Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
August 24, 2022
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Foundation grant helps Boys & Girls Club
T
he Boys & Girls Club
of Warm Springs this month
received a $20,000 donation
from the Oregon Commu-
nity Foundation.
The contribution will help
expand the club’s Healthy
Kids Initiative.
“Warm Springs youth are
vibrant, strong and deserv-
ing of the same opportuni-
ties that other communities
can access,” said Bill
Tsoukalas, executive director
of the Boys & Girls Clubs
of Snohomish County, the
organization that provides
funding means for the Warm
Springs club.
“Support from the Or-
egon Community Founda-
tion allows us to provide en-
hanced services to the youth
of the Confederated Tribes
Courtesy OCF
Youth at the Warm Springs Boys & Girls Club.
of War m Springs com-
pletely free of charge, while
implementing crucial aca-
demic success, STEM and
healthy lifestyles program-
ming.” STEM stands for
Science, Technology, Engi-
neering and Math.
The contribution to the
Warm Springs Boys & Girls
Club is part of the $8.7 mil-
lion in new community grants
made this month by the Or-
egon Community Foundation.
The foundation received 371
requests for funding during
the recent grant cycle, a record
number of requests made to
the foundation.
“Due to significant de-
mand, it was clear that we
would not be able to fund
every critical funding request
from the Community Grants
program alone. Donors
from every part of our state
stepped forward to help close
the gap of ongoing needs of
communities” said Kirsten
Kilchenstein, chief philan-
thropy officer of the Or-
egon Community Founda-
tion.
Documentary
A Bridge to the Future
(from page 1)
In time the building fell
into disuse, and stood empty
for some time. Then a few
years ago Chris Watson and
the Community Action Team
began developing a plan to
move the Commissary, com-
pletely renovate and restore
the structure, and then de-
velop the War m Springs
small business incubator.
The team obtained funding
from a variety of sources,
making the steady progress
that continues today.
The tribes and Action
Team contracted for the ac-
tual relocation of the build-
ing this past April. The Com-
missary is now by the high-
way on campus.
When the project is fin-
ished, the business incuba-
tor will feature a café, of-
fice and retail space.
The Tananáwit artists
co-operative will have a
shop in the building. In
time there will be outdoor
food spaces, and other
amenities.
Through the recent grant
to the Action Team and film-
Filmmaker LaRonn Katchia
maker LaRonn Katchia, the
development will be fully
and beautifully documented.
Dave McMechan
Courtesy WSCAT
Architect’s conceptual image of the Commissary small business center.
Shooting
incident at
Wildhorse
Umatilla tribal officials
say two people were shot as
an armed man and police ex-
changed gunfire at the
Wildhorse Casino.
The Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian Res-
er vation announced last
week that police intercepted
a man with a gun near the
door of the casino and re-
sort, after he tried to rob the
establishment.
A bystander and the al-
leged gunman were struck
by gunfire during the
shootout.
Both were taken to a lo-
cal hospital. Officials say the
suspect was then taken into
custody and the site was se-
cured.
A social gathering
sharing cultural
and traditional arts
is held the second
and fourth Tues-
day of the month
from 9 a.m. to
noon at the Cul-
ture and Heritage
Department.
Warm Springs Vital
Stats reminds tribal
member graduates
that you need to
submit your diploma
and transcript for
the fall Trust Fund
payment.
You can make con-
tact the school dis-
trict by calling 541-
475-7265 extension
2316; or 541-475-
4820, ext.
Courtesy OCF
Courtesy OCF
Track event, Warm Springs Boys & Girls Club.
Around Indian Country
Water shut-off of Klamath
Drought conditions are
forcing the shut-off of irri-
gation water in the Klamath
basin for the rest of the sea-
son. This was the recent an-
nouncement from the fed-
eral Bureau of Reclamation.
The shut-off impacts
three irrigation districts along
the Oregon-California bor-
der.
It marks the end of
available water that can be
diverted from Upper Kla-
math Lake. The far ming
community in the region
reacted with some frustra-
tion. Paul Simmons is the
director of the Klamath
Water Users Association, a
group that lobbies for farm-
ers in the area.
He says residents are
frustrated because of mixed
messages about how much
water they’d get this year.
“There’s been just quite a lot
of changing of information
and expectations created and
changed that have made this
extremely troubling and not
well received,” Simmons said.
This controversy has been
long in the making, as the lim-
ited water is necessary for
fish, wildlife and cultural ways
of the Native people of the
region.
Water levels are main-
tained in Upper Klamath
Lake to protect several spe-
cies of endangered sucker
fish. It’s also let out of the
lake to flow downriver, to
protect habitat for endan-
gered salmon.