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Common Core Controversies Pushed Aside To Pass Budget SED, Regents Will Issue Teacher Evaluation Protocols June 30 By JIM KEVLIN
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he thorniest of Governor Cuomo’s proposed Common Core reforms – linking teachers’ professional survival to test results – were set aside Tuesday, March 31, in the state Legislature’s furious negotiations to complete an on-time budget by midnight for the fifth year in a row. “Rather than have some of these issues deterIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood, standing at left, was among the crowd at a solarenergy presentation Tuesday, March 31, at Ommegang, where company executive Larry Bennett announced the brewery will be 100percent solar powered by the end of the year.
mined in the heat of budget deliberations, it’s better to take the time to get them right,” said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, soon after exiting a key negotiating session. Still, a fairly firm road map was set in place: By June 30, the legislature gave the state Education Department and Board of Regents “broad directions” to issue regulations on reforming APPRs – annual professional performance reviews – that have been the focus of angry meetings in Cooperstown and demonstrations in Oneonta.
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Protesters, mostly teachers, rally against Governor Cuomo’s Common Core reforms at Center Street School.
Since the governor appoints the state education commissioner – the post is vacant since John Please See REFORMS, A6
Millions Cement OJC Renovations Help Assure Program’s Future In Oneonta
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Citizen Voices Hosts Mathes Status Report
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andy Mathes, the county’s “single point of contact” on economic development, was scheduled to address Citizen Voices’ quarterly general meeting on the status of a three-year Mathes effort to jumpstart the local economy. His topic, “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly,” a look at opportunities and obstacles. See report on
fter 80 years, the former Homer Folks TB Hospital – now Oneonta Job Corps – is getting a serious upgrade. “We have all the original pipes,” said Chris Kuhn, center director. “And that’s the problem!” The multi-million dollar renovation was awarded by the National Job Corps office, an arm of the U.S. Department of Labor, to upgrade infrastructure in the historic building, including improvements to ventilation, electric, plumbing and fire alarms. “What it says to me Please See CORPS, A6
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GETTING HELP: The Arc Otsego’s free Front Door information session on receiving services from the state Office for People with Developmental Disabilities is 4-6 p.m. Thursday, April 14, 35 Academy St. To preregister, call Sara Hanlon at 433-8417. SIGN OF SPRING: City Hall will accept applications for the Community Gardens plots in Swart-Wilcox Park from city residents only beginning Friday, April 3. Applications available from city clerk or at www.oneonta. ny.us The fee is $25. Questions, call 432-6450.
Matt Jahnke reflects on the damage to the livingroom of his family’s Milford home, which an electrical fire destroyed in a smoky blaze Thursday, March 12. Below, Matt and Jenny and son Noah, 5, have been buoyed by an outpouring of support.
