Spilyay Tymoo
Coyote News, est. 1976
September 3, 2014
Vol. 39, No. 18
September – Wanaq’i – Summer - Shatm
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Warm Springs, OR 97761
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The Back to School barbecue and
school supply giveaway is this Thurs-
day, Sept. 4, from 4-6:30 p.m. at the
Warm Springs K-8 Academy.
Students can tour the new school
starting at 2 p.m.
Class lists will be posted, and
seventh- and eighth-grade schedules
will be available.
For high school athletes who can-
not attend the barbecue, you can
stop by the school starting at noon
Thursday to pick up your back pack
and supplies.
School for first- through eight-
graders at the Warm Springs Acad-
emy, and ninth-graders at the high
school, begins Tuesday, Sept. 9.
Grades 10 through 12 at the high
school start school on Wednesday,
Sept. 10. Kindergarten students will
have individual classroom visits and
meetings with teachers the week of
September 8, and all begin school
together on Monday, Sept. 15.
New dialysis
center will ease
travel burden
The Autni Ichishkin Sapsikwat language students give a performance (above) at the dedication
ceremony. Anita Davis (picture below right) sings the Lord’s Prayer, as Keeyana Yellowman
performs the hand signs of the prayer (not pictured, Leslie Davis also performed the prayer hand
sings). And below left, at the entranceway to the school off East Tenino.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
See SCHOOL on 6
Stadium dedication at Madras High School
Madras High School and the
school district 509-J last week
hosted the grand opening of the
new football stadium and track fa-
cilities.
The new stadium-athletic com-
plex is a large part of the school
distritct improvement package that
voters approved in 2012. The Warm
Springs Academy, and the MHS per-
forming arts center are also large
parts of the overall district improve-
ments. The performing arts center
will have seating for up to 600
people when it opens soon.
The district voters in 2012 ap-
proved up to $16 million for the
MHS performing arts center-sports
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Postal Patron
Back to
school BBQ
on Thursday
A Great
Day at
Academy
T he Confederated Tribes and
school district 509-J last week
held the dedication and open-
ing of the Warm Springs K-8
Academy. “This is the culmi-
nation of a dream that began
nearly half a century ago,” said
Austin Greene Jr., Tribal Coun-
cil chairman.
With the opening of the new
school, the tribes and school
district are now in a unique part-
nership in the nation, Chairman
Greene said. Together, the
tribes and district planned for,
funded and built the k-8 acad-
emy.
More than anything, he said,
the school is dedicated to the
young people of the tribes.
Middle school students will
no longer have the long bus
rides every school day. And the
elementary school students now
have a modern building in a
better location.
“There will be 650 students
at the school, making it one of
the largest in the district,” Chair-
man Greene said. “This is an
80,000-square-foot building,
with a new gymnasium and
classrooms, football-soccer
field, and 8-lane track.”
He thanked the voters of
the Warm Springs community
and the school district for pass-
ing the funding levy, the
Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth
Tribal Councils, and the school
district board for their work on
the project.
The dedication began with
the presentation of the colors
and raising the flag, conducted
by the Warm Springs VFW
Elliot Palmer Post 4217, and the
Junior ROTC. The U.S. flag
that was raised with the tribal
flag once flew over the Capitol
building in Washington, D.C.
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complex.
The football stadium-athletic
complex dedication last drew a
large gathering, including many
students and White Buffalo fans
from Warm Springs.
The White Buffalo football
season opens this Friday, Sept.
5, with a game at Junction City.
Their first home game of 2014
is the following Friday, Sept. 12,
against Sisters.
Warm Springs group at the
stadium grand opening, with
White Buffalo statue.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
For now, people on the reserva-
tion who require dialysis have to
travel to Redmond several times a
week for the treatment.
The trip will become much easier
next year, as a dialysis center will
open in Madras. The new center will
be located by the Madras Cinema
5.
Fresenius Medical Care operates
the centers in Redmond and Bend,
and is currently developing the cen-
ter in Madras.
“This will be a huge help, having
a dialysis center in Madras,” said
Tammy Wilson, Warm Springs Com-
munity Health supervisor.
Community Health operates a
six-passenger van that transports the
dialysis patients to and from the
Redmond clinic. They make the trip
at least five times a week, as each
dialysis patient requires three treat-
ments a week.
The van leaves by 8:30 in the
morning and often does not return
until after 5 in the evening.
Having the dialysis center in Ma-
dras could allow the driver to make
two runs in a day, three days per
week, if we can get the scheduling
worked out. This would free up the
weekends for some of our patients
and families who have dialysis treat-
ments on Saturdays, Wilson said.
The shorter trip will also make it
easier for family members to take
loved ones to the treatment, she
said.
Currently 14 people on the res-
ervation require dialysis. The popu-
lation does not warrant having a di-
alysis center in Warm Springs. But
between the reser vation and
Jefferson County, there is now
enough need for the new center in
Madras.