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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 2009)
“l Spilydy Tym oo, W grm Springs, Oregon Page 5 A u g u st 13, 2 0 0 9 More Letters to the Editor A thank you To all my family w ho helped us through all our losses, Madene Meanus, m other o f o u r beloved gran d children, Lucinda, Martina, Jamey, Eliza and Vesta. She Eved in our home for many years. H er death cre ated h u rt feelings b u t w ith prayer her children were able to accept the loss o f her. O ur beloved Luci, m other, sister, aunt and granddaughter, how we m iss your b eau tifu l smile and laugh only you had. All o f our beloved, husband, fa th e r, g ra n d fa th e r, u n cle, brother-in-law, Jimmy Wesley Sr. We all see you everywhere, hear your happy laugh w h en th e grandchildren do som eth in g funny, never complaining nor demanding. I ’m sorry I didn’t write the thank-you to Sandra and O wen for sending us to see the Smokey Robinson concert a t T o p p e n ish , W ash. To Raymond Shike Jr. for the spe cial care her provided for your co m fo rt at th at special time. H ow you said, “Be quiet, he’s singing our song.” This is indeed a very sad year for m e and our children. A very special thank- you to one o f my same name “El’ Char Herkshan.” She deEv- ered delicious h o m e-co o k ed meals for aE the people in my hom e for a m onth after we lost Jim. It m eant so much to us. To my Greeley, family for aU the donations for our home. Josie Wolfe-MiEer, how very dear you are to provide from your heart. M edical advice for people w ith diabetes We know you dearly loved our uncle. Every year we, as a fam- Ey, celebrated Luci and Jim ’s birthdays on the same day, Au gust 17. W ith the loss o f b oth o f them we pray we can survive this day some how. My precious Martina Marie, our caretaker, m other o f Kayla and Marcal, how we miss you. May you be in the precious grace o f G od and we wEl m eet again. A nd last b ut not least Angela, she brought many smEes and loves, hugs to our chEdren in our home. She spent nights on our couch and woke up to play with the chEdren in our home. I as the head o f the house hold feel Eke we are in a huge fishbowl and I try hard to un derstand. H ow are we expected to be? A re we n o t supposed to laugh, sing o r cry anymore? I thank my biological sisters, my b e lo v e d h u s b a n d ’s fam ily, Arlene, Rosanna Jim , Johanna Senator, and K en and Heidi for the clothes and financial help for me and my chEdren. Because we are losing our tra ditions to take care o f our wid ows and widowers, our culture is going down the drain. Because we loved our person who p ro vided for us, we can go on and too aE o f your loving support, we wEl be okay. My Efe exists around my grandchüdren and I pray for the C.P.S. and the judges to have compassion for my atwai grandchildren’s chEdren and aEow them to remain with us. N eda Wesley family. Thieves ‘phishing’ on the Warm Springs reservation Everybody can use some ex tra money during this recession. T he costs for food, gasoEne, and other consum er goods are gojng up. Why can’t we get some federal governm ent Stimulus ReEef in our waEets? ,1 th o u g h t m y lu ck h ad changed w hen I g ot an emaE that said som eone in South Af rica-M atth ew W ilEams— left me $5 miEion in his wiE. H ow can I be so lucky? B ut wait a m inute, I d o n ’t knpw M atthew WilEams. Why would he leave me $5.1 miEion doEars? Obviously, this was a scam. I was d eletin g th is em ail w hen Juanita VEla, one o f our information. W hat they w ant are account numbers, passwords, Social Se curity numbers, and other con fidential inform ation that they can use to loot our checking ac counts or ru n up biEs on our credit cards. This is a type o f “Phishing.” A c c o rd in g to W ik ip ed ia, “P h ish in g ” is th e crim inally fraudulent process o f attem pt ing to acquire sensitive informa tion such as usernames, pass words, and credit card detaEs, or personal identification inform a tion by masquerading as a trust w orthy entity in an electronic communication. “I f you don’t know w ho is sending you an emaE, then you should delete it,” advises Todd Sturm o f the tribes’ EagleTech co -w o rk ers, sh o w ed u s h e r em ail I n f o r m a tio n S y stem s o f fic e .,,.j that said the same thing. Juanita wap going to inherit the same $5.1 miEion doEars. A nd you m ight have received the same emaE recently. Thieves are “fishing” on the Internet through emaEs on the W arm Springs Indian Reserva tion for our personal financial j EagleTech has an emaE fEtçr system that blocks m ost o f the Elegal and inappropriate emaE coming to the reservation, but some spam, o r junk emaE, gets into your emaE account. “T he tribes have about 475 employees who have tribal emaE accounts” said Sturm. “With the By Mark Matthews Victims o f Crime Services With the last big phishing email sent to tribal email accounts, fou r tribal employees responded to the phishing solicitation... last big phishing emaE