ford home to a smoky all-consuming blaze Thursday, March 12. Though no one was hurt, the family dog and two cats perished, which was believed to be caused by an electrical malfunction. Surveying the wreckage, the Jahnkes found Jenny’s grandmother’s hope chest, containing her pearl earrings, necklace and Please See SUPPORT, A7
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or Matt Jahnke, Orpheus isn’t just community theater – it IS community. “The support of this community has been unreal,” he said. “The emptiness of our house burning was filled by the community within minutes.” The Jahnke family lost their Mil-
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riving back to New York City after a screening of his film “From Mills River to Babylon and Back: The Jimmy Massey Story,” Oneonta filmmaker Joe Stillman and former Attorney General Ramsey Please See FILM, A6
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EDITORIAL
Numbers Show Upstate Failing, But We Have Assets To Build On
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retty much anyone with a hand on the cash register in Otsego County must have had the same gut feeling: Things have been inching in the wrong direction. Now the numbers are in. Census data released last week shows that population, after rising for a decade in New York State, has been dropping since 2010 – and dropping enough Upstate to offset growth in the New York Metropolitan Area. Our neighboring Schoharie and Delaware counties, both hardest hit by Hurricane Irene, saw the largest population drops in the state, 3.6 and 2.9 percent respectively. But lucky Otsego County – we have so much going for us – saw only a 1.1 percent dip. This should come as no surprise to anyone, given ONC BOCES’ latest projections, released last November: Enrollment in the 19 school districts is expected to drop 18 percent in the next decade and a half. Cooperstown Central can expect a 31.9 percent drop. Some districts, Milford
Central (46.8), for instance, can expect much worse. Only Oneonta, with a 2.1 percent predicted dip, can be considered stable. In contrast, 1.1 is nothing. • Lucky Otsego County, because we have so much going for us: Stable employment from SUNY Oneonta, Hartwick College and Bassett Healthcare. Big tourism draws – The Baseball Hall of Fame, the NYSHA museums, Glimmerglass Opera – injecting chunks of cash into the local economy annually, keeping county taxes among the lowest in the state. Plus, exceptional brands: The Hall of Fame, certainly – everyone knows “Cooperstown.” But also James Fenimore Cooper’s Glimmerglass, one of the world’s front-rank symbols of a clean environment and natural beauty. An Interstate runs through it. We’re served by rail. And there’s an airport that can be quickly upgraded as needed. There’s sufficient municipal water and sewerage in the City of
NY POPULATION DOWN SINCE 2010
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IN-MIGRATION
OTSEGO COUNTY .44% DELAWARE COUNTY .22% SCHOHARIE COUNTY .21% UPSTATE 1.01% DOWNSTATE 3.23% NYS TOTAL 2.50%
Oneonta to handle substantial growth. Still, an obvious strategy everyone says makes sense – add employers along the I-88 exits; house them by regenerating the lovely residential communities to the north – has gone nowhere.
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commend the mayor and Cooperstown village trustees for another year of little or no village tax increases. No doubt paid parking was a driver of this decision. Their actions are a small down-payment on what is a significant problem for our community. Two hundred and fifty years ago the Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith used the metaphor of the “invisible hand” to describe the societal consequences of economic actions. In our community the consequences of cumulative state, county, town and village taxes can be seen in declining school enrollment, empty store-fronts on Main Street, a high inventory of unsold homes, and a void in local investment and creative entrepreneurship. All of these are taking place in an area with significant cultural resources, superior public education, and what is generally regarded as a good quality of life. The economic decline
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of this region began in the 1950s when business and investment moved to the South. Later, the economic migration continued and headed out of the country. People, wealth and capital have options. Economic opportunity, in part, is a function of the tax structure. That opportunity – or lack of it – will help determine our future. Last year, there was a demonstration in Albany for “social justice” and economic equality where the crowd chanted “Tax the Rich” as a solution to our troubles. Basically, this has been going on for fifty years – and there are three reasons why this approach does not work: • First, the “rich” – and that is always being redefined – have options. They can shelter their wealth – or they can leave the state. When they leave they often take their businesses and jobs with them. • Second, governments are poor allocators of
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This, despite an educated workforce ready to provide the brainpower to meet the demands of business and commerce of the future. (One of Ioxus’ concerns was the ability to recruit PhDs, but that’s turned out not to be a problem at all:
One of our elected officials, at a recent economic-development forum in Chenango County, was surprised to hear our fair county referred to as “Cantsego” and “Notsego.” What a rep. Before we start beating ourselves up too much, we should consider that the nation, and our state and county, have yet to recover from the devastating Great Recession. (Nationally, the Democrats need to stop bragging about decreasing the unemployment rate to 5.7 or 5.8 – that simply won’t do.) Plus, there are many, many good things going on. As it happens, next week’s edition will include our first “Progress” supplement in a decade, simply because so much is aborning. It sometimes seems that hurdles are placed in front of every promising idea. If the fault is in ourselves, not our stars, likewise we can recognize possibilities – and, you will read, there are many – and pursue them. The latest data is just another compelling argument for doing so.
