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Scheduled for September 7 the CAC Blue Ribbon Ride Against Child Abuse, a 70-mile ride throughout Oswego County, will begin at 3 p.m. at Wheel-Away Motorsports Route 57 in Fulton and end at Lighthouse Lanes, Shampine Drive in Oswego at approximately 5 p.m.

Oswego County Opportunities’ Cancer Services Program Partnership has recently secured funding for an additional five years to provide free cancer screenings to uninsured men and women aged 40-64 including clinical breast exams, mammogram, pap/pelvic exams and more.

Marene Hogan has served the students of the Oswego City School District for 30 years. Her retirement was accepted by the Oswego Board of Education at the August 13 meeting. Also recognized, but not present, were retirees Gail Iosue and Christine Sharkey.

Residents at St. Luke Health Services in Oswego learned some new facts about animals, some familiar to our area, which are a part of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse; and even got to meet a few up close! Residents learned about the habits and habitats of eastern box turtles, opossums and parrots and were able to ask questions of the Gifford Zoo’s outreach educators who provided the program.

The Oswego Public Library recently learned from the Northern New York Library Network that they have been approved to digitize their collection of “Ontario Chronicle” the newsletter published during “Safe Haven” at Fort Ontario. The collection consists of approximately 27 newsletters covering the period of November 8, 1944, to August 2, 1945.