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such a loud voice in the city.” Her re-involvement with the City Club started while Watson and her husband and business partner, Peter Shanky, still owned Cupcake Jones in the Pearl District, a 10-year-old business they built from the ground up. The restaurant and bakery industry can be a revolving door, but with Watson’s leadership, she was able to sell it when the time was right to pursue new goals. “The bakery business is a really hard, physical job,” she says. “It is really tiring, seven days …

are seeing this information for the first time and they are shocked.” The difference is important since slot machines traditionally supply casinos with a majority of their revenue. Oregon offers Vegas-style gaming Tribal casinos in Oregon offer players Las Vegas-style slot machines and Washington Tribes extend video “scratch” ticket terminals to their guests via compacts with the state. Oregon is home to nine Tribal casinos and there are 28 Tribal casinos in Washington, including the new Cowlitz …

to me at the time it sounded like a pretty neat program where people wouldn’t have to go to court,” she said. “They could sit and have a mediator instead of having to go through the judge.” Archuleta said she thinks discussion-based settings are more comfortable for people than a courtroom, but so far she hasn’t had an opportunity to lead a peacemaking session. “I’ve never really used the program,” she said. “I’ve gotten called a couple times, but then it’s been canceled.” While peacemaking isn’t …

the time children are in preschool. Existing staff will be utilized to teach the curriculum, which will be developed by nonprofit group ONABEN, which stands for Our Native American Business Network, with roots in Oregon. Locally, Grand Ronde Tribal member Bryan Mercier serves on ONABEN’s board of directors. There also will be a social media component for Tribal members who do not live locally so that they can learn virtually. George said that a monitoring and assessment program will be developed …

said. “Compared to the industry, I think you are seeing 40 years. We’re getting a lot older forest structure and bigger trees.” Senior Forester Zach Haas briefed Schrader on the Tribe’s annual timber harvest on the Reservation, which currently culls approximately 7.1 million board feet off of about 270 acres. “I think it is a real balance,” Leno said. “Our membership goes up on the Reservation a lot and they don’t want to see a clear-cut Reservation, so they have been very supportive of what we …

some things in my class that I really liked.” Cole, who is the Culture Department manager, said when the staff at the museum found out that Boyson was retiring they thought an exhibit of his students’ art would be the perfect way to honor him. “We have been doing these rotating exhibits to bring more people in and we really wanted something for youth,” said Cole. “He (Boyson) is very well loved. We gifted him a blanket.” Cole said it was Leno who was charged with bringing everything together …

with on council. He cited Jan Reibach Sr., Wink Soderberg, June Sherer and current Tribal Council Chairman Reyn Leno among them. “I knew very little about veterans and what veterans have experienced until I actually started working here at the Tribe,” said Mercier. “I’ve worked every day with veterans and I will always give credit to Steve Bobb for teaching me more about veterans and what it was like to serve during war time than anyone has taught me. He really opened my eyes.” Tribal Council member Denise …

margin of victory over second-place finisher Jack Giffen Jr., who received 565 votes, was 59 votes. Giffen, who has been serving as Tribal Council vice chair, was elected to Tribal Council for the fifth time. Tribal Council member Denise Harvey received 557 votes to gain her second consecutive three-year term on Tribal Council, edging out fourth-place finisher Lisa Leno by three votes. It marked the second straight year with a close finish as Tribal Council member Jon A. George retained his …

she had seen while attending graduate school at the University of Oregon. She said she was attending a multi-cultural literacy class when she watched the video for the first time. The video was a TED Talk given by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The point of her talk was that people make the mistake of assuming people have only a single story. Adichie said people’s lives and cultures are made up of many overlapping stories. TED is a nonprofit organization established in 1984 …

product that appealed to the Tribe because of its environmental cachet and its feel-good aspect. “The outcome was we made an investment in MicroGREEN based on the deal flow and an exit scenario of an IPO (Initial Public Offering) with 10 times the investment, which was very attractive to us at the time,” Asghar said. Asghar said the Tribe’s confidence in MicroGREEN also was bolstered by the company’s other investors and the membership on its board of directors, as well as interest from other …