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5pi!y3y Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
November 14. 2003
Museum
hosting
holiday
art contest
The Museum at Warm
Springs is hosting a community
wide art contest, "Creating a
Native American Angel."
Any art or craft media is ac
ceptable for entries.
The contest is open to com
munity members 18 years and
older. Entry deadline is Friday,
Nov. 21.
First prize is a $45 gift cer
tificate; second prize, a $35 gift
certificate; and third prize, a $25
gift certificate. There will also
be three $15 craft incentive gift
certificate awards.
All entries must remain on
display at the museum through
Dec. 10; awards to be presented
at the museum Holiday Bazaar,
set for Saturday, Nov. 29. In
other community art news:
Quilts & More at the Warm
Springs Plaza is hosting a min
iature quilt for fun evening class
on Nov. 19, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Cost is $10. Nov. 22-23 will be
the "Bears in the Woods" wall
hanging class. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
cost $20.
Holiday bowling tournament set for
The Warm Springs Indian
Holiday Bowling Tournament
committee is hosting the
Twenty-Seventh Annual Mixed
Championships Bowling Tour
nament beginning Thursday,
Nov. 27, and continuing until
Saturday, Nov. 29. The tourna
ment will be held at the Lava
Lanes Bowling Center in Bend.
Schedule includes mixed
team events, doubles and singles,
mixed doubles, all-events, mas
ters and senior masters, youth
singles, and of course the Holi
day Roll-off.
An addition to this year's
schedule is the "Big" Dog
Bowlers event by Jerry and
Sandra Greene-Sampson. This
will be added to the regular
scheduled Masters events.
There aren't any division or av
erage restrictions for this event,
Spilyay
Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller
Editor: Dave McMechan
Management Successor: Selena T. Boise
Advertising Manager: Sam Howard
Receptionist: Angie Blackwolf
Media Advisor: Bill Rhoades
Established In March 1976
Spllyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confed
erated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located
in the white house at 1100 Wasco Street.
Any written materials submitted to Spllyay Tymoo
should be addressed to: Spllyay Tymoo,
P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761
(541) 553-1 644 or 553-3274
FAX No. (541)553-3539
E-Mail: spilyaytymoowstribes.org
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For questions on advertising rates and policies,
please call Bill Rhoades at 553-2013,
or the Spllyay office at 553-3274.
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For the latest Information on advertising rates,
ubsclptlons and (In the future) news from the
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' Selena BoiseSpilyay Tymoo
November Fitness Challenge kick-off gave bonus points to individuals participating in the
challenge. Health evaluations were performed and will be used again at the end of the month
to measure the improvements in health due to exercise. Above, Emma Smith is having her
blood pressure checked, and her finger poked to test her blood sugar level. At the end of the
month if the individual showed improvement they will receive additional bonus points. The
poker walk was held and the winning hand was a flush drawn by Dena Smith.
however you must choose be
tween Big Dog and Masters
when registering. The Sampsons
have added $200 top prize
money, plus a jacket, and t-shirts
to the top qualifiers.
The regular masters events,
including seniors, will have the
$100 added, which will be broke
down to $50, $30, and $20. In
addition to prize money this
event includes championship
jackets. The future champions
will have the opportunity to com
pete Saturday, 10 a.m. in the
Y.A.B.A, Division singles event.
Each participant will receive a
t-shirt, and great prizes.
The Holiday Roll-off is open
to women and men who wish
to enter. This should be deter
mined before the start of the
first team event, as this will be
an accumulation of scratch
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scores from the team, doubles,
and singles events. Five qualifi
ers will advance to the steplad
der finals on Saturday, 2 p.m.
Champions from each division
will receive an embroidered
Pendleton jacket and cash. Top
qualifiers of both, men and
women, will receive beaded
bowling pin trophies. Entry is
$10 to compete and qualify, and
remember to register for this
event early.
The Red Lion Motor Inn will
once again be the host hotel in
Bend. Rates for the event are
listed at $55 plus tax, as the
agreement with luxury motor
inn, All reservations should be
made by November 22, and
don't forget to mention the
Warm Springs I loliday Bow ling
Tournament when making res
ervations. You can contact them
Hotshot crew to hold canned
food drive for holiday season
The Warm Springs 1 totshot Crew is doing a canned food
drive this month of November to assist families in our
community this holiday season. There arc several drop off
points in the community located at:
Texaco on I lighway 26.
II IS building, at the administration end and receptionist
area.
Tribal Administration building at both entries.
Warm Springs Market.
F'ire Management
If there are any questions you can contact Luther
Clements or Anthony llollidav at 553-1146.
Mow peim
World of Treasures
Antique Mall ami Gift Shop
plus
Second Time Around
New ami Iked Furniture
10,000 sq. feet of great treasures, new and old,
with new items arriving weekly
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Nov. 27-29
at 382-7011, or 1-800-RED
LION.
If you have not received an
entry for this event you can go
online and check the email ad
dress for Sandra Greene
Sampson, e-mail address
pubutilwstribes.org for down
loading information. Or you
may call her at 553-6619 at
home, or 553-3601 at work.
