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(503) 553-3238
The Oregon Slate University Extension Service staff Is devoted to extending research-based Information from OSU to the people of Warm Springs
In agriculture, home economics, 4-H youth, forestry, community development, energy and extension sea grant program with OSU, United States
Department of Agriculture, Jefferson County and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs cooperating. The Exenslon Service offers Its programs
and materials equally to all people.
The Clover speaks-
by Arlcne Boileau
4-H CAMP ATTROUT LAKE CHANGING
4-H Camp at Trout Lake .will be CHANG
ING this year. It will be merging with Cul
ture and Heritage and will be called "4-H
Culture Enrichment Camp.
Focus for the 4-H Culture Enrichment
Camp will be on teaching youth from the 2nd
to, the 9th grade .culture from this area.
Peters Pasture wiil be the base for the camp
ers. This is a primitive region with no run
ning water, electricity or buildings. Campers
will slay in tents. The camp will take place
before Huckleberry Feast and the campers
will know they will not be able to pick
Huckleberries until the Huckleberry feast
has been held.
This Camp will be FULL of Self Discov
ery and Revitalizing Experiences for both
Campers and Camp Staf.f.
The 4-H Culture Enrichment Camp will
have TWO session starting :
4-H camp positions available
4-H Enrichment Culture Camp has the
following positions for camp:
NEEDED:A) Camp Staff that is under
standing of youth in grades 2nd-9th. B) Camp
Staff with enthusiastic attitudes and loads of
energy C) Camp Staff with a gleam in their
eye.
The following positions need to be filled.
Recreation Director
Art Director
Water Safety Director
Sweat House leaders knowledgeable in
teaching young campers in the building of
the sweathouse and taking a sweat. One Male
sweat house leader & One Female sweat
Gerontology Conference
LaSells Stewart Center
by Norma L. Simpson
"Working Together Toward the 2 1 st Cen
tury" is the theme of the 21st annual Geron
tology to be held at OSU on April 22 and 23.
There will be more than 30 topics related to
older people. You will recognize some names
on the program. Former OSU Extension ger
ontologist, Vicki Schmall talks about "Home
Sweet Home: Enhancing Independence at
Home." Vicki will also join J. Sasser-Coen
when they talk about "Women's Sexuality in
Later Life."
Jan Hare, former OSU Family relations
specialist spent many hours putting together
information about Physician Assisted Sui
Childhood Obesity On
by Norma L. Simpson
A large number of America's children are
becoming obese with every passing year, a
21-year study reveals. According a Reuter's
News report, there has been a "substantial
increase in the prevalence of obseity among
schoolchildren and young adults" over the
past 20 years. The study watched over 1 1 ,000
children between 1973 and 1994 was con
ducted by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and the Tulane University of
School of Public Health and Tropical Medi
cine in New Orleans.
The reseachers tested school children in
volved in a long-term study in Louisiana.
The Bogalusa Heart Study aimed to identify
early-life risk factors for late heart disease.
They followed the children from ages 5
through adulthood (up to 24 years). They
performed periodic checks on obesity deter
minants such as height-versus-weight, and
skinfold measurements.
Among the 5 to 14-year-olds, there were
increases in weight of 7.5 pounds on the
average, the researchers say. For children in
the 15- to 17-year-old age group, the mean
weight increased by over 12 pounds over the
course of the 21 -year-study. And for the
oldest group, those 19- to 24-years-of-age,
the increase totaled nearly 8 12 pounds.
It's not exactly clear why more young
sters are gaining more weight. "Most studies
have found that total energy intake in the
STOCKMAN'S ROUNDUP: Calving season-
by Bob Pawelek
OSU Livestock Agent
Why do ranchers calve when they do?
What is the most economical time to calve?
