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r “l Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Words of Wisdom TeleCo Corner Staying on schedule helps manage diabetes By C ecil Tulee Sr. I have been a diabetic for go ing on 26 years. I have type 2 diabetes. I finally managed to get my blood sugar under control the last seven years. My blood sugar is 100 to 160, it varies every day. To take care of my diabetes I stay on a schedule. What I do is check my blood sugar every day when I wake up and record my blood sugars in a journal. I have my journals since 1994. Whatever my blood sugar is in the morning determines my insulin dose. I eat toast and chicken sandwich. I like salads. It was hard to give up pizza. Dr. Creelman has been my doctor for the last 25 years. He knows my history and health, I do not have to explain myself over and over. Dr Creelman works with me, tells me what amounts of regu lar insulin and NPH insulin to take. He tells me what my quar terly progress is. Seeing him quarterly, that is what really works to know how your diabe tes is doing. I see Dr. M arilyn for my feet. Feet are number one. You need your feet to walk. Always Cecil Tulee Sr. drink coffee for breakfast, eat ramen noodles for lunch and a nice meal for dinner. I eat a lot o f chicken. If I go to M cD onalds now I order a have on footwear. If you step on something you will not feel it. Injuries to feet and ankles take a lot longer to heal. Now I watch where I step. Being unemployed and on disability is a burden. I buy just what I need and not more than I need. When I worked, my blood sugars were higher be cause I had more money and I bought m ore food. I can ’t splurge now. (Article submitted by Jeri Kollen, RN, Certified Diabetes Educator, Warm Springs Model Diabetes Pro gram.) Economic stewardship initiative moves forward B y C lint Jac k s and Teresa H ogue The Tribal C ouncil’s eco nomic stewardship initiative is moving forward on a number of fronts. The initiative was approved by Tribal Council in Ju ly of 2010 with the goals of increas ing tribal revenue, creating jobs and a skilled workforce, and to foster development of the pri vate business sector. There have been significant endeavors to date. The Business Revolving In vestment Fund, or BIRF, cre ated a team of all tribal enter prise managers along with three Tribal Council members, a rep resen tativ e from Jefferso n C ounty’s economic develop ment focus and one tribal mem ber at-large. The mission of the team is to evaluate potential expansion of existing enterprises or to cre ate new enterprises. the new telco en terp rise ($750,000) that has allowed an early start of the project; $2 million bridge funding to High Desert Resort and Casino for relocation of the casino along Highway 26; and recently the team has give a thumbs up to explore possible lease arrange ments with the development o f a gasification partnership located on the tribes’ 5-acre M adras industrial site prop erty. All recommendations of the BIRF team go to the secretary- treasurer/chief executive of ficer, and to Tribal Council for the ultimate decision to advance a loan. Having team members exam ine projects using their business expertise and knowledge pro vides valued information to de cision m akers and potential projects. A num ber o f ad d itio n al projects are in the investigated stage at this time. The team brings together Tribal Planning, Workforce De velopment, the Warm Springs Economic Development Corpo ration (Ventures), grant develop ment, and from the private non profit sector the Warm Springs Community Action Team. All team members have been actively involved with some por tion of economic development for years, but by working to gether they are significantly moving a number of important basic building blocks forward that will provide a foundation for creating a vibrant economic climate. Projects include the comple tion of the commercial code; p ro vid in g a m ore business friendly liability/bonding re quirement for small businesses; and co n ductin g the W arm Springs market analysis regard ing what will aid small business owners/entrepreneurs to under stand the size and scope of po tential opportunities to provide services for the tribe and enter prises. The team created a small busi ness center that will officially open at end of this month. The center is to provide vari ous services as individuals and businesses build assets and skills. Capacity team Three key projects Out o f the $6 million allo cated for the revolving loan fund the team has recom m ended funding three important tribal enterprises—bridge funding for Pgge 5 September 21, 2011 The capacity team was cre ated to streamline and closely coordinate various economic and w orkforce developm ent units of the tribe and the non profit and profit sector. The capacity team funded the Warm Springs Community Development Financial Institu tion for small business loans (ac tively taking loan applications), providing a better understand ing o f w orkforce needs and skills of enterprises and train ing to meet those needs, hiring