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Coyote News, est. 1976
Back to School
BBQ next week
The Back to School Barbecue
is coming up next Thursday, Au-
gust 29 at the Warm Springs Acad-
emy.
The barbecue and resources fair,
and new school year introductions
will be from 4 to 6 p.m. at the
Academy. Meanwhile, the school
district again this year is providing
most school supplies.
Here are some other important
509-J district dates coming up, as
the start of school is just a couple
of weeks away:
Wednesday, September 4: First
day of school, grades 1-5, sixh-grad-
ers and ninth graders.
Thursday, September 5: First
day of school, seventh- and eighth-
graders, and grades 10-12.
Then on Monday, September
will be late-start Monday.
The district has a late start to
the school day every Monday in
order to provide the teaching
team members time for ongoing
job-embedded professional devel-
opment.
School will start 90 minutes later
than usual on Mondays through-
out the school year.
Late summer,
fall fishery
T he Four Columbia River
treaty tribes have set a late sum-
mer-early fall season fishery plan,
and the Columbia River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission has con-
curred. This is for zone 6 tribal
commercial gillnet fishing. There
are no changes to current platform
and hook and line regulations.
The fishery will be from the
present through 6 p.m. this Thurs-
day, August 22; from 6 a.m. on
Monday, August 26 to 6 p.m. on
Friday, August 30; and from 6 a.m.
on September 2 to 6 p.m. on Fri-
day, September 6.
Gear is set and drift gillnets with
an 8-inch minimum mesh size re-
striction. Allowable sales are any
species of salmon, steelhead, shad,
yellow perch, bass, walleye, catfish
and carp. These be sold or retained
for subsistence. Sturgeon may not
be sold; though sturgeon 38 to 54
inches fork length in the Bonneville
pool, and sturgeon 43-54 inches in
The Dalles and John Day pools may
be kept for subsistence purposes.
Fish landed after the fishery closes
are allowed to be sold.
Closed areas are the river mouth
and the dam closed areas applicable
to gillnet including the standard
Spring Creek Hatchery Sanctuary.
Tributary fisheries are managed
under separate limits from the
mainstem fishery, and the above
information does not affect the
tributary fisheries. Please contact
the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs Branch of natural Re-
sources for more details, at 541-
553-3557.
August 21, 2024 - Vol. 49, No. 17
PO Box 489
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Coming up this school year at Academy
The new school year at the
Warm Springs Academy will in-
clude a new building addition,
along Chukar Road toward the
entrance of the Academy, with
six classrooms and support
rooms, additional parking and
landscaping.
The addition will help allevi-
ate the space issue the Academy
has experienced almost since its
opening in 2012. The addition
project was made possible by
the $24 million school district
bond measure that voters
passed in 2021.
This school year also, the
school district will provide school
supplies for all students; so fami-
lies do not need to purchase
basic items for their students.
The district will ensure the sup-
plies will be ready for the students
by the first day of school.
They are requesting that stu-
dents come to school with a back-
pack for any materials that need
to be brought home, as well as a
water bottle.
The school district is also pro-
viding the following information
for kindergarten families, as they
may have questions. The follow-
ing should be helpful, so you know
when to get your student to school:
Teacher calls: The week of Au-
gust 26 the child’s teacher will call
to schedule a one-on-one meeting.
During this conference, you’ll dis-
cuss your child and receive impor-
tant information, including their
start date.
Start dates: Kindergarten stu-
dents will start school on either
Thursday or Friday, September 5
or 6. Half of the students will be-
gin on September 5, and the other
half on the sixth. All students will
be together starting Monday, Sep-
tember 9.
Backpacks provided: Every kin-
dergarten student will receive a
backpack at no cost from their
school.
Class lists: Class lists will be
posted at each school on Thursday,
August 29 by 9 a.m.
Meanwhile and also recently, the
Jefferson County School District
509-J is one of the recipient dis-
tricts that will receive part of a fed-
eral $7.8 million rural school dis-
trict investment, as announced this
month.
The money can be used for en-
ergy improvement projects like new
heating, ventilation and air condition-
ing systems, lighting upgrades, alter-
native fuel vehicles, and renewable
energy technologies.
School district 509-J is one of
11 districts to be awarded a part of
the funding.
