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April 24, 1997 11
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The Clover speaks
by Sue Kyan
1 Spring has sprung, and that means 4-11
classes arc here, The spring quarter covers
the months of April, May und June. April has
been swept away by camp preparation, al
though wc will be training adult staff in CPR
First Aid for this summer's Culture Camp
session. Tiedying is set for May at Warm
Springs Community Center, I liking for June.
Dates for these two scries arc being con
firmed. The tiedying will be done at the
Community Center out of Carol's room and
no registration will be required.
The hiking series will be a preview of
some of the hikes wc will be doing this
summer. Wc will be looking for 4-5 young
sters ( 4th grade and up ) to test them out. Wc
will hike past the Early Childhood Education
Center in preparation for an August Day
Camp, and also an all day hike to Harvey
Lake and separate half day hike to Boulder
Lake. By the next issue we will have dates
sign-up confirmed. Camp registration is still
set to open May 5th.
Other spring classes include Camp Coun
selor training June Nth, 12th & 1 3th. To
attend this you must apply at (he Extension
office. You must be in grades 9th, 10th, 11th
or 12th and commit to the training and work
ing at Culture Camp July 7lh -20th at Peter's
Pasture. At present this is not a paid position,
but if you are wanting to gain some valuable
work experience this is a good way to do it if
- you are just starting out in the world of work.
Mention this opportunity to your friends and
relatives as we are in need of 17 youth coun
selors to help with this summer's camp. Camp
Counselor training will be held at HeHc
Longhouse and will cover First AidCPR
training, Journals & their purpose, outdoor
games, Camp fire planning, compass &
orienteering, Mentoring, Ages and Stages of ,
Campers and more. Youth will stay over
night at HeHe in tents and be supervised by
the O.S.U. Extension staff. Call us today for
this chance to learn at 553-3238 or drop by
the first floor of the Education Center.
June brings more camps-in the tri-county
area. The first sessions of" a Central Oregon
Hiking camp for 7th-9th graders will be held
this month, and also the popular Tri-County
camp at Crystal Springs. This camp has two
sessions this year-one in August, and the first
in June from the 16th-20th. The Madras 4-H
office is handling the sign-up for this one, but
we do have forms here in Warm Springs for
you to pick up. Crystal Springs will be for
4th, 5th & 6th grades.
The final spring class 4-H will teach will
be another session of our Babysitting Short
Course at Early Childhood Education. We
will teach this June 10th, 17th & 24th on
Tuesday mornings.
The Rainbow Dancers are holding their
first meeting for old members on April 21st
at the.4-H Center. New members will be
welcome to join at the end of May. Rainbow
Dancers is a club that practices and performs
E. Coii linked to venison jerky
' by Norma L. Simpson,
The Bulletin of Wednesday April 16,
1997 reported details about a family in Or
egon which had E. Coli 01 57:H7 in 1995. As
you may recall, this strain of E.Coli is an
especially bad illness caused by poorly pro
cessed and cooked hamburger from beef meat
or transmitted from one sick person to an
other. The recent Associate Press article reported
on a Journal of American Medical Associa
tion research report by lead author, William
Keene of the Oregon Health Division. It
concludes that some time honored methods
for drying venison may be unsafe. The par
ticular batch of jerky was from blacktail
deer. "The jerky was made by putting it in a
dryer at 125 degrees to 135 degrees over
night. That temperature and length of time
did not kill the E.Coli 0157:H7 strain of
bacteria. Lab experiments that raised the
STOCKMAN'S ROUNDUP: Stocking up at
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by Bob Pawclek
OSU Livestock Agent
Sometimes we get so bogged down in the
situation at hand that we forget to look ahead,
and plan for the future.
Doing so causes us to miss out on many
opportunities that lay before us. This applies
to the cattle market and market cycle as well.
