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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Workers said protected
from second-hand smoke
Sgt. Matthew Britt
U.S. Army Sgt. Mat-
thew Britt, a 2003 graduate
of Illinois Valley High
School, recently graduated
from Special Forces training
at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
The new Green Beret
will be sent to Afghanistan
in September.
He is the son of David
Britt, and the grandson of
Earl & Mary Britt, of Cave
Junction.
Siskiyou Project
An all-volunteer group,
Northwest Ecosystem Survey
Team (NEST) is scouring old-
growth canopies looking for
Red tree vole nests because the
Medford District of BLM is
proposing six logging projects
in Illinois Valley and more in
the Rogue River valley.
Under law, all known
active Red tree vole nests must
receive a 10-acre projected
buffer zone.
A benefit for NEST will
be held Saturday, Aug. 11 be-
ginning at 6 p.m. at Takilma
Community Center. Kate
Dwyer Catering will feature a
gourmet organic dinner and
desserts. There will be music
by Libby Goines & The One
Love Family Band.
Phone 592-4459 or
597-4313 for more information
about the benefit or project.
SMART (Start Making
A Reader Today)
Bridgeview Vineyards
Winery will host a wine-tasting
event and art auction as a bene-
fit for the SMART and DEAR
(Drop Everything And Read)
programs at Evergreen Ele-
mentary School.
The event is set for Satur-
day, Sept. 15 from 3 to 6 p.m.
Besides wine-tasting and the
art auction, there will be re-
freshments. All proceeds from
the benefit will go toward the
SMART and DEAR programs
at Evergreen.
For more information
phone Nancy Brown at 592-
2250. Those who want to
donate art can phone Debra
Wallis at 592-6868. To volun-
teer to read to a child phone
“Tina” at 592-3383.
A new study shows that
nonsmokers can absorb a
major cancer-causing
chemical from second-hand
smoke, “underscoring the
important protection Ore-
gon's new Smokefree Work-
place law will bring to bar
and restaurant workers.”
Gov. Kulongoski has
signed Oregon’s new law,
which expands the 2001
smokefree workplace law to
include bars, taverns, bingo
halls and bowling alleys.
Twenty-three other states
already have passed similar
laws.
The research, funded by
the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, was conducted
by Oregon public health
researchers. The data ap-
pear in the August edition of
the American Journal of
Public Health.
Research found that
nonsmoking employees ex-
posed to tobacco smoke in
where they work had ele-
vated levels of NNK, a
tobacco-specific carcinogen
in their bodies. It is not con-
sidered safe at any level, and
is found in the body only as
a result of using tobacco or
breathing second-hand
smoke, said Oregon Dept. of
Human Services (ODHS).
The study also found
that every hour of exposure
to tobacco smoke leads to a
6 percent increase in car-
cinogen levels.
‘This study provides fur-
ther proof that secondhand
smoke is a health risk to any-
one who breathes it,” said Dr,
Susan Allan, public health
officer in the ODHS Public
Health Division.
“With the new Smoke-
free Workplace law in effect,
Oregon is making great
strides toward improving the
health of all workers,” she
said.
Researchers followed
52 nonsmoking employees
of bars and restaurants in
Oregon, where smoking is
still permitted and compared
them to 32 nonsmoking bar
and restaurant employees
who work in bars and res-
taurants where smoking is
banned. Urine samples were
collected from people in
both groups before and after
their work shifts and tested
for NNK.
Three of four employ-
ees who worked in busi-
nesses that allowed smoking
had detectable levels of
NNK, compared to fewer
than half of unexposed
workers. The study also
found the amount of NNK
went up in direct relation-
ship to the number of hours
worked, 6 percent an hour
on average, which shows
the levels reported are an
accurate reflection of work-
place exposure, according to
Michael Stark, the study’s
lead author.
OSP’s SWAT team takes
2nd behind Medford PD
Oregon State Police
SWAT team members
placed second in the Oregon
Tactical Officers Associa-
tion competition held in
Central Oregon.
Seven SWAT teams
from federal, state and local
agencies competed in the
annual three-day event in-
volving physical competi-
tion, problem-solving and
tactical scenarios, and range
firing competition.
First place in the com-
petition went to Medford
Police Dept.
Six SWAT members
from Springfield, Salem and
Oregon State University at
Corvallis work sites repre-
sented the OSP team during
the competition held at sites
in Bend and Redmond. This
year’s event was hosted by
Bend Police Dept.
OSP’s SWAT team was
formed in 1988. It is com-
prised of 24 tactical mem-
bers and eight trained crisis
negotiators who work at
various offices around the
state.
According to Lt. Dave
Mazour, SWAT team com-
mander, the team responds
to requests from Oregon law
enforcement agencies need-
ing high-risk responses.
