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2 August 10, 2000 Warm Springs, Oregon spilyay tymoo On Patrol. . . Bob Medina Community Policing: The Warm Springs Community Policing Services were present during the Jefferson County Fair on July 26-29. Officers Chris Elliott, Bob Medina, with cadets Lydel Suppah, James Wolfe III, and Allen Gilbert, shared a booth with The Jefferson County Sheriffs Department. Officer's and cadets were at hand to assist local law enforcement personnel as well as the Jefferson County Fair staff. The cadets were very helpful during this three-day event. They represented our police department well. Our police cadets are quickly learning as they take advantage of our ride along program. Cadets are seen riding along with our regular police officers on a daily basis. Slowly but surely, The Warm Springs Commu nity Oriented Policing Services is gaining on our set goals. Our goals are to gain trust, cooperation, and communication with all of our community members. Community Policing is asking for community cooperation during our door-to-door visits that will continue during the next few months. While on door-to-door visits, the Warm Springs Community Oriented Policing Services will continue offering community members engraving, or photos of their valuable items. Officers will also offer informa tion on crime prevention, how to secure your home better, and will continue to promote our new seat belt law. Officer's Graham and Medina, continue to update the 91 1 numbered house address's and so far have completed the areas of Bear Springs, Simnasho, Sidwalter, Seekseequa, and Miller Hgts. We would like to take this time to thank all community members who we came in touch with during those home visits. Thank you for all your support and cooperation on this important project. Both Officers Medina and Graham, will continue to gather this information for the Agency, Wolfpoint, Sunnyside, Kah-Nee-Ta, Upper and Lower Dry Creek, and the Greely Ills. Areas. The information gathered, will be down loaded into our 91 1 computer system as well as the Warm Springs G1S computers. On August 1, 2000, Officer Medina and Cadet Allen Gilbert, visited KWSO Radio Station, and voiced a PSA promoting our open house on August 1 1, 2000. The Warm Springs Police Department would like to invite the community to our open house. The Tribal Police Department will hold an open house BBQ for our community between the hours of 2:00 PM and 6:30 PM on Friday, August 1 1 , 2000. Come meet the officers who serve our community as well as meet the entire police department staff. Stop by and visit and enjoy a hamburger, or a hotdog, and -refreshments. Please feel free to ask lots of questions. The Warm Springs Police Department open house activities will include a dunk tank, mini basketball tourney, displays, and many door prizes. During the open house, the Police Department also plans on recognizing our Citizen Police Academy participants and several community members who continue to promote public or community safety. We also plan on recognizing many of our local middle school students who have done well at making it to school attending their studies. A word of caution to everyone who might go out into the woods or be involved with any other outdoors activity, be careful with any and all types of fire, cigarettes, lighters, refuse burning, welding, whatever. It has been very dry out, and very hot. Our land does not need to become another statistic on wild land fires. Crime Prevention Tip: If you are going to be gone from home leave a light on, maybe a radio and make sure all of your doors and windows are secure. And let someone you can depend on know your plans. And last but not least, stop by the police department and fill out a house check request. Dealing with the hot summer weather With higher then normal tem peratures predicted for much of the country, the American Red Cross urges people to beat the heat and pre pare for the first heat wave of the sum mer season. As temperatures climb over 90 degrees (F) and stay there for several days, people, especially the very young and the very old, become susceptible to heat and heat-related illnesses including nausea, dizziness, flushed of pale skin, heavy sweating and headaches. Victims of heat-related illness should be moved to a cool place, given cool water to drink and ice packs or cool wet cloths should be applied to the skin. If a victim refuses water, vomits or loses consciousness, 9-1-1 or your local Emergency Medical Services (EMS) number should be called immedi ately. The Red Cross advises the fol lowing tips on how to stay cool: IN THE HOT WEATHER... - Dress for the heat. Wear light weight, light-colored clothes. Lighi colors will reflect away some of the sun's energy. It is also a good idea to wear hats or to use and umbrella. - Drink water. Carry water or juice with you and drink continuously even if you don't feel thirsty. Avoid alcohol and caffeine, which dehy drates the body. Eat small meals and eat more often. Avoid strenuous activity. If you musst do strenuous activity, do it during the coolest part of the day, which is usually in the morning be tween 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. - Stay indoors when possible KNOW WHAT THESE HEAT RELATED TERMS MEAN: Heat wave - More then 48 hours of high heat (90 F or higher) and high humidity (80 percent rela tive humidity or higher) are expected. -1 Icat Index - A number in de grees Fahrenheit that tells how hot it really feels with the heat and humid ity. Exposure to full sunshine can