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Vol. 7, Issue 26 ● July 1 to 7, 2010

City offices to close July 4

City of Syracuse offices will be closed on Monday, July 5, in observance of Independence Day. Refuse and recycling collection will be delayed by one day for the week. Residents who are scheduled for refuse and recycling pick-up on Monday will receive service on Tuesday. Crews will be working Saturday, July 10 to complete the Friday collection.

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Feed the hungry at the Rescue Mission in July For the first time in its 18-year history, Scan-Away Hunger will be available during the summer to feed hungry people at the Rescue Mission. Green Hills in Nedrow and Nojaim Brothers of Marcellus are offering their grocery shoppers the option of providing Rescue Mission meals at the register counter during July. The Rescue Mission has raised more than $2 million through Scan-Away Hunger since the original checkout campaign began in 1992. It usually starts each October and runs through the holidays at area supermarkets.

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Monty Esposito, 315 Tattoo on Wolf Street, carries his family on his back - lietrally - as he admires a collage of his many murals that have been white washed off outside walls in the city of Syracuse.

Monty Esposito is an artist – not a gang member By Ellen Leahy

In 1998 the Post Standard’s Dick Case wrote a lengthy poetic account of urban artist, Monty Esposito’s struggle. Twelve years later, not much has changed. Esposito makes his living as a tattoo artist

at 315 Tattoo on Wolf Street (between Stella’s and Badda Bing). But his first passion is as a muralist. He can paint and draw in most any style, using most materials. But his medium of choice is spray paint. He likes the vibrance, the consistency, the flash. He works with a crew of like-minded painters, Brandon Lazore and Sean Sherlock. Their work was once scattered throughout the city of Syracuse, until it was washed away by city officials, misunderstanding its intent. “We’re out here trying to beautify Syracuse

one wall at a time,” Esposito said. The three might be considered graffiti artists except, “We choose not to vandalize people’s property,” Lazore said, “Our goal is to get murals that run for years, not to keep getting painted over.” “It doesn’t make any sense, because we are working for them and often doing their jobs,” Esposito said. “We don’t paint naked ladies, or pornography, or social issues or political statements.”

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Syracuse Jazz Fest clobbers its naysayers with three days and nights of knock-out music By Russ Tarby

Jeff Lorber fused. Boz Scaggs crooned. Natalie Cole walked her baby back home. The three headliners of the 28th annual Syracuse Jazz Festival lit up the Everding Main Stage at the Onondaga County Community College campus last weekend, but some of the support acts – like guitarists Richie Havens and K.J. Denhart, keyboardists Kim Jordan and Michael Kaeshammer, vocalist Gil Scott-Heron, Toph-E & The Pussycats and 14 area scholastic combos – burned just as brightly. A few political flames also flickered on Sunday evening in the many moments before Cole finally took the stage to close the 2010 jazz bash. Festival Artistic Director Frank Malfitano praised OCC President Debbie Sydow and County Executive Joanie Mahoney, who joined him on stage.

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Cameron’s ‘Aliens of the Deep’ opens at MOST’s IMAX in Armory

James Cameron -- Academy AwardŽ winning director (“Titanic,� “Avatar�), deep ocean adventurer and space exploration visionary -- takes audiences to the depths of the ocean to encounter some of the strangest life forms on Earth with “Aliens of the Deep,� the newest film opening in the MOST Bristol IMAX Omnitheater on Saturday July 3. “Aliens of the Deep� is the culmination of more than 40 deep sea dives made along the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that winds 46,000 miles around the globe. The creatures are abundant and quite strange, including six-foot tall worms with red plumes, white crabs and masses of blind, white shrimp. It is the most spectacular footage ever made of active hydrothermal vent communities teeming with life. These life forms are not dependent on sunlight for survival and may provide clues about life that might one day be encountered in outer space. Cameron joins the team in submersibles for the deep sea dives, bringing the famous director out from behind the camera. The film gives first-hand insight into Cameron’s passion for exploration, the extreme machines that allow humans to explore the deep, and the possibilities that exist below and beyond the horizon. Cameron and the mission scientists help us consider the correlation between life under water and the life we may one day find in outer space. The MOST is regularly open Wednesdays – Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an extended Saturday evening IMAX schedule. Also open Mondays and Tuesdays for national holidays and school break weeks. For IMAX schedule and to purchase by credit card, call 473-IMAX or visit most. org.

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Two Row Wampum and the Covenant Chain of Treaties

Central New Yorkers will have the chance to listen in on an historic conversation titled “The Two Row Wampum and the Covenant Chain of Treaties� on Monday, July 12 at 7 p.m., at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee St. The program features Chief Irving Powless, Jr., leader of the Onondaga Nation Beaver Clan for 40 years, and Robert W.Venables a retired lecturer for Cornell University’s American Indian Studies Program, where his course in American Indian Studies attracted hundreds of students each year. This is the eighth event in the year-long series “Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future II.� Admission is free and a reception and facilitated small group discussions will follow the presentation. For more information peacecouncil.net/noon or call 472-5478.

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Kerr dominates in record-setting LPGA victory By Phil Blackwell

HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2010: Front from left: Larry Hart, Frank DiChristina, Chuck Bisesi, Marshall Skiff, (representing his late wife, Joan); Rear from left Len Rausch and Nini Sgroi.

