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. Adams Dr., Madras, OR
Tamarack, Red Fir, Pine
$200/cord + delivery
2262 Quail Trail, Warm Springs, OR
ph. 977-3034
k___________________________________________________ 7
■wer
»
W a rm S p n n if s M a rk e t.
lu d id a A r t s d a d C r d fts
Iff
2132 Wärm Springs St-
Wärm Springs, 03 97761
(541)5533597
L
j I h
JH-
¿¡¿IB.
if
3 y o u SHOULD BE HERE
Rez Express Fundraiser
Especially in the w inter, w hen you can w a rm up in o u r 92-degree hot springs-fed
mineral pool, full service spa or live action casino. Of course, a great offer doesn't hurt either.
Please support our youth!
Pens for sale: $3 each. Proceeds go for travel expenses
of the Rez Express Boys High School Basketball Team.
The team is planning to travel to Phoenix, Ariz., for the
2008 Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI).
See S a m m i O ’R e illy o r V a l S q u ie m p h e n to g e t y o u rs !
k
_______________________________________________ 7
Bottle drive to help team travel
T h e re is an on-going
bottle drive fundraiser ben
efiting the Rez Express, the
All-Indian high school boys
basketball team represent
ing Warm Springs.
Proceeds go toward travel
expenses for the team to
travel to the 2008 Native
American Basketball Invita-
tional Tournament in Phoe
nix.
F or d o n a tio n s , and
p ic k u p , p le a s e c o n ta c t
S am m i
O ’ R e illy ,
Val
S q u ie m p h e n
o r R ita
Squiemphen.
The fund-raiser w ill be
on-going through July of
2008.
3rd Annual Elvis Celebration
Saturday, January 12
W ith Danny Vernon as Elvis
FREE SHOW
Doors open at 7 3 o p m ; show begins at 8:3opm . 21 and over.
Stay the night w ith o u r $89 Weekend Package.
Midweek Stay & Play Package for Two*
Includes deluxe accommodations and tw o $5
Slot Play coupons. Call 1-8OO-554-4786 for reservations.
•$59 Sunday - Thursday. Package ends February z8, 2 0 0 8. Excludes triba l
governm ent service fee. Subject to a vailability. Certain blackout dates apply.
Blackjack is offered Wednesdays thru Sundays beginning at ipm..
<10 to Kahneeta.com for more details and upcominç events ♦ Warm Springs, OR • 54i-55}-mz
C A S IN O • G O L F • SPA • P O O L • D IN IN G
• LO DG E • STABLES
I<AHWA
HIGH DESERT RESORT & CASINO