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Support for measures ceases
three weeks before Election Day
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Measures 82 and 83 on the Nov. 6 ballot
are now orphans. In a surprise move on
Tuesday, Oct. 16 three weeks before
Election Day supporters of the two measures
threw in the towel, stopped airing ubiquitous
TV commercials and took down a Facebook page
promoting "The Grange."
"It was going to be
good for them and
bad for the state. "
Tribal lobbyist
Justin Martin
After spending more than $6 million on col
lecting signatures to place the two measures on
the ballot and touting them statewide through
two mailers and innumerable TV commercials,
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backers realized that they were not moving Or
egonians on the issue.
Polls consistently found that the number of
Oregonians who support amending the state
Constitution to allow private casinos and want
to specifically permit a privately owned casino
at the shuttered greyhound racetrack in Wood
Village was not moving from the 32 percent who
voted to OK a similar proposal in 2010.
Stacey Dycus, principal spokeswoman for The
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Encampment visits shores of Clackamas
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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Kaileigh Cox, 6, is determined to make it back to the hayride wagon with the pumpkin she chose as she carries
it through the Heiser Farms pumpkin patch on Friday, Oct. 12. Her determination paid off; she made it and took
the pumpkin home. More Halloween photos on pages 8-9.
Cultural Resources
seeking Restoration,
Termination material
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
As the Grand Ronde Tribe
prepares to celebrate its
29th anniversary of Restora
tion on Sunday, Nov. 18, employees
in the Tribe's Cultural Resources
Department are already looking
ahead to 2013 and the landmark
30th anniversary.
They are hoping that an appeal
to Tribal members, Tribal descen
dants and community members will
fill a hole in the Tribal archives that
spans from 1954's Termination era
to the mid-1980s, when the Tribe
was restored.
Tribal Interpretive Design Spe
cialist Julie Brown also is hoping
that the appeal will help the Tribe
prepare an exhibit, curated by
Tribal Museum Curator and Cul
tural Liaison David Lewis, which
will open in April.
Titled "We Were Here First and
We're Here to Stay," the exhibit at
the Willamette Heritage Center
in Salem will tell the story of the
struggles and trials of Tribal mem
bers during the Termination and
Restoration eras of the Tribe.
"It's a then-and-now kind of
thing," Brown says. "It will have
quite a bit of educational value.
The public is, I think, going to be
surprised and shocked."
Brown said she is hoping that
Tribal members, their relatives and
community members will search for
old photos, boxes of letters and of
ficial documents that originated be
tween 1954 through the mid-1980s
relating to the Grand Ronde Tribe's
Termination and 29-year effort to
regain federal recognition.
The items could be stashed away
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By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
OREGON CITY It was
raining in January 2011
when the Oregon Depart
ment of Transportation closed the
historic Arch Bridge for repairs and
representatives of the Confeder
ated Tribes of Grand Ronde marked
the event as part of the 14-member
Willamette Falls Heritage Area
Coalition.
Connecting Oregon City and West
Linn, the bridge was named to the
National Register of Historic Places
in 2005 and the repairs would bring
the span back in its original style.
Residents from nearby neighbor
hoods crowded under tarps to see
what all the excitement was about
during the closing ceremony. They
tasted traditional Native foods of
fered by Grand Ronde Tribal mem
bers, the first peoples of the area.
And it was raining again over the
weekend of Oct. 14-16 when the
Willamette Falls Festival honored
the bridge's official re-opening and
Grand Ronde Tribal members re
turned to also mark the event.
The Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde is an active member of the
Willamette Falls Heritage Area Co
alition, a group aiming to capitalize
on the culture and history of the area
and to bring new life to the local com
munities on either side of the bridge
and along the shores of the Willa
mette River running underneath.
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