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A Korean dance was performed to beautiful music
Friday, July 10, 1998, the
Summer Mission Tour '98
was presented by RSG2 of
Tacoma, Washington. The
flyer said, "They will change
the way you look at life." It
did. Their presentation
consisted of personal
testimonies, thought
provoking dramas and songs
of uplifting music.
With the use of sign
language their songs were
very beautiful and uplifting.
RSG2 traveled from
Washington to perform in
Oregon, Idaho and
Washington on their way ,
home to Tacoma. This is their
second year singing at Warm
Springs and they enjoyed
talking with people they met
the las i time they were here
and meeting new people.
"When the trumpet blows and Jesus comes to take
all Christians, will you be ready?"
Each person in the group is Korean or part Korean and they are all God's children.
The Museum At Warm Springs
Calendar of Event for 1998
Changing Exhibit Schedule
July 11-September 28: "Quilts! Quilts! Quilts!"
Opening Reception July 11, 12 p.m.
October 2-December 28: "Traditional Baskets"
Opening Reception October 2, 6 p.m.
Living Traditions 1998 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
August
1-2: Heritage Importance
8-9: Cedar Bark Baskets
8: Spirit Walker Dancers
15-16: Cedar Root Baskets
22-23: Quilts
29-30: Traditional Foods
July
3-5: Dry Creek Dancers
11-12: Stick Game
18-19: Root &Cornhusk
bags
29-30: Traditional Foods
September
5-7: Craft Fair
Culture Classes 1998 Sign up now
July August
13: Wingdress & 17 thru 21: Beadwork
20: Leggings & September
27: Moccasins B, 15, 22 & 29: Cedar Root Bkt
October November
1, 8, 15, 22 & 29: 2 thru 6: Ribbon shirts
Mask Mkg
Come to The Museum At Warm Springs Third An
nual Huckleberry Harvest
Our very own unique fundraising event!! August 7-8,
1998
The followine: activities are sponsored through a grant
from the US West Foundation and are FREE to the public:
Julyl76p.m.: Lillian Pitt, lecture & presentation on her
art.
September 12 2 p.m.: Ed Edmo, story-telling "Grand
mother Chokecherry".
October 3 2 p.m.: Bridge of the Gods Native Ameri
can legend, a play by The Tears of Joy Theater.
November 7 1 &3 p.m.: Mary Dodds bchlick, author
ecture (coincides with Traditional Baskets Exhibit)
December 11 6 p.m.: Jane Kirkpatrick, author lecture
book signing.
Also made possible by US West: Free Days (free admis
sion) to The Museum. Saturday, October 3, 1998, Friday,
November 27, 1998 & Saturday, December 5, 1998.
For more information on this calendar of Events, please
call (541) 553-3331. Keep the Culture alive! Become a
member or give a gift of membership to The Museum At
Warm Springs. ,
Forestry Notables: What does Presale dept. do?
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Just what is the Presale Depart
ment within Forestry and what is it
they do for the Tribes'? As with all
the departments within forestry
Presale also is under the jurisdiction
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the
Trustee for management of the
Tribes' forest resources. Presale cur
rently has six full time employees,
half of which are tribal members.
The employees working in Presale
are Doug Manion, Budd Johnson,
Bob Gill, Larry Scott, Virgil Orange
and Raymond Calica Jr. I, Doug
Manion, supervise the Presale De
partment. The basic mission of the
Presale department is to layout tim
ber sales that will be harvested by
VSFPI. In order for Presale to com
plete a timber sale package for WSFPI
to purchase we must go through the
following steps;
(1) Meet with Natural Resources
staff to incorporate all Natural Re
source concerns such as fish, wild
life, and water
(2) Coordinate with Engineering
and Silviculture sections within For
estry to verify road systems and
potential harvest areas
(3) Flag harvest areas and mark
trees to meet harvest objectives
(4) Traverse harvest treatment
areas using Global Positioning Sys
tem to calculate sale acres, and begin
cruising timber for estimate of sale
volume
(5) Compile all pertinent sale in
formationdata to write Forest Offic
ers Report (F.O.R.)