According to some surveys I've seen,
most ranchers have no specific reason for
calving when they do. Often they are just
following a tradition that was established by
Dad or Grandpa. Since we are in the cow
business to make a profit, I believe that we
should have an economic reason for doing
the things we do. I'm afraid that too many
ranchers are on the verge of going broke
Arlene Boileau
4-H & Youth
Norma Simpson
Home Economics
Bob Pawelek
Livestock
Sue Ryan
4-H Assistant
First Session : July 7-13 1997
Second Session July 14.-20. 1997
There will be 60 Campers for each Ses
sion. . Camp registration packets will be ready
soon.
house leader.
Teachers for the areas of:
Beginning beadwork
Intermediate beadwork
Advanced beadwork
Basket making
Drum making
Girls Lead camp counselor
Boys Lead camp counselor
Camp Counselors
Do you enjoy teamwork with camp staff
and teaching youth ? Then this is the job for
you. Contact Arlene Boileau at 553-3238 or
Wilson Wewa, Jr. at 553-3393.
at Oregon State
cide: Am overview of the 1990s Key Events
and Legislation.
We have the opportunity to learn abut
"Making Managed Care Work for Older Per
sons" and classes about Osteoporosis, Breast
Cancer, Heart Disease, Dementia, Sleep Dis
orders, Anger and Anxiety in Older People,
Memory Potential in Later Life and A Mi
nority Experience of Aging: The Story of
Miss Mille.
If you wish a copy of the program and the
registration materials, call Norma Simpson
553-3238 or come for an Orange copy in
the pamphlet rack outside her office in the
Education Service Center on Wasco Street.
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United States has remained fairly stable over
the past few decades, and that fat intake has
decreased," researchers pointed out. So it
may be the other side of the weight-gain
equation reduced energy expenditure
through exercise that is at fault.
"Adolescents have shown decreased en
rollment in physical education classes and
participation in vigorous physical activity,"
the study speculates, adding that "the effects
of these changes may be accentuated by
increased television viewing."
Dr. Chris Rosenbloom, a nutritionist and
spokesperson with the American Dietetic
Association, agrees. "Very few public schools
have physical activity requirements. It' s been
pushed out of the curriculum. So kids don't
have a chance to exercise. And we now have
so many 'latchkey' kids.When they come
home from school, parents are nervous about
them being outside playing, so they often
say.'Okay, sit in fromt of the TV and wait for
me to get home.'And so now the average
kid is up to about three or four hours of TV
viewing a day."
Rosenbloom says schools need to
re-evaluate the health implications of poli
cies which phase out physical education and
sports programs. And she says parents need
to motivate children. "Parents need to pay as
much attention to their kids fitness as they
might to their own. If your school doesn't do
it, try and get your kinds involved in some
because they continue to follow traditions
that don't make sense.
When should we calve?
I think we should look to nature for the
answer to this question. When do the wild
animals, like deer, antelope, and buffalo have
their babies. Late spring and early summer.
Why? This is the only time of year that there
is sufficient forage resources to allow them
to produce adequate milk and breed back.
For them, it's simply a matter of survival.
Like the wild animals, a cow's nutritional
needs are the greatest from calving to breed
ing. It doesn't take much to winter a dry,
pregnant cow, but her nutritional needs will
increase sharply at calving. Her protein and
energy requirements may increase by 50 or
more. If her nutritional requirements are not
met, her milk production will suffer and she
will not be able to breed back on time.
Native grass is the forage we depend on
here at Warm Springs. Both forage availabil
ity and nutritional value are extremely low
until new growth begins in the spring. It
peaks around mid-May, and then begins a
gradual decline into the fall. Doesn't it make
sense to follow nature's example, and calve
when forage quantity and quality are at their
greatest?
Clint Jacks
Staff Chair, Madras
Bodie Shaw
Ag & Natural Resources
Natural Resource Notables-
by Bodie Shaw
American Community Gardening As
sociation A Community Garden? In Warm Springs?
