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Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo April 12, 2017
Letters to the editor
Little League ump excels at training school
Maupin powwow
The Maupin community
and South Wasco High
School will host the Redsides
Powwow on Wednesday,
April 19. Host drum is the
Black Lodge Singers.
Dinner will begin at 5
p.m. at the Maupin Elemen-
tary School gym. Please bring
a side dish, main dish pro-
vided.
Social dancing and games
will begin promptly at 6:30
p.m. in the high school gym.
Welcoming all singers and
dancers to join.
Relay for Life
team registering
The American Cancer
Society Relay for Life of
Jefferson County gives ev-
eryone in the community a
chance to help the organiza-
tion save lives and create a
world with less cancer and
more birthdays.
Register your team or join
a team online today by visit-
ing relayforlife.org/madras
or
Or call Shari Durgan,
online chair, at 541-475-
6665.
Team captain meetings
are on the first Monday of
each month at the Jefferson
County Senior Center at 6:45
p.m.
Former and current can-
cer patients, those who have
lost a loved one to cancer,
families, businesses, faith-
based and civic organiza-
tions—and anyone wanting
to make a difference in the
fight against cancer—are in-
vited to take part in this ex-
citing team event.
Indian Head Casino is a
great supporter of the Relay
for Life, for mid July at the
Jefferson County Fair-
grounds.
Relay For Life events are
held overnight, as individu-
als and teams camp out at an
athletic track, park or other
gathering area, with the goal
of keeping at least one team
member on the track or path-
way at all times throughout
the evening.
Teams and participants do
most of their fundraising
prior to the event. This year
our theme is Give Cancer the
Boot, and each team camp-
site can be decorated to re-
flect the theme in some way.
Relay brings together
friends, families, businesses,
hospitals, schools, faith-based
groups: People from all walks
of life—all aimed at further-
ing the American Cancer
Society’s efforts to save lives
by helping people stay well,
by helping them get well, by
finding cures and by fighting
back.
Information about how to
form a team or become in-
volved in Relay for Life is
available
at
jeffersoncountyrelay.com
Or by calling Bonnie
Grote at 541-646-1073 or
Alice Satterlee at 541-419-
7335.
Shaker Church
On behalf of the Warm
Springs Shaker members, we
invite you to join us for an
old fashioned Community
Easter this Easter Weekend
April 14-16 at the Warm
Springs Shaker Church.
Friday, April 14: Dinner
served at 6 p.m. Shaker Ser-
vices immediately following.
Saturday, April 15: Dinner
served at 6 p.m. Shaker Ser-
vices immediately following.
Easter Sunday, April 16:
10 a.m. Sunday Ser vice.
Baptism's immediately follow-
ing Sunday Service in the
Church.
Easter Dinner will be
served in the dinning hall
once everything is finished in
the church. An Easter Egg
Hunt for the children will be
held during dinner.
Thank you. Frank P.
Charley, Minister.
Tribal Council
The following are some of
the items on the Tribal Coun-
cil agenda for the rest of April
(agenda subject to change at
Council discretion):
Tuesday and Wednes-
day, April 11-12
Fishing access meeting.
Wednesday
and
Thursday, April 12-13
Meeting on US v. Or-
egon.
Monday, April 17
9 a.m. - Multi-Disciplin-
ary Team report with the ju-
venile prosecutor.
10-11 - Committee and
board appointments with
Emily Yazzie and Lynn
Davis.
1:30 p.m. - March 2017
Finance update with Alfred
Estimo and Dennis Johnson.
2:30 - Cannabis Commis-
sion annual report.
3:30 p.m. - Needs and
savings/capital with Alfred
Estimo and Dennis Johnson.
Tuesday
through
Thursday, April 18-20
Inter-tribal Timber
Council, board and commit-
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tee meetings.
Wednesday, April 19
Fish tower tour with the
Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission and Warm
Springs Power & Water En-
terprises.
Monday, April 24
9 a.m. - Secretary-Trea-
surer and Chief Operations
Officer updates with Michele
Stacona and Alyssa Macy.
10 - May agenda/review
minutes with the S-T.
11 - Draft resolutions with
the S-T.
1:30 p.m. - Legislative up-
date calls, federal and state.
2:30 - Enrollments with
Lucille Suppach-Samson of
Vital Stats.
Tuesday, April 25
Land Buy Back listening
session.
Thursday and Friday,
April 27-28.
CRITFC meeting.
Note: ALL draft resolu-
tions and ordinances, includ-
ing any attachments or exhib-
its, are due by the first Fri-
day of each month by 5 p.m.
No exceptions. Send to:
michele.stacona@wstribes.org
lynn.davis@wstribes.org
Further items for consid-
eration:
· Indian Country Energy
and Infrastructure working
group meetings.
· Warm Springs Ventures
board update.
· Railroad, and fishing and
hunting access issues.
· Personnel Policy update.
TeleCom update. Verizon
lease. Northwest Power Plan-
ning Council.
· Oregon Tribal Gaming
Alliance. Natural gas line dis-
cussion. Enterprise updates
to the community. BIA bud-
get report with Stan Speaks.
