Can you help me? I am 13 years old and I really really really want a dog, but my mom won’t allow it. She says they are dirty and we can catch diseases from them and that she would end up taking care of it and blah, blah, blah. What can I tell her to persuade her?
The Oswego County Emergency Communicators/RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) welcomed a new radio officer at a recent meeting and gave special appreciation to the retiring RO.
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum is pleased to host New Haven town historian, Marie Strong, who will present the first history lecture of the year on Saturday, March 22 at 1:30 p.m. Marie will be speaking about prominent New Haven resident, Elizabeth Shepard. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by donating a pint of blood. Oswego Hospital will host an American Red Cross blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 17 in the healthcare facility’s lower level conference room. Members of the public and hospital employees are encouraged to donate a pint of blood during the drive.
The Oswego County Autism Task Force is sponsoring its eighth annual Family Fun Walk for Autism on May 3. The family-friendly event will take place at Leighton School and Wilber Field and Track in Oswego, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Plans are under way for one of the area’s premier fundraising events, the Oswego Christian Community School’s seventh annual auction. Scheduled for April 5, the auction will be held from 1 – 4 p.m. at the Oswego Elks Lodge, corner of West Fifth and Bridge streets.
The community is invited to watch a newly released movie at First United Church of Fulton, 33 S. Third St., Fulton, on March 16 at 2 p.m. Admission is free.
A novel idea at Fairgrieve Elementary School has translated into reading success within the building, and students were recently rewarded for their efforts. At the beginning of the school year, Principal Jean Ciesla launched a reading challenge to all the students at Fairgrieve.
As students in the Phoenix Central School District are dealing with a relentless winter season, they learned how their peers in Texas were coping with below-average temperatures while interacting with one another during a recent Read Around the Planet videoconference.
Fairley Elementary School was invited by North Rose Elementary to participate in Inventive Minds, a voluntary program geared towards third and fourth grade students. Inventive Minds is a program designed to challenge students to create an invention that solves a problem, or makes life a bit easier.
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