LETTERS
JIM HOWARTH
OUT-MIGRATION
It turns out Albany, an hour away, has more PhDs per capita than any region in the country.) The Upstate beer boom is flourishing here (Ommegang, plus), and there’s more in the offing (Hager Hops). Month to month, there seems to be an increasing consciousness that we can profitably, very profitably, help fill New York City’s $1 billion unmet Farm-to-Table demand. In effect, we have it all, we just haven’t capitalized on it. • Some of this is conscious: At least some of our most well-watered citizens – SUNY and Hartwick employees, plus those affiliated with Bassett, and well-off pensioners – don’t really want to see any change. But don’t blame them alone: Chobani opened just down the road from Edmeston, has hired its children and invested in its community infrastructure, but all you hear there is complaints about increased truck traffic on Route 80. Word’s gotten around.
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wealth. There is a large gap, driven by the costs of government, between money taken in and funds given out. • Third, there is an opportunity cost of these policies and actions. That is, opportunities simply never materialize in a high tax environment. They go elsewhere. High taxes often impact poor and lower income working people most. For example, last month I paid $1.91 per gallon for gasoline – full service at that – in New Jersey. Later that day I noticed that gasoline in Cooperstown was almost 50 cents per gallon higher. The difference was state tax. For a person with a minimum wage job that $10 to $15 per tank is important. Our future should largely be driven by young families, with children in the school system, who have local jobs. These people will create the demand for goods and services that mark a vibrant community. The alternative is a living museum, with summer homes for retired - now out-of-state - people, Dreams Park rental units, and seasonal tourist stores. None of these are necessarily a bad thing, but are they the drivers of our future? What can we do? Most importantly, we can create an environment where the “invisible hand” of economics will work in our favor, by lowering costs and taxes. We can look at ways to consolidate school systems, combine local governments – or at least some services of local governments, and expand the use of contractors for government services. We have a lot to offer. Let’s take actions to attract the people and investments that will shape our coming decades. Jim Howarth is a Cooperstown resident and business executive.
Parents Of 75 Cooperstown Pupils Won’t Participate In State Testing To the Editor: We the undersigned, after thoughtful consideration, have decided to refuse to allow our children to participate in New York State standardized testing. We are the parents of over 75 children who will not take the tests. We made this choice not as an act of rebellion, but rather in support of our teachers, our children, and the education provided to them by the Cooperstown Central School district. We hope other families will join us; parents have the right to refuse for their child up until the morning of the test. Governor Cuomo’s pro-
posal to use standardized test scores to determine the quality of education provided by an individual teacher or school has absolutely no research to support it, is fraught with error, and unlikely to improve the quality of education. These tests have never been validated, are not consistently reproducible, are developmentally inappropriate, and have not been shown to produce higher achievement or reduce the achievement gap. In fact, they do little more than reflect the current socioeconomic wellbeing of a community. To base 50 percent of a
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teacher’s evaluation on one measure has the likely, if unintended, consequence of harming the education our children receive. Once teachers are rewarded or punished by a single metric, motivations will change and teachers will strive to improve test scores rather than foster an environment where a child can create, imagine, and experiment, and where teachers can collaborate with one another rather than compete. In short, high-stakes standardized testing does not enhance the educational experience of a student, and therefore, we will politely decline.