When the cattle market is down our only
concern is to get past it. Therefore, wc are
seldom able tocapilalizeon the rising market
that follows. When the market is up we
become overjoyed and tend to believe there
will never be another bad day. This belief
causes us to have our pastures overstocked
with rapidly depreciating cattle when the
Arlcne Boileau
4-H & Youth
Norma Simpson
Home Economics
Bob Pawelck
Livestock
Sue Ryan
4-H Assistant
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Indian dancing throughout early spring and
in the summer months. If you want to join,
you need to fill out a 4-11 registration form &
can pick up one at our office. Myra Shawaway
is the leader for the Rainbow Dancers.
Puppy Care publications arc on their way
from O.S.U. in Corvallis. The 4-H program
will be putting together packets on how to
raise & care for dogs that will be available
through Nancy Collins office at the Indian
Health Service. This information is meant to
help people with training dogs as pets for
family living.
We are glad to welcome aboard three of
our summer camp staff! Rosemary Charley
will fill the position of Art director, Tracey
Flande the Girls Lead Camp Counselor, and
Bruce Jim takes on Male Sweat House Leader
for this year's 4-H Culture Enrichment Camp.
We still need to fill many more positions, and
interested candidates can contact Arlene at
553-3238 or Wilson at Culture & Heritage,
, 553-3290. Many people may still not be
aware that Culture and Heritage has joined
O.S.U. Extension this summer in joining
efforts to put on our annual youth camp here
on the reservation. Wilson Wewa, Jr. and
Arlene Boileau are the co-directors for this
year's camp.
The teepees are finished! Carol Allison
and her faithful crew of painters have fin
ished painting the symbols on the teepees for
Kah-nee-ta Vacation Resort. Kudo's to Carol!
and Frank, Shirley, Shasta & Shayla Smith,
Rence Silversmith, Regan "Toby" Smith and
more for their efforts! I even wielded a brush
myself! This work means that kids in the
summer recreation program will be getting
swim lessons for free this year! Yeah! Hur
rah! Six teepees total were completed, in
cluding a miniature one for the golf course. I
know I have missed some names, but thanks
to one and all and the biggest one to Carol at
the Community Center for her creativity and
drive.
That said about the teepees, don't forget
the raffle at the Warm Springs Community
Center for kids! Winner will be the first kid
to go down the water slide at Kah-nee-ta on
their reopening day May 20th .
drying temperature to 1 45 degrees also failed
to eradicate the strain."
For some time now, OSU Extension has
recommended that game jerky drying rec
ommendations should reach at least 155 to
160". Carolyn Raab, OSU Extension Food
Specialist says that if the venison does not
reach 155 to 160 degrees, "put the jerky on
a cookie sheet in a single layer and cook it
for 30 minutes in a 200" F."
During the next few weeks, I will be
contacting Keene and the other articles that
will no doubt appear on the Internet. I would
appreciate receiving copies of any articles
that you read in other newspapers, maga
zines and newsletters or WWW. Since we
like venison very much, it is important to
keep track to see if any processing or cook
ing techniques put us at risk of eating this
traditional food.
market takes its next nose dive.
The cattle market cycle isn't that difficult
to forecast. Every down is followed by an up,
and every up is followed by a down. History
teaches us that this market cycle will repeat
itself approximately every ten years. We
should not have to be afraid of the cattle
cycle, instead we should capitalize on it.
As cattlemen we tend to be somewhat
shortsighted. We don't plan ahead. Success,
however, is available to those who plan for
it. Not only should we be positioning our
selves to capitalize on the upcoming "up"
cycle, we should also be making some plans
for the next "down" market.
It doesn't take much of a genius to figure
out that wc should buy cattle during a down
market, and destocking wc the market is up.
Some believe that the problem with this is
knowing exactly when wc arc at the bottom
or at the top. Usually the window of oppor
tunity is much wider than perceived. In most
cycles the bottom and the lop will usually
last for at least two years.
