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E Coosb EEWA: The way it is Page 4 Spilyay Tytnoo August 5, 2004 Log Springs fire under control By Selena T. Boise I was at the fire camp the other day and saw that they are moving things out and shipping the fire fighters to the next big fire. Very hard, strenuous work that the firefighters are doing in such hot weather conditions. We should Seems we take for granted the work it takes to take control of a fire burning with conditions such as wind and fuel. Lucky for us that the fire fighters are so much into their work that they do this through- : out the United States for so many communities. When I arrived at the fire , camp I was stopped by security and my brother was paged and sent to my vehicle. I was told : that they were being cautious about supplies being taken out of camp by non-employee visi tors. I was a bit offended but then maybe there are people who would take supplies. Anyway I was amazed at the set up of the fire camp. There were logistics, supply tent, medi cal tent, and they were all set up along the road. There were a lot of tents surrounding the area where the firefighters were stay ing. Before containment of the fire there were many more fire fighters and the camp was larger. I remember in previous years being evacuated from my home j, a couple times, and I was thank ' ful thit it vdidn't come' to that -this time. ' I want to express my thanks to all those who traveled here to fight the flames of the Log Springs fire. There are many homes on our reservation and there weren't any that were damaged or taken by the fire. So, thank you. Cooperative By Ron Suppah Tribal Council Chairman Secretary of Interior Gale Norton recently congratulated Portland General Electric, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and other long-term combatants in the decades long controversy over salmon conser vation on the Deschutes River. We joined together in the spirit of "cooperative conserva tion" to creatively solve one of the most difficult conflicts over salmon restoration: safely mov ing young fish around the Round Butte Dam. Today, we see the Bonneville Power Administra In regard to The Native American Hous ing and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA) materialized after years of tribal gov ernments lobbying Congress for more direct input into fed Spilyay Speaks Opinion eral housing program development, and allowable funding expenditures to meet housing needs unique to specific tribes. In Region 6 the Northwest Office of Native American Pro grams in Seattle administers the various federal grants for tribal housing. The office also admin isters other grant programs by which tribes can supplement NAHASDA dollars. One administrative function of Northwest Office of Native American Programs (the North west Office) is to evaluate how Rez Express This is a letter of thanks to those establishments who spon sored the 14 year old boys bas ketball team Rez Express in the State Games of Oregon this year. The team came out of the tournament in third place and should be commended for their efforts. Thank you to Warm Springs Forest Products Industries; DE Composite Products; Earl and Rita Squiemphen; Val Squiemphen and Tony Torres for their support. Also, Priscilla Squiemphen-Yazzie for lending team jerseys. Lastly, thank you to the community for support ing the car wash on July 4 and our various bake sales. Sammie Squiemphen. Appreciation To our people here, a heart felt thanks to you from the bot tom of our hearts. There have been some very major losses in our lives, with the loss of my husband Elliot Switzler that im pacted our home, that we are trying to deal with on a daily basis. This took some time to get done. Thank you Tommy Fuentes and Warm Springs For est Products Industries employ ees who my husband enjoyed working with. He loved his job there. For John and Helen Smartlowit, coming from Yakima Valley to take care of the beautiful services that went accordingly, and for nieces Sandi, Martha, Leah and grand son Trevor for cutting up fish and meat. If I missed anyone, it's, not my intention. Everyone pulled together and became my strength to see this through. Thank you for everyone com ing together at our home for prayer services. For Dr. Creelman, Hospice volunteers, Dialysis staff, and Workforce Development staff Cory Clements, Frances Allen, conservation tion and the U.S. Army Corps of engineers planning to kill in large numbers the fish we just cooperated to save. Cooperation over this impor tant economic and environmen tal issue is essential if the fall chinook salmon run is to be saved. I urge the BPA and the Corps to enter into the spirit and the practice of cooperative conser vation with the region's tribes, sport and commercial fishing and environmental groups to spill the water necessary to make this happen. The BPA and Corps are in- developments well the tribes have adapted to NAHASDA in its first five years of existence. The Northwest Office randomly se lected Warm Springs Housing to see how well the tribe had ad justed to the revised HUD hous ing program. The tribes' five year housing plan and one-year