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Starbucks workers try unionizing

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mployees at all three Ithaca Starbucks locations — including the brand-new Meadow Street location — are trying to unionize. In a letter sent Jan 25to Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, the workers wrote: “We are organizing a union because we believe that this is the best way to ensure both that our voices are heard and that, when we are heard, we have equal power to effect change. We all want the same thing: a voice on the job so that our work lives are the best they can be.”

In total, 26 employees from across the three stores signed the letter sent to Johnson. The unionization efforts come after the successful unionization of Starbucks workers in Buffalo last month, a feat which bolstered the already brewing conversation around the topic.

Hope Liepe, a barista at the Meadow Street location and union organizer, said three months ago when she was hired there was already some movement on the topic, but after Buffalo went public things ramped up.

“From there we released information that we were form-

ing an organization committee and got in contact with people from Buffalo,” she said.

That’s when the committee was formed, including representatives from each Ithaca store, and collected union support cards from employees to send to the National Labor Relations Board. The board requires 30% of employees to sign cards, but Liepe said they have more than 65% of people signing in each location.

In recent days, Liepe said there’s been a corporate presence in all three stores, “trying to find everything that they can fix that we’re citing as problems to give the illusion that Starbucks is a perfect

workplace.”

However, she noted that her personal biggest complaint has been the company’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it lackluster. Liepe said that managers have been told not to enforce the masking rules and that there have been communication issues about isolation protocols. More generally, she said there are also staffing issues.

“I work at the brand-new drive thru and it’s not uncommon to be severely understaffed,” Liepe said. “That’s one of the driving reasons [for the union].”

A Starbucks spokesperson sent the Ithaca Times the following statement: “We are listening and learning from the partners in these stores as we

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▶ Darwin Days - The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and its Museum of the Earth will hold events for “Darwin Days,” the annual celebration of the life and ideas of Charles Darwin, Feb. 6-12. This year, PRI is collaborating with Cornell University’s entomology department to offer virtual and in person events exploring the world of insects. The

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Our position hasn’t changed: Starbucks success—past, present and future—is built on how we partner together, always with Our Mission and Values at our core. As Rossann Williams, Executive Vice President and president, North America, recently shared with our partners, ‘the vote outcomes will not change our shared purpose or how we will show up for each other. … We will keep listening, we will keep connecting and we will keep being in service of one another because that’s what we’ve always done and what it means to be partners.’”

The cards have been sent to the National Labor Relations Board and Liepe said employees are expecting an election to vote on the union in the next few months. She said they anticipate that Starbucks will try to convince the board that the entire district should vote, but precedence states that one store is enough to unionize.

If the majority of Ithaca employees vote yes in the union election, the next step is to negotiate with Starbucks to come to an agreement on a contract.

Liepe said the unionization effort has been bringing employees together in Ithaca, and that most conversations have been very positive.

“Nobody is outwardly against it,” she said.

Liepe is also intentional in emphasizing that she and her coworkers are not antiStarbucks.

“We’re pro-Starbucks,” she said. “But we’re also pro-workers and want to create a better Starbucks.”

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lineup of events this year include two virtual presentations with the Curator and Manager of the Cornell University’s Insect Collection, Dr. Corrie Moreau and Dr. Jason J. Dombroskie, an “Insect Encounters” event at the Museum of the Earth where guests can meet-and-greet with hissing cockroaches, a film screening of Microcosmos at Cinemapolis, and more. In 2006,

PRI and its Museum of the Earth, in collaboration with Cornell University and Ithaca College, celebrated the first official Darwin Days in Ithaca with a five-day series of panel discussions, film screenings, speakers, and workshops, aimed at increasing awareness of Darwin’s theory and its relevance today.

Learn more at https://www.priweb. org/event/darwin-days

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F E AT URE S Still Pricy ����������������������������������������8 Tompkins County’s housing snapshot shows the county continues to be plagued with high rent, expensive land and a shortage of housing.

Sweeping Up ����������������������������������� 21 The Finger Lakes Curling Club is about fun, friendship and the love of the game

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Transportation

PHOTOGRAPHER Bus depot talk begins again as transit numbers recover

By C a se y Mar tin

WHAT ELSE WE SHOULD ASK PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL?

“Who will win the next election?”

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“Why’d you bite Bill de Blasio?

What did he taste like?!?”

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t the Jan. 24 meeting of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance Board of Directors, members revived the possibility of a new bus depot being constructed in downtown Ithaca.

“Our goal would probably be to convene a group of interested parties to really sort of scope out what might what it might take to move a project like this forward,” said Gary Ferguson, Executive Director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance who was involved in the discussion.

There is not yet a set plan of how this is to be accomplished and would be a multi-year process, according to Ferguson. He says that it is important to discuss, as while it is not back yet to where it was in 2019, intercity bus traffic is on the return since the pandemic heavily reduced it.

“But what hasn’t changed is that people are still busy being dropped off at curbside.

You know, there’s no real place that’s the Ithaca hub for intercity buses,” said Ferguson.

“And that’s something that I think that a number of us feel is a very important asset that

“I think it feels like it belongs downtown,” Ferguson said. “It generates foot traffic, it needs to intersect very strategically with TCAT and with a lot of our other transportation options, so the best place to do that is really out of downtown”.

A new “intercity bus and transportation center” as a major point in Ithaca’s 2021 Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant application. It was listed as one of three initiatives to be addressed with the grant to make Ithaca a more attractive and desirable place to work and live along with more affordable housing and a yearround indoor family entertainment center.

this community needs.”

Before the pandemic, officials say there were 15 to 20 different bus trips into Ithaca each day, exceeding the passenger volume at the Ithaca International Airport, creating a high demand for a dedicated depot if transit levels return to what they were pre-pandemic.

Currently, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance says nearly all community trips downtown cycle through the downtown Seneca Street and Green Street bus stops, where travelers wait and are dropped off outside on those stations’ curbs. This creates a worry that there are not the proper amenities for travelers or shelter from the weather at these bus stops, and that blocks become overcrowded due to the number of buses loading and dropping off, leading to traffic backups and hazards.

The previous Ithaca Bus Terminal, which provided a waiting room and ticket counter lobby, has been closed since September 2018. At the time, officials also spoke of a desire to create a new bus depot in the center of the city with greater amenities.

It would accommodate TCAT, bikes, ridesharing, and taxis.

“I think…prior to the pandemic, it was considered a lot more of a priority because we had really kind of reached capacity, we had actually split the number of places where people could drop off downtown to two [..] because it got so busy,” Ferguson said. “There were real discussions beginning to be

a three-sport athlete, played volleyball in the fall, basketball in the winter and ran track in the spring. Given she captained the volleyball and basketball teams, stepping into a leadership role is well within her comfort zone and she is grateful for the opportunity.

I asked the rookie coach

if taking over so early in her career presented a balance of opportunities and challenges, and she replied, “I think that being so fresh works to my advantage in that I know how the players like to play.” She said it was amusing that many of the opposing coaches recognize her, and some say, “Didn’t I just

This was proposed to take up a location in either the ground floor of the Seneca Parking Garage, the Block 14 surface parking lot on West Seneca Street, or spread between the two locations.

had about what should we do and how should we do it?”

According to the plan, a transportation center of this kind would take a $4.5 million investment, $3 million of which would come from the downtown revitalization initiative funding, and would create five permanent jobs as a result. The initiative would involve a partnership between the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, TCAT, and Inter-city bus companies.

However, the state did not select Ithaca to receive the grant, instead giving funds to downtown projects in Endicott and Norwich, meaning that the framework has not been pursued further.

“We really need to get the right people around the table and figure out whose project this is, and how does it get paid for? It’s just not gonna happen out of the blue,” said Ferguson.

“We have to figure out, is this a county project, is this a city project, is this a TCAT project, is it a collaboration, is this is a partnership? What is this and how are different parties involved?”.

