2 March 27, 1997
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Poison proof your home....
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Oregon Poison Control
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National Poison Prevention Week
was March 16 through 22. Each year,
thousands of children are accidentally
poisoned by household chemicals,
plants, prescriptions and over-the-
Children invited to
enter logo contest
Cascade Children's Festival is
sponsoring a logo contest for children
in 1st through 6th grades. The theme
for the contest is "Kids are Sprecial."
Deadline for the contest is April
1, 1997. Please contact Joyce at
COBRA, if you have any questions,
541-382-9227.
counter drugs. This is the week set
aside each year to make sure that
your home and yard are safe for your
children, grandchildren, nieces or
nephews. The best ways to do this
arc to properly store, use and dispose
of all hazardous materials and to
teach children to ask before putting
anything in their mouths.
Some good poison prevention
rules include the following:
1. Keep poisonous substances
properly labeled and in their original
containers. (Example: Do not put
gasoline in a pop bottle).
2. Avoid taking medications in
front of children; they love to imitate
adults.
3. Do not refer to medication as
"candy". They should know that all
medication is to be taken only when
needed and only when given by an
adult.
4. Keep all cleaning materials and
chemicals labeled and out of the reach
of chldren and put them away
immediately after use.
5. Keep the Poison Control Center
phone number at the telephone and
make sure all of your child's
caregivers know the number as well.
6. Do not use ipecac syrup without
calling Poison Control first. Some
substances can cause more harm if
the child is made to vomit.
7. Clean out your medicine
cabinets and destroy all old
medications found in your home. If
you are uncomfortable destroying
them, bring them in to (he pharmacy
and we will destroy them for you.
If you should need to contact
Poison Control about an accidental
poisoning, be ready to answer the
following questions:
1. The name of the substance
(drug, plant, chemical, etc.).
2. How the victim was exposed
(through swallowing, skin contact,
eye exposure or inhalation).
3. How much was swallowed or
how long was the victim exposed to
the substance?
4. How long ago did the
"poisoning" occur?
The number for the Oregon Poison
Control Center is 1-800-452-7165.
The pharmacists from the Warm
Springs Health and Wellness Center
in conjunction with the Warm Springs
Community Health Education Team
visited the Early Childhood
Education Center and the Warm
Springs and Simnasho Elementary
schools over the past couple of weeks
to spread the message of poison
prevention. Please join us in
educating children about poison
prevention get your child to help
you "poison proof your home!
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The Culture and Heriitage Department recently participated In a Comprehensive Plan orientation.
Participants discussed the community and how values contribute to the quality of life on the reservation.
Medical monitoring for Hanford downwinders
Spend Easter at Kah-Nee-Ta
March 30, 1997
Traditional 7-Drum Worship service at 7 am
Easter Brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
$15.95 Champagne Brunch
$13.95 without champagne
$6.95 for children
Little ones Easter egg hunt at 1 p.m. Watch for the Easter
Bunny! For more information call 553-1112
Green to hold childrens rootfeast
Lucinda Green will hold her own
children ' s root feast at her home April
13, 1997.
She is inviting all children to
participate. The children will dig,
peel and prepare the roots for feast
on Sunday. Lucinda will be cooking
salmon over an open pit and all other
traditional foods will be prepared.
The feast will be for the benefit of
the children who wish to learn more
about the preparation and purpose of
root feast.
They may not be chosen to gather
roots for the longhouse but this is
their chance to do this for the
children's root feast.
Parent meeting
Free support group scheduled
offered
Cobra is starting free support
groups for survi vors of rape or sexual
assault. Groups start Monday, April
7, from 6:30-7:30.
Sorry, no child care available.
For directions, please call Cobra
at 541-382-9227.
Attention High School Seniors!
Are you planning on attending col
lege this fall? Contact the Higher
Education Office and sign up for
student success strategies class to
begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1 5,
1997 at the Education Service build
ing. If you have any questions please
call at 541-553-3311.
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A reception was held at the Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge Wednesday March
19 for Bob Hall who served 17 years as a Kah-Nee-Ta Board
member. Bob and his wife Jan will be missed by many who knew him
and worked with him. Hall plans on taking two months of his
retirement before starting on two other hotel projects.
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Spilyay Tymoo 1997
Senior parents to
meet
Parent's of Madras High School
Seniors, there will be a general meet
ing Wednesday, April 9th at 7:30 at
the Madras High School Library. This
will be the last opportunity to get
involved. If interested or need more
information please call Judy at 475
3709. Classes to begin
Attention High School Seniors!
