Spilyqy Tyrooo, Wjrm Springs, Oregon
December 25, 2004
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New grade
school gym
taking shape
The new gymnasium at
Warm Springs Elementary
School is nearly complete.
The plan is to open the facil
ity sometime in February. The
new gym replaces one that
burned down two years ago.
The new building is larger
than the old one and is also
larger than the average el
ementary school gymnasium.
The gym was made larger
so the tribes can make use of
it for community activities.
The new building is also dif
ferent from the old one in that
it is aligned east to west in
stead of north and south. The
$1.3 million gymnasium is
paid for through the insurance
settlement following the De
cember 2002 destruction of
the old gym.
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Warm Springs Elementary School's new gym will be bigger.
New minister at Baptist Church
' ? Selena Boise
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j Warm Springs adds one
more Jonathan Smith to its resi
' dency, as Warm Springs Baptist
' Church Minister Jonathan
Smith was hired fill the vacancy
at the church.
Smith has been asked a num
ber of times already if he plans
on staying, as previous ministers
have come and gone in short
periods of time. He said he in
tends to stay.
He is from Hermiston,
where he graduated from high
school. After graduating Smith
enlisted in the Army. He moved
to Eureka, Calif., to attend
school.
He continued attending
school until he was recalled to
serve irfith'e Desert 'Stork op-"'
eration for a periold"of two
months.
Jonathan Smith
"After that I got on track with
God and I knew what he wanted
me to do," Smith says.
He married his wife Janel,
and they have five children.
He continued his education
at Roseburg, where he finished
his associate's degree. In 1998,
he: 'attended Georgia Atlantic
Christian College and continued
in 2000 to do seminary work.
I Ie was commissioned to the
Army as a U.S. Army Chaplain
candidate and graduated
Chaplancy School in September
2004.
Smith is still in the reserves.
He sent his application to the
Northwest Baptist Association,
after which he was contacted
while in Fort Jackson.
He arrived in Warm Springs
for a visit in October and was
given an opportunity to preach
to the congregation.
The current members of the
church voted to hire Smith, and
he recently moved into Warm
Springs.
He and his family now reside
in West Hills in the house lo
cated on Foster Street.
He states that everybody's
been kind to him and he has
enjoyed being in Warm Springs.
Twenty-five years ago this week
from the December 21, 1979
edition of Spilyay Tymoo.
The Kah-Nee-Ta Board of
Directors announced that Gar
land Brunoe, 32, will become
resident manager of the resort.
This is the first time a tribal
member has entered top man
agement in the resort's 18-year
history. Brunoe agreed to as
sume live-in responsibilities at
the resort.
It will be a homecoming for
Brunoe, who left the resort's
management training program
earlier this year to work with
Wood I Systems out of
Vancouver, Wash.
In other news: The existing
permit system used to obtain
firewood at Warm Springs For
est Products Industries has
caused confusion among tribal
members, employees and police.
There have been several in
cidents involving workers and
tribal members who pick up fire
wood after work. "Everyone
must have a permit," said Op
erations Manager Bob Macy.
"Including the tribal members."
Macy said that tribal mem
bers are questioning the permit
system, used to gain control of
wood within the mill because
some people were picking up
lumber, cores and logs. Else
where: Natalie Johnson, the daugh
ter of Ruben Johnson, and
Lorene Smith, wife of Alvis
Smith Jr., have successfully com
pleted the secretarial course
from the Trend Business College.
Medina to open Smoke Dawgs shop
Robert Medina is opening
Smoke Dawgs, a cigarette store,
in Warm Springs.
Medina for now is operating
the shop temporarily at family
property located at 4490 Upper
Dry Creek Road.
1 1c is in the process of find
ing a permanent location for the
new business. It may be a couple
of months before he has the
necessary tribal approval for the
permanent location, Medina
said.
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Medina completed the business
course sponsored by the Oregon
Native American Business En
trepreneur Network, hosted lo
cally through the Small Business
Center.
1 1c was among the group of
local people who recently gradu
ated from the course, which in
volved development of a busi
ness plan. Other graduates of
the course were operators of
a day-care business, and a lawn
maintenance business.
For information on Smoke
Dawgs, contact Medina at 553-2574.
Warm Springs,
Please support the
businesses you see
in the Spilyay.
Thank you!
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paper, call Sam
Howard at 749-0424.
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i I would like to thank the
i Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission (CRITFC) for
! supporting the non-profit orga
jj nization "The Potlatch Fund."
! A big thanks to the Off-Reser-
vation Fish and Wildlife Com
j mittee members for allowing me
to attend this Gala, in their ab-
sence of other priorities.
The Gala held a mid-morning
seminar entitled "Philan
thropy and Indian Country -Keys
to Successful Funding." It
was a limited seminar and luck
ily enough I was one of the lim
ited. There are tribal programs in
our community that can apply
to these larger corporations.
These corp people made up a
panel that allowed the audience
to ask questions about grant
applications, and the informa
tion they presented will be very
helpful to the grant applicants.
President Alexander will an
nounce their first ever full grant
ing program that will begin on
Jan. 1, 2005. More information
can be found at the website:
www.podatchfund.org.
The keynote speaker was the
Native American actor Adam
Beach. He did a photo fund rais-
Emma Smith met with actor
Adam Beach of Code
Talkers.
ing session during the reception
time. It was so nice to meet this
Native American Indian
actor from Canada. His journey
story was so touching, how he
struggled to get over the pains
of lost parents and how he was
hounded because of his acting
dream; but he believed in him
self and made his strength hang
in there.
Warm Springs should con
sider using these other ap
proaches to fundraising events,
or just being able to bring inspi
rational speakers to Warm
Springs. Emma Smith.
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