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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
March 4, 2004
Actress brings message to Warm Springs
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
Native American television
and movie actress Maine Miles
brought an important message
to Warm Springs recently.
I Icr message is that diabetes
is serious, but can be dealt with
through diet, exercise and fam
ily support.
"Diabetes does not just effect
the person suffering with the
condition," said Miles. "It affects
the whole family."
A person with diabetes may
get high blood pressure, suffer
a heart attack, lose their eye
sight, suffer circulation prob
lems, among other ailments.
Any of these conditions in one
family member can affect the
whole.
"I stress family involvement
with diet and exercise," said
Miles.
Miles played the part of
Marilyn Whirlwind on the
Emmy Award winning television
show Northern Exposure. She
was also in the movies Smoke
Signals and Skins.
Visiting Warm Springs in Feb
ruary, she was the guest speaker
at the Eleventh Annual Heart
Smart Dinner, held at the
Agency Longhouse.
Miles was in Warm Springs
for a couple of days, visiting
with people of the Warm
Springs Diabetes Program. "So
far the program I've seen is very
good," said Miles.
Besides her work in TV and
Twenty-five years ago
From the March 2, 1979
edition of Spilyay Tymoo.
Mini-marathon
expected to draw
hundreds to Simnasho
Gov. Vic Atiyeh gave the
Simnasho School some good
news and some bad news this
week. With his regrets that he
could not attend their benefit
mini-marathon, he sent an offi
cial proclamation naming
March, 1979 "Simnasho Grade
School Day."
The governor's moral sup
port and the $10 entry fees of
several hundred runners should
push the sixteen students closer
to their goal - a trip to southern
California later this month.
Teacher Rich Little expects
600 runners to line up at the
stop sign in Simnasho for che
14.5 mile marathon and at the
Kah-Nee-Ta golf course for the
3.2 mile Run-P'or-Fun.
Locals to appear
in western segment
Make sure to tune your TV
set to Channel 2 Monday
evening at 9 p.m. so you can
watch "How the West Was
Won." The segment being
shown is the one that was filmed
in Central Oregon and features
some local "stars."
Some of those who will be
appearing are Danny and
Jacques Martinez, Jim Macy,
Ella Jim and Wilson Wewa.
The episosde, entitled
"l'Affair Riel," centers around a
French Canadian who is part
Indian. The law attempts to
bring him to justice but star
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Elaine Miles
movies, Miles also has an exer
cise and diabetes awareness
video called "Rez-Robics," with
the subtitle, "for coach potato
skins."
The video is available for
tribal members to check out
from the Diabetes Program.
Tribal members can also re
ceive the video free of charge:
For information see the web site
"www.dreamcatcher.org."
"Elaine is very personable.
She can speak to people at a level
they are comfortable with," said
Royce Embanks, nurse special
ist with the Diabetes Program.
Many exercise videos feature
a person such as Jane Fonda, said
Embanks. Watching one of
these videos may make an av
erage person feel discouraged.
"They might feel, There is no
way I'll ever be like that,'" he
said.
With the Elaine Miles exer
James Arness fights for the
Canadian's rights and lets him
go free.
Cornett in D.C.
assisting BIA in
agency improvement
Warm Springs superinten
dent Jim Cornett is finishing up
the third week of a 42-day de
tail at the D.C. headquarters of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
where he has joined five others
in looking over the functions of
the central office.
Cornett's task force is one
several created to implement the
Bureau-wide "Management Im
provement Program" launched
last fall by Assistant Secretary
of the Interior for Indian Af
fairs Forrest Gerard.
Shitike receives
needed attention
Shitike Creek is having its
profile altered for the second
time since the big flood of 1964,
when the meandering stream
was straightened out. Flooding
of the baseball fields in the win
ter of 1977 pointed out the need
for a steeper rocked bank and
a better outlet for Tenino Creek.
Contractor Ray Davis has been
hired with the U.S. Soil Conser
vation Service emergency relief
funds to "rip rap" or build up
the bank and extend the Tenino
drain pipe farther into the
stream.
Talent upstaged
by superheroes
The age-old battle between
good and evil seemed to prevail
at Bunski's fourth annual talent
cise video, though, the average
person feels much more en
couraged. "If she can do it, I
can do it," is the way people feel
about Rez-Robics, said
Embanks.
Been In seven movies
Embanks was in Portland
when he heard Miles speak at
the Northwest Portland Indian
Health Board Gathering of
Tribes. "And I thought it would
be a good idea for her to come
here," he said.
Her speaking fee was very
reasonable, he said. So the Dia
betes Program secured money
through a federal diabetes grant.
About 380 people attended
this year's I leart Smart dinner.
Attendance was about double
that of previous years. Along
with the guest appearance by
Miles, there was a Wellness
Team skit presented by the Se
nior Wellness Team, a raffle and
gifts, and a salmon dinner.
Miles' stop in Warm Springs
was part of a tour she makes
of reservations across the U.S.,
promoting awareness of diabe
tes.
