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Warm Springs, Oregon
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The fish were never handled by anyone they were released in the
water from the Hatchery within 3 degrees C of the water in Shitike
Creek for adjustment to temperature. All fish survived the transport
and release.
The First Ever
"Columbus Day"
True Resilience Rez Car Parade
Warm Springs, OR.
Come have fun!
11:30 am, October 9, 2000
Parade will gather at the old
The Parade will start from there and proceed by the Warm
Springs Market and end gather at Elmer Quinn Park.
Lunch will be provided for all entrants and spectators.
Rules for entrants:
-All cars must be able to start and stop on its own (no
towing or getting jumps).
-All drivers must be okay.
Cars will be judged using the following criteria:
-Automobiles unique characteristics (windowless,
different color primer, no bumpers, dents, etc.)
-Creative use of duct tape, plastic bailing wire, hangers,
baling twine, clothes line, etc.
-Owners pride in vehicle.
For more information contact Char Herkshan at 553-1454,
or Captain at 553-7014.
Member voices
To the editor,
Recently, there was a meeting
at the Agency Longhouse on Warm
Springs Forest Products Industries.
Although I did not attend, I under
stand there were a lot of issues of con
cern, from the Tribal Members of
Warm Springs.
Often, our Tribal Enterprises
and Tribal Departments become a
point of concern to our people. The
validity of some of our concerns
needs to be heard by the people who
carry the great responsibility of the
positions, they had been selected and
delegated to represent. The "trust" has
been placed in each person, of these
positions to pass good judgment and
decisions for all our people. Over the
years, I have heard many issues
brought up. These problems and is
sues begin years ago and escalated to
a point of becoming out of control in
some areas.
Concerns and issues are most
vocal when w e hear the w ord "Bud
get", WSFPI and Kah-Nee-Ta, as w ell
as Indian Head Casino, our enter
prises, can be heard throughout the
Warm Springs community.
As our Tribal organization be
gins to expand and grow, w e w ill ex
perience difficulties to enhance devel
opment and growth. It concerns me
that our people cannot w ork coopera
Shitike Creek hosts largest
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Sex Fish (cm) (cm) (cm) (cm)
' : Males 1J0 70 81 60 3
Females 49 72 82 49 7
" Total I 159 71 j 82 49 5
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Salmon were taken from Warm Springs National
Fish Hatchery by tank. .., ,
IHS Clinic Parking Lot at 11:15 .
concerns about
tively together to resolve issues in a
productive and successful manner.
To be supportive to each other
and experience success as a tribal
government together. Often, it was
told to me, you make a mistake; it
may take two or three times as long
to correct. This is where the issues of
accountability and responsibility for
each management and supervisor
position plays an important role in our
organization. We have annual work
performance ratings, can this proce
dure work for our employees, or is it
just another formality?
When and if these Work Per
formance Assessment forms are uti
lized open and honestly, then it should
be working to enhance expectations
of responsible positions.
And w hen it comes to "Budget
Cuts" I disagree that the key people
labor force should be the first target
to be cut, we should have "qualified"
people too cover all bases and spe
cific duty, so that we don't need an
other dozen consultants to help do the
job, or three and four secretaries to
assist the boss and bosses.
Sometimes, we have so many
supervisors and department manag
ers and directors, that to follow chain
of command consumes so much un
necessary time. By the time a person
follows procedure it might be a year
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Extreme care was taken in the complete process.
TagMark I
OutplantSile Applied Females Male9 Total
Thompson Br. OrangeLOP 14 7 21
Below Thompson Br. OrangeLOP 34 9 43
Bennets YellowLOP 13 7 20
Headworks GreenLOP 15 7 22
Peters Pasture GreenLOP 6 4 10
Upper Crossing BlueLOP 14 7 21
Grand Total I I 110 49 159
Summary of Spring Chinook Salmon outplanted from WSNFH to
Shitike Creek, Sept 1-8 2000
Summary of Spring Chinook
Shitike Creek, Sept 1-8 2000
Live Positive Rap
Concert
September 22 & 23, 2000
Warm Springs
Community Center
(Featuring RP Artist)
Frost from East L.A.
