Spilyay Tymoo
Warm Springs, Oregon
May 7, 1998 9
Arlene Boileau
4-H it Youth
Bob Pawelek
Livestock
Sue Ryan
4-H Assistant
Clint Jacks
Staff Chair, Madras
S0WIGE
(503) 553-3238
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The Clover speaks-
by Sue Ryan
4-H Program Assistant
The 4-H Culture Enrichment Camp
at Peter's Pasture is gearing up as the
4-H office is rolling along the timeline
to get everything done in time for
camp. Culture Camp registration now
is open for campers to sign up. The
work now includes planning the menu
for our camp. Lillian January from the
Indian Health Service has been meet
ing with us to help reduce the amount
of fat in our camp diet. Some of the
changes include switching to turkey
ham from bacon, cutting out chips
and fried bread. Other work in May
includes developing the Camp Coun
selor training for July. We need people
to work at camp. The 4-H program
will be hiring people and those who
are interested need to come in and
talk with 4-H Agent Arlene Bile.
Also on the agenda for camp plan
ning in May includes; program plan
ning, meeting with the hike leader,
and recruiting. The 4-H program afso
has two Warm Springs Hiking camps
planned for this summer. We are in
need of 5-10 volunteers who can help
out in different ways. About 2-3 people
need to go along on a prehike, and
each of the Hiking Camps. If you are
interested in helping with the hiking
camps, come in and talk with Sue. An
orientation for hiking volunteers will
Do you have a seriously ill child?
Social support must meet needs of
Do you know someone who has a seri
ously ill child? Serious childhood illnesses
pose multiple emotional, physical, and fi
nancial demands on the entire family. Nor
mal, daily life is altered due to the child's
illness and treatment requirements. Parents
often require additional help from kin, friends,
and professionals. Often strangers and com
munities become involved in making the life
of the family easier in dozens of ways. Social
support is an important resource that helps
parents cope with the demands of a sick
child. In Holly Ann Williams' study of par
ents with children with cancer she learned
that the parents are willing to accept social
support, but that they also have a desire or
need to give back or reciprocate support at a
later time. Williams learned that these par
ents feelings cut across gender, race, and
socioeconomic distinctions.
Effective social support must meet the
needs of the family by decreasing the de
mands placed on the parent, increasing re
sources, or altering the consequences of fail
ing to manage such demands. Social support
comes from people who have ties with the
parents and child. Different kinds of social
ties often means different kinds of social
support. Social support is not helpful when it
serves to undermine self-esteem or family
functioning. For example, if support is ex
pected to be paid back within a particular
time, then the social relationship may be
come strained. Strained relationships may
prevent those parents in need of help from
seeking help or accepting offered support.
In caring for an ill child, expenses may
exceed the families budget. The family must
deal with unexpected emergencies, and must
plan their lives around a series of in-patient
hospitalizations and clinic visits. The family
may have to travel to obtain care or treatment
at a regional clinic or hospital. While the cost
of medical treatment is steep, travel costs,
room costs, and car repair costs are also
expensive. In addition, there are often many
forgotten costs that also cause worry and
STOCKMAN'S ROUNDUP: Calving season-
by Bob Pawelek
OSU Livestock Agent
How often have you stood staring at the
grocer's meat case wondering whether or not
to spend that ten bucks on a good steak? Most
often, you're probably satisfied with your
purchase.
Beef quality, or lack thereof, is a hot topic.
Take the April 7, 1997 issue of Newsweek,
for instance. An article in mat magazine took
a disparaging view of beefs future. In it,
Robert J. Samuelson wrote, ...our steak isn't
very good. Or, at least, it's not good enough.
be held June 30th.
The 4-H office wants to increase
th. niimupr n( Warm SnnW kids
Darticirjatine in me Tefferson County
Fair. We would like to do this in the
Indian Exhibits area. To do this, we
want to get teachers who can teach an
Indian skill in 3-6 weeks that children
can exhibit at Fair. The 4-H office is
also looking at developing a local In
dian Skills contest for this fall. If this
concept interests you or you want to
have some input into how the contest
will be designed come in and talk
with us.
That's all for this time from the 4-H
office.
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stress for the parents. Buying meals at a
clinic or hospital for family members and the
ill child can be very expensive. Even small
snacks, coffee and sodas purchased at the
clinic can add up. Clinic visits also mean
paying for gas and parking. After clinic vis
its, many parents spend money on treats or
entertainment for the child and theirsiblings
in an effort to lessen the strain of the'day on
the children.
Social support can take many forms, from
a comforting shoulder to cry on to new tires
for a car in order to drive back and forth to the
medical center. Parents often need such things
as meals prepared and waiting for them after
exhausting day-long visits. Parents often man
age better when they can rely on someone to
pick up siblings from school and activities,
or depend upon a friend or relative to stay
with the sick child while the parent takes a
walk or eats dinner.
