On
Aug 11, the Renville County Board unanimously voted to adopt
new language and regulations in the Renville County Tobacco Licensing
Ordinance. This is the first time the ordinance has been updated in almost 20
years! The updated ordinance contains current language and definitions with regard to the sale of tobacco and electronic delivery devices. It also
includes higher administrative penalties, retailer education requirements, a
minimum price of $2.10 for cigars, a maximum number of tobacco retail
establishments in the county, restriction of sales near youth-oriented
facilities, and restriction of sales within pharmacies. Kudos to the
Kandiyohi-Renville SHIP staff, the local DFC (RAPAD) staff, Public Health
staff, and community members who spent the past year working on the ordinance!
The
City of Goodridge in Pennington County adopted a Tobacco-Free Outdoor policy on
May 20th at their council meeting, and it was implemented on July 1st.
Three parks are now tobacco free, which includes prohibiting the use of
electronic cigarettes. The signs were up in time for the city’s 4th
of July Goodridge Centennial Celebration. This was a result of a successful
partnership between the City of Goodridge and the Quin TFC staff who met with
the Goodridge city council to provide educational information regarding how
outdoors space policies can benefit and protect youth from secondhand smoke.
Do you have a resource or success story (“gem”) to share for a future issue? Submissions for each week’s Thursday publication are due by noon every Tuesday to Health.MakingitBetter@state.mn.us or community specialists for:
Local Foods, Local Places is a federal initiative
that helps communities create walkable, healthy, economically vibrant
neighborhoods through the development of local food systems.
Communities,
including neighborhoods or main street districts, are invited to apply for
technical assistance to build strong local
food systems as part of their emerging economic action plans. Selected communities
in this new round of Local Foods, Local Places will receive direct technical
support from a team of agricultural,
transportation, public health, environmental, and regional economic experts. The assistance
process features a workshop that brings community members together to develop
shared goals and steps to achieve them. The resulting action plans will use
local foods to support healthy families and communities and to drive downtown
and neighborhood revitalization.
A simple application form and
guidelines for a letter of interest are available. Click
here to go to the online application form.
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Vigilance is the state of being carefully observant and attentive, in order to notice and respond to potential dangers or threats. The 2015 Overcoming Racism conference will explore what vigilance looks like and what vigilance requires of us in order to resist and transform the system of racial hierarchy operating in our lives, organizations, institutions and communities. Click here for more information.
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The University of Minnesota has released a report that discusses efforts
to foster non-motorized traffic monitoring. (The Minnesota Bicycle and
Pedestrian Counting Initiative: Implementation Study).The objectives were to install and
validate permanent automated sensors, use portable sensors for short duration
counts, develop models for extrapolating counts, and integrate continuous
counts into MnDOT traffic monitoring databases. Click here for more.
Learn from experts and share your knowledge of how to count pedestrians. Are people with clipboards the only way? What technologies work and how can we use them? How can an agency improve an existing or start a new pedestrian count program? Join us for an information sharing webinar on this quickly evolving topic. We will learn from leaders in the field and encourage active audience involvement, so come prepared to share your experience! Click here to register.
New
Governor’s Highway Safety Association Everyone Walks Understanding and Addressing Pedestrian
Safety
Report looks at recent data on pedestrian crashes and deaths. Plus identifies 21
Actions to Help States Address Pedestrian Safety (MNDOT contributed to the
report).
International Walk to School Day is a one-day event occurring during Walk to School Month in October that encourages and celebrates walking to school. This webinar will offer tips and tools to use in planning your walk or bike to school day week, or month campaign, and throughout the school year. Whether this is your first time coordinating a Walk to School Day event, or whether you’re a Walk to School Day pro looking for fresh tips and ideas, the Safe Routes to School National Partnership and our partners are here to help you incorporate the 6E’s and ensure your most successful event yet! Click here to register.
Happy streets mean healthy communities:
they’re good for health, for business and for the environment.
The Statewide Pedestrian System Plan will
recommend policies, projects, and programs that will help make walking and
rolling safe, convenient and desirable for all in Minnesota.
The plan will include recommendations for
state, regional and local partners from transportation engineers to city
councils to public health practitioners
Help
us collect input in your region!
- If
you missed the July 28 webinar on “Minnesota is on Track to Improve
Walking,” you can find a recording of it here.
- The
community event toolkit
is now available! Please use these activities at local community
gatherings or meetings.
- The
survey link to submit your results can be found here.
- Please
let Jasna Hadzic know where you will be posting or using these activities,
so we can add it to the calendar.
Help
us spread the word and share this survey
on walking with people in your field and/or your neighbor, friend, family
member!
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The
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last week unveiled the HUD
Resource Locator – an innovative mobile app and website to further expand and
enhance traditional HUD customer service. The resource locator will offer
real-time HUD housing information at the fingertips of people looking to
quickly connect with building managers, public housing authority
representatives, and property management companies to inquire about housing
availability and other housing-related questions.
The
HUD Resource Locator mobile app is available via Apple iTunes,
Google Play Marketplace and also on your browser at resources.hud.gov.
The tobacco industry
spends $1 million every hour to market their deadly products and the Surgeon
General states that exposure to retail marketing encourages smoking and
undermines quit attempts. CounterTobacco.org is hosting a photo contest to help
capture the tobacco industry's marketing tactics at the point-of-sale. You can
help #MakeTobaccoHistory by exposing the tobacco industry's marketing tactics,
so grab your camera and start snapping pics today! For more information, and to
submit your photo, click here. Submissions are due by Sept 8.
Looking to make your
campus tobacco-free? The Tobacco-Free College Campus Initiative (TFCCI)
encourages students to speak up, take action and help more college campuses
become part of the tobacco-free movement. TFCCI recently developed Create
Change, a student tobacco control toolkit which provides resources to help
institute successful policies on campus.
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Save the Date for the October Making it Better Regional Learning Meetings.
Topics: Community Engagement, Health Care, Call it Quits-Tobacco Quit Line & Workplace Wellness
October 6 | Detroit Lakes
October 13 | Duluth
October 15 | Marshall
October 20 | Metro
October 27 | Rochester
All are invited to
the pre-conference session. For more
information and to register for the session: www.plannersconference.com
If not
attending the APA-MN conference, join afternoon session at the Rail River Folk
School in Bemidji (See MIB agenda NW & NE Regions 23 Sept 2015).
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