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staple of West State Street will close its doors soon, as John’s Convenience Store discounts its inventory to sell off as soon as possible.

The store, owned and operated by John and Simona Tadros, has been at its current location since 2000. Before that, Tadros operated the store in Clinton Plaza starting in 1993, and prior to that he ran a convenience store in Syracuse. All told, Tadros has been in the convenience retail business for over 40 years.

“Age, lot of hours, we’re trying to get out and work part time and just enjoy life,” Tadros noted as reasons for his decision to close. “We’ve been working too many hours all these years.”

Tadros said he and his wife, who joined him at the store once their children were raised, still work 14 hours a day, five days a week to keep the store running. A sign on the door says inventory is being sold at 20 percent off to ensure they can clear the shelves soon.

Of course, there was another factor: Tadros revealed the property had been purchased by a developer. He declined to give further details on the deal. He said he was unsure of what the site’s future fate would be, though that area is zoned for residential or commercial uses. According

to the city’s application for a Downtown Revitalization Initative grant, it appears that the current plan for the site is a workforce development housing project. The Visum Development plan would cost $12 million and bring 50 units of housing to the site.

Though they said they are going to enjoy their semi-retirement, both Simona and John acknowledged that after so many years in business they’ve made connections with the community and with individual people that it will hurt to leave behind.

“The people,” Simona said. “We have a lot of people that we’re going to miss, definitely. They followed us from that store to this store, 27 years and they’re still coming in.”

“Lot of good people, good customers,” John said. “Some of them don’t really care.

But we’re going to miss the good ones.”

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There’ll be an adjustment period for both of them, he said, having worked for so many years at the store in its different locations. John said it will be odd to not wake up and go open a store like he’s done nearly every morning for the last 40 or so years. But, positively, they’ll be free to spend time with a new addition to the family.

“The kids were young and now they’re all grown,” Simona said. “A lot of customers have come in to ask John ‘Why can’t the kids just take over the business?’ The reality is you don’t have health insurance, you don’t have vacation, you don’t have retirement or an IRA. It’s better to work outside because you get all that. [...] Plus we got a brand new grand-baby girl. So now I’ll have time to be a grandma to our first grand-baby.”

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“Margaritas!”

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Abby Peterson Business Leader of the Year

“Cinnamon Buns….I have a cinnamon bun problem.”

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he Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce has announced the five young people who won the have been named as honorees for the Fab5 Awards. Each year, the Tompkins County community nominates several young adults from different parts of the business and academic worlds for the awards, which honor people between ages 21-40 for their community contributions. This year’s winners are Elaan Greenfield, Harmony Malone, Abby Peterson, Dominick Recckio and Austin Reid.

members nominated her. While her business has developed quickly, she is glad to see her space is welcoming to people of all ages.

“Leading workshops with groups, like we had Second Wind Cottages and Hospicare,” she said. “Offering grief groups for teens and adults to come to the Metal Smithery. I instructed them on how to make stuff and they were able to make what they wanted. Also, working with teens and youth has been my favorite moment.”

ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR: ELAAN GREENFIELD

VOLUNTEER OF OF THE YEAR: HARMONY MALONE

What initially started as offering lessons on metal working from her home studio became the basis for The Metal Smithery, owned by Elaan Greenfield. She was operating this business out of her private studio but knew that she had to find space to expand. Greenfield found there were plenty of people who were interested in learning about metal working but wanted a space to offer workshops to people of all ages.

She was able to find a space in the South Hill Business Campus and worked with them to design a space ideal for her business. She has been honored by the award for Entrepreneur of the Year since and is humbled that her community

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Since she was two years old, Harmony Malone has always wanted to dance.

Though she never had the opportunity to take any classes, she learned from the great wisdom of YouTube. Now, she has become one of the leading soul-hop dancers in Ithaca. Since 14, she has been working with Dr. Nia Nunn, the president of the Southside Community Center Board of Directors, at Nunn’s multicultural liberal arts program, CUMEP (Community Unity Music Education Program). Malone is honored that her community members gave her this award and spoke about some of the highlights from a life of dancing.

“My most rewarding time was being able to travel to Africa on my own, outside

Harmony Malone Volunteer of the Year

of the country,” Malone said. “I was in college and I had written about doing therapeutic recreation work, I was a therapeutic recreation major, and I wanted to learn about dance in third world countries. I remember going to Africa by myself and only knowing my teacher. We danced for two weeks and I got to celebrate the beauty of movement. I also got to learn and teach while I was there.”

Malone said her greatest honor as a dancer is being the choreographer for Running to Places (R2P) and has worked under the instruction of Joey Steinhagen, R2P Founder and Artistic Director.

BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR: ABBY PETERSON -TOMPKINS TRUST COMPANY

After starting at Tompkins Trust Company almost four years ago, Abby Peterson has seen a lot of nominees and winners for the Fab5 Awards. She is now a proud member of that group after winning Business Leader of the Year. For a time after graduating from Ithaca College, Peterson moved back to her home state of Vermont but came back to Ithaca after missing it too much. She worked remotely for the company before becoming a marketing continued on page 13

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Thumbs Up - Normally we don’t comment on stories in our editorial section, but a fond farewell to John and Simona Tadros as they close John’s Convenience Store on West State Street. They were always willing to help us out with a story, and the community when they could, and we hope we’ll still see them around.

Thumbs Down - A robustly grotesque showing in our comment section this week, where at least one commenter hoped that a runaway tractor trailer would have mowed down protestors blocking the intersection of Green Street and Cayuga Street. Reassess your priorities if you’re of the mind that blocking a morning commute is a crime punishable by death.

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12 people taken into custody after protests in downtown Ithaca

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Ithaca had plenty of protests around downtown last week, centered on climate change as well as the Canadian government’s treatment of the Wet’Suwet’En people. (Photo by Edwin J. Viera)

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thaca Police announced so we assisted them with their that 12 people were taken wishes, which was that they into custody after protests wanted criminal trespass closed the downtown location charges filed." of Chase Bank in the City CenThe adults will be arraigned tre building on Thursday. on Feb. 26 in Ithaca City Eight adults were arrested Court. Tompkins County Sherand charged with third degree iffs and New York State Police criminal trespassing and are assisted in the arrests, which currently being processed.

Monticello said took about 20 Four juveniles were taken into officers in total. custody and released to parents “We are honored to be aror guardians. rested in solidarity with our The group was protesting JP Wet'Suwet'En kin as they nonMorgan Chase's involvement violently resist the destruction with the fossil fuel industry, of their land and community and condemning the impact by the Coastal GasLink project, that it has had on the worsenbacked by lethal force from ing of climate change. The the Canadian government and group entered the bank, and financed by JP Morgan Chase,” gathered outside its front, for wrote Todd Saddler, an Extincseveral hours Thursday aftertion Rebellion member, in a noon, and arrests were made statement. “In defending themof people inside who refused to selves, the Wet'Suwet'En are leave as the bank approached also defending the right of all its normal closing time of 5 people to have a stable healthy p.m. A request for comment climate system here on Earth. to Extinction Rebellion Ithaca, We feel strength and courwhich was partially leading the age flowing through us from protests yesterday and today, like minded people across the has not yet been answered.

Painting by Gord Hill, an artist and a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation world who now understand IPD Deputy Chief Vincent that global warming is not Monticello said the juveniles someone else's problem; we are were not being charged at this all in the same boat.” time, but that could change. He Monticello said he wasn't enforcement resources and so it came to added that the arrests were ultimately the aware if any arrests had been made regardbank's decision, and that the company had a point where they weren't going to leave, ing the simultaneous protests at Cornell and we ended up having to make arrests," been appropriately accommodating until University over its relationship with the Monticello said, noting that there were no the arrests were made. fossil fuel industry, which were led by the incidents or resistance during the arrests.

"There were several hours of conversaSunrise Movement. "[The bank was] very tolerant yesterday tions that the bank officials were having and today, but there comes a point where with them and it comes to a point where E dw i n J. Vi er a a n d it was very disruptive to a business, and this is being disruptive, we're tying up law M att Butler F e br ua ry

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rowing up in Wappingers Falls in the Mid-Hudson Valley, Peter Fortunato loved horses and came to Cornell in 1968 to become a veterinarian.

That changed during his first year when he realized his vocation was to be a writer, so he transferred into the College of Arts and Sciences. Peter was also inspired by his art history courses with Peter Kahn, who encouraged him to keep making visual art.

Then he met his life partner and eventual wife, the poet Mary Gilliland when they were both advisees of James McConkey, who became a lifelong friend.

Peter graduated in 1972, but stayed on an extra year until Mary graduated. He wrote poetry, read about Zen Buddhism, and began practicing meditation after being introduced by Mary to the writings of poet Gary Snyder and philosopher Alan Watts. He earned money by working at Cornell’s High Voltage Lab, doing yard work, and modeling nude in figure painting classes at Cornell and Ithaca College.

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ative writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Peter and Mary moved South. While writing and earning an M.F.A. in poetry, he and Mary also worked as models for art classes.

They were in high demand because while meditating they could sit still for so long.

“Greensboro was soon to be known as ‘Little Atlanta.’ However, we lived in the country, and since cohabitation was illegal in North Carolina, we had to pretend we were married.” After graduate school, while waiting for clear direction, he and Mary took a BOCES Carpentry class and each continued to write.

“With no fixed plan we accepted friends’ offer to return for a weekend to Ithaca: ‘Gary Snyder is coming to give a reading. We can go to that and the reception!’ We both adored Gary, who remains our friend and teacher,” Fortunato said.

“The reading and the party were fantastic and went on into the early morning hours. Before we crawled home, Gary had invited us and we had agreed to join

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t was officially a “convenience store”-- it said so on the sign-- but to me John’s Convenience Store was my local bodega, in the warmest and most welcoming sense of the word.

I say “was” because John’s is closing after 27 years in Ithaca’s Southside neighborhood, first at W. Clinton and Corn Streets, then on W. State Street near Plain.

I’ve been a neighbor and customer of the business almost since it began. Last week I stopped in and saw half-empty shelves. I turned to look at John and his wife Simona behind the counter. They stood there with soft smiles.

“Hey, are you - “ I said.

