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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 2012)
Pdge 10 October 3, 2012 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Making a lot of dough for college Cultural Classes resume this week By Duran Bobb For the Spilyay Tymoo J ’Dean Kalama is helping the youth in her life to obtain their educations by making an ( awful lot of dough alongside • Highway 26. • Her daughter, Grace Anne, •19, is attending classes in Gresham at this time. “She’s trying hard,” J ’Dean '/said. “Last year she paid for her classes by herself, which ~is why we wanted to help her '-out. It’s her goal to become • an ultrasound technician. And 1 she’s determined! She lived < about five miles from the 8school last year.” To help, Foster Kalama • made exquisite necklaces to help raise funds. “This year the tribes are ‘ helping G race out with a • scholarship, so that helps,” J ’Dean says. “She also got an • apartment within walking dis- ■ tance of the school this year.” Also raising money for ■ their education are Marie Kalama and Jackson Mitchell.' • Both commute to COCC. The fry bread-lndian taco is popular with motorists from the highway. Marie would like to be come a Psychologist. Jackson is studying to become a chef. A huge RV pulls off the highway and parks in front o f the fry bread stand. Out comes an elderly couple, smil ing. “We were here two months ago, and I remember the fry bread was really good,” Jack says. “Can I buy three of them?” “ O u r children live in Prineville,” his wife, Lenea, said. “It was our first time tasting fry bread last month. This time we’re going to get three o f them so we won’t fight over them!” “A good portion of our customers are just like this,” Jackson said. “We raise enough money by making fry Duran Bobb photo. bread and selling jewelry and pop and other things on the side so that it fills in the gaps getting back and forth to school.” Recently, the stand had a visitor from Thailand. “There’s also other cus tomers that come back from the Philippines and there’s another guy from Australia. They love fry bread.” Grant assists tribe with a new ambulance By Duran Bobb For the Spilyay Tymoo A grant from the USDA has helped the Warm Springs tribes purchase a new ambu lance which will be in service ' in all three districts later this month. T he 4WD 2012 Ford F350 XLT, outfitted with the latest ambulance technology by B raun N o rth star in Chehalis, WashH is unlike any ambulance Warm Springs has seen before. “This emergency response vehicle is a diesel 6.7 biofuel,” Fire Chief Dan Martinez said recendy. “The beauty about having a vehicle like this is that we can run this unit on corn, propane or a variety of other fuels if diesel should ever run short.” The total cost of the am bulance was $133,000, with the tribes matching 25 per cent of the USDA grant. Not all funds were used in the construction of the Sidwalter Fire Station. After construc tion, there was a remainder Duran Bobb photo. Fire Chief Dan Martinez with ambulance. o f $56,000, so the tribes re applied and were granted the authority to purchase the new ambulance. . Martinez says the unit is equipped with technology that has become necessary in or der to save lives. For example, in the dash board is a GPS navigator. “Sometimes we hire new medics who might not know the area,” M artinez said. ‘W hether you know it'or not, your house has a number if you live on the reservation. Fire & Safety knows that number, and that number is inside the GPS unit.” O ther features (included for reasons o f H om eland Security) include a digital ra dio system, which will allow EMS to communicate directly with air support, Also, when the back doors o f the am bulance are opened, hydraulics lower the rear bumper to help EMS in loading a patient. The front o f the ambu lance is equipped w ith a 12,000 pound wench and a 300 watt siren system installed in the front bumper. There’s also a protective bar system which will protect the vehicle if it ever encounters livestock in the road when responding to an emergency. “So pretty much, this is a portable hospital,” Martinez said. “E verything has its place, and it all has to fit for just about any emergency.” As of now, the ambulance going through the final stages of preparation at the Vehicle Pool. This includes the appli cations o f decals to meet both federal and state re quirements for an emergence response vehicle. This is the fifth ambulance the tribes have purchased from