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W WW ' ' ' Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon August 5, 2004 Page 3 T No Greyhound service after Aug. 18 (AP) - Warm Springs is among 267 communities in 18 states across the West and Mid west that will be losing Grey hound service August 18. The Greyhound stop for Warm Springs has been at the Shell station on Highway 97. On August 18, when Grey hound eliminates the 267 stops, there will be only 99 communi ties in the northern region where the interstate bus line will pick up passengers. The vast majority of the cuts are to communities that have no commercial rail or air service, such as Warm Springs. Greyhound says it has to streamline operations to stay in business. But cutting 267 com munities weakens a web that has held the small towns of America together for decades. Philip Jenks was on a bus that pulled into the stop at Biggs, a town on the Columbia River Corps finds error in Bonneville Dam spill volume (AP) - Records on the vol ume of water flowing through the Bonneville Dam spillway may be off as much as 30 per cent over the past 30 years, officials said last week. Army Corps of Engineers officials blamed the inaccu rate water volume estimates on incorrectly calibrated gate openings dating back to re placement of the spillway gates in the early 1970s. The height of the gates was increased, leading to the error. But the effect went unnoticed until recently, officials said. The total flow of water Local Businesses Wishing Warm Springs Happy Huckleberry Season Fenders By Endres COLLISION REPAIR24 HR TOWING 541.475-6491 541-480-9685 (cell) Owner, Joe Endres, lifetime Resident Miller rJ!li1Ijrf V, Ml HWr 1,U "t! Cliff's Repair & Auto Sales The Coffee Station that will lose Greyhound service. A frequent rider, Jenks was trav eling from Utah's Ute Indian Reservation to visit a niece in Warm Springs. "I'll have to take to hitchhik ing, I guess," he said. Greyhound says it lost $140 million in 2002 and 2003 as rid ership dropped and costs rose, and must concentrate on more profitable routes. Ridership throughout the in dustry dropped after the Sept. 11 attacks, said Lori Levy, spokeswoman for the Washing ton, D.C.-based American Bus Association. She said the indus try began recovering last spring but still has not reached the high attained in 2000. Of the stations being eliminated, about half had no outbound ticket sales in 2003, said company spokes woman Lynn Brown at Grey hound Lines headquarters in Dallas, Texas. past the dam was not affected, only the volume through the spillway, said Cindy Henriksen, reservoir control center chief for the Corps in Portland. "The amount of water passing the dam remains the same. We are not holding wa ter back," Henriksen said. But now that the error has been identified, "adjustments are fairly simple to make," she said. Other dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers will be inspected to check for similar problems, Henriksen said. Ford i. - Language teacher Arlita Rhoan leads the Language Camp gathering in a song that they sang in the Ichishkiin language. The camp last week on the museum grounds included language lessons, plus youth games, including a waterslide to keep everyone cool. Judge rules against (AP) - A federal judge last week ruled the U.S. government must keep spilling enough wa ter over dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers this summer to help the migration of juve nile salmon. U.S. District Judge James Redden issued a preliminary in junction against the Army Corps of Engineers to block a pro posed cutback of the spill by the Bonneville Power Administra tion The BPA had argued the ef fect on fish would be minimal, but reducing the spill at four key Northwest dams could save ratepayers $18 million to $28 million in electricity costs this year. Redden rejected that argu ment, saying the long-term en vironmental health of the region outweighed the short-term eco nomic benefits of using the water to increase hydroelectric- mm Tom Brown, Owner Hometown Drug 1810 SW Hwy 97 Madras, OR 97741 (541)475-2476 Fax: (541) 475-2879 www.madrasrnarine.com The Outpost Ron US Bank vfc.. ity production this summer. Redden announced his ruling to a courtroom packed with at torneys and representatives of federal agencies, Northwest In dian tribes and conservation groups. "It's a difficult case, but my job is to consider the Endan gered Species Act and the fate of juvenile salmon," Redden said, calling the summer spill plan "arbitrary and capricious." The BPA had received fed eral approval to reduce spill in August at the Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River, and the Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day dams on the Columbia. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and other treaty tribes of the Columbia spoke strongly against the BPA pro posal. However, the Army Corps of Engineers, which op erates the dams, approved the spillage cutback plan on July 6, CE3 McDonald i a. x ail-? . aasli 1 - ...... i m.i Aahlay AguilarSpilyay dam spill prompting the lawsuit seeking the injunction. Gov. Ted Kulongoski joined the suit on behalf of environ mentalists, tribes and fishermen who argued the plan offered little or no benefit to Northwest ratepayers while risking damage to the region's long-term envi ronmental and economic health if salmon runs decline. "I think the people in this region understand that wild salmon in their rivers are more valuable than a nickel or a dime on their electric bills," said Todd True, attorney for Earthjustice, one of the environmental groups which filed the lawsuit. Fred Disheroon, a Justice Department attorney represent ing the federal agencies, argued that Bonneville had the author ity to modify its overall salmon conservation plan to meet sum mer power demand. He accused Kulongoski, the v, tr1 :V'in I T '' f FEED (Just North of Conex next to Ugh! bchnki) 1527 NW Harris - Madras Industrial Park 541-475-7900 Madras 2& Mmmismf' Mail, Copies Abby's Volunteers needed for paint project The Side By Side Commu nity Project is looking for poeple to help with the Community Wellness Center paint project. Start date for painting is Aug. 9. Work will begin at 7 a.m. and wind down about 1 p.m., Mon day through Thursday. Ten vol unteers are needed per two hour shift. Volunteers are needed as painters, to pour paint in the trays, wash brushes and trays, and as general helpers. Call Marcia Soliz for inforation, 553 3298. The motto of this project is, "Pulling together for the kids is a good thing to do." cutback "Given we are working from a deficit situation, we should not be cutting back. " Judge Riddan tribes and conservation groups of "simply trying to second guess or substitute their judg ment" for Bonneville and other federal agencies. Redden, however, said those agencies have failed to restore declining salmon runs that the summer spill program was de signed to protect. "Given we are working from a deficit situation, we should not be cutting back," the judge said. The governors of the other three Northwest states served directly by Bonneville - Idaho, Montana and Washington - sup ported the summer spill plan. M-F to.rn.4p.ni. Sat. 9 .. 4 pJtu Cbwd Sunday Builders & Mom Pizza 4 jw-Mr