ARAMARK signs 10-year lease for space in Tribal office building in Salem
The Siletz Tribal Business Corporation
food services, facilities management,
and uniform and career apparel to health
care institutions, universities and school
districts, stadiums and arenas, and other
businesses around the world.
ARAMARK utilizes the building in
Salem as a distribution hub for its laundry
services up and down the 1-5 corridor.
is pleased to announce that ARAMARK
Uniform Services LLC, after signing a
|0-year lease to occupy 55 percent of the
Salem Flex Office Building, has officially
: noved into its space.
ARAMARK is a leader in profes
sional services, providing award-winning
“Signing a stable tenant to occupy
over half of the Salem Flex Building in
a down economy was a great coup for
STBC and the deal will generate well
over $1 million in revenue,” said Michael
Phillips, STBC enterprise specialist and a
principal architect for the new lease.
STBC will continue to market the
rest of the available space to prospective
tenants and hopes to continue to build
these long-term relationships with world
class clients.
“We are extremely happy to land a
long-term tenant who will provide revenue
for the corporation and the Tribe and hope to
have the rest of the facility rented out soon,”
said Stephen Larrabee, STBC manager.
Photos by Natasha Kavanaugh
Mary Ellen Volansky checks the teeth of children at the Tenas Illahee Childcare
Center, a service the Tribal Dental Department provides on an annual basis.
Tooth Talk: ‘You only have to
By Mary Ellen Volansky, RDH, MS
Have you ever heard the saying, “You
only have to the brush the teeth you want
to keep!” Sometimes the phrase goes like
this - “You only have to floss the teeth you
want to keep!”
The second phrase is my favorite
because it stresses the importance of
doing something most of us don’t do or
don’t like to do.
This tooth-conscious phrase first
came to my attention when I worked for
a dentist in Eugene. And mind you, I’d
been working in this field for 10 years
at that point. Now, thanks to Dr. Saxton,
there is a sign in my operatory with just
those words on it.
How do you convince someone to do
something you know is “good for them?”
Parents have a great opportunity to build
good oral health skills, most any skills
find the reasons to brush and floss daily
really, in their children. Ask yourself how
easy was it for you to develop the “habit”
of flossing every day. Are you still work
ing on it?
My parents get the credit for my habit
of brush daily, morning and night. Floss
and flossing were known back in those ol’
days, but I didn’t know anyone who did
it. Crest (“Look mom, no cavities!”) was
about selling toothpaste with fluoride, not
about floss.
I learned to floss and to floss daily in
college. Standing elbow-to-elbow with
other dental hygiene students flossing their
teeth in the locker room can have quite an
impact on whether one flosses or not - a
resounding positive use of peer pressure.
What cemented flossing as a daily habit for
me, as I have said before, is you.
So what am I getting at? As parents,
you have an advantage you probably
didn’t have growing up. You can give
your children the flossing habit by role
modeling what it takes to have good oral
health - brush twice a day and floss at
least once a day.
How will that help? Children will
model what their parents do. They are
more likely to do what their parents do than
what their parents tell them to do. This is
especially true of younger children.
So even though children this young
do not have the manual dexterity to floss
thoroughly, they can build the habit with
your gentle nudging each morning and
evening. As a child gets older, he or she
will slowly gain skill and get used to hav
ing a clean-feeling mouth twice each day.
Floss holders are a great way to start
children flossing. They are colorful and
easier than regular floss. Children will
love to have the fancy colorful floss hold
ers made just for them until they reach
about age 9. Then you can let them have
the plain old white or green ones you use.
Another tool for flossing, for children
or adults, is making a loop with floss. Take
about 14-16 inches (length depends on
the size of your hands, longer for bigger
hands, just not a lot longer) of floss and
tie the ends together in a knot (sometimes
two knots are best).
Then grab the loop with your hands,
point your index fingers upward or your
thumb and index finger onto the loop of
floss. These are the two fingers that enter
your mouth and they work the floss up
and down along the sides of your teeth.
If this is not clear, come into the clinic
and I’ll show you how easy it can be to
floss with a loop.
Applications due for board of new Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society
The Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage
Society (STAHS) is a newly incorporated
non-profit corporation whose mission
is to:
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3.
Develop resources for the construc
tion and implementation of a cultural
center and museum where Tribal
artifacts and representation of Tribal
history and culture can be maintained.
Oversee the day-to-day activities and
administration of the cultural center/
museum.
In cooperation with the Cultural staff
employed by the Siletz Tribe, to:
Promote programs that encour
age the revitalization and practice
of Tribal cultural and religious
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ment of the Tribe through tradi
tional arts and crafts and other
culturally appropriate methods.
activities and the restoration of
Tribal religious and cultural sites
and locations.
Provide a variety of outreach,
educational and training pro
grams, both locally and through-
out the region, related to the
culture and traditions of the Siletz
and other indigenous people of
the Pacific Northwest.
Promote programs that will
encourage economic develop-
Tribal member status is not required
for all positions on the board.
Any individual interested in serving
on the board of STAHS must fill out an
application form and return it by June 8.
Applications and job descriptions are
available from the Executive Secretary to
Tribal Council, P.O. Box 549, Siletz, OR
97380-0549; fax: 541-444-8325.
Tribal Council will review applica
tions and approve appointments at its
regular meeting in June 2011.
If you have any questions about the
application process, please call 541 -444-
8203 or 800-922-1399, ext. 1203.