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Spilyay Tyrnoo, Warm Springs, Oregop Page 6 August 2, 2 0 0 7 starts demolition Coyote’s Eatery opens for business PGE of hydro dam Dave McMechan/Spilyay Jasmine Caldera at Coyote’s Eatery. . Jasm in e- C aldera has opened a new bu sin ess, Coyote’s Eatery. Coyote’s Eatery is a mo bile concession trailer, provid ing culinary services for the residents o f Warm Springs. Most o f the time the con cession will be located on the lot across from Warm Springs Market. The eatery will also be used at various local events such as the feasts, rodeos and pow wow's. Caldera was kept very busy recently with the many fire fighters who are living at the fire cam p by the rodeo grounds. Coyote’s Eatery offers ham burgers and ch eesebu rgers, hotdogs, salads, nachos, Indian tacos, Wasco shortcake, straw berry shortcake, drinks and other items. A specialty at the eatery is fry bread. Caldera first began leam- New housing at Celilo Village C EL IL O V ILL A G E (AP) - Searing: heat bakes the brown hilts that rise up along both sides o f the Columbia River, but the i ak con^ponin^iiiside th&j&tv- i emmeftt-isgüedoublewidé Works I perfectly, i Village C h ief Olsen Meanus Jr., shirtless and sweating from a day spent lugging box springs and dressers, sits for a moment as his children explore the white- on-white interior o f their tem porary home. It’s a better environment for the kids, Meanus muses. And all Warm Springs, thank you fo r supporting the Even so, Meanus will miss his and infrastructure to residents old home. forced to relocate because o f “It’s the only house I’ve ever The Dalles Dam, the report said. lived in,” he says ruefully, “I have T he agency’s long involve a lo t o f m enlbries-p n that ment at Celilo “sets, this site pe- house:” dBIrarly apart ak,;a corps respon Such lis the hold Celilo Vil sibility,” the report said. “It’s hard to think long-term lage has on Native Americans. D espite decades* o f poverty, when you don’t have decent neglect and broken promises, water, electricity and sewage,” despite being cut o ff from res said Miller, the project manager. The home and street con ervation services and dealing with sketchy sewer, water and struction extend a flurry o f im electrical service, even good provements at Celilo. Contrac change is unsettling. to rs b u ilt a new village B u t change is com ing and longhouse in 200 5 , and this the recent village improvements fast. The work is part o f a $67 spring it hosted a 50-year com _ the new lónghouse, the new million project that essentially memoration o f the flooding o f water and sewer systems, now represents an admission by the ; Celilo Falls. Since then, workers the new houses _ all o f that work government that it did not abide have drilled a new well, installed honors the elders who have pre by a series o f agreements, be a 250,000-gallon water reser served the heritage o f this an ginning with an 1855 treaty that voir, built a new sewage lagoon cient gathering place for North promised Northwest tribes ac- and pump station, and added cess to “usual and accustomed” fire hydrants. west, tribes, he says. A Bureau o f Indian Affairs T h e M eanus fam ily and fishing sites.. Celilo, seven miles upstream administrative office and classr about 50 other village residents have started moving into modu from The Dalles, was a fishing, room will be built in 2009. The vill% e work has been lar homes provided by the U.S. trade and cultural center for Army Corps o f Engineers. The Pacific Northwest tribes for an follow ed clo sely by N ative estimated 10,000 years. Native Americans living on Northwest families will live there for the next nine months while contrac Americans, perched on planks reservations and elsewhere. An tors build 14 homes and the first or platforms, netted migrating estimated 2,000 people, most o f paved streets and sidewalks the salmon as they milled and leaped them N ative A m ericans, at in a series o f pools and falls. tended the 50-year commemo village has seen. . Water backed up by comple ration at Celilo. T h e village’s existing resi dences will be tom down _ many tion o f The Dalles Dam in 1957 are decrepit shacks or trailers flooded Celilo Falls and forced afflicted with lead paint and sub relocation o f the original village. The Bonneville and Jo h n Day standard plumbing and wiring. The new homes will be two-, hydroelectric dams affected other three-, Qr