Spilyqy Tymoo, Wjrro
Water damages ECE building
By Brian Mortcnscn
Spilyay Tjmoo
Water leaked from a broken
main pipe and came spilling
from a toilet tank for a whole
weekend recently at the Early
Childhood Education Center.
The water warped particle
board floorboards, creating a
pungent smell of wet paper, as
the ECE staff had to scramble
to move and consolidate the
280 children attending on Mon
day morning, Feb. 7.
As a result of the flood dam
age, eight classrooms in the F
pod were evacuated, as the floor
is being replaced after the week
end flooding.
Though each of the classes
at the center, including infants
to children 12 years old, were
affected in having to move to
other rooms, curricula was not
significantly changed.
By Wednesday of last week,
workers from V and M Resto
ration of Woodinville, Wash.,
and Webb Construction of Ma
dras were working in the F pod.
V and M, a firm that handles
building restoration, was in place
to dry the wing out, using fans
and dehumidifiers. Webb
Construction's job was to dis
mantle the waterlogged floor
and subfloor and cut holes in
the floor to allow V and M to
use its dehumidifying equipment
KWSO to
KWSO has a trailer load of
clothing to give away, and the
clothes are free to anyone who
wants them. If you're interested,
then attend the open house at
the radio station studio from 9
a.m. till 5 p.m., Friday and Sat
urday, Feb. 25-26.
The clothing ponies from
Chris Bulierihe. youth pastor
of the United Methodist Church
in Madras and a Header of tk!
Rockin' 4-H club in Warm
Springs. Boiler also hosts the "It's
All Good" program on KWSO
that is broadcast live on Sun
days at 9 a.m. and re-run Tues
days at 9 p.m.
Events calendar
Chemawa Indian School 125th Birthday Powwow
and Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Residential
Facility: "Acknowledging the new beginning for residen
tial life, creating a new student living environment."
Saturday, Feb. 19 in the school gym. Starts at noon.
Powwow Grand Entry, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Location: 3700
Chemawa Rd. NE, Salem. For information call Jeanette
at (503) 399-5721, ext. 237.
Celilo, Salmon and Smoke discussion series con
tinues Thursday, Feb. 24 at High Lookee Lodge. Noon
to 1:30 p.m. Topic: Elders talk about the new Museum
of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Preregis
tration required. Call 553-1182. Bring lunch, or reserve
lunch for $3 at the lodge.
Quilts & More is offering the following classes. 5:30
to 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 17: H Quilt class (for very
beginners) made from two fabrics, simple and fast.
Wednesday night sewing class, 5:30-8 p.m., Feb. 23,
working on basic Seminole patchwork strips. Saturday,
Feb. 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., winning hand quilt class
(card trick). Fee is $20. Instructor: Eraina Palmer. Call
553-1460 for information.
Tribal Finance again recognized
The Certificate of Achieve
ment for Excellence in Finan
cial Reporting has been awarded
to the Confederated Tribes Fi
nance Department by the Gov
ernment Finance Officers As
sociated of the United States
and Canada. The certificate of
achievement is in regard to the
tribes' comprehensive annual
financial report. The certificate
is the highest form of recogni
tion in the area of governmen
tal accounting and financial re
porting, and its attainment rep
resents a significant accomplish
ment by a government and its
management, according to the
Government Finance Officers
Association.
Springs, Oregon
under the building.
Gallons of water were still
being pumped from under the
13-year-old building by last
Thursday, nearly a week after
the flooding.
Six classes of children from
six weeks old to two years old
used the rooms in the F pod.
Infants were moved to a
room in the C pod, while the
Striders, a group of two-year-olds,
were moved to a room in
the G pod. Children three and
four years old were moved to
rooms in the B, G and A pods.
Kindergartners were moved
to a converted conference
room.
"Kindergartners were the
most displaced because they're
not in an actual classroom," said
Julie Quaid, director of Warm
Springs Essential Educational
Services.
School-age children, ages six
to 12, the center administers,
were consolidated in rooms in
the C pod. The re-routing and
logistical planning were handled
in about an hour the morning
of Feb. 7, Quaid said.
"We walked through and took
a look," she said. "And then we
took an hour to plan and got
everybody around the building."
Quaid said moving and re
routing the children was done
in a sequential order and with
host clothes
"He said, 'I have a bunch of
clothing. I can't sell them. Would
you like to give them away,'" said
KWSO station manager Sue
Matters.
The next thing she knew, the
clothes came - 50 bags worth
in a horse trailer. The clothes are
now piled up in KWSO's con
ference room, waiting to be
given away.
The clothes include shirts,
pants and jackets for men,
women and children along with
shoes and accessories like belts.
