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Spilyay Tymoo, Warrn Springs, Oregon P ag e 8 February 2, 2006 Registration begiis for Team Oregon Registration forms for Team Oregon are available to indig enous people athletes within Oregon ages 13 and older. The athletes will be vying for the 500 positions in 11 sports. These 500 will represent Team Oregon at the 2006 North American In digenous Games July 2-9,2006 in Denver, Colo. Team Oregon will send ath letes in the following events: ath letics (track and field), baseball, basketball, boxing, golf, rifle shooting, soccer, softball, swim- Honoring Seniors: full day of activities (Continued from page 1) The improvisation sometimes even starts before the day be gins, Wewa said. “We get there at 6 a.m. We used to say it started at 9 a.m. with registration, but one year there seniors there are at 8 a.m.,” he said. “We didn’t have coffee made, so we said, ‘Well, let’s get the coffee on,’ and people drank us out of coffee. And then someone said, ‘What? No dough nuts?”’ So the committee began pro viding doughnuts, and then not long after they started provid ing oatmeal in the morning, start ing at 7 a.m. Registration officially starts at 8 a.m., and then at 10 a.m. be gins the Early Childhood Cen ter Powwow, when all the kids from the center dance for the guests. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. In the af ternoon, from 1 to 4 is enter tainment, and the program is completely open. It usually in cludes games involving the se nior audience. “They participate, sometimes willingly, sometimes unwillingly, but even if they’re not willing, they come off the floor laugh ing. The whole point is to put joy in people’s lives.” Wewa moderates the event, making sure the program flows and keeps moving. “We have a spontaneous Place names: may take 5 more years (Continued from page 1) But the change has come not much faster than the glacier in the Three Sisters peaks from which Whychus Creek flows. The Legislature’s deadline passed a year ago. So far, the chairman of the state Geo graphic Names Board says, about 25 names have been charged, including the 16 an nounced last Thursday. More than 100 remain to be changed. “It’s been much slower than I expected,” said Champ Vaughn of Molalla, a geographer and retired U.S. Bureau of Land Management official. “You can’t ming, volleyball, id wrestling. ' ; ing (541) 553-3091 or (503) The registration fet>f $133 will 879-1369 or by email to cover the athletes eeping ac-* sg_naig@hotmail. com. commodations, meafend trans-b Coaches and chaperones are portation from their ooms to also encouraged to apply for and from the competitin venue. - positions on Team Oregon. Half of the fee ($66) itiue by Coach certification, First Aid / the registration deadlit, The CPR and criminal background other half is due after tea.s are checks are required. The appli selected. This fee is refutable cation fee is $133 plus nominal to those who do not makehe fee for a background check. team at the Team Trials. Tvn Only the registration fee is re Oregon registration deadlines fundable to those who are not February 24, 2006. Team O selected. Information is avail egon forms are available by call able online at www.naig2006.com/teams.asp. Team Oregon meeting: Coaches, chaperones and volun teers February 10, 2006 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Nike Cam pus, Pre Hall Main Entrance, Beaverton, OR. Fee: $15.00 per person. Registration Deadline: 2/5/06. Mail registrations to: Team Oregon, 15 Alder Drive, Pendleton, OR 97801. Contacts: Susan Guerin (541) 553-3091. www.naig2006.com/teams.asp. Melvin Brisbois (503) 879- 1369. agenda,” he said. “The commit- Ideas for the entertainment por- tee has pretty good idea of ’ on on trips to wellness confer- when we start losing the crowd, tees sponsored by the Univer- so we do something to get their Si of Oklahoma, where they attention, exercise, stand up, sit fold some activities that got down, that sort of thing, get pecle involved. them off their hind ends, be- W a