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After 35 Years, Goodbye To Meadows, Manor, Focus To the Editor: Today I walked out the front doors of Focus at Otsego for the last time as an attending physician. I did so with very conflicted emotions. My visit exposure to geriatric medicine, although it was not known as that at the time, was some 35 years ago at what was the The Meadows. Ever since that time, working with Don Pollack and Peter Howard, I have had a strong affinity for the care of our elderly. I obtained board certification in geriatric medicine. My practice has always included a
preponderance of patients aged more than 65 and, up until today, I have always made weekly rounds in skilled nursing homes and adult care homes. I have previously made my comments public regarding the decision to sell the Manor. Today, I just want to thank the staff of the Meadows/Manor/Focus for their dedication and excellent care of their charges. And I especially want to say that it has been a special privilege to care for the most vulnerable citizens in our community – our mothers, fathers, kin and neighbors. DOUGLAS. M. DeLONG, MD, FACP
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125 Years Ago
David Wilber died on Tuesday morning at eight o’clock. Although he had been ill for months and it was known that his hold upon life might be severed at any time, the end came suddenly. David Wilber was born October 5, 1820, in a farmhouse situated near the village of Quaker Street in the Town of Duanesburg, Schenectady County. He was the oldest of seven children. While he was yet a lad his father moved to Otsego County and settled on a farm in the Crumhorn Mountain tract although David remained at Rensselaerville with a cousin named Chadwick, a nephew of his mother and, like her, a Quaker. At the age of 25, January 1, 1845, while in the service of Hubbard W. Jones, he married Margaret B. Jones, whose father, a carpenter, lived in Platt Hollow, in the Town of Maryland. After the marriage they moved to a log house on his father’s farm and began their long and happy wedded life together. (Ed. Note: An extensive obituary and pencil portrait image of David Wilber is found in The Oneonta Herald edition of Thursday, April 3, 1890) April 1890
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Commandments of the Road for Automobilists: The National Council of Industrial Safety asks all automobilists to obey to the letter these ten commandments of the road: Don’t run fast into or across main highways. Don’t take blind curves too fast. Don’t run on the wrong side of the road. Don’t pass street cars when passengers are boarding or leaving. Don’t fail to sound your horn before passing other vehicles. Don’t forget that a car or a person may be just around the turn. Don’t forget that the other fellow may be dull, reckless, or drunk. Don’t fail to look out for pedestrians. Don’t forget that children dash suddenly and unexpectedly. Don’t take chances. That’s the simple embracing rule. April 1915
80 Years Ago
An accident with a delivery truck in this vicinity over the weekend took the lives of two Oneonta youths and sent two others to Fox Memorial Hospital for treatment of injuries. Rocco Danzi, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Danzi of 25 Brookside and Carlton A. Culver, 25, son of Mrs. Curtis Culver, of 41 Valleyview Street were fatally injured when the delivery truck operated by Culver left the CobleskillWarnerville road and struck a tree about 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning as the pair were conveying Albany and New York newspapers from Albany to Oneonta. While stopping off for deliveries at intermediate points, Culver had taken a back road to Warnerville where papers were to be left at the home of Leonard Spencer, local newspaper boy. Culver apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Two Oneonta-bound passengers, Dana Banks, age 19, of Main Street, Oneonta and Angelo Pizza, age 18, West Broadway, both received minor cuts and bruises as they were thrown from the rear of the truck where they were sitting atop newspaper bundles. Banks and Pizza were recently discharged from a CCC camp in the west. Both Culver and Danzi were alive upon arrival at Fox Memorial. However, Danzi succumbed minutes after his admission at 6:30 a.m. and Culver died at 3:45 p.m. as Fox surgeons were preparing to amputate a crushed leg. April 1935
60 Years Ago
At the intersection of Broad and Main streets, Oneonta citizens were asked: “What’s your favorite radio or TV program and why?” Sam Telesky, 35 College Terrace, taxi owner said: “Lee Hickling’s news and music show over WDOS in the morning is my favorite on radio. On TV my favorite is Studio One. I think they have terrific plays.” Mrs. June Hacklin, 17 Oneida Street, housewife and stenographer, replied: “Ed Sullivan on TV. I like him for variety. On radio I like Jerry Griffin’s show over WDOS the best.” Frank Microni, 9 South Main Street, barber, said: “I never listen to radio except the Jerry Griffin show. On TV, the fights are my favorite. They’re interesting, keeps you up to date on who’s