7 sports stars This year’s Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame inductees span games from basketball to bowling By Russ Tarby

Six men and one woman will be inducted into the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame Oct. 18, at Drumlins Country Club. The Class of 2010 was announced June 21 at the organization’s exhibit location at Driver’s Village in North Syracuse. The 24th Class of the Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame includes Chuck Bisesi, a high school basketball star at St. Lucy’s and later a successful coach; Frank DiChristina, longtime varsity baseball coach at Chittenango and key administrator for Section 3 for 52 years; Larry Hart, a multi-sport high school coach for both boys’ and girls’ sports at Tully, West Genesee and Homer; Len Rauch, Bishop Ludden High School and Le Moyne College basketball and baseball star; Nini Sgroi, outstanding bowler who compiled a composite average of 203 during the 1960s; and the late Joan Skiff, a top Central New York skier and golfer. The 2010 Old-Timer ’s Inductee is William Dennis “Doc� Scanlan, who pitched with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates. Having been raised on Turtle Street, Scanlan attended Sacred Heart Academy before going pro. His major-league career ran from 1903 to 1911, in which he completed an astounding 102 of 149 starts, had 15

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shutouts and a sparkling career earned-run average of 3.00. Scanlan died in 1949 at the age of 68. The other five guys going into the hall this fall are all living legends. You can’t mention the storied Parochial Basketball League without mentioning Chuck Bisesi. At St. Lucy’s, Bisesi’s 1,480 points over his high-school career have never been surpassed. He once scored 63 points in a game against St. Patrick’s. Bisesi later went on to coach at Oswego’s Bishop Cunningham High where his teams won five division titles. At Chittenango High School, Frank DiChristina served as athletic director and coached baseball, football, cross country and wrestling. As AD, he expanded the school’s sports programs from 10 to 60. His 41 Chittenango High baseball teams (1956-1997) won more than 350 games

and five Tri-Valley titles. At Homer, West Genesee and Tully, Larry Hart oversaw boys’ teams in football, basketball and lacrosse and girls’ teams in soccer, basketball and track. Over 42 years, Hart coached 713 games or meets with a combined record of 544-159-10. He coached 28 seasons of lacrosse at junior high, junior varsity, varsity, club and college levels, and helmed West Genesee’s first winning lax squads in 1964 and 1965. Hart started the lacrosse program at Tully in 1969 and the girls track program in 1975. From 1987 to 1991, basketball and baseball star Len Rauch attended Bishop Ludden High School where he excelled at hoops under Hall of Fame Coach Gerry Wilcox. At Ludden, Rauch was a two-time All-City selection, Post-Standard AllCity and All- State hon-

oree. He led the Gaelic Knights to the State Class A championship game and was nominated to the prestigious McDonald’s All-American High School Team. He also starred for the Ludden baseball team. At Le Moyne College Rauch long held the Dolphins’ record from 1991 -- broken this year -- as all-time leading scorer (1,876 points) and all-time rebounder (1,151). Despite his humble demeanor, Anthony “Nini� Sgroi was one of Syracuse’s winningest bowlers. He made local bowling history by winning back to back Herald Masters Tournaments in 1965 and 1966. In 1965 he defeated pro bowler Bob Strampe in an exhibition at the Eastwood Sport Center. Sgroi held the record for most consecutive match plays wins (17) until 2009, when Don Brush toppled it. Sgroi was a favorite winner on local televised bowling - Syracuse Bowls - appearing 22 times. The 2010 Class brings the total number of inductees to 181 since the 1987 inception of the Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame. All inductees will be installed at a dinner at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, at Drumlins Country Club. For tickets, which cost $60 per person, call Bill Motto at 657-3718.

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For one year, the popular women’s professional golf tournament in Rochester got turned into a major as the LPGA Championship got contested at Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford. But it turned out to be more than a tournament. It proved, also, to be Christie Kerr’s coronation as, for the moment, the best player in the world. Kerr tore up Locust Hill over four days in, arguabyly, as dominant a performance as has ever been seen in any women’s major. Her 19-under-par total of 269 beat the next-closest competitor, South Korea’s Song-Hee Kim, by an astonishing 12 shots. Even Kerr considered the margin absurd. “Winning by maybe two or three (strokes) is great,� she said.�But winning by 12 shots is ridiculous. It’s obscene.I don’t think I could have played better.� Not only did Kerr set a new record for margin of victory in the LPGA Championship (Betsy King prevailed by 11 in 1992), she became the first player in the tournament’s long history to post four rounds in the 60s, collecting a first-place check of $337,500. In prevailing, Kerr passed Japan’s Ai Miyazato (who tied for third with Jiyai Shin after her own finalround 66) to earn the no. 1 spot in the Rolex World Rankings, a first in her career, something she has strived for. “It means a tremendous amount,� Kerr said. “It’s something that I’ve wanted my whole life. It feels awfully good right now.� Rochester came through, too. When the LPGA Championship’s previous sponsor, McDonald’s, pulled out after 2009, Wegmans, who has sponsored the long-running Rochester event in recent years, swooped in for the backing to bring it to Locust Hill. Thus, high excitement was in the air when more than 140 players teed off on a windy Thursday morning. To bring Locust Hill up to major standards, some length was added (to 6,506 yards), fairways were narrowed and rough got taller, helped in no small part by early-week rains. More rain arrived on Thursday afternoon, just as Kerr was starting out on her masterful run. At 32, Kerr has won 13 times on the LPGA Tour, including the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open title, and had just prevailed at the State Farm Classic in Springfield, Ill., just weeks before coming to Locust Hill.

/ Syracuse City Eagle, July 1, 2010

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Voices precede instruments at SSO’s annual July 4th concert A rare performance by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Pops Chorus will kick off the SSO’s annual July 4th concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, at the New York State Fairgrounds. Admission is free and open to the Downtown public. Music Director After Dark Daniel Hege will lead the SSO in patriotic favorites starting at 8 p.m.

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‘Exhilarating’ SSO Pops Chorus

The 100-plus voice SSO Pops Chorus, directed by Lou Lemos, was heard in early-February singing “Bravo Broadway Rocks” along with the orchestra at the Crouse Hinds Concert Hall at the Mulroy Civic Center, downtown. Reviewers called their performance “exhilarating.” Notable on this Sunday’s program will be the orchestra’s performances of John Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s famous 1812 Overture punctuated by timely pyrotechnics mimicking cannon blasts. Fireworks will continue immediately after the concert. The fairgrounds will open at 5 p.m. . In case of rain, the concert will take place at the State Fairgrounds in the Center of Progress Building. For information, call 424-8200.