Are you planning on attending col
lege this fall? Contact the Higher
Education Office and sign up for
student success strategies class to
begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15,
1997 at the Education Service build
ing. If you have any questions please
call at 541-553-3311.
Retail space
available
The InformationGift Shop lo
cated at the Crossing, 2 1 97 Highway
26, Warm Springs, Oregon has been
vacated and is now available. Any
Tribal Member interested in leasing
this building need to submit a written
business proposal outlining their
business activity and how they would
like to use the building. These pro
posals need to be received by the
Warm Springs Business Develop
ment Center by the closing date of
April 11, 1997. If you need addi
tional information, please call
(541)553-3592.
Public notice
Subject: Proposed Flood Dam
age; Prevention Ordinance
When: Thursday, April 3, 1997
7-9 p.m.
Where: Agency Longhouse (ten
tatively) Presenters: Land Use Commit
tee, Water Control Board
Water & Soil Dept., Planning
Dept.
Please attend and give your input.
The Tribal Council will be review
ing comments about the proposed
code on or about April 15, 1997.
TV-turnoff planned
This April, millions of families
will leave their TV sets OFF for
seven days from the 24th to 30th.
What will they do instead? Create,
play and just be together as a family.
To organize a TV-turnoff in your
area, contact: TV-Free American at
1611 Connecticut Ave. NE, Wash
ington, DC 20009 or phone: (202)
887-0436.
Craig chosen
The Warm Springs Composite
Products would like to take this time
to recognize our Employee Of The
Month for February. This award went
out to: Eric Craig.
Eric has been selected for the
award by the following criteria:
Safety in the work place; quality of
work, production quantity, atten
dance, personal initiative, attitude
and cooperation with fellow employ
ees, lead people, supervisors and
management.
The telephones are ringing at the
Hanford Health Information Network
(HHIN). Many callers lived down
wind or downriver from the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation between 1945
and 1951 when they were age 19 or
younger. People who fit this profile
may be eligible for a medical moni
toring program proposed by the fed
eral Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
On March 20, the ATSDR an
nounced its recommendation that the
federal government fund a medical
monitoring program for thousands
of the people exposed to past radio
active releases from Hanford, located
in southeastern Washington state.
The ATSDR is responding to
questions from the public about the
proposed medical monitoring pro
gram through the Atlanta office,
(404)639-0501. The staff of the
HHIN, a separate program sponsored
by the state health agencies of Idaho,
Oregon and Washington, is respond
ing to callers who have questions
about the health effects of exposure
to radiation.
Anyone who would like to know
more about the health and experi
ences of Hanford downwinders can
look at information downwinders
have contributed to the Hanford
Health Information Archives. The
Archives, a service of HHIN, offers
a data base of health information
available on the World Wide Web at
http:www.foley.gonzaga.edu
hhiahome.html.
People may also call the Archives
toll-free at 1-800 799-4442. The Ar
chives' database is searchable by lo
cation, exposure information, name
(where offered), or health condition.
The Archives is still seeking contri
butions of information from
downwinders.
The radioactive substance re
leased from Hanford that is of most
concern, iodine-131, concentrates in
a person's thyroid gland. The great
est exposures came from drinking
milk from cows or goats that grazed
Begin hazard reduction
projects before summer
The last couple of years the Res
ervation has been hit hard by wildfire.
It affected us all in one way or another.
There are many things that we can do
to prevent these fires from being so
damaging or from even starting in
the first place.
. i ,This is the time of year when
spring cleaning starts. We want to
remind everyone not to forget about
the outside of your homes. Cleaning
the outside of your home not only
beautifies the neighborhood but could
mean the difference between whether
or not your home survives a wildfire.
All combustible material should
be moved at least 30 feet from your
home, old cars, wood piles, weeds,
ect.... Also removing the limbs on
the trees that are close to your house
up to approx. four to five feet high
will help.
If you are unable to do these things
on your own, there are resources that
can be utilized to get help in doing
these things. The first priority will be
senior citizens; the second will be the
disabled and the third will be single
mothers with children. If you call
and request that weeds be burned,
remember, they need to be cleared
away from all structures.
In the next two months, there will
be some home hazard assessments
done in the rural homes of Warm
Springs and Simnasho. As the Fire
Prevention Officer, Karla Tias will
be coming around and taking a look
at some homes to determine how
safe our community 's homes are from
wildfires. We will be there to help
educate home owners and renters on
what they can do to reduce the haz
ards. Homes will be rated in three
categories, red, yellow, and green.
