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Attention SSI Recipients
This is a reminder to save all your receipts. Social Security will be in Cherokee to pick up them up on Wednesday, Dec. 12. All receipts will be accepted at the EBCI Health & Medical SHIP office. SSI Recipients who still need to show receipts for June 2012 per...
Stranded hiker rescued from backcountry in Park
Steven Ainsworth, 56, of Washington, NC was successfully airlifted from the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Friday, Nov. 2. Ainsworth had become stranded on a remote section of the trail as a result of the snow storm that blanketed higher...
Chief Youngdeer to sign copies of memoir on Sunday
Chief Robert Youngdeer will be speaking about his life and signing books at a special Veterans Day weekend event at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian on Sunday, Nov. 11 at 2pm. The Memoirs of Robert Youngdeer: Marine, Chief, and Proud American, has just been...
Cherokee Boys Club Report – week of Nov. 8
CLUB SCHEDULE: Monday, Nov. 12 – Veteran’s Day Holiday (School, Club and Tribe) Wednesday, Nov. 14 – BOD Resolution Deadline – 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 – Safety Committee Meeting – 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20 – Health Screen – 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov....
Harrah’s Cherokee donates 342 pounds of sweet potatoes
Manna Food Bank received a bounty of sweet potatoes, 342 pounds worth, grown and harvested in Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort 's HERO (Harrah's Employee's Reaching Out) garden. Volunteers from the HERO program learned to garden and planted the potatoes earlier in the...
USET establishes Sandy Relief Fund
The United South and Eastern Tribes, Incorporated, (USET) has established a Tribal Emergency Relief Fund (TERF) to support response and recovery efforts from the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy. Financial resources will be needed to rescue and restore healthy...
Park to conduct prescribed burns of Cades Cove Meadows
Fire Management personnel at Great Smoky Mountains National Park plan to conduct a series of prescribed burns of fields in Cades Cove Monday through Friday, Nov. 5-9 if weather conditions permit. Park managers plan to burn several tracts totaling about 570 acres. The...
Rescue operations underway for distressed hiker in Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Dispatch received a 911 call through the Cherokee Police Department at 3:37pm on Thursday, Nov. 1 of a single male hiker in distress in a remote section of the Appalachian Trail somewhere between the Pecks Corner and...
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