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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
February 26, 2020
Harlem Wizards game to help Academy
The Harlem Wizards is
a professional comedy bas-
ketball team, featuring
amazing basketball tricks,
alley oops, dunks, fancy
dribbling and passing. The
team performs at school
g ymnasiums,
helping
schools and students with
fundraisers, and for sport-
ing inspiration.
In April the Harlem Wiz-
ards will play a team—the
Hooping Eagles—made up
mostly of staff from the
Warm Springs Academy.
They will play at the Ma-
dras High School gymna-
sium, in an exhibition game
hosted by the Academy.
Proceeds will go toward
more playground equip-
ment at the school.
The general admission
tickets are now on sale at
the Academy, or you can go
online to purchase:
WoldWideTicketCraft.com
The court-side and re-
serve seating tickets are
only available online, as the
purchase comes with a pic-
ture of the Wizards that
you can have signed at the
game, coming on April 30.
These tickets are $30 each.
The general admission tick-
ets are $12 in advance, or
$15 at the door. And stu-
dent tickets $10 in advance
or $12 at the door.
A bus will also be travel-
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Drum group performs at the Madras High School
boys varsity basketball Senior Night in February.
The Buffalo squad won, 53-41, over Molalla in Tri-
Valley play.
Seniors on the team include Donnie Bagley
(below with family), Alex Smith Morales, Dapri
Miller and Cole White.
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Members of the 2020 Harlem Wizards roster.
ing from Warm Springs to the
high school on the evening
of the big game. The goal is
to pack the gymnasium, rais-
ing funds for the new play-
ground equipment.
An idea for the Wizards
exhibition fundraiser came in
part from Sally Polk-Adams,
who has seen the play; and
the team itself has reached
out to help.
The Wizards will also have
an assembly at the high
school, and possibly a
morning assembly at the
Academy, time and sched-
ule permitting.
The Harlem Wizards,
based in New Jersey, were
founded in 1962. Since
then they have the longest
winning streak in all of
sports. They have played
thousands of games in the
U.S. and abroad, on five dif-
ferent continents and in 22
different countries.
Baseball and softball
A softball and baseball
fundamentals camp is com-
ing up this Sunday, March
1. The camp will be from 5
to 7 p.m. at the Youth Cen-
ter gym. All coaches and
players are welcome.
Bring court shoes, no
cleats; and a baseball or soft-
ball glove. Sign-up is ongo-
ing for Little League until
March 9. Call Edmund
Francis at 541-325-3856 if
you have any questions.
Tribes, PGE give several million for fisheries
T
he Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs
and hydro partner Portland
General Electric awarded
$4.5 million in grants for
fisheries, wildlife and water
quality improvements. The
grant awards go to 13 spe-
cific projects in the
Deschutes basin. The
grants range in size from
$51,000 to $1.25 million.
This year’s $4.5 million
in habitat improvement
grants add to the $26.5 mil-
lion in tribal-PGE grants
over the past 15 years. The
tribes and PGE established
the grant funding in 2005,
as part of the federal
relicensing of the Pelton-
Round Butte hydro project.
The dams are an emissions
free and renewable source
of energ y, generating
enough power to serve a
city the size of Salem.
“The tribes continue to
believe that working to-
gether is more effective
than trying to accomplish
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A salmon at Whychus Creek.
objectives alone,” said Jim
Manion, general manager of
Warm Springs Power and
Water Enterprises.
The tribes, PGE, federal
and state agencies selected
the 13 projects for funding
during the 2020 grant cycle.
The projects are located
over a stretch of river from
Whychus Creek in the south
to Log Springs Meadow
north of Warm Springs; and
from east at the Ochoco
National Forest to Link
Creek, west of Black Butte.
As part of the 2005
Fraud alert message
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and Persons with Disabilities
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We want to help make
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whether it’s through email,
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ies of invoices in an unso-
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ticles/how-recognize-and-
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relicensing, the tribes, PGE,
local, state and federal agen-
cies and non-profit organi-
zations committed to re-
store historic salmon and
steelhead runs that were cut
off from the middle and
upper Deschutes Basin.
Fish access was cut off with
the construction in the 1950s
and 1960s of the Pelton-
Round Butte dams.
Fish access was re-estab-
lished upstream from the
dams in 2010. Since that
time more than 1.4 million
juvenile salmon and steel-
head have been given access
to migrate to the ocean;
while adult fish have re-
turned to the project area
every year since.
Spawning has now been
confirmed near the Bow-
man dam on the Crooked
River, in Whychus Creek at
Camp Polk, and above
Camp Sher man on the
Metolius River.
The tribes, PGE and
partners share the long-term
goal of building sustainable
and harvestable runs of
chinook and sockeye
salmon and summer steel-
head in the mid- and upper
Deschutes basin. The
grants program focuses on
using science to adapt rein-
troduction strategies, ad-
dressing challenges in return-
ing the fish to their historic
habitat after a four-decade
absence. An inter-active
‘roadmap’ of reintroduction
efforts is available online.
See the site:
PRGFishCommittee.com
$3 million for lamprey
The Confederated
Tribes and PGE have
also launched a new grant
opportunity specifically
benefitting Pacific lam-
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prey in the lower Pacific lamprey.
Deschutes River. Like
the salmon, the lamprey
are ecologically and culturally significant to river eco-
systems, and have experienced population decline over
the decades.
By contributing $3 million to restoration and research
projects targeting lamprey, the tribes and PGE hope to
learn more about how to serve these unique and of-
ten-overlooked creatures. Interested applicants can find
more information at:
portlandgeneral.com/lampreyfund
“When we started our
long-term reintroduction
program on the Deschutes,
we recognized the impor-
tance of investing not just
in fish passage, but also in
quality fish habitat,” said
Megan Hill, the PGE biolo-
gist who leads the fisheries
and water quality team at
Pelton-Round Butte.
“Through the Pelton fund,
we’ve been able to support the
incredible work of our part-
ners throughout the region,
and we’re proud to continue
the basin-wide collaboration
with our 2020 grants.”