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SpilyayTymoo Warm Springs, Oregon February 12, 1998 5 Community Health news- Reflections... We are well into the ' New Year and with our Resolutions we made, we continue what we start because, we don't like being called a quitter. Accomplish your opportu nity. Last issue we mentioned choles terol. Here are some questions most asked about cholesterol and some answers. What is cholesterol? Choles terol is a fat. It is in your blood. High cholesterol means having too much fat in your blood, (you can lower blood cholesterol) Where does cholesterol come from? Most cholesterol comes from animal foods high in fat. Eating too much of high fat foods can raise your cholesterol. (Bacon, hamburgers, steaks, sausage, hot dogs, potato chips, french fries) VVhy is cholesterol bad? High levels can narrow blood vessels and the flow of blood to your heart will become slower and slower. (You can lower your cholesterol) VVho needs to be careful about cholesterol? Everyone needs to be careful about cholesterol. Cutting down on fat foods is good for every one in your family. Some people need to be more care ful than others. 1) Men of all ages. 2) Tobacco users. 3) People with dia betes. 4) People with high blood pressure. 5) People who have heart disease. 6) People with a family member who has had a heart attack. 7) Women after menopause. IIow do you know if you have high cholesterol? You cannot feci high cholesterol. You cannot feel the fat build up inside your blood vessels. It is a silent killer. The clinic can take a blood test to measure the amount. What can you do if you have high cholesterol? You can do two things. Eat less fatty foods & exer cise. Some help ful hints: -Don't fry foods or eat fried foods. -Cut the fat from meats before you cook it. -Broil, barbeque, bake, boil or steam your foods. Frying adds fat. -Use a cooking spray instead of shortening. -Exercise at least 30 minutes a day, 3 times a week. -Find a exercise buddy, (mom, dad, daughter, son, friend, etc.) -Reduce smoking can assist in lowering your cholesterol level. -Set some realistic healthy goals Gang awareness class set for Feb. 12 On February 12, 1998, the Ma dras Police Department, Jefferson County School District and HAABLA will co-sponsor a class on gang awareness. The class will be held at the Jefferson County Middle School beginning at 7 p.m. This class is intended for parents, or anyone else in the community who is interested in learning how to recognize the signs of gang activity. The class will also focus on practical measures parents, or any other inter ested persons, can take when they observe what they believe to be gang activity in our community. We strong encourage people form both Warm Springs and the Hispanic community to attend this training. Arrangements have been made to Happy Birthday Arnetta Love your sister, Carol, Tyrone, Maureen February 6 Happy Birthday Uncle "G" Love, LaVonne, Davis, Brandie, Martika & Baby Al Happy 14th Birthday Kevin Lee Smith, Jr. "Ziggy" Love your mom & Ralph brothers & sisters have interpreters present so that Spanish speaking members of our community can actively participate. The class will be presented by Alan Alderman. Alan grew up in our community. He began his law en forcement career as an officer with the Madras Police Department. He has spent the last six-and-one-half years working as a police officer assigned to the Gang Activity Task Force in Clackamas County, Alan has extensive knowledge in the area of gang recognition and awareness. This, coupled with his knowledge of our community and its needs, places Alan in a position to be able to present information that will be greatly ben eficial to all who attend. HaPDV 17th RirthHny ."Brandon Lee" Love ynn Lute. Mom. Simone and Rn, Just have the girls alone at Phema wn February 6 Happy Birthday Bro LuvU Laura & Al Happy Birthday Alonzo (Benjamin) 2998 Always, Jolene, Lauren & Alexis Hope you have a good one. and stick to them (keep the balance) Locations that can get you mov ing: -Family Wellness Center (equip ment, classes, stradigics, etc.) -Tribal Nutrition department (in take mang., rights & wrongs, etc.) Remember you can lower your cholesterol level! Activities to look for; Feb. 9, 10, II: Scatbelt check points, IHS, ECE, Admin. Feb. 1 1: Heart Smart dinner at the Agency Longhousc. Feb. 12, 13: Valentine's Hug-O-Gram delivery, Feb. 18: HIVAIDS education awareness class, Vern Jackson home. February is National Dental Month (make an appointment) & National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week (buckle up). Forum set for spring Jefferson County Commission on Children & Families is supporting a multicultural forum to be held in the spring of 1 998. The goal of the forum is to bring together a culturally di verse group of young people and adults to increase their awareness and understanding of the multicultural strengths existing in Jefferson County. Rogue Recovery Program and HAABLA are co-sponsoring the fo rum, community involvement in planning the forum will help insure the forum addresses needs of the county and that there is significant involvement from the various ethnic groups within Jefferson County. Adults and youth from the vari ous ethnic groups in the community are needed to plan the event. For more information contact Jackie Matlick, Sam Kentura, or Cristina Alcoz at Rogue Recovery Program, 475-6575. The next planning meet ing will be held at Madras High School on Tuesday, February 17, from 4 to 5 p.m. Public hearing to be held March 19 The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Indian Reservation of Or egon will hold a public hearing to i He the public an opportunity to . .