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Spilyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon
April 15, 2004
Center to receive new coat of paint
Sponsors are
needed for this
community project
The Warm Springs Community
Works Program, a new employment
initiative, needs sponsors for the pur
chase of paint for an important com
munity project.
The project will involve painting the
exterior of the Community Center. This
will require 64 gallons of paint: 32
primer and 32 finish.
to also be involved in sponsoring paint,
and in helping to paint the building. For
those interested, there is a sign-up sheet
at the Community Employment Liai
son Manager's office, at the Personnel
Department.
The Community Works Program
will be involved in many beneficial ac
tivities throughout the reservation.
More information on this project will
be in the upcoming paper.
Anyone who wishes to help sponsor
the purchase of the paint should call
Marcia Soli, Warm Springs Commu
nity Employment Liaison, phone num
ber 553-3298.
"We haven't come together on a
project like this for years," said Soliz.
"Let's get involved and do something
together. Let's out-do ourselves and
challenge ourselves for the kids."
Soliz said she wants families and kids
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Dena Thomas, Marissa Ahem, Jill Suppah, Bethann Longknife, Angela
Bellanger, Noreen Sampson (back row, l-r); Allee Tewee, Merima Made,
Kristi Olney, Lianna Jim (front row, l-r).
Girls compete in 9 tourneys
We would like to take time to con
gratulate our sixth-grade girls 2004
season.
It's our third year together as a
team, and with each year, through
hard work and dedication on the
girls' part, we've seen so much im
provement in each and every one
of them.
As coaches and parents, we be
lieve education comes first. So in
order for the girls to travel and play,
they must be in good academic
standing in school, meaning passing
grades.
The team did all their own fund
raising, which enabled them to par
ticipate in nine tournaments this sea
son, in which they won 22 games
and lost 1 1, for a total of 33 games
played.
Members of the team include Jill
Suppah, Kristi Olney, Merima Made,
Bethann Longknife, Lianna Jim,
Allee Tewee, Angela Bellanger,
Marissa Ahem, Dena Thomas and
Noreen Sampson.
At this time we would like to give
special thanks to the parents, fami
lies and members of the commu
nity for their raffle item donations.
Dan and Fran Ahem for sponsor
ing one tournament entrance fee.
Leland Thompson Jr. for sponsor
ship of one tournament entrance
fee. The Community Center staff
for giving us gym time to practice.
A big thank-you to Bobbijo Berry
and family for contributing the team
uniforms. And last but not least, the
community for its continual support
of the team.
Great job girls! Lucinda Heath
and Joyce Suppah.
Counties seeking economic diversity
(AP) - A few Eastern Oregon coun
ties are buying everything from recre
ational facilities to railroads in hopes
of boosting the economy of their re
mote area of the state.
With the collapse of the timber in
dustry in the 1990s across much of
Oregon, county governments have
found themselves facing economic ca
tastrophe.
As they lose population, their tax
bases dwindle and county services rang
ing from roads to health care suffer.
For a long time, county governments
have tried to draw new businesses to
their area, with mixed success.
Now, they're trying something new.
Morrow County last year spent $1.7
million to buy 6,200 acres of forest
and meadows for an off-highway, all-tcrrain-vehiclc
park between I leppner
and Spray.
Wallowa and Union counties teamed
up to buy a shortline railroad to help a
local lumber mill stay afloat. Lake
County officials are now in the ski re
sort business.
Yallup, advocate of tribal
fishing rights, passes away
SATUS, Wash. (AP) - Wilferd Tom
Yallup, a former Yakama Nation coun
cil chairman who fought for tribal fish
ing rights and wildlife and land preser
vation, has died. He was 72.
Yallup served 17 years on the coun
cil, including 12 years on the tribe's fish
and wildlife committee. He was instru
mental in creating the Cle Elum Hatch
ery under the Yakima-Klickitat Fisher
ies Project and initiated a Salmon Corps
project that recruited youth to clean up
Columbia River banks and tributaries.
Yallup also served as ambassador
for the tribe, traveling to China once
for a food exposition. An image of
Yallup in traditional attire adorns the
tribe's apple boxes.
"I'm really thankful for him show
ing me the mountains and I love him
and respect him, knowing he's going to
have a safe journey," Yallup 's oldest son,
Audie Otter Yallup Sr., said last week,
while family members cleaned and pre
pared Yallup's belongings to give away
in tribal custom.
Yallup grew up fishing, hunting and
breaking wild horses near Lyle, Wash.,
and his love for the Columbia River
extends from a long lineage of leaders,
said acting tribal council Chairman Jerry
Meninick.
His grandmother was a child during
the signing of the 1855 treaty.
"As a result, he got to hear firsthand
the stories of the signing of the treaty
and the religious teachings," Meninick
said. "That was the history he had
the teachings, the elders, he was close
to them. He understood the ties to our
land."
Yallup also was known for teaching
tribal history, language, dance and drum
while serving as chairman of the
Wapato Longhouse.
Yallup was buried last weekend.
Representatives of the Umatilla, Nez
Perce, Colville, Warm Springs and
Lakota tribes attended services.
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items to the Spilyay
is Friday afternoon,
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Thankyou.
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