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In a freak fire Sept. 23, a Warm Springs Forest Products Truck
and its load of shavings were destroyed two miles from the mill.
The loss in equipment and shavings was estimated at about
$17,000. ' .
Fire Prevention Week
The Warm Springs Community is gearing up in observance
of National Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 3-9. National Fire Pre
vention Week is organized each year to creat and renew aware
ness of fire safety meansures, fire hazards in the home, and to
urge community involvement in fire prevention programs.
Concert to benefit
Tun-Mi house
Dorothy "Pebbles" George was
born in Warm Springs, Oregon.
Pebbles became an "Elvis" fan at
the tender age of 4-years-old. Even
though she never met "The King"
(who passed away in 1977), she lis
tened to all of his music, collected
souvenirs and watched all of his
movies.
In 1998 Pebbles made a beaded
purse out of cut beads of the
"Elvis" stamp. She sent the purse
to Graceland and they awarded her
First Place "Elvis Artist of the
Year". January 2000, The Confed
erated Tribes of Warm Springs flew
her to Graceland. She opened up a
store in Warm Springs called
"Pebbles Teepee Palace". Unfortu
nately two (2) months later in
March, Pebbles was forced to close
the store after being diagnosed
with cancer.
With six months of driving to
Bend, OR for chemotherapy,
Pebbles noticed that several other
cancer patients from Warm Springs
and surrounding areas were driv
ing the 120 miles (or more) round
trip, sometimes five (5) times a
week. It was during this time that
Pebbles and her friend John "Sam"
Wahsise came up with the idea of
purchasing a "Cancer house" called
"Tun-Mi Cancer House" in Bend,
close to the hospital and treatment
center. After opening this house
cancer patients from Warm Springs
and the surrounding tri-counties
could have a place to stay during
their weekly chemotherapyradia
tion treatments.
July 2001, Pebbles contacted
Jaime's Rock & Roll Legends
about performing a fundraiser at
the Madras High School.
Since Elvis is Pebbles' favorite,
Jamie is bringing the top two rated
Elvises in Las Vegas. Steven Ray
Sogura will appear to perform the
'70's Elvis and Justin Shandor from
the "Elvis-A-Rama" in Las Vegas
to do the young '50's Elvis.
All the proceeds from the show
go to "The Tun-Mi Cancer House"
in Bend, Oregon.
On September 8 Jaime's Leg
ends did a show at the Bend High
School Auditorium with four (4)
local high schools. That night a
total of $69,000 was raised for the
local Family Access Network.
There will be two (2) shows at the
Madras High School Gymnasium.
The first show begins at 3:00 and
the last show at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, please
call Trudy at the Confederated
Tribes Small Business Develop
ment Center (541) 553-3592.
Ticket prices are: General ad
mission $12, children (12 & under)
$6, and VIP $16.
Warm Springs ticket outlets:
Warm Springs Health & Wellness
Center (Indian Health Services),
553-1196; Small Business Develop
ment Center 553-3592; Warm
Springs Museum 553-3331;
Madras Outlets: Ahern's Mar
ket 475-3106, Pepe's Restaurant
475-3286 Madras Chamber of
Commerce 475-2350, El Surtidor
Tienda Mexicana 475-7471.
Title IX committee to meet
The Title IX Parent Advisory Committee will meet at the
Warm Springs Elementary Library at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 9.
Tide IX meetings are open to all members of the public The
committee meets at 7 p.m. at the Warm Springs Elementary Li
brary on the second Tuesday of each month.
If you have a disability, please advise the District 509-J Sup
port Services office about special arrangements.
Questions? Call Georgia Sosa at 475-6192.
Simnasho parents'
request denied
The 509-J School District Board
of Directors voted 3-2 to deny a
request by parents in the Simnasho
area to allow their children to at
tend school in Maupin.