She's visited tribes in North
and South Dakota, Arizona,
New Mexico, California, Min
nesota, Nevada, Washington
and Oregon. She said that In
dian casinos are very helpful in
providing money for the tours.
Miles is Cayuse and Nez
Perce. She is an enrolled mem
ber of the Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Reservation.
this week
show, as Batman, Wonder
Woman and other superheroes
took on such villains as the Pen
guin and the Joker. And some
where amid the elaborate cos
tuming, staging and dramatics
were 1 1 serious displays of lo
cal talent, some scarcely audible
through a sound system that
boomed for the superheroes.
Facilities manager
not a stranger
The usual adjustment period
for a new Bureau employee will
be somewhat abbreviated for
Bill Casscl, who took over the
facilities manager job this week.
Things are looking pretty famil
iar. For Cassel, it's a homecom
ing and he's not feeling at all like
a stranger. Eleven years ago he
left his maintenance jbo at
Warm Springs IHS to become
construction superintendent at
the Western Washington Agency.
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" was by accident. I
was in the right place at
the right time. "
Elaine Miles,
on how she got Into acting.
Miles lives in Seattle, which led
to her getting into acting.
"It was by accident," she said.
"I was in the right place at the
right time."
What happened, she said, was
that the people making the
Northern Exposure television
show were getting ready to be
gin filming in Seattle.
Elaine brought her mother in
for an audition, but the produc
ers wanted a younger person for
the part of the receptionist.
Elaine auditioned, and was
called back the following day.
She played Marilyn Whirlwind
on the show for all six seasons.
Her other work includes
Skins, Smoke Signals, the Business
of Fancy Dancing, Tortilla
I leaven, Scattering Dad, The Re
and Mad ijove.
She said that Scattering Dad,
a CBS movie, is one of her fa
vorite acting experiences. For
this movie she worked with
Olympia Dukakis and Andy
Griffith, and they were great to
work with, she said.
Where does the time go?
First starting out, 5 years
old, excited, waiting to start
school for the first time.
Now 17 years old, awaiting
the day of graduation.
Paul Scott, son of Levi
Herkshan and Nadine
Scott, is baffled at all the
years that just rolled on by.
Killing time, Scott occu
pies himself with watching
after school activities such
as football, volleyball, and
basketball games. On that
note, he is also the Madras
High School Associated
Student Body (ASB) presi
dent. He is also in the Cul
tural Enrichment Club.
"In our school I want
to see the groups united,"
Scott says. "I want every
body to get along."
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Diabetes Program
planning March events
Here are some upcoming
events of the Warm Springs
Diabetes Program:
March 11 and 25 are
blood sugar and blood pres
sure screening days.
On March 1 1 from 8 till
10 a.m, the Diabetes team
members will be at the For
estry Department, checking
blood pressure and blood
sugar levels.
On March 25 from 10
a.m. till noon, the team will
be at Warm Springs Forest
Products.
"We set up in an office and
people can come in and have
their blood pressure and
blood sugar checked," said
Royce Embanks of the Dia
betes Program.
"It's a service that helps
identify people with blood
pressure or sugar level prob
Parent meeting March 10
The next meeting of the
Title VII Parent Advisory
Committee is set for Wednes
day, March 10 at 5:30 p.m. at
the Warm Springs Elementary
Library.
Title VII meetings are open
to all members of the public.
Paul Scott
At the moment his favorite
subjects are mythology, science
and chemistry. Also, civics and
economics caught his heart with
opinion and debate.
"What kept me in school is
the fact that my mom graduated.
It made me want to," said Scott.
"She was the one child of my
grandmother who graduated.
But I'd have to admit, my dad
was my number one supporter
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lems who might not come into
the clinic to get checked," said
Embanks.
During these screening
days, he said, the team usu
ally identifies one or two
people who did not realize
they had a problem.
On March 17 from 11:30
a.m. till 1 p.m., the Commu
nity Wellness Program along
with the Diabetes Program
will be sponsoring a Diabetes
Walk. This will be at the Fam
ily Resource Center.
Lunch will be provided.
There will be prizes and other
items given away as incen
tives for walking.
On March 23 will be a
meeting of the Dialysis Sup
port Group, starting at 5 p.m.
at the Senior Center and din
ner will be served.
If you have a disability, please
advise the District 509-J Sup
port Services office about spe
cial arrangements that may al
low you to fully participate in
the meeting.
Please call Georgia Sosa at
475-6192.
in school."
After high school Scott
hopes to attend college at
Oregon State University,
where he plans on receiv
ing his degree in manufac
turing and engineering, or
architecture.
Scott also mentioned
that after college he would
like to see the world, be
cause he's the type of per
son who likes to see and do
new things. His best
memory of school would
have to be the day he was
announced ASB president.
Everyone was proud of
him.
"Live everyday to the
fullest, you're not promised
a tomorrow," says Scott.
- By Ashley Aguilar