Jason Neville,
Praise Chapel
Also featuring local Rap
artists,
their positive rhymes,
break dance
contest & more!
7 to 11 p.m. nightly;
$2 admission
For more info, contact
Pastor Billy Joe Berry
(541) 553-5983 (hm) (541)
410-7227 (cell)
PO Box 1442; Warm
Springs, OR 97761
many issues
later and forget what the real issues
were to begin with.
Do we need such a complicated
system? It would be so much easier
to designate a "LaborEmployee Task
Force" which would consist of em
ployees of each department to con
stitute a fair decision (that is just my
opinion).
If we could see the broad spec
trum of what our differences are cre
ating on our own reservation, with our
youth and young people (fear and vio
lence). Not only employment, pov
erty, divorced parents, dysfunctional
families and no housing but the very
message we pass on to our children
in the privacy are our concerns and
issues directed to ourselves as well as
the general public?
It concerns me greatly to hear
so much conflicting messages at Gen
eral Council meetings and never
reaching a satisfactory result to these
concerns about our Tribal organiza
tion and enterprises. Who holds the
solutions? We the people, as a w hole,
working together cooperatively to
correct our issues.
If our children w itness battle
after battle, w e lose their trust in adult
decisions. We need to clear our vi
sion and visualize clarity of what di
rection we're going.
ItS FPI Employee,
Priscillti Frank
number of spawning salmon
Salmon outplanted from WSNFH to
On Patrol-
The Cove Elder Picnic was at
tended by members of Community
Policing staff, Officer Chris Elliott
and Lt. Stoney Miller as well as De
tective Dennis Dowty, Communica
tions Officer Billie Jo Bagley and
COP Don Courtney. Also present
was Marine Deputy Candy Campbell
ofJCSO.
The new Police Department
boat, which was purchased with grant
monies allocated through the Tribal
Resources Grant was available for
rides and demonstrations. There were
an estimated 30 people went out on
our boat. The JCSO patrol boat was
also available for rides with 7 people
going out on it. One group of pas
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To the Editor:
Hello from Pastor Rick. Any
kind of crisis in a community brings
out the best and the worst in people.
During our floods and grass fires, I
have seen people do great acts of
kindness, and sacrifice for the needs
of their family and the community. I
have also seen people lye, cheat, and
steal under the confusion of a crisis.
In the Old Testament the stories of
the people was of a community that
would leave their path and their pur
pose in life. Sometimes by what life
threw at them, and sometimes by
what they brought on themselves,
they would be in the wilderness.
Then the messenger would come to
speak to the community. They would
say, "The path is over here." Some
times the community would respond
w ith a thank you and then work to
gether to get back to the path. A lot
of times the community would be
mad at the messenger for speaking
about their problems to their face.
The messenger would be killed. Then
after a time of flopping around in the
w ildemess, w hat was left of the com
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With the helping hands of bi
ologists from the Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs, Shitike Creek
is hosting the highest number of
spawning salmon in almost 40 years.
Tribal fisheries biologists spent
the past two weeks returning adult
spring chinook salmon to selected
areas of the creek in the hope that they
would get on with the business of redd
building and spawning.
The early news is good during
this week's wait and watch effort.
"The fish transported and
planted very nicely", said Bob
Spateholts, the tribes Fish Production
sengers on the sheriffs boat even got
to take part in the rescue of some
stranded house boaters in the Crooked
River arm. There were also two house
boats available for rides which kept
busy for the day.
Community Policing received
a number of inquiries from elders
during the picnic on when the next
Citizens Police Academy was going
to start as they wanted to attend. The
dates for the next Citizens Police
Academy will be posted and also
given to the Spilyay Tymoo News
paper in the near future.
Community Policing would
like to remind everyone in Warm
Springs to wear your seat belts. It's
just not a good idea, but it's the law
now on our reservation. Protect your
loved ones and buckle them up in
their seats, even if it's just a ride to
the store or a visit to grandmas. We
would also like to remind everyone
that it is again school season, and with
it comes the school buses.
Remember to watch for their
lights, and use caution when ap
proaching a bus both before and af
ter it has made its Stop. Children may
be in a hurry and not pay due atten
tion to the traffic on the streets.
