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Oswego and Onondaga Counties Train For Project Lifesaver

The Oswego County Sheriff’s Department hosted a Project Lifesaver (PLS) training exercise at Goettel Park in the village of Central Square. Drill participants also included members of Oswego County Search and Rescue (OCSR) and the aviation unit from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department. Pictured from left are: Oswego County Deputy William Price; Oswego County Deputy Justin Campeau; Oswego County Deputy Edward Carney; Joe Homola, OCSR; Oswego County Deputy Kristy Crast; Onondaga County Deputy Jim Farley, Air 1 pilot; Onondaga County Deputy Brian Phelps, Air 1; Connie Denson, OSCR; Dave Ammann, Air-1 paramedic; Aaron Albrecht, OCSR; and Rick Steenrod, OCSR. Missing from photo were Ron Adams, OCSR and Roger Fox, OCSR.The Oswego County Sheriff’s Department recently hosted a Project Lifesaver (PLS) training exercise at Goettel Park in the village of Central Square. The drill included members of Oswego County Search and Rescue along with the aviation unit for the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department’s Air 1 helicopter.

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Adopt-a-School Project Spawns ‘Record Label,’ College Dreams

SUNY Oswego senior music major Greg Horning, right rear, monitors a midi recording station at Oswego Middle School as he, 13-year-old eighth-grader Michael Woolworth (in headphones) and Oswego Middle School music teacher Paula McKenney-Myers, left, listen to Jacob Johnson, foreground, setting the tempo for an upcoming recording of a song Johnson and Woolworth composed. The college's recording lab supervisor, Dan Wood, and McKenney-Myers have teamed in an Adopt-a-School project that partners college and middle school students in various ways.SUNY Oswego audio production students, the recording lab supervisor and faculty members have helped rock Oswego Middle School since last fall, working with a music teacher and eighth-graders to roll out 13 bands and an in-school recording company, Buc Records — all the while showing the students the benefits of college and careers.

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