February 8th, 2010
Orcas Island School Nurse Iris Graville gave an update last week on the ongoing issues re H1N1 influenza. “We need to remain diligent to keep H1N1 influenza under control.”
Recent studies report that no state has more than 50% of its children fully immunized against H1N1 and approximately 80% of children under10 have not had the needed 2nd dose to be adequately protected.
Graville says that the Orcas Public Schools have been seeing a “fair bit of illness “the past two weeks. “We could easily experience another surge of H1N1 flu cases in the coming months as well as seasonal flu.
“For parents and children who haven’t done so yet, it’s still a good idea to get vaccinated against both H1N1 flu and seasonal flu.” Vaccine is available by appointment from most private health care providers as well as San Juan County Health and Community Services.
Graville emphasizes, “You know my favorite advice: WASH YOUR HANDS!”
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February 8th, 2010
Two Masterworks of English Literature will be presented by Richard Fadem in an 8 -week class beginning Wednesday, February 24, from 10:00 to 12:30 at the Parish Hall.
A fee of $20 will be collected at the first class. All are welcome!
The class will begin with the novel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen followed by Anthony Trollope’s novel, The Way We Live Now. Books will be available at Darvill’s.
The first three classes will focus on Jane Austen’s most complex and for some her finest novel, Mansfield Park (1814), in which she abandons the two and a half inch piece of ivory on which she claimed to etch her other works for a broader canvas. The novel is one of the great treatments in 19th-century fiction of the family, with the hazards of courtship, marriage, and child-rearing within a quintessential estate of the landed gentry. Inevitably the novel bears some relation to Austen’s disapproval of the Regency’s and especially the Prince Regent’s dissolute ways.
The next five weeks will be spent with Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now (1875), perhaps his greatest novel out of a staggering number and one which tells a story of financial chicanery, self-indulgence, and greed, both cunning and stupid, extending into the U.S., that may sound faintly familiar.
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February 7th, 2010
Now is the time to show your support for the Exchange on Orcas Island!
The County Council is making important decisions that will affect the cost of dumping garbage and recycling at the Orcas transfer station and your access to and the continuing viability of the Exchange.
In response to reduced income from garbage tipping fees and a long standing lack of capital funding the Council is cutting services at the Orcas transfer station (closing on Fridays starting Feb. 26th) and devising a new fee schedule. The fee schedules under consideration increase the cost of self hauling and may include a “gate fee”to enter the transfer facility.
The “Take-it-or-Leave-it”on Lopez and the Exchange on Orcas depend on self haulers to bring and take reusable materials that would otherwise be exported as waste. Any fee increases that further shift the costs of county waste programs to self haulers are contrary to the goals of the county’s Solid Waste Management Plan, which call for an aggressive waste reduction program.
The County Council must find a funding formula for solid waste to encourage waste reduction not penalize it.
The County Council is meeting at 10:30, Monday Feb.8th at the Eastsound fire hall, the day before they have another workshop on solid waste rates. This might be the last chance for supporters of the Exchange to influence their thinking in person.
I’m asking you to attend, to stand up and be counted in support of the Exchange.
Sincerely,
George Post, Founder of the Exchange and 20-year member of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee
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February 7th, 2010
Recent EPRC meeting clarifies objections to County’s LAMIRD plans for Country Corner
The County Council comes once again on Orcas Island on Monday, Feb. 8. On the agenda are reports from the Eastsound Planning Review Committee and hearings about the proposed Country Corner commercial LAMIRD (Limited Area of More Intense Rural Development).
At its monthly meeting on Feb. 4, the EPRC again voiced its objections to the Country Corner LAMIRD being removed from the Eastsound Sub-area Plan. The removal of the 6 lots of the proposed commercial LAMIRD from the long-standing Sub-area Plan is supported by County Prosecuting Attorney Randy Gaylord’s office; EPRC members Fred Klein and Patty Miller, while in support of establishing the LAMIRD, repeated their opposition to removal of the proposed LAMIRD from the Sub-area Plan.
Gaylord has said that the removal of the Country Corner LAMIRD would be consistent with how other “Activity Centers” on the island, such as Orcas Village and Deer Harbor, have been handled; it would also move towards making the Eastsound Sub-area boundaries consistent with the Eastsound Urban Growth Area (UGA) boundaries.
