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Spilyqy Tymoo, Wqrm Springs, Oregon November 25, 2004 c ill! of v'y I l?f, TT JHlJ Charles Tailfeathers addresses the middle school assembly. Tailfeathers: parade honors veterans (Continued from page 1) "I grew up to really ap- preciate what we have in the Gangs: victims include the elderly (Continued from page 1) "We do know of a major meth dealer who's the primary dealer for both of those gangs and members of both gangs are running drugs for him." The gangs are armed, Soules said. "As a gang member, if you carry a firearm, that gives you respect from the other gang members," he said. "And in gangs, respect is very important. They have kind of a warped sense of what respect is. It's their own code of respect, but 're spect' is everything. "Are we seeing guns in the local community? Holy cow, yes. Just about every time we have an interaction with them, one of them has a gun." He described a high-speed pursuit Warm Springs officers had with a known gang mem ber. "He fired a minimum of five shots out of a .380 caliber hand gun at police officers during the chase," he said. "He was able to escape and run. We know who he was, and we're in the process of scientifically investigating, so we can charge him through DNA and other forensic evi dence, to prove who he is and prosecute him through the fed eral system." During the weekend of Nov. 13-14, police had impounded 10 vehicles from gang members who ran away. With those va cated cars come weapons. The initiation to gang life starts early, Soules said, even with children as young as eight years old. "Third-, fourth-, fifth-grad ers, they're vulnerable. You see everything on the movies in the last many, many years, glamor izing gangs, making gangs look cool," he said. "Kids see that and they're vulnerable and if the right people pay attention to them, these people can introduce Wkrm Springs Mfr&tf C Indite Arts tmd Crafts S 2B2 lrarm Springs St. Warm Springs, OR $7761 United States . He then led the middle school assemblage in a spirited chant of "U-S-A." Following the assembly, which included several them to drugs or alcohol." The most at-risk gang mem bers, Smith said, are between 16 and 22 years old. On the same note, Soules said there is no such thing as "wannabe" gang members. "If you call yourself a gang member, you behave like a gang member, you commit crimes like a gang member, and you do it with other people who all call themselves members of a gang, you're a gang," he said. "And to minimize that, it's not 'respect'ing the gang member. If you call him a 'wannabe,' when he's being the real thing, what's that gang mem ber likely to do? Go out and commit more crimes to prove to you, the community, that this gang is for real." Gang-related crime also af fects innocent victims on the reservation, particularly tribal elders, the police chief said. "It breaks my heart to hear about people being afraid in their own home, to be afraid to leave their homes because, one, they might get assaulted when they leave, and two, someone might burglarize their home when they are gone," he said. "Is that hap pening in Warm Springs? Yes, it is." He said an elderly woman called his office and said her own grandchildren were stealing her belongings. Another said she is afraid to wash her dishes. While the Warm Springs Po lice Department uses its man power and resources in attempt ing to stop gang activity, citizens can help by providing informa tion to the authorities when they're aware of crimes about to occur or when they are vic tims of crimes. Soules assured the small as sembly that his officers would do their best to aggressively pursue individuals who commit gang-related crime yet remain courteous when dealing with tribal members. "We don't want to mistreat anybody," he said. "I've told my Brian MortenMnSpilyiy local veterans in attendance, the students and adult ob servers formed a parade around the school grounds to honor the veterans. "I've told my officers to treat people with re spect, but You go after people who are hurting other people.'" Jim Soules Police chief officers to treat people with re spect, but 'You go after, people who are hurting other people.'" Smith admitted potential wit nesses are sometimes afraid to help police for fear of reprisals from gang members. "Here, we're trying to change that to get people to come up and help us." Soules said he has asked tribal utility entities to paint over spray-painted gang markings, known as "tags". Tyler Barlowe, a traditional counselor from the Klamath Tribes, was also part of the workshop. In his capacity, he provides counseling and preven tion, combining traditional Na tive methods with Western heal ing methods. "What's going to save us is already here," he said. "It's our heritage. It's our birthright." Cliffs Standard & Professional -Built better -Last longer -More reliable -Higher value Your best choice for Performance, Quality and 330 S.W. Culver Hwy. - 475 - Recycling: recently collected 1,100 old vehicles (Continued from page 1) Currently a groundwater monitor is in use, to help pre vent contamination of ground water. The landfill is located off of Highway 3 and has been there since the 1970s. Since the re cycle program came into effect in 1997, the landfill has been arranged to help residents sort recycled tires, appliances and cars. Recently, the transfer stations were arranged for residents to make a one-stop drop of recyclables and garbage. There are four transfer sta tions. They are located at Seekseequa, ' Simnasho, Sidwalter and Agency areas. It is the