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Bear Drive
construction
to start soon
The long-awaited Bear Drive hous
ing project is back on track. When com
plete, the project will add 25 new hous
ing units to the reservation.
The Bear Drive development is fed
erally funded through Housjng and
Urban Development (HUD), and was
first proposed in 2002.
. Some of the preparation work -development
of the Bear Drive road
way, for instance - was completed, but
then the project hit a roadblock.
, As a condition of qualifying for the
federal funds, HUD required an envi
ronmental assessment, which was not
complete. HUD then put a stop to the
project.
Warm Springs Housing was without
a permanent and full-time director for
a time, and the Bear Drive develop
ment stalled.
Recently, though, the project was
revived, and a construction contract
should be signed soon, said Satch
Miller, acting Housing director.
Miller said he hopes to see the con
struction crews doing some of the
home foundation work by the end of
this month.
The tribes have hired the construc
tion company TomCo of Spokane for
most of the Bear Drive work. TomCo
is an Indian-owned company, said
Miller.
TomCo will be building 20 of the
25 units, and a Workforce Develop
ment crew will be doing five of the
units, he said.
The WEDD aspect of the job is
through an apprentice-training pro
gram, whereby tribal members gain
building experience.
There is a long waiting list for hous
ing on the reservation, so the units will
be occupied as soon as they are com
plete. The future occupants are those at
the top of the waiting list, in other
words those who have been on the list
for the longest period of time.
Dam spill
plan again
rejected
(AP) - A federal appeals court has
upheld a ruling that blocked Bonneville
Power Administration plans to reduce
the amount of water spilled this month
over Columbia and Snake river dams
to aid salmon migration.
. The Army Corps of Engineers had
asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in San Francisco to overturn
the order issued last month, just days
before Bonneville planned to cut back
on the spills in order to generate more
. electricity. . . .
The corps and Bonneville said they
were trying to balance conservation
with Western power demands by reduc
ing spill.
U.S. District Judge James Redden,
however, ruled July 28 in Portland that
the long-term environmental health of
the region outweighed the short-term
economic benefits of increased hydro
electricity production this summer.
The 9th Circuit decision was an
nounced Friday by environmentalists
who had sued Bonneville and the corps
to prevent any spill reductions.
Indian tribes of the Columbia River,
and Gov. Ted Kulongoski, were op
posed to the spill reduction plan. The
two federal agencies, along with NOAA
Fisheries, had reviewed the spill reduc
tion plans, finding that its impact on
endangered salmon would be minimal
See SPILL an page 8
Resort names new general
The Warm Springs Tribal Gam
ing Enterprise Board of Directors
has selected Garland Brunoe as
general manager of Kah-Nee-Ta
High Desert Resort and Casino.
Brunoe is a current Tribal Coun
cil member,, and director of the
tribes' Compensation and Benefits
managed care program. In the past,
Brunoe also served as a general
manager of Kah-Nee-Ta.
He is planning to begin work as
Kah-Nee-Ta general manager in
September, after he resigns from
Tribal Council and from his posi
tion as managed care director.
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Johnny Smith cleans his horse's hooves before riding.
Rockiri
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
It's seven o'clock in the evening
at the rodeo arena. Young people
on horseback are learning the skills
needed for cattle ranching. First you
" need expert control of the horse,
and a good roping technique.
Most of the young people here
already are good riders, because
they grew up around horses. But
there is always more to learn, be
cause the goals are high for this
group of riders. In the end they want
to have a working and profitable
cattle operation.
The group is the Warm Springs
Rockin' 4-H Club. The name is fa
miliar to many, as the club has a long
history, dating back to 1957.
Brunoe also serves as an ad
visor to the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and the Indian Health
Services national budget com
mittee. He will resign from
these positions as well, after
beginning work at Kah-Nee-Ta.
As general manager,
Brunoe will be responsible for
all operations relating to the
, J
Garland Brunoe
130-room resort and casino. Kah-Nee-Ta
has an annual budget of $7 million.
JefT Ford, who has been with Kah-Nee-Ta
for eight years, will continue
serving as resort general manager until,
4-H rides again
For years Rockin' 4-H was a thriv
ing club. The members worked a 1,000
plus acre cattle operation at two pas
tures on the reservation. Then about
15 years ago the club disappeared, a
victim of lost interest. And the pastures
fell into disuse.