YES! There is a small group pushing this
idea that will hopefully soon become a real
ity . This small group, headed by Austin Smith,
consists of Nancy Collins, CarlaDcan
Caldcra, Mark Hcaly, Sheila Wahnetah, and
myself. The concept of a community garden
is fairly new, however in Warm Springs it
has been non-existent. How about a short
history of the concept of community gardens
and the American Community Gardening
Association?
In the 1990's, millions of Americans are
chronically hungry and malnourished. Ameri
can cities decay, vacant lot by vacant lot.
Youth unemployment and school drop-out
rates approach crisis proportions. Older
Americans live in physical and social ghet
tos, cut off from healthy interaction with the
larger society. And children in cities think
vegetables come from supermarkets.
Community organizing around a neutral
issue like gardening helps get to the root of
these problems. The community gardening
and greening movement brings together
neighbors and others of diverse cultures,
ethnicities, ages, and abilities to work for
cJhange by creating new community re
sources. Community gardens can serve as a
catalyst for neighborhood development,
beautification, recreation, therapy, and food
production.
In the early 1970's the community gar
dening movement took firm root in urban
communities, and many of these continue to
thrive in such cities as Philadelphia, Boston,
New York, Chicago, Indianapolis, Denver,
Seattle and Kansas City. Growing out of the
energy crisis of the '70's and the resulting
rise in the price of fresh produce, and spurred
by the rapid decline of inner city neighbor
hoods, the number of community gardening
programs in the US has increased signifi
cantly. From less than 20 programs in the
early 1970's, there are now more than 550
programs nationally.
Requests from cities and community
groups wanting to start programs are rising
The OSU
Extension staff
wish you a very
happy and safe
Easter
kind of organized sports, whether it's soccer,
basketball ro Softball."
The long-term consequaences of ignoring
childhood weight gain should give parents
an incentive. "Overweight children have a
1.5 to 2-fold increased risk for being over
weight as adults," say the researchers from
Tulane University and the Center for Disease
Control. And they point out that study after
study has tied adult obesity to increased risk
of heart disease, high blood pressure, (diabe
tes) and certain cancers.
Collage of Culture
by Norma L. Simpson
FANTASTIC! A Teen Dance will be held
Friday, May 16, on the Dance Main Stage
area of the Collage of Cultures. Jenny
Langnese of Warm Springs joined Jennifer
Ast, both Madras High School students, dur
ing the March 3 Collage of Cultures planning
meeting to tell us more about the dance. The
event will be sponsored by the Jefferson
County Youth Council, with a disk jockey
spinning the CDs.
Lupe Ellis represented the Hispanic Com
munity and talked about the excitement for
the "Danza Azteca" group and for the com
munity children dancers that is already prac
ticing. Lupe plans to have others in the commu
nity join us to set up and tear down of the site
of the Collage of Cultures.
Most ranchers have resources - both land
and livestock - that are already paid for, but
they will pay all over again if they try to get
their cows to breed back when forage pro
duced by the land is not available. Successful
competition, out of season, is usually accom
plished with heavy supplementation of hay,
grain, or protein. Ranchers pay dearly when
they go against nature.
When we ran cows back home in the
South Texas Brush Country, we switched
from calving in February to calving in May.
In the process, we reduced our feed expenses
by a whopping 75. That's a huge savings.
The advantages go beyond economic sav
ings. And it sure is nice to be calving in just
short-slccves.
Calves would much rather be born on a
warm, sunny spring day than on a cold,
snowy, wintry night.
Before you turn your bulls out this year, I
strongly suggest that yourself. "Why do I
calve w hen I do?" If you don't have a good
economic reason, then I challenge you to
consider following nature's example. It's
not nice - or profitable - to fool Mother
Nature!
steadily, according to the American Commu
nity Gardening Association, up from 150 in
1992 to more than 400 in 1994. A 1992
ACGA study reported that the rate of new
garden starts within existing programs is also
increasing, up 29 from 1990. Further, this
study noted that almost half of these report
ing organizations indicated that "they had
been, or were currently working on signifi
cant open space initiatives to incorporate
community gardening into their city's Mas
ter Plan or Open Space Element."
