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ew York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an Executive Order extending the deadline for school districts to receive absentee ballots returned by mail to June 16, 2020.

Ballots may be delivered by hand to the District Office at 400 Lake Street until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9. Ballots may continue to be mailed and will be received by mail until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16.

The “closing of the polls” will occur at 5:00 p.m. on June 16, at which time, election inspectors will begin counting the ballots. Ballots that are postmarked on or prior to June 16 but not received by 5:00 p.m. on June 16 cannot be counted.

In the Board of Education elections, Sabrina Draffen, Sean Eversley Bradwell, Sophia Lux, Christopher Malcolm and Patricia Wasyliw are vying for three spots. Draffen and Lux are newcomers, while the other three are already members of the board. Elizabeth Minor had been on the ballot, but has withdrawn her name officially and votes for her will not be counted. The top three candidates receiving votes will win spots on the board.

Additionally, the ICSD budget is also up for its annual referendum. That vote will decide if the school’s chosen budget of $136,842,648 for the 20202021 school year is acceptable, as well as the taxes associated with that budget. Additionally, voters will have the chance to authorize the use of $799,126 from the 2018 Capital Reserve Fund. As listed, that money will be used to buy more buses and transit vans for the district.

In total, the district intends to by six more full-size gasoline buses and three transit vans.

Check out Ithaca.com this week for more info on candidates and the budget vote.

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he City of Ithaca has received approval to close one of its most prominent streets downtown, and potentially one more as well, in order to help some restaurants provide outdoor dining to customers. In the next few days, Aurora Street could be full of evening diners for the first time in months.

Starting this week, the 100 block of North Aurora Street (commonly referred to as Restaurant Row) will be closed to car traffic to allow restaurants to extend their dining areas to the curb of the street's sidewalks. The actual street will be opened for pedestrians. The city received approval for the plan from the state's Department of Transportation on June 4, and is looking at potentially adding the 100 block of West State Street, on the other end of the Commons, to the plans as well. The West State Street aspect is pending review

by the city's Planning Department, according to Mayor Svante Myrick.

The city's been working on the plan for some time, Myrick said, and Governor Andrew Cuomo's announcement last week that people in the Southern Tier could dine-in at restaurants if outdoor seating was made available accelerated Ithaca's process. Cuomo said the rule only applies if the restaurant can provide seating that allows customers to maintain social distance, plus staff must wear face-coverings and customers must keep their face-coverings on when not seated. Dine-in service at restaurants hasn't been allowed since March 16.

"We're trying to do it as soon as possible," Myrick said. Their plan had been to be ready for a debut Friday, June 12, but with Cuomo's announcement and DOT approval they're working to get

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The 100 block of Aurora Street will close for the foreseeable future to accommodate outdoor dining on Restaurant Row. (Photo by Casey Martin)

Randall recieved his deploma at Stewart Park on June 4th. Photo: Casey Martin, Design: Marshall Hopkins

the logistics set up quickly.

"We're ordering barriers, they have yet to arrive, we're working on signage, and we needed the DOT approval."

Myrick said the city's been working with the Downtown Ithaca Alliance on how to pull off the plan logistically. The barriers that have been ordered are concrete and would be placed at the end of each block to protect eaters and pedestrians -- something Myrick acknowledged was added to the plan while thinking about the 2014 truck accident that killed bartender Amanda Bush and destroyed Simeon's Bistro.

There isn't a firm timetable in terms of when the streets would be re-opened, but Myrick said he wasn't very concerned about re-routing traffic.

"It's actually not that big of an inconvenience, because it's already one-way traffic there

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Floyd Protests

PHOTOGRAPHER Ithaca protests continue strong into second weekend

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wave of protests swept through Ithaca over the last week in reaction to the Minneapolis Police Department’s killing of George Floyd, another incident in a centuries-long line of police violence against unarmed black people that has also inspired dozens of protests in cities throughout

Department headquarters.

The largest was held on Wednesday, June 3, organized by several Cornell fraternities and many local community organizations, led by Cornell student Devonte Parker and recent graduate Jelani HoytKing. That included a march from Ho Plaza on Cornell’s

“I’m just happy Casablanca is back open. Lunchtime is important!”

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Protesters head to downtown Ithaca from Ho Plaza at Cornell University (Photo by Casey Martin)

“Fresh Tacos!”

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the United States.

There have been at least four protests in Ithaca during the last 10 days, a range of marches, car rallies and speeches on the Commons and outside of Ithaca Police “Coconut Shrimp at The Boatyard Grill.”

campus to the Commons and then the Ithaca Police Department, where the crowd stretched down the street and listened to hours of speeches.

Paritcipants heard from a variety of speakers, including

Election 2020

Meet the Candidates: Cortland County Legislator Beau Harbin

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Harbin’s running against six other Democratic candidates in the primary election for the New York State Assembly’s 125th District seat, and is one of two candidates from Cortland County. The election is being held June 23.

Kamet Ripken, a 16 year old from Ithaca High School who captivated audience members for the second straight protest after delivering an impassioned speech before the crowd at the first Ithaca protest on May 31.

She delivered a piece she had written especially for the event, highlighting the difficulties of attending a predominantly white school while being black.

"You will never go hungry, as your textbooks constantly feed you lies about your history," she said. "When you go to a predominantly white school, you learn to adapt. But above all else, you learn to be comfortable with being so, so, so uncomfortable."

Parker and Hoyt-King also addressed the crowd before opening it up to the group.

Breaking in and out of tears, Parker emotionally shouted parts of his speech to the applause of the crowd.

"The world we made is a process of our thinking, and we cannot change it without changing our thinking," Parker said.

A long line of speakers followed, highlighted by Dr. Nia Nunn, the Board of Director President of Southside Community Center and a professor at Ithaca College, fellow Ithaca College professor Cynthia Henderson, Multicultural Resource Center director Fabina Benites, Cornell professor and Black Lives

Matter-Ithaca leader Russell Rickford, several high school students, and more, including Rose DeGroat, a victim of police brutality herself that thrust her into the spotlight last year.

During the speeches, protesters taped a small cardboard casket to the front door of IPD with the words "RIP George Floyd" written on it.

Nunn, probably the most prominent black community leader locally, had harsh, passionate words for the Ithacans who believe their city is immune to the type of racism seen nationwide, saying the "black body property mentality" is the same here as it is anywhere.

"Ithaca, we have some waking up to do," she said. "Ithaca, you're not innocent of this sh*t."

Next, on Friday, Black Lives Matter - Ithaca organized an event meant to make room for black women to have their voices heard. It also drew hundreds to the Commons before moving on a march around downtown two separate times.

The mantra of this specific event seemed to be one of unity between black men and women, as well as a reiteration of the week's calls for white people to actively support the push for change, in policing and systemic racism in general. Prominent local activist

As the pandemic (hopefully) winds down, Harbin said his mind has moved on to how to recover from the widespread economic ripple effects from the coronavirus shutdown, and said his first consideration overall is how to make the recovery fair. For him, that means raising taxes on billionaires and corporations and introduce a “green recovery economy” while making sure that sustainable energy projects are given to local businesses (especially those owned by minorities and women and those that employ union labor).

He also advocated for legalized marijuana and providing marijuana licensing to local farmers in order to keep profits in the state.

“Many of the issues in our district are tied together but we have to make sure that our residents benefit from this recovery and don’t allow special

interests, wealthy developers, NYC billionaires, and international corporations to take over,” Harbin said.

As for Harbin’s other primary legislative priorities, he listed four: approving and implementing the NY Health Act, fighting for racial justice, education funding and creating public, universal broadband coverage. As others have, Harbin said that the NY Health Act was crucial for equality, and that the outbreak had exposed the flaws in avoiding a universal healthcare system.

