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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 2012)
E Coosh EEWA: The way it is Page 4 Spilyay Tym oo August 22, 2012 Letters to the Editor Veterans event I would like to extend a big Thank You to a number of people that contributed to the success o f the recent Peaceful Spirit Veterans Fly fishing Outing that was held at Lower Dry Creek. With your help this event was a big success. We hosted around 80 people total with 40 of them being veterans from all over the Northwest for two days, and shared a bit of our Na tive culture with them, along with the opportunity to fly fish the Deschutes. So once again, Thank you. The veterans really appreci ated it. Thank you: T ribal Council, Jam es Greeley, Bullet Rental, all D rum m ers, Warm springs Market, Herkamer, Natural re so u rc e s/fish e rie s, the cooks, Utilities, Five Crows, OSU Extension, M orning Rae, my family, Fire Manage ment, Community Counsel ing, the Community Health Education Team (CHET), community service workers. T h an k you to all w ho helped. Casey Green, Tiluiite Injun Guides. Naimuma A big Thank-You to the Culture and Heritage Staff for hosting the camp this year on short notice too. It was not easy but all the staff members from Culture and Heritage and OSU Ex tension pulled together with financial help from Caroline Cruz and other departments. 'We were able to have a fun 1 and great learning experience .at camp, work with all the changes th a t com es w ith Mother Nature Camp Naimuma at HeHe (due to the fire in the area ‘o f Mt Jefferson) was a huge success with everyone having an enjoyable time in the for est of Warm Springs. We will 1 carry many happy memories ’ for a long time. We want to thank the fol lowing departments, the work .crews, and the businesses for all their hard work and dedi cation to Camp Naimuma: Branch of Natural Re source and Bobby Brunoe; Jason Smith and all the crew; Warm Springs Utility Depart m ent, D on Courtney and staff. T hank you Josie Blackwolf for all your amaz ing work. Thank you Nancy Collins and Indian Health Services; and the Diabetes Program for their classes at Camp Naimuma. Thank you Mary Smith, the camp nurse; Les Schwab and Dave Bell; Terry ^nd Diana Macy; Clint Jacks; Stan Suenaga, Ken Kippley and the Warm Springs Tribal Police Department; Trey Leonard, Fire Management and staff. Ashley Aguilar In our hearts H ard to believe you’re gone, Dad, the sadness knows no end. H ard to believe you’re gone, wishing every day for you. At times it’s hard to keep moving on. You were always there with support and Love, when we needed someone the most. Dad, how will we ever do without you; we do our best to keep moving on. Our teacher and our guide, you were our dad, so good and strong. Your example I pray will sustain us now, and last our whole lives long. We have been trying to communicate, and hope you can hear us, expressing all our feelings for you. This is to help feel that you are near, with our memo ries we had here. Hoping it will help ease the pain missing you, Dad, our lives will never be the same; and we’ll miss you every moment of every day. A part o f us went with you, Dad, a gap has been Jeft here. This will be too big and hard to fill. You were our father and my hero. We love you,. Always in our hearts. From my heart To you. Always, Lou-el Culture Camp Well, Camp Naimuma at HeHe is over. The campers had lots of fun and learned about their culture and about themselves. T he cam pers had fun swimming in cold water. Tak ing sweats, becoming aware of their culture, but most of Spilyay Tym oo (Coyote News, Est. 1976) Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller Editor: Dave McMechan Reporter: Duran Bobb Advertising Director: Yvonne Iverson Media Advisor: Bill Rhoades Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Con federated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located at 4174 Highway 3 in Warm Springs. Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. Phone:541-553-2210 Advertising: 541-553-2307 or 541-325-1089 E-Mail: dave.mcmechan@wstribes.org. Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $15.00. all making new friends and lots o f good memories of camp. Also doing skits and singing camp songs and learn ing about their culture. Oh! So many folks to thank. I will start by thanking the following departments and people for their continued support of this endeavor for our Warm Springs youth and families. Big thanks to all the staff at KWSO for all their PSA’s at the last minute and support. Thank you to Natu ral Resources for all the sup port, thank you Utilities for all the hard work. Thank you to the Culture and Heritage Department for agreeing to host the camp this year, this is a really big task. Thanks Val S., and all your staff, and Josie B for all the paperwork you typed. Thank you Caroline Cruz for all her financial and staff support, and to the Diabetes Team traveling to camp to teach classes. To Mary Smith for all your caring for the hurts, to Terry and Diana Macy for helping. O h yes! A big thanks to. OSU Extension staff for all your help you gave so gener ously. Thank you to all our funding businesses for their continued support, and to Mr. Boileau for your support and help. I want to thank the par ents and guardians o f the campers, for trusting all the Camp Naimuma staff with your children. To all the camp staff who stayed and pitched in with all your might: You are to be commended for all your en ergy, time, effort and com m itm en t fo r a job “well done.” If you are as tired as I am, you have earned a good long rest knowing you have helped the youth of Warm Springs. (Please forgive me if I have forgotten to mention you.) Thank you. Arlene Boileau. For kindness The family o f N orm an Nathan would like to express thanks to so many who were Thank you, during our trying time This has been a long time coming from myself. I am taking this time to say thank you to all who were there for us at the time of our father’s tragic accident. It has been a very try ing time, trying to approach the loss and take care of him the best we could with our small time frames we had to make all the deci sions that we made for him. N ot knowing how to feel losing a parent, this has been a hard task to absorb, unsure