-rtd, review and comment on the water quality standards devel oped by the Tribe in accordance with Section 5 1 8 of the Clean Water Act, Amendments of 1987. WHEN: Thursday, March 19, 1998 at 4 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Tribal Community Cen ter, Warm Springs, OR THE PURPOSE: 1) to assure the public has an opportunity to under stand the Tribes water quality stan dards program and the Tribes pro posed action. 2) to foster a spirit of openness and trust among the Tribe, EPA, State of Oregon, local governments, re gional agencies and the public. To obtai n a copy of the draft "Con federated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon-Water Qual ity Standards, Beneficial Uses, and Treatment Criteria", call the Tribal Water & Soil office and contact Deepak Sehgal or Chris Gannon at (54 1 )553-3462 or 553-3557 and they will be mailed to you. Grandma and Grandpa DO have a choice "Can you watch Baby? We want to go to the movies." "Can you watch Baby? We want to go to Portland. " "Can you watch Baby? We have to go bowling." Does this sound familiar? How often are children left with grandparents or somebodv else, while parents go have their fun without their child? As oarents. vou have a responsibility to your children. Many hours are spent without your child. In a five-day work week, vou may spend two hours in the morning and three hours in the evening, a total of 25 hours in five days, with your child. There are 120 hours total in five days, and on average, you only spend 25 hours with your child. Now tell me, why should you be leaving vour children anvwhere? Remember why you had children. No, not to leave them with Grandma or Grandpa, Auntie or Uncle or ECE. Spend time with them. They did not ask you to bring them into this world. Care and love them. Don't leave them. As grandparents, you do have a choice. Don't let love blind you. Warm Springs Wellness Center activities noted Family events happening at the Warm Springs Community Wellness Center. Thursday February 12 Hug-O-Grams may be ordered and paid for and picked up on Friday 13. Feb. 14-21 is National Condom week To a Rez Indian, what does Na tional Condom week mean? I am a female Rez Indian. And wondering what would I do, how would I tell my family if I awere diagnosed with a (STD) Sexually Transmitted Disease or diagnosed with the HIVAIDS virus. Have you ever had these thoughts? If so you're not alone. Let's stop wondering and start doing something by informing and educating ourselves. First of all, condoms & sex go together, if you were brought up as I was, sex is not a subject we openly & freely talked about. In order to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe, at some point, we will have to recon sider our position and attitude re garding the topoic of safe sex. In order to protect ourselves and our loved ones from becoming injected. On the National level February 14-21 is recognized as National Condom Week, the C.H.E.T program along with staff from the Health & Wellness Center are going to partici pate by showing educational videos in the waitng areas of the Health & Wellness Center on February 18, 1998 at 3 to 5 p.m. There will be a presentation on HIVAIDS Educa tion held at the Vern Jackson Home. Always be safe. C.H.E.T. program. Dam breaching costs lower than estimated Look who's 2? February 15, 1998 We's like to wish a very Happy 2nd Birthday to a very special Lil Girl Lupita Phyllis Ocampo Love you alot, Mom & Dad Honey-doo "Happy Aniversary" Love you very much. Sweetie-doo Happy (Belated) Birthday to: 129-James Redfox, Jr 130-Jay Redfox 214-My sister & best bud "Romelle Speakthunder" 21 8-"Nelson Wolfe 222-to my Big-Lil Bro Melvin "Sonny" Stahi, Jr. Sonny, been very proud of you doing so great in school, keep up the good work. 222-my uncle "Melvin "Sonny" Stahi, Jr." 222-Uncle Emerson "Unakush" Squiamphen 222-my Grandpa Emerson with lots of love 224-Lawrence "Larry" Squiemphen III 225-to my Baby Sister "Agnes Stahi" Miss you & Love you very much 225-my auntie "Agnes Stahi" love you very much 26-Carroll Die 26-Charmaine Watts 29-Robert Allen, Jr. 216-to my other mom Eunice Esquiro with lots of love 22-David White with love From Donte, Angie & Aaron Happy 1st Birthday Donny Williams from Mom & Dad Details of a report drafted for the Army Corps of Engineers were made public January 2 1 . The report, pre pared by Raytheon Infrastructure Inc., states that enbankment removal of the four lower Snake River dams will cost significantly less that offi cials previously estimated. The total for enbankment removal of all four is about $160 million. r- .