Oswego River safety

by: Chet Davis (NCC News)

December 1, 2010 5:30 p.m.

New safety measures will be employed regarding fishing on the Oswego River.

In a meeting discussing angler safety, Oswego Major Randolph Bateman, area official, residents and fisherman discussed the easiest ways to make Oswego River safer. The ideas include:

• Placing signs on the east side of the river to show river levels can rapidly change

• Installing depth poles to provide water levels in the river

• Placing life wings on the west linear park that could be used to save fishermen in trouble

• Installing distance markers to assist with the exact location along the river when in an emergency

The improvements come following the deaths of two fishermen on September 28 on the Oswego River. Leonard Nichols, 45, and Clifford Luther, 52, were swept down river after the water level quickly rose. Both men died soon after the accident.

The Oswego County Department of Community Development, Tourism, & Planning is also getting involved. David Turner, the director of the county planning, said the departments will make pamphlets with safety information for the public.

“I think general education is key to anything you do over there,” Turner said. “If people aren’t informed about it and what it means, it’s not going to be successful.”

Turner believes that even the most experienced hunters or fishermen need to be updated on safety measures. Sometimes the unexpected can happen to anyone.

“Things just happen and no matter what the sport is, I think that constantly reminding folks that there are dangers and you should take precautions, that should go on no matter what,” Turner said.

Turner and his department are willing to partner up with other groups to help spread safety information.

The safety upgrades will be worked on throughout the winter and be in place come spring.

Helping Shape Oswego's future

by: Chet Davis (NCC News)



October 13, 2010



Syracuse, N.Y. - Oswego residents will meet to come up with new ideas for improving the future of their city. Meetings today and tomorrow at the McCrobie Building will focus on updating the current Oswego 2020 Vision Comprehensive Plan.



The project started in 2003 and has since developed the city's water front, filled vacancies in unused building and is ready to start building a new conference center. Mary Vanouse, the Oswego community development director, expects this meeting to create even more ideas.



"I expect we'll have a really great turnout tonight," Vanouse said. "And people in this community are really fantastic about coming together and talking about what they want to see and making it happen and I think you're going to see it here again tonight."



Vanouse said the plan has completed nearly half of the 213 items created in 2003. With the help of the Office of Community Renewal's $25,000 grant a future project includes improving Oswego's tourism. For instance, residents want a beach with new hotels and restaurants on the waterfront.



The attendees at today's meeting will take a walking tour of the city to see the improvements that have already been made. Following the walk, there will be an interactive workshop looking at four areas: the neighborhoods, downtown, the waters and gateways and parks.



Thursday's meeting will present the ideas and projects from today.

Team 1 Rundown Rationale

By: Kimberly Caruba (NCC News)

October 13, 2010, 11:36 a.m.

Chilean miners rescued

Our lead story was was about the rescue of the Chilean miners. Since it was a story attracting national attention, involving the rescue of 33 miners that had been trapped underground for 69 days, I felt that it was the most important, interesting, and timely story as the first rescue happened late last night. I had Chet Davis do it as an anchor actuality since it was so important.

Don't ask don't tell injunction

Our second story was a reader about a federal judge's injunction of "Don't ask, don't tell." With the recent deaths of gay teenagers, gay rights are a heated topic of discussion. In addition, it has a political aspect as Obama campaigned about ending "Don't ask, don't tell." It was timely because the ruling took place yesterday night, and was a good transition from a world wide story to a national story.

Onondaga Budget

Our third piece was an overview of the Onondaga County budget. The budget was approved late last night and will affect many residents. This story was timely, important to readers and was a good transition from a national story to a local one. The story was a recorded wrap by Lauren Fabrizi.

Oswego plan for the future

Next we aired a story about the town meeting taking place today in Oswego, where residents can make suggestions for improvements to the city. The plan was to stick to a local story, and this story went along well with the previous story as it involved community improvement, potential budgets and change. I made this the local anchor actuality story by Chet Davis.

DioGuardi ties to fraud

Our next story was a reader about claims by federal regulators that Joe DioGuardi, the Republican challenging the current Democratic Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, had ties to bussinesses accused of defrauding investors of millions of dollars. The battle between Republicans and Democrats is getting increasingly heated, with Democrats expecting to lose seats. I felt that including politics in the show was important and that this story was a good transition from local to state.

Paladino's apology

The story was a reader about Republican gubernatorial candidate, Carl Paladino's apology for the homosexual remarks he made this weekend. The idea was to stick with politics and the controversy going on in the races. I also felt it was news worthy because the topic of his controversial comments was about gays, which we touched on in our second story.

Syracuse School District's plan B

The following story was a voicer done by Ethan Kwassman about the Syracuse School district looking into their "Plan B," which involves moving children out of an elementary school next year. The remodel of schools and consequent closing of schools has been in the news in Syracuse for awhile now, and since this story involved the removal of over one-thousand students temporarily, I felt that it was an important story. The story was a voicer and was a good way to break up the two previous readers. I felt that it was also a good way to bring the news back to a local level.

Crime walk

Our last story before the break was a reader about a crime walk that was taking place in Syracuse today in support of victims of child abuse. It was a quick story that could be dropped if need be, but I also liked it because it was taking place later today. It staid with the local theme, and was in a way tied to the previous story because it was one of improvement and growth.

Sergent's remembrance

Our kicker was a reader about a funeral service that is being held tomorrow for a well known Onondaga County Sergent. He did a lot of work with the K-9 unit, and worked for the County for 32 years. I felt that it was a nice story of remembrance, and that it was nice that it was taking place in the future so listeners could attend if they wanted.

Weather

The weather was a look at today, tonight, tomorrow and the weekend, including a look at the conditions currently. We ended up using all of our weather in the newscast.

And that was the end of our show!