2 MARCH 15,2006
Smoke Signals
2nd Annual Financial Discussion Meeting
SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2006 11 A.M. TO 2 P.M.
Rouge Rooms, Spirit Mountain Casino. A light lunch will be pro
vided. Staff and others will be discussing Tribal financial issues.
NOTICE Monthly Tribal Council Meetings
DATE TIME
March 22 5 p.m.
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The Public Information Office
2006 Grand Ronde Tribal
Community Meetings Notice
April 30. 2QQ6
Sunday
11 a.m. Open House
12 p.m. Lunch
Mav 1. 2006
Monday
5 p.m. Open house
6 p.m. Dinner
Seven Feathers Casino
146 Chief Miwaleta Lane
Canyonville, Oregon 97417
Valley River Inn
1000 Valley River Way
Eugene, Oregon 97401
May 7. 2006
Sunday Grand Ronde Gym
11 a.m. Start . (the meal will be held in
12 p.m. Lunch the Community Center)
Grand Ronde, Oregon
(This meeting will include the Regular General Council meeting
but the presentation and discussion will be the same as the other
community meetings).
Mav 21. 2006
Sunday
11 a.m. Open house
12 p.m. Lunch
Mav 22. 2006
Monday
5 p.m. Open house
6 p.m.Dinner
La Quinta Inn
32124 25th Ave. South
Federal Way, Washington 98003
Embassy 'Suites Hotel
Portland Airport
7900 N.E. 82nd Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97220
For additional information call the Planning & Grants
Development Department at 503-879-2250. Please note
that more information will be available in the upcoming
Smoke Signals.
Dear Tribal members and Tribal Council,
We all see that there might be a chance that there may be casinos
built out of Portland, Oregon. Some of you are predicting we could go
down as much as 40 of our profit.
When I was down there the last time I talked to some of our workers
and they said they believed we would have some percent less of our
profits but we had enough people coming from all the towns around
there.
If we treat our customers right and ran our casino right our casino
would still make a lot of money. If other casinos open up in the Portland
area a few people might drive up there when it opens. But like us up
here, we go to the casino that is closest to us.
If you believe that we will be losing that much profit then why are
we doing all this building and remodeling of our casino? This does not
make sense to me. We should stop all this building and remodeling
until we see how it is going to affect us.
A Concerned Member
Delores Knight
Roll 340
Correction: In the March 1 issue, in the story about the new biog
raphy of Tribal Elder Kathryn Harrison, we erred in calling Molalla
Kate a Siletz Tribal member. She was not. According to Kathryn
Harrison, she was eligible to be a Grand Ronde Tribal member,
though she never enrolled in this Tribe. We regret the error.
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