Allan Nation, editor of The Stockman
Grass Farmer, suggests that wc watch the
fat cattle market. He says, "This is the engine
that pulls the rest of the cattle train." When
the fat cattle market has turned the corner the
other markets will soon follow. There is
usually a significant lag time between the fat
market and the cow market, so at this point
you should still have plenty of time to take
action.
So what should we be doing now?
Clint Jacks
Staff Chair, Madras
Bodie Shaw
Ag St Natural Resources
Natural Resource Notables-
by Bodie K, Shaw
Illegal Dumping
One of the main environmental problems
here on the Reservation is illegal dumping, I
prepared a long "educational" article, how
ever it didn't seem to convey what I wanted
it to. This is a very evasive problem within
our community and somewhat sensitive to
many people. I, in turn, relied on a story
provided by a student in our local school
system to help convey a message that would
be blunt yet extremely more "educational"
than my article. Please read the following
from a concerned 14 year old:
"Our Trashy Reservation"
Many residents have a lot of trash that
docs not fit in their trash can. So instead of
them taking their excess trash to (he dump,
they go to a deserted place where no one can
see them, and throw their trash there. They
do not bother to think of how wrong this
action is and how much work they give
others. Hopefully, people will read and listen
to this article, helping them better under
stand how serious this problem is. We all
need to work together to make our commu
nity a beautiful area for all of us.
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to increase
awareness on the problem of illegal dumping
and realize what they are doing to our envi
ronment. There are people who do not stop to
see what they are doing to our environment,
and these are the ones we want to reach with
our message. Solutions are possible, only
with people's cooperation.
Problem
Illegal dumping is seen everywhere, but a
lot of it is not seen in the deserted areas of our
Reservation. There are areas that an indi
vidual can drive to and not be seen by any
other automobile driver. Maybe they dump
illegally because there are not many police
around. People who dump illegally are mak
ing our environment ugly and dirty, and
making life for people who live around this
area very hard.
Contributing to this problem is the local
landfill fee THERE IS NONE!!! People
are not charged for each visit to the dump.
Maybe if there were fees, this might be ex
plained because many people would rather
buy something they need or go out to eat a
nice lunch. People would not want to spend
money just to throw trash away. Do we need
a fee?
Laziness! This is another factor that con
tributes to illegal dumping. It would take a
Librarians visit Warm Springs
by Norma L. Simpson
Two OSU Librarians came to Warm
Springs April 16 to guide the development of
the Warm Springs Library. Bonnie Avery is
the OSU librarian who provides cooperation
for the Extension Service and Cherie Rusk is
the former Multicultural Librarian at OSU
who was recently promoted to the position of
Team Coordinator but who still provides
much multicultural activities at OSU. Rusk
is a tribal member from Eastern Canada.
In addition, the Jefferson County Librar
ian, Tami Pancraft came to look at the planned
facilities and think of the ways that the li
brary can cooperate with the New Warm
Springs library. Pancraft knows and will share
the links that have already been established
with other libraries in the state and nation.
The temporary library in Warm Springs is
in the northwest corner of the Community
Center. The aim is to open by June 1, so that
the facility will have things to offer during
the summer months as well as during the
school months.
The visiting librarians will help us plan
the policies that make a library run smoothly
and keep the books, tapes and videos avail
able to all local people. We think of ways to
protect old valuable books, and ways to en
large the books about tribal people all over
the bottom-
Now is the time to start producing and
saving some good replacement heifers. Heifer
calves aren't worth much now, but in two or
three years they may be raising some calves
that are worth a lot. In 4 or 5 years, these
heifers may be worth over $1000 as young
bred cows. If you can enter the "up" market
with a herd full of young productive cows
you should be in the driver's seat. Sell those
high priced calves for a few years, and then
sell the cow. When your cows are worth
more than you'd be willing to pay for them,
then it's time to sell most of them. Don't
forget to destock at the top of the market!
