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June 5, 2 0 0 8
Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
MHS students graduating with honors
M adras H igh School se
niors Kadie Manion and Kip
C ulpus are graduating this
year with honors.
T h ey b o th h av e m a in
tained a grade point average
o f 3.6 or higher.
M anion, graduating w ith
highest honors, will be going
to the University o f Oregon
in the fall. H er parents are
E d M an io n a n d K elly
M uskopf.
C ulpus, graduating w ith
honors, is planning to con
tinue working at Kah-Nee-Ta,
and th en in the futu re he
. wants to study engineering at
O regon State University. Elis
p a re n ts are E s th e r an d
Jonathan Culpus.
M ad ras H ig h S ch o o l
awards two types o f honors
diplomas.
A student graduates with
ho n o rs by having a 3.6 or
better gpa.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Kadie Manion and Kip Culpus are graduating with honors.
To graduate with highest hon
ors the student m ust have the
3.6 gpa, and take certain hon
ors core courses in mathemat
ics, English, social studies and
science.
Elliott Palmer Post commemorates Memorial Day
Round Robin
in July
, —
2008
Hood to Coast
Raffle
T h e S eco n d A n n u al
C o -E d R o u n d R o b in
youth softball tournam ent
is set for July 25 at the
Warm Springs ball fields.
Team o r parents may
sign their children up at
CPS no later than July 18.
G ro u p s include rookies
(5-8 year-olds), minors (8-
10 year-olds), and majors
(11-13 year-olds). For in
form ation contact Berni
la c k s o n -S p in o at 553-
3209.
D rawing to be held June 25, 2008
(N eed n o t b e p re s e n t to win)
Tickets are $1 ea or 6 for $5
Items to be raffled:
A fghan Q uilt, Lillian P itt Tiles, $50 gas card, Beaded
K eychain, Beaded B arrett, R ibbon Shirt, O th er Beaded
Item s, $40 G ift C ard (Hollywood Video), 4 Sw im /Slide
Passes @ K ah-nee-ta, Swim Passes for M adras Aquatic
C enter, and oth er donated items.
Kids Camp 2008 at Can
yon R an ch C am p is th is
m onth. T he Canyon R anih
Camp is a privately ow ned
Christian camp available to
all kids ages 8-13.
The camp dates are as fol
lows: Girls camp A: June 16-
18. Girls camp B: June 18-
21. A nd all boys cam p on
June 23-25.
C am p activities include
hiking, swimming, climbing,
nature watching, field trips,
meal preparation, gardening,
Bible study and more.
Gladys G rant at Canyon
Ranch Camp can be reached
at 325-2650.
T h e m ailing address is
C anyon R anch Camp, c /o
G ladys G ra n t, 8567 N W
Mecca, Madras, O R 97741.
Camp sign-up forms are
available at th e W arm
Springs Community Center.
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In a small ceremony outside three unu sed helm ets w ere a freed blacks and U nion soldiers
the tribal courthouse on May 26, good visual symbolic reminder was followed by patriotic sing
the W arm Springs V FW Post o f those military veterans w ho ing and a picnic.
“M em orial D ay” was first
h o n o re d th e U.S. m en an d lost their lives while serving their
used as an alternative to D eco
w om en w ho have served and country during war.
A c c o rd in g to P ro fe s s o r ration Day in 1882, but did not
perished while in military service
David Blight o f the Yale U ni becom e m o re com m on until
to our country.
The ceremony included the versity History D epartm ent, the after World War II, and was not
display o f five flags, a m em o first memorial day was observed declared the official nam e by
rial speech by Elliott Palmer Vet in 1865 by liberated slaves at Federal law until 1967. O n June
eran o f Foreign War Post Com th e h is to ric race tra c k in 28,1968, the United States Con
m an d er K irby H e a th , an d a C h a rle s to n . T h e site w as a gress passed the U niform H oli
fo rm e r C o n fe d e ra te p riso n days Bill, w hich m oved three
nine-gun salute.
T he tribal courthou se flag camp as well as a mass grave holidays from their traditional
was lowered to half-mast in rec for U nion soldiers who had died dates to a specified Monday in
ognition o f the sacrifices made while captive. The freed slaves o rd er to create a convenient
by the m en and women o f the reinterred the dead Union sol three-day weekend and for the
diers from the mass grave to first time recognized Columbus
arm ed services.
Usually, during the Memorial individual graves, fenced in the Day as a federal holiday.
After the memorial ceremony
weekend honor ceremony, there graveyard and built an entry arch
is a six-person V FW H o n o r declaring it a U nion graveyard; VFW Post "Commander Heath,
G uard. T his year the H o n o r a very daring thing to do in the w ho served in the Army during
G uard was com posed o f just South shortly after N o rth ’s vic the Vietnam War, stated that the
three veterans. T hree unused tory. O n May 30,1868 the freed Warm Springs VFW Post will be
h o n o r g u a rd h e lm e ts w ere slaves returned to the graveyard swearing in new post officers for
placed on the sidewalk in row with flowers they’d picked from the Elliott Palmer VFW Post
next to the H onor G uard com the countryside & decorated the num ber 2417 in June.
(This article was submitted by M a r k
p o se d o f w ar v ete ra n s P aul individual gravesites, thereby
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T h e stu d e n t m u st also
pass the Certificate o f In i
tial Mastery. Manion is gradu
ating with highest honors.
The graduation ceremony
at Madras High School will
b e th is Saturday, Ju n e 7,
starting at 3 p.m. T he gradu
ating class includes m o re
than 50 students from the
W arm Springs com m unity
(see pages 8 and 9).
T h e trib es’ G rad u atio n
B a n q u e t at th e A gency
L onghouse will be on the
evening o f Wednesday, June
18.
The Graduation Banquet
is for all students graduating
from high school, technical
school, college, and graduate
school.
A bout 10-15 tribal mem
bers graduate each year from
college, according to the Edu
cation Department.
Kids camp at Canyon Ranch Camp
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