Communities often provide financial re
lief by sponsoring fundraisers, raffles, or
dinners to help cover the unexpected finan
cial costs of a sick child. Other important
forms of social support provided to parents
by kin, friends, or neighbors can be in the
form of babysitting, meal preparation, or
buying food and clothing. Offering to do
daily maintenance chores such as laundry,
yardwork, or pet-care are ways to help the
family function during this crisis. Often co
workers can give or gift parents their unused
sick days or vacation time to help ease the
financial impact of missing work.
Emotional support is often the most criti
cal kind of support needed by the parents, at
the crisis stage, during periods of hospital
ization, and during the times their children
were well and at home. Emotional support
can be provided by a wide variety of indi
viduals, including kin, other parents of ill
children, neighbors, friends, church mem
bers, co-workers, and teachers. Parents often
commented over and over to Williams how
useful it was to be able to "just sit and talk, to
cry on someone's shoulder, to have someone
It's not tasty enough, tender enough or con
venient enough-and predictably so-to make
us buy it.
Samuelson is not a cattleman. Nor is he
a retailer. He is a former Washington Post
reporter who now writes an economic col
umn for Newsweek. In his opinion (which
Newsweek shared with hundreds of thou
sands of consumers around the world), cattle
raisers have failed to improve the overall
quality of their product because the industry
is too splintered.
Samuelson said variable quality is the
main cause for beefs disfavor in America's
changing diet. This article reinforces two
major issues for the beef industry-one, the
negative impact on consumption of beef as
a result of quality variances and inconsis
tencies, and two, the need to get serious
about changing the packer purchase of live
stock to a grade and yield system. National
Cattlemen's Beef Association figures mir
ror some effects of that failure. From beefs
55 percent share of the market in 1975,
NCBA estimates that beef will hold only 25
percent of the market in 2005 if changes are
not made. In other words, beef s market
share will have dropped 50 percent in the
span of three decades. The beef industry's
image will probably not improve until pro
ducers receive a profit for making positive
changes. Although the industry has talked
Home remedies a
by Diane Bohle
O.S.U. Extension
Home remedies arc often the best place
to start when looking for a solution to a
problem. The following home remedies
are tips from various Old House Journals
(OHJ). These home remedies rely on
nontoxic ingredients commonly found
in kitchen cupboards.
Cat Odors be Gone
The "essence of cat" is one of the most
difficult odors to remove from a house.
While commercial preparations may work
best, there are home remedies which are
affordable, convenient alternatives. Vin
egar takes first place as the most sworn-by
home remedy for removing cat odors.
Straight, undiluted white vinegar sprayed
on the offending spot with a mister, takes
away the odor. Thoroughly wet the area,
using three or four applications of vinegar,
letting the spot dry in between. Vinegar is
effective on wood, concrete, and carpet
ing. The vinegar, being an organic acid,
won't leach or deteriorate wood cells. It is
important to color-test carpet or fabric in
an inconspicuous place for color fastness
before applying vinegar on carpet or fab
ric. A textile is colorfast if its dye does not
run or bleed.
Another home remedy for cat odors
begins with closing off the smelly room
and placing a large pan of ammonia in the
room for one day. The next day, replace the
ammonia pan with a pan of vinegar for one
day. Alternate ammonia and vinegar until
the odor disappears. Do NOT apply the
ammonia or vinegar directly to the stained
area. While vinegar might make odors dis-
family members
listen."
In most situations, social support to par
ents with an ill child is given freely and
without expectation of return or repayment.
This type of communal giving is often an
unspoken, but important part of being a fam
ily member, a friend, or part of a community.
' A child with a serious' illness strips away
from parents, family members and others the
sense of being able to control life events.
Providing support gives the family and com
munity a chance to help in a situation in
which they otherwise could do little. Every
one who helps a child feels good.
Parents who receive social support while
their child is ill generally want to "give back"
or repay social support they received. The
difference is that they do not always feel a
need to actively give back support to the kin,
friends, neighbors, or co-workers that sup
ported them. Their feeling was that they
helped others all the time, and gave back
equally. Many parents echoed one mother's
sentiments who said that "I know at some
time it will balance out." The strongest need
voiced by parents was "...to be there when
they (people who gave them support) need
me.
Many parents wanted to help other par
ents faced with a similar situation. This type
of "giving back" or reciprocity is like a
ladder, with someone who has been helped
on one stair, giving help to another person in
need on the next step. This method of return
ing social support strengthens the mutual
interdependency of people in several ways.
Importantly, it allows parents in crisis to
accept support. It also provides an opportu
nity for those parents who have had a seri
ously ill child the opportunity to give support
to other parents with a seriously ill child. It
also allows people to "be there" for each
other in ways that support the well-being of
the entire family.
