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Spilyay Tymoo January 16, 2019
Letters to the editor
To young
artists
The museum at Warm
Springs in February will host
the Twenty-Sixth Tribal
Youth Art Exhibit.
The museum is accepting
artwork
submissions
through Friday, February 1.
Teachers are welcome to
submit entire classroom
projects. Individual art is
also welcome.
The Youth Art Show is a
chance for young people
show their creativity.
There will be an open-
ing reception for the Youth
Art Show on Thursday,
February 7 from 5:30 to 7
p.m.
For additional informa-
tion talk to museum cura-
tor Natalie Kirk, 541-553-
3331 ext. 412.
Thank you
After six and a half years
attempting to get this correc-
tion, I must thank Mr. Dan
Martinez and Johnathan
Courtney for their efforts.
Norman A. Nathan was
the Nathan veteran honor-
ably discharged by the Navy.
This information was pro-
vided years ago to the VFW,
but must have been lost.
So once again, Thank
you to those who have
helped correct this error.
Renee
Hogan
Krstovich
9 a.m.: Culture and Heri-
tage Committee update.
10 Education Commit-
tee.
11: December 2018
financials.
1:30 p.m.: Health and
Welfare Committee.
2:30: Land Use Planning
Committee.
3:30: Range and Ag Com-
mittee.
4:30:Timber Commit-
tee.
Tuesday, January 22:
Simnasho District meeting
on Kah-Nee-Ta at the
Simnasho Longhouse. Din-
ner is at 6 and the meeting
at 7.
Wednesday, January 23
9 a.m.: Water Board.
10: Fish and Wildlife
Committee.
11: Cannabis tax rebate
agreement with Howie
Arnett and Ben Eckstein .
1:30 p.m.: IRMP III
meeting with all committees
and Natural Resources.
2:30: STIFIGA and by-
laws.
3:30: Safety corridor
agreement.
Thursday and Friday,
January 24-25: Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Com-
mission meeting.
Thursday, January 24
9 a.m.: Museum at
Warm Springs.
10: Housing Authority.
11: Timber LLC.
1:30 p.m.: Cannabis.
2:30: Kah-Nee-Ta.
M o n d a y - T h u r s d a y,
January 30-February 1:
Affiliated Tribes of North-
west Indians winter conven-
tion.
Voucher program
Tribal Council
The following are some of
the items on the Tribal Coun-
cil agenda for the rest of Janu-
ar y (subject to change at
Council discretion):
Monday, January 21
9 a.m.: Secretary-Trea-
surer and Chief Operations
Officer update with Michele
Stacona and Alyssa Macy.
10: February agenda and
review minutes.
11: Draft resolutions.
1:30 p.m.: Legislative up-
date calls.
2:30: Enrollments with
Lucille Suppach-Samson of
Vital Stats.
3: December 2018
financials with Dennis
Johnson and Alfred Estimo,
Finance.
Tuesday, January 22
Housing Works an-
nounced that the waiting list
for the Housing Choice
Voucher Prog ram, for-
merly known as the U.S. De-
partment of Housing and
Urban Development Sec-
tion 8 program, opened this
week, and will remain open
through this Friday, Janu-
ary 18 at 5 p.m.
This program is open to
low-income qualified resi-
dents
of
Jefferson,
Deschutes and Crook coun-
ties. Applicants must apply
online at:
housing-works.org/apply/
The time you apply dur-
ing the week does not impact
your position on the list.
All applications taken dur-
ing this time frame will be ran-
domized by a computer and
placed on the waiting list to
give all applicants an equal
chance.
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus in Memorium: Sid Miller
Editor: Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Con-
federated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are
located at 4174 Highway 3 in Warm Springs.
Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo
should be addressed to:
Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 489, Warm Springs, OR
97761.
Phone: 541-553-2210 or 541-771-7521
E-Mail: david.mcmechan@wstribes.org.
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It’s important to note that
anyone who is currently on
the waiting list needs to reap-
ply to the 2019 list. This is a
yearly requirement.
Upon request, Housing
Works staff will provide tech-
nical assistance to anyone
needing help filling out the
online application.
Lesly Gonzalez, HCV Di-
rector at Housing Works.
Healthy site
Jefferson County Public
Health is pleased to an-
nounce the launch of a new
community website.