Put that money in the bank, and then you
can sit back and eagerly wait for the next
"down" market to start. Be assured that it
will come again. While the market is on
bottom, invest in cheap slockcrs. Last spring
you could have purchased four head of 400
pound steers for the same money that you
sold just one of those high priced cows for. If
they gained 300 pounds through the grazing
season, then you would have some 700 pound
feeder steers with a breakeven price of around
$40cwt. If my calculations arc correct, you
could have received a 60 return on your
investment, in just 6 months. Who would
ha ve thought that it was possible to make that
kind of profit in a "down" market?
I believe that the key to success is to take
action before the rest of the industry catches
on. If you wait until the "experts" tell you to
buy or sell, it's probably too laic. Sometimes
it pays to actually do the opposite of w hat is
person about an hour to go to the dump and
another hour to come back (depending on
where they live). They would rather find an
isolated area on the Reservation than waste
their "precious time" doing something good
for our environment. What they do not think
of is how (he little time that they lake to go to
the dump is worth all our lives.
As you take a drive through our Reserva
tion, you sec a beautiful environment with its
natural plants, jack rabbits, and the beautiful
view of mountains. Also seen on the Reser
vation is trash such as plastic bags, cans , and
bottles. Many of these items can be recycled.
Irresponsible people trash our areas. The sad
tiling is that it costs NOTHING to have
garbage collection in our community!
Instead, an easy drive and dump for that
day will do. Also, there arc recycling bins in
this area. The reason is because there arc
people in our community who care about
what our environment looks like.
Why
The last and most precious reason is our
health. If a dog roams around the neighbor
hood and smells food that someone dumped,
they do not consider how rotten it is or what
bacteria is in the food. More than likely the
dog will eat it. The dog can get an ugly
disease and become very ill. It can become
dangerous and bite an individual and spread
the disease to them. If this person is not
treated on lime, the bite becomes deadly. But
the people who dump do not think about
these consequences. All they want to do is
get rid of the trash they just do not want.
Solutions
Do we need to have the police department
fine or jail anyone caught illegally dumping.
The police do not have anything else to do
right? The police have to take care of other
problems such as domestic problems, acci
dents, robberies, etc.thcir time is limited
when watching out for illegal dumping.
Maybe the residents will be intimidated by
the police watching them. If individuals
would be more responsible of what actions
our neighbors take, we could all live in a
safer, cleaner environment.
The Reservation is a beautiful place to
live. Its full of all the natural things this land
offers. People need to start caring about our
environment. It is up to all of us to keep our
areas clean and safe. Maybe a lot of residents
aren't educated on these issues. If we place
flyers in our local stores and have them see
them periodically, maybe they will wake up
and start smelling their on our wonderful
the country, the treaties, the Indian Laws
and resources on tribal land
The library committee is made up of Julie
Quaid, Shirley Sanders, Andy Leonard, and
NormaL. Simpson. Volunteers are needed
to make this dream come true for all the
community. Already I hear that one tribal
woman is ready to volunteer.
Many activities will be aimed at the
Children ' s Corner for new readers as well as
comfy chairs for older people who want to
read books, magazines and reference books.
Plans are just beginning on the potential of
video documentaries and educational tapes
like the video in the OSUWarm Springs
Extension office.
One of the future goals is to have more
computers which have Internet capabilities.
At the moment the 4 computers to be in the
future library do not have the capability.
One goal is to have more Warm Springs
parents and their children who are exposed
to computers.
One activities with computers will be the
cataloguing of the books in the Temporary
Warm Springs Library.
Another goal is tohave a full-time trained
librarian who serves the community in ev
ery way that libraries can. In the near future
we will be seeking funding to such a trained
person.
being promoted.
So, is it time to start producing and saving
heifer calves? Should we be stocking from
the bottom? Absolutely. If you haven't al
ready done so.
Cowboy's Calendar
April
Nutrition
Provide salt at all times.
Introduce cattle into range conditions
slowly; turn 'em out only on a full belly
Keep cattle out of lupine-infested pas-
lures.
Health
Vaccinations: (Close to, but not before, 3(1
klays prior to breeding.)