sent to tribal emaE accounts, four tribal em ployees resp o n d ed to the phishing soEcitation.” Criminal phishing is n o t ex clusive to the Internet. Thieves can, use the telephone to scam you also. Telephone soEcitors may ask you for your personal identifying information, such as: your Social Security num ber, your credit card account num- b e r, J W p a s s w o rd , o r the in formation you use to verify your identity w hen speaking to a real financial institution, such as your m other’s maiden name or your place o f birth. I f you provide the requested inform ation, you may find yourself the victim o f identity theft. Protect yourself from crimi ---------------------- - tible to increased injury to the fe e t su ch as p u n c tu re wounds, cuts, lacerations and burns to the bottom o f the feet th a t can o c c u r from walking on h o t surfaces. I t is recom m ended that diabetic patients always use a shoe covering and th a t it should be firm to especiaEy p ro tect the b o tto m o f the feet from skin w ounds and burns from h o t sidewalks and road surfaces. U se b each shoes w hile walking on sand and in the ocean (hot sand causes bums, seasheEs may lead to punc ture wounds), and never walk barefoot especiaEy o n h o t road and sidewalk surfaces. Lastly, stay hydrated, drink p len ty o f w ater, m o n ito r b lo o d su g ars a n d avoid simple sugars such as sodas and sweetened juices. F o r m o re in fo rm a tio n contact Dr. WaEer-Neiwold in the podiatry departm ent at the Warm Springs Health and WeEness Clinic, 553-1196, ext. 4606. Thank you, workers W e w o u ld Eke to re c o g n iz e o u r Sum m er Y outh workers: D orothea Thurby, Taylor Smith, Mariah Smith and Misty Spino- McCormack for doing an excel lent job this summer. We appreciate your abiEty to be at w ork everyday with a smEe on your face. You were a plea sure to have and a big help with th e kids. Y ou co n trib u ted sp much m ore to the program than you reaEze. We, along with the kids, wiE miss you. We all wish you good health and good luck in the coming school year. Boys and Girls Club/Place for Kids staff, June, Jocelyn, Ava and Myrtle. IRA’S SALES & SERVICE, INC. Great job, Team Witness Congratulations to Team W itness, w ho took second place in the boys 12 and un der competitive division at the Salem H oopla Tourna m ent, July 24-26. T he boys played a tough championship game on and lost by only five points. They were defeated by T h e BaE Players o f Salem, who are the repeating champions for the past three years. O nce again, C o n g ra tu la tio n s to b o th teams, w ho played an awe some game! We w o u ld also like to nal phishers and scammers by doing the foEowing: 1. N ever provide your per sonal information in response to an unsoEcited request, w hether it is over the phone o r over the Internet. 2. N ever provide your pass w ord over the phone or in re s p o n s e to an u n s o lic ite d Internet request. A financial in stitution would never ask you to verify your account inform ation online. Thieves arm ed w ith this inform ation and your account num ber can help themselves to your savings. 3. Always review acco u n t statements regularly to ensure aE charges are correct. I f your ac count statem ent is late in arriv ing, caE your financial institution to find o ut why. I f your finan- cial instixutjon offers electronic, account access, periodicaUy re view activity online to catch sus picious activity. T he preceding inform ation on phishing and emaE scams is p r e s e n te d as a c o m m u n ity awareness service by the W arm Springs Victims o f Crime Ser vices D epartm ent. D r. M arilyn W aller- Niewold, practicing in Warm Springs, is a FeEow o f the A m e ric a n P ro fe s s io n a l W ound C are A ssociation, and has a keen interest in pre vention o f injury and treat m ent o f diabetic patients. There are precautions that people with diabetes can use to significantly decrease risk o f h arm to' their feet and other areas o f the body. N ote that severe foot in jury can cause serious infec tion, if left untreated can lead to am putation and at the ex treme, loss o f Efe. Protection from the sun, by using a hat, sun glasses and skin block, even on the feet for b oth the UVA and UVB are im portant, simple inter ventions that can avoid severe bum and decrease risk o f skin cancers and eye injury. It is im portant to rem em ber that people with diabe tes often have decreased sen sation, losing the abiEty to feel pain as they used to. They are therefore suscep Junk Cars - Call Tiger a t 419-7379 Courtesy photo. Markain Davis of Corvallis, Christian Johnson of Bend, Jered Pichette and Devon Wolfe, both of Warm Springs (from left). thank those w ho helped support Jered and his team, Your time and donations are very much ap- preciated. Sincerely, The Pichette family. — —> Need help with a legal problem? Legal Aid Services of Oregon provides free assistance to low- income Oregonians in many civil cases. 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