Spilyqy Tymoo, Wqcm Springs, Oregon
November 25, 2004
Iigo 7
Liana:
thanks to
contributors
(Continued from page 3)
"Thanks to my Mom,
for all the sewing of my
outfits and helping me pre
pare, and Aunties Rosie
Tom, Lois Lesarrley, Arlene
Bryant, Anna Hurtado,
Lcona Ike, and Janet Billey
for donating, putting to
gether the (fund-raising)
raffle and selling tickets,
Aunt Janet and Uncle Jessie
Jones for the Traditional
outfit, Anna Clements for
letting me use her horse
outfit this summer, and
Rosie Tom, Albert and
Arlcne Bryant, and Eldon
and Marie Tom for help
ing my Mom do my fund
raisers," she said.
Contributing finan
cially were Moapa Paiute
Tribe of Nevada, Power En
terprises, Kah-Nee-Ta Re
sort and Casino, Karnopp
and Peterson Attorneys,
Myrna Courtney, Theron
"Bones" Johnson, Uncle
Wilson Wewajr., and Ha
zel Gibson.
' Friends Shannon Will
iams-Thorn, Kim Just and
Kendra Williams, she said,
also helped, particularly
Williams, who provided
"vast knowledge in the area
of preparing for this con
test" and to Preston Will
iams "for letting me ride
all of his horses both in
practice and at the NFR."
Kids First: door to door, one house at a time
(Continued from page 6)
At the next house, the only
resident around to greet the
group was a rottweiler dog
chained to a pole stationed next
to the front door.
"Good boy. He needs to be
neutered," Collins said. "As time
goes on, you kind of get a sense
for that sort of thing. Neutered
or not neutered."
Medina distracted the watch
dog while Collins hung the bag
of information on the knob on
the front door.
The group concluded it
needed to bring dog treats for
the next round of canvassing,
including the six-week-old blue
heeler puppy at one of the
houses.
In all, residents answered the
door at nine of the 14 houses
the group visited that morning.
Five pickups, some of them
apparently running, some per
haps not, were in the yard at one
house. Collins said her depart
ment is able to pick up disabled
vehicles and take it to the land
fill where they can be crushed.
A total of 1,100 cars were
crushed recently.
Children lived at five of the
houses, while the resident at
another house said she babysat
her nieces and nephews. Kuntz,
carrying a clipboard, accounted
for each of the children by their
ages.
Miller said the Kids 1" pro
gram reminds him of a time on
the reservation when officers
traveled on horseback and vis
ited every home.
"They'd spend time with
them, they'd work with them,
help them do stuff, work stock,
cut wood," he said. "That way,
they knew who was out there.
"Most police officers, the
only people they get in contact
with are the ones they have calls
on."
"I like to know who lives
where. I like to know who stays
there, if there's any elder people
in there, if they have any chil
dren in there, and it gives me
an idea of the address," Medina
said. He said it also gives him
an opportunity to follow up vic
tims of crimes.
"For me, I could see a way
of getting out there and mak
ing personal contact with more
people than I would normally
do on patrol," Miller said.
"These people will start to ,
know who they are, that we're
not just sitting by our cars wait
ing for our calls, we're not just
sitting by the phone waiting for
a call," Medina said.
Collins, who came to Warm
Springs from Eugene 13 years
ago, said the personal contact is
what drives her, too.
"We're out in the community
and we're not just sitting by the
desk," she said. "If they don't
happen to come in to the clinic
or if they don't happen to see
us, they don't know who we are,
and so if you go out and you
knock on a door, they see you
out doing something, and they
can recognize you, and they
aren't afraid to talk to you about
different issues, so you find out
a lot more information if you're
out there talking to them first."
Medina said residents of the
reservation still don't know what
sen-ices tribal government pro
vides, and won't if no one goes
out and tells them,
"We've had the dog program
since '94," Collins said. "People
still don't know about it, so when
we go we tell them about it, that
you can get a certificate to get
your dog vaccinated."
Kuntz moved to Warm
Springs in September, so it's not
surprising that many on Upper
Dry Creek had never seen her
before.
"I think it's great that they go
door-to-door because it is hard,
especially when you're new here
because people don't know who
you are here," she said. "A lot
of people I've come across
don't even know there is a so
cial worker at the clinic, or they
ask me, "Are you with (Child
Protective Services)," and I'm
like, 'No, I'm not CPS. I am a
social worker and licensed, but
I'm not CPS.'
