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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
In the final stretch of season
January 30, 2019
Coming up in youth sports
Here are some of the youth
sports games coming up:
Thursday, January 31: Warm
Springs Academy girls basketball is
at home against Crook County
Middle School at 3:30
Friday, February 1: Listen to
KWSO for Madras High School
basketball: The boys and girls host
Corbett. Tipoff for the girls is at
5:30, and the boys at 7. You can
hear the broadcasts on 91.9 FM;
or online at kwso.org.
Saturday, February 2: Madras
High School sports: Boys freshman
basketball are on the road to the
Gladstone Frosh Tournament; and
it’s the Madras Wrestling Invita-
tional today starting at 9:30.
Tuesday, February 5: WSK8
Wrestling will compete at Crook
County Middle School at 3:30. And
in Madras High School sports:
Boys and girls freshman basketball
squads have games at Bend High
School today at 5:30 and 7.
Wednesday, February 6: The
Warm Springs Academy girls are
at home against Sisters at 3:30
Friday, February 8: Warm
Springs Academy wrestlers will
compete at the Central Oregon
Middle school Classic today and
Saturday.
Also on Friday in Madras High
School sport: Boys freshman, JV
and varsity basketball play at North
Marion; girls freshman host
Mountain View at 4 p.m.
Jayson Smith photos/Spilyay
In January basketball action: Madras girls varsity 70, Gladstone 54 (above), giving the girls a 10-6
record. And below: The high school band, and the cheerleading squad perform.
There are just a few games left
in the high school regular basket-
ball season, before the February 22
playoff play-in game.
The girls varsity team has a win-
ning record. They play at home
against North Marion on Friday,
February 8. Their last home game
of the season will be the follow-
ing Thursday, February 14 against
Molalla.
The boys have a home game
this Friday, February 1 against
Corbett; and home games on Feb-
ruary 12 and 19.
Jayson Smith photos/Spilyay
Buffalos varsity boys basketball: Madras 70, Molalla 47.
Indian Head supporting 2019 Relay for Life kick-off
Indian Head Casino is a great
champion of the American Can-
cer Society Relay for Life of
Jefferson County.
Coming up in February, Indian
Head is supporting the Relay for
Life event, Cancer: Not Here, Not
There, Not Anywhere.
This kick-off party for the
2019 Relay for Life of Jefferson
County is during the Business Af-
ter Hours on Thursday, Febru-
ary 21 at the Jefferson County
Fairgrounds.
The kick-off party is hosted by
the fairgrounds, Erickson’s
Thriftway Market, and the Desert
Inn Bar & Grill.
For more information, please
contact one of the event chairs:
Shari Durgan, 541-475-6665; email:
sldurgan@q.com
Kathy Duman, 541-420-0202;
email:
Kathydurman1@gmail.com
Birth
Jayson Matthew Bueno
Jason M. Bueno and Marta
M. Rubio of Madras are
pleased to announce the birth
of their son Jayseon Matthew
Bueno, born on January 25,
2019.
Jayseon joins bother Jason,
and sisters AnaBela and Cinthia.
Grandparents on the father’s
side are Brady Stai and April
Bruno.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Jose Rubio
and Helena Teeman.
Fisheries managers offer grim forecast
An early forecast from a group
of tribal, state and federal fisher-
ies managers indicates the upcom-
ing spring chinook season could
be as, or even more, disappoint-
ing than recent steelhead runs and
worse than last year’s return of
springers.
The Technical Advisory Com-
mittee is predicting that just 48,100
spring chinook will return at least
as far as the mouth of the Snake
River. The 2018 forecast called for
a return of 107,400, but just
67,595 chinook showed up.
The 2019 forecast includes a
predicted return of just 8,200 wild
spring chinook and just fewer than
40,000 hatchery fish. If the fore-
cast is accurate, it will mean slim
harvest shares for anglers.
Non-Indian gill-net issue still tangled
The Joint State Columbia River
Salmon Policy Review Committee
met for the first time this month
at the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife headquarters in Salem.
The six-member task force is
charged with revising the Colum-
bia River policy C-3620.
The policy was implemented in
an effort to remove non-tribal gill
nets used by the commercial fish-
ing fleets of both states from the
mainstem Columbia River after an
exhaustive years-long process. It
was sought by sport anglers and
conservationists who have long
objected to commercial fishing on
salmon and steelhead stocks that
are federally listed as endangered.
While the performance review
noted progress on some issues, ex-
pectations have not been met in a
variety of other key areas.
Many commercial fishermen
argue that the policy has been a
failure.
Sport fishermen and conserva-
tionists question the logic of allow-
ing more nets in the river when
the runs are so depressed that all
salmon and steelhead fishing in the
Columbia River was closed in fall
of 2018, an unprecedented event.
Currently, salmon and steelhead
runs are about 50 percent of the
recent 10-year average.