Five pounds of pancakes?

Although downtown’s Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and Liverpool’s Heid’s received the bulk of the media attention when Man v. Food host Adam Richman showed up earlier this month to eat his way through Syracuse, it turns out that his real “challenge” was at Mother’s Cupboard on James Street. Customers there are dared to consume five pounds of pancakes. Cupboard staffers have been sworn to secrecy, but I’ll bet Richman had no problem pounding down those hotcakes.

The hungry host will return to CNY on the afternoon of Aug. 28 to make a presentation at Chevrolet Court during the 2010 New York State Fair. In September, Richman’s producers plan to air the show he shot in the Salt City on cable TV’s Travel Channel. Stay tuned.

Pope Joan seeks screenings

Pope Joan, the film version of the historical novel by Syracuse author Donna Woolfolk Cross, made its American debut Jan. 27 in Washington, though it’s still seeking regular U.S. distribution. The movie, starring Johanna Wokalek, David Benham and John Goodman, was a box-office hit in Europe when it premiered there last October. “The film is beautiful,” Cross said. “It’s also brilliantly acted and directed. And despite false rumors, it’s in English.” Created by Germany’s Constantin Film and shot primarily in Morocco and Germany, Pope Joan was screened again on May 18, at the Park City Film Music Festival, in Park City, Utah, where Marcel Barsotti’s score was nominated for Best Movie Soundtrack. Wouldn’t it be great if the Syracuse International Film festival could screen Pope Joan here?

Did you feel it?

Our bunny rabbit sure did! In fact, he felt it long before the rest of us. On the morning of the 5.0 earthquake out of Quebec which reverberated here in CNY, Pookah had refused to budge from his cage. In fact he laid there prone, with his little legs splayed out, clinging to his sawdust floor. The quake struck a few hours later at 1:41 p.m. Wednesday, June 23. Next morning, Pookah hopped around the house as usual, happy that his world had stopped shaking.

Blues fest rumblings

Two weeks ago on June 17, I reported that the New York State Blues Festival had been cancelled. Did I type too soon? The sad news sure seemed solid. After all, I quoted from a letter written by NYS Blues Fest Board of Directors

President Todd Fitzsimmons, who stated: “It is with sincere regret that we announce that the 19th edition of the New York State Blues festival is cancelled this year.” You can’t make it much more official than that. For 18 years the three-day event was staged at Clinton Square, but this year organizers had slated for July 9-11 at the Inner Harbor. And then, a month before it was set to go, it was all kaput. But on June 13 – the day I filed my copy – WAER-FM Sunday Night Blues host Big Tom Townsley insisted that all was not lost. “You may have read in the newspapers that this year’s New York State Blues Festival has been cancelled,” Big Tom told his listeners on 88.3 last Sunday. But there are people still working to save it, he said. By the following Sunday night, June 20, Townsley was resigned to reality. “It’s unfortunate,” he told his listeners. “If proper things were done in years past, we could have had a festival this year.” He blamed the cancellation on “financial things behind the scenes.” He didn’t mention it, but the loss of big-money title sponsor Budweiser had to sound the festival’s death-knell. For true blues fans like Townsley, hope springs eternal. “Hopefully we can get all of that [financial mess] straightened out and have a festival back again next year,” he said on June 20.

Southwest Showcases underway

The “Southwest Showcase Sundays” concert series began its 11th season June 20, when the Soft Spoken Band and three other acts took the stage at Spirit of Jubilee Park on South Avenue. The “Sire’s Sunday” show featured Erika Lovette, Firstborn and the J Project featuring Mike and Jeff Houston. General Davis gave a presentation before the Soft Spoken Band closed the concert. Jubilee Homes of Syracuse Inc. presents the Southwest Showcase Sundays, traditionally launching it on Juneteenth. More Southwest Showcases are slated for July 18, Aug. 1 and Aug. 15.

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‘Having Our Say’ sells out, extends run More Delany Sisters at Paul Robeson on July 8 and 9 By Nancy Keefe Rhodes

When Sonita Surratt completed her MFA in theater at Syracuse University earlier this year, she headed for Chicago, her plan being to put herself in the thick of African American dramatic production. She quickly found an apartment and some of her first messages to friends and family back here had to do with learning to cook for herself. Despite those bulletins of her solo culinary adventures, it’s not surprising somehow that much of the action in Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years occurs as the two elderly protagonists go about the preparation of what might be a single day’s worth of meals. The three-act play is set in the Mount Vernon, New York home they share – late morning, afternoon, and evening – and the play’s direction displays an almost preternaturally sharp awareness of how relationships manifest in the simplest of daily behavior. Watch for that brief but telling tug of war over the bowl of cake batter. Paul Robeson Per-

forming Arts Company lured Surratt back to Syracuse to direct Emily Mann’s play, which Surratt saw in 2009 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey – she says she put it on her “dream list” of plays to direct – after several earlier attempts to produce the play. Surratt has been well-known to Central New York stage audiences for years now, both for her own performing and directing projects. She may not be as well known for work like her private vocal coaching; the Nines Jazz Ensemble’s Lauren Johnson Albaroni commented recently that she hadn’t had a good lesson since working with Surratt. Anyway, the director wanted to do this play too, so it’s a toss-up as to who lured whom. Adapted from the 1994 joint memoir by the two elderly Delaney sisters – one is 101, the other 103 years old – the play allows Sadie (played by veteran performer Annette Adams-Brown) and Bessie (Karin Franklin King) to reminisce about their lives, their family and their times. Adams-Brown is also

Annette Adams-Brown and Karin Franklin King as sisters Sadie and Bessie Delany. Photo © brantleycarroll.com, used with permission.