Braun Northstar. “I can’t take credit for all of this,” Martinez said with a grin. “But I am very proud that we were able to earmark those funds in order to get a necessary upgrade. This is pretty much what our com munity needs.” Resource team approves timber assessments The Resource Manage- | ment Inter-disciplinary Team approved the Waterfall 2 Fire Timber Salvage Emergency (P roject Assessment, along r-with three small project as sessments, including two for salvage logging, during a meeting held O ctober 1 at the Natural Resources Build ing. k The emergency project lassessm ent will now go to Tribal Council for final ap- Sproval. Timber in the salvage sales 1/7 ' / / y / F y ///. The n ext dead line to su b m it item s fo r p u b lic a tio n in the Spilyay T ym o o is Friday, O ct. 12. T h a n k you! I BUY OLD BASKETS Navajo Rugs and Related Item s 475-6317 covered u nder the small project assessments (SPAs) may be available for harvest as early as this fall, but log ging will probably occur peri odically over the coming year. The proposed sales are lo cated within the Shitike and Whitewater watersheds on the Warm Springs Reservation. These sales will be imple mented to capture volume from dead and dying trees that were burned during the recent Waterfall 2 Fire. The salvage sales were developed under the In teg rated Re sources Management Plan (IRMP) emergency project assessment and small project assessment processes at the direction of Resource Man agement Inter-Disciplinary Team (RMIDT). The sales covered under the SPAs will result in the sal vage harvest of trees in the commercial forest. The emer gency salvage sale that goes before Tribal Council will also include salvage in conditional use areas. An estimated 5 million board feet of timber would be targeted in the Wa terfall 2 Fire Emergency PA. RMIDT also approved a small project assessment for placing signs to advertise In dian Head Casino on High way 26. The eight-week series courses, because in tribal of Cultural Classes began history members spoke this week. The classes will all three languages. “It was our practice, be on Tuesdays, Wednes days and Thursdays- whenever a person was in through Nov. 29. There trouble or was in crisis^ will be no classes during for our Tribe to surround the week of Thanksgiving. that person to offer sup The classes are from port and guide him or her 3:30-5 p.m., held in the to be a positive part of basement of the Educa the com m unity,” said tion building. Tuesdays are Leona Ike, director o f Paiute language classes; tribal Parole and Proba Wednesdays, Wasco lan tion. During the classes, the guage; and T hursdays, first hour is language, and Warm Springs language. The classes are open to the last half-hour covers the community, employees tribal history, culture and and defendants with the practices. Well behaved Tribal Court to use as an , children are welcome. alternative sentence. Classes are subject to can All are encouraged to cellation should there be attend all three language a death in the community. Head Start now taking applications Warm Springs Head Start/Early Head Start is now accepting applications for 2012-2013. Services provided are the full day/full year pro gram; child development screenings; breakfast and lunch for party day class rooms; breakfast, lunch and snack for full day classroom s; parent in volvement opportunities such as the parent policy council, training, family nights, father involve ment activities. Families of children with special needs are encouraged to apply. Applications are available at ECE or pick one up at the post office. Next Java Jump Oct. 25 The Java Jum p Start at Deschutes Crossing area. Join in the conversation at the Warm Springs was well Rainbow M arket, attended. T he group dis the cussed future plans for mar Deschutes Crossing Restau keting and expanding mem rant and Raftihg, & Springer ■ E spresso. N ext Cham ber bership. The next Java Jump Start Membership meeting Octo will be O ctober 25, and will ber 9 at 5:30 p.m. at 1136 include the businesses at the Paiute Ave., Warm Springs. W arm S p rin gs onda Owned Süteé 1944 Beads, Native American Gifts, Museum, Deli, Grocery, Ice, Fishing Permits, Western Union, Check-Free Bill Pay, ATM and Much More! 2132 Warm Springs St., Warm Springs - ph. 541-553-1597 ■ Lost 16”x24’ Snow Cone Ice Chipper Top Call Tommy Kalama - 541-553- 3018 (h) 541-460-2432 (c). Snow Cone Reward 2321 Ollgllie Lane (PO Box 6) Warm Springs, OR 97761 Call 541-553-1182 {
