Health Center goes to same day clinic The LCO Community Health Center has gone through some major changes this month. The clinic has discontinued its walk in service and closed down the Urgent Care, while starting three new programs. First, the clinic has new hours making it easier to see a provider. They are now open from 8:00 am till 8:00 pm Monday thru Friday. Saturdays from 9 till 4 pm and on Sundays, from 10 till 4 pm. To make an appointment, clients are to call 638-5190. (Read more...)

Tribal budget approved by Joe Morey The LCO Tribal Council approved their 2009 budget on October 15, according to Brian Bisonette, LCO TGB secretary-treasurer. He stated that any tribal member wishing to see the budget is more than welcome to come and see him to make a request. (Read more...)

F.A.C.E. program making books for children By Joe Morey In order to better prepare children for school, the F.A.C.E. program at LCO Ojibwe School is making their own REALE books for their students, and setting out on a new goal to get books into the hands of needy children on other reservations. REALE books are picture and word books made for small children by their parents in the F.A.C.E. program, or they are made by the children themselves. The parents in the program make the books at www.realebooks.com at a cost of about $1 a book for the cost of ink and paper. The picture books are created with RealeWriter (“Really Writer”) software. RealeBooks offer the parents a unique way to get their students writing by making them the authors of their own books. They are a particularly promising tool for Family Literacy programs, allowing parents to create books to read to their children in English, their native language, or both languages. Children too can make RealeBooks, even adding their own artwork as illustrations by using a scanner to make digital copies of their drawings and paintings. (Read More...) In the pictures to the right, the top picture is a group picture of the parents: From L-R sitting) Delana White, Lisa Wade, Tiffany Billyboy, and standing L-R) Mindy Wolfe, Mary Sullivan, Angel Quaderer, Nichole Nalewaja, DaeShelle Sharlwo, center-base coordinator Tonia Cody and Rich Scharp. Parents not pictured include Stephanie Quaderer, Ashley Kagigebi, Sarah Butler and Violet Alwes. In the middle picture: Dawn Kagigebi and Danielle Scott, home-based parent educators. The bottom picture is the classroom teachers Shannon Duffy-Hofer (pictured) and Debbie White with students which include Caden Grover, Elissa Chloe Doney, Gianna Tainter, Haley Cooper, Jayleigh Baker, Mahto Wade, Nevaeh Kagigebi, Prairie Martin, Quincy Billyboy, Savanah Larson, Thomas Quadere, Christian Alwes and Joshua Coon.

Quagon takes plea in Baby Bill homicide trial

By Joe Morey

Originally charged with first-degree homicide, Lonny Quagon pled guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree reckless homicide, following three days of jury trial in Sawyer County Circuit Court.
Quagon, 32, pled guilty, Oct. 8, to the charge of causing the death of his girlfriends one-year old son, William Fowler, Jr., better known to loved ones as “Baby Bill,” on May 7, 2007, at the residence they shared with his father in Signor. (Read More...)

Sample tribal license plate rejected

by Joe Morey

The LCO Tribal Governing Board recently rejected a sample LCO License Plate and will be seeking input on a new design. Vice Chairman Rusty Barber, who is handling the new license plates, said there is no time line for when the plates will be finished but said that the service will be expedited.
“If we set up our own LCO motor vehicle registration, then we’ll be able to set our own rates,” Barber said. “We’ll use the revenue to help off set the cost of law enforcement.” (Read more...)