associate artistic director of PRPAC and her presence as one of the leads is likely to draw an audience all by itself. She plays the “sweet” sister, a retired school teacher who dislikes confrontation. Despite some other stage work in the area, Franklin is more

widely known locally as a television journalist and frequent Emcee, but her performance here as “Queen Bess”– a pintsized dynamo with razor sharp comic timing and a flash of anger at injustice undiminished by her age – is a revelation. We need to see much more of her

on Syracuse stages! The Delaney sisters recount what was both a somewhat privileged childhood and one that ran the gamut of experience; their father was both a former slave and the first African American Episcopal bishop, and the vice principal at Saint Augustine’s School in Raleigh, North Carolina – affectionately know as “St. Aug’s” – and they endured both Southern segregation and an extended social circle that include, for example, visiting Paul Robeson backstage during a trip to London when the famed performer was there. The sisters lived in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, and each was accomplished educationally and professionally; Sadie was the first Black woman to teach “domestic science” in New York State and Bessie the first to earn a dentist license here. Active participants in the Civil Rights era, the Delany sisters were also among the first to integrate white suburbs when they moved to Mount Vernon. There, on this summer day, they relive a century

of momentous change and take a fine delight in having outlived “the Rebby boys” (Southern proponents of Jim Crow and segregation). The Delany sisters also had a white grandfather, and their account of that chapter in family history and what they observed is especially telling and adds a resonance to the rest that lingers long afterward regarding how unsimple our shared history really is. Rich as honey, leisurely as a sun-shot summer afternoon and nourishing in ways that purely action-driven drama utterly misses, Having Our Say is a must-see if ever their was one. “Having Our Say” opened June 17 at the Dee-Davis Black Box Theatre, 805 E. Genesee St. After the closing weekend sold out, PRPAC added two performances on July 8 and 9 at 7 p.m. Call 442.2727 for tickets. A selection rom Marjory Wilkins’ recent ArtRage photo exhibition, “A Tender Record,” accompanies the production. Nancy covers the arts.

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HE SAID “Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.” Kobi Yamada

FEEDING FRENZY: the public employee video game

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Rick Guy will challenge Democrat incumbent William Magnarelli for the 120th state Assembly District seat.

Guy excited to be back

Rick Guy recalls growing up Westside Syracuse on Peck Avenue, thinking parish rather than neighborhood. Most Holy Rosary until 4th grade, then St. Charles, then Sacred Heart. He recalls beating arch-rival CBA 21-1 on his way to becoming All-American lacrosse at Bishop Ludden before an Ivy League stint at Brown. He recalls, a rarity in recent history, a 5-4 Republican Common Council majority. In 1985, Republicans asked to just use the second year law student’s name in a County Legislative race. But while door-knocking, Guy got bit by the inevitable bug, and when his losing margin was shockingly close, his political immersion was complete. Four years later he unseated Matt Driscoll, then incumbent 2nd District Councilor, was reelected, then ran successfully citywide at-Large. He did not seek reelection in 1997, he says now, partly to pursue business opportunities, “a decision influenced a little bit by the fact that I wasn’t getting any receptivity from the party hierarchy, with any opportunities to move up. But shortly after a State Assembly seat opened up when Bernie Mahoney decided not to run again. That compelled me to reassess my situation.”

For whatever reason

Guy made a move for the nod. “I had Bernie’s support,” he notes, “I had {then Mayor} Roy Bernardi’s support, {state} Senator {Tarky} Lombardi’s support. But for whatever reason, the controlling part of the hierarchy just didn’t want me to get the nomination.” After a little time off, Bernardi called Guy to fill a Corporation Counsel vacancy, and with help from friends in DC, he came close to snagging an appointment as US Attorney. “It’s funny,” he reflects, “I look at these Tea Party movements and the rise of this kind of new conservatism, and I say to myself, ‘We were saying that back in 1989, and the middle-of-the-road Republicans who dominated Central New York would cringe.” That reflection has reinvigorated Guy’s political appetite, and early last month the Republican County Committee tapped him to challenge Democrat incumbent William Magnarelli for the 120th state Assembly District seat. Guy had already been named the Conservative Party designee. Guy now sees a rift between Republicans and Democrats wider than any time in history. “There used to be a certain solidarity of core values,” he says. “We had a certain kind of American-based unity at the foundations of both parties that had respect for human dignity, human rights, the Golden Rule. These things are never talked about in public today. That has hurt our culture more than anything, even though today the immediate issues are so clearly jobs, the economy, your pocket book. But in the long run the issues are still a question of values.”

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A value for public frugality motivated what stands out as Guy’s most notable non-achievement while on the Council. Advocating then that the now derailed OnTrack shuttle could have been established with totally private funding, he maintains it could be rolling again now with similar support. “They would not have been allowed to have the commercial rights that they secured without them also agreeing to subsidize the shuttle,” he says of his first Council proposal, adding of another early one, “The ice skating rink is in Clinton Square, and doing well,” No stranger to controversy, Guy was responsible for the most contentious Council Chambers packed house in living memory with his opposition to the city’s recognition of Gay Pride Day. The conflict fostered perhaps his most memorable quote about a moth and a flame, which even some of those involved with the issue at the time are still trying to figure out. “I’ve been accused of being uncharitable,” he notes. “But today I would say, ‘It really isn’t any of our business what you’re doing in your bedroom, and I don’t know why you’re compelled to make an issue out of it.’” Guy’s political career was also complicated by a daily newspaper campaign, sensationalizing behavioral problems he encountered with two of his then teenage children. Today, close family ties have been reconstructed with the daughter, a nurse, and the son, a member of the Marine Corps Special Forces. Walt Shepperd

The right word Why did Onondaga County GOP flip flop on Lazio? By Al Julian

Last week I wrote that I felt Rick Lazio was “The Right choice for New York.” This seems to have raised some question as to why the Onondaga County Republican Committee first supported Rick Lazio’s campaign for Governor of New York and then withdrew that support to back Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy; a Democrat turned Republican. There have also been some questions as to whether Onondaga County’s current support for Rick Lazio is honest to goodness support and excitement or whether we’re just going through the motions since Rick is now the designated Republican in the race. I’d like to address those questions as best I can. I have always liked Rick