“We tried to call you at the newspaper, dear,” Simona said. (I was sometimes “Steve” but more frequently “dear” to Simona.)

“It’s been 27 years,” John said. “That’s a long time.”

It is indeed, especially for a true mom and pop business. They had help from their sons, but for the most part it was John and Simona, only and ever, throughout the day each day.

John’s was a family business that helped make a family of the neighborhood. People might be too busy or preoccupied to talk on the street, but in John’s you could do some shopping in a neighborhood place and get to know people you recognized from around and about.

At John’s I found out who the baseball fans were in the neighborhood, and who rooted for the Mets (me) and who followed the Yankees (everyone else). On one of my last visits I discovered that a guy from up the block can do very spirited sound effects corresponding to his success or failure at scratch-offs. Like everyone else at John’s, I followed the custom of stepping away from the counter for people in a hurry when in protracted conversation or being entertained.

A store like John’s is a bastion of character and backbone of independence in business. Chain stores have seemingly anonymous, interchangeable employees in company vests. They require a state-issued ID from anyone attempting to buy beer.

Some have taken to scanning them.

John didn’t ID people when common sense told him not to. He ran his business as he pleased. As stores like John’s vanish, so do certain strengths and freedoms.

The first time I spoke at any length with John was at his first location, circa

1997. A couple of friends and I were running a project selling organic produce one day a week out of a house someone was operating as a church on Plain and Center Streets. We were selling at just about cost in what was essentially a do-gooder effort for the community.

One week something went wrong-- I forget exactly what-- and we had ten cases of inventory we could sell, but not until the following day. The problem was it needed refrigeration, which we didn’t have.

I asked my partners, “What about that place John’s? He’s got a big walk-in cooler.

Anybody know the guy?”

Nobody did. “Well, we’re about to know him,” I said, and walked over there, two blocks away.

I might have been in there once or twice before, but was essentially a stranger. I introduced myself and told John the story of this project and this produce.

John listened with benign but guarded bearing, as is called for in his profession when meeting a possible nut off the street.

Finally he asked what this had to do with him, or words to that effect, and I Iaid it on him: Let us borrow some cooler space for a day. We’ll pay you.

“How much space are we talking?” he asked.

“Like three by four feet,” I said. “Ten cases of produce in two stacks of five.”

“When?”

“Right now.”

“When will you move it out?”

“This time tomorrow.”

He paused, expressionless. Then he said, “Bring it in.”

“Great,” I said. “What do I owe you?”

He didn’t say anything, just waved his hand.

Where else could I have gone that day?

Where could one go today?

John was primarily a businessman, but while he never played it up, he and Simona essentially ran a place for the people. We’ve been lucky to have them all this time, blessed by their hard work and friendship. John and Simona, dears, you will be missed.

way and wife Sherry created and ran the publishing company. Baxter, a renowned Contin u ed From Page 6 author, was also founder of the Creative Writing Program at Cornell, so this him and his family in Nevada County, reunion was especially dear for Peter, who California in the foothills of the Sierras, where he and his friends were building a had studied writing with Baxter as an community school.” undergrad. Mary’s first poetry collection, Mary and Peter loaded their 1965 VW Gathering Fire, was also published by Bus and drove to California. “We pracIthaca House. ticed Zen and we helped build the school.

As Peter began teaching creative writWe wrote poetry and savored life with our ing, composition and poetry at Cornell hero and his circle, living off the grid, off and Ithaca College, he also continued the beaten path. [...] We found ourselves his studies in complementary alternative in the midst of the Back to the Land medicine. For many years, he has had a Movement. [...] It was an exciting time.” professional counseling practice focusing Loving the uncharted life, Mary and Peter had many adventures before trekon hypnotherapy, shamanism and Reiki. king back to the East Coast. They worked Mary, a well-known poet, joined the in the San Francisco Bay area doing Cornell University faculty in 1981 and carpentry and house shingling. And Peter retired from her full-time work in 2007.

Peter who had been teaching on East Hill and South Hill for almost 30 years, in 2005 took a position at the newly opened Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.

Mary also taught there for a semester.

Peter stayed on for four years.

“The students were very sincere and engaging,” he said. “With tolerance and mutual respect, as the War in Iraq continued several hundred miles away, we learned from each other.”

It takes something unique for two Peter Fortunato and Mary Gilliland. (Photo provided) writers to make a good life together, and Peter and Mary have continued would constantly write. After living for unabated in their creative lives. “We have a time on a houseboat in Sausalito and worked hard as two artists, seeking to then back in the Mid-Hudson Valley find our way. We have created a special for a while, Peter and Mary eventually synergy as a couple, understanding that returned to Ithaca in December of 1977. we each need space and time and quiet to They were confident they could live create, yet loving and valuing the time we anywhere, make friends, and do many different things to make a living. can spend together.”

While continuing to do carpentry and Peter's new novel Carnevale is full of occasionally working as models, Mary references to his early life in the Hudson and Peter found other opportunities: Valley, as well as to the sexy, psychedelic Mary completed a Master’s at Cornell, ’60s. All are invited to Peter’s reading and they both began careers in academia.

March 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the Tompkins They bought a rundown rental house and County Public Library. And then we hope turned it into a spacious, bright retreat to hear Mary’s version of this couple’s with room for two writing studio offices, and a meandering garden leading down to wild story.

Six Mile Creek.

Ithaca is filled with treasures—people, Peter’s first book of poetry A Bell or a places, programs. Marjorie unearths some Hook, inspired by his life in California, of these gems every other week here in was published by Ithaca House, located at 108 North Plain Street. Baxter Hathaher column, Community Connections.

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raised great sons. Best of everything and enjoy that new grand baby!

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In response to “12 people taken into custody in downtown Ithaca”

YOUR LETTERS In response to “A tragic situation needs courage to help” Thank you for this excellent article -- you are absolutely right that these deadly, horrendous practices need to be put to a stop, both at Cornell and at other universities. If that means shutting down the whole ‘Greek’ system, so be it -- better that than the loss of more lives.

Hardy Griffin, via Ithaca.com

In response to the batch of protests late last week To Last Wednesday’s Protestors, Sheer tactical brilliance, your tantrum was. Because nothing could possibly be more helpful to residents of Western Canada than bollixing up the mornings of ordinary working Americans in central NY. */sarc button off.

However, you did give away your anti-progress, anti-Western agenda with “so-called British Columbia” in your flyer.

Guess what? It IS “British Columbia!”

Canada owns it and Canada gets to name it. Like every other patch of land on the globe, it was won and is held by force of arms. You don’t like that, snowflakes? Too bad: ‘twas ever so, and ever will be so.

BTW, that statement also applies to the land on which you reside. If you want to feel all guilty about that, knock yourselves out, but don’t expect happy and welladjusted people to join in.

Even for this Stalinist town, you have set a new low in annoying, self-indulgent virtue signaling. Surely you folks -- who are always the smartest people in any room -- can find a better way to show how Sensitive and Caring you are.

Not that what I do or think will make any difference one way or the other, but now that they’ve been brought so rudely to my attention, in my heart....Go RCMP! Drill, baby, drill, and pipe, baby, pipe!

Dave Williams, City of Ithaca

In response to “John’s Convenience Store to close after 27 years” Congratulations on the next chapter of your life. You will be missed. I have been a customer since the Clinton Plaza store.

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These people are 1000x more brave than all the complaining keyboard warriors. Whether you agree with them or not, they found something that was important to them and stood up to one of the most powerful corporations in the world and were willing to go to jail to raise the profile of their message.

David West, via Facebook It was 69 degrees in Antarctica last month. Record breaking high temp.

That’s one reason why folks in Ithaca are protesting in solidarity with indigenous folks in Canada, that are trying to stop a pipeline from being shoved through their territory without their consent. The banks are still heavily invested in these fossil fuel expansion projects.

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Enfield Town Board voted to skip the pledge. Residents now recite it for them

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he situation started innocently enough: new Enfield Town Board member Stephanie Redmond, at her first meeting after being elected, made a comment during the board’s first meeting of 2020, on Jan. 8.

“I have something kind of random,” she began her suggestion.

What followed was Redmond positing that as an inclusionary measure, the board should remove the phrase “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance they recite at the beginning of meetings. Redmond, who’s not religious, said she felt taking out that phrase would be more welcoming for people who feel like her, and would further the separation of church and state.

After a brief, straight-forward seven minute discussion, the board decided that instead of editing the pledge itself, they would simply remove the pledge from its place atop the Town Board’s agenda, an alternative suggested by Town Supervisor Beth McGee. The measure was approved 4-1 with Town Board member Bob Lynch dissenting, both vocally and with his vote.

With a minuscule crowd in attendance, there was no uproar.

“We’re going to have to sell tickets to these meetings,” Redmond commented directly after the vote.

Though it initially passed rather quietly, subsequent coverage in the Ithaca Voice and the Friendly Atheist predictably inflamed certain residents of Enfield, particularly those who feel like the pledge is a necessary display of their loyalty to America. They’ve shown up en masse at Town Board meetings since then, voicing their displeasure to the board, most contentiously last Wednesday, Feb. 12. At that meeting, opposition was strong enough that it was announced a special meeting

By M att Bu tler would be held to revisit the topic later this month.

McGee claims she’s received letters of support from residents inside and outside of Enfield, the more rural, relatively more conservative town located eight miles west of Ithaca with a population of 3,500.

But on Feb. 12, the second Town Board meeting since the decision to remove the pledge, McGee and the other board members faced a largely hostile crowd of about 35 who accused them of muzzling patriotism, flouting the flag and catering to the minority while silencing the majority.

The feelings weren’t universal in the crowd, as one person stood to thank the board for their decision, expressing her long-held discomfort with the inclusion of “under God” in the pledge, similar to the feelings that led Redmond to initially suggest the change.

In contrast to the first meeting after the decision, where McGee facilitated a respectful discussion on the matter and suspended parliamentary procedure to allow for back-and-forth with the audience, the meeting Feb. 12 displayed more tension and anger. The meeting included two recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance during the public comment period led by audience members, meant as an act of defiance against the board.