Over the last 15 years, many community
gardening and greening programs have
formed to help fulfill our national need for
growth and greening, and to make green
space a reality for large numbers of people.
The American Community Gardening Asso
ciation (ACGA) was founded in 1979 to help
these different programs share often limited
resources, and to help keep these same groups
from constantly re-inventing the wheel.
Supported in part by the Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society, ACGA maintains a
national office in Philadelphia. Several local
ACGA Board members meet there weekly ,
and answer hundreds of requests for infor
mation each year about community garden
ing and greening. They offer support, coach
fledgling groups, and whcrevcrpossible they
make matches between programs with spe
cific challenges and programs which have
already worked through similar situations. A
group starting gardens in Public Housing, for
example, might be encouraged to visit a neigh
boring state that has been doi ng that for many
years. New programs just forming can get
"Start-up" information, along with a contact
list of Board members and other members in
their geographic region, since many ques
tions are best answered on a local level. They
can also borrow a slide show about commu
nity gardening, or access educational hand
outs on a wide variety of subjects.
Through its networking, publications (The
Community Greening Review, etc.) and an
nual conference, (held this year in Portland,
Oregon,) ACGA promotes the formation and
expansion of national and regional commu
nity gardening networks, develops resources
in support of community gardening and green
Values: What are they in
by Norma L. Simpson, Extension Home
Economics Agent
When people ask you "what is important
to you?" they are asking you to decide the
values that you have. But it is hard to decide
what is the most important to you. That is
what the Comprehensive Planners are asking
everyone to do- decide on the most important
things or actions in your life.
On March 12, Jolene Atencio introduced
the Women's Resources Association mem
bers to the values exercise. I was excited to
be one of the Women's Resource group.
Very Interesting! The group went through a
four sheets of values, and decided how much
we valued each statement-Always valued,
Often valued, Sometimes valued, Seldom
valued and Least valued. Then we had to
select the Top-Five Values. That was a chal
lenge! Many other groups have already been
introduced to the Community Values Ses
sions. We hope your family or organization
will join the quest for the community's val
ues
announces added events
This year we have a Volunteer Coordina
tor, again, that is volunteer, Julie Muzzuco.
The Collage is planned and run by volun
teers. We need so many volunteers that this
year we have a new super coordinator. Last
year one of the best loved groups of volun
teers came from the Warm Springs Fire and
Safety. They made great points among the
people surveyed during the 1996 Collage.
During the day of the event, soccer volun
teers will put on a soccer tournament in the
oval of the West Side Elementary School. In
another area there will be a baseball tourna
ment. In the school building, dynamic Diversity
Training will be conducted by Rose Moore,
who has volunteered her time after she con
ducts a training program in Warm Springs.
A Basque group has expressed an interest
Chatcolab 1997 begins May 18 to 24,
Blaze Your Trail to Leadership May
18-24
by Norma L. Simpson
Many people in Warm Springs are anx
iously waiting for Chatcolab. Its a great sum
mer camp for people of all ages. The last time
that I attended, we had campers from age two
to age 96. I'm sure that the diversity will be
a major component of this years event at
Camp Roger Larson on Lake Coeur d' Alene
near Worley. Idaho
Chatcolab is designed to stimulate educa
tional experiences for people who are inter
ested in leadership and recreation. The audi
ence is for those w ho has reach their fifteenth
birthday and completed the ninth grade on
up. They are from all walks of life.
The early morning All-Lab session this
year is on Team Dynamics taught by Kirk A.
Wcisler of Utah. Everyone attends the 12
hours of applications and experiences to
change behaviors related to groups and to
fun. Weisler also teaches two mini-workshop
on Adventure Games and Processing: We
Played the Game, Now What?
In-depth and Mini Workshops are held
during the week as well as are many great
activities with and by the other campers.
