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Spilysy Tyrnoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
August 16, 2 00 7
A llison retires after 40-plus years
B y Dave McMechan
Spilyoy Tymoo
Carol Allison
ited the reservation around that
time, during the Root Feast. Her
idea was to write a children’s
story about the feast.
She then got to know atwai
Chief Nathan Heath, who told
Allison of his concern that the
history o f the tribes was not
being written. Tribal Council
then gave her perm ission to
write about the history and cul
ture of the tribes.
During her visits to the resr
ervation", she met atwai Rudy
Clements, who at the time was
director of the Recreation De
partment.
. Clements hired her to teach
drawing to children during sum
m ers at the C om m unity
W ellness Center. T his w o rk
lasted a couple o f summers.
For a couple o f years she
lived in Bend, but kept in con
tact with tribal members atwai
Nathan “8 Ball” Jim, and Ver-
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four-person scramble golf tour
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Tee times start at 11 a.m.
$35 ’ p'^h^feoh;1 and
$20iT<Si iiah-N ee-Ta members.
Entry includes green fees, kp’s
and long-putts.
Mulligans are $1 each with
five max per player.
Putting string: $5 each. Two
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Carol Allison is well known
to a great many people on the
reservation, haying worked for
the trib es for m ore than 40
years.
.Allison has been the arts and
crafts coordinator, and family
events coordinator at the Com
m unity W ellness’ C enter for
many of those years.
. Allison decided recently to
retire. Her last day on the job is
this Friday, Aug. 17.
“I feel like the Lord led me
on this path (working for the
tribes), and now He is telling me
to go on a different path,” she
said.
A fter retiring, Allison w ill
co n tin ue w o rkin g on som e
projects for the tribes, so people
will still see her around.
She will continue working, for
in stan ce, on the L ittle M iss
Warm Springs Pageant,1 which
she has done since its inception
in 1982. ’ '
) She is also developing a re
port on the history and culture
o f the tribes. She, is planning to
present the report to the Tribal
Council, f ulfilling a project she
began over 40 years ago. Allison
has gathered the information for
the report over her 'many years
£>f working for the tribes.
She first moved to Madras
in the late 1950s. She first vis-
bena Greene. She w ould do
drawings for projects that Jim
and Greene were working on.
She did drawings for school
books that were part 6 f the el
ementary school curriculum.
Then Satch M iller, Recre
ation Director after Clements,
hired Allison as thé arts and
crafts and family events coordi
nator. “And I’ve worked here
ever since,” she said.
Allison took the Kah-Nee-Ta
shuttle to work for many years.
She learned to drive a car only
after the shuttle service was dis
continued.
Over the years Allison has
come to know many people of
thé reservation. Her room at the
Community Wellness Center,
“Carol’s Room,” is a familiar to
many young and adult people
y h o have grown up here.
O nebf Allison’s lasting lega
cies is the Little M iss Warm
Springs Pageant.
In the early 1980s, tribal e:Îf
ders were voicing concern that
young people were becoming
unfamiliar with the tribal rega
lia. Allison had a discussion with
Carolyn Tohet, Lucinda Greene
and Ada Sooksoit, and they
camé up with the idea for the
Little Miss Warm Springs Pag
eant. At first the pageant was to
be a one-tim e occasion, but
people liked it so much the pag
eant has been an annual event
since 1982.
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The community center
hosted the 2007 summer
recreation Buffalo
Skywalker Hoop Camp
last week for local youth.
A group featuring 6 to 8
year olds comprised one
clinic, while another
included youth from 9 to
12 year olds. The event
lasted for two days.
Justin and Jevin Smith
(left and right, photo
above), and Dapri Miller
(photo at right)
participated in the
activities.
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followed by lunch and an awards ceremony. The team
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