As for racial justice, Harbin advocated repealing Civil Right Law 50a, which protects law enforcement personnel files, expunging convictions related to marijauana, demilitarize police and continuing to support bail reform. The latter topic, universal broadband, has

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Kopko, Van Houten spar in contentious DA forum

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years of his term. Kopko quickly brought up the Commons incident from last year (much more on that later), a black mark that continues to haunt Van Houten and has become a central theme of the debates between the two and the campaign in general.

“His admission of mistakes has never turned into an apology to the community or to the people who have been directly involved in this,” Kopko said, referring to Rose DeGroat and Cadji Ferguson. “Ignoring these concerns creates a lack of accountability that fosters racism.

Matt Van Houten Ed Kopko When people close their eyes to systemic prejudices, they become part of the problem.” director Michayla Savitt, feaEarly debate touched upon tured questions both on past the Law Enforcement Assisted actions and policy priorities Diversion program and the either candidate would push Mental Health Court estabfor when in office. Overall, it lished in 2018 in the City of sealed the theme of much of Ithaca. Van Houten, long a this campaign: these two men, whatever their policy disagree- proponent of the additional court avenue, said that his viments, also just don’t like each sion for the court is to expand other. Notably, though, they it beyond Ithaca and noted that both did commit to not runother jurisdictions can now ning as a third party candidate refer people to the court. if defeated in the Democratic Calling the court a “laudprimary on June 23. able idea,” Kopko still cau“If you want a DA who tioned that involving the will lie to you, who will use courts in the matters of mental unscrupulous tactics, I am not health is a risky proposition in your guy,” Van Houten said in his mind. his opening statement, setting “I’m not totally convinced the tone for the debate. “The community should not wonder that the proper forum for these people is to funnel them into about the integrity of the Disan already overloaded court trict Attorney.” system,” Kopko said, though Van Houten came out his time was cut before he was swinging, saying that Kopko’s platform is either stuff that Van able to explain which social services he would employ to Houten is already doing, or handle them. Van Houten did things that aren’t possible. Van use a rebuttal on that point, Houten also advocated for the saying that sometimes it is creation of a strong, diverse difficult to tell without the community police board durscreening process (which the ing his opening comments.

Mental Health Court utilizes) Kopko responded in kind, that a mental health issue is the blaming Van Houten for using primary problem for someone the campaign to make promaccused of a crime. ises that the DA hasn’t made Both, obviously, endorsed progress on over the first four ith just two weeks left until the primary election, incumbent Tompkins County District Attorney Matt Van Houten and challenger Ed Kopko traded blows in a fiery debate held on community radio station WRFI. The forum, hosted by news

widespread use of alternatives to incarceration, with Van Houten touting that the jail population has fallen under his watch. They also endorsed the use of Cultural Competency Training among police officers.

Kopko once again swiped at the diversity of Van Houten’s office, clearly implying that his office has a racial diversity problem, though Van Houten said he is only able to hire who applies and hasn’t been able to recruit more widely. Kopko didn’t buy that answer, arguing that Van Houten should be putting in more effort to find minority Assistant District Attorneys.

The candidates were then asked about public complaints regarding lenient sentences for sex offenses. The primary case this stems from is that of Remanu Philips (though that specific case wasn’t actually vocalized), who was convicted of felony sexual abuse of a 10 year old.

Kopko blamed it on Van Houten’s charging patterns, saying the charges the DA has brought don’t result in harsh enough minimum sentences, allowing judges more leeway to give low sentences.

“That explanation by my opponent is absurd,” Van Houten quickly shot back, noting that the prosecutor on the Philips case had indeed asked Judge John C. Rowley for a five year prison sentence. He argued that his office charges what they believe the evidence can give them. “In those cases, we’ve been dissatisfied with those sentences. [...] Sentencing is up to the judge, not the DA.” On the topic of protests about police violence, Kopko took the opportunity to once again use the Commons case, in which he represented Rose DeGroat, to paint Van Houten as beholden to the police.

DeGroat and Cadji Ferguson, both black, were thrown to the ground and arrested by Ithaca police in a case that drew scorn from the public and has reemerged during the recent local protests about police brutality.

“As a result of that, the entire integrity of the criminal justice system is affected,” Kopko said as he accused Van Houten of allowing the police to manipulate the charges brought against DeGroat and

Ferguson; the former had her charges dropped, while Ferguson was found not guilty.

He continued that he would try to repeal qualified immunity and impose personal damages on “rogue cops.” Van Houten called Kopko’s allegation of undue influence “reckless” and said that while Judge Rowley (who dropped the charges against DeGroat) characterized the police’s behavior as an “overreaction,” that did not amount to criminal behavior on their part.

The tone of the debate then took a definitive turn, with Kopko and Van Houten both knocked slightly off-balance by listener-submitted questions.

The first was for Kopko, who was asked about his campaign as a Republican for District Attorney in Pennsylvania in the 1980s, which included harsh positions on non-violent drug offenders, counter to what he has touted now.

“I have been growing and developing in my positions, I am proud to say,” Kopko said, a bit defensive. He said that drug culture has changed and more is known about the root causes now. “We now understand that these are socioeconomic and cultural problems and not individual problems. [...] I am, today, holding a position very different than I was 30 years ago.”

Next was Van Houten, who faced another question from listeners about how he handled the DeGroat-Ferguson situation from last April. Van Houten has commented at length on the case before, repeatedly citing his “missteps,” though these might have been his most thorough, candid comments yet.

“I absolutely would have done things differently,” Van Houten said. “What I did wrong was I moved too fast, and I listened to a lot of people during the course of that case, trying to do the right thing. I really wanted to do restorative justice and have a mediation in the case so everyone can understand the points of view of others. But I think that if I would do it over again, I would do it slower and more careful.”

Van Houten continued that he knows he caused trauma to DeGroat and Ferguson, and that he regrets that, but that with both of them eventually

UPS&DOWNS

Ithaca College announced that they have canceled their in-person commencement plans, which had been scheduled for August 2020 after being pushed back due to the coronavirus outbreak. Although President Shirley Collado had pressed forward with the inperson plans confidently until now, she was conciliatory in a note to students posted Monday.

“Although we remained hopeful, it is with a heavy heart that I share the decision that we will not be able to offer an on-campus commencement weekend in August,” Collado said.

County weekly update - Re-opening not impacting outbreak so far There wasn’t too much news made in last week’s coronavirus update from the county, though County Health Director Frank Kruppa said that the evidence shows so far that there has not been a jump in cases locally associated with the reopening process.

Southern Tier region may be set to continue into a Phase 3 re-opening on Friday, June 12.

“We have certainly seen more asymptomatic people testing positive,” Kruppa said of recent testing numbers, as more asymptomatic people have been allowed to receive tests. “The disease is still in our community, though at very low levels.”

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By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s rowing up in Vermont, Sarah was disparate opportunities available to city eager to discover the larger world. dwellers, correlated with race, gender and After graduate school she headed to ethnicity. “We were neighbors to incredJapan to teach English as a second lanibly resilient families facing all the raw guage to high school students. Polishing disappointments of communities broken the spoken English of students alongside by poverty, homelessness, violence.”