Bulls: BVD (killed virus)
IBR
Leptospirosis
Clostridial bactcrins
Cows: Vibriosis
Leptospirosis
Clostridial bactcrins
BVD (killed virus)
IBR
Vaccinations: (Before turn-out)
Heifers: Brucellosis
Calves: 8-way
Herd: Dcwormer
Preparation for breeding
Determine number of bulls needed:
Yearling bull -10-18 cows
2-year old -20-25 cows
Mature bull-25-30 cows
hind. Wc as students need id l.ilk about this
issue to our parents and teach llinn about
recycling.
Education
Sun r
'ltf and
Education nevcrstops. Regardless of how
old wc arc, we learn different things daily.
Wc learn about hygiene, cooking, cleaning ,
etc. On a daily basis we change our routines
to make it easier for all of us. We live simple
in order to be happy. The only thing we do
not take the time to learn about is how all of
these principles have to be used outside of
our homes. We need to stop to look at our
community and how beautiful it can be if we
all just worked together. Unfortunately, stu
dents such as us need help from our parents,
friends and neighbors. We need to join one
another to keep our areas clean just as wc
work together to enforce crime watcher.
Since we the students arc the future ol tomor
row, it is also our responsibility to enforce
such actions from our parents, friends, and
neighbors.
Conclusion
As you have read, illegal dumping affects
all of us. In the long run, it affects our
environment. This issue does not get seen in
the local newspapers, even though the prob
lem is there. All of us, regardless of what area
of the Reservation we live in, need to pay
more attention to our community and look at
what this problem causes. We are lucky to
have a free country. However, this does not
mean freedom to dump illegally. As caring
residents of this area, wc need to pay better
attention to this issue, because who knows,
maybe someday this trash will end up in our
own backyard. Maybe then we will take
action. Our lives are precious, and so is our
community. This is a problem that needs to
be solved.
Strawberry scare
linked to frozen berries
by Norma L. Simpson
Last week, before writing this story, I
took advantage of The Alliance of Food and
Fiber's number 1-800-266-0200 to check on
the present status of the strawberry hepatitis
scare of '97. That was one toll free number
devoted in California to Food Safely.
Another specific number is for Hepatitis
A is 1-800-262-4189. The message reminds
consumers that Fresh Strawberries are not
affected by the scare! I was so happy, be
cause the sweet tempting berries are so plen
tiful, and more berries are coming.
Ann M. Vcncman, Secretary of the Cali
fornia Department of Food and Agriculture
(CFDA) praised the California Strawberry
Commission for approving a voluntary Qual
ity Assurance Program aimed at educating
farmers and shippers about pest practices
and responsibilities governing food produc
tion and employment.
The Quality Assurance Program recom
mends more intense record-keeping lor farms
to ensure the safety of their crop. Specifi
cally, the program provides verifiable infor
mation on soil testing, water testing, product
trace-backing capabilities, field sanitation
compliance, and pesticide use
documentation. ...providing retailers and f ood
service operators of further assurance of qual
ity and safety of .strawberries.
That's important because California pro
duces more than 80 of the nation's straw
berries The strawberry scare was about Frozen
Strawberries processed last year and dis
tributed only in Michigan. Los Angeles, Ari
zona, Georgia and Tennessee.
As you know, food vendors or demonstra
tors in Warm Springs have been vaccinated
against Hepatitis A. That means that fewer if
any bouts of local Hepatitis A can be ex
pected during the comma months. The
1-800-242-189 message gives the list of
symptoms what you will w ant to w ateh for in
your family. Hepatitis A is characterized as
a sudden onset of mild fever, nausea, ab
dominal discomfort and jaundice ol the skin
or eyes. If you have these s mptoms in your
family, it's wise to contact vour doctors.
The OSU Extension
staff would like to
honor & thank our
secretary Deanie
Johnson for all her
effort & hard work.
The same goes to all
the Education
secretaries in honor of
Secretary's week.