(6) Present F.O.R. to Timber Com
mittee for approval
(7) Upon approyal of F.O.R. by
Timber Committee, Forest Manager
presents sale to Tribal Council for
concurrence. Upon concurrence, sale
is given to WSfPI to purchase from
the Tribes "" 'V? "
1 , The process of taking a proposed
harvest area from initial inception
through completion of the Forest
Officers Report takes an average of 1
to 2 years. Generally Budd Johnson,
Bob Gill, and myself will coordinate
activities in all phases of a timber
sales development, while Larry Scott,
Virgil Orange, and Raymond Calica
Jr. focus on steps 3 through 5. In
addition to timber sale work Presale
also will cruise tribal allotments for
the Reality department. Since
Presales primary duty is to put up
sale volumes to obtain the allowable
cut it is important for us to keep in
touch with the membership. Open
lines of communication will help
ensure that our management of the
forest is in line with what the overall
membership desires to see happen in
their forest.
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Children sit down and enjoy a book being read to them by Sue Matters,
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From March 1997 to April 1998,
the Social Security Administration
(SSA) suspended Supplemental
Security (SSI) payments to 44,376
prisoners who are ineligible to receive
them. For that same period, 4,059
facilities received incentive payments
for providing information that
resulted in the suspension of SSI to
prisoners.
Federal law prohibits the payment
of SSI to recipients who are confined
to jails, prisons and certain public
institutions for more than 30 days.
For confinements beginning March
1997 and later, the law also provides
for incentive payments to penal
institutions for timely reporting of
inmate data to SSA that leads to the
suspension of SSI payments.
The incentive payments are
designed to help offset some of the
costs that law enforcement offices
incur in collecting the data. State and
local penal facilities that want to
participate in the incentive payment
program must sign reporting
agreements with SSA. Participants
are required to transmit information
electronically to SSA's headquarters
in Baltimore, Maryland.
since 1995, SSA has suspended
SSI payments to more than 200,000
recipients. Increased participation
of state and local law enforcement
facilities nationwide has improved
the collection of inmate data, helps
save taxpayer dollars and ensures
that SSI payments are made only to
eligible individuals.
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open for kids
There is a computer lab for any
child that is interested. It started July
6 and ends July 31. It's from 8 a.m. to
12 noon and it s held at the Warm
Springs Elementary.
Children can also look and check
out books, play board games or put
puzzles together.
Gena Pla is one of the teachers
there. She said, "This is my first
year. I just started working here. It's
very nice. It's good for the school to
be opened and it's for the kids to
have something to do this summer."
Farm Service Agency newsletter-
It takes concentration to work on a computer.
The Farm Service Agency is
looking to implement the Emergency
Conservation Program (ECP). The
ECP is to be used to rehabilitate
farmlands damaged by the May
; Flood. Funds are to provide cost
' share assistance to commercial
agricultural producers who have
; suffered severe damage to their
; farmland. We are currently taking
applications for:
Removing Debris From Farmland:
Cost-sharing is authorized if
damage is of a magnitude that
requires employing additional farm
labor not currently used on the farm
or employing heavy specialized
equipment.
Grading, Shaping, Releveling, or
Similar Measures:
Re-establishing permanent
vegetative cover on areas where the
pre-existing permanent vegetative
cover was destroyed, and the area
involved would be subject to critical
wind or water erosion unless the cover
is re-established.
Restoring Permanent Fences:
A cost-share percentage factor is
applied depending on the age of the
fence destroyed.
Restoring Structures and Other
Installations:
Failed drainage systems, cleaning
silt from ditches and damaged
diversion dams.
Producers must apply for the
program, prior to beginning
restoration work. Producers who
request assistance and begin
restoration work must understand that
cost-share under ECP will be
contingent upon necessary funds
becoming available.
