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Late Edition Spirit Mountain showcases the heavy snow that hit the West Valley area just after Christmas and played havoc with local residents and their daily lives. Power was
knocked out to more than 30,000 residences and shut down the Tribal offices for most of last week. PGE personnel said Grand Ronde was one of the hardest hit areas in the state. PGE
crews worked overtime to get power back on and the city of Dallas opened the civic center at city hall for a Red Cross shelter. Falling trees and downed power poles were to blame for
much of the problems area residents faced including road closures between Salem and Grand Ronde. Locals were asked to check on Elderly residents to make sure they were safe.
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Nike Hosts Six Indian
Basketball Teams
Tournament brings Native players from across the
country to the world headquarters in Beaverton.
By Ron Karten
Last year was the first year for
the tournament. Basketball
players from Chemawa Indian
School in Salem, Oregon, Flandreau
Indian School in Flandreau, South
Dakota and Sherman Indian High
School in Riverside, California trav
eled to Riverside Indian School in
Anadarko, Oklahoma to play ball
and much more.
Riverside Superintendent Don
Sims described it as "three to four
days of cultural exchanges and pro
gram exchanges" that come along
with the basketball play.
Flandreau Basketball Coach Paul
Anderson called it "a great recruit
ing tool" because "these kids can go
to any (Bureau of Indian Affairs
funded) school."
It was so successful in its first year
that this year it grew by two more
teams: Sequoyah Indian School, a
Tribally-funded boarding school on
the Cherokee Nation Reservation in
Nike continued on pages 6-7
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He's Got Skills Delano Kimble,
from Riverside High School in California,
dribbles the ball at the Bo Jackson sports
and fitness center gym at the Nike World
headquarters campus in Beaverton.
Kimble, along with dozens of other Native
youth from across the country, were given
tours of the Nike campus, where the In
dian basketball tournament kicked off.