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Quitline Offers Support For Great American Smokeout

The New York State Smokers’ Quitline reminds New Yorkers help is available, and support and medications will increase their chances for success. The Great American Smokeout on November 16, a day when thousands of smokers across the country quit together, might be the perfect time to develop a quit-plan or begin a smoke-free life. More than 2.2 million New York adults still smoke and more than 26,000 die as a result each year.

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Mexico Middle Schoolers Create Dia de los Muertos altars

Mexico Middle School students combined their love of celebrities and their Spanish class to create beautiful Dia de los Muertos altars. Both seventh grade and eighth grade students studied the culture around the Day of the Dead, where families in Mexico honor and remember on Nov. 1 children who have died and on Nov. 2 adults who died.

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DeSantis Wins $5,000 In Oswego County FCU ‘Lucky Savers’ Program

Oswego resident Brandon DeSantis recently won $5,000 as a member of Oswego County Federal Credit Union’s Lucky Savers program. Lucky Savers is a statewide savings program where participants are eligible for cash prize drawings every month, and $5,000 and $250 cash drawings every quarter, explained Bill Carhart, CEO.

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Leighton Elementary Invites Veterans For Celebration

Frederick Leighton Elementary School is inviting all veterans to join its Veterans Day Celebration on Thursday, November 9, at 9 a.m. The event will honor veterans from all branches of service and feature guest speakers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Oswego’s Team RWB.

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Pet of the Week – Callie

Callie was a teenage mother, probably unwed, as we used to say in the “good” old days. But, she has done a great job of raising her kittens, all of them feisty little calicos, just like her. Now she is ready to be a teenager again and would like to come and play with you. She loves people, snuggling with them, playing with them, following them around.

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The new Little Free Library in Shapiro Park, on Oswego’s west side, was built by AmeriCorps member Monica Kahler and her husband, Greg, and decorated by children in the Oswego Summer Reading Program.
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Little Free Libraries Program Grows In The City Of Oswego

Thanks to the City of Oswego’s Common Council, the Oswego City-County Youth Bureau, the Oswego Public Library’s 2017 Summer Reading Program and the Oswego County Health Department, there are two new Little Free Libraries in Oswego for children and families to enjoy. The new libraries are in Shapiro Park on Paloma Street, on Oswego’s west side, and in the lobby of the Nick Sterio Public Health Clinic at 70 Bunner St., on the east side.

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