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Spilyay Tymoo Warm Springs, Oregon July 31, 1997 9 Moses-Ahern new recreation director Fran Moses-Ahern has been named recreation director for Kah-Nce-Ta Resort. Moses-Ahern has day-to-day management and opera tional responsibility for the resort's recreation programs and staff in the main lodge and village area which includes the pool, kids' camp, bike and sport rentals and the new 18 hold miniature golf course slated to open in mid-August of this year. A member of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Moses-Ahern has spent the past fifteen years working in the Tribe's recreation programs, includ ing the past five years as the program manager. "Fran brings a wealth of profes sional experience and energy to the resort's management team. We arc happy to have her on our staff," said ZuAnne Jarrett, the resort's general manager. Moses-Ahern is a 1982 graduate of Washington State University with a bachelor's degree in physical edu cation. She received certification in pool operation from the National Swimming Pool Association and life guard certification from the Ameri can Red Cross. She is a member of the National Park und Recreation Association and the Resort and Com mercial Recreation Association. Kah-Nee-Ta Resort celebrates its 25-ycar anniversary this year with the grand reopening of the village area which presently includes a camp ground and RV park, 20 teepees for camping, council ring, and Olympic sized swimming pool with 1 40-foot water slide. The resort's lodge features 139 guest rooms, meeting and confer ence rooms, pool, Indian Head Gam ing Center and Juniper Dining room and deli, Tennis Courts and a cham pion 18-hold golf course round out the amenities. Located 120 miles southeast of Portland, the Kah-Nee-Ta Resort is owned by the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reser vation. The resort attracts about 350,000 visitors annually. f ri i fy Diessmg ceremony Kah-Nee-Ta Resort Village August 15, 1997 2:00 p.m. The public is invited to Darticioate in the opening and the blessing of Kah-Nee-Ta's new Village rooms and recreation area. Refreshments to follow. 7- m !..v m ) 1 VI) it M ZL . . ' , r .... V '(H i 7 i- 4 il 1 m l Youth listens to a story get told to them on the computer in the computer lab at the Elementary School. Youth enjoy playing card games at the local elementary library. Minthorn named to top citizen's panel on Indian graves repatriation A Umatilla tribal leader who has been advocating the immediate rcburial of Kcnncwick Man has been named to the nation's top citizen's panel on Indian graves repatriation. Armand Minthorn, a traditional religious leader in the Umatilla longhouse, is one of two spiritual leaders named to the seven-member review committee. He was appointed ota six-year term. The committee is responsible for reviewing and recommending regu lations for the Native American Craves Protection and Repatriation Act, the federal law that is at issue in the Kennewick Man case. The panel also helps resolve disputes about the law. Scientists are suing in federal court for the right to study the 9,300-year-old skeleton, the oldest and most complete ever found in Oregon or Washington. The bones were found last sum mer along the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Wash. Several Columbia River tribes, including the Umatilla, consider sci entific testing a desecration of one of their ancestors and want to rebury the remains without further study. The U.S. Army Corps of Engi neers, which has custody of the skel eton, is under court order to deter- Continued on page 12 WSFPI keeps up with technology and competition with new equipment and new buildings Warm Springs Forest Products' Industries is moving up with the times, installing new equipment and replacing old buildings with new buildings. Total cost for renovations in 1997 is 2 million dollars. That includes relocating the shop and dry kilns and the new buildings. The old shop that was seen upon entering the mill was torn down and new ones were built near the truck shop. Now there is a machine shop and a cat shop. The old saw mill was then torn down and sold as scrap metal during the auction held last spring, leaving enough space for the new dry kilns to be built. Dry kilns are being constructed 1 by Nardi, out of Italy. They are working with a subcontractor from Roseburg called Pro Fit. Cadell Electric from St. Mary's, Idaho, will be working with these contractors. Interstate Building from Spokane, Washington is doing construction of the new buildings. Currenty WSFPI is using dry kilns that are more than thirty years old. The building they set in are just as old. The steam seeps through the walls and would cost more to fix than a new building and dry kilns. The new dry kilns and building will be placed near the small log mill and next to that new building will be a covered storage area. The building and dry kilns are being put in place as they come in. The kilns are being sent here from Italy. The dry kilns are expected to be completed by end of September. The old dry kilns and the building they are in will be then be torn down and more storage space will be available. All storage areas are going to have a roof to protect the lumber from weather conditions. The planer department uses a breakroom located near the planer. That building will be torn down and relocated near the planer office in 1998. After these projects are completed the small log mill will see some changes, possibly in 1 998. They may be able to run larger logs through in addition to small logs. There will be new machinery incorporated into the small log mill to make this possible. With new equipment and building in the planer area, new shop location and new dry kilns and building the mill will look like new. "We're taking it one step at a time. The mill's got the potential to really fly," says Ken Bierman, WSFPI . J i Air hrrnr ; n f ' - l J ' f ! ;i Li - -- , - , . ft Picture of the mill taken in 1977. W ,1 1 y j . - "I'll nim" Jt , mm- 1 Dry kilns are being constructed as the parts arrive in Warm Springs from Italy. r MP "."LI..-". 11 "" mmmmmmmmmmmmmm,ltUtwmvwv ; Shiny, new dry kilns set high in the new building. Kilns are being set up with the walls at a slow but steady pace.