County Legislators And City Officials
Discuss West MLK Street Safety
Surveillance
Cameras And Additional Street Light Among The Measures
Floated
City and County o cials had a joint public discussion at the County Legislature’s August 2 meeting regarding safety concerns along the West MLK Street corridor which contains a number of County-related buildings.
Chairwoman Shawna Black of Ithaca outlined the concerns about criminal activity in the area and said that while the County has taken some internal steps, she believed there is the need for more conversation with the City on how to stem violence and increase safety in the area.
Ithaca Acting Mayor Laura Lewis noted that there have been recent meetings about the issue at which residents, those who work in the area, and local business owners have expressed concerns about safety in the area.
Lewis added that some of the ideas being discussed include extending cameras down the street corridor to record footage of inci-
dents and aid investigations, installing license plate readers, adding more street lighting in the area, and trying to specically address issues occurring at and around the Southern Tier AIDS Program building.
Lewis said that the newly appointed special committee of Common Council members to further work on Reimagining Public Safety plans would be looking at the West MLK Street corridor safety issue as well.
Legislator Travis Brooks of Ithaca conceded that there will not be one answer to address the problems and stressed that o cials “have to be open minded and willing to try new things, not be territorial and work with one another.”
Ithaca Acting Chief of Police John Joly explained that it is di cult to sta proactive police patrols and expresses his hope
that resources could be made available to use technologies such as those mentioned by Acting Mayor Lewis.
Brooks took the opportunity to address speculation that the shortage of police o cers is due to the Reimagining Public Safety e orts, noting that many of the issues with recruiting and retaining o cers pre-date the Reimagining plans.
Legislator Rich John of Ithaca stressed that, “Reimagining Public Safety has nothing to do with disparaging police o cers,” and that it is instead about building trust. John suggested that elected representatives should do more to publicly support police and the good work that they do and speak out about “the critical impacts o cers have on individual lives.”
Legislator Veronica Pillar of Ithaca asked who is elding calls from people who feel unsafe walking in the West MLK Street corridor and for a report on speci c things that individuals are experiencing and noticing.
Acting Chief Joly responded that while he didn’t have speci c numbers, “there is increased pedestrian tra c in the area at all hours which leads to other things.” He added that while calls don’t come in immediately, they will come in through chats and emails a er the fact by witnesses.
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Ithaca Has 8th Largest Gender Homeownership Gap — One area where single women are more successful than single men is in owning a home. According to a new report on Porch.com the percentage of single female homeowners has exceeded the share of single male homeowners going back at least 45 years. And that shows no signs of changing, certainly not in Ithaca. We have the 8th largest gender homeownership gap in all small metropolitian areas in the U.S. The report shows that 38.51% of single females in the Ithaca metro area own homes, compared to 25.09% of single men.
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By Josh BaldoIthaca Public Housing Projects “Launched”
Renovations & Reconstruction Intended To Result In 118 New Apts
Aceremonial ground-breaking event was held on Friday, August 5, to bring media and public attention to what is reported to be a $75 million multi-agency package of public housing projects in Ithaca.
e three separate projects are together planned to upgrade and preserve two outdated Ithaca Housing Authority properties—Overlook Terrace and Southview Gardens—with a total of 36 apartments and to replace another obsolete Authority property—the Northside Apartments— with 82 new a ordable apartments. e 118-unit total Ithaca Housing Authority Redevelopment is designed to be allelectric and was awarded funding through the Clean Energy Initiative program for multifamily buildings.
As part of this redevelopment project, two of the properties, Overlook Terrace and Southview Garden, will be substantially renovated. Overlook Terrace has ve residential buildings with ten apartments. Southview Gardens has four residential buildings with 36 apartments, a community building, and a building for laundry and mechanical equipment.
e rehabilitation work will include individual apartment renovations such as the replacement and upgrade of doors, ooring, bathrooms, kitchens, and appliances. Major capital improvements will include mechanical and electrical upgrades; the replacement of water heaters and furnaces to an all-electric option; upgraded laundry facilities; and the replacement of entry doors, vinyl and aluminum siding, so ts and trim, windows, and roofs. e buildings have asbestos containing material that will be remediated and/or encapsulated for a healthier living environment. Site work will include the replacement of
existing concrete walks, fencing, and landscaping.
Northside Apartments, with 70 apartments currently, is considered obsolete and will be demolished to make way for a new a ordable development that will have 17 residential buildings with a total of 82 apartments—12 more than the original thanks to a reconguration that adds additional one-bedroom apartments. e new development will include a one-story community building with a kitchen, o ce spaces, and a laundry room.
All three properties are intended to be highly energye cient and have an all-electric building design pursuant to the New York's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act to curb building emissions. Additional energy e ciency measures will include heat-re ective roo ng systems with tapered insulation, ENERGY STAR rated appliances, energy-e cient lighting and low- ow plumbing xtures for a projected 15 percent in total energy savings.
In total, there will be 20 one-bedroom units, 34 two-bedroom units, 40 threebedroom units, 22 four-bedroom units, and two ve-bedroom units. All of the apartments will be for households earning at or below 80 percent of the Area Median Income.
Tenants at Southview Gardens and Overlook Terrace will be temporarily relocated and have the right to return to their original apartments.
All 118 apartments will be covered by new Project-Based Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment contracts issued under HUD guidelines for Public Housing Authorities.
e developer is a joint venture between 3d Development Group and Cayuga Housing Development Corporation, the nonpro t a liate of the Ithaca Housing Authority.
State funding for the $75 million Ithaca Housing Authority Redevelopment includes $10.6 million in permanent tax-exempt bonds, Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits that will generate
$29.7 million in equity, and $18.8 million in subsidy from New York State Homes and Community Renewal. e development was awarded $1.4 million from the Clean Energy Initiative. Other funding sources include $9.3 million from the Ithaca Housing Authority, $300,000 from Tompkins County Community Housing Fund, and nearly $91,000 from Ithaca Urban Renewal.
State and local o cials provided o cial statements regarding the event.
Assemblymember Anna Kelles said, "I am encouraged to see this project move forward at a moment when rising rents, increased home prices, and lack of supply have exacerbated the housing and a ordability crisis."
Acting Ithaca Mayor Laura Lewis said, " e City of Ithaca is pleased to have the support of so many partner agencies in the redevelopment of critically needed low- income housing. is investment in our community will bene t generations of Ithacans."
Tompkins County Legislature Chairwoman Shawna M. Black said, " is project is an excellent example of re-invigorating our a ordable housing options in Tompkins County. We're proud of what Ithaca Housing Authority o ers to our community and that these projects will be energy e cient and align with New York State's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.”
Mundane Looking Project Has Dramatic Potential
Ithaca Detox Center To Expand Services by 2023
By Laura IlioaeiIthacans have come to expect construction sites to appear dramatic thanks to the ubiquity of giant cranes and heavy equipment these days. But the current renovation project that could have the most dramatic impact on lives is unimpressive in appearance. Looking like the mundane interior x up of a featureless brick building on Triphammer Road, the work on the Open Access Detox Center actually has the power to change lives for the better.
Since 2017, the Alcohol & Drug Council of Tompkins County has been working on an Open Access Detox project, an initiative to aid underserved people in Ithaca and surrounding regions struggling with addiction. In February 2019, an open access center at 2353 N. Triphammer Rd. opened its doors to the public, allowing walk-ins to receive help on weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. However, the ultimate goal of the Council has always been to create a 24/7 access facility that could support people in all stages of substance use, abuse, withdrawal, and recovery. at’s the purpose of the humdrum renovations taking place on Triphammer Road.
e center plans to have three levels of treatment. e rst is Open Access, where someone can walk in, have an assessment, and receive treatment. ey can also receive information about treatment or obtain Narcan training, which teaches how to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose and administer the opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone. is rst level is meant to be a very unrestricted form of outpatient treatment with a community focus, where even those who want to help someone they know struggling with addiction can obtain information and resources so that they can become more e ective at keeping them safe.
“ ere could be a family member who is looking for information on how to help their loved one, as well as it could be a substance user who is looking for everything from information to medication-assisted treatment, to detox beds. e beauty of that is that you can stay at Open Access for 23 hours. As long as it’s less than 24 hours,
it’s considered outpatient stay. ey’re able to stay and we can bring in community partners to deal with other issues as well as give them a safe place to be with meals and clean clothes,” Angela Sullivan, executive director of the Alcohol & Drug Council of Tompkins County, said.
e second level of care is medically supervised withdrawal, dubbed “Detox.” is is bedded, inpatient care. Doctors and nurses help people withdraw, stabilize and start to return to health. is is combined with the third level of care, Residential Stabilization. is is where patients who need additional care on top of Detox, and who are not ready to be discharged, can stay in the center for a longer duration and use one of the center’s 40 beds.
e idea of having detox services in Tompkins County have been part of the County plan for decades. Speci cally, it had been part of the Local Services Plan. ere were di culties in creating a sustainable plan for a stand-alone detox center. It wasn’t until 2016 when the NYS O ce of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) approached the Alcohol & Drug Council of Tompkins County, asking if it would be interested in pursuing a detox program, that the idea became a more tangible reality.
