Community

The Oswego County Legislature’s Public Safety and Emergency Services Committee recently presented Donna Calverase with a certificate of appreciation for her 15 years of service.

SUNY Oswego students painting “en plein air” — in the open air — for a summer course will exhibit their work starting Sept. 14, at Oswego State Downtown. The opening reception will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at the store and gallery, on the corner of West First and Bridge streets in Oswego. The exhibition will run through Oct. 20.

Tim Ames has been awarded First Place in the Professional Fine Arts Painting Division at the 2012 New York State Fair for his painting, “Who’s That Chick?” Michele Southgate was awarded a Second Place in Mixed Media in the Professional Fine Arts Division at the 2012 NYS Fair for her dramatic interpretation, “Blue Mountain Pines.”

The Oswego County Fairgrounds in Sandy Creek will bustle with old engines, tractors, vendors and music at the Crank It Up! Antique Tractor and Engine Show on Sept. 15 and 16, at the Sandy Creek Fairgrounds.

The Dean’s List at Limestone is comprised of full-time students receiving the grade of “A” in all of their courses.

Participants in the Catholic Charities of Oswego County’s CYO Summer Drop In Recreation Program learned of the dangers of tobacco and second hand smoke recently when Abby Jenkins, program coordinator for the Tobacco Free Network of Oswego visited CYO.

Rock the Vote has organized a range of events this fall to help educate students on the issues and how, where and when to vote, and has provided many opportunities for students to volunteer in the civic engagement process.

What makes St. Peter’s Church so unique, is that the hall is the only building still standing where Mother Marianne ever resided.

The annual cemetery walk at Oswego Town Rural Cemetery, Fruit Valley on Cemetery Road will be Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. The walk will especially honor the memory of War of 1812 veterans buried there in commemorating the bicentennial of the war.