In addition, included and also to
be given away are linens, bed
ding and curtain material, Mat-
An Award of Financial Re
porting Achievement is awarded
to the individual, department or
agency designated by the gov
ernment as primarily respon
sible for preparing the award
winning comprehensive annual
financial report. For the 10th
consecutive year, the award has
been presented to the Confed
erated Tribes' Finance Depart
ment. The award is judged by
an impartial panel, determining
the report meets the highest stan
dards. The Government Finance
Officers Association is a non
profit professional association
serving 15,000 government fi
nance professionals.
February
the needs of the children in
mind, particularly placing chil
dren who arc toilet training in
classrooms with properly sized
toilets, and planning meals at the
same time the children expect
them every day.
"We tried to keep kids with
their own teachers as much as
we could," Quaid said.
Working parents, she said,
would not be affected by the
switching, as the children need
not be brought to, or picked up
from, the ECE Center any ear
lier or later than usual.
She said the children had to
be scheduled so that one group's
active time didn't come at the
same time as a neighboring
group's naptime.
By the morning of Feb. 8,
fans were in place in Pod F to
help dry the subfloor and con
fine the smell of the damp wood
and linoleum tile.
Fortunately for the school,
the water damage did not include
sewage and it didn't involve elec
tricity, Quaid said.
The problem started, she
said, when a stream of water
was found running over an out
side breezeway and pooling in a
playground Friday, Feb. 4. Warm
Springs Public Utilities turned
off the water, used equipment
to dig at the source of the leak
and fixed it, replacing a sleeve
giveaway
ters said.
"We want to encourage
people to tell their friends and
car pool out here," Matters said.
"And take all the clothes away."
She said the station has not
had an open house since last
summer, and that the giveaway
would be a perfect opportunity
to show off the station and
meet the staff. KWSO's studio
is located on Road S-200, near
Kah-Nee-Ta and 12 miles north
of Warm Springs.
Refreshments will be offered
at the giveawayopen house.
Matters suggests that the cloth
ing is perfect material for quilts.
Livestock deaths
still being investigated
As of Monday, results of
tests on a group of cattle that
had died, apparently due to poi
soning in the Sidwalter area three
weeks ago, had not been re
turned. At least 19 and as many
as 24 cattle were killed due to
an unexplained cause Jan. 27.
A necropsy on each animal,
as well as tissue and blood
samples, was taken to be sent
to Texas for analysis. Samples
were of the standing water in
the area, mainly due to snow
melt and runoff.
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that had come loose from a
water pipe.
Children were released at
2:30 p.m. that Friday, and the
water was turned back on an
hour later.
"We left Friday thinking ev
erything was fine," Quaid said.
In fact, she didn't find out
about the flooding until she came
to work Monday morning.
Water was pumped from the
Pod $ all day Monday through
Tuesday morning.
By Wednesday morning, two
railroad-car style storage con
tainers were in place at Early
Childhood Education Center to
house chairs, tables and other
items in the vacated rooms as
the floor dried out.
"We're trying to make sure it
works, but we have too much
stuff,'' Quaid said.
Plywood, less absorbent than
the original particleboard, will be
laid down as soon as the area is
properly dried.
"You're probably looking at
three weeks to a month (before
Pod F is usable again), depend
ing on how soon it dries," Herb
Graybael, Director of Warm
Springs Public Utilities, said.
Graybael said Public Utilities
would make additional repairs
as needed as the floor is being
worked on.
Warm Springs,
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businesses you see
in the Spilyay.
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High school stnior
MychalVanPelt, 17, is of
the Umatilla, Walla Walla,
Paiute, Warm Springs,
Wasco and Yakama heri
tage. Van Pelt is the son of
Che VanPeltJr., and
Rebecca Danyika, and the
grandson to the late Chester
I 'an Pelt Sr., Ulia Brown
Jim, and the late Kathleen
Heath.
He credits his cousin
Melissa Danuka for
helping him reach his goal.
He states, "She would
always ask me to do better
than I was, no matter what
my grades were. "
I 'anPelt has participated
in tennis, SMlLIi, and the
Cultural Enrichment Club.
He has also received awards
for perfect attendance for the
2003-04 schoolyear, a
varsity letter for tennis, and
he was honored in the Who's
Who Among American
High School students for the
years 2003-04, and 2004
OS. His favorite class is
advanced PB, because he's in
there with his friends having
fun as well as competing that
can get serious.
His favorite teacher is
Mr. Keele, who was his
AP Physics and Honors
Chemistry teacher, "because
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the way he taught helped me,
and he was very understand
ing and funny. "
Van Pelt's stumbling
block was his freshman year,
because he was just entering
high school, but he overcame
it by studying, working hard
enough to pass and move on.
After graduation he plans
to enter college, either
Oregon State or Portland
State, and try to become an
engineer.
After graduation he will
miss the friends he grew up
with and went to class
together with. In addition he
will miss having the opportu
nity to go home whenever
and going to a friend's house
or the community center. But
he leaves this advice for
remaining students: "Just try
your best and never give up
or doubt yourself or your
abilities. "
- By Selena Boise
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