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.
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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