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The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, ‘People of the Sands’

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Law paves

BUSINESS the way for

distillery
is BOOMING Ambitious Rye and

Hops project on tap
Tribe’s End of the Trail 4 ceremony in Grand Mound

highlights Station 88’s bright future President Trump has signed
House Resolution 5317 into law.
Now what happens? Or maybe
he Chehalis Tribe you are asking what is House
continues to grow as its Resolution 5317 and why should
Tmembers gathered at the I care? Perhaps that is a better
grand opening ceremony for the question. The short answer is that
End of the Trail 4 (EOT 4) gas this new law allows the Chehalis
station on Jan. 21. Tribe to move ahead with plans to
Once construction is complete, build and operate a brew house,
the establishment will have a distillery and restaurant project
variety of businesses operating named Rye and Hops. It will
within a new area of Grand be built and located next to the
Mound named Station 88. The new Marriott Fairfield Hotel on
name is inspired by the location Highway 12 in Grand Mound. It
on Exit 88 directly off Interstate 5. took us a while to get here.
In addition to EOT 4, In 1834, Congress passed and
Dutch Bros. and an Asian-style then President Andrew Jackson
restaurant that are open for signed a series of antiquated
business, a Burger King and laws that instructed the federal
Arby’s also will open at Station government and various states at
88 soon. the time how to interact and deal
Strong foundation with Indians. One of those laws
was a prohibition on distilling
The ceremony started with an
opening prayer from a tribal elder See DISTILLERY, page 4
and a welcoming from Chehalis
Tribe’s Business Committee
members Chairman Harry
Pickernell Sr. and Secretary
David Burnett.
Chairman Pickernell described
that he’s proud to see how far the
tribe has come from the dirt roads
he remembers as a youth to the
development of multiple tribal
businesses in the region. Having Clockwise from top: Asian-style fast food restaurant cooks prepare
Grand Mound as a destination free meals for the grand opening of End of the Trail 4 (EOT 4). A new Chehalis tribal project will
Gas station employees meet the community. Chehalis Tribal Elder create the largest craft distillery
See BUSINESS, page 3 Mel Youckton and tribal youth cut the ribbon during the ceremony. west of the Mississippi River.