Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
April 16, 2016
FFA student excels at variety of skills
Community notes...
The Diabetes Prevention
Program will start a series of
Diabetes
Prevention
Lifestyle Balance classes in
May. These are for anyone 18
or older who has been diag-
nosed with pre-diabetes.
Screenings can be done at
the Diabetes Prevention Pro-
gram office at 1142 Warm
Springs Street on campus. The
deadline to get signed up is
May 10. For more informa-
tion, contact Joy Ramirez at
541-553-5513.
I n his first year with the Future
Far mers of America, Wessley
Beymer earned three proficiency
awards, the most of any freshman
in FFA at Madras High School.
The awards were in the catego-
ries of forage production, forestry,
and beef production.
Wessley earned the forage profi-
ciency certification for a crested
wheatgrass and mixed seed planting
project at his grandmother Pinkey
Beymer’s ranch.
The forestry proficiency certifi-
cation was for operating a log loader
during a Natural Resources hazard-
ous fuels reduction project at HeHe.
And the beef production profi-
ciency is for work that Wessley does
with his herd of cattle. He started
raising cattle with 4-H, and has sold
his steer at the county fair.
The money he earns from these
sales are going toward his college
fund. As a high school freshman,
Wessley has not yet decided on plans
for after college. “I might have a
ranch,” he says, but there is plenty
of time to think about it.
Wessley’s parents are Waylon and
Tiffany Beymer, owners of Chilkat
Logging and Excavation.
Wessley’s young er brother
Shain, in the seventh grade, is also
raising livestock on the family’s
120-acre Sidwalter ranch. Shain
is in the new Discovery FFA pro-
gram, through the Jefferson
County Middle School.
Around spring break this year,
Chilkat helped to sponsor an FFA
trip to Indian Ag Council at Oregon
State. At the high school the FFA
program has about 25 to 30 stu-
dents. And about 10 of the stu-
dents, including Wessley are from
Warm Springs.
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The Twenty-Sixth Annual
Honor Seniors Day will be
held May 13 at Agency
Longhouse. If you want to
volunteer to help out in some
way, contact the Senior Pro-
gram at 553-3313.
The Twenty-First Annual
Na-Ha-Shnee Native Ameri-
can Health Science Institute
is a 13-day summer program
designed to encourage Native
students to pursue health sci-
ence degrees and health-re-
lated careers.
It’s open to students cur-
rently in ninth, tenth or elev-
enth grades. Applications are
available online: Google WSU
Native American Health Sci-
ences to find it. The deadline
is coming up on April 25.
COCC has open house next Tuesday
COCC's Admissions and
Records Department will host an
Open House on April 19, highlight-
ing certificate and degree programs,
college resources and facilities.
The event will be at the Bend
campus in the Coats Campus Cen-
ter from 4 to 7 p.m. Prospective
students and their families will be
Wessley with three Certificates of Proficiency.
able to mingle with faculty, admis-
sions staff and academic advisors
as well as enter to win COCC tu-
ition scholarships. Visitors will also
have an opportunity to tour the
Science Center, Health Careers
Center, Cascade Culinary Center,
Automotive Garage and the Resi-
dence Hall. Admission is free.
341 SW Sixth St.
Redmond
541-923-8071
Wessley giving a vaccination
to a calf at the family ranch.
Tuesday - Saturday
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Courtesy Tiffany Beymer.
15% OFF product purchases
Letter to editor
Fisheries legacy
Historically, the legendary
“Bridge of the Gods” area was the
ancestral homeland of the Wasco
Tribes. The traditional fishery was
enormous and one of the greatest
fishing sites on the Columbia River,
where millions of salmon migrated
annually, including to the Oxbow
Springs tributary.
The area is where many
Wascopam families caught their
subsistence salmon for the year, but
in 1938 the great ancient Wasco
fishery was inundated by the back-
waters of the Bonneville dam,
which was catastrophic.
Entire fishing villages were en-
gulfed by the slack water pools.
Only memories remain of the once
great fishery and the millions of
salmon that migrated and provided
the first salmon and the way of life
that the Wascopam depended on
since time immemorial.
This historic area is too impor-
tant to ignore any longer. The chil-
dren and future generations must
know where they came from.
CTWS needs to pay tribute to our
own legacy, which provided a way
of life and the brightest salmon for
countless generations.
It needs to be commemorated
annually. A “Bridge of the Gods”
powwow could generate revenue to
vendors, etc., at Warm Springs or
Cascade Locks.
Awe-Na. Respectfully,
Anthony Littleleaf
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To redeem: bring in the coupon, mention
this ad, or show your tribal ID.
Veterans Welcome Home Day Parade
The friendliest store in town!
In the Meat Department -
Bone-in beef spare ribs - $1.48 a
pound - Regularly $2.79 a pound
At the Bakery - French
bread - .99 cents each -
regularly $1.99
Photos courtesy Susan Guerin
Veterans from around the region arrived in Warm Springs for the Inaugural Welcome Home Vietnam
Veterans Parade, hosted by the Eugene Greene Sr. American Legion Post and Auxiliary Unit 48.
Grocery - Western Family 6 Equals
24 Mega Rolls bath tissue - $3.99 -
regularly $8.99
Produce - Navel oranges
- .39 cents a pound -
regularly .89 cents a
pound
Central Oregon veterans motorcycle group.
Grocery Coupon - at the Service Deli -
$3 off rotisserie chicken