The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Academy recently awarded academy recruit Yvette Perez with the Dan Feather Memorial Scholarship.

The $1,200 scholarship was created by Verna Feather, the widow of Dan Feather, who was an 18-year veteran of the Jamestown Police Department. The recipient must be a Chautauqua County resident attending the Sheriff’s Academy and possesses qualities that reflect the professionalism and character that Feather demonstrated during his service as a police officer. 

The music department at SUNY Jamestown Community College is planning two winter concert events for December. Both concerts are free and open to the public.

SUNY Jamestown Community College and UPMC Chautauqua signed an agreement today that establishes a new paramedicine program in the region. 

ELLICOTTVILLE, N.Y. –  The SUNY Jamestown Community College Foundation honored John Whelpley as its 2022 John D. Hamilton Award recipient at its annual awards gala held Nov. 9 at Holiday Valley’s Yodeler Lodge.

The Hamilton Award was established in 1995 to recognize individuals whose contributions exemplify those of Hamilton, a past president and trustee emeritus of JCC.

ELLICOTTVILLE, N.Y. –  The SUNY Jamestown Community College Alumni Association honored nine graduates during the JCC Foundation’s annual awards gala held Nov. 9 at Holiday Valley’s Yodeler Lodge.

Colin Kremer, Jonathan O’Brian, and Rick Whitney were recipients of the Distinguished Alumnus Award. The award is the association's highest honor and is given to those who have typified the college's tradition of excellence and brought ​credit to the college through personal accomplishment, professional achievement, or humanitarian service.

Of seven continents, only Antarctica lacks a representative among the students at SUNY Jamestown Community College. Sixty-eight international students were welcomed to the college this fall, including 26 from South Africa, eight from the United Kingdom, and new representation from Ecuador, Morocco, Myanmar, Saint Maarten, and Yemen.

SUNY Jamestown Community College will host a special presentation by Justin Schapp, Deer Clan citizen of the Seneca Nation, at 5 p.m. on Nov. 18 in the Weeks Teleconference Hall, located in the Katharine Jackson Carnahan Center on the Jamestown Campus. 

OLEAN, N.Y. – New to the United States Army, Martin McCall was stationed in a demilitarized zone on the North Korean and South Korean border. He was 19 years old and stressed.

The general came in during McCall’s first briefing and expressed fear that the platoon would be under attack soon.

McCall made it through that day and for the next 21 years of his active duty career, retiring as a sergeant first class following a stint as station commander and recruiter in Olean.

OLEAN, N.Y. – SUNY Jamestown Community College is hosting military panel discussions titled “My Service Experience: A Sharing from Three Local Veterans in Honor of Veterans Day” on Nov. 10.

Sponsored by Olean’s African American Center for Cultural Development, the events are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in Cutco Theater on JCC’s Cattaraugus County Campus. They are free and open to the public.

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt