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March 17, 2005
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Dakota Berman, 11, of Warm Springs, poses by his creation, "Indian Spirit," at The
Museum at Warm Springs recently. The museum presented a collection of art created
by local youth. Berman said he created "Indian Spirit" in one week.
Club: doing well
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The acronym stands for To
gether Raising Awareness of
Indian Life, and the program,
funded through Indian Health
Services, helps prevent diabetes
in children ages 8-10. Smith said
a candidate should be hired in
the coming weeks.
Even though several staff
members, including Smith, arc
new to the Boys and Girls Club,
they are comfortable spending
their afternoons with kids.
"There's experience working
with kids," Smith said of the
staff at the club. "My experience
has been working with kids, pre
natal to 3 years old, so this is
kind of a big jump to school
age. And Carol and Allee both
worked at the F.arly Childhood
Education center in the school
age program, and Kosie has,
too."
The new staff was brought
in place after a previous Boys
and Girls Club that had been at
the Warm Springs Community
Center closed down.
Smith said the club is look
ing for ways to include more
children, including older students
who go to school in Madras, at
Jefferson County Middle School
and Madras High School. She
said she hoped to use the brand
new gym at Warm Springs El
ementary and also have use of
the triple-wide modular building
next door, so it could have a
game room, including a foosball
table.
"We're trying to correlate teen
nights and teen activities with the
other clubs and try to get some
teens involved," she said.
She said the club hosted an
afternoon teen dance in Warm
Springs, and about 60 kids at
tended. "I think it would be real im
portant to have a teen pro
gram," Smith said. "Right now,
there's not much for teens to do
unless they think of it them
selves or just kind of hang out.
I'd like to see something for
them, something organized,
something positive."
While more space would be
nice, more staff to run the ac
tivities would be appreciated,
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It would be helpful, she said,
to have more staff dedicated to
running a teen program.
( )therwise, she said, "It's hard
because we're all kind of
stretched with our families and
stuff."
She said the club would en
courage parents, or anyone, to
come and be involved.
In fact, staffing and funding
have been the biggest challenges
so far.
"For a while, it was just my
self, Carol, Allee and Leo two
days a week, but he really helps
out when he's down here two or
three times a week, just in hav
ing that male figure because we're
all females," Smith said. "And so
now with Kosie on board as well,
it's been really helpful.
"So I think if we get one
more staff person, especially for
the summer, when we run a full
day program, that's when it can
get kind of hectic, but if we can
get more staff in there. . I think
that's the challenge, being con
sistent, coming every day and
being prepared and really work
ing with the kids."
Smith said as many boys
come to the club as girls.
"Our enrollment was 145,
and we gained some new mem
bers this week," he said. "In be
tween that, the boys outweighed
the girls by a slight margin."
The Boys and Girls Club is
open each afternoon from when
school lets out at Warm Springs
Elementary to 6:30 p.m. If a teen
program were in place, the club
would stay open until 8 p.m.
Most kids stay until 5 to 5:30
p.m., when their parents pick
them up. A few of the younger
kids, along with some of the
older kids who have come from
one of the Madras schools, stay
until the club closes.
Some kids live far from the
Warms Springs Agency area,
even as distant as Simnasho.
The Boys and Girls Club has
use of the library at Warm
Springs Elementary for Project
Learn (formerly Power Hour),
as scheduling allows. This allows
the kids to do, and get help for
homework, reading and Internet
use. Students can earn points
based on their participation in
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"It's kind of a way to get
them into the books a little,"
Smith said, adding that mostly
girls attend Project Learn. A
computer tech program is also
available in the Warm Springs
Elementary School principal's
office.
At the Boys and Girls Club,
the kids have a little free time
each day, but generally there is
structured activity each day.
"Allee could be doing some
thing in art right now, and Leo,
he should be starting Smart
Kids at 4 o'clock, and so he'll
have a group, and Kosie will have
a group for kickball or football
or whatever he has planned at
that time," Smith said. "So just
getting that organized, that's
kind of the peak we're at."
In fact, Wolfe was outside in
the 75 degree weather leading
kickball, and Gonzalez was with
a group of kids in the play
ground, watching as some of
the kids took pictures with a digi
tal camera that they would
download on a computer at the
elementary school.
Smith said that the club is still
in the process of determining
what the kids are most interested
in, and what will keep them cap
tivated and coming each day.
"We're still narrowing down
our focus on the programs and
having a more organized baseline
to work from, because it feels
fairly new even though we've
been here almost a year, learn
ing the job and learning all the
different areas," she said. The
Boys and Girls Club at Warm
Springs is funded through sev
eral grants.
"It was through LHA, Local
Housing Authority, and I'm not
sure where that's at this year,"
Smith said. "We have an OJP
(Office of Justice programs)
grant through the state, and
some other grants, like Commu
nity Action Team."
The Boys and Girls Club does
not get funding, however, from
the Warm Springs tribal govern
ment, she said, "but we're try
ing to get our foot in the door
and get some support from
them.
The club also has a $10 per
year membership fee.
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Jim to speak at WSU
Wendell Jim, general man
ager of the Warm Springs
tribes' Education Branch, will
speak at Washington State
University's 109'h spring com
mencement in May, the univer
sity announced recently.
Jim is a Washington State
University graduate in educa
tion. As a student, he was presi
dent of Ku Ah Mah, the Wash
ington State University Ameri
can Indian student organization.
In 1981, he received a Na
tive American Student of the
Year award from the National
Indian Education Association,
honoring his leadership in cul
tural education programs.
An Indian education issues
and rights advocate, Jim is help
ing develop government-to-government
collaboration models,
Coach: in '64
team won state
championship
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Souers said, "I just taught
them good fundamentals.
"Some of the kids I had
went on to college. One went
down to Mesa Community
College," he said. "They come
back and they say, 'They teach
the same things you teach.' It's
basically fundamentals."
One of his Little League
teams at Warm Springs won
a state championship in 1964.
On that team, he said, were
former Warm Springs Tribal
Council Chairman Olney
Patt, who was his catcher, and
Willie Stacona and Dennis
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islation pertaining to tribal sov
ereignty, treaty rights and edu
cation, Representing the Confeder
ated Tribes of the Warm
Springs, he is a member of the
Washington State University
Native American Advisory
Board.
One of the board's priority
recommendations to the presi
dent is to establish a Plateau
Center at the university.
The center will foster collabo
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can Indian communities to fur
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and scholarship, curriculum de
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Smith.
But things have changed since
then, he said, in that kids don't
have the same hunger for fun
damentals. "Basically kids are different,
especially the older ones," he
said. "It's hard to get kids that
arc really dedicated, really in
volved." Souers, who grew up in
Chiloquin and played basketball
and baseball on scholarship for
Oregon Tech, also lived on the
campus in Warm Springs for
years before he and his family
moved to Madras in 1980. He
continued to work in Warm
Springs from 1991 to 1996 in
construction and as a consultant.
NOTES: Souers said his
best years as Madras' Softball
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seum, are Washington Gov.
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pher Nelson, president of
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during the liberal arts ceremony.
Ciov. Gregoire will speak at the
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ness and economics, education
and nursing graduates. And
Nelson will speak at the cer
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fields of science.
About 2,300 students -2,100
undergraduates and 200
graduate and professional stu
dents - are expected to take part
in the three ceremonies.
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