The community website
is intended to support
nonprofits, service agen-
cies, governments, faith
organizations, and small
businesses across the
county, including the res-
er vation, in promoting
events, activities, aware-
ness, and opportunities for
community members.
The website is called
JeffCoConnects, and is a
Wordpress-based website
with functions available to
registered users, including a
service and business direc-
tory, community calendar,
events, projects, volunteer
recruitment, and a press re-
lease function.
Spearheaded
by
Jefferson County Public
Health and the Jefferson
County Faith-Based Net-
work, with support from the
Ford Family Foundation,
JeffCoConnects joins a
number of other commu-
nity websites, includes con-
tent in both Spanish and
English, and is free of
charge for Jefferson County
organizations.
Courtney
Barks,
AmeriCorps volunteer,
commented: I think that the
JeffCoConnects website will
be a great addition to the
Jefferson County commu-
nity. I wish it had been up
and running when I first
Council candidate statements due soon
Absentee ballots are
expected to be in the
mail soon for the elec-
tion of the Twenty-
Eighth Tribal Council
of the Confederated
Tribes.
The election will be
on April 4.
Spilyay Tymoo and
KWSO will be providing
information about the
candidates to the
membership, with a
special edition of the
newspaper and candidate
interviews on KWSO.
You can submit a written
statement and a photo to the
Spilyay. If you don’t have a
photo to submit, we can take
the picture. You can also
email the statement and
photo to:
david.mcmechan@wstribes.org
Please submit your state-
ment and photo by next
Thursday, January 24.
Or stop by the Media
Center at 4174 Highway
3 in Warm Springs.
Statements should be
limited to 250 words or
fewer; as there are a total
of 36 candidates.
Candidates can also
schedule an interview
with KWSO in January or
February. Please call
541-553-1968 to sched-
ule a time. The interview
will take 15-20 minutes.
moved here. It would have
made it easier to get involved
and find events going on in
the community,” said at
Jefferson County Public
Health.
For more information
contact Courtney Barks at
541-325-5001 ext 4234
Email:
Contact@jeffcoconnects.org
To register as a commu-
nity website user:
www.jeffcoconnects.org
Beth Ann Beamer ,
Public Health Nurse.
541-475-6448. Bring a
friend and come and vote
for new officers.
Fran Davis, outgoing
chair, Jefferson County
Democrats.
Both locations will offer
valuable information on
scholarship and grant oppor-
tunities, as well as specifics
on the Free Application for
Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA) and the Oregon
Student Aid Application
(ORSAA) processes, includ-
ing all deadlines. For more
detailscall 541-383-7260.
Democrats
Wednesday, Januar y
23rd, the Jefferson County
Democrats will hold their
re-organizing election of
officers. Those nominated
are:
Kim Schmith, chair.
Aurolyn Stwyer, vice chair.
Stephen Hillis, secretary.
Moira ‘Scottie’ Henry, trea-
surer.
We will be meeting down-
stairs at the Library Annex
on E Street in Madras at 6
p.m. Light refreshments will
be served.
Nominations will also be
taken from the audience, so
if you have someone else in
mind for any of these posi-
tions, please come and let us
know.
All are welcome. For fur-
ther information, please call
Fran Davis at 541-923-
7403, or Stephen Hillis at
Education
Heart of Oregon Youth
Build is recruiting youth ages
16-24 for its winter group.
Youth Build members
can earn their GED, di-
ploma, college credit and job
skills.
YouthBuild will hold an
infor mation session in
Warm Springs this Thurs-
day, January 17 from 10:30
to noon at the Roots trailer.
To RSVP or get more
info call 541-526-1380. In
other education news: The
Bend and Redmond cam-
puses of Central Oregon
Community College will
host Scholarship Day from
1-3 p.m. on Wednesday,
January 23. The event is to
help current and prospec-
tive students discover and
maximize their financial aid
options for the 2019-20 aca-
demic year.
The Bend campus event
is at the Coats Campus Cen-
ter; the Redmond campus
event is held in Building 1,
Room 128. Both are open
to the general public. No
registration is required.
Workshops start each hour
on the hour.
Transit open
house in W.S.
Cascades East Transit is
developing a Transit Master
Plan, and will hold open
houses to collect input on the
future of public transporta-
tion from the Central Or-
egon communities it serves.
