Friends of Fort Ontario Website

[17 June 2010] Friends of Fort Ontario member Christopher Colasurdo will celebrate the reopening of Fort Ontario State Historic Site and his 10^th birthday with a party at the fort on Sunday, June 27^th, at 2:00 PM. Mr. Colasurdo would like to invite anyone who helped in the campaign reopen the fort, or wishes it to remain open, to join him for pizza, soda, and cake in the underground West Artillery Casemate on the Flag Bastion, rain or shine. Music will be provided by the Domicolo/Barlow Band. In lieu of personal gifts Chris hopes that all well wishers will make a donation to the “Friends of Fort Ontario.”

CONTACT:
Debbie Colasurdo          (315) 343-3376
Paul Lear                          (315) 343-4711

The Friends of Fort Ontario are a not-for-profit 501C3 educational organization formed in
1989 to encourage community participation in programs, assist in the preservation and enhancement of the artifacts and documents, develop educational programs and services, and to engage in activities which are in harmony with the operation of Fort Ontario State Historic Site. For more information on the Friends contact Chuck Harrington, President (315) 343-6310. The fort is located at the north end of East 4^th Street in the City of Oswego, New York, off Route 104 East [www.fortontario.com]

Preserving history: The sweet smell of success

By KEN STURTZ
Staff Intern

Going into business should be more sweet than sour, and for a group of enterprising technology education students at SUNY Oswego, it certainly was.

With some help from Man in the Moon Candies, the group developed and produced chocolate molds of historic Fort Ontario for a project in their manufacturing class.

The students’ manufacturing class required them to form groups and work together on a semester-long project, which entailed conceptualizing a product, manufacturing it and then selling the finished product. The final hurdle of the project was that the group had to actually make and sell 99 units of their created product.

SAVE THE FORT RALLY
Sunday March 14, 2010
Begins at 12:00pm
(In Fort Ontario Main Parking Lot)

Battle of Oswego-Commemorating the attack & capture of Fort Oswego by the British in 1814 to be held on May 8th & 9th, 2010.

Preserving history: The sweet smell of success

By KEN STURTZ Staff Intern

By KEN STURTZ
Staff Intern