Community

On August 6, families stopping by the farmers’ market (West First Street, south of Bridge Street) from 4:30 to 8 p.m. will have an opportunity to talk with folks about a type of wellness we sometimes don’t think about. The Early Recognition Screening Program provides free mental health screenings for children under the age of 20.

Children must turn four years old on or before December 1, 2015, to register for our Universal Pre-Kindergarten program; and children must turn five years old on or before December 1, 2015, to register for kindergarten.

Golfers in the 18th Annual St. Luke-Francis Boyce Memorial Charity Tournament will take aim at a $20,000 hole-in-one contest thanks to The House Works in Fulton. The event tees off with an 8 a.m. shotgun start on August 8 at Battle Island State Park in Fulton.

Church in Oswego will hold its annual Polish Festival August 9 on the church grounds at 140 Niagara St. from noon until 7 p.m. Volunteers have been busy preparing the Polish foods.

Beat the heat this August at the Amboy 4-H Environmental Education Center with two public programs that they will be presenting. On August 11 at 10 a.m., kids of all ages are invited to enjoy a “wet and wild” summer morning adventure with naturalist Pat Carney. Then, on August 16 at 2 p.m., come for a walk through the cool woodlands and wetlands of the center to explore the world of salamanders.

On October 27, Women’s Network for Entrepreneurial Training and SUNY Oswego’s Office of Business and Community Relations will gather women from across New York State for Connections, a day-long conference to be held at the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center in Oswego from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Women employees and business owners need inspiration, ideas, information and other women to network with.

The Oswego County Emergency Management Office has announced that the regularly scheduled quarterly tests of the current emergency notification sirens surrounding the three nuclear power plants at Nine Mile Point will take place Aug. 3, through 7, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. These tests are separate from the full-scale testing of the new siren system recently installed by the nuclear power plants.

Two members of the Oswego County AmeriCorps are organizing a food drive to help out a local food pantry in Fulton. Eve Simmonds and Paige Havener will be in Voorhees Park, across from the Fulton Education Center, on July 31 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. as well as August 1 and 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to collect your donations.

Oswego Middle School Principal Mary Beth Fierro is proud to announce the fourth quarter honor roll for her seventh and eighth grade students.