However, recent EPRC members and the public have voiced resistance to the removal component of the ordinance establishing Country Corner as a commercial LAMIRD. Those objecting state that the Eastsound Sub-area Plan boundaries were established in 1981 by Orcas Islanders intent on maintaining the rural character of the island, and that, by removing the 6 Country Corner lots from the Sub-area, land that is a “logical” area for commercial expansion for the Eastsound “municipal” area will be limited.
Miller said, “We as a community planned for the Eastsound Sub-area, always to provide and to anticipate and manage how change will occur and provide a tangible vision for future growth. The Sub-area Plan, with regular public meetings, has provided framework and form to grapple with local planning and land use issues that would be troublesome to deal with wholly in Friday Harbor.”
Klein added “My sense of the Sub-area Plan was that it was a defined area that the community decided was an area that needed to be looked at as we grew and as time passes. The Subarea has nothing to do with an Urban Growth Area; [those are] two different designations to deal with different issues.
“The GMA [Growth Management Act] clearly allows for subarea plans to exist, and San Juan County with its subarea plans … has adopted a subarea planning strategy. So there’s no legal requirement under GMA that a subarea be consistent with an UGA.”
EPRC Chair Gulliver Rankin added, “The Subarea boundaries were expanded to their present extent to represent the logical geographic areas for planning, which is expected to accommodate virtually all of its commercial growth.”
Klein proposed that, on Feb. 8, as the County Council deliberates on the creation of LAMIRD at Country Corner, the EPRC communicate that it:
- Supports fully creation of a commercial LAMIRD at Country Corner;
- Commends County staff on the public process involved;
- States its opposition to the removal of the LAMIRD from the Eastsound Sub-area Plan; and
- Recommends the Council direct the Planning Department and the EPRC to keep LAMIRD in the Sub-area and review applicable regulations.
Klein stated the EPRC’s understanding of the planned removal of the LAMIRD was based on:
1) Desired consistency with other activity centers
2) Belief that Eastsound Sub-area is “a relic of previous planning”
3) Belief that subarea boundaries should be consistent with UGA boundaries
To which Klein suggested the EPRC reply:
1) The Country Corner LAMIRD has differences from other activity centers – chiefly, that the area is much smaller;
2) Subarea planning is not a relic of pre-GMA planning, but specifically addressed in state law, as recently as 2007
3) There is no legal requirement of UGA-Sub-area boundary conformity
4) From a planning standpoint, the Eastsound Sub-area boundaries should be allowed to remain where they are.
In summary, Klein proposed that the EPRC “urge the Council to keep the Country Corner area within the bounds of the Sub-area Plan.”
In addition to their position on Country Corner, the EPRC’s 2010 priorities will be presented to the County Council at 11 a.m. Miller is slated to present a report on the EPRC’s recent objectives and its 2010 work plans.
With the resignation of Mindy Kayl and Ted Tidrington, the EPRC is seeking two new members. Those interested should contact the EPRC at esplreco@yahoo.com.
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February 7th, 2010
KT Laslo triumphs as Orcas Idol 2010. Behind her are Charly Robinson, who sang "Single Girls" and Jared Grantham, who sang "Mad World" and "Jack's Lament"
KT Laslo was the people’s choice for Orcas Idol 2010, singing her heart out and charming the audiences through three rounds of competition to win the award over nine other contestant acts.
For the first round of Jazz-Pop songs, KT sang “I’ll Stand by You.” Along with the Stephen Baker- Julia Bailey duo, Carl Burger, Marissa Veldman, Jared Grantham, and Arianna and Jason Dean, KT advanced to the second round where she transformed into the Mermaid Ariel to sing “Part of Your World.”
In the final, Country-Folk round, Stephen Baker and Julia Bailey sang “Two Is Better Than One,” Marissa Veldman sang “Jump, then Fall” and KT blew the audience out of water with singing and dancing to “Any Man of Mine.”
Marissa Veldman sings a bluesy ballad, "Only Hope" in the "free choice" round of Orcas Idol. Photo courtesy of Chris Gill.
Judges Gene Nery, Grace McCune and Terry Anderson commented on each act, and Gordon Koenig and Anita Orne emceed the show with fast-paced banter and, for Anita, stunning dress changes, courtesy of Gordeaux’s, her husband’s dress shop. Last year’s Idol, Pamela Wright, sang a wrenching and triumphant “Sober” (“How do I feel this good sober?”) as recorded by Pink.
