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Walking is
best exercise
for Wee Bees
Young people at the Early
Childhood Center have been
walking for better health. The
large group of walkers - 170
kids in all - is called the Wee
Bee Walking Club.
The club recently held a
celebration, having com
pleted their first milestone.
"The idea was to get them
to walk 12 and a half miles
in two months," said Carolyn
larvcy, Warm Springs Com
munity Wellness Coordinator.
"So it was half-a-milc each
time they went out, three
times a week."
Most of the kids in the
Wee Bee club are in the 3-5
year range. The club is in
tended to get the kids to be
gin a walking and exercise
program at an early age, said
Twenty-five years
From the June 15, 1979,
edition of the Spiljay Tymoo.
Reservation
without power
for over 8 hours
The reservation was without
power for more than eight hours
Wednesday night after a 69,000
volt line, serving the Warm
Springs substation, came down.
Lights flickered out at 7:25 p.m.
and power was not restored until
3:45 a.m. the next morning.
According to Pacific Power
& Light, the trouble occurred
half-way between Warm Springs
and Madras.
Fires claim 200
acres of forest
The first lightning of the sea
son took its toll on the reserva
. tion forest, igniting eight differ
ent fires in the lower elevation
timber. A storm on Sunday
evening, June 10, sent electrical
charges into stands of ponde
rosa pine already dry after
spring's rain.
Close to 200 acres of pine,
some of it thinned, were dam
aged or destroyed as a result of
the storm. Most of the acreage
was in one fire off the P-600
road north of Sidwalter Flat. But
several of the fires were "spot
fires" of 10 acres or less,
caused by embers from burn
ing stands that were hit directly
by lightning.
Voter apathy
mars election
People voted five to one for
the projects on the June 5 ref
erendum, but apparently the
election was too soon after the
last one to draw enough voters.
Only 297 cast their ballots, about
70 short of the required num
ber. The Deschutes Domestic
Water System received 247 yes
votes to 50 no; and the housing
projects collected 223 yes and
72 no.
Warm Springs
hosting arts fair
The Warm Springs Commu
nity Center is putting on their
First Annual Central Oregon
Festival of the Arts on June 17.
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Members of the Wee Bee Walking Club gathered for a celebration. Pictured above are some
of the 1 70 club members.
Harvey. Her work is funded summer, and will begin another do people from the Warm
through the diabetes program walking program probably later Springs Police Department,
and a diabetes grant. tms month. the Community Wellness Cen-
She said the ECE kids will The teachers and staff at tcr, and the Community
also be doing some fun-runs this ECE help with the program, as I lealth Education Team.
There will be no charge ei
ther to come and enjoy or to
display.
Tribes sure to get
HUD fire grant
The Confederated Tribes
have been given the go-ahead
to submit their application for a
$250,000 HUD Community
Block grant. It is fairly well guar
anteed that Warm Springs will
receive the proposed amount.
The grant will enable the
tribes to construct two buildings
and purchase two 350-gallon
fire trucks, a 4,000-gallon
tanker and an emergency vehicle.
Cashier job , ,
makes : Lillie
feel rich
As a relative newcomer to
the working world, Lillie Johnson
says firmly, "I like it." For the
last three years Lillie has juggled
job and family, enjoying both. It
is especially gratifying to her to
know that Kah-Nee-Ta values
her work enough to give her the
June Employee of the Month
Award.
Lillie was recently promoted
to Head Cashier after almost a
year as a data entry operator.
Eighth-graders
heading east
for history trip
Five Warm Springs eighth
graders are eastward-bound for
an American Heritage tour of
the country's historical land
marks. Lillie VanPelt, Cheryl
Sutterlee, Roman Suppah,
Lucille Gilbert and Willie Bagley
will take off from Portland with
35 other Oregon junior high
schoolers on a two and a half
week tour of the East Coast.
Of the 40 students making
the trip, 17 are from the Madras-Warm
Springs area. They
were selected for the trip on the
basis of faculty recommenda
tions to the American Heritage
Board. Although sponsored by
American Heritage, the students
are responsible for their own
costs. Each of the tribal mem
bers received- $400 from the
Tribal Council to help with ex
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ago this week
Clinton Bruno
leaves security
of deaf school
Fifteen years ago, when
Clinton Bruno's family took
him over the mountains and left
him at the Oregon State School
for the deaf, the frightened 4
year old cried with homesick
ness. Last week Clinton "signed"
the closing prayer at his gradua
tion and faced the prospect of
leaving home again. For Clinton,
18, the son of Cecil Bruno Sr.,
graduation means another diffi
cult transition - this time from
the school's secure environment
to life in the world of hearing
people.
Simnasho school
lures crowd
to awards program
The crowd that gathered on
the windy playground of the
Simnasho School on June 5
would not have appreciated
knowing that the school almost
didn't exist.
Two years ago budget trim
ming threatened the tiny school,
causing speculation as to how
long the district could afford to
keep its doors open.
But the Simnasho School sur
vived, and the awards program
that brought dozens of students,
parents and community leaders
together to honor its 14 pupils
was also a tribute to Simnasho
and the district.
Creek tours point
out erosion problem
Water quality, quantity, flood
control, sediment traps and ero
sions are problems here on the
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reservation that need immedi
ate attention, according to local
experts. A tour coordinated by
Clint Jacks, the Oregon State
University Extension agent,
took a group through Quartz
Creek drainage where they
viewed two sediment dams, built
in the late '20s and early '30s
bv the CCC crews.
Toe Ness
Toe Ness: There was this guy
who looked up his family tree
and found out that he was the
sap. Yikes!
It is said that wisdom comes
with age, but it doesn't do much
good because senility tends, to
set in about the same time.
Yikes!
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Library hosting summer
reading in Warm Springs
By Jane Stclle
oulh Services Miimijer
With the school year over,
the, Jefferson County Ubrary is
gearing up once again for its
annual summer reading pro
gram. Staff from the Jefferson
County Library will be coming
out to the Warm Springs Library
every Wednesday from 2-3 p.m.
to do different fun activities
with children - stories, games,
crafts, music, and more.
The first program will be on
June 16.
Children do not have to be
signed up to attend the pro
grams, but they do need to sign
up if they want to earn prizes
for reading.
Survey for lamprey, creel
Employees of the Confed- Natural Resources Branch
crated Tribes Natural Re- will also be conducting a creel
sources Branch will be at survey.
Sherars Falls from June 15 to The Natural Resources em
August 31, conducting an ployces will be talking with
adult lamprey survey. tribal fisherman at the falls
The survey this summer is regarding the lamprey and
part of an on-going lamprey creel.
study by the tribes. They will also be collecting
During the same time, the lamprey and marking them.
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If the children read for
about half an hour a day, they
can end up earning a book, a T
shirt, and another small prize.
They will also have a chance
of winning the grand prize
drawing in August for a brand
new backpack.
If your child did not get the
registration materials in school,
you can pick them up at the
Jefferson County library, print
them off the library's web page
at www.jcld.org or get them at
one of our summer reading pro
grams at the Warm Springs Li
brary. This will be the fourth year
that the Jefferson County Li
brary has held summer reading
programs in Warm Springs.
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