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Holidays
are a time
to be
thankful
By Selena T. Boise
It is that time of the year,
the time to ask yourself what it
is you are thankful for.
We should have thankfulness
for our own personal lives, and
then the tribal membership as a
whole. We are members of this
community for the rest of our
lives.
Even if a person moves
away to go to school, he or she
will always think of this reser
vation as home,
because our
families are here.
When I asked
one of my chil
dren what they
have to be thankful for in their
lives, one of them responded
with:
"To be thankful for what we
have in our lives is a wonderful
thing, when you stop to think
about it.
I'm thankful for everyone
who has been there for me, and
I'm thankful for all those who
taught me their wisdom (my
mom, dad, grandpa, grandma,
Laneda, Willie Roy, and
Tigger)."
I believe that she has a good
point about people being there.
I am thankful for friends and
people who are there to listen
to me when I have something
on my mind.
Sometimes it's hard to say
things, and then it's bottled up
inside for a long period of time,
and j am sure that is not good
for a person's health. .. .
1 My friends listen to me as I
let out my thoughts and feelings,
and I find a calmness and can
truly make a decision for my
self. When I got home last night I
was thinking a lot about thank
fulness in my life. I am thank
ful for my husband and my chil
dren, because without them our
house would not be a home.
, The Tribal Council members
have a lot to truly be thankful
for, because they were chosen
to act on behalf of the tribal
membership.
They are currently making
decisions about the 2004 bud
get, and there are decisions that
may make people unhappy.
There are some people who will
take their budget cuts, and make
do with what they have.
Budget decisions are made
with all comments considered.
The people who are making
the decisions for the tribes are
thinking in the best interest of
the tribal members.
They held open district meet
ings to hear all concerns and
comments from the tribal mem
bership, and are now on the
verge of posting the budget.
As we make it past these
times in our lives we come upon
the Christmas season, and truly
react to thankfulness of the sea
son and the people who have
made differences in our lives. I
believe that is what Christmas
is about: Remembering some
body for the contributions they
have made in your life for the
past year, or every year.
I wish everyone a happy
Thanksgiving. Drive safe, and
buckle up, it's icy out there.
Toe Ness
What did the snail say when
it was riding on the back of the
turtle?
Answer: "Whcccee!"
Yikts!
Spilyay
Speaks
Thank you
To all the wonderful people
of the Warm Springs commu
nity: I've always felt like it was like
me against the world. Like there
is no hope. All the time, work
and work, and never get ahead.
Then I've been caring for my
mom for the past five years and
it seemed like it got worse. The
place I hated the most was the
post office, because all the bills
arrived like clock work every
month. My mom made me
promise not to tell anybody,
about her cancer until five
months ago, and then she finally
told the whole family herself.
I'm glad all her friends and
family came to see her in the
home.
Thank you all, you know who
you are. Thanks to everybody,
for the caring ones with the kind
words and beautiful songs. To
the wonderful cooks and serv
ers and drummers. I will really
miss my mom because her and
I was always together going to
stick games, casinos, longhouse
functions.
To my sister and aunts,
uncles, nieces, cousins, nephews,
in-laws for helping with every
kindness and support and for
being my strength and rays of
hope. Thank you to all the
people who gave financial aid.
Thanks to all Veterans', and
Ladies Auxiliary. Respectively
yours,
Lois and Mp and
Nicole Knight.
School sports
We know everyone has to go
through eye-opening experi
ences in their lives. Depending
upon who you are as a person
is how you respond to such an
experience.
With that said, many would
like to believe that our present
day Madras athletic program is
untainted and pure. Many
would like to believe that all of
our student athletes are asked
and encouraged to participate.
Happy birthday and other wishes. . . .
Happy belated birthday to
Sandra (Mom, Grandma) on
Nov. 8. Hope you had a special
day and we wish you the best
for your "new" year. Love you,
from Angie and Brent Thomas.