four-bedroom houses Native American fishing sites. To make amends, the Corps ranging from about 1,400 to 1,800 square feet, said George o f Engineers in the past few Miller, the corps’ project man years has rebuilt 31 traditional ager. The housing will be owned fishing sites along the Columbia, by the Bureau o f Indian Affairs,, adding access roads, boat ramps which will issue residency per or other amenities as needed. At mits. Village residents will live the req u est o f the W arm there free, taking on some re Springs, Umatilla, Yakama and N ez P erce tribes, the corps sponsibility for maintenance. For most residents, even the added the Celilo Village resto temporary modular homes are ration to the project.. A 2003 corps report, written a dramatic step up. E ach has three bedrooms, two bathrooms to authorize the village project, and comes with washer, dryer was unusually plainspoken in its and air conditioning in addition assessment o f the government’s to the usual stove and fridge. A responsibility. The corps contrib half-dozen homes are handicap- uted to problems at Celilo by providing inadequate housing accessible. BM f ing the family recipe for fry bread at the age of. 6, when she would watch her grand mother make the fry bread dough. Regular hours o f service aré fro m 11 a.m . until evening time. businesses you see in the Spilyay Tymoo — t They give back jtffc the j f. | j WmMfcpl -. cgmmunity SAN DY (AP) - The C E O o f Oregon's largest utility detonated explosives on the Marmot Dam on Tuesday, the beginning o f the end o f a 47-foot concrete hydroelectric dam that has blocked the Sandy River for nearly a century and hindered steelhead and salmon from reaching their spawning grounds. When the Marmot is totally dismantled later this summer, the Sandy will again be a free-flowing river — from its origin high on Mount Hood to its mouth on the Columbia River. The bottom line is that it's good for fish and saves pur custom ers money," Peggy Fowler, C E O and president o f Portland G en eral Electric, said at a ceremony just Before pushing down on a j plunger-style detonator straight out o f the Old West. > The explosion just after noon cracked the dam enough to allow crews to begin hammering and drilling while a temporary earthen dam diverts Water around the site. Fowler told environmentalists, state and federal government officials, and lawmakers at the site that their eight-year effort was a model o f cooperation to preserve threatened fish runs and ex pand wildlife habitat. The utility also had determined that they were better o ff pay ing the $17 million demolition costs than maintenance fees made . higher by newer environmental regulations. The Sandy is a legendary steelhead river, and P G E 's decision to assist those fish and others on the river was welcomed by environ mental groups. “The undammed Sandy River, flowing freely from Mount Hood to the Columbia, will be good for local businesses, clean waiter, and fish and wildlife,” said Amy Kober o f American Rivers. “The Sandy will show us that when a river is healthy, we all thrive.” P G E will also remove a smaller dam on the Little Sandy River, a tributary to the Sandy. Environmental groups, state and federal agencies, and local governments and businesses were among 23 groups involved in the dam removal plan. Marmot Dam was part o f the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project that went on line in 1913 to provide power to a younger Portland decades before the more massive dams were built along the^'Co- lumbia River. The Bull Run project provides enough electricity to power more than 10,000 homes. The project includes more than a mile and a half o f canals and tunnels that connect a three-mile wood box flume from Marmot Dam to die Little Sandy River just above Little Sandy Dam. Water from the Little Sandy River is diverted into Roslyn Lake, then re turned to the Bull Run River after passing through a powerhouse. P G E is donating about 1,500 acres on the Bull Run Project for fish and wildlife habitat, and for public recreation. The area will be the centerpiece o f a planned 9,000-acre natural resource and rec reation area, officials say. Decommissioning hydroelectric projects has. been rare- The FcdatajJSftetgy.-Re®iktqry Commission «has authorized fewer’than a'Coupie 0 frriore^than t‘]6Q0 project proposals nationwide. Bedroom Furniture - 10 percent o ff! 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