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March 30, 2006
SpiIy^y Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregón
Katchia named ‘Everyday Hero*
S pilyay Tymoo
• Nic Katchia is 16 years old
and has an interest in visual arts.
Put that together with a vi
sion to help people around him,
and you may have an “Every
day Hero.”
Katchia, a junior at Madras
High, was honored at a lun
cheon of the Madras Kiwanis,
as he earned the service club’s
“Everyday Hero” award March
24.
He earned the award for cre
ating a 30-minute PowerPoint
presentation on the effects of
methamphetamine abuse. He
has shown his presentation at
youth rallies in Warm Springs
and for an audience in Portland.
“This summer I was with
Savenia Falquist, leader of the
youth development team at
Madras High School,” said
Katchia.
“We had a meeting one day.
We were planning to have a
youth conference in Warm
Springs,” he said. “We were put
in groups, and we had to pick
what topic we wanted to talk
about, so I just decided to do
that.”
He did research on metham
phetamine and its effects, “and
I found out a lot of bizarre
things,” he said.
He put his research together
with photographs he found on
Nic Katchia
the Internet. He created a pre
sentation using PowerPoint, pre
sentation software he learned at
Madras High.
It took him a couple weeks
to put the presentation together.
Katchia has presented his
work before groups of senior
citizens and youth at Warm
Springs, as well as the Affiliated
Tribes of Northwest Indians
Conference.
A group in Alaska has ex
pressed interest in his project
and may invite him to present it
there.
Katchia said the presentation
is “graphic.”
“It doesn’t really talk about
the long-term effect. It talks
about the death that can hap
pen (with methamphetamine
abuse), how it affects a person
physically,” he said. “It shows
what happens to young children
when they’re exposed to it.”
The Everyday Hero award
came with a plaque and a medal,
which he pinned on his shirt for
pictures with members of his
family after the meeting at
Mazatlan Restaurant. His right
leg bouncing on the floor as he
waited for the meeting to start,
he said receiving the award
made him feel “special.”
The plaque stated that the
award is given for “service be
yond what is asked or expected”
and “doing without regard for
attention or receiving in return
but because it was the right thing
to be done.”
He said Falquist is helping
him get his presentation copy
righted so it can be used at
Madras High School in the fu
ture.
Katchia showed his presen
tation at a youth rally at the
Agency Longhouse this week,
and there may be plans for its
presentation at the Rodriguez
Annex in Madras soon.
He is working with local film
maker Duke White, who cre
ated the “Downfall” movie last
year on methamphetamine abuse
based in and around Madras.
Katchia is in Madras High’s
Science and Math Investigative
Learning
Experience
(S.M.I.L.E.) club, and takes
French and Italian, and is on the
Madras High golf team.
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(The follow ing article was submit
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ducer. )
“Silent Message” is a narra
tive motion picture inspired by
a group of young men and
women representing the Youth
Development Team at Madras
High School.
It was their choice to address
the problem of teen victimiza
tion and sex abuse. They are an
active, integral part of the movie
production process and are play
ing many of the fictional char
acters in the story. Without them
this story could not be told.
The silent messages many
young people exhibit in their
behavior cry out to be heard.
Through this listening, we the
community will unite with our
young people to effect change
that will result in education, pre
vention and protection of our
future — our children.
Movie synopsis:
Three high school students,
Clint Donovan, Maria Sanchez
and Lily Blackfoot, are united
by one sobering fact: They were
all Sexually abused.
While responding to the vic
timization in their own ways,
their abnormal behaviors send
a message that can only be heard
by those who are really listening.
The first act of the story in
troduces the characters and their
struggles. The second act unites
the characters and ends in trag
edy when Lily takes her own life
because of the abuse. In the
third and final act Maria divulges
the abuse of her little sister to a
favorite teacher.
This admission begins the
steps to adult involvement and
demonstrates the help that
young people need from adults
and community. This ultimately
leads to Clint and Maria’s pros
pect of a successful future de
spite and abusive past.
“Silent Message” began pro
duction March 27. Production
will continue through April 15.
The motion picture will premiere
at the Madras High School in
early June. After the premiere
all markets will be approached.
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