Community

Rev. John Hogan, pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Oswego, joined parishioners in presenting representatives from the Oswego County Children’s Fund, Inc. and Frederick Leighton Elementary School with a truckload of toys and gifts that St. Mary’s parishioners graciously donated for less fortunate children in Oswego and throughout the county.

As anglers across Central and Northern New York prepare for the upcoming ice fishing season, State Senator Patty Ritchie is announcing she has secured $100,000 in special funding to help support local fishing tournaments and increase tourism throughout Oswego, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties.

The Oswego County Health Department offers a variety of services to all residents of Oswego County, including preventive health services, certified hospice, and a maternal and child health program.

SUNY Oswego’s Rice Creek Field will plow on right through the winter, offering nine naturalist-led hikes, monthly story hours, winter bird study and tours of the state-of-the-art main building.

Oswego High School Principal Dr. Heidi Sweeney, the faculty and staff at OHS are pleased to announce the first Quarter Honor Roll for the 2016-2017 school year.

Fairgrieve Elementary third graders and fourth graders recently received both holiday cheer and free dictionaries from Fulton Noon Rotary members.

“Santa’s helpers” lent a hand St. Luke Health Services, making sure there will be plenty of carefully wrapped gifts for every resident under the Christmas tree this year. A group of dedicated volunteers spent many hours wrapping more than eight hundred presents.

Syracuse student Chase Coleman, a 15-year-old diagnosed with autism, loved to run. He had excelled on his cross-country team for three years.

Rotarians Bill Lynch and Jerry Seguin, who also is the Fulton City School District Director of Facilities, Operations and Transportation, stopped by the day program to distribute copies of “The Best Dictionary for Students” and share the club’s quest to promote literacy.