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Albany Fails To End Common Core Debate That Is Roiling County REFORMS/From A1 King joined the federal Department of Education at year’s end – and the Regents’ chair, Merryl Tisch, is a close ally, it might be expected that the recommendations will cleave to Cuomo’s preference. But Seward, one of the most senior members of the Republican-controlled senate, said he and his colleagues directed the SED and Regents “to develop guidance with less reliance on testing.” Local school districts will then have until Nov. 15 to negotiate a new APPR regimen into local contracts with teachers. If they fail to do so by the deadline, the state will withhold increases in state aid that were also part of the package that was due to be sent to the Governor’s Office for Cuomo’s signature by the deadline. All but two of 700 school districts were able to accomplish that in 2012, Seward said. News reports out of Albany also had the legislature and governor agreeing on extending the time teachers need to qualify for tenure from three to four years, with Common Core test results determining
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proficiency, which appears to allow the camel’s nose under the tent. It was also reported that the governor might be authorized to take over 27 long-failing schools, mostly in New York City, Buffalo, and other big cities, and allocated $75 million to help achieve turn-arounds. Speaking for his senate caucus, Seward said, “Other than trying to reduce the testing, we weren’t addressing Common Core head-on. The general consensus in my conference is that it’s been a horrible rollout of Common Core on the part of the state Education Department. They’ve been testing on material that has not yet been taught, and not promoting buy-in on the part of teachers, parents and the community.” The amount of damage done to implementation of the Common Core concept
since the Jan. 21 State of the State speech, where the governor asked legislators to tie APPRs to Common Core test scores: Teachers whose classes fail to meet standards in math and English for two years would lose their certifications, and at least 50 percent of teachers’ scores would be determined by evaluators from outside their districts. Southern Otsego County teachers staged a “Because I Care Rally” Feb. 27 in Oneonta’s Muller Plaza, and last Thursday, March 26, sought to create a human
chain around city school district offices in the former Center Street School, although the effort was hampered by heavy rains. In Cooperstown, parent Kim Jastremski rallied teachers and parents to object to the APPR reforms – and the Common Core generally – at CCS board meetings on March 4 and 18, and invited in Opt Out CNY, a teacher-led organization, to speak against the testing program on March 8 in Village Hall. On Monday, March 30, Jastremski provided a letter
to the editor signed by parents of 75 students, saying they would not allow their children to take Common Core tests planned for midApril. (For text of letter, see Page A4.) Last year, only six families – nine children total – opted out in Cooperstown. In Oneonta, however, the opt-out rate was 20 percent. Both school superintendents, Cooperstown’s C.J. Hebert and Oneonta’s Joseph Yelich, expressed concern at the fast-track negotiations and tieing increases in school aid to a
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FILM/From A1 Clark got talking. “It turns out that his late wife, Georgia, grew up a few houses down from my grandparents in Corpus Christi, Texas,” said Stillman. “I’ve been aware of him my whole life, but I realized I didn’t really know him. So I turned to him and I said, ‘Has anybody ever made a movie about you’?” An early cut of the resulting film, “A Life of Principle: The Ramsey Clark Story,” will be screened at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 4 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Oneonta. Clark was the attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson in 196769. A close associate of Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., he helped draft the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. “After King was assassinated, he traveled to different police stations and told them to be patient
with people rebelling,” said Stillman. “He told them that their leader had just died and it was a natural reaction to be angry. If it hadn’t been for his involvement, a lot of people could have died.” Since then, Clark, 87, has worked as a human rights activist. “He was in Syria two weeks ago,” said Stillman. “Any time there’s been war, in Latin America, Panama, Iraq, Libya, he’s been there as Citizen Clark.” So far, Stillman has raised $37,000 of the $400,000 he needs to complete the film. “To use archival footage and stills, it’s $500 a second,” he said. “You have to buy video clips in 30 second increments!” But however long it takes, Stillman is determined to finish his film and screen it across the country. “I hope this film has a big impact,” he said. “I want to remind people what it takes to fight for a cause that’s important, and maybe inspire the next generation of activists.”