Lazio. I have always thought that had Rick had more time in his race for the United States Senate then we would have a Junior Senator from the Great State of New York named Rick Lazio and New York’s citizens would be much better off than we are today. I have said since the fateful night he approached First Lady Hillary Clinton that he got a raw deal. I said then and maintain to this day that an individual who wants to be a US Senator or the President of the United States should be able to handle someone handing them a piece of paper without giving in to the politics of victimization. If that person can’t stand toe to toe with someone and rigorously be debated and can’t be handed a sheet of paper, well that person has no business seeking those offices or being considered one of the nations

most powerful attorneys. My issue with that whole situation was not that I thought the First Lady couldn’t handle the debate or the sheet of paper, to the contrary, I think she’s more than capable. My problem is she allowed herself to be seen as weak, as a victim of male aggression. She used a perceived weakness and contrived sympathy to catapult herself to a position of power and in the process besmirched the reputation and career of a great public servant, a great legislator and most importantly a great man. In March of this year, Rick Lazio appeared at a small function here in Syracuse where he met and chatted with his supporters. My wife and I attended that event and even saw to it to make a small donation to his campaign that night.

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Big brother and the baby boom My generation was decidedly anti-establishment. Not exactly a great idea. Peace, love and flower power quickly evolved into sex, drugs and rock and roll. Not the best plan of attack if you want to change the world. Still many were social and political activist working to rock the established way of operating. Meanwhile, the nerds were hard at work in their basements, ultimately rocking those establishments. Is big brother here? Many in the baby boom generation are weary of computers and all they have brought to the marketplace and the world. But that needn’t be, as it was baby boomers who pioneered this new establishment. A new way of operating, which was totally embraced by the next generation as if they had in fact invented it. Instead, we have boomers Steve Jobs, Bill

Gates and their like to thank. Meanwhile, this younger generation, rather than snub their elders thinking, Wondering has embraced and evolved this electronic world order. about Facebook and Youtube and you name it are their brainchildren. Ultimately, these generations are working together to create access and ultimately more choice and more freedom for the individual. Soon spoon-feeding will be off the table. You choose what you want to watch, see and hear when you want. So, in fact the revolution was televised right under our fingertips in front of our faces locked to screens of dreams.

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Ellen Leahy is the editor of the City Eagle – reach her at city@cnylink.com or 434-8889 ext. 319.

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“They kept this festival free when other people didn’t want it to be free,” he said. Mahoney echoed Malfitano’s veiled reference to County Comptroller Robert Antonacci who had criticized the amount of money county government pours into the festival annually. “This was a very difficult year for jazz fest,” Mahoney told Sunday’s crowd of about 16,000. “The state had promised Frank money that didn’t come through, and even some people in county government were asking him to charge admission.” The jazz fest has been

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free ever since 1990 when it moved from Long Branch Park to Clinton Square. It moved to OCC in 2001. In April, Antonacci – who was running for state Comptroller at the time – complained that the combined contributions of the county Legislature and OCC amounted to nearly $150,000. He suggested that Malfitano share proceeds from the $5 per vehicle parking charge with the county and urged the festival to cut back to two days instead of three. “Without Onondaga County there would be no jazz fest,” Malfitano exclaimed when he introduced Mahoney on Sunday. She responded, “Without Frank Malfitano there would be no jazz fest,” and several hundred festival goers stood and applauded.

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Baldwinsville-bred trombonist Jay Ashby also expressed admiration for Syracuse’s controversial impresario. While performing a mid-afternoon main-stage set with guitarist Sheryl Bailey and the OCC Big Band, Ashby said, “I’ve played festivals all over the world, and I’ve never seen the educational stage right next to the main stage like it is here.” Makes you wonder how many Entergy Scholastic Stage sets Ashby actually heard this weekend. Those who wanted to listen to the student groups had to move their lawn chairs up to the lip of the stage. Thousands ensconced on the hill or beyond heard nothing but a flutter of drums and the occasional blast of the brass ensemble. The

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scholastic stage’s lighting was also inadequate, a fact made apparent by the cheap aluminum-shaded bulbs sufficing as back light. This annual dearth of technical attention is a shame not only for the student musicians and educators, but to audience members who deserve to hear every note and see every soloist.

The main-stage production values remained world-class.

When Natalie Cole graced the stage after a long delay Sunday, she and her 10-piece band were ably supported by a CNY horn section, who rose to the occasion. Though Cole looked thin as a rail wearing a snow white shift trimmed with silver rhinestones, her voice shone like a beacon in the dark. The talented daughter of Nat “King” Cole reveled in tunes from the Great American Songbook such as “Paper Moon,” “ATisket A-Tasket,” “Come Rain or Come Shine” and “Fever.” Most memorable were her digitally created “duets” with her late father, the jaunty “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home” and the haunting “Unforgettable.”

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The spirit of jazz fest will continue throughout the academic year at OCC as Malfitano presents a freeadmission “Legends of Jazz Series” starting Oct. 15 with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and continuing Nov. 19 with Diane Schuur, March 4, 2011 with the Tremé Brass Band, and concluding April 2 with Lonnie Smith; sunocc.edu.

