It’s Happening at Chinook Winds in December ...
by Teresa Simmons
Holiday Feasting is Best4^.
Chinook Winds
Take the family out for fine informal
dining or a bountiful buffet to celebrate
the holidays! Special entrées are being
offered both in the Rogue River
Restaurant and the Siletz Bay Buffet.
On Christmas Eve and Christmas
Day, enjoy a very merry traditional
buffet. Join us in celebrating the season
with our carved and slow-roasted prime
rib, honey glazed ham, succulent sliced
turkey Christmas Buffet, served with all
the traditional holiday trimmings.
The SileU Bay Buffet features an
array of festive salads, entrées, side
dishes, and desserts, including a
sizzling seafood Caesar salad cook-
to-order action station. Top it off with
our Chinook Winds eggnog for
good cheer.
Join us for this very special holiday
celebration from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Adults are $ 14.50; children age 5 to 11,
$7.50; children age 4 and under, no
charge; and seniors, $2 off adult price.
The Rogue River Restaurant will
offer special plated holiday dinners on
Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Holiday
hours are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for break
fast; lunch from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.;
and dinner from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Lou Rawls Brings R&B Sound
Smooth, cool, classy, and three-time
Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls
will perform at Chinook Winds Casino
on Jan. 16-17. Both shows are at 8 p.m.
and tickets ($ 15-$30) are on sale now.
Rawls is known for crooning some
of the most definitive R&B music of
the ‘60s and ‘70s. Hits like Love is a
Hurtin ’ Thing, Dead End Street, A Natural
Man, You’ll Never Find (Another Love
Like Mine), Groovy People, See You When
I Git There, Lady Love, and Let Me Be
Good To You have cemented him as one
of music history’s great song stylists.
It’s no wonder that Frank Sinatra
referred to Rawls’ voice as “the class
iest singing and silkiest chops in the
singing game.”
Dee Pigsley greets Lars Larson from KXL radio in Portland, Ore., who
broadcast his daily radio program live from Senior Fair 2003 at Chinook
Winds Casino in October. The fair featured local businesses; entertainment;
immunizations, including flu shots for seniors; and drawings for a trip to
Hawaii and a cruise for two. Sponsors included AARP, Lincoln City Senior
Center, KYTE and KBCH radio, The News Guard, Lincoln City Visitor and
Convention Bureau, All Ways Traveling, and Chinook Winds.
Ring in the New Year with Comedy, Parties, Cash Drawings,
Special Menus, and Bingo Fun
Chinook Winds Casino & Conven
tion Center is offering something for
everyone this New Year’s Eve. Events
will take place throughout the house,
including special holiday menus in the
Siletz Bay Buffet and Rogue River
Restaurant and a Bingo special session.
The Best of Comedy on the Coast
will be featured in the showroom from
8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Tickets ($15)
are on sale at the box office.
The Rogue River Lounge will have
a Charlie’s Angels-themed party. The
restaurant and lounge will open at 5 p.m.
for the celebration. DJ Metalman and
the Crew will provide the music, with
a balloon drop and complimentary
champagne toast at midnight. Tickets
($15) are on sale now.
Enjoy a night of fun and dancing
in the convention center with The Antics
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Party favors and
a New Year’s Eve champagne toast are
included. Tickets ($15) will be available
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at the box office prior to the event and
at the door during the event.
$2,003 in cash will be given away
on New Year’s Eve! A $200 cash prize
will be awarded every 20 minutes, with
the first selection at 12:30 a.m. and the
final selection for $203 at 3:30 a.m.
Winners will be determined via random
computer selection of all players with
their Winner’s Circle card in use.
Other gaming floor excitement
includes hats, tiaras, party favors, the
New Year’s countdown on the big
screens, and a sparkling cider toast
at midnight.
For those who don’t wish to attend
New Year’s Eve events but would
like some refreshment, a temporary
lounge will be set up across from the
convention center.
The buffet is offering an upscale
international buffet and late-night
brunch. Indulge yourself with carved
slow-roasted prime rib, salmon in
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champagne pear sauce, smoked pork
loin, and an array of other tasty
treasures chosen from global cuisine,
including a shrimp scampi cook-to-
order action station. At 10 p.m., the
dinner buffet will change to a brunch
style buffet for those looking for some
late-night breakfast menu item options.
Bingo will hold a New Year’s Eve
special session at 5 p.m. Start-up games
will begin at 4:45 p.m. Buy-in is $30.
Main session games will pay $500 and
blackout games pay $1,199. Twelve
tickets will be given away for the New
Year’s Eve party featuring Big Tiny
Little in the showroom.
Shuttle service will be expanded
with three buses running continuously
from 4 p.m. on Dec. 31 to 4 a.m. on
Jan. 1. The shuttle will not pick up at
RV parks, but motels only. In addition
to the motel stops, the shuttle will stop
at the 51st Street parking lot and the
public lot north of Maxwell’s.
Shuttle service will resume early on
New Year’s Day, beginning at 7 a.m.
for the regular hourly route. For transpor
tation information, call 541-994-2867.
Valet services are available but, because
valet spots are limited, everyone is
advised to come early.
Big fun is in store for youngsters
in the Play Palace at the New Year’s
Eve Carnival between 7 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Reservations are now being taken.
The evening’s party package
includes a buffet (mini comdogs, tater
tots, hot dogs, pizza, chicken strips, and
more), noisemakers, hats, crafts, lots of
prizes, 25-cent carnival games, a clown,
and a special toast at midnight. All this
is only $ 16 per child! Parents will receive
pagers to ensure that they’ll be con
tacted immediately should the need arise.
At the Games Galore Arcade, video
games contests, prizes, food and drink
specials, party favors, and a midnight
toast all will be available.