From left: Christina Wilson, executive director, Integrated Community Planning of Oswego County, Inc.; Trish Levine, director, Health and Wellness, YMCA; Kerrie Webb, executive director, YMCA; and Joseph Wicks, Tobacco Free Network of CNY community engagement coordinator, Integrated Community Planning of Oswego County, Inc.
OSWEGO, NY – Per Harborfest policy, “Smoking is not permitted in any tented areas. We strongly discourage smoking in all of the festival’s venues. Tobacco will not be sold in any of the festival’s venues.”
Tobacco-free policies improve the health of our community as well as encourage smoking cessation.
In addition, they model positive behavior for youth, protect event guests and staff from secondhand smoke exposure, and reduce time spent cleaning up tobacco litter.
For more information about Harborfest policies, please visit http://www.oswegoharborfest.com/faqs/
Tobacco Free Network of CNY will collaborate with Oswego YMCA’s Harborfest Run, which is both a 10k run and a 5k walk/run.
This event will take place on July 29 at 8:30 a.m., after the Kids’ Fun Run at 8 a.m.
Both runs start in front of the Oswego YMCA Armory.
Registration for the run is available until July 26 at http://www.lightboxreg.com/oswego-ymca-harborfest-10k-run_2017
Tobacco Free Network of CNY and its youth partner, Reality Check are divisions of Integrated Community Planning of Oswego County, Inc., and are one of 25 statewide Advancing Tobacco-Free Communities contactors working to change the community environment to support New York State’s tobacco-free norm.
Our objectives are: Point of Sale (POS): Reduce the negative impact of tobacco product marketing and price; Tobacco Free Outdoors (TFO): Increase the number of local laws and voluntary policies that prohibit tobacco use in outdoor areas; Multi-unit Housing (MUH): Decrease secondhand smoke exposure in multi-unit housing, with emphasis on policies that protect the health of low-income residents; Smoke Free Media (SFM): Promotes policies that reduce tobacco use imagery in youth-rated movies, the internet and social media.
For more information about TFN, please contact [email protected]
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Yet at the very same venue, lets PROMOTE the sale of alcohol by 1) “sectoning off areas where its permitted”, 2)alcohol consumption contributing to “the harmfull effects of the public safety at large” leaving the event, and 3) the festive drunken atmosphere as “setting an example for youth to follow” later in life. The hipocrisy just never ends.
Just stop! There are responsible adults that enjoy a few drinks of alcohol beverages. If you don’t want your children there at the time of live music for adults, don’t bring them!! I think people, are responsible and this event offers trolley rides for free so no one drives under the influence!! Stop raining on everyone’s’ parade..don’t like being around it, don’t go and be around it!! Simple solution.