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June 28, 2001 Vol. 26, No. 13
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' ' Tina Agullar, and top center and bottom right photos by Mike Van Meter
f! Pi-Ume-Sha
Celebration
. Participants in the Pi-Ume-Sha
f ; r Parade and Powwow put on a
show of color and celebration this past
, weekend as Warm Springs
became a focus of sporting events,
dancing, music, food and more.
Results and more photos from
the events of the extended weekend of
festivities may be found oh Pages 6, 7, 10 and
1 2 of this edition of the Spilyay Tymoo.
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reigns in school too
By Jerry Brunoe ' .
In the past year Cece Herrera, a recent
graduate of Madras High School, actively
participated in many school-oriented clubs
and last weekend she was appointed "Miss
Pi-Ume-Sha 2001."
She was appointed after selling 1,325
raffle tickets in three weeks.
Herrera was Junior Miss Warm Springs
last year and she spent much of her reign
traveling as an ambassador of Warm Springs
to pow-wows, conferences and many other
"get-togethers." She went to Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, for a National Indian Edu
cation Association conference and placed
first in the Oratory Competition with her
speech "My Indian Identity," which in
cluded how she spends time at the longhouse
for various traditional functions.
"It was fun, I met a lot of people from
different reservations," said Herrera about
the conference.
Over the next year she will be doing the
same thing as "Miss Pi-Ume-Sha," traveling
and representing Warm Springs.
She says she plans on campaigning for
Miss Warm Springs next year, "I've been
groomed for this since I was 4 years old,"
she said.
Herrera also attended the National Young
Leaders Conference, which she said is about,
politics. She was nominated by Stephen
Hillis, her former College Prep English
teacher, and was one of the three students
from Oregon to attend the National confer
ence of 350 students.
During her senior year in high school she
was an active member in Junior Reserve
Officer Training Core ( ROTC) as the Com
mand Sergeant Major and Upward Bound
as the president. She obtained a cumulative
GPA of 3.11 and mentioned that College
Prep was her hardest class. "We had more
assignments, it required us to do research
and to think," and then she added with a
laugh, "I think Mr. Hillis was the hard part."
She also mentioned Hillis was her favorite
teacher.
Herrera currently works at Early Child
hood Education Center as a teacher aide.
She was hired through Higher Education's
student training fund and says she mainly
helps the kids with reading and communi
cation skills. "I think it's fun ... I like it. I
like kids, so I'm having fun," said Herrera.
She plans on attending University of
Colorado - Boulder and two of her former
teachers from MHS, Mack Gardner, former
JROTC teacher and Lynn Gassner, the
former Upward Bound Advisor, feel she will
do well at the collegiate level. She perseveres,
said Gassner, "She doesn't give up."
"She's tenacious, she sticks with things
and she accomplishes her goals, which is
really hard for students to do," added
Gardner.
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K-5 school
referendum
gets an 6 A9
Tribal members, by a ratio of more than
four-tp-one, on June 21 approved a refer
endum that will result in a new elemen
tary school being built in Warm Springs
and opening by the fall of 2003.
The vote was 655 to 157, with 13
spoiled ballots. A May 16 election, with
similar support, was not valid because
voter turnout fell short of the numbers
necessary for Tribal Council certification.
The 825 voters who turned out on the eve
of Pi-Ume-Sha weekend handily exceeded
the one-third, 7 12-vote requirement.
Council chairman Olney "J.P." Patt Jr.
said that Tribal Council certified the elec
tion results late on the morning after the
election after they attended a repatriation
ceremony that was held near the Colum
bia River at Horse Thief Lake. The elec
tion board presented the results in a brief
meeting.
The vote authorizes expenditure of up
to $8 million to build a 600-student school
on a hill overlooking the tribal Health and
Wellness Center and the Early Childhood
Education Center.
The Jefferson County 509-J School
District will pay half of the school's cost
through lease payments to the tribe over
t period of 20 years.