“It’s very clear that the pledge is not ‘banned’ from these spaces,” McGee said, both during the meeting and in a subsequent interview. “It’s like I said Wednesday night, ‘You realize we said the pledge more tonight than we ever have before, right?’

It’s not something that’s being banned from the room.”

McGee said she doesn’t feel the pledge is tied to her patriotism.

For her part, Redmond doesn’t regret her decision to broach the topic, maintaining that despite tradition, a government-

led recitation of the pledge is an inappropriate blend of government and religion.

“I am not comfortable saying the pledge, I believe in education over indoctrination,” Redmond said. “I also am not religious, so having that spirituality invoked at the beginning of a governmentfacilitated meeting felt uncomfortable to me. There’s a strong separation of church and state for a reason.”

Clearly, Redmond wasn’t quite aware of the turmoil she would stir with the suggestion, but that hasn’t made her back down.

As she said during the initial discussion, she still seems fully prepared to “go to the mats” on the topic.

She also noted, correctly, that Enfield would not be alone in Tompkins County if they did exclude the pledge, as the Town of Ulysses, the Village of Trumansburg and the Village of Lansing all don’t include the pledge in their agenda. The City of Ithaca does, but only for Common Council meetings. Efforts to remove the pledge in other small municipalities nationwide have faced backlash among residents, such as St. Louis Park, Minnesota, which removed its pledge in June only to reverse course a month later after protests by residents and even a tweet from President Donald Trump. Congressman Tom Reed, a Republican who represents the area in the House of Representatives, took the opportunity to call Enfield’s decision an example of an “extreme liberal agenda” in January.

“I didn’t think it’d be this controversial,” Redmond said. “There’s a lot of Town Boards that don’t say it at the beginning of their meetings. And, usually, there’s the five board members and the clerk and a handful of people in the audience. So it seemed kind of pointless for us to say the pledge beforehand. Think about how many people say the pledge before they get to work. It didn’t seem essential. I didn’t realF e br ua ry

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Redmond and McGee alike highlighted one positive aspect of the response, which is that it proves the passion of Enfield residents regarding their local government, even if that passion is shown currently in the form of contempt for them.

“I enjoy when people take part in the civic process,” McGee said. “I encourage them to do it respectfully, so we can all talk and I can share facts with them and point things out [...] “I totally understand people’s sensitivities to it.”

“It’s definitely the way we have to move forward,” Redmond said. “I hope it subsides and we can get on with other business.”

McGee said she’s received “lots of ” calls in support of her decision, while also alleging that she’d been the target of a couple threatening calls. One email, from an Enfield resident, McGee posted to Facebook, saying she was “disappointed” by the content and in her fellow community members. The email itself is a rambling, semicoherent extended quotation of a bit from comedian Jeff Foxworthy with the refrain “You might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.” The message is vague until it ends with a final message directed toward McGee specifically.

“Beth - By eliminating the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of Town Board meetings you have shown disrespect to the veterans who risked their lives for our freedom,” the email concluded. “Also, we are one nation under God. It says so on the currency you are being paid to represent us.”

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3 minutes ahead of the qualifying time of 2 hours, 45 minutes. Last October, Chelsea and one of her training partners, Bailey Drewes, ran the Twin Cities Marathon in Minnesota, and Chelsea shaved another minute and a half off her time. Bailey qualified for the Trials at the race as well, and it was upon their return to Ithaca that Chelsea experienced “a pretty rocky start” to staying on track for the Trials. “I had an Achilles injury and the pain worked its way up to my knee,” she said.

“I did a couple of weeks of crosstraining—spending a lot of time in the pool and on the elliptical—and it feels like I’m in a good place now.”

She added, “I definitely would not have said that in December.”

Benson knows that the crosstraining will be crucial going forward, and she stated, “Given I’m 37, looking forward I’ll need to focus on strength training and Chelsea Benson and Bailey Drewes train for their marathon fundamentals, qualifier, coming up this month. (Photo provided) and recognize that I need more recovery time.”

Ellie Pell ran a 2:41:48 at the chasing their dreams of running at the Hartford Marathon last year, and she exOlympics in Tokyo later this year. pressed her gratitude to her fellow runners It would be more than fair to say that (including her local training partners) for Chelsea Benson has a “real life” in addition the continued inspiration. “I know a lot to her training. The 37-year-old is the Pubof the women through social media,” Ellie lic Programs Coordinator at the Cornell offered, “and it will be great to actually see Lab of Ornithology, and the mother of them and say hi. We are each other’s big5-year-old twins. She qualified for the gest cheerleaders.” When asked about her Trials over a year ago – at the California training leading up to the big event, Pell International Marathon – hitting the tape (who manages CTB Fresh at Island Health

Running Down South

Local runners prepare for Olympic trials in Atlanta

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Here we are, a week and a half away, and marathoners Chelsea Benson, Ellie Pell and Bailey Drewes are looking forward to joining a few hundred other elite runners,

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& Fitness) added, “This time of year, my training is a mixture of inside and outside work. I have been lucky this training cycle, I have stayed healthy. Whether it’s outside, or on a treadmill, I just love to run.”

Bailey Drewes ran a 2:40:09 at the Twin Cities Marathon, and in her “other life,” she is a Clinical Research Project Coordinator in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. As for her recent training regimen, she said, “I have also been lucky this cycle. I added strength training, and that has helped me stay healthy.” Of the other local qualifiers, Bailey offered, “We do a lot of our workouts together, and yes, we do have to get creative with the weather being what it is around here.” She recalled some of her indoor workouts in Barton Hall—conveying that eighty laps can test a person’s patience—but she is clearly happy to lace ‘em up and run when she can.

Of the upcoming trip, Drewes said, “I have some family members coming, so we’re turning it into a mini-reunion!”

Bailey is also looking forward to running with so many accomplished marathoners. She said, “In every marathon I have done, I have always enjoyed running at the front of the pack with the elite runners. It’s usually a small group, but this race will have five-hundred elite women runners! That will be very empowering.” ● ● ●

Ithaca College’s Parley Hannan is, compared to the aforementioned women, a rookie runner, but she is an “up and comer” by every measure. At the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University’s Track and Tennis Center over the weekend, Hannan destroyed the Division 3 national indoor 5,000-meter record, turning in a 16 minutes, 5.36 second performance. That time shattered the previous DIII record by more than 16 seconds.

Despite her relative inexperience, Hannan is drawing a lot of attention, and for good reason. Competing in her first full season of track, she was the NCAA Division 3 cross country champion in November, winning the 6-kilometer title in 20:53.8.

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Connecting Generations

The young and the old form a bond at Kendal

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e hear a lot about generational divide nowadays, with Baby Boomers, millenials and everyone in between seemingly always in disagreement.

But one program is working to connect the very youngest with the oldest. That’s through Ithaca Community Childcare Center, which hosts children at the Kendal at Ithaca retirement community center.

Erika Brooks, the IC3 @ Kendal Program Leader, wrote in an email that IC3’s infant and toddler program has held

classes at Kendal since October 1998, providing a unique opportunity for students and residents to interact with each other, something that either group might not experience otherwise. Children aged 8 weeks to 3 years old are eligible for the program.

“Ithaca is such a transient community that many of these children do not see their grandparents often,” Brooks said.

“The residents become a grandparent figure for some of our children and the bonds go both ways. Many of the residents don't get to see their grandchildren often IC3 Main Campus IC3 at Kendal IC3 School Age Program

Kids and older kids mix during an IC3 @ Kendal play session last week. (Photo by Casey Martin)

but our kids are here every day and spread some joy in their lives.”

Some of the Kendal residents are struck with physical issues that render them unable to move as well as they once did, but Brooks said the changes they have to make are immediately accepted by the students, whether they be canes or walkers to assist walking, or wheelchairs or motor-chairs if residents are unable to walk.

“The children participate in sing along with the residents on Mondays and the toddlers have a scheduled activity time every Tuesday morning,” Brooks said. “We provide activities that will foster interactions such as balloons, music, and stickers.

We also do activities that allow the residents to observe the children's creativity such as building with a variety of manipulatives. Residents sometimes come in to read to the children or just watch them in

the classroom environment. We eat lunch in the cafe and residents stop by the tables to interact with the children during the meal.”

She said bonds are sometimes formed between kids and residents, often to the surprise of parents. The staff prioritizes fostering interaction between the kids and residents, beyond just providing safe and stable childcare while the kids are at IC3.

Even just walking through the halls of the building provides basically endless opportunities for learning, Brooks said, between talking to residents, the bird sanctuary and more.

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Nature vs. Nurture

Local communities examine DNA’s influence

By Jaime C one

H

ow much does our DNA determine the fate of our futures?

And are there ways to prevent certain qualities hidden in our genes from ever taking hold?

Questions like these are being tackled in libraries and local hubs throughout the area as rural communities host viewings of thought-provoking documentaries about early childhood. The movie is followed by a discussion of the film and is made possible by a collaboration between the the Childhood Development Council of Central New York, Inc., and Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Through the program, the documentary “DNA Is Not our Destiny” will be shown Feb. 19. at 6 p.m. Newfield Public Library will host the event, dubbed the “DNA Cafe.” The film is part of the “Raising of America” series.

“We chose it in part because it has a sense of hope,” said Jude Rose, child care planner/developer with the Child Development Council of Central New York, Inc., which serves Tompkins and Cortland

County and has offices in Cortland and Ithaca. “Some of the other ones feel overwhelming.”

“DNA isn’t the only thing that impacts us,” Rose explained. She said nutrition, toxins and stress in the family are just a few of the many factors that can play a huge role in how our DNA is actually expressed in our bodies.

The film focuses on studies of rats and draws parallels between those findings and the ways in which genetics can be naturally altered in people.

The rat pups in the study were classified as either yellow and obese or brown and thin. While all the rats shared the exact same DNA, they possessed one particular gene that controlled both color and body size and shape. It would either be turned off or on, depending on environmental factors. Pregnant rats fed diets rich in methyl groups found in fruits and vegetables were more likely to give birth to thin, brown pups, while mothers whose diets lacked that healthy component had yellow, obese pups.

“So this showed, at least in a mouse model, that nutritional interventions could counteract the effects of toxicants,” says Dana Dolinoy, Environmental Epigenetics and Nutrition Lab, University of Michigan School of Public Health, in the film.