“From 2016 to now, we basically focused on making sure we had a community involved, a community-supported project where the Alcohol & Drug Council is the lead organization. We did dozens of tours, looked at 44 sites before picking the one in Lansing. It was very much a community-informed process. We didn’t just say, ‘Oh we’re going to build a drug and alcohol detox program.’ We built a community program that will ful ll the community need and ll the gap in community care,” Sullivan said.
e center is partially funded by the state. e New York State Department of Health gave a Care Compass Network grant for planning. An award from the New York State Health Care Facility Transformation made the purchase of the building and creation of the facilities possible. OASAS also gave an award that helped with the center’s startup costs. e center has also been privately funded by foundations and individual donors.
Cost of medical care is o en a barrier for marginalized communities. However, the center is required to o er services regardless of a patient’s ability to pay if they are brought in due to an overdose. ose who lack insurance pay for services on a sliding scale model. e center works with eligible patients to secure medical insurance for them. e center also advocates to raise state funds to make medical care more accessible for everyone.
“In general, I know the center will save lives. Our vision for it is a place of hope and healing. We’re working on breaking down the stigma so that people can feel valued and cared for. We want to make sure that we’re the front door to a whole continuum of services that are working together to help people transform their lives and help live their best life,” Sullivan said. “We’re not doing it alone; the Alcohol & Drug Council is not doing this alone. What I say to people over and over again when they say, ‘How are we xing the addiction issue, the addiction problem?’ I tell people that the antidote to xing the issue is connection. If we can bring people in, help them get healthier, and connect them to their community in meaningful ways that will transform individuals, families, communities, their region. It’ll be exponential if we can do that.”
UPS DOWNS&
Ups
A “thumbs up” Hall of Fame award goes to Cornell Student Bryce Demopoulos who pulled a man o of the tracks at the Third Ave, 138 Street subway station in New York City shortly before a No. 6 train arrived. You can see his heroic actions at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=06OLEi9v_Gw. Hey CU, give this guy free tuition for at least a year.
Downs
To climate change half measures. Multiple agencies and organizations are pointing out that Tompkins County and the rest of New York are going to face frequent pop-up drought events in the coming years, thanks to climate change.
HEARD SEEN&
Heard
Hunting and trapping licenses for the 2022-2023 season are now on sale online at https://decals.licensing.east. kalkomey.com; in person at Wal-Mart, Moore’s Outboard, and Dick’s Sporting Goods; and by phone at (866) 933-2257.
Seen
Spotted lantern ies in Central New York. These admittedly attractive but terribly invasive little bugs won’t hurt you or your animals, but they can wreak havoc on plants and trees. If you see an insect with red wings and black spots, crush the little SOB and then contact the State Department of Agriculture and Markets.
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Shane Eversfield: Teachin’ Swimmin’
By Marjorie OldsShane Evers eld:
“Women Swimmin for Hospicare embodies and nurtures the empowerment of companionship more than any other event I have experienced,” says swimming teacher Shane Evers eld. “ is one of the amazing services our Hospicare o ers with such generosity and grace: To be with one another through our greatest journey—the transition from this life to the next with loving, compassionate companionship”
Shane has had the honor of supporting hundreds of swimming women in his eleven years teaching swimming to adults through Island Health and Fitness. As a Total Immersion Swim Master Coach since the early 2000’s, Shane traveled frequently to teach and to train other swim coaches. In 2011 when he arrived in Ithaca, he “waltzed into Island Health And Fitness and said, ‘I’m looking for a pool to teach
swimming.’” e management said “Sure!” Since then, Shane has taught over 700 people in the Ithaca area. Many of his students have gone on to make the monumental lake passage in Women Swimmin,’ which is the main fundraiser for our Hospicare.
Shane’s approach to swimming comes as much from his background in modern dance and his 46 years of T’ai Chi practice, as it does from his a liation with Total Immersion. Shane summarizes that approach in one word: Yoga.
“ e word yoga means yoke or union: ink of two oxen harnessed together with a yoke,” Shane suggests. “Yoga is the union of body and mind.” As Shane says at the beginning of his programs, “I am not your coach. e water is your coach, your teacher. My role is to support you and to facilitate you in becoming more aware
BY REALITYScience to the Rescue
By Charley GithlerLately, my long-held faith in the Wisdom Of Crowds has seemed maybe a little naive. I used my connections up on e Hill to analyze some popular current folklore, using real science.
All college students drive as if the laws of physics don’t apply to them.
Now that they’re back, it’s time to address this unfounded slur on our local scholars. Sure, it may seem that there’s a bone-headed maneuver at every downtown intersection, but what does science say? Studies show that the actual percentage of college students who technically drive “like maniacs” is only 89.05 percent. Of that group, the driving habits of slightly more than half (51.71 percent) would identify them as “clinically insane” and therefore delusional about the laws regarding matter and its motion through space and time.
Alex Jones is the single biggest A-hole in American public life.
Prior to the conclusion of the January 6 Hearings, there is insu cient scienti c data to know whether this is actually true or not. ere is a crowded eld of candidates for this designation. I checked the online betting website Caesars Sportsbook with some random names and got the odds on Mark Zuckerberg (6 to 1), Steve Bannon (4 to 1), Josh Hawley (even money), and Ron DeSantis (9 to 1). Heck, there are four individual members of the Trump family alone who are serious contenders. We’ll just have to wait and see.
The Finger Lakes can sustain an unlimited number of wineries, craft breweries, and distilleries.
So far, there is no evidence to the contrary.
COVID is over.
Science has shown that by Power of Simple Proclamation, a pandemic can be deemed to have run its course and no longer pose a threat regardless of transmission rates or continued presence in the community. I threw all my masks out weeks ago. I reached out to Governor Hochul to inquire why we’re not just doing the same thing with Monkeypox and got what I consider to be a very sarcastic response from an
intern in her o ce. ere’s a lot of hostility to science these days.
Climate change will not affect Ithaca. As tumbleweeds bounce down Six Mile Gulch, perhaps reality is intruding into our ten square miles. Actual scientists are predicting that by decade’s end retirees will be moving here for the weather. Look for early-bird specials in our restaurants, a pickleball oat in the Ithaca Festival parade, and driving patterns that make college students look like champions of safety.
All New Jersey motorists text while driving.
Speaking of driving habits, this common belief is based on the essentially anecdotal evidence that no native of Tompkins County has ever seen a New Jersey driver (and boy, do we have a lot of them) who was not texting. Late last year a scienti c expedition, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and funded by the Badda Bing Restaurant and Lounge, was dispatched to New Jersey to make observations. ough they disappeared without a trace, they were able to text back an undocumented sighting of a local driver brie y obeying the rules of the road on an exit ramp o I-95 in Teaneck before contact was lost.
Gorge swimming is not dangerous.
Actually, it scienti cally really is.
Downtown Ithaca is more dangerous than Ayman al-Zawahiri’s balcony.
ere were those who predicted that having people loiter all day at the needle exchange site in the 300 block of West State/MLK Street while simultaneously hamstringing the Ithaca Police Department would lead to increased crime in the heart of downtown Ithaca. at happened, so they were right. BUT, and this should be stressed, Ayman Al-Zawahri’s balcony exploded with a bomb full of knives recently, which careful scienti c analysis reveals is an even more dangerous scenario. So this statement is false.
Cryptocurrencies are the investment choice of fools.
My scientist friends all responded with the same derisive comment, the only portion of which that I can share is the name “Sherlock”.
Ithaca Icon Retires
By Steve LawrenceWow... those 18 years sure went fast.
It seems like a short time ago that I was on a crackly phone call with Dustin Brown, the kid from Ithaca who had helped the Little Red win a state championship as a freshman, then headed o to Guelph to play Junior Hockey. Dustin was only about 16 at the time we spoke, and I recall wondering if he was on a satellite phone in the middle of nowhere, and if the Ithaca Times would be getting a big phone bill for the call.
In 2003, Dustin was the 13th pick in the NHL’s entry dra , and when he signed to play with the Los Angeles Kings, that jersey would be the only one he would wear in his 1,296 NHL games. He would wear the Captain’s “C” on his jersey from 2008-2016, and in the middle of that run, he would realize every hockey player’s dream by hoisting the Stanley Cup twice, in 2012 and 2014.
Hockey fans in Ithaca have had plenty of opportunities to claim NHL greats as “our own,” as players like Ken Dryden and Joe Nieuwendyk played at Cornell on their way to professional hockey glory. But Dustin was di erent. He grew up here, came up through the ranks of the Ithaca Youth Hockey Association, and, as stated, led Ithaca High to a state title. ose “in the know” were well aware that he was something special, and I hope you stay with me until the end of this column to read an entertaining anecdote about that.
