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Pdge 14 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon - Author to visit Warm Springs B y L eslie M itts Spilyay Tymoo Craig Lesley, an award-win ning author with local connec tions, will host a conversation hour in Warm Springs on April 21 . The event, called “Conversa tions with Craig” is part of a two-day gathering in Lesley’s honor, hosted by Jefferso n County Community Read. The Warm Springs Library will be open for the event from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Jefferson County Commu nity Read will be conducting writer’s workshops and reminis cent gatherings throughout the month of April in conjunction with Lesley’s novel, “The Sky Fisherman.” Multiple copies of the book are available at the library, and staff are requesting that the book be returned as soon as patrons are finished reading in order for others to be able to finish it. A cco rd in g to Ruth Ann H opps, the event in W arm Springs w ill give community members a chance to visit with Lesley. “He has a lot of connections and friends in Warm Springs,” Hopps said. In fact, one of the characters in “The Sky Fisherman” is par tially based on a local woman Lesley knew in high school. Craig Lesley “He had a terrible crush on her,” Hopps said. Crossword puzzles using in formation found in “The Sky Fisherman” can be picked up at the Warm Springs Library and are available as well as from Jefferso n C ounty L ib ra ry ’s website at www.jcld.org. A dditional inform ation is available at www.jcld.org or by calling 475-3351. In “The Sky Fisherman,” the lives of young Culver, his twice- married mother, and his charis matic uncle Jake have always been overshadowed by the death of Culver’s father in a fishing accident. When a suspicious fire de stroys the town mill and three murders occur, Culver is en gulfed by the dangers he finds lurking in the place he’d come to call home. Love, death, coming of age and Native American spiritual beliefs are combined with the forces o f nature in L esley’s novel. In the novel, the fictional town of Gateway is modeled after Madras as viewed during L esley’s teenage years spent there during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lesley writes that, “Jake is modeled on my uncle, Oscar Lange, a legendary fishing guide and small-town hero. Flora re sembles my mother, a tenacious single parent who worked on the Warm Springs Indian Reserva tion. Billyum Bruised head played high school football with me.” Lesley is the author of 4 nov els and a memoir, along with numerous other works. He has received three Pacific Northwest Booksellers Associa tion Awards, the Western Writ ers of America Golden Spur Award for Best Novel, and an Oregon Book Award. He has been the recipient of several national fellowships and holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Whitman College. Currently the Senior Writer- in-Residence at Portland State University, Craig lives with his wife and two daughters in Port land, Oregon. Both “Storm Rid ers” and “The Sky Fisherman” were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. April 12, 2 0 0 7 Darkness to Light training offered in Warm Springs B y Sarah Frank Victims o f Crime Services One in four girls, and one in six boys will be sexually abused before their eigh teenth b irth d ays, but it doesn’t have to happen. You can help lower those num bers and protect the children in this community. As part of an ongoing tri county initiative led by the Kids Center in Bend, Warm Springs Victim s o f Crime Services and the Central Or egon Battering and Rape Al liance (COBRA) in Madras are sponsoring a free “Dark ness to Light” training from 1 to 4 p.m. on Monday, April 23. Darkness to Light is a revo lutionary, research-based sexual abuse, prevention training pro gram developed by the Dark ness to Light organization. Darkness to Light educates adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to the epi demic of child sexual abuse. Adults who participate in the Darkness to Light training will learn how sexual abuse affects • communities nationwide. They will learn about the long-term and often devastating effects that sexual abuse has on indi viduals. M ost im portantly, partici pants will leave with simple, pro active strategies for protecting children from sexual abuse. O nly 10 percent o f child sexual abuse cases are com mitted by strangers; 90 per cent of these incidents in volve an adult known by the child and/or the child’s fam ily. This is a chilling statistic, but one that cannot be ig nored. It is the responsibility of adults to protect children in the community from sexual abuse so that they can grow up to lead healthy productive lives. C h ildren are the community’s most precious resource. The D arkness to Light training will be held at the Family Resource Center in Warm Springs. Call VOCS at 553-2293 for more informa tion. Historical Society Annual Fundraiser Dinner The Jefferson County Historical Soci ety will host its annual fundraiser dinner on Saturday, April 14 at the Culver Chris tian Church Annex. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. with dinner served at 6:30. The speaker will be Dr. Alice Parman. There will be entertainment, a silent auction, raffle, door prizes. Dinner tick ets are $40. For more information or for dinner tick ets call Evaline Patt at 553-3331, or 553- 5605. __________ 7 Apparel Express Open in Madras, across from Thriftway. Now carrying Levi’s and Carhartt for Men! Lots of new inventory in r Men’s, Women’s, Junior’s, Kids, and shoes at prices you’ll love. New arrivals from: Skechers, Columbia, Fox Rider, Quiksilver, Roxy, Erika, Woolrich, and Much More! 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