Orcas Island Prevention Partnership organized and sponsored the fund-raising event, steered by a committee composed of Donna Laslo, Jeanne Beck, Cheryl Kummer, Moriah Armstrong, Julie Pinardi, and Margie Sabine. Donna Laslo, who has coordinated and produced the show for the last three years, will have a title change next year, that of “Artistic Director.”
She commented that, just when she thought the show’s concept may have run out of steam, along comes the fabulous wealth of talent of auditioners for Orcas Idol 2010.
Stephen Baker and Julia Bailey sing in the first round of Orcas Idol. Photo courtesy of Chris Gill.
This year’s finale coordinated sophisticated sound and lighting, including a revolving light, rose petal, confetti and balloon drops, and inter-act entertainment and introductions by Michael Jackson mime Matthew White and by Bee-Gee impersonators Jim Shaffer-Bauck, Freddy Hinkle and Matthew White.
A NFO (Normal for Orcas) occurrence preceded the Idol Finale, when KT was in charge of finalizing the sound systems for the Saturday night performance. A 45-minute island-wide power outage on Friday afternoon challenged KT as she was making the final sound-check. But by Saturday evening, the system worked near-perfectly, with only the judges struggling with their mikes.
The winners of the Orcas Idol Junior competition, Emmy and Lisa Carter, again performed “Connected,” and joined the other Orcas Idol Junior competitors and the judges to sing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
Other competitors in Orcas Idol 2010 were Brian Benepe and Heather Stansbury, Susan Weiss, and Charly Robinson.
As Orcas Idol 2010, KT wins $200 cash prize given by the show’s main sponsor, Radio Shack, and a recording session with Jim Bredouw.
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February 6th, 2010
Sunday, Feb. 7
The Five Bells Brass Quintet plays at Orcas Center at 2 p.m.
Five Bells Quintet Orcas “Brass” perform at 2 p.m. at the Orcas Center. An international program celebrating the 2010 Winter Olympics, opening in Vancouver B.C. on Feb. 12.
Orcas Island Rowing Associations’ Indoor Rowing Fest “erg” race at the Odd Fellows Hall at 2 p.m. An erg is a rowing machine rowers use for training on land. Contact martin@ednagallery.com
Super Bowl XLIV at the Lower. Starts at 3 p.m. with complimentary buffet spread with Chili, Hot Dogs, Meatballs, Wings, Chips & Dip and more set out.
Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” last performance the weekly movie at the Doe Bay Cafe. 7 p.m. Come to the Cafe for a FREE Movie, free popcorn, and 1/2 price bottles of wine. Call 376-8059.
Monday, Feb. 8
County Council meets on Orcas at the Eastsound Fire Hall from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Report from Eastsound Planning Review Committee, public hearing on the Country Corner LAMIRD and field trip to Eastsound wetlands planned. For agenda, click here: sanjuanco.com/docs/SpecialMeetingOrcas
Deadline for ADU Permits Lottery deadline to permit “guest houses” for the year is today. Call
Doe Bay Cafe’s Artsmith Salon, begins at 7 p.m. Featured writer is Taos, New Mexico poet Amalio Madueno. Afterwards, audience members will have an opportunity to read their own works each week in a special Writer’s Open Mic. 376-8059.
Tuesday, Feb.9
Deadline for posting School Bond and Levy votes. Post Office closes at 3 p.m., Ballot Box outside Senior Center.
Ferry Advisory Committee 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the Large Conference Rm, Legislative Bldg, 55 Second St. Friday Harbor
Tax Assistance at the Senior Center. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. by Jim Biddick. Call 376-2677 for appointment.
Friends of the Library Meeting 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Orcas Library. Open to all.
Eastsound Sewer District Meeting, 4:30 p.m. at District Offices off North Beach Road. Gate code posted on the gate. Open to all.
“Tracker Dogs: Saving Killer Whales” – Marine Lecture Series by Katherine Ayres, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Washington’s Center for Conservation Biology will explain how and why she is using tracker dogs to save endangered southern resident killer whales. 7 p.m. Lectures are free. Please park in the upper parking lot at Camp Orkila. Shuttle service from the parking lot to the talk is available before and after the lecture. Free. 376-3910.
