Winter baseball clinic at Port Byron

A baseball clinic for Port Byron students will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon Dec. 26, 27 and 28, at the Port Byron Middle School gym for fourth through eighth grades and from noon to 2 p.m. for grades nine through 12.

To sign up, call Jim Drancsak at 776-8909 ext. 1232 or Coach Felix Mucedola at 253-7068.

Public swimming at Cato Rec Center

The Cato-Meridian Community Recreation Center will offer a public swim from 5 to 7 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

There will also be open swimming from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and from 11 a.m. to noon

Saturdays.

Holmberg hosting baseball clinic

Auburn Doubledays manager Dennis Holmberg will be conducting his annual winter baseball clinic on Thursday, Jan. 31, and Saturday, Feb. 2, in the batting tunnel at Falcon Park.

The clinic is split into two sessions - from 5 to 7 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and from 9 to 11 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. It is open to boys and girls ages 8 to 15.

Reservations are $55

and can be made by calling 255-2489. Each session can hold up to 20 children.

Every participant will receive a voucher for a box seat ticket for a 2008 home game and a 2007 New York-Penn League Championship cap.

Pizza will be served following each session on Feb. 2.

Softball clinic at Le Moyne College

There will be a Le Moyne softball clinic on Dec. 16, Jan. 13, 27 and Feb. 3, at Le Moyne's Athletic and Recreation building.

The clinics will be divided into two sessions - pitching and hitting/ defense.

The pitching session will be from 8:30 to 10 a.m. while the hitting and defense session will run from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

The cost of each session is $10 or $15 to attend both.

For more information,

call 445-4420, e-mail mahar99@hotmail.com or call Bob Lee at 255-6880.

Pop Warner needs new board members

Auburn Pop Warner is looking for new board members.

Meetings are on the first Wednesday of every month, except for January.

For more information or to express interest, call current board members Mark

at 252-2792, Lisa at 253-7685, Cherie at 246-5919, Marc

at 685-7544 or Theresa at 246-4012.

Hot Stove Dinner to be held at Springside

The 2008 Auburn Doubledays Hot Stove Dinner will feature an active Major League player for the third straight year.

Current Toronto Blue Jays and former Doubledays pitcher Jesse Litsch will participate in this year's dinner at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 2, at the Springside Inn.

Litsch will join Doubledays manager Dennis Holmberg among the honored guests for the evening.

Tickets for the dinner are $35 and are currently available by calling the Doubledays offices at 255-2489.

The ticket includes a family style dinner and will begin with a cocktail hour including appetizers and a silent auction.

Over it's first four years, the dinner has raised $12,000 for local charities including Hillside Children's Center, Matthew House, the United Way and the Leo Pinckney Scholarship Fund.

- From staff reports