He also said it is important that he and his colleagues in local government consider how to address issues faced by travelers until this depot can be constructed, and to begin education for this initiative in the community.

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hen the Ithaca High girls’ basketball team takes the floor, opposing coaches can be forgiven if they see the Little Red’s head coach and mistakenly assume that she is a player that is not suited up for the game. Or, if they think that she looks familiar, but they can’t quite recall how they might know her.

Five years ago, Sydney Trumble was in many of the same gyms as a player, and now she is the program’s head coach. She told me, “At SUNY Oneonta, I had a dual major of business economics and sport management, with a minor in athletic coaching. That is how I got into coaching so quickly.”

Sydney graduated from Ithaca High in 2017, and as

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Ups A reader wanted to thank Cornell student Arnold who rushed down from his fourthfloor apartment on State Street to check on her after he saw her slip and fall on ice from his window. She said: “These small acts of kindness need to be noted and more frequent.”

Downs Another winter storm is coming — hunker down Ithacans!

HEARD&SEEN Planning

Auden Ithaca could get a sister building, Chabad Center looks to expand

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busy night for Ithaca’s Planning Board on Jan. 25 saw the return of the Cornell Chabad Center expansion to the docket, and the introduction of the sequel to the Auden apartments.

Chabad Center

After having to put the project on pause due to the pandemic, Jason Demarest was back in front of the Planning Board to go over plans for an expansion of the Roitman Chabad Center. The center serves Cornell students of the Jewish faith and is located at 102 Willard Way. The center currently has a 50-person multipurpose room that Demarest said does double duty as both a sanctuary and a dining room, adding that people have been turned away when it gets too full. The proposed expansion is 5,000 square feet and includes a dining room, classroom space, commercial kitchen and a second mikvah (ceremonial bath).

Additionally, the renovations would join the existing mikvah to the primary structure, as well as adding a small office on the ground floor for rabbis to work at while visiting.

There would also be a 10-space parking garage with an additional two spaces on the property. The garage would be the lower level of the addition and would be built with a garage door to blend into the residential neighborhood.

The board was overall sup-

portive of the project, though member Mitch Glass took some issue with the driveway turnaround, which he said added a lot of pavement that he wasn’t sure was necessary.

Demarest said working out designs for the driveway had been tough, as they wanted to have a drop off space to keep vehicles off the street and provide a place for trash pickup.

However, he said he’d be willing to talk to Casella Waste Collection about options.

Board member Elisabete Godden wasn’t impressed with the garage door they picked in the design to disguise the parking garage.

“I think that solid garage door looks odd,” she said. “It just doesn’t feel right there.”

Demarest said that they would take a look at that as well and said adding some glass to the door to break it up could be an option.

The board also encouraged reaching out to the public again for input as there had been such a large gap in time since the plan was last in front of the board in 2020. The project will likely be back in front of the board in coming months.

Auden II

The Auden Ithaca apartments could be getting a sister building, with the proposal of Auden II. Joe Manzo from the development team told the Planning Board he had been looking at the property at 261

An early rendering of the Auden II project.

Lake St., across the street from the original Auden building, for a while as an extension of the existing student housing complex.

The project is located on the west side of Lake Street and is a very steep site, adding challenges to the development.

The difference in height from the bottom of the site to the top is nearly 70 feet. Architect Kim Rosentel said that to meet the confines set by the slope and the height restrictions in the area, they decided to step the building into four different sections to move along with the slope.

Currently, there are plans for 71 units comprising studios, one-bedrooms, two-bedrooms, three-bedrooms and four-bedrooms, totaling 211 beds. Each bedroom will have its own bathroom.

The site will not require any setback, lot coverage or height variances, and Rosentel said they’re envisioning the buildings be done in brick, white board and batten and horizontal siding to “change it up and make it feel like not such a large structure.”

Reactions from the board were positive, with many impressed by the willingness to take on such a difficult site.

“I’m remembering we saw a proposal for this site many years ago and I remember thinking it wouldn’t work,” board member Garrick Blalock said. “But I feel differently about this […] This is a challenge. The terrain there is so steep. I congratulate you for taking on a challenge and agree with what everyone else said about appearance and

materials. Breaking it up [into stepped buildings] is expensive, the terrain is expensive. I appreciate it.”

As Blalock alluded to, Godden had praised the development team for breaking up the façade to make the massing feel smaller, and board member Emily Petrina noted that the materials chosen seemed like they were high quality.

However, Glass was not as excited about the designs.

“I’m a little concerned about the generic quality of this building in a key location,” he said. “I worry it’ll come across looking inexpensive and not well detailed. I have some serious concerns about this building in a different way than we’ve heard previously.”

Glass also noted that the building would be replacing a vegetated hill (despite those plants being invasive species) with a 250-footlong apartment complex that would sit over Fall Creek, and that he was concerned that the effect would be much different in real life than in renderings.

The development team said they took Glass’ concerns to heart and would keep his comments in mind as the project progressed. This was the first time the project came in front of the Planning Board, but the development team is hoping to be able to begin construction by August or September of this year, and finish

by May or June of 2023, opening in time for August 2023 move-in. A public hearing is scheduled for the Planning Board meeting on Feb. 22.

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Heard The South Cayuga Street bridge has finally reopened after about six months of repairs. Goodbye detours, you will not be missed.

Seen As of publishing, we don’t know whether or not the groundhog saw its shadow. The suspense is killing us.

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Catherine Gooch: Life Skills We Need after a Stroke C

Wordle to the Wise

By St e ph e n Bu r k e

By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s

atherine Gooch was 5 years old when became second nature to advocate for a she and her brothers saw that some loved one living with disabilities. children lived with extra challenges.

Most of us can’t imagine how Cath“Denise, my sister, was a beautiful, erine’s daily family life was modified to bright, healthy 7-year-old accommodate the needs of when she suddenly fell ill a child with severe brain with encephalitis,” Cathinjury. erine said. “She was in a “Our family moved to coma for three months.

Howard County, Maryland, Doctors advised my parents since that county offered to have her institutionalthe richest programming ized. This was common for our sister,” she said. in the 1970s. They said if But eventually essential and when she came out of programming was abruptly the coma, she would not discontinued for Cathbe a productive citizen. erine’s sister.

The encephalitis [internal “Over the years our brain injury] resulted in parents and then we, the An old photo of Catherine Gooch severe cognitive, physical siblings, were told our sister (right) and her sister Denise. and emotional disabilities, had too much cognitive epilepsy, deafness and aphastrength to require cognisia…Our parents refused to tive or auditory or mobility listen and brought Denise home.” services…or she had too little,” Catherine Denise has required 24-hour care said. “She was too deaf to be eligible for since she was stricken. With no hesitaa certain program, or she was not deaf tion Catherine’s family pivoted into the continued on page 7 around-the-clock world of caretaking. It

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“No way,” the novice said, leaning back t break time at my workplace, like many these days I guess, someone in his chair.

“What do you mean?” she said. mentioned Wordle, in this case with “I’ll never play this game again in my a buoyant air. life,” he said. “Why should I?” “I just played it this week for the first And he never did. time,” my colleague said. “It’s fun. Today I Games can reveal a lot about the playgot the word in two tries.” ers. Also as an undergraduate at Cornell “Two tries?” I said. “How? You can I had a friend who, like tell me, I already played. me, was born in Bushwick I got it in three, which I back when it was a place thought was pretty good L U C K Y of people who didn’t go to till now.” college.

“Well,” she said, “I S K I L L Freddy and I had started with ‘doubt’, and work-study jobs at the the ‘b’ was correct but Commons Coffeehouse in somewhere else, and the Anabel Taylor Hall, the religious studies ‘o’ and ‘t’ were in the right places, so I building at Cornell. We felt comfortable figured ‘robot’.” there for its tolerance of incongruous One of the things I like about Wordle individuals. It was also the only place on is its prompting of phrases like “so I figcampus you could get espresso back then, ured ‘robot’.”