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Renovations Affirm OJC Here CORPS/From A1 is that they’re investing in us,” said Kuhn. “We’ve been good stewards of the program.” When the building underwent an asbestos abatement in 2012, Kuhn and the engineers noticed that the pipes were in poor condition. “It’s as if the insulation is the only thing keeping them together,” he said. Every two years, the national office sends a facilities-survey team to tour Job Corps centers inside and out. And now that the work has been budgeted in the Job Corp Construction Rehab fund, a Mechanical, Electric and Plumbing study – MEP, for short – will be conducted to see exactly what needs to be done. “The study is starting soon,” said Kuhn. “The
successful outcome. “That will put the districts in a difficult (negotiating) situation,” said Hebert. Added Yelich, “This particular framework provides a really disadvantageous position for school boards and district to negotiate.” But Yelich expressed satisfaction at the increase in state aid after eight years of austerity; he said the money will be used for intervention. “As kids flag or as kids need enrichment, we want to make sure we have personnel for that,” he said.
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New to the Market – Town of Springfield farmhouse on 1.97 acres. Home offers formal entry hall w/sidelights and transom, open staircase, LR w/fireplace and closet area, parlor, full bath, DR w/plank wainscoted walls, walk-in pantry, full bath, kitchen area w/exposed beams, solid doors w/“Indian Bars” and attached 1-car garage w/walk-up attic space. 2 BRs upstairs, both w/en suite baths. Over the kitchen area is a large room for play, w/view of Otsego Lake. Stone patio at the back kitchen door. The property offers a cut-stone building, small older barn, fenced swimming pool, slate patio and “party patio”. Otsego Lake rights at Springfield Public Landing. Offered Co-Exclusively by Ashley-Connor Realty REDUCED $225,000 Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com
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From Orpheus, Outpouring Of Support SUPPORT/From A1 wedding dress. “The first thing I thought of was my great-grandfather’s photograph,” Matt said. “The fire happened on his birthday. The frame is still there, but the picture is gone.” Jahnke, an Orpheus Theater regular, most recently played the Baker in “Into the Woods.” There he met Brooke Tallman-Birkett. “I was sitting in my neighbor’s driveway, watching my house burn, and she called me,” he said. “She asked, ‘Can I do something for you’?” “When we found out about the fire at Matt’s house, a bunch of us immediately started a conversation on Facebook,” said Tallman-Birkett. “By 5 p.m. we had set up a campaign to help the family.” She set up a www. GoFundMe.com drive, setting the goal at $14,000 to help the family in the fire’s wake. “Within 24 hours, we’d met and exceeded our goal,” she said. “It was so inspiring to see the community rally around the family.” Currently, the fund has over $21,000, with 260 donors in just over two weeks. “I want to thank everybody in this community,” said Jahnke. “I’ve always loved Oneonta, but now they’re showing me love back. It’s overwhelming. I’ve hugged more people in the past two weeks than I have in my entire life!” Orpheus also invited people to drop of clothing, bedding and toys for their 3-year-old son, Noah, at their Maple Street office, but within a week were turning people away. “We had to put those efforts on hold because of the huge response we received!” she said. “Once they rebuild,
we’ll see what else they need. People have already said they have these big items, like a kitchen table and a fridge.” And the fundraising isn’t over yet: 1-5 p.m. Saturday, April 4, Tallman-Birkett and Orpheus have put together “Janhke-Aid,” a live music event at Foothills. Just Throw Money, Tim Iverson & Friends, Obsidia and DJ Blast are set to play, and several other bands have expressed interest in per-
forming. A cash bar and snacks will be available for purchase. “Foothills was kind enough to donate the space for this event,” she said. “It’s a chance for us to get together, socialize and do something good for this family.” “We may have lost everything,” Jahnke said. “But it’s hitting us now that we’re part of something so much greater.”
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