Community

Residents at Morningstar Residential Care Center were treated to a chocolate cake social in celebration of National Chocolate Cake Day. Residents gathered in Morningstar’s new Great Room.

At a recent Fulton Sunrise Rotary meeting, Rotarian Linda Egan introduced Diane Oldenburg, senior health educator for Oswego County. Diane presented an interesting slide program about the County’s Health Improvement Projects, starting with assessment, formulating goals and then beginning programs to inform and educate the public.

Every eight years it is required by law to review Agricultural Districts in New York State. Ag Districts were created by an act of the Legislature in 1971 to protect and promote the availability of land for farming purposes; they are intended to counteract the impact that non-farm development has upon the continuation of farm businesses by providing a framework limiting unreasonable local regulation on farm practices.

The Oswego City School District Board of Education recognized the retirements of Susan Piasecki and Kim Bryant at its January 26 meeting.

SUNY Oswego’s registrar, Jerret LeMay, has been appointed to a two-year term on a customer advisory board at Ellucian serving the Degree Works community. Degree Works is degree-planning software that gives students a visually informative tool to stay on course for graduation. Oswego students and their faculty advisers began using Degree Works two years ago.

The Chili Pepper Scavenger Hunt is set to kick off on Jan. 31 and run through Feb. 7 at participating locations in Oswego as part of the 10th annual Warm Up Oswego Festival. Participants will receive a “passport” along with a map of the city of Oswego. The “passport” contains the full list of the 42 participating locations.

The following local students have been named Presidential Scholars for the fall 2014 semester at Clarkson University:

Eagle Beverage will ensure that those attending the fourth annual Child Advocacy Center Chicken Wing Fest will have a wide selection to choose from. Eagle Beverage will be providing samples of a number of not only brews but hard ciders and wine as well. “We are happy announce that we are expanding the beverage samples for this year’s chicken wing fest,” said Karrie Damm, executive director of the CAC.

These students join a select group of only 250 students from all over the country honored with the opportunity for an intensive study of leadership in environmental science and conservation. They were chosen based on academic accomplishments and a demonstrated interest and excellence in leadership in the sciences and conservation studies.