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ENERGY PROGRAM
LOOKING FOR
ELIGIBLE NATIVE
AMERICANS
The Energy Programs at Community Action Agency of
Yamhill Co. and Mid-Willamette Valley Community
Action Agency are looking for eligible Native American
households for the Low income Weatherization Pro
gram. Weatherization measures that are eligible for installa
tion include general heat waste items such as caulking
and weatherstripping, furnace efficiency modifications,
attic insulation, was insulation, underfloor insulation,
and storm windows. The sole purpose of this program is
to lower energy usage and therefore help lower your
utility bills. To be eligible for the weatherization
assistance program your household income must meet
the guidelines set forth by the federal government.
Those guidelines are as follows:
SIZE OF FAMILY MONTHLY ANNUAL
UNIT INCOME INCOME
1 622.92 7,475.00
2 835.42 10,025.00
3 1,047.92 12,575.00
4 1,260.42 15,125.00
5 1,472.92 17,675.00
6 1,685.42 20,225.00
7 1,897.92 22,775.00
8 2,110.42 25,325.00
FOR EACH ADDITIONAL
PERSON 212,50 2,550.00
The funds used to weatherize your hom6 are provided
by the federal government in grant form. There is no
cost to the homeowner or renter, and at no time is there
a lien or an attachment to our property or possessions. .
All material's and labor are free of charge.
If you are interested in having your home weatheized
or would like more information, please contact one of
the following Energy Programs.
FOR YAMHILL COUNTY
Energy ProgramKraig Ludwig
Community Action Agency of Yamhill County, INC.
PO Box 621
McMinnville, OR 97128
472-0457
FOR MARION AND POLK COUNTIES
Energy Program
Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency
Joan Cote
2035 Davcor SE
Salem, OR 97302
585-8491
TRIBAL MEMBERS LEAD
TEAM TO WIN
The matman from Willamina High School grabbed
first place at the first tournament of the season Dec. 1.
The Bulldogs piled up 72 team points against Taft,
Sheridan, Chemawa and Yamhill Carlton. Taft was
second with 59 and Sheridan was third with 57.
The tournament went about the way Bulldog head
Coach Bob Bishop expected it to go. "It was a good
tournament," he said. "Chemawa has some new kids
and Taft is getting a good program going now."
Ninety-eight pounder Shonn Leno and 168 pounder
Billy Bobb, both Tribal members, took first place. The
six Bulldogs who took second were Jimmy DeBoff at 106
pounds, Josh at 115, Jeremy Herber at 130, Cory
Menely, who is also a tribal member at 136, John
Andrew at 168 and Mike Kissell at heavyweight. Third
place finishers were Bubba Cavan at 191 and Doug
Stuart at 157.
The Oregon Classic is a statewide tournament held
each year at the University of Portland's Chiles Center.
It features high school and college teams and about 300
junior wrestlers ages 6-16. Willamina took fourth place
at this tournament last year and third place the year
before.
Courtesy of The Sheridan Sun
USDA
The USDA Food Distribution for Salem in January 3,4,&
5th, 1989. NOTICE THESE DAYS ARE DIFFERENT
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY (DO TO
THE SHIPMENT) PLEASE KEEP SCHEDULED
APPOINTMENTS. Distribution dates for Siletz in Janu
ary 16,17,18,19,22, and 23, 1989.
We would like a SPECIAL THANKS given to DONALD
JAY for helping us unload the double semi trucks during
our last shipment, your help was greatly appreciated.
This facility is operated in accordance with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture Policy, which prohibits dis
crimination on the basis of race, color, sex, age, handicap,
religion, or national origin. Any person who believes he or
she has been discriminated against in any USDA-rclated
activity should write to:
ADMINISTRATOR Food & Nutrition Service
3101 Park Center Drive
Alexandria, VA. 22302
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TRIBAL COLLEGE
LEADERS SAY THEY ARE
FACING CRISIS
By Nancy Butterfield
Native American News Service
Tribal college presidents have told members of the
National Advisory Council on Indian Education
(NACIE) that many of their faculty and students are
struggling to meet their educational goals under impov
erished conditions in inadequate facilities.
Meeting with NACIE members in Anchorage, Alaska,
during the National Indian Education Association
annual conference last monthy, more than a dozen tribal
college leaders reported that they operate their institu
tions in a constant state of financial emergency.
"Navajo Community College celebrated its 20th
anniversary last year," said Lawrence Gishey, president
of the Tsaile, Ariz. - based NCC, "and we are still
puzzled about what we need to do (to ensure consistent
funding levels).
"Congress created the Indian Community Colleges,"
Gishey said. "But now will they support us? If you look
at us now, we have deteriorating facilities and inade
quate dormitories.
"How many of you would register in a hotel with holes
in the carpet, showers that don't work, and leaking
roofs?" he asked NACIE members.
He said NCC has been forced to scale back programs
in business, teacher training and Navajo language at a
time whenm more students want to enroll in them, due
to funding shortages.
David Archambault, president of Standing Rock
College in Fort Yates, N.D., who also serves as presi
dent of the American Indian Higher Education Consor
tium, pointed to inequities in Bureau of Indian Affairs
funding of higher education.
"Why does the BIA fund its own colleges at a higher
level, and treat tribal colleges as a low priority?"
Archambault asked. He said for FY 1988, two BIA
operated institutions, Haskell Indian Junior College in
Lawrence, Kan., with about 700 students, and Southwest
Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M., with
about 470 students, received allocations of $7.2 million
and $3.8 million respectively.
"Tribal colleges represent the brightest spot on the
reservation, and there's a lot of community support,"
Archambault said. "Yet there's a big (funding) disparity
there. They (the BIA) look down on us."
Lionel Bordeaux, president of Sinte Gleska College in
Rosebud, S.D., said that college gets no support from
the state of South Dakota, despite significant services it
offers to poor, rural white people not served by state
institutions.
Other college presidents told of having to ask their
faculties to work without salaries for as long as three
months, and to teach classes in abandoned, condemned
buildings.
Janine Pease-Windy Boy, president of Little Big Horn
College in Crow Agency, Mont., said students have
critical needs for financial aid. Of 150 students at her
college, just 12 receive BIA or Pell Grant assistance, she
said. "Many of our students are trying to make it with
no lunch money, no gas money, and some of them are
ineligible for financial aid for life, because somebody
once talked them into taking out a loan they couldn't pay
off."
Inadequate libraries are a common problem among the
tribal colleges that can lead to a Catch-22 situation, said
Lionel Bordeaux. Poorly equipped libraries have been
cited by accreditation reviewers as a reason to deny
accreditation to tribal colleges, he said.