Oswego Daily News

The Oswego County Environmental Management Council invites individuals, schools and other groups to participate in Oswego County’s Earth Week 2012, with helping protect and preserve our county’s natural resources.

Joleene DesRosiers will give a free talk at 6:30 p.m. on April 10 in the Oswego Public Library Community Room. Joleene will talk on overcoming fear and give a sneak peek at a forthcoming workshop entitled Driven.

Amyloidosis is a relatively rare blood disease that develops when protein called amyloid builds up in your organs, including your heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, digestive tract and nervous system. Without proper diagnosis, typing and treatment, the organs can stop working and the patient can die.

Oswego County residents are continuing to use the ProAct prescription drug card in record numbers. Residents filled 2,974 prescriptions in January, with an average cost per member of $32.84, according to a report presented to the County Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee.

A 15-year-old girl residing in the town of Volney was charged with Juvenile Delinquency for a crime, if committed by an adult, would constitute the charge of endangering the welfare of a child, a class A misdemeanor and sixth-degree conspiracy, a class B misdemeanor.

The mother of an Oswego elementary student has her head shave to demonstrate her support for him as he undergoes chemo treatments for his cancer. He could relapse really quickly, because his type of cancer has no cure. “So we are all research based – St. Baldrick’s actually funds the hospitals we go to,” his mother said.

Oswego’s sixth annual St. Baldrick’s fundraiser was held Thursday in the food court of SUNY Oswego’s Campus Center.The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.

There were no serious injuries when a Burke’s Home Improvement delivery vehicle struck an eastside Oswego business Thursday afternoon. The truck went off the road shortly after 3:30 p.m. It broke off a traffic sign before crashing into the front of the Home Necessities store on the north side of East Bridge between Seventh and Eighth streets.

Deputies report that a pedestrian, Jeremy A. Gross, 30, was standing between a parked unoccupied vehicle and a 2005 Chevrolet being operated by Dwayne A. LeBlanc, 51, of 16 Eldred Road, Altmar, when LeBlanc reportedly pulled forward westbound and struck Mr. Gross pinning him in between the vehicles then continued on, striking the 2008 Mercury that was parked.