Nepal Slide Show Presentation by Jeff Bossler from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Senior Center. Free. Open to all.
Orcas Island Fire Commissioners Meeting 7:30 p.m. at the Eastsound Fire Hall. 376-2331.
Wednesday, Feb. 10
Deer Harbor Plan Review Committee Meeting 3:45 to 5 p.m. at the Deer Harbor Community Club.
Art Reception of works by Sadie Bailey and Marguerite Greening. At Washington Federal Bank for the month of February. Reception in the bank compound building from 4 to 6 p.m.
Special School Board Meeting 4:30 p.m. at the Orcas School Library. Custodial and business manager position openings to be approved by the school board. 376-2284
Thursday, Feb. 11
Orcas Park and Recreation District meeting 12 to 2 p.m. at Orcas Senior Center.
Joe Floren Abstract Show at the Senior Center. Opening reception 4 to 6:30 p.m.
Friends of Moran Annual Meeting at 5:30 on Thursday February 11th at the State Park office. The public is welcome and encouraged to come. For more information, go to info@friendsofmoran.com
Dorothy Trogdon and Laurel Rust Poetry reading at Darvill’s Bookstore at 6 p.m. Dorothy Trogdon will read from “31 Poems,” and Laurel Rust will read from her collection “Here and Nowhere Else.”
Port District meeting 7 p.m. at Port Offices.
San Juan County’s Historic Barns Presentation at the Orcas Island Senior Center, Lundeen Room, at 7 p.m. Sandy Strehlou and Boyd Pratt from 100 Friends of Old Island Barns share results of the county-wide historic barn inventory. All are welcome. For more information call the San Juan County Land Bank office 360-378-4402.
Christina’s Trivia Competition, hosted by Dave Page, begins at 7:30 p.m. and features half-priced bottles of wine. Call Christina’s at 376-4904.
Friday, Feb. 12
School of the Salish Sea Fundraiser. Warm up for Valentines Day with a sizzling hot salsa dance party, featuring Orcas’ own sizzling hot dancers Maria and Learner. The school is located in the Tracy Strong Lodge at Camp Orkila. Parking at Orkila’s main parking lot, with shuttle available. Limited parking at the school for those who need it. Children are welcome and there will be activities and fun for them too. Bring some extra cash for the savory and sweet bake sale. Suggest donation of $10/person or $15/couple (kids under 12 are free) 7 to 10 p.m. For more information, call 376-3367.
“In Search of Beethoven” new feature-length film about the life of Ludwig van Beethoven at the Episcopal Parish Hall in Eastsound. The movie screens at 7 p.m. (wine and food available from 6 p.m.). Admission by donation. For further details, contact Patricia Nathan at pnathan@seventh-art.com.
Saturday, Feb. 13
Gordeaux’s Grand Re-Opening in Eastsound Square (109 North Beach Road B-2). Stop in to say ‘Hi’, have some refreshments and tap your toes to music by JP and the OK Rhythm Boys. From 4 to 6 p.m. For information, call Gordeaux’s at 376-4673.
League of Women Voters Open House in Friday Harbor from 3 to 5 p. m. at 165 Byron Road. Members, friends, and newcomers invited to commemorate 100 years of women’s suffrage in the state of Washington and 90 years of League of Women Voters support for our democracy. Call 378-1082 for directions or call Marian O’Brien at 376-1402 for transportation in Friday Harbor to the Open House.
Cupid’s Closet Flea Market at the West Sound Community Hall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $20 table fee. Proceeds benefit Fidelis Circle Scholarship Fund. Call 376-4198 or 376-3441
Moqui at the Center Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Orcas Center. Jazz vocalist extraordinaire Moqui celebrates Valentine’s Day and her new CD release entitled “Sketches”, a collection of some of the greatest jazz tunes including “Nature Boy” and “I Wish You Love.” Tickets $15 are available at Orcas Center or contact Donna Laslo at dlaslo@aol.com
Karaoke – “Love Stinks/Ain’t Love Grand” at the Lower. Hosted by Charlie Robinson, starting at 9 p.m.
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February 6th, 2010
Save the bees! Spring is just around the corner and bees are already starting their work on warm afternoons. But bees, both wild and domestic, native and non-native, are threatened!
