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SCA OrColi E : 75 . S68 f v. 30 --j P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 University of Oregon Library Received oni 09-23-05 Spilyay tyioo. ECRWSS stal Patron 3. Postage RSRTSTD warn! brings, OR 97761 50 cents Coyote News, est 1976 September-15, 2005 Vol. 30, No. iy yrnq Festival, hearings at Gorge The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the community of Cascade Locks this Saturday, Sept. 17, are cel ebrating the first annual Festival of Nations at Cascade Locks Marine Park. Tribal members are encouraged to attend, not only for the Festival of Nations, but also for the hearing at the Cascade Ixxks Marine Park regarding the tribes' plan to develop a casino at the Columbia Gorge. For people needing transportation, buses will leave Saturday morning at 8:30 from the Warm Springs Commu nity Center. Buses will return at about 7 p.m. The hearing on the casino fee-to-trust process is set for 9:30 a.m. to noon in the Marine Park Pavilion. The Fes tival of Nations activities are from early afternoon through dinner starting at 6 p.m. The Festival of Nations is a celebra tion of the spirit of partnership between the Confederated Tribes and the com munity of Cascade Locks. The theme of the festival is, "Two Communities, One vision." There will be food booths, crafts, Native music and dance performances, fiddle and banjo music, kids activities and games, demonstrations and infor mation booths. From 3 to 5 p.m. there will be free sternwheeler boat rides for tribal members, v For information on the Festival of Nations, contact Margie Tuckta for information, 553-4883, or Lena Ike at 553-1112. The casino fee-to-trust hearing on Saturday will be the second hearing on the proposal. The first one is this evening, Thursday, Sept. 15, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., also at the Cascade Locks Marine Park Pavilion. The hearings are a necessary step in the fee-to-trust evaluation process that will result in an environmental impact statement, or EIS. The overall process is essential to bringing the 25-acre ca sino and resort development site into trust. Once the land is in trust, the fed eral government will consider the gam ing compact between the tribes and the state of Oregon. The meetings are an open-house type of event, during which people can comment and ask questions about the tribes' proposal. The EIS will evaluate all environmental impacts of the tribes' development proposal. The EIS and its recommendations will be submitted to the BL. The process is expected to take about a year. Lake cleanup, celebration this month Lake Billy Chinook Day is sched uled for Saturday, Sept. 24 at the Cove Palisades State Park. This year marks the Twelfth Annual lake cleanup and celebration. Volunteers are invited to a special welcome and orientation in the park's Crooked River day-use area at 9 a.m. on Sept 24, before heading out to clean up the lake, the lake's shore and the canyon rim from 9:30 a.m.- noon. An afternoon filled with water-related fun, exhibits, door prizes and children's ac tivities will follow. Drummers and dancers represent ing the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs will conclude the day. They will perform the events traditional closing friendship round dance. Tribal members join By Dave McMcchan Spilyay Tjmoo Twelve members of a Warm Springs Fire Management camp crew are in Louisiana, helping residents re cover from the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The crew was called into action on Saturday, Sept. 10, and left on a chartered plane from the Redmond airport early the following morning. The crew is stationed in Hammond, Ia., in a department store warehouse. Hammond is located across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, and just cast of Baton Rouge. The crew is expected to be there for up to 30 days. The camp crew was one of only two in the state that has been called s " . ' J'Cv its .. If' . 1 .. -i.- sf m t- -jr'S - ,c -: Autumn Johnson gives the monkey bars a swing during the first week of the elementary school this year is close to 400 students. Students swing into By Dave McMechan Spilyay Tjmoo The start of the new school year at Warm Springs Elementary has been calm in comparison to last year. First of all, diere is no major con struction going on: At the start of school last year, the gymnasium, lo cated right by the main elementary school building, was under construc tion. "It's much quieter," said Dawn Smith, principal. This year there is one new teacher at the elementary school, compared to six last year. Fewer new teachers means the start of the new ) ear is smoother, as most everyone is already famil iar with the school and the stu to help in the relief effort, said Ken Lydy, who directs the Warm Springs camp crew program. Sacred Heart Suppah is boss of the Warm Springs crew that was called. William Wilson is crew representative, and David LeClaire is assistant crew representative. , Bobby Eagleheart is crew squad boss, and the crewmembers are Waylon I leath, Frank