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After having moved out of her jungle room, Carol
Allison of the Community Center has been moved
back into "Carol's Room." The jungle room was being
used as a weight room for some time when the Boys
and Girls Club was located at the Community Center,, , , :
Carol's Room didn't exist for that period of time, but .
she has moved back and is serving up popcorn and
providing after school activities for the children in the
jungle room once again. The kids are usually coloring,
playing games, or watching TV.
Thinking small: Can scaled-down
schools make a big difference?
(AP) - Thinking small may
be the next big thing at Ameri
can high schools.
From Oregon to New York,
school districts are scaling down
to combat problems that are
very big indeed: high dropout
rates, sinking test scores and low
attendance.
Over the years, plenty of
ballyhooed ideas for curing such
ills have come and gone. But the
"small schools" movement has
u a powerful godfather in
'' Microsoft founder Bill Gates,
and is getting some backing
cl from Washington, too.
Schools strategically designed
3' to have no more than 400 stu
1 dents are in place or starting up
'";in at least 41 states. Some ur
lf'i ban districts, like Sacramento,
'y Calif., have converted to all
'l 1 small high schools. In some
places, the schools are new; oth
j; ers were created by subdividing
large high schools.
' Now, as the movement ex
"" pands, educators are watching
the outcome closely.
In the past decade, the Gates
Foundation has poured $745
million in grant money into pro
moting small schools. Also, the
federal government is operating
a $142 million grant program for
subdividing larger high schools.
Making the change over
work is not easy.
"A lot of schools that launch
into this will get stuck," said Tom
Vander Ark of the Gates Foun
dation. "They might spend sev
eral years debating schedule
options or structural options and
never get to the heart of the
matter, which is instruction."
A 2003 report commissioned
for the Gates Foundation found
that many of those working with
new small schools were running
into similar roadblocks.
Start-up schools often had
trouble finding locations and
hiring teachers with the right
training. Some students were
thrown by the independence
offered in their new school.
Other missed the wider choice
of courses of their old schools.
Condor
chick takes
first flight
(AP) - The 4-month-old Cali
fornia condor chick being nur
tured at the Oregon Zoo ven
tured away from his second
story nest for the first time re
cently, spreading his wings and
floating about 10 feet to the
ground.
"It wasn't exactly a graceful
first flight - they rarely are. But
it worked," Joe Burnett, the
zoo's assistant curator for con
dors. The chick spent about two
hours last week exploring the
netted pen where he lives with
a pair of surrogate parents at
the zoo's captive breeding pro
gram in rural Clackamas County.
Born May 9, Mother's Day,
he is thought to be the first Cali
fornia condor hatched in Or
egon in more than a century; the
last condor sighting in Oregon
occurred in 1904 near Drain.
The breeding program, de
signed to boost the drastically
endangered species' population
rapidly, is the fourth of its kind
in the world.
During the first flight, the
chick learned the hiker's maxim:
Going down is always easier
than going up. Because his pec
toral muscles aren't strong
enough to make the upward
flight, the chick used his beak
and feet to crawl back up the
log leading to the nest.
"He's mimicking his parents,"
Burnett said. "If they sun, he
suns. They preen, he preens. He
gets excited when he sees them
feed because he knows he'll
feed soon."
At hatch, the chick weighed
about half a pound; today, he
weighs in at around the 18
pound mark - a pound heavier
than his full-grown surrogate
mother. ,. i .....-, . v..
' Unless the chicks are retained
for captive breeding, all chicks
hatched in Oregon will move to
pre-release pens in California,
Arizona or Baja, Mexico, when
they are when they're 8 or 9
months old.
Ciodttr lifting
Cirelle Frank wants to be a scientist
when she grows up; so she works hard in
school. Cirelle is in the second grade at
Warm Springs Elementary School.
"She is one of the hardest workers in
the whole school, and all of her work is
exemplary, " said principal Dawn
Smith.
"But what I love most about Cirelle
is her kindness and positive attitude, "
said Smith.
At school Ci re lie's favorite things are
reading and math. She reads the Chap
ter Books, which are the larger and
more advanced books.
After school she likes to go and play
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with her friends at the Early Child
hood Education Center.
Cirelle lives with her mom Tana
Frank. Congratulations, Cirelle, and
keep up the good work!
Clinic welcomes new social worker
My name is Michelle
Kuntz and I am the new So
cial Worker at the Warm
Springs Health and Wellness
Center. I have been here since
early September, and I am
enjoying my job and the
people I have had the plea
sure to meet so far.
In addition, I w5uld like to
invite anyone who has small
or large concerns to come by
my office at the Health and
Wellness Center in Pod A, and
we can problem solve to
gether. I have an open door
policy, or you can make an ap
pointment. My phone num
ber is 553-1196 ext. 4498.
I am originally from To
peka, Kan. In Topeka I at
tended Washburn University,
where I graduated with a
Bachelor's degree in social
work in 1997.
Then I went to work in fos
ter care and adoption social
work, where the main goal
was always permanency for
Michelle Kuntz
the child. In 2000 I returned to
school at Washburn and earned
my Master's degree in social
work.
I then passed the licensing
exam and started working right
after graduation. I have pro
vided outpatient therapy, and
worked as a case manager for
persons who were diagnosed
with mental illness. ,,,, .,. !
My favorite thing about be
ing a social worker is building
relationships with various people
from a variety of backgrounds
and helping them help them
selves, if at all possible.
I feel especially honored and
excited to be working with a
culture I have always re
spected and been curious
about. I can only hope that
over time I may develop a
special relationship with this
community.
I am here to assist people
access resources, fill out pa
perwork, address personal
problems, and a variety of
other duties. I also enjoy just
visiting with people from the
community. Please feel free
to tell me what you feel your
community lacks, or is espe
cially proud of. I am open
minded and excited to learn
more about the three tribes
of Warm Springs.
On a more personal note,
1 I ant a mother of 2 children1.
My son Jesse is 13 'and my
daughter Alix is 7. My fiance'
also relocated with us, and his
name is Aaron. We are very
happy to be living in such a
beautiful state, and one so
rich in cultural heritage.
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