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Spilyay Tyvnoo, Warm Springs, Oregon September 2, 2004 Pqge7 Through partnership tribal Cort Directions has an ; nounced a joint marketing and technology partnership designed to offer a human resources ; outsourcing solution to custom ers. Cort Directions, owned by : the Confederated Tribes and based in Bend, provides human resources services - payroll, for instance - to companies and other organizations. Cort announced last week a partnership agreement with HRCentral, a human resource company that provides custom ized outsourced human resource services to small and mid-size companies. The partnership agreement expands Cort Directions' prod uct line to provide the most com plete payroll and human re Supreme Court PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The Crow Creek Sioux Tribal Court must decide whether grandpar ents will continue to care for a 2-year-old boy who is a mem ber of that tribe, the state Su preme Court ruled last week. The high court said the fed eral Indian Child Welfare Act, Extension (Continued from page 3) And somewhere in between they'll probably brush up on a few of their math skills too. "We're trying to integrate fun damental math and science into our programs," she says. Fourth and fifth graders aren't the only ones who will be exercising their skills. "We're going to kindergarten through the third grade during physical education classes once a month," says Hugie. "We'll go "in and teach nutrition because ; physical activity and nutrition go hand in hand." Home economics is just one of the topics Emilee Hugie will be working on with young people of the reservation, but it cov ers a lot of ground - from bud geting to preservation of food. There's also health, safety and cooking. Cooking is one of Hugie's favorite things to do and teach. "I like to be creative with my hands. I don't like to just sit there and be told something. I don't learn that way," she says, "When it's hands-on, you get to make a product and see the end result. I like that process." When a teacher enjoys what they're teaching, the pleasure rubs off on the students. Maybe that's what happened when she was teaching cooking to high school graduates who were headed off to college. "We had a cooking class yes terday. It was a blast," she said. "They came and I got to show them my recipes that I used in college. We had a lot of fun with it. They enjoyed it and so did I." Teaching is a pleasure, espe cially when the students are in terested in learning. Kimberly Woolston is in charge of youth development and 4-H, and she may be Extension's strongest advocate of the pleasures of learning. "You almost need a master's degree to get ahead in this world. That's just the way it is," she says. "There's too much to know, so you have to be an expert. It's not like a hundred years ago when you could know most ev erything and be a genius." Woolston is a passionate be liever in education. She's happy to pass that passion for learning along to youngsters on the res ervation. "Preparing young kids for college is a mind-set," she says. "You start them young, in the third, fourth and fifth grades, asking 'What do you want to be?' Start talking about source outsourcing solutions. HRCentral is expanding its tech nology platform to include Cort Directions' web-based solution in an effort to manage its rap idly growing human resources outsourcing business. With an increasing demand for human resources outsourcing solutions, Cort Di rections and HRCentral will combine cutting edge technol ogy with state-of-the-art human resource and payroll services for organizations that want to outsource all or a portion of their human resource needs. "By adding human resources outsourcing services to our product line, we can fulfill the needs of virtually any client we work with, whether they need sends case involving Indian child which is intended to make sure tribes play a role in custody pro ceedings involving Indian chil dren, applies to the case. The tribal court in Fort Th ompson can handle the case without causing undue hardship to family members and other witnesses who all live in the Ver different careers out there, do field trips, visit doctors, visit veterinarians." Young people who get out of high school and go on to col lege leave the reservation. When they return, they bring every thing they've gained and can put that knowledge to work at home. Leaving the reservation isn't easy and a student putting himself or herself through col lege faces a difficult task. But it can be done - especially if the student avoids some of the mis takes that many kids make. Woolston is willing to pass along her experiences of putting herself through college as a single mother, and the mistakes her two sons made in college: "I told the graduates all my sons' little stories, like the time the older one got all his finan cial aid and wanted a new car stereo. He bought a $600 car stereo and was afraid to tell Mom. Four weeks down the road, when he's been eating Top Ramen for two weeks, he finally told me. "I said, 'What did you learn?' 02 DODGE DURANGO SIX, 4X4, LEATHER, SHARP TT $19,995 33364A 99 CHEVY BLAZER PW, PL. P SEAT, AND MORE si $10,995 31 891 B V company expands services an in-house human resource management system solution, a hosted system, or want to outsource their entire human resource and payroll depart ment," said Mark Ohrenberger, president of Cort Directions. Both HRCentral and Cort Directions have significant ex perience in the human resources world. HRCentral offers end-to-end human resources outsourcing services to assist businesses in human resource matters ranging from termina tion and legal issues to benefit administration and open enroll ment with an expert staff of attorneys, accountants, trainers, payroll specialists and human resource experts. Cort Directions has been million area, the justices said. In May 2002, when the boy's mother was in jail and his fa ther was unable to care for the child, the paternal grandparents sought temporary guardianship to assure the child's safety and well being. Circuit Judge Arthur L. Rusch of Vermillion ap- and he said, 'Not to do it again.' I gave him some money to help him out. Sometimes kids don't count that extra money as an ace-in-the-hole to cover them when they make a mistake. This is normal stuff for college kids." Sometimes kids make poor choices. That doesn't make them bad kids. It means they made a mistake. Woolston has experi ence with that. 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