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E Coosh EEWA: The way it is Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo December 24, 2014 Letters to the editor Generous donations most greatly appreciated By Alyssa Macy The KWSO and Spilyay Tymoo staff would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the community for the in- credible generosity in support of the KWSO/Spilyay Tymoo Toy and Food Drive. We were excited to Spilyay work with Speaks Early Child- hood Educa- tion and the Head Start programs, as well as the Ma- dras office of the Depart- ment of Human Services, to ensure that our children have a bright holiday. In a short amount of time, we gathered an incredible amount of toys and food. We’ve been busy sorting, wrapping presents and arrang- ing delivery and pickup. We know that when many children wake up on Christ- mas morning, they will be re- cipients of your kind gestures. Thank you to everyone who donated, wrapped pre- sents, delivered bags and shared our message. Our col- lective efforts are a strong display of what can be ac- complished when we work together. The holiday season is about presence. No material gift can take the place of time spent together, laughter, and love. Mer r y Christmas to you all! Toe Ness Why don’t cats play poker in the jungle? Too many chee- tahs. What is a cat’s way of keeping law and order? Claw enforcement. What do you call the cat that was caught by the police? The purrr-patrator. What do cats like to eat for breakfast? Mice Krispies. My dog is so lazy he won’t chase cars. He just sits on the curb and writes down license plate num- bers. Yikes! My dog is my soul mate. He both take naps, we both skip lunch, and we both hate the vacuum. Human Resources The Comp and Benefits Fair was a huge success, with the best turn-out and partici- pation in many years. It was a tremendous suc- cess because we all worked together. The general manag- ers, directors, KWSO, Jake Suppah and the S-T staff, our esteemed Tribal Council and of course my wonderful staff—made it a big success. Message from the HR Director It’s hard to believe it has been four months since I an- swered the call from Jake Suppah, our S/T asking me to serve the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. He did not mince words, he wanted HR to step up and serve employees in the best way possible, so we had our work cut out for us. Time has flown by very quickly but I am delighted to see how wonderfully our HR team has flourished, and how motivated HR staff is to pro- viding optimal customer ser- vice to all of our employees. We are also collaborating with our colleagues in CTWS Enterprises and finding that working together helps the entire community. The dedication and enthu- siasm of our HR staff keeps me motivated each and ev- ery day to bring my very best to the Warm Springs commu- nity, and I hope you have ex- perienced the positive changes we are trying to implement. We have big plans in the works for 2015 and will keep you apprised of the many proactive initiatives we have in place to better serve you in 2015. We will have a Grand Re- Opening of the Human Re- sources Department in Janu- ary, fully equipped with an CTWS employment center, where tribal members and tribal employees can research job opportunities as well as a work station for employees to utilize and check on benefits. Thank you for your pa- tience and support as we tran- sition in to the best possible HR team we can be—for YOU. I am honored to serve the CTWS and I look forward to meeting and meeting you all! Blessings, Elizabeth Asahi Rising Sun Sato To hunters The Warm Springs Wild- life Department would like to remind everyone to turn in Spilyay Tymoo (Coyote News, Est. 1976) Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller Multi Media Specialist: Alyssa Macy Managing Editor: Dave McMechan Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Con- federated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located at 4174 Highway 3 in Warm Springs. Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. Phone: 541-553-2210 or 541-771-7521 E-Mail: dave.mcmechan@wstribes.org. Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $15.00 their hunting results for 2014. Please completely fill out the right portion of your tag, even if you did not hunt, and return it to the Natural Re- sources office. There is a green drop box at Macy’s by the managers office where hunters may also return hunting results. Please make sure to pro- vide all requested information before turning in your tags. Thank you, Happy Holi- days! Andrea Karoglanian, wildlife biologist, Confeder- ated Tribes Natural Re- sources Elk season During this last early No- vember it appeared like it was going to be a hard winter, an early two-day blast of arctic wind and snow, but it warmed up and thawed and melted with warm rain. Most elk stayed up in the high terrain, as there was not enough win- ter snow at that time to push elk to the lower elevations. This last November we got an extra short elk hunting sea- son. Elk need grass and forbs and browse, and the best places to find that are in the habitat