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July 27, 2011
Inmate work crews serving community
Rap concert, video shoot
at community center
Rap singer and songwriter
Duna aka Baby Mac Dre will
be at the Warm Springs Com
munity Center this Friday,
July 29, from 6-9 p.m.
There will be a concert
and video shoot. Special guest
is A rizona Cardinals lin e
backer Joey Porter, accord
ing to the event flyer.
Duran Bobb/Spilyay
Inmate volunteers assist in clean-up along Hwy 3 in a service program which began last March.
Short-term inmates at Warm
Springs Corrections are now
able to earn time off of their
sentence by volunteering for
community service work within
Warm Springs.
By order of Carmen Smith,
Chief of Police, and with the
approval of the tribal court, in
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mates volunteer their service
both inside and outside the fa
cility.
“Inmates are not ordered to
participate for work details,” Lt.
Ron Hager said.
“Participation is voluntary.
There is no set * schedule at this
time, but we try to take work
crews into the community when
ever possible”
The program, is available to
inmates who are not serving
straight-time.
Inmates receive one day off
of their short-term sentence for
each eight hours of time volun
teered.
“The program has been on
going for several months now.
When we have staffing to pro
vide appropriate supervision
and inmates who are not con
sidered to be a danger to the
community, we go out and pick
up trash in common areas.”
Volunteer crews from WSCF
include both men and women
in crews of up to seven.
—
All ages welcome. This is
a chance to be in an MTV/
BET music video, the event
flyer says.
Tickets are $30, or $25
with a donation of two cans
of food. The event is pre
sented by Thizz Entertain
ment, started by rapper Mac
Dre.
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Indian museum hosts climate change events
WASHINGTON, DC. (AP)
— The Smithsonian’s National
Museum of the American In
dian is hosting its second Living
Earth Festival as it opens an
exhibit on climate change from
the perspectives o f 15 tribal
communities.
The festival opened last Fri
day with the release of native
ladybugs as natural pest controls
in the crops around the mu
seum. It continues with an out
door farm ers m arket, an
evening movie and the exhibit
“Conversations with the Earth:
Indigenous Voices on Climate
Change.”
On Saturday, the festival
featured a symposium on cli
mate change amid a heat wave
sw eeping through the area.
Speakers will discuss sustain
able practices and the cultural
shifts necessary to adapt to cli
mate change.
Washington chefs will face
off Sunday in a cooking com
petition at the museum’s outdoor
amphitheater. Visitors also can
learn to make American Indian
dishes.
W W n Navajo code talker Joe Morris dies at 85
LOMA LINDA, Calif. (AP)
— Navajo code talker Joe Mor
ris, one o f m ore than 400
American Indians who used the
language of their ancestors to
relay secret battlefield orders
during World War II, has died.
He was 85.
The longtime resident of the
Mojave Desert community of
D aggett died Sunday after a
stroke at the Veterans Adminis
tration Loma Linda Healthcare
System, spokesman Dave Allen
said Thursday.
N avajo code talkers were
young Navajo men who used
their language to successfully
transmit secret communications
in every major engagement in
the Pacific theater, including
Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.
Morris kept secret what he
did during his Marine Corps
service until President Ronald
Reagan declassified the role of
the code talkers in 1982. Mor
ris then began giving presenta
tions to schools and colleges.
The Navajo dialect never left
the Southwest United States and
the language was never written
down.
The Japanese had no way
o f learning it, and the com
p licated n ature o f the lan
7 wounded in casino shooting
AUBURN, Washington (AP)
- A man went to a casino near
Seattle early last Sunday look
ing for a woman, found her on
a crowded dance floor with an
other man, shot them both and
continued firing, wounding five
others before being tackled by
a security guard, authorities said.
All seven victims were hos
pitalized, at least two with criti
cal injuries, Auburn Police Com
mander Jamie Sidell said. Two
others received minor injuries
while trying to flee the scene.
Sidell said the shooting hap
pened at about 1:30 a.m. at a
crowded nightclub inside the
Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn,
about 30 miles (50 kilometers)
south of Seattle.
The suspect’s name wasn’t
released, but Sidell identified him
as a 42-year-old man from the
Covington area, southeast of
Seattle.
S id ell said the shoo ting
“stemmed from domestic vio
lence,” and that the woman the
suspect went to the casino look
ing for was possibly his wife or
girlfriend.
“She was in the company of
another male. Both were danc
ing, both were out there on the
dance floor,” he said. “He went
up there with a purpose, so we
have to assume at this point he
was looking for the female vic
tim in this case.”
Upon finding the woman, the
suspect shot her and her dance
partner with a handgun. He then
fired multiple rounds, hitting
five more people, Sidell said.
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started to flee the club,
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but a security officer tackled
him. The man was detained and
has been arrested, Sidell said.
Harborview Medical Center
spokeswoman Susan Gregg said
four o f the v ic tim s-th re e
w om en and a m an—w ere
brought to her Seattle facility.
She said two were in critical con
dition and two were serious.
The other three shooting vic
tims were transported to Valley
M edical C enter in R enton,
which declined to release infor
mation on their conditions Sun
day.
Two other people received
minor injuries while trying to
flee the scene with the rest of
the crowd, police said. None of
the victims’ names were released.
Sidell said the suspect is ex
pected to be transferred to the
K ing County Ja il and would
have an initial court appearance
Monday.
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others to learn.
Twenty-nine original code
talkers were recruited to train
another 400 Navajo to work as
communicators.
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Do you want to make a difference in our childrens safety?
The Community Safety Team is recruiting volunteers for the
Warm Springs Crossing Guard Program for the 2011-2012
school year. If you are interested in serving as a crossing guard
please contact June Smith at 541-553-2323 or Ashley Aguilar at
541-553-2204.
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