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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS Housing Improvement Program on Hold Mountain Spirit Song by Tammy Wagner Applications for 2000 We are currently having some problems with our financing from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Until these issues are resolved, we will not produce a final list or send out any award letters. We apologize for the inconvenience to our clients but will notify you as soon as possible. We will continue to process the applications we have received. To speed this process up, if you have not sent in your income verification, please send it to Tammy Wagner at PO Box 549, Siletz OR 97380. Please feel free to call us anytime. Way un tun tay Way un tun tay Way un tun tay ho Way un tun tay ho Eye yei yei yei Ho oh oh oh Un tun tay ho Looking for Contractors for General, Excavating, Electrical, Plumbing, and Mechanical We are looking for responsible contractors to do construction work on rehabilitation projects and septic, drainfield, well, and water system installations You need to be licensed, insured, and bonded with the Construction Contractor's Board. We also have a 10 percent preference policy for 51 percent properly licensed Indian-owned contractors. Spécial thanks to _ Conrad House, Navajo Questions about the dj r tune? Call Lisa Brown at 541-444-8333. Secondhand Smoke is No Joke by Lisa Brown, Prevention Coordinator What Happens to People Who Live with Secondhand Smoke? ♦ 34 percent increase in chance of getting cancer ♦ If you smoke a pack a day at home, your kid smokes 50 packs a year. ♦ Secondhand smoke kills 53,000 people every year. 4 Every year, 300,000 babies get sick from secondhand smoke. 4 Nearly 800 Oregonians die each year from exposure to the toxic cancer-causing chemicals in secondhand smoke. strong impact on teen-age smoking behavior, and result in fewer adults modeling smoking behavior (1991 Journal of Health Economics). 3. 70 percent of teen smokers say if they could have done things differently, they would not have started smoking (Gallup Organization 1992). 4. Young people who don’t start smoking by age 21 may never start smoking Secondhand smoke is dangerous to the health of our people. When we smoke, we model to our youth that smoking is okay. Many public facilities have policies that restrict smoking within 20 feet of entrances/windows. Please help us make our public facilities safe and healthy. Please contact Lisa Brown or Danelle Zosel-Sanderson at 541-444-2532 or 1 -800-922-1399 if you have questions or comments. Look fora We ask for your support or comments clipboard and sign your name to show on a proposal to protect our youth and your support (or non-support) for the non-smokers from the lure and dangers proposal, available at the tribal office and Straight tobacco facts of cigarette smoke. At present, clinic. Thank you for your time and 4 1 in 4 Oregon deaths are caused by designated smoking areas are located attention to this matter. tobacco use. in each stairwell of the tribal Open Gym Can Lower 4 Congratulations to a non-smoking administration building, and directly in Risk Factors couple. A Siletz Tribal member and front of the Tribal Community Center. The Our young people need to be his wife who used to spend $11 a stairwells do not work for our youth, as around adults modeling healthy day on cigarettes, approximately they tend to “hide out” there and smoke. behaviors. Open gym addresses several $300 a month. What could you buy The smoking area at the Community risk factors for our community. First, it with $300 today? Center requires people to walk through helps us provide the opportunity to smoke when entering or leaving exercise. Second, it brings community Modeling Smoking Behavior Sends the building. members together. Third, it provides Negative Message to Young People The Siletz Tribe has been declared structured activity for young and old, a drug-free workplace. The FDA combined with education. We need the 1. 73 percent of daily teen smokers who determined that nicotine is a drug (7/17/ support of community members to think they won’t be smoking in five 99). Please support designating only continue with open gym. Currently, we years are still smoking five to six one smoking area for the administrative are operating with a very limited staff. years later. complex (upstairs balcony area) and the 2. Effective clean air policies that restrict comfort station as the smoking area for smoking in public places have a the Tribal Community Center. (See Secondhand on page 10) f 9
