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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Young people had a chance
to sharpen their rodeo skills
at the Chiefs for Recovery
youth rodeo and clinic.
Featured events were the wild
colt race clinics, taught by
Professional Wild Horse racer
Jason Smith and Buck Smith.
The clinic also included mini
bucking and senior bucking
instruction.
July 19, 2017
Youth track meet at Academy
The Recreation Department
and Warm Springs Prevention
will host the Recreational Invi-
tational on Tuesday, August 1
at the Warm Springs Academy
track and field.
There are two age groups
each for boys and girls: ages 2-
5, and 6-12. Events include: 50
meters, 100 meters, 200 meters
and 400 meters.
There will be the long jump,
high jump, softball throw, t-ball
throw, and 400 meter relay.
Patricipants receive a t-shirt
and water bottle.
Memorial races at Wasco Fair
The Vernon and Nellie Spino
Three-Quarter Memorial Race is
coming up in August at the Wasco
County Fair and Rodeo.
The race prize is $1,000 winner
take all, with other prizes to be an-
nounced. The race is Saturday
night, August 26.
The Vernon Ray Spino Memo-
Taking aim again at sea lions
Jayson
Smith
pho-
tos/
Spilyay
CRITFC hosting Indian Fishers Expo next Friday
The Columbia River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission will host
the 2017 Expo at Hood River on
Friday, July 28. The event is free
to tribal members.
Some features of the Expo:
The Fish and Wildlife commit-
tees of the four river tribes will
each host their own question and
answer sessions for fishers. These
are open to everyone.
The sanitarian of the Confed-
erated Tribes of Warm Springs
will conduct a quality handling
class. This will give participants
tribe-issued certification, recog-
nized by the state of Oregon for
sales within the state.
There will be sessions on boat
safety and boat maintenance.
rial Kids Match Race is Friday
night, August 25. This is half track
race, limited to six riders ages 8-
12 years. Call-ins open August 7.
First place, $100; second, $75; and
third, $50; other prizes to be an-
nounced.
For information call 541-460-
3283; or 541-325-2799.
The maintenance session will in-
clude advice on keeping your boat
engine at peak condition; common
engine- killing mistakes and how to
avoid them; and a hands-on over-
view of basic fiberglass repair. Fish-
ers can bring their own boats to
the workshop for specific ques-
tions.
Another Expo session will cover
marking and business: connecting
with customers, and selling at farm-
ers markets.
There will be trade booths, and
a free raffle. The Expo will be from
8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 28. For
more information call 503-238-
0667; or visit the website: critfc.org
The July CRITFC commission
Celestial Visions at museum
The Museum at Warm Springs
is now hosting the Celestial Vi-
sions exhibit. The show features
paintings, beadwork and other art
celebrating the upcoming solar
eclipse.
Enhancing the show are edu-
cational displays explaining the sci-
ence of the eclipse. The museum
is open Tuesday through Saturday.
You can reach them at 541-553-
3331.
Art in the West at High Desert Museum
The High Desert Museum in
Bend has selected 69 works of art
by 53 artists for this year’s Art in
the West exhibition and silent auc-
tion.
The opening reception is on
Thursday, July 27 from 6–8 p.m.
The public is invited to this
free first view opportunity where
they may place a bid or purchase
a beautiful piece of artwork out-
right.
During the opening reception,
artists Katherine Taylor and Ken
Roth, who also have pieces in the
exhibition, will participate in live
painting demonstrations through-
out the evening.
meeting will be at the Best Western
Hood River Inn the Wednesday and
Thursday before the Expo.
Congress is once again consid-
ering giving Oregon and Washing-
ton fish and wildlife officials and
regional tribes broader authority to
kill sea lions below the Bonneville
Dam, an effort supporters say is
necessary to protect 13 endangered
species of salmon and steelhead.
But unlike previous attempts to
rein in the marine mammals, which
are protected under federal law, the
legislation goes beyond killing the
dozens that converge each spring
on the fish logjam at the Columbia
River dam 145 miles from the Pa-
cific Ocean.
The bipartisan team behind the
bill want to go much further. They
also want to make it easier to kill
California sea lions found on the
Willamette River and its tributar-
ies, and anywhere on the Colum-
bia River east of Interstate 205.
If the legislation is approved, as
many as 920 sea lions could be
killed annually, compared with 92
under the current agreement.
The bill’s supporters say they
don’t envision ever reaching that
toll—that would be expensive and
a public relations nightmare. The
measure, they say, would allow them
to move quickly to remove nui-
sance animals before they engage
in a months-long feast on prized
spring Chinook salmon, an indus-
try that accounts for hundreds of
millions of dollars in business in
the Pacific Northwest.
In 2016, the states removed and
euthanized 59 sea lions, the most
in any single year since the program
began in 2008 (two additional sea
lions were accidentally killed).