With the holiday season in full swing, the Hannibal Central School District is doing its part to ensure students have food to eat and gifts under the tree on December 25. In collaboration with local businesses, organizations and community members, the school district recently hosted its sixth annual Christmas Bureau Carnival at Dennis M. Kenney Middle School.
As Hannibal High School teacher Arlene Laut gears up for retirement at the end of the school year, a classroom project she spearheaded a decade ago is also drawing to an end. A massive penny collection effort, which was launched in an elective class Laut taught several years back, aimed to teach students the human cost of the Holocaust by having each penny represent a life.
Although Halloween is just a distant memory, that didn’t stop a group of zombies from invading Hannibal High School recently for the annual senior play. “Attack of the Zombies” kept audience members entertained and on the edge of their seats during the two-night run. Playing on the zombie theme made popular through network television hits such as “The Walking Dead,” nearly 30 senior classmen took the stage for the performances.
The Exceptional Education program at CiTi teamed up with Oswego County Opportunities to bring the gift of warmth to nearly a dozen youth in need throughout the area. Students in grades seven through 12 worked alongside their teachers as they followed directions and learned about generosity to create and donate 10 blankets to OCO programs that aid homeless youth.
In the Sandy Creek Central School District, elementary school children recently learned lessons about generosity and giving to others as they perused the Santa Shop. The shop had plenty of gifts for the children to buy for their parents, siblings and other family members.
The Step One Creative Peewee Red Hockey Team of the Oswego Minor Hockey Association lost 5-3 at Thousand Islands, and 4-1 at Elmira, before capturing a decisive 7-0 home win over Valley in recent Snowbelt League action.
The Oswego County Health Department is offering influenza immunization clinics for people age 19 and older weekdays at the Nick Sterio Public Health Clinic, 70 Bunner St., Oswego.
Christmas Eve Worship will be held on December 24 at 7 p.m. at the First United Church of Fulton, 33 S. Third St. This traditional service of ‘Lessons, Carols and Candlelight’ will include the Christmas story from Scripture, the singing of lovely carols and candlelight shared in a large circle at the close of the service.
Any residents of Oswego that would like to make their food dollars go farther may place their orders for January Food $en$e packages until 3 p.m. on January 9. The January package contains meatballs, Italian sausage, pollock fillets, breaded veal patties, pepperoni pizza, spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, frozen vegetables, diced tomatoes, Mandarin oranges and fresh produce.
For 25 years, the Minetto United Methodist Church has been hosting a barn service on Christmas Eve and this year the tradition will continue at the Greco Family Farm (formerly Wadsworth’s) at 297 W. Fifth St. Road. Rev. Rick Sivers, former pastor of the Minetto church, has returned to Oswego and will be leading the service this year with a few added surprises.
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