Edited from: "No Free Gifts! Social Sup
port and the Need for Reciprocity
By: Holly Ann Williams Human Organi
zation, Vol. 54, No. 4, 1995
for years about paying premium prices for
excellent carcasses and discounting poor
carcasses, nothing yet has been done for the
rank-and-file cattle producer. So, perhaps
the industry is too splintered.Branded beef
products may help to unite the beef industry.
NCBA's goal is to have managers of com
modity beef operations gear their programs
as if they were producing for a brand name.
The producers would not generate a specific
product; rather they would use existing tech
nology to increase quality and consistency to
give consumers a great beef experience ev
ery time.
Such beef products probably would carry
a trademark. It would enable consumers to
identify those beef products generated
through the extra care. They would carry a
higher price tag, and the objective would be
to send these profits back through the chain
to reward cattlemen who subscribe to the
initiative. Consider another commodity-cotton.
Through improvement of cotton prod
ucts and a massive television campaign that
carries the line, "the fabric of our lives,"
cotton producers have experienced their high
est market share in 30 years, from 34 when
the campaign started to 60 last year. The
beef symboltrademark is under consider
ation now by NCBA staff for use by each
segment of the industry from cow-calf pro
ducers to feeders, packers, processors and
good place to start for
appear as far as our human noses can tell,
the cat may know where to repeat the
crime. The advantage of commercial prepa
rations may be in their ability to neutralize
the odor so that not even the animal recog
nizes it. Edited from Old House Journal,
March 1980
Removing Wallpaper
Removing wallpaper is a time consum
ing, messy task at best. One tip is to use a
clean sprayer filled with hot water and
vinegar, giving the wall a fine spray by
adjusting the nozzle. Wait for awhile and
then scrape it off with a wide putty knife.
Edited from Old House Journal, Sep
tember 1982
Rust-buster remedies
OHJ suggests two home remedies using
vinegar, cream of tartar, and hydrogen per
oxide for removing rust, especially in bath
tubs. First, form a paste by mixing small,
equal amounts of cream of tartar and hy
drogen peroxide. Let the paste sit on the
stain for a few hours or overnight. Rinse
the next morning with warm water. This
paste will also brighten brass fixtures like
bathtub sink plugs. Interestingly, cream of
tartar has a long history as a versatile
product. When wine is aged in wooden
casks, tartaric acid gathers on the walls of
the cask. This white powder tastes very
sour and is often used to add tartness in
cooking. Cream of tarter can also be used
to stabilize delicate foods such as me
ringue toppings. Cream of tartar can also
be used to clean cookware, as it reduces
discoloration of pan bottoms. Another home
remedy for removing rust in a bathtub
Wrap it up!
Garden Wrap
A garden wrap is a flavorful sandwich
made with rice and garden vegetables in
a warm tortilla. They have become the
rage across the country. These wraps are
filling, economical and easy to make.
Teenagers will enjoy fixing wraps for the
entire family. Experiment and come up
with your own variations!
Ingredients:
1 cup cooked brown rice (make with
13 cup rice and 23 cup water)
2 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar (ok to sub
stitute red wine vinegar)
12 t. each: garlic powder, dried
oregano, lime juice
1 cup each (chopped): tomato, zuc
chini, yellow squash, bell pepper
dash of hot pepper
4-8 fat free tortillas, warmed in the
oven
Directions:
Pre-heat broiler. Spread veggies on a
cookie tray and broil until browned about
12 15 minutes. Combine veggies with
ecooked rice, seasonings, vinegar, and
pepper sauce. Spoon one cup of the fill
ing down the center of each tortilla and
roll up. When rolling tuck in the sides
around the rice filling. The wrap should
resemble a very fat burrito or overstuffed
envelope.
Serving size 1 wrap (10 ounces); Serv
ings per recipe 4.
Nutrition: Calories 1 80. Calories from
Fat: 10 Daily ValueTotal Fat Saturated
Fat Cholesterol
Sodium Omg 8 Total Carbohydrates
37g 12 Dietary Fiber lOg 40 Sugars
7g Vitam A 10 Vitamin C 110 Iron
6 Diabetic Exchange: 2 bread, 1 veg
etable From: Crook County "Home Front",
May 1998
retailers. Television ads will carry the beef
symbol so that over time, consumers and
retailers will identify it with beef products.
The effort is similar to what Cotton Inc. did
with its symbol. In 1999, the industry will
evaluate and refine the program. By 2000, it
should be ready to roll out nationwide.
