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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
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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
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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
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project proposals nationwide.
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