Emergency loans (EM) provide
for physical losses; loans are to be
used for replacement of buildings,
equipment, livestock and supplies,
to the extent that insurance proceeds
will not cover the loss. Emergency
loans also provide for production
losses to cover a shortfall in income
due to reductions in production as a
result of the disaster. Loan funds can
be used to pay creditors, buy feed
and pay family living expenses.
Emergency Loans may be made to
farmers and ranchers who:
- are established family farm
operators;
- have the ability, training or
experience to repay the loan;
- have suffered a qualifying
physical loss, or a production loss of
at least 30 percent in any essential
farm or ranch enterprise;
- can provide collateral to secure
an EM loan;
- cannot obtain commercial credit
- have purchased crop insurance
for all insurable crops grown in the
county;
Production loss loan amount is 80
percent of the loss amount. Physical
loan loss is 100 percent of
replacement cost.
Loan Terms- 3.75 percent interest
rate, up to 20 years.
The Farm Service Agency offices
located in Madras and Prineville are
expecting to move to out Redmond
Service Center building the week of
August 3-7. The address of out new
location will be 625 SE Salmon Ave
in Redmond, next to the Redmond
Airport.
The recent depression of grain
prices has created the availability of
Loan Deficiency Payments (LPD)
and the need for all grain producers
to review and understand the LDP
process. Like all CCC loan
provisions, LDP's carry the
requirement that grain placed under
this program must be grown on a
participation AMTA farm, and you
must maintain beneficial interest in
the commodity. Put simply, LDP's
are market gain payments of the
difference between the Posted County
Price and either the Crook,
Deschutes, or Jefferson County Loan
rate. The Posted County Price (PCP)
is calculated by reducing the Terminal
market grain price (usually Portland)
by either the Crook. Deschutes, or
Jefferson County differential.
LDP's for the most part, come in
two different flavors. Regular and
Field Direct. The quantity eligible
forLDPis lOOpercent of the certified
or measured quantity or 100 percent
of the production shown on
acceptable production evidence.
Regular LDP's are calculated
using the LDP rate in effect on the
date of request. Producers w ill sign
a form CCC-666LDP on the day of
their choice, and enter the requested
quantity. Multiple LDP's may be
requested.
Field Direct LDP's are calculated
on the date of delivery to the
warehouse (Buyer). This enables
those of you with sales contracts that
pass title upon delivery to still remain
eligible for LDP. Field Direct LDP's
must be requested by filing form
CCC-709 in the FS A office. Because
title to the grain is required for
eligibility, and that title will be lost
upon delivery, requests for Field
Direct LDP's must be received prior
to the start of harvest
Commodity loans rates for 1998
have been set as follows:
Crook
Wheat $2.74
Barley $1.87
Oats $1.24
Interest Rate
Pes.
$2.72
$1.87
$1.24
6.50
ML
$2.79
$1.84
$1.24
Producer must retain title to
commodity, and it must be stored in
acceptable farm storage or federally
approved commercial warehouses.
The loan maturity is nine months.
August 3-7 Scheduled move of
Office to Redmond
The Non-insured Crop Disaster,
Assistance Program (NAP) has
replaced the Disaster Programs for,
crops uninsurable by crop insurance
in the county. To qualify for,
assistance under NAP, production
losses in the requested NAP area.;
This includes each commercial crop
or ag commodity (except livestock)
and crops produced for food or fiber. '
Under the NAP provisions, forage is
also considered an eligible crop. For
each crop for which NAP payments
are requested, producers who suffer,
crop damage must file form FSA
574, (Request for AcreageDisaster
Credit) within 15 days of the date the
disaster occurred or damage to the
crop becomes obvious. Notice of
loss or damage must be provided
timely by either the farm operator or
all producers with an interest in the
crop. An area designation has to be
made to activate the program. An
area has to have at least 35 area
wide loss to be designated. An area
is defined by regulation as either
320.000 acres, acreage producing 80
million annually, or a county or
multiple contiguous counties.