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Oswego County Today Weekly Roundup graphic by Fred Reed.OSWEGO COUNTY 鈥?Oswego County Today presents the top stories from this past week.City of Fulton news:The Fulton Lions Club installed its new slate of officers for 2021-22, inducted two new members, and President David Guyer received a special award from Rosemarie Bush, Lions Clubs International-NY State Bermuda district governor, District 20-Y. Full story here.Oswego County Opportunities OCO , Head Start Pre-K Program recently received a continuation grant from stanley cup spain the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Head Start. Full story here.Starting June 28, Oswego County Opportunities will continue stanley tumbler to try and alleviate this pressure through partnering with 11 sites and the Summer Food Service Program to provide free meals to Oswego County children. Full story here.City of Oswego news:The H. Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego will be offering boat tours to the National Register Oswego West Pierhead Lighthouse starting June 25 and 26, each Friday and Saturday of the summer till the end of September. Full story here.Mayor Billy Barlow announced June 23 a communication system now available to city residents to assist with gathering information from ci stanley cups ty government, submitting complaints, and providing easy access to city documents, licensing, permits and other information. Full story here.In 2016, New York States Regional Economic Development Councils offered Oswego funding as part of the Downtown Revitalization
KENORA, Ont. 鈥?Researchers were in northwestern Ontario over the weekend spilling diluted oilsands bitumen and crude oil into a lake to study how the ecosystem, from microbes to fish, responds.The pilot project, known as Freshwater Oil Spill Remediation Study, is being done at the International Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes Area southeast of Kenora, Ont.Vince Palace, the scientist who is leading the experiment, said the area is typically known for exper stanley thermobecher iments involving a whole lake, but this work is different. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW We ;re using small enclosures to contain that oil, he said stanley thermobecher .The oil was spilled inside four yellow floating boomed rectangles, each along 2.5 metres of shrub and sphagnum moss shoreline. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The enclosures stretch 10 metres into the lake and contain 20,000 litres of water. Curtain-like sides extend down and are carefully affixed to the lake bottom with lines of sandbags filled at the local gravel pit and placed by a small army of students in waders and wetsuits.The spills were 1.25 litres each and were to be left for 72 hours then cleaned up by professional oil-spill responders. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW stanley mug With any oil spill, even after clean up, there is residual contamination. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Ikxc Bowling Green Chamber and United Way of Southern Kentucky partner to enhance pandemic recovery
Oswego County Today Weekly Roundup graphic by Fred Reed.OSWEGO COUNTY 鈥?Oswego County Today presents the top stories from this past week.City of Fulton news:The Fulton Lions Club installed its new slate of officers for 2021-22, inducted two new members, and President David Guyer received a special award from Rosemarie Bush, Lions Clubs International-NY State Bermuda district governor, District 20-Y. Full story here.Oswego County Opportunities OCO , Head Start Pre-K Program recently received a continuation grant from stanley cup spain the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Head Start. Full story here.Starting June 28, Oswego County Opportunities will continue stanley tumbler to try and alleviate this pressure through partnering with 11 sites and the Summer Food Service Program to provide free meals to Oswego County children. Full story here.City of Oswego news:The H. Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego will be offering boat tours to the National Register Oswego West Pierhead Lighthouse starting June 25 and 26, each Friday and Saturday of the summer till the end of September. Full story here.Mayor Billy Barlow announced June 23 a communication system now available to city residents to assist with gathering information from ci stanley cups ty government, submitting complaints, and providing easy access to city documents, licensing, permits and other information. Full story here.In 2016, New York States Regional Economic Development Councils offered Oswego funding as part of the Downtown Revitalization