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Hood River News, Saturday, January 31, 2015
Sticker Shock: students remind beer buyers to adhere to safety
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
Teenagers spending time
in the beer aisle Thursday
was behavior somewhat un-
usual, yet healthful.
Health Media Club from
Hood River Valley High
School was at it again: the
t w i c e - ye a rl y
“ S t i c ke r
Shock” campaign.
At many stores this Super
Bowl weekend, it will be
hard to buy a six-pack or
case without carrying
home a vivid green bilin-
gual circle reminder:
“If you want to stay
a l ive D O N ’ T D R I N K
AND DRIVE/Si quiere
quedar vivo NO MANE-
JE
DESPEUES
TOMAR.”
The Health Media edu-
cation and outreach group
spent Thursday and Friday
after school at six stores, the
seventh year of “Sticker
S h o c k ” by s t u d e n t s o f
Health Media, a partnership
between Hood River County
and Hood River County
School District. Students
also do Sticker Shock on the
July 4 weekend.
“It feels pretty great. Not
many kids want to spend
after school hanging around
putting stickers on beer
cans. But it really does feel
like we’re doing something
different, and making a dif-
ference,” said Juan Camar-
illo, a junior.
Ash Vaday, a freshman,
said, “We’re Health Media,
which is just trying to get
the word out there that
drugs and alcohol aren’t al-
ways what the media say
they are, and that minors
s h o u l d s t ay aw ay f r o m
them.”
“The kids just really look
forward to it and we get a lot
of positive feedback from
the stores we go to,” said Be-
linda Ballah, alcohol and to-
bacco prevention coordina-
tor for the County Preven-
tion Program. “When I ask
(store managers) they
say, ‘Yes, we want you to
come back, not even a ques-
tion’,” Ballah said.
Students also put up
bilingual signs on the
stores’ front doors. In
Sticker Shock’s seven
years it has grown from
one store to six: Mercado
Guadelajara, Mid Valley
M a rke t ,
Rite
Aid,
Ro s a u e r s, S a f e w ay a n d
Windmaster Market.
Health Media students
also design pamphlets, t-
shirts, theater ads, bill-
boards and other media en-
couraging students and the
general public to practice
healthy lifestyles.
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
SENIOR SAM ORTIZ of Health Media Club applies “Don’t Drink and Drive” stickers to beer in the
“beer cave” at Windmaster Market on Thursday.
One Community Health hosts
free ‘Give Kids a Smile Day’
One Community Health is offering unin-
sured children free medical and dental
checkups on Thursday, Feb. 12, as part of Na-
tional Give Kids a Smile Day. The American
Dental Association launched Give Kids a
Smile Day in 2003 as a way for dentists across
the country to provide dental services to un-
derserved children. One Community Health
has expanded the focus of the day to include
medical care as well.
Parents or caregivers of uninsured chil-
dren ages 1-18 who are Gorge residents (Hood
River, Klickitat, Skamania and Wasco coun-
ties) are encouraged to make appointments
for Give Kids a Smile Day at 541-386-6380. Ap-
pointments are available at One Community
Health’s Hood River health center and at The
Dalles health center.
‘Incredible Years’ starts Feb. 25
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
Y ELLOW, F RIENDS
Seen this week, six medium-sized birds whose yellow plumage is unusual, at least for the
Heights. Peterson’s Guide was inconclusive – were they warblers, perhaps? Anyone with infor-
mation may reply to Yellow, Friends, hrnews@hoodrivernews.com. (Estimated length, six inches,
the birds did not emit song, and flitted between high oak branches to ground-level shrubs.)
Do you want your child to
succeed in school? “Incredible
Years” Program starts Feb. 25
in Hood River for parents who
have children 2 to 8 years old.
“The Incredible Years” Pro-
gram covers how to teach
your child to manage their
emotions, limit setting that
balances between you and
your child’s needs, encourag-
ing persistence and self-con-
trol, effective praise, ignoring
behaviors, and calming tech-
niques. Studies show that the
most important skills in
school, especially the early
years, are not the ABCs and
counting, but learning to take
turns, follow directions, self-
control, persistence in doing a
task, and getting along with
others. This program shows
parents, grandparents, child
care providers, and other
adults how to teach children
these school success skills.
The child care for the “Incred-
ible Years” program will
cover the themes self-care,
self-esteem, self-control, and
anger management.
To learn more, call Nancy
Johanson Paul at (541) 436-
0319 or 1-855-308-22336. Paul is
the Columbia Gorge Parent-
ing Education Program Coor-
dinator at The Next Door. The
cost is $25 per family (finan-
cial help is available) for the 12
week series. For more infor-
mation visit nextdoorinc.org.