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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.
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Brigette Whipple’s daughter
Rosebud works on a beaded
bracelet: at left, the shop
offers a variety of beads.
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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
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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
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or
at
hpmoore@crestviewcable.com,
or any member o f the Jefferson
County Historical Society.
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