That is changing now, as the Rockin'
4-H Club again has strong membership
and leadership. And the club members
are getting ready for the time when
cattle will again graze and grow large
on the 4-H pastures. The goal is to have
cattle on the pastures by this fall.
How this came about involves a
fortunate set of circumstances, and
generosity and inspiration from many
people. "There is a strong desire in this
community to help kids, and the kids
are responding to that," said Chris
Brunoe comes on board.
Ford will then begin serv
ing in a new position, that
of chief executive officer
and chief operations officer
of the Warm Springs Gam
ing enterprise. He will have
overall responsibility of the
enterprise, in addition to the
siting, construction and op
eration of a tribal casino at
the Columbia River Gorge. Brunoe will
report to the gaming enterprise board
through Ford.
In making the announcement that
Brunoe will be the new general man
Dave McMecharVSpilyay
Buller, Rockin' 4-H Club leader.
Buller is the youth minister at the
Methodist Church in Madras. He
and his wife and children moved to
Central Oregon last year from Idaho.
After moving here he soon real
ized he could be of help to young
people on the reservation. It would
be a way of giving something back,
in part for a good deed that an In
dian had done for Buller years ago.
"In the summer of my seventh
grade year I went to work in North
Dakota," Buller said. "The man next
door trained horses. He was 72 and
knew all the tricks." Buller ended up
riding and working for the neighbor,
a Northern Cheyenne, Lakota and
Crow Indian.
See ROCKIN' 4-H on page S
manager
ager of Kah-Nee-Ta, gaming enterprise
chairman Warren R. Clements, said:
"As a tribal Leader and accomplished
manager, he brings the right combina
tion of management expertise and cul
tural sensitivity. Garland will prepare
Kah-Ncc-Ta for the transition away
from a gaming emphasis, as we develop
our resort and casino, and transfer our
single casino to our traditional lands
along the Columbia River."
Brunoe commented, "I'm delighted
to be back at Kah-Nee-Ta at such an
exciting time of transition. I look for
ward to working with Jeff and the
board of directors of the enterprise."
More
chemicals
found in
salmon
(AP) - Traces of industrial-strength
fire retardant have turned up in wild
and farm-raised salmon, a study re
leased last week said.
-.The research, published in the jour-
L' nal Environment Science and Technol
ogy, was the latest blow to the nutri
tious reputation of salmon, which is
packed with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty
acids. A prior study by the same re
searchers recently found troubling lev
els of PCBs, a known carcinogen, in
farm-raised salmon.
On average, wild fish were less con
taminated with the fire retardant chemi
cals than farmed salmon, with two ex
ceptions: Chinook from Oregon and
British Columbia, which tested at more
than 2 parts per billion and 4 parts per
billion, respectively.
The toxicity of the chemicals, called
polybrominated diphenyl ethers or
PBDEs, isn't fully understood. But the
fish-contamination study concerns
health officials and environmentalists.
"The bottom line here is pointing
out ... we have a problem with PBDEs,"
said Rob Duff, director of the Wash
ington Health Department's Office of
Environmental Health Assessment.
"The levels are getting up there."
PBDEs can harm neurological de
velopment and function in babies and
young children - just like mercury and
PCBs, Duff said. People will generally
be protected from the retardants if
they follow federal and state dietary
guidelines for mercury and PCBs, he
said.
PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls,
have been banned for decades, but
PBDEs are still in production around
the world. Bans in Europe, California
and Maine will kick in over the next
few years, and U.S. manufacturers vol
untarily are stopping production of
some forms of the fire retardant.
For now, though, PBDEs are still
being added to a long list of common
household and workplace items - from
computers and other electronic gear to
foam seat cushions and synthetic fab
rics. The researchers analyzed two tons
of salmon caught in the Pacific North
west, Europe, Canada, the East Coast
and Chile. They used the same fish in
their PCB and TBDE studies.
Besides Chinook, other Washington
state wild salmon - coho, chum, sock
eye and pink - generally had lower lev
els of the fire retardant than their
farmed counterparts, according to the
Stud)'.
Among the farm-raised salmon
tested, Washington fish were the least
contaminated, with concentrations of
the chemicals at slightly more than 1
part per billion.
See SALMON en page 8
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