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News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation
March 8, 2001 Vol. 26, No. 4
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This month marks the 25,h anniversary of the Spilyay Tymoo.
Founded in March 1976, the Spilyay has covered news of the
Warm Springs Reservation - publishing photos, stories and other
information every two weeks. In all, more than 1,200 editions have
been published.
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open house at the new offices, 1 100 Wasco St., on the Warm Springs
campus. The cookies and coffee will be free, but we hope you are
able to bring your own Spilyay stories to share as we honor the
past and look to the future.
Past issues of the Spilyay, historical photos and a special anni
versary edition will be on display during the open house.
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Tribal Council sets up
mill re-training fund
; Tribal Council has approved a
1250,000 carryover from the year
2000 budget to assist mill workers
who were laid-off by Warm Springs
Forest Products Industry in Febru
ary. The funds will be available in
2001 to assist workers in finding new
jobs, retraining and providing sup
port services.
Secretary Treasurer Charles Jack-
son appointed Warren "Rudy"
Clements to head a task force that
will oversee the project. Benson
Heath and Jim Quaid will assist
him. The task force has already met
to establish a planning process. In
the coming weeks they will create
short- and long-term strategies to
assist laid-off workers. The focus of
the group will be to:
develop an organization to
administer the program,
take a proactive approach in
meeting with workers and families
in need of assistance,
develop a spirit of coopera
tion and communicate effectively to
ensure all projects are implemented
and monitored for long-term success,
develop strategies that will
solve immediate problems and ulti
mately meet long-term goals,
involve workers in the decision-making
process,
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From left Raymond Tsumpti, Charles V. Jackson, Phil Rodda and
Terry Turner attended trade show in Las Vegas.
create productive job op
portunities rather than busy work,
shape agendas to reflect the
character and aptitude of individual
workers,
take a compassionate view
of each individual's problem and
provide spiritual support as neces
sary, create a positive outlook
that encourages participants to move
forward and take advantage of op
portunities, adopt a holistic approach
that address the overall needs of laid
off workers and their families,
view this project as a com
munity investment that will provide
a wide range of job opportunities for
tribal members,
work with existing tribal
programs to develop a network of
assistance.
Some individuals may have to be
trained for jobs unrelated to the tim
ber industry. Opportunities such as
on-the-job training through tribal
departments and enterprises, com
puter training, GED courses, career
planning, aptitude testing, and Job
Corps placement are currently avail
able and could be put to immediate
use,
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Power
As California suffers under an
energy shortage and price crisis, a
number of Pacific Northwest utili
ties are trying to figure out how to
cash in on the need for electricity.
Included among those utilities is
the Warm Springs Power Enterprise,
which sells electricity from its Pelton
re-regulating dam and recently ne
gotiated an agreement with PGE for
a joint license of the Pelton-Round
Butte complex.
Because of issues in their con
struction and return on investment,
new hydroelectric or geothermal
generators don't appear to be on the
near-term horizon. Another possi
bility, though, could provide addi
tional income for the tribes in com
ing years.
Jim Manion, head of the power
enterprise, says the Tribal Council
will be given an analysis next month
of options for construction of a
natural gas-fired electrical plant on
the reservation or tribal trust lands.
Considerations for such a plant
include proximity to gas lines and
the Northwest power grid, as well
as size - a smaller plant could be
built more quickly than a larger
power plant, thus taking advantage
of the currendy high wholesale elec
tricity prices that are expected to
swing back to normal within 36 to
48 months.
"We're looking at a short window 5
of opportunity," .Manion saidv
One of the options Manion says '
is being considered is a high-efficiency
twin-cycle plant whose tur
bines are spun by a gas-fired genera
tor and a secondary steam generator
that uses the heat from the gas
turbine's exhaust to fully utilize the
energy produced by combustion of
the fossil fuel.
Cogentrix has proposed such a
plant at a Grizzly Mountain site
between Madras and Prinevillc. A
public meeting early this month in
Madras generated outspoken com
ments in opposition.
Primary concerns focus on pol
lutants as well as use of water for
cooling purposes.
Manion said the standard remedy
for carbon dioxide emissions is to
pay the Oregon Climate Trust
money to plant trees; typically such
projects are based in Central
America, though location isn't criti-
By Nat Shaw
The 2001 World Of Concrete
show opened in Las Vegas on Feb.
27 in very unlikely Las Vegas
weather. The driving rainstorm that
battered southern Nevada for most
of the week didn't dampen the mood
of the thousands in attendance,
which included exhibitors, partici
pants and consumers.
