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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Movin’ Mountains Challenge
assessments are this Friday
North End Express hoops
tourney starts Thursday
Warm Springs Recreation
will host the North End Ex-
press basketball tourna-
ments this Thursday through
Sunday, Jan. 21-24, at the
Community Center gym.
The North End Express
tournaments are All Indian
6 Foot and Under Men’s;
and All Indian Women’s.
The men’s and women’s
awards include champion-
ship embroidered jackets;
runner-up hood sweatshirts;
January 20, 2016
The Movin’ Mountains
Slimdown Challenge begins
this Friday, January 22. The
Challenge lasts for 16 weeks.
There will be cash awards
for both two-person teams
and individuals.
The cost is $25 per per-
son or $50 per team. The
Challenge is open to anyone
18 and older who lives or
works in Jefferson County
or the Warm Springs Reser-
vation.
Registration and initial as-
third-place
crewneck
sweatshirts; fourth-place t-
shirts; Most Valuable Player,
and All Tourney.
The women’s awards are
based on six women’s teams
(subject to change). The
teams are 8-man rosters.
For more information con-
tact Austin Greene at 541-
553-1953; or 541-553-3243.
Or you can email:
Austin.greene@wstribes.org
sessments will be done on
January 22 from 8 a.m.-5
p.m. at the Diabetes Preven-
tion office in Warm Springs;
and from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. at
the Jefferson County Public
Health Department.
They will also be done on
January 23 at the county
health department only.
That’s the last day to pay.
For more information
Contact Carolyn Harvey at
541-475-4292.
Community notes
Warm Springs 4-H Ar-
chers meet today in the old
Warm Springs elementary
cafeteria for shooting prac-
tice on Friday, Jan. 22 at 4
p.m. They are getting ready
for an archery competition,
but even if you’re not taking
part in that, you are welcome
to stop by and work on your
archery skills. Call 541-553-
3238 for more information.
War m Springs sixth-
through eighth grade students
are going to be required to
wear PE uniforms begin-
ning February 2.
Students can purchase the
uniforms, or they can check
them out and return them at
the end of the year. Contact
the k-8 Academy office for
more information, 541-553-
1128.
During the school day this
Thursday, Jan. 21, War m
Springs Academy middle
school students will partici-
pate in a hands-on health fair.
The fair is called ‘Let’s
Get Healthy,’ and is a
chance to learn about health,
from diet and nutrition to
sleep habits, and heart health.
During the evening, from
5:30–7 p.m., families and
community members are in-
vited to join for dinner, and
to experience the health fair
for themselves. All commu-
nity members are welcome.
The Warm Springs Library
Winter Reading program
runs through March 11. Af-
ter you finish reading a book,
then fill out a book review.
The more reviews you sub-
mit, the better chance you
have of winning a great gift.
All this just for reading and
doing something you enjoy
and learn from.
Wrestling, hoops at Academy
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Lynden Harry in a recent game vs. Bend. The
Madras teams begin league play this week. The girls
play at home against Gladstone this Friday, Jan. 22;
and the boys play at Gladstone on Friday.
The federal government
listed Columbia River chum
as threatened under the En-
dangered Species Act in 1999.
Chum salmon are also
called “dog” salmon due to
their canine-like teeth. They
are the last salmon of the
year to return to the Colum-
bia to spawn and their young
are the first to leave for the
ocean in the spring.
The BPA has funded two
hatchery programs and con-
struction of new spawning
habitat for chum in several
areas of the lower Columbia
River.
girls basketball teams
travel to Elton Gregory this
Thursday, Jan. 21; and then
at Obsidian on Monday, Jan.
25.
They have picture day on
Tuesday, January 26; and
travel to Crook County for a
game on Wednesday, Jan. 27;
then at Sisters on Feb. 4.
The games for seventh-
graders are at 4 p.m.; and for
eighth-graders at 5:30.
PCC 16th powwow this Saturday
Hunters raffle in February
The Natural Resources
Branch hunter’s reporting
raffle is coming up in Febru-
ary.
The grand prize is a 2016
bighorn ram tag.
