Community

The ARISE Board of Directors has appointed Tania S. Anderson to be the chief executive officer beginning April 1, upon the retirement of current ARISE executive director Tom McKeown. Anderson’s connection with ARISE began in 1999, when Child & Family Service, Inc. merged with ARISE.

Cast members from the upcoming G. Ray Bodley High School musical production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!,” traveled across town and gave residents at Michaud Residential Health Services in Fulton a special sneak preview of their upcoming production.

Community members are invited to play Bunco this Thursday, March 3, at the Oswego Elks Club on West Bridge Street. All proceeds from the event will go toward the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is dedicated to raising funds to support life-saving research for cures to childhood cancers.

SUNY Oswego management and marketing faculty member Barry A. Friedman, an accomplished researcher specializing in business organizational behavior and human resource management, recently earned a Fulbright Specialist grant to teach this summer at a business school in Germany.

The Oswego County Historical Society will host the 29th Annual “Not So Silent Auction” on April 8 from 6 – 8:30 p.m. at the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center at 26 E. First St. in Oswego. Tickets are $20 and will be available for purchase now and at the door the day of the event.

Presentations by New York Times columnist and author Anand Giridharadas and Chinese-American poet Marilyn Chin will continue SUNY Oswego’s spring Diversity Speakers Series that began with social justice leader Bernice A. King and BET TV news anchor Marc Lamont Hill.

Catholic Charities was founded in 1930 and has expanded its agency with many programs and services that have touched thousands of children, families and individuals throughout Oswego County.