that has burned in re- cent years. Some things have turned around as there were numer- ous high country wildfires on the Rez. The good side: there is good forage on the fringes of the old burns, also now days there is less competition for the grasses, since nearly half—2,800—of the 6,000 of the tribes’ wild horse re- source has been rounded up in the last two years, and taken out to an unknown fate. The hunting units sur- rounding the Rez hold thou- sands of elk. Those east of the Cascades number about 65,000 elk. Populations are stable to increasing and are spread throughout the Cas- cades, in the vast high elk country of the Rez. Warm Springs NR and the state ODFW on aircraft counted only “82” elk on the Rez. Can the elk read bound- ary signs and stay on the other side? We need an extended season. Respectfully, Anthony Littleleaf. Best Wishes during this holiday season, from Warm Springs artist Travis Bobb. TC summaries Tribal Council staff is ask- ing for the return of the binder that contains the Tribal Council summaries. The binder was located in the Council lobby. This is a pub- lic document of the tribes, in- tended for all members to access. Someone may have borrowed it and forgotten to return. Please bring it back. ter. They are recruiting now, so call if you are interested in helping make the next Com- munity Read a great event. The 2015 Community Read will be in April. The library number is 541-553-1078. Thank you Thank you Janice Clements and Urbana Manion for our Christmas presents. Also, thank you to Community Read Marla Hicks and Buddy The 2015 Community Hicks’ daughter and a Read project will feature au- Mitchell boy for giving us thor Kaherine Schlick Noe wood. and her book Something to Shirley Sanders Hold. Noe lived for a time in Warm Springs, and wrote a book based on her experi- ences here. TaejZhaun Xavier Paul Anyone interested in being Princeton Greene-Henry involved in event planning Quinten X.P.L. Greene can talk with Craig Graham and Thayliah V.T. Henry- at the Warm Springs Library Suppah of Warm Springs are in the Family Resource Cen- pleased to announce the birth Birth of their son TaejZhaun Xavier Paul Princeton Greene-Henry, born on De- cember 7, 2014. Grandparent on the father’s side is Paullee Greene of Warm Springs. Grandparents on the mother’s side are Tiffiney T. Yallup of Warm Springs, and Wolfman Suppah, of Warm Springs. Please write Happy holidays! I’m still chilling in Benton County, a few more months. My release date is March 16, 2015. Times are hard when the holi- days come and go and my bad choices leave me in a concrete room on those days. Write to me please. It will help. The address here is: Antonia Wahsise, 7122 W. Okanogan Pl. Bldg. B, Kennewick, WA 99336. Indian Business Talk What to know when applying for business loans By Bruce Engle Loan officer W.S. Credit Enterprise Sometimes, addition prob- lems can be easily solved— by subtracting. Why am I talking about this during Christmas vaca- tion? I am trying to find ways to help more of our kids en- joy and become better at math. This would be my Christ- mas present for them. Par- ents, you can help. Many fourth graders can learn this method and some third graders can handle it. Start them off easy. You may be surprised how quickly they can pick it up. Show them how to add 17 + 37 by rounding the num- bers to 20 plus 40 equals 60 and subtracting 6. That would be subtracting 17 from 20 equals 3 and 37 from 40 equals another 3. Then you subtract that 6 from 60 for the answer of 54. The next problems might be something like 18 + 57 or 25 + 47. The answer to the first would be 20 + 60 equals 80 and then 80 minus 5 equals 75. The second calcu- lation would be 80 minus 8 equals 72. Then, make it a bit more challenging by having them add 17 + 37 + 56. Here are two ways to do the problem. One thought process might be 20 (minus 3) plus 40 (mi- nus another 3) equals 60 mi- nus 6. Then, add another 60 (with a minus 4) to equal 120 minus 3+3+4 to have an an- swer of 110. Or, how about thinking 17 + 37 equals 54 and that 54 plus 56 equals 110. That last calculation is 50 + 50 equals 100 and then you add 6 + 4 to make the answer 110. Thinking and working from left to right makes it easy. A next step might be to work with larger numbers. For example, add 396 plus 487 and then plus 563. Here is one way: · Round the numbers up to 400, 500 and 600; and, at the same time, keep track of the minuses. That’s the key. · Subtract 4 + 13 + 37. That’s 54. The 4 is the dif- ference between 396 and 400. The 13 is the difference between 487 and 500, and the 37 is the difference be- tween 563 and 600. The answer is 1500 minus 54 = 1446. In your head you might think something like this: 400 minus 4 plus 500 minus 13 equals 900 minus 17, and fi- nally 900 minus 17 + 600 minus 37 equals 1500 minus 54 which still equals 1446. You can make it even more fun if there are some low numbers that you can round down and add back to make it work. An example would be to add 214 to the previous an- swer by rounding it down to 200 + 1446 to equal 1646 and adding 14 to 1646 to make 1660. Have fun and have a Merr y Christmas!
