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Page 8 Spilyay Tyrnoo, Warm Springs, Oregon March 31, 2005 Stacona: seen as future leader (Continued from page 6) The Buffs found a way to pick it back up in time, beating Estacada in their season finale, and coming from behind to beat Sherwood in league playoff and at North Marion in their first state-tournament game. Their season then saw its end with a loss at then No. 1 Tillamook. Stacona said her favorite part of the game is not so much scoring or any particular aspect of the game, but the game it self. "My favorite part is the in tensity," she said. "We're up by three, and the other team has the ball, and maybe they could score, and you've got foul trouble, and the crowd's roar ing, and it's really exciting Then it just happens and we win, and all that hard work pays off." With five seniors graduating, the Duffs will be young again next season, with only Stacona and Ahern, a junior, returning as starters. Stacona said she thinks the Buffs' posts, led by classmate Kristen Haugen, will be solid. "We have other people com ing up, and their skills are dif ferent," Stacona said. "I have a lot of friends who are going to play, and we've played together over the years and we know how each other plays." Stacona says she plays bas ketball just for the sake of play ing basketball and winning games, and doesn't feel pressure to perform as a new marquee player or even as a representa tive of the Warm Springs tribes. "I don't really feel pressure, but I know that people arc watching me because they've watched me before and they say, 'Oh yeah, she ought to have a good game,'" she said. "I'm not trying to impress anybody when I play. I try not to think, 'I bet ter not miss this.' It's not really pressure. I have to play. It's why I'm on varsity. They expect me to do good." While Stacona's play during the season may have been the buzz around the Tri-Valley League, word got around the state, too. She was rewarded by being designated an Honorable Mention selection on the Class 3A All-State teams, the only freshman chosen among the list of 26 players selected to first, second, or third teams or hon orable mention. When the all-state selections were announced, Stacona was in Southern California on spring break and had to find out second-hand. "My grandfather called me up, and he just said, 'Congratulations. I said, 'Oh, on what,' because I was in Califor nia. '"Oh, you made Honorable Mention.'" She said her selection was the culmination mostly of a lot of hard work during the season. "When I thought about it, we didn't even make it to state, all the way to the main (final eight) bracket," she said. "I guess all the hard work paid off. And to hear I was the only freshman, it just kind of gives you a little more confidence about next year." Still, she said, she has a long way to go as a player and has made it her goal to become faster and stronger over the offseason. "This summer, the coaches are going to work with me physi cally, and (varsity assistant coach Ed) McDanicl is going to help me work on my shot, so I get the right form," she said. The weight training will be important because "just that last rebound you can get could win you the game." She and Shirelle Adams are going to a specialized camp for point guards next August. "It's a week long, it costs $500 to go," Stacona said. 'They say it's like 100 years of basket ball in one week, from 8 in the morning to about 9 at night." She will be part of a repre sentative group from Madras playing at the University of Oregon team camp again, and she, along with Suppah and Tho mas, are playing in a tournament in Arizona during the summer. But Stacona isn't waiting until then to play ball. She'll play soccer again next fall, but she's given up softball this spring in favor of getting ready for next basketball season. Before she left for her spring break trip, she was playing at the Warm Springs Community Cen ter against boys 18 and 19 years old, and she plays ball at the Madras City Park. Stacona has lived in Madras most of her life. She has also lived in Warm Springs and even spent a couple months in Mexico with her mother and grandmother. It's possible other Staconas could follow Briana in playing for the White Buffalos. I ler little sister Mariah is 8 years old, and her stepsister Monica, at 3 years old, is already dribbling a mini basketball. That's about how old Briana was when she started playing. I ler brother Andrew, 5, she says is "a little boxer." As a student of the game, Stacona said her favorite play ers are Phoenix Mercury and former University of Connecti cut star Diana Taurasi, the leg endary Michael Jordan and new legend LeBron James. Reece said that even though Stacona is not a particularly vo cal person, "she can be," and that she has the right mettle to be the Buffalos' leader the next three seasons. "Between her, Jaylyn and Raylene, they did a really good job keeping every thing going in the right direction, not only on court, but off the court." Howlak Tichum Edith Renee Kalama Edith Renee Kalama dren: Melvin Tewee Sr., Fos- passcd away March 22, 2005. She was 71, Mrs. Kalama was born March 14, 1934 at Good No Hills, Wash., to parents Meeklin Albert and Susie Haney. She married Roland Kalama, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Kalama was a lifetime resident of Warm Springs. She was self-employed in bead work. She was an en rolled member of theYakama Nation. She is survived by her chil- ter Kalama, Patrick Kalama, Angcline Kalama, Patricia Kalama, Roland Kalama Jr., Sterling Kalama, Judith Kalama and Albert Kalama Sr., all of Warm Springs. 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"And what happens, and why that happens is the whole crux of addition." The drug, and the chemical reaction in the brain it causes, helps change the genetic make up of brain cells. "What that means is the cells that are getting the dopamine want the dopamine, and they start to make changes and change the wiring of the brain," he said. "You get new wiring, going up into the frontal lobe (affecting behavior and judg ment) and the memory part of your brain." Yet, he said, this change only happens in people with the ge netic risk towards addiction. He said users who inject or smoke methamphetamine get addicted more quickly because more of the drug is brought into the system quicker. "And that seems to cause the genetic change faster," he said. "And the high is more intense." Methamphetamine can kill brain cells, as well as damage the heart and cause liver failure and even muscle death. Metham phetamine users are also known for losing their teeth because the mouth dries up. "Methamphetamine also af fects the motor part of your brain," Williams said. "Metham phetamine addicts, when they're using, are really fidgety, and they're always moving all the time, and they can't stop mov ing because this unconscious part of your brain is making you move all the time." Methamphetamine use, over time, also causes psychosis and paranoia, and it causes addicts to imagine things on their skin .... they think they have to pick off, so they mar their skin. He said it takes about a month of meth use to create the notoriously gaunt and aged look chronic users take on. "But the remarkable thing is that when people do come to treatment, in three months, they can come right back," he said. "That, to me, is magic because these people come in looking awful." Mental capabilities may not come all the way back, he said, even after recovery. Even after they stop, recovering addicts are proven to comprehend words only half as well as those who've never used methamphetamine, though they do almost as well in recalling pictures. In recovery, Williams said there is nothing, in terms of drugs, that can make metham phetamine withdrawal easy. "There's nothing we can give to them," he said. "They just have to ride it out, and it's pretty miserable. We try to get them into an environment where they feel safe, and we start educating them, and just let them take it easy for a few days." Children who live around meth labs get the drug in their system, as do babies whose mothers have used it while pregnant "They have respiratory prob lems, rashes, burns, and tend to develop asthma-type symptoms and learning disabilities," he said. "The learning disability stuff isn't well understood, as far as the long-term effects. "I would anticipate that the learning disabilities may be as ; much from all the other stuff, the malnourishment, sleeping problems, the other abuse that happens in that unstructured en vironment. There is more fetal death due to methamphetamine, and ba bies that are born tend to be small. "They tend to be more irri table, harder to calm down, and have difficulty nursing," he said. There haven't been studies on learning disabilities of children affected by methamphetamine use, or how well they adapt so cially, but there will be in com ing years because of this emerg ing problem, Williams said. He said that Oregon's mea sures to control over-the-counter sales of ephedrine products will help curb local methamphetamine production "for a while." "But the reality is, most of this stuff is made in huge fac tories in Mexico," he said. Pseudoephedrine, which is used to make methamphet amine, is made in India, South east Asia, and Africa. "It's a worldwide phenom enon," he said. 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