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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (July 31, 2008)
Page 14 Spiiyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon July 31, 2 0 0 8 Community members spread message through song B y L eslie M itts Spilyay Tymoo It has been 26 years since E aston and Tina Aguilar de cided to change th eir ow n lives. N ow the two are attem pt ing to share their beliefs with others in need through their church. T h eir new est p lan is to reach out with music. C o m m u n ity m e m b e rs may have noticed E asto n ’s voice ringing out in song re cently during the lunch hour. T hat’s because Easton and Tina will be playing live m u sic and singing worship songs during the noon hour. Easton, an employee at Ve hicle P ool, and T ina, w ho works with Victims o f Crime Services, will be setting up their equipment in front o f Jasmine C aldera’s fo o d cart, across from Warm Springs Market, five days a week. C aldera is th e c o u p le ’s niece and agreed to let them set up in front o f her stand. As to why he decided to use m usic to reach others, E aston said, “G o d told me. H e said you go down there, you set up equipm ent, and you sing.” The idea came to him dur ing prayer, Easton added. They are hoping to reach Justine ThomasZSpilyay Easton and Tina Aguilar (with nephew Caleb Caldera) plan to play music on weekdays during their lunch hour in front of Jasmine Caldera’s food stand across from Warm Springs Market. those in the community who are lost, the Aguilar’s said, including those w ho m ight be homeless Jufti and needing help. A fter visiting with E aston’s b ro th e r R alph A guilar, T in a said, they thought that setting up in th at àrea during the lunch h o u r m ight be a good way to connect w ith people in the community w ho need help. In addition to theif lunch time worship music, the pair has been conducting their own church at hom e for over a decade. “We’ve been serving the Lord since 1982,” Tina said, which is also the year that she and her husband became so ber after battling addictions to drugs and alcohol. T h a t’s w hy E a sto n and Tina, w ho have been marfied nearly 28 years, w ant to help others facing their own addic tions. “We were like that,” Tina explained. “We know how blinding it can be.” After becoming sober they worked to help the Full G os pel Church as m uch as po s sible and also set up a revival tent at Elm er Q uinn Park for two weeks, Tina said. “We th o u g h t, w ell, we c o u ld d o m o re fo r o u r people,” Tina explained. After that they began hold ing their own church services and reaching out to the com munity in any way possible. Community members are w elcom e to atten d church services at their home at 11 a.m. on Sundays, Tina said. They plan to play music from noon to 1 p.m. M on day through Friday. New program offers prenatal care seiAztor p ictu re s, P o rtra its , F a rn iiy P icture s B eg in n in g in A u g u st th e W arm S p rin g s H e a lth a n d Wellness C enter will h o st the CenteringPregnancy program. This program is a new way o f d e liv erin g p re n a ta l care, which was developed fry Yale University. * There are no lectures b u t in stead there is group discussion to learn together abo u t preg nancy, childbirth and caring for your new born child. Participants can share infor mation, aS m uch or as little as they wish, and there is time set aside for a private exam and visit with the doctor at each session. The group will be led by Janet Bissell, M aternal Child H ealth N urse and Dr. Rachel Locker. The first prenatal exams will still be done in a private clinic visit with your doctor, b u t for the remainder o f your care will be join with 8-12 women with similar due dates. The. group will begin meeting on the third or fourth m onth o f pregnancy, and they will m eet monthly for 4 ses sions, then every 2 weeks for 6 m ore sessions. The group sessions will be gin and end on time and some o f the benefits include: N o waiting for your appoint ments. Long lasting friendships and support. Studies . show fqwer prem a tu re b irth s an d b ç tte r b irth weights. T he first group will be for m o th e rs due d ates b etw een January 15, 2009 and February 28,2009. Class size is limited to 12 people. Please call 553-1196 Extension 4600 for m ore infor m ation or to register. Hunters safety classes offered in August f o r thre e oli-ffereiAzt s e t t in g s , w it h •photos p ro v id e d Sign up now for the Natural Resources D epartm ent hunters safety course. The registration fee is $10 per student. The class will be Au gust 5 through August 15. The classes will be held at the Natural Resources D epartm ent in the Cougar D en Conference Room. To sign up, call 553-2001 or 553-2002. Students m ust be at least 12 years o f age. The class is limited to 20 participants and requires 20 hours o f class time. S tu d e n ts m u s t a tte n d all classes to successfully complete this course. N o rifle is needed to com plete the course. Nez Perce honored for keeping language alive LEW ISTO N , Idaho (AP>— O ne day after working a night shift at Potlatch Corp., Horace P. A xtell was asleep at hom e w hen the doorbell rang and his spirituality came calling. “ S om e eld er ladies an d a couple o f men came to see me w ho wanted me to go and learn this way o f life,” says Axtell, 83, about traditional N ez Perce re ligion. “T hat was because o f my ability to speak the language flu-' endy. I did n ot agree right away.” Axtell’s m other and grand m other were dedicated Chris tians and had raised him that way. It was a difficult decision, he says. Eventually he became a spiritual leader in the Seven D rum religion. This fall he’ll go to Washington, D.C., to accept the National Heritage Award for preserving the folk arts, which comes w ith a $20,000 prize. “I ’m really honored by this award I’m getting. To myself I assume all this is. coming to me for being dedicated to my tribe. I guess I ’d have to say th a t makes m e a proud N ez Perce to re p re se n t m y p eo p le like that.” Axtell was born Nov. 7,1924, on a ranch outside o f Ferdinand w h ere h e w as r a i s e d b y his m other and grandmother. As a child he thought Nez Perce was the only language. H is grand m o th e r, Ja n e M oody, c o u ld read the weather in the hoot o f an owl. She never learned to speak, read or w rite English. W hile grow ing up he w ould translate for her and witness her signature, an X. A xtell’s father, also raised Christian, left w hen he was a baby. “H e had a hard struggle with life,” Axtell says, because o f al c o h o l and diabetes. In later years, relatives came and told him he should take his father in. Axtell w ent to Kamiah and got him and took care o f him for 20 years. Like him, his fa ther spoke N ez Perce. “So we talked in this way and I found out a lot o f things about my ancestors. My great-grand father was a warrior in the N ez Perce War. 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