--. "This is good news," said Arthur Taylor, Chairman of the Nez Perce Fish and Wildlife Committee. "At one time estimates for breaching these dams ran into the billions of dollars. Now we have some addi tional confirmation that the cost of creating a natural river channel in the lower Snake is manageable," said Taylor. Salmon populations spawning in Eastern Oregon, Washington and Idaho would benefit substantially,, according to analyses done by the PATH group of scientists, HARZA Northwest and the Independent Sci entific Group who did the most ex tensive review of scientific litera- Happy 11th Birthday , February 22 Liza M. LeClalire Love you lots , Autine Harvi & Raul ., i Happy Hart-Heath ' Love, NaNa Happy 11th Birthday Dallie Polk-Adams Wish you many more Harvie, Raui & Lupita ture relevant to Columbia Basin salmon ever done. Taylor said, "We need to have a healthy river in order to have healthy fish populations. Tinkering with screens and bypass systems won't do it." At a recent meeting in Portland, an Army Corps of Engineers repre sentative estimated that construction and related costs for drawdown would run between $500 million and $850 million. Taylor pointed out, "The Corps' report may be 80 percent complete but several of its cost estimates are far from 80 percent certain. We think the $850 million estimate is way too high." Phil Meyer, an economist repre sending the four tribes in the Draw jdown Regional Economic f Workgroup added, "There is a rea : sonable expectation that the total for , drawdown will come in between $400 ' and $500 million." Embankment removal would re store the Snake to its historic, natural river level. The four lower Snake Happy 1st Birthday Donny from Hattie, Jon, Sally, & Julia To Baby Daffy from Uncle Hero Happy 1st Birthday to our brother Donny From Aaron, Chance, Cissy & Ida Happy 1st Birthday to my Grandson Donny From Doris & Arthur Happy 1st Birthday to my neph Donny from Nancy & Sam Culps dams each have a powerhouse, spill way, and an earthen embankment. The $160 million cost includes cre ating levees at the dams, structures that create variable flow rates to aid in fish migration, and protection of the navigation locks and powerhouse. The proposed channel is designed to withstand flows of 420,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) without dam age. The largest recorded flood in the Snake River is 304,000 cfs. The report recommends that work at all four dams be done simulta neously and states that it could be completed within six months. A two foot per day drawdown could begin on August 1. "We know that this does not end the debate," Taylor said. "Other is sues are currently under consider ation. As the region focuses atten tion on them, we are confident that none of them will prove insur mountable. Fair and equitable solu tions are possible." r There will be no delivers this year. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday February 13 Hug-O-Gram may be paid for and picked up at these locations: ECE, IHS building, Administration Building and the Warm Springs Community Center. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday February 18 Family movie night at the Social Hall. Movie starts at 6 p.m. and is over at 8:30 p.m. Thursday 26 Harlem Clowns basketball tip-off time 6:30 p.m. and end around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday March 17 St. Patrick's Stew-Social Hall from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday March 18 Employee training in the Social Hall from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Ihursday March 19 Water Quality management in the Social Hall from 3:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday April 11 Mini-marathon Saturday May 2 Reservation Relay Nominations encouraged Community members are encour aged to nominate individuals for the Intertribal Timber Council annual awards program. Guidelines and nomination forms are available at the tribal natural re sources office.' The awards program is designed to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the field of Indian forestry. The national Earle R. Wilcox award is given in honor of Wilcox, who will always be re membered for his significant achievements on behalf of Indian people and their forests. The indi vidual achievement awards are dis tributed by geographic region and are based on the same criteria. Awards criteria include tribal in volvement, improvement of Indian resources or programs, individual effort, model-like program, technical achievement and application, the ability to secure government agency or funding support, originality and references. For further information contact the natural resources department at 553-3548. Happy 1st Birthday to my cuz Donny from Lil Man Happy first Birthday to my grandson from Grandma Margie Happy 1st Birthday to Donny From Berda Johnson Heath Redmond proposed location for Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson county FSA offices In 1996. the State Directors of each agency began to discuss the possibility of combining their offices in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson Counties. This was being considered because staffs were being reduced to a point that it no longer was cost efficient to maintain offices in each county. In October of 1996, the State Directors asked the local representatives of FSA, NRCS, and RD to consider the possibilities of having one office for the tri-county area and to determine the best site of a new office building. In January of 1997, 24 people representing producers from FSA and SWCD along with agency employees attended the local meeting. All of the local people wanted to maintain separate offices if it was feasible. Each person was asked to vote twice on the location of a centralized office if one was to be build. The first vote represented everyone's first choice for a new office location, the results were: 9 for Princville, 8 for Madras, and 4 for Redmond. The second vote represented everyone's second choice, the vole were: 12 Redmond, 5 Madras, and 4 PrineviNc. No official action was taken because FSA was put under a moratorium on office closures. In July of 1997, the State Directors sent letters to Representative Robert