Evidence continues to accumulate that radiation from wireless devices is the primary cause of colony collapse disorder (CCD) and the disappearance of wild bees. The radiation seems to affect the bee’s ability to navigate. Do you like to eat? Most of our food crops (especially in SJC) must be pollinated by bees to produce fruit, vegetables, or most important, seed. When enough bees disappear, so will people.
What can you do? It’s simple! Turn off wireless devices during hours of daylight when the temperature is above 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) and tell visitors and tourists to do the same.
Steve Ludwig, Lopez Island
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February 6th, 2010
"Paper Fish," a recent work by Joe Floren, one of many on display at the Senior Center. Opening Reception on Thursday, Feb. 11
“In an Abstract State of Mind,” a mixed exhibit of paintings and digital photographs by island artist Joe Floren, will be featured in the Lundeen gallery at Orcas Senior Center throughout February.
A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, February 11, from 4 to 6:30 p. m.
Floren, whose main recent emphasis is abstract photography, will include in the show several large acrylic paintings, also heavily abstract in approach.
This is his first one-man show on Orcas since 2007. His works have been shown in one-man and group exhibits in galleries and museums in Portland, Tacoma, Yakima and Seattle, and are part of private and corporate art collections throughout the Northwest.
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February 5th, 2010
While the Orcas Center rocks with the raw and refined talents of the nine contestants in Orcas Idol this Saturday, behind the scenes the Orcas Island Prevention Partnership (OIPP), a Community Coalition, is fulfilling its mission to support and promote safe and healthy lifestyles.
The community members of OIPP Community Coalition are constantly and, more often than not, quietly working to bring “creative, respectful and productive” experiences to the community. To that end, OIPP is planning a survey for Orcas Middle and High School Students following the 44th Super Bowl on Sunday, to rate the ads that are as much of a draw as the sports event for television watchers.
Executive Director Marta Nielson of the Orcas Island Prevention Partnership, a Community Coalition
OIPP members come from school, health, church, business, mental health, youth, and senior organizations and non-profits. Through collective advocacy for prevention issues, the OIPP Community Coalition strives to fulfill its mission “to support a safe a healthy community in which youth and adults may live creative, respectful, and productive lives free of substance abuse.”
The “Orcas Idol” show began five years ago, piggy-backing on the popularity of the “American Idol” television show to promote the OIPP message.
Previous “Idols” have been Jenole Peacock, Jason Kraayeveldt, Locket Goodrich, and Pamela Wright.Entertainment-hungry islanders crowd the Orcas Center for the February show on the Orcas Center’s mainstage, and the Madrona Room is opened for overflow crowds to watch the proceedings on a video feed.
The Orcas Idol committee members help the contestants choose music and prepare for the Idol auditions (at which a Junior Orcas Idol is chosen: in years past they have been Jules Mann, Thika Zbornik and Jessica Gudgell; this year, they are Emmy and Lisa Carter) and for the competition’s finale.
All the proceeds raised by Orcas Idol stay on Orcas Island to enable OIPP Community Coalition work.
Orcas Idol may be the glamor girl of OIPP promotions, but the 13 partners who work together in OIPP Community Coalition also create, organize and promote:
- The Natural Helpers Group of Peer Support in the 6th-8th grades
- Teen Tutoring that matches High School tutors with Orcas Island Elementary School students
- 5th and 6th grade Teach-In held in cooperation with Camp Orkila
- Orcas Parents Encouraging Network phone tree, identified by asterisks in the school directory that helps parents network to set clear rules and provide supervision
- Funhouse Mentoring by adult community members
- Point Blank teen leadership club
- Community Mindfulness forums
- Active Parenting Classes in cooperation with the Readiness to Learn progam
- Life Skills and Second Step classes, offered in the Orcas Island School District Elementary and Middle Schools
OIPP Community Coalition Director Marta Nielson says, “By collaborating with both county and state agencies, the coalition members and Partners are committed to helping ‘weave the safety net.’ Recognizing that reducing stress and trauma, substance abuse and violence are necessary for a healthy community, the Coalition Partners help by providing intervention, education, running programs for youth and parents, sharing information and mobilizing the community.”
New this year, OIPP has arranged for students in the 6th through 12th grades at Orcas public schools to take a short survey of the Super Bowl commercials. (The National Football League’s Super Bowl XLIV is scheduled for Sunday, February 7, 2010, with television coverage on CBS.)