Red will indicate the high hazard,
meaning there is alot of work to be
done around the homes. Yellow will
indicate minor hazard reduction is
needed. Green will indicate no haz
ard reduction is needed.
If anyone has any questions and
would like more information on
hazard reduction around your home,
contact Fire and Safety at 553-1634
or Fire management at 553-1 146.
Worms used in vermicompost
Vermicompost is a mixture of
worm casting, aka Ca-Ca, poop,
queeda or vermicast, organic matter
and worm bedding in various stages
of decomposition. Most of the
vermicompost will be worm cast
ings, that is why the products is thus
named vermicompost. Vermi-mean-ing
worm and compost-meaning mix
ture of decaying organic matter used
as a fertilizer.
Worms used in vermicomposting
are called redworms, aka, red wig
glers, manure worms. Their latin
name is Eisonia Fortida. These worms
recycle kitchen food wastes (left
overs, but no meats or fat) that have
been buried a few inched below sur
face in a worm bin.
A worm bin is an enclosed box or
container which houses the redworms
and their associates, (biological organisms).
The redworms are of both sexes
having both testes and ovaries. So a
person could end up with a lot more
worms than they started out with,
so.. .another result would be fish bait.
This is a relatively low-maintenance
type of a project. By providing the
redworms with the proper environ
ment; preparing bedding in the worm
bins, (usually moist shredded news
paper or straw), burying garbage
about 2 to 3 inches under
(garbagekitchen leftovers) and
separating the redworms from their
castings (worm manure). Check them
occasionally then leave them alone!
The less the redworms are disturbed,
the better off they will be!
For more information of
vermicomposting, recycling or
composting, contact C. Dean Caldera,
Environmental Tech. at 553-4943,
on contaminated pasture downwind
from Hanford during the years 1945
through 1 95 1 . Individuals who were
children at that time would have re
ceived the highest doses.
The medical monitoring program
ATSDR is recommending would of
fer medical evaluations for thyroid
and parathyroid conditions to ap
proximately 14,000 eligible people
with significant radiation doses to
the thyroid (10 rad or higher) during
two time periods: 1945 and 1946
1951. Individuals eligible for medi
cal monitoring would participate
voluntarily: they would be self-identified
by age, place and duration and
time of residence in the exposure
area.
Once funding is received the
ATSDR estimates that it will take
one year for a contractor to develop
the monitoring program.
HHIN prepares and disseminates
information about the health effects
of radiation to health care profes
sions and to people who were or may
have been exposed to radiation re
leased from the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation from 1944 to 1972. The
Network is sponsored by the health
agencies of Idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington in concert with nine Indian
nations. For information about past
Hanford releases and radiation health
effects please call the Hanford Health
Information line for your stateser
vice area:
in Idaho 1-800-793-6113, in Or
egon 1-800-248-4446, in Washing
ton 1-800-522-4446, from other
states 1-800-959-7660, Tribal ser
vice program 1-800-798-0796, HHIN
World Wide Web site http:
www.doh.wa.govhanford
Deadline near
for Tribal Artists
The Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs artists are reminded that the
deadline for submission for the
Fourth Annual Tribal Member Art
Show at The Museum At Warm
Springs is Friday, April 18, 1997.
The show is scheduled May 9th
through June 29, 1997 in The
Museum's Changing Exhibit Gal
lery. Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs tribal member artists, 18
years of age and older, are encour
aged to submit their work.
The three award categories in
clude: -The Judge's Choice Award: a
prestigious award that is given to the
most outstanding work submitted as
selected by the judge. The chosen
work will be used as the primary
publicity piece and will be featured
on the invitations to announce the
show's opening reception.
-Honorable Mention Award: will
be selected by the judge as outstand
ing work.
-The Timberline Purchase Award:
Recognizing that a career in art may
be difficult, Timberline Chief Ex
ecutive Officer Richard L.
Kohnstamm created the Timberline
Lodge Purchase Awards to provide a
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Fourth Annual Tribal Member Art Show
May 9-June 29, 1997
The last day and time to submit your Art
forjudging for this year's show is
April 18. 1997 at 5 PM
Timberline Chief Executive Officer Richard L Kohnstamm
will offer prize money for:
Judge's Choice Award, Honorable Mention Awards,
& Timberline Purchase Awards
Applications are available at The Museum and for more
Information contact The Museum at (541) 555-5531