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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
January basketball at high school
January 2, 2019
Elks hosting Hoop Shoot
Young people are invited to
the annual Elks Hoop Shoot
on Saturday, January 12 at the
Jefferson County Middle
School. Registration will be at
noon and the contest will start
at one.
The Hoop Shoot is open to
boys and girls ages 8-13 based
on age on April 1. Winners will
advance to the District Hoop
Shoot in Prineville later in Janu-
ary.
Warm Springs has seen suc-
cess in this youth free-throw
competition: Last year Jaihline
‘Cha Cha’ Ramirez took the
School and District competi-
tions, and advanced to the
Regionals. She won there in her
age group, qualifying and ad-
vancing to the State Hoop
Shoot.
If you would like more in-
formation on the 2019 Elks
Hoop Shoot, contact coordina-
tor Tammie Schongall. Her
email is:
tammark1985@gmail.com
Basketball action on KWSO
Listen to KWSO 91.9 this Fri-
day, January 4 when the boys var-
sity basketball teams plays Moun-
tain View. Tip-off is at 7.
You can also listen online at
kwso.org, using the Tune In Radio
app.
KWSO will also cover the boys
game on January 11 when the boys
host Valley Catholic.
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
The Madras frosh girls had a big win in December over Summit, 57-15.
The Madras High School girls
varsity basketball team has two
away games, this Friday, January
4 at Mountain View; and then
on January 11 at Valley Catho-
lic.
The girls return home on
January 16 to host Corbett.
The boys varsity team has home
games starting this Friday, January
4 against Mountain View; and then
the boys host Valley Catholic on
January 11.
The teams had tournaments dur-
ing December, the boys traveling
Movin’ Mountains 2019 begins in Jan.
to Seaside and then Summit; and
the girls at Summit.
The high school regular basket-
ball seasons then end in mid Feb-
ruary, followed by the tournament
play-in games, and the State Tour-
nament into early March.
Sports schedule at the Academy
Winter sports action coming up
n at the Warm Springs Academy:
Academy Girls Basketball
January 17: Academy girls bas-
ketball is at Sisters. Game time at
3:30 p.m.
January 23: The girls play at
home, hosting Elton Gregory
Middle School. Game at 3:30.
January 29: The team plays at
home against Obsidian Middle
School.
January 30: The team is at the
Jefferson County Middle School at
3:30.
Januar y 31: Home game
against Crook County Middle
School.
February 6: At home vs. Sis-
ters.
February 7: Elton Gregory
Middle School in Redmond.
Febr uar y 13: At Obsidian
Middle School in Redmond.
February 14: Girls basketball
at home against the Jefferson
County Middle School.
Febr uar y 20: At Crook
County Middle School, Prineville.
January 23: Academy wrestlers
will compete at a meet at Jefferson
County Middle School at 3:30.
January 29: The team has a
meet at Pilot Butte Middle School.
February 5: At Crook County
Middle School.
February 8: Wrestling will com-
pete at the Central Oregon Middle
School Classic, this Friday and Sat-
urday.
February 12: At Elton Gregory
Middle School, 3:30 p.m.
Febr uar y 20: At Obsidian
Middle School
The 2019 Movin’ Mountain
Slimdown Challenge runs from
January 17 through mid May.
Cash awards will be given out
in two-person team division, and
individual divisions.
The Slimdown is open to any-
one 18 years or older who lives
or works on the Warm Springs
Reser vation or elsewhere in
Jefferson County.
Registration and assessments
will be at the Warm Springs clinic
on Thursday, January 17 from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m.
There will be additional registra-
tion and assessments in Madras on
Friday, January 18 from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m., and Saturday, January 19
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the
Jefferson County Public Health
Department.
If you are unable to make those
dates, contact Carolyn Harvey at
541-475-4456. The last day to pay
is January 19.
Adult basketball leagues starting
For a few more days, the Ma-
dras Aquatic Center Recreation
District is taking registrations for
its adult basketball leagues.
The leagues will run January to
March. The registration deadline
is Saturday, January 5.
For more information and reg-
istration, go to macrecdistrict.com
Scholarship applications are avail-
able online at:
macrecdistrict.com/adult-basket-
ball/
Academy Wrestling
Zone 6 scaffold, hook and line fishery
A commercial sturgeon setline
fishery has been set, and platform
and hook and line fishers may also
participate in sales.
The season began on Tuesday,
and runs through 12 p.m. on
Thursday, January 31.
The open area is all of Zone 6,
the Bonneville, The Dalles and
John Day pools.
Allowed sales are sturgeon be-
tween 38 and 54 inches fork
length in the Bonneville Pool, and
from 43 to 54 inches fork length
in The Dalles and John Day pools.
These fish may be sold or kept
for subsistence use. Fish may be
sold after the period ends if caught
during the open period. Closed ar-
eas applicable to scaffolds and
hook and line are in effect.
Bill targeting sea lions intended to help salmon
The U.S. House and Senate have
passed a measure that will make it
easier to kill sea lions that feast on
protected salmon and steelhead in
the Columbia River basin.
The bill will help protect the bil-
lions of government dollars already
invested in salmon preservation,
without causing long-term harm to
sea-lion populations.
Other actions will certainly be
needed. But this bill offers an im-
mediate life preserver to some of
the region’s chinook salmon, a cru-
cial food source for the critically
endangered southern resident
orcas.
Federal researchers estimated
that a quarter of last year’s spring
chinook inexplicably disappeared
last year on their way from the
mouth of the Columbia River to
Bonneville Dam, with sea-lion pre-
dation most likely to blame.
State officials say they would
need to kill only a few hundred sea
lions to make a difference. That
would have little effect on the
booming population of California
sea lions, which has rebounded from
about 30,000 animals in the 1960s
to nearly 300,000 today.
New pact on Columbia River spill to help salmon
An agreement filed in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Portland in late De-
cember establishes a new regime
for spring spill of water over Co-
lumbia and Snake River dams to
benefit young salmon in their mi-
gration to the sea, while enabling
the Bonneville Power Administra-
tion to take better advantage of
power markets.
The three-year agreement,
reached after months of negotia-
tions, enables increased spill for
fish to swoosh over dams—in-
stead of going through power-
houses—during hours when power
prices are low.
Then, the spill can be reduced,
and more water run through gen-
erators, when prices are higher in
daily markets.
The intent is to increase the sur-
vival rates of salmon and limit the
cost for the program to no more
than was spent in 2018—and pos-
sibly less.
The pact, signed by BPA, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau
of Reclamation, the states of Or-
egon and Washington, and the Nez
Perce Tribe, is intended to last
through 2021, when a court-man-
dated environmental review of
river operations is expected to be
completed.
The agreement calls for a pause
in new litigation while it remains
in effect.
Shannon F. Wheeler, chairman
of the Nez Perce Tribal Execu-
tive Committee, said in a statement
that in setting aside litigation, the
tribe will focus on ensuring a full
analysis of lower Snake River dam
breaching during the agreement’s
term: “The tribe has long sup-
ported breaching the four Lower
Snake River dams.”
The Seven Directions is a family-owned business in Maupin.
There are five Warm Springs tribal members with the house-
hold, participating in the business.
Warm Springs tribal members receive a 15-percent dis-
count on Pendleton Woolen Mill products, including in-store
items and catalog orders.
Thank you,
Al and Sandi Thomas, Amelio Yahtin, Rochelle tom, Latrell
Charley, Michael and Alma Cuevas, and Oscar Thomas.