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Page 8 November 2, 2011 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Halloween Style Pumpkin carving at Community Center. Spilyay staff photos. Lillian Heath and Margaret Switzler arrive Monday for the Costume Contest. Great season for White Buffs football B y W ill Robbins fo r the Spilyay The Madras White Buf falo varsity football team fin ished the regular season with a record of 4-4. The last time that hap pened was nine years ago when Dan Hiatt was head coach. Since then the White Buffs were shuffled like a deck of cards into different leagues and struggled to get wins against schools with larger player pools... And then there was that one notorious season when Madras played an indepen dent league schedule but couldn’t qualify for any post season action, leaving fans wondering if the program would just fade into obscu rity. But m any o f those w rin k les are gettin g smoothed out, and it seems that the football program at MHS is back on track. More importantly there is a resurrection of legitimacy under first-year Head Coach Rick Wells, who routinely says one of the goals is that other Tri Valley T eague teams w ill come to respect Madras as a winning program. W inning is som ething the boys did well this year. Led by sen io r q uarterb ack D rew McConnell and defensive back Travis Williams, Madras worked to a 500 season. There were other key play ers who made up the story of the 2011 team as w ell. Jo e H isatake, R odney M itch ell, Devin Ceciliani, Jordan Brown, Merlin Tom, Vernon Jackson- Smith, Anthony Allbritton and Eric Quintana. Probably one of the biggest contributors was Triston Smith. As p u n ter Sm ith reg u larly kicked the ball so deep that op ponents struggled to advance the ball down field. O f course there are more players that make up the team, but these are the names that were called out the most during ex clusive broadcasts on KWSO. This Friday the White Buffs compete for a post season birth. Their opponent is the Banks Braves, who play in the Cowapa League and have lost only one game. They are also ranked nine teenth in 4A. M adras is ranked twenty-ninth. Thirty-two teams will com pete this Friday in the so- called “play in” game that will establish the 16 teams that will compete for the 4A State title. T hough M adras is the stated underdog in this one, those words uttered by Kevin Garnett after the Celtics won the NBA title are now begin ning to sound louder, “Any thing is Possible!” Coach Wells agrees and hopes his team will do those small things that make a big difference. Friday night’s game kicks off at 7 p.m. from Banks High School. KWSO w ill broadcast the game live with Will “The Wilman” Robbins beginning at 6:50 pm. Battle over proposed Spokane casino continues AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. (AP) - Spokane County com m issioners were barred from commenting when business lead ers opposed to a new Indian ca sino asked them for help in de fending F airchild A ir Force Base. The Spokesman-Review re p o rted co m m issio n ers are bound to remain silent under a deal in which the county would receive payments to offset the effects of the Spokane Tribe’s casino and hotel development. Commissioner Mark Rich ard defended the intergovern mental agreement that requires commissioners to remain neu tral on the casino project, which is under consideration by the U.S. Department of Indian Af fairs. The Spokane Tribe’s proposal is a hotly disputed issue in Spo kane County, in part because the proposed casino would be close to the Kalispel Tribe’s Northern Quest casino resort on the west ern outskirts of Spokane. The Spokane Tribe’s proposed ca sino needs federal permission because it would be located off their reservation. County com m issioners A1 French and Todd Mielke are looking for ways to regain their ability to influence the decision on permitting a 14-story casino hotel near the flight path of Fairchild training missions. The hotel is the sort of “en croachment” that would weigh against F airchild in another round of military base closures expected in 2014, according to Greg Bever, past chairman of Greater Spokane Incorporated, the region’s economic develop ment agency. “We need the county’s voice on this issue,” Bever told com missioners this week. Bever and Greater Spokane President Rich Hadley opposed the Spokane’s casino proposal in a Sept. 12 letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. As a devil, Sunmiet Maben. Teleco: some service for $1 per month (Continued from page 1) The Warm Springs teleco is the ninth tribal teleco in the U.S., and like the other tribal telecos, WSTC serves a rural commu nity. In time about 1,000 local homes and businesses will have access to the company’s services. Some of the homes currently have no phone service. The teleco w ill bring broadband internet and phone service to these and other homes, the busi nesses and departments on the reservation. This will be done through a wireless system. For some low-income resi dents, a program exists to pro vide phone service for $1 per month. Sales and marketing Gabe Walker brings outstand ing sales experience and skills to the Warm Springs teleco. Before joining the teleco, “We are concerned that the 4,500 jobs at FAFB will be placed at risk if a major casino resort com plex is developed,” they wrote. In addition to navigational interference, they cited concerns about putting large concentra tions of people in the path of hundreds of monthly flights at less than 2,000 feet from the ground. Richard said he felt “kind of am bushed” by B ever’s com ments. He said he supported the Spokane Tribe’s Airway Heights proposal as a matter of fairness. While the Kalispel Tribe already has an Airway Heights casino, the Spokanes are “the tribe for w hich this com m unity is named,” Richard said. Spokane Tribe C hairm an Greg Abrahamson said Wednes day the project poses no navi gational threat to Fairchild or the nearby Spokane International Airport. Walker was working at T-Mo- bile in Redmond, where he was in the top 5 percent in sales out of 50,000 employees. He led a team of 15 representatives, fo cusing on customer retention. “I’ve been in the corporate world for eight years,” Walker said. O f the W arm Springs teleco, he said, “This is some thing I’ve wanted to do, to be a part of a great business that is just starting out.” W alker spent his teenage years in Warm Springs. He then worked at Verizon Wireless be fore joining T-Mobile six years ago. The teleco provided a chance for him to bring his sales and marketing experience back to the reservation. “A main objective for our m arketing is making sure the public knows what we’re trying to do for the community,” he said, “and making sure the price powerful selling point of the teleco is that it will help keep people connected to family and friends. is right.” One purpose of the teleco is bring telephone service to resi dents who have had no service in the past, which is a safety is sue. “One objective for us is public safety,” W alker said. “Some families have no 9-1-1 service, and our objective is the bring them that service.” “The most powerful selling point of the teleco,” he said, “is that we’re keeping people con nected to family and friends. This opens doors for every body.” Located at the corner of Warm Springs St. and Hollywood Blvd. Open Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ph. 541-553-1041 V
