June 1, 1998
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Patrick Borunda honored by SBA Historic photos on display around state
PORTLAND, OR. (AP) - A single
mother with poor credit and a $6,000
annual income on a remote Indian res
ervation seeks a loan to start her first
business.
A family wants a bank to finance
the purchase of a house on the reser
vation, where properties are not sub
ject to foreclosure.
A tribe tries to figure out how to
encourage its members to start busi
nesses lacking on reservation lands.
Puzzles like this spark Patrick
Borunda's imagination and zeal.
For the past four years Borunda
has headed ONABEN (Oregon Na
tive American Business and Entrepre
neurial Network) a non-profit orga
nization based in Portland which
seeks to enhance Native American
owned small businesses and enter
prises on reservations. Last month,
Borunda was honored as Minority
Small Business Advocate of the Year
by the Pacific Northwest region of the
Small Business Administration.
Under his leadership, ONABEN
has trained thousands in business
basics and helped start more than 200
businesses in Oregon through classes
adapted to Native American values,
small loan programs, and reservation-based,
high tech business cen
ters. Tribal country is poised for
change, Borunda says. : 1 ' 1
Recent figures show tribal business
has been one of the fastest growing
sectors of the state's economy, leap
ing from 2,200 employees in Janu
ary 1995 to 5,900 during the sum
mer of 1997, primarily because of
casinos. This does not include busi
nesses owned by individual Native
Americans.
It is in these small, private busi
nesses, that Borunda sees the future
of Northwest tribes.
With a Master's degree in business
administration from the prestigious
Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania and 14 years experi
ence consulting for large Northwest
corporations, Borunda understands
the corporate culture.
But he also understands, and con
nects with, Native Americans and
tribal culture.
Last fall, Gov. Kitzhaber appointed
Borunda to the Oregon Progress
Board, a statewide panel that moni
tors the economic and social health
of Oregon.
ONABEN has a website, Chinook,
to help artists market their goods and
is working on his own version of a
loan pre-approval program.
Patrick. Borunda grew up in the
Southwest, his father an aerospace
executive of Mescalero Apache heri
tage, his mother a special education
teacher of Tarahumara Indian descent.
CORVALLIS, OR. "Photos by Gifford: An Oregon Legacy," an exhibit
of historical photographs by four members of the Gifford family will be on
display at Oregon State University through July 12 as part of a 15-month
traveling exhibit across Oregon.
The Giffords are Oregon's first family of photography. Overall, the Gifford
Collection contains 5,000 prints, another 4,500 film negatives, 600 glass nega
tives, and dozens of color transparencies that provide a photographic history
of Oregon during the 70 years the family made photographs professionally.
The traveling exhibit contains more than 50 selected images that are repre
sentative of the collection, and of each family member.
Benjamin A. Gifford is best known for his images of American Indians, and
for scenic shots of central Oregon and the Portland area. His photographs
documented the building of the Columbia River Highway and his scenics of
the gorge were used widely around Oregon and nationally.
His son, Ralph I. Gifford, worked in his father's photographic studio as an
apprentice, eventually assuming control of the studio. In 1936, he became
the first photographer of the newly established Travel and Information De
partment of the Oregon State Highway Commission. For years, Ralph Gifford's
scenic shots were used to promote tourism in Oregon.
"The collection is an important source of documentation of all of Oregon's
geographical areas, and a significant number of the photos document Oregon's
traditional resource-based industries," said Lawrence A. Landis, acting Uni
versity Archivist at OSU.
The Gifford Collection was donated by Ben L. Gifford to OSU's Horner
Museum in 1986. The OSU Archives received the collection when Horner
Museum closed to the public. The schedule for the traveling exhibit includes:
CORVALLIS - Now through July 12, 1998 at the CH2M-Hill Alumni Cen
ter, Oregon State University.
NEWPORT - July 16 to Oct. 16, 1998 at the Oregon Coast History Center.
THE DALLES - Oct. 24, 1998 to Jan. 3, 1999 at the Columbia Gorge Dis
covery Center and Wasco County Historical Museum.
BEND Jan. 7 to Feb. 5, 1999 at the Pinckney Art Gallery, Central Oregon
Community College.
SALEM - Feb. 12 to May 7, 1999 at the Oregon State Archives.
PORTLAND - Dates to be announced for 1999. Collins Gallery in the
Multnomah County Central Library.
EPA issues underground
storage tank warning
Owners and operators of under
ground storage tanks have until De
cember 22, 1998 to meet a U.S. EPA
deadline set nine years ago for prop
erty upgrading, replacing or closing
their tanks.
The 1998 date is the deadline to
comply with rules to help protect the
nation's ground water, the source of
drinking water for more than 50 of
the American population. Under
ground tanks are the most common
source of ground water contaminant.
Tanks subject to the deadline are
used to store gasoline, diesel fuel or
other petroleum products at service
stations and vehicle fleet refueling fa
cilities. Tanks storing certain hazard
ous chemicals usually at industrial fa
cilities, must also meet the deadline.
More information about under
ground storage tanks can be obtained
from the following site agencies:
Oregon: 1-800-452-4011
Washington: 1-800-826-7716
Idaho: 1-800-373-0502
Alaska: 1-800-478-4974
This article is reprinted from the
March 1, 1998 issue of the EPA Re
gion 10 Tribal Newsletter,
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meeting last month, who met at ft ft I X-rVk- lTittl S
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be the old Tillamook Trail meet " V. ;
is marked by stacked lumber
felled for the new route. Many
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believe the old trail was used in .
the 1870s mostly by local tribes C-i
to trade between the Grand - T""r
Ronde Valley and Tillamook. "7
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trail in three different places, will
be complete in about a week and c W- . - ,' t j
then used by Zimbrick Logging V.V Af?SV )
Inc. to haul about 3.5 million SPK fS4
board feet of timber of reserva- , - 4 s ft 1' ' r i VV 1 '2i?T. " M ,
tion lands for Hampton Tree JP .; J r('ij
Farms, said Natural Resources 0t 'J: i"--C,i J!sSX;z,t:. .V :
forester, Pete Wakeland. Hesays "-"r C'VCV
after the $1.8 million timber sale t .,' ' . -1 VVi,.': . .''
the road will be removed and the v .-.- .' . f"1'-v:et;-t ;,
area rehabilitated. A" L - i : - ; 4 1