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