When he announced his retirement earlier this year, the L.A. Times said, “Brown’s fearless physicality and commanding leadership were cornerstones in the Kings’ Stanley Cup championships.” Another article said, “At his peak, Brown was a true physical force.” Accolades like that are subjective, to be sure, but other things are carved in stone, so to speak. Over the course of his 18 seasons, Brown scored 325 goals and had 387 assists, and his point total put him in 35th place among American-born players.
is little story was sent to me by a longtime friend named Laurie, and I will make sure Dustin gets to see it. Laurie recalled, “My neighbor, a long time Ithaca High math teacher, told me a story about Dustin Brown. Dustin was o en a little late to class. His algebra teacher got worried about all the times Dustin was
late so she called his house to talk to his parents. My neighbor was sitting in the teachers’ room when the algebra teacher was talking to Mrs. Brown. Apparently, the hockey practice was way up in Syracuse and bad roads in winter were the given explanation for the tardiness. e algebra teacher then said, ‘Yes, but hockey isn’t going to pay the bills.’ All the guys listening in the room laughed, because they knew Dustin was going places with hockey.”
Going places indeed. A web search looked at the total salary Dustin earned over the course of his career, and as we all know, players of his elite caliber o en add a he y sum to their income through their endorsements and appearances. Even if Brown did not fare that well in his o -ice earnings, it is safe to say that he did not su er too much by missing a few Algebra classes. His 18-year salary total was estimated to be $64,948,780.
It is also safe to say that the Kings are grateful to their former Captain, as according to NHL.com, they will unveil a statue of Brown, retire his #23 and raise a banner with his number to the ra ers in February of 2023, “representing the organization’s highest individual achievement.” Brown was quoted on NHL.com as saying, “Having my number retired is something I never imagined and is a humbling honor. I am incredibly proud that I played for the LA Kings my entire career. With my number going to the rafters, I am honored to be amongst the King Greats, but it makes me think of the two banners already in the ra ers, of which I am most proud. It took numerous people to raise those two banners; the same is true for this one. ank you to all who have helped me achieve my dreams.”
Imagine that... a kid from Ithaca, having his number retired and raised to hang next to the jersey of Wayne Gretzky.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Endorsing Lea Webb
Iam writing in support of State Senate candidate Lea Webb. Earlier this year, I attended a campaign event for Lea. I was intrigued by the endorsements she was receiving from so many local political leaders—Assemblywoman Anna Kelles, her predecessor Barbara Li on, former Tompkins County Legislature Chairs Martha Robertson and Leslyn McBeanClairborne—and more, despite the presence of a well-known local candidate in the primary.
Lea’s endorsers spoke about her proven policy and leadership experience, gained in her eight years on the Binghamton City Council. She understands rst-hand the challenges that so many people face in the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes. She also has an activist and legislative track record supporting public housing, food justice and access to health care. Lea was a leader in the ght against fracking in Broome County. She has won elections and increased voter turnout. Most signi cantly, these current and former legislators spoke about the importance of working cooperatively with other legislators to accomplish common goals. ey felt that Lea was the candidate who understood how to do this and had put it into practice as an elected o cial.
I rst heard of Lea from my daughter, a community organizer in the Hudson Valley who was really impressed by Lea’s work with Citizen Action. My daughter has been contributing to Lea’s campaign, as have others from around the state who know and value her work, and realize that we all bene t from having smart, progressive State Senators, no matter what district they represent. I myself have solicited donations to Lea’s campaign from people in other districts. Some have suggested that donations from out-ofdistrict people show that Lea doesn’t have local support. One need only travel around Ithaca and see the yard signs to realize that isn’t true.
I hope you will join me in voting for Lea Webb in the Democratic Primary on August 23rd.
Deirdre Silverman, Ithaca
Revoke Halftown’s Recognition
On August 3rd on orders of Clint Hal own, a bulldozer demolished two buildings including a barn used by Cayuga Nation citizens for ceremonies and community gatherings. An elder Cayuga woman was forcibly removed from the home on the same property and held in handcu s while the home that only four hours earlier was lled with children, community members, and friends of the Cayuga Nation was then also demolished. e house still had electricity and a local code enforcement o cer on the scene noted the strange unsafe circumstances and risk of a re. Although there was no provocation nor concerns expressed by Nation citizens, Hal own claimed in a public statement that these actions were necessary because the buildings were dangerous and uninhabitable.
In 2020 by Hal own’s order, a dozen Cayuga Nation buildings were laid to waste in the middle of the night, including a day care center, convenience store, a schoolhouse, and several cottages stewarded by Nation citizens who have peacefully opposed his authority. ese are the actions of someone who is not a legitimate leader of the Nation according to their own law and governance. e U.S. Interior Department’s recognition of Hal own as the federal representative of the Nation despite a unanimous decision from the condoled Chiefs to remove him and a formal revocation of his federal liaison appointment by his late Clan Mother, who has the ultimate authority, is unacceptable. is state of a airs has tied the hands of New York’s Supreme Court, as well as hamstrung the ability of local law enforcement in being able to act in protecting citizens and communities of the Cayuga Nation.
More than two years ago, Senator Schumer demanded an investigation by the Department of Justice and Department of the Interior. In the past year, a er consulting the Council of Chiefs, a number of local towns, along with the City of Ithaca, and Seneca County, have all called on President Biden to honor the Cayuga Nation’s decision to remove Clint Hal own as the liaison.
Yet here we are, again witnessing another campaign of terror by his edict. is simply cannot continue. As a member of the NYS Assembly, I stand with the Haudenosaunee people and strongly condemn these actions. I urge the federal government to take swi action in recognizing and empowering the collective voices of the Chiefs and Clanmothers of the Cayuga Nation and refrain from recognizing Hal own as the representative of the Cayuga Nation.
Anna Kelles, Assemblymember DistrictWhen The City Called Sodom Went (Almost) Dry
A Stroll Through Prohibition-Era Ithaca
By Laura IlioaeiWhat happened when a city that was called Sodom in the early 1800s went dry? at’s the question e History Center in Tompkins County (110 N. Tioga St.) has decided to ask, and then answer through a Prohibition and Temperance Ithaca Walking Tour. e Prohibition walking tour explores what happened in Ithaca a er passage of the 18th Amendment which stated that “the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors” was illegal within the U.S., but “intoxicating liquors” was not dened. e Volstead Act was passed shortly a er in 1919 to prevent the manufacturing and sale of boozy beverages, which were considered to be any liquid that has more than one half of one percent of alcohol. “ ere are kombuchas that would have been illegal underneath that guideline,” notes Ben Sandberg, executive director of e History Center.
However, there were three exceptions to this rule. Sacramental wines, such as during church and faith-based services was the rst. Medicinal alcohol that was prescribed by a doctor was the second. Fermented fruit juices or other fermented products
created in the privacy of one’s home for personal consumption was the third.
e rst stop on the tour is what is now the CFCU Community Credit building. is area used to house the rst public library in Ithaca, built by Ezra Cornell. In the late 1800s, well before Prohibition, speakers would o en come to this library to give lectures for the Temperance Movement which advocated abstinence of alcoholic beverages. Dr. Dio Lewis was one of these lecturers. In one of his speeches at the library, he discouraged women from making a women’s movement motivated by temperance. Naturally, the next morning 130 women banded together at the nearby Methodist Church and created the rst women’s temperance organization in Ithaca.
Women were o en at the forefront of temperance advocation. rough a modern lens, it may seem as if they were simply prudish, but there’s a darker undercurrent for why they wanted to banish booze so badly. It was in part because many wives were being beaten by drunk husbands and many daughters were being abused by drunk fathers. Taking away al-
cohol, it was thought, would provide an extra line of defense against domestic violence.
e second stop of the tour is just across the street from the CFCU building, what is now the Tioga and Seneca St. Garage. is garage used to be a public drinking fountain. e idea of having the fountain was to provoke people to prefer drinking water as opposed to alcohol. e fountain was also meant for dogs, too. is secondary use may have been inspired by Napoleon, a bulldog who belonged to a Cornell frat and was something of a City mascot in the 1910s, who apparently had a strong penchant for alcohol.
e third stop of the tour is the Hilton Garden Inn. ere was once a temper-
ance hotel at this site, a space for transient workers to stay for months to a year as they carried out contractual projects. e hotel provided a living space for workers who preferred to live in substance-free housing. It is said that workers who preferred a more mischievously liquor-laced living situation would wander over to the Rhinehouse on the West Side of Ithaca.
e fourth tour stop is the Dewitt Mall. When it was the Ithaca Academy (prior to it becoming the home of Ithaca High School), it hosted Presbyterian Sunday morning services. ese services o en had temperance-laced undertones. Given that many transient workers who worked in Ithaca drank as hard as they worked, these workers o en sought to drive the ministers of these services out of Ithaca. ey succeeded and the building eventually served solely for schooling.
e h tour stop is Clinton Hall. It was, among its many incarnations over the years, once a saloon. But the band of 130 women from the Methodist Church persuaded the owner to convert the saloon into a co ee bar. At the time, a cafe au lait cost about a nickel. e co ee bar also expanded to house services for those recovering from alcohol addiction. A number of other saloons in the city were converted into co ee bars at the urging of temperance activists.
e sixth tour stop is Autumn Leaves Used Bookstore, which was once Atwater’s Grocery Store & Bakery. During Prohibition, Atwater’s owners wondered what they could sell in place of alcohol.
ey ultimately decided to sell Virginia
WHO’S NEXT?
