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01A Front:01A Front 5/6/09 9:30 PM Page 1 MAY 7, 2009 In This Issue… Turn me loose...bald eagle released into wild By Steven J. Gandy rehydrated. Kalihwisaks The Bay Beach The Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Wildlife Sanctuary decided to release the released an immature eagle in Oneida as a way bald eagle back into the to thank the Oneida wild on Tuesday, May 5 Nation for its continued Farm Days – 2A at the Oneida nation support. Oneida Tribal School Elementary School. The “We know it has cul- Elementary students eagle was brought to the tural significance and the spent a day on the sanctuary last summer as Oneidas have been such Oneida Nation Farm a yearling with an illness. learning all about agri- great supporters of the culture. Mike Reed, Bay Beach Wild Life Sanctuary that Wildlife Sanctuary we just thought this Curator, said, “It basical- might be a nice thank you ly had food poisoning; its for them,” Reed said. crop was full of rotten This is not the first food…when we got it, it time that the Sanctuary was very weak and thin • See 2A, so we had to clean out all that rotten food and get it Eagle Release Kali Photos/Nate Wisneski & Steven J. Gandy An immature bald eagle was released into Cannery On Display the wild after being nursed back to health by – 2A The Oneida Cannery the Bay Beach wildlife Sanctuary. held an open house and invited community members to tour an upgraded facility along with tasting food the cannery makes. Poster Winners –11B Oneida Nation Elementary School art Oneida community ready for H1N1 swine flu virus teachers Cindy By Dawn Walschinski Thomas and Melissa Kalihwisaks “If we had to immunize everyone on this Kohn provided stu- Community Health Services Director reservation, we could probably get clinics dents with nutrition Eric Krawczyk wants Oneida area residents up within 45 minutes to an hour,” said education and then to know the Oneida Community Health Krawczyk. had students make Center (OCHC) is ready to deal with the The Oneida Business Committee (OBC) posters. H1N1 swine flu virus. approved an emergency ordinance concern- Section A “We have very good providers here, we ing isolation quarantine on Thursday, April have very good management, we have an 30. The ordinance would address closing Pages 2-4A/Local awesome nursing staff that just came schools or canceling public events to pre- Page 5A/Business together, got some education materials out vent the spread of the H1N1 virus. Page 6A/OBC Forum there,” said Krawczyk. “How people came The OCHC has H1N1 test kits, and the Page 7A/Government together was pretty positive.” health providers and lab have been trained Page 8A/Government Oneida is part of Bioterrorism in how to administer the tests and send Page 9A/CIP Consortium of Lake Michigan (BCOLM) results to a state lab. Page 10A/CIP team made up of eight local counties and “Oneida did have a suspect case, but it Page 11A/SEOTS the Stockbridge-Munsee and Menominee came back negative,” said Krawczyk. Page 12A/Family Carnival nations. The members have been in contin- There are 26 confirmed cases of H1N1 in Section B uous contact as well as listening to confer- Wisconsin with one case recently con- Page 1B/Lifestyles ence calls from Wisconsin. firmed in Brown County. Page 2B/Environmental “We’re in an area in the country that’s The symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus are Page 3B/Education really taken pandemic planning seriously, similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and Page 4B/THT and really have done a good job in being include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or Page 5B/Classifieds proactive and ready for it,” said Krawczyk. stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills Image courtesy of Center for Disease Control Page 6B/Good News Oneida has taken part in several drills and fatigue. The virus is contagious up to The H1N1 virus strain. Page 7B/OJS with BCOLM as well as held tabletop exer- seven days after an individual gets sick. women, and those with chronic health con- Page 8B/Stimulus cises practicing different emergency sce- The Centers for Disease Control and ditions such as asthma or diabetes may Page 9B/Local narios. Last fall Oneida used its annual flu Prevention website states most infected want to seek medical assistance. Page 10B/Sports shot clinic as a mock mass immunization people will recover without medical assis- More information is available on-line at Page 11B/Health clinic and documented the