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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
October 30, 2003
Boys and Girls Club closed for a time
The Boys and Girls Club of
Warm Springs has been closed
for the past several weeks, due
to a shortage in funding.
The program is expected to
be going again within the next
few weeks says Gayle Rodgers,
director of Warm Springs So
cial Services.
The Boys and Girls Club of
Warm Springs closed when the
program was down to its last
$5,000 in operating money, ac
cording to Rodgers.
"We need to secure funding
to allow for the proper supervi
sion of the activities we're try
ing to provide," said Rodgers.
"We decided this would be a
the future we'll have
much better coordination
of services. We'll all be
on the same team, coor
dinating activities for
kids."
Gayle Rodgers
Social Services director
good time to close down and re
group." When the Warm Springs Boys
and Girls Club is again in op
eration, the program will be
structured in a different way
than it had been in the past.
There will be a club director
paid by the Boys and Girls Club,
as was the case earlier with the
Warm Springs club.
However, when the program
begins again in November, the
club will be under the Warm
Springs Recreation Department
directed by Austin Greene.
Before, the Boys and Girls
Club and the Recreation Depart
ment were separate. This was
not the most efficient way to
operate, said Rodgers.
"In the future," he said, "we'll
have much better coordination
of services. We'll all be on the
same team, coordinating activi
ties for kids."
In the meantime, said
Rodgers, securing funding for
the Boys and Girls Club of
Warm Springs is a priority.
At the stan of next year the
local club will be receiving
$30,000 from the National
Boys and Girls Club, "and that
will carry us for a while," said
Rodgers.
But he is also hoping to se
cure operating funds through
other sources.
The Warm Springs Branch of
the Boys and Girls Club first
started in May of 2000, and is
housed in the Community Center.
Task force finds B&B fire
caused caused by lightning
The Central Oregon Arson
Task Force cites lightning as
the cause of the B&B Com
plex fire last summer.
According to the report,
dry lightning storms pounded
the area between August 4-7.
"It is not unusual for hold
over lightning fires to smol
der for days or weeks," the
report states, "until fuels and
weather conditions are just
right and the fires become
visible."
The Pinhead Butte fire was
reported on August 15. The
Tan Pony and Brown Horse
fires were reported August 18
Smith to receive award
Dawn Smith will be traveling
in November to Washington,
D.C., to receive her 2003 Dis
tinguished Principal Award.
Smith is the principal of the
Warm Springs Elementary
School.
She was nominated for the
Distinguished Principal of the
Year award early this year. In
May she learned that she had
been chosen to receive the
award.
The Distinguished Principal
of the Year awards are admin
istered by the National Associa
tion of Elementary School Prin
cipals, and the U.S. Department
of Education.
Smith first started working at
Warm Springs Elementary
School in 1974, She has been a
teacher, counselor, vice-principal
and now principal. In No
vember she will be traveling to
Washington, DC, with the
other National Distinguished
Principals award recipients.
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 your
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.
Title VII committee to meet
The Title VII Parent Com
mittee will meet at 5:30 p.m.
on Monday, Nov. 10, at the
Warm Springs Elementary
School library.
The public is invited to at
tend. Also, the committee is
in need of members.
For information, call
Georgia Sosa at 475-6194.
( Spilyay Tymoo can be reached at 553-3274
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Carolyn Brunoe, Utilities groundskeeper, clears the area beneath theoot-digger statue in
front of the administration building. The landscaping around many tribal department
buildings Is kept in fine shape by Brunoe, who enjoys her work and takes pride in seeing a
job well-done. In the future she hopes to start a program to help homeless people build
their own homes. '
and the Booth and Bear Butte
fires were reported August 19.
"Vie found the tree that was
struck by lightning and caused
the Bear Butte Fire," says Cap
tain Randy Wight, arson task
force coordinator. He goes on
to say that the lightning struck
one tree and then jumped to an
other tree which started the fire.
According to the arson task
force, investigators found the
likely tree that started the Booth
Fire, but the fire burned back
over the tree and the evidence
isn't as clear as the cause of the
Bear Butte Fire.
See FIRE on page 10
Museum
hosting
activity day
There will be a no-school day
activity on Friday, Nov. 7 at the
Museum at Warm Springs.
The activity-day will include
a weaving class with Natalie
Kirk.
The activities will be from 9
a.m. till 4 p.m., in the museum
activity room.
There is no cost for this
event.
Material will be provided.
4-H looking
for volunteers
The Warm Springs Oregon
State University Extension 4-H
is seeking adult volunteers to
teach, share, train, coach and
aducate the youth of Warm
Springs.
Anyone interested in sharing
their knowledge to a youth of
the area - beading, cooking or
sewing club - can either visit the
OSU Extension office, or call,
553-3238 and ask for Arlene or.
