The O’odham Action News – can be found at a variety of locations throughout the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

Your O’odham Action News team designs each issue of the newspaper that is published the first and third Thursday of each month and sends it out digitally to two places first: the printing press we contract with, and via .pdf file on the O’odham Action News website at https://oan.srpmic-nsn.gov/oan-srpmic-nsn-gov-archives/.

How does the newspaper get to you? Well, once printed, our printing press brings the newspaper to the Community in bundles before the sun comes up on delivery day.

O’odham Action News staff, with the help of Community members enrolled in the Human Resources’ Day Worker Program, split the bundles into two different piles.

One pile goes inside to be labeled and sent out to Community members homes (via USPS mail) and to the addresses of the newspaper’s many other subscribers. OAN staff and Day Workers label the individual newspapers. The other pile is loaded up in a vehicle and driven to the following pick-up locations by O’odham Action News reporters.

“Delivery day reminds me of the people we write for. It feels good to hear people say they are excited to read the new issue because of all the hard work we put in,” said Nalani Lopez, news specialist at O’odham Action News. “Everything we do is for the Community, so to hear positive feedback from Community members means a lot. It makes my day to run into family, friends, and new people along the way.”

Lopez said it is fun delivering the newspapers because “…it’s like a mini-Salt River tour condensed into a couple hours.”

“We visit the departments, schools, enterprises, and everyone else working early in the morning,” she said. “Smelling the seniors’ breakfast of eggs and bacon when we drop off makes me excited to get back to the Round House so I can get a burrito too.”

The route begins at Fresnius Kidney Care and the Salt River Senior Center before heading off to the Way of Life Facility and the schools in the Community.

Community members and the public can get the newspaper at some of the next stops which include Discover Salt River, Residence Inn, Chevron, On-Auk-Mor locations, Beeline Gas Station, the River People Health Center and more (see graphic for a list of stops).

Driving around the Community, most news reporters agree about their must-have go-to jams coming through the speakers.

“If we’re listening to the radio, it must be 104.3,” said Lopez.

OAN news reporter Juan Ysaguirre concurs.

“Easy! 104.3 FM is all I need, until Christmas time and then I’ll tune in to 99.9 FM,” said Ysaguirre, who said he needs coffee, an unfrosted pop-tart and some slow jams while cruising the Community.

To have the newspaper sent to your home, head to the O’odham Action News website at https://oan.srpmic-nsn.gov/subscribe/. And be sure to check out our new YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/@oodhamactionnews.