Smith and Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden asking for their concurrence to have one office for the tri-county are in Redmond. There were no objections to the proposal with the only suggestion being that a public meeting be held to announce the consolidation and answer any questions. In December 1 997, 1 8 people were present for the meeting. The attendees were told that bids for new office space were now being accepted and that the goal was to award a bid by mid-January. Some producers attending thought a producer meeting should be called because the co location was moving too fast. In January 1998, the State Directors decided to hold another set of public meetings to determine the best site of the new office. Why Co-Location The United States Department of Agriculture is in the process of streamlining and downsizing. The Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resource Conservation Service (NCRS) and Rural Development (RD) have been directed to co-locate into an Agriculture Serv ice Center in all locations, this direction came from the Secretary of Agriculture. Each agency is also having to deal with budget cuts and reductions in staff. In trying to operate under these constraints and provide adequate service the decision to co-locate combine the FSA, NRCS and RD offices in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson County offices into one office was made for the following reasons: Reduction of office space Currently the 3 agencies lease 8,400 square feet of office space. The new office will have 6,400 to 6,900 square feet. The cost saving would be $24,000 to $32,000 per year because of the reduction of square feet being rented. Reduction in cquipment-The number of copy machines, fax machines, phone systems, phone lines, computer systems would be reduced. The reduction of copy machines, fax machines, phone systems, phone lines, computer systems etc, would result in an additional annual savings of $ 1 5.000 per year. An additional saving of $25,000 will occur in the first year because of a new communication ' system, which is being installed in all service centers, will have to be installed in only one location instead of 3. Reduction in slaffing-FSA will have one less office manager, one less program assistant, and few county committee members once the consolidation is completed. This will be an annual cost savings of $75,000 to $80,000. Greater efficiency-One large centralized office will be more efficient. For instance; FSA will have 1 manager and 3 program assistants to deliver the programs out of on centralized office instead of keeping two offices open, assigning I or 2 program assistants to an office and requiring the manager to drive back and forth between the two offices. Why Redmond was proposed The State Directors made the decision to locate the new Service Center in Redmond over Madras and Princville because of the following reasons: Redmond is centrally located for FSA-Whcn looking at the eligible voters for the FSA County Committees there are many more agricultural producers in Jefferson County than in Deschutes and Crook Counties. However, approximately 1,600 of the 2,600 of the producers listed in Jefferson County are tribal members. NRCS has a satellite office on the Wrarm Springs Indian Reservation and FSA offers services to the producers on the reservation through this office. This means that a majority of the producers in Jefferson County will not be adversely affected by the selection of Redmond as the site of the new Service Center because they will still be going to the NRCS satellite office for service. The number of producers affected by the location of the Service Center in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson Counties are similar. Because of the large area the Service Center will serve the most central location was selected to reduce the number of miles people would have to travel to get to the office. Redmond serves all agencies mission best-The three agencies involved have different missions. Even though some of their missions overlap, RD and NRCS have program responsibilities with "Rural America" as well as agriculture communities. Consideration of each agency 'sclientele must be considered when selecting a sight. With this in mind, the selection of Princville or Madras would not be as efficient as Redmond in providing sen ice to all clientele. Relocation costs-If the office is located in Madras or Princville instead of Redmond, NRCS will be required to offer relocation costs to employees. In this situation, employees are reimbursed for their moving costs including the costs of buying and selling homes. A single relocation usually costs between $20,000 and $40,000 when the sale and purchase of a home is involved. There are 1 1 employees in the Bend office and NRCS expects some of them to ask for relocation. It is understood that producers and other clients in Crook and Jefferson Counties would much rather see the office located in their county. Unfortunately the funding and staffing for two offices is not available and a site must be selected. The State Directors realized that Redmond is a compromise between Prine ville and Madras, but Redmond will provide the best service for every body needing service from the three agencies. Meetings were recently held in each county to make final decision. Spilyay Tymoo apologizes for not printing this article in the Volume 23 No. 3. for this information to be discussed at the producer meetings held this week. 1