City To Search For Next IPD Chief Amidst Reimagining Tumult
By Matt DoughertyIn the wake of nationwide outrage at the murder of George Floyd — which sparked conversations about systemic racism and the impact the police have on minoritized communities — the City of Ithaca began reimagining public safety and are now in the process of choosing a new police chief that will follow through on those goals.
A er former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued Executive Order 203, the New York State Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative, former Mayor Svante Myrick introduced the idea of reimagining public safety in a GQ article published in February 2021. In the article, Myrick announced a proposal to create a Department of Solutions and Public Safety sta ed with civilian responders to work alongside the Ithaca Police Department.
e Common Council voted eight to two July 6, in favor of accepting the Reimagining Public Safety Working Groups plan and implementing portions of it while continuing to seek out public input and further review the process. As a result of approving the resolution, a civilian leadership position will be established with authority designated by the mayor to oversee the city’s new public safety response systems.
is civilian leader will have the title of Commissioner of Community Safety and have authority over the Department of Community Safety and its team of civilian rst responders. e commissioner and the chief of police will work together to transition to this reimagined version of public safety and change the culture of the Ithaca Police Department. However, it is uncertain who will ll these positions.
Over the last number of years, the City of Ithaca has seen an intense turnover rate amongst their police chiefs. roughout Myrick's decade-long run as the mayor of Ithaca, the police department went through four di erent police chiefs. Acting Chief John Joly has served in the Ithaca Police Department for over 15 years and has been the chief of police for about one year
REVOLVING DOOR?
Ithaca has had 23 acting or sworn police chiefs in 134 years. at averages out to a term of about six years, which is quite impressive if you just compare it to the typical tenure of two to three years for a police chief. However, included in these numbers is the extraordinary 34 year run in o ce of William Marshall from 1916 to 1950, and the split terms of both Walter Pagliaro and Lauren E. Signer. For a “roll call” of IPD chiefs pictured on the cover and their dates of service see page 18.
and four months. In addition, former Chief Dennis R. Nayor served for just over one and a half years.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the average tenure for a police chief ranges from two to three years. e City of Ithaca has not retained a chief of police for longer than two years since John Barber served in the position from June 2013 to December 2017.
Joly could not be reached to comment and it remains unclear if he is still being considered by the police chief search committee. However, he has previously expressed concern about the lack of clarity surrounding the reimagining public safety process.
Ithaca is an economically and socially diverse city that has made e orts to change the culture of the police force over the
years by bringing in chiefs from outside. For example, Nayor was the Director of Research, Development, and Training for the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police prior to serving as chief of police in Ithaca. He also served for over 21 years with the City of Oneonta Police Department.
Nayor came to the job focused on promoting the six pillars of professional 21st century policing by training o cers to focus on crime prevention through building trust and legitimacy with the community. During his time as chief of police, he led the department through months of civil unrest sparked by the murder of George Floyd, police reforms in accordance with New York State Executive Order 203, the pandemic, and numerous high-pro le in-
cidents including the department’s rst use of pepper spray in recent memory.
ese were some of the most di cult periods for the Ithaca Police Department in recent history and may have contributed to Nayor’s retirement in April 2021. However, before stepping down from his position, Nayor said that he wanted to be involved with the Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative e ort that is continuing at the city and county levels.
Myrick has urged that exibility to properly carry out the Reimagining Public Safety reforms should be an important factor in the decision of who would be the next chief of police in Ithaca.
According to Acting Mayor Laura Lewis, the search committee responsible for nding a new police chief consists of “three members that are determined by Common Council, three members of the community police board, a content speci c professional, and a representative from the Diversity Advisory Council.” Lewis told the Ithaca Times that the search committee was going to be meeting shortly.
“ e way it's worked in the past is that we set up a committee with three members of the Common Council, three members of the public, and one outside expert,” Myrick said. “ e search committee [would] interview a bunch of folks and then make a recommendation to the mayor and the mayor [would] ultimately make the hire.”
Alderperson Phoebe Brown, who represents Ithaca’s 2nd Ward on the Common Council, said that the city already “started the process of interviewing for the chief of police,” but that she had no knowledge about who exactly was being interviewed for the position.
According to Brown, the City of Ithaca needs a police chief who is “very knowledgeable about diverse communities: someone who's been on the ground and is really familiar with grassroots organizing. Someone who understands what this climate of policing has been throughout the country and will now prioritize the necessity of making sure that we are acknowledging the concerns of Black and Brown communities and LGBTQ communities. Someone who has been a champion of the people.”
Myrick said that he would like to see the city hire a police chief with a “demonstrated commitment to the kinds of policing that keeps the community safe by making every person in the community feel like the police department's on their side.”
He said that the search committee should look for candidates that have “a strong and demonstrated ability to work with minoritized communities and let them know that our public safety system works for them too.”
Alderperson Cynthia Brock, who represents Ithaca’s 1st Ward on the Common Council, said that quali ed applicants will be pre-screened by the Human Resources Department to “winnow down the responses to those who actually meet all the quali cations that are put forward in the advertisement.”
" e interview team will look through the applications and choose the top applicants that they then choose to interview,” she continued. “And they will go through the interview process and then make recommendations to the acting mayor.”
Brock has voted against the Reimaging Public Safety plan citing concerns that
the working group tasked with creating the plan has been in uenced by funding from outside sources. However, she said she “ rmly believes that there are changes to be made in policing in Ithaca and that we must move forward in implementing those changes.”
“I believe that the outcome of what the city implements will be something that the community will agree is necessary and will support,” Brock said. “I'm not aware of anything that [the police] are doing to stop the reimagining plan. I nd it very important to mention that the Ithaca PBA [Police Benevolent Association] has said very clearly that they see that the changes can and should be made and they want to be a partner in this process.”
According to Brock, most law enforcement o cers agree that not everything requires a criminal or police response.
“When you have individuals who are struggling with mental health issues, when you have individuals who are struggling with addiction issues, with the burden of the economic crisis—these situations require a response by the community that will support the individual in need,” Brock said.
Brock said that this will require the city to partner with the county and have more appropriate responses in terms of sta ng for mental health and addiction.
“I think IPD [Ithaca Police Department] and the PBA recognizes that there's a lot we can do together. ey want to have a relationship with a community where the community trusts and supports them and they can meet the community's needs,” Brock said.
Myrick has said that the response from police has been a “mixed bag.”
“ ey say they want to do better. ey say they want to earn the trust of the community, and particularly the Black community,” Myrick said. “ eir police union and union lawyers, on the other hand, fought hard against the plan. So, we'll see. It’s hard to say.”
In most police departments, the center of power resides with the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) or Police Union. e purpose of a police union is to engage in political advocacy around "law and order," crime legislation and legal protections for individual o cers. As a result, police unions across the country have come out against e orts to reform the police—and Ithaca is no exception.
Despite some rhetorical support on behalf of the police by council members, the police reaction to the reimagining plan has been mostly negative. Joly has expressed frustration over the process and the PBA has subjected it to heavy criticism.
e Ithaca PBA posted on Facebook July 21 saying, “ e damage done by the biased anti-worker and anti-police ‘reimagining’ initiative is extensive and will take years to repair.”
e PBA failed to respond to requests to comment and further explain their perspective but judging by the language used in the Facebook post, the PBA opposes efforts to reimagine public safety.
It’s not clear how much in uence the Ithaca PBA has over the police chief search committee and the public is in the dark about who is being considered for the position. However, if the PBA does have in uence over the hiring process, it will likely prioritize candidates that stand in opposition to e orts to reimagine public safety.
HISTORY
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Dare Wine, a fermented grape juice with its alcohol removed. Atwater advertised the wine in newspapers as a limited stock product that customers would love. A er an initial launch, the faux wine was never mentioned in the newspapers ever again. e seventh tour stop, on the other side of the street, is the clothing shop Petrune. is building once housed Brooks Pharmacy, which was one out of over 300 pharmacies in a chain that covered the New York and New England area until it was bought by Rite-Aid Pharmacy in 2007. During Prohibition, this pharmacy was a hotspot for medicinal alcohol. With a doctor’s prescription, someone could come to the pharmacy once every ten days for a pint of what doctors called “spiritus fermenti”: whiskey, bourbon, vodka or another spirit of choice. e eighth tour stop is Center Ithaca. On this site there was once a speakeasy owned by the Eagles Club, a fraternal
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
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of your sense felt experience of moving through the water.”
Shane began this “yoga” journey in his undergraduate studies at college. “A er a year and a half of majoring in confusion, I realized that my golden opportunity at college was to learn how to learn, and that I learned best through movement, not through reading.