When a school bus has turned
on its yellow amber lights, this means
munity would say, "Hey, where did
that messenger say the path was?"
Are you on your path or in the wil
derness? What of your family? Or
Clan? What of Warm Springs, is it
on its path or into the wilderness?
I am thankful that in the stories
of the Old Testament the path is ulti
mately where the people would come
back to for their life, hope, and joy. I
am also thankful that the cross of
Jesus Christ has given me a path that
will not let me stray into the wilder
ness. Love and be loved.
Ready. . . Steady. . . Hug someone you
love. Hug someone you dislike. No
alcohol or tobacco for children. One
day at a time. Buckle up the kids and
yourselves. Don't hit or beat on your
self, or others. Pay your bills before
gambling then stay home. Read the
Bible for its effect on your heart. Pray
to God to the point of hearing him.
Honor someone. Love yourself. Like
yourself. See you in church. Chris
tian Education at 10.00am on Sun
days. Worship at 11:00am. Pastor
Rick R. Ribeiro, Warm Springs Pres
byterian Church- on the campus.
Biologist. "We're seeing redd build
ing already".
Redds are the nests that female
salmon build in the stream's gravelly
bottom with their powerful tails. Fe
male chinook will deposit up to 4,000
eggs in each redd. Young salmon,
called fry, will begin emerging next
spring.
The tribe released total of 1 59
adult salmon at five separate areas in
the creek. Friday, September 8, 2000.
Each was tagged according to release
site to allow for careful monitoring
of the spaw ning activ ity.
"We put 1 4 males and 26 fe
males back in the habitat initially and
maintained that ratio in our
outplunting w ork last week", said Dob
Spateholts. "These are similar to the
malefemale ratios we see returning
to Warm Springs River," he added.
Warm Springs River and
Shitike Creek are both tributaries of
the Deschutes River running east
through the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation in central Oregon.
The adult Chinook were trans
ported from Warm Springs National
Fish Hatchery where they returned
earlier in the summer. They were all
mature and ready to spawn. No
salmon died during the transportation
all were survivors.
Shitike Creek has not seen this
many adult fish in nearly 40 years. A
community water diversion known as
the I leadworks was constructed in the
60's effectively blocking fish migra
tion. Despite removal of the
Headworks in 1 983, fish from neigh
boring tributaries failed to re-seed the
creek.
Stocking adults into the habi
tat will allow natural processes in the
stream to determine survival. If the
program is successful, the salmon
should be able to establish a self-sustaining
population, at a level of abun
dance in balance with the carrying
capacity of the stream. The tribe will
monitor the program over the next
several years. Juvenile abundance
surveys will be conducted next year
followed by collection and counting
of outmigrants in 2002.
The project was coordinated
with, and had the support of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service and the
National Marine Fisheries Service.
The Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife provided use of a fish trans
portation tank.
the bus is about to do something. The
amber lights are meant to caution
other motorists to be careful as they
approach the bus.
When a school bus is stopping,
the red lights are turned on and also
flashing. This is a signal for other traf
fic to stop. If a driver fails to stop for
the red lights, the bus driver will take
down the license plate number and
vehicle description which will be
given to police dispatch.
An officer will make contact
with the vehicle and driver to issue a
citation or citations for the following
driving offenses. (1) Failure to Stop
for a School Bus, (2) Careless Driv
ing, (3) Reckless Driving, (4) Possi
bly for Recklessly Endangering. This
will depend on the Circumstances.
The Warm Springs Community
Oriented Policing Services, would
like to encourage everyone to do your
part. If you see a violation of this type
committed involving a school bus,
please report it. As a community, lets
all do our part to make a safer day for
our children as they go to school.
Remember, your cooperation and
support is valuable to the school, our
children, the bus driver, and the par
ent (s). This public service announce
ment has been brought to you by The
Warm Springs Police Department.
Halloween Carnival
Tuesday,
October 31, 2000
6:00 p.m.
Community Wellness
Center
Halloween Spooks are
peeking around the
corner!
Yikes!!
We are inviting all
people interested in
Fundraising or
Advertising
To an
Idea Bash"
October 2-6:00 p.m.
In Carol's Room
at the Community
Wellness Center.