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P3ge 2 June 5, 2008 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Celilo Village celebrates new beginning B y Susan H e ss fo r the Spilyay A new Celilo Village opened with a ribbon cutting Ceremony on the m orning o f Friday, May 23. The ceremony celebrated the c o m p le tio n o f th e 15 new homes for Celilo Village resi dents. Thé residents are moving this m onth into a village with the new homes; new water, sewer an d electrical system s; new roads, and a new longhouse, re built through a gift o f tim ber from the Confederated Tribes o f Warm Springs. The ribbon cutting ceremony w as h eld at C elilo re s id e n t Delilah Heemsah’s new home. T he U.S. Army Corps o f E n gineers financed and directed the redevelopm ent and spon sored the ribbon cutting cer emony. Corps .project manager G eorge M iller w elcom ed th e estimated 100 people w ho came to share the event. Following the invocation, rep resentatives from Senators Ron Wyden and G ordon Smith pre se n te d C elilo V illage C h ie f Olsen Meanus with an Ameri can flag. Meanus spoke o f the elders and o f the people w ho have waited so long for this to hap pen. BIA Regional Director Stan Susan H ess photo. Delilah Heemsah cuts the ribbon to her new home at Celilo. On hand representing the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs were Council Chairman Ron Suppah (far left), and Reuben Henry, Wy-Am board member (third from right). Speaks thanked all those who worked on this project. W y-A m B o ard C h airm an A ntone M intharn said, “I am happy to be here with you to day. It is a m om ent o f history where something good is hap pening — something good that can help lift some people out o f poverty.” Warm Springs Tribal Coun cil Chairman Ron Suppah be-' gan his remarks rem em bering the three fisherman lost recently on the Columbia River. “But that is n o t to take any thing away from this historic day,” he said. H e asked th e C orps and th e BIA to thin k about the village and any miss ing amenities. Corps Portland District com m ander C ol. T h o m as O ’D o n o v a n p re s e n te d H eemsah w ith a framed letter welcoming her to her new home. . With that, Heemsah, dressed in her g ran d m o th er’s beaded buckskin dress, represented all the village residents by cutting the cerem onial ribbon to her new home, The project designers Cooper Z ietz Engineers provided, re freshments. After the ceremony, the C orps held an award cer emony at Shilo Inn in The Dalles. A fter Col. O ’D o n o v an gave Chairman Suppah his award, the two o f them handed out plaques to those w ho w orked on the project: Cooper Zietz prime contrac tor, Colville Tribal Services Cor p o ra tio n , s u b c o n tra c to r fo r house construction Advanced N ative C onstruction, Wy-Am Board members, BIA Superin ten d en t Paul Young, and the lead Corps staff. In July, the contractor will rem ove the tem porary hom es residents have been living in the past year arid begin construction on a combination classroom and BIA office building, scheduled for- cdmpletion by this Decem ber. With that, the Corps rede velopm ent o f Celilo. Village will be complete. New US-Canada salmon agreement proposed (AP) -f The U.S. and Canada reached a tentative agreement to prevent overfishing o f en dangered Chinook salmon o ff the w estern coast o f Canada and southeast Alaska, officials have announced. The new 10-year agreement, a revision o f the existing Pacific Salmon Treaty, was announced in late M ay by th e P acific Salmon Commission. “The reductions in catch in northern ocean fisheries will in crease annual returns o f sum m er and fall C hinook to the upper Colum bia River by 3-7 ................." percent, a significant im prove ment from the 1999 agreement,” said O lney P att Jr., executive director o f the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and US. Tribal Commissioner on the Pacific Salmon Commission. The agreement reduces C hi nook catches in the Southeast Alaska fishery by 15 percent and in the West C oast Vancouver Islan d fishery by 30 p ercen t from the previous agreement. The new agreement includes funding to aid harvest reduc tions in the Canadian comirier- cial salmon troll fishery. Addi ' tional funding im proves stock assessments, including estimates o f fisheries impacts and escape ment. “Chinook was the m ost com plex piece o f th e p u z z le , b ecau se the fish migrate through many jurisdictions,” said Patt. “We w ere able to give som ething back to the stocks and m eet the interests o f multiple constituen cies.” O n the commission Patt, a m em ber o f the C onfederated Tribes o f Warm Springs, repre sented 24 treaty fishing tribes from Puget Sound, the Washing ■ ■ .... .... """""V Recliners 10% Off and special pricing on Air Conditioners ................ ....................... catch o f wild salmon 15 percent over the next 10 years; Canada will make a 30 percent reduc tion under the plan. T he U.S. would give Canada $30 million feurol 9.04 million) f o r its effort to reduce comm ercial salmon fishing. Alaska w ould receive about $7 million (euro4.44 mil lion). W ashington state would receiv e a b o u t $7 m illio n (euro4.44 m illion) in federal m oney to im p ro v e C hin o o k habitat. T he allocated funds w ould need congressional approval. Paul Macgillivray, associate regional director general for the Pacific Region C anadian D e p a rtm e n t o f F ish e rie s and Oceans, said that while Canada d o e s h a v e to re d u c e a larg e p o r tion .of-AftSifiarypst, it -benefits from the Alaskan reduction. H e said that the final agree m ent was a “balanced approach where both countries made re ductions in response to conser v a tio n c o n c e rn s th a t w ere brought to the table.” Macgillivray said participants have until the end o f the year to get both governments to sign o ff on the agreement. 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