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Band 9:30 p.m. – “Big” Bill Morganfield Novelis Family Park at Fort Ontario 12 p.m.. – Children’s Musical – “TheThree Musketeers” 1:30 p.m. –Ventriliquist Sylvia Markson Presented by Oswego Children’s Board 2:15 p.m. – The Magic ofVirgil 3:15 p.m. – Children’s Musical – “TheThree Musketeers” 4:45 p.m. –Ventriliquist Sylvia Markson Presented by Oswego Children’s Board 5:30 p.m. – The Magic ofVirgil 6:15 p.m. – Children’s Musical – “TheThree Musketeers”

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While the Syracuse Chiefs slipped out of first place in the International League’s North Division on Sunday with a humbling 8-1 loss to the lowly Pawtucket Red Sox, the hometown team guided by manager Trent Jewett still remains very much in the race for the pennant. So Chiefs fans – who haven’t seen a playoff game in 12 seasons – retain reasonable hopes for post-season baseball at Alliance Bank Stadium for the first time since 1998. That year the Buffalo Bisons swept the Chiefs 3-0 in the first round. Syracuse’s last league championship was 33 years ago, in 1976, when the club was still affiliated with the Yankees. The club’s last won its division title 21 long years ago, in 1989. It appears that the Washington Nationals – which took over last year for the Toronto Blue Jays as the Chiefs parent club – has kept its promise to field a winner here in the Salt City. One of the stars of last season’s Chiefs club, outfielder Jorge Padilla, will return to Alliance Bank Stadium this weekend as a member of the Buffalo Bisons. The fleet-footed Puerto Rican all-star led the International League with a .367 batting average and an impressive .410 on-base percentage when he was called up to make his major-league debut with Washington on Aug. 5, 2009. He hit an anemic .120 for the Nationals and was released at the end of the season before being signed as a free agent by the Toronto Blue Jays. He was playing with Toronto’s Triple-A club in Las Vegas when he was traded June 18 to the New York Mets, who sent him to Buffalo. Padilla, who celebrates his 31st birthday on Aug 11, is a right-handed batter who rarely whiffs, bunts beautifully and likes to hit to the opposite field. He can also steal bases, as he did 14 last year for the Chiefs. Padilla hit safely in 18 straight games from mid-June through July 6, recording the Chiefs’ longest hitting streak of 2009. Having played nine games for the Bisons through June 27, Padilla – who bats third – has socked 10 hits in 35 at-bats for a .286 average. He has flashed some newfound power hitting two home runs, and continues to tear up the basepaths with a stolen sack and five runs scored. The Chiefs pitchers who recall Padilla’s dominance at the plate last season will certainly pitch to him carefully during next week’s four-game series against Buffalo.

Sunday, July 4.They attempt to tame the Bisons again at 7 p.m. Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday, July 5-7, before the LeHigh Valley Iron Pigs lumber in for a two-game set July 8-9. Managed by Ken Oberkfell and including former Chiefs batting hero Jorge Padilla on the roster, the Bisons are one game above .500, just five games off the pace in the North Division. Alliance Bank Stadium is located on the North Side, just east of the Regional Market.Tickets cost $11 for field-level seats, $8 for kids and seniors; $8 for second-tier seats, $4 for kids and seniors; and parking costs $4 per vehicle; 474-7833.

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With that good feeling, Kerr made just one bogey in the opening round and, with a 68, tied Stacy Lewis and Heon-Hwa Lee for the lead. With winds gusting to 25 miles per hour, just 19 players broke par, setting the tough tone for the rest of the week – for all but one player, anyway. Midway through her second round on a sun-filled Friday, Kerr was five under, still amid a tightly bunched pack. What she did over the ensuing nine holes proved to be the tournament’s turning point. A birdie at the 10th hole proved an appetizer, but the main course started with back-to-back birdies on 14 and 15, a long birdie putt holed on 17 and a six-iron on the tough, uphill par-four 18th to eight inches for yet another birdie. That back-nine 32, and her 66 (the low round of the tournament to that point), vaulted Kerr to 10 under par, five shots ahead of Mika Miyazato and Inbee Park.There were still 36 holes to play, but someone had to make a move on Saturday, or Kerr would not get caught. With rain arriving in the middle of the third round, Kerr saw her lead shrink to three over Miyazato on the 10th hole. But showing her toughness, Kerr rattled off three straight birdies from 11 to 13, offset a bogey on 14 with yet another birdie on 15, and closed in 69 to balloon to 13 under par. This left Miyazato (who went three over the last seven holes), Azahara Munoz and Jimin Kang (a former Futures Tour winner in Syracuse) eight shots back. That margin set a 54-hole record for the tournament, and more records were to follow. All that was left for Kerr was to make it around 18 holes on two feet in Sunday’s final round - and to see how the battle for second place would play out in the warmest, most humid conditions of the week. Kim, who started the round at four under, won the battle with a solid 69 to finish two shots clear of Shin and Miyazato, who had overcome a first-round 76 to zoom back to a strong finish. Still, it was Kerr’s show. After six straight pats to open the final round, Kerr drained a birdie putt on 7, nearly reached the par-five 8th in two for another birdie, then tacked on birdies at 10, 13 and 15, all with irons close to the pin. Nothing more was needed, but on the final hole Kerr still provided the exclamation point with a drive right down the middle and a laser iron to three feet as the packed grandstands roared with approval. One more birdie putt fell, and Kerr had her victory, complete with champagne shower from her husband and fellow pro Natalie Gulbis. No one knows at this point whether the LPGA Championship will return to Locust Hill in 2011, but Kerr wouldn’t mind.

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Random Thoughts: College cash capers By Phil Blackwell

Years of investigation into the matter of Reggie Bush, agents, cars, houses and cash, all related to University of Southern California football, culminated in the NCAA bringing down a harsh hammer of punishment, at least by its peculiar standards. The damages included two years without a bowl appearance, dozens of lost scholarships, the vacating of wins from 2004-05 and even the threat that the ’04 national title could be stripped, too. Clearly, the NCAA wanted to scare college athletic programs straight. Which only made the months-long odyssey of conference expansion and schools jumping from one league to another that much more disturbing. Why learn a thing when there’s more riches to tempt you elsewhere? As long as there’s been college athletics in America, schools have switched

allegiances in search of something better, so by itself the conference jumble is not a complete surprise. In this cycle, though, the amount of shifting that was talked about jolted the senses. And it all boiled down to an unholy trinity of factors – football, television and money. Blame the Big Ten, for starters. Already misnamed after Penn State made it 11 two decades ago, the conference leapt forward and created its own cable network, and raked in big revenue after a shaky start. Everyone shared it equally, too, a point to remember as we move along. The Pac-10, with an aggressive new commissioner in Larry Scott, wanted something similar. When Big Ten expansion talk quieted (for the moment, anyway), Scott stepped up and lusted for more – not just 12 to have the obligatory cash cow, also known as a football championship