Japanese colleagues, she spent three lively At first, Sarah created English as years making friends and Second Language curricula falling in love with Japan. At at community colleges the Kanazawa Institute of throughout central MaryTechnology, Sarah also land. But seeking a stronger met her partner Jake daily connection with stuBorst, native of Danby, New dents, she found a place at York, then a study-abroad Reginald F. Lewis—a student from RIT. large, inner city Baltimore When Sarah’s contract high school. ended in Kanazawa, she “85 percent of my stujoined her childhood best dents came from Central friend, Liz Lawrence, who America,” Lubold said. “I had just begun her Mastaught lots of English and ters of Nursing program at learned lots of Spanish Sara Lubold Johns Hopkins in Baltifrom my students’ famimore lies. I learned a lot about City. perseverance and resilAfter his graduation, ience. Those kids had been Jake reunited with Sarah, and the three through so much in their native counfriends began to explore life in one of tries. They left behind family members, America’s most segregated cities. They their culture to have a chance to live safely reveled in much of the cultural richness they discovered, but observed the continued on page 7

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By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e ill Chaisson left Ithaca, and his job as editor of the Ithaca Times, a few years ago. He was born in New York and lived here most of his life, “but my heart has always been in New England,” he recently wrote back of his new home.

Bill always found Ithaca a bit fastpaced, or at least overcrowded, which perhaps describes a type of person who might find true happiness in rural New Hampshire.

Bill keeps up with the Ithaca Times, and (magnanimously) praised a recent column in which I wrote of the potential for pleasure and solace, in an ill world, in nature.

I described a visit before dawn to Six Mile Creek at South Plain Street, a block from my house, and an idyllic scene of ducks descending on the water in silhouette, the babble of the brook undiminished by noise from even a single passing car, and a particularly extravagant robin, posing on a wire beneath a street light, belting out a star turn song in what seemed to me joyful vibrancy.

My ex-editor wrote, “I thought it was a little off your curve to muse about the quotidian aspects of natural history.”

Bill says this not only because he was once my editor, but for years more has been a friend, and knows I grew up in deepest Brooklyn, not a part with parks or trees, but a neighborhood essentially devoid of nature, or at least natural diversity. As a kid I knew sparrows, pigeons, and seagulls, but not much else of winged wildlife, whereas Bill grew up in Beacon, on the Hudson River, and has been an avid and accomplished birdwatcher since boyhood. He writes a weekly column on birds, “Of A Feather,” for the Claremont (NH) Eagle Times (ironically named, in this context, but it is a general interest newspaper).

A phenomenon of the pandemic, according to much coverage in recent media, is a pronounced upswing in birdwatching, especially casual (or fledgling?).

Common sense suggests this is unsurprising, as people newly have time on their hands, and the world has become slower and emptier. Birds are out there for the watching.

I guess I am part of this phenomenon, but as I noted to Bill in reply, my musings are strictly amateurish and certainly unscholarly. Mostly I tend to anthropomorphize these creatures from my imagination, for purposes of amusement.

Bill taught for some of his career, and seems to have the exemplary attitude that there are no unworthy ponderings or questions.

Therefore I hit him with a few, figuring benignly to exploit his patience and expertise.

I report them here for the interest of readers like me, new to the wide world of nature, freshly aware of, and curious about, our avian neighbors.

Primarily the subject was robins, the questions stemming from the residential presence of one on my porch. (There is a bonus observation, perhaps even a shocking revelation, about herons at the end.)

The questions and answers have been juggled here. It’s partly verbatim and partly not, and also includes information from the website of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a stellar local (and worldrenowned) resource.

Q: Is it true robins return to the same place each spring? After a recent addition to my front porch roof, each spring there’s been a robin’s nest in a cozy corner protected from rain and away from human activity (i.e., my mailbox and doorbell).

Might it be the same bird?

A: Most songbirds live about five years or so, if they survive the perilous first year. It might well be that the same robin has returned year after year to your porch, and will until it dies.

Q: It strikes me as prime real estate.

Mightn’t there be competition for it?

A: Robins are extremely competitive for resources. You can commonly see them physically fighting. It is possible that an older robin would lose the portion of its territory that includes that sweet spot on your porch to a younger, more aggressive bird.

Q: Do you think the first robin thinks about that and maybe heads back early in the season to reclaim it? The early bird gets the room, so to speak?

A: (No answer) Q: Do you think in the winter the bird gets homesick for the old porch?

A: (No answer) Sufferance has its limits, I guess.

But in addition to these tidings, I learned that nests are just temporary quarters, not even seasonal. They’re just for the ensconcement of eggs. It’s not a permanent dwelling. Once the kids are grown and dispersed, the place is abandoned in favor of anonymous, safer (less prone to predation or infestation) trees.

Regarding herons: I saw one midday in the creek last week. It occurred to me they must need to feed a lot, to sustain those big bodies.

It turns out they eat plenty, and their varied menu is not exclusive of ducklings.

Knowing that, despite my new enthusiasm, I guess henceforth I will watch them less closely. The quest for knowledge also has limits.

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in the U.S. And, they had been through a lot before they came to school each day. The impoverished Baltimore school system was not designed to offer these new Americans a ‘safe space.’ It was not accommodating to the trauma—hunger, poverty, violence, homelessness they had lived through and still were surrounded by.”

“The thing is, many of these kids thrived against all the odds,” Lubold said.

“How could I not show up every day for that! The kids were worth every second, even though the public-school system really beats up on its staff in underfunded schools in poor neighborhoods. The destination, after Liz’s graduation, was Ithaca.

Within a month of moving Sarah began working with Jake’s sister Eva Bleakley at her floral design studio Business Is Blooming, and Jake’s mom introduced Sarah to a neighbor: Julie Coulumbe. Julie was the program director of the English as Second Language program. then at BOCES. When the program began a new independent chapter in Julie’s memory, I joined the team of incredible teachers to create Open Door English, headquartered in the Presbyterian Church on Court and Cayuga Streets in downtown Ithaca.”

“A year after we moved in with Jake’s family, Liz, Jake, and I bought a farm in Groton New York. We have a big 1910’s farmhouse and a barn. When we aren’t at our multiple jobs, we spend every moment landscaping, taking care of our

bees, raising food. We will always have a lot to learn, but now, more than ever, we want to address food insecurities of our neighbors and to protect our beautiful environment.”

Four days a week, Sarah teaches intermediate and advanced classes of adult students from across Asia, South America, Europe, and the Caribbean.

Some students, like her kids in Baltimore, have survived unspeakably difficult lives in their home countries and during forced migrations prior to their arrival in Ithaca.

Sarah is described as expressive, lively, charismatic, caring. Her students love her.

Flexible, when Covid-19 changed everyone’s daily life and students transitioned to caring for their kids at home, Sarah and ODE teachers went online. She also added a very popular new feature: Book Club!

“My students rotate as discussion leaders and rather than sticking to ESL books, we read library books with gripping plots and real language. Sophia McKissick at the Tompkins County Public Library helps us get enough copies for everyone to read. Each week, the students have free rein how they lead the discussion. [...] I love how the students have taken this on.

They run it and they love it.”

Stories about Open Door English (ODE) are all colorful and hopeful and heartbreaking. ODE exists because of the generous donations and grant funding received from members of the Tompkins County community. Readers are invited to learn more about ODE and make contributions at opendoorsenglish.org.

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freed “the system ultimately worked.”

Kopko took the opportunity to pounce on Van Houten, saying that if he never had the intention of leaving the two with criminal charges, he shouldn’t have pursued felony charges against DeGroat and again lodged that Van Houten had been unduly influenced by police.

“My opponent’s statement that I was improperly influenced by the police is baseless, reckless and flat out untrue,” Van Houten said. “I know what the proposed offers in those cases were. [...] I did not want there to be permanent consequences of these young people.”