Happy big "fifth" birth
day to the bigger special
girl, Torey Rayann Thomas
on Nov. 28. We're thinking
of you and hope you have
the fullest, funnest day plus
many more to come, we
love you. Love from Mom
and Bro Brent Thomas
We wish to all our family and
friends a Happy Thanksgiving
and hope you all get your best
"grub" on and get your fullest
from Angie and Brent Thomas.
Cherilyn L. Starr
The black clouds that had me
feeling down, all of the bad feel
ings have disappeared.
The rainbow I prayed for has
just appeared, I follow the rain
bow, I find you my dear.
I've been waiting in the rain
for hours, just seeing you is be
lieving Sometimes it's sad, I pray and
try to make it through another
day.
You pulled me out into that
light, for you are my Starr.
My guiding light, you held on
to me in my darkest hours.
I love you, you know this to
be so, I think back on my worst
days and here you were.
And for these days I'm thank
ful which makes me love you
even more.
Letters to the
There is even a written school
policy that states, "Athletic pro
grams are both educational and
recreational and should encour
age participation by many stu
dents as possible." Nice gener
alized statement, it should cover
all of the bases, but how true is
it really?
We are sure that many par
ents have had similar experi
ences of encouraging your child
to participate in a particular
sport. You tell your child they
have just as much of a chance
of making it as the next. You
let them know that they are
equals with their peers. You do
just as our school policy states;
"encourage" them without any
prejudices introduced.
But, in reality that time is very
short lived for many of us "av
erage" parents. You must then
introduce all of the "behind the
scenes" selection "criteria" to
your child. The "criteria" that
no one ever talks about because
it shows how tainted our athletic
program is. The "criteria" ev
eryone is too afraid to talk about
because of the stigmatism it can
carry for you, your family and
especially your student athlete if
you bring it up. The "criteria"
that it is unwritten, unspoken
and not openly admitted by
those who practice it.
This hidden "criteria" is
there, like it or not. All you have
to do is take a "two-eyes" open
look at our athletic programs.
Do you see a nice well-rounded
athletic program that does as it
was written, encouraging as
many students as possible to
participate in it? Or do you seen
an athletic program that seems
to have that same reoccurring
"theme" to it?
Now, when the athletic pro
Letters to
Please write to the Spilyay
at P.O. Box . 870, Warm
Springs, 97761 , or drop by the
office. Or send your letters by
e-mial to this address:
Happy
seventh
birthday on
November
30, to our lil'
sonny boy
Taron G.
Rabbie.
Love,
grandma
Myra and
Virg.
Happy birthday to our
big brother Taron. Love,
Kali, Trinity and Domin
ique. Happy seventh birthday to
our fav sonny Targon G. Rabbie.
Love, Phyllis and Doren.
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To love you, to hold you in
my arms, this time without you,
seems like forever.
You were knocking at my
heart's door, I did myself a fa
vor and let you in.
I low sweet it is to be loved
by you. I close my eyes at night
and wonder, where would I be
without you in my life.
gram is questioned, there are
never any "to the point"1 answers.
You will be given many differ
ent responses or excuses as to
why the athletic program is the
way it is. You will be asked to
second question yourself or
worse yet second question your
student athlete. You will be
given the "illusion" it is pure and
true, but all you have to do is
open your eyes.
All you have to do is see the
students athletes who are there
and see who the student athletes
who are not there. You can eas
ily see those student athletes who
don't participate because of the
hidden "criteria" that is now
engrained into our athletic pro
grams. There are even plenty
of student athletes who had to
face the hard fact that didn't "fit
into" the mold and are cut from
the team. You don't have to go
far to find all of these student
athletes who were never "en
couraged" bit rather discour
aged. These student athletes see
it; learn it, live it and their per
ception of athletics is now for
ever changed.
Once you do and see the "real
picture" think about what can
be done to change it and don't
be afraid to speak out about it.