game, but maybe 16. So the West Coast guys decided to prey on the Big 12, a league with unequal TV revenue that quickly was dissipating into Texas and the 11 Dwarfs. Chaos nearly ensued. Colorado was all too glad to leave the Lone Star conflagration and go west. Nebraska, with its own huge name and hurt feelings, smelled that delicious Big Ten revenue stream and could not resist, giving that league the 12 it needed for another lucrative title game. Now all the eyes were upon the eyes of Texas. Either it could stay and keep what was left of the Big 12 alive, or it could get all Pacific and take three schools with them. At this point, a vast array of movers and shakers, from college administrators to TV bigwigs to, of course, elected officials, jumped in and, like humble suitors, begged Bevo not to blow up the entire college sports realm. Talk

was of four mega-conferences, maybe the end of the NCAA, maybe (heaven forbid) a football playoff. Naturally, Texas did what was best for Texas – be the kingfish in its own big pond and force the rest of the Big 12, grateful and ungrateful alike, to obey them. Thus, we stare straight into a college sports landscape that’s been altered, but not full of graffiti. At first glance, the view might be good, because a small tinge of regional integrity has been maintained, but that’s about it in terms of integrity. Do not kid yourself – these temporary alliances will last as long as there’s not a better football TV deal out there for schools to seize upon whenever the moment arises. Since Notre Dame is golden on that front thanks to NBC’s generosity, they have no reason to abandon independence yet. In the background, though, lies the odd

truth about this expansion process. The move to mega-conferences would have surely caused immense distaste for those who subscribe to tradition, and was sure to lead to the alteration, if not erasure, of rivalries. Yet it might have also led to the end of the godforsaken BCS, the easy target of fans and politicians alike for its monopolistic insistence on a football championship that only the elite can attain (sorry, Boise State). With a breakdown of old conference structures would come a breakdown of the equally antiquated bowl system, too. Where, in all this, is education? Do the college presidents ever spend a moment of time considering the educational consequences? Maybe the mere fact that all these machinations are consuming an obscene amount of their time is statement enough about the priority we give to sports at

supposed institutions of higher learning. Here in Syracuse, we’ve stayed outside all this chaos. Three decades ago, the Orange joined the Big East, and there it remains, despite all the ensuing drama that has included, in recent years an ACC raid (they got Boston College) and buzz that the Big Ten would eventually extend an invitation. Maybe that’s not a bad thing. Maybe it’s comforting to know that SU has a home to which it can always belong. Better to have that existence than to be Missouri or Kansas, now wallowing in the decimated Big 12 and forced to do Texas’s considerable bidding. Conference expansion noise has quieted, for the time being. But the murmur of unease remains.

Phil is the Eagle’s sports editor - read him daily on cnylink.com.

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21st century government

Last week I wrote about a visit to Syracuse’s Turkish Cultural Center on Tracy Street, revealing some interesting facts and geography about the land we call Turkey. My guides, Halil Yavuz (the director) and Birol Osturk (a physicist), also shared insights into the Turkish culture. America is a toddler compared to Turkey, which was once part of the Ottoman Empire, and before that embroiled in the Byzantine Empire during the crusades. Being such an old culture, Turkish society is refined with many traditions, but oddly today’s Republic of Turkey only dates back to 1923.

A small taste of Turkey

It is said that making Turkish coffee involves “40 years of memory.� The real thing is made for grand occasions and special guests. The Turks are also fond of sipping tea. During the 20th century tea was propagated in the northeastern part of the country. Other agriculture products grown in Turkey include wheat, hazelnuts, tobacco, cotton and apricots. Osturk said there is something about the cold water that comes down from the mountains that makes it an idea place to produce apricots. One can find products from the mid east at Samirs Imported Foods, 811 East Genesee St., Syracuse (422-1850), but also there are lots of Turkish food stuff available at Jerusalem Super Market, 1927 Teall Avenue, Syracuse (295-0455).

Other Industry

Ships, textiles, computers, appliances and even cars (Ford, Toyota, Hyundai) are manufactured in Turkey. The television brand is Vestel. The Turkish banking system weathered the recent world financial crisis, because they made changes after the banking crisis in 2000. Yavuz said it would be a good model to study because their government had to step in, stamp out corruption and put regulations in place.

A more progressive government took over around the turn of the century (2000). It is lead by a member of one of the religious parties, but Turkey’s government is secular, so they can not impose their religious ideals. There is definitely a division between church and state.

Media misrepresentation of the Moslem religion

Osturk said there is a big misrepresentation about the Moslem religion because in fact there is no tolerance for violence or terrorism. “A Moslem can not be a terrorist,� he said. In addition, you can not be a Moslem if you don’t believe in Jesus Christ. Although, it’s thought he was a prophet rather than a savior. And like the Jewish religion and Christianity, there are different levels of practice. For example, strict Moslem thinking does not include drinking alcohol. Similar to Kosher cooking, some practice it to a “T,� others do not embrace that aspect of their religion. And although Turkey is primarily made up of folJerusalem Store in lowers of Allah, Syracuse. there are many other religions practiced.

The Turkish Cultural Center’s activities

Its mission is to keep Turkish Culture alive and to connect Turks living in the USA. Turkish and English are taught at the Tracy Street Center. There are Turkish movie nights, Turkish cooking classes and more. Visitors are always welcome at the center and a most hospitable welcome it is – with Turkish Delight, a national specialty and plenty of tea. For more on the center – go to tccsyr. org.

