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SUNY Oswego’s 28th annual ALANA Student Leadership Conference multicultural celebration Sept. 18-24 will feature performances, presenters, a peace walk through the city of Oswego and a mini-carnival highlighting festivals from across the globe. A collaboration of student organizations under the banner African, Latino, Asian and Native American organization, the ALANA team this year chose “Carnivals and Festivals” as a theme to celebrate all cultures, whether minority or not.

Feeling artistic? The Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce will host a Pumpkin Carving Contest during this year’s CNY Great Pumpkin Festival to be held October 4 and 5 in Oswego’s Washington Square Park. Planning committee members have their sights set at breaking the official record for the most lit jack-o-lanterns in one location. That record, which is currently held by the Keene, NH, Pumpkin Festival, is a total 30,581 jack-o-lanterns.

Onions, apples, meats and more, all are grown right here in Oswego County. To celebrate the rich bounty of local food Oswego County produces Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oswego County is holding the fifth annual Oswego County Harvest Dinner. The popular event will this year take place on October 3 at The American Foundry.

Thanks to the Make A Wish Foundation and dozens of local volunteers and supporters, four-year-old Sadie Wilson and her twin sister, Layla, will be headed to Disney World in a couple of months. The girls were surprised by the announcement on Sunday at a special ceremony at the Kingsford House.

The skies over historic Fort Ontario were filled with rain – and kites on Saturday. Several people, young and old, braved the elements to take part in the annual kite fest event. Members of the New York Kite Enthusiasts (NYKE), said Fort Ontario is perhaps the best place in the state to fly a kite, except Saturday.
Bill Coons, a NYKE member from Schenectady, agreed the grounds at Fort Ontario is one of the best place in the state for kite flying. But, Saturday’s winds were a bit too strong at times, he admitted.

A search warrant executed on a vehicle occupied by Randy Frederick Ormsby, 57, of the town of Volney, lead to the discovery of ten envelopes of suspected heroin, according to the Oswego County Drug Task Force. Ormsby has been charged in the Town of Volney Court with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third degree, class B Felony. It is alleged that Ormsby possessed the heroin with the intent to sell it.