Fore! It’s that time of the year again, time for the annual Bagley Open. The fourth annual Bagley Open golf tournament will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 18, at Deerwood Golf Course in North Tonawanda and Classics V Banquet Hall. 

Knowledge is power. That important lesson will not be forgotten any time soon by those who participated in the Christian Leadership Institute this year.

Registration for World Youth Day Madrid 2011 is now open. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has updated its existing World Youth Day page (www.wydusa.org) to allow access to the registration process through its website. The site includes links to important information regarding the event. Content will be progressively built up as additional information becomes available.

Camp Turner, the diocesan-owned summer camp, will open for its 88th season. Located in Allegany State Park, the camp offers hiking, swimming and horseback riding, as well as other traditional outdoor activities. As a Catholic institution, Camp Turner sets out to teach its campers the wonder of God’s creation, as well as the value of each individual. Staff there listens to campers and help them enjoy their time at camp as they teach the campers to try new things without fear of failing. The season kicked off July 5.

Children as well as adults are bombarded with different types of the written word necessary for their lives in the 21st century.  Students write daily in classrooms and for homework.  They write for every major subject area, including science, math, history, language arts, spelling and social studies. They write homework assignments in planners, essays and their name on top of their papers a thousand times in a school year.  The repetition of this kind of writing is good for practice and good for learning.  However, one aspect of writing which also needs to be nurtured is the love of writing for pure creative purposes.

Koty Mann will never drink a Coke without thinking of the homeless. During a mission trip to Nicaragua, the 16-year-old saw a man living in a shelter built from Coca-Cola and Dasani vending machines. “It never leaves your heart; remembering all the people down there is like a slideshow that keeps going through your head,” he said.

The Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns has recognized Brandon Lyles, a junior at Cardinal O’Hara High School in Tonawanda, for his selflessness, intelligence and dedication. He received the 2010 Youth of the Year award from the local Boys & Girls Club.

Music is an extension of the soul, and many students in Western New York have gathered as a part of the Western New York Catholic Honor Band to express themselves through this creative outlet.

The Western New York Catholic School Honor Band is a band comprised of students from Catholic elementary schools across Western New York.  The students who are in the band have been chosen to participate in the band based on a certain level of achievement obtained playing their specific instruments.

 

Where in the world is Brian Hamp? Well, in mid-April the eighth-grader was in Albany competing in the National Geographic Bee. A student at St. Amelia School in Tonawanda, Hamp, 13, made it to the state championship after winning his class and school competitions. He also had to take a written qualifying test.

Students from Holy Angels Academy in Buffalo participated in a jewelry-making workshop in March as a fundraising project to help the post-earthquake relief effort in Haiti.