Kopko was then posed a question about his conduct during the Scott Walters trial last year. Walters, a Tompkins County police officer, was acquitted of first degree rape charges during the trial. Matthew Pinney, Kopko’s client, served as a witness in the case and admitted that he had raped the woman while she was incapacitated, but had received a deal before testifying that resulted in him only receiving misdemeanor charges. On Pinney’s behalf, Kopko filed a civil suit against the victim for defamation and emotional distress, and was asked how he could be trusted to support victims with that kind of mark on

his resume.

Kopko answered that he had an obligation to do everything within reason to defend his client, and felt that he had not gone out of bounds during the course of that, arguing that Pinney had deceived him by telling him the intercourse was consensual when the suit was filed. Van Houten took the opportunity to call Kopko’s filing of the suit reprehensible.

“I have never heard of a defense attorney bringing a civil defamation lawsuit against a sexual assault victim,” Van Houten said. “That is beyond the pale and it is pure harassment. It shocks the conscience.”

Van Houten said he did not believe there was any police misconduct in the Nagee Green case, and that there was no reason for a mistrail. Kopko then challenged Van Houten to re-try the case if he was so confident.

The two closed with statements reiterating much of what their campaigns have focused on: Van Houten on his track record and that Kopko is liable to cut corners if elected, and Kopko that the election provides an opportunity to advance his vision, which he argues fits the community better than Van Houten’s last four years has.

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his June, we will cast our votes in Democratic primary for the 125 Assembly District; an election of incredible importance. Who we select to represent us in Albany this election will play a critical role in our district, potentially for years to come. It is vital that we send a candidate who has the experience, the passion, and the commitment to serve our district. I believe that candidate is Seph Murtagh.

Seph is the most well-rounded candidate in this primary. It is so important that we have a leader in Albany with experience in state and local government. Seph’s experience as a member of the Ithaca Common Council and as a staff member in Assemblywoman Lifton’s office has prepared him for stepping into the role, he knows how to build relationships and partnerships with people to get things accomplished. I’ve spent enough time in Albany to know that it is important to have an Assemblymember who is familiar with the workings of Albany to effectively represent our district.

Seph knows how to work with community leaders on projects that will benefit our community for years to come, working with them to push forward grant projects. Take for example the City of Cortland’s plans to purchase and renovate the former Parker School, turning it into a childcare center to serve the many daycare aged children in the area.

This election is especially important for Cortland County, as we are losing all three of our representatives in Albany this year with the retirement of Barbara, Assemblyman Gary Finch and Senator Jim Seward, which makes it even more important that we have someone with Seph’s experience in Albany representing us.

Please join me in voting for Seph Murtagh for New York State Assembly., Trish Hansen

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ear Tompkins County Community, We, current and past members of the Board of the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County acknowledge the hurt and pain that the Black community has endured and continues to endure in our country. We condemn acts of violence, hate and injustice.

The unjustifiable deadly force used to take the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and so many others before them, reflects the ongoing prevalence of anti-Black racism in the United States, an issue that has deep and systemic historical roots. The ongoing abuse of power, once again in evidence by the murder of Mr. Floyd, brings to sharp focus the deep pain felt by all the persons of color, and particularly by Black individuals. Currently, this pain is compounded by the disparate impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the Black community in the U.S. We urge all of our members as well as the Tompkins County community as a whole to reflect on the systemic racial injustice that permeates our society.

The Latino Civic Association stands in solidarity with the Black community. We commit to confronting the anti-Black racism that exists in Latinidad, and the many ways racism impacts and permeates our society at large. Today we acknowledge the need to make sure our Latino community is a safe and welcoming space for all and reaffirm our active commitment to social justice and change. We also commit to act when acts of injustice, racism and bias occur in our community.

The need for change is immediate and urgent. The Latino Civic Association stands ready to support the Black community across Tompkins County. ¡Basta ya!

In solidarity, Patricia Fernández de Castro, Eva López, Fernando de Aragón, Francia Wallace, Michael Luis Ristorucci, Leonardo Vargas-Mendez, Héctor Vélez, Josie Vélez, Eric Rosario, Carlos Gutierrez, Krystall Escobedo-Paz, Carolina Osorio Gil

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on Aurora Street," Myrick said. He continued that, if the city does receive approval to close the 100 block of West State Street too, it would have a similarly limited impact because people traveling on that road know that it dead-ends at the Commons, so they could just turn a block earlier than they normally would have. Cayuga Street would remain open for vehicular traffic, with the crosswalk and traffic lights still in operation.

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Grill, said they had been in touch with the city and were excited about the plan. Normally, the restaurant has 10 tables sitting out front of its location, though Schmidt said with the additional space they were planning on 12-14 tables for seating.

“We were really hopeful that would happen,” Schmidt said of the Aurora Street closure. “It’s been tough for every business that’s shuttered and had a downturn. We shuttered because our owners wanted to keep their employees as safe as possible, so it’s great that we could reopen at the start of the summer, especially with the new space for the patio.”

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rea high schools have adjusted in a variety of ways to public gathering limitations and social distancing guidelines to create the kind of safe but memorable but send-off seniors expect after finishing up four long years of study. This year’s “pandemic class” will celebrate their graduation with a variety of individual diploma hand-offs, videos, parades or outdoor socially-distant ceremonies.

At Ithaca High School, the county’s largest school, seniors have been invited by appointment to Stewart Park over the last several weeks, where they cross a stage in full cap and gown attire and receive a placeholder diploma (the real thing will be mailed later). Each walk is recorded, and the footage will be used in the school’s virtual ceremony on June 25.

“When the idea of graduation and prom being canceled or changed in any way, I’m not going to lie I almost cried,” IHS senior J.T. Stone said. “Ever since I started middle school, it’s been one of those things that I’ve dreamed of: going to prom with some of my best friends, and graduation with walking across the stage and seeing my parents

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and the entire ICSD community cheering us on after four years.”

But as time went on, Stone said he grew comfortable with the idea. Helping with that was the outpouring of gestures from prominent figures across the country who filmed speeches for graduates that wouldn’t be getting the customary in-person experience.

“What other class can they say they’ve had Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and a handful of other celebrities speak at a commencement ceremony just for their class?”

Stone said. “It started out with me feeling like something was stolen from me, but now it doesn’t feel that way. [...] I also feel like it’s brought the class of 2020 together, we’re sharing this all together and we’ll always be the ‘pandemic class.’”

Stone also complimented Distance Learning 2.0, the school district’s online learning plan that was developed when the pandemic closed schools in mid-March and implemented in mid-April. He acknowledged that many of his classmates found the transition online more difficult and less stimulating than in-person courses, though.

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and plan something more extensive now that the state recently announced relaxed guidelines for graduation events. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced over the weekend that schools could hold graduation ceremonies as long as the crowds were limited to 150 people or less. One such school that has changed their plans in the wake of the news is New Roots Charter School, which finalized their graduation plans this week.

Though the school was initially planning for a virtual ceremony that would have been held on June 20, they have pivoted after Cuomo’s announcement and will now hold an in-person, outdoor ceremony the week after the previously scheduled date.

On the other hand, Lehman Alternative Community School is compiling speeches from teachers, a yearly tradition, to be read to students. Each student receives an individualized speech, usually from a teacher they were close to during their time at the school. Those speeches will be compiled into a video that will be broadcast to stu-

dents during a ceremony on June 24 at 7 p.m. That’s in addition to the school opening up two days, June 18 and 19, when students can schedule times to receive their diploma in-person in the school’s amphitheater from principal Deborah Ptak.

LACS senior Giancarlo Richardson Villenas said that initial rumors about the school’s commencement ceremony held that it would be only online, without much of a personal touch for students, but that the current plan actually suits him fairly well.

“For a long time I was bummed out,” Villenas admitted, when presented with the original idea of a solely online ceremony. “I thought I would rather just get my diploma mailed to me and I was fine just not having a ceremony. Now, with this new solution, I’m okay with it.”

There are some things, though, that can’t be cured for Villenas, such as missing out on the capstone Spring Trip for LACS students. He’s acclimated to an unconvention-

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al graduation ceremony, but does regret being forced to miss a week-long volunteer trip he was slated to take with some classmates to the Awkwesasne Mohawk Nation territory in northern New York.

A popular solution for other schools has been a more mobile style celebration. Trumansburg High School’s Principal Jon Koeng announced on Friday that, though he was disappointed there wouldn’t be an inperson ceremony, the school would be organizing a senior parade down Main Street in the Village of Trumansburg for June 18 at 7 p.m.

“I am extremely disappointed,” Koeng wrote in his blog. “Our students have lost their baseball season, their softball season, spring track, golf, the prom, the musical, a senior trip, and so much more. I have been maintaining hope that we would at least be able to have a graduation ceremony that felt at least a little normal.”

T’burg could take a cue from Newfield High School, which held its own graduation car parade on Saturday, with students’ names flashing on the neon screen outside the school as they rode in their cars. Else-

where outside of Ithaca, some of the surrounding school districts, in and out of the county, are exploring all avenues for conducting an in-person graduation ceremony.

The Dryden Central School District is fully committed to holding an in-person ceremony at some point this summer. Its plan, according to Superintendent Joshua Bacigalupi, is to hold a ceremony inside the field house at Tompkins Cortland Community College on July 31.

“TC3 has indicated that if they’re allowed to have 50 percent or more of their staff on site, then they will have it indoors,” Bacigalupi said at a Board of Education meeting on May 11. “And then we will take our cue from the guidance from the state about how many people are allowed in the field house, and whether we have one ceremony, two ceremonies or three ceremonies, and what the cap will be for students’ guests.”

On the chance that the district will not be able to use the field house, the district will look to hold a ceremony outside on the college’s campus. If that were the case, Bacigalupi said there would be multiple options as to how that ceremony would look.

“Everyone’s planning from a more standard-looking ceremony, to like a drive-in type of thing where the kids stand in front of a car and there’s a stage in the parking lot, which is really funny to think about, but that’s some of the things that people are trying to do to overcome that,” he said.

The Candor Central School District is moving forward with its original timeline

of hosting a ceremony on June 26 at the high school, according to Board of Education President Raymond Parmarter. Options are still being weighed for how the ceremony would be arranged.

The South Seneca Central School District, out in Seneca County, still has its graduation ceremony scheduled for this month, on June 27. This year’s graduation class contains 55 seniors, and the district is hoping to put on a ceremony outdoors on the track while A b ov e : Fa m i ly m e m b e r s c a p t u r e t h e m o m e n t a s a n It h ac a H i g h still following the S c h o o l s e n i o r wa l k s t h e s tag e .

CDC guidelines for large gatherings. what that would look like have not been "We believe we can spread out each devised yet. graduate, and seat families well distanced Whatever form the celebrations take, from other families in our bleachers," Su- several of the students interviewed said perintendent Steve Zielinski said in an ar- they’ve come to terms with, and are even ticle in the Ovid Gazette on May 27. "The embracing, the strange circumstances as bleachers seat 1,200, and we have 55 grads, they graduate with nationwide protests so even if we allowed four family members proceeding in the background and a global per graduate, we'd have 220 people in a pandemic still raging.

1,200-capacity set of bleachers."

“It makes me feel optimistic for the fuThe small class size, along with a small ture,” Stone said. “It feels special, like it community, gives the district some flexibil- brought the class together. It makes me feel ity. Even so, Zielinski said the district has like we’re resilient. [...] Not even a global two backup plans, the first being moving pandemic could stop us from graduating.” the graduation date to sometime in either July or August. The other option would be to hold a “virtual” graduation. Details on B e l ow: N e w f i e l d H i g h S c h o o l’s C a r Pa r a d e i n h o n o r o f G r a d uat i o n .

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Protests around Ithaca and the country inspired a group of area middle schoolers to start their own fundraising effort. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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n idea that started as a small fundraiser by a group of local middle schoolers to make a month-long public statement supporting the Black Lives Matter movement has evolved into a larger way to support anti-racist groups and black-owned businesses and organizations in the area.

A group of six 8th grade girls from a local grade school, some of whom didn’t want to be identified, started the effort in the wake of the nationwide protests after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Greta, who was comfortable using her first name, said the group’s effort started by aiming to raise enough money to buy

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ime Bike has made the decision to pull out of Ithaca, part of a larger company decision to remove itself from markets where it is not making money.

Russell Murphy, a spokesperson for Lime Bike, confirmed the decision in an email statement to the Ithaca Times.

"We recently made the tough decision to depart Ithaca given challenges around operating a sustainable, long-term service," Murphy said. "We are thankful to Mayor Myrick for his forward-thinking approach to transportation and to the many who contributed to the launch and operations of the Ithaca bike share program. We are also thankful to Bike Walk Tompkins, which helped support safer infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians and infrastructure in Ithaca, and to whom we have donated much of our bike repair

equipment."

The bikes had already been removed from the city in March, and from dozens of other places around the world, over coronavirus fears, though at the time it had been assumed they would return once the outbreak ended. Now it appears the city will have to look for another bikeshare program after undergoing a long process to approve Lime, though Mayor Svante Myrick said he hadn't actually heard anything from Lime regarding their future.

"It is unfortunate that it didn't work out for them, or that they didn't see that this could be a market for growth," said Hector Chang of BikeWalk Tompkins, the most influential proponent of the program when it was first being considered by the City of Ithaca. "At least on our end, it was a great experience."

an ad on a Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) bus, a message that would support the Black Lives Matter movement and show solidarity with those protesting around the country and locally.

They came up with the idea after discussing ways the group of girls could get involved despite their youth and relative lack of resources and growing more eager to voice their support in whatever way they could. Then, after initiating a GoFundMe and getting the word out to friends and family, their effort quickly surpassed its funding goal of $450 and raced all the way to $1905 before they closed the campaign after just two days. With the extra money, Greta said the group decided to expand the plan to include three ads, which will each run for one month.

“We raised way more than we expected, a lot of people were really supportive of the idea,” she said.

Greta said the three ads will be split between one that displays a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote, one that shows a quote from Malcolm X (“That’s not a chip on my shoulder, that’s your foot on my neck”), and one that says “I can’t breathe,” which George Floyd (and Eric Garner before him) urgently exclaimed as they were being killed by police.

Alana, who was comfortable using her first name, said once Greta had the initial idea, the rest of the group each began sharing the links to generate interest. In interviews, the girls all seem to have social consciousness well beyond their age, and the need to educate those around them as much as possible.

Ellie, also only comfortable with her first name being used, called this “just the beginning.” Alana said she imagines that the plans further down the line involve continuing to push for fundraising, and it’s

Chang confirmed Lime informed them of the decision during a conference call last month. He said BikeWalk Tompkins is informally assessing companies that could fit in Ithaca and bring another bike share program to the city. He said it was a priority for the organization, though the process would likely last until at least 2021, considering the ongoing outbreak and the amount of time it took LimeBike to be approved.

The company's Ithaca liaison, Jeff Goodmark, told the Ithaca Times in March that he no longer worked for the company. Goodmark had been instrumental in the company's momentum locally, serving as Lime's public representative at countless public meetings.

Lime had long made it very clear, during public discussions over its future in Ithaca, that the city was not a money maker for the company and that they were either breaking even or losing money by being here, despite its widespread usage.

