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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
MHS White
Buffalos
sports update
December 23, 2015
Youth tourney this weekend
The Fourth Annual Warm
Springs Cougars Youth Co-
Ed Basketball Tournament is
coming up on Saturday and
Sunday, December 26-27.
It is a 10-years and under,
and 12-years and under All
The Madras High School
girls basketball team won two
of three games at the Sea-
side Holiday Tournament.
The team was 4-1 as of
earlier this week. (The girls
played Henly at home on
Tuesday of this week, after
deadline for this publica-
tion).
Next up is the Sisters
Tour nament,
Monday
through Wednesday, Dec.
28-30. Early in 2016 they
play two away games, at
Ridgeview and Mountain
View, before hosting Bend
on Jan. 12.
The boys varsity team got
off to a rough start, going
1-5 overall. They’ll be at the
Sisters Tourney, Dec. 28-30,
then at home against Moun-
tain view on Jan. 6.
Indian Co-Ed Basketball tour-
ney, to be held in the Warm
Springs Community Center
Gym.
It is open to the first six
teams in both categories who
submit entry fees.
North End Express tourney in Jan.
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
The North End Express
All Indian 6-foot and Under
Men’s Basketball Tourna-
ment, and the All Indian
Women’s Basketball Tourna-
ment are coming up next
month.
The tourneys are set for
Thursday through Sunday,
Jan. 21-24 at the War m
Springs Community Center.
Men’s awards include
eight championship embroi-
dered jackets; eight runner-
up hooded sweatshirts; eight
third-place
crewneck
sweatshirts; eight fourth-
place t-shirts; and Most Valu-
able Player, and All Tourney
awards.
The women’s awards are
the same as for the men’s
(based on six women’s
teams/subject to change).
For more infor mation
contact Austin Greene at
541-553-1953; or 541-553-
3243(w); or email:
austin.greene@wstribes.org
Entry fee is $250 for men
(eight-man roster) and $250
for women (eight-woman
roster). Payable by certified
cashiers check or money or-
der by January 8.
The Warm Springs Hous-
ing Authority hosted a grand
opening for the $9.7 million
project. On hand were the
families that have qualified for
the homes, community mem-
bers, and many of the fund-
ing and planning parties that
have been part of the unique
project.
The Greeley Heights
project involved a number
private and public entities,
federal and state:
Present at the opening cer-
emony were representatives
from the state of Oregon, the
HUD Northwest Office of
the Native American Pro-
grams, the Bank of the West,
and Prestige Affordable
Housing Partners, among oth-
ers. They arrived for the oc-
casion from their home of-
fices at San Francisco, New
Jersey and Ohio.
2015 Year in Review
(Here is a look back at some
of the memorable news events of
the later half of the year on the
reservation.)
May
Toward the end of May,
tribal
leaders
toured
W i l l a m e t t e Fa l l s with
Gov. Kate Brown. The site
tour was organized by the
Willamette Falls Legacy
Project.
Legacy Project organizers
are planning the development
of a public riverwalk along
the edge of the Willamette,
providing public access to the
views of the falls. The falls
are a usual and accustomed
fishing place of the Confed-
erated Tribes of War m
Springs.
Willamette Falls is the sec-
ond most powerful waterfall
in North America. For more
than a century now the pub-
lic has not had a viewing area
of the falls. The Legacy
Project is working to change
that.
June
Tribal Council this month
approved a plan by the Ca-
sino and Resort board to de-
velop a truck stop at the
tribes’ Madras property.
The truck stop will create
between 40 and 60 new jobs,
and will generate significant
new revenue for the tribes.
At a conservative esti-
mate, the truck stop will gen-
erate an average of more
than $2 million a year. The
new jobs will have tribal mem-
ber preference.
The tribes own 10 acres
of trust land at the Madras
Industrial Park. The property
has not been used in recent
years.
The Gaming proposal calls
for development of a truck
stop with gas pumps, a res-
taurant, convenience store,
some Class 2 gaming, among
other amenities. In other
news:
Eel fishing season
opened for tribal members at
Willamette Falls. Tribal Coun-
cil by resolution opened the
season through July 31. Else-
where:
Tribal Council in June
made a declaration of
drought on the reservation,
the first such declaration in
the history of the tribes.
A declaration of drought
gives the tribes access to fed-
eral assistance in managing
the water shortage.
Jefferson,
Wasco,
Deschutes and Crook coun-
ties have all made drought
declarations for 2015.
At Pi-Ume-Sha weekend,
the Confederated Tribes this
month commemorated the
One-Hundred-and-Sixtieth
Cash & Release
Always Looking to Buy
Year Anniversay of the sign-
ing of the Treaty of 1855.
The Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs now have
a Tribal Employment
Rights Ordinance, or
TERO, office.
Mary Sando-Emhoolah is
the Warm Springs TERO di-
rector. She and husband
Michael own and operate the
construction trucking com-
pany Emhoolah Trucking Co.
The benefits of the TERO
program will be many for
Warm Springs. The office will
facilitate the hiring of tribal
members and other Native
American residents for Or-
egon Department of Trans-
portation and other construc-
tion projects in the region.
July
Oregon tribal leaders met
at Kah-Nee-Ta for discussion
of the impact on Indian
Country of Oregon Mea-
sure 91, legalizing recre-
ational marijuana in the state.
On hand were the Assis-
tant U.S. Attorney for the
District of Oregon, and a
special agent with the federal
Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration. Major crimes on the
reservation, such as drug
crimes, are prosecuted feder-
ally.
Stan Speaks, BIA regional
director, and Dean Seyler,
Portland Area IHS director,
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were among the speakers at
the conference.
Discussion focused on law
enforcement questions raised
by Measure 91, as well as
health and welfare, and youth
issues.
Tribal Utilities is urging
residents to conser ve as
much water as possible for
the near future.
The problem is a pump
that is down at the water
treatment plant, leaving just
one pump in operation.
The first four families of
the new Greeley Heights
subdivision moved in to
their homes last week.
The Warm Springs un-
manned aerial vehicle
program is on track to receive
significant operational fund-
ing. The funding comes from
the state of Oregon, through
the Oregon Innovation Coun-
cil and SOAR Oregon.
Total new UAV funding to
SOAR is at $3 million. Part
of this program involves de-
velopment of a UAV train-
ing center at Kah-Nee-Ta
Resort.
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