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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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