You may also call Austin
Greene 553-1953 at home, or
553-3243 at work. Please no
collect calls.
"From our family (commit
tee) to yours, we will feast on
Thanksgiving day with a full
course meal provided to all par
ticipants and their families, so
please join us. I lope to see you
real soon," concludes Austin
Greene Jr., president of the
committee.
Focus meetings set
Madras High School and the
Essential Education department
will provide a series of helpful
workshops for tribal high school
seniors and their parents.
These workshops will focus
on students' meeting graduation
requirements, and preparing for
a smooth transition into college.
The workshops will inform stu
dents and parents on how to
make maximum use of all avail
able resources and services.
Madras High School senior
class advisor John Reynolds, and
Julie Quaid and Ramona
Tanewasha from the tribal Edu
cation Department, will be pro
viding the monthly workshops.
Topics include transcript re
view and graduation require
ments, financial aid application,
GeoVisions mobile command
center dispatched to California
The Geo Visions mobile
command center (MCC) of the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs has been assigned to
assist fire-fighting efforts- in
Southern California, where over
300,000 acres and 1,500 homes
have been consumed. Geo Vi
sions was dispatched on Oct. 30
to support the Southern States
Burn Area Emergency Rehabili
tation (BAER) team headquar
tered outside Los Angeles.
The mobile command center
is state-of-the-art, integrated
mapping and communications
system. The center, the first of
its kind in the region, was de
veloped as an emergency sup
port vehicle for Warm Springs
GeoVisions.
The system incorporates the
latest technology in mapping,
Internet communications, and
networking capabilities.
It is uniquely suited to emer
Twenty-fi
From the Nov. 17, 1978
edition of Spilyay Tymoo
Phase I of timber
study completed
High priority should be given
to speeding up the harvest of
dying timber in the Warm
Springs Forest, consultant
Wesley Rickard told the Tribal
Council Monday. Rickard along
with Paul Sanders presented
Council with the findings of the
first phase of their "Annual Al
lowable Cut Study - A Forest
Management Strategy."
Among their findings, based
on a year a half of fieldwork
and data analysis, was that the
forest's mortality rate is equiva
lent to 36 percent of the annual
allowable cut.
"I have personally never en
countered a mortality rate as
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Furniture, gifts, glassware,
pottery, fenton dealer,
Anheuser-Busch dealer for
steins & collectibles, dolls
dragons, candles and more
Dealer spaces available for
antiques and collectibles
Stop In and check us out
Lay-aways
and credit cards accepted
World of Treasures Inc.
Second Time Around
178 SW 5th
Madras, OR 97741
(541) 475-6991
college selection and applica
tion, tribal scholarship applica
tion, trust fund education re
quirements, and fundraising for
the Disneyland graduation trip
for interested seniors.
The workshops are scheduled
for the third Thursday each
month starting November 20.
The meetings will be at 6:30 p.m.
at the Warm Springs Elemen
tary School cafeteria.
At this first workshop
Reynolds will have each senior's
high school transcript, and will
discuss steps necessary to reach
graduation.
Parents and senior student
are invited to attend. A light
snack will be provided. If you
have any questions, please call
Julie Quaid at 553-3241.
gency situations because it has
the capability of operating in
dependently through internal
power generation and satellite
uplinks.
The mobile command center
most recently completed a suc
cessful 35-day assignment with'
incident command on the B and
B Fire Complex in Central Or
egon. The system provided map
ping support and Internet com
munications for the fire
suppression efforts. Geo Visions
produced up to 400 maps per
day during the fire.
Some of the maps were 12
by 12 feet in size.
Geo Visions was established
as a tribal enterprise in 2001,
The enterprise is an environ
mental services provider for the
tribes and for federal and state
agencies, other tribal organiza
tions and private companies.
ve years ago
high as in this forest," said
Rickard.
The loss in fir stumpage alone
is $2.5 million, he estimated.
"It's a matter of who is going to
get to that timber first - the
Tribes or the insects," he re
marked. Increased growth in
the residual timber would be a
notable benefit of an acceler
ated harvest meaning a healthier
and more profitable forest.
Tribes receive
hefty insurance
refund this year
Due to an improved safety
record this past year, the con
federated Tribes were presented
with a $161,000 refund check
from Industrial Indemnity
Thursday, Nov. 9.
Each year, money not used
by the insurance company to
pay claims is returned to the
tribes, explained Pat Metke of
Lumberman's Insurance, agent
for the tribes.
The refund this year repre
sents 51 percent of the total
premium paid by the Tribes,
and is a substantially larger
amount than paid to the tribes
in previous years.
Local girl running
for Junior Miss
A Klamath girl who has lived
with her family in Warm Springs
since 1971 is in the running for
Jefferson County Junior Miss.
Faye Hurtado, 17, will be com
peting against five other high
school girls from Madras and
Culver at the Madras High
School cafeteria this Sunday,
November 19.
The contestants are busy
working daily on a physical fit
ness routine for Sunday's com
petition. In addition to physical
fitness the girls will be judged
on talent, scholastic achieve
ment, poise and appearance,
and the judge's interview.