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clear the group wants to use this period to remain involved.

“Black lives matter, and they matter all the time, not just now that it’s trending,” Alana said.

The success of the first GoFundMe inspired the group to keep the campaign going. They started a second GoFundMe, and money made from this point forward will go to a blend of Standing Up for Racial Justice, Black Lives Matter - Ithaca, Business Leaders of Colors and the Multicultural Resource Center. Gladys Brangman, of the Business Leaders of Colors, said they would be taking any funds from the GoFundMe campaigns and making it available for distribution to local black businesses.

“They’ve been fighting this battle a lot longer than we have,” Greta said. “We just really want to spread and show our support for their movement, and try to get other people involved as well.”

The group is going to continue to try to find ways to support the movement doing what they can, though Greta acknowledged the limitations that she and the five other girls, and likely many other kids, are facing when it comes to public shows of support.

Other members agreed, saying that this seemed like a good way to make their voice heard immediately “We wanted to find a safe, supportive way of showing our message that would be okay for us to do as eighth-graders,” Greta said. “A couple of us were allowed to go to certain protests around here, but some of us aren’t allowed to leave our own homes.

However, having a bus that rolls all around Ithaca showing our message is like holding our sign up for us.”

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over the last three years. The Memorandum of Understanding the company signed with the city did not include an operation obligation, though it was written to last three years from when it was signed in March 2018.

The bike-share program proved popular though somewhat controversial, as residents would regularly vent at city meetings that the bikes were irresponsibly left in walkways, caused increased traffic on sidewalks and would clutter the Commons. Proponents of the program embraced it quickly, though, using it to zip around town and cut down on car usage and gas money.

Bizarrely, four were set on fire in one night in September of last year, a heinous crime that has still not been solved as far as the public knows. The company was actually poised to expand its presence in the city just last year, as it examined an e-scooter pilot program.

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Boys, Bikes and Baseball and Bench

By Steve Lawrence

Mos t of u s o ve r— l e t ’s u se 50 a s a be nchm ark— are we ll aware th at it i s e a s y to fe e l our age . I re ce ntly squ at te d for a fe w minute s to dr ive in a te nt sta k e , and my me ni sc u s poppe d lik e an o ve r- c rank e d g uitar st r ing , and I fe lt e ve r y one of my ye ars .

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hile it’s not as easy to make it feel as though the clock has been turned back, we all, hopefully, have ways to do just that.

For me, baseball is the Fountain of Youth. Not playing it, mind you. That could go bad in a number of ways. Watching it, talking about it, the smell of fresh cut grass, packing up to go to a softball tournament…

Usually, this time of year is great. By now I would have watched a couple dozen high school games, perhaps spent some time in the first base coach’s box for my daughter’s high school games and likely watched a few games at Cornell University, Ithaca College and Ithaca High School. I’d be gearing up for the travel team season, getting ready to spend time with other softball parents I have known for years and gleefully anticipating how much the new parents would enjoy my stories and jokes.

My daughter would tell me I was delusional in that regard.

I would also be looking forward to getting on my motorcycle, meeting up with Bill White (my Best Baseball Pal and everyone’s favorite advertising guy and school bus driver), and riding our Hondas over to Cooperstown for the Hall of Fame events. We saw a great induction ceremony a few years back, when thousands upon thousands of Dominicans showed in raucous and colorful fashion to watch Pedro Martinez’s induction, and on another

trip we took in a great Legends Game, in which we saw some retired players hit 450foot home runs and pull hamstrings like an Atlantic City vendor pulls taffy. We met the daughter of the longtime owners of the San Francisco Giants, and she let us try on World Series rings from 1954 and 2004. I wanted to marry her.

This year feels a lot different. One of my buddies told me he was watching broadcasts of pro ball from Korea in the wee hours of the morning, and with all due respect to those players, coaches and fans, no thanks. Other friends are watching reruns of classic games. That sounds a little better...

Knowing I was feeling out of sorts, my friend Bill told me he had a gift for me. He reached into his saddlebag and pulled out a vintage baseball card featuring a young Cincinnati Reds player named Johnny Bench.

That gift means a lot. Bill knows that I had an experience as a 36 year-old man that made me feel like a wide-eyed 12 year-old, and Bench was at the center of that story. My apologies to those who have heard that story (a dozen times), but in a time when so many pro athletes act in such self-absorbed ways, it is (I hope) worth sharing again. (The following is excerpted from my book, “Damn Good Stories, Told Reasonably Well, With Questionable Motives”): ● ● ●

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I was at Toronto’s Sky Dome, covering the 1992 World Series featuring the Blue Jays and the Braves, and I approached Hall of Famer Johnny Bench, who was also on the field covering the game, and I asked him if he had a moment to talk. He said he did, and I said, “Johnny, given that this is the first World Series game played outside the U.S., it is a historic night for baseball.

What other historic moments have you been a part of?”

Bench said he liked the question, and started to tell me about being behind the plate for another Hall of Famers’ 300th win, about a no-hitter he had caught, when an Armani-clad, Rolex-wearing, guy with $500 shoes, too much hair spray and a fake tan walked between us, extended his hand and said, “Hello, Johnny, I haven’t seen you since…” Bench held up his hand, cut the guy off and said, “Excuse me, but

I’m talking to someone. I‘ll be with you when we‘re finished.” Bench graciously answered my questions, thanked me for my interest, then engaged Mr. Rich and Rude, who stood sheepishly waiting.

I gained a lot of respect for Johnny Bench that night. A lot of big-timers would have blown off a small town reporter to talk to a big wig, but not Bench.

I always liked him from a distance, but I liked him even more up close. ● ● ●

That was the kind of experience—and memory—that can breathe some life into a baseball fan’s season of discontent. Bill knew that something as simple as a baseball card could mean so much on so many levels.

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B y A n d r e w S u l l i va n ay 1, 1998 would go down as a life-changing date for Dryden hunting guide Gabe Jerome, Jr. While accompanying a client on the

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LIVING ON THE EDGE

first day of turkey hunting season, Jerome was accidentally shot in the face with a shotgun by another hunter in close proximity, which ultimately resulted in him becoming permanently blind. Twenty-two years later, Jerome, with the help of journalist and Ithaca Times columnist Steve Lawrence, is ready to share his journey from that fateful day to how he acclimated to life thereafter in his book Leaving the Edge, available at leavingtheedge.com. Jerome, Jr. sat down with the Finger Lakes Community Newspapers to discuss his upcoming book.

Finger Lakes Community Newspapers: Why did you decide to write this book?

Gabe Jerome, Jr.: Over the years, people have told me that I should probably write a book; I could help somebody. If I was able to help a few people it would be worth it. I went on lots of different hunting and fishing trips all over since I’ve been blind. A lot of it was that. I learned a lot of things about how to hunt and fish and spend time in the outdoors since the accident, and I wanted to share that, too. Mostly, I just wanted to give people a little hope and encouragement that are blind and visually impaired. Plus, my brother was diagnosed with ALS [Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (a.k.a Lou Gehrig’s Disease)] a couple of years ago. I dedicated the book to him. And we helped him, too. He’s still trying to get out and enjoy the outdoors, and really that’s what it was all about. […] Give a little encouragement to people to spend more time in the outdoors.

FLCN: Does the book mention all the

people that helped you along your journey?

GJJ: Yes, yes, it’s in the book. Some of the special equipment that they actually had to make; and I also used some laser sights, which were new on the market back in those days, and red-dot sights for my guns. For fishing, I used basic, same fishing equipment that everybody else is using, but there’s some ways that I use it to help me, like to cast. People tell me [where to cast] like using a clock to say, “eleven o’ clock, 30 feet; one o’ clock, 40 feet.” That’s how I’d cast lots of times, and I got pretty accurate with it by practicing and people helping me.

