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
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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
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