Sahme, Charles Kalama, Curtis Stacona, Carol Lawrence, Ina Kaleak, Timothy Kalama and Richard Tewee. "It's an honor that they called us," said crew representative William Wil son. "I'm going to try my best to make sure this goes as smoothly possible, and to help wherever we can." The initial call for the Warm Springs dents. Enrollment at the elementary school is close to 400, in part due to a large kindergarten class. The elementary school met the Ad equate Yearly Progress (AYP) standard of the No Child Left Behind law, "so everyone is feeling good about that," said Smith. Attendance was holding the school back from the AYP standard, but that has been addressed, thanks to a community-wide effort, she said. "The school and the whole com munity should be proud that we've met the AYP," said Smith. In other school news: There is an open house at Jefferson County Middle School this evening, hurricane relief effort crew came late last Friday night from the Northwest Coordination Center, un der direction from the Federal Emer gency Management Agency. The following morning, Lydy, the camp crew leaders, Luther Clements, duty officer at Fire Management, and Irwina Smith, Fire Management typist and clerk, began organizing for the departure. They were busy for the next 24 hours, as the call from the coordina tion center was unexpected. It is un usual, Lydy said, for a small camp crew to be dispatched to a region as far away as Louisiana. "It's quite an honor for us, and I'm very proud of our team," he said. Meanwhile, a group of volunteers from Warm Springs contacted the Dave McMecnanSptiyay school last week. Enrollment at action Thursday, Sept. 1 5. The open house begins at 4:45 p.m. with a chili dinner, cost of $1 per plate for students grades K-12, and $2 per plate for adults. Kids under 5 eat for free. Open house schedule is as fol lows: 5 to 5:55 p.m.: I landout student schedules to parents. 6 to 6:20 p.m.: Short program in the gym. 6:30 to 8 p.m.: Use student schedules and visit classrooms. A bell dismisses and move parents from one room to the next. Parents will have the opportunity to visit all rooms. For information call 475-7253. American Red Cross to see how they could help. The Red Cross representa tive informed the volunteers that Red Cross would fly them to Louisiana to help with the hurricane relief effort. The Warm Springs volunteers arc Rachel Doney, Jaime McKinlcy, Ixntic White and Tammy Robinson. "We wanted to lend a hand to those in need," said Rachel Doney. "We wanted to let people know that the tribes care and we are willing to help." Ten-year-old Kassandra Warner, a fifth-grader at Warm Springs Elemen tary School, this week has been raising money for Southern tribes that have been harmed by the hurricane. Warner was selling lemonade after school, with proceeds going to tribes that were hit by the hurricane. Economic options discussed at summit By Brian Mortensen Spilyay Tjmoo A new joint venture between the Confederated Tribes' two wood prod ucts manufacturers that could employ as many as 12 more tribal members, and the possibility of making a profit from a tribal water right)" were" among the results of the Warm Springs Eco nomic Summit at Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort and Casino last week. The two-day gathering included dis cussion among 40 leaders from the Warm Springs business community. The meeting was facilitated by Bruce Sorte, an economics professor at Or egon State University, and Clint Jacks, the former OSU extension agent at Warm Springs who recendy retired. After managers provided reports from each of their business concerns, those in attendance divided into four groups, based on manufacturing, young business ventures, power enterprises, and tourism. Following group discussion that con tinued through Wednesday afternoon and carried over to the following morn ing, the larger group reconvened for a final afternoon session Sept. 9. The groups then presented concerns, alternatives and product ideas, and then offered ideas they had for their par ticular disciplines. Larry Potts, general manager of Warm Springs Forest Products Indus tries (WSFPI), spoke in defense of manufacturing. "I was intrigued by Bruce (Sorte's) statement, in his forecast that we are moving from manufacturing to a service-oriented country," said Potts. "Manufacturing, utilization of re sources, has been our bread and but ter, but most of the discussion over the last day and a half has been to wards building this service- related economy." Potts described WSFPI and Warm Springs Composite Products as the "cornerstone" businesses at the mill site. They are flagships for smaller busi nesses to start up and, more importandy, they open up job opportunities for tribal members, said Potts. "We're developing a secondary wood products group," he said. "Our prod ucts are going to be fingerjoint blocks and fingerjoint studs." I le said these products fill a mar ketplace demand. It would take "about $350,000" to put the program together, he said, "and we're going to start work ing on finding some grants to do that" Set SUMMIT en page ft
