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Spilyay Tymoo, Wairm Springs
Help available
for estate planning
Tribal Council has authorized
a pilot project to provide legal
assistance to tribal members in
the area of estate planning and
the preparation of wills, espe­
cially for trust lands and trust
funds. The project is at no cost
to tribal members.
Cynthia Starke, a lawyer for­
merly of the Karnopp Peterson
law firm, will meet with individu­
als and families to provide legal
assistance with estate planning
and will preparation.
Arrangements have been
made for Starke to meet with
interested clients in a private
room at Hi Lookee Lodge.
Starke will be available Monday
through Thursday for the next
four weeks, depending on the
level of interest and demand.
Appointments will be avail­
able from 12 noon to 8 p.m. on
scheduled days. Appointments
must be made with Charlene
Smith at tribal management,
553-3212.
Individuals should obtain the
following information from the
BIA and Office of the Special
Trustee (OST) before their
scheduled appointment with Ms.
Starke: First, the “Individual
Trust Inventory Report (ITI)”
can be requested from the BIA
Realty Officer at Warm Springs.
Second, individuals with an IIM
account may also obtain a cur­
rent report on their “Individual
Indian Money (IIM) accounts”
from the OST at Warm Springs.
Forms to request this infor­
mation are available with
Charlene Smith, the OST IIM
and the BIA Realty Office. An­
nouncements will be aired on
KWSO each week regarding any
change to Starke’s appointment
schedule and location. Individual
appointment information must be
obtained from the tribal manage­
ment secretaries, 553-3212.
‘96 Buick LeSabre, automatic,
Man killed in highway wreck
A two-vehicle collision
killed one man and injured
three people on Highway 26
northwest of Warm Springs
last Thursday, July 27.
A 20-year-old Madras man
was killed while traveling east-
bound when his car drifted
Wolfe Point
fire contained
Crews managed to com­
pletely contain the Wolfe Point
II Fire by July 31. The fire, lo­
cated near the Wolfe Point sub­
division, ignited July 25 and
grew to 4,129 acres at its height.
Fire and Safety received assis­
tance from fire engines with the
M l Hood National Forest, as well
as a large air tanker from the
Redmond Air Center. The blaze
direatened two homes, but both
were protected by firefighters.
The cause of the fire is currendy
under investigation.
Eagle-Tech:
opportunities
for business
development
(Continued from page 1)
Phillips also emphasizes
Eagle-Tech’s plans to serve the
tribal community through the
center, but he is careful to point
out that his staff cannot offer a
full range of business support
services.
“We can’t do everything the
small business center did,”
Phillips says. “Our technical ser­
vices will be superior, but we
don’t have the expertise to, say,
help people develop business
plans. On the other hand, we
intend to bring speakers in on a
variety of topics, and we do
have people at Eagle-Tech who
have a lot of experience in build­
ing and running small businesses.
We know the resources to point
people to, and we will help
where we can.”
Phillips credits Jolene Atencio,
who managed the small business
center until its closure, with
helping Eagle-Tech get its
CORE funding, along with an
even larger $100,000 Rural
Business Enterprise G rant
(RBEG) through the USDA.
“Jolene really sees a need to
support and develop local busi­
ness people,” Phillips says. “She
literally went out and helped find
the funds to make those grants
happen.”
Opportunities for business
development
Eagle-Tech’s second path
aims at acquiring 8(a) status and
using that to win valuable set-
aside contracts from the federal
government, something other
tribes have done with great suc­
cess. Anspach cites tribes who
have won contracts worth tens
of millions of dollars.
“T hat’s really what we’re
about,” says Phillips. “The tech
center is an important project
for us and the tribe, but ulti­
mately we want to be winning
multi-million dollar government
contracts and making money.
We want to bring that work and
that money onto the reserva­
tion.”
Phillips looks forward to the
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Lorraine Suppah is the application manager at Eagle-Tech.
September TribalNet confer­
ence in Reno as the place for
launching Eagle-Tech into the
greater world of IT providers.
“I think of TribalNet as our
coming-out party,” he says. “We
have a vendor booth and we’ll
be introducing ourselves to the
national tribal IT community for
the first time. We’re teamed with
a firm from Bend and we’ll be
offering services on IBM equip­
ment.”
