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Spi'lyy Tymoo, Wqrm Springs, Oregon April 28, 2005 Hoops, hip-hop and more at Spechtrum By Brian Mortenscn Spilyay Tymoo The youth of Warm Springs now have a whole "Spechtrum" of activities just for them. The Spechtrum Youth Center, lo cated at the Veterans of Foreign Wars-Ladies Auxiliary I (all on I (ollywood Street, opened April 1, and has become a hot spot for kids from elementary school age on up to high school stu dents. The center is open Tuesdays through Thursdays, 4 to 8 p.m., and on Fridays and Saturdays from 4- 10 p.m. The Spechtrum, a ministry project of Portland-based Ex traordinary Young People, al ready seems to have found a niche among local youth. On the day of center's grand open ing, 262 young people showed up to see new the new facility, play games and watch a Chris tian hip hop concert. The Spechtrum is the result of a year and a half of work, between meetings to secure its location, to gaining the trust of tribal officials, to gaining spon sorships with no less than Nike, which contributes prizes in the form of shoes and sportswear to high earners in its Champ Stamps points system. But perhaps the biggest fac tor in getting the Spechtrum es tablished was the work Extraor dinary Young People did even before doing anything in Warm Springs. Extraordinary Young People chief executive officer Christian rap artist Evan Lcc Cummins, from Crow Agency, Mont., performs in a concert at the Spechtrum Youth Center, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. this Friday, April 29. Cummins is a student at Trin ity Bible College in Ellcndale, North Dakota, and was nomi nated for a Native American Music Association (NAMMY) award in 2003. The concert is free to youths who would normally visit the Spechtrum Youth Center. Matt Burton, a former college and professional basketball player and former DJ, had been working with inner-city youth in Portland when he decided to start working with the Crow Tribe in eastern Montana. "We got the opening to come to the reservation in Montana, and there was hardly anybody helping these people. I thought, 'Wow,'" Burton said. What he found was an area with a re ported 85-90 percent unemploy ment, a high crime rate, and little hope. "I got invited to go to Crow and moved there for a year. I got to know people, and hung out on the rez," Burton said. "They said they wanted a youth center, a safe place for kids. We remodeled an old movie theater and did our thing. And we had a 50 percent reduction in crime and no suicides for now, and it's been almost a year and a half." Burton looked to start a simi lar effort closer to his Portland home base. "So we looked in Yakima and Colville and Walla Walla, but the one that was clos est, and the one we had the most relationships with was this one," Salmon fishing halted on Columbia (AP) - An agency that regulates the West Coast's biggest river has halted sport and commercial fishing for three kinds of fish after sci entists became alarmed about a mysterious collapse in the population of salmon. The Columbia River Com pact voted last wee to shut down sport fishing for salmon, steelhead trout and shad to avoid losing too many salmon that are preparing to spawn. Officials also sus pended commercial fishing on selective stocks of hatch ery fish. The Columbia River and its tributaries in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon tana have historically been the world's largest producer of chinook, the biggest of the Pacific salmon species. Scientists had predicted that more than 200,000 chinook salmon would return to the Bonneville Dam east of Pordand. But as of early last week only 2,030 had shown up. "There were a lot of people who declared the salmon crisis over," said Buzz Ramsey, a salmon fishing ex pert who works for a fishing tackle manufacturer. "But that's not the case at all." Over the years govern ments have spent billions of dollars to rebuild the popu lation after overfishing, log ging, agriculture and develop ment decimated salmon. he said of Warm Springs. I (e began meeting with tribal officials and attended a youth conference in Warm Springs. "I met widi I larvey Jim and Kirby 1 Icath, the quartermaster and head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars," Burton said. "I was just standing in front of the building talking to one of my employees, saying, 'Man, this is a nice building. I wish we could have this one. Because I looked around and watched the way the kids came down and cross I (ol lywood Boulevard, and they hadn't even put the skatcpark in yet." 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