Spilyqy Tymoo, Wrro Springs, Oregon
July 8, 2004
Page 7
Hotshotz
take first at
tournament
Brijna Stacona and her Hotshotz
basketball team took first place in
the recent Amateur Athletics Union
National Championships at Phoenix,
Ariz.
Stacona of Warm Springs played
with the Hotshotz team from Se
attle. She wishes to thank the fol
lowing for their support in helping
her travel to the tournament:
Warm Springs Forest Products
Industries; Warm Springs Compos
ite Products; Warm Springs Ventures;
Leona Ike and the community ser
vice program; Raymond Shike Jr.;
Trudee Spino; Dan and Fran Ahem;
Luther Clements and Tony Holliday;
Marie Calica; Ken LeClaire; and
DMJ Automotive. Stacona thanks
them for helping to make her trip a
success.
This year was the fifth that the
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Briana Stacona
Hotshotz team qualified to represent
the state of Washington at the AAU
National Championships. Last year was
the first they were able to attend, be
cause of expenses. They finished sec
ond last year.
With funding to travel to tourna
ments hard to come by, Stacona said
she is especially happy she was able
to attend the AAU Championships
this year.
Historical Society opens new permanent exhibit
PORTLAND (AP) - From a 9,300-year-old
sagebrush sandal found in an
Eastern Oregon cave to modern envi
ronmental issues, a new permanent
exhibit designed to tie Oregonians to
their heritage opens at the Oregon His
torical Society on July 10.
At 7,000 square feet, the $2.2 mil
lion project is described as the society's
most ambitious ever.
"The society has been planning this
for some time," said Society Director
John Pierce. "It fills a big need to allow
the people of the state to learn their
history. There's nothing like it in the
state and this does that."
And, he said with 85,000 artifacts
in its collections, the project provides a
better chance for the museum to show
off its best items.
The exhibit, "Oregon, My Oregon,"
takes up a whole floor of the society's
downtown headquarters.
Visitors are greeted by a cedar dug
out canoe, possibly Chinook, that was
donated to OHS in 1918 but has spent
decades in a warehouse.
There is a reconstructed ship's hull
with trade goods of the type a Hudson's
Bay Co. ship would have carried, and a
covered wagon, partly original, with its
likely cargo, from the Great Migration
before the Civil War.
Exhibits range from a Chippendale
chest of drawers owned by Capt. Rob
ert Gray, who discovered the Colum
bia River in 1792, to a replica of an
old Woolworth's soda fountain from
downtown Portland.
Steve Sheffield was among techni
cians getting the exhibit ready recently,
and the soda counter was familiar to
him.
"I used to wash dishes behind this
in the 1970s," he recalled.
A recreation of the Yasui Brothers'
pre-World War II general store in Hood
River displays items that were in stock
there before the family was sent to an
internment camp after Pearl Harbor.
"The family had put these things in
storage and donated them to us," said
OHS spokesman Ken DuBois.
The store never reopened.
In July and August members of the
Japanese and Indian communities will
guide tours offering their perspective
on the history of the state.
Displays will be enhanced with soft
lighting, recorded voices and other
sound effects including readings from
the diary of Scottish botanist and ex
plorer David Douglas, the namesake
of the Douglas fir.
Work crew making a difference
By Martin Soliz
Community employment liaison
I wish everyone a fun and safe sum
mer. The Community Works Crew has
been very busy since April 19, its start
up date. We began by cleaning trash
from roadsides and in the community.
In the community we gathered some
170-plus bags.
We have been cutting and bagging
weeds to help enhance the community,
and to help reduce the fire hazard. We
did the Shitike RoadHollywood Bou
levard hill; the area adjacent to the
VFW building; around Utilities area;
Tenino Apartment area; part of High
way 26, a very dangerous area because
traffic would not slow down even with
signs placed out along the road. We
cleaned trash along Highway 3 from
Highway 26 to Lower Dry Creek, as
well as a portion ofjackson Trail Road.
We began clearing weeds from vari
ous cemeteries. The crew participated
in the Camp Crew training offered by
Fire Management. Part of the team
completed their First AidCPR course
and received their cards. We helped at
the Honor Seniors Day event, with
preparation, assistance during and af
ter. We have not been able to do a com
plete job picking up trash and weeding
at West Hills due to the dog problem.
People's safety cannot be put at risk.
We contacted Nancy Collins and the
Police Department, but weren't able to
get help with this problem. Can some
one help get the dog situation remedied?
We were only able to clean the main
road in the West Hills area. We did
some cleaning and weeding at the
Trailer Court; however, 'this is a big job,
and there is also a dog problem there.
We assisted the Utilities Department
with preparations for Pi-Ume-Sha.
There were a lot of tasks to do, to help
prepare for this. So, you have a hard
working crew doing things that basically
need attention and to be done every
year. In recognizing the 100 percent
tribal member crew, the team members
are: Renee Sohappy-Heath (interim
foreman), Marlen Miller, Michele Th
ompson, Dorian Tappo, Frances Smith,
William Culpus, Steven Tias and Ada
Billey.
They are such a fun and hard-work-
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Work crew members Michele Thompson, Frances Smith, Renee Sohappy
Heath, Steven Tias and Dorian Tappo (clockwise from front left.)
ing group of individuals brought to
gether to make a difference in the com
munity. Show your support. When you
see them, let them know what kind of
difference they're making. They would
certainly appreciate cold water, soda,
snack or just a thank you. Our new
hours are 6 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
We need the community's help, your
help, in getting 32 galls of primer and
32 gallons of paint so we can get on
schedule to paint the Community Cen
ter. Please contact me with you $23
donation, which will be receipted when
your donation is made.
We have to get donations as soon as
we can because this huge project is
scheduled to start this month. The
Community Development Corporation
(the tribes' non-profit entity) made a
request to a local housing supply store,
who in turn had to make a request to
their headquarter's office. We've been
waiting for several months now and
have not received a response. So, Warm
Springs community, this is our commu
nity and our facility, for our children
and families.
Let's be a team and get this paint
job done. Call me at 553-3298 soon or
come by the Community Employment
office in the Administration Building.
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