See what candidates have to say at Candidates Forum at Chinook Winds
LINCOLN CITY, Ore. - Chinook
Winds Casino Resort, the Confederated
Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Kiwanis Club
of Lincoln City and The News Guard will
co-host a Candidates Forum in the casi
no’s hotel ballroom on Oct. 21, at 2 p.m.
All candidates who will appear on
the Lincoln City ballot will be invited
to participate in this event, including
those running for city, county, state and
federal offices.
Roger Robertson will moderate the
Candidates Forum and monitor the live
remote that will be broadcast on radio
stations KBCH in Lincoln City, KNPT in
Newport and KWDP in Waldport, reach
ing listeners in all of Lincoln County as
well as south Tillamook County.
In addition, The News Guard will
live-stream the event to its website and
maintain the video online to allow for
viewing at the reader’s convenience.
Each candidate will have three min
utes to present his or her platform, fol
lowed by questions from the audience
that will be submitted in writing and read
by the monitor. Candidates will have two
minutes to answer each question and then
a three-minute summation at the end of
their time period.
The public is encouraged to attend
this free event. Refreshments will be
provided and tables will be available for
candidate and ballot measure information.
The casino hotel is located at 1501
NW 40,h Place in Lincoln City.
Siletz represents well at Nike event
Courtesy photo
Siletz Tribal members Ricky Bayya, Ticey Casey, Reggie Butler Jr., Perry
Johnson and Devonte' Casey attend the 2012 Nike Native Fitness event, hosted
by the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board.
My name is Ticey Casey and I’ve worked for the Northwest Portland Area Indian
Health Board (NPAIHB) for nearly eight years. My son, Devonte’ Casey (15), was
hired as a Siletz summer youth worker by NPAIHB.
We both worked at the annual Nike Native Fitness event held in Beaverton, Ore.,
on the Nike campus. This year’s focus was working with Native youth and the campus
was filled with more than 160 participants from Tribes all over the United States.
Reggie Butler Jr., Ricky Bayya and Perry Johnson came from Siletz and did
a wonderful job representing our Tribe. The audience was asked who is working
with their Native youth in a number of different sports categories and Siletz stood
up the most!
I was very proud to see how much our Tribe is doing with our youth and hope
it continues. Good job, Ricky, Reggie and Perry, and keep up the good work! I
hope to continue to see Siletz represented at this annual conference and hope more
people can attend.
Elizabeth Viles, who is also a Siletz Tribal member but could not be pictured,
helps coordinate this event. For more information on this annual conference, please
contact her at 503-228-4185. Our website is at npaihb.org.
Tooth Talk: Answering questions about teeth and other open-rooted ideas
By Mary Ellen Volansky, EPDH, MS
Aug. 30, 2012, was the most fun I
have had on the job in a long time. The
occasion for my good fortune was Siletz
Valley School's Back to School Night and
Resource Fair.
These are not high-stress events and
usually are pleasant. I wasn’t expecting
any surprises, nor was I anticipating the
enjoyment a simple task could generate.
What simple task? Asking questions.
These questions were not of my ask
ing. No one waited anxiously, trying to
think of the correct answer No one walked
away, eyes averted for lack of an answer.
On this warm late-summer evening,
with the start of the school year just a long
weekend away, I was the person on the hot
spot. All of the questions came from the
students and a parent or two.
The questions were informative and
surprisingly technical, surprising based
on my experience, or lack thereof, with
elementary school students. Why would
a child or anyone ask a question, you ask?
Each question earned the person asking
it a chance to win a Sonicare toothbrush,
another bright new tool to add to the
bundle of crisp new school supplies wait
ing for the first day of school.
There I sat in the long Siletz Val
ley School (SVS) hallway, opposite the
second-grade classroom. This made me
the first person- with whom parents and
students from Head Start could visit.
Of interest was a bulletin board
by the second-grade doorway that was
planted with supersized paper flowers.
Each brightly colored flower playfully
displayed its unique beauty, as any flower
would, reminding everyone of the bounty
available at SVS.
The first question was, “What causes
teeth to yellow?’’ The things we eat cause
our teeth to yellow, for example, coffee,
tea, grapes/wine, blueberries, sodas, ciga
rettes, cigars and chewing tobacco. Other
things we put into our mouths, like lemons
and bleaching agents, cause our teeth to
be porous and porous surfaces trap stains
more easily.
Few of us are actually born with
“white” teeth; most of us have either a
grayish or yellowish tendency in our teeth.
A 5-year-old eager for a tooth fairy
visit asked, “How do I make my tooth
loose?” Upon further exploration, I
learned he had one tooth that was slightly
loose. So the answer was, wiggle it daily
and it will come out sooner.
This instruction is only for baby
teeth; adult teeth we can expect to keep
our whole life with good home care and
regular dental visits.
“Is soda going to rot my teeth? The
simple answer is - yes! Soda has acid
in it that dissolves our teeth. The sugar
levels in sodas range from 9-13 teaspoons
in 12 ounces of soda. Cavity bugs love
sugar; they eat it and make acids all over
our teeth.
Another related question was, “What
is a cavity bug?” They are the germs or
bacteria that grow inside our mouth and
collect on our teeth (we call it plaque or
biofilm). So cavity bugs eat the foods we
eat and then poop acids all over our teeth.
Isn’t that a delightful thought?
One last question I’d like to share.
“Are rabbits’ and rats' teeth open-rooted?”
This question took me by surprise. The
asker of that question ended up educating
me on - you guessed it - teeth. She then
encouraged me to check this out on the
Web. I said I would.
Early the next morning, I excitedly
called the mother of the two children who
had won the two Sonicare toothbrushes.
Once I had delivered the good news, the
woman asked if I had looked up open-
rooted. I had not done my homework
- yet. I hung up the phone and began my
Google search.
Specifically, open-rooted means a
tooth that continues to grow once it erupts
into the mouth. Broadly, it refers to any
“body” that has more than one set of teeth
(i.e., sharks have up to 3,500 teeth in
their lifetime).
The answer to her questions was yes.
The teeth of a rabbit all continue to grow
for the rabbit’s lifetime. Any rabbit could
be in danger if it did not have access to
things to gnaw on because its teeth could
grow so long it could not close its mouth
to chew. Gnawing on things wears the
teeth down to a manageable length.
Rodents’ (rats) incisor teeth are the
only ones that grow continuously through
out their lives. A couple of rodents have
molars that continue to grow along with
the incisors - sibling voles and guinea pigs.
Walrus tusks are canine teeth that
grow continuously in life. Horse teeth
don't continuously grow, they continu
ously erupt from the jaw, erupting about
1/8 inch each year.
All of these animals need to gnaw
on things to keep their teeth a work
able healthy length. A horse's teeth will
eventually be worn all the way down to a
nubbins. A horse with nubbins for teeth
needs help to eat. someone to soak food
in water to create a soft mush.
No one I asked at work or outside of
work had ever heard of open-rooted teeth.
Google had, thankfully. Oh, and the win
ners of those two Sonicare toothbrushes?
Alisa Johnson and Nick Jacobson.
Thank you all for your great ques
tions and a fun evening at SVS! I'll see
you next year.
October 2012
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