“The genes we inherit are fixed for life,” the narrator of the film adds. “But there’s an entire network of molecules that influences which genes are expressed by making them active, or shutting them down, like a volume control or a dimmer switch.

It’s called the epigenome.”

The film then looks at what happens to the rats after they are born. Scientists deprived some of the mother rats of the soft materials they would usually prefer when making their nests and replaced them with scratchy, uninviting materials. The mothers spent a lot of time moving the inferior materials around the cage, attempting to build a passable nest, and licked their pups far less than those who had ideal materials to work with.

The implication is that the rat mothers who were unable to build a proper home were far more likely to neglect to lick their pups. Even though they still spent the same amount of time with their children as the other rats, stress caused them to lose interest in grooming their babies.

The result was fearful pups who approached the world with less confidence and who were more prone to health problems than the rats who were regularly licked and groomed. It was found that those pups’ epigenetics had been changed; certain genes were “turned off,” and not

expressed, making it impossible for them to calm down even when there was no danger present. But, when placed in an enriched “daycare setting” after weaning, the rats showed fewer lasting effects of being licked less, such as nervousness and obesity, later in life.

“Assuring all children safe, stable and nurturing conditions could leave a profound biological imprint, increasing their chances for better mental and physical health and for more resilient and successful lives,” Michael Meaney, Sackler Program for Epigenetics & Psychobiology at McGill University, says in the documentary. “We know, for example, that when populations move into more favorable circumstances, when populations are freed somewhat from oppression, politically and socially, that they become healthier.”

That brings the film back around to persistent problems, like lack of early childcare and access to adequate nutrition, that plague families nationwide. Communities like Newfield are not immune to the challenges, Rose said. “[The movie] looks at stress in terms of childcare, getting sufficient work that pays enough, meeting bills and possibly being homeless or food insecure—those things that create stress for parents, and how that rolls over to children,” Rose said. “Each community has its own resources and networks of individuals who care for that community.”

At the Newfield screening, the viewers will break into small groups once the film concludes.

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“I’m very proud to be selected for this group from the standpoint of knowing what the selection process looks like and being familiar with some of the past winners,” Peterson said. “And knowing what great folks they are and how much they contribute to the community. I think Ithaca in general is of course a very special place to live for a lot of reasons, but these awards to me underscore and highlight the prevalence of young professional talent in the community.”

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This year, he was named as the Rookie of the Year and has been grateful for the spotlight this shines on the work Hillel at Ithaca College has been doing. Considering this is a small organization with only two full time and two part time staffers, Reid is grateful for some of the work they have been able to accomplish. Each year, the organization engages around 650 students every academic year and has created several academic programs that have

“We have a chance to see a lot of people who come in here with really big ideas or they dream of opening/starting business they’re really passionate about,” Recckio said. “We’re really lucky to be a part of some of those businesses’ stories and to get them the resources they need to make connections or to take a risk.”

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Dominick Recckio has always been interested in community development and getting small businesses to grow. He found work with the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce after he graduated from Ithaca College, which gave him an opportunity to help small businesses in the area expand their customer/client bases.

He has found this helps to uplift the community and numerous nonprofits as well. He is proud to receive this honor.

Upon starting at the Chamber, he made numerous relationships with local nonprofits and business owners. Recckio is proud of receiving this award and is glad that he is being recognized along with the many other great nonprofit leaders in Tompkins County.

He enjoys Chamber events outside of work, like Business After Hours, seeing local business leaders take advantage of the

improved student health on campus.

“During my first year here, one of our engagement interns, Unagh Frank, helped to start a program called Swipe Out Hunger here at Ithaca College,” Reid said.

“Through Swipe Out Hunger, we have been able to build a food bank for students who are facing food insecurity on campus.

This has allocated over 2,000 meals to students in need right here at Ithaca College. We know that nationally, one in four students is facing food insecurity in their undergraduate careers.”

Other highlights from his time at Hillel have been working on a speaker series called Global Faces of Judaism. During this series, people of the Jewish faith came from across the globe and from the Ithaca community to educate students about the Jewish faith practices. Reid is proud to have won this award and is grateful to the people who nominated him.

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Office for the Aging working to develop center of excellence E dw in J. Vie ra

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he Tompkins County Office for the Aging was awarded a $100,000 grant to develop an age-friendly center of excellence by the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York. The county will partner with local community organizations to fulfill the program’s goals. Other counties that were awarded these types of grants are Erie and Oneida County.

The grant will ensure the Tompkins County Age-Friendly Center of Excellence will become a regional hub of expertise in order to educate and assist other partners and institutions in incorporating agefriendly practices. The Tompkins County Office for the Aging is also participating in the Health Foundation’s Aging by Design program to support its age-friendly initiatives. Lisa Monroe, the executive director of the Tompkins County Office for Aging, said this has been in the works for some time, since 2015 when the county was designated as age-friendly.

“There was a [request for applications]

that came out of [New York State Office for Aging] to encourage communities or counties to become age-friendly,” Monroe said. “There were different levels of eligibility, to apply for these grants and since we in Tompkins County were already age-friendly, we were able to apply.”

The centers for excellence came with broad definitions, according to Monroe, who was told the centers were supposed to be cross-partnership, cross-disciplinary and cross-agency with people to provide leadership and support activities with age-friendliness in the county. Other expectations of the new centers are to provide mentorship and leadership to other communities, with a special focus on rural areas that are looking to become age-friendly.

For now, the Office for the Aging is still figuring out how to present their concept to state officials. Since each center for excellence has a different spin on it, Monroe and her team are still receiving guidance on what the expectations are. The Office

Lisa Monroe, Executive Director of the Tompkins County Office of the Aging

for the Aging will be using their existing age-friendly center working group to spearhead the work being done. The work on this has yet to get underway, but Monroe indicated that when it does it will first focus on rural livability for seniors.

“A lot of the age-friendly work has mostly been around city or urban livability, accessibility, transportation, sidewalks and housing,” she said. “They’re kind of easier to address in that urban setting but when it comes to many rural municipalities, you can’t compare what’s age-friendly for downtown Ithaca to what’s age-friendly

in Caroline. There’s no sidewalks, no hubs of socialization and things like that.”

In order to take on the planning aspect of this initiative, the Office for the Aging is working with Mildred Warner, a member of the Cornell University Architecture, Art, and Planning Department who’s skilled in designing age-friendly buildings, Monroe said. Along with this, Monroe wants to focus on age-friendly ideas that work for residents of all ages, not just seniors. The grant only lasts one year, so she wants to ensure the financial sustainability of any initiatives for the long term.

So far, partners with the Office for the Aging include the Finger Lakes Independence Center, Gadabout, Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County, Ithaca College Gerontology Institute, Wonderful Wheelchairs, Lifelong and Esther Greenhouse, an expert in universal design and aging in place. Though this is still a work in progress, Monroe is ready to take this on.

“We are looking forward to furthering our efforts in Tompkins County, creating a hub of resources and information to those engaged in the Age-Friendly process as well as being part of a larger learning collaborative,” Monroe said. “As the older population expands and lives longer than ever before, this work will be critical to support aging well. We know that when Age-Friendly principles are applied to the environment, individuals can benefit through improved health and overall wellbeing, increased independence and greater social interaction.”

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Left: Sheriff ’s Car parked outside the Newfield home where DeJour Gandy was shot and killed on Dec 7. (photo Jaime Cone) Right: DeJour Gandy (provided)

Gandy Murder

Family, community awaits arrest in Gandy killing

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t has been nearly two months since DeJour Xavier Gandy, 29, a Newfield High School graduate and local pre-kindergarten teacher, was shot and killed inside his own home in Newfield. His family, friends, coworkers and the many children and parents who knew him are still awaiting answers regarding what happened Dec. 7 and who was responsible.

According to the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office, which is handling Gandy’s case, a witness said three masked black men entered the home and quickly left after one of them shot Gandy.

The Sheriff ’s Office has been largely silent since the weeks immediately after Gandy’s death, when it asked the public for information and announced it was offering an award via Crime Stoppers.

Gandy’s mother, Resana Malone, said her relationship with the Sheriff ’s Office soured almost immediately when she did not receive a next of kin notification about her son’s death.

“They haven’t talked to me ever,” she said, adding that her attorney’s advice is that she not speak to law enforcement at this point in time. As a mother who was very close to her son, she said she feels “disregarded” and “disrespected.”

“It’s too late for them,” she said of the investigators. “I called them, but they won’t give me anything.”

Malone, who resides in Tucson, AZ, said she stayed in Ithaca for a month to be close to family and also to assist in the investigation in any way she could, but she recently returned to Tucson. The family did what they could by doubling the reward, she said, and now there is not much else she can do.

“Other than that, we’re just waiting for tips to come,” she said. “All I feel now is the loss and heartbreak of my child [...] this not knowing anything or hearing anything is egregious to me […] I have to try to make it my normalcy, whatever that is supposed to be.”

“We have not heard from the DA’s (District Attorney’s) office [or] the sheriff ’s department. We haven’t heard anything,” said Amos Malone, Gandy’s uncle and elder at Second Chance Ministry in Ithaca.

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Gandy’s aunt, Denise Malone, of Ithaca, told Finger Lakes Community News in January that she took issue with the way the circumstances were presented by the Sheriff ’s Office in its original press release. The release stated, “This incident is believed to be a targeted attack of a specific person,” which Denise Malone said was widely misconstrued to mean that Gandy was the intended target of the attack, which she said was not the case.

Lieutenant Kyle Koskinen of the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office said he cannot make any public statements regarding the case at this time, but he encourages anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers or the department’s tip line, even if that information is only a secondor third-hand rumor.

“As more and more time goes on, it’s tough,” he acknowledged, saying he sympathizes with those who are growing impatient with the investigation. “They want answers—we want answers—and it takes time to get those answers.”

The one public statement the sheriff ’s department has made was the announcement that it partnered with New York State Crime Stoppers to offer up to $2,500 to anyone who could give a tip that would help break the case.

“My church has done the same thing to match theirs,” explained Amos Malone. “We raised the money through the ministry because no one is getting answers and the family needs closure.

