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Happy Thanksgiving from your local civic media station. Across the civic media radio network,
hooks are prepping baking, chopping and dicing as the Thanksgiving feast nears.
Reporter Lisa Hale has more on food safety this time of year.
No one wants food poisoning on a holiday weekend. So Morgan Peterson, Environmental Health
Specialist with the Winnipego County Public Health Department recommends keeping food safety
top of mind, starting with the basics hand washing washing your hands. It's always the
biggest thing we want to push, especially during the season in general cold season all
that washing your hands for a full 20 seconds, having the kids that you're cooking with washed
our hands for a full 20 seconds as well. Beware of cross contamination.
What you kind of see in a lot of home kitchens, especially when you have a lot of cooks in
the kitchen is not knowing where raw items are being placed and not knowing that you need
to, you know, completely clean and sanitize that area, especially when you're working
with turkey or Peterson recommends using household bleach to sanitize surfaces, sinks and
utensils. Her next piece of advice is to use your meat thermometer.
I think a temperature of the turkey in like the thickest part of the breast of the turkey
or somewhere like that, that's where you'll get that true internal temperature of the meat.
Speaking of getting food up to temperature and keeping it safe, Peterson said managing
a buffet is as simple as keeping the hot foods hot and the cold foods cold and then refrigerate
foods that have been sitting out for two hours.
We do recommend kind of the two hour timeline, especially for items that should be, you
know, cold held or kept below 41, usually two hours leaving it out, but make sure it gets
into the fridge within that timeline is fine.
Peterson added food can easily harbor bacteria that can make people sick when it enters the
danger zone between 41 degrees Fahrenheit and 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Check out the infographic
on the Winnebago County Public Health Department social media pages for Thanksgiving tips
and tricks for civic media news, I'm Lisa Hale.
It's also Native American Heritage Month and advocates are working to reframe how Wisconsin
ites understand history, power and culture. Reporter Savannah Tome Olsen has more.
About 144,000 people across Wisconsin identify as Native Indian or of Alaskan heritage according
to the 2020 census. Many of them belong to one of the state's 11 federally recognized
tribes, but Nancy Johauk from the American Indian College Fund says indigenous voices often
aren't heard by the masses. The fund has launched a new campaign that highlights significant
contributions to our culture that came from Native people.
Scientists who have developed and produced really great things, the original regenerative
farming, the three sisters crop planning, rocket technology and the patterns of our ecosystem,
all of that Native people have influenced hugely.
Indigenous people are more likely to have economic disadvantages. 27% of Native kids in Wisconsin
live in poverty compared to 8% of all Wisconsin children. The Trump administration is working
to institute a funding freeze that the Brookings Institute reports would impact 24 billion
dollars to tribal nations, businesses and programs. Since 2018, the federal government
has awarded Wisconsin tribes 2.8 billion dollars in funding. The Brookings analysis found
about 750 million of that has been paid, but the funding freeze puts 2 billion dollars
in jeopardy. America's history, including the many harms suffered by Native people after
European settlers arrived on the continent, cannot be rewritten. But how it says the history
of Native people is a story of hope. Native people have been around for over 12,000 years
in the United States. And I think that's a testament to their resiliency and their resourcefulness.
And I think that we can all really learn a lot from that, especially now.
I'm Savannah Tome Olsen. This is Civic Media News.
And back to Lisa Hale, who has more on one initiative designed to combat loneliness that's
finding success in Wisconsin. It's called the community living room. The community living
room offers a healing space where people are seen, heard and valued as they are. Its
focus is on present moment connection and support co-founder Lim McLaughlin.
The community living room is a non clinical supportive space for people looking for connection,
not always distress or crisis, but just connecting with people at a real authentic level co-founder
Karen Iverson Riggers. We've trained more than 2,500 people in emotional
CPR and lots of folks asked, like, where can I find someone who's going to listen like this?
And so that's part of where community living room came from was creating a listening space
without judgment, without fixing, without plans, just being present with each other.
And she says it's working. This project is phenomenal at reducing
both emotional distress and social isolation and loneliness.
McLaughlin emphasizes that there are no monetary requirements to use the community living room.
So there's no need for an appointment, no insurance, no diagnosis, no label, so to speak.
It's open to all human beings that have a heartbeat and breathe.
The community living room has a brick and mortar space.
And Appleton offers pop-up living rooms and libraries and other public-facing community
spaces throughout the state and virtual events.
See our story at civicmedia.us for more information.
For civic media news, I'm Lisa Hale.
For civic media news, happy Thanksgiving. I'm Shelley Pittman.
Another loss for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Hi, I'm my Clemens with sports basketball. The Milwaukee Bucks came close, but could not finish
losing on the road in Miami to the heat 106-103. The Bucks have now lost six in a row.
Before the game, it looked as if Yanis was close to making a return after missing the past four
games. With that strain left, a doctor had coach Doc Rivers asked if he thought Yanis was ready
to play. No, no, I was not in favor. I was very happy. We decided what we decided. That was very
uncomfortable with it. He really wanted to push. That's what Yanis is. I was very happy with our
medical team today. They decided to end the day less weight. And obviously as a coach,
I can't get involved but so much. But I told Yanis that this morning that it should be a note
tonight and then the medical team told him as well. That's the Bucks had coach Doc Rivers
with sports on my Clemens. Mostly cloudy and a bit breezy with a little blowing snow.
Today are high in the upper 20s to low 30s. Tonight partly cloudy will drop into the upper
teens to low 20s. Tomorrow sunny with a high in the mid to upper 20s. And we are looking at the
potential for heavy snow by Friday night into Saturday. I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.