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January 12, 2011
Spily^y Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Challenge a great way to get in shape for spring
For those considering taking
part -in the com m unity get-
health y program — the 2011
Moving Mountains Slimdown
Challenge— decision time is fast
approaching.
Last year’s challenge was a
huge success as 339 people
signed up to lose weight and get
healthier.
This year’s event kicks off
soon, on Wednesday, Jan. 19.
The initial weigh-ins will be
held at the Warm Springs Dia
betes Prevention Building on
Jan. 19, 20, 21 and 22; and at
Mountain View Hospital on Jan.
22 .
The w eigh -in tim es for
Wednesday through Friday will
be from 8 to 10 a.m., 11:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m., then from 4
to 6 p.m. On Saturday, Jan. 22,
weigh-ins will be held from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. on at the hospi
tal.
The post-event weigh-ins will
be May 5, 6 and 7.
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The event is open to all
Jefferson County residents ages
18 and older. Along with the in
dividual competitions, entrants
can join four-person teams in
three categories: women, men,
and mixed (two each). Team
participants are also eligible to
win individual payouts as well.
Event organizers have made
a few changes from last year,
including how the prize money
will be awarded. This year, the
top five places in the men’s and
w om en’s events w ill receive
cash awards, along with the top
three men’s, women’s and mixed
teams. Last year, only the top
three individuals and the top
teams received pay.
entry ^ee
fee *s
is $30, $25 of
The entt7
which will go directly to a prize
money pool for the entrant’s
categories. Entrants will also get
a T-shirt this year.
The participants are m ea
sured in three catego ries—
weight, waist measurement and
hip measurement—and the win
ners are based on their individual
percentage of loss in each cat
egory, not total pounds and
inches lost.
The goal of Moving Moun
tains is to challenge the entire
countywide community to live
healthier lives, to transform a
contest commitment into lifelong
habits. During the run of the
event, weekly nutrition and/or
exercise program s— ranging
from Zumba to w ater aero
bics—are offered at no charge
to Moving Mountains partici
pants.
This year, organizers have
established what they refer to as
the No Yo-Yo rule. All those
Boxing at Kah-Nee-Ta
who were money winners last
year (a total of 18 entrants) who
have gained more than 20 per
cent of the weight they lost dur
ing last year’s event are not al
lowed to participate in the 2011
event. So, if you were in the
money last year and have gained
back over 20 percent of what
you lost, you have until mid-
January to get back down un
der that 20 percent mark if you
want to participate this year.
The M oving M ountains
Slimdown Challenge is spon
sored by Mountain View Hos
pital, Jefferson County Health
Department, Warm Springs Dia
betes Prevention Program, the
Madras Aquatic Center and the
Madras Pioneer.
For further in fo rm atio n ,
co n tact C arolyn H arvey at
the Jefferso n County H ealth
D epartm ent (541-475-4456)
or B e th A nn B e a m e r at
M o u n ta in V iew H o s p ita l
(541-460-4023).
The Warm
Springs Box
ing Club w ill
host USA Box
ing at Kah-
Nee-Ta on Fri
day, Jan. 29.
This is the kick-off
event for the 2011 box
Sponsored by the Warm Springs Boxing Club.
New training hours for boxing
The Warm Springs Nation
Boxing Club has new train
ing hours at the gymnasium.
For grad e school and
m iddle school boxers, the
hours are from 4-6 p.m.
weekdays.
For high school and up, the
Two nutritionists join staff at Health and Wellness
B y Terri H arber
S pilyay Tymoo
The Warm Springs Tribes
have two new nutritionists work
ing out o f the H ealth and
Wellness Center.
Linda Porter, hired in No
vember, focuses on overall nu
trition. She has worked for vari
ous tribes throughout the north
west and, received her training
through Oregon State Univer
sity.
“Nutrition is a changing sci
ence,” Porter said. “We try to
stay on top of the new stuff.”
One thing she is considering
as outreach to tribal members:
a class about how to best shop
if you can only go tw ice a
month.
This is a reality for some
people living on the reservation.
N ot everyone is licensed to
drive or has access to a car.
They need to take a bus or get
a ride from a friend or relative
and can’t get access to food very
often. So they buy items that
have a long shelf life-—and this
Nutritionists Linda Porterand Roopa Puri.
can translate into unhealthy eat
ing if the choices aren’t made
wisely, she said.
Porter also wants to help
people learn how to keep
healthy foods longer through
freezing, preservation and de
hydration so they can get the
m ost health-w ise from their
shopping trips.
O ther areas she can help
people with include healthy
Horse summit:
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Smith is a lifelong horseman
who understands the time and
expense necessary for taking
care of horses for rodeo, stock
and racing. While there are thou
sands of feral horses living year-
round on the reservation, the
poor regional economy is con
tributing to the problem.
“People are getting into a
bind because they can’t afford
hay, feed and housing for their
horses,” he said. “So they are
just dumping their horses.”
These free-roaming horses—
many of which feral but roam
ing alongside an increasing num
ber of abandoned ones—are at
least partly to blame for a slew
o f problem s on the W arm
Springs Reservation. The de
crease in numbers of deer and
elk mating pairs likely is exacer
bated by the horses. It’s a lim
ited amount of food available
to all of these four-legged ani
mals within areas they find suit
able.
And the problem s horses
cause to other resources affect
the entire ecosystem. They over
graze and leave weeds that grow
uncontrollably into waterways.
