Midnight Mine

Today we had come here to the Welpinit Middle/High School and met up with Warren to talk about the Midnight mine. What Warren had talked to us about was first about the Spokane Tribe, then talked about Midnight mine. Warren had said that Spokane Tribes are called Children of the Sun, then had turned into fisherman after government had let them fish in the river. But one thing that was really taking out the fish was fish wheels, which was like a faris wheel goes under water scoops up the fish and then puts fish into a basket.  Before the lake became a lake it was first started off as a little river that flowed through the valley area and was a land of a few farms and houses. But after the water had started to rise the currents had started to flood and is now what is considered a lake. Then after listening to the presentation of Spokane tribes we had started to talk about the Radiation midnight mine that we had seen. The man that had talked to us about the midnight mine was Randy Barns. And when we was explaining the midnight mine he had talked about after visiting the mine we had to go to what was called a clean-up where a machine called Alpha meter. The Alpha Meter detects whether or not you have any radiation on you, if you had radiation then we’d have to stay till the radiation cleared off of the clothing that you had on. Then he talked about the mine and how it shut down in 1981, and just was on stand by for a while and then re-opened. Then after the presentation we had all loaded up in the cars and started to make our way to the midnight mine. When we had got to the mine we had stopped at a place called the clean sample and it was a mountain of sand. By the time I got up to the top of the mountain of sand I thought that, that was the workout of the day. But then Randy pointed out that there was fresh water in the radiation area. After being in the clean sample we had headed back to the camp sight to eat some Subway for about an hour. Then after lunch we had went back to the radiation spot and we were at location 3 and Lew Miller talked to us about how the location 3 was gonna be filled up in 10 years. After we had talked about location 3 we all had sat in the parking lot for those who were not 18 or older until Mr. Clinton had got all the WSHS students then we had left and went back to camp and we got to chill at camp till we had to come here and do these blogs.