“So I got a degree in learning how not to think in words. If we want to learn a movement skill—be it swimming, driving a car, learning how to walk, even sweeping the oor, or climbing the stairs e ciently—the greatest challenge is to ‘navigate from word brain to movement brain’.
“When we lie face down in the water,” Shane explains, “the frontal cortex word brain cannot think us to swim. Instead, this word brain must learn to trust the sensations of our bodies—the gateway to our movement brain.
“Women Swimmin’ is a journey, a passage across the majestic lake,” Shane believes. “ rough their sense felt experience, these women are seeking a smooth and owing passage. is is the essence of e cient swimming. To ow through the water, we must diminish our presence in the water. To do this, we need humility, patience. Many of us seek a smooth and graceful passage from this life to the next as well. We support Hospicare, which provides graceful, owing care when we are
organization. At one point the federal government caught on and sent a squad to raid the speakeasy. ere was such a large stockpile of alcohol that the feds couldn’t drag it all back to a warehouse. ey decided to carry the alcohol out to the street and dump it there instead. Suddenly the power to the speakeasy went out, forcing the squad to delay their disposal operation. When they returned the next morning, there was a noticeable decrease in the amount of alcohol. It seems many citizens took advantage of the serendipitous power outage.
e nal tour stop is Mockingbird Paperie. is building once housed Platt & Colt Pharmacy, the birthplace of the ice cream sundae (disregard the bogus claims by Two Rivers, Wisconsin). e year before the repeal of Prohibition, the North American Ice Cream Association stated that Americans consumed over 100 million gallons of ice cream. Many believe that a portion of those sales were actually alcohol sales by pharmacies. Perhaps this explains the origin of the avor rum raisin.
most in need of service in the last chapter of our lives.”
Shane has taught a wide range of people, from absolute beginners who are afraid to put their faces in the water, to professional Ironman triathletes. “I love teaching all of them,” he stresses. “With each person, I share the discovery of how we move through the water gracefully. If I am not learning as I teach, then I am not teaching very well.”
When Shane rst witnessed Women Swimmin’, “It moved me to tears, watching the swimmers emerge at the nish, some themselves in Hospicare. As we live in our sensations in the water, we learn to appreciate even more our bodies. No matter what we look like or what our bodies have been through. is too, is part of the healing process.”
e swimmers will be traversing Lake Cayuga this coming Saturday, August 13, 2022. Each hopes to raise money for Hospicare, which provides care for those who may no longer swim. As they make their passage from one shore to their destination on another shore, their bodies and minds will lend them power. ey will use this newly embraced power to raise funding for others whose bodies and minds need our support. Hospicare, our local treasure, o ers comfort and support to people of all walks of life, whenever people need care in their passage through the last chapters of their lives.
To support Hospicare and Palliative Care Services, Serving Tompkins and Cortland County, call (607) 272-0212.
CAPES, CATS AND A DOG
Animated films succeed in mashing up genres
book plot, the Man of Steel gets dosed with Kryptonite and abducted. It’s up to Krypto and a bunch of animals in a local shelter to save the good guys.
By Bryan VanCampenThese days, there’s a steady stream of two kinds of movies: superhero lms and funny talking animal pictures, with lots of coded gags about poop and dogs sni ng each other’s butts, like “ e Secret Life of Pets” series and “Paws of Fury”. So leave it to Jared Stern’s “DC League of Super-Pets” (Warner Bros. Pictures-WAG-Seven Bucks, 2022, 105 min.) to mash the two genres together. at way, the WB gets to launch a potentially lucrative family franchise that’s also a “Justice League” movie and a fairly adroit updating of “Lady and the Tramp” (1955) and “101 Dalmatians” (1961).
It’s a good way to go. at way, the lmmakers can use the tropes of two genres to reduce kids and late middle age fanboys to tears. I wept like a little girl twice during the movie, rst during the opening scene, when baby Kal-El and his puppy Krypto are launched to Earth as Krypton explodes. us, Superman (John Krasinski) and his myth get a re-write; Supes and Krypto (Dwayne Johnson) are now a couple, superhero and pet. anks to Lex Luthor (Marc Maron), an evil guinea pig (Kate McKinnon) and a convoluted comic
e second time I burst into tears was when Ace (Kevin Hart), a tough pit bull, has a ashback right out of the “Toy Story 2” playbook that explains how he wound up abandoned in the shelter.
Next time you cruise HBO Max, type “Batman” into the search engine. You won’t believe how many live action movies, animated movies and TV series come up. And yet there are big di erences between the Christopher Nolan Batman movies and, say, “Batman: e Brave and the Bold” or “ e LEGO Batman Movie” (2017). “DC League of Super-Pets” brings new characters into the mix and gives the DC world a design faceli that’s reminiscent of “ e Incredibles” (2004). ere are always at screens in the background showing cable news channel coverage of the story, with tons of text gags running along the bottom of the screen.
In a movie full of well-de ned comic book legends, I really liked Keanu Reeves’ vocal take on the Dark Knight and the way that Batman has been re-con gured. And when Superman and Krypto frolic in Metropolis’ version of Central Park, I dare you not to think of Roger and Pongo from “101 Dalmatians”. ● ● ●
I was reading the ne print credits at the bottom of the poster for “Paws of Fury: e Legend of Hank” (Paramount-Nickelodeon Movies-Aniventure-Align-Brooks lmsFlying Tigers Entertainment-GFM Animation-CinesiteHB Wink Animation, 2022, 95 min.) and I noticed that it’s inspired by Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles” (1974); Brooks and the other writers were credited right there. (Brooks even plays a variation on his old part and does new
versions of old jokes.) I stood there wondering how a 1974 comedy about bigotry in the old West was now a 2022 CG animated family lm.
Sure enough, the makers of “Paws of Fury” have managed to turn a movie about western racism into an Asian fable where dogs and cats don’t get along. Shogun (Brooks), the governor of a town called Kakamucho, populated entirely by cats and o limits to dogs, hires Hank (Michael Cera), a beagle samurai, to keep order in the town. Little do they know that Shogun’s associate Ika Chu (Ricky Gervais) is the one hiring all the bad guys, hoping to destroy Kakamucho and expand his palace.
“Paws of Fury” helps itself to the plot along with about 15 gags from “Blazing Saddles”. When it’s not doing that, “Paws of Fury”’s sense of humor is as meta as the more bizarre episodes of “Community”. When Hank and Jimbo (Samuel L. Jackson) commence a training montage, they’re cracking wise about the cliché of training montages in action movies. All this fourth wall poking keeps the movie moving, and about halfway through, it occurred to me that all this animal animosity would make “Paws of Fury” a great double bill with Wes Anderson’ s “Isle of Dogs” (2018), which plays like an Akira Kurosawa/Rankin-Bass TV special. ings never quite spill out into other Hollywood soundstages, but Cera keeps reminding us that “Paws of Fury” is “an 85-minute movie without credits.”
If you weren’t around when “Blazing Saddles” was released, I can’t recapture its seismic impact. (All together now: “Okay, boomer.”) But when Brooks put farting cowboys into the lm, eight or nine years earlier, that scene would be unthinkable. Today, “Paws of Fury” not only re-creates the farting scene, but everyone also has torches so now they’re lighting their farts, and that’s PG now. (I’m no prude. Just sayin’.)
“DC League of Super-Pets” and “Paws of Fury: e Legend of Hank” are playing at Regal Stadium 14. Recommended: “Vengeance” at Cinemapolis; “Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99” on Net ix. Read BVC’s interview with “I Love My Dad” lmmaker James Morosini at Ithaca.com.
Arts & Entertainment
Former Congressman And Current Ithacan Mrazek Releases 12th Novel
By Julia NagelFormer ve-term congressman Robert J. Mrazek, now an awardwinning author, released his 12th novel this week. e thriller, titled “ e Dark Circle,” is the second in a series that details the adventures of former army ocer Jake Cantrell and his beloved sidekick, Bug, a wol ound he rescued while serving in Afghanistan.
e novel begins with Cantrell working as a campus security o cer at the ctional St. Andrews College, but he resigns when complaints arise a er he uses force to break up a ght between two drug-crazed students. Jake doesn’t stay unemployed for long, though; Lauren Kennsiton, the editor of the “Groton Journal,” o ers him $200 a day to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a gi ed student musician.
As Cantrell travels around Upstate New York, he attempts to untangle a web of issues related to opioids, sex tra cking and corruption. Cantrell makes more than a few enemies as his investigation catches the attention of powerful New Yorkers.
Loosely set in Groton, “ e Dark Circle” weaves together ctional and factual details about Upstate New York.
“Groton is really Ithaca. St. Andrews school is a smaller version of Cornell,” Mrazek explained.
Readers will notice numerous local references in the novel, from landmarks like Ithaca’s Fall Creek and Rochester’s Kodak Tower, to Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and Cornell’s annual Slope Day music festival which is recast as the St. Andrews Slope Day festival in the novel.
