Stay Safe In The Sun

By Jim Tiffin
Cibola County Bureau

GRANTS — The Future Foundations Family Center will offer literature and information to the public from 8 a.m.-1 p.m., as an additional service for those planning to attend the Continental Divide Electric Cooperative annual meeting on April 28.

Center Executive Director Laura Malaj said several booths will be set up to provide information about tobacco prevention and sun safety.

The center is bringing its big jumping toys for kids as well as offering free face painting during the five hours the center will have booths set up prior to the meeting.

For tobacco prevention, there will be displays with photos of what smokeless or "spit" tobacco, such as the kind baseball players use, can do to the human body, including cancer of the mouth, Malaj said.

Members of the center's Youth Council, who are well informed about tobacco prevention because it is one of the council's main projects every year, will also be on hand to talk to anyone interested in what smokeless tobacco can do, how to stop and prevent medical problems, Malaj said.

On sun safety, the center has purchased a number of special individual sun screen bottles and will give those away as part of a packet which includes information about using sun screen to avoid the harmful affects of the sun's rays, she said.

"How to stay safe in the sun," is an important message, she said.

The center is providing this information prior to the annual meeting in the hopes that it will bring people to the meeting.

Information is available at the center, 551 W. Washington Ave., in Grants or by calling (505) 285-3542.

To contact reporter Jim Tiffin, call (505) 287-2197 or e-mail: jtiffin.independent@yahoo.com.