The raffle is open to hunt-
Large number of chum expected
Biologists believe the Co-
lumbia River might see its
largest run of chum salmon
in more than a decade.
The current run could
reach 20,000, according to
the Bonneville Power Admin-
istration, which would make
it the largest since 2002.
The annual run of Co-
lumbia River chum salmon
historically numbered more
than 1 million.
However, habitat loss and
other factors caused their
numbers to plummet during
the last century to a low of
just a few thousand per year.
The Warm Springs Eagle
Academy wrestling team is at
Culver this Wednesday after-
noon, Jan. 20. They have Pic-
ture day next Tuesday, Jan.
26, at 4 p.m. in the mat room.
The next day, Wednesday,
Jan. 27, they travel to Obsid-
ian for an afternoon compe-
tition. They travel to Pacific
Crest on February 2; and
SkyView on Feb. 9.
The Eagle Academy
In 2011, BPA increased
the capacity of two chum
salmon spawning channels
located on tributaries just be-
low Bonneville Dam.
BPA, along with the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
and other federal partners,
manages river flows from
Bonneville Dam to keep
chum salmon redds—or nests
of eggs—under water during
critical times of the year.
Chum salmon generally
spawn in the lower part of
the Columbia River below
Bonneville Dam, preferring
tributaries where war m
ground water pushes up
through spawning gravel. The
warm water quickly incubates
their eggs.
The Washington Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife
is also building a new
spawning channel for chum
salmon on the Lewis River.
It should be completed by
summer 2016.
ers who turn in all their tags
and completed reporting for
the closed 2015 hunts.
Submit these to the Natu-
ral Resources Branch by Feb.
2 in order to be entered in
the raffle.
Other prizes include 2016
Ceded Land doe tags, plus
various hunting and fishing
gear. Multiple names will be
drawn at a public hunters
meeting in February.
Portland Community Col-
lege is having its Sixteenth
Annual Traditional Winter
Powwow this Saturday, Janu-
ary 23, at its Sylvania Cam-
pus in Portland.
Doors open at noon.
There will be children’s activi-
ties, a college fair, and then
a community dinner at 5:30.
Grand entries are at 1 and 7
p.m.
COCC hosts talks on stereotypes
Central Oregon Commu-
nity College will host a discus-
sion on the theme from the
book Whistling Vivaldi: How
Stereotypes Affect Us and
What We Can Do, by Claude
M. Steele. The discussion
begins at noon on the Madras
COCC campus, on Monday,
January 25, and continues for
4-6 weeks. If you would like
to sign up, please contact
Gina Ricketts, Native Ameri-
can program coordinator, at
541-318-3782. Or email:
rrickets@cocc.edu
Required FAFSA workshops coming up in Feb.
A FAFSA (Free Applica-
tion for Federal Student Aid)
workshop is coming up on
Monday Februar y 1, and
again on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
Both workshops will be
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the
computer lab on the top floor
of the Education building.
The workshop, including
infor mation on Oregon
Promise applications, will be
with the Gina Ricketts, Na-
tive American program coor-
dinator with Central Oregon
Community College.
Please bring the following
documents: parents (for stu-
dents who are dependents),
parents’ social security num-
bers, parents’ date of birth.
If your parents are sepa-
rated or divorced, you will
need the month and year of
separation or divorce. Also
bring:
Parents’ 2015 federal tax
return or estimated income;
if parents are separated or
divorced, you will need tax
information from the parent
that provides more of your
support.
Parents 2015 W-2s; your
social security number; your
drivers license number; your
federal tax return (if com-
pleted) or estimated income,
all 2015 w-2s.
Oregon Promise require-
ments:
Bring your high school
transcripts or GED test
scores.
FAFSA paperwork, needs
to be completed. There will
be staff at the workhops to
help with this process.
These workshops or held
on no school days for the
509-J school district.
Students must apply now
for FAFSA. If students are
FAFSA eligible, it is possible
for you to earn more grants
when you apply by March 1,
and applying for FAFSA is a
tribal scholarship require-
ment. For more information
call Higher Education at 541-
553-3311.