an overall economic steward ship coordinator (currently in process), and is ramping up ef forts on the first phase o f a town center. The team has $2 million al located by Tribal Council and to date has accessed $700,000. All proposed projects are sent by the capacity team to the secre- tary-treasurer/CEO’s office for approval. the capacity team reports every six m onths to T ribal Council. Tribal Council also desig nated $2 million revolving loan fund to advance the private business sector. A specific proposal will be presented to Council in Octo ber that will outline how the fund w ill be m anaged, criteria o f fund, working relationship be tween Tribal Credit and Warm Springs CDFI for small busi nesses. Challenge, goal to bring service to rural reservations by M arsha Spellman M arketing <& Kegulatory Director, WSTC Last week, I spent a few days in New Mexico, a beau tiful part of the country, with the National Tribal Telecom Association. This group represents the nine tribally owned telecom munications companies in the U.S., including the brand new C o nfed erated T ribes o f W arm S p rin gs’ com pany, W arm Springs T elecom (WST). Prim arily, the N ational Tribal Telecom Association (NTTA) is a political organi zation that represents the in terests of the tribal telecom com panies at the Federal Communications Commis sion (FCC). This is critical for the tribal telecom companies as this is a heady time for tele communications regulations at the FCC, w here big changes are underw ay; changes that will affect the w ay teleco m m u n icatio n s com panies are able to do business into the future. The biggest change to tele phone regulations is the pro posed change to how rural companies will be subsidized to eq ualize the cost o f telecom service for all Ameri cans. Since 1934 when the origi nal Telecommunications Act was written, there has been a small surcharge to the bills of everyone who has a telephone line, called the Universal Ser vice Fund (U SF). (The charge can be found on the bottom of your phone bill.) When this fund was cre ated, the federal government decided that all Americans should have a telephone. However, the cost to provide service thro ugho ut ru ral America would be extremely expensive, if not prohibitive, as the lack of density in the rural areas would make the cost to provide each tele phone line exorbitant. In order to enable rural Americans to have a phone at a reasonable cost, they cre ated this fund to help defray the great expense that small rural companies were facing to build out their networks throughout rural America. Industry changes Nowadays, as everyone knows, there are a lot o f changes underw ay in the w orld o f telecom m unica tions. First, there is a migration of many people away from landlines to cell phones. Sec ondly, high-speed, or broad band internet has become the next critical infrastructure. The policy people at the FCC and state utility commis sions have realized that there has to be a change in how net works are built and paid for, so that the rural parts o f America are not left behind in educational opportunities, health care and job creation. These two big issues have forced the need to change the funding mechanism that ru ral telecom companies have relied on for all these years. The FCC is now moving from funding rural compa nies from the cost of each telephone line, to the cost of providing a subsidy for each broadband line, changing the USF to the C A F -th e Con nect America Fund. While the change is inevitable, these changes present many chal lenges. W h ile trib al lan ds are also rural and face many of the same issues as the rural telecom com panies, tribal teleco m co m p an ies and trib al lands have sp ecial needs and the NTTA is the only o rgan ization that is representing the needs of tribes. TELECO on 9 Remembering Warren “Rudy” Sta-Xo-Iai” Clements (N ote, this a rticle by A nna Clement is continued from the p r e vious Spilyay, rem embering War ren K Clements.) M arch 24, 2007, H ilton Hotel in Portland: Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by the M useum at W arm Springs. The museum honored R udy w ith this p restigio u s award. We, the family, were hon ored and moved. Thank you to the museum. Former Gov. Vic Atiyeh presented the award for Rudy, calling him a good friend and a leader who worked tire lessly for the tribe and their cul ture. In choosing Rudy for the award the museum pointed out that Rudy truly inspired all who had the privilege to know him. “He was a blessing to the people of the Warm Springs tribes.” Rudy was also one of the first museum board members. Jake Frank, age 5, perform ed the E agle D ance to honor his grandpa. T hank you M argie Tuckta for narration, also do ing the drumming and singing were Carlos Calica, late Cal and Kyle Queahpama. They donned war bonnets, which was very outstanding, colorful for this occasion. We truly appreciate the gifts received : From Umatilla tribe (Bobbie Conner), a beautiful Celilo Pendleton you Eva Montee, as MC. What a great job. Also, thank you Gar land Brunoe for the blessing, and Floyd Calica for his assis tance in the presentation of the blankets. Wonderful words were spoken, as each received their blankets and shared their memo ries of Rudy. Blankets were pre sented to: Kah-Nee-Ta board, Chair man Ken Smith, who was Rudy’s classmate in boarding school, high school and college. Rudy was chairman of the board and served with each of the follow ing members: Vic Atiyeh, served on Commission on Indian Ser vices, with Rudy, other state committees, and a very close frien d; Lynn D avis, D ick Donaca, Celeste Whtewolf, Ray Potter. K ah-N ee-T a board, Gerald Smith. Museum at Warm Springs board: Rudy served as chairman of the board. Roberta Kirk ac cepted the blanket for display at the museum. Com m unity Center: Rudy served as first Community Cen ter director. Austin Greene ac cepted the blanket for display at the center. Senior D epartm ent: Rudy supported activities of the Se nior Program. Lucille accepted the blanket to display at the Se nior building. blanket; from the museum at fringed shawl; from the Warm Springs Tribes (Tribal Council), beaded items (beaded necklace with m atching earrings); and lastly from Gov. Atiyeh, a beau tiful clutch purse, and we can’t thank enough for all those who came and gave support, espe cially my Queahpama family, the G reene fam ily (sisters Norene, Sandra, Margie), and the Clements family, Mike and Maxine, Grant, Rudy George and Sheilah. Oct. 29, 2007, Kah-Nee- Ta, Rudy Clements Memo rial Luncheon/Presentation of Custom Made Pendleton Blankets. The family, Anna, Shayla and Jake, felt that there needed to be some kind of to ken of appreciation to all of the special people in Rudy’s life, such as those who served with him on numerous boards (state, federal, tribal, other tribes), com missions, service groups and various committees; and those who served under his leadership as a supervisor, director, and manager of different tribal de partments. And of course his family, friends and relatives. And those who participated with him in sports, as teammates, and as athletes he coached; and in all other phases of his life. Thank Tribal Council: Councilman Ron Suppah and Rudy worked together on many tribal issues. C h ief Jo e M oses and Rudy worked together on gaming is sues. E ducation D epartm ent, Wendell Jim, department direc tor, accepted the blanket. Dr. Creelman, IHS. Tom was Rudy’s doctor, and took care of Rudy throughout his illness. BIA Portland Office, Stan Speaks. Rudy worked with Stan, especially on gaming issues. Karnopp Petersen law of fices: Rudy worked and travelled with attornies on tribal issues and especially gaming. Cascade Locks, Roger Free man, mayor: Rudy worked with the Cascade Locks community on gaming. The Siletz Tribe, Dee Pigsey: Rudy was a friend of the Siletz Tribe. When called upon to be a speaker, for training or cul tural presentations, he was will ing. U m atilla T ribe, A ntone Minthorn: Rudy worked with the Umatilla Tribe and Antone on many tribal issues. Nat and Mavis Shaw: Rudy was a co-worker in the Public Relations Department with Nat. Rudy was director, heading up the Spilyay, KWSO and print shop, working on the tribes’ an nual reports, all with Nat’s help. Rudy supported Mavis at the fish hatchery. Floyd C alica: Rudy hired Floyd to assist him in gaming, which he is still doing today. Eagle Watch, Paul Patton: Rudy was called upon by Paul to do cultural and traditional p resen tatio n s on song and dance, and as speaker on eagles at Eagle Watch. Rudy was will ing, and became close with Paul. Joe Badoni: Rudy supervised Joe in the printing department. Rudy saw how Joe worked hard and never complained, especially at meeting deadlines. Jeff Ford: Rudy was the com m ittee to hire J e ff as casino manager. Greg Leo: Worked with Rudy on gaming. G arland B runoe: W orked with Rudy on many tribal issues, and was a good friend. A rlene B oileau: Rudy re ceived a lot of support from Arlene. Urbana Ross and Ed Manion: Rudy served with Ed on the Kah-Nee-Ta board, and they were good friends. Jo dy Calica: Worked with Rudy on tribal issues. C harles Jackso n : W orked with Rudy on tribal issues. KWSO: Rudy was director. Spilyay: director. Mike Mason: Rudy served as chairman on the first Commis sion on Indian Services. Mike accepted for display at the com mission at the State Capitol in Salem. Bill Mariette: Rudy worked and served on the High Desert Museum board. Vince and Reba Powell: Rudy hired Vince to assist with the Culture Camp one summer, and became close friends with Vince and Reba. Jacob Frank Sr.: Has been close friends since childhood and worked together on many tribal issues. Teeny Miller: Accepted blan ket for Tribal Council for dis- play. M argie Tuckta: A ccepted blanket for the casino at the Gorge, for display there. Eva Montee: Rudy hired Eva as aerobics instructor at the Com m unity Center. Eva be came close friends. Gov. Ted Kulongoski: Se lected June 25, 2006 as W.R. Clements Day. Chief Delvis Heath: for and awarded to Jacoby Ellsbury. K en Scab byro be: G ood friend. Ed Ben: Siletz former coun cilman. J L ; m fi U b I