Another is that it gives people a reason with a massive machine from Milan that reminded us of places back home where to feel good about themselves for no great neighborhood guys hung out. reason, which itself is great.

But neighborhood guys in Brooklyn “Did you post it?” I asked. I know my colleague is, like me, semi-active on Face- didn’t do the New York Times crossword puzzle, like many Commons denizens book. “Two is pretty rare.” did, and Freddy brooded about that one “No,” she said. “Should I? I mean, it’s day. mostly luck. And it was two tries, not “What is it with these college people?” one.” he said, glaring at the gathered. “Even “One isn’t better than two,” I said. when they’re not in class they take tests “Unless it indicates paranormal abilithey give themselves.” ties. But unless you do it every day, you’re “Maybe that’s why they’re in college in probably not clairvoyant, and then one is complete luck. Two is partly luck, but also the first place,” I said.

He considered. “I can’t decide whether means you had a small amount of data that’s a tautology or an actual insight,” he and used it with ingenuity, better than I said. did, or probably any of your friends, so “Now it’s you giving tests, isn’t it?” you should definitely crow about it.

He considered again. “Shut up,” he “Have fun with it. I did two once and my friends sure heard about it. You know said, in as many words, though not those exact ones. what they say, if you don’t blow your own As it happened, Freddy was an avid horn there’s no music. So give us a tune.” backgammon player, though he would A different direction would have been only play for stakes. Backgammon is if she decided to stop playing entirely, having done so well so soon. As an under- largely a betting game, with a doubling graduate at Cornell I had a friend who did cube as part of the equipment, which multiplies the stakes in a fashion that can this to an extreme with backgammon. quickly become severe.

With a minimum of interest he agreed If an opponent wouldn’t play for to be taught the game by another friend money Freddy would insist on playing for of ours, a great enthusiast. They sat down “hoochy-koos,” which meant standing to play and my friend the novice began on a chair, putting one hand on your hip clearing the board (the goal of the game) and the other on the side of your head and with astonishing speed. The expert was exclaiming “hoochy-koo” in falsetto as incredulous.

“This can’t be happening. He’s going to you stuck out one hip, then the other. This was quite a sight anytime, but especially gammon me,” she said, which means getif the betting cube dictated 32 renditions, ting all one’s pieces off the board before the opponent removes a single one, maybe or 64.

It could bring a halt to focusing on a million-to-one shot in one’s first game. crosswords, which was maybe part of And that’s exactly what happened.

Freddy’s fun. Games can be played on “Come on,” the expert said in the multiple levels with many revealing aftermath, stunned and agitated. “We’ll play again,” she said, frantically re-setting results. the board.

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enough.”

Catherine observed up close and intimately what it took to keep healthy, affordable programming in place.

“When we were all adults, my brothers literally grew sick from the effort of raising families, having careers, and attending to the needs of our sister. Denise has suffered a series of traumatic falls and injuries due to her special needs,” she explained.

After marriage, Catherine and her husband, Curt, along with their first two children moved to Ithaca so that Curt could begin his position at Cornell in 1999. They loved the expansive natural areas and their new home, but traveled as frequently as possible to share care of Denise.

In 1999 an interdisciplinary group of Ithaca College faculty submitted a grant to the college: physical therapists, occupational therapists, recreation therapists and speech therapists wanted to enhance students’ academic understanding of disabilities and increase interprofessional education and collaboration by linking them with community members in need of programming following stroke.

When the grant was awarded, Catherine was the ideal program manager to create and run the day-to-day operations.

She brought to the new project her years of providing therapy in clinics and hospitals affiliated with University of Maryland and Georgetown University, as well as in smaller non-profit hospitals and community agencies, and her participation in community initiatives/programming.

Catherine also brought her vast experience of being a caretaker and an advocate.

Plus, anyone who has interacted with Catherine Gooch will tell you, “Wow, is she upbeat, no matter what challenges she is facing, whatever she is juggling. She remains poised and encouraging.” Catherine, a legend now in therapeutic circles, describes how for the launch of the Center

for Life Skills project she had to win over local doctors and healthcare providers to recruit enough community members to participate. She composed press releases, reached out to local agencies and programs, and spoke wherever she found an invitation. Community members eagerly signed on for this visionary program.

Now, each semester, there is a waiting list to participate.

Not long ago, the Center for Life Skills celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Clinical assistant professor Catherine Gooch, CTRS, MS Ed., hired to lead this program still oversees the day-day to programming she originally designed with her colleagues. Center for Life Skills assists people recovering from stroke with mobility, communication, cognitive functioning, leisure and daily life skills (getting out of bed, into and out of wheelchairs, cooking, dressing, etc). And there is plenty of time for fun during class time.

Participants, IC students and faculty take field trips or therapeutic outings (recently to the Museum of the Earth and holiday shopping), cooking and baking (éclairs and pasta dishes), doing group physical games and sharing conversations.

As Catherine watches each semester unfold, she observes the group come together. But she is also aware of the challenges these students and these adults may have had to overcome to arrive at class at 9 a.m. three days a week each semester. She observes how students and participants gain from each other.

“I love teaching, my clinical work, and advising students in the pre-health professions,” Catherine said. “Taking students to professional conferences has been invaluable for them to see therapists and for therapists to learn what engaged students can present when trained in our Center for Life Skills.”

For more information about the Center for Life Skills, visit www. ithaca.edu/hshp/clinics/lifeskills

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our community’s potential high quality of life for all, doesn’t it make more sense to invest our limited resources in the needs of the most vulnerable people whose pain becomes extremely costly to everybody?

When will our legislature stop behaving as though attention to the mental health of our communities can be indefinitely deferred?

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e met Svante when he was working with Barbara Lifton during one of her inspirational campaigns for reelection during her long, luminous NYS Assembly tenure. (I met Barbara years before on a daylong peace march at Seneca Army Base, just as my beloved boss Marty Luster was thinking of running for the NYS Assembly. History changed when those two giants met.)

When Svante was running for Mayor, we were thrilled.

One afternoon a young woman knocked at our door, passing petitions for Svante’s campaign. There was something unusually radiant about this woman, with an engaging smile. I briefly explained I did not engage in partisan politics, since I was a City Court Judge. But I could not resist telling her, “But, we love Svante and hold him in our heart and prayers.”

The enchanting woman replied. “I love him too…I am his mother.” We waved goodbye to each other. And the rest is history.

Holding you still in our heart and prayers, Svante.

-Marjorie Olds and Bryan Isacks Sr., Ithaca, NY

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he three circumstances that make the Sheriff ’s position so onerous are lack of mental health beds, lack of personal intense follow-up with disturbed individuals, and a level of income inequality that perpetuates mental distress and crime. Thinking in terms of the priority of working towards the sustainability of

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nfortunately, solutions are being sought where there are no problems. The general fear seems to be that the landlord can do as the Lord does and the tenant is a mere sufferer. I know a tenant who has had no reduction in income and has decided to not pay any rent or utilities since June 2020. For those who are looking to do common good, here is a solution that is fair to all parties and stops any exploitation by landlord and nuisance by tenant. Form a committee of five members - two from landlords and two from tenants and one neutral like a bank or a mortgage company. Pass a law that before going to Court on any issues either party should bring their grievances to the Committee.

The court will hear cases only when the Committee recommends that all attempts for resolution of disputes have failed and recommends that the court decide on the merits of the case.

Regarding the rent control and indexing to CPI, let the lawmakers know that every City, Town, County, State has its own economy. The CPI is an average of all those economies, nationally. Therefore, they are not even comparing apples to apples. Will the lawmakers lay down a law that prices of all goods can only be set once during the year by all sellers, and no one can increase their prices more than the CPI of the last year? What is it about going after one business to wreck them - despite them providing an essential service that the lawmakers have failed to provide?