increase the heat index by 15 F. -1 leat cramps -1 leat cramps are muscular pains and spasms due to heavy exertion. They usually involve the abdominal muscles or the legs. It is generally thought that the loss of water and salt from heavy sweating causes the cramps. Heat exhaustion - Heat ex haustion is less dangerous then heat stroke. It typically occurs when people exercise heavily y or work in warm, humid places where the body fluids are lost through heavy sweat ing. Fluid loss causes blood flow to decrease in the vital organs, resulting in a form or shock. With heat exhaus tion, sweat does not evaporate as it should, possibly because of high hu midity or too many layers of clothes. As a result, the body is not cooled properly. Signals include e cool, moist, pale or flushed skin; heavy sweating; headache; nausea or vom iting; dizziness; and exhaustion. Body temperature will be near nor mal. - Heat stroke - Also known as sunstroke, heat stroke is life-threatening. The victim's temperature con trol system, which produces sweat ing to cool the body, stops working. The body temperature can rise so high that brain damage and death may re sult if the body is not cooled quickly. Signals include hot, red and dry skin; changes in consciousness; rapid, weak pulse; and rapid, shallow breathing. Body temperature can be very high - sometimes as high as 1 05 F. GENERAL CARE FOR HEAT EMERGENCIES... 1. Cool the Body 2. Give Fluids 3. Minimize Shock Heat crampsheat exhaus tion - Get a person to a cooler lace and have him or her rest in a com fortable position. Give a half glass of cool water every 1 5 minutes. Do not let him or her drink too quickly. Do not give liquids with alcohol or caf feine in them, as they can make con ditions worse. Remove or loosen tight clothing and apply cool, wet cloths such as towels or we sheets. ; Heat stroke - Heat stroke is a life-threatening situation. Help is need fast Call 9-1-1 or your local EMS number. Move the person to a cooler place. Quickly cool the body. Wrap wet sheets around the body and fan it. If you have ice packs or cold packs, wrap them in a cloth and place them on each of the victim's wrists and ankles, in the armpits and on the neck to cool the large blood vessels. (Do not use rubbing alcohol because it closes the skin's pores and prevents heat loss.) Watch for signals of breathing problems and make sure the airway is clear. Keep the person ly ing down. For more information or to en roll in a Red Cross first aid and CPR Course, contact the local American Red Cross chapter in your community. Happy Birthday Sid (the cute little tike) from your whole staff Grieving and dealing with the loss of a loved one CPS seeks foster parents w w The Warm Snrincs Children's resources receive financial a "Life to the full." The theme we adapted from Scripture for our wed ding seemed wonderfully appropri ate. On that brilliant autumn day, celebrating our marriage with the rich traditions of our religious community and cultural heritages (his Italian, mine Polish, blessed with loVing family and friends, John and I felt enveloped by life's abundance. Less than nine yeas later, at 37, John died from lymphoma. My be ing ached with a sense of devastation. This didn't feel like the fullness of life that the Gospel had promised. Instead, there was emptiness, power lessness, despair, anger, and sadness - the painful legacy of loss. Find your way Loss of all kinds hurts. The end of a life, the end of a relation ship, unwanted changes in the way you live or work, health or financial problems whatever loss you're ex periencing, the pain can be powerful, crushing your spirit and casting a shadow over each day. To ease your hurt, it seems re quires nothing less than the impos sible to return to how things were. While that is not possible, there are ways to find comfort in your time of loss. Give yourself over to God's care You're not alone in your pain. God is present, surrounding you, fill ing you, holding you. Let yourself go into God; rest in the grace of the Eter nal. There may be times when you feel only God's absence, or when your anger and despair make you doubt God's goodness, usefulness, or even existence. But stay open to the possibility that God is with you and will bring you through, that God is there to comfort and heal. Speak to God in prayer; read the words of Scripture. The Psalms and the Book of Isaiah have sdme particularly con soling passages.,, ' ' Comfort can come in many dif ferent, and sometimes surprising forms the meaning or memory that a song, a sermon, a film stirs; the ut ter peace of a sunrise, a rainbow, the ocean; the consolation of a person's smile or arm around your shoulder or willingness to listen. Pay attention and relish each experience. Confront the reality of your loss Loss can disorient you, plunging your into a sense of unreality, shock, and numbness. When the Challenger space shuttle exploded in 1986, we watched the tape repeatedly as we came to grips with the disaster. You need to replay your loss over and over within your own heart, talk about it to others, work through the what ifs and might have beens. Then, as the numbness subsides and the pain comes, stay with it. You won't find real comfort in keeping too busy, escaping with distractions, or trying to bring back the numbness. That will only push the pain deeper in side you where, unexamined and untended, it can fester and poison your spirit. The only way out is through. ' If only by running the Chal lenger tape backwards we could have brought the shuttle safely back to earth! Your many long