Paschal Sherman Indian
School
February Events:
Feb. 9th-Report cards mailed
Feb. 14th-Valentine’s Day
Please contact your child’s teacher
for party information.
Feb. 17th-Early Release
Staff Development
Feb. 20th-No School
Presidents Day
New Orleans Hurricane Essay
2nd Prize
Sly Dos Santos
Could you imagine losing everything you owned, and loved in
just a matter of seconds? You probably couldn’t because it’s
never happened to you. You do think about it but just don’t
take it seriously, but think again it just happened to
thousands of people in the south. When I was listening to the
radio it said a man from Republic went down to Louisiana to
check it out for a couple of weeks, and while he was down
there he met some friends.
A few weeks later the man from Republic got a phone call from
his friend down in Louisiana stating that he lost everything
meaning his family, job, and home. So he told his friend that
he could come up to Republic and start a new life, but think
about how could you start a new life when all your family is
gone and you are the only one left? Could you imagine how the
people felt, what are they going to do now? There’s a second
grader looking for their parents and not knowing what’s going
on in the world. There was even a nursing home filled with old
people that got flooded out and the owners left them for dead.
Lots of people that were dead were found dead in their attics,
most were families.
It’s a sad thing that thousands of people had to stay in the
Super Dome with not much food or water, with most of the
bathrooms not working. People started looting and stealing.
One man was caught stealing a plazma TV, but what’s he need it
for? He doesn’t have a house to put it in-you could imagine
stealing water because the water that’s flooded in the streets
is contaminated. All of that effects everybody down in the
south and the northwest.
The northwest because lots of gas prices are going up. It
effects the people in the south because they don’t have
nowhere to stay or go for now, most are dead or looking
through corpses for their family. All of this makes you
think-is this the end?
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Classroom News
Omak Tribal Head Start
Teachers:
Cindy, Tara, Mary and Jackie
Week of:
January 17, 2006
Greetings from Preschool.
This week we will be finishing with the book “The Mitten” by
Jan Brett. Continuing with our Winter theme, our next book is
“Animals in Winter”. We finally got some snow so we will be
able to look at animal tracks and other evidence of animals in
the winter time.
As always, we look forward to seeing you in our classroom and
hope that you have a great week.
Letter Center
• This week’s letter is the letter “A”. Center activities will
include cut and paste papers as well as file folder games and
flash cards.
Math Center
• This week’s number is Three. We will be practicing counting
as well as “before and after and “more and less” concepts.
• Using tweezers, students will pick up cotton balls and place
them on the correct number of corresponding dots (ie.. Two
cotton balls = .. )
• Also on schedule is a mitten matching game to practice
numbers.
Art Center
• The classroom mitten book is first on this weeks agenda.
• Tissue paper snowman will re-enforce tearing and cutting
skills.
• Lacing mittens is great for small motor development and
hand-eye coordination.
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Colville Indian Livestock
Association Adopts Livestock ID
Despite late December rain, sleet and snow the
Colville Indian Livestock Association led by president Micheal
Watts met to vote on a new Livestock Identification project.
The vote passed unanimously for the CILA to become a pilot
project for the testing of a two part ID system including
premise ID and individual animal ID. The intitial start of the
project is to be funded through a Risk Management grant with
WSU Colville Reservation Extension, Hannah Hull, EIRP
Extension Agent. The project is to include any livestock
within the boundaries of the reservation.
Livestock and premise identification has been prompted by the
2003 case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a Canadian
born cow culled from a Washington State dairy. The Colville
Indian Livestock Association understands the need to be able
to trace livestock in an efficient and timely manner to assure
the safety of future beef products and the protection of their
consumers.
The Association has enlisted the direction of Okanogan native
Roy Webster with his experience in livestock production,
marketing and tracking.
Roy has been involved with the development and performance of
livestock ID for the past nine years and offers to share his
experience with the CILA.
The Association held a demonstration of the Retinal Imaging
identification process with Roy’s help arranging for Opti-Brand
to come to Nespelem from Colorado with equipment and software.
