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A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe
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Tribe Will Play Ball In Exchange
For Portland Casino
Grand Ronde proposes stadium funding to help
bring Major League Baseball to Oregon.
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First Class The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's showcase Spirit Mountain Casino has become the most successful Tribal
Casino in Oregon. An idea to fund a Major League Baseball stadium in Portland could put in place a plan to help the Tribe remain
competitive in the state's current gaming picture. The Montreal Expos are currently looking for a new home and Portland has been a top
contender for the team. With the Tribe's financing, the package the city hopes to put together for baseball meetings next month could
be much stronger. At press time, a meeting between Tribal Chairwoman Cheryle Kennedy and Portland Mayor Vera Katz provided positive
results and an optimistic outlook for the future of the project (See story on page 5).
Tribal Member Jake McKnight Joins
Crew searching for Shuttle Debris
Grand Ronde community answers the President's call.
By Ron Karten
Tribal member Jake McKnight
has joined a team made from the
Tribe's Natural Resources De
partment fire fighting crew and
as many as 3,500 others across
the country in answering a Presi
dential Emergency declared to
help find remains of the lost
NASA shuttle, the Columbia.
The effort aims to recover as
much shuttle debris as possible
in the next 30 days because
spring foliage will soon cover ev
erything up.
Team leader Joshua Clift and
fellow crew members McKnight,
Shane Harmon, Bill Borck,
Jeremiah Spencer and Brandi
Duff left early on the morning of
February 21, according to Jeff
Nepstad, a Siviculture Protection
Coordinator for the Natural Re
sources Department, and team
coordinator.
The team's destination is Lake
Halbert City Park in Corsicana,
Texas. With the crew's wild land
fire experience, the six were ex
pected to join others to form a 19
man team, a "Type 1 team,"
which is charged with "the orga-
Debris continued on page 4
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St. Michael's Parish Facing Possible Consolidation
HThe community's 143-year-old parish started as a poor Indian
mission; now it has more than $300,000 in the bank.
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
Community of Oregon
9615 Grand Ronde Road
Grand Ronde, Oregon 97347
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By Ron Karten
St. Michael's Church is the kind of
place where the parish hall keeps a
sign on the door: "When done, turn
off the heat, sweep, pick up trash &
mop floor."
It's the kind of place where Tribal
Elders Butch and Gene LaBonte,
Sherrie Butler, Frank Bean, the
Holmes boys, the Hudson and Vivette
girls used to roller skate in the gym.
Tribal Council member Ed Larsen
used to play basketball over there ("Of
all the things I learned, I never
learned to roller skate," he said.)
Tribal Council Vice Chair Reyn Leno
went to grade school there all eight
years.
The roller skates they used then
had wooden wheels, and they are still
on hand, said Tribal Elder Leonette
Galligher, who was one of those
Vivette girls. The gym floor, one of
St Michael's continued on page 3
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