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In recognition of its designation as a Tree Campus K-12, Liverpool Elementary and Liverpool Middle students, staff and families recently celebrated the honor by planting three trees on the campus.
LE, LMS plant trees to celebrate designation In recognition of its designation as a Tree Campus K-12, Liverpool Elementary and Liverpool Middle students, staff and families recently celebrated the honor by planting three trees on the campus. TheLiverpoolMiddleGreenWarriorsEnvironmental Club was awarded a grant from the New York State Urban Forestry Council for up to $500 worth of educational materials and trees to be planted. LMS is the only school in Onondaga County to be awarded the grant this year. In addition to be designated as a Tree Campus K-12, the grant also establishes a TREE TEAM and an educational forestry program/curriculum, which also run as an extracurricular club through the school. Leanna Nugent, community forestry and natural resources educator for the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County, was on hand to assist with the tree plantings, and showed everyone the proper way to plant trees. Liverpool Central School District Arborist Justin Kinney was on hand to assist with planting, mulching and watering the trees. LiverpoolVillageMayorStaceyFinneyand the village’s tree committee donated mulch needed to help students maintain the health of the new trees, and Bartlett Tree Experts donated red tree saplings for everyone to take
home to plant. Everyone in attendance was asked to sign a poster of a tree, which will be framed and hung at LMS to commemorate the event. Tree Campus K-12, an Arbor Day Foundation Program, inspires collaboration between schools, students, and communities to facilitate experiences with trees as a learning tool. The program encourages schools and educators to create purposeful opportunities for students to interact with trees by offering resources as well as a framework for becoming recognized and celebrating their efforts with their community.
The Green Warriors Environmental Club is open to all students who are interested in activism within the community on issues related to environmental conservation and Communications Office 195 Blackberry Road Liverpool, NY 13090 Telephone 315-622-7132 sustainability. The purpose is to expose students to environmental issues, especially local ones, and engage in local activism and advocacy. In recognition of this designation, a tree planting ceremony was held at the school on Saturday, May 4.
County Executive McMahon last week announced that Clinton’s Ditch Co-Operative Company Inc., located on Pardee Road in the town of Cicero, plans to embark on an expansion of their current facility. The projected expansion cost is $40,786,706. The existing facility would expand by approximately 100,000 square feet from its current footprint of 274,000 square feet. The proposal also calls for the creation of a new 19,520 square foot truck repair facility as well as wastewater improvements. “Clinton’s Ditch has been a staple in our local business community for nearly 60 years,” McMahon said. “While there is plenty to celebrate with all of the new investments taking place, it is important that we continue to support our local companies such as Clinton’s Ditch.” McMahon thanked Clinton’s Ditch “for their partnership and commitment to Onondaga County and Central New York.” “This planned expansion will not only allow the company to grow their number of employees, but further build upon their already impressive growth,” he said. Founded in 1967 as a New York State Cooperative, Clinton’s Ditch started as an independent bottler of Pepsi Cola, marked by its groundbreaking in 1968 on the 150th Anniversary of the Erie Canal. Originally, it was initiated by 18 New York State independent Pepsi-Cola bottlers with the goal of producing Pepsi in aluminum cans, eventually expanding to bottling. With successive expansions, the plant grew from 47,000 to 274,000 square feet, becoming a major producer of carbonated soft drinks, seltzers, energy drinks and purified water. Structured as a cooperative, Clinton’s Ditch operates under a unique model where customers are also owners. All profits, except those necessary for debt obligations, are annually returned to the owners. While four of the owners are multigenerational family businesses, the fifth, Pepsico, maintains no direct affiliation beyond being a supplier, with no potential for assistance from the corporation.
Liverpool, C-NS baseball both beat West Genesee by Phil Blackwell
Going into the final week of the regular season, the Liverpool and CiceroNorth Syracuse baseball teams sported strong records but still had the capability of changing their eventual playoff seeding. Of particular delight for the Warriors was the way it turned things around against West Genesee, grinding out a 3-2 win over the Warriors in Camillus just three days after falling to them 9-2 at home. Single runs in the first, third and fourth innings built up a 3-0 advantage. WG battled back, scoring in the fourth and fifth innings, but Nate Benjamin blanked the Wildcats the rest of the way, overcoming nine hits and two walks by striking out six while scoring twice and adding an RBI at the plate. Sam Benzinger scored the other run. Good as this was, it didn’t even carry over for 24 hours as, going to Fayetteville-Manlius a day later, the Warriors
were upended 12-2 by the Hornets. Dylan Wiggins pitched, going 3 1/3 innings. F-M got a 3-0 lead on him and then lit up Liverpool’s relievers for four runs in the fourth and five runs in the sixth to pull away. Benjamin and Anthony Testone both got RBIs as Anthony Giuffrida led the Hornets with three RBIs. But Liverpool returned home Thursday and, in the rematch with F-M, won it 7-1, with Tyler Vivacqua surrendering a first-inning run but then blanking the Hornets the rest of the way, striking out eight in his complete-game threehitter. Three runs in the second put the Warriors ahead for good and it added three more runs in the next two innings. Jameson Stevens had two hits as he joined Vivacqua, Nate Benjamin and Chris Baker in the RBI column. C-NS, meanwhile, started out its week on a strong note against a pair of SCAC Empire division foes, going to Central Square last Monday and won
9-2, pitching ace Kaden Kalfass striking out 14 and limiting the Redhawks to three hits. A five-run second inning was all the Northstars needed, though it added three runs in the third as Mason Mingle and Shacory Williams had two RBIs apiece, with Carter King, Andrew Davis, Kyle Gancarz and Battista Wood also driving in runs. What followed, a day later, against Oswego was a case of C-NS using one big inning to carry itself through the rest of the game on the way to defeating the Buccaneers 14-9. Up 1-0 going to the bottom of the second, C-NS erupted for 10 runs in that frame, and then reinforced that work with a three-run fourth inning even as Oswego made up half the ground. Davis led the way with a single, double, triple and four RBIs. Jaden Zimmer, Kenton Cochran and Jeremy Palmer drove in two runs apiece, with Zimmer scoring three times as Mingle, Gancarz, Williams and Ben Watkins also drove in
runs. Then C-NS had its own game with West Genesee on Thursday and prevailed 9-4, breaking out of a 2-2 tie when it plated six runs in the bottom of the fifth off Wildcats starter Colin Crinnin. Watkins and Cochran both got a pair of RBIs, while Mingle was three-forthree with two runs scored. Davis added two hits and two runs scored as Justin Coyne pitched well, limiting WG to four hits in his complete-game effort. Liverpool entered the week off a 13-2 win over East Syracuse Minoa on May 4, a game where it scored eight runs in the bottom of the first inning to seize control as Benjamin went three-for-three with two singles, a double, two walks and four runs scored. Vivacqua finished with three RBIs, while Baker doubled and drove in two runs. RBIs also went to Stevens, Austin Burch and Chase Refici as Anderson Roden pitched five innings to earn the victory before Ryan Densmore closed it.
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