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Jamboree Day
Don’t miss the War m
Springs Family Jamboree
Day this Thursday, August
15.
From 3-7 p.m. there will
be family fun activities plus
a talent show hosted by Blue
Flamez.
The day will feature jump-
ing houses, rock climbing,
music and new this year: an
outdoor market and food
vendors.
If you are interested in
being a vendor, there may
still be time: Contact Emily
Courtney at the Community
Action Team office, 541-
553-3148.
For other information call
Carol Sahme, Recreational
coordinator, 541-553-3243.
Jamboree Day is brought to
you
by
Recreation,
Tananawit, and Health and
Human Services.
Two August
youth events
Tribal youth ages 14-18
are encouraged to apply to
participate in two outdoor
experiences this month.
There will be a backpack-
ing course August 26-28 on
the Warm Springs Reserva-
tion; and a Deschutes Raft-
ing Course August 26-30.
There will be a commu-
nity gathering planned for all
participants on August 25.
There is no cost to tribal
youth participants, and reg-
istration is due August 16.
For more information on
the registration process, con-
tact TJ Foltz at 541-615-
0142. Or email:
taw.foltz@wstribes.org
Public safety
barbecue
The 2019 Public
Safety and Community
Barbecue is coming up
on Saturday, August
31.
The barbecue will
be from noon to 3
p.m. on campus. Every-
one is welcome to for
free food and drinks,
raffles, music and
games.
Births
Vance Abraham
Brisbois Jr.
Vance Brisbois Sr. and
Jaycelene Brisbois of Warm
Springs are pleased to an-
nounce the birth of their son
Vance Abraham Brisbois Jr.,
born on July 29, 2019.
Vance Jr. joins brothers
Drake, 8, and Wylie, 3; and
sisters Sharmiah, 8, Winola,
6, and Shaylynn, 2.
Grandparents on the
father’s side are Jeff Melvin
Brisbois of Electric City,
Washington, and Marietta
Grunlose of Nespelem,
Washington.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Sheila
Thrasher of Warm Springs,
and Yahteen Frank of
Simnasho.
Eli Gage Villa-Munoz
Jonathan Villa and
Makyla Munoz of Madras
are pleased to announce the
birth of their son Eli Gage
Villa-Munoz, born on Au-
gust 7, 2019.
Eli joins brother Ryden,
1.
Grandparent on the
father’s side is Luz Juarez of
Madras.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Carlos and
Jennifer Munoz of Madras.
Notes...
The Heart Healthy He-
roes Club is a series of
classes to help you improve
your heart health while sav-
ing money through preven-
tion.
The club will meet next
in Warm Springs on August
20 and 27. The meeting is
from 11 a.m. to noon at the
clinic.
This a is free event to any-
one with heart disease or
other chronic heart condi-
tions, and family members
who would like to learn
more.
Register online at:
www.stcharleshealthcare.org
There will be a food han-
dlers class on Thursday,
August 15 from 10 a.m. to
noon at the Warm Springs
Clinic atrium.
Another class will be on
August 29 from 2 to 4 p.m.,
same location.
For more information call
541-553-1196.
YouthBuild
Heart of Oregon
YouthBuild is recruiting
youth ages 16-24 years for
our Fall 2019 cohort start-
ing in mid October 14.
YouthBuild works with
youth who have either have
dropped out of school, or
are on the verge of being
dropped from traditional
high school.
YouthBuild members
earn their GED, high school
diploma, college credit and
job skills. The group works
on credit recovery, and serv-
ing their communities
through building affordable
housing.
Members in the program
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Dr. Locker honored for standard of excellence
divide their time between
classroom, field work at
construction sites, and lead-
ership development.
Through AmeriCorps
service at YouthBuild youth
can earn the AmeriCorps
Segal Education Award
worth $1,566 towards post-
secondary goals.
YouthBuild requires a
12-month commitment,
along with one year of fol-
low-up services.
There will be an infor-
mation sessions starting on
August 22 at YouthBuild’s
Cloverdale location. As of
now, the only information
session will be at the
Cloverdale in Sisters.
YouthBuild is hoping to
have them elsewhere but
the dates and times have not
been scheduled yet.
Mental Toughness, the
YouthBuild orientation, be-
gins on October 14. If you
know of any youth who
may be interested and have
not been successful in a tra-
ditional high school setting,
please encourage them to
attend.
More information and a
link to the online application
online at:
youthbuild.org
You must attend one of
the information sessions to
be considered for the
YouthBuild program. Please
bring a government issued
photo ID, birth certificate
and Social Security card to
the information session:
You will need these for the
program.
Contact Katie Bauer,
program assistant, at 541-
526-1380.
Interviews will be sched-
uled shortly after informa-
tion sessions are completed.
Cpt. Dr. Rachel
Locker is a skilled care
provider. Her years of
ser vice at the War m
Springs IHS Health and
Wellness Center have
combined culturally sen-
sitive and clinically appro-
priate women’s health
care and pre-natal care.
As clinic director, Dr.
