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Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 Vol. 125, No. 7 • Shell Lake, Wis.
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• Homecoming tailgate party @ Shell Lake • Simply Magic concert @ Shell Lake • Oktoberfest @ Shell Lake See Events page 6
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SPORTS Football Golf Volleyball Cross country
Trudy Druschba and her son, Aaron, were sporting their green and gold pride at a Green Bay Packers football game. — Photo submitted
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A different shade of pink
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SHELL LAKE — The Shell Lake Education Foundation will be hosting their fifth-annual community homecoming in conjunction with the high school football homecoming game on Friday, Oct. 4. This year’s event will be a tailgate dinner with hot-off-the-grill hamburgers and brats from Dahlstroms Lakeside Market, hot dogs, chips, pickles, cookie and drinks available from 5:30-7 p.m. in the grassy area near the ticket booths. Takeout containers are available for anyone unable to stay at the field. Everyone loves a parade! Follow the 5:30 p.m. homecoming parade from the primary school to Reinhart-Moen Field and around the track. Class floats will remain on the track throughout the game. Serving begins when the parade is done, allowing plenty of time to visit with friends before the 7 p.m. kickoff. Area merchants, businesses and school supporters are donating items for the popular chance drawings. Winners will be announced during the halftime festivities, and you do not need to be present to win. SLEF will kick off their annual bread braid orders with Wednesday, Nov. 6, delivery. Fun-shaped pasta will also be available for sale. — from SLEF ••• SHELL LAKE — The second-annual Oktoberfest, sponsored by the Shell Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Shell Lake Arts Center is set for Saturday, Oct. 5, 6-11 p.m., at the arts center. There will be tastings and drinks of fall favorites from local businesses. Three Rivers Polka Band and Stormy Monday will provide live music. There will be many raffle items and a silent auction. — with submitted information
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by Danielle Moe Register staff writer SHELL LAKE — October has become symbolized by the colors of orange, for harvest celebrations, and pink, for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. On Thursday, Oct. 13, a different shade of pink is recognized as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Metastatic breast cancer is a life-threatening form of breast cancer that an estimated 155,000 Americans live with. Trudy Druschba, health information officer at Indianhead Medical Center in Shell Lake, is just one of these individuals living with metastatic breast cancer. “There was one little cell in my body that escaped all the chemo and radiation, that later grew to become the bad guy again,” explained Druschba. According to the National Cancer Institute, metastatic cancer is cancer that has spread from the place where it first started to another place in the body. Originally diagnosed with breast cancer in March of 2009, Druschba fought back with a litany of cancer treatments that seemed to have eliminated the cancer by November of 2009. When testing confirmed her breast cancer was gone, Druschba was put on oral pills to prevent the reoccurrence of the cancer. “Then in October of last year, 2012, was when I found out I had metastatic cancer of the liver,”
she said. The main sites of metastasis for breast cancer are the bones, brain, liver and lungs. No one dies from breast cancer, but metastatic breast cancer is life-threatening since the cancerous cells travel to a vital organ, like the liver in Druschba’s case. “What I did not understand at first is that it is breast cancer there, and you’re treating that kind of cancer there, it is not like having a primary cancer there,” she explained. People with metastatic breast cancer are treated with several different types or combinations of therapies including chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and surgery. The main goal of these treatments is to control the growth of the cancer or to relieve symptoms caused by it. See A different shade, page 2
Collaborate! Communicate! Cooperate! October is Cooperative Month
Editor’s note: The Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association, publishers of the Washburn County Register and Inter-County Leader newspapers, and the Advertisers, is proud to present a five-part series on cooperatives, produced by the Alliance of Polk Burnett Cooperatives as part of October Cooperative Month. Part 1 of five-part series by The Alliance of Polk Burnett Cooperatives The Cooperative Alliance of Polk and Burnett Counties gathers representatives of food, agricultural, financial, insurance, utility and professional cooperatives in our beautiful region of Northwest Wisconsin. If you live here, you can “Shop Co-op” to get your cheese, milk, flour, fresh veggies and other groceries. You can “Shop Co-op” for your electricity, your local newspaper, your homeowner’s and car insurance, your banking, seed for your birds, and gas for your car, lawnmower and tractor. Need a lawyer? A co-op option is available. And come a bright fall weekend, you can venture out to a cooperative art gallery and connect with area artists.
What makes a cooperative? A co-op is an entity created, owned and operated by and for its members. Members may be clients, customers, employees or policyholders; in each case they have a say in what happens and share in any profits. The International Cooperative Alliance, (ica.coop), formed in 1895, defines a co-op this way: “An autonomous association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual social, economic and cultural benefit.” Consumer, worker, housing, purchasing and utility cooperatives worldwide have evolved seven Cooperative Principles: 1) Membership is open and voluntary, without discrimination based on gender, class, race, political positions or religion; 2) The members control the association democratically; 3) The members participate economically, contributing equally to and controlling any capital, with benefits to members based on the business they conduct with the cooperative; 4) Cooperatives are self-help organizations, autonomous; 5) They educate and train members and employees, and keep
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