Registration now open for SkanRaces 2012
SkanRaces.com is open for registration for all 2012 events. Go to SkanRaces.com to reserve your spot now in any or all 2012 races before they sell out.
Upstate Medical raises more than $650K for United Way
Upstate Medical University employees have raised $650,043 for their 2011 United Way/Community Giving Campaign, exceeding their goal of $650,000.
St. James Episcopal to host head shaving fundraiser
St. Baldrick’s event battles childhood cancer
Members of St. James Episcopal Church are excited to get their heads shaved, and they are inviting Skaneateles residents to join them. The upcoming event is a St. Baldrick’s fundraiser to help fight childhood cancer.
Prepare to shoot basketball
Attention Baldwinsville student basketball players: the Baldwinsville Optimist Club will hold its sixth annual basketball foul shooting contest from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 10, in the Durgee Junior High School large gym.
Chef Dave Fouts presents on healthy school lunches Thursday
Fouts is coming to Syracuse this week to pitch his Simply Smart Food pilot program to a group of area school administrators. He’s in the process of turning his second school district’s kitchen and menu around at Hinton Schools in Oklahoma, and he hopes to make Syracuse his next customer.
Official 2012 Cazenovia Winter Festival Schedule
Please note that all outdoor events are subject to weather conditions.
A lesson in teamwork, good sportsmanship
Daniel Stevens, a member of the Syracuse Silver Knights, teaches (from left) Chase Trombley, Molly George and Katherine Cornell a soccer technique at Elden Elementary School. Elden hosted members of the indoor pro-soccer team on Jan. 20.
Tentative schedule for 2012 Cazenovia Winter Festival
Event times and locations subject to change. Dates will soon be finalized and posted.
Laker girls indoor track tops CNY
OCC victory fuels winning streak
Undefeated though six Mohawk Valley Indoor Track Association Invitationals to start the season, the Cazenovia indoor track girls were pleased with their start, but couldn’t help but wonder how they would fare in the larger, more competitive meets of the CNY Indoor Track Association held at the new SRC Arena at OCC.
Party for a Cure is Jan. 29
Heather Weeks loved a good party. That’s why her mom, Frieda Weeks, thinks she would have appreciated Party for a Cure, the Jan. 29 fundraiser at Meghan MacMurphy’s designed to raise awareness for ovarian cancer. “Heather loved music and dancing and a good party,” Frieda Weeks said. “I think she would love it. Heather’s mission in life was to tell women about ovarian cancer and the color teal, which is the awareness color for ovarian cancer. She would be 100 percent for any event that did that.”
Group rallies behind Tedesco
Throughout recent weeks, students and faculty from Cazenovia High School have come together in support of local resident Diane Tedesco, as she battles Leukemia.
CAVAC awarded $57,000 grant
On Jan. 6, United States Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that the Cazenovia Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps is the recipient of $57,000 from the fourth-round of the FY11 Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.
Lifeguard certification course begins Jan. 28 at JD Middle School
Starting Jan. 28, Onondaga County Parks will offer an American Red Cross lifeguard training and certification course from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays for five consecutive weeks at the Jamesville-DeWitt Middle School pool.
Sled for RED: Event to benefit AIDS Community Resources Jan. 21
Last winter, Ben Rabin shot down the hill at Four Seasons Golf and Ski Center in Fayetteville in a Harley Davidson motorcycle made of cardboard and duct tape in just 22.1 seconds. Did he lose a dare, or is he just crazy? Neither. The Syracuse attorney was part of a team competing in Sled for RED, an event that raises both funds and awareness for AIDS Community Resources. The Syracuse-based organization started the cardboard sled derby last year as an interesting and different way to draw attention to its mission to eradicate HIV/AIDS in Central New York. This year’s event will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21 at Four Seasons Golf and Ski Center in Fayetteville.
Community Center fights for municipal power
National Grid vying to maintain contract
In an effort to cut costs, the Skaneateles Recreation Charitable Trust wants to contract with the village municipal power system to supply electricity to the Skaneateles YMCA and Community Center. The only problem – National Grid is challenging the SRCT’s right to opt out of its current contract.
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