April is national Child Abuse Prevention month, and Family Court Referee Thom Benedetto wants Oswego County residents to have a greater awareness of how prevalent and devastating child abuse can be both in our county and nationally.
The Oswego Elks Lodge at 132 W. Fifth St. will host a Mardi Gras-style casino night April 13 from 6-10 p.m. The event will benefit the Oswego County Children’s Fund, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that works year-round to ensure no child in Oswego County goes without gifts at the holidays.
Oswego County Opportunities Head Start Program will host its annual Community Literacy Night, featuring Pete the Cat. This event will take place at Head Start centers throughout the county on April 18.
The Pulaski Historical Society begins this year’s series of Brown Bag Lunches on April 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. You are invited to bring your lunch (or pick up some take-out at a local eatery) and come join us in the Carriage House.
The Oswego Lions Club will host the seventh annual Rivers Edge “handmade” Craft Show on June 10. The event will take place where the beautiful Oswego River and Lake Ontario meet. Hours for the craft show will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Assemblyman Will Barclay recently visited the new Catholic Charities building located on Route 3 in Fulton. The new handicap accessible building offers nutritional outreach, children and family services, youth programming, and provides a new gym space for recreational activities.
Murphy’s Automotive Solutions on Fred Haynes Boulevard in Oswego Town has donated a gift certificate in support of the annual “Bundle of Bucks” Charity Raffle Drawing Party taking place on May 5. The gift certificate will be one of many prizes up for grabs during the event; including the big drawing for cash prizes totaling $25,000.
State Senator Patty Ritchie announced the new state budget contains an additional $40 million for the Lake Ontario Flood Relief and Recovery Grant Program, which will ensure all 3,500 expected eligible applicants, including 1,100 from Oswego, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties, receive the support they need to recover from last spring’s historic flooding.
The Minetto United Methodist Church will host a free dinner on April 22, serving from 4 to 6 p.m. The menu, subject to change, will be roast pork, macaroni and cheese, vegetables, bread, and dessert.
The clacking of wood frogs and the clear one-note calls of spring peepers are an invitation to explore the magical woodland nurseries of spring – vernal pools. Mole salamanders and frogs emerge from winter hibernation in early spring and migrate to these critical, short-lived breeding pools.
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