Poets
Oregon’s poet laureate
Elizabeth Woody, and local
slam poet MOsley WOtta,
highlight the offerings for
Central Oregon Community
College’s recognition of Na-
tional Poetry Month.
Ms. Woody will lead a po-
etr y workshop, and then
present a poetry reading on
Friday, April 28. The work-
shop will be from 6 to 7 p.m.
at the Coats Campus Center,
room 116. Reservations are
required; call 541-318-3782.
Her reading and talk will
be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the
Barber Library Rotunda.
Both locations are on the
COCC Bend Campus.
Woody, an enrolled member
of the Confederate Tribes of
Warm Springs, has published
poetry, short fiction and es-
says, and is also a visual art-
ist. Her first book of poetry,
Hand Into Stone, received a
1990 American Book Award.
WOtta, Bend resident Ja-
son Graham, will present a
poetry slam writing workshop,
from 4 to 6 p.m. this Wednes-
day, April 12 in the
Multicultural Center at the
Coats Campus Center at
COCC. Reservations are re-
quired, 541-383-7559.
On Thursday, April 13,
WOtta will host a poetry slam
event, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the
same location.
W arm Springs Nation
Little League umpire-in-
chief Allen ‘Stretch’
Jones participated in the
Western Region Little
League Umpire School,
held in San Bernardino,
Calif.
At the end of the
week long training, Mr.
Jones was recognized
with the 2017 Bob
Thornton Outstanding
Student Award by the
Western Region Little
League teaching staff.
Stretch is the third
person from Oregon to
win the award, and the
first from Oregon Little
League District 5.
He has umpired seven
years for Warm Springs
Nation Little League, ever
since the league was
formed.
The last four years he
has been the league’s
umpire in chief. Prior to
that he would help out in-
formally to officiate, and
also spent time coaching
his own children.
Having grown up in
The Dallas, Jones lived
near the baseball field,
playing Little League ball
through the Babe Ruth
level, before turning his
energy toward rodeo.
What he likes about
umpiring is being able to
do something for the
kids. Jones takes his role
as umpire seriously, keep-
ing up on rules changes
every year and making
sure he has the right
safety gear and uniform.
A thank you
During spring break,
young people with the Or-
egon City Evangelical Church
visited Warm Springs.
They spent five days clean-
ing up and fixing up different
areas of the reservation.
This year they cleaned the
Agency, Simnasho and HeHe
longhouses. They cleaned up
the skate park area, and
painted the parsonage of the
War m Springs Baptist
Church, among several other
projects. The youth were
middle school age, and stayed
with chaperones at the Bap-
tist Church. Close to 30 youth
participated.
The church would like to
say Thank you. The work by
these young people is greatly
appreciated by the Warm
Springs community.
The Warm Springs Bap-
tist Church.
For business
The state Office of Di-
versity, Equity and Inclusion
and Affirmative Action for
Gov. Kate Brown is delighted
to announce this edition of
the Governor’s Marketplace
in Central Oregon to sup-
port small businesses.
The Marketplace event
will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
this Saturday, April 15 at the
COCC Redmond Technol-
ogy Education Center.
Family, friends
Hello family and friends.
I hope all is well with all of
you. I’m writing to let all of
Courtesy photos
Stretch with the 2017 Outstanding Student Award.
He got a lot out of the
time he spent at the umpire
school learning new tech-
niques.
The school included
classroom and on-the-field
training that included rule
knowledge, mechanics, um-
piring philosophy and game
management.
Jones said he was able to
attend the Western Region
Little League Umpire School
thanks to a scholarship.
Participants were from
the 10 states in the West-
ern Region and from two
Canadian provinces.
Stretch has set a per-
sonal goal to return to San
Bernardino to officiate at
a Regional tournament.
“I want to give special
thanks to the Oregon
State Little League and
District 5 Little League,
Elizabeth Hisatake and
Georgia Herr, from Dis-
trict 2, for helping me go
to the umpire school,”
Jones said.
“Right now we could
use a few more umpires.
So if you like youth
sports, being outside and
can commit to a sched-
uled, come see me and I
can explain what’s in-
volved, and I can work
one on one with you.”
Heart of Oregon graduates
Text and photo courtesy Val Sqiuemphen
Arrita (in the middle, middle row), Shirleen (upper
left), James (second row on left), and Jordan (top
row, middle).
Heart of Oregon Job
Corp students graduated
recently.
The local students to
graduate are are Arrita
Sampson, Shirleen
Killsfirst, James Teeman
and Jordan Scott.
you know my new address.
I was recently moved to
Deer Ridge Correctional In-
stitution. Please feel free to
write me, even if it’s just to
say hello.
I would also like to say,
Way to go little brother! I see
you out there and I couldn’t
be more proud of you. You
have come a long way. I see
The other graduates
are Joseph Clark, Caleb
Crotwell, Melissa Fridell,
Marcelo Dionne and
Miguel Martinez.
Congratulations,
Graduates!
all the newspapers and have
seen you in a few.
Jose, your family and com-
munity have always believed
in you. I’m happy to hear and
see you achieving so much.
Sending my love and re-
spect, Tommy Joe Alvarez,
sid no. 17934065, DRCI,
3920 East Ashwood Rd.,
Madras 97741.