The team averages 40 to
50 calls per year. They
range from high-risk search
warrants and armed barri-
caded subjects to hostage
situations and dignitary pro-
tection details.
Besides the OSP
SWAT Team, this year’s
competition involved teams
from Oregon Dept. of Cor-
rections, Sheridan Federal
Correctional Institution,
Medford Police Dept., and
the Jackson, Clackamas and
Washington county sheriff’s
offices.
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller -
CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES in Cave Junction on new quarters for CJ Video Mart/
Radio Shack, owned and operated by Bill & Chris Coultas. The work is being done
by A Better Builder, of Cave Junction. The new facility will more than double the size
of the store. (Photo by Illinois Valley News)
Diet for elderly needs close attention
At an age when proper
nutrition is more important
than ever, nearly half the eld-
erly people in developed
countries have an inadequate
nutritional intake and in-
creased vulnerability to a
range of degenerative dis-
eases – a situation that is un-
necessary and easily prevent-
able.
So notes Oregon State
University at Corvallis.
Due to lifestyle, diet, loss
of appetite and other factors
associated with aging, mil-
lions of American citizens
older than 65 are facing mal-
nutrition at a time of their life
when adequate, appropriate
food and micronutrient intake
is critical, OSU researchers
said in a recent report in
Pharmacological Research, a
professional journal.
Addressing this funda-
mental – and comparatively
easy to fix – problem could
be one key to improved qual-
ity of life and skyrocketing
health-care costs in the near
future, said Tory Hagen, an
associate professor with the
Linus Pauling Institute at
OSU, and an expert in the
metabolic process of aging.
“The elderly population
in America is going to double
to 70 million people by 2030,
and studies have shown that
44 percent of this group has
inadequate nutrition,” Hagen
said. “This can be directly
linked to increased problems
with cardiovascular disease
and other disease problems.
“The cost of congestive
heart failure alone in the
United States is estimated to
exceed $18 billion a year.”
The problem, Hagen
said, is most easily seen as a
decline in nutritional intake at
the same time aging systems
may need more nutrients than
they used to.
There are some socio-
economic factors that relate to
the poor nutrition, the study
said. But more frequently, it
is caused by such problems as
loss of appetite, smoking,
“malabsorption” syndromes,
and the nausea, constipation
Misgivings expressed regarding federal Real ID Act
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for the lost value or seek to
have the restrictions waived.
Democrats in the Ore-
gon House and Senate pre-
pared an alternative to the
measure. It will be referred
to voters Nov. 6 under the
title of Measure 49.
Richardson said that he
“strongly resisted” attempts
to change Measure 37 in the
Legislature, and said that the
Democrats’ plan doesn’t
preserve transferability
rights.
“The Democrats who
control the Legislature don’t
want Measure 37,” Richard-
son said.
Although he acknowl-
edged that Measure 37
“could have been written
better,” he said that Measure
49 would limit citizens’
property rights. No commer-
cial or industrial Measure 37
claims would be allowed if
Measure 49 is voted into
law, Richardson said. He
added that such restrictions
could be harmful to the
state’s economy.
Richardson pointed out
that since Oregon adopted
its land-use laws in 1973, no
other state has adopted a
similar system.
Oregon’s land-use laws
have had the unintended
consequence of driving up
housing costs by limiting the
number of lots available for
building, Richardson said.
“It’s all supply and de-
mand,” he said.
Growth in Oregon is
restricted to areas contained
in Urban Growth Bounda-
ries, and 97 percent of the
land beyond those limits is
zoned for exclusive forest or
exclusive farm use. Those
restrictions increase the cost
of living, Richardson said,
and cause many young
adults to leave the state be-
cause they cannot afford
housing.
Richardson represents
Oregon House District 4,
which covers rural portions
of Jackson and Josephine
counties.
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or diarrhea sometimes associ-
ated with use of medications.
Some people lose interest in
cooking.
Anorexia is common
among the elderly, and is
often a consequence of de-
pression. The end result, from
whatever cause, is people
who get neither the quantity
nor quality of food they need.
At the same time their
nutritional intake is getting
worse, the demands for more
or better nutrients may be
increasing, Hagen said.
“Cellular antioxidant
status and stress response
enzymes naturally decline
with age, even in healthy in-
dividuals,” Hagen said.
“There is also an age-related
increase in damaging oxidant
production, and mitochon-
drial and nuclear oxidative
DNA damage.”
All these issues can be
addressed by an improved
diet and possible supplemen-
tation if necessary, Hagen
said. But people must become
more aware that their dietary
needs are going up at the
same time their interest in
food is going down and take
steps to address it.
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