PRESS
RELEASE
POC:
CRST Public Relations
Rock
LeBeau
(605)964-8308
For
immediate release JuLY 07, 2005
CRST RECEIVES $1M GRANT FROM SHAKOPEE FOR
BINGO HALL
Eagle
Butte, SD –
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is pleased
to announce that the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
Community has gifted the Tribe with a $1,000,000.00
Economic Development grant to build a new Bingo
Hall in Eagle Butte, SD. Officials from CRST met
with Chairman Crooks and his staff in Prior Lake,
MN on May 26, 2005, and were informed that the
Tribe would qualify for an economic development
grant.
Chairman Harold Frazier and DeAnna LeBeau, Tribal
Planner, made the Bingo Hall presentation to Chairman
Crooks and his staff. Chairman Crooks informed
CRST officials that the Bingo Hall Project met
their criteria for an economic development grant
because the project will create jobs and stimulate
the local economy.
A new Bingo Hall has been needed for quite some
time. The Bingo Operation has outgrown the facility
it is currently housed in. The new Bingo Hall will
seat 150-200 people; have a gift shop, concession
area and office space. It will also have a paved
parking lot and outside lighting.
The CRST has identified two potential sites in
the Eagle Butte area on which to build the new
Bingo Hall. Site selection will be decided by July
22, 2005 and construction should begin by September,
2005.
The CRST is extremely grateful to the Shakopee
Mdewakanton Sioux Community for their generosity
and leadership. Chairman Crooks and the people
of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community are
successful gaming entrepreneurs and very generous
in their help to other tribes. They set an excellent
example of leadership for the Lakota, Dakota, and
Nakota people of the Great Plains. The people of
the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe say “Pilamaye,
Mitakuye Owasin.”
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