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The Child Advocacy Center of Oswego County has announced that the seventh annual CAC Chicken Wing Fest will be held February 9 beginning at 6 p.m at the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center in Oswego.

The Great Backyard Bird Count began in 1998 when the Cornell Lab of Ornithology joined with the National Audubon Society to launch this online citizen-science project to gather information about wild birds – the first of its kind. Now participants can join more than 160,000 Citizen Scientists from more than 130 countries.

Healthy Highways was introduced into Riley and Minetto Elementary School with the goal of shepherding children towards healthy choices with food and physical activity and teaching the benefits of those choices to students for the rest of their lives.

The Oswego Middle School’s Backpack Program, which sends packages of donated food home with students each weekend, reaches a crescendo each year during the holiday season and school officials are thanking supporters for their generosity.

Members of the Fulton Junior High School Junior Raiders Opportunity Club had the drive to succeed during their recent five-week crash course on robots.

Several Granby Elementary students were recently inducted into the school’s Learning League for exemplifying empathy throughout the month of December. Because the students had shown recognition of others’ feelings, thoughts and attitudes, they were presented with certificates in front of their peers, teachers and guests.

The honorees each received a Role Model certificate during a recent assembly, where Principal Jeff Hendrickson shook their hands and commended their efforts of taking in the feelings, thoughts and attitudes of classmates and teachers.

Students at G. Ray Bodley High School who achieved honor roll and high honor roll status were recently recognized for their first quarter achievements. High honor roll status was awarded to students who achieved a cumulative grade point average of 89.5 or higher, while honor roll status was awarded to students with a cumulative grade point average between 84.5 and 89.4.

Iris McDonnell correctly spelled the word “ameliorate,” a verb defined as “to make something bad or unsatisfactory better” to win first place at the OMS Spelling Bee and punch her ticket to the final.