[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 80 (Monday, May 15, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6698-S6699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                 THE COLUMBIA GORGE INTERPRETIVE CENTER

 Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, it is my privilege to recognize the 
grand opening of the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center in Stevenson, 
WA on Wednesday, May 17, 1995. The grand opening celebration will start 
at 10:30 a.m. with the award-winning Stevenson High School Band and 
choir, and conclude with Nelson Moses of the Wishram Tribe and members 
of his family giving a native American blessing to the project.
  The Interpretive Center is dedicated to preserving the natural and 
cultural history of the magnificent Columbia River Gorge. Exhibits and 
displays will educate, entertain and inform adults and children alike. 
As they tour the center they will see the First Peoples and Harvesting 
Resources galleries and the multi-media Creation Theatre, which shows 
the cataclysmic events [[Page S6699]] that shaped the gorge. They will 
also learn about the people who built the communities of the gorge--
pioneers, missionaries, riverboat captains, soldiers, dam-builders and 
all the rest--in all, a wonderful cast of characters.
  Other exhibits feature natural resources, dams and other developments 
on the river. This center encourage Washingtonians to consider their 
role in the stewardship of the mighty Columbia River, one of our great 
natural wonders.


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