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Page 2 February 16, 2 0 0 6 Spilyay Tymoo, Wgrm Springs, Oregon Wild Rye Bead Gallery opens at Plaza B y D ave M cM echan There will be a meeting of the Agency District on Tuesday, February 21. Dinner is at 6 p.m. and the meeting at 7. The meeting agenda is open. Spilyay Tymoo The new bead shop, the Wild Rye Bead Gallery, has opened at the Warm Springs Plaza. Brigette Whipple, anthro pologist with tribal Cultural Re sources, is the proprietor. She has hired Brenda Scott as an employee at the shop, and is looking to hire one more per son. The shop has beads, tradi tional art and craft supplies such as buckskins, and basketry sup plies. There are also shell items and jewelry. Customers can also place orders for items such as beaded bags. In the future the Wild Rye shop is going to have beadwork classes, and may host classes joindy with Quilts & More, op erated by Eraina Palmer, located two doors down from the bead shop. The hours o f operation o f the Wild Rye Bead Gallery are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Whipple said the name “Wild Rye” is a transla tion o f the word “Seekseequa.” The bead gallery is a welcome addition to the Plaza, said Sandra Danzuka, office man ager o f Warm Springs Ventures, which manages the Plaza prop erty. The Plaza, she said, is an ideal place for retail business. The situation could improve even more when the computer cen ter and coffee shop open in the vacant area that used to house Events calendar Meth 101, an introduction to the prevention of methamphetamine abuse, is scheduled for Tues day, Feb. 28 at the Simnasho Longhouse. The event, which includes dinner, is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Meth 101 is presented by the Community Health Educa tion Team. For more information call 553-3462. Examples of beaded items at the Wild Rye shop. The award-winning film The Business of Fancy Dancing will be shown at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 17, at the Rodriguez Annex by the Jefferson County Library in Madras. The movie is based upon the Sherman Alexie book of poetry of the same name. The Thirty-Fourth Annual E-Peh-Tes Champion ship War Dances will be held March 10-12 at the Pi- Nee-Waus Community Center in Lapwai, Idaho. For information call Jossette Henry at (208) 843-2612 or (208) 790-4729. Concession and vendor information call Pete Wilson at (208) 843-2812. Internationally known artists and scholars will dis cuss the intersections of law and literature, art and politics, and sovereignty and cinema at a free con ference at the University of Oregon on Friday, Feb. 17. The conference, Intersections of Native Am eri can Culture, Politics, and Law, will begin at 9 a.m. in the Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate St. Dave McMechan/Spilyay Brigette Whipple at her new shop. the Indian Trail Restaurant. The new businesses should complement one another, said Lloyd Phillips, manager o f Eagle Tech Systems, which is pursu ing the computer center-coffee shop plan. When the computer center opens, all o f the spaces at the Plaza will be occupied. There will be the bead and quilt shops, the ventures office, the computer center-coffee shop, and the of fice o f the First Indigenous Depository Company. J C horal T aylor Hair S tylkt Brigette Whipple’s daughter Rosebud works on a beaded bracelet: at left, the shop offers a variety of beads. 1 (a 7- 5W 54b SfrocT 5 " 4 1 -4 7 5 " -4 6 7 7 oj>aldayÇf>a.oom Madras, OK ^ 7 7 4 1 Beatles tribute band at Kah-Nee-Ta Jo h n L en n on , Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr might not be there in person, but they’ll be there in spirit when the Liverpool Legends: The Ulti mate Beades Tribute Show per form s at K ah -N ee-T a High D esert Resort and Casino at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 3. Managed by Louise H arrison, sister o f original B eatles m em ber G eorge Harrison, the Liverpool Legends will p erform many o f The Beatles’ popular hits during a single performance in the Gold Ballroom at Kah-Nee-Ta. The Liverpool Legends have been performing together for one year, and will celebrate their first anniversary together on Feb. 18. Prior to founding the Liverpool Legends, two o f the group’ s founding members — K evin M antegna (as Jo h n Lennon) and Marty Scott (as George Harrison) - headlined “International Beatles Week” before 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 fans in Liverpool in 2002. Tickets to the Liverpool Leg ends concert are $10 in advance or $12 day o f show, and are available by calling 1-800-554- 4786 or in person at the Lodge front desk. Overnight guests can book the “Legends” package for $99, which includes overnight accommodations for two and two tickets to the Liverpool Leg ends performance. Good OU Fashion Service, No Pressure Sales & UP FRONT PRICING C o m p a re j# Prices II Service Elders describe history of area As a fund-raiser for the newly propose Jefferson County mu seum, known as The Central Oregon Heritage Center, the Jefferson County Historical So ciety has made available the first phase o f its “Voices o f Experi ence” CD series. Between 1977 and 1990, be ginning journalism students from Madras Ju n io r High School interviewed nearly 80 elder citizens from Jefferson County and published the infor mation in their school newspa per, The Junior Buff. Among the interview subjects are deceased Warm Springs tribal members Andrew David, E llen Squiem phen, Lucinda Smith, and Caroline Tohet. The subjects o f the inter views provided eyewitness ac counts o f Jefferson County his tory ranging from the 1890s to the 1970s. In cooperation with local art ists, George Klos Recording Studio and Russ Sch u ltz’ Treehouse Photographic Studio, reproductions o f the interviews on compact disc, along with transcripts o f each interview and black-and-white photos from the original student inter views are now available as the “Voices o f Experience” series. The full, “Voices o f Experi ences” Heritage Package, includ ing a CD featuring one interview subject, its transcript and pho tos is available for $25. Pack ages including only the CD are available for $10. Further information is avail able from Harold M oore at 4 7 5 -6 5 3 7 , or at hpmoore@crestviewcable.com, or any member o f the Jefferson County Historical Society. firea 475-9111 We are proud that 90% of all our tires are produced in the U.S. of A. Ralph's TV & Furniture 15% OFF Going up? Take Your Career to the Next Level Now with an INROADS® Internship, imwws. 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