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, April 21, at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland. Historically, Willamette Falls, located between Oregon City and West Linn, was a significant fishing and trading site for Tribes but the Willamette Falls Electric Company built a hydroelectric dam on the site in the late 1800s. It became Portland General Electric in 1891. In 2018, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde received approval from the Department of State Lands to build a removable fishing platform at the falls that it uses …

milepost 26 on Highway 18. A confused elderly driver was contacted and provided a courtesy ride back to their residence. Friday, Aug. 5 Traffic assist performed for a disabled vehicle near milepost 24 on Highway 18. Citizen contact occurred in the 9600 block of Grand Ronde Road. Assisted outside agency with a domestic disturbance in the 200 block Cherry Hill Road. Officers responded and assisted Yamhill County Sheriff’s deputies with the arrest of the involved male. Assisted outside agency …

coordinator Tribal Council approved making another $600,000 available to Redmond-based Shasta Administrative Services from the Tribe’s line of credit during its Wednesday, Sept. 27, meeting. The decision brings the amount of Tribal funds loaned to Shasta, which the Grand Ronde Tribe has co-owned since November 2012 with Honolulu-based Hawaii-Western Management Group, to $1.35 million. Tribal Council also loaned $350,000 to the company in November 2022 and $400,000 in February of this year. Although …

. Preparations underway since the beginning of the year also included pulling together food and merchandise vendors and, said board member Jim Holmes, "many new sponsors." Sponsors included DiabetOmics (working with the Tribe's Wellness services); Mattecheck & Associates (the Tribe's benefits broker); Hays Companies (a broker for property and casualty insurance); Les Schwab; Shasta Administrators (Tribal health insurance); Stuck Electric; Doris Rose, CPA; and Dave Gunderson, who works …

Culture Yesteryears -- Sept. 1, 2011 08.31.2011 Ron Karten History 2006 - Nysayka Ikanum -- Our Story, an ongoing virtual experience of the Tribe's Cultural Resources Department debuted online on the Tribe's Web site. Created by Portland-based ISITE Design, sections cover the Tribe's past, present and future with hundreds of Web pages. "Nothing will ever be taken down," said then-Cultural Collections Coordinator Lindy Trolan. "It will only be added to." 2001 - Tribal members Cristina Lara …

more than 200 miles over 12 days. 2000 – Tribal Elder Grace Engelhardt cut the ribbon officially opening the new Elders’ housing development. The 38-unit development was funded through three Housing and Urban Development grants and additional funding came from Tribal Council. 1995 – A special section, “Grand Ronde Site Planning Project,” was published. Its purpose was to develop a site use plan for Tribal lands and a generalized land use compatibility plan for the associated areas in the Grand …

Tribal Government & News Tribe to sell former Multnomah Greyhound Park site in Wood Village 08.28.2018 Dean Rhodes Tribal Council By Dean Rhodes and Danielle Frost Smoke Signals staff members WOOD VILLAGE -- The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde announced on Tuesday, Aug. 28, that it will not develop the 31 acres that were home to Multnomah Greyhound Park after two and a half years of Tribal ownership, and that the Tribe will put the property on the market in the hopes of making a profit …

Tribal Government & News Greyhound Park grandstand demolished 08.12.2016 Dean Rhodes Events WOOD VILLAGE -- A little more than a month after the Grand Ronde Tribe held a demolition ceremony at the site of the former Multnomah Greyhound Park in east Multnomah County, the iconic glass-enclosed grandstand is no more. Demolition crews from Konell Construction & Demolition Corp. used several cherry pickers and excavators to pull down the 95-foot-tall structure on Tuesday, Aug. 2. Those who could …

Health & Education Spirit Mountain Casino to host high-volume vaccination site 01.18.2022 Dean Rhodes COVID-19 , Spirit Mountain Casino Spirit Mountain Casino (Smoke Signals file photo) By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor Spirit Mountain Casino will host one of four Oregon Health Authority high-volume vaccination sites to provide Oregonians with easy access to COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots starting on Saturday, Jan. 15. The casino site will be open noon to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday …

Tribal Government & News Portland Harbor Superfund site cleanup begins at Alder Creek 09.15.2014 Dean Rhodes Natural resources PORTLAND -- Work has started on the 52-acre Alder Creek restoration project, which is within the Portland Harbor Superfund site at the southern tip of Sauvie Island. The site is in the Tribe's ceded lands and when the project is done it will have a positive effect on the local environment with many cultural benefits for the once devastated harbor. Alder Creek …