At
the recent Masque Awards, the Board of Directors of the Little Theatre
on the Bay were pleased to announce that the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian
Foundation awarded the sum of $9,000 to replace the wooden doors in
the lobby of the theater.
While the wooden doors are original to the Liberty , there have been
many fire disasters in the United States that bear attention to proper
egress in a fire emergency. The lobby doors at LTOB are past their
useful life, as is evident in the accompanying picture.
The door on the left in the picture bears a label “Do Not Open
This Door Please”. The door works, and would work as intended
as an exit in an emergency, but if the door is opened, then it is
difficult to close afterward. Not wanting to await the day the door
does not close, LTOB applied to Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation
to preclude otherwise endangering the public at an unknown future
date. It is hoped that the new doors will be installed later this
summer.
Like many Native American cultures, the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua
Tribe of Indians has a long time-honored tradition of giving to their
communities. To expand on their annual college scholarship gifts to
local area high schools and their charitable contributions given throughout
the year to numerous community organizations, the Cow Creek Umpqua
Indian Foundation was created in October of 1997 by the Cow Creek
Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians to formalize another component
in their tradition of giving.
Funding for the Foundation has been made available as part of a Tribal/State
Compact signed in April of 1997. As a result, a percentage of net
gaming revenues from the Seven Feathers Hotel and Casino Resort, located
in southern Douglas County , is set aside annually to benefit local
communities. The Foundation makes grants for the benefit of the public
within Douglas, Jackson , Klamath, Coos, Josephine, Lane and Deschutes
counties.
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