goal of the program to Break-in: near duplicate to one several months ago (Continued from page 1) Robert Macy said he first no ticed something wasn't right when he and his wife Rosa came to the store to catch up on some work Nov. 7. They noticed the store's tele phone wires and communication lines to a security system had been cut. The wires, Robert Macy said, are exposed on the outside of the building. He said he called the police to investigate the cut wires, but he hadn't yet considered the possibility of a break-in. One of his employees no ticed the break-in when she re ported for work at 6:30 a.m. to open the store at 7 a.m. She entered the building through the office door, the only access to the store available without trip ping the store's alarm. "She noticed as soon as she stepped inside," Robert Macy said. "She saw all of the (ciga rette) lighter boxes and no light ers. In addition to lighters, the burglars took an assortment of cigarettes, chewing tobacco, BBs, carbon dioxide cartridges, and shoe polish. Cold medicine (AP) - If you catch a cold this winter, remember your driver's license. As of last week, pharmacies are no longer allowed to stock pseudoephedrine-based cold tablets on open shelves, or sell them to people without accept able photo identification. Gro cery stores and convenience markets will be barred from carrying certain cold remedies. The rules, approved last month by .the state Board of Repair & Auto "We're Your Battery Store" All Makes and Models Marine & RV Batteries O Buy any AC Delco battery and snag a free pigskin football recycle more materials and be come consistent with their pick up schedules throughout the community. Becoming consis tent in turn further encourages those who already do recycle. It is believed that without this con sistency people will tend to just throw away their paper or other materials. The garbage trucks have been modified to receive and separate recycled batteries and used oil, these items need to be placed next to garbage and labeled as used batteries, or used oil. In the past ceremonial burn ing took place in the landfill and it created a smoldering that went on for days. So to prevent this from happening, there is a sec tion for ceremonial burning and The burglars, Robert Macy said, were rather particular, tak ing name brands like Marlboro and Camel cigarettes and Kodiak chewing tobacco, but leaving generic brands. Though the burglars appar ently took BBs, Macy said it did not appear as if rifle or hand gun cartridges or shotgun shells had been taken. The burglars broke in, Macy said, through a locked door to an unused Laundromat in the basement of the building. They then broke through a door adjoining the Laundromat to the rest of the basement and then through a door from the basement to the store area up stairs. He said the door between the Laundromat and rest of the basement was much more se cure than the door to the store area and thus took more effort. "They had to kick the lock off and the plate (in the jamb) around it," he said. "The door leading into the store was not strong. It was just an interior door." Robert Macy said the crime was "damn near a duplicate" to restrictions take effect Pharmacy, are designed to slow the state's methamphetamine problem. Cold remedies such as Sudafed contain the main ingre dients in the manufacture of the powerfully addictive and cheap street drug. Gov. Ted Kulongoski's Meth amphetamine Task Force rec ommended the restrictions, which are modeled on those at work in Oklahoma. Methamphetamine fuels 85 percent of the state's property lJf mm F - ! it is properly marked. During the past year, 1,100 cars were crushed and recycled. That is a lot of cars, but it barely put a dent into the amount of cars needing to be disposed of. There will be an opportunity in the future to do this again. Resi dents will be informed on the process it will take place. Also in the future of recy cling, the program would like to purchase a small baler for smaller items like milk cartons, and providing composting to produce a good soil. Recycling is something that takes that little extra time, but in the long run the landfill will be there for a longer amount of time for the tribes' use. when the store was broken into several months ago, as far as the way they got inside the building, the way the wires were cut, the items taken, down to the brand of cigarettes taken. He said the earlier break-in resulted in a loss of about $6,000, "about a thousand (dol lars) less than this time." "We've now lost about $14,000 in retail value," he said. Soules, who said others are still being investigated in connec tion to the crime, would not re veal any more details about the case, including how Hammond and the two juveniles were caught. "We arrested them after thor ough investigation and hard work, and by making contacts with people and following leads," he said. Robert Macy said he and his wife had not contacted his in surance company regarding the loss. The Warm Springs Market, Macy said, was purchased by his father in 1944, when Robert Macy was six years old and has been in the family since then. and identity-theft crimes, and is the leading reason Oregon chil dren are removed from their homes and placed in long-term foster care, the governor said when announcing the plan. Moreover, Oregon treats more people for meth addiction per capita than any other state in the country. Many stores and pharmacies were rearranging their stock this weekend to get the affected drugs into secure locations behind the counter. Sales fcir Reliability 6618 (541)553-1597