This hurts fish, cattle and, in
turn, the tribal members who
depend on the land, say Smith
and others in the tribes’ Natu
ral Resources Department.
‘It’s quite a challenge,” he said
of the constant balancing act.
Terri Harber/Spilyay
cooking, juicing, and meal and
menu planning. And to work
with personnel at the jail, for
example, to make food served
there healthier and more palat
able.
Roopa Puri was born in Ma
dras and also is an Oregon State
University graduate. She worked
in Portland in a geriatric-psychi
atric nursing home that served
patients with such problems as
A lzheim er’s. She recently re
turned to the area. She will work
with the Women, Children and
Infants Program to help this seg
ment of the population improve
their eating habits and, in turn,
their health.
“It all starts with the moth
ers,” Puri said. “They are very
important.”
Puri seeks to highlight ways
to curb poor eating and weight
issues with which mothers and
children contend— and the ill
nesses that rise from obesity and
an unhealthy diet.
Both new employees would
like to spread knowledge about
from where food originates.
They would like to do this
through gardening. Puri wants to
see children enrolled in classes
at Early Childhood Education
learn how to garden, foe ex
ample.
The ch ild ren “ can learn
where food comes from and
how and what it is,” she said.
For details, contact Porter or
Puri at 541-553-1196.
ing season.
The
bouts
start at 6 p.m.
A dm issio n is
$12 for adults
and $8 for stu
dents. Seniors,
$5. Kids under 8 are
free.
hours are from 6:30-9 p.m.
weekdays.
For more information, or
to leave a message for box
ing coach A ustin Sm ith,
please call the Community
Center at 541-553-3243.
Fish hatchery demolition
ends ninety-six year history
BUTTE FALLS, Ore. (AP) -
Oregon fish managers are using
bulldozers and concrete break
ers this week as' they move for
ward with the unprecedented
task of demolishing a state-run
fish hatchery.
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife crews have begun
knocking down the concrete
walls at the Butte Falls Hatch
ery and filling in the 8-foot-deep
ponds as the agency prepares to
divest itself of the 96-year-old
facility plagued by budget cuts,
disease and a maintenance back
log. Demolition of the ponds,
in which tens o f m illions of
salmon and trout were raised,
rem oves the p o ssib ility o f
people or pets falling in the
abandoned ponds w hile the
agency looks to transfer the
property to another governmen
tal agency.
“It’s uncharted ground for
us,” says Russ Stauff, ODFW’s
Rogue W atershed m anager.
“We've never done this before,
so it's a bit of a work in progress.
“None of these guys are en
joying this. It's difficult to come
out to a facility and do this.”
Civic leaders in this mountain
town rimmed by industrial for
estland say they are sad to see
the demolition of what was the
state's third-oldest hatchery and
home to an earthen pond where
kids fished for stocked trout.
Warm Springs, other tribes experiencing horse population problems
“My concern is to take care of
the natural resources—water,
fisheries, soils, range.”
The tribes are in the middle
of updating the Integrated Re
sources Management Plan for
range and forest. A variety of
matters are taken into account
within the plan, including how
some conditions or changes
might affect hunters, certain
animals and even the tribes’
moneymaking endeavors.
Other tribes, including the
Yakamas and Umatillas who had
speakers at the summit, are suf
fering from similar horse-related
problems. This is why the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs is financ
ing research into whether it
would be viable to open a horse
processing plant on tribal lands.
The Warm Springs Tribal
Council allowed for the even
tual creation of a horse meat
processing plant back in 2009,
but never had a fully realized
operating plan. Focus of it was
to be on p ro cessin g o f
horsemeat for pet food. Public
ire surfaced w hen a rep o rt
stated that the tribe already was
moving forward with a project,
according to previous reports.
A Humane Society executive
noted that winning over people
in the U.S. about this issue will
be difficult. A poll conducted for
American Wild Horse Preven
tion campaign and the Ameri
can Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals found
that nearly 2 out of 3 Ameri
cans, 62 percent, oppose the
slaughter of U.S. domestic and
wild horses for human con
sumption overseas.
Slaughter for other purposes,
such as for pet food, wasn’t part
of the survey.
“Horses are not food in this
country, they are our compan
ions,” said Scott Beckstead, the
Humane Society’s Oregon direc
tor.
“It’s tragic people are talking
about slaughter as the only
means because horse slaughter
is cruel. Any individual or group
that would do it runs real risk
of invoking fury from the vast
majority of Americans,” he also
said.
B eckstead w atch ed the
Warm Springs 2009 horse sale
and met with tribal representa
tives at the time. The Humane
Society is willing to work with
the tribe to help them use other
forms of horse population con
trol, he emphasized.
People in the United States of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009
m o stly
stopped
eatin g didn’t make it through to floor
horsemeat after World War II, votes in the House or Senate
when beef, pork and chicken 'during the past Congressional
becam e
m ore
p len tifu l. session.
Horsemeat is consumed in such
It would have made it a fed
countries as Germany, France, eral crime punishable with up to
Japan and M exico, however. three years in prison for “pos
This is the market the United sessing, shipping, transporting,
Horsemen group wants to capi purchasing, selling, delivering, or
talize on.
receiving any horse, horse flesh,
M ore strin gen t m easures or carcass with the intent that it
against horse slaughter have be used for human consump
been proposed, but failed. Sepa tion.”
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