April 10, 2008
Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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toA cott 'Euro or. Mike McKay
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ary- f^am also approved a geo
logic Survey in the Shitike Creek
restoration project area.
On another subject, the team»
approved a project assessment*
to construct a transmission line*
from W arm Springs F o re st'
P ro d u cts In d u stries to the#
sw itching yard near Rounds
Butte Dam.
The 15-mile long line would»’
provide a means to transport*
electricity generated at the Warm'
Springs Biomass Plant to Round#
Butte. The transported
hy would b e„ so ld ^ o .£ o £ fia n ^
General Electric.
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