As a 1967 Cornell alum and someone that currently splits his time between
Ithaca and Maine, Mrazek knows the area well and has watched it evolve over the decades.
“ e drugstores, hardware store, the courthouse, the Woolworth's ve and dime: they're all gone. ey're empty. e big engine in Upstate New York was the railroads. e railroads thrived up here for many years, and when the railroads le , the villages died,” Mrazek explained.
“ e tragedy of a waning set of small communities serves as an undercurrent to the novel, and a contrast to the physical beauty of the Finger Lakes,” Mrazek explained.
According to Mrazek, one of the more di cult aspects of writing this novel was cra ing a “worthy” villain.
“Hopefully the reader is thrilled with what happens to him at the end a er all of the tragedy that he causes,” Mrazek said.
Re ecting on his switch from politics to writing, Mrazek explained that his time as a politician was simply a detour from his true passion.
“I ended up taking a 30-year detour, if you will, from what I wanted to do in life. But when I le Congress, I thought, ‘Okay, you wanted to be a writer. Let's see if you can be a writer,’” Mrazek said.
Despite it being his true calling, the start to Mrazek’s writing career was far from smooth. His rst two books — one of which took two and a half years to write
Upon Release Of His 25th Solo Album Adrian Belew Reflects On His First
By Bryan VanCampenGuitarist, vocalist and songwriter
Adrian Belew has collaborated and toured with an enviable list of musicians, including Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, e Tom Tom Club and King Crimson from 1981 to 2009. He’s also just released “Elevator”, his 25th solo album. As Belew puts it, the COVID shutdown was his longest time without touring in four decades, and he’s raring’ to get back out there and play. Adrian Belew and his band will play on Sunday, August 14 at the Center for the Arts of Homer.
Adrian Belew spoke to the Ithaca Times about what he’s playing these days, his rst solo album “ e Lone Rhino” and his signature Parker Fly guitar.
IT: When I used to listen to Frank Zappa’s “Sheik Yerbouti” (1979) in high school, I never thought I’d ever get to talk to you.
AB: [laughs] Well, here we are.
IT: You’ve done a lot of work and you have a fairly big bag to grab from. What kind of music will you playing in Homer?
AB: Only my own material and that of the other bands I’ve written with: King Crimson and e Bears. On the last tour we did in 2019, I touched on some of the other artists I’ve worked with. We did some songs from Bowie and Zappa. But now, “Elevator” is the 25th solo record, so I’m feeling like, “Well, my fans are coming to hear my stu , I hope.” Nearer to the end of our show, we throw a lot of heavy-duty King Crimson at everyone, and it makes the show kind of explode at the end.
IT: When I was a DJ in 1982 in New Paltz, we had the King Crimson record with “Neil and Jack and Me”, and I played that a lot.
AB: Yeah, “Beat” (1982). e second album we did.
IT: We didn’t have a lot of albums but we did have “ e Lone Rhino” (1982).
AB: Wow! Glad to hear that! [laughs] is is the 40th anniversary of “ e Lone Rhino”. It of course started my solo career.
e rst song on the album is “Big Electric Cat”. And now I have 25 solo records, which is kind of a milestone.
IT: I wanted to ask you about the guitar I see most o en in photographs, the Adrian Belew Parker Fly model.
AB: Well, rst of all, they don’t make ‘em anymore, Parker Fly is out of business. So there’s no way for someone to actually buy one. But the Parker guitar, when it was being made, was, I think, the greatest, newest science for guitars. I felt that Ken Parker, who made the guitar, had taken a long, long time, years in fact, to solve all the inherent problems that electric guitars can have, and he did that, and the result was a super-modern great guitar that had just about everything you can have. Now, next year, I’m going to be putting out an Adrian Belew model Stratocaster, and I’ll be using that at a lot of shows, but there’s a di erence. e Parker Fly is a MIDI guitar. In other words, you have to plug it into a MIDI device, whereas the Stratocaster is a regular guitar that you plug into an ampli er or a stomp box or something. ey’re two di erent animals.
Adrian Belew will be playing Sunday, August 14 at 8 p.m. at the Center for the Arts, 72 South Main Street, Homer; (607) 749-4900; https://center4art.org/
Andrew Paine’s Cultivated Primitivism At The Gallery At South Hill
By Arthur WhitmanAkind of intelligent crudeness characterizes much of the best modern painting. is can lead to a point of confusion—especially in a culturally striving but sometimes inexperienced arts community like Ithaca’s. To throw out traditional notions of polish and completion and still come up with something worthwhile requires discipline and discernment. It’s approach that rarely rewards naïveté or self-indulgent posturing. Knowledgeable viewers will discern the di erence between work that is raw and alive and work that is merely awkward or sloppy.
It is a cultivated primitivism of this sort that makes the work of local painter Andrew Paine so distinctive. Currently on view at e Gallery at South Hill, his latest solo show features near-monochrome bas-relief paintings hearkening back to the abstract expressionism of the mid 20th century. Following up on his exhibition at the gallery last year, he hones his approach down to something seemingly narrow but in fact deep and rich.
Paine’s last show featured work incorporating a wider variety of unlikely materials: plaster, latex, ber, and burlap among them. Here he largely limits himself to acrylic paint and cast polyurethane foam adhered to wooden boards. e foam is cast in sand, which sticks to the material, giving it the unlikely quality of stone or concrete. And while last year, the artist highlighted his essentially sculptural pieces in varied colors—alternatively evocative of esh and mineral—here black and gray predominate in every piece.
It’s a presentation that many may nd forbidding: devoid of color, imagery, narrative—even recognizable processes and materials. My advice is to stay with the work, to try to see the thoughtfulness in its complicated variations and process.
is isn’t the easiest show to write about either. All of Paine’s work here is untitled. His pieces are on mostly square-
shaped boards: ranging neatly from moderately large to almost miniature. Most of these have been painted in all-over black before being collaged with foam elements and further layered with acrylic paint and medium. ese are not all-black paintings though. Everything is grisaille—shades of gray, alternatingly light and dark, warm and cool.
Gallery director Michael Sampson deserves credit for a characteristically thoughtful selection and hanging, which emphasizes balance and variation. ree larger paintings, several feet square, anchor the gallery’s main back wall. Elsewhere, smaller and o en more eccentric pieces predominate.
While nothing here is without interest, a handful of quirkier works do particularly stand out. An upright, tablet-like panel (numbered 12) features a range of apparently dripped and brushed textures in warm, neutral, and darker gray over an assembly of foam pieces that suggest a stone wall. Recalling pewter, a small square piece (18) features bulging knobs that seem almost animate. Two irregular squares (22 and 25), one small, the other larger, feature loose grids of blobby, pipe-like forms. Another piece (26)—in a silvery, mottled, medium-gray—features an o -center disc
The Historic State Diner Offers Well-Prepared Authentic Fare
By Henry StarkIwas having lunch the other day with a few friends and one asked if I had ever reviewed e State Diner. She said, “It’s been here forever!”. Actually, I’ve never reviewed it, so her query was all the incentive I needed.
e State has not been in Ithaca “forever” however it has been on the west side of State Street, just a couple of blocks from the Fulton and Meadow Street thoroughfares, since 1936. It more than doubled in size a er being refurbished in 2012 a er a re.
It has an eclectic clientele, with many dedicated locals and students. ere’s a de nite nod to Greek cuisine and those dishes are generally well prepared and seem authentic.
I don’t normally review breakfasts however they are an important part of the o erings here ($10-$15) and are available from opening to closing.
ere are eight “Specialty Omelets”, ($11-$14). e Veggie Omelet was large, covering the plate, and lled with a copious selection of green peppers, onions, mushrooms, and tomatoes. Every one of the ingredients was cooked perfectly, not easy to do. While the price on the menu for Veggie Omelet is $14, the price on my receipt was $14.85.
When I ordered Eggs & Hash ($14) I found myself answering a barrage of questions from my server: I asked for poached eggs, so she asked: did I want them in a cup; on the side over the accompanying hash brown potatoes; or on top of the hash? For toast; white, wheat, or rye? For
the potatoes; hot sauce or ketchup? While the menu lists the hash as “homemade corned beef hash”, I asked and two different servers con rmed it was actually canned. e accompanying toast came already buttered; however the “butter” was half butter and half margarine. e pancake syrup was packaged. e potatoes, however, are made from scratch and are very good. e price on the menu for Eggs and Hash is $14, but the price on my receipt was $13.15; ironically balancing out the pricing di erence for the Veggie Omelet.
Under the Classic Sandwiches section I selected a Reuben ($13) because the listing had all the proper ingredients: Corned beef, sauerkraut, grilled on rye bread with melted Swiss cheese and Russian dressing. However I wasn’t able to identify the meat…it didn’t seem like any corned beef I’ve ever had…more like round luncheon meats. I wasn’t able to nd any “melted Swiss cheese” and the Russian dressing wasn’t on the sandwich, it came in a small side dish. Despite all that, I enjoyed it.
