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KLCC s Chris Lehman reports on a bill that would increase the amount of wine that Oregon wineries could sell through the mail.
Right now, a winery can send up to two cases of wine per month to a mail-order customer. This measure would increase that to five cases per month.
Oregon wineries could send more wine through the mail under a bill headed to Gov. Kate Brown.
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Supporters said Senate Bill 406 would benefit Oregon s wine industry, which has seen a slowdown in sales during the pandemic. With COVID-19 restrictions easing, more people are scheduling events such as wedding receptions and festivals, and raising the limit on the number of cases per customer could drive additional sales for the state s wineries.
Efforts to address missing, killed Indigenous women falter in Oregon despite new law
Updated May 05, 2021;
Posted May 05, 2021
Mildred Quaempts and Merle Kirk hold a portrait of Mavis Kirk-Greeley, who died in 2009 after a driver allegedly deliberately hit her with his vehicle on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Kirk-Greeley is Quaempts’ daughter and Kirk’s sister. Kathy Aney/Underscore
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Two years ago, Merle Kirk asked Oregon legislators for help.
During a House committee hearing in February 2019, she told the story of the women in her family who have disappeared or were murdered over the last 60 years.
Kirk told lawmakers that her sister, Mavis Kirk-Greeley, died in 2009 after she was deliberately hit by a vehicle on the Warm Springs Reservation. The driver was never convicted of a crime. For Kirk, her sister’s death echoed the 1957 murder of her grandmother, Mavis Josephine McKay, on the Yakama Indian Reservation and adds more grief to the loss of y
Two years ago, Merle Kirk asked Oregon legislators for help.
During a House committee hearing in February 2019, she told the story of the women in her family who have disappeared or were murdered over the last 60 years.
Kirk told lawmakers that her sister, Mavis Kirk-Greeley, died in 2009 when her boyfriend deliberately hit her with his vehicle on the Warm Springs Reservation. He was never convicted of a crime. For Kirk, her sister’s death echoed the 1957 murder of her grandmother, Mavis Josephine McKay, on the Yakama Indian Reservation and adds more grief to the loss of yet another relative.
“My first cousin, Lisa Pearl Briseno, she’s been missing since 1997,” Kirk, who’s of Wasco, Warm Springs, Dine and Yakama heritage, said in a recent interview. “That affects our whole family. I was raised with her, she stayed with my dad and mom until she graduated. And so, she’s like my sister. In Native ways, all our cousins are brother and sister.”
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KLCC s Brian Bull reports on the lingering scourge of violence and oppression of Native American women, which has led to the observance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW.) While officials and advocates are working to overcome obstacles to investigating homicides and abductions against native people, some recent developments in the last year may help.
Merle Kirk and her family have felt the pain firsthand. In 1957, her grandmother was killed on the Yakama reservation. In 2009, her sister was allegedly run over by her boyfriend, but he was never charged. That piles on to the grief of yet a third tragedy.