PROTECT YOUR ASSETS

More than 70 Chestnut Hill Middle sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders recently earned honors during the school’s end of the year Academic Awards. Winning awards were:

Principal Award: Kara Edwards, Lilyanna

Mangovski, Jace Ashby

Perseverance Award: Emma Jondle, Hadya

Sakhizada

Physical Education Achievement Award: Michael Pascarella, Isabella DaRin, Charlotte Parr, Jaymen Shea, Leah Brown, Angelo Sabatino

Reading Award: Shannon Hudson, Yalda

Sakhizada

Outstanding Performance in Band Award: Donovan Price

Band Director’s Award: Giovanni CarrollThornton Choral Director’s Award: Ayden Powell, Lilyana Sharkey

Orchestra Director’s Award: Justin Le

Orchestra Excellence Award: Rayna Chen

Spanish Award: Gracie Scholz, Hannah

Mawi French Award: Scarlett Sen, Kailee Lambert

English as a New Language Award: Vatsal Sharma, Saeed Maqsoodi, Amir Samadari, Hadi Azzam

Math Award (7th Grade): Akshit Singh, Lauren Wright

Science Award (7th Grade): Emma Huynh

local teacher accepted into prestigious Supreme Court Summer institute

Michael Crosby, a social studies teacher at Liverpool High School, traveled to Washington, D.C. this June to attend the prestigious Supreme Court Summer Institute. After a highly competitive application process, 60 teachers were selected nationwide to participate this year. The institute, open to teachers in the fields of law-related and civic education, is co-sponsored by Street Law Inc. and the Supreme Court Historical Society.

Michael Crosby

were among the speakers and instructors for the institute. A recent evaluation of the Supreme Court Summer Institute found that, after the program, teachers who attended felt much more confident discussing controversial issues and Supreme Court cases in their classrooms, discussed Supreme Court cases and used interactive teaching strategies more frequently and gained critical knowledge about the U.S. Supreme Court.

The institute offers teachers the opportunity to study recent Supreme Court cases in detail and learn innovative teaching methods for conveying this information to students. Well-known Supreme Court lawyers, reporters, scholars and educators

Upon returning home, teachers will be available to present workshops on teaching about the U.S. Supreme Court, and to meet with media to discuss how the new skills and information will apply in their classrooms.

Summer Reading Kickoff events planned at Salina Library

Celebrate the start of summer and kick off the Summer Reading Program at Salina Library. Join us for Sidewalk Art on Thursday, June 29 at 2:30 pm as we decorate the library parking lot and sidewalks.

Afterward, cool off with ice cream sundaes. Stop in the library to pick up your summer reading goody bag and read your way to great prizes. For children entering grades K-5. Teens entering 6-12 grades can read and try out library activities for prizes and raffle tickets.

Learn how to make a mini bonsai tree with wire and beads on Wednesday, July 5 at 2:30 pm.

Register for the Summer Reading Program at salinalibrary.org, in person or through the READsquared app. Check out our summer events for all ages on the online events calendar. For more information, call 315-4544524 or email info@salinalibrary.org.

A total of 635 voters cast ballots here June 20. Some 1,700 village residents are registered to vote. The results were announced that evening by Village Deputy Clerk Sandra Callahan.

The Finney-Fadden race took shape after incumbent Mayor Gary White announced in April that he would not seek an eight two-year term. He planned to preside over his final village board meeting on June 26. Finney and the two new trustees will be sworn in on Monday, July 3.

Second-ever Democrat mayor Stacy Finney is the sec- ond Democrat ever elected mayor of Liverpool. The first, and only other, was Pete Beneke, 90 long years ago, back in 1933.

In 1987, Jon Zappola won the office as an independent write-in candidate, defeating incumbent Republican Jim Moore.

Zappola served one term, then ran again for mayor in 2001, that time as a Democrat. But he came up short, losing to Liverpool’s first-ever female mayor, Republican Marlene Ward.

Republicans have long dominated village government, but now for the first time since 1994, Democrats will hold a majority on the Liverpool Village Board of Trustees, three-to-two.

Couple to wed

The Dearborn family of Liverpool and the Kent family of Syracuse are happy to announce the engagement of Austin Dearborn and Bridget Kent. The couple met at SUNY Oswego and cannot agree about who made the first move. Austin surprised Bridget—and both families—by proposing to her at a family cookout. The couple plans to marry in the summer of 2025. austin Dearborn and Bridget Kent

Sponsored by

Don’t be bored

On our calendars there are often various notations under the dates. Some of these denote federal holidays or religious celebrations. Some of these also draw attention to serious issues such as breast cancer awareness.

But some of these are also fun and lighthearted.

According to nationaldaycalendar. com, July, among many other things, is marked as Anti Boredom Month.

July was selected, according to the founder Alan Caruba, because after July 4th, there’s not much going on and it’s the hotter part of the summer break from school, a time when children on summer vacation often test their parents with chants that they are bored and there is nothing to do.

Caruba, a writer among other endeavors, created the idea in the 1980s as a bit of satire, but also used the idea to shine a light on mental health.

According to nationaldaycalendar. com, when fending off boredom, it’s important to know what the symptoms are and why we get bored. We often associate being bored with having nothing to do, but that’s not always the case. Many times, we have plenty to do or are even doing it, but the task at hand does not stimulate our minds. It may be repetitive or not challenging enough.

When this happens, we can become irritable, tired, or begin to not care about how well we do a task. We may also seek out stimulation to relieve the boredom. Depending on what we seek, it may be good or bad for us. We can form good habits or bad ones.

While Caruba may have initiated the idea as a satire of people complaining about being bored, he raised an interesting point that we can all consider.

When we are bored we can ask ourselves how we contend with that boredom.

It is natural to get bored from time to time, but if we sit and do nothing or use the opportunity to get motivated and do something can make a world of difference in our mood and attitude.

While Caruba created the concept of Anti Boredom Month in the 1980s, before smart phones, in some ways the technology we use to amuse ourselves can also lend itself to our boredom as we scroll endlessly, looking for something new and interesting that will stimulate our minds.

The same could be said for things that came before, television, video games, etc., can engage us, but can also allow our minds to disengage and become bored.

There are a number of ways we can do things more actively.

Engaging in a board game with friends and family, getting up and moving and getting more physical exercise also helps our bodies fight boredom.

Taking on new activities and new knowledge by visiting a museum, learning to cook a new dish or reading a book can help our minds become more engaged.

Exploring your creativity by writing, drawing or playing music can all be good activities.

If you are able to, volunteering is a great way to stave off boredom while giving something back to others.

And of course being social with friends and family can make a world of difference.

With more events this time of year from concerts to summer festivities coming back, we hope there is a lot to do to stay engaged and not be bored.

We are fortunate to have access to a great deal of natural beauty from lakes to hiking trails to parks and other recreational opportunities, so we hope that this summer, whether it is riding a bike, reading a book in the park, going to the beach with friends or going for a hike, or any number of other activities, your summer will not be a boring one.