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Spilyay
Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
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November Fitness Challenge to begin
The Warm Springs Recre
ation Progtam is accepting en
tries for the annual November
Fitness Challenge. Any employee
of the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, High Desert Resort and
Casino, Warm Springs Elemen
tary, or any other tribal enter
prise or organization is eligible.
All entries should be complete
by Oct. 31 and paid in full by
Nov. 10. Team member fees are
$5 without shirt; $10 with short
sleeve T-shirt; and SI 5 with a
sweatshirt.
All entrants will compete for
the traveling trophy, which is
awarded by highest minutes ac
cumulated in exercise, and the
team with the highest average
minutes per team member.
All entrants with minutes to
be counted toward their teams
are to turn them in no later than
Dec. 1. Anyone turning
timesheets in after this deadline
will not have their minutes
counted towards their team accumulation.
There will be extra bonus
minutes awarded to team mem
bers who have a health evalua
tion during the lunch hour of
Nov. 3. This evaluation consists
of measuring resting heart rate,
blood pressure, weight measure
ment, body comp measurement,
and glucose reading. These mea
surements will be repeated mid
month and at the end of No
vember. Individuals showing
improvements will receive bo
nus points.
Attendance during scheduled
classes and events are also
counted for bonus minutes. A
calendar of these classes and
events will be posted and atten
dance tracked.
November 3 is the scheduled
date for Diabetes Awareness
Poker Walk at 12 Noon.
For more information con
tact the Recreation Department
Supervisor, E. Austin Greene,
Jr. at 553-3243 or Community
Wellness Coordinator Carolyn
Harvey at 553-1196 x 4166.
Twenty-five years ago this week
From the Nor. i edition of
Spilyay Tymoo.
Kah-Nee-Ta Board appointed
by Council
Four tribal members and
three non-members have ac
cepted appointment to the new
board of directors for Kah-Nee-Ta
Resort.
Their first organizational
meeting is scheduled for No
vember 1 5, at which time they
will elect officers and chart a
plan of action.
Representing the Tribes on
the Kah-Nee-Ta board will be
Rita Squiemphen, Levi Bobb,
Larry Calica, and Zane Jackson.
Other board members in
clude Basil Miaulis, hotel-motel
consultant; Mike I lollern, Presi
dent and Genera! Manager of
Brooks-Scanlon in Bend; and
John Ritchie, accounting vice
president and manager of the
regional office of Paine, Webber,
Jackson and Curtis brokerage
firm.
The appointments were made
by Tribal Council resolution on
( )ctober 17 and letters went out
to the appointees October 23.
All responded affirmatively.
Mill plans major renovation
The Board of Directors of
Warm Springs Forest Products
Industries has approved $5.5
million in capital expenditures
for 1979 to be spent on mod
ernizing the existing facilities,
reported board chairman Paul
Sanders.
The package of improve
ments and replacements pre
sented to the board by WSI 'PI
manager Ralph DeMoisy Octo
ber 23 was a direct result of the
study just completed by consult
ant Ivd W'illiston, who was hired
by the Tribes to evaluate the mill
and its operations.
But as Sanders pointed out,
the board's approval of the
modernization plan "was the
culmination of years of continu
ous study by the board and
management in their efforts to
maintain the best possible
manufacturing facility for effi
cient utilization of the Tribes'
forest."
Solutions sought at
emergency meeting
Few people take delight in
publicly discussing problems of
their children, especially when
the problem deals with alcohol
and drugs.
But because of the senseless
violence, untimely deaths and
tragedies, and other problems
confronting todays youth, an
emergency meeting was called
( ktober 23 to tackle these prob
lems. The public community meet
ing, over 100 strong, was called
on only six hours notice and was
conducted by concerned people
(and not any particular depart
ment), Several of the people
were concerned enough to take
time off their jobs to offer their
assistance and ideas.
It was the general consensus
at the meeting that most of the
problems fall back to the par
ents, "You can't tell your children
to unit drinking when you got a
bottle in your hand," expounded
Larry Arthur. "You can't tell your
children to quit smoking when
you got a cigarette in your
mouth (either)," added the
former alcoholic.
"We could help by setting
examples for our kids," offered
Elmer Wolfe, state police officer.
Parents admitted to being too
lenient with their children and
failing to discipline them
enough. When a child asks for
money it is usually given them,
agreed the parents.
George Clements explained
that times have changed and
children today are subject to
many things. The children have
access to where ever they want
to go, he said.
Parents should be a little less
lenient when their child asks
permission to use the car.
George commented that the
reason some of the older ones
can't understand why teens are
having all these problems is be
cause their transportation was
limited when they were growing
up.