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The Oswego City Firefighters Association will be holding a chicken BBQ benefit for Julian Ross. Julian is a local seven year old boy with Stage IV Neuroblastoma (Cancer). Julian was diagnosed on August 4, 2011.

The best things in life are free. Keeping that thought in mind, Mexico Point Park presents “A Lakeside Concert and Fireworks” on July 15, starting at 6 p.m. A formal unveiling of the newest Park People statue will take place.

During a recent pancake breakfast held at the Oswego County Airport Cadet Julian Furletti-Gilman, 15, of Oswego, was promoted to the grade of Cadet Senior Airman. This is the 3rd achievement in the Civil Air Patrol’s cadet program.

Lauri Losordo regains her family diner, Coffee at Lauri’s, after a 4-year break. She specializes in family and fun.

Brush off your eye patch, grab your parrot and sign up for a Kids’ Pirate Party on July 12 (10 a.m. – noon), July 17 (1 – 3 p.m.) or July 25 (10 a.m. – noon). Fun will abound in Oswego’s “Historic Maritime District.”

The Oswego YMCA has officially announced plans to conduct a major $3,000,000 capital campaign for a new addition and renovations to the YMCA pool located on West First Street in Oswego.

Senator Patty Ritchie’s submitted 16 taped interviews with area veterans, from a Fulton soldier who deactivated landmines with his bayonet on D-Day, to an Air Force officer who interviewed Russian defectors during the Cold War, to the state’s archives as part of her “Voices of America” Project.

Oswego County OB-GYN, P.C is pleased to announce the May Baby of the Month. The May baby of the month is Sloan Barber who was born to Amanda White and Michael Barber of Pulaski.

2011-2012 President Peggy Donnelly turned over the duties of the office to 2012-2013 President Patrick Waite.