Community

Motorcyclists and runners came together on June 8 to raise more than $11,000 in net proceeds at ARISE’s annual Ride for Ramps event at Fort Ontario. The money raised through the event will mean that ARISE will be able to build ramps for at least 10 families in the community.

The G. Ray Bodley Class of 1968 will hold its 45th reunion, one-day event on August 10 from 1-5 p.m. at Fulton Elks on Pierce Drive, Fulton. There will be a chicken barbecue and all the fixin’s! $15 per person. Reservations needed by July 1.

The Sandy Creek Varsity Girls’ Softball team may have lost their bid to be State Champions, but that did not dim their accomplishments in the eyes of their school, their coaches, their families and their community. In a district Board of Education recognition ceremony, they were honored for their accomplishments including the Section III Championship title.

Dr. Paula Banerjee, an associate professor of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of Calcutta, was awarded the Fulbright grant by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to spend the coming fall semester at Oswego and the spring 2014 semester at Onondaga in Syracuse.

Rev. Mark and Lynne Kimpland have served the First United Methodist Church and the Fulton community for the last 18 years. “Our time in Fulton has been a wonderful blessing full of opportunities, challenges and above all, it’s unlimited potential,” Pastor Mark said. “We will forever treasure the relationships, ministries and Fulton’s unique sense of community.” Rev. Kimpland has been reappointed to the Endwell United Methodist Church in Endwell, NY and will begin his ministry July 1.

He will speak on “The Maine Woods and the Living Lyre: David Mallett’s ‘The Fable True,’” an examination of singer-songwriter Mallett’s CD. In the recording, Mallett narrates portions of Thoreau’s The Maine Woods with guitar accompaniment.

The Charles E. Riley Elementary School sixth grade honors assembly provided the opportunity to recognize those students moving on to the Oswego Middle School while at the same time congratulating them for their academic effort.

Handville, who joined OCO in 2001 as a part-time medical secretary at the agency’s Oswego Health Center also worked in OCO’s Family Planning program and in 2007 became a health educator where she taught reproductive health in area schools. In 2009, Handville was named coordinator of the Cancer Services Program and has been the driving force behind the program ever since.

On July 1, the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Oswego Town Historian George R. DeMass will officiate at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Oswego County 147th monument in Gettysburg. The 147th New York volunteers, Oswego County’s own, was heavily engaged in the three-day battle.