said Warm Springs cause sitting for six hours is hard Hon» Seniors Day is "unn- to do.” ' valed"n the Northwest, with A salmon feast is served at 5 nearly ; Q00 budgeted for food p.m., “and then it’s over, except alone. h said his committee has for the goodbyes,” Wewa said, had the Apd fortune of receiv- He said the committee makes a ing help 0m many different point of making sure the vol branches c the Warm Springs unteers who travel with the vis community,-hether in the form iting groups are acknowledged of financiadonations from and shown appreciation. businesses oithe reservation, Because Honor Seniors Day . patrol from laynforcement, or has become an all day event, “children beingolunteered by starting early in the morning and parents to comend help out.” Wewa said th-g is a fairly ending after dark, many groups stay overnight, either the night even mix betweei-Ebal mem before or the night after the bers and non-tribajaembers at event. Wewa said Hoffy’s Mo- Honor Seniors Day, -tween the tel in north Madras has even visitors from Centr Oregon welcomed the visiting groups. senior centers and CgS from “It’s a long trip for some,” he neighboring Northwesribes. said. “Groups come from Ne- “I think that’s whatypedal vada, probably some from about our day,” he said.'Most Idaho, some from Colville, the of the reservations’ senicjays Lummi from near the Canadian are pretty much tribal, b\we get at least 50-50.” border, Coeur d’Alene.” He said his committee ccij Wewa said the event took root in the late 1980s, when always use more help during u some of the elders at the time day’s events. “We can use more than w approached him and Adeline Miller, who worked for the Se have,” he said. “We usually have maybe 15 hard workers, the 12 niors program at the time. • . . hour people, but we could use > “They were saying, ‘Our tribe should have a day where we can more than that, anybody to visit and have fun and catch up serve drinks, serve snacks, es- on news, because it seems like pecially serving at the salmon the only time we get to see each feast. If we had five or 10 more other is at funerals,”’ he said. to help come at dinner and fol- The Yakama Tribe already low through with it, that’d be had an event for elders, and, excellent.” If anybody wants to Wewa said, his staff decided to help, they can call senior center do its own. He said they got at 553-3313. Next Feeder Sale February 22nd C.O.L.A. will also be hosting the following bull sales this spring... Feb. 12th - R a n ch e rs Roundup B u ll S a le Feb . 19th ■ P .A .B .C .0 . B u ll Sale Mar. 5th - Jo e B a rry R anch B u ll S ale We offer Team seeks family meetings on IRMP III weekly livestock sales , large ring scale , weekly Northwest Buyers , monthly special sales, AND a new feed lot located ju st out the hack gate! The Integrated Re sources Management Plan III (IRMP III) team is looking for people interested in hosting a family meeting to discuss IRMP III for the community and industrial areas. 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Some argue that “squaw” is a vulgar reference, while others say that it comes from a similar word meaning “woman.” Sometimes the debate has other origins. For example, Vaughn said, the board has ap proved renaming two features on Upper Klamath Lake in . S s M c rn m Southern Oregon as Sesti 93 FORD EXPLORER 4X4 S2 FORO EXPLORER « on . xtr 50FN0.AC AJTO.P*.**».STr»rO, odca Tgwaals point and marsh. The ¡30» TXX» PCMTW Î1CWT LOmm tarai» ; m u é M A& «©H Klamath Tribes said the Sesti Tgwaals name is historic and refers to the view of the 14,000- foot volcano to the south, Mount Shasta. But, Vaughn said, local officials point out thatti S5,995o.o $7 CHEVY BLAZER ¥«us,u»wutB& t check nr out PROGRESSSIVE ou»! sjjöm s docks io«x»D ^ $4495 $3995 1765 SW HWY 97 MADRAS, OR I $2995 SHI MONTERÒ **2995 ?ms8,®JP€« 96 FORD A€ Phone: (541) 475-6707 FAX: (541) 475-6476 Emergency: (541) 475-4590 loneagle@madras.net 9 ? O NCOtN EXECUTIVE Î 0 W» CAR mm, cmm mr. cm onm n . 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