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have yet to play with everyone available.

“We are basically a very young team,” Trumbull stated, “and our starting lineup has players from the eighth grade up to seniors. We are battling every game, and we set goals before each game.” She added, “We also adjust our goals from game to game, because we know that we are a young team and we’re building a program, building a future. What might work tonight might not work in our next game.”

Trumble elaborated some on what she is seeing as the program comes together in her first year. “Mia Little — a junior — is

our captain,” Sydney said, “and she does it all for us. She brings great intensity, she is a great motivator and she has a heart for the game.” The coach also sang the praises of eighth-grader Sandra Clark, calling her “a force to be reckoned with,” and adding, “She has a competitive edge like no other player. It will be very exciting to see what she does for us on the court over the next few years.”

The team is pushing to get its record to .500, and the coach said, “With such young players, we have to go game to game. We don’t yet know what we’ll get

every time.”

A coach likes to see the kinds of breakthrough moments that breathe life into a program, and Trumbull and her players recently had such a moment. “We just split with Corning after they beat us the first time we faced them. That’s always a great feeling to come back and win the second time around.”

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the thick of the championship quest for many years to come. ome hot hoops are being played on South Hill these days, as the Ithaca College women’s basketball team just won its tenth straight game. The Bombers improved to 15-3 overall (and 10-1 in Liberty League play) on Saturday with a convincing 79-36 victory over RPI. Ithaca is now in second place in the conference (Vassar College is in first place) with seven games remaining in the regular season, and hopes to be firing on all cylinders when the post-season arrives.

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Tompkins County’s housing snapshot shows the county continues to be plagued with high rent, expensive land and a shortage of housing.

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conomic hardships and logistical difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to housing stability issues in Tompkins County, but local housing experts, elected leaders, and labor advocates say the hurdles faced by tenants and homeowners in the area were already quite high.

In the last 10 years, Tompkin County’s housing market has presented herculean challenges for aspiring homeowners and renters alike, according to the County Department of Planning and Sustainability’s latest housing snapshot. The department’s 2020 housing snapshot utilizes the latest U.S. Census data to detail the county’s progress toward fulfilling their housing goals, sets new goals for the near future, and assesses other social issues that affect housing attainment and stability.

For starters, the development of rental and homeownership options are being outpaced by the county’s growth in population. According to federal Census data, Tompkins County’s population grew by 4,176 people, a 4.1% increase from 2010.

Megan McDonald, the deputy commissioner of the Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability, noted the county’s housing inventory, not unlike that of other cities in the state, is old.

“We have not seen a lot of single-family for-sale housing development in the county for a very long time. The existing housing stock in our area, and in New York as a whole, is generally older,” she said. “Sometimes things need a lot of rehabilitation and repair, and those homes are actually not occupied for a period if they need renovation.”

Expanding the county’s housing catalog, McDonald said, can prove costly.

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We have seen a lot of jumps in terms of material and building costs.”

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rials such as lumber have become three or four times more expensive than they were 21 months ago.

Expanding housing offerings in the county should largely be driven by a parallel influx in population, the study suggests.

There was an increase of close to 9% in the number of households in Tompkins County -Megan McDonald from 2010 to 2020,

“When you have a very low vacancy rate, and it really is a seller’s or landlord’s market, it can be pretty competitive.

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but only a nearly 4% increase in population during that decade.

Newly-appointed Chair of the Tompkins County Legislature Shawna Black, DTown of Ithaca, said many developments are back on track despite struggling logistical issues brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The problem [continues to be] land, building costs, and materials that are at an all-time-high after the pandemic,” she said.

“This is in part due to the national shortage of supply, but we also have a shortage of skilled laborers” McDonald said the expenses incurred by building new housing, without financial assistance or subsidies, can disincentivize developers from jumping into the construction process.

“Unfortunately, building a single-family house is so expensive that it is above the price-point a lot of the would-be-buyers are seeking, there is no profit margin to actually cover the costs of building new homes,” she said.

The uncertain profitability of building single-family homes, McDonald said, can lead to developers opting to address housing needs through more high-density rentals. “[Rentals] frankly make more sense because our rents are relatively high and that is an income stream that you can continue to receive year after as a landlord,” she said. “In addition to the recurring income stream that rental provides, if you’re building multi-family homes, a lot of times there are cost savings and efficiencies that scale up when you can build a property that has a bunch of units.”

In Ithaca, Tompkins County’s seat, city officials say 74% of the population lives in rental homes.

The tight housing market affects middle and lower income people in different ways. Lower income residents struggle to afford rent, or find an affordable unit without becoming rent-burdened, a status defined by federal officials and designated for households where at least 30% of the total income goes toward covering rent. As of 2020, County Planning and Sustainability Department officials estimate that, according to U.S. Census Data, a household would need to earn $42,880 per year to afford the median rent for a one-bedroom unit in Tompkins County without becoming rentburdened.

From 2010-2020, the same officials calculated the average annual growth rate for rent prices of a one bedroom apartment is 2.3%. This estimate includes an initial spike of 4% average annual growth rate experienced from 2010-2015 and a steady decline down to 0.6% every year from 2016-2020.

Further, the sector of the county’s economy employing the most people outside of farm labor, dubbed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as “leisure and hospitality” occupations, is mostly unable to provide high-enough wages to afford rent without becoming rent-burdened, according to the housing snapshot.

The average hourly wage for a person working in the retail or service industry is $15.84, according to BLS data released in January. This figure slightly exceeds the 2021 living wage calculated by the Alternatives Credit Union and supported by the Tompkins County Workers Center of $15.32. The living wage is supposed to cover the minimum standard of living for a single person, including the cost of a one-bedroom apartment, health insurance through the state’s health marketplace, and taxes. This estimate is detached from the state’s minimum wage, which is $13.20 in upstate New York.

For, Black, addressing housing needs must also be met with improvements to the material conditions of county residents.

“One issue that will need to be addressed is the minimum wage,” Black said, noting some employers have tried to remedy the situation. “Many of the jobs that were offered before the pandemic were minimum wage jobs, and due to the lack of workers we have seen the increase in wages in order to attract workers.”

McDonald concurred with Black’s comments on increasing wages for workers. She added that an expanded housing stock that provides residents with a variety of choices would also go a long way.

“When you have a very low vacancy rate, and it really is a seller’s or landlord’s market, it can be pretty competitive. That tends to drive prices up,” she said. “I think that is where there are some hopes that, as we add to the housing supply, we can at least slow rent increases and hopefully have wages catch up better.”

McDonald noted that, while there are state programs that can help developers subsidize part of the high construction costs for low-income housing, issues with housing affordability are a national trend.

“Unfortunately these are challenges that would ideally be limited in scope, but unfortunately are now becoming pretty prevalent across the country,” she said. “Although there is housing supply being added, there is also a lot of demand built up over time.

Unfortunately there is a lot of supply that we are catching up on as well.”

and a former labor organizer in the food service industry. “If wages stay stagnant and working conditions don’t improve, I’d hope and expect that more and more people will stand up and say: ‘I’m worth more than this, and you don’t get my labor unless you pay me what I’m worth.’”

Rand’s prescription for businesses seeking to retain and attract a motivated workforce starts with making business information more accessible.

“It is really as simple as giving all employees access to the business’ financial data so everyone can make informed decisions on wages together,” she said. “A business of course can’t pay people more than the money that’s coming in the door, but running things transparently and democratically prevents a situation where some people get more than they need while others don’t get enough.”

