Spilyay Tymoo Warm Springs, Oregon April 24, 1997 11 ' Oman tnui hmwiy service (503) 553-3238 The Oregon Slate University Extension Service staff is devoted to extending research-based information from OSU to the people ol Warm Springs in agriculture, home economics, 4-H youth, forestry, community development, energy and extension tea grant program with OSU, United States Department of Agriculture. Jefferson County and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs cooperating. The Exension Service offers Its programs and materials equally to all people. World Wide Web Address change for Warm Springs Extension: http:www.orst.edijdeptwiext 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 i 1l. 1,1 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 - 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.