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Gathering fo r graduates
Graduates gathered together at Curtis Leonard Satanus, ' Jo êAnn
the annual celebration for members Scott, Sisiley Scott, Jacoba Smith,
Ryan Smith Jr., Joyce Squiemphen,
o f the class o f 2007 recently.
• The Community Center gymna T erijo Squiemphen-Yazzie, Salena
sium was packed with family mem Strong, Delsbn Suppah Jr., Dustin
bers wishing to congratulate not only !% ppah, Gpdy Switzler, Orlando
those-who graduated high school, but TsWee, Alyssia Thompson, Bobby
graduates o f colleges, vocational, Thurby, Clinton' Tohet, Winona
Tohet, Jenny Van Pelt, Erica Wewa,
schools or GED recipients.
The evfent was sponsored by the AJ Whiteplume, Joanna Williams,'
Tribal Education Committee and the Sophia W illiams, O lea Yah tin,
Yolanda Yallup, Cally Young, Latoya
Johnson O ’Malley Committee.'
Wendell Jim, general manager of Zacafias, Elsie Blaçkwolf, Ruby Brit
education, delivered the welcome ad tany.
dress, while Aurolyn Stwyer, wee- ... G E D recipients include: Ikie
chairperson for Tribal Council de H eath, Cameron Lucero-Smith,
Sasha M itchell, Brian Renfro,
livered the keynote address.
High school graduates include: Melanie Adams and Robert Givens.
Graduates from a vocational,
Shirelle Adams, Tyson Adams, Jose
A lvarez Jr., SteVen A nderson, technical, or trade .school include:
Rachelle Begay, Johnso n Bill, Sasha Jessi Fuentes,Otie Made, and Tilda
Caldera, Nancy Charley, Reggie Wakey.
G raduates from ^ tw o-year
C lem ents, , A m anda Coffee^
.Leonardo.Guevas, Jonathan. Culpus higher education institution include:,
Jr., Addie Estimo, Jaycelene Frank, Ashley Aguilar, Patrick Boyd, Bruce
Sharmayne Frank, Dakota George, H ow topat, Lisa, Johnson, Allen
Francis
G onzales,
Jan sen Mitchell, Cyrille Mitchell, Relda
H arrih g to n , T ianna H erkshan, P eratrovich, G o rd o n Sqott Jr.,
Holona Jackson, Whitney Jackson, Robin Smith and Joseph Thompson.
G raduates thorn a four-ÿear
Jenna Johnson, Levi Kalama, Titus
Kalama, Nicholas Katchia, Aldwin higher education institution include:
Keo, Sheldon Leonard, Sheryl Lopez, Camille Clements, Raneva Dowty,
Richard M cCbriville, T rum an Maria GodineS, Vesta Johnson,si
Merrifield, Joshua Moody, Tamera Natalie Mitchejl, Shilo Shaw, Qreg
Moody, Galen Northrup, Colt Pitt, Smith and Shawnetta Yahtin.
Lucille Polk, Felesia Red D og,
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Leslie Mitts
Arm ondo Ribeiro, Whitley Ruiz,
The Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs on June 22-24
celebrated the 38th Annual Pi-
Ume-Sha Treaty Days. The
weekend of activities included
the Traditional Parade (photo
at right), and powwow royalty
including Junior Miss Warm
Springs Kiyana Yellowman (left
in top photo) and Soraya ;
Mendez (at right in top photo).'
0 8 r e pictures o f the
Chinook return below average
celebration are on pages 8
and 9.)
Community garden growing steadily
they have been working for ovena year ’
to identify methods of improving local
communities.
M uffin tins currently4ine„rtiiQ
In addition, to the community gar
windowsills of Sheikh Clements ’ Office den in Warm Springs, they are also
at Community Counseling.
buildipg one in Madras, supporting thé
Tiny seedlings "are starting to grow garden in Metolius, and hoping to es
under her dlhgeritcare as part o f a tablish a community garden in Culver
much larger project: the community within the next year.
garden ban g revived with the help of
In Beamer’s opinion, community
various community members.
gardens are just the beginning o f a
Clements is definitely not alonf in. much bigger project.
her efforts. The garden features rows
“Gardens not only build health, but
o f plants being tended to by a number they also build community,” Beamer
said.
o f people throughout Warm Springs.
While the garden is being funded this |
• “ It started with n lot of work——from
getting it plowed to making the rows,”' year with a grant from the Office o f
Rural Health, it will be able to continue
Clements said. ;
The garden is being funded this year with funding from the Mt. View Hos
with grant money through a program pital Foundation and will qualify for
in Madras aimed at improving health. additional grant money in thé future; .
