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.
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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
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Conrad House, Navajo
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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)
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