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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
April 11, 2018
Getting started with Eagles track and field
The Warm Springs Academy will
host the school’s first ever track and
field meet, with three schools com-
peting on Tuesday, April 17.
The schools visiting the Acad-
emy for the competitions will be
Culver and the Cascade Academy.
Events begin at 3:45 p.m. at the
school sports field.
Competitions will include the
100 meters, 200 meters, 400
meters, 800 and 1500 meters;
hurdles, the 4x100 meter and 4x200
meter relays; shot put, discuss, jav-
elin, high jump and pole vault.
Coming up before the meet at
the Academy, the Eagles will visit
Sisters this Friday, April 13.
This year the Academy track
and field team has more than 40
students participating, the most
ever, said Coach Darrell Yount.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Warm ups with Warm Springs
Eagle track and field.
The team last year had a great sea-
son, finishing with top-level indi-
vidual and team honors.
Community notes
The annual Canyon
Crawl race is on Saturday,
April 21. It is a 7.5 mile walk
or run, starting at the Ma-
dras Public Works parking
lot and finishing at Fraser’s
Deep Canyon Grill at Lake
Simtustus for lunch. The
route goes down Willow
Creek Trail.
Visit macrecdistrict.com
for additional info. This Fri-
day, April 13 at 7 p.m. is the
deadline to register.
Madras High School
Drama Club will present
Beauty and the Beast April
13 and 14 at the Perform-
ing Arts Center. Friday’s per-
for mance is at 7 p.m.
Saturday’s will be at 2 and 7
p.m. On April 20 & 21 there
will be 7 p.m performances.
Free child’s car
seat at April event
In youth sports...
Thomas Sales and Service will
hold a Drive for Your School
event this Friday, April 13 from 8
a.m. to 3 p.m. at Madras High
School. When you test drive a ve-
hicle, a donation will be given to the
Madras High School Seniors’ gradu-
ation party.
In MHS sports: This Friday,
April 13 JV and varsity softball
have home games against Estacada
at 4:30. The Baseball teams travel
to Estacada.
In MHS sports: On Saturday,
April 14, girls tennis is hosting the
White Buffalo Invitational.
In MHS sports: On Monday,
April 26 JV & Varsity softball
host Gladstone. Games are at
4:30. The baseball teams travel to
Gladstone.
Dams will spill more water to help salmon
The U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineers this week are spilling ad-
ditional water over dam spillways
on the Columbia and Snake riv-
ers.
The action is intended to help
salmon, and comes following a
federal appeals court ruling last
week.
The three-judge Ninth U.S. Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals upheld a
decision by U.S. District Court
Judge Michael Simon, who had
found that salmon are in a “pre-
carious” condition.
The Army Corps and the Na-
tional Marine Fisheries Service
had appealed Judge Simon’s rul-
ing.
Their arguments were that
there was not enough time to
come up with a spill plan, and also
that the salmon were not in need
of the added protection.
The decision is a win for plain-
tiffs in the case. These include
the Nez Perce Tribe, state of Or-
egon, and conservation and fish-
ing groups.
Steve Masuda, attorney for
one of plaintiff Earthjustice, said
Bill would maintain dams status quo
As the spill ruling was an-
nounced last week, Congress-
man Dan Newhouse was meet-
ing in Kennewick with business,
agriculture, utility and commu-
nity leaders, who oppose both
the increased spill.
One of the their arguments:
Water that is spilled cannot be
used to produce inexpensive
electricity, which increases the
utility bills for Northwest
ratepayers.
Newhouse said that U.S.
House leadership a bill, H.R.
3144, would advance to consid-
eration by a committee, and
added spill has been proven to help
juvenile salmon.
“Spill is really the one bright
spot in efforts to preserve salmon
over the past 10 years or so,” Mr.
Masuda said.
This is the fourth time since
2005 that increased spill has been
then possibly to a vote of the full
House as early as this month.
The bill would keep the status
quo at the Snake and Columbia
River dams until at least 2022,
with no court-ordered change to
operations.
Now dams are operated under
a plan called the Federal Colum-
bia River Biological Opinion, or
BiOp. It was created by a collabo-
ration of federal agencies, states
and tribes during the administra-
tion of President Barack Obama
to protect salmon while operating
dams.
Judge Simon has found the
BiOp does not do enough to
protect salmon.
He ruled that a new environ-
mental study is needed to look
at the Columbia and Snake riv-
ers hydropower system and that
it must consider the option of
breaching, or removing, the
Snake River dams from Ice
Harbor Dam near Burbank
upriver to Lower Granite Dam.
The Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration said it will follow
the court decision and increase
spill, even though it would in-
crease electricity costs in the
Northwest.
mandated by a federal court.
However, Joseph Bogaard, ex-
ecutive director of the Save Our
Wild Salmon Coalition, says the
spill is only one part of efforts to
restore the regions’ salmon. He
says the federal government con-
tinues to propose inadequate plans
to save the 13 populations of Co-
lumbia River Basin salmon that
have been endangered for the past
two decades.
Is your child in the safest car
seat? Stop by and find out a free
car set check up, coming up in April.
The program Native CARS—
Children Always Ride Safe—will
provide free seats, based on need.
The seats will be available only dur-
ing this event—Don’t miss out.
The free car set check up with
be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Wednesday, April 25 in the parking
lot between the Early Childhood
Education Center and the Agency
Longhouse.
Priority will be given to those
who schedule an appointment with
Candice Jimenez at the Nortwest
Portland Area Indian Health Board.
You can reach her at 503-416-3264;
or email:
cjimenez@npaihb.org
Drop-ins will be available as time
allows. Children need not be present
for the car seat check.
Culvert, salmon
case going to
Supreme Court
Seventeen years ago, 21
tribes sued the state of
Washington to fix those cul-
verts. On April 18, the U.S.
Supreme Court is scheduled
to take on the case.
The question is whether
the state will have to invest
significant funding, perhaps
$2 billion, to modify
roads—replacing culverts
with bridges, for instance—
to allow salmon passage.
And the court’s decision will
have repercussions for
tribes all over the West and
Midwest.