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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
March 11, 2020
Youth rodeo season
kicks off in March
The spring Junior Rodeo season kicks off on Sat-
urday, March 28 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds
arena in Madras.
Events include bareback, ranch and saddle bronc,
mini- and junior bulls, barrels, poles, team roping and
breakaway. All events are 18 and under.
Riders can enter each event twice unless the event
fills up. This is going to be an International Minia-
ture Rodeo Association (IRMA) rodeo.
Call or text entries to 541-280-1342; or see
‘kokelsoutlawponies’ on Facebook.
Entries are $45 for rough stock; $50 a run for
breakaway; and $60 a team.
Courtesy photo
Congratulations to the Madras White Buffalos wrestling team, above, including the eight
wrestlers who went to State, finishing third overall at the tournament.
School notes...
For the 2019-20
Oregon high school
basketball season,
in the Tri-Valley
Conference the First
Team All-League
players include
senior Jiana Smith
Francis and junior
Jayden Davis.
Honorable Mention
to DaRita White,
ShaRita Johns and
Dominique Walker.
This Friday, March 13 is
the deadline for War m
Springs Nation Little
League registrations. This
is for both baseball and soft-
ball divisions for Minor,
Major, Junior and Senior
teams. Coaches are still
needed at all levels including
t-ball. Contact Edmund
Francis to sign up: 541-325-
3856.
The Warm Springs Acad-
emy is hosting a Family
Math Night on Thursday.
March 19 starting at 4 p.m.,
dinner will be served from 4
to 5.
The Academy second-
grade classes have swim les-
sons next week in the after-
noon at the Madras Aquatic
Center.
YouthBuild recruiting W.S. youth
YouthBuild at Heart of Oregon Corps is a 12-month
program designed to engage young people ages 16-24 who
wish to complete their high school education, and learn con-
struction skills through building affordable housing in Cen-
tral Oregon.
This program has seen many Warm Springs youth com-
plete their high school requirements, start college, and begin
careers.
Youth who are interested must attend an information ses-
sion, held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at YouthBuild, located at
68797 George Cyrus Road in Sisters. These are the dates
of upcoming sessions:
Tuesday, March 24. Tuesday, March 31, Tuesday, April
7.
For more information call 541-526-1380. Or visit
heartoforegon.org You can apply online at the website above.
The upcoming session begins on April 20. About
YouthBuild:
Youth work with a team of their peers and gain valuable
job training.
Youth earn money and scholarships.
And they learn by preparing for their GED or high school
diploma.
Spring high school
sports coming up
are baseball and
softball, boys and
girls tennis, and
track and field.
Jayson Smith/
Spilyay
Walk in Warm Springs Friday
A walk in Warm Springs—Destroy the Drug, Not
Our People—is coming up this Friday, March 13. The
walk, beginning at 11:45 a.m. with an opening prayer,
will begin and end at the Behavioral Health Center,
the walk host.
The path will be around the old elementary school
to Fire and Safety and the Warm Springs Market park-
ing lot; by the Police Department, the Community
Action Team to the Family Resource Center, and back
to Behavioral Health.
Yakama tourney in April
The Yakama Nation will
host the tribe’s Sixty-Fifth
Annual Invitational Basket-
ball Tournament in April.
The Yakama Big Men’s tour-
ney is coming April 15-18 at
the AJ Strom g ym in
Toppenish.
The increased prize
money is includes first-place,
$7,500, with leather sleeve
jackets. Second place, $3,500
and runner-up jackets. Third,
$1,500 and hood sweat shirts.
Some of the tournament
features:
All Stars. Slam dunk con-
test. Three-point shoot-out.
MVP high scorer. Most as-
sists. Mr. Hustle.
Get your Harlem Wizards-
Academy hoops tickets
The Harlem Wizards
basketball event is coming
up in April at the Madras
High School gymnasium.
This is a fundraiser ben-
efit for the Warm Springs
Academy.
In an exhibition the
Wizards will take on the
Hooping Eagles, a team
mostly of Academy teach-
ers and staff. Proceeds
will help buy more play-
ground equipment for the
Academy.
The Harlem Wizard
are a professional comedy
basketball team, featuring
amazing basketball tricks,
alley oops, dunks, fancy
dribbling and passing.
The game will be on
April 30. General admis-
sion tickets are now on
sale at the Academy, or
you can go online to pur-
chase:
WoldWideTicketCraft.com
The court-side and re-
serve seating tickets are
only available online, as
the purchase comes with
a picture of the Wizards
that you can have signed
at the game, coming on
April 30. These tickets
are $30 each.
The general admission
tickets are $12 in ad-
vance, or $15 at the door.
And student tickets $10
in advance or $12 at the
door.
A bus will also be trav-
eling from Warm Springs
to the high school on the
evening of the big game.
The goal is to pack the
gymnasium, raising funds
for the new playground
equipment.
The Wizards formed
in New Jersey 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 different
continents and in 22 dif-
ferent countries. They
help raise funds for
school athletic programs
across the U.S.
CRITFC note to tribal fishers
If you have any fishing enforcement problems, or need
assistance or information, day or night, contact the
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Enforcement Of-
fice, 4270 Westcliff Dr., Hood River. The phone num-
ber is 541-386-6363 or toll free at 800-487-FISH (3474).
Show pride in your tribes’ treaty rights by carrying
your tribal ID. Please consult your tribal Fisheries
Department for additional details on tribal regulations.
In Warm Springs call Fisheries at 541-553-2039; or
Natural Resources at 541-553-2210.