Tina Aguilar. Dorothy "Pebbles" George and
Erama Palmer from Warm Springs will
teach an In-depth workshop about "Ameri
ing, encourages research on the impact of
community greening, and conducts educa
tional programs.
By becoming ACGA members, garden
ing professionals and volunteers maintain
contact with others throughout the US , keep
ing abreast of the latest techniques and do-
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vclopmcnts in the field. ACGA, its Board of
Directors, and its organizational and indi
vidual members represent and support all
aspects of community food and ornamental
gardening, urban forestry, and the preserva
tion and management of open space.
Benefits of Membership: A nationwide
network of community gardening contacts;
Membership Directory Discounted atten
dance at the annual ACGA Conference; The
annual Community Greening Review; The
bimonthly Multilogue members newsletter;
Access to the ACGA Community Gardening
Slide Show and Display; A ccess to the A CGA
Educational Handout File; Mentoring Pro
gram linking new members with more expe
rienced members; Certificate of Recognition
giving national recognition to nominated
people or groups Letters of Support Other
ACGA publications
For more information about ACGA, con
tact Sally McCabe or Janet Carter at the
American Community Gardening Associa
tion: 100 N. 20th St., 5th floor, Philadelphia,
PA 19103-1495. Phone 215-988-8785 or
E-mail the ACGA at sallymc libertynct.org
your scheme of life?
It's a great way to Icarn about values,
teach your children about values and to ex
press what you think is important for the
community. It also gives you the opportunity
to appreciate the different people in the com
munity their values will be different. Some
people are very traditional and others prefer
modern ways of acting and living. Others
weave the two styles of life together.
There are many ways to value community
life. When young people leave the commu
nity for the first time, they often get so
homesick that they want to come home. They
are not sure why they feel the way they do. "I
miss all the people I have known all my life"
is what they often say. "I miss my dog, I talk
to her all the time when I'm home." "I miss
the many things we do together as families
and communities."
If you have not been involved in staling
your values, contact Jolene Atencio at the
Administration Building, 553-3270. Jolene
will fill you in on all of the activities that are
involved in the Comprehensive Plan for the
t 20 years.
in a Basque Food Booth. As you know the
types of food sold will be limited to one
vender per type food, so that there is not too
much competition and disappointment by
the vendors. It is very important to put in
your bid early and pay your fee to reserve the
booth.
A lot of money is spent on advertising
and free entertainment to attracted the esti
mate 10,000 participants. Excellent acts have
been booked throughout the day. Be sure to
mark May 16 and 17, at Friendship Park
at the West Side Elementary School.
Til then, come join our planning sessions
every Monday night at the Chamber of Com
merce building in Madras, 5th and D Streets,
at 6 p.m. For more information, contact,
Norma L. Simpson - OSUWarm Springs
Extension office 553-3238.
can Indian Culture, Lore and Crafts" shar
ing cultural and historical experiences while
you make crafts such as dream catchers,
cradle boards and beading.
Other Indepth Workshops are about Dis
cover YOURSELF in Leadership; Be a
Clown and the World Laughs with You;
and Song Leading.
Sonya Watts will teach a Mini workshop
Earth Awareness Learning about Liv
ing in a Sacred Manner, the Native Ameri
can World View and ways of interacting
with the natural world. Sonya's second
Mini-workshop is about Native Song and
Dance and traditions of Native Ameri
cans. Other Mini Workshops include Copper
Beads; Pipe chimes; Creative Story Tell
ing; Kaleidoscopes; Cloth Hats;
Kusudama, an Alaskan Ornament; Folk
Dance, Heart Necklace; Tie Dye; Hiking;
Reed Mini-baskets; Western Line Dances;
and Macrame Basics and More.
Chatcolab is a great way to learn, with
tender loving care and sharing. It's a reason
able price as well especially if you register
before April 20. For More information and
applications, contact NormaL. Simpson,
or Arlene Boileau. Carol Allison or Tina
Aguilar, a Chatcolab Board Member.
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