CHINOOK WINDS CASINO RESORT
Top Comedians Vie for Laughs at Northwest
Comedy Competition
Lee Ann Womack
Lee Ann Womack
Brings Country
Hit Songs Back
to the Coast
Lee Ann Womack and her legendary
country voice are coming to Chinook
Winds. This multi-Grammy winner is
making headlines everywhere, so you
won’t want to miss her performances
June 20-21
Somewhere between the blush of
a new love and the bruises of a broken
heart lies real life and real country
music. Womack is a lifelong student
of this reality, majoring in Jones and
Wynette and graduating with honors,
with the tender, yet tough spirit of mu
sicians like Dolly Parton and Loretta
Lynn.
There s More Where That Came
From, the follow-up to her 2004 Great
est Hits collection, is for everyone
who's ever loved, lost, learned hard-
earned lessons and lived to tell about
them, including the singer herself.
“These are songs that aren't afraid
to tell the truth,” says Womack. “It is
definitely honest music as far as the
lyrics go. They’re a slice of life - the
good, bad and the ugly.”
It’s not an accident that the album's
first single, / May Hate Myself in the
Morning, sounds simultaneously like
a classic country cheatin' song and a
contemporary breath of fresh air.
“This is the kind of stuff I grew up
listening to,” says the daughter of an
east Texas country deejay who practi
cally wore out her father’s vinyl records
soaking up every vocal lick and turn
of a phrase like a sponge.
“Even when I was younger. I had
an old soul. I chose these kinds of
songs early on in my career but. if any
thing, I'm more able to relate to these
kinds of lyrics more now than before."
says the woman whose 2000 single /
Hope You Dance made her known
worldwide.
Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets
range from $25 to $40.
On June 12-15, the laughter from
Chinook Winds will be heard through
out Oregon at the second Northwest
Comedy Competition.
Thirty-six up-and-coming comedi
ans will do their best to woo the judges
with their best standup material. Be
sides being known as the winner of the
2008 Northwest Comedy Competition,
they'll also compete for cash prizes.
Jack Mayberry, the first winner of
this competition, will host the four-day
competition. Mayberry not only is a
crowd favorite at Comedy on the Coast,
but also has been seen on TV shows
like The Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson and Jay Leno, Evening at the
Improv, Comic Strip Live and many
more. Co-producer Kenny Bob Davis
also will help host the four-day event.
June 12 will be host to the first 12
comics of the 36 entered. As part of the
experience. Barton Howe, a local high
school journalism teacher and news
papercolumnist. will be fulfilling a life
long dream of becoming a comedian.
Howe will perform live on stage after
two months of coaching from various
comedians. The audience will see this
Join Wine Lovers
Dream Dinner
Join us at Chinook Winds on June
29 for an extraordinary evening of fine
vintages paired with a six-course meal
skillfully prepared and presented by
Chef de Cuisine. Brenda Friedrich.
Every course will be paired with
wine from King Estates Winery. A
place at the table costs just $60 and
seats are limited to the first 30 guests.
To make this evening even more
special. Charles Suniga will perform in
a relaxed style, setting the mood for an
evening of fine dining and wine tasting.
The dinner will be served in the
Molalla and Sixes rooms of the con
vention center and doors will open at
4:30 p.m. The dining presentations
begin at 5 p.m.
Every guest will receive a pair of
commemorative wine glasses from
King Estates and a commemorative
menu, plus one lucky guest will win a
limousine wine tour for four to King
Estates Winery and dinner at the Rogue
River Steakhouse.
young funnyman take the stage in hopes
of making people laugh - and possibly
walking away with the title ofchampion.
Each comic will be judged in five
separate categories: performance, ma
terial. originality, likeability and audi
ence response. The 36 comics will be
grouped by an impartial, random, over
all draw into three separate groups. Au
dience voting and a judges panel will
determine the top comics for the event.
On June 12-13, rounds one through
three of the competition w ill take place.
The final round on June 15 at 4 p.m. will
include the 10 top-scoring comedians
bringing out their best punch lines and
anecdotes for 10 minutes each.
From this last grouping, the win
ners will be decided and the cash prizes
awarded. After four days of intense
(and hilarious) competition, one come
dian will stand on the stage, proud and
victorious, as the Northwest Comedy
Competition champion.
Tickets for the opening night show
or for each individual round are $10.
A full event pass good for all six shows
is available for $50. This is an age-21-
and-over event. Doors will open 30
Barton Howe
minutes before each show. There will
be a no-host bar.
Competition Schedule
Round One
June 12-7
Round Two & Three June 13-7
and 9:30
Semi-Finals
June 14-7
and 9:30
Finals
June 15-4
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News Notes
hy Teresa Simmons
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The hotel swimming pool and
sauna has a whole new look. It's
been repainted and refurbished.
The west side of the hotel will have
a new coat of paint as soon as the
weather breaks.
Wi-Fi Internet access is available at
all convention and meeting rooms
and will be available in all hotel
facilities by mid-summer.
The storage building at the golf
course will be completed by the
time this issue of the Siletz News is
printed.
The gift shop is being redesigned.
Child care is working with the Sales
Department to advertise the facil
ity for use by wedding guests and
convention attendees.
The newly formulated wedding
packages are resulting in more
weddings than ever being booked
at Chinook Winds.
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The new bridge over the wetlands
at the golf course is nearly com
plete. It's visible from the highway
and looks really nice.
All of the sand traps at the golf
course are being filled with white
silica sand. It makes a beautiful
contrast to the green.
Bret Lucich, a local musician with
a large following, is now appear
ing weekly at the hotel lounge.
Aces revenue is up from last year
and is said to have the best break
fast in town!
All Chinook Winds directors, man
agers and supervisors are partici
pating in a mandatory team lead
ership training conducted in-house.
Chinook Winds employees are
once again taking part in a casino
wide fitness challenge.
New slots on the Boor in June will
include Indiana Jones. Deal or No
Deal and The Sopranos.
Free Monthly Senior Slot Tournament
Chinook Winds thanks sniors for
playing with a free “Young at Heart”
monthly slot tournament on the first
Tuesday of every month. Winner's Circle
members age 55 and up are invited to
win a share of $2,400 in cash prizes.
Sign-up begins at 9 a.m. for Session 1.
Consolation finals are at 12:30 p.m. and
the winners' final round is at 12:45 p.m.
Sign-up begins at 1 p.m. for Ses
sion 2. The consolation finals round is
at 4:30 p.m. and the winners' final
round at 4:45 p.m. Seniors can play in
only one session per month.
Rounds lake place every 15 min
utes beginning at 9:30. Entry is on a
first-come, First-play basis. Tournament
is limited to the first 144 participants.
June 2008
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