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Spilyay Tyrooo, W arm Springs, O regon
A Look at the News o f2007
recently as part of Eagle-Tech
System s’ technology center.
Elsewhere:
The Youth Leadership Con
ference held last week at the
K ah-N ee-Ta proved to be a
great success, as over 90 stu
d en ts, speakers, com m ittee
members and chaperones at
tended. Sixty-two students reg
istered from W arm Springs,
Yakama, Bend, M adras and
Eugene. And this news:
Fire fighters were finally do
ing the final mop-up work on
the fires that had burned on the
reservation since early July. High
winds and rugged terrain com
bined to slow the effort to fully
extinguish the fires, that burned
across more than 10,000 acres.
And this August news:
Gerald Smith is back home
in Warm Springs. He had been
working and living away from
the reservation since 1992, and
afterwards he became manager
o f the U.S. Olympic Boxing
Team. Smith returned to Warm
Springs this summer, and is now
the Chief O perations Officer
(COO) o f the C onfederated
Tribes o f Warm Springs.
(Continued from previous paper)
June
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The Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs on June 22-24
celebrated the 38th Annual Pi-
Ume^-Sha T reaty Days. T he
weekend of activities included
the Traditional Parade, and pow
wow royalty including Junior
Miss W arm Springs K iyana
Yellowman (left in photo) and
Soraya M endez (at right in
photo).
Graduates gathered together
at the annual celebration for
members of the class of 2007
recendy. The Community Cen
ter gymnasium was packed with
family members wishing to con
gratulate not only those who
g raduated high school, b u t
graduates o f colleges, voca
tional schools or GED recipi
ents. The event was sponsored
by the Tribal Education Com
m ittee and the Jo h n so n
O ’Malley Committee.
Spilyayfile photo
Fire fighter Vernon Suppah on lookout for the Warm Springs I nt
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July
Lightning strikes caused sev
eral wild fires on the reserva
tion. Three o f the fires took off
and grew in size, while many
others were contained while still
small in size. Hundreds of fire
fighters, including Warm Springs
H ot Shots and other local fire
personnel, responded to the
fires. Base camp was set up at
the rodeo grounds. The largest
of the three fires, the Biddle
Pass fire, eventually burned
across several thousand acres. In
other news:
Tribal Council members at-
tended a three-day orientation students have turned to the
and priority-setting retreat last Oregon National Guard Youth
month at the Oregon Coast. All Challenge as an alternative, to
11 Council members partici conventional school systems.
pated in the session. On the fi Clarissa Wolfe, 17, graduated
nal day, they unanimously passed from the program last June.
a resolution and proclamation
“I ended up there because I
setting forth the Twenty-Fourth was in jail,” Wolfe said. “It was
Council’s priorities for the next co u rt ordered for me to go
three years. “The proclamation there.” It was an order that
is an important early step for Wolfe now realizes was in her
this Council,” said secretary-trea- b est in te rest. “I needed to
| surer Jody Calica, who organized j change my life arid everything,”
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j Wolfe explained. “I was info
An alternative school in Bend drugs, alcohol, partying, disre
is providing a solu tio n for specting my grandparents.”
troubled teens—including sev
N ow Wolfe works at the
eral local youth. A number of courthouse, has her own house
-Agency Hotshot Crew.
and a car.
August
In its ongoing effort to inject
new life into the reservation
economy, Warm Springs Ven
tures is asking Tribal Council to
fund further research into the
feasibility and impact o f a re
sort developm ent near Bear
Springs.
L ocated in the M cQ uinn
strip on the north edge o f the
reservation, about three miles
south of the Bear Springs camp
ground, the resort would con
sist of second homes built on
about 2,400 acres of land leased
from the tribes.
The initial plan provides for
900 hom e site's, a large golf
course, trails for walking, bik
ing, and horseback riding, swim
ming pools, and scenic ponds
within the golf course. When
fully built out, the project would
have a value in excess o f $800
million. In other news:
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Hungry community m em
bers have a new option to ex
plore in Warm Springs. The Te
pee Deli & Espresso opened
The new Credit Enterprise
building is nearing completion.
Construction should be done in
the next couple o f months, said
Lori Fuentes, manager o f the
tribal Credit Enterprise. The
floor covering, landscaping and
parking lot o f some o f the as
pects o f the building that still
need to be done, said Fuentes.
Trie ground-breaking for, the,,
project sivas in February, and
construction has proceeded sub
stantially on time, she said.
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