Currently they are using grant money
Beth- Ann Beamer, director o f the
Community Health Improvement Part to update the water system. Until then,
nership, with Mt. View Hospital, said they’re planting close to existing sprin
B y L eslie M itts
Spiiy-aj Tjmoo
Fifty years after the inundation of
Celilo Falls, the Museum at
Warm Springs opened an exhibit
featuring memories through
photographs (example at right),
objects and videos.
Terry Courtney Jr. built a scaffold
and provided nets featured
throughout the exhibit. Petitions
and letters from ChiefTommy
Thompson, a longtime protestor
of the dam that obliterated Celilo
Falls, are also displayed along
with photographs of how people
once lived at Celilo Falls. The
exhibit will run through
September 9.
klers.and have volunteers willing to help
withtivatering.
“There’s a lot o f effort info moving
the sprinklers around,” Clements said.
Fellow garden enthusiasts unite ev
ery Friday from., 10530 a.m. ‘until 2:30
p.m., with lunch being provided either
by Community Counseling or CHET—
but often they stay but as late as 5 p.m.
to get more \york done, Clements said.
The garden—which they are calling
the Tenino Garden-—features a wide
variety o f plants so far.
This year they planted com, toma
toes, peppers, cantaloupe, carrots, let
tuce, pumpkins, beans, pea pods, and
strawberries. Children involved with
the Boys and Girls Club have even
planted some flowers.
But that’s just the beginning, as far
as Clements is concerned. The produce
will be given away, she said.
See GARDEN on 70
' (AP) — As predicted, the return of
adult spring chinoók salmon through
BonneviBe Dam was below the 10-year-
average but well above its historic low.
The official counting season ended
Ju n e'22, and fishery officials say the
total should be about 80,800.
The count'bf juvénile — or “jack” —
salmon was up, boding well for future
runs.
. The 10-year average for adult spring,
chinooks is about 175,000. In 2006 the
count was 126,158. The record low of
. 12,780 was tallied in 1995.
, The “ocean index predictor” from.'
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) showed that
almost all ecosystem indices measured '
in 2005 also pointed to low returns in
■2007.
“We’ve seen wide fluctuations1 in
adult returns over the past 30 years,”
said John G. Williams, a research fish
ery biologist with theN OAA Fisheries
Service,
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“That’s .to be expected when the
changeable ocean, where salmon spend
most o f their lives, has such a power
ful influence on adult survival.” .
Lie said data on survival o f juve-
niles through the dams on the Snake
and Cqlümbla rivers is encouraging, He
said it is about twicé ks high as itwks in
the 1976s.
NCMA Fisheries said survival of
juvenile spring chinook through the hy
dropower dams in the Columbia Basin
in 2006 was the highest measured in
;30 years.
By increasing juvenile survival to the
ocean, scientists say, adult returns are
likely to improve “over- the long term.
Jack returns are generally considered a
good predictor o f adult -returns the
following year, y
Since the 1970s, installation o f tur
bine intake screens, reduction o f harm
ful atmospheric gas in the waters be
low the dams and improved water
flows and spill during the spring migra
tion have meant better conditions for
the young fish.
Judge puts BPA on notice
(AP) - A federal judge has put the
The problem occurred April 3 when
Bonneville Power Administration on - the BPA, in a Series of faulty calcula
notice that salmon conservation-comes; tions days earlier,, had sold power coni-
before regional power needs after learn panies more electricity than it could
ing that the BPA miscalculated energy draw from hydroelectric dams along the
demand and had to. risk killing pro Columbia'%and Snake rivers. And
tected salmon in April.
Bonneville marketers- Couldn't buy
U.S. District Judge James Redden, enough back to cover the shortfall. .
who is overseeing a landmark case bal
M anagers were'-faced w ith two
ancing fish and hydroelectricity, learned choice?: Adjust dam turbines to boost
what happened by an anonymous phone power, thrashmg and possibly killing
message.
federally protected salmon heading
He was upset, having already lost downriver to the ocean; or cut o ff
patience with repeated fédéral failures power people needed during a cold
to meet his requirements to address the stiap.
damage dams dò to salmon.
Bonneville kept the power flowing.
“Apparently, BPA’s sales commit
“U nder the circpmsfances here,
ments to customers always trump its. threatened and endangered species
obligation to protect” Endangered Spe I must come before power generation,”
cies Act-listed species, Redden wrote Redden wrote, ordering that from now
in a stern order. “This was a marketing on dams be operated with full salmon
error and ESA-listed fish paid the price. safeguards and that he be notified of
This, the law does not permit.”
any deviations.