"I'm here to help you access
resources that you need, so it's
been good to just get out and
meet people, so I can stay busy
at work."
Medina said Kids T's goal is
to visit every home on the res
ervation, even the ones far from
the main roads.
"We went to the one house
over here in Charley Canyon,
below Kah-Nee-Ta. Little old
lady, almost totally deaf. She got
so excited about having us come
and visit her that day," Miller
said. "That bag of stuff we gave
her, she looked she had a Christ
mas present to go through. I felt
good watching that."
"You have to understand that
people live out in the boonies,
and nobody comes to visit, and
when they do get somebody at
the door, boy, they get exited,"
Medina said.
Unfortunately, Miller said,
there isn't nun It funding lor
Kids 1" at Warm Spiins.
"We've been digging up what
ever the depait incuts can
scrounge up," lie s.nd.
"Like the smoke dilators
and stuff, we got through the
detectors and battel ies through
the Sleep Sale grant," Collins
said. "The mange ntediiine has
come in through my program,
and the other stuff is literature
that we hand out."
The hand-out materials come
from the Department of the
Interior and the Red Cioss, but
usually, at most, Kids 1" has
about $800 at its disposal.
"When you order stuff, it
doesn't take much to cat that
up."
Miller said Kids Fiist is just
finishing up areas it has not yet
visited and will go back to wheie
it started in Warm Springs. He
said they would return to Up
per Dry Creek "sometime next
fall."
And just as it did on this
Thursday, go door to-door, one
house at a time.
Middle school students
post outstanding attendance
Jefferson County Middle VanPelt, Cheyenne Wahnetah.
School students received recogni-
iion. or iom,9Hmanamgwmr:.1j,.rMiomt.art students with
dance during the month' of Oc- perfect attendance during the
tober. Following are those stu- month of October, which is 17
dents with excellent attendance,
who were absent two days or fewer.
Eighth grade:
Alejandria Aguilar, Julia
Begay, Farrelyn Bellanger,
Laurissa Bellanger, Wade
Bennett, Brittany Calica, Hazen
Davis, Denise Frank, Maria
Garate, Stephanie Gomez,
Brandy Herkshan, Jordan
Holliday, Chanda Howtopat,
Sadie Johnson, Albert Kalama,
Jr., Colleen Kalama, Waylon
Meanus, Arthur Mitchell, Jr.,
Kirstie Morrison, Leslie
Robinson, Maximino Ruiz
McKinley, Salena Sahme,
Lawrence Shike, Jr., Ethan
Smith, Leander Smith, Sean
Sohappy, Tara Tufti, Hilbert
Williams, Sasha Winishut, Tan
ner Yallup, Chandla Yeo.
Seventh grade:
Krysten Allen-Alford, Daniel
Alonso, Leonard American
Horse, Kendall Bobb, Tamiesha
Brown, Idelia Cloud, Mary Ann
Cloud, Arlene David, Desmond
Flores, Jimmy Flores, Miguel
Frank, Johnson Heath, Jr., Kayla
Jones, Perry Kalama, III,
Bethann Longknife, Kamianna
Lujan, Eric Mitchell, Janna
O'Neill-Jackson, Adriel Pineda
Soto, Stephanie Pratt, Allegra
Robinson, Martika Saludo
Kelly, Patricia Sam, Roschena
Sargent, Matthew Sconawah,
Chloee Suppah, Jillisa Suppah,
Nakia Suppah, Trevor Suppah,
Colton Trimble, Sharon Will
iams. Sixth grade:
Triston Boise, Coder
Clements, Matthew Clements,
Jr., Tashina Clements, Joseph
Cook, Lauren Holliday, K.C.
Jensen, Edward Jones,
Graceann Kalama, Alexander
Katchia, D'Covyn Medina,
Zachary Miller, Drew
Pennington, Tyrone Saludo,
Norene Sampson, Talon
Sargent, Joseph Sconawah,
Theron Spino, Daisy Thomas,
Falcon Thompson, Patrina
days.
Eighth grade:
Darrin Brisbois, Martin
Brown, Trent Centre, Andrea
Cook, Emerson Culpus, Jr.,
Micah David, Maria Farias,
Jucoby Frank, Ford Fuiava,
Philip Guerin, Charlie
Herkshan, Kara Katchia,
LaRonn Katchia, Davina Lucei.
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