 The community of Oningham was celebrating this weekend after opening a brand new community center. For this week's community spotlight, our Sarah Winckelman takes us to the center's grand opening. One, two. This is a big day for the Oningham community. It's a project that has been talked about for decades and finally this weekend became a reality. This is just one of the areas that we targeted and prioritized. I've been in office since 2012 and I was one of the priorities and the onset is trying to get some infrastructure built here to help the community start to rebuild. The large new building is aimed at serving all aspects of the community. We're kind of away from town, you know, we're away from Cass Lake and you know, and there's a lot, this is a growing community, you know, so we work really hard at a council level to make this happen. And providing a safe and positive place for the youth to spend their time. Realizing the area to have people start contributing back and working with one another and start becoming well. Everything from fitness rooms to elder rooms and even a satellite office for the tribal college are housed in the building. It's about honoring the community members and the people within the community that were there, you know, putting in the work before we did. Starting that work back in the 1960s was the Oningham Nighthawks basketball team. Well, it actually was really exciting. We're a semi-professional team because we won money if we won the tournaments and so we won enough money to be able to travel to other places. The group traveled all across the country and even won the National Indian Basketball Championship in 1978. Some best times I've ever had my entire life were there and we always had a really good following. Like a lot of the people that are in here tonight, they followed us all over. And now their name and pride will live on in the new community center. It's such an honor and a privilege to play on the team and now to be honored like this. It's overwhelming. For this week's Community Spotlight, in Walker, Sarah Winkelman, Lakeland News. Original Nighthawks gear will be on display at the new community center. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.