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Spilyqy Tytnoo, Wqrm Springs, Oregon December 9, 2004 iFire and Safety welcomes new hire By Selena Boise ; Spilyay Tymoo The Warm Springs Fire and Safety department introduces new hire Alan Hume to their staff. He joins 20 full-time em ployees, two apprenticeship em ployees, and nine part-time em ployees, who are stationed in Simnasho, Seekseequa, and Agency offices, including administrational staff. Following is the first of a se ries of introductions of the Fire and Safety employees you may have seen in Warm Springs. In this edition of the Spilyay we meet Hume, who was born in Redmond and raised in his hometown of Madras. He re turned home after his adventure around the U.S., traveling and being to 26 of the 5o states, and the neighboring country of Mexico. After graduating from the home of the White Buffaloes, Madras High School in 1998, Hume started work at the Les Schwab Tire Center in Madras for his first four years out of high school. Hume signed up as a volun teer firefighter at the Jefferson County Fire Department for six months, and applied for a posi tion in the student program with the Jefferson County Fire de partment for two years. As a stu dent with Jefferson County Fire, Hume also worked as a wild land firefighter with Forest Ser vice in the Sister's - Deschutes National Forest. He enjoyed learning a different side to firefighting at the Cache Moun tain Fire, Link Fire, and the B & B Complex in the last few years. Hume has a taste for the para-military style jobs and be lieves his heart has led him to a pareer in the fire service, He ) ...... II Alan continued to strive for advance ment in the field of fire and in addition Emergency Medical Service. He enrolled into Central Or egon Community College as a full-time student to obtain a two-year Structural Fire Science Degree and an EMT Basic Cer tification. Like a dream come true, he is now employed as full time FirefighterEMT (Fire Medic) with Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. This being his first job out of school, he is honored to keep involved with community, and public relations. He takes great pride in protecting life and prop erty, and therefore enjoys firefighting and EMS work. He intends to learn more about the Warm Springs Reser vation while working for the tribes and to hopefully have a foundation set in stone some where in Central Oregon. His family is and always will be sup portive of his decisions. Hume offers this advice to youth: "Individually you, your- Selena BotseSpilyay Hume self hold the key to success and anything can be done with a little faith. There are no limits to what anybody can do, just do it! Go for it - no holds barred! Enit?" He has other interests and they are: bass fishing, hiking, Nascar racing, volunteering fire and other services, traveling, the greatest game in the world and is his favorite Cribbage. On the flipside, like all man kind, he likes movies, but says that the movie Rescue Me is like a comedy-drama and is hilari ous. Back Draft is a cheesy Hol lywood setup but is still okay, and the latest movie ladder 49 is the best and most realistic in the field of firefighting. He said not to tell anybody, but he had a lump in his throat, through the whole movie. So, being a new face in the department of Warm Springs Fire and Safety and the com munity of Warm Springs, please give a warm welcome to Alan Hume, also known as "Big Al," "Corn-Stalk," "Windy Whistler" and many other nicknames. i $ Instant Cash $ Buy - Sell - Consign Celebrating our 3rd Anniversary New Holiday Gifts in stock for any budget Tools, video games, movies, electronics, jewelry, licensed gun dealer, 210 Culver Hwy Ste. 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"Maybe it's not done out of maliciousness, either. A lot of times it's just something fun to once you talk to them and ex plain that the fish are protected by the Fisheries Act, they feel pretty bad about it, so we're working on a lot of education." Jensen said voluntary com munity service is at the low end of the punishment scale. Under the Fisheries Act, the maximum penalty is a $100,000 (US$84,500) fine and six months in jail. Development and pollution over the last 50 years prevented spawning salmon from getting to the upper reaches of Stoney Creek, a tributary of the Bru nette River. For 10 years groups such as the Stoney Creek Environmen tal Committee and the munici pal government have worked to revitalize the stream, which is protected by the Canadian De partment of Fisheries and Oceans. The last hurdle was overcome in August when a baffle was in stalled in a highway culvert, al lowing hundreds of chum and coho to splash their way up stream for the first time. 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