In Nebraska, they're taking a different
approach. The Nebraska Cattlemen's Asso
ciation will soon be producing Nebraska
Corn Fed Beef, a real brand name. Interested
cattle producers attend training to become
certified NCFB producers. To become certi
fied, producers have to be members of the
association, and keep and present accurate
records to the association on cattle enrolled
in the program. NCFB has many specifica
tions, including: No discernible dairy or Bos
indicus (Brahman) influence. Cattle must
be fed at least 90 days on a high-concentrate
corn based ration. Hot carcass weight of 575
to 900 pounds. These two attempts at branded
products indicate different ways the industry
can send economic signals back to producers
who generate the kind of products that con
sumers want. This is a step in the right
direction. No one benefits from a doubtful
discussions of beef s quality spread in na
tional magazines. The beef industry is work
ing to deliver a consistent product that is
tasty enough, tender enough, and predictably
convenient enough to be happy about the ten
bucks we spend on a good steak.
simple solutions
begins with laying three or four sheets of
paper towels saturated with white vinegar
over the stain. Let the towels stand for
three to four hours or overnight. Rinse with
warm water.
Edited from Old House Journal, Au
gust-September, 1985 Words on Win
dows Get Window Blinds Car Wash Clean
There is an easy way to clean the dust
and dirt that has collected on window blinds.
Load the blinds into a pick up truck and
drive it into a self-service car wash. Unload
the blinds and stand them upright on either
side of the truck. First, use the warm water
cycle, then the soap cycle, and finally the
cold rinse water to remove the detergent
residue. Be sure to monitor how close the
spray wand gets to the blinds, as too much
force may bend the blinds. Let the blinds
dry at home in the sun. The estimated cost
of cleaning a truck load of blinds is about
eight to twelve quarters. Consider taking a
friend to turn the blinds as you spray, as the
sprayers generally operate on a timer.
Edited from Old House Journal, Octo
ber, 1984
Window Treatments as "Moveable
Insulation"
Summer in Central Oregon guarantees
hot days and cool nights. Windows are
often the key to keeping your home at a
comfortable temperature. Curtains and
shades are the perfect "moveable insula
tion" to block sunlight (heat) in sunny
windows on summer days, and to block
conduction and convection (heat losses)
on cool nights. Curtains or drapes can
easily be turned into high-performance in
sulation by sealing them at the bottom of
the window opening. Adding lead weight
or sandbags in the hem or velcro strips on
the curtain hem and mated to the corre
sponding window will help seal the curtain
to the bottom of the window opening. Seal
ing the curtain to the windows in this man
ner makes the windows more energy effi
cient. These "moveable" methods allow
you to easily open drapes to let in breezes
as needed. Another energy option is to
make a window quilt. Window quilts are
made by stapling layered quilted material
to a frame that fits into the window frame.
The window quilt slows-heat transfer 4y
absorbing it in the multiple layers of quilted
material and fiber-fill. Moveable insula
tion is effective, saves energy, and it is
easily adapted to different seasons, win
dow shapes, and tastes.
Edited from Old House Journal, April,
1982
Be fire safe!
Install a smoke detector. Change the
batteries annually and test it often.
Have a fire extinguisher nearby.
Do not wear loose garments while cook
ing that could ignite if brushed against a hot
surface.
Do not use a towel or bulky cloth that
could catch on fire as a substitute for a
potholder.
Make sure potholders are dry. Moist
potholders could result in steam burns.
Turn pothandles inward, but not over
other surface units. This will reduce the
chance of spills.
Clean up grease spills immediately.
Grease is highly flammable.
From: Tips and trends from the Soap and
Detergent Association. The hotline is staffed
by certified Lane County Mater Food Pre
servers and Extension faculty in the College
of Home Economics and Education at Or
egon State University.
Applicants recruited
Higher Education Applicants Recruited
for Natural Resource Degree
Individuals who have graduated from high
school or received their GED and want to
take higher education courses with a focus in
natural resources need to call the OSU Ex
tension Office at 553-3238 and sign up for a
visit with counselors on May 1 1th at the
Educational Service Building (old boys
dorm). Course work will be taught in the
Warm Springs Community. Counselors will
work with prospective students and review
their education goals, skills, and any course
work since high school. From this session
and other need assessments higher education
courses will be developed and taught at Warm
Springs to specifically meet resource man
agement needs at Warm Springs. Classes
will focus on remedial courses to give stu
dents skills for college courses, lower divi
sion and upper division classes that lead to
specific skill certificates and Associate of
Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.
Classes will be delivered in various for
mats: visiting professors, distance education
through microwave or satellite, videos,
Internet and CD ROM's. Some courses will
be self guided while others will be taught the
evenings, weekends or during the week.
The Natural Resource degree program is
designed for individuals who are place and
or job bound and have desire to continue
their skill development and education. It is a
cooperative effort between the Education
and Natural Resource Branches, Central Or
egon Community College and Oregon State
University. For additional information con
tact Clint Jacks at 475-3808.
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