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Awakening premiere event at local cinema
T he short film A w akening by.
C entral O regon N ative LaR onn
Katchia will be showing one night
at the Madras Cinema 5. The cin
ema will feature the film on Satur
day, March 1.
This will be an exclusive event
for 135 people. The event will in
clude a showing o f Awakening, plus
five recent music videos directed by
Katchia.
This will be complemented by
live performances by the music art
ists themselves: Reservation Sensa
tions, Bigg B & N8, Portland Hype
Yung Rob, and a special flute seg
m ent by Foster Kalama.
Katchia will be on hand to sign
movie posters and photos. There
w illbe t-shirt giveaway to attendees
only (one p e r p e rs o n ), an d a
photoshoot
The lobby will open for attend
ees at 9 p.m. for meeting and greet
ing the cast and staff. This will be
followed by seating at around 10:30
p.m., ending the show at 12 a.m.
sharp.
LaRonn Katchia, m em ber o f the
C o n fed erated T ribes o f W arm
ing away, and with them goes the
knowledge o f our sacred ways.”
The story
Courtesy photo.
Awakenings director LaRonn Katchia
Springs, premiered Awakening last
summer at the Hollywood Theater.
M ore than 500 people, many from
Warm Springs, attended, supporting
Katchia and other A rt Institute se
niors.
Awakening stars Foster Kalama,
S o lo m o n T rim b le, an d L o u ise
Katchia.
The film is about a Native Ameri
can teen who is sent to a Shaman
by his grandm other in hopes o f re
storing his faith in his culture.
“This film is im portant to me
because I feel my culture, along
w ith m any cultures, are drifting
away due to technology,” Katchia
has said. “Elders o f tribes are pass-
O n a cold w inter day in the
b a ck w o o d s o f th e W arm
Springs Indian reservation, a
young adolescent Native Ameri
can teen is sent to a Shaman by
his grandm other in hopes o f re
storing his faith in his culture.
The Shaman sends the young
boy on a spiritual quest in order
to face and defeat his modern
Self by becoming one with the
environment aropnd him. The
boy is set to the ultimate test o f
survival while overcoming his
fears and defeating the violent
force that opposes him , ulti
mately restoring his culture and
faith.
Sponsorships, tickets sales
and other contributions are still
being sought to help with the
Madras showing. All potential
sponsors please co ntact 541
460-3004. O r email:
makevisionsreal@gmail.com
School construction work on schedule
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Progress on
UAV, other
projects
Warm Springs Ventures is work
ing tow ard establishing the u n
manned aerial vehicles test range on
the reservation.
Ventures has already been in con
tact with a num ber o f companies
in the UAV developm ent business«^
‘W e’ve had a lot o f interest frorh
the industry,” said Ventures chief
executive officer Je ff Anspach. J
H e has also m et this year with
Federal Aviation Administration of
ficials, and representatives from the
test ranges planned for Tillamook
and Pendleton. The University o f
Alaska is the base for the UAV test
ranges in the Western states.
The UAV test-range program has
the potential to help a num ber o f
enterprises on the reservation, from
Composite Products to Kah-Nee-Ta.
G eo Visions and Construction may
also find new business opportuni
ties.
O ne limitation is the absence o f
an available building at the indus
trial park. C om p o site P ro d u cts
evaluated some acreage at the east
corner o f the industrial park, ini
tially considering a 100,000-square-
foot building.
Composite determined to wait on
th e new b u ild in g , an d rem ains
housed by the mill. A new building
at the industrial park would p ro b
ably require the use o f a drain fields
so there are some limitations as to
size.
Carbon sequestration
A t th e W arm S prings K -8
Academy the construction crews
worked through the stormy Feb
ruary weather.
. “It’s moving right along, and
they’re still making very good
p ro g re s s ,”
said
G le n n a
DeSouza, school principal.
Painters are already at work
in some o f the classroom wings,
she said. A nd the teachers are
invited to an open house at the
new school in mid-March.
Construction at the 22-acre
site is scheduled for completion
in A ugust. T he teachers and
other staff will m ove in, then
the 2014-15 school year Will begin
in September.
D eSouza meanwhile has been
meeting with the teachers and com
munity members, determining the
curriculum aud other aspects o f the
school. .
More than 700 students will be
attending the W arm Springs Acad
emy. This num ber includes all o f
th e W arm S p rin g s E le m e n ta ry
School students, and all or m ost o f
the W arm Springs m iddle school
students.
Students have a choice o f which
school to attend, and som e may
choose to continue at the Jefferson
County Middle School. Currently, i
M eanw hile, co n stru c tio n
about 250 students from the reser work at the high school contin
vation attend JCMS.
ues on pace. The high school
will have a new performing arts
Mascot and colors
center, athletic facilities, foot
The school district held a com ball field and grandstand.
petition among students to come up
“I t’s amazing,” said Darryl
with a mascot for the Warm Springs' Smith, 509-J director o f hu
Academy. §
m an resources and operations.
Taylor A rthur drew the i m a g e -
“T he walls are up on the main
featuring an eagle— that the board
p art o f the perfo rm ing arts
and com m ittee chose am ong the
center and the athletics facili
many designs. Taylor, an eighth-
ties. We’re still on track to open
grader, is working with Mark Quan
in mid November.”
to finalize the image for use as the
The new football stadium is
mascot logo. Students also chose
o n schedule for com pletion
red and white as the school colors.
before the 2014-15 season.
The N atural Resources Branch
and GeoVisions are working on the
carbon sequestration proposal. The
first phase o f this project is to de
termine the potential for marketing
carbon offsets.
T he forest land on the reserva
tion makes this project possible, as
is true for other tribes with large
forested land bases. The Yurok Tribe
has entered the carbon sequestra
tion market, for instance (seepage 4).
Carbon sequestration is the pro
cess o f capturing and storing atm o
spheric carbon dioxide, a green
house gas.
Certain forestry practices can be
a m ethod o f capturing and storing
carbon dioxide.
I O ffsets could be m arketed to
companies in California, where new
re g u la tio n s are re s tric tin g th e
am ount o f greenhouse gases that
companies may emit.
The emissions trading, or “cap
and trade” regulations, took effect
in California just last year.
Ventures has also been looking
at the possibility o f a company de
veloping a data center on the reser
vation. These facilities require wa
ter for cooling, and the tribes have
sig n ific a n t w a te r rig h ts in th e
Deschutes River. T he water is used
for cooling the data systems, and can
then be returned to the stream flow.
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