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Spilygy Tymoo, Wgrm Springs, Oregon Page 8 Eagle Tech honors longtime employees B y L e s lie M it t s Spilyay Tymoo Eagle Tech Systems recently honored two employees set to retire after several decades working for the tribes. Lloyd Phillips, current presi dent of Eagle Tech Systems, began working with the tribes in 1971. Originally, he said, IBM re cruited him to work with the local mill in order to help with their first mainframe computer. However, Phillips said, “I kind of got installed alone with the computer.” “It turned out to be such an interesting job, and challenging, so I just never left,” Phillips ex plained. But even after he leaves his position with Eagle Tech Sys tems, Phillips won’t be retiring completely. He w ill rem ain CEO o f Urbangardencenter.com with Lavonne Rotz Lloyd Phillips D&P Industries, Inc. after he retires. The Redmond-based com pany works to encourage the use o f environm entally friendly products and promote recycling efforts while supporting organic living endeavors. They manufacture and sell products for organic gardening. Lavonne Rotz is retiring from her position as a data ana lyst after beginning to work with the tribes in 1980. D uring her time with the tribes, Rotz said, she designed a software program for the Vital Statistics department that they are still using today. The job in Warm Springs definitely wasn’t her first—“I actually had a 20-year career in computers before I even came here,” she said. She first began working with statistics for Motorola (during a time period when they used large slide rules, she said) and Casino moved on to IBM. The computer she worked with at IBM was a very differ ent kind than what you see to day, she said. “The computer had vacuum tubes,” Rotz explained. “It was huge. Basically it was quite a project just to get it booted up.” In fact, Rotz was Motorola’s first female programmer, and made $1.51 per hour (making minimum wage) and worked 80 hours per week. From there she moved on to work with Hewlett Packard, General Electric, and Boeing, and for a time doing freelance work as well. In 1980, however, Rotz trav eled to Kah-Nee-Ta to see a solar eclipse. “I just fell in love with the land. I just loved it here,” Rotz said. Shortly after she began working with the tribes. “I came here and I’m still sit ting in the chair that I was sit ting in in 1980,” Rotz said. Some interesting facts about our equine friends By Fara Ann Brummer Warm Springs OSU Extension Service Warm Springs Did you know that a horse’s hooves grow about one centi meter a month? That a horse’s kneecaps are not done fusing and becom ing com pletely formed until they are about 3 and a half years old? That’s why young racehorses can be injured. A horse’s heart weighs about ten pounds. Horses have two blind spots — directly in front of them and directly behind them. Horses see from the sides of their head like other herd ani mals. When approaching them, the best way to do this is from the side so they can see you. Horses have between 36 and 42 teeth, with females usually having 36 and males having 40 to 42. “Canine teeth,” which are fighting teeth, are present on some horse, usually males. “Wolf teeth” can be present in males or females, and some times have to be pulled because they cause pain. Most breeds of horses have 18 ribs, six lumbar bones, and 18 tail vertebrae. Arabians are in a class by themselves, having 17 ribs, five lumbar bones, and 16 tail ver tebrae ' : . ' - ■ ■ ’ - H orses m ake eight basic sounds: snort, squeal, greeting nicker, courtship nicker, mater nal nicker, neigh, roar, blow. It is almost impossible for a horse to vomit — if they do, their stomachs usually rupture soon after. Horses cannot burp. Colic, which is a serious condition that can cause death, is often caused by trapped gas in a horse. Horses can only release gas from their rear end. A horse focuses its eye by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape of the lens of the eye, as humans do. A horse’s gestation period (time of carrying a foal) is 11 months, but can be anywhere* from 10-12 months long. Auto Repair 541-475-6140 Hours: 8 a. m. - 5 p.m. Mon-Fri FREE ESTIMATES - GUARANTEED WORK CUSTOM EXHAUST - MUFFLERS - RADIATORS ENGINES - TRANSMISSIONS - HEATERS - AIR CONDITIONS - ELECTRICAL - BRAKES SUSPENSION AND MORE. . . . F ax: 4 7 5 -2 6 7 7 January 17, 2008 (Continued from page 1) As the Department of the Interior announced its deci sions regarding the various tribal casino applications, the department indicated that from now on there will be greater consideration given to the distance of the pro posed casino site from the reserv atio n , as the d e p a r t m e n t c o n s id e r s whether eventually to ap prove new off-reservation casinos. Of the 22 casino propos als that were rejected last week, 14 were on land that is at least 100 miles from the reservation where tribal members live, with some as far away as 1,000 miles, said Shane Wolfe, a spokesman for the Interior Department. Len Bergstein, a Portland lobbyist who is working with the Warm Springs tribes on casino issues, commented that the actual distance be tween the reservation border and Cascade Locks is less than 40 miles. Tribal members commute much farther than that for jobs and school, he said. ’’W e’ve never been co n cerned about that as some thing that would disqualify us,” he said. Once the DEIS hearings are completed, the proposal heads to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne for ap proval. (The Associated Press helped to this article.) Youth conference (Continued from page 1) Ideally the conference will feature a basketball tourna ment, arts and crafts, an en durance horse race, a film festival, a parade, a fashion show and much more. In addition, each confer ence features a meal in the longhouse as well as a tradi tional powwow. A urelia Stacona has traveled to the conferences for several years in order to take local youth, and spoke to Tribal Council last week. “My vision for the Warm Springs is to really fo cus on our youth,” she said. In addition to having the youth plan the conference, she said, the head powwow dancers will be youth. The conference w ill be held May 27-30 with the pow wow being held on May 30 and May 31. When the first conference was hosted in Warm Springs 33 years ago, tribes traveled from Portland and Lapwai, Idaho. The next year Lapwai hosted the gath ering, until it grew into a large annual event that is hosted throughout the northwest. Legal Aid in Warm Springs Legal Aid Services of Or egon, which provides free le gal advice and representa tion to low-incom e Orego nians, is in Warm Springs the first Monday of every month, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the Family R esource C enter, 1144 Warm Springs Street. To con tact Legal Aid Services of Or egon, write to it at Legal Aid Services of Oregon, Central O regon R egional O ffice, 1029 N.W. 14th Street, Bend, Ore., 97701 ; or call (800) 678- 6944, or (541) 385-6944. 880 S. 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