4 t h Wa r d A l d e r p e r s o n , Pat r i c k M u h l e r ( P h o t o : C a s e y M a r t i n) a n d C h a i r o f C o u n t y l e g i s l at u r e , S h aw n a B l ac k ( P h o t o : P r ov i d e d) Low wages may also be a decisive factor in what national media has dubbed the “great resignation.” This can be described as a collective, though mostly decentralized, class consciousness trend that has led to workers leaving their jobs for a variety of reasons. Last year, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that a record 4.5 million workers resigned in November. Whether that trend is impacting an unwillingness to work among the local labor force remains to be seen, but local labor organizers seem to think so.

“I think it’s true that people don’t want to give their time and their bodies to jobs that don’t pay what they need to survive,” said Genevieve Rand, a local tenants rights advocate with the Ithaca Tenants Union,

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Even with more just wages and salaries, Black said, the county can only do so much when it comes to the affordability of housing.

“The county has very minimal ability to affect affordable housing,” Black said, arguing that despite the relative inability to drastically improve housing affordability, the county can rely on tools such as the Community Housing Development Fund (CHDF) to facilitate home ownership and more lenient options for renters.

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clude housing units deemed affordable for low-income and moderate-income households. Since 2009, the fund has supported the development or rehabilitation of more than 800 units in the county, according to Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability officials. Recipients of this fund were expected to be announced Jan. 31, but have not been updated on the county’s website yet.

The Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Service (INHS) also provides other options toward home ownership. Through its Community Housing Trust (CHT), the organization helps prospective homebuyers with lower incomes afford their first home.

Homeowners participating in this program have a 99-year lease on the land, with a small monthly land rent, which lowers the purchase price of the home.

Justina Fetterly, INHS’ strategic communications manager, says the program helps prospective buyers navigate the first obstacle in buying a home in the county: a hefty price tag. On average, CHT homes cost nearly $300,000 to develop, according to the program’s guidelines found on INHS’ website. Homes are then sold for an amount between $125,000-$189,000. Grant funding and other subsidies cover the costs of development.

“Saving up money to purchase a home is nearly impossible when you need a big down payment,” Fetterly said, noting that the organization offers guidance on home buying beyond financial assistance.. “We offer homebuyers guidance with financial education, giving them tips on how to save.

They can meet one-on-one with our housing counselors so they can understand the process of purchasing a home and what they need to do to get there, because it’s a really overwhelming experience.”

Currently, there are approximately 60 total CHT homes, with 37 units in the City of Ithaca, 22 in the Town of Ithaca, and one unit in the Town of Dryden.

Both of these programs are set to address the increasing median sales price for a home in the county, which according to the 2020 housing snapshot increased by close to 11% from 2019 to 2020. The price went from $230,000 to $250,000 in that time span.

Renters in the county are much more likely to be cost-burdened than homeowners, according to the study, which estimates that 55% of renters are cost-burdened compared to 18% of homeowners.

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ITHACA ALE HOUSE MAKES ITS MOVE TO CITY CENTRE

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While the easy to spot sign has been on the new building now for much longer, owner John O’Leary says that the pandemic, supply chain issues, licensing delays and other factors delayed the opening of the new location.

“I’m actually still waiting on a couple pieces of equipment, this supply chain is crazy, you know,” O’Leary said. “We waited an extra two-and-ahalf months for our furniture [...]

We could have been opened and we didn’t open till mid November, we could have been opened in probably September.”

It was a long process, with O’Leary having originally made inquiries with the new building owners soon after the corner was sold, working with Holt Architects and local contractors to make it happen.

But now that it’s set, O’Leary says it’s been a “pinch me” moment to have this new space.

“You know, I’d really outgrown that [old] location,” he said. “It was getting to a point where I was turning away as many people as I was serving in a day, and I said,

n the night of Jan. 23, the Ithaca Ale House had a packed bar, seating fans of the Bills during the recent playoff game, and diners peeking over the booths as each cheer or sigh rang out in the restaurant. Others were there to take in the new look of the popular dinner spot, now in full swing in its new location, giving it not just a new coat of paint, but more space, a new atmosphere and a new experience for diners.

The bar and restaurant completed its move to the City Centre building at 301 East State St. after 15 years at its Aurora Street location on Nov. 11. The new location is about twice the size of the old venue at 5,300 square feet, and boasts a lot of changes despite only being a few doors down from its original home.

Those now going to dine at the Ithaca staple can try a variety of seating styles, including open tables, bar seating, or closed in booths that offer a bit of privacy with their raised blurred glass panes.

Other diners will be able to get a peek into the open kitchen as staff prepares the restaurant’s signature burgers, flatbreads, and other dishes. The bar features multiple displays so those who go to watch their favorite game can do so, but those further back in the restaurant can be far enough away to feel separated from the bar and get more of that restaurant experience.

The walls are adorned with tasteful photos of some of Ithaca’s campus landmarks and unique wall art of waterways like the Finger Lakes and the Cayuga Inlet, giving it a nice bit of local flair.

The new location also features an open patio with a fireplace and an events room that can be rented out for different gatherings in the back for up to about 30 people,

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that’s not good, so I wanted to find a new space.”

As for the food, the owner says that while they are still focused on making their burgers great, they’ve added more healthy and vegetarian options. They also welcomed a new chef, David Schaap from the New York City restaurant The Butcher’s Daughter, an all-vegetarian restaurant. His résumé includes running other restaurants in the city as well, including barbecue, giving him a diverse culinary background coming to Ithaca.

“I joke sometimes I’m the only chef I think that went from owning a small barbecue concept in Brooklyn to owning a vegan concept and gaining 20 pounds in the process,” said Schaap. “So, you know, I’m no stranger to meat, but for me the fun challenge is keeping the identity while just kind of opening the doors to all of these other demographics.”

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He emphasized the larger selection of flatbreads, the introduction of an ‘Impossible’ burger option and other meat substitutes, and the roasted cauliflower as great options for diners to check out.

Schaap also spoke highly of the Ale House staff.

“I came onto a team of guys that, most of them who’ve been there for over 10 years,” said Schaap. “Luckily, it wasn’t difficult getting everyone on board. Everyone was kind of waiting for a leader to do some nicer stuff and show them some techniques and things, and they want to learn.

So, you know, it’s great, I got really good career guys, I got no complaints there.”

Schaap said that among his kitchen staff, the reaction to the new space has been “pure excitement.”

“The thing I’ve heard most from customers is that they don’t feel like they’re in Ithaca,” said O’Leary, proudly reflecting on the upgrades. “They feel like they’re in, you know, some swanky bourgeois New York City restaurant.”

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fter paying nearly $400,000 in transaction fees to banks in 2020, GreenStar has introduced EasyPay for co-op members in an effort to reduce the number of swipe transactions. Depending on the type of card used, GreenStar, and all businesses for that matter, pays between two and four percent of the transaction total to the bank for each swipe, and about 90% of transactions at the register use debit or credit cards.

GreenStar is a Tompkins County Certified Living Wage employer, which means they meet the pay standard of $15.32/hour.

This makes their profit margins “thinner than most grocery stores,” according to the store. And this is an industry with already notoriously thin margins; in the United States grocery stores generally make between 1-2% profit on sales, which often shakes out to cents per product.

The implementation of EasyPay came at around the same time as another round of layoffs saw 16 staff members cut at the beginning of December, which was announced as part of a “financial stability plan to stem our continuing cash loss.”

The co-op has struggled in the past couple years, as it moved to a large new space at the very start of the pandemic in 2020.

“We have not yet managed to mitigate the many financial challenges caused by the pandemic,” the store said in the layoff announcement. “Shifting grocery habits, a morphing virus and supply chain breakdowns have affected our sales growth and led to a significant and sustained cash loss over the last [12] months.”

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At the board’s December meeting, they approved a 2022 budget that was cut by nearly 20% from the year prior.

So the hope is that introducing a system like EasyPay for its members will help eliminate a significant stream of revenue loss.