This enormous convention incor
porated the World of Concrete and
the World of Masonry. Almost 100
training seminars were held during
the week, and the convention orga
nizers made sure there were numer
ous activities for guests and spouses.
Every imaginable area of concrete
and masonry was involved in the
seminars. The World of Concrete
featured outside action exhibits, and
more than 1,600 exhibiting compa
nies. The show covered 800,000
square feet.
One of the exhibitors that drew
a lot of interest was Sci-Tech Build
ing Systems, Inc of Cortland, 111.
Founder and CEO Vince Tylman
formed Sci-Tech Building Systems in
1993. Tylman has been associated
with Tectonics International (TI) for
over 6 years. TI is a joint venture
partnership between the Confeder
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Re-regulating dam generates power and income for the people of Warm Springs.
cal given the global spread of green
house gases. Manion thinks mitiga
tion projects in themselves could
help Warm Springs.
"We'd say take that money and
use it locally," Manion said. "We're
looking at that as a spinoff benefit
on the reservation."
A large, high-efficiency power
plant would cost $300 million to
makes its
ated Tribes and Structural Technol
ogy Inc. The Warm Springs com
pany assisted in the development of
an innovative tilt-up wall panel that
may revolutionize the Tilt-Up Panel
Industry. Sci-Tech was recently
granted a full patent which includes
a special Tectonite TM rapid
strength cement formula from TI.
The Sci-Tech concrete panels have
a concrete face that is decorative and
attractive. The face can be cast as
brick, exposed aggregate, tile or even
wood. The face is made of special
Tectonite TM rapid strength cement.
The system has a number of advan
tages over conventional tilt-up sys
tems. Approximately one fourth the
weight of comparable tilt-up panels,
Sci-Tech panels are lightweight, can
be installed in less time using inex
pensive lifting equipment, and the
transportation costs to the job site
are gready reduced. The panels have
three to four times the thermal effi
ciency of comparable tilt-up panels.
During the course of working
with Sci-Tech, TI became increas
ingly impressed with the product.
TI purchased a "Founders Round"
share of the company for $25,000.
The Founders Round Share entitles
TI to 100,000 shares of company
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$400 million to build, with annual
net revenues after construction and
operating costs are filtered out of $10
million to $15 million. A smaller
plant could be built more quickly,
and would generate $5 million to $8
million per year,
Manion said ways of spreading
the cost out by bringing in a part
ner are being considered as well. By
debut in Las Vegas
stock. This investment and the fact
that a component of the patented
product is licensed through TI
brought Tribal Councilman
Raymond Tsumpti, Secretary-Treasurer
Charles V. Jackson, and Terry
Turner and Phil Rodda of TI to the
Las Vegas Convention Center.
Tsumpti, Jackson and Turner are
members of the Executive Manage
ment Committee for Tectonics In
ternational. "This is our first time out, being
a part of the World of Concrete, be
ing a part of the partnership with
Sci-Tech," Raymond Tsumpti said.
"With this exposure, it looks prom
ising. The competitors know we arc
here." The Simnasho District Rep
resentative continued by saying we
now need to take advantage of the
exposure. "Maybe someday we'll be
able to build a plant in Warm
Springs. Hopefully we will lay the
foundation for the next Council to
continue." Tsumpti has been on the
Management Board for Tectonics
International since almost the begin
ning of the joint venture.
An encouraging sign for the busi
ness trying to make inroads in the
tilt-up construction industry is the
phenomenal growth that has oc
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merely being the landowner (as in
the original Pelton and Round Butte
agreements) on which a larger plant
is sited, the tribes could realize $5
million in annual revenue.
A typical plant doesn't create
very many jobs - perhaps two
people around-the-clock - but the
income could be used for develop
ment that leads to other jobs.
curred in recent years. The non-residential
construction market grew
31.9 percent from 1995-1998, while
tilt-up construction grew by a whop
ping 93.6 percent. There was a slow
down in 1999 for the tilt-up market
in square foot production of wall
panels, however many attribute this
decline to the fact that it is difficult
to sustain a growth rate of 33 per
cent. Tilt-up construction is used in
many large warehouse type build
ings such as Home Depot and
Costco. Tilt-up construction is now
moving increasingly into smaller
buildings because of appearance.
Vince Tylman, Sci-Tech Buildings
Systems CEO, commented during
the World of Concrete trade show
that he didn't envision the product
would become what it is. "I thought
the hybrid concrete-steel panel
would be the frosting on the cake,
however it has turned out to be the
meat and potatoes, and the driving
force in the future of the company."
Tylman, who actually lives in Lake
Oswego, Oregon, although his com
pany is in Illinois, said the first day
and a half of the show confirmed his
belief that "our product will be in
ternational in scope.
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