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     For single mom and dedicated volunteer Amy Otipiglopper, failure has never been an option – and today, it is still not.

     Electrified, Ron Throop walked around his home looking for his published books to show me and arranging several paintings in his living room. His watchful cat followed his every movement.

     Gay Hollingsworth Williams has lived in the town of Minetto for the vast part of her adult years. It is in Minetto that she and her husband, long-time Minetto town judge and retired Minetto fourth-grade teacher Alan, raised their three boys in their renovated farm house with the chicken coop outback. It is from that farmhouse that many early morning hockey trips emanated, and many family gatherings and much celebrating occurred.

On Wednesday, August 5, the Oswego Public Library Summer Reading Program in coordination with the support of the Oswego City-County Youth Bureau and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services will host storyteller and performer Regi Carpenter as she focuses on the topic of Heroes and Sheroes.

olé! Jill Little, activities director at The Gardens joins the three amigos; from left James Howard, Chuck Foultz, and Calvin Stevens during The Gardens’ Cinco de Mayo celebration.

Photographs from Iceland by Janice Chipman are in the gallery at the Oswego Public Library, 120 E. 2nd St. Stop by any time to view these beautiful compositions. The Oswego Public Library is open 10-8 Monday through Thursday, 10-5 Friday, and 12-5 Saturday and Sunday.

The Gardens kicked-off its summer activities with a Memorial Day Weekend Picnic. Residents were treated to a traditional picnic lunch of hamburgers, hot dogs and all the fixings.

Family and friends gathered at St. Luke Health Services for a Memorial Service held in honor of residents who recently passed away.