Voting in dissent were school
board members Jeff Sanders and
Jim Manion, who are tribal mem
bers. "The bottom line is that our
responsibility is the education of
our youth," said Sanders. "Other
board members put more weight
on finances than on our responsi
bility to educate."
Sanders also said, "I think the
students from Simnasho would
have come back to 509-J anyway,
because they would have found
that we have more to offer than
Maupin."
, The parents live within the 509
J district boundary, and therefore
would need the school board to
agree to allow their children to at
tend school in Maupin.
Allowing the dozen students to
transfer to the Maupin district
would involve a transfer of approxi
mately $4,600 per student from
509-J to Maupin.
Cheslcy Q. Yahtin Sr., whose
grandchildren were part of the
transfer request, said he was very
upset by the decision. "I don't
know why we have to bend over
backwards for 509-J," Yahtin said.
The Maupin district would have
been willing to accept the
Simnasho students, if 509-J had
agreed to transfer the funds.
. One reason why the transfer
was requested is distance: the stu
dents live a good deal closer - half
an hour or more closer by bus -to
Maupin than they do to Madras.
Three injured in wreck
Following a single-vehicle acci
dent, which happened after a high
speed chase, three tribal members
were hospitalized. The accident '
happened early Monday morning
at milepost 100 on the reservation.!
Injured in the wreck were Silas
Poitra, 25, Lamar Jackson, 25, and
Willard White, 18, all of whom live
in Warm Springs. Poitra and Jack
son were transported by ambu
lance to Mountain View Hospital.
White was Air-Lifed to St. Charles,
where he was listed in stable con-
Power outage
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Power was knocked out Wednesday afternoon for more than
an hour in the campus area of the reservation. Cause of the
outage was a limb that fell on a power line near the Texaco
station.
dition early this week. by a sheriff's deputy, and was
The wreck happened after a picked up by Warm Springs Police,
chase that began south of the res- ; , The accident happened at 1:15
ervation., The chase was initiated a.m., Monday, Oct. 1.
2002 Budget...
Continued from page 1
'To make things worse, log and
lumber markets are depressed glo-'
bally and may never return to the
levels seen just five years ago," said
Jackson. "Low harvest levels com
bined with low log prices will re
turn stumpage revenues to 1960's
levels."
Other sources of revenue for the
tribes '- mainly Warm Springs
Power Enterprises, and gaming at
Kah-Nee-Ta - cannot make up the
, difference in the budget.
Power Enterprises is expected to
bring in about $15 million in 2002.
Gaming revenue is expected to
peak at $2 million, until a new ca
sino is brought on line perhaps in
-; 2007, said Jackson.
, In the meantime, it is impera
tive that the Confederated Tribes
find new sources of revenue. The
hshed and funded the warm
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(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
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Springs. Economic Development
Corporation to invest in ventures .
creating ,new, tribal revenue and
local jobs, Jackson said.
Eve,n , the, best investments,
though, probably will not return
a dividend to the tribes for 18
months to two years, he said.
Need for budget cuts
Making a substantial reduction
in the tribes' annual budget will
be harH but also necessary, said
Jackson.
"The easy way out of next year's
budget dilemma wouJd(be to sim
ply postpone the cuts needed and
draw down even more on the
working capital reserves," he said.
However, Jackson said, "if the
recommended budget reductions
are not made or if they are delayed
for even one year, the tribes' finan
cial reserves will be drawn down
at a much faster and reckless pace."
Postponing the cuts would only
make the problem more acute in
2003, he said.
The Confederated Tribes are fis
cally sound, but to remain secure,
"we must be innovative and cre
ative while making the hard deci
sions required to improve govern
ment program efficiency and effectiveness."
Deadlines
The next issue publishes
October 1 8, with an October
12 deadline for all letter, story
and advertising submissions.
The November 1 edition
has an October 26 deadline.
The November 15 edition
has a November 9 deadline.
The November 29 issue
has a November 20 deadline.
Announcements
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notices of events of interest to the Warm Springs community.
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tasks.
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