John Walker, employee at the Wegmans in Pittsford, uses an electric chainsaw to carve away an ice sculpture of The Cat in the Hat. He and co-worker Jeff Lunney created the sculpture as part of the winter festivities at Roger J. Robach Community Center, located at Ontario Beach. Other ice sculptures, as well as a chili cookoff, a live band and the Lake Plunge, where people leaped into the below freezing waters of Lake Ontario, were all part of last Saturday’s events.
Field Hockey
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The URochester Yellowjackets played the Tufts University Jumbos Sept. 26, in a game of field hockey dedicated to Morgan Rodgers, a former lacrosse player from Duke University who passed in 2019 from suicide. The URochester field hockey chapter of Morgan’s Message was there to eliminate the stigma around mental health and asking for help when needed. The Morgan’s Message game is always the last home game in September, to round out Suicide Prevention Month. Read More
Fringe Festival
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For “Tarot Cabaret” the audience pulls 11 cards out of a tarot deck, and the group performs a song that is related to each card, leading to a completely random performance each night Read More