FLCN: What would you say was the most challenging part with writing this book?

GJJ: It was a little hard for me to go back and remember the way things were. I think the hardest part for me to do was the first time I went turkey The cover of “Leaving the hunting Edge,” Gabe Jerome Jr.’s again. I memoir, co-written by had one of Ithaca Times columnist Steve my friends Lawrence. (Photo provided) take me.

I got shot at a turkey hunting accident on May 1, and this was only like three weeks after that. I think it was right near the end of May, the end of turkey season.

[He] called me up and asked me if I would call for him, if I wanted to get back out in the woods. I told him I would. Then I had to go get all of my stuff, and I had to tell my wife that I was going to go turkey hunting again.

When I got shot that day, they put my turkey hunting vest and all my clothes in a bag, so I had to go into that bag and I had to get my vest out. All my calls were shot; most of my calls were all shot with pellets. I had to clean out my vest, and then I had to put new stuff in there. I had to use some new calls, and then the next morning when I went, of course I had to get dressed; I had to put all that stuff back on again. I was a little apprehensive about ever going out there. I had to struggle through that to get myself to go.

FLCN: What was it like for you to go on those walks post-accident, and how has that changed since?

GJJ: It’s good. I’m not afraid at all anymore, any of it. When I’m with somebody when I’m hunting, I’m usually holding on to their elbow, or I bring my cane and … I can tell by their stride what’s coming up.

But it wasn’t easy. … I ran my shins into logs. I hit my face on the side of the tree.

People were trying to help me. They didn’t know how to help me either. They also had to learn overtime. I got a pretty good feel for the woods right now. I can walk with just about anybody. And they do tell me sometimes, “You need to step up; log coming,” or, “You need to crouch down because there’s an overhanging limb.”

FLCN: Does recounting the specific methods of learning to hunt and fish while blind tie into the overarching message?

GJJ: That’s the thing. I say in the book I think the more you allow a disability to change your life, you’re going to lose when it comes to all the things you love to do. I didn’t want being blind to change all the things that I loved to do. I wanted to continue.

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Phoebe Brown introduced the event, emphasizing the need for remaining involved instead of holding one-off protests.

"We don't want you to just come out today then go back home," Brown said.

"We want you to embody this movement.

When you are in spaces, and you don't see people like us, question them. We want you to continue to support us and what we do. We know best. We've been doing this for over 400 years."

Brown invited a group of black women to the stage, each of whom took a turn speaking to the crowd. Crystal Van Patten, speaking as one of the women invited on stage, perhaps most succinctly summed up the meaning of Friday's rally.

"Ain't nobody madder than a f*cking mother," Van Patten said to end her speech.

Another early highlight was a dance performance by Ms. Harmony, a dance teacher who works at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, who led two other women in an emotional routine set to "Strange Fruit." She was followed by another speaker who led the gathered crowd in a chant of "I'm tired" and implored the crowd that black people don't deserve the consistent punishment they've faced from police considering their contribution to the country.

Nicole LaFave, representing Black Lives Matter-Ithaca, delivered her own comments followed by a pre-written statement from the organization, championing a restructuring of the overall system, specifically mentioning capitalism as an oppressive structure, and rejecting respectability politics as a way forward.

There was also an observance of an 8 minute, 46 second moment of silence with local medical workers who came to the protest at 1 p.m. The time represents the amount of time Derek Chauvin spent with his knee on George Floyd's neck, killing him. Also included were the first public comments from Denise Malone and Cadji Ferguson, a victim of police brutality in April of last year on the Commons.

Finishing the weekend was the second consecutive Sunday afternoon rally, held

by Occupy Ithaca and led by local resident Jordan Clemons. The crowd appeared just as strong as it was a week earlier, staying over an hour after the rally’s scheduled end time and marching around downtown Ithaca chanting as diners, some standing in solidarity, watched.

“We’re not asking anymore, that sh*t is over,” Clemons said while issuing an ultimatum to those in power. “We need all walks of life in the building, at the table, making decisions.”

Aundre Seals returned to the rally after delivering a profound speech last week, rallying the crowd to a fever pitch again before announcing his intention to run for local office to the delight of the audience.

According to the Ithaca Voice, Sunday’s rally also included Mayor Svante Myrick’s first in-person public comments on the situation, though he had attended the Black Lives Matter rally on Friday without speaking.

“My father has been arrested countless times, (based on) his height and build, when I see George Floyd being murdered by that police officer it looks like my father,” Myrick said, reported by the Voice.

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become a popular topic in the campaign and one that has garnered quite a bit of support among the Democratic field of candidates.

Harbin also blamed the Cuomo administration for failing to support child-care initiatives, part of his vision for education funding, in upstate New York, saying the region had been left out of more forwardthinking policies active elsewhere. Part of his complaint here focused on his earlier points about reformimg the tax code, but he did not go as far as to say that property taxes should be eliminated, which some other candidates have endorsed.

“We continue to be excluded from the roll out of true universal pre-k in our rural upstate districts, as opposed to those downstate,” Harbin said. “This has significant impacts on our families, especially our poorer residents who are forced to juggle multiple jobs to pay the high cost of childcare, if they can get it. We know the benefits of starting a child’s education journey early and having universal and funded pre-K for all children would be a tremendous benefit to them and to their

families. We need to increase funding for children in school and provide the programs needed in the arts and music that contribute to well-rounded individuals.

We need to prevent a ‘reimagining’ of our education system, yet again.”

Another key point Harbin highlighted is that counties should begin banding together more often in order to create bidding power, acting more as regions than as individual counties, which he says is key to developing new green industries.

“We will be able to access federal funding to help with this and look to create new jobs and new companies across our region,” Harbin said. “These regional models allow us to work together and make the best use of the skills, resources, companies, schools and other assets that each of our communities’ support. Let’s not fight our way back but work together in a new way to achieve success.”

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nvisibility films? I’ve seen ‘em all!

(Or have I?) I was raised on Disney SFX comedies like “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t,” and I’m here to tell you: Leigh Whannell‘s fiendishly clever take on “The Invisible Man” (UniversalBlumhouse, 2020, 124 min.) isn’t just the best invisibility picture ever made, it’s one of the best films of the year, period.

“Sleeping with The Enemy” meets “The Twilight Zone.” The film stars Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men”) as a woman who finally musters the courage to flee her controlling boyfriend (Oliver Jackson-Cohen).

Staying with friends (Aldis Hodge and Storm Reid), she learns that her boyfriend killed himself and left her his entire estate, provided that she doesn’t commit any crimes. Strange things begin happening, and Moss can’t help feeling that she’s not alone, that someone is watching her…

This is A-list thriller suspense stuff, delivered full out. Moss’s opening desperate escape, played in near total silence, goosed me within the first five minutes. Without giving away the film’s clever twist, Whannell has come up with a very cool sci-fi variation on all the invisibility serums and potions we’ve seen, going back to James Whale’s 1933 version. And it’s all played perfectly from Moss’s point of view; we’re with her all the way on her twisted journey to claim her true independence. ● ● ●

A bunch of random people wake up in a field, bound and gagged. They find a large crate stocked with all manner of weapons. As soon as they start grabbing guns, unseen assailants start shooting at them. A very clever and brutally funny variation on Richard Connell’s 1924 story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Craig Zobel’s “The Hunt” (Universal-BlumhouseWhite Rabbit, 2020, 89 min.) tweaks modern-day liberals and NPR listeners

that would turn out to be the kinds of people who would stalk and kill humans for their own righteous reasons.

