Oswego mayor proclaims Fallen Firefighter weekend, honors community theater; declares May mental health and treatment court months

Oswego Mayor Robert A. Corradino read four proclamations during the April 28, 2025, public session at City Hall recognizing Fallen Firefighter Memorial weekend, the Assurgo Players' 86th anniversary, Mental Health Awareness Month and National Treatment Court Month.

The proclamations named specific dates and local observances. Corradino called on residents and organizations to observe Fallen Firefighter Memorial weekend from May 3–4, 2025, and invited the public to a short ceremony at the fire department headquarters at 35 East Cayuga Street on May 2, 2025. "I respectfully encourage members of the City Of Oswego community to join us for a short ceremony at the fire department headquarters, 35 East Cayuga Street, City Of Oswego on Friday, 05/02/2025," Corradino read.

The city recognized the Assurgo Players' founding and continuous operation, marking April 28, 1939, as the date of their inaugural performance. A representative of the theater thanked the council and said the group had recently signed a 20-year lease and described the company as an all-volunteer community theater. "We just like to thank the city's continuous effort, and their support of us over the last, 36 years," the representative said.

Corradino also proclaimed May 2025 as Mental Health Awareness Month, citing a statistic attributed in the proclamation to the National Institute of Mental Health that "nearly 1 in 5 US adults live with a mental illness." A representative speaking on behalf of the Oswego County Suicide Prevention Coalition and Oswego Health thanked the council and urged people who need help to speak up: "If you know somebody who needs help, encourage been struggling with it yourself, please don't be afraid to to speak out." (speaker attribution is to the coalition/Oswego Health representative listed below.)

Finally, Corradino read a proclamation designating May 2025 as National Treatment Court Month and noted material cited in the text from AllWISE about treatment courts' effectiveness and cost savings. Corradino said he would read the proclamation again at an upcoming drug court graduation.

All four proclamations were presented from the mayor's desk; the mayor affixed the city seal and invited participants and the public to follow-up events noted in each proclamation. The public-session portion of the meeting concluded with no registered public speakers, and the council moved into the regular meeting agenda.

Ending: The mayor and speakers encouraged attendance at the local ceremonies: the fallen firefighter ceremony at 9 a.m. Friday at the Eastside Fire Station (followed by a visit to the John D. Murray Firefighters Museum) and the drug court graduation later in the week where the treatment court proclamation will also be read.