Month: October 2017

“Facts, Fiction, Politics and the News” will start at 3 p.m. Oct. 26, in Waterman Theatre and will livestream via student-run WTOP-TV on oswego.edu/mediasummit. Balanced in terms of radio and television experience, men and women, and across the political aisle, this year’s panelists include media professionals on the national scene — all with past local connections — as well as a local talk radio host and a SUNY Oswego alumna.

Rotarian Dan Farfaglia introduced Sara Carmichael from the Oswego County Opportunities Services to Aid Families program. She explained how SAF seeks to assist and empower victims of physical, sexual and emotional violence, as well as mobilize a coordinated community-wide response to those issues.

Members of VEGA, SUNY Oswego’s Junior and Senior Women’s Honors Society, the Public Relations Student Society of America and the State Employees Federated Appeal recently sponsored the 26th annual Walk-A-Thon “Oswego Walks United” on the SUNY Oswego campus.

In Oswego County, $30,000 of the funding secured by Senator Ritchie will be provided to Farnham Family Services, a not-for-profit, medically supervised, outpatient drug and alcohol treatment, intervention and prevention clinic, to further anti-drug abuse counseling and education programs in local schools.

New York Sea Grant, the Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center, and the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council will offer a new hands-on resiliency building training at the day-long Fall 2017 Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council Regional Local Government Workshop on November 17 in Batavia.

In honor of National Fire Prevention Week, a handful of volunteer firefighters educated students from grades pre-kindergarten through six on the following basic measures: never hide during a fire because firefighters need to see where people are, if trapped in a room stay near the door or a window, never go back inside for an animal or toy, smoke detectors should be placed high and people should go low while exiting to a safe meeting place.