This Renew America’s Schools
Prize and Grant investment is
funded through the federal Biparti-
san Infrastructure Law of 2021.
Tribal perspective on Columbia River Treaty
The United States and
Canada have reached a prelimi-
nary new deal to manage the
Columbia River.
After six years of negotia-
tions, the two nations have up-
dated the 60-year-old Columbia
River Treaty intended to fairly
share benefits and risks associ-
ated the government manage-
ment of the Columbia River.
The deal must still be approved
by the U.S. Senate.
A treaty was originally rati-
fied in 1961, containing no real
provisions regarding protection
or restoration of damaged fish-
eries, such as for salmon and
steelhead.
Negotiation toward the origi-
nal treaty also did not involve
tribal participation, thereby es-
sentially excluding a tribal voice
in its governance and imple-
mentation for the first 50 years
of the treaty.
The renegotiated treaty does
attempt to take these factors into
consideration, though some tribes
say the fisheries and tribal treaty
rights are not fully addressed. For
instance, river treaty tribes have
argued the modernized treaty
should put the ecosystem health
on the same level of importance
as hydro-power and flood control.
Tribes have long wanted the
Columbia to flow more like a
natural river, instead of the se-
ries of reservoirs with slow-mov-
ing water that often heats up to
temperatures that kill migrating
fish.
U.S. and Canadian officials say
the new agreement establishes a
tribal-led body that will provide
recommendations on how treaty
operations can better support eco-
system needs.
However, the agreement fo-
cuses on revenue for the
Bonneville Power Administration
and power customers, while the
salmon and Columbia River are
left with consideration that not ad-
equate, some are saying.
The Columbia River’s drainage
basin is large, roughly the size of
Texas; and includes parts of Or-
egon, Washington, Idaho, Montana,
Utah, Wyoming and British Colum-
bia.
The river begins in Canada, then
flows mostly in the United States,
on its 1,243-mile route to the
ocean.
From a financial perspective:
The Columbia River and its tribu-
taries provide 40 percent of U.S.
hydropower, irrigate $8 billion in
agriculture products, and move 42
million tons of commercial cargo
annually.
Negotation to the original 1961
Columbia River Treaty started af-
ter a 1948 flood washed away the
Oregon town of Vanport. This
event led to the construction of
Libby Dam in Montana, which
flooded land in Canada, and three
dams in British Columbia, com-
pleted between 1968 and 1973,
that together more than doubled
the amount of reservoir stor-
age in the basin.
The new treaty agreement
will reduce the amount of
power the U.S. sends to Canada,
but also will afford the U.S. less
storage capacity in Canadian res-
ervoirs to protect downstream
communities in Washington and
Oregon from floods. The deal
allows Canada more opportuni-
ties to import and export hydro-
power into the U.S. market, ap-
parently a benefit to both coun-
tries.
On the other hand: Cur-
rently, Canada is entitled to
half the hydropower generated
by dams in the river basin,
which Canada mostly sells to
U.S. interests. This was a point
of debate during the negotia-
tions, as the U.S. was seeking
to reduce the Canadian power
entitlement.
Airshow of the Cascades takes off this Friday
The Airshow of the Cas-
cades festival is set to thrill
and entertain this Friday and
Saturday, August 23-24, at the
Madras Airport.
The Army Golden Knights
will be flying, and jets and
thrilling aerial acrobatics.
There is a huge food court,
many vendors and live music,
plus the Les Schwab Classic
Car Show, the Pacific Power
Fireworks show on Friday
evening of the airshow. And a
B-17 Flying Fortress will be on
hand. There is also fee entry to
the Erickson’s Aircraft Museum
at the airport.
Camping is available with an
RV, trailer or tent.
Entry is free for veterans
The B-52 ‘Flying Fortress’ will be part of the airshow.
and kids five and under. Tickets are
now available online at:
airshowofthecascades.com
Guests are welcome to fly with
Specialized Aero Works, and ex-
Courtesy Airshow
perience the thrills of aerobatics.
This is a chance to experience
many of the maneuvers you see
at the airshow, at a safe altitude.
Specialized Aero Works is of-
fering an airshow special: A 30
minute flight for $250.
This is deeply discounted for the
airshow. Rides will be offered at
Madras on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday morning.
To learn more about Specialized
Aero Work or to contact them,
check out our website at:
www.fly-saw.com