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October 16. 2003
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Winners of the Native American World Series are: standing Luanne Foltz, Lynn Tanewasha, Lana Leonard, Denys White,
Gloria Scarborough, Sharon Jones, and kneeling Sandra Danzuka, Char Jackson, Teo Rodriguez, Leesa Perez, Annie Jaramillo,
and Amy Benally. This traveling team, including Warm Springs tribal members, was invited to compete in a tournament held at
Las Vegas, Nev.
Cedar root outing Oct. 18
There will be a cedar root
gathering field trip on Satur
day, Oct. 18, hosted by the
Museum at Warm Springs
Education Program.
The museum van will leave
that morning at 8:30 from the
museum parking area.
Please bring the following:
primer, kapn, string, snacks
and lunch. Dress warmly.
The museum Education
Program is also hosting cedar
root weaving circles on Oct.
27, 28, 29 and 30, from 5 to
8 p.m. Call 553-3331 for in
formation on the field trip
and the weaving circles.
IHS, tribes provide
free smoke detectors
Free smoke detectors are
available to families with a
child in the Warm Springs
Head Start and Early Head
Start programs.
Free detectors are also
available to elders of the
community.
The smoke detectors will
be installed in a residence
free of charge, and informa
tion will be provided on how
to maintain the device.
There are 260 smoke de
tectors available for Head
Start and Early Head Start
families.
And there are an additional
150 available to elders.
The smoke detectors and
their installation are made
possible by a grant through In
dian Health Services.
The grant is called Sleep
Safe. The Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs were
the only tribe in the North
west that applied for the grant.
In Indian Country, a child
is at three to five times more
risk of being injured in a fire.
This is the problem that the
Sleep Safe Grant is intended
to address.
Studies show that the pres
ence of smoke detectors in a
home cut the risk of injury by
fire in half.
The clinic just received the
detectors earlier this month,
and employees are ready to
install them.
Still time to submit business proposals
Quilt classes scheduled
The Warm Springs Small
Business Development Center is
still accepting suggestions re
garding the future of the Shell
service station by the Rainbow
Market.
The station has been out of
business for the past year and a
half. The Small Business Devel
opment Center is hoping to
change this situation.
The deadline to submit sug
gestions to the center is Oct. 31.
Anyone with an idea is asked
write out proposal, maximum
length two pages. Then submit
the idea to the Small Business
Development Center, located at
1134 Paiute St., Warm Springs.
The fax number is 553-3593.
You can e-mail suggestions to
either tbrunoewstribes.org, or
at gdanzukawstribes.org.
The tribes own the station
and adjacent land, and the hope
is to make a productive use of
the property.
The business development
center's goal is to have the sta
tion property up and operational
again by no later than the spring
of 2004. Priority questions to
be resolved are:
Should the property continue;
as a service station? Should
there be a gas station there, plus;"
some other additional products -and
services? Or is there some"
other use that would be besC
suited for this particular prop-Z
erty? For more information call -the
Small Business Development -Center
at 553-3592, and ask for
Trudy or Gerald.
Quilts & More is offering the
following three classes for the
remainder of October.
Weekend Quillow class is
scheduled for October 18, 10
a.m. to 12 p.m. for $15.
Trip around the World (tube
quilting) is for intermediate
quilter's set for October 25, 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. for $20.
Log Cabin tote bag, which is
considered a fun class, is sched
. ulcd for October 29, 5:30-7:30
p.m. for $10.
Bring your sewing machine
and sewing supplies for these
classes to Quilts & More, 553-1460.
Head Start program hosts open house
Regalia classes at museum
Classes in children's Wasco
regalia are scheduled for No
vember at the Museum at Warm
Springs.
This is will be a time to learn
to make a Wasco outfit for you
child. There is no cost for this
class.
The classes are set for Nov.
10, 11, 12 and 13, from 5 to 8
p.m. in the museum Education
Room. Bring a sewing machine,
scissors, common pins. Some
regalia material will be provided.
Call for registration, 553-3331.
Spilyay
Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller
Editor:
Management Successor:
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Media Advisor:
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Established in March 1976
Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confed
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in the white house at 1100 Wasco Street.
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Warm Springs Head Start
hosted their open house last
week at the Early Childhood
Education Center.
The open house included vis
its to the Head Start classrooms,
and several booths with infor
mation on the Head Start and
Early Head Start programs.
The information booths cov
ered subjects such as healthy
food for children, the impor
tance of dental care, child safety
seats, and Community Wellness
Center programs.
There was also a booth with
representatives of the Warm
Springs Head Start Policy Coun
cil. The council is a group of
parents who make the important
decisions about how the whole
Warm Springs Head Start pro
gram should operate. Each
Head Start classroom elects one
parents representative, with one
back-up alternate.
