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Smoke Signals August 1,1995 Page 3 Gaming Commission up and running; staff hired The Gaming Commission is pleased to announce the opening of its of fices at 28840 Salmon River Highway in Grand Ronde. Their phone num ber is 879-2362. The Gaming Commission and its employees have been established in order to regulate the gaming operation on the reservation, govern gaming operations, and perform various other monitoring functions to ensure compliance with tribal and federal laws. The Commission is made up of a body of 5 members and a staff. The fifth member of the Gaming Commission has'been appointed. William Miles, of Salem is a retired employee of Oregon State Internal Audit De partment. Three employees of the Commission have been hired. Lisa A. Albrecht is the Investigative Auditor. She has approximately ten years of banking experience and has worked in the Internal Audit Department of the Oregon State Lottery. The Administrative Assistant position has been filled by Cathy Steere, a well-known tribal employee. She is transferring from Tribal Policy and Planning. Cathy has considerable experience working as a legal secretary and has worked for the Oregon State Police. Additionally, Edward K. Crane has been hired as an Enforcement Agent. He comes to the Commission from the City of McMinnville, where he worked as a Senior Police Officer. Ed has 25 years experience in law enforcement. Spirit Mountain Casino: Update New Hires. Kit Devine has added four new members to her Human Re sources staff to help handle the pro cess of hiring personnel and set up the human resources delivery systems for the Casino. They are Darci Muell haupt and tribal members Mary Brooks, Tom Misfeldt, and Matt Kirkland. Construction boosts economy. The Spirit Mountain Casino has had a substantial impact on tribal and lo cal community employment even be fore it opens to the public. Construc tion contractor DrakeKraus has em ployed approximately 90 workers throughout the project, ten of whom are tribal members. DrakeKraus also has hired two tribe-related subcontrac tors, Spirit Communications and Ken Schmidt. Casino skills classes. The Tribal Education Division is working with Chemeketa Community College to offer classes in job skills needed in EDITOR: Tracy Dugan Smoke Signals is a publication of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. We have established an Editorial Policy to encourage input from readers about stories printed in Smoke Signals, as well as other tribal issues. Letters must be printed or typed, and cannot exceed 300 words. Smoke Sig nals reserves the right to edit any letter for clarity and length, and to refuse publication of any letter or any part of a letter that may contain libelous state ments or personal attacks. Not all letters are guaranteed publication upon sub mission. Published letters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Smoke Sig nals, tribal employees, or Tribal Council. the Casino's operations. These in clude Food Handling, Customer Ser vice, and Cash Handling. Some classes have been conducted in all three areas with more to come. Tuition for the classes is $12 for Food Handling and $45 each for Cus tomer Service and Cash Handling. The Education Division will pay tu ition for tribal members. To get more information, call the Tribal Education Division at 1-800-422-0232. Cars back on the highway. Completion of the underpass under Highway 18 has resulted in the return of traffic to the permanent roadway after a three-month hiatus. The $2 million project enables westbound motorists to enter and leave the Ca sino grounds without making a left hand turn across the highway. All of the funding for the project came from the Grand Ronde Tribe, and no pub lic funds were used. ASSISTANT COORDINATOR: Job Fair The Spirit Mountain Casino hir ing process reached full speed on Friday and Saturday, July 1 4 and 1 5 as over 1 ,000 applicants attended the Casino Job Fair. Applicant's had a chance to talk to Casino staff for general information and details about specific jobs. Prospective employees then filled out job appli cations and had a short interview. The Casino Human Resources Department has started the process of reviewing all applications. In total, the casino will hire 850 people, both full time and part time in 59 different job categories. HR Director Kit Devine was de lighted at the Job Fair turnout and the quality of applicants. "We saw a lot of very good people," she said. "I'm confident that we'll be able to create the professional, people-oriented team that it takes to make the Casino a real success." Potential employees of the v J ifJCt -ym Jt I i ii 7n l ' , JrjCST wi mmmmm m m I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Kim Mueller OLD ADDRESS: SMOKE draws hundreds Spirit Mountain Board Chairman Mike Larsen said, "We're very happy about the great number of jobs that the casino will provide and about the multi-million dollar im pact it will have on local communi ties." The job-seekers hailed primarily from the West Valley communities near the casino, including Grand Ronde, Willamina, Sheridan, Dal las, and McMinnville, with good representation from the Salem area. Both tribal members and non mem bers were well represented. Applicants appeared attracted by above-industry wages and tip op portunities, comprehensive benefit packages (including health, dental, and life insurance) and exciting at mosphere. In most cases, casino hires will go through alraining program prior to starting. casino wait in line to be interviewed at the Job Fair. n wi mm m If you have recently moved or plan on moving, let us know so you won't miss a single issue of your favorite newspaper. Smoke Signals is available to anyone at no cost. Just fill out this form below with your name and address, then mail it back to the Smoke Signals. NEW SIGNALS, 9615 Grand Ronde Road, ATTN: Kim Mueller Job Fair volunteers reminded ap plicants that filling all 850 positions will take a great deal of time and that it might be as late as October before they are contacted. Devine stressed the "everyone who applied will be contacted." Applicants are asked not to call the Spirit Moun tain offices to check on the status of their applications, except to re port name, address or telephone number changes. Applications are still being ac cepted for specific jobs. Those in terested should pick up descriptions of the jobs that appeal to them, com plete an application indicating the job preferences and return it to Spirit Mountain Gaming. Job descrip tions and applications are available at the Spirit Mountain Gaming Hu man Resources Department, located at 28840 S.W. Salmon River High way. Phone:879-2350. m m m m mm m m m l l B 1 I I I I 1 I I 1 I 1 I ADDRESS: Grand Ronde, Oregon 97347 hi k3 I E3 El E3 3 El ES ES El E3 E3 13 El E3 S3 S3 El El E9 E3I E3 13 El S3