The identification system of choice for the pilot project
collects all forms of animal identification including a
retinal image, RFID tags, tattoos and bar codes. The retinal
image is as unique as a human fingerprint and is captured with
a handheld digital unit linked to a GPS recorder. The Opti-
Reader by Opti Brand captures and stores the image in less
than 15 seconds and is secure for the life of the individual
animal. All information is encrypted and includes the
location, time and date along with any other information the
producer may want to enter into the record.
The pilot project will focus on getting cattle individually
identified and linked to their premise identifier based on the
home location. Other forms of technology to be included in the
study are radio tracking through satellite, radio frequency
identification ear tags and DNA.
The project will provide further educational programs for
reservation cattlemen on identification technologies and
updates through WSU Colville Reservation Extension. Collection
and organization of data will be kept local and private.
The development of a data base will allow the livestock
producers to consider an organized marketing strategy and the
potential to provide beef to local consumers.
The Colville Indian Livestock Association will be holding
meetings to discuss and stay current on the National ID
requirements and continue setting a working plan within the
scope of the project. It is a new and uncharted direction for
the CILA. If you would like to be involved or would like more
information please contact the WSU Colville Reservation
Extension Office at 634-2305.
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To all our IHS patients,
Throughout this year the Colville Indian Health
Service (IHS) will be going through major changes in
preparation for a new computer package called the Electronic
Health Record or EHR. So what is EHR? EHR is a collection of
computer applications designed to improve quality of care and
patient safety in Indian Health Clinics. EHR provides a
“WindowsÒ” like interface, which allows for improved access to
the most recent and important clinical information, direct
entry of data by providers and other users and clinical
support tools for when you’re being seen in the exam room.
This will replace the paper charts we currently use. Because
of this there are going to be major upgrades to our computer
hardware and software. These upgrades will allow us to
streamline patient visits and provide more comprehensive
health care to our patients.
On the weekend of February 12th 2006 IHS will be going through
the first of these major upgrades. With this comes a short
time frame during which our health care team will be getting
used to the new program. Because of this it might take longer
than usual for us to see patients. To help ensure a speedy
transition and quality of care to our patients, IHS is asking
the community for their help and understanding. On February
13th and 14th same day appointments will be limited to urgent
care that cannot wait. In addition medication refills called
in on those days may require the minimal of 2 days processing
time. It is suggested that, if possible, patients should call
medications in the Thursday or Friday during the prior week.
However, please remember that we cannot refill any
medication(s) earlier than 5 days before it would run out as
usual.
The next phase of upgrades will take place a few months later.
We will do our utmost to keep you informed in advance of any
major changes taking place at the clinic during the
implementation of EHR.
The IHS health care team would like to thank our community in
advance for their patience and understanding during this time.
If you have any concerns or questions about this please call
the IHS at (509) 634-2918 or pick up a brochure at the medical
reception desk.
Written by
Yvonne L. Misiaszek, MSW, CEO
Patricia Breiler AEO
LT John Lester USPHS, Pharm.D.
LT Sam Habiel USPHS, Pharm.D.
LT Jerry Zee USPHS, Pharm.D.
Tribal Health Program
Announces Poster/T-Shirt
Contest for Kick Butt Day
(Tobacco Prevention Activity)
April 5, 2006
The contest criteria are as follows:
* Student must be in 4th Grade - Senior in High School;
* 8 1/2 x 11 size;
* Up to three colors;
* Must say “Kick Butt Day 2006”
The pictures will become property of Tribal Health and may be
adjusted minimally.
Please submit you entry to you local Tribal Health Program or
please call with any questions to:
Angela Rios @ 509 422 7456
Dianne Sutton-Mellon @ 509 634 7325
Pam Phillips @ 509 722 7019
Val Vargas-Thomas @ 509 422
HIV/AIDS Training
Where: Nespelem Community Center-Fish Bowl
When: Second Monday of each month
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Please direct any questions to Hope Achenbach, RN, at 634-7325
or call toll free at: 1-888-881-7684, ext. 7325.
This training is required by Resolution #1998-895 which
requires all NEW employees to obtain two hours of HIV/AIDS
training.
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