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Scholarships available for 4-H
summer conference at OSU
Biggest Losers win cash prizes
As a group, the Biggest
Loser participants lost 198
pounds. T hey to o k 79.5
inches off their waists, and
67 inches of the hips.
The results o f the fitness
challenge were announced
last week at the 2009 Biggest
L oser in W arm Springs
lunch.
The competition is in four
categories: women 49 and
under, women 50 and older,
men 49 and under, and men
50 and older.
O f the 146 people who
participated in the weight-
loss com petition, 100 are
women and 46 are men.
Leslie C ochran-D avis
won first place in the women
49 and u nder category.
Claudine Seegrey Littleleaf
won in the women 50 and
older category.
Ben Bisland won in the
men 49 and under category.
Anthony Littleleaf won in
the men 50 and over cat
egory.
The winners received cash
payouts. Second-place win
ners also received cash. They
are: Angie Todechine and
Chris Smith (women’s cat
egories), and Jamie Smith and
George Robinson (men’s cat-
Warm Springs students in
grades 7-12 are invited to apply
for scholarships to attend the 4-
H summer conference.
The conference will be held
on the Oregon State University
campus on June 24-27.
This week-long event fea
tures informal classes and field
trips for students to learn top
ics ranging from videography to
computers, to rock climbing.
The scholarship covers the
cost o f registration. A confer
ence bus will be available to take
students from Bend to Corvallis
for a small fee. The conference
offers a great opportunity to be
Women o f Wellness lunch Thursday
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Leslie Cochran-Davis, and Tony and Seegrey Littleleaf won first-place in this year’s
Biggest Loser competition. (Ben Bisley not pictured.)
egories).
LaVena Ike won third place
in the women under 49 category.
Other big losers are: Samantha
Gomez, Darylynne Cortazar,
B onnie B axter and Margie
Tuckta. Also: Jason Hintsala,
Brian Renfro and Kelly Beymer.
All participants received fit
ness challenge sweatshirts.
Carolyn Harvey o f the tribal
Community Wellness Program,
and Montell Elliott o f the Dia
betes Prevention Program, pre
A study showed there
was no government
support fo r American
enous art
culture and relatively
little philanthropic
assistance...
The foundation's scope en
compasses Alaska Natives and
Native HawaEans. Its new presi
dent, Tara Lulani Arquette, a
Native HawaEan, will move to
the city next month to select an
office site, Echo-Hawk said.
By the end o f the year, the
foundation hopes to start award
ing grants to artists and organi
zations that support native art
and culture.
Those grants will not only
boost efforts to preserve what
remains o f the nation's tradi
tional tribal cultures and cus
toms that historicaUy were sup
pressed or prohibited, but also
support contemporary native
painting, theater, music and
other art, Echo-Hawk said.
“ O u r cu ltures have su r
vived,” he said. “They've per
sisted and thrived.”
But there is still a need for
more financial support, and this
foundation could fiE that void,
said E lizab eth T h eo b ald
Richards, a Cherokee and Ford
Foundation program officer.
“These are the indigenous
peoples of this country,” she
said. “The art forms and the
cultural heritage o f these people
have been underfunded and not
recognized enough.”
A 2006 study funded by the
Ford Foundation showed there
was no government support for
American indigenous art and
culture and relatively Ettle phil
anthropic assistance, according
to the Native American Rights
Fund. T he study led to the
founding of the Native Arts and
Family Resource C enter
conference room.
All of the women of the
com m unity are invited.
Lunch will be a barbecue
with all the fixings.
For more information,
contact Judy Charley at 553-
3438.
The Women of Wellness
and the Community Health
Education Team are present
ing a Breast Cancer Aware
ness event this Thursday, May
7.
The event is the Women
o f Wellness M others Day
lunch, starting at noon at the
sented the prizes at the lun
cheon last week. The Biggest
Loser Fitness Challenge is
sponsored by the Commu
nity Wellness Program, Dia
betes Prevention and the
tribal Nutrition Department.
University powwow this weekend
Friday through Sunday, May
8-10 at MacArthur Court.
The event is sponsored by
the University o f Oregon
Native American Student As
sociation.
The University of Oregon
invites the Warm Springs
Community to the Forty-
First Annual Mothers Day
Powwow.
The powwow will be this
Foundation to support nation’s tribal arts
PORTLA N D (AP) - D e
cades after federal policies
sought to discourage many
American Indians from partici
pating in their tribal customs, a
foundation has been formed to
preserve and nourish the arts of
American Indians and other na
tive groups.
With the help Of $10 milHon
from the Ford Foundation, the
new Native Arts and Cultures
Foundation will begin estabEsh-
ing itself in Portland, said Walter
Echo-Hawk, an Oklahoma law
yer who chairs its board.
“T his is a very pow erful
idea,” he said. ‘We think it's sort
of a missing piece for native arts
and cultures.”
The board put its headquar
ters in Portland because o f the
city's thriving arts and American
Indian communities. Among the
board members is Elizabeth
Woody o f the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs in Cen
tral Oregon.
come exposed to a university
campus.
Classes include wall (rock)
climbing, photography, sewing
and fashion, horse knowledge,
making your own video games,
map and compass, and drawing,
and many more.
Scholarship appEcation pack
ets can be picked up at the OSU
Extension 4-H Office and are
due Friday, May 15 at 4:30 p.m.
at the Extension office in the
Education building, 1110 Wasco
Street.
For more information, con
tact Shawn M orford, Warm
Springs 4-H at 553-3238.
Cultures Foundation.
It's not the first national or
ganization devoted to support
ing tribal arts and culture, Echo-
Hawk said, but it is the first to
be permanently endowed.
In the future, he said, the
foundation hopes to partner on
projects with other organiza
tions, namely the National Mu
seum o f the American Indian in
Washington, D.C., and the In
stitute o f American Indian Arts
in Santa Fe. He also expects the
foundation's mission to support
tribal arts and culture won't be
set back by the down economy
because funding was secured
before the start of the recession.
Reminder regarding landfill use
vation does not entitle you to
use the landfiE, if you Eve off
the reservation. This includes
the various Dumpsters. I f you
have any questions, please caE
Nancy ColEns at 553-4943.
This is a reminder from the
tribal Sanitation Department:
The Dry Creek LandfiE is for
tribal members and individuals
who Eve on the reservation.
Employment with the reser
Legal Aid Services of Oregon provides free assistance
to low-income Oregonians In many civil cases. Speak
with an attorney during drop-in hours 1 to 4 p.m. on the
first Monday of the mohth at the Family Resources Center
in Warm Springs. Or call us at 385-6944 Monday through
Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
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