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S moke S ignals
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Meeting the mayor-elect
2011 – Tribal Council Chair-
woman Cheryle A. Kennedy
signed a memorandum of un-
derstanding with the Bureau
of Land Management and The
Nature Conservancy at Lower
Table Rock near Medford that
will ensure the Tribe has in-
File photo
volvement in the future man-
agement of the sacred area.
“It is the Creator’s intention that we again be visible in this area,”
she said.
2006 – Spirit Mountain Casino opened The Peak, a $17 million
redesign of the former bingo hall and concert venue. “It’s to improve
the air quality,” said casino General Manager Randy Dugger. “If it
works, we’ll carry it through the rest of the casino in the next few
years.” The room holds most of the 500 new slot machines agreed
to in a Tribal-State Compact renegotiation completed in March.
2001 – Tribal voters elected Bob Haller, Ed Larsen and Val Grout
to Tribal Council and then Tribal Council members elected Cheryle
A. Kennedy as the Tribal Council chair.
1996 – The first annual Spirit Mountain Stampede and Rodeo
was held. The Stampede marked the end of a weeklong festival
at Spirit Mountain Casino that included two Waylon Jennings’
concerts, Western dance at the casino and a down-home barbecue.
1991 – Ray McKnight, Candy Robertson and Merle Holmes were
elected to three-year terms on Tribal Council with vote totals of
118, 105 and 72, respectively.
1986 – Tribal Council thanked Tribal member Travis Stewart, a
young aspiring artist, for donating two Indian pencil sketches. In
addition, Tribal Council thanked Tribal member Chuck Quenelle
who donated two works of art on deer skin and elk skin leathers.
The donations were on display in the Tribal Office.
Photo by Rob Greene
Tribal Council members met with Portland's Mayor-Elect Ted Wheeler
on Thursday, Sept. 1. From left are Tribal Council Vice Chair Jack Giffen
Jr., Tribal Council members Tonya Gleason-Shepek and Jon A. George,
Wheeler, Tribal Council Secretary Cheryle A. Kennedy and Tribal
Council member Chris Mercier. Wheeler will succeed Charlie Hales as
mayor of Oregon's largest city in 2017. He won the mayorship outright
during the primary by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote.
Yesteryears is a look back at Tribal history in five-year
increments through the pages of Smoke Signals.
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