Locker effectively coor-
dinates care within the lo-
cal community, and with
the local hospitals.
She was honored in
August with the presti-
gious award: Best Practices
in Women’s Health: Focus
on American Indians/
Alaska Native Women’s
Health.
The announcement
comes form the Ameri-
can College of Obstetri-
cians and Gynecologists.
The award recognizes
Dr. Locker for her exem-
plary leadership and ca-
reer-long commitment to
the highest standards of
clinic care for women.
She has done this
through her prace of
Family Medicine at the
Health and Wellness Cen-
ter.
The award also men-
tions Dr. Locker’s numer-
ous impactful roles in the
Portland Area Indian
Health Service regionally,
and the entire IHS nation-
ally.
In her role as clinic di-
rector, she assures that
the same high standards
are met by all the other
28.
For more information,
phone 541-296-8600 x 201.
Or visit:
gorgediscovery.org.
Solar day
More notes...
Columbia Gorge Discov-
ery Center presents Solar
Saturday with Bob Yoesle,
this Saturday, August 17,
2019. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
you can view the surface of
the sun, weather permitting,
through a specially filtered
telescope outside on the
front lawn at Columbia
Gorge Discovery Center,
5000 Discovery Drive, in
The Dalles.
Bob Yoesle will be on hand
to explain the fascinating
physics that underlie the in-
credible features on our dy-
namic sun. Our star is a caul-
dron of incredibly hot gases,
sunspots as big as Earth, and
loops of gas called filaments
and prominences. Using spe-
cial safely-filtered telescopes
you will get an unbelievable
view of the surface of the
sun. An additional Solar Sat-
urday will be held September
Warm Springs HAPPI
and Prevention Programs
are putting on a penny car-
nival with foods, games,
crafts and music on Wednes-
day, August 28 th from 6-8
p.m. in the Youth Center
gym.
Anyone interested in set-
ting up a booth should con-
tact the Prevention Program.
The Jefferson County Li-
brary Film Center will hold
its Eleventh Annual Screen
on the Green outdoor
movie event this Friday,
August 16 at Sahalee Park
in Madras.
Folks are invited to come
out to the Water Spray Park
before the event. The movie
starts at 8:30. Bring your
own snacks, chairs or blan-
kets. They will show the
movie How to Train Your
Dragon: The Hidden World.
Spilyay Tymoo
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Publisher Emeritus in Memorium: Sid Miller
Editor: Dave McMechan
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Photo courtesy Kevin Smith
Tribal director of Governmental Affairs meets with
Congressman Greg Walden, at a town hall meeting
in Culver. They were discussing the tribes’ water
infrastructure situation, and how Rep. Walden
could possibly offer some kind.
Courtesy W.S. IHS
Dr. Locker receives the Best Practices in
Women’s Health.
providers as well.
She is an effective voice
within a multi-community
group that has been tasked
with guiding decisions for
regional obstetrical and neo-
natal care.
For more than two de-
cades she has been a critical
and highly effective catalyst
for the development and pro-
motion of culturally appro-
priate training materials in
support of the local and
state-wide sexual assault,
domestic violence and child
abuse prevention and inter-
vention efforts within the
Native American and non-
Native communities.
She is widely recognized
as an expert in these areas
in the Portland area and
throughout the Indian
Health Service.
Among her many profes-
sional recognitions and hon-
ors, she is the recipient of
the HIS National Council of
Clinic Directors Out-
standing Physician of the
Year Award and the Di-
rect Services Tribes Out-
standing Achievement
Award for Service in the
IHS Direct Care Pro-
grams.
Dr. Locker, by her
sustained superior per-
formance, career-long
commitment to quality
clinical care and educa-
tion, and her dedication
to promoting and ad-
vancing the health and
well-being of American
Indian women has
clearly earned the dis-
tinction of being the
2019 recipient of the
prestigious award of the
Committee on American
Indian and Alaska Na-
tive Women’s Health of
the American College of
Obstetricians and Gyne-
cologists, the Haffner
Award.
If you are experiencing is-
sues with your Warm Springs
Telecom services, please
call them at 541-615-0555.
You must call in for tech-
nicians to respond, trouble-
shoot and resolve your issue.
Center now has a MedSafe
drop box to dispose of old
meds. Bring them to large
blue box located in the phar-
macy waiting area to safely
dispose of unneeded medi-
cations.
Indianpreneurship
classes are coming up on
Saturdays, August 17 and 24
at the Community Action
Team office.
This program teaches the
basics you need to know to
start your own business. They
will cover all 12 lessons over
the two Saturdays from 9
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call 541-
553-3148 to sign up.
A Jefferson County Vet-
erans Service Outreach
officer will be in Warm
Springs at the Warm Springs
Senior Center on the this
Tuesday of each month.
This month the date is Au-
gust 20.
Appointments are avail-
able for the morning by call-
ing 541-475-5228. Other-
wise, the Veteran’s Service
Officer will be available to
answer questions during and
after the senior meal that
day.
If you have unused or ex-
pired medications you need
to get rid of, the War m
Springs Health and Wellness