EasyPay allows members to fund their account online through the member center with a credit or debit card or at the register with card, check or cash. So while GreenStar will still have to pay a transaction fee for funding EasyPay accounts, the thought is that there will be fewer overall swipes as people fund their accounts with enough to pay for multiple grocery shopping trips. When members check out they can tell the cashier they want to use their EasyPay funds and enter their personal passcode.

According to GreenStar, this also helps further their mission to keep money local.

“Rather than leaking profits to big banks and corporate shareholders, GreenStar supports local farmers, producers and vendors, and provides living-wage jobs with great benefits,” the store said in a statement. “EasyPay is one more way GreenStar can empower its members to keep money local by collectively reducing credit card transaction fees that would otherwise be paid by the co-op.”

In the first six weeks of the program the store reported about 350 members initiating the process to use EasyPay, with the hope that the number will continue to grow as more people learn about it.

There is no physical aspect to EasyPay, as the funds are digitally kept so you don’t need any type of card to access them at the register.

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but also across the country, according to Racker.

As executive director, Brown immersed himself in the community and created opportunities for partnerships and community projects like “The Neighborhood Depot,” a Tioga County facility in development that will allow nonprofits to share services and reduce overhead costs and will serve as an emergency response center for Owego.

Max Della Pia, Racker’s board president, said: “As Dan takes his leave, he should be particularly proud of the current state of the organization. Racker is very

strong financially and programmatically.

His style of servant-leadership and mentorship has allowed his senior management team to thrive, to grow in their roles, and to lead Racker into the future.

That’s what a great leader does. Dan will be sorely missed, but we are grateful for his service, leadership, and friendship. His positive impact on our organization and the families we serve will continue into the foreseeable future.”

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of organizations including the YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County Board of Directors, Love Living at Home Marketing Committee, Tompkins Chamber Ambassador Program, Tompkins Connect Planning Committee, and SUNY Oswego’s Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) Program.

“I am so honored and excited about this new role and look forward to continuing to work closely with our team, clients, and community.”

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Communiqué Design & Marketing Promotes Maddie Ulrich to Vice President Communiqué Design & Marketing, a marketing agency based in Ithaca, NY, has promoted Maddie Ulrich to Vice President.

In her new role, Ulrich will assist with business development, strategic public relations initiatives, and staff management.

Communiqué’s President and Founder Laurie Linn shared, “This new role is wellearned. I have known Maddie for many years and have watched her grow into her professional and leadership capabilities and am confident she will help lead Communiqué strategically into the future.”

Ulrich joined Communiqué in the Summer of 2017 as a public relations intern after graduating from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego with a Bachelor’s degree in public relations. She has served as Communiqué’s Communications Manager since May 2019 and earned her Master’s in Communica-

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Twelve years ago, as a member of the City of Ithaca’s Public Art Commission, Caleb Thomas spearheaded a contest that led to the creation of the Underground Railroad mural on Green Street. That effort led to more — much more — public art coming to downtown Ithaca.

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Community Hero of the Month, Caleb Thomas, is the guiding force behind this public art movement. The Tompkins Chamber, in partnership with the Tompkins Trust Company, would like to recognize Caleb for his work envicontinued on page 20

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sioning canvases for beautiful and inspiring activist art in everyday places and spaces.

Jennifer Tavares, President of the Tompkins Chamber, noted the impact Thomas has made in the community through his work.

“What Caleb Thomas has accomplished over several years through Ithaca Murals has brought creativity, art, beauty, a sense of place – and also awareness of the human condition and historic injustices – to our community,” said Tavares.

“Caleb’s work has had a huge impact on this community, and we owe him a debt of gratitude for his gift of time and talent.”

Tompkins Trust Company President and CEO Greg Hartz echoed Tavares’s sentiments.

“Tompkins Trust Company is pleased to recognize Caleb Thomas for his important contributions bringing art that works to shift the cultural consciousness towards diversity, inclusion and justice to the greater Ithaca community,” Hartz said.

Thomas is quick to say he is not the director of Ithaca Murals, but an assistant to the artists who create the art, helping them deal with the paperwork and permissions that are needed. He also noted that each project is a small success that builds upon each other to create a big impact, and that it’s important for people to see that small successes can add up to a big impact.

“Watching the transformation and team building, and the movement the murals have created” Thomas said of why he works to bring public art to Ithaca.

“It’s very meaningful to me, the support everyday Ithacans have to recreate our cityscape, and passersby get to see murals

created by indigenous artists, Asian artists, Muslim artists, Black artists.”

There are also mural projects planned for several of Ithaca’s elementary schools, and Thomas sees a future of murals on residential homes as well. He said there are currently 16 murals on homes around the city already and thinks that will catch on more and more.

“There are so many more canvases in Ithaca for us to transform,” Thomas said. “Before the Public Art Commission did the electrical boxes (when the 21 Boxes project saw artists paint the boxes with their own creation), it was taken for granted that those electrical boxes were blank. I think someday houses will be the same way, and that murals on houses will be a more common mainstream thing.”

In addition to more public art, an Ithaca Murals app is under development that Thomas said will provide a map of where the murals are located, information about the art, as well as the potential gamification of the experience.

Ithaca Murals does pay artists a stipend for their time, as well as for supplies needed to create the art beautifying our community. Funding for that and the support of Ithaca Murals efforts comes through donations. Find more information about ways to donate at ithacamurals. com/donate.

Angela Lee of Baxter appointed to Tompkins’ Community Bank Board of Central New York Tompkins has appointed Angela Lee, vice president of human resources and chief diversity officer at Baxter, to its Community Bank Board of Central New York. Lee brings more than thirty years of human resources and talent development experience to the board, having served in

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various leadership roles throughout her career. Her innovative leadership style, and ability to foster connections between team members and organizations, will ensure that Tompkins continues to deliver on its promise to help the communities it serves prosper and grow.

“One of the most crucial pieces of what makes Tompkins special is our people, with commitment to and from our employees being at the core of who we are and what we do,” said Greg Hartz, president, Central New York. “Having Angela on our board will only enhance this commitment. Her expertise in diversity and inclusion, talent development, and human resources as a whole will help make Tompkins an even better place for our people to grow, making our customer experience even stronger along the way.”

“It’s clear from Angela’s extensive and successful career that she knows how to inspire and innovate,” said Steve Romaine,

Tompkins Financial president and CEO and Community Bank Board chair. “But more than that, it’s her passion for people and creating a more inclusive community that makes her a perfect fit for Tompkins.

Our customers, team members, and the communities we serve will benefit from Angela’s impact.”

Lee is a graduate of State University of New York Empire State College and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Business Management and Economics. Prior to Baxter’s acquisition of Hillrom, Lee most recently served as chief talent and diversity officer. She was previously vice president, human resources, for front line care and talent development. She began her career at Welch Allyn before their acquisition

by Hillrom in 2015, where she held key positions including overseeing a team of global human resources partners and leading acquisition and divestiture activities. As recognition of her leadership, she was named one of the 25 Influential Black Women in Business by Network Journal in 2019.

Tompkins Financial Corporation Reports Cash Dividend Tompkins Financial Corporation announced today that its Board of Directors approved payment of a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.57 per share, payable on February 15, 2022, to common shareholders of record on February 8, 2022. The dividend amount represents an increase of $0.03 or 5.3% over the dividend paid in the first quarter of 2021.

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hen you think of curling, visions of people sliding on ice with broomsticks might come to mind. For Dan Hazlitt, president and co-creator of Finger Lakes Curling Club, it’s much more than that.

Hazlitt and his wife, Justine Vaden Heuvel, first fell in love with curling while living on Cape Cod, back in 2007. After moving to Ithaca, the pair decided to test the ice with their own curling club, hosting an informal learn to curl event at The Rink in Lansing back in 2017. After four or five sessions boasting a decent turnout, Hazlitt made it official and started the Finger Lakes Curling Club.

