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May 10, 2012 One man standoff causes site lockdown By Nate Wisneski Oneida Police Around 3:00 p.m. the ing a basketball tourna- Kalihwisaks Department located the suspect surrendered to ment. It also closed sec- A 30-year old Antigo man’s car in Site I about Oneida Police Officers tions of Highway 54 and man surrendered to a half-hour later when and SWAT team mem- police after a 4 ½-hour no vehicles were allowed the standoff started as the bers. After his surrender, standoff on in or out of Site I. man refused to exit his a loaded handgun along Commissioner Street in He was arrested offi- vehicle. with a shotgun with Site I in Oneida on cially arrested by the Saturday afternoon. Police utilized a robot ammunition was recov- At 10 a.m. on Saturday from the Brown/ ered. Ashwaubenon Police morning the man’s ex- Outagamie County bomb Authorities confirmed Department and is being girlfriend notified police squad to negotiate a sur- only one shot was fired held in the Brown he was at her residence render while the robot and it was from officers County Jail. Personnel on Echo Lane in from the Oneida Police Ashwaubenon with a operator was able to attempting to disable the handgun. He then left the determine the man was suspect’s vehicle. Department along with residence. drinking and had a hand- The standoff forced a the Brown County Officers from the gun through a monitor. lockdown in the area Sherriff’s Department, The robot also placed including the Oneida What’s Inside… Ashwaubenon Police stop sticks around the Community Library Kali photo/Nate Wisneski vehicle in an attempt to along with the Civic • See 2A, A Brown County police officer points his immobilize it. Center, which was host- Standoff assault rifle at the perpetrator. ONSS celebrates and remembers Business – 5A Matt Cornelius makes helping people his busi- ness at Lyndahl Funeral Home. Skenadore honored – 10A An Oneida WWII vet was honored during a Green Bay event. Sports – 10B The Thunderhawks soft- ball team took on Stockbridge in a home Kali photos/Dawn Walschinski game The Oneida Nation School Section A System (ONSS) celebrated 2–4A/Local Oneida Culture Day on Friday, 5A/Business May 4 with cultural games, 6A/OBC Forum crafts, songs and dancing. 7A/OTJS Top 8A/Local : Culture Teacher Sonny Hill 9A/State and ONSS Superintendent 10A/National Sharon Mousseau unveil a sign Section B 1B/Lifestyles dedicated to the memory of for- 2B/Environment mer teacher Debbie Cornelius 3B/Education who passed this spring. 4B/Classifieds Left 5B/Good News : Kindergarten students 6B/THT Xavior Escamea and Samantha 7B/Local Anderson participate in a Round 8-9B/Health Dance. 10B/Sports Oneida officers honored at Best Badge ceremony Quick thinking and team- work earned members of the Oneida Police Department (OPD) a Best Badge Award from the Outagamie County District Attorney’s office. Officer Brandon Vande Hei, Detective/Sergeant Ron King Jr., Assistant Chief Eric Boulanger, Officer Larry Jordan, Officer Dan House, Officer Nate Ness, Officer Matt Ninham, Sergeant Heather Martin, and Outagamie Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chad Gross were honored for their work dur- ing the Deke Suri case in which Suri was sentenced to 10 years of probation for his aborted attempt to kill him- self and four sons with sleep- Submitted photo ing pills. The case was Oneida Police officers display their honor certificates at an awards recep- • See 8A, tion held on April 19, 2012. Pictured from left to right: Brandon Vande Hei, OPD honors Matthew Ninham, Nathan Ness, Eric Boulanger, Dan House 2A (T#ken) • May 10, 2012 Local www.kalihwisaks.com Older American’s Month Profiles Oneida students receive UWGB McLester sees history go full circle Celebrating Success award Kali photo/Travis Cottrell Kali photo/Dawn Walschinski Left to Right: Freddie Miller, Jessica House, and Emily Pelky. Lee “Gordy” McLester III has had a life-long interest in Oneida his- Noelle Metoxen and Mariah Metoxen were also recognized tory which led to his involvement with the Oneida History Conferences and in helping to create six books concerning Oneidaʼs but were unable to attend. past. Five Oneida students were among those who were recognized at By Dawn Walschinski graphs, in different and lived in it for two the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay's 12th annual Kalihwisaks books, but there was years. Celebrating Success program that was held on the university's In recognition of nothing comprehensive,” “At that time we were campus on Friday, May 4, 2012. Older Americans he said. “The only time able to get electricity Noelle Metoxen - Oneida Nation High School, Mariah Metoxen you had something down here, but we didn’t Month, the Indian was