The Kiwanis Club and the NBT Bank of Massena recently joined forces to hold the fifth annual Children's Charity Golf Tournament. The money raised will help with all the Massena club's projects for children in the community. From left, Kiwanis Club president Coleman Guimond, Carla Arcet, NBT Bank branch manager, Massena; Jared Jabaut, NBT financial consultant; Kiwanis Club secretary Warren LaValley; Lucien Plante, past lt. Governeor of St. Lawrence Division, Kiwanis. View enlarged photo.

Youth Conservation Corps workers finish the framing for a new bridge on the Red Sandstone Trail along the Raquette River near Potsdam. From left: Eric Sibbitts, Canton, Chris Lamb, Madrid, Nate Roberts, Canton, Richie Durand, Canton, and team foreman Adam Randall, Potsdam. View enlarged photo.

Third graders at Norwood-Norfolk's summer school had a special guest, a woman visiting the north country from China. Claire Du spoke and sang in Chinese, and she showed students pictures of landmarks in Shanghai. Du and her family are staying with Norwood-Norfolk School's superintendent Elizabeth Kirnie in Norfolk for a month this summer. Kirnie and Du met while both students at Syracuse University, and they started the pen pal exchange between the Shanghi Experimental School and Norwood-Norfolk School. Pictured here displaying their postcards from student pen pals in China are, front row from left: Marianne Joubert, Brandi LaDue, Caleb Haggett, Kaleb Miller and Thomas Gonyou. Back row: Johnna Carpenter, Hannah Mallette, Shannyn St. Andrews, Emily Trombley, Chinese guest Claire Du, and superintendent Elizabeth Kirnie. View enlarged photo.

Five-year-old Lacey Sullivan of Chase Mills proudly holds up 10 inches of fiery red hair she decided to donate to the Locks of Love, while having a haircut at J.C. Penney's at the St. Lawrence Centre Mall, Massena. Lacey is an upcoming Kindergartener at Madrid-Waddington Elementary School. Her parents are Mike and Jen Sullivan.   View enlarged photo.