Curling is like shuffleboard on ice: one player slides a stone on a sheet of ice while teammates use brooms to sweep the ice and control the speed of the stone as it moves toward the painted targets.

While Hazlitt admits the sport can seem “quirky” to an outsider, he also said curling can also be a fun bucket-list type of item for people who have never played the game before.

“What we’ve seen with people coming to try curling with us is, ‘I watch this on the Olympics all the time and I never thought I’d get a chance to try it.’”

The club has two 10-week seasons a year in both the fall and winter. Inter-team matches are held every Saturday and occasionally members travel to play other curling clubs.

Just last weekend, Hazlitt took a few members to compete at the Mitchell Bonspiel, an annual curling tournament in Utica that happens to be one of the longest running sports tournaments in the U.S., dating all the way back to 1885. While the coveted Mitchell medal — an 18k gold medal where winning team’s names are inscribed — remained out of reach, the Finger Lakes Curling Club did take home the country club cup after winning a few games.

After matches, Hazlitt said it’s customary for the winners to buy the losers a drink.

“Curling is a great sport for a whole lot of reasons, but one is the sportsmanship and the camaraderie,” he said. “The custom is to sit around with both teams together .. which is kind of unique … most sports don’t get together afterwards and socialize but that’s curling.”

Hazlitt said another interesting aspect is that the sport entices a wide-range of people.

Over at Cornell University, Hazlitt’s wife, Heuvel, serves as faculty advisor for the school’s curling club while Hazlitt himself said he has personally played with people 65-year-old and up. He added that most members of the club have never curled prior to joining the team.

“The demographic is all over the place, people from all walks of life,” he said. “I’ve never seen anybody really not be able to do it.”

Hazlitt continues to generate interest in the sport with learn to curl clinics hosted a few times every year. There is currently a clinic scheduled for mid-to-late February.

Clinics are two hours long, consisting of instructional and safety training as well as learning strategy and how to sweep and slide.

By the end, participants engage in an actual game with each other to gain experience.​​ “It’s an easy game to pick up and just play for fun, but at the same time, it is a very, very hard game to perfect and you can play for years and years,” Hazlitt said.

While there is a membership fee to join the club or participate in the clinics, the Finger Lakes Curling Club is a non-profit and supplies gear to all of its team members, a model that is customary among curling clubs according to Hazlitt.

“We’re doing it really for the love of curling,” he said. “We’re not trying to make money or anything like that.”

Looking to the future, Hazlitt said he dreams of a day where the club could have their own personal rink. He said the pandemic has certainly thrown a hitch in the plan, affecting both membership numbers and the chance to find and fund a place to build the rink. Still, Hazlitt holds out hope and continues for the love of the game. “[Having our own rink] would be the goal,’’ he said. “I think we’re going to have to build up momentum … and then get going again.”

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I like movies that give me a lot to chew on afterward, and pondering Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” recently, I was reminded of Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s “Save Yourselves!” (2020).

Here’s a textbook example of a thoughtful, well-made science fiction film that gets the most out of a micro-budget.

John Paul Reynolds and Sunita Mani play a NYC couple that can’t stay off their phones and laptops, and decide to spend a week upstate at a friend’s remote cabin, off the internet. Of course, that’s when aliens invade Earth, and they’re missing the whole thing. The film’s special effects are at the $1.99 level, the kinds of effect you’d see in John Sayles’ “The Brother From Another Planet” (1984), or even a 1950’s-era cheapie like Roger Corman’s “It Conquered The World” (1956). The emphasis is on Reynolds, Mani and their grounded comedic performances. Fischer and Wilson save their pennies for an elaborate finale that sends the film off to a dreamy, thoughtful conclusion that I, for one, did not see coming. ● ● ●

Josh Greenbaum’s “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar” (2021) is actually two movies. The first movie is this adorable

character study starring Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig as the title characters, life-long friends that finish each other’s sentences and never don’t love each other that decide to take a vacation to Vista Del Mar. The other movie stars Wiig in a dual role as a demented James Bond villain planning to destroy Vista Del Mar with lethal mosquitos.

I liked the first movie better. I know that narrative means conflict, but I just knew that no script contrivance could kill Barb and Star’s friendship. And while I applaud SNL players that play multiple roles to access the versatility they have to bring to every episode of the series, I think Wiig should have saved her bad gal for a different comedy. Believe me, there’s enough going on with Barb and Star and the movie’s many fantasy and musical sequences. ● ● ●

I’m still not sure if Netflix’s animated “America: The Motion Picture” (2021) is part of the solution or part of the problem. All I know is that I laughed a lot for 98 minutes. Deliberately animated in a cheeseball style, “America: The Motion Picture” is a goofy, profane and very American take on George Washington (Channing Tatum) and the American Revolution, as if it were scripted by 12 Jerry Bruckheimer staff writers who know

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To give you some idea of the “stoopid” humor to be found here, Will Forte costars as Abraham Lincoln, okay? Jason Mantzoukas co-stars as Sam “Uncle Sam” Adams, Andy Samberg as Benedict “Cosby” Arnold, a werewolf version of Arnold, and Simon Pegg as King James.

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2/13 Sunday Organist Jeffrey Snedeker and Franck’s 200th Birthday | 4 p.m. | St. Luke Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Avenue

Stage Fade by Tanya Saracho at Kitchen Theatre | 7:30 p.m., Opens 2/2 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 W. State / W. MLK, Jr. Street | Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, struggles to make new friends, contribute to her writers’ room, and feel at home as the only Latinx employee in a white male-dominated workplace. As their friendship grows, his personal stories start to blur with her TV scripts leading to unexpected consequences.

Paula Poundstone Live | 8 p.m., 2/4 Friday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St | Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula Poundstone has one of comedy’s most nimble and disarming comic imaginations. | $25.00 Popovich Comedy Pet Theater | 12 p.m., 2/13 Sunday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St | The Popovich Comedy Pet Theater offers entertainment for the whole family, featuring the unique blend of comedy and juggling skills of former Moscow Circus veteran Gregory Popovich and the extraordinary talents of his performing pets. | $14.50 - $27.50

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Elective Recital: Emma Commisso, soprano and Nick Capidilupo, tenor at Nabenhauer Recital Room | Ithaca College | 3 p.m.

Jazz Sunday - Live | 4 p.m. | Savage Club Perfroming Arts Center, 1004 Auburn Rd Elective Recital: Logan Owens, tuba at Nabenhauer Recital Room |Ithaca College | 7 p.m.

Shemekia Copeland | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St

ITERATIONS | 3 p.m., 2/2 Wednesday | the corners gallery, corners gallery, 2 0 2 2

903 Hanshaw Rd | This new series by Trumansburg artists Barbara Page, explores repeated alterations of advertisements, extracted from old issues of ArtForum magazine. The exhibit is on view through Feb. 26.

Awakenings | 12 p.m., 2/3 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, www. soagithaca.org, 120 West State Street | In this season when days are getting longer, when hope and romance are stirring, the State of the Art Gallery presents Awakenings, an exhibit featuring work in a variety of media by eleven artists.

CAP ArtSpace Exhibit, Leanna Yatcilla “2002,” Live and Virtual | 5 p.m., 2/4 Friday | CAP ArtSpace, 110 N. Tioga Street | Leanna Yatcilla’s “2002” exhibit in the Community Arts Partnership’s CAP ArtSpace is live and virtual! Visit on Gallery Night or check out the online gallery.

Gallery Night Ithaca at Downtown Ithaca | 2/4 Friday | Virtual | First Friday Gallery Night is a monthly community celebration of the latest art showings taking place in and around Downtown Ithaca.

First Saturday in February on Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11 a.m., 2/5 Saturday | many locations, in Tompkins County | Visit Artists on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail. First Saturday in February!