Amos Malone said that the church attempted to call Crime Stoppers in order to arrange for the match donation to the reward, but no one answered the phone. “I thought it was unusual myself because if it’s that type of tip line, you would think someone would answer,” he said.

(This reporter called Crime Stoppers on a weekday afternoon and got a representative on the line on the first try.)

Chief Retired Robert L. Pazone, chairman of the board for New York State Crime Stoppers, said the reason why the award is for “up to $2,500” is that the amount given for a tip depends on the usefulness of the information.

Crime Stoppers works with the law enforcement agency involved to determine what the reward should be, Pazone explained.

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He said it is important for people to know that although there is a potential reward involved, calls to Crime Stoppers still remain anonymous. There is absolutely no way for the organization to track the source of the information except for a code that is given to the person leaving the tip.

“The call center is located in Canada, so we’re immune to subpoena,” Pazone said, adding that concerns about having to appear in court often prevent people from reporting what they know. The promise of anonymity is the most valuable aspect of Crime Stoppers, he said.

If a tip is deemed reward-worthy, it is up to the person who gave the information to call in, find out the adjudication of the case, and if their information is credible, they are given a secret ID and paid in cash.

Even though the church has not officially matched the reward through Crime Stoppers, it is prepared to give the same amount as Crime Stoppers in the event a reward is offered, said Amos Malone. Information about the reward is included on the GoFundMe page that was created by friends and families to cover the funeral and other expenses to help the Malone and Gandy families “cope with this unexpected loss.” So far, the campaign has raised $12,553, contributed by 200 donors. The goal is $25,000.

Family members say there are a lot of rumors flying around on social media regarding what exactly happened in the early morning of Dec. 7.

“A lot of people are talking, but you don’t hear a lot from the authorities,” said Malone. “You always hope that people will do the right thing. It’s human nature that they would empathize in some way with us.”

“We’re definitely missing him—missing his light,” Tanisha Malone said. “He was a beautiful soul. And he still is a beautiful soul. You just miss his presence.”

Anyone with information on the shooting incident that claimed the life of DeJour Gandy is asked to call the Tompkins County Emergency Response Center at (607) 273-8000. The Sheriff ’s Office also maintains a confidential tip line at (607) 266-5420. The New York State Crime Stoppers tip line is (866) 313-8477.

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Ithaca Fantastik puts fantasy movies on display

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By Libby Cook

thaca locals Andrew Summers and Hunter Schindo grew up with a fascination for the fantastic. Once just fans and movie-goers at the annual Ithaca Fantastik film festival, Summers and Schindo turned a passion for film into a career when they joined the Ithaca Fantastik team under founder Hugues Barbier.

produce, showing in early spring.

Barbier, originally of France, brought the fantasy film genre in the festival form to Ithaca after helping develop the Strasbourg Film Festival in France. Summers and Schindo learned everything they know about running the annual event from Barbier’s teaching. “[Barbier’s training] was great,” Schindo said. “It definitely gave us a good idea about what it takes to run a large film festival. It’s an international film festival so there is a lot of coordination that needs to happen in order to get a film festival of that type running.”

The Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival name alludes to a similar festival in Austin, Texas

Filmmaker Ashlea Wessell and Hugues Barbier, founder of Ithaca Fantastik, at one of the group’s events. (Photo provided)

Ithaca Fantastik’s upcoming schedule includes a number of screenings for films including “The Lodge” on Feb. 21 at Cinemapolis, “Extraordinary,” a comedy showing in March, and “The Gasoline Thieves,” a dramatic narrative-style film which Barbier helped

called the Alamo Drafthouse Fantastic Fest.

Serving as a pioneer of the fantasy film genre in the United States, the Alamo Drafthouse helped to introduce and expand the fantasy film festival circuit to the delight of fans of the unique genre around the world. Barbier used

the southwestern-based festival as inspiration for his own events in Ithaca.

“Hugues was certainly a fan of their style events and took a little bit from that,” Summers said.

Summers took over the group after Barbier moved to Los Angeles. Alongside Schindo, a web-developer for Ithaca Fantastik, the team now aims to revamp the Ithaca Fantastik experience through new events. This includes their transition away from the annual film festival the group was founded on.

To seek a wider audience, the Ithaca Fantastik team developed a schedule of monthly events that are catered toward local film and art lovers. The group found that the large-city film festival format was not as realistic for a smaller city like Ithaca because locals could not take a week off from work or easily afford a week-long pass to go to the festival. The festival brought in tourists, but the group missed the local contributions and support.

“Here, if we spread out our efforts, we’ve been getting better results and it gives something more regular for people to look forward to and we can build an audience that way,” Schindo said.

The group received a positive response from the monthly events, including a children’s party, which they had always wanted to host. The Saturday morning event in January featured a screening of the “Peanut Butter Solution” and popular cartoons with an all-youcan-eat cereal bar.

“There are a lot of surreal, Fantastic genre films for children that we are huge fans of and would like to program in Ithaca,” Summers said. “I know that’s where my interest in film came from, watching stuff as a kid.”

Other than the young cartoon-watching demographic, Ithaca Fantastik has also catered to anime fans with a highly successful screening of “Pure Blue,” Today, the group is focusing on a wider spectrum of the Fantastic genre than the horror genre Barbier favored when he founded the group.

“We try to keep a pretty diverse slate of films so there is something for everybody,” Schindo said. “We don’t necessarily expect the same audience to show up for everything, it’s just not how genre films work.”

Outside of genre, Ithaca Fantastik is also seeking work from underrepresented voices, especially female directors, international filmmakers and film subjects; re-masters, rereleases, and any other group; original film, or topic that does not get as much recognition in American cinema.

“It’s genuinely an uphill battle with representation and even in smaller, low budget films, there’s still a tendency to go toward what’s already commercially successful instead of taking chances,” Summers said. “Any time we get to support something we would consider an underrepresented voice we like to consider that, and of course we want them to be fun. We want people to enjoy them and to be memorable and be something different.”•

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Changing, or Not, with Age

Graham Nash dishes on the shifting tones of music

By Br yan VanC ampe n

G

raham Nash began singing with his mate Allan Clarke when they were kids growing up in Manchester, England.

They formed The Hollies (“On a Carousel,” “Carrie Anne”) and then Nash went on to one of the first supergroups, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, later shortened to CSN. He’s also recorded with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd and has been inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame twice, with CSNY in 1997 and The Hollies in 2010.

Last year, he appeared in the music documentary “Echoes

in the Canyon,” which became a CNY reunion of sorts. Nash is also working on a new book of his photography and has recently released “Over the Years,” a 30-song collection of his best-known songs from the past 50 years; it includes more than a dozen unreleased demos and mixes. He returns to Ithaca for an evening of songs and stories at the State Theatre on March 7 at 8 p.m.

Nash spoke to the Ithaca Times about “Echoes in the Canyon,” Joni Mitchell, and why you never hear Mickey Mouse singing protest songs.

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already know what I’m having when I walk in, I pick up one of their paper menus, choose a table, and peruse the menu at my leisure. When I’ve made my selection, I join the queue and place my order.

Speaking of choosing a table, surprisingly I can usually find one of the approximately three dozen chairs as about two thirds of the meals served are destined for takeout.

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Collegetown Bagels

An updated review in CTB’s new space

By He nr y Stark

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ou can probably guess, from the name of the restaurant—actually it’s the name of four restaurants all located in the Ithaca area—that this establishment is not a fine dining, expensive operation. In fact, the most expensive item on the menu is about $12. Collegetown Bagels, or CTB as it is referred to by management and customers alike, serves a rather extensive menu commencing early in the morning with a variety of breakfast items that are available all day. Most longtime patrons are perfectly willing to either call ahead, pick up and take out, or stand in line, order, pay and select a small table to enjoy on the premises.

The owners, who operated the downtown location at 201-203 N. Aurora Street since 1981, had no intention of moving until advised by their landlord that the building was scheduled to be demolished at the end of 2019 and their lease, was therefore not renewable. They looked at several other possible sites in the downtown area and settled on their present location in the City Centre, 301 East State Street, at the east end of the Commons.

With the move, they added almost 1,000 to their space, going from about 1,500 square feet to about 2,300 square feet. To old timers, it might even look larger as the new ceiling is considerably higher.

This is not a “sit down restaurant” in that you’re not escorted to a table and then approached by a server to place your order. Rather, when you enter, you’ll be met by large blackboards listing over 80 sandwiches, and a half dozen paninis, as well as salads, breakfast items and more.

You’ll make your selection, inform a staff

member then proceed to the register where you’ll pay for your meal and receive a number to put on the table you select.

When your order is ready, a staff member can identify you and bring it to your table.

It all runs very efficiently.

I do, however, find the blackboards difficult to read and somewhat overwhelming, as they are filled with multiple hand-written small words and everything seems to be in a different color. The way I have solved the problem is, if I don’t

Collegetown Bagels moved to its new spot in the ground-f loor of the City Centre building late last year. (Photo by Casey Martin)

because students have chosen to camp out with a laptop or smartphone after finishing their meal.

I don’t see the point of singling out a sandwich or two that I like from the approximately seven dozen varieties on

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order. I am very comfortable, however, generalizing that I have enjoyed every single sandwich I’ve chosen. And there are always two homemade soups on the central counter and I’ve found them to be rich, tasty and original. Potato with roasted garlic and gorgonzola cheese and white bean with chicken and chili were two recent offerings. A complimentary hunk of Ithaca Bakery bread is offered with the soup.

One of the reasons the food is so good is that the owners, who also own a couple of Ithaca Bakery stores in the area, utilize them to complement the CTB fare. For example: bakers mix the dough for bread in the Meadow Street Ithaca Bakery. That’s also where the meats and cheeses are sliced, the ingredients for sandwich fillings such as chicken and tuna salad are combined, and the interesting and tasty soups are created. Everything is delivered daily to the CTB sites.

A liquor license has been applied for to serve wine, beer and hard cider. When it’s granted, I wouldn’t be surprised to see evening hours extended to take advantage of the vibrant energy developing at the eastern end of the Commons around the new commercial core.

