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March 7,
P.O. Box 870
Warm Springs, OR 97761
$500,000
jobs project
starting
A new tribal business venture,
Warm Springs Environmental Ser
vices, has received $500,000 in start
up money.
With the initial funding in place,
the priority now is the hiring of a
supervisor for Environmental Ser
vices. This job is scheduled to be posted
on March 11, and will be open to
applicants until March 25.
In addition to a supervisor, the
new venture will employ an assistant
supervisor, and between six and 10
work crew members.
In time, the hope is to employ up
to 30 tribal members, said Mike
Clements, director of the Warm
Springs Economic Development De
partment. Clements said he has already had
some enquiries from people interested
in working for the new program.
The employees of Warm Springs
Environmental Services will be in
volved in outdoor kinds of work, in
cluding tree planting and marketing,
seed orchard maintenance, hand-line
construction and fencing.
The plan for Environmental Ser
vices calls for the enterprise eventu
ally to generate its own revenue
through contracts with land manage
ment agencies including BI A -Fet -estry,
the U.S. Forest Service, BLM
and others in the region.
The focus of work initially will be
on the reservation and the areas of the
Confederated Tribes ceded lands, said
Clements.
The work that Environmental Ser
vices will be performing is currendy
being done by non-tribal work crews.
To become competitive in this
field of work, the employees of Envi
ronmental Services will need some
training, to be coordinated through
the tribes' Education Branch.
Tribal Natural Resources is provid
ing some general oversight of the pro
gram, which will have its main office
at the Forestry Seedling warehouse at
the Industrial Park.
To learn more about employment
with Environmental Services, the
person to contact is Sal Sahme of Eco
nomic Development, 553-3468. En
vironmental Services is the first ex
ample of a job creation project that is
the result of tribal employment
benchmarks established approxi
mately two and a half years ago.
PUast set JOBS on pag 12 ,
New director joins The Museum at Warm
Marketing plan
is an initial priority
The Museum at Warm Springs re
cently welcomed the new museum
director, Carol Lconc, who moved
here from Flagstaff, Ari.
Before coming to the Warm
Springi museum, Ixone was working
at the Museum of Northern Arizona,
where she was die diversity programs
coordinator.
In her job she worked ckwely wiih
the Native American and Hispanic
communities. She had been with the
Northern Arizona museum since
1993.
Ixone has mastcrt degree from
Arizona State University.
She itudicd anthropology, focusing
in the area of cross-cultural commu
nication. Lconc also has an education back
ground in the field of museum admin
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Other tribes concerned about Gorge casino
Opposition is from Grand
By Dave McMechm
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Most other Indian tribes in the
state of Oregon are supportive of, or
have taken no position on the Colum-
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Ixonc had set up the heritage pro
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Arizona, and at that point was ready
to try a new joU
She saw the advertisement for The
Museum at Warm Springs director
position in the American Museum
Association newsletter.
She applied for the job, was inter
viewed with I ntiml)cr of other can
didates, and then was offered the rx
sition earlier this year.
She began work at the museum last
month.
An initial project she and staff have
been working on it a new marketing
plan for the museum.
Over the past year, as the museum
has lccn without t permanent direc
tor, marketing has not been a prior
ity. Serving as interim director, I d
Maninn felt that development of the
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federated Tribes of Warm Springs.
The Gorge casino plan has met
with opposition, however, from the
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde,
and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua
Indians.
, Warm Springs tribal leaders have
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said that this opposition comes as a
surprise and a disappointment.
During a recent gathering in
Simnasho to discuss gaming, Orthelia
Patt said that the opposition from
Grand Ronde and Cow Creek goes
against the long-standing tradition
that a tribe does not interfere with
the business of another tribe.
At district and family meetings
over the past few weeks, other tribal
members have expressed the same
feeling.
Warm Springs gaming spokesman
Rudy Clements said that Grand
Ronde most likely opposes the Gorge
casino idea because this venture
would cut into the Grand Ronde ca
sino revenue.
New strategy
In the past, there has been some
difficulty in keeping businesses oper
ating successfully at the Plaza and at
the nearby information center.
Recendy, management of both the
Plaza and the information center
transferred from the tribal Economic
Development Department to Warm
Springs Ventures.
The hope is that this change will
help in bringing businesses to the
empty space at the Plaza and at the
informadon center.
The Plaza is located across the
street from The Museum "at" Warm
Spnrigsrah'd the Informadon center
is located near Deschutes Crossing.
The information center has been un
occupied for the past few years.
Besides Indian Trail Restaurant,
Wreck claims
Tribal member Eunice Wolfe
Esquiro was killed in a two-vehicle
wreck that happened early Sunday
morning, March 3. She was 48 years
old.
Seriously injured in the accident,
which happened on Highway 3 ner
Sunnyside, was tribal member
Abraham Schuster, 35.
Schuster, a passenger in Ms.
Esquiro's vehicle, was transported by
ambulance from the scene, and was
treated for injuries at Central Oregon
Community Hospital in Redmond.
The driver of the other vehicle in
this accident was Gunner Hcrkshan,
33, who was not seriously injured.
The wreck happened at about 2
a.m., March 3, as both vehicles were
traveling on Highway 3 toward Warm
Museum at Warm Springs.
So development of the plan has
been one I-conc'i first priorities. Part
of this, she said, is learning how the
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The support that Warm
Springs gave Grand Ronde
and Cow Creek during
reinstatement makes their
opposition especially hard to
accept, said Clements.
Clements said he is not sure why
Cow Creek is opposed. Their casino
is near the town of Roseburg.
Grand Ronde, on the other hand,
operates the Spirit Mountain Casino,
located about an hour and 45 min
utes from the Pordand area.
See CASINO on page 12
to help Plaza
operated by Richard Macy, the Plaza
in recent times has also had vacancies.
Warm Springs Ventures is a trib-ally-funded
corporation dedicated to
development of profitable businesses
for the tribes. The offices of Warm
Springs Ventures are now housed at
the Plaza.
Corporation chief executive officer
Tom Henderson said that he has some
prospective business people who may
want to rent space at the Plaza.
There is also a good chance that
the information tenter could also be
rented to" a new tenant," said
Henderson.
This would help in developing the
local economy, and would also pro
vide a benefit in that the rent money
would go to the tribes.
tribal member
Springs.
The accident apparendy occurred
as Herkshan, in a pickup, went to pass
the car driven by Ms. Esquiro, accord
ing to a finding by the Oregon State
Police accident reconstruction team.
Ms. Esquiro lost control of her car,
and Herkshan then attempted to
avoid hitting her vehicle. In the pro
cess, Herkshan lost control of his
truck. Both vehicles rolled.
Alcohol appears to have been in
volved in this incident. Hcrkshan
could face a charge in tribal court of
driving under the influence, depend
ing on laboratory test results, said
Warm Springs police spokesman.
Responding to the accident Sunday
night were Warm Springs Police, and
Warm Springs Fire and Safety.
Springs
'The board members, the
staff and the community
are very committed to the
museum
Carol Leone
museum can best work with Kah-Ncc-Ta,
tribal relations, and other
entities on the reservation.
"I feel honored to have been cho
sen for this job," Leone said.
"It'i very beautiful here. The
board members, the staff and the
community are very committed to
the museum."
Leone originally is from
Scbastopol, Calif.
She attended undergraduate school
at the University of California at
Santa Crux.
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