I grew up on the horror movies of the 70’s, so I’ll admit I have a real fondness for movies like “The Hunt” where anyone can die at any time. Just because you’ve seen certain actors carry entire movies, just because they’re in this film, don’t get attached to anyone. In fact, I won’t namecheck any of the cast so that you can decide for yourself who you should root for. Zobel made a terrific small comedy called “Great World of Sound” that doesn’t begin to prepare you for this bit of savagely funny actionhorror weirdness. ● ● ●

I remember being creeped out by the very first “Fantasy Island” TV movie when it aired on ABC back in the 1970s. There was something really off about this guy Mr. Roarke who could grant people wishes in an idyllic tropical paradise. As I kept watching, “Fantasy Island” settled into another version of “The Love Boat,” so I stopped watching. It actually makes sense that this particular retro TV show has been reframed as a more malevolent and creepy horror movie.

“Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island” (Columbia/Sony-Blumhouse, 2020, 109 min.), directed by Jeff Wadlow (“Kick-Ass 2”), has a lot of fun taking ‘70s fantasies into 2020 nightmares: Maggie Q as a woman trying to reverse the great mistake she made in her life, two brothers who just want to party down, and a bullied woman seeking revenge on her school tormentor. As usual with these kinds of films, be careful what you wish for. Michael Pena (“Ant-Man and the Wasp”) is perfect casting as the mysterious, opaque Mr. Roarke, and fans of the original series mythology will spot lots of clever Easter eggs and references.

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After completion of renovations late last month at 227 S. Geneva Street, residents of the unit have been able to move back into their homes. The unit is part of a much larger 29-unit scattered site project called Cayuga Flats, owned and operated by local affordable housing developer Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, that has been under development for the past year. Expected completion on the overall project is February 2021.

Many of the homes being renovated have been in their portfolio for over 30 years and were in desperate need of updates. Some were in such poor condition that they were left vacant for some time, said Johanna Anderson, Executive Director at INHS. The renovated or reconstructed units include one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, LEED-certified and, with the exception of two units, will now be regulated by an income restriction to households making 25–60 percent of the area’s average median household income.

Currently the range extends from $16,400 for a one-bedroom at 25 percent (the lowest) up to $40,400 for a two-bedroom at 60 percent (the highest).

Lynn Truame, Senior Real Estate Developer with INHS, said that the income brackets of current residents, who have been temporarily relocated during construction, were the inspiration for the range. Another reason for the decision was the organization’s mission to maintain low-cost, affordable housing while being able to afford the property cost for itself.

“There were a number of vacancies because some of the building were in a condition that some of those units needed to be demolished,” Truame said. “The other units were all occupied who had particular income levels, so we set the rent to accommodate the income levels of the people who were already residents in that portfolio.”

INHS said that they were fortunate that they haven’t had to halt construction due to the NYS PAUSE law that went into effect in March. Construction of affordable housing was deemed an exception to the governor’s executive order and able to continue. Truame said material acquisition was really the only obstacle construction faced.

“There was a lot of construction delayed because of the COVID situation, so we did have to scramble a little when certain equipment that was scheduled to arrive were delayed, or never arrived,” Truame said. “We had to come up with other options at the last minute, but I think that was relatively minimal.”

“One of the things I’m concerned about, as far as coronavirus goes and its impact on the construction, is the supply chain and the issues we may have getting the necessary materials when the time comes,” Anderson added. “It hasn’t really been a problem yet, but as we continue construction, it’s in the back of all of our minds.”

Keeping workers healthy has been an additional concern for the project construction as well.

Throughout construction on the W. Clinton Ave. location (completed in late April) and the S. Geneva location, contractors were asked to maintain a six-foot distance, as much as they could, regularly wash their hands; and the organization asked that every worker on the sites be tested for COVID-19 every two weeks.

INHS hasn’t reported any cases of COVID-19.

All who qualify are welcome to apply for a unit. There is currently a waitlist that already existed prior to construction, however, and INHS will be working from that list to fill the vacant units first, said Truame.

“There’s often people who have dropped off or we can’t reach them on the waiting list, so we may make it through it fairly quickly,” Truame shared. “At that point, new applicants will be added to the waiting list and we will work through those in the order they were received.”

The units are being completed two at a time, with the exception of a 13-unit building on Elm St. that is expected to take the full year to complete, so vacancies will be opened and filled throughout the year.

The Elm St. location will be leased via random draw lottery, however. The lottery is expected to open in December; applicants will be able to apply on the organization’s website.

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A Discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon | 7:00 PM, 6/11 Thursday | Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon joins participants via Zoom to discuss her work, ìScenes From the Poetís Dream.î Links to a recording and program notes will be available on the Geneva Music Festival website one week prior to the event, along with the Zoom invitation. Participants can then ask Higdon questions about her music and life.

An Evening with La Voz de Tres | 7:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday | In this livestreamed performance, Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal, keyboardist Mike Eckroth and seven-string guitarist Jason Ennis return to Geneva Music Festival with their blend of infectious rhythms of Latin America, original compositions and picks from the Great American Songbook. All events will be available on YouTube following their premieres, as well as shared with schools and retirement communities throughout the Finger Lakes.

A Discussion with Shulamit Ran | 7:00 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran joins participants via Zoom to discuss her compositions, String Quartet No. 2, ìLyre of Orpheus,î and ìSoliloquy.î Links to recordings and program notes will be available on the GMF website one week prior to the event, along with the Zoom invitation. Participants can then ask Ran questions about her music and life.†Visit†GenevaMusicFestival.com for streaming info.

A Living Room Recital with Clive Greensmith, cello | 7:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | †Join renowned cellist Clive Greensmith for an evening of solo cello music, including works

by Bach and Cassado. Greensmith,

former cellist of the Tokyo String Quartet and faculty member at the Colburn School of Music, is widely acclaimed as one of the great cellists of our time. Audience members will have the opportunity to take part in a Q&A throughout the performance.

Visit†GenevaMusicFestival.com for streaming info.

Stage Buyer & Cellar Reading w/ Karl Gregory | 7:00 PM, 6/11 Thursday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Second show on June 12 at 7PM. A KTC fundraiser. Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? BUYER & CELLAR is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs. | $25 Uncommon Excerpts and Others: The Wendy Chronicles | 7:30 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Scenes and excerpts from the life and work of Tony and Pulitzer- Award winning Wendy Wasserstein, ranging from her well-known comedies (The Heidi Chronicles, Sister Rosensweig) to her insightful lesser-known essays. Compiled by the Hangar Artistic Director, Michael Barakiva, who worked for Wendy for the last five years of her life. Visit Hangar’s Facebook page for tickets and stream info. | $20

remembers all the different masters sheís had successively and loved unconditionally. (92 Mins NR) | $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Sometimes Always Never | All Day 6/12 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | A detective fantasy / family drama where a love of words helps a father reconnect with a missing son. (91 mins PG-13) | $12 further notice because of COVID-19 but you can see a window exhibition of the participating artists: Mary Ann Bowman, Patricia Brown, Don Ellis, Daniel McPheeters, Diane Newton, Diana Ozolins, Patty Porter, and Nancy Ridenour.

Movies Virtual Cinemapolis: In My Blood It Runs (82 Mins NR) | All Day 6/12 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | An intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10-yearold Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state education. | $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Picture A Scientist | All Day 6/12 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Despite the minimal news coverage, sexual harassment and gender inequality against women are no less prevalent in science than they are in pop culture and corporate America.

(97 mins NR) | $8 Virtual Cinemapolis: Marona’s Fantastic Tale | All