The new Collegetown Bagels shop in the new City Centre has quickly become a well-deserved popular gathering place for people looking for a casual meal with quality food.

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PLEDGE OR ELSE Contin u ed From Page 9

cent meetings, residents in opposition of the move don’t sound prepared to drop it and move on. After several requests to reconsider and restore the pledge, McGee and the board agreed to set a special meeting on Feb. 26 that will further discuss the issue, adding at least one more chapter to the saga. One of the potential options for resolutions could be the bill introduced by member Bob Lynch, the sole negative vote in the initial decision. The bill explicitly allows for Town Board members and public attendees to decline to participate in the recitation of the pledge, but it also restores the pledge’s place at the beginning of each meeting.

Two of the more prominent speakers at the meeting were Ed and Helene Hetherington, both of whom spoke in favor of reinstating the pledge as a permanent fixture in the meeting agenda. The couple

attacked the decision from two different angles: Ed said the pledge is a necessary reminder of citizens’ loyalty to the United States, whereas Helene took a far more religious, fire-and-brimstone approach, arguing that ignoring God in the pledge was profoundly sinful and disrespectful of, in her belief, the creation of Earth.

“Every place that I’ve been where we’ve had public meetings, we’ve always recited the pledge,” Ed Hetherington said. “I recited it when I was in school. Every day, school-age kids recited the pledge. And those that didn’t, they still stood and they still respected the flag. You just need to have a commitment to your country.”

Based on a 1943 Supreme Court decision, students cannot be compelled to stand, recognize or participate in the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, and to do so is a violation of freedom of speech.

One point Hetherington reiterated was that he felt blindsided by the swiftness of

the decision, besides that he disagrees with it anyway. Moreover, he thinks that McGee, Redmond and the board are serving the desires of a small group of dissidents instead of fulfillng what he feels is their civic duty to carry out the sentiment of the majority. However, Hetherington admitted that even if a hypothetical referendum were held to democratically decide whether or not the pledge should be included, and the people of Enfield voted to keep it off the agenda, he wouldn’t be satisfied.

“Not really, but I don’t think that would ever happen,” Ed said. “I firmly believe that it’s the majority of people that would stand up for the pledge. It feels like the minority is pushing their agenda on the majority.”

The issue is obviously personal for Hetherington and his wife, who brought up that her husband served in the Vietnam War for 19 months. Military service was another common theme that popped

up during the meeting and in interviews: veterans feeling that their service was being disrespected (though, for the record, McGee’s husband is a veteran and is unbothered by the removal of the pledge).

Hetherington declared he’d be at whatever future meetings are held on the topic, and judging by the ardor shown by others in opposition, they likely will too, setting up a staredown between some residents and their government that could last past the special meeting Feb. 26.

“I don’t care how long it takes, that’s just the job and the process,” McGee said. “If it ‘s not this issue, it’s going to be another issue. I like that, I like people being engaged.

As long as it takes is fine. And even if people don’t get the result that they want, it doesn’t mean the process was wrong. [...] I understand that it’s an emotional issue for people. But we use these types of things a lot to just hammer each other because of other frustrations we have.”•

arts

Up is Down

Rare Stiller Zusman display leaves us wanting more

By Ar thur W hit m an

T

he use of eccentric, unstable perspectives in painting goes beyond mere novelty. In the hands of a skilled, imaginative artist, it can challenge us to rethink our relationships to our bodies, ourselves and our worlds. At its deepest level, painting—and the visual arts more broadly—engage a primordial human relationship to space. The history of art and its various styles can be seen as offering ways of questioning and rethinking that relationship.

In her current show in the lobby of the Kitchen Theatre, local artist Stiller Zusman explores the metaphorical resonance of point-of-view in four recent paintings. Up through April, “Up is Down” is too small a display from this rarely exhibiting artist.

Nonetheless, this is a thoughtful, interesting series—worthy of further development and a more considered exhibition.

Zusman is currently the Kitchen’s scenic artist-in-residence. (You can see her work on the set for the theatre’s current play: “Cry it Out,” with its unusual, encompassing grass lot setting.) For many years, she ran Abovoagogo, a community arts center for children located right around the block from the theatre.

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these in a left-to-right (or perhaps reverse) order. But a painting on a wall is not a book. Plausibly echoing the artist’s act of creation, these pieces push us also to engage their non-linear and all-at-once qualities. As the artist offers in a statement, they embody “a woven vision.”

Two canvases occupy a distinct genre of landscape-as-abstraction, recalling precedents as diverse as Kandinsky and Richard Diebenkorn. Too, they engage what the writer William Fox has called “aereality”: birds-eye-view as a distinct mode of experience. Both combine richly worked oil with drippy contours in what turns out to be Elmer’s glue. (The latter adds a tactile, relief element, also recalling Pollock’s thrown paint.) These enclose lumpy little shapes colored mostly in pale, lucent or darker blue: lakes or ponds seen from some great height. Sky and horizon go missing, disorienting the viewer and throwing her back towards the earth.

In “Wake Up,” a diptych of two stacked horizontal canvases, a smoky background of grass green, chilly yellow and amber suggests an idea of landscape without much specificity. (It might have been more interesting to see a more purely abstract use of color.) The split between the two canvases creates a sort of surrogate for the missing horizon. The piece plays with a compellingly ambiguous perspective: we could be looking up or down—perhaps

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“Looking Up at Ponds,” by Stiller Zusman, one of the pieces up on display currently. (Photo provided)

neither or both.

A single oil canvas, “A View of Lakes” offers a more recognizable, if still abstracted, aerial landscape. Flatly painted, sharply lit lakes punctuate a field of richly varied, naturalistic greens. (The glue lines add an abstract element, resembling lines on a contour map.) We are clearly looking down—though the oblique orientation of the landforms keeps things from getting too stable.

Composed of five pillar-like canvases in a row, the acrylic “Looking Up at Ponds” is Zusman’s most complex, demanding piece here. (The central column is split down the center into two distinct painted areas, creating an interesting division-withina-division.) Emphasizing glowing white and chalky pinks and blues—with yelloworange accents and gray-green murk—the polyptych sets up a rhythm of banded, eye-like shapes. We are deep underwater—looking up towards the light. Done in faded black silhouette, tiny dolphins and

divers clarify the subject matter but feel like afterthoughts.

More compellingly figurative is “Up From the Nether,” also in acrylic. A grimacing man emerges head-and-shoulders from the achromatic shadow that suffuses the bottom of the lower canvas. He cocks his head up: eyes closed, mouth bent down. It’s a strikingly direct image in pointed contrast to everything else here.

Elsewhere things are more abstract: clay red and aqueous blue filling a space that appears half-landscape, half-mosaic.

Though not a dedicated gallery, the Kitchen has a solid record of exhibiting some of Ithaca’s most ambitious painters—mostly abstractionists. Large, boldly colored pieces tend to fare best in this setting and unfortunately Zusman’s relatively quiet pieces here get lost in their surroundings.

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GN: I haven’t seen it yet, but I hear it’s really nice.

IT: I spoke to John Sebastian, and he hasn’t seen it, either.

GN: [laughs] Once it starts streaming on some device, I’ll watch it. I don’t think I would want to go to a cinema to see it, you know? I have to tell you that to do a documentary on Laurel Canyon and not include Joni Mitchell is a mistake.

IT: How’s she doing?

GN: Joni’s doing well. She’s walking and talking and smiling and relatively happy.

Last time I spoke to her, she was, you know, gathering her thoughts and trying to make herself better after her brain aneurysm. She has a team of people looking after her that love her dearly, and I think she’s slowly coming back to normal.

IT: So many of my friends wanted to know how she is.

GN: Yeah, she’s doing remarkably well.

First of all, she’s glad she’s still alive, and to see her socializing—not as much as she used to, of course—but socializing and seeing friends and going out to see shows, is a great sign.

IT: “Echoes in the Canyon� couldn’t have been the first time you met Jakob Dylan.

GN: Oh, no no. He’s a nice kid, too, and the Wallflowers are a good band.

IT: Last question about the movie: Neil Young appears uncredited at the end of the film playing a blistering guitar solo, but he didn’t sit for an interview like you and David Crosby and Stephen Stills did. You know Neil better than I do; any idea why he doesn’t speak in the film?

GN: Yeah, Neil is a very private man, as you know. He lives his life, he is a slave to the muse of music, which I appreciate tremendously. I’m still in touch with Neil every couple of weeks. Everything seems pretty fine. I believe that he is a totally unique and wonderful artist.

IT: I just watched you and your band play a great version of “Immigration Man.� Tell me about them.

GN: I have two people that I play with, my lead guitar player, Shane Fontayne. I’ve been working with him for about the last eight years. He’ll be with me on lead guitar and singing. And Todd Caldwell, who was the Hammond B-3 organ player in the Crosby, Stills and Nash band, will be with me on keyboards and singing.

IT: I’m sure you’ve played a lot of great guitars over the years. What do you like to play these days?

GN: You know, several years ago, Martin made a Graham Nash model of acoustic guitar. I put pickups on mine, and those are the ones I use. I really love it, it’s beautifully made and it sounds fantastic, so why bother with anything else?

IT: Any plans for a Hollies reunion?

GN: [laughs] Very interesting that you should ask me that because yesterday I got a call from [Hollies lead singer] Allan Clarke. And I’m not opposed to making music with Allan. I’ve known him for 72 years [laughs] and Allan and I always had a very interesting vocal blend, and maybe we’ll get together and do something. It will be an interesting bookend to my musical life.

IT: Last question: Having come through the ’60s, are you surprised by the lack of protest music in the wake of what’s going on in the world?

