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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
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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.