We FlyITH Why
The
John D. Conley (1901-1904)
are identi ed with an asterisk. Not pictured are Eugene VanOrder (1905-1909), Edward Buck (1910-1915), Patrick Hartnett* (1951), and William Simmers (1952-1957).
William Marshall (1916-1950)
Brian T. Page (1988)
(1958-1972)
Harlan R. McEwen (1989-1996)
Victor Loo (2004)
Lauren E. Signer (2005-2007)
(1998-2002)
Walter Pagliaro (1989)
(2003)
Dennis R. Nayor (2020-2021)
Edward E. Vallely (2008-2012)
John Joly* (Current)
John R. Barber (2013-2017)
One of the major categories on their menu is Wraps ($13). I tried the Greek Wrap and was pleased. It was cooked properly with a generous lling of basic ingredients: grilled chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and feta cheese.
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— went unpublished, and his savings were running out.
Mrazek was having doubts about whether he could be successful as an author. But this all changed when he took his then high school aged daughter to visit Cornell’s campus.
“[During this visit,] I woke up at two in the morning with the whole idea for a civil war novel. And I dictated into my little linear, for two hours, what the book was going to be. And that one won the Michael Shaara prize for the civil war novel of the year and became a bestseller. And I thought, ‘Okay, [I] can do it,’” Mrazek recounted.
As a congressman, Mrazek was used to meeting with hundreds of people in a single day. Now, his daily work routine mainly consists of just him and his laptop.
“I love the writing life as much as I ever enjoyed public life, but they're totally different,” Mrazek said.
“Couch time” is one of his favorite writing methods, when he’s not working in his writing “sanctuary,” a cozy sunlit room that conjures up images of oreau at Walden.
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“My wife will come down and see me stretched out on the couch in the library [and] say, ‘What are you doing? I thought you were writing.’ I [reply], ‘I am,’” he said.
Mrazek doesn’t shy away from di cult topics in this novel and there are a few grisly scenes. But his writing also incorporates some positive themes, including courage and love, as well as the occasional dash of humor.
“If I didn't have the creative outlet to escape into my imagination every day with the characters I'm writing about, whether they are real or not, I would be a very depressed person about where we are in this world,” Mrazek said. “I write [books] for my own pleasure in the hope they will give other people pleasure.”
Mrazek also said he strives to write books that include strong female characters.
“I have two young granddaughters, eight and six, who I hope someday will read my books and feel grandpa did a good job,” Mrazek said.
Julia Nagel is a reporter from the Cornell Daily Sun working on e Sun’s summer fellowship at e Ithaca times
that radiates a spinning energy that destabilizes the whole eld.
Even Ithaca’s best abstract expressionist painters tend towards cozy, domesticated approaches. ( is is either an acknowledgement of or a concession to the genrei cation of abstraction, depending on your perspective.) Particularly in this context, the brutalism and material experimentation of Paine’s work is particularly refresh-
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“Andrew Paine: New and Recent Work” rough August 14 e Gallery at South Hill at 950 Danby Road Open 5-8 p.m. Friday and 12-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday www.southhillcampus.com
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Bars/Bands/Clubs
8/10 Wednesday
New eld Music Series at Mill Park: Good Dog | 6 p.m. | Mill Park | Free Horns and Ivory | 6:30 p.m. | Salt Point Brewing Co.
Homer Summer Concert Series: Madd Daddy | 7 p.m. | Village Green | Free
8/11 Thursday
Papa Muse Acoustic Duo | 5:30 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road
The Big Takeover- 2022 Summer Concert Series | 6 p.m. | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Center Commons Music in Myers Park: The Ampersand Project | 6:30 p.m. | Myers Park | Free
Cortland Youth Bureau Summer Concert Series: Jazz Happens| 7 p.m. | Courthouse Park, Court House Park
Sunset Music Series: O the Rails Blues | | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd
8/12 Friday
East Hill Classic Jazz Band | All day during Ithaca Artist Market| Ithaca Farmers Market, Steamboat Landing
Friday Sunset Music Series - ft.
The Smoking Loons | 5 p.m. | Wagner Vineyards, 9322 State Route 414
Temple Cabin Band | 5 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road
Friday Night Farm Jams: Tenzin Chopak Band | 6:30 p.m. | Finger Lakes Cider
Viva Mayhem | 6:00 p.m. | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville 8/13 Saturday
The Destination Band - A Bene t to Feed Hungry Kids | 1 p.m. | Lansing Park, 1 Lansing Park Road | $10.00
Bob and Dee | 1 p.m. | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89
Doc’sology Jazz | 2 p.m. | Americana Vineyards, 4367 Covert Rd. | Free
Taughannock Falls Concert Series: Marc Berger & Ride | 7 p.m. | Taughannock Falls State Park, 1740 Taughannock Blvd | Free
8/14 Sunday
90 Proof | Hosmer Winery | 1 p.m.
Elisa Keeler & Dennis Winge | 1 p.m. | Red Newt Cellars, 3675 Tichenor Road | Free
Cider Sunday Concert Series: Jen Cork | 1 p.m. | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickok Road
Live music feat. Dave Turner | | Treleaven Wines, 658 Lake Road
8/15 Monday
Mondays with MAQ | 5:30 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road
Concerts/Recitals
8/12 Friday
Croce plays Croce-SOLD OUT | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St
Skaneateles Festival | Concerto Night: The Knights | 8 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E Genesee St. | $30.00 - $40.00
8/13 Saturday
11th Annual Ferrario Elmira Jazz Festival – Two Days of Fun - Day 2 | 12 p.m. | Thorne Street Park, 504 Thorne Street
Skaneateles Festival: The Knights & Gil Shaham | 8 p.m. | Various -
Check schedule, 2443 West Lake Road | $40.00 - $60.00
8/14 Sunday
Here and There Festival w/ Courtney Barnett | 5:30 p.m. | Beak & Ski Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road An Evening with Adrian Belew | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St
8/16 Tuesday
Sharon Van Etten | 6 p.m. | Beak & Ski Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road
8/18 Thursday
Skaneateles Festival | My Soul Sings: Catalyst Quartet & Karen Slack | 8 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E Genesee St. | $30.00 - $40.00
8/19 Friday
Chamber Music at New Park - 6th Season | 7:30 p.m., 1500 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Skaneateles Festival | Freedom’s Voice: Catalyst Quartet & Karen Slack | 8 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E. Genesee St | $30.00 - $40.00
Zac Brown Band - DICK’S Sporting Goods Open | 8 p.m. | En-Joie Golf Course, 722 W Main St | $85.00
8/20 Saturday
The Decemberists | 7 p.m. | Beak & Ski Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road
Skaneateles Festival Finale with Christian McBride & Inside Straight | 8 p.m. | Anyela’s Vineyards, 2433 W. Lake Rd | $40.00 - $60.00
8/23 Tuesday
Wilco | 7 p.m. | Beak & Ski Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road
Stage
The Great Leap at Hangar Theatre | Runs 8/10-8/20. Check website for showtimes. | When an American college basketball team travels to Beijing for a “friendship” game in the post-Cultural Revolution 1980s, both countries try to tease out the politics behind the popular sport.
Open Mic Stand Up Comedy Night |The Downstairs | 7 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | First and third Tuesdays of the month! Kenneth McLauren hosts |
Art
A Gathering: From Baskets to Brownstones by Elizabeth Wickenden McMahon | Ongoing | Kendal Gallery , 2230 Triphammer Rd. | A mid-career retrospective by Elizabeth Wickenden McMahon that brings together works that stretch across di erent years and di erent media, and between representation and abstraction. A common theme emerges, each work explores the energetic interplay of spontaneity and structure. | Free
Installation - Ken Feingold (artist) at Johnson Museum of Art at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art | 11 a.m., 8/10 Wednesday | As part of Cornell 2022 Biennial, artist Ken Feingold is exhibiting his installation that features interactive talking heads and AI-generated existential conversations.
Screening of Madre Drone by Patricia Dominguez | 11 a.m., 8/10 Wednesday | Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Avenue | Come experience
the work of Patricia Dominguez, one of the invited artists of Cornell Biennial 2022! | Free
New Work: Jane Dennis and Harry Littell | 12 p.m., 8/11 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street | New work by Jane Dennis and Harry Littell at SOAG | Free
“ESSENCE” Art Exhibit | 5 p.m., 8/12 Friday | The Cherry Gallery, 130 Cherry St | The Cherry Arts presents Essence, a collaborative art exhibition featuring the elaborate masks, prints, and performative works | Free
Common Thread Invitational | 11 a.m., 8/13 Saturday | corners gallery, 903 HANSHAW RD | Common Thread Invitational showcases work by ve contemporary artists working in ber and textiles.
Exhibition of works by Denise Green: Articles of Displacement
| 9 a.m., 8/15 Monday | Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, 116 Reservoir Avenue
| Cornell professor and Director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection Denise Green exhibits her work as part of Cornell Biennial 2022 “Futurities, Uncertain.” | Free Art Mondays! | 2 p.m., 8/15 Monday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | ‘Bee’ sure to join us at the Museum this summer to create insect themed arts and crafts! This drop in activity will be happening on Mondays at 2pm in July and August.