GN: I think that the people that own the world’s media, you could probably count on a couple of hands. And the one thing they do not want is music on their radio and on their television that disturbs the status quo, that tells people information that other people may not want the public at large to know. They have learned since Vietnam that you can’t let the people get too upset, because what they do is, they start agitating, they start meeting, they start marching, they start writing to their congressmen and senators and presidents, and trying to change the world. And I’ve been part of that world for the last 50 years, and I’m glad I’m still here.•

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Schola Cantorum of Syracuse presents: Kleine Schutz | 7:30 PM, 2/28 Friday | St. Luke Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Street, Ithaca | Small scale masterpieces by the early Baroque master Heinrich Schütz, composed during the Thirty Years’ War (16181648). Included will be selections from his Cantiones Sacrae (1625) and the two books of Kleine geistliche Konzerte (1636 and 1639). | Free will Kamasi Washington | 8:00 PM, 2/28 Friday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Young saxophonist

2/26 Wednesday Mardi Gras Celebration with CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band w/ Rose & The Bros | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Concerts/Recitals Gaelic Storm | 8:00 PM, 2/19 Wednesday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | The chart-topping, multi-national Celtic band. | $36

Midday Music in Lincoln | 12:30 PM, 2/27 Thursday | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Midday Music:

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The Travelin’ McCourys | 8:00 PM, 2/28 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Winners of the BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM AT THE 2019 GRAMMY AWARDS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: a free concert for the community | 2:00 PM, 2/29 Saturday | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | This kid-friendly performance of Paul Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice tells the story of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s famous ballad.

Our concert will also include music from favorites such as Harry Potter and Peer Gynt.

Cornell Symphony Orchestra: CU Music | 3:00 PM, 2/29 Saturday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Katherine Kilburn, conductor. Program includes Gabriela Lena Frank’s Apu, Georges Hüe’sFantasie for Flute and Orchestra featuring Joy Zhang, winner of the 2019 concerto competition, and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 6 in D Minor, Op. 104. A pre-concert instrument petting zoo begins at 2pm in the lower lobby.

Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale

Organist Jacob Montgomery in Recital | 4:00 PM, 2/23 Sunday | St Luke Lutheran Church Elca, 109 Oak Ave, Ithaca | A master’s student in organ at the Eastman School of Music, Jacob Montgomery will present a program including Franck’s Third Chorale, the adagio from Vierne’s third symphony, Rheinberger’s Introduction and Passacaglia from his eighth sonata, Bolcom’s setting of Jesus Loves Me, and Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 4 in the original edition.

and bandleader, who exceeds any notions of what “jazz” music is.

Binghamton Community Orchestra Winter Concert | 7:00 PM, 2/29 Saturday | Binghamton East Middle School, 167 E. Frederick St., Binghamton | Evan Meccarello, Guest Conductor. Featuring Guest Artist Jessica Best, Mezzo-Soprano. Co-hosted by the Binghamton Philharmonic – Beethoven Project | $10-12

DAMNYANQUIS Saturday, February 22 at 10:00 PM | The Range, 119 E. State Street (on the Commons), Ithaca | DamnYanquis is Ithaca’s newest Latin music ensemble, playing salsa, son, cha cha cha, boleros and more for your dancing and listening pleasure. Full Latin rhythm section of congas, bongo and timbales, as well as bass, piano, violin, flute, sax and vocals. (photo: Facebook )

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Exchange St, Auburn | Leo Crandall is a songwriter, musician, poet, film maker and artist. He performs on requinto, cello, baritone guitar, mandocello, dutar, ukulele and guitar. | 15 The Machine Performs Pink Floyd: 40th Anniversary of The Wall | 8:00 PM, 2/29 Saturday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | A special 40th Anniversary performance of The Wall in its entirety as only The Machine can, plus an encore featuring fan favorites from other Floyd albums.

Featuring the Interstellar Lights. | $25.00 - $35.00 Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble with Alexa Tarantino | 8:15 PM, 2/29 Saturday | Ithaca College, Whalen Ctr, Ithaca | For this concert, all the music has been learned by ear and will be performed for memory. No music stands were harmed in the creation of this concert!

Stage ComedyFLOPs Presents: All You Can Eat Improv | 7:00 PM, 2/20 Thursday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca, | February charity is

the Free Science Workshop | $5.00/ suggested On the Other Side of the Sea | 7:30 PM, 2/20 Thursday | Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca | Feb 20 - Mar 1. Thursdays thru Saturdays at 7:30 & Sunday matinees at 3pm. This lyrical, humorous play explores the pressing issue of “documentation” from a thought-provoking perspective. The Cherry Collective is thrilled to produce the play for the first time in English, starring Susannah Berryman and Jahmar Ortiz. Local musicians Mary Brett Lorson and Alexa Schmitz are composing original music for this play.

Dido and Aeneas | 8:00 PM, 2/20 Thursday thru 2/22 Saturday; 2:00PM, 2/23 Sunday | Ithaca College Clark Theatre, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid, Henry Purcell’s one true opera and his only all-sung dramatic work.

Center Players Presents The Importance of Being Earnest | 7:30 PM, 2/21 Friday & 2/22 Saturday; 2:00 PM, 2/23 Sunday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | A play

by Oscar Wilde. | $11-13 Cry It Out | 8:00 PM, 2/21 Friday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St,

Ithaca | Contact theater for additional showtimes. Thru 2/22. With little in common besides new babies and adjacent backyards, Jessie, a corporate lawyer, and Lina, a nurse, form an unlikely friendship over a series of naptime coffee breaks. But with the addition of their career oriented neighbor Adrienne, another new mom, the duo’s friendship and their individual conceptions of parenthood are put to the test. A candid comedy about parenthood.

WinterDance 2020 | 7:30 PM, 2/29 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | On Leap Year, leap into an evening of cutting edge, contemporary choreography and dance. | $18

Art Artist Alley Open Studios | 5:00 PM, 2/20 Thursday | South Hill Business Park, 950 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Artist Alley Entrance is off the lower lot at the red doors. Up to 40+ studios!

Justin Greenwald | Clarity through Chaos | 5:00 PM, 2/21 Friday | Ink Shop Studio Gallery , 330 E.State /

MLK Street Ithaca, NY 14850 , ITHACA | Clarity through Chaos is an exhibit of solarplate etchings and monotypes concerned with repetitive mark making. Justin uses numbers and equations and occasionally words in his prints. Through March 2020.

Experimenting with Crochet Demonstration by Saundra Goodman | 1:00 PM, 2/22 Saturday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | An informal “Off the Grid - Experimenting with Vertical Stitching in Crochet” demo Finger Lakes Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Member Show at TCFA | 3:00 PM, 2/22 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 5 McLallen St, Trumansburg | The show runs through 4/4. The opening reception will feature music by The Maplewood Jazz Quartet with Lisa Fernandez on drums and vocals, Ken Zeserson on sax, Stu Zimney on bass, and Jon Conrad on guitar.

“For the Love of Art” | Ongoing | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | Through Sun., March 1.

Week of Friday, February 21 through Thursday, February 27, 2020. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first*.

The Assistant* | A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.| 85 mins R The Lodge*| A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place. | 100 mins R Downhill | Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.| 86 mins R Little Women | Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. Directed by Greta Gerwig, starring Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, & Emma Watson.| 135 mins PG-13 Parasite | All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family takes a peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.|132 mins R Jojo Rabbit | A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. | 108 mins PG-13

Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

The Murder of Fred Hampton | 2/19, 6:45 PM | Director Howard Alk’s procedural documentary acts as a righteous inquest into the circumstances of the Black Panther Party chairman’s murder, and comes to a clear and coolly furious conclusion: political assassination.

Orlando | 2/20, 6:45 PM | Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, this is the lavish story of a young nobleman who lives through five hundred years of surreal adventures, nonchalantly changing into a woman midway through.

Ghost in the Shell | 2/20, 8:45 PM; 2/22, 9:30 | A stunning animated film, Mamoru Oshii’s meditation on the effect of runaway technology on the very human notion of individuality and existence.

Waves | 2/21, 6:45 PM; 2/22, 6:45 PM | A suburban African-American family in Southern Florida face unspeakable loss and its healing in this remarkable portrait of two adolescents on different tracks.

In Fabric | 2/21, 9:30 PM; 2/23, 6:45 PM | High fashion and bloodshed collide in this erotic and darkly humorous horror movie about a red designer dress that possesses its owners.

Cat Video Fest 2020 | 2/22, 2:00 PM; 2/23, 4:30 PM | A compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and, of course, classic internet powerhouses. 10% of proceeds from these screenings will be donated to the Tompkins County SPCA! Dark Waters | 2/26, 6:45 PM; | Mark Ruffalo plays the lawyer who took on chemical giant DuPont on a decadeslong toxic-waste lawsuit brought by the people of Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Children of Men | 2/26, 9:20 PM | In the near future, no human child has been born in 18 years and the human race is moving toward extinction.

When a pregnant woman appears, it is up to a jaded office drone and a band of terrorists to keep her safe.

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Nabenhauer Recital Room, Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College | The Ithaca Music Forum presents a lecture by Prof. Nancy Rao of Rutgers University, who will discuss the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures.

She will explore issues of archives, border crossing, visual emblems, and the sounding of identity. Open to the public. (photo: Facebook)

The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | When a quiet night at home sounds like the least appealing option…

Featuring Ire Clad, Fox 45, The Burned Out Suns, Break Of Aggression, Spit Nickels. Ear plugs optional. (photo: Facebook)

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Melancholia | 2/19, 8:45 PM | The result of the director’s own bouts with the titular affliction, the film stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as sisters dealing with personal traumas in the face of the world’s end.

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Meet the Author: George Rollie Adams | 6:00 PM, 2/21 Friday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Meet author, George Rollie Adams and hear about his novel, South of Little Rock.

Wi n t e r Da n c e 2 02 0 The Ithaca Ballet invites you to Leap into WinterDance 2020: an evening of cutting edge, contemporary choreography and dance.A few highlighted pieces are Blues and Pieces choreographed by Meggin Rose with music by Otis Redding, Triptic by Larry Brantley, a new piece by choreographer Tucker Davis and many others. The company dancers will highlight their ability to dance in the contemporary and modern style with guest dancers Samantha Sprague Iddings, Tucker Davis, and more.

Drag Queen Story Hour | 12:00 PM, 2/23 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join Miss Coraline, Miss Tilia, and friends once a month for Drag Story Hour. Join our colorful and fun group for an hour of story time full of glimmer and more glamour than you have ever seen in the daylight!

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February 29th 7:30 p.m. Hangar Theatre.

All tickets are $18 with open seating at the Hangar Theatre.

Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 2/19 through Tuesday, 2/25. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first* The Call of the Wild* | A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon. w/Harrison Ford | 100 mins PG Brahms: The Boy II* | After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms. | 86 mins PG-13 Impractical Jokers: The Movie* | The story of a humiliating high school mishap from 1992 that sends the Impractical Jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and redeem three of the four Jokers. | 93 mins PG-13

defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on it.| 99 mins PG Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey | After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.| 109 mins R Gretel & Hansel | A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. | 87 mins PG-13

Race, Mobility, and the Warp and Weft of American Musical Fabric | 5:00 PM, 2/21 Friday | Nabenhauer Recital Room, Danby Road , Ithaca | The Ithaca Music Forum presents a lecture

by Prof. Nancy Rao of Rutgers University, who will discuss the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. In particular, she will explore issues of archives, border crossing, visual emblems, and the sounding of identity. Open to the public.

The Gentlemen | A British drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires.| 113 mins R

Ithaca Women’s Basketball vs Vassar College | 5:30 PM, 2/21 Friday | Ben Light Gymnasium, Ithaca College, Ithaca |

Bad Boys for Life | 123 mins R

Cornell Women’s Ice Hockey vs Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 6:00 PM, 2/21 Friday | Lynah Rink, Cornell Univ., Ithaca |

Dolittle | 106 mins PG

The Photograph | A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present.| 106 mins PG-13

1917 | 119 mins R

Fantasy Island | A horror adaptation of the popular ‘70s TV show about a magical island resort.| 110 mins PG-13

Jumanji: The Next Level || 123 mins PG-13

Sonic the Hedgehog | After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help it

Star Wars:The Rise of Skywalker | 141 mins PG-13

Knives Out | 130 mins PG-13 Frozen II | 103 mins PG

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and discuss his experiences walking from St. Andrews, Scotland, to London. Rob will also talk about other European hikes, including the Camino de Santiago. Sponsored by the Finger Lakes Chapter of American Pilgrims on the Camino.

Cornell Women’s Ice Hockey vs Union College | 3:00 PM, 2/22 Saturday | Lynah Rink, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Ithaca Men’s Basketball vs Bard College | 4:00 PM, 2/22 Saturday | Ben Light Gymnasium, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Cornell Men’s Basketball vs Brown University | 6:00 PM, 2/22 Saturday | Bartels Hall, 521 Campus Rd, Ithaca | Cornell Men’s Basketball vs Dartmouth College | 7:00 PM, 2/28 Friday | Bartels Hall, 521 Campus Rd, Ithaca |

Cornell Men’s Basketball vs Yale University | 7:00 PM, 2/21 Friday | Bartels Hall, 521 Campus Rd, Ithaca |

Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey vs St. Lawrence University | 7:00 PM, 2/28 Friday | Lynah Rink, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Friday, February 28, 2020 at 7:00pm

A Ramble in Britain | 3:00 PM, 2/22 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green St., Ithaca | Ithacan Rob MacKenzie will show his short film “A Ramble in Britain”

Even Polo Players Get the Blues Suicide Prevention Benefit Game | 1:00 PM, 2/29 Saturday | Oxley Equestrian Center , 220 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | The Cornell Polo teams

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and the Central New York Polo Club (CNYPC) are hosting our sixth benefit polo match in support of suicide prevention. Admission to the game is free and visitors can vote for their favorite horse in the match and learn how to hit a polo ball. Members of the Cornell University Polo Team and the Skidmore Polo Team will be present to speak with visitors about polo and their favorite horses.

Cornell Men’s Basketball vs Harvard University | 6:00 PM, 2/29 Saturday | Bartels Hall, 521 Campus Rd, Ithaca | Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey vs Clarkson University | 7:00 PM, 2/29 Saturday | Lynah Rink, Cornell Univ., Ithaca |

Family Music Concert Series | 11:30 AM, 2/20 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Presented by Alejandro BernardPapachryssanthou, children, along with their families and caregivers, will be treated to playfully reimagined classics, originals, and modern standards. This series aims to provide a positive social experience for young children and families through music and movement. After the music, opportunities for play and social time will be provided.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 2/21 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 2/21 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

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Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 2/22 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Finger Lakes Beekeepers Book Club | 6:30 PM, 2/20 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green St., Ithaca | This new book club is open to all beekeepers regardless of experience level, including beginners.

People who are curious about bees, enjoy gardening for bees, or who cook with honey, are also welcome.The group will be led by David Hopkins, a

Maker Mondays for Teens | 4:00 PM, 2/24 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Provides people aged 12 to 17 the opportunity to express their creativity while becoming familiar with the equipment in the Library’s Makerspace. Each session will include a tutorial on 3D printing, laser cutting, or Arduino programming. No prior

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Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green St., Ithaca | Ithacan Rob MacKenzie will show his short film “A Ramble in Britain” and discuss his experiences walking from St. Andrews, Scotland, to London. Rob will also talk about other European hikes, including the Camino de Santiago. Sponsored by the Finger Lakes Chapter of American Pilgrims on the Camino. (photo: Facebook)

experience is required, and materials will be provided.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 2/25 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Toddler & PreSchool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 2/25 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

ticipants deepen their understanding of the French language and improve their ability to complete homework on their own.

Advanced ESL Classes | 1:00 PM, 2/21 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This Advanced English as a Second Language course comes from Lifelong Learning and will be led by Dolina Millar. Students will develop skills in

faiths; no prior experience required. | $10 s.d.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 2/22 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. For more information, go to the club’s website, http://www. cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM,

about climate change, but don’t know where to jump in and engage? Do you want to take action to fight the climate crisis, but have trouble finding the time and/or childcare? Join us for our first ever Family Friendly Mothers Out Front Tompkins meeting! Bring your kids, if you have ‘em! All are welcome, whether you’re a parent, a non-parent, a caretaker, grandparent, or anyone else who wants a safe

NY Breeding Bird Atlas Workshop with David Nicosia | 7:00 PM, 2/25 Tuesday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Participating in the atlas will strengthen birdwatching skills while contributing valuable data to a statewide conservation project. Including how to use breeding codes and a dedicated eBird portal for data submission.

Participants may bring a laptop, tablet

Baby Doll Circle Time | 10:00 AM, 2/26 Wednesday | Jillian’s Drawers, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Dolls, songs, books, and good times will be provided. Please RSVP jessica@childdevelopmentcouncil.org to reserve your spot.

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Men’s Group | 6:00 PM, 2/19 Wednesday | The LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Men’s Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m.

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 2/19 Wednesday | 2/19, 6:00 PM Dinner: Chili’s. Host: Nadine L, RSVP: nlajoie30@yahoo.com. 2/26, 6:00 PM Dinner: Boatyard Grill. Host: Angela E, RSVP: angelae65@gmail.com

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, Tuesdays & Thursdays | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield |

Red Cross Blood Drive | 10:00 AM, 2/20 Thursday | Tabernacle Baptist Church , 1019 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Critical need blood drive -- all blood types needed.

French Tutoring Sessions | 5:00 PM, 2/20 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Designed primarily for middle school, high school, and university students of French, as well as adults enrolled in a course or studying French on their own. Through extra, personalized assistance, this program can help par-

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 2/26 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com

Beginning Taoist Tai Chi | 5:00 PM, Mondays & Wednesdays | Newfield Masonic Temple, 186 Main Street, Newfield | Taoist Tai Chi internal arts promote health and well-being in people of all ages and in all health conditions. Regular practice increases strength, flexibility, balance, and mental focus.

Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 2/26 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

Teen Writing Workshops | 4:30 PM, 2/20 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teens may attend a couple of sessions or all of them; each week will offer something different, and attendance every week is not required. These one-hour workshops will be led by volunteers from Ithaca College, and they will involve a variety of prompts, exercises, and opportunities to workshop pieces. (no mtg 3/12)

eos, and talk with Library volunteers about current events, Ithaca, family life, culture, food, and holidays.

Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 2/20 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 2/23 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 2/23 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca |

FINGER LAKES CHAPTER OF THE GUILD OF NATURAL SCIENCE ILLUSTRATORS MEMBER SHOW Saturday, February 22 at 3:00 PM | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Trumansburg | Featuring diverse works from group members in a variety of media. The opening reception will feature music by The Maplewood Jazz Quartet with Lisa Fernandez on drums and vocals, Ken Zeserson on sax, Stu Zimney on bass, and Jon Conrad on guitar. (photo: Carla Elizabeth)

speaking, listening, reading, and writing. No textbook is required. **Class will not meet on March 27 or April 3** Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das Kirtan | 7:00 PM, 2/21 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Kids are welcome; easy & fun spiritual practice. Open to all

2/23 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Family Friendly Dinner & Meeting with Mothers Out Front | 4:30 PM, 2/24 Monday | Quaker Meeting House , 120 Third St., Ithaca | Are you worried

future for all children. Please RSVP by emailing info@moftompkins.org

or mobile phone (with active eBird account) to practice data entry.

Trumansburg Community Chorus Spring Session | 7:00 PM, 2/24 Monday | Jacksonville Community United Methodist Church, 1869 Trumansburg Rd, Jacksonville | $40 adults/$25 students. Donations are available

ESL Talk Time, | 3:45 PM, 2/26 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In these classes, interested people will meet others who are practicing English, watch and discuss YouTube vid-

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous | 4:00 PM, 2/23 Sunday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | FA is a free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating, or bulimia. foodaddicts. org. Additional meetings held Mondays @ 7pm and Saturdays at 8am.

Timeless Tuesdays | 9:00 AM, 2/25 Tuesday | well-being healing center, 317 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Step into an oasis and enjoy a relaxing moment.

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The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | A touring musician since the age of 10, Sullivan has shared the stage with many of his heroes including Buddy Guy, Carlos Santana, and Joe Bonamassa. He has performed on many talk shows, including twice on Ellen (his first time at just 6 years old!). Blues, Americana, and Modern Rock-inspired guitar music. (photo: Facebook)

Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | This lyrical, humorous play explores the pressing issue of “documentation” from a thought-provoking perspective. English language premiere, starring Susannah Berryman and Jahmar Ortiz. Local musicians Mary Brett Lorson and Alexa Schmitz have composed original music for this play. (photo: Sarah Chaneles )

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