface of the river. All juve
nile salmon died. High mortality in
shallow pens is not unexpected. An
other pen allowed the fish to occupy
water as deep as four meters below
the surface. Eighty-five percent of
the juvenile salmon died. High
mortality in deep cages is unusual.
The Columbia River Alliance
immediately sent out a new release
stating that this experiment proved
spilling water through the spill gates
at dams is harmful to juvenile fish.
When the experiment was re
peated, 61 percent of the juveniles
held in the surface pens died. Mor
tality in the deep cage, however, was
only 1 .4 percent.
Whether by accident or design,
the net pens that have caused all the
commotion are located in the region
of highest total dissolved gas con
centration to be found in the Snake
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River below Ice Harbor Dam. The
net pen location is not representative
of the river conditions found typi
cally below the dam. Transect data
are available from the Army Corps
of Engineers.
The juvenile salmon held in the
cages are subyearling fall chinook.
They are not representative of the
juvenile salmon in the river right
now, which are yearling spring
chinook and steelhead. Of salmo
nids, juvenile fall chinook are the
most susceptible to gas bubble
trauma.
The juvenile salmon used in the
experiment were trucked in from
Bonneville Hatchery. Of all forms of
transportation, juvenile salmon find
being trucked the most stressful.
Four days does not represent a
typical period of time that
outmigrating salmon are in this reach
of the Snake River. Under current
flow conditions, juvenile salmon
passing Ice Harbor Dam are typi
cally out of the Snake within 1 6 hours,
and often in considerable less time.
Holding them in net pens for four
days may have some relevance to
resident fish in this reach of the Snake,
but it has none to juvenile salmon.
The Fish Passage Center exam
ined 587 juveniles at McNary Dam
during the week of May 14. It found
one fish with external symptoms of
gas bubble trauma, and that was of
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the mildest sort.
The National Biological Service
has sampled 160 juvenile salmon
recently at McNary Dam. None were
found with symptoms of gas bubble
trauma.
Of the total 747 sampled, about
one-tenth of one percent showed any
symptoms of GBT.
At all monitoring stations on the
Columbia and Snake rivers, 4,369
fish have been examined. Nine have
been found with GBT symptoms,
about two-tenths of one percent.
Again, all symptoms were of the
mildest sort.
Juvenile fall chinook held for four
days in the net pens less than one
meter deep in gas concentrations
about 1 20 percent are not representa
tive of the fish in the river. A
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Warm Springs VAP receives
sizeable State grant for shelter
The Warm Springs Victim Assis
tance Program (VAP) was recently
awarded a $90,000 grant from the
State of Oregon under the Edward
Byrne Memorial Grant. The VAP
and Victim Assistance Board coop
eratively submitted a grant applica
tion for monies to begin building a
shelter in Warm Springs for victims
of crime.
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The Warm Springs
Elementary School held
their annual Art Fair and
Cake Walk May 18, 1995.
The Cake Walk and
lemonade and cookie sales
earned $372.00 and will be
used for art special art
supplies.
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hydroacoustic study done last year
found that about 85 percent were
found in water deeper than the deep
est cage used in the Ice Harbor Dam
experiment. Gas concentration de
creases as depth increases.
No method of fish passage is
without risk. Studies have shown that
spill results in the mortality rate of
zero to three percent. Collection and
bypass system mortalities range be
tween two and 20 percent, depend
ing on the system. Fish kills such as
the one at McNary Dam last summer
in which up to 100,000 juvenile
salmon died, are not uncommon.
Transportation, the method promoted
by the CRA, has simply failed. As
more salmon have been put on barges
as juveniles, fewer have returned as
adults.
Fifty grant applications were
awarded throughout the State, and
four of those awarded will be high
lighted by the Governor's office; the
Warm Springs program will be one
of those four. The Governor held a
press conference Tuesday, May 23
with Warm Springs representatives
and the other three award recipients
to discuss the VAP program and how
the grant monies will be used.
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