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Run to the Rogue Quit Smoking Challenge Sign Up to Quit Before Taking to the Road in September The Run to the Rogue Quit Smoking Challenge is a five-month program to en courage smokers to quit and to participate in the Run to the Rogue on Sept. 8-10. Be able to run farther and longer while hon oring your ancestors. Monthly drawings will be held and a grand prize given away Sept. 7. • • Clinic Health CHA-MAY WEEYA - MEDICINE TALK Siletz Community American Indians have the highest rate of smokers In American Indians, asthma is grow ing fast. • Secondhand smoke is the No. 1 trig • ger for asthma. The No. 1 prevention of asthma is smoke-free homes. Honor yourself, your family, and your ancestors by quitting for health. To sign up, contact De Anna Pearl, Tobacco Pre vention and Education, at 541-444-9659 or 1-800-648-0449, ext. 1659. For information and support, call the Oregon Quit Line at 1-877-270-7867. Council Approves Out-of-Area Health Benefits The Tribal Council has approved Prior authorization by CHS is re the following plan for using the 2005 quired and benefits must be used within Out-of-Area Health Benefits. 90 days. Any funds not used within 90 To qualify, tribal members must be days will be returned to the pool for registered for health care with the Siletz re-distribution. An individual can only Tribal Health Department and reside access benefits one time per year. outside the tribe’s 11-county service area. These funds are intended for tribal members who are not eligible for Con tract Health Services. One of the following benefits is available: When calling for pre-authorization, CHS will authorize for household members only. Authorization will not be granted for anyone not residing in your household. Voice mail messages do not hold funds; this must be a live contact. Help Educate Students About Personal Finance SALEM, Ore. - The rising cost of college is enough of a financial burden for today’s students without additional debt. Large, unpaid credit card bills only push financial independence further into the future. Oregon State Treasurer Randall Edwards recently partnered with The ABCs of Credit Card Finance to send out an es sential guide that helps Oregon teachers educate students about credit cards. “So much of life hinges on credit scores today - mortgages, car loans, insurance, even job applications,” Edwards said. “It is imperative students learn how to budget and use credit cards to their advantage.” The treasurer’s office recently sent more than 1,000 packets of the one-hour program to Oregon teachers. Edwards hopes that teachers across the state will take just 60 minutes to prepare students for decades of financial independence. “Sadly, even as the importance of personal finance grows, the funding for personal finance in high schools has dis appeared,” Edwards said. “This 10-page primer on credit cards is an easy and use ful way for students to learn how to use credit cards more responsibly.” The Center for Student Credit Card Education, Inc., produces the course material. April was designated as the national financial literacy month. The Office of the Treasurer also formalized a cooperative relationship with the Oregon chapter of Jump$tart Coalition, a national non-profit aimed at giving people the lifelong skills for making sound decisions about bud geting, saving, and avoiding common financial mistakes. Highlights of Edwards’ Personal Finance Tour included an announcement in May about the kickoff of a statewide Financial Fitness Tour that centers on budgets, credit cards, saving for college, and avoiding financial fraud. Administrators at middle schools and high schools who would like to be in cluded in the tour can contact the Office of the Treasurer at 503-378-4329. Jump$tart Coalition can be found at www.jumpstart.org. The Center for Student Credit Card Education Inc. can be found at www.cscce.com. $400 Vision $ 1,400 Hearing $ 1,200 Dental $ 1,000 Medical Call CHS at 1-800-628-5720 or 541-444-1236, starting at 8 a.m. on July 1, 2005. If you are not already Plus $500 maximum pharmacy registered for health services, please call anytime to request an application. through Pequot Rx Smokers Puts Pets at Risk As reported on the CBS Evening News, April 21, 2005 Sounds unreal right? An adult chim Respiratory illnesses such as asthma, panzee is getting sicker and sicker from bronchitis, and a collapsing trachea are smoking cigarettes that are thrown into the most common possible causes of his habitat in a South African zoo. Pets chronic cough in dogs. The constant irri are at the same risk in the homes of smokers, tation eventually causes the trachea to lose occasional smokers, and former smokers. its round open shape. It begins to collapse, Fluffy and Rover smoking cigarettes? resulting in even more coughing and No. The danger is the accumulation of eventually death, according to author secondhand smoke, ash, and dust that Marilyn Pokorney (March 5, 2005). holds up to 4.000 chemicals. This dust and ash land on furniture and floors. “Exposure levels in cats continuously kept indoors may actually be higher than those of human household members, who Good and Bad News on the Local Level Good News! According to the Siletz Community Health Clinic, there has been a 40 percent reduction of secondhand smoke exposure to children and youth. A survey of all patients using the clinic since 2(X)3 shows a dramatic reduc tion of ETS exposure and climbing. This includes less exposure to indoor pets as often spend extended periods of time out side their homes,” reported in Science Phil Rilatos Sr. - 4/2/05-4/29/05 TC .5 .25 2.25 Ind .5 .25 2.25 Gmg 2 1.75 6 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.75 7 3.5 2.5 1.5 .75 .75 1.5 2 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.75 7 3.5 2.5 1.5 .75 .75 1.5 2 Tvl 2.5 2.5 3 2.5 2 2.5 4 2 2 2 1 2 2 2.5 4/2 4/4 4/7 4/8 4/9 4/10 4/11 4/14 4/15-16 4/18 4/19 4/20 4/21 4/22 4/24 4/29 Review gaming docs, e-mail COHO/DMA, Investment Comm. Budget Comm. Gaming Board Planning wkshp. Gaming reports, packets, STBC docs TC mtg. notebook, compact STBC Regular TC Review ICW 477 contract/reports TANF wkshp. Review TC docs Education plan mtg. County commissioners Review gaming, TC docs COHO, joint mtg. w/GR, Investment Comm well. We should celebrate the efforts of conscientious smokers and non-smoking Doily. “Cats become exposed by inhal family members who encourage people ing the smoke or by digesting it when they to smoke outside the home and car. groom themselves and lick particulate Bad New! A large number of smok ers between ages 18 and 64 still are smok matter off their fur.” Further, “Cats living in households in ing, according to the SCHC survey. Adults which a pack or more of cigarettes was who smoke are role-modeling unhealthy smoked per day had three times the in practices for young people to follow. creased risk compared with cats with no Much like the chimpanzee in the South household exposure,” says a study re African zoo, mimicking is the No. 1 way ported in the American Journal of Epide of learning. So if you believe “monkey see miology (Aug. 1). monkey do,” you can make a difference Dogs living in a smoking household in a child's and pet’s life by quitting today. have a 60 percent risk of getting lung cancer. Contact DeAnna Pearl, Tobacco Pre Nicotine is a highly toxic chemical. Some vention and Education, at 1 -800-648-0449, pets may suffer the effects of nicotine poison ext. 1659, or 541-444-9659 if you have ing when exposed to high concentrations. any questions or need support in quitting. June 2005 • Siletz News • 19