There will be an open
house in Warm Springs on
Wednesday, January 23 from
4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Com-
munity Center.
There is also an open
house in Madras this Thurs-
day, January 17 from 4:30-
6:30 p.m. at the Rodriguez
Annex. Public comments
can also be submitted online
until February 3:
CETTransitPlan.com
Warm Springs Higher
Education
reminds
students who plan to
apply for the tribal
scholarship that you
should apply for FAFSA,
the State Need Grant and
Oregon Opportunity Grant
before March 1. Talk to
Carroll at the Higher Ed,
541-553-3311.
Sound advice during Stalker Awareness Month
by Nancy Seyler
W.S. Tribal Prosecutor
January is National Stalk-
ing Awareness Month, a time
to focus on a crime that af-
fected 7.5 million victims in
one year. Over 85 percent
of stalking victims were
stalked by someone they
know.
Sixty-one percent of the
victims were female, and 44
percent were male.
Many of the victims
were stalked by a current or
former intimate partner.
Twenty-five percent of the
females, and 32 percent of
the male victims were stalked
by an acquaintance.
About one in five of the
victims were stalked by a
stranger. Persons aged 18-
24 years experienced the
highest rate of stalking.
Eleven percent of stalk-
ing victims had been stalked
for 5 years or more. And 46
percent of stalking victims
experienced at least one un-
wanted contact per week.
What is stalking?
Legal definitions vary
from one jurisdiction to an-
other. A good working defi-
nition of stalking is: “A
course of conduct directed
at a specific person that
would cause a reasonable
person to feel fear.”
The Warm Springs Tribal
Code on this crime is TC
305.180 - Stalking. This
Code section reads as fol-
lows:
“Any person who shall
knowingly alarm or coerce
another person or a mem-
ber of that person’s imme-
diate family or household
by engaging in repeated, un-
wanted contact with the
other person where the re-
peated and unwanted con-
tact causes the victim rea-
sonable apprehension re-
garding the personal safety
of the victim or a member
of the victim’s immediate
family or household, shall
be deemed guilty of stalk-
ing.”
Signs of what stalkers
will do :
· Follow you and show
up wherever you are.
· Send unwanted gifts,
letters, cards or emails.
· Damage your home,
car or other property.
· Monitor your phone
calls or computer use.
· Use technology like hid-
den cameras or GPS to track
where you go.
· Drive by or hang out at
your home, school or work.
· Threaten to hurt y you,
your family, friends or pets.
· Find out about you by
using public records, online
search services, hiring inves-
tigators, going through your
garbage or contacting fam-
ily, friends, neighbors or co-
workers.
· Posting information or
spreading rumors about you
in the Internet, Instagram,
Youtube, in a public place or
word of mouth.
· Other means that con-
trol, track or frighten you.
If you are being stalked,
you may feel fear of what
the stalker will do, feel vul-
nerable, unsafe, not know
who to trust, feel anxious, ir-
ritable, impatient or on edge,
feel depressed, hopeless,
overwhelmed, tearful or an-
gry, feel stressed including
having trouble concentrat-
ing, sleeping or remember-
ing things, have eating prob-
lems such as appetite loss,
forgetting to eat or overeat,
have flashbacks, disturbing
thoughts, feeling or memo-
ries, and feel confused, frus-
trated or isolated because
other people don’t under-
stand why you are afraid.
Stalking is a crime in all
50 states, the U.S. Territo-
ries and the District of Co-
lumbia, yet many victims
and criminal justice profes-
sionals underestimate its se-
riousness and impact.
Stalking is difficult to rec-
ognize, investigate and pros-
ecute. Unlike other crimes,
stalking is not a single, eas-
ily identifiable crime but a
series of acts, a course of
conduct directed at a spe-
cific person that would
cause that person fear.
Warm Springs Victims
of Crime Services has a
Women’s Support Group
every Monday from 3-5
p.m. at their building to pro-
mote awareness and public
education about stalking
during the annual obser-
vance. For more informa-
tion, please contact Victims
of Crime Services @ 541-
553-2293.
For additional resources
to help promote National
Stalking Awareness Month,
please visit:
stalkingawarenessmonth.org
and ovw.usdoj.gov