have any kind of running - Seymour High School, Emily Pelky - Seymour High School, Kalihwisaks will Thanksgiving.” water, no telephone, and Freddie Miller - Oneida Nation High School, and Jessica House When the McLesters we had to cut wood for - Oneida Nation High School were the Oneida students who were interview Oneida returned to Wisconsin, the heat,” he said. nominated for the award. elders for the month the young scholar tried Eventually, McLester The Celebrating Success program rewards local African- of May. again. was able to get discarded American, Native American, Hispanic, and Asian high school stu- “We came back here lumber from dismantled Lee “Gordy” McLester dents who impact their schools and communities in a positive and it was much the refrigerator cars and a III tried to decline being manner. same. When I went into $500 loan from a revolv- interviewed for the Each area school nominates three juniors who have done well the libraries in Seymour, ing fund from Oneida. Kalihwisaks Elder academically, demonstrate good role model traits, and positively they had two paragraphs, “Proverbial one stick at Month series, but consid- impact their communities and their future. one paragraph, no para- a time,” he said. ering he’s produced over graph, in the school sys- McLester’s children 500 videotaped inter- tem. It just wasn’t there, were going to school, and views of Oneida elders, it and I wanted to learn running into the same seems only appropriate Standoff more about it,” he said. void of information when to start with him. From 1A/ After high school, it came to Native McLester is the son of McLester served in the American history as he Lee G. McLester Jr. and Marines Reserves and did. Department, faces misdemeanor to have Oneida Police, Pearl “Schuyler” later went to vocational “We went to the school Hobart/Lawrence Police charges of possession of Ashwaubenon Public McLester. His father got school. He married Betty board, and they said Department and a firearm while intoxicat- Safety, Brown County a job as a machinist in Benson and they moved ‘that’s all we have, we Outagamie County ed, and intentionally Sheriffs Department, Detroit and moved the to Milwaukee where he don’t have anything. If Sherriff’s office respond- pointing a firearm Hobart - Lawrence family there when worked in a plant and at there’s going to be some- ed to the incident. towards another. Police, and Outagamie McLester was two-years- the post office. thing, it’s got to be devel- The man was consid- Oneida Police County Sheriffs old. They stayed until the “But I didn’t really oped.’ So what we did is ered wanted on parole Department Chief Rich Department respond to end of War World II. care for the environment, a group of us parents got violations. He was arrest- Van Boxtel credits the an emergency to work It was there McLester so we moved back proba- together and we got some ed on three felonies that cooperation of the partic- collaboratively and developed an interest in bly around 1961- 62. We people to help us,” he include being a felon in ipating agencies in ensure the safety of our Oneida history after hav- got a piece of land said. The group got help possession of a firearm, resolving the incident. community resulted in no ing learned there were around here, and at that from people working on recklessly endangering “This incident demon- one being hurt and a three Oneida communi- time there was nobody the land claim, and safety, and failure to strated the ability of local peaceful resolution to the ties from grandparents on this road. The roads developed curriculum. comply with officers law enforcement to come incident,” said Van and people around him. were gravel if you could The effort also started the attempting to take a per- together to deal with an Boxtel. He tried to learn more get down them. The elec- home school coordina- son into custody. He also emergency. Being able about their shared past. tricity … was about a tors program, now “I went into the library half a mile away,” he referred to as Youth at school and I tried to said. Enrichment Services find out as much as I At the time, there were (YES) Advocates. www. .com could. The little research kalihwisaks no loans available for “At the same time there I did as a grade school for the latest News and electronic Kalihwisaks issues building on the reserva- was a group of us that we person, there wasn’t any- tion. With the help of thing. There was a para- their families, the young graph, two paragraphs, • See 8A, couple built a basement one paragraph, no para- McLester To Subscribe… Mail to… Mailing address: WARRIORS OF FOREIGN WARS Name: Kalihwisaks facebook.com/ ATTN: kalihwisaks POST 7784 ONEIDA Address: Yvonne Kaquatosh P.O.

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