The survey is prepared by the Drug-Free Action Alliance, and distributed nationwide. Orcas middle and high school students will have the opportunity to share their thoughts on what advertisements they remember seeing and which commercial takes their top vote.
Ads lasting 30 seconds and costing $3 million each will push products from McDonalds, Budweiser, Doritos, Boost mobile and internet sites godaddy.com, careerbuilder.com and homeaway.com, among others.
Statistics from the Drug-Free Action Alliance show:
- Approximately 98.7 million Americans watched the 2009 Super Bowl, making it the largest viewed television event ever;
- About 17.7 million American youth (under 21) were among those viewers;
- The number one most liked and most recalled commercial was a beer ad, featuring a Budweiser Clydesdale competing with a Dalmation in a game of fetch;
- AnheuserBusch also produced the three most recalled ads last year, and took the title as“top advertiser” with more commercial time than any other advertiser;
The Drug-Free Action Alliance gives statistics establishing that:
Alcohol is the Leading Drug Problem Among Youth (Source: 2008 NSDUH: National Findings): There are approximately 10.7 million underage drinkers in the United States.
Alcohol is Associated with Risky Behavior (Source: The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking, 2007):
- Annually, about 5,000 people under 21 die from alcohol related injuries.
- An estimated 7.2 % of 16 or 17 year olds and 16.7 % of 18 to 20 year olds reported driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year. (Source: 2008 NSDUH: National Findings)
- Underage drinking plays significant role in increased sexual behavior, including unwanted, unintended and unprotected sexual activity, and sex with multiple partners
- Teen girls who binge drink are 63% more likely to get pregnant while in their teen years. (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
To take part in the Super Bowl ad survey, go to Drug-Free Action Alliance Super Bowl Survey 2010
Current:
Our mission is to support a safe a healthy community in which youth and adults may live creative, respectful, and productive lives free of substance abuse.
Goal One: to strengthen and to sustain community efforts to reduce substance abuse among youth by promoting and enhancing collaboration between families, schools, community service organizations, federal, state, and county government organizations by:
•Increasing community participation in prevention activities;
•Enhancing prevention capacity through increased organizational structure, leadership development and funding.
Goal Two: to reduce substance abuse among youth by addressing factors that place Orcas youths at risk for substance abuse, and increase those protective factors which strengthen youth and community. To achieve these goals, OIPP will coordinate and implement multiple strategies across the four domains of community, family, school, and peers.
Goal Three: to reduce substance abuse over time. This will be accomplished by collaborating between community and family domains.
OIPP is planning a short survey on Monday February 8th following the Super Bowl. The survey will go to students in 6th – 12th grade.
This is a part of what was sent home to parents in the newsletter:
“The Drug Free Alliance Super Bowl Survey 2010, is a simple, three-question, student survey given on the Monday morning following the Super Bowl. Joining with other schools nationwide, Orcas middle and high school students will have an opportunity to share their thoughts on what advertisements they remember seeing and which commercial takes their top vote. This information is then collected, summarized and shared with participating communities. This valuable, fresh and local information can help guide the Prevention Coalition in developing ways to help educate parents, students, lawmakers and the media about the effects of alcohol advertising on our youth.”
The Super Bowl is known for its commercials almost as much as it is for the game itself. Yet the type of products being advertised and the audience viewing those advertisements are of great concern. Results from the Drug-Free Action Alliance Super Bowl Survey 2009 revealed that two of the top three “most memorable” commercials, according to middle and high school students, were beer commercials. This falls in line with the studies that suggest alcohol companies are targeting youth in their advertising. Through research, we know that the more youth are exposed to alcohol in advertising, the more likely they are to consume alcohol underage.
In our quest to further research the impact of advertising on our youth, we invite you to participate in the Drug-Free Action Alliance Super Bowl Survey 2010.
Through a simple, three-question, student survey given Monday morning following the Super Bowl, middle and high school students share their thoughts on what advertisements they remember seeing and which commercial takes their top vote. This information is then collected, summarized and shared. You’ll see the results within several days post Super Bowl Sunday. This valuable, fresh and local information can then be used to educate parents, students, lawmakers and the media about the effects of alcohol advertising on youth.