experience on tance, but people at risk for complications http://pandemic.wisconsin.gov/ or by call- Page 12B/OCIFS video. such as the elderly, children, pregnant ing 211 for local community resources. Oneida cyclist sets American history By Nate Wisneski ported by donors and Kalihwisaks sponsors. “It was cold, Oneida tribal mem- rainy, hail, and (it) ber Cole House, 21, even snowed a little has accomplished bit,” said House. something no other “Belgium is a lot like American has been Wisconsin. It’s pretty able to do, win the flat, just short steep Grand Prix Waregem. climbs, nothing to The Grand Prix long.” Waregem is considered The race was 130 one of the more presti- kilometers, roughly 81 gious cycling races in miles, and House was the country of Belgium on his own for the final and was held March push. “I was there with 25. no teammates. It was a Conditions during hard race the whole the race were less than day. It came down to ideal for House who is 25 guys in the last 10 racing for the U23 kilometers,” House National Team while in said. Europe. The U23 The final 25 National Team is fund- bunched to form three Kali file photo separate groups as they ed through USA Cole House, front right, leads the pack dur- Cycling who is sup- • See 2A, House ing a local 17 day race in Howard. 02A Local:02A Local 5/6/09 10:35 PM Page 1 2A (T#ken) • May 7, 2009 Local www.kalihwisaks.com National Guard soldier honors Bataan Youth day on the farm Prisoners of War By Kristen J. Tlachac, a 2007 gradu- Kali photo/Nate Wisneski Kubiasiak ate of Southern Door Oneida Nation kkubisiak@doorcountyadvo- High School and member Tribal School stu- cate.com of the Oneida Tribe of dents take a closer A Door Indians of look at seed being County sol- Wisconsin, held by Oneida dier recently enlisted in Nation Farm completed a the National great feat Guard in employee Jeremy while pay- D e c e m b e r Pederson during ing tribute to 2006. He the Youth Day on military his- was activat- the Farm on tory. ed last Thursday, April 23. National February in The students toured Guard PFC. the largest the Apple Orchard, J e s s e operational Buffalo herd, and Tlachac of deployment the farm while S t u r g e o n PFC. Jesse of Wisconsin learning about farm Bay partici- Tlachac Guard troops equipment and the pated in a since World role the farm plays grueling, 26.2-mile War II. desert competition Tlachac is a member in the Oneida com- March 31, to honor of Company B, 2nd munity. World War II Prisoners of Battalion, 127th Infantry War. based in Green Bay, “It was a great chance which has been training to honor the veterans and with the 32nd Infantry what they had been Brigade Combat Team at through,” Tlachac said. Fort Bliss in Texas for The Bataan Memorial about four weeks. Death March is a “(Joining the National marathon through the Guard) was just some- high desert terrain of thing I always wanted to White Sands Missile do,” Tlachac said. “I Range. It honors POW’s wanted to serve my who were forced by the country.” Japanese to march for Tlachac was one of days in the tropical heat about 5,300 people who of the Philippines in participated in the march. 1942. Thousands of Representatives from all POW’s died during the 50 U.S. states and eight ordeal. countries participated. “Just doing the 26.2- The march included mile ruck was hard civilian participants and enough, and we had members of each branch water and food to keep us of the U.S. azrmed going. I can’t imagine forces. Individuals or x what they went through,” Tlachac said. • See 5A, Tlachac From Page 1A/Oneida Cyclist neared the finish line. of bike lengths. House was included in House hopes to use the the final bunch. “At that momentum gained from point I thought my race his victory to advance to was done,” he said. “For the Pro Tour, which is some reason, everything home to world famous came back together.” races such as the Tour De House worked his way France. to about tenth place when House currently races he decided to make his on the BMC Racing run. Most sprints start Team, which is a devel- about 300 meters from opmental team, while he the finish line. “I jumped races in the United with about 350 meters States. His season sched- left. For an ideal sprint, ule is set until the end of that was a little too far June and then his team back,” he said. “I have a will examine his good sprint, but I didn’t strengths and weakness- know the other riders so es. “We will re-evaluate if I can jump and get a and see where I need to gap I knew I could hold it improve and place me in to the end.