Declining senior lunch program mulls revamp amid low attendance
Center officials plan a survey of seniors gathered for Roberts birth celebration at Gomer on April 1. If 15 pledge weekly attendance, PEACE will recruit more seniors to return to serving meals three days weekly. Beech Street site shows the lowest enrollment among 14 centers with February meals at 182 vs Marketplace Mall Cicero at 400 from weeks prior.
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Gomer
Roberts
Clark
PEACE
Onondaga County
Carolyn Scott
Beech Street
Scott
Marketplace Mall
Cicero
Eastwood Center
Niagara Falls
Onondaga County Senior Dining Faces Shrinking Attendance
Attendance at 34 senior dining locations in Onondaga County is slipping with 231000 meals served last year versus 250000 in 1995. Nancy Conahan notes potential opening of a new site after Beech Street closes. Catholic Charities runs 14 sites with no closures planned.
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Onondaga County
Nancy Conahan
County Department of Aging and Youth
Beech Street
South State Street
Conahan
Catholic Charities
Carol Schaffer
SU and UNESCO talk on expanding adult education access
Charters and SU Collections Librarian Terry Keenan met in Hamburg to plan sharing SU’s vast adult education resources with UNESCO. They recruit 17 American organizations and explore global access to literacy and skills training, aiding nations from Argentina to China in modernizing through practical on the job training and programs. Charters joins a long career as a pioneer in adult education.
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Charters
SU Special Collections
Terry Keenan
Hamburg
Keenan
China
Unesco
New International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame
University of Oklahoma
County and City Plan Shared Forensic Center Initiative
The county would own and operate the center with a 50 50 cost split of about 5.6 million to build the consolidated crime and DNA labs. City costs would be financed via county bonds but paid back by annual city lease payments. Construction could begin next March with a fall 1998 opening if approved.
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Syracuse Police Department
Sheriiff Department
Lynn Shepard
Human Services
Pirro
Shepard
Police arrest two men after finding drugs in car on Oswego Street
Syracuse police arrested Duane Baxter and Tommy Brunson after an officer found more than 4.5 ounces of crack and $2,000 in a car they sat in. The drugs were valued at about $5,000. Baxter, 26, of 317 Leavenworth Ave., and Brunson, 30, of 114 Truth Terrace, face three felony counts and one misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a controlled substance.
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Syracuse
Oswego Street
Duane Baxter
Leavenworth Ave
Tommy L. Brunson
Truth Terrace
Survivor Seminar Brings Elie Wiesel Lessons On Faith
Elie Wiesel spoke at Hamilton College about his Auschwitz and Buchenwald experiences, his faith, and the duty to educate youth to prevent future horrors. He recalled returning to the exact page after the war, described his path from Sighet to the Sorbonne, and emphasized teaching as the only way to keep Holocaust lessons alive.
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Elie Wiesel
Clinton
Auschwitz
Buchenwald
Hamilton College
Wiesel
Adolf Hitler
Eliezer Wiesel
Sighet
Romania
Auschwitz Death Camp
France
Sorbonne
Amilton College
Clinton Central
God
United States Congress
Boston University
Congressional
Francois Mitterrand
Hamilton
Dostoevsky
Mann
Shakespeare
Mahoney cancels Albany fund-raiser over criticism
Albany Assemblyman Bernard Mahoney scrapped a planned 1500 dollar fund-raiser in Albany after facing public criticism of campaign events at the state capital. He cited reputational concerns and questioned whether the money would impact next year, while reform groups urged a session-time fundraising ban.
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Albany
Bernard Mahoney
Onondaga County
Mahoney
Syracuse
Assembly
Blain Horner
New York
Public Interest Research Group
Jaora Mahoney
Edward Ryan
Mahofley
Time Warner settles over Kellogg murder story rights
Time Warner pays Laurie Kellogg 5000 to tell how her husband Bruce Kellogg was murdered. New York Attorney General Vacco says the pact marks the first Son of Sam law enforcement against profit from victims. Kellogg, jailed for 25 years to life, was killed in Cayuga Lake Romulus.
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Bruce Kelloggs
Time Warner Corp
New York
Sam
Dennis Vacco
Time Warner
Laurie Kellogg
ABC
Kellogg
Vacco
State Crime Victims Board
Harrisburg
Cayuga County
Bruce Kellogg
Cayuga Lake
Seneca County
Romulus
Denver McDowell
Port Byron Man Fights Tort Reform Push
Port Byron resident Christopher Dedrick and other critics oppose New York tort reform plans that would cap damages and require losing sides to pay legal costs. Dedrick, who suffered permanent leg impairment from a 1991 surgery, says the proposal could bankrupt families and bars him from football. He remains active in coaching and his family’s construction business as consumer groups warn the reform favors doctors and insurers.
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Albany
Christopher Dedrick
New York
Port Byron
Dantal
Dedrick
Dednck
Port Byron High School
Committee For Quality Health Care
Citizen Action of
Center For Medical Consumers
Center
Agéthur Levin
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State
Patrick Lakamp
Sam” Law
David Berkowitz
Newhouse Family
Time Warner Entertainment— Advance
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