Upcycled Vases | 5 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 Main Street | For all ages: Join us on August 17th in preparing for the library’s Words and Wineevent with decoupaging upcycled wine bottles! All supplies are provided. | Free
Film
Movies in Stewart Park: Encanto | 7 p.m., 8/12 Friday | Stewart Park, 1 James L Gibbs Dr | Tompkins Chamber, in collaboration with Serendipity Catering, presents Movies in the Park, showing ve free community movies on Friday nights at Stewart Park. We welcome families and kids of all ages! So, grab your blankets or chairs, enjoy dinner or a snack while the sunsets and the movie beings! | Free
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120 E. Green St., Ithaca
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Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New lms listed rst. *
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies* | When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.| 95 mins R
Emily the Criminal* | Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.| 95 mins R
Hallelujah | The lm accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Leonard Cohen Trust including Cohen’s personal notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings and interviews.| 117 mins PG-13
I Love My Dad | The movie follows Chuck, a hopelessly estranged father who desperately wants to reconnect with his troubled son, Franklin.| 96 mins R
Marcel the Shell with Shoes
On | A beloved character gets his big-screen debut in this hilarious and heartwarming story about nding connection in the smallest corners. | 89 mins PG
Nope | Jordan Peele’s latest lm in which the residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. | 135 mins R
Fire of Love | Katia and Maurice Kra t loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions
and documenting their discoveries. | 93 mins NR
Special Events
111th Spencer Picnic | 8/10 Wednesday | Nichols Park |
30th Annual Ithaca Artist Market | 12 p.m., 8/12 Friday | Ithaca Farmers Market | The 2022 juried show and sale, will feature local and regional artists, community groups, food and wine, a boat tour, and jazz.
Fillmore Days | 11 a.m., 8/13 Saturday | Fillmore Glen State Park, Route 38 | Bathtub Races and Pedal Cars! Music, Vendors, Food, Beverages, Family Fun Field, and an Evening Movie! | Free
Annual National Brockway Truck Parade | 8/13 Saturday | Village of Homer | Cortland County will celebrate its Annual Brockway Truck Parade on Saturday, August 13 in the Village of Homer.
Books
YA Book Club | 4:30 p.m., 8/15 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Introduction to Performance Storytelling with Jay Leeming at Ithaca Farmers Market | 7 p.m., 8/15 Monday | Dive into the wild and beautiful world of traditional storytelling, learning the skills necessary to tell myths, legends, fairy tales, and epics from around the world.
Comic Book Club - General Body Meeting | 7 p.m., 8/16 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Whether you rst encountered Marvel’s God of Thunder
in his latest movie, or if you remember Thor’s appearance in Avengers #1, way back in 1963, bring your favorite bits of pop-culture news to share, from the worlds of comic books and strips, their associated movies and games, video, and the like.
Kids
Meet an Entomologist! | 11 a.m., 8/11 Thursday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Do you have a question about insects? Ask an expert!
Toddler & Preschool Music | 11 a.m., 8/11 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Tween Board Game Club | 3 p.m., 8/11 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Touch-A-Truck | 10 a.m., 8/12 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 Main Street | For families with children 0-6: Come to the Edith B. Ford Memorial Library in Ovid, NY at 10am on Friday, August 12th and learn about the various trucks you see around Ovid and beyond! | Free
Summer Baby Storytime | 10:30 a.m., 8/12 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Get up close with a roach! | 10 a.m., 8/12 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Get ready to ‘bug out’ and get up close with a roach! Join us on Fridays at 10am in August to meet-and-greet a cockroach and learn about this incredible insect!
Arthropod or Insect Tour | 1:30 p.m., 8/12 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Crawl around the Museum on an arthropod or insect tour this summer!
These ‘ANTastic’ tours will be on Fridays at 1:30pm in August.
Journey of Water Passport Program | 6 p.m., 8/12 Friday | Various, locations throughout the Ithaca area | Free passport water science educational series for youth o ered by the Community Science Institute - get a certi cate and t-shirt for completing the entire series! Explore how water cycles through our lives and how we make sure it’s safe to drink and play in. http://www.communityscience. org/4h2o/ | Free Animal Encounters! at Cayuga Nature Center | 12 p.m., 8/13 Saturday | Join us in the courtyard at noon to learn all about the Cayuga Nature Center’s animal ambassadors!
Family Workshop with the Johnson Museum: Wire Sculpture | 10 a.m., 8/15 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
LEGO Build Night for Families | 5 p.m., 8/16 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
My First Day of Kindergarten Storytime | 4 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Upcycled Vases | 5 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 Main Street | For all ages: Join us on August 17th in preparing for the library’s Words and Wineevent with decoupaging upcycled wine bottles! All supplies are provided. | Free
Notices
Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins County -Indoor Meal Service | 12 p.m., 8/10 Wednesday | St. John’s Episcopal Church, 210 N. Cayuga St. | Free hot meals are served every
weekday. Lunch: Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 12 noon -1:00 pm. Dinner: Tuesday, Thursday from 5:30-6:30 pm. Interested in volunteering? email info@loaves.org, or go to www.loaves. org. All are Welcome! | Free
Red Cross Blood Drive | 1 p.m., 8/10 Wednesday | The Shops at Ithaca Mall, 40 Catherwood Rd. | Come give blood in August and get a $10 e-gift card, plus automatically be entered for a chance to win gas for a year (a $6,000 value), or a $250 Gas Card! | Free Trumansburg Farmers Market | 4 p.m., 8/10 Wednesday |
Marijuana Anonymous Meeting | 7 p.m., 8/10 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery (518 W. Seneca St), 518 West Seneca St |Free Free Community Cruise | 7 p.m., 8/10 Wednesday | Allan H. Treman Marina, 1000 Allan H. Treman Road | Free 1.5 hour cruise with presentations by community members on board. | Free Nutrition Workshop Series - Peary Thankful | 3 p.m., 8/11 Thursday |
Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Candor Farmers Market | 3:30 p.m., 8/11 Thursday | Candor Town Hall Pavilion, 101 Owego Road |
Sturgeon Moon Bike Ride at Ithaca Farmers Market | 7 p.m., 8/11 Thursday | Vie Cycle presents... a collaboration event with Bike Walk
Tompkins and Black Cat Cyclery... with music from Sounds Familiar...
Potorti Gorge Walks | 10 a.m., 8/12 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Join us for our annual James Potorti Museum of the Earth/State Parks Gorge Walks on Fridays in August.
GO ITHACA Outdoor Tours at Bernie Milton Pavilion | 11:30 a.m., 8/12 Friday | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Center Commons | GO ITHACA is excited to be a 2022 recipient of the Tompkins County Outdoor Recreation Grant.
Ovid Farmers Market | 3 p.m., 8/12 Friday | Three Bears Complex, Main St. | Every Friday from 3-7. Be sure to purchase fresh, local produce and other local products. Support your local farmers and producers and keep your hard-earned dollars in your local community. | Free
Ithaca Farmers Market - Saturdays at Steamboat | 9 a.m., 8/13
Saturday | Steamboat Landing, 545 Third Street | Shop all of the best food, art and ag within 30 miles!
Brooktondale Farmers Market | 10 a.m., 8/13 Saturday | Brooktondale Community Center, 526 Valley Rd | The Brooktondale Farmers Market o ers a relaxed combination of live music, food from the grill, and friendly vendors, every Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.
Trumansburg Central School All Class Reunion | 1 p.m., 8/13 Saturday | Trumansburg Fairgrounds | The traditional alumni golf tournament will be held from 8am-Noon and the Mad Dog ’77 band and surprise guests will start performing at 6:15 pm with a super reworks show to start around 9:30 pm.
Sunday Morning Meditation | 9 a.m., 8/14 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road | Sunday morning meditation, free and open to all.
Gorge Hike at Cayuga Nature Center | 10 a.m., 8/14 Sunday | Cayuga Nature Center | Join an educator and hike up CNC’s gorge to get an up close view of Denison Falls! This is a moderate to di cult hike and you will be walking directly through the water - so bring shoes that can get wet! Enjoy discussion of local geology, ora, and fauna while enjoying the scenic view.
Dance Church | 11:30 a.m., 8/14 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd | Dance Church Ithaca continues in person — and online — every Sunday from 11:30 AM to 1 PM at the Foundation Of Light. Come join the dance!Masks are required, and air puri ers are running inside. Dancing on the lawn is encouraged! | Free
Safety First: The Environment & You | 10 a.m., 8/15 Monday | Cayuga Nature Center | Participants will learn to identify poisonous plants such as poison ivy, pokeweed, and Virginia creeper. Additionally they will learn to protect against insects, stay safe, and handle inclement weather.
Online Teen Game Group | 4:30 p.m., 8/15 Monday | Mental Health Association in Tompkins County | Online Teen Game Group | Free
Community Relations & Outreach Committee Mtg | 3:30 p.m., 8/17 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
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