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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."
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She was 71,
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March 14, 1934 at Good No
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Haney. She married Roland
Kalama, who preceded her in
death.
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resident of Warm Springs.
She was self-employed in
bead work. She was an en
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Nation.
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ter Kalama, Patrick Kalama,
Angcline Kalama, Patricia
Kalama, Roland Kalama Jr.,
Sterling Kalama, Judith
Kalama and Albert Kalama
Sr., all of Warm Springs. Mrs.
Kalama is survived by broth
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Toppenish, and Gibson Albert
of White Swan; sisters Shirley
Patrick of Pendleton, and
Mavis Spencer of
Goldendale; and 38 grandchil
dren and 37 great grandchildren.
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Addiction:
treatment
offers hope
(Continued from page 3)
He said that methamphet
amine lasts longer and metabo
lizes far slower than does co
caine. "We talk about the half-life
of a drug, which means after a
certain time, half of it's gone.
For cocaine it's about 30 min
utes. For methamphetamine, it's
about 10 or 12 hours. That's
really important because that
means the cell is just getting
pushed on constantly, without
any release, without any break."
Not everyone becomes an
addict, Williams said, because
they may not have the genetic
pre-wiring.
"But some of us do," he said.
"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. "And it's pretty
scary because none of those
places have any kind of system
in place to try to help addiction."
Methamphetamine abuse is a
problem that's moving west to
" east in the United States. "
"In Hawaii, when I was there
20 years ago, it was just starting
to show up there. Half of all
the admissions to the main
emergency room in Honolulu
are because of methamphet
amine," he said.
"Forty-one percent of treat
ment cases are methamphet
amine, only 20 percent alcohol
now. They don't have room for
the alcoholics."
Two years ago, 16.6 percent
of treatment cases in Oregon
were due to methamphetamine
use.
Williams said as many as 35
percent could be due to meth
amphetamine now, and 50 per
cent of patients in N.A.R.A.'s
outpatient care facility are recov
ering from methamphetamine
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