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Happy Thanksgiving from your local civic media station.
Across the civic media radio network, cooks 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, that's always the biggest thing we want to push, especially during
the season in general, cold season, all of 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 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.
Our next piece of advice is to use your meat thermometer.
I think a temperature of the turkey, in like the thickest part, like 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 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 Wisconsinites
understand history, power, and culture.
Reporter Savannah Tome Olsen has more.
About 144,000 people across Wisconsin identify as Native Indian or a Velascan heritage,
according to the 2020 census.
Many of them belong to one of the state's 11 federally recognized tribes.
Bonanza 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 to tribal nations, businesses, and programs.
Since 2018, the federal government has awarded Wisconsin Tribes $2.8 billion in funding.
The Brookings analysis found about 750 million of that has been paid, but the funding freeze
puts $2 billion 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 a 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, Lynn 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 in Appleton, offers pop-up living rooms
in 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 Shally Pittman.
Another loss for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Hi, I'm Mike 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 6 in a row.
Before the game, it looked as if Yannis was close to making a return after missing
the past four games, with that strain left at Doctor, head coach Doc Rivers asked if he
thought Yannis was ready to play.
No, I was not in favor, I was very happy we decided, but we decided that was very uncomfortable
with it.
He really wanted to push.
You know, that's what Yannis is.
I was very happy with our medical team today, they decided to end it today, less weight,
and I, you know, obviously as a coach, I can't get involved but so much.
But I told Yannis 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 clements.
Mostly cloudy today, we may see a few flurries later this afternoon, especially south are
high today in the mid to upper 20s tonight, mostly cloudy with a low dropping into the teens
tomorrow, partly cloudy.
With a high in the mid 20s, looks like we're in for some snow by Friday night, did the Saturday
I-B-D-Urologist Sean Cable.