if what was done was right or wrong. He was a big part of our lives, and we did our best to take care o f him the way he would have wanted us to. Dad was a man with a very big heart and open arms. He gave his coat off his back, his last dollar in his pocket, a place to sleep, or he would give you a ride, and always took care of everyone around him even w hen it cut him short. There were very kind words of him, which were so touching it still brings tears to my eyes, learning m ore o f him , things I never knew being his youngest. Fam ily and friends gave me pictures o f him on the fishing scaf fold, bringing tears be cause I never had any like those. I am thankful to those th at have a kind heart to share pictures with me. I copied and shared with my family. Thank you mom (Nola) for cooking our last meals with him, Millie and Roberta for his outfit and Sam Starr for preparing him for his fi nal journey, and Tina for his memory cards. Thank you VFW for the m ilitary services, the pall bearers carrying him to his final destination. And, to my siblings for helping me thru this, without your strength and love I would be lost. To my husband, for taking care o f me and our kids during these emotional times, and also my lil’ sister Jessie for coming to me with the news and staying by my side. Thank you to all those that were there to help retrieve him at Sherars Falls, and those that came to Auntie Hilda’s when the news broke. To my little league softball team, you know who you were then, thank you for keeping me busy enough to keep my head for you tb get through All Stars 2005. N ot a day goes by that I wish to see him walk thru my door and get my hug and kiss every week and the miss you tears I shed because he isn’t here. But, I know in my heart that he is at peace and he left us doing what he loved and that was being at his scaffold. H e is m issed every day, minute, second of my fife, but when he left, he left me with a blessing and that’s our new baby Marie Meanus Jackson. A untie H ilda and Jeanette, I love you so much, and to have you here means the world to me. Thanks for going to Sherars Bridge with me on June 1, 2012 it has been very hard for all of us to go down there. It was also part of our clo sure for him and for us. After that day I felt so much had been lifted off my chest, and having a birthday cake for Auntie Jeanette and Hilda was a good start for us again, and I hope vte can spend more time together like that again. Thank you all for be ing here for our family physically,, emotionally and spiritually. With Love Always, there at the time you were needed. A big Thanks to our fam ily members who came from near and far to be here. Specials thanks to Donna Clay and Susan Brunoe at the Health and Wellness Clinic in Warm springs, to L3 Con struction Family and Land marks, Cassie and Lonnie, at the Warm Springs Commu nity Action Team, the staff at St. Charles in Bend, H os pice, especially the caring staff at East Cascades, Pas to r Rick Ribiero, all the friends and family that sent cards, flowers and prayers, and last but certainly not least Kimberly and Doug at Bel- Air Funeral Home for their compassion. We will rem em ber the kindness shown to all o f us and thank you one and all. Renee Hogan Krstovich, the Scott family Louella Marie Jack- son & family and the Nathan family. New school About our new school I would like to suggest having language and dance and drum classes for our youth. And I would like to say hello to Bigg B. Mitchell J. Whitefoot Jr. Indian Business Talk Fraud alert, and ways to avoid being cheated By Bruce Engle L o a n officer W.S. Credit Enterprise They are out to get our money. Who are they? Good ques tion. How do they find us? The Internet seems to be one of their happy hunting grounds. Last year one of them got to me through my office e-mail. H e had a w o n d erfu l “story” as to how I was going to help him to “get around” some ridiculous federal laws having to do with interna tional money transfer proce dures. I strung him along for awhile and he sent me a check. I was supposed to deposit his check to my account, take out my $1,750 “fee”, and Send him a money order for the balance. Great for him; bad for me. Here is the catch. His check was no good. Had I deposited it, taken out my fee, and used the rest to buy his money order, I would have owed my bank for the full amount when his check failed to clear. I turned the check over to the bank fraud department. That didn’t go over too well with the guy I was supposed to be “helping.” H e never called again. Dang it! I was hoping to get to know him better. Testify ing at his trial would have been fun. There are lots o f scams going the rounds— Some old, some new, some homegrown, some from Africa. Mine sup posedly came from Singapore. They can be from any where and target anybody. We are all pptential victims. They prey on parents who want to help their çhildreti to a better life, families who want to help their older folks, the strong who would help the weak, the skilled who would help the unskilled. There are “stories” and “causes” out there designed to cheat anybody and every body. The “story” always seems behevable. It will tug at your heartstrings. Beware—the purpose isn’t just to tug at your h ea rt strings; it is to empty your wallet. Ask questions. Ask lots of questions. Ask at least two questions about every answer they give you. And, then ask more questions about those answers. Keep doing that. Then, say no. They will press you — they are salesmen. That is their job. Yours is to keep saying no until they quit You can always hang up or sign o ff Or, you can tell them to send all their information to you in writing so you can dis cuss it with your “financial advisor.” They don’t need to know who that is. Finally, try to remember two-—of the many— old say ings: • If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. • There is a sucker born every minute. D on’t be one! An Idea—how about try ing to Burp a Buffalo when tempted by one of these too- good-to-pass-up offers? You can buy into the deal if you can Burp the Buffalo. Might work. Couldn’t hurt. Now, have I a deal for you — I’ll give a complete set of Burping-a-Buffalo coins to the person that sends me the three best additional “old” sayings to add to. these two.
