Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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Group makes holiday cards fo r injured soldiers
B y L e s l ie M i tt s
Spilyay Tymoo
Soldiers at Walter Reed Army
Hospital will be receiving a gift
fro m several W arm S prin g s
Community mem bers this holi
day season.
V ictim s o f Crim e Services
V olunteer D elsa Jim said th e
VOCS women’s group recendy
sent homemade Christmas cards
to the hospital for recovering
soldiers.
A c c o rd in g to J im , th e
women’s group is an oudet for
women w ho need support and
are victims o f domestic violence.
Jim brought several o f her
nieces to a women’s group meet
ing where everyone made holi
day cards to send to recovering
so ld iers at th e W alter R eed
Army Hospital.
T he activity was supervised
and organized by Tina Aguilar,
a victim advocate, with assistance
fro m V io la G o v e n o r, A u rel
Stinson, and Jim.
The group wrote inspirational
messages inside the cards, Jim
said, and added that they made
quite a few cards.
“It was really cute,” Jim said.
“It was a good event for them .”
The project aimed to let sol
diers know that som eone sup
ported them, Jim added. It also
showed those involved with the
w om en’s group th at there are
people w ho need help and sup
p o rt during the holiday season.
As for her nieces, Jim said,
“They learned a really good les
son that it’s good to help oth
ers.”
The group requested that any
N ative soldiers at the hospital
be given cards first, followed by
soldiers that received little to no
support.
“We thank our soldiers for
their dedication and service, and
hope that these cards can bring
them a little extra joy in Decem
ber,” Jim w rote in a letter en
closed with the cards.
Conference focuses on elder safety at home
W arm Springs Fire and
Safety received a scholarship
for a departm ent employee
to attend a special training
conference earlier this m onth
in Boston.
The conference was dedi
cated to helping older adults
with fire and fall prevention.
R e p re se n tin g
W arm
Springs at th e co n feren ce
was Karla Bagley-Tias from
W arm S p rin g s F ire an d
Safety.
T h e c o n feren ce, called
“Remembering When: A Fire
and Fall Prevention Program
VOCS women’s
support group
taking break
T he Victims o f Crim e Ser
vices W om en’s su p p o rt group
will be taking a break from D e
cember 8 and resuming on Janu
ary 12, 2009 due to the holiday
for O lder Adults,” was devel
oped by the National Fire Pre
v en tio n A ssociation, and the
C enters for D isease C o n tro l
and Prevention.
Its purpose was to help older
adults live safely at hom e for as
long as possible. Some statistics
from the conference:
A t age 65, older adults are
twice as likely to be killed or in
jured by fires o r falls compared
to the population at large.
N ativ e A m ericans 65 and
older are almost twice as likely
to die in a fire as the general
population the same age, accord
ing to the Centers for Disease
C ontrol and Prevention.
Thirty percent o f people
age 65 and older are involved
in falls each year, the leading
cause o f death from uninten
tional injury in the home. In
the U.S. and Canada, adults
age 65 and older make up
about 12 percent o f the popu
lation — and their num bers
are increasing.
Following the conference,
Bagley-Tias shared w hat she
learned with Fire and Safety
and Community Health rep
resentatives.
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T he support groups are open
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