intensely for the past;' you may want to turn back time; J" 1,1 '.ruti - Let yourself feel the longing-4 it's normal and natural and ill probt ably, to some extent, always be there. Grieve for what's gone. Then make what's gone a part of you- with your memories, with the aware ness of how you're different now because of the past, with the joy that was once experienced, is yours forever. j Let your loss lead you to aware ness of what matters A hidden 'gift' of loss is that it can jar you out of the everyday flurry of activity all those endless details of living that can overwhelm your consciousness and cause you to lose sight of what' truly impor tant. ' Now your sharpened awareness of loss can help you recognize what does endure: beauty, truth, integrity, goodness and above all, love. Do these ultimate values and vir tues fill your soul and mark your life? Do they flow out from you to others? Be open to the gift of compassion that can come from your wounded ness and use it to help others who are hurt ing. Hold to the promise of the Res urrection Out of disintegration comes re newal. Out of chaos comes meaning. , Out of endings come beginnings. Out of death comes rebirth. If your life seems devoid of light, remember that growth also happens in night. Allow yourself to learn from your past, to grow in wisdom from your loss, to stay open to all the pos sibilities ahead, and you'll know first hand the reality of Resurrection. Come home to hope You may never quite make sense of your loss and your pain. The an swer to "Why did this happen to me?" may always elude you. But even as you accept the mystery of suffering, know that you can provide meaning to what you've experienced by be coming better, wiser, more loving; by growing ever more into the person God calls you to be. Know that your can move be yond your loss by allowing life to unfold its glorious surprises for you. The Warm Springs Children's Protective Services is seeking Foster Homes. An application can be picked up at the CPSGroup Home or if you would like more information on how to become a foster parent please don't hesitate to call the CPS at 553-3216. These are the steps that need to be taken: 1) complete application and re turn to CPS (name, date of birth, address, phone, when is the best time to call). 2) The CPS Foster Care Coordi nator will then contact you and schedule a time to meet with you, in your home to discuss the foster care program. An appointment for a home evaluation will be set and any ques tions you may have will be answered. 3) During the Home evaluation, your entire household must be present. This will last approximately an hour and may be scheduled for a time convenient for your household. 4) Homes that serve as foster care resources receive financial assistance to help cover the cost of living for the foster children while they are in the home. 5) Every adult household member will be required to consent to a Criminal History Check. As we strive to improve our foster care program, we ask that you under stand all portions of the certification process are necessary to insure the highest quality of foster care for the children in CPS care. Foster care certification can take up to two weeks from your original application date. You will be sent written notification upon completion of the certification process. If you have any questions, please contact the CPS Foster Care Coordinator at (541)553-3216. Note: Only the basics are listed, the application will go into more detail and all information will be completely confidential. Spilyay now has an e-mail address spilyayhotmail.com The annual Huckleberry Feast gathered many for celebration Sonny's Pizza has extended their hours. They are now open from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday thru Saturday Phone: (541)553-9226 Prices vary-new menu items. 01 Spilyay Tymoo Publisher Editor Secretary Sid Miller Selena Boise Tina Aguilar Founded in March 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the basement of the Old Girls Dorm at 1 1 15 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. (541) 553-1644 or 553-3274 FAX No. (541) 553-3539 E-mail address: spilyayJiotmail.com Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S. $15.00 Outside U.S. or 1st class in the U.S. $25.00 Spilyay Tymoo 2000 i k : ..... i - M T -AST - - A day of worship and giving thanks to the creator for a bountiful harvest of huckle berries took place August 6 at the He He Longhouse along the beautiful Warm Springs River. The gathering began with a powwow held Saturday and Sunday before the feast. The berry pickers hold a Lila and Lucille assist in preparation of ttie meal served at HeHe Longhouse for the Huckleberry Feast : ' s a memorial gathering a week before the feast to release themselves from mourning and gather berries for the feast. Food preparation begins Sunday before the Washut services take place. Prepara tion continues during the Services. Washut services take place to give thanks to the creator throughout the Sunday morning and afternoon. The salmon is cooked in an open pit along the Warm Springs river, shaded by the tall pine trees. Nearby is where the venison and eels are being cooked for the meal also. In the kitchen the cooks are working steadily by the heat of the ovens and stoves to see that enough food is prepared for all in attendance. After a long day of celebration the meal is served and the people of Warm Springs give thanks and have their feast. Clean-up takes place to end a busy day for the food preparers and food gatherers. Future Huckleberry Picker.
