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toys will receive $10 in free slot play per visit and are encouraged to make multiple trips to receive a maximum of $50 in slot play during the promotional period. "Each year, we've surpassed the previous year's number of toys donated to OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital," said Rodney Ferguson, Spirit Mountain Casino chief executive officer. "Once again we hope to see our guests answer the call and donate generously, even in this tough economic climate, to brighten the Christmas season …

closest to the highway and was formally dedicated to valet parking. All testing and vaccinations will be administered by Department of Health and Human Services employees. “Signage will be onsite to direct traffic,” Huffman said. “This clinic will be a walk-up venue that conducts COVID testing as well as COVID vaccinations.” For more information about vaccination clinics and providers near you, visit GetVaccinated.Oregon.gov or visit the Oregon Health Authority’s webpage on available clinics …

. Those were some good years. But because I am off Tribal Council doesn't mean I can't fight for my beliefs and for what is right and just. There seems to be a lot of fuss over this most recent constitutional amendment on enrollment. I personally believe most of it is nitpicking. Whether it's one issue or four or five, the Tribal Council is dealing with it how they see it best. The amendment in 1999 was also a bundle but nobody seems to be criticizing that council. I see one issue at stake …

to know and understand what it is they’re trying to do. … If you give people hope, they are less likely to reoffend.” Myranda’s perspective Tribal member Myranda Bradshaw was at volleyball tryouts just a few weeks into her freshman year of high school when she received the news that her mother was going to jail. Bradshaw grew up with her father in Molalla, but maintained a good relationship with her mother, calling Plummer her “best friend.” Her mother’s sudden incarceration lead to a challenging …

as conquering the land enabled the spread of European monarchies, conquering the people enabled the spread of European religions. The Episcopalians (the Church of England in America) repudiated this policy in 2009. The Catholic Church has yet to repudiate it. If much of the problem, from the 19 th century, was intentional, the starting place and the biggest insult of all came from European diseases that decimated the forebears of the Grand Ronde Tribe. From 160,000 in the 1700s, their numbers had …

if the Tribe has developed a "stop sale point," which would be a point at which the Tribe would get out of the stock market if another drastic decline occurred. Barnum, like he has at other General Council meetings, warned against trying to time the stock market. "There are two decisions that need to be made: when to sell and when to buy back," he said. "Those two decisions are usually made at the wrong times." However, Barnum cited changes that have occurred that will give the Tribe more flexibility …

, Chinuk Immersion teacher, "we always pick a book (already published), read it aloud and every family goes home with a copy. "We would buy books easy to translate," she added, and before Literacy Night language teachers translated the books into Chinuk Wawa. They then pasted the Chinuk Wawa words over the English ones. For words that are not among the ones that have come down from the Chinuk Wawa language, teachers have to either use the English word, like they have in the case of spoon or pizza …

. Candidates also can contact Smoke Signals photojournalist Michelle Alaimo at 503-879-1961 or michelle.alaimo@grandronde.org to schedule a time to have a portrait taken for Tilixam Wawa , or candidates can submit their own photo. Deadline for photos is also 5 p.m. Friday, July 6. 2018 also marks the second year in a row that political ads will be allowed in Smoke Signals . Candidates can buy up to a cumulative full page of advertising in the July 15 through Sept. 1 editions of the Tribe’s independent …

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it was very good,” said VanAtta. “I don’t buy stuff that has words I can’t pronounce. If I can’t say it, I don’t want it.” VanAtta’s comments put a smile on Erickson’s face as she pointed out the list of ingredients on the can of pineapple was simply pineapple; nothing else. “I tried the pineapple, the corn, the coconut, the chicken salad and the strawberries,” said Elders Lead Cook Kevin Campbell. “They were good; really good. It was something I would eat. It’s remarkable.” Campbell said he …