housing plan are the govern ment standard used in this evalu ation process. The review of Warm Springs Housing operations identified deficiencies pertaining to policy or operations that didn't fall within federal guidelines. This report had accompanying rec ommendations from the North west Office to remedy the com pliance issues. Recognizing that Warm Darlene Trimble, Ollie Smith, Melinda Poitra and Verlecn Kalama, for being there for me with support and understanding. I also want to thank my fam ily for encouragement, to take care of our mom Geraldine Blodgett memorial and stonesetting. I left everything to my brother to handle, so Boo Boo done a great tribute to our mother. Thanks to Millie Colwash and family for cook ing. The drummers who came that are always ever willing when called. May God bless each one. Family of Elliot Switzler, Laura, Norma, Bill, Gerri, Lucille, Sallie, Randy, Lawrence, Maria, William and Alice. Stolen items The following items were sto len out of a black briefcase in the trunk of my car: An iPaq 6350 Pocket PC with Memory Expansion Sleeve and 256MB CF Card. This unit has stopped functioning by now and will not power up until I enter a code. Both the Pocket PC and Sleeve are engraved with my name and phone num ber. A Vivitar Digital Camera w 256MB SD Card. This unit will not function without the cable or software that came in the box. An RCA Lyra MP3 Player Model RD 1071 (white). This unit was filled with songs and cannot be reprogrammed with out the software and cable that came with it. A Uniden Handheld Radio . Frequency Scanner with re chargeable batteries. This unit may have my name and phone 'number; engraved, in the casing. These items vanished when my car was used without per mission, being taken from Fos ter Street in West Hills on the night of July 12. Other items are missing, but the items men tioned above have sentimental value, or are irreplaceable (memory cards hold data which needed at Bonneville Power and the Ron Suppah sisting not to spill the water nec essary to allow the young salmon to pass Bonneville, The Dalles at the Warm Springs Housing was slow to ad just to the flexibility of NAHASDA, the Housing Board of Commissioners determined that filling the assistant housing director position was vital and necessary. Exercising authority granted by Chapter 400, the Housing board chose to hire the appli cant with technical expertise necessary to benefit Warm Springs Housing. The board had anticipated some resistance to hiring a non Indian over tribal applicants, but had seen this hiring practice many times throughout all of our tribal enterprises, even with the affirmative action policy. The board also had antici pated receiving some support, but instead met with resistance, skepticism and micro-manage Letters to the Editor I would like returned). Please return the items, no questions asked. The police have been furnished with the details of their disappearance and digi tal photos of the items that were stolen. If you have information regarding any of the items listed above, please contact the Warm Springs Police Department. There is a reward for the return of the items stolen, payable to anybody who was not involved in the theft. Thanks and God bless, Frederick Duran Bobb, PO Box 653, Warm Springs, 97761, phone (541) 980-1913. Works crew I would like to take this time to thank the Community Works Crew consisting of Ada Billey, Michelle Thompson, Frances Smtih and Marian Miller. They did an exceptional mowing and grooming of my parents Lyle and Arlita Rhoan and Marilyn Wagner's yards. Thanks to the Community Works Program, which is avail able for assistance to any senior living in the Warm Springs com munity. I just want to acknowl edge to the crew I appreciate your hard work, early hours and commitment that you posses to service and meeting the needs in this area of my family. Thank you and keep up the good works. As always, William McBride Rhoan. Hit and run My vehicle was hit during the Pi-Ume-Sha Powwow. The per son who did this should have told me or left a note. Sure is shame ful because all I was doing was delivering some cherries to an elder' who had requested some from the Yakama reservation. I told my softball team that was the last time I will be play ing in tourney when someone cannot confess to what they did wrong. So whoever drives a white vehicle and did this, thank you very much. Raemelle E. Kiona. and the Snake River Dams. The power generated by running this water through the turbines may, or may not result in a few cents savings on the average house hold electric bill. The consequences for the fish, the tribal and the commer cial and sport fishing businesses and the economies of the small towns they support are devas tating. If the BPA and the Corps do not spill the water at the dams, then over half a million young salmon will die in the turbines of the dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers. We will feel the Springs Housing Department ment - all of which served no purpose but to delay by at least a year the following projects new housing construction, trailer court clean-up, bullet-proof lighting for West Hills, and