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Spilydy Tym oo, W grm Springs, Oregon
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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