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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS Ask Raven Raven will answer your questions about problems associated with alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. You can call in your questions to the numbers at right or mail them to: Raven P.O. Box 549 Siletz, OR 97380-0549 Dear Raven: 1 was recently on vaca tion in Mexico with family who live there. We left the day before CNN recommended that no one from the United States travel to Mexico because of the danger related to drug cartel violence. It is obvious that people in Mexico live in fear and innocent lives are being lost every day. What can we in the U.S. do to help our neighbors in Mexico and what should we do about the spread of drug cartels to this country? Janet CEDARR Community Efforts Demonstrating the Ability to Rebuild and Restore May 6 • 5:30 p.m. Siletz Community Health Clinic Conference Room Agenda: Strategic planning - staying strong! Summer activity calendar/planning. Please attend! high demand for marijuana in the United States, the drug cartel problems would be minimal in Mexico. It truly is the hunger that U.S. citizens have for marijuana that is causing the violence. It was said recently that anyone in the United States who uses marijuana has Siletz Tribal A&D Programs blood on their hands. That is a harsh real Prevention, Outpatient Treatment and Women’s Transitional ity, one we need to accept and each take Siletz: 800-600-5599 or 541-444-8286 responsibility for if we have been using marijuana, no matter how often. Eugene: 541-484-4234 As for drug cartel activity moving Salem: 503-390-9494 into this country, the answer is the same. Portland: 503-238-1512 If there is not the demand for it here, it will Dear Janet: This is a very important not continue to grow. Oregon is one of the issue for us all to be aware of and talk top states in the United States with drug ing about in our communities. There are cartel activity, so we need to act now. Narcotics Anonymous Toll-Free different opinions among policy makers in For information on Alcoholics If you use marijuana or if you are state and federal government about what Help Line - 877-233-4287 close to someone who does, please help Anonymous: www.aa-oregon.org/ is the best solution. Some people believe them understand their part in this terrible we need to work harder on community problem that is hurting and killing so education, prevention and treatment for many innocent people. Stopping use, one marijuana addiction and abuse, and person at a time, can save others' lives. others think the answer lies with legal To those of you reading this, 1 would by Lynn Whitlow izing marijuana. like to know what you think about Sunshine! April showers! Yes! That At the TLC, residents strive for bal No matter what those policy makers marijuana and the Mexican drug cartel combination brings May flowers! ance in their lives. Keeping an attitude of end up deciding, right now innocent lives problems. Please contact me by e-mail at And smiles, especially when the sun gratitude helps restore balance. are being lost in Mexico because the drug pias@ctsi.nsn.us; write a letter to Siletz comes to balance or surpass the rain. 1 Some of their gratitudes this past cartels kidnap and kill innocent people News at P.O. Box 549, Siletz, OR 97380- work to keep balance in my life all seasons month include: Today 1 am grateful for as a way to intimidate and punish those 0549; or leave your question with Diane of the year, but it seems sooooo much supportive family, for new babies, for people who do not cooperate with them Rodriquez or Natasha Kavanaugh at SOO- easier when the sun embraces the world. child care. Gratitude for the first step, for or who are in competition. 922-1399 or 541-444-2532. They know We all need balance in our lives to feel my sister and nephew spending time with Why is this our problem in the United how to reach me. Please let me know if centered and secure. It ’ s so easy to get off the TLC family, for my roommates, to be States? The answer to that question can you want your questions or comments tilt, to focus most of our energy on other home. That school started for me. That I am be hard to accept, but it's very important printed in this newspaper. people, our work, our house, our crisis. home and made it through two funerals. for us to understand that without the A friend. Raven These are all OK to focus energy on. but I am grateful today for our little bit of the goal should be balance between others sunshine, for supportive medical staff in and ourselves, between work and play, my time of need. For Charity and Karen. between housework and family, between I am grateful for 19 months of continuous life crisis and relaxation time. clean time. For Lynn and all she does for We need to care about both our spiri us girls at TLC. tual self and our physical self. When bal That I can reflect on the loss of my ance is tilted too far one way or the other, mom with good memories instead of hid we pay for it in some way if the imbalance ing it by using or drinking. 1 am thankful lasts very long or is very severe. for good friends and family who help me For example, if we neglect our physical in my time of need and to have an awe body to pursue our spiritual interests, we some son who brings delight to my life! may forget to take needed medications or eat Strive to keep balance in your life. Be nutritious meals. If this persists over a period willing to do what it takes. of time, we can become physically ill. We are grateful to Alice McCain, Conversely, if we ignore our spiri Denise Riding In and Vanessa Jackson tuality for very long we can end up in a for their volunteer service at the TLC. We depressive state. Give and receive. Work, so appreciate you! Thank you to Sammy then take time to play. Before you play Bayya and Tony Whitehead for check couch potato, get some muscle-building ing out and dismantling a defective light weight training or a cardio workout. fixture for us. Learning to balance wants, needs, Each month we hold a potluck dinner activities and feelings is a much-needed and a Women's Talking Circle on the sec life skill for a happy, productive life. If we ond Wednesday. We invite and encourage pay attention to our body and our emo interested women to attend. At this time, tions, we will know whether we are in or we do not have child care. Call me at out of balance. 541 -444-8238 or 800-600-5599 for more The Siletz Tribe maintains its commitment to the community by contributing $10,(XX) When that balance slips, it’s time information. to the general fund of the Siletz Valley Fire Department. Tribal Vice Chairman to look at what is causing the tilt. Then Pick a bouquet of flowers. Give half Alfred "Bud" Lane III presents the check to Ron Hervey, fire district hoard it’s our responsibility to make needed to a friend and put the other half on your chairman, as Dave Edwards, fire chief, and Sheryl Simmons, board secretary, look on. changes to get back on an even keel. own desk. Equals two smiles! TLC Attitudes of Gratitude 6 • Siletz News • May 2009
