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April 10, 2008 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 2 Youth form new community advisory group B y L e slie M itts Spilyay Tymoo Several local students dedi cated part of their spring break to make their voices heard with a new youth organization. T he new Youth A dvisory Kouncil aims to help students become involved in the commu nity. The purpose o f the Youth Advisory Kouncil is to give ideas and advice to youth-serving or ganizations in Warm Springs about the needs and interests youth have. A handful of students gath ered at the Education Building for the first meeting and partici pated in fun activities as well as brainstorm ed about ways to improve the community. The group is open to any middle school youth, and there is no cost to participate. While the focus is on middle school students, high school students are also welcome to help out. Ju n e Sm ith and Jocelyn Moses from the Boys & Girls Club will be leading the group Leslie Mitts/Spilyaÿ J’Von Smith and Vernon Jackson-Smith participated in a memory game during the first Y.A.K. meeting that took place during spring break. along with Shawn Morford and Bobbie Calica from OSU Exten sion. The group will be a combi nation of the Boys & Girls Club and the 4H program. Y outh will m eet once a month and will learn about team building and leadership in addi tion to voicing their opinion about the community. A ccording to M orford, “We’re doing all these programs for kids but we don’t have any contact with kids who can give us advice.” Mfcfaontiwp the ^7« dee Call Val Squiemphen to get yours KWSO, the radio sta tion o f the Confederated Tribes o f Warm Springs, has won two 2007 Oregon Associated Press Broad casters Association Awards. The awards were announced at a banquet last Saturday night in Newport. In division two o f the Best Breaking News cat egory, KWSO took first place with Talking Circle, produced by Sue Matters, KWSO station director. In division two of the Best Treatment - Single Subject category, KWSO won third place with Health Care and You: Indian Health Services, by M atters and KWSO announcer William Robbins. In the Best Use of Sound category, KWSO won the division two third- place award for coverage of the Jacoby Ellsbury Pa rade and Rally, produced by William Robbins. Team releases Shitike assessm ent Powwow Calendars For Sale Dancing & Portraits, $15 each One project will include send ing the youth into the commu nity with cameras and asking them to photograph things that represent three Categories: what they like about Warm Springs, what they hope to change about Warm Springs, and what youth could do to help Warm Springs become a better place to live. Those photographs will then be made into a collage and pre sented to Tribal C ouncil, Morford said. “W hen I was in m iddle school nobody ever asked me these questions,” Morford ex plained. “And I had a lot of ideas.” Because o f that, she said, the council will serve two main pur poses: for youth to give advice to those running youth programs and for local youth to have a voice in the community. They named the group the Youth Advisory Kouncil— or YA.K. for short— to represent the idea of talking with the com parison to the slang word “yak king.” In the future, Morford said, they hope to do much more with the group. Potentially the group will do projects in the community, take field trips and much more, she said. For more information, or to participate in Y.A.K., contact Morford at OSU Extension. K W SO earns awards in tâe Sftifyay /(fntoa. Ö- BEYOND The Resource Management Inter-disciplinary Team met last week in the Natural Resources Conference Room to review a n um ber o f p rojects being planned on the Warm Springs Reservation. The team released for public review a project assessment ana lyzing a proposal to restore a segment o f Shitike Creek near the Community Wellness Cen ter«, iftST he ..proj.ec.uwQ.uId. help, pra^, tèet the wastewater treatment p lant, decrease the risk o f downstream flooding, and im prove fish habitat. The project would create five new meander bends, along with appropriate side channels, near an area where the creek flowed in the 1930s. The project would allow the creek to function in a more natural manner than is currently possible. Comments shouldbe directed toA cott 'Euro or. Mike McKay ar 5^'i^Q.Ofi^The.mtefi^Is^-ljjM- ary- f^am also approved a geo logic Survey in the Shitike Creek restoration project area. 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