Eagle-Tech has so far ac­
quired certification in support­
ing IBM products, which are
commonly used both by casinos
and the federal government.
Down the road, Phillips plans to
acquire certifications for
Microsoft, Cisco, and probably
Linex, and further envisions
working with telephone provid­
ers to sell phone systems to the
government.
Eagle-Tech will also solicit
jobs from prime contractors
such as Boeing, who are required
to subcontract a portion of their
work to minority-owned busi­
nesses.
“We won’t be the only tribe
trying to do that,” Phillips says.
“It’s competitive, but it’s a good
opportunity.
One key to our success will
be to move cautiously enough
that we can actually get the job
done and perform well. We
won’t go after work that we
aren’t ready for; we want to do
a good job.”
Ultimately, Phillips would like
to see technical accomplishment
grow not only at Eagle-Tech, but
throughout the reservation.
“Right now we don’t have a
into oncoming traffic.
A 24-year-old Madras man
was driving a van that collided
with the car. He was critically
injured and flown to St. Charles
Medical Center in Bend. The
two other occupants of the van
sustained minor injuries.
All four involved in the
crash were wearing seat belts.
The highway remained
closed for more than four
hours, according to the Or­
egon Department of Trans­
portation.
see countless opportunities on
the horizon, not only for Eagle-
Tech, but for Ventures and
other small business develop­
ment here at Warm Springs.”
Stryker admires business en­
trepreneurship and hopes it
catches on in Warm Springs.
“Anything is what you make
of it,” he says. “Entrepreneur-
ship is a state of mind. It’s not
just wanting to go into work
from 8 to 5 and come home
with a check.” Nor is entrepre­
neurship the province of busi­
ness owners alone. “It’s also a
state of mind in the public and
how they regard business and
owners, and also government,
whether they support the con­
ditions for business.”
Through its efforts to build
the tech center and drum up
outside business, Eagle-Tech
hopes to contribute to a posi­
tive business climate at Warm
Springs, and perhaps its success
will help do so.
“We aren’t where we’d like to
be yet,” Phillips says. “We still
have some basic things to get
up to speed, like our coding and
accounting systems — Ventures
is helping us with that. Once we
get that ready and get the 8(a)
certification, then we can really
start going after jobs.”
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The deadline to register your child for the 4-H Culture
Camp at Peter’s Pasture is this Friday, August 4.
There will be up to 50 campers at the 4-H Culture Camp,
to be held at the pasture.
The camp is open to youth who have completed fourth
through sixth grade.
There is a $25 registration fee. There are not any scholar­
ship funds this year.
Also, if you know of anyone who wants to make some
extra money this summer, the 4-H Culture Camp is in need
of people to be counselors or teachers.
There is also a need for a boys’ sweathouse leader, and a
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553-3238.
large pool of tech workers to
draw from, but we want to get
people interested and help them
get qualified to work in that field.
At first we’ll be subcontracting
out to people who have the skill
sets in place. We’re still too small
to get major contracts, but
teamed with other companies
we can do it. But we’d like to
grow and develop the skills on Encouragement for entre­
the reservation so that we can preneurs
In addition to his 8(a) work,
get jobs on our own that we staff
Stryker also manages the tech
ourselves.”
center project.
“I like the way my prior ex­
Funding to acquire 8(a) sta­
tus
perience as a business owner
Half of the RBEG money comes into play almost by acci­
is earmarked for mentoring dent here,” he says. “I get to help
Eagle-Tech through the 8(a) cer­ others who might like to do the
tification process and develop­ same thing.”
ing its business prospects.
Stryker looks forward to of­
The rest will help fund more fering advice at the center and
general efforts to support small helping those interested in build­
business development on the res­ ing small businesses find the re­
ervation, including a portion to sources they need. “If I don’t
Ventures for its other enter­ know where to send them di­
rectly, chances are I’ll know
prises.
Eagle-Tech has engaged where to send them to find out.
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within a couple of months, and
expects certification to follow
anywhere from 3 to 6 months
after that.
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Springs after retiring from the
highly successful 8(a) enterprise
he built in the 1990s. As owner
of Spirit Communications,
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and advocate of small business
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