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December 23, 2004
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Z,fe parade adds holiday spirit
Five floats, 259 hot dogs,
a lot of kids and a lot of
Christmas spirit made the
first-ever Warm Springs
Christmas Light Parade a suc
cess. The Dec. 14 parade in
cluded floats from local ser
vices, a local ranch and a visi
tor from Redmond. The pro
cession began on Wasco
Street, in front of Warm
Springs Elementary School,
traveled south on Paiute
Street, turned left on Warm
Springs Street, turned right on
Hollywood Street and stopped
at Elmer Quinn Park.
There, the sum total of
259 hot dogs and countless
marshmallows were grilled
and roasted in fire pits for the
great number of local chil
dren who came on the rela
tively balmy night.
The revelers then congre
gated in front of the Warm
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Simnasho Community Church's float had a manger scene.
Springs Community Center to wrinkles in the Christmas ccl-
witness the lighting of the
Christmas tree dedicated to
"Caroline and Popeye," and to
ring in the Christmas season with
the singing of carols.
The parade and marshmal
lowhot dog roast are new
ebration at Warm Springs, event
coordinator Carol Allison said.
"We've expanded this year,"
she said. "This is the first time
we've had a light parade. We'll
be having classes to teach
people how to put lights on their
vehicles, and we're encourag
ing people to join other light
parades in the area."
Terry and Wanda Tidwell,
with their white sport utility
vehicle decorated with white
lights, joined the Warm Springs
parade.
"It was my wife Wanda's,
idea," Terry Tidwell said.
"I was coming through
Warm Springs Sunday, and I
heard about it on the radio,"
Wanda Tidwell said.
Allison, who lives in Madras
and says she has worked for
the Confederated Tribes for
"40-some years," said an all
time high total of 120 vendors
participated in the annual
Warm Springs Christmas Ba
zaar Dec. 1 1. Vendors who are
tribal members had one last
chance to deal their wares in
the "Last Minute" Christmas
Bazaar Wednesday.
- By Brian Mortensen
Pageant is Dec. 29
The Miss Warm Springs Pag
eant will be held on Wednesday,
Dec. 29 at the Agency
Longhouse. The pageant is open
to young tribal ladies who are
over the age of 18, single with
no children, and who have com
pleted high school.
Anyone interested in partici
pating can pick up an applica
tion, the sooner the better, from
Doris or Fritz at the Tribal
Council offices. Or call 553
3257 for more information.
The pageant includes talent
competition, and answering
questions asked by a panel.
The winner represents the
Confederated Tribes at events
throughout Indian Country.
Thank you for supporting your
local dairy products
Milk, and Ice Cream Products
a very, very merry, merry
CHR1STMA:
Permits needed to float Deschutes River
t (AP) - Federal officials plan
to limit the number of boater
permits that can be sold on a
popular section of the lower
Deschutes River during week
ends on the height of the sum
mer tourist season.
Currently, each person who
boats any part of the lower
Deschutes must have a pass -but
there is no limit on how
faany passes may be sold.
Under the new system, boat
ers headed for the lower
Deschutes between July 1 and
Labor Day on a Friday, Satur
day or Sunday would be required
to purchase one of a limited
number of permits, available on
a first-come, first-served basis.
Commercial rafting and fish
ing guides will have to purchase
permits from the same available
pool as the general public.
The permits will only be
needed for the stretch of the
river between the Warm Springs
boat ramp and one south of
Maupin.
Tom Mottl, Deschutes River
manager for the Bureau of
Land Management, said if the
limits had been in place last year,
about 100 people would have
been turned away all summer.
The new system is the result
of a lawsuit filed last year by a
Portland resident, the Northwest
Rafters Association and the
National Organization of Riv
ers. The lawsuit claimed that
agencies responsible for manag
ing the lower Deschutes River
hadn't enforced an agreement
to require permits on the river,
if use exceeded designated lim
its. The suit said limits were nec
essary to protect the river from
overuse and resource damage.
The lawsuit was opposed by
local governments and busi
nesses, who said limits would
hurt the rafting and fishing busi
nesses and reduce public access
to the river.
Michael Dillard, a lawyer in
volved in negotiations over the
permit system, said the new
agreement - which is not yet
public - includes a plan for pos
sibly imposing similar limits on
other sections of the river in the
future.
If target-use numbers for
another section of the river are
exceeded one year, he said, lim
its will be imposed the follow
ing year.
Dennis Oliphant, founder of
Sun Country Tours, a Whitewater
rafting outfitter, said he was dis
appointed about the new sys
tem. "We all tried so hard to re
duce use on the river, and re
ally did a great job of doing it....
So we're going into this (system)
when, in most people's opinion,
it's not needed," Oliphant said.
Mottl said 50 percent of all
limited permits will be made
available Jan. 4. More permits
will be made available 30 days,
14 days and 3 days before any
given date. . , ,
Judge's plan faulted in Indian trust case
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)
r - In a victory for the govern
ment in a long-running dispute
with American Indians, a federal
appeals court has thrown out
most of a judge's plan for mak
ing the Interior Department ac
count for billions of dollars the
Indians say they are owed.
The appeals court told the
j judge he could no longer
"micromanage" how the system
gets rixed.
The ruling means Interior can
propose its own plan rather than
create a recipe based on ingre
dients preordered from the
bench. U.S. District Judge Royce
jLamberth then would assess the
result.
r "Yet the court may not
micromanage court-ordered re
; form efforts ... and then sub
ject defendants to findings of
'contempt for failure to imple
fVnent such reforms," Judge
Stephen Williams wrote for a
ninanimous three-judge panel of
f fhe U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit
l Deputy Interior Secretary J.
Steven Griles called the decision
"a watershed victory for indi
vidual Indian account holders,
for the Interior Department and
its employees, for Congress, and
for American taxpayers."
"The Interior Department
has invested hundreds of mil
lions of dollars on this issue
since this lawsuit was filed back
in 1996," he said in a statement.
The department "has conducted
more than 30,000 intricate ac
countings of individual Indian
money accounts, found almost
no discrepancies exceeding $1,
and no evidence of systemic
accounting irregularities. When
combined, the net of the dis
crepancies uncovered in this
multimillion-dollar effort
amounts to merely hundreds of
dollars."
Lamberth ordered the ac
counting last year from the In
terior Department to find out
how much the government owes
more than 300,000 Indians
from mismanaged oil, gas, tim
ber and grazing royalties going
back more than a century.
He and department officials
have grappled repeatedly. In
1999, Lamberth found Presi
dent Clinton's Interior and Trea
sury secretaries, Bruce Babbitt
and Robert Rubin, in contempt
for failing to turn over docu
ments. He also has found cur
rent Interior Secretary Gale
Norton in contempt of court
for failing to follow his orders,
a ruling later overturned by the
U.S. Court of Appeals.
"Rather than acting to assure
that 'agency action' conforms to
law, the court has sought to make
the law conform to the court's
views as to how the trusts may
best be run," Williams wrote.
Interior officials had com
plained that such a massive his
torical audit could cost up to $12
billion. At the urging of the
White House, Congress inter
vened in November 2003 and
passed legislation that prevented
an accounting from going for
ward until Congress had defined
the scope and methods to be
used.
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Pet Beds (reg) (heated)
Halters - Pet Food - Leads - Salt &
Minerals -- Vet Supplies
COB -- $5.50
Dog Food $10.95
Merry Christmas
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