Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current, August 09, 2023, Page 5, Image 5

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    Spilyay Tymoo
August 9, 2023
Page 5
4-H livestock showing
An outstanding student achievement
Jazell M. Allen, a Warm
Springs tribal member,
graduated in June 2023 with
Honors from Milwaukie
High School.
As one of the Valedictori-
ans, she was selected to give
the Land Acknowledgment
speech at her Commence-
ment Ceremony.
Jazell represented her
school, her family, and her
tribe by achieving many
awards throughout her high
school career.
Jazell completed high
school with a 4.0 cumulative
grade point average and was
an honors graduate and co-
valedictorian and was
awarded numerous letters
and sports awards. She also
completed 22 college credits
in high school while holding
down a part-time job.
Her high academic
achievements, sports awards
and student government ser-
vice opened the door to her
being accepted to six of
seven colleges she applied to.
Jazell wanted to be a part
of making changes and
found her passion by serv-
ing as a student government
representative.
She served as the junior
class vice-president and suc-
cessfully planned and imple-
mented dances and social
activities throughout the
school year.
During her senior year,
Jazell was elected to serve on
All Student Body and served
as Spirit Commissioner. She
made numerous contacts
with other student leaders
throughout Oregon as she
attended leadership confer-
ences.
Jazell plans to become an
orthodontist, and applied to
several colleges that have re-
Jazell at graduation,
and during a high
school baseball season.
nowned science programs
that will allow her to pursue
a Doctorate.
Ultimately, she chose the
University of Southern Cali-
fornia after visiting the beau-
tiful USC campus and find-
ing the location ideal and wel-
coming, the education op-
portunities outstanding, and
of course the financial aid
packet sealed the deal.
The financial package she
received was based on her
financial need and her suc-
cess in academics and sports.
To date she has received
the following awards, grants
and scholarships: USC grant,
$66,000; USC Scholar
Award, $4,000; Cobell Un-
dergraduate Scholarship,
$5,000; Harland Cravat/
Gray Johnson Office of Stu-
dent Access and Completion
(OSAC) scholarship, $2,000;
Courtesy photos.
and Loprinzi Multnomah
Athletic Scholarship, $8,000.
Academics was always
first and foremost, but sports
were a close second.
Jazell has played basket-
ball, softball, soccer, volley-
ball and ran cross country
and track.
In high school she played
one year of basketball and
four years of softball and
volleyball.
In softball she received
5A All-League Honorable
Mention for her play as a in-
fielder her junior and senior
year.
In volleyball she received
All-League Honorable Men-
tion for her play as a libero
(that is the only year she
played libero).
Her first passion was bas-
ketball but she only played
her freshman year and then
phased it out because the
sports all had demanding
workout schedules.
Besides her regular
school workouts, she at-
tended personal pitching les-
sons every Sunday for a
good portion of the year.
She received seven varsity
letters in sports.
In order to afford fuel to
go to and from school, prac-
tices and extracurricular ac-
tivities, Jazell worked an av-
erage of 20 hours per week.
Even though she had a very
busy schedule, she still man-
aged to receive an Employee
of the Quarter award, and
worked her way to shift lead.
Jazell M. Allen is the
daughter of Jarrod M.
Allen and Shanell M.
Kalama, the granddaughter
of Shelia M. Lewis-
Danzuka and Or vie
Danzuka, Leroy Allen Jr.,
Deborah Plouffe and
Perry Kalama Jr, and the
great-granddaughter of
Linda Allen and Leroy
Allen Srs (deceased), Susan
Lewis-Elliott and Everett
Elliott (deceased), Rod Wil-
son (deceased) and Carol
Wilson, Doris A. Hunt-
Broncheau (deceased) and
Dennis Plouffe (deceased),
Colleen Tufti (deceased)
and Perry Kalama Sr. (de-
ceased).
Edward Heath photo
Ethan Stacona showing in the PeeWee goat show.
Tashina Smith photo.
Arellya Scott showing her goat Little Jeremy. This
is her last year with the Lyle Gap 4-H Club and
will be off to college in the fall.
