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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
January 16, 2019
Movin’ Mountains begins soon
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
this 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.
Coming up in youth sports...
These are some of the youth
sports activities in January:
Thursday, January 17: The
Warm Springs Academy girls bas-
ketball team plays at Sisters at 3:30
p.m.
Friday, January 18: Listen to
KWSO for Madras High School
basketball. Tipoff is at 7. You can
hear the broadcast on 91.9 FM,
or online at kwso.org
Saturday, January 19: Madras
High School wrestlers compete in
the Oregon Wrestling Class in
Redmond.
Tuesday, January 22: Listen
to KWSO for Madras High School
basketball, when the girls host
Gladstone. Tipoff at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Januar y 23:
Warm Springs Academy girls bas-
ketball hosts Elton Gregory Middle
School at 3:30.
The Academy wrestlers will
compete at the Jefferson County
Middle School at 3:30,
Friday, Januar y 25: High
school wrestlers compete in Cot-
tage Grove; and boys basketball
hosts Molalla.
Saturday, January 26: Madras
High School wrestlers are compet-
ing at Cottage Grove. The boys
freshman basketball team hosts the
Madras Frosh Tourney.
Community notes...
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Byron Patt blocks a shot against Valley Catholic center Isaac Flemmer, who is six-foot seven.
Byron scored 24 points in the game.
The Madras High School
girls varsity basketball team
plays at home this Wednes-
day, Januar y 16 ag ainst
Corbett.
The girls play at North
Marion High School this Fri-
day, January 18; and at home
against Gladstone on January 22.
Game times are 7 p.m.
The boys varsity basketball team
plays at Corbett this Wednesday
evening, January 16. The boys
have a home game this Friday,
January 18 against North Marion
High School.
They play at Gladstone on
Tuesday, January 22; and at
home against Molalla on Fri-
day, January 25.
The play-in games for the
state tournament are set for
February 22.
The Jefferson County School
District 509-J will host the family
night and community input
meeting in Warm Springs on the
evening of Wednesday, February
13.
The meeting will be at the Warm
Springs Academy cafeteria area.
Dinner is at 6 and the meeting is at
7.
The Jefferson County winter
shelter provides a safe cold
weather shelter this winter.
The shelter is at the Free Meth-
odist Churst in Madras, on South
Adams Drive. The shelter is open
from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. on especially
cold nights. Call 541-325-2478 to
find out if the shelter will be open.
High Desert exhibit features Native women
Over the decades, photogra-
pher Edward Curtis’s sepia-toned
prints of Native people have
shaped the ways that many people
think about American Indians and
the American West.
At the start of the Twentieth
Century, amid changes brought
about by industrialization and the
forced removal of American In-
dians to reservations, Curtis un-
dertook the enormous project of
photographing Indigenous people
and recording ethnographic infor-
mation from over 80 tribes across
North America.
The project took him over 30
years and came at significant per-
sonal cost, but it resulted in 20
bound volumes, over 2,000 pho-
togravures and numerous record-
ings of Native languages, music
and ceremonies.
Marking the 150th anniversary
of Edward Curtis’s birth, By Her
Hand: Native American Women,
Courtesy
Edward Curtis photograph
Their Art, and the Photographs of
Edward S. Curtis features his pho-
tographs of women and the art they
created. The pictures are from the
Christopher G. Cardozo Collection.
The event will be at the High
Desert Museum, and will include
historical and contemporary works
of art created by Indigenous artists
from the High Desert permanent
collection. This exhibition will be
on display at the High Desert Mu-
seum through this Sunday, January
20.
Oregon begins killing sea lions to preserve trout
Oregon wildlife officials this
month started killing California sea
lions that threaten a fragile and
unique type of trout in the
Willamette River.
The Willamette is miles inland
from the coastal areas where the
aquatic mammals usually congre-
gate to feed.
The state Department of Fish
and Wildlife obtained a federal
permit in November to kill up to
93 California sea lions annually
below Willamette Falls south of
Portland, to protect the winter run
of the fish that begin life as rain-
bow trout but become steelhead
when they travel to the ocean.
As of recently, wildlife manag-
ers had killed three of the animals
using traps they used last year to
relocate the sea lions.
The adult male sea lions, which
weigh nearly 1,000 pounds each,
have learned that they can loiter
under the falls and snack on the
vulnerable steelhead as the fish
power their way upriver to the
streams where they hatched.
With their numbers growing, the
sea lions are venturing ever far-
ther inland up the Columbia River
and its tributaries in Oregon and
Washington—and their appetite is
having disastrous consequences.
Last winter, a record-low 512
wild winter steelhead completed the
journey past the Willamette Falls,
according to state counts. Less than
30 years ago, that number was more
than 15,000.
The sea lions are eating so
many winter steelhead at
Willamette Falls that certain runs
are at a high risk of going extinct,
according to a 2017 study by wild-
life biologists.
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.