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News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation
Tenth Annual Honor Seniors day hosted joy, smiles and laughter
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These "young" people were challenged to a game. The object of the game is to weave a threaded
spoon through their shirts, down through their pants until it reaches the last person and then is
unwoven back to the beginning of the line. The young guys were one team from being in last place.
The Tenth Annual
Honor Seniors Day
brought senior citizens
together for a day of fun
and laughter May 12 at
the Agency Longhouse.
The children of the
Head Start program at
the Early Childhood
Education performed
several dances for the
senior citizens to begin
the morning session.
Lunch was served to all
in attendance before the
games began.
Fun games were the
attraction for laughter
and smiles on the senior
citizens faces.
Senior citizens traveled
from afar to enjoy
themselves.
ECE children were led into the longhouse by Miss Warm Springs
Alyssa Macy, Junior Miss Warm Springs Cecelia Herrera and Lil
Miss Warm Springs Elyse Bagley.
Harold and Hedwich Jacobs from Sisters, Oregon, balance a ball
between them as they learn to master the owl dance.
Reception
set
for June 11
This year The Museum At Warm
Springs is presenting "Artist In
2000", the 7th Annual Tribal Mem
ber Art Exhibit. The exhibition of
this year's art will begin with an
afternoon reception June 11, 2000 2
to 5 p.m. Open to the public and will
run through September 3, 2000.
The Tribal Member Art Exhibit
consists of an open ended array of art
created by Warm Springs tribal
members 18 years old and over. All
entries will compete for two awards.
Judge's Choice a prestigious award
given to the most outstanding art
submitted as selected by the iudae.
The Honorable Mention Awards go
the judge's selection of outstanding
work. The art submitted to the exhibit
that are for sale will have the op
portunity to be selected as Timber
line Purchase Awards. These pur
chases are made by Richard L.
Kohnstamm to provide financial in
centive to artists to develop and
pursue their art work. They will be
for resale in the Timberline Lodge
gift shop. The awards will be pre
sented to the artists at the opening
reception.
Please take note, the reception
date has been changed from June 3rd
to June 1 1 th and the reception will be
in the afternoon unlike past evening
receptions.
The Museum At Warm Springs,
2181 Hwy. 26 is open 362 days a
year from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from
Memorial Day through Labor Day.
For information on tours, workshops
or the Art Exhi bit call (54 1 ) 553-333 1
and ask for Eraina Palmer andor
Jewell Minnick.
Retirement Dinner
for
Harry Phillips
Sunday, June 4, 2000,
2:00 P.M.
Agency Longhouse
We would like to present Mr. Phillips
with a memory book at the dinner, and
are collecting pictures and stories about
his life here in Warm Springs. If you
would like to include something in this
book, please send to:
Angie David
P..O.. Box 1269
Warm Springs, OR 97761
Community
meeting scheduled
A community meeting is
scheduled for the evening of May 22
at the Simnasho Longhouse. A light
meal will be served at 6:00 p.m., with
the meeting to start at about 7:00
p.irl.
The agenda includes a report about
the lower John Day Regional
Partnership and discussion about the
latest draft of the community land
use plan.
Madras gaming site offers revenue fix
A new gaming facility at Madras
represents the best possible answer
for the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, as the Tribe faces projected
revenue shortfalls in 2003 and
beyond.
The Tribal Council has set May
23 for a vote of the people on a
proposal to expand the Tribe's
gaming program by developing a new
casino on tribal trust land in the
industrial area just north of Madras.
The proposal is aimed at adding
an average of some $9 million a year
to the Tribe's revenue base to meet
future costs of schools, security and
other programs, and to secure Tribal
sovereignty for future generations.
Tribal officials say the Madras
proposal is based entirely on
economic jiain and on creating
economic stability for the benefit of
the Tribe.
Current projections of Tribal
revenue over the next several years
show fiscal problems beginning as
earlv as 2001. when it's estimated
total Tribal expenditures to meet
current services will exceed
anticipated revenues by $3.2 million.
A spending cut would be required
in that year to balance the budget,
and in any year thereafter where a
shortfall is experienced.
By 2002, the shortfall of revenue
compared to spending needs will rise
to $7 million and remain at the level
annually on average through 2007,
the last year of current forecasts.
Annual total Tribal revenues are
estimated to decline from $29.6
million in the year 2000 to $21.67
million in 2002, and reach a low over
the next eight years of $2 1 .3 million
in 2006.
Declining Tribal revenues from
timber and hydro power are the cause
for the developing shortfalls. Timber
revenues will be reduced by 201 to
maintain sustained harvest levels
after 2002.
The Madras proposal represents a
short-term response to the Tribe's
revenue concerns. An intermediate
facility at Madras as seen as a first
step toward a long-term strategy of
assuring adequate annual Tribal
revenues through expanded gaming.
A Madras facility would
supplement the existing Indian Head
casino at Kah-Nce-Ta Resort, which
serves primarily as an amenity to
guests and is expected to maintain
modest cash flow of $2.5 million to
$3.5 million a year.
For the long term, a Warm Springs
casino in the Mid-Columbia River
area is the goal. This facility is
estimated to bring the Tribe net annual
cash several times greater than either
Madras or the existing Indian Head
casino at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort.
Oregon Governor Kitzhaber last
year rejected the Tribe's plan for a
Mid-Columbia casino at Cascade
Locks. However, the Tribe plans to
pursue this goal with a new
administration in Salem.
Short-term options studied for
meeting Tribal revenue shortfalls
included a new facility on the
reservation. According to estimates
made for the Tribe by an independent
economics firm, a new gaming
facility anywhere on the reservation
would produce only about half the
net annual cash projected for a Madras
casino, and potentially fail to close
the gap on revenue shortfalls.
Tribal officials also say the
investment necessary to develop a
new casino on the reservation would
be nearly as much as a Madras facility.
An intermediate facility is likely to
cost about $25 million to build for
either option. Site development at
Madras may bring some added costs,
estimated at several million dollars.
Gaming expansion at Madras is
expected to capture the growing
Central Oregon market along with
increases from drive-by traffic on
Highways 26 and 97. With approval
of the people and cooperation from
local city and county officials, a
Madras facility could be open in two
years. Tribal leaders predict.
The Spilyay Tymoo (Coyote News)
newspaper is having an art contest in
search of a new look for the new
millennium
Prizes will be awarded to the winner,
which include:
One night at Kah-Nee-Ta, a shirt & cap donated by KNT
$100.00 cash donated by Warm Springs Forest Products
$10 gas donated by DMJ Automotive
$50 cash & gift certificate donated by Warm Springs
Market
and various other prizes.
The deadline for entries is May 30, 2000
Rules:
1. All rights to winning picture will belong to Spilyay
Tymoo.
2. Artwork must pertain to Spilyay Tymoo (Coyote
News).
3. Size of artwork is limited to 11x13 (horizontal).
4. Contest is open to the readership of Spilyay Tymoo.
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