play ground improvement. The assistant housing direc tor Jane Cornell's educational background and grant-writing skills would have provided a benefit to Warm Springs Hous ing, if the work environment had been more positive. Jane immediately re-established a positive working rela tionship with our funding agency, she began to familiarize herself with NAHASDA and the supplemental funding programs, and reviewed the monitoring report issues and associated timelines. Locally, she sought out additional funding for weather- Please write Family and friends, please write to me at the following ad dress: FCI Dublin, Lillian Thanks from rodeo queen I would like to thank my grandma Marita Johnson and famiily, my cousin Clint Bruiscdhead, Cheryl Tom, my mom Arlene and dad Albert Bryant, and uncle Wilson for supporting me in running for the 2004 Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo Queen try-outs. I would also like to thank Brigette Whipple for all the nice gifts. Thanks to all the people who bought tickets from me, and congratulations to the winners: Alfred Smith Jr., one-night stay at Kah-Nee-Ta. Wauseka Brown Jr., cooler filled with soda. Adeline Miller, beaded head stall. Sharlyne Garcia, beaded spur straps. Francis Allen, sewing gift certificate. Cheryl Parrish, beaded hat band. Larry Scott, star quilt. Apologies I would like to say, some people or most people make mis takes, some make bigger mistakes. I'm sorry to my wife, Nancy, Evan, Great One, Tom and Cecil. It's hard to accepf all that I did. So sorry to you all. I can't but I wish I could take it all back. Just to Nancy, I hope you can see a change in me. I'm trying real hard to change. Just a chance is all I ask. Ted. I was charged with assault. This was for fighting with Ambrose George. I'm sorry for your pain and injuries, Ambrose. I'm sorry for Kirby's door. For the last year and a half I never got in trouble. Jovon Gilbert. I was arrested for DUII by Officer Whittenberg. At the tribal jail I blew a .15 bac. This is the first, time I've ever been charged with a DUII and I'm sorry.' Matthew S.Vaeth. ,!,iivJ, Letters to Letters to the editor can be sent to Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, 97761. Or dropped off at 1100 Wasco St. E-mail is consequences for this short term decision as soon as the fall of 2006, 2007 and 2008, when these fish would normally return from the ocean. As many as 40,000 fall chinook will not be on your hook or on your dinner plate, adversely impacting local econo mies from Alaska to Idaho, with the small towns depending on sport and commercial fishing and Indian tribes being hit the hardest. Gov. Kulongoski has seen the error of this short-sighted fed eral decision, and has joined the tribes, sport fishing and environ ization of senior citizen homes. Free training was scheduled for the commissioners and staff; and it was determined that we could construct low-income housing units in burned out home sites, which would have sped up the approval process. All of this stopped once she resigned her position out of frustration and a failure to have a board approved salary adjust ment materialize. Ironically, a consultant had to be hired to complete the tasks that Jane ini tiated. This expense was just above the annual salary adjust ment the had board approved, the major difference being that the consultant only worked a period of six months. A lot of what occurred was blamed on the previous Hous ing Board of Commissioners, Blackwoif, No. 66820-065; 5701 Eighth St., Camp Parks; Dublin, CA 94768. Thank you. Lillian Blackwoif. Erica Wewa Earl Squiemphen, two folding chairs. Elton Greeley, beaded key chain. Romelle Speakthunder, Deschutes Crossing gift certificate. Arlene Bryant, beaded visor. Thank you very much, 2004 Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo Queen Erica Wewa. the editor spilyaytymoowstribes.org. Letters can be no longer than 350 words in length, and can contain no libel against any person. . , . Corps mental groups of the region in a lawsuit to reverse this decision. I'd like to publicly thank Gov. Kulongoski for his leadership on this issue and say that he is on the right track suggesting that improved fish passage technol ogy could greatly improve this situation in the future. . The fish we have saved by our innovative solution at Round Butte and Pelton dams will be the same fish saved downstream at the Columbia River dams, when the spirit of cooperative conservation is shared by all the agencies involved in managing our fragile salmon resource. whose only desire was bring about the same commitment from Warm Springs Housing that other tribal housing depart ments have committed them selves to: Improved services and operations. The greatest injustice was the undermining of the board authority. One cannot deny that NAHASDA works. Other tribes simply have made it a top pri ority to seek funding opportu nities provided through the Northwest Office of Native American Programs. The flexibility of NAHASDA has allowed some tribes to con struct 60 homes in a year. Micromanagement of the Housing Board only delayed progress we sought as commis sioners. By Randy Smith