Camp connecting youth to Columbia Indigenous culture
The
Confluence
project is a non-profit
group dedicated to con-
necting people to the his-
tory, living cultures, and
ecology of the Columbia
River through Indigenous
voices.
Over two weeks this
summer, Confluence wel-
comed more than 40
campers
to
the
Confluence Camp.
The camp is free, fea-
turing a series of regional
outdoor field trips with
opportunities to learn
from Indigenous educa-
tors.
The Washington No
Child Left Inside pro-
gram provided the fund-
ing so that every camper
could attend free of
charge.
What the Confluence
campers did this sum-
mer:
There was the open-
Courtesy Confluence
Youth gathering at the Confluence Camp.
ing blessing with tribal
leaders from the Cowlitz
Indian Tribe, the Chinook
Nation, and the Grand
Ronde.
Clifton Bruno (Wasco),
Christine Bruno (Basque,
Comanche and Irish), and
Josh Bruno (Wasco) taught
about Salmon and Indig-
enous games.
At Cape Disappoint-
ment, we learned from Sam
Robinson (Chinook) and
Mildred Robinson, Clifton
and Christine Bruno, and
Aaron Webster from Oregon
State Parks.
The campers connected
throughout the week with
the Portland All Nations Ca-
noe Family, learning about
canoes, cedar, pounding and
splitting cedar.
And they learned ce-
dar weaving, and tule mat
making with elder Elaine
St. Mar tin (Tuscarora
Nation), and Stephanie
Ironheart (Cheyanne).
Shoshone-Bannock
and Nez Perce Native edu-
cator Ed Edmo shared sto-
ries.
Cowlitz Native educa-
tor Emma Johnson shared
about Mt. St Helens and
plant relatives, weaving
cattail headband and
bracelets.
They had fun at the
Sandy River Delta, as well
as the Ridgefield Wildlife
Refuge
and
the
Cathlapotle Plankhouse;
and created a Camp
Confluence song.
During week two, they
experienced sharing with
Canoe Families at Fort
Vancouver and gifted the
group Confluence t-
shirts.
Edward Heath photo
Hayden Heath and his reserve Grand
Champion heavyweight market goat.
New study: hatchery fish contribute to salmon reintroduction
Efforts to reintroduce
fish populations to areas
where they were once abun-
dant generally rely on the
help of hatchery fish.
Scientific studies indicate
that because hatchery fish
may adapt to their hatchery
environment, they may tend
to have lower reproductive
output than their natural-
born counterparts when they
return to spawn.
However, a recent peer-
reviewed publication follow-
ing a reintroduction of Chi-
nook salmon to Lookingglass
Creek in Northeast Oregon
shows that a hatchery stock
can indeed possess the adap-
tive capacity to positively
contribute to natural produc-
tion and recovery goals.
Hayley Nuetzel, Fishery
Scientist with the Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Com-
mission, in collaboration with
scientists with the Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reser vation, pre-
sented these results to the
Northwest Power and Con-
servation Council’s Fish and
Wildlife Committee at its
summer 2023 meeting.
Declines of the native
population of spring Chi-
nook salmon in Lookingglass
Creek occurred throughout
the late 1900s. Under the
federally mandated Lower
Snake River Compensation
Plan, Lookingglass Hatchery
was built in 1982 to mitigate
these losses and impacts to
fish associated with the con-
struction and operation of
the four lower Snake River
Dams. The native population
in Lookingglass Creek was
nearly gone, and a reintroduc-
tion program was initiated in
2000 with a hatchery stock
from an adjacent location
within the same river basin.
Nuetzel’s team found that
the natural-origin fish, origi-
nally derived from the cap-
tive broodstock hatchery
program, demonstrated
higher reproductive success
than their hatchery born
counterparts. The study dem-
onstrates that hatchery stocks
have the capacity to natural-
ize to a reintroduced system,
as well as to supplement low
existing populations.
Candis Wood photo.
Bailey Reese was showing her market hog this
year at the County Fair. She was one of the Lyle
Gap 4-H members who were showing this year.