Decisions the policy council
makes include items such as
who is eligible for Head Start,
rules and procedure, budget, and
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Nancy Sampson and granddaughter Niyallee.
who is hired to work there.
Nancy Sampson is the admin
istrator of Warm Springs Head
Start and Early 1 lead Start.
She explained that the Early
Head Start program is serving
48 children. Early Head Start
has four home visitors, each
caring for 12 children. Besides
the home visits, Early Head
Start also uses space at the Fam
ily Resource Center.
Sampson explained that
Early Head Start serves children
who are 3 years old or younger,
and pregnant women.
The mission of Early Head
Start is to enhance the overall
well-being and healthy develop
ment of pregnant women and
families with infants and toddlers.
The Head Start program
serves 112 children, ages 3 to '
5, said Sampson. At ECE there
are three full-day Head Start '
classrooms, and five part-day
classrooms.
A focus of Head Start is pre-'-paring
children for school, said "
Sampson, The teachers focus ' 1
lessons on counting and num-1
bers, the alphabet, and identify
ing shapes and colors.
There is also an emphasis on'
socialization among the children,
such as how to behave properly, f
she said.
There is a very high demand
for Head Start Services in the
Warm Springs community, said
Sampson. There is, for instance,'
a waiting list to enroll in Head
Start.
Head Start is funded 80 per-
cent by the federal government
and 20 percent by the Confed
erated Tribes. Early Head Start
is 100 percent federally funded!
Twenty-five years ago this week
October 20, 1978
Law and order a big concern
The arrival of fifteen uni
formed, off-duty tribal police
men at Tuesday night's general
council meeting had more than
striking visual impact.
It served to force an issue
that was on everyone's mind,
and divert the focus of the gath
ering from Tribal Council del
egation reports to community
law and order.
The Tribal Council's original
purpose for the general council
was to report on its recent trips,
in particular the outcome of the
National Congress of American
Indians convention in Rapid
City, South Dakota September
18-22.
People listened with varying
degrees of interest as the del
egates detailed the results of
their committee involvement at
NCAI. Several people thanked
the Council for bringing the in
formationback and sharing it
with the membership.
It was the first delegation re
port since last year's general
council on the Dallas NCAI
convention. It was also the first
general council meeting in sev
eral months and the 93 people
had a lot on their minds.
, George Clements com
mented on the importance of
the national issues that the Coun
cil delegates had been facing in
their travels but added. "Let's
clean up our own backyard be
fore we start traveling all over."
The community problems
identified by Clements and other
revolved around the lawlessness
among both juveniles and adults
especially in the area of alcohol
and drugs.
Cards to depict old ways
Life as it was 100 or more
years ago will be depicted on
new 5x7 ir.ch postcards to be
sold by the Tribes in early
March. The Confederated
Tribes hired McGrew Color
Graphics Company of Kansas
City, Missouri to make the post
cards as well as placemats, slides
and accordian postcard folders.
Staff photographers have
been in Warm Springs for a
week, snapping pictures left and
right of Tribal members wear
ing traditional dress. Faye
Waheneka, manager of the In
formation Center, was instru
mental in finding different
people willing to be photo
graphed for the new promo
tional materials.
Waheneka stated that she
listed new postcards and other
materials in her 1979 goals and
objectives. "When the General
Manager saw that 1 anticipated
completion by July 1979, he
urged me to have the project
done by March. We chose the
historical approach to depict
Warm Springs rather than modern-day
because that's what
people like to see and buy, " she
added.
Mill improvements
recommended for maximum
returns
The Tribes can realize the
optimum value of its timber
over the next ten years by in
vesting $6 million into improv
ing Warm Springs Forest Prod
ucts Industries facilities, wood
products consultant Ed Williston
told the Tribal Council Monday.
Williston was presenting
Council with the findings of his
nine-month study, requested by -the
Tribes and financed by the
Economic Development Ad-
ministration. The purpose of the '
$55,000 study was to determine
the optimum products that
WSFPI should manufacture and
the optimum conversion facili
ties (processing plant) needed to'
maximize returns on the avail
able raw materials,
The study found no justifl
cation for the building of a new
sawmill and recommended no
major shift in product line.
Instead, modernization will!
be the key to maximizing profit, '
Williston said, noting that the
WSF PI mills need to be brought
up to "state of the art" industry "
standards. Improvements would
result in immediate annual r,av-'.
ings, paying for themselves
within three or four years, he'1
said.
Williston stressed that in mak-'
ing necessary improcments ir'
must be remembered that lum-
ber has five times the market'
value of chips and ten times the
value of sawdust. Whenever a '
log can convert to lumber, it
should, he said.