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Jazz on the radio

Still basking in the glow of the 28th annual Syracuse Jazz Fest? You can keep the good times rolling by turning on and tuning in to jazz on the radio. WAER-FM 88.3 no longer calls itself “Jazz 88.� Instead, its Web site boasts “Diverse music – where music matters.� Nevertheless, the Syracuse University-based NPR station managed by Joe Lee, programmed by Ron Ockert and musically directed by Eric Cohen continues to play an amazing array of modern and classic jazz. Here’s a list of seven specific jazz radio shows you should consider tuning in:

Sounds of Jazz

Leo Rayhill’s Sounds of Classic Jazz can be heard on WCNY-FM 91.3 Syracuse, WUNY-FM 89.5 Utica, and WJNY-FM 90.9 Watertown on Sundays from 5 to 6 p.m. With a digital radio, you can tune to Rayhill’s HD3 broadcast on each of those signals and listen to Leo seven days a week from 2 to 6 p.m.; wcny.org/content/view/230/359/.

Talkin’ Jazz

Talkin’ Jazz with Monk Rowe airs from 2 to 4 p.m. every Wednesday over WHCLFM  88.7, and streaming live at WHCL.org. A talented saxophonist, Rowe is the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive; monkrowe.com.

Jazz Impressions

Jim Tobey’s program, Jazz Impressions, airs on WAER-FM 88.3, from 8 to 11 p.m., on Wednesdays, airing swing from the 1930s and ’40s along with modern sounds from more recent decades; waer.org/classic.html

Piano Jazz

Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz airs on WAER-FM 88.3 from 8 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays For more than 20 years, the legendary pianist has welcomed a stellar line-up of jazz artists for conversation and improvisation; waer.org/marian.html/

Riverwalk Jazz

Hosted by David Holt and featuring the Jim Cullum Band from San Antonio, Riverwalk Jazz airs on several stations throughout the Empire State including at 10 p.m. Thursdays repeating at 9 p.m. Saturdays over WXXI-AM 1370 from Rochester; at 8 p.m. Fridays on WSQG-FM 90.9 from Ithaca; at 8 p.m. Fridays on WSQC-FM 91.7 from Oneonta; and at 8 p.m. Saturdays on WSLJ-FM 88.9 out of Watertown.

Radiola

Radiola, a two-hour program of 1920s and 1930s jazz and pop hosted by Andy Senior, airs at 8 p.m. Fridays on WHCL-FM 88.7, out of Clinton, streaming on the Internet at whcl.org. Senior programs Jazz Age jazz and pop that he says is “guaranteed to wake up the mind and make it smile, music that shimmers with wit and levity and beats with the pulse of life.�

Jazz Inspired

Hosted by charismatic keyboardist Judy Carmichael, Jazz Inspired is a radio series where fascinating, creative people talk about jazz and how it has inspired their own creative process. It airs at 10 p.m. Saturdays over Utica/Rome’s WVHC-FM 91.5; at 11 p.m. Saturdays on Ithaca’s WSQG-FM 90.9; and at 10 p.m. Mondays on Oneonta’s WUOW-FM 104.7.

Russ Tarby covers people, entertainment, crime, sports and politics. He has won awards for investigative journalism, features, reviews and columns; and he served on the steering committees, which founded the Syracuse Area Music Awards, the New York State Blues Festival and the Syracuse Walk of Fame.

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Consider that their art form of choice originated in America. It ’s argued whether it was Philly or New York City, but East Coast is for certain. And now it is created all over the world, with paint lines dedicated to it. Esposito’s crew trav-

els near and far to paint jams. Syracuse is the most uptight city they have painted. By contrast, Rochestery throws parties for muralists while they are working. “They understand we are trying to help,” he said. Esposito said the work they did in Syracuse “paid,” but not in dollars, instead in neighborhood pride. But then the frustration of dealing with city officials just became overwhelming, snuffing out the passion he had for

any public art projects. “These people want to have meetings, meetings and meetings” we could have painted five murals in the time we spent just at our first couple of meetings he said. “You have a city full of artists, our canvas is walls,” Lazore said, “If the city would just open up to us.” And ultimately if the city is going to pay workers to paint over the murals, Esposito’s crew said, they’d do it a lot cheaper.

We were happy Rick was the candidate. Happy but not excited. A few weeks later I met Steve Levy and this guy was dynamic. He had energy and the right message and was well funded to boot. He and his lovely wife Coleen traveled the state together in a small rental car stopping everywhere they could, getting to know people and making a great impression in the process. Everything a candidate should do and be. Except Steve was a Democrat. He eventually announced his run for Governor on the Republican side and changed his enrollment to Republican as well. Because of that energy, focus, track record of success and commitment to our Party a large number of Republican County Committees withdrew their support for Rick and instead chose to support Steve Levy coming into the Republican Convention. There was a lot of wrangling behind the scenes with feelings hurt and disagreements, but the one prevailing theme was that we as a party would unite behind the designated candidate once one was chosen. The Committee spoke in its vote and Rick was chosen to lead our ticket in November. The reason that we as a party can unite behind Rick and do that with our hearts and souls in it though, is because in the boiling cauldron that the run up to the nomination was, Rick found his voice. Rick found his message. It was our voice; it was our message. A message of the average New Yorker. Not since the days before that Senate debate with the First Lady was Rick so focused and full of energy and was his message so clear and in tune with the people of New York. The nomination process energized Republicans across the State energizing donors and volunteers. Most importantly it energized Rick Lazio and made him the candidate we see today. I am happy to have met Steve Levy, I’m happy to now call him a fellow Republican and I want to thank him for being the catalyst in a great newly energized Governor’s race. I’m even happier that we have Rick Lazio at the top of our ticket, I’m even happier that he will be our standard bearer going into November. I think most other Republicans are as well. We as Republicans look forward to helping him win and seeing him restore honor, integrity and values to the Empire State this November. Al Julian is the Executive Director of the Onondaga County Republican Committee, 6th Ward Chairman in the City of Syracuse and a member of the Lincoln and West End Republican Clubs. Al can be reached at a.julian@cnygop.com or SyrRepublican. com.

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