Leevi Herkshan and
Danni Katchia
Jingle dresses
I would like to request that
the person who borrowed my
daughter's jingle dresses please
return them. We loaned out a
purple velvet jingle dress and an
orangeblue jingle dress. I can
not remember who borrowed
them, but please return these
items. We would appreciate it.
Barbara Jim, 553-3475
work, or 553-0470 home. ' ''
the editor
spilyaytymoowstribes.org
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words in length.
Thank you for writing.
Happy birthday Phyllis.
Do have fun. We love you.
Love from Mom and
Auntie Shirl.
To Pilla Willa, happy birth
day Nov. 22. From your loveli
est Aunt.
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Dec. i
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I've made mistakes in my life,
but I'm only human. When I
wake up it is a new morning,
cveryday's a new day.
I think of the morning I'll be
coming home to you. I place in
your hand my heart to hold, and
to release our spoken dreams. I
love you very much. You brat.
Talk with you soon.
Editor
Apologies
To whom this may concern:
I know this has been a long
overdue apology, I just want
to say to the people that I'm
writing this apology for the in
cidents that occurred back in
2002. Also my apologies to the
community, my deepest re
grets that this ever happened.
Sincerely,
Deanna L. Lamebear
To the people of Warm
Springs, I'm writing on behalf
of my stupid actions on the
early evening of 92003. I
realize I put myself and other
people's lives in jeopardy. For
this I truly am sorry. Please ac
cept my apology. Thank you.
Emily D. Yallup
To the community of
Warm Springs and those who
were at the Texaco gas station
on Nov. 1, 2003, I truly am
so very sorry. I was wrong to
show up as I did, it was very
ignorant on my behalf. It
won't happen again, jail is no
piece of cake. Again I am so
sorry. Emily D. Yallup
I, Manuel Alvarado, am
sorry for driving while intoxi
cated in the Warm Springs
area on 83003. This will
never happen again. Thank
you.
Manuel Alvarado
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To my Dad, brothers, sisters, neices, nephews, aunties,
uncles, cousins, grand-niecesnephews, children and friends,
Happy Thanksgiving, and I love you.
(I hope that you will read this poem and take the time to tell
your loved ones:)
If Tomorrow Never Comes.
If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you fall
asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord,
your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you walk out
the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for
one more.
If I knew it would be the last time, I'd hear your voice lifted
up in praise, I would video tape each action and word, so I
could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra
minute or two to stop and say "I love you," instead of assum
ing you would know I do.
If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share
your day, well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let
just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an over
sight, and we always get a second chance to make everything
right.
There will always be another day to say our "I love you's,"
And certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I
can do's?"
, But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I'd
like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget.
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike,
and today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved
one tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day
that you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss,
and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to
be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today, whisper in their car.
Tell them how much you love them and that you'll always
hold them dear. Take time to say "I'm sorry, please forgive
me," "Thank you," or "It's okay".
And if tomorrow never comes you'll have no regrets about
today. (I love you and miss you, Sister)....
God Bless You. Sarah J. Frank
My name is Ikie, I attended
summer school in June.
There was a theft crime
that was committed, and as
much as I hate to say it, I had
taken part by taking candy.
Today, I pleaded guilty; I
served eight days in detention.
Plus I'm serving time for a dif
ferent crime. I'll be leaving
soon to treatment in Klamath
Falls. So further more I am
sorry, I am now paying time
for my crime. Not only do I
have to live with the charge
of Theft III, also with the
shame. Ikie M. Heath
I am apologizing to the
Warm Springs Reservation
for my DUII in the past, it
won't happen again.
Sally Medina
To the people of Warm
Springs,
As a requirement of my
sentence for driving under the
influence of intoxicants, I
apologize. I know the dangers
of drinking and driving and I
intend to remedy this by sim
ply abstaining. However, I
would like to mention that I
have been stopped three times
with no probable cause and let
go with no charges. I just be
lieve that my side needs to be
heard too. Sincerely,
Doreen Johnson