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Spilyay Tymoo, Vvrm Springs, Oregon February 3, 2005 Page 7 Powwow at Simnasho Feb. 11-13 The Lincoln's Birthday Powwow is Friday through Sunday, Feb. 1 1-13 at the Simnasho Longhouse. The annual event is a celebration of tribal sovereignty. Grand Entry times are 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11; 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. the following day, and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Contest categories are: Men and women's Golden Age (55 and up); men's Fancy, Grass and Traditional; women's Fancy, Jingle and Traditional; teen boys Fancy, Grass and Traditional; teen girls Fancy, Jingle and Traditional; and junior categories. Specials are: Herbert Stwyer Sr. Recognition Award, sponsored by the Stwyer family, drumming and singing contest, sponsored by the E.A. Greene family, 8-Ball Jim Memorial 3-hand drum contest, sponsored by Bruce Jim family. Also: Boy's Round Bustle Chicken Dance, sponsored by Gavin Begay, men's Round Bustle Chicken Dance, sponsored by Mackie Bcgay; 6 and under Tiny Tot Special, sponsored by Calvin Qucahpama; Sidney Greene Memorial Young Men's Open Special; and the junior girls Jingle Special, sponsored by the outgoing junior queen Norene Sampson. Other specials to be announced. For powwow information, call 553-1953; or 553-9230. For vendor information, 553-6619. Governor opposes private casino proposal (AP) - Gov. Ted Kulongoski opposes a planned ballot initia tive that would allow a private casino to be built in the Port land area. "I don't think that's the di rection we should go," Kulongoski said last week. Two Lake Oswego men de veloping the plan had said ear lier that they had talkell to the governor's stalfand lawmakers about their plans for a 1 million square-foot, $490 million gam ing and entertainment complex. The facility would have up to 3,500 video gaming terminals run by the state lottery. The state would get 25 percent of the gambling revenue. The developers, Bruce Studer and Matthew Rossman, want legislators to put a measure on the ballot that would ask voters to overturn Oregon's constitutional ban on casinos. Otherwise, they say, they will launch an initiative petition drive to put the proposal on the bal lot next year. Kulongoski said that agreeing to such an arrangement with a private casino wouldn't make sense when the lottery could run a similar operation and keep all the money. Oregon Lottery Commission votes to move ahead with line games SALEM (AP) - The state Lottery Commission voted unanimously last week to move ahead with adding slot-type games to video poker terminals in bars and taverns throughout Oregon. The decision came as no sur prise, since the panel was ap pointed by Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who directed its members to authorize the move into line-games to raise an esti mated $60 million a year for state troops. Plans arc for the games to begin July 1, the start of the next two-year state budget period. But Kerry Timchuk, the lot tery commission's chairman, said Wednesday that final imple mentation of the new games now depends on adopting a new rate of commission payments for the bars and taverns. That's expected to produce tough negotiations, because the commission cut the restaurant's profits on current games by about 10 percent just last year. It will be up to restaurant and bar owners to decide whether to add slot games to their exist ing poker machines. There are about 10,000 such machines in about 2,200 estab lishments around the state. The decision was 4-0; one scat on the commission is empty. Biomass: project fits with WSFPI development (Continued from page 1) "It's really hard. You look at diesel fuel, it's $2 or $2.25 a gal lon, and biomass right now is something like $10-15 a bone dry ton. You don't have to go very far before you're losing money on that stuff, so we need to have a good stable supply," Crocker said. The U.S. Forest Service sees the project as a way to mitigate the spread and intensity of for est fires, as vell as a way to forge a partnership with the Confed erated Tribes in managing what are the tribes' ceded lands. Leslie Weldon, forest super visor of the Deschutes National Forest, described the adminis trative agreement as "a good opportunity to reduce fuels." "It's one of those things that has mutual benefit to the forest and to the tribes," she said, add ing that it also has great poten tial for putting more tribal mem- bers to work. ' " ' '" " Weldon described the agree ment as a cooperative effort, allowing Geovisions and the Forest Service to work together on a mutual project "It's kind of a follow up to the Memorandum of Under standing that was signed by the Forest service and the BLM with the Confederated Tribes to put together a number of dif ferent areas for coordination with ceded lands that were iden tified in the 1855 treaty," she said. The Geo Visions crew will cut timber within a 100-acre lot at Round Butte and on a 200-acre plot at Black Butte Ranch. The process at Round Butte involves allowing the downed junipers to dry out for a couple of weeks, Crocker said. "It de pends on the soil moisture, so we don't have any soilmoisture problems. We'll let them dry down for a little bit, and then we're going to come back and chip that material in the field." He said GeoVisions would also conduct what he called "time and motion studies," to help determine such factors as measuring the time it takes to chip the material and the length of the trailer needed to haul the chipped material to Warm Springs, as well as the time it takes to transport it to Warm Springs Forest Products Indus tries. "We're trying to get as much data to the Forest Service as possible in that particular study," along with the amount of bone- dry tons of biomass that could be counted on from that area to supply the mill, he said. GeoVisions will bring 20 loads of material from Black Butte Ranch to the mill "to give us a feeling for what haul times and distances and expenses are related to that and any other material that we're able to take from that unit," Crocker said. "For the project, we'll be using a logger out of Sisters because he happens to be in that area, and the community of Black Butte Ranch really likes his work," he said. This agreement between GeoVisions and the Forest Ser vice about coincides with new developments at Warm Springs Forest Products Industries, as the mill is developing the use biomass energy. WSFPI has purchased an 80,000 pounds-per-hour boiler that will be in stalled soon. "The rule of thumb is one bone-dry ton of fuel will pro s duce 10,000 pounds of steam," said WSFPI general manager Larry Potts. If you're just using the boiler to produce energy, you can take one bone-dry ton of hog fuel, and generate one megawatt hour of electricity. A boiler is sized to fit the raw material available to feed it, he said. Half of the mill's material comes from by-products of the milling process, bark and saw dust, said Potts. The mill gets another 10,000 tons of mate rial from recycled construction site debris called urban wood, leaving room for another 30,000 tons of fuel. This would come from the raw material procured from the forest fuels reduction effort. The largest outside source of such wood would be U.S. Forest Service lands, and GeoVisions is able to deal with the Forest Service in that regard. "Since we were formed un der the government charter, it gives us the ability to work with those agencies and they can see one face from Warm Springs," Crocker said. "They don't have to deal with this part from the mill, and that part from us, and another part potentially from us. "The outside agencies can come to one customer, one face from the tribe, and that would be us." GeoVisions' strength, Crocker said, is that it has ar chaeologists and specialists on National Environmental Protec tion Act compliance at its disposal. "We can deal with scoping letters and EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) situations and assist them with the records of decisions," Crocker said. "We can do the treatment. We can handle the material with the mill, or handle the material through the mill, and then come back and do the mitigation." Mitigation, in the case of the study areas at Round Butte and Black Butte Ranch, would in clude repairing affected roads and restoring foliage by plant ing native grass seed. "And the boys will be build ing mini-slash piles, little rabbit hutches so the jackrabbits and cottontails will have a place to hide from hawks," he said. Crocker said a market for wood from areas already touched by forest fire could ex ist but isn't yet available. "We don't have any black bark units added as of today," Crocker said. "There is discus sion of adding some units to this administrative agreement so we can determine how complicated it is to get that burned material out, and then in terms of bio mass, determining how clean those chips need to be and all of those things. "The Forest Service is work ing on adding some units under the administrative agreement As of now, it's not done that. I think there will be because I think when a person looks down the road to fire salvage, the For est Service has a real challenge in getting burned units sold. You look at the Eyerly fire and they weren't able to sell any of those units, so if we can offer another avenue for them to go with that from a biomass standpoint it would improve the health of the forest. But also it would give us another supply of biomass, knowing that we're going to con tinue to have catastrophic fires here in Central Oregon." Crocker said he views the harvest of juniper as a poten tial success for use in biomass energy generation. "We're also interested in ju niper, both from private and agency ground, seeing if there's a potential market once we de velop this cost structure on the current administrative agree ment," he said. "Is there a po tential to allow us to talk to some of the large landowners that have a lot of juniper, and see if maybe we can work with those folks to see if we can re move the juniper off their land and utilize it for biomass?" Elementary school needs SMART readers Warm Springs Elementary 1128. Vesta Johnson is the times are Mondays and Wednes- SMART reading program coor dinator at the school. Volunteers are asked to read to students for one hour per week. Reading School is looking for adults who are interested in becoming SMART readers. If you are in terested, call the school at 553- days, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The goal of SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) is to link children and books through volunteers. Settlement: members state concerns (Continued from page 1) Arnett said the dollar figure regarding the McQuinn settle ment represents what the tribes could have gotten for the tim ber in the 1980s. Also, no inter est is included, which is one of the drawbacks of winning a law suit against the federal govern ment, said Arnett. David Belgard Sr. com mented that the federal govern ment should have no part in determining how the tribes use the settlement money. "What right do they have," he said. "They lost the case." Carshall Brunoe also said that the federal government should not have the right to tell the tribes how to spend the money. He gave an example of a per son accidentally driving into someone's house, then losing the lawsuit filed by the homeowner, but then being allowed by the court to tell the homeowner how to repair the house. Vernon Smith Sr. com mented that the tribes should not put settlement money to ward the Gorge casino when the governor has still not given ap proval of the project. Sacred Heart Suppah said the Council should divide the settlement money fairly among the membership. Otherwise, he said, the funds will be "used for further mismanagement." Alvis Smith, Uren Leonard and other speakers also said the money should be distributed to the membership. Captain Moody said he did not agree with the plan for use of the funds because of the money that would be allocated to the casino project. I le also said that Tribal Council should have brought the issue to the membership sooner in the deci sion process. Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Certified Inter-Industry Conference On Auto Collision Repair (l-CAR) Miller Ford-Nissan Collision Center 36 S.E. 6th, Madras, OR 97741 (Across from the Post Office) (541)475-6153 We repair all makes and models! Come see us first Let us help negotiate your vehicle damage claim We honor all insurance company estimates. Factory trained technicians, factory quality repairs & craftmenship, frame straightening rack, with laser precision body alignment. 24-Hour Towing Service - Rental cars available 541-475-6153 No matter what happens to your car, you can count on the Autobody Repair specialists at Miller Ford Nissan collision center to take care of it from the smallest scratch to the biggest dent. r TOW A ' I. , I AjMIffiiMiKj(TE) Parent advisory meeting this month The next meeting of the Title VII Parent Advisory Committee is set for Wednes day, February 16th at 5:30 p.m. in the Warm Springs El ementary Library. Dr. Steve Nelson will be there. Title VII meetings are open to all members of the public If you have a dis ability, please advise the Dis trict 509-J Support Services Office about special ar rangements that may allow you to fully participate in the meeting. Please call Georgia Sosa at 475-6192. Valentines drawing There will be a Valen tines drawing on Feb. 14 at noon at the Museum of Warm Springs lobby. Tickets art SI each or six for tS. Lots of great Valentine prices. Call the museum for information, 553-3331. mm WM1 iMjjiliBB Qj&sfyi to 5yiL&s& omBjpirat faff) ULsO jmylll33 iitfyiiiyjj (jiHtiKJiuD