Spilyay Tymoo, Vvrm Springs, Oregon
February 3, 2005
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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.
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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.
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