Current Activity

In June, besides coordinationg a GPS Treasure Hunt with SU's community geographer, the POC worked out the transportation for 10 Syracuse teenagers to NYSDEC's Pack Forest Camp.  The POC sponsored these 10 youth, and in so doing got them a free week of environamental education and fun in the Adirondacks.  Five will be going July 11 and another five August 1.

On May 26 the Partnerhsip for Onondaga Creek received a "Greening our Community" award along with the Onondaga Citizens League, the Post-Standard, the Syracuse Center of Excellence and Near West Side resident Renee Allen.

YWCA Award LuncheonApril Awards!

April 21st: POC members Joanne Stevens and Louise Poindexter received the YWCA Academy of Diversity Achievers' Award for their community activism.

April 23rd: EPA, Region 2,  Environmental Quality Award for "Greening Syracuse's Combiined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan" was presented to The Partnership for Onondaga Creek, Atlantic States Legal Foundation, The onondaga Nation, and County Executive Joanne Mahoney.

On April 23 the Partnership for Onondaga Creek will be honored in New York City along with Atlantic States Legal Foundation, the Onondaga Nation and County Executive Joanne Mahoney for their collaborative work to "green" Syracuse's CSO Long Term Control Plan.