Open House at North Star Art Gallery at North Star Art Gallery | 11 a.m., 2/5 Saturday | Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, Center Ithaca Box 107, 171 East State St | North Star Art Gallery presents the works of award winning artist, Brian Keeler on the Monthly First Saturdays on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail a program of the Community Arts Partnership of The Gallery at South Hill, Marc Reed “protect me from what i want” | 12 p.m., 2/5 Saturday | The Gallery at South Hill, 950 Danby Road | The Gallery at South Hill presents Marc Reed’s exhibit “protect me from what i want”. Drawings in charcoal and pastel referencing mythology, saints, tarot and mysticism recombined in a personal narrative. | Free Julianne Hunter, Ghost Collective | 5 p.m., 2/5 Saturday | The Ink Shop, 330 E. MLK/State St | The Ink Shop is proud to present Ghost Collective by the 2021-2022 Kahn Family Fellow, Julianne Hunter, running from 2/5/22 until 2/26/22. | Free

Film Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | 2/2 Wednesday | Virtual | With Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) spins three tales of chance meetings and the mysteries of desire. On Demand thru 2/6. http://cinema.cornell.edu/ The Olive Trees of Justice | 2/2 Wednesday | Virtual | On Demand

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La Strada | 2/2 Wednesday | Virtual | On Demand thru 2/6. http://cinema. cornell.edu/ Fellini’s second solo film chronicles the fairy tale road story of Zampano the loutish strong man with ultimately only one pathetic trick.

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Belfast - Return Engagement! | 2/4 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street. | A young boy and his working class family experience the tumultuous late 1960s in Northern Ireland.

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Summer of Soul - Return Engagement! | 2/4 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street. | Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten–until now.

Flee | 2/5 Saturday | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street. | FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon-to-be husband. Told mainly through animation.

Parallel Mothers | 2/5 Saturday | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street. | Two single women meet in a hospital room where they are both going to give birth. One is middle-aged and doesn’t regret it, while the other is adolescent and scared. The two women form a strong bond as they confront motherhood.

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The White Sheik | 7 p.m., 2/7 Monday | Cornell University, 104 Willard Straight Hall | Federico Fellini drew upon his background as a cartoonist for his first solo feature, a charming comic fable about the lure of fantasy and the pitfalls of temptation.

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Sweetgrass | 5:15 p.m., 2/8 Tuesday | Cornell University, 104 Willard Straight Hall | An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture.

Early Shorts by Alain Resnais | 5:15 p.m., 2/9 Wednesday | Cornell University, 104 Willard Straight Hall | Four short films by acclaimed French filmmaker Alain Resnais, recently restored, including his insightful, poetic documentary about the National Library of France, All the World’s Memory (1956).

Je t’aime, je t’aime | 7 p.m., 2/9 Wednesday | Cornell University, 104 Willard Straight Hall | After attempt-

ing suicide, Claude Ridder is recruited for a time travel experiment, but, when the machine goes haywire, he becomes trapped, hurtling through his memories.

Special Events Bird Brother--A Falconer’s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife, with Rodney Stotts | 12 p.m., 2/2 Wednesday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road | Be inspired by Rodney Stotts as he shares his story to becoming one of America’s few Black master falconers. https://cornell.zoom.us/ webinar/register/WN_7MaglOR8RBHm06Yj47ngA | Free Hula Hut Polynesian Dance | 7 p.m., 2/3 Thursday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 State Street | Hula dance lessons - in person and virtual options for adults and children.

Talks and Treks: Wildlife Tracking and Signs at Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve—West Danby | 9 a.m., 2/5 Saturday | With over 20 years of experience in environmental education, tracker and naturalist Linda Spielman will lead a trip to discover what’s been visiting the LindsayParsons Biodiversity Preserve.

Cayuga Trails Club Hike at Various trails in the Ithaca region. | 10 a.m., 2/5 Saturday | Explore local trails on weekly Saturday hikes starting at 10:00am. Hike length varies from 2.54 miles. Click here to see the location of the hikes for each week.

Festival of Fire and Ice at Ithaca Children’s Garden | 3 p.m., 2/5 Saturday | This year the festival will take place on Saturday Feb. 5th, 2022, time 3-6PM at the Garden.

Darwin Days | 2/6 Sunday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Feb 6-12. The annual celebration of the life and ideas of Charles Darwin. This year, PRI is collaborating with CU’s entomology department to offer virtual and in person events exploring the world of insects. Learn more about Darwin Days events for 2022: https://www. priweb.org/event/darwin-days Cayuga Trails Club Hike at Various trails throughout the Ithaca region. | 10 a.m., 2/8 Tuesday | Explore local trails on weekly Tuesday hikes starting at 10:00am. Hike length varies from 2.5-4 miles. Click here to see the location of the hike for the upcoming hike.

Super Frosty Loomis Snowshoe Race | 10 a.m., 2/12 Saturday | Super Frosty Loomis Snowshoe Race, 100 Hammond Hill Rd | Description: 10k and 5k snowshoe race in Ithaca area.

Snowshoes? That’s right, when winter covers our beloved trails, some of us switch to snowshoes and keep right on running.

Books Fresh Perspectives | 6:30 p.m., 2/3 Thursday | Phillips Free Library, 37 South Main Street | Do you love TED talks? Do you feel amazed when a friend offers a new viewpoint on a nagging problem? Do you love discussing a new perspective on life issues?

Tween Book Club : The Barren Grounds | 3:45 p.m., 2/9 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Kids Spencer Playgroup | 9:30 a.m., 2/2 Wednesday | Inspire, 57 East Tioga Street | Families with young children can come attend Parent/Child activities at the Inspire Building. For

more information, contact the Family Resource Center at 607-258-1208 | Free Tyke Tales Story Time | 11 a.m., 2/3 Thursday | Join us for Story Hour!

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Pay-What-You-Wish Weekend at Museum of the Earth | 10 a.m., 2/5 Saturday | Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Join Museum of the Earth for Pay-What-You-Wish weekends, sponsored by BorgWarner,on the first weekend of each month.

Eco-Explorers: Signs of Wildlife | 1 p.m., 2/5 Saturday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Boulevard | Have you ever found a footprint from an animal in the mud or snow? Maybe a feather left behind from a bird? This Saturday we’ll be looking at ways to track animals by looking at their tracks and learning about their behavior in winter. After the intro, we’ll play a tracking game! | Free Tween Book Club : The Barren Grounds | 3:45 p.m., 2/9 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Notices Mid-Week Mindfulness Meditation | 12 p.m., 2/2 Wednesday | Virtual | Sessions are free and open to the public. All are welcome. Please arrive 5-10 minutes early Visit www. tcpl.org/events/ for Zoom Link. | Free Winter Ithaca Farmers Market | 10:30 a.m., 2/5 Saturday | Triphammer Plaza, 2255 N Triphammer Road | Local goods don’t hibernate all winter; come visit all your favorite vendors at the Winter Ithaca Farmers Market every Saturday!

Sunday Morning Meditation | 10 a.m., 2/6 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road | Sunday morning meditation, free and open to all.

MAKE MORE PLANTS! Green Zebras and Speckled Romans: Heirloom Tomatoes from Seed to Harvest | 6 p.m., 2/8 Tuesday | This event is online | http://ccetompkins.org/events | $20.00

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OPENS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH AT 8:00 PM Kitchen Theater Company, 417 W. State Street, Ithaca | Live theater returns to Ithaca this weekend with Fade, the story of a Mexican-born novelist struggling as the only Latinx employee in a white maledominated workplace. KTC is offering free childcare at this weekend’s Sunday show (4pm). (Photo: Provided)

State of the Art Gallery, 120 W. State Street, Ithaca | It is First Friday Gallery Night in Ithaca, and SoAG has a brand new exhibit opening. In this season when days are getting longer, when hope and romance are stirring, Awakenings is an exhibit featuring work in a variety of media by eleven artists. (Photo: “October’s Curtain” by Patty L. Porter -Provided)

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