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Spilygy Tymoo, Wgrm Springs, Oregon Jqnuary 11, 2012 E a r ly ta x c lin ic o n J a n . 21 a t C O C C M a d r a s The Partnership to E nd Pov erty and the W arm Springs Community Action Team are offering a Super Saturday o f free tax preparation on January 21. The free tax clinic will be held at the Madras COCC cam pus from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Both federal and state returns will be filed electronically with the help o f certified volunteers. The P a rtn e rsh ip and WSCAT’s goals are to help Cen tral Oregonians receive a much o f a return as they deserve and to keep for themselves. This includes the savings from the free preparation, in creasing the number o f people filing and receiving the E arn In c o m e Tax C red it if they qualify, and limiting the num ber o f people applying for high cost refund loan products. “We know there is a lot o f demand to file taxes as soon as the federal government accepts th e re tu rn s ,” states L o n n ie Jam es, o f the W arm Springs C o m m u n ity A ctio n Team (WSCAT). “Per their agreement with the IRS, AARP does not let us open the free sites until February 1,” James explained, “so this Super Saturday is a great opportunity to get in and get your taxes pre pared, and the refunds on the way back to you early with no loan application fee, interest charges or preparation fees like m any o f th e co m m ercial preparers.” A p p o in tm e n ts are b ein g taken for the Super Saturday F ree Tax P rep aratio n Clinic through the Partnership. Call 541-504-1389 for an appoint ment for the January 21, 2012. V isit w w w .takecredit.org for more information. The regular season o f free tax clinics offers at the Madras Senior C enter and the W arm Springs Small Business Center will open February 1. For appointm ents at these locations through April 15, visit www.WarmSpringsProgreSs.net. Housing Works offers assistance The Housing Choice Voucher Waitlist, formerly known as the H U D Section 8 Program, will be open through January 13. The program will close at 11:59 p.m. on that date. Housing Works will be offer- in g technical assistance this W ednesday, Jan . 11 at th e Jefferson County Library, 241 SE 7th St, Madras, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Preliminary application: www.waidistcheck.com Pgge 7 One killed, 2 injured in wreck A Madras man died, and two Warm Springs women were injured in a single-ve hicle m other vehicle acci dent on Highway 26. Police are investigating al cohol as a contributing fac tor in a fatal car crash, which h ap p en ed Friday, Jan . 6, about three miles north o f Madras. The wreck happened just after 9:30 p.m., when Kathy Ruth Danzuka, 47, report edly lo s t c o n tro l o f h er pickup on the highway near m ile p o st 113, acco rd in g to Oregon State Pohce. She cro sse d in to th e southbound lane and went o ff the highway into a ditch, according to pohce. D an zu k a and th e tw o p assen g ers w ere ejected from the vehicle. Pickup in single-vehicle wreck. One o f the passengers, Chad Willis Hamilton, 37, o f Madras, was pro n o u n ced dead at the scene. Danzuka and a second pas senger, Rebecca June Danzuka, 45, were injured and taken to M o u n tain V iew H o sp ita l in Madras. Kathy Danzuka was later tak en by A irL ifè to St. Charles M edical C enter in Bend for further treatm ent o f serious injuries. The high way w as clo sed fo r tw o hours. State troopers from Madras and Bend are con tinuing an investigation. T U L SA , O kla. (AP) - Oklahoma's two U.S. senators and a U.S. representative are jo in in g th e o p p o n e n ts to a planned casino in Broken Arrow by the Kialegee Tribal Town. U.S. Rep. John Sullivan said that he and Sen. Tom Coburn have sent letters to N ational In d ian G am ing C om m ission Chairwoman Tracie Stevens and Assistant U.S. Interior Secretary Larry Echo Hawk. Sullivan says the letters ask for the status o f efforts to have land approved for a casino. And Sen. Jim Inhofe says he doesn't believe the Bureau o f Indian Affairs will approve an application for a casino on the land. Kialegee Tribal Town King Tiger Hobia has said the tribe has no viable economic devel opm ent opportunities and that the casino is an example o f why the Indian Gaming Act was en acted. News from Indian Country Tribes concerned about water, gaming T O P E K A , K an. (AP) _ Ponka-W e V ictors, the only A m erican Indian m em ber o f the Kansas Legislature, hved on the Tohono O ’odham reserva tion in Arizona several years ago during college. She remembers when farm ers and residents o f a nearby town diverted too much o f the area’s water for irrigation, leav ing the tribe parched. “I’m telling you, that is the m ost horrible thing to wake up to,” Victors said recently. “You can’t bathe, you can’t cook, you can’f really do anything;' I felt bad for the elders and the chil dren.” - Victors, D-Wichita, said wa ter policy is something that is on the minds o f the state’s Indian tribes going into the upcoming session. T h e K ick ap o o n a tio n in H orton has been embroiled in a federal lawsuit for almost five years over the right to build a reservoir that tribal Chairman Steve C adue said is sorely needed. “We’re in desperate need o f water,” Cadue said. “O f course, safe drinking water is the main p u rp o s e , b u t it affects o u r growth and economic develop ment as well. We can’t build new houses S we have a waiting hst fo r p e o p le to g et in to th e Kickapoo reservation.” Gov. Sam B row nback has said he will push a four-point plan to address water conserva- T o te m p o le h e a d in g to S m ith s o n ia n K ING STON , Wash. (AP) - A Kingston carver’s totem pole is heading to the nation's capi tal. The Kitsap Sun reports the Smithsonian Institution has com- m issio n ed D avid Boxley to carve a 22-foot-tall totem pole that will be installed at the N a tional Museum o f the Ameri can Indian. Boxley is finishing his 3,000 p o u n d totem this week, and then it will be shipped cross country. A lthough his creations have been featured at Disney World, th e M ic ro s o ft cam pus an d other places, Boxley says hav ing one o f his totem poles in the nation's capital is a dream come true. tion this session, with an empha sis on renew ing the Ogallala Aquifer. Steve O rtiz (M on-W ah), tribal chairman o f the Prairie Band Potawatomi in Mayetta, said water isn’t an issue for his tribe, b ut draining o f aquifers is becoming a problem nation ally. O rtiz was one o f ab o u t a dozen tribal leaders w ho met with President Barack Obama earlier this month. One o f the issues he said they discussed was water rights. " ’ Cadue, Ortiz and Victors all said Brownback has been recep tive to th e co n cern s o f the state’s tribes since he became governor. They said they appre ciated a proclamation he issued in November apologizing to the state’s' five main tribes for the “spirit o f deception” that too o ften m ark ed dealings w ith them in the past. Brownback has also said he doesn’t want to discuss expand ing state gambhng during the coming session, while the state’s Democratic leaders have made gaming the funding centerpiece o f their jobs proposal. T h at d oesn’t sit well w ith O rtiz , w ho said th e state shouldn’t expand gaming while restricting the tribes to one ca sino per reservation. “We’re opposed to it, mainly because o f the fact that this now would give th e state n o t only four casinos, b u t they’re also There was some concern among the tribes about the voter identification law the state passed... talking about two racetracks,” Ortiz said. “So that really gives them six gam ing operations, w h ich really in re tu rn they should allow us to have more gam ing o p eratio n s as trib es without? having ’to pay’ the state any fee.” Ortiz said he met with K an sas D em o cratic P arty ch air w o m an Jo a n W agnon two months before the jobs proposal was presented and she didn’t mention more state gaming as a possibility. “She just said she could make no com m itm ent about Indian gaming,” Ortiz said. “We had no idea this was going in their plan.” Wagnon, via email, said she wasn’t aware o f the gaming as pect o f the proposal at the time she met with Ortiz. Victors said she didn’t have any input on the jobs proposal and hadn’t had a chance to talk to th e lead ers o f h e r p arty about it. “But, you know, the No. 1 thing is jobs,” Victors said. “Un fortunately, I didn’t s6e a lot o f opportunities for making jobs a priority this past session. I was kind o f shocked by that, com ing in as a freshman. I thought that ah we would talk about was the jobs issue.” O rtiz said th ere also was some concern among the tribes about the voter identification law the state passed. Ortiz said he was disappointed that tribal identification cards aren’t in cluded on the hst o f approved IDs. “We’re looking for a bill to be introduced into the Kansas Legislature that tribal identifica tion cards be allowed as voter ID ,” O rtiz said. “R ight now we’ve had meetings with the sec retary o f state, but I ’ve n o t seen any D em ocrat o r Republican come forth saying they’d intro duce a bill.” Increasing voter turnout on the reservations is on the agenda for Victors, w ho said she be lieves she is the first female American Indian in the Legisla ture. She said she would like to be a bridge between state and tribal g o v ern m en ts, p ro v id in g her unique perspectives on such things as living on a reservation without clean, abundant water. “I w ould really like to see something worked out with that water issue,” Victors said. “This is Kansas, and it’s the new mil len n iu m , you know. T h ere sho u ld be so m eth in g w here tribes, reservations and people don’t have to wake up to that burden.” Mayor threatens to shut down Duluth casino D ULUTH, Minn. (AP) - T h e m ayor o f D u lu th is threatening to shut down the local In d ian casino if an agreement cannot be reached on revenue sharing. Mayor D o n Ness says a 1986 contract with the Fond du Lac Band o f Lake Supe rior Chippewa gives the city authority to halt gambhng if the profit-sharing agreement is invalidated. Ness says banning gam bhng would be the last resort for the city and says its goal is to come to an agreement. T h e F o n d du Lac B and stopped sharing profits with the city in 2009. A federal judge has ruled in favor o f ending the pay m e n ts , b u t o rd e r e d th e Fond du Lac to make good o n back p aym ents. B o th sides have appealed the de cision. Fond du Lac tribal chair woman Karen Diver tells the D uluth News Tribune the mayor’s words prom ote ha tred toward the band. I------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------j Appearance of snowy owl puzzling BEND (AP) - Wildlife sci entists are puzzling over the appearance o f the snowy owl in Oregon, a bird rarely seen in the state. T h e ow ls are usually found in Alaska or Canada’s tundra, w here their w hite feathers serve as cam o u flage. But in several places across O reg o n , in cluding Burns, Astoria, Lincoln City and Eugene. “T hat’s a significant num ber o f birds that aren’t nor mally found in the state,” said Simon Wray, conservation biologist for the Oregon D e partm ent o f Fish and Wild life in Bend. Snowy owls have been re ported around the northern U n ite d S tates in re c e n t months, said Bob Russell, a wetland bird biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildhfe Service in Minneapolis. “They are really pouring in,” he said. An onhne map o f reported bird sightings maintained by the C o rn ell U n iv ersity , L ab o f shows snowy owls in New E n gland, th e M idw est an d the Western U.S. T he snowy owl can weigh a b o u t 4 p o u n d s a n d has a wingspan o f up to 5 1 /2 feet. O regon birders still rem em ber the 1980s appearance o f a ju venile snowy owl in the south ern p art o f the state’s Rogue Valley, one o f the m ore notable “accidental” bird sightings in O regon. Biologists speculate the bird might be making more southern appearances because o f a lack o f food, or perhaps because there are too many young owls in the tundra, W hatever is causing the phenomenon, it could lead to an increase in Central O r egon owl sightings, Wray said. Since its arrival in Central O re g o n la st m o n th , th e snowy owl near Burns has draw n b ird ers o u t to the H arney C ounty tow n 130 miles east o f Bend. The snowy o w lhas been seen southeast o f town, said Tom Crabtree, a birder from Bend who w ent out to see an d p h o to g ra p h it last month. “I t ’s been hanging o u t there,” Crabtree said. “It’s very cooperative, very pho togenic.” WARM SPRINGS TELECOM Invites you: %i66on Cutting and grand Opening Friday, January 27 Ceremony: 11:30 am Open House: 1:00 - 5:00 pm Food Kids' activities Tour the new facility Meet the staff Located at 4202 Holliday St. in Warm Springs