In the Super Bowl Survey Kit , Drug-Free Action Alliance includes everything you’ll need to quickly and easily implement your local student survey, with additional ideas on student engagement and follow-up activities.
The National Football League’s Super Bowl XLIV is scheduled for February 7, 2010, with television coverage on CBS. Make the winning pass by taking advantage of this opportunity to get in the game!
If you have any Super Bowl Survey questions, please contact: Drug-Free Action Alliance Communications Director
2009 Super Bowl Stats (Source: The Nielsen Company):
· Approximately 98.7 million Americans (151.6 million worldwide) watched the 2009
Super Bowl making it the largest viewed television event ever.
· About 17.7 million American youth (under 21) were among those viewers.
· The number one mostliked
and mostrecalled
commercial was a beer ad, featuring a
Budweiser Clydesdale competing with a Dalmation in a game of fetch.
· AnheuserBusch
also produced the three most recalled ads last year, and took the title as
“top advertiser” with more commercial time than any other advertiser.
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Alcohol is the Leading Drug Problem Among Youth (Source: 2008 NSDUH: National Findings):
· Alcohol is the leading drug problem among youth
· There are approximately 10.7 million underage drinkers in the United States.
· Nearly 8,000 youths drink alcohol for the first time each day (Source: Join Together, Nov. 2007)
· Nearly 6.6 million (17.4%) underage drinkers are considered binge drinkers and more than 2.1
million (5.5 %) are classified as heavy drinkers.
NOTE: *Binge is defined as five or more drinks on an occasion. Heavy Drinking is defined as five or more
drinks on an occasion on five or more of the past 30 days.
Alcohol is Associated with Risky Behavior (Source: The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to
Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking, 2007):
· Underage drinking is the leading contributor of death from injuries. Annually, about 5,000 people
under 21 die from alcoholrelated
injuries.
· An estimated 7.2 % of 16 or 17 year olds and 16.7 % of 18 to 20 year olds reported driving under
the influence of alcohol in the past year. (Source: 2008 NSDUH: National Findings)
· Underage drinking plays significant role in increased sexual behavior, including unwanted,
unintended and unprotected sexual activity, and sex with multiple partners
· Teen girls who binge drink are 63% more likely to get pregnant while in their teen years. (Source:
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
· Alcohol use by youths has been linked to delinquent behaviors, including stealing, illicit drug use
and problems at home and at school
The Consequences of Underage Drinking are Real and Tragic (Source: National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Aug. 2008):
· Youth who drink alcohol are more likely to experience physical problems including hangovers,
illness and alcohol poisoning, memory problems, disruption of normal growth and sexual
development, among others negative effects.
· Research shows that heavy alcohol use by adolescents has longterm
effects on brain
development (Source: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research: Vol. 24, Number 2,
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Feb. 2000)
· Youth who begin drinking before age 15 are five times more likely to develop alcohol
dependence or abuse alcohol later in life, than those who begin drinking at or after age 21.
More information can be found at the following
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February 5th, 2010
From Moana Kutsche, President, Orcas Island Community Foundation
The Orcas Island Community Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010 competitive grants cycle. All nonprofit organizations with projects that will benefit Orcas Island are invited to apply. Applications must be received by OICF by Monday, March 15, 2010. This is a change from an erroneous date that was on our website. Funds will be given to successful applicants at the Grants Award Celebration in late May 2010.
OICF has traditionally given grants for programs, projects or materials. This year, we will consider applications for a small percentage of an organization’s operating expense budget, upon demonstration of extraordinary need. Organizations applying for operating expense grants must have sent a staff or board member to a continuing education program on governance, finance or fund-raising within the last year (does not have to be an OICF sponsored class), and must describe the how the organization has used that expertise. Please contact us if you have questions about this.
OICF encourages applicants to work with other nonprofit organizations. OICF will again consider grant applications for projects of two or three years’ duration.
We are happy to pre-review draft applications. Drafts must be e-mailed to the committee chair by March 1, 2010.
The grant guidelines and application are available on the OICF website at www.oicf.us, or at the Foundation’s office at 141 Prune Alley, Suite 201, in Eastsound.
Please address questions to Grants Committee Chair Moana Kutsche at 376-7087 (my home number), or OICF Executive Director Hilary Canty at 376-6423, or e-mail grantapplications@oicf.us.
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