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Siletz Commun Northwest Tribal Elders Wellness Conference “Cha-may weeya Health Medicine Talk Clinic The Tobacco and Alcohol Game: Whose Team Are You On? by Danelle Zosel-Sanderson, Tobacco Prevention Coordinator Don’t play their game. Don’t be you’re having the best time of your life. The Women’s Health program is fooled by sneaky advertising! When So what do you do, never go to games? planning an elders conference with the Northwest Indian Health Board. The smokers die of lung cancer or drinkers Then watch out for the television. Many sporting events on TV are Conference will be held Oct. 6-8, 1999, die in car wrecks, tobacco and alcohol in Pendleton, Ore., and will include companies have to attract substitutes to named after the deadly drugs they fill in the vacancies on their death team. promote, for example, Virginia Slims individuals from Oregon, Washington It’s not an easy job because every year, Tennis for women, Coors Classic and Idaho. cigarettes kill more than 400,000 Bicycle racing, and Winston Cup and The conference will examine how Americans. That’s the population of, say, Marlboro auto racing. Ads for the to incorporate traditional ways in a Tucson, Ariz. Another 100,000 die from products are stuck all over the modem approach to wellness. Clinic staff alcohol. Booze and tobacco together kill equipment, the clothes, and courts, so will teach and help out with various more than 50 times the number of they flash by constantly as you watch. topics. There is no conference fee and we are looking for ways to send some people killed by cocaine, heroin, and all During a 90-minute car race, the word other drugs combined! “Marlboro” appeared on the TV screen elders to the conference. The tobacco and alcohol makers 5,933 times! It’s not by accident that you For more information, call Rayona Zosel, Sandra Hahn or Kathryn Dick at have a secret weapon, you and your begin to think that drinking and smoking friends. They know that the prime victims are part of what it takes to have a great the Siletz Clinic, 1-800-648-0049 or for the death team are teen-agers who, time. Tobacco and alcohol companies 541-444-1030, or call Cathy Rasmussen once they’ve started, become easily spend billions of dollars every year to at the Eugene office, 541-484-4234. addicted and probably will use the make this happen. products for the rest of their Don’t be fooled and don’t play Pow-Wow Float a Team Effort shortened lives. their game. Don’t be a substitute for a Where is the prime place to find dead smoker or drinker. There were secret meetings and teens? At pow-wows, sporting events, important strategy moments in and concerts. The companies latch onto Upcoming Events preparation for that one special annual these events, getting you to like what they summer event. Questions and answers sell just because you like where they’re Diabetes Lunch: Third Tuesday flowed on how to carry out the task selling it. successfully. It works like this. You’re sitting front of each month at the Tribal Community Silently and skillfully, the planners and center at a pro basketball game and Center from 12-1 p.m. America’s Walk for Diabetes: went about their tasks, ever so mindful every two seconds you’re glancing at the of prying eyes and attentive ears giant video scoreboard to watch the Oct. 2 in Eugene, Ore. Join the Siletz regarding what lie ahead. instant replay. Right there under the team and walk for diabetes! Circle of Life Gathering: During the first week of August, screen is a massive ad for some popular Coming in October. You will never have sketches were finalized and materials beer or cigarette. were located. So were the necessary You probably don’t even realize so much fun learning about women’s tools to put the secret plan together, the you’re looking at it. But you are. It’s going health! Women only, please. Contact the clinic, Kathryn or building of the clinic’s annual float. into your brain and sticking there in the 541-444-1030 or Our reputation was at stake. The exact same brain cells that tell you Sandra, 1-800-648-0049, formore information. clinic had always tried to have a float for the pow-wow parade. We would not fail Toyota 4 Runner. Flowers and greenery this year. were placed in their planned locations. Zosel-Sanderson’s large banners were The design team included Lisa Linda Kreutzer plucked the remaining placed on each side, proclaiming that Mason, Sara Martin, Stephanie Miller, flowers from her garden. every youth should be “tobacco free.” Noani Lovell, Linda Kreutzer, Grayson Special evergreen boughs were As the time grew near for the Pierson, Barbara Danna, Ann Rowe, carefully picked from young sturdy fir parade, the major actors arrived. All Angela Clarke, Brenda Robertson, Sally trees. Noani Lovell’s in-laws provided were on their best behavior. Brittany Noack, Danelle Zosel-Sanderson, and freshly baled hay. Billie Andrichack, Mason, Carolina and Evetta Vera, Alex John Masunaga. We even imported a Barbara Danna’s husband, provided the Lovell, Jordan Pierson, and Cheyenne, secret designer who was staying with brawn in hefting the awkward and Martin and Kegan Sanderson all sat on her daughter. Lisa Mason’s mother, Ruth weighty objects. the float or handed out sugar-free candy Mackert, was visiting from Arizona Angela Clarke skillfully painted a and toothbrushes. Final preparations began early in special big red cross for the Toyota’s the morning of Aug. 14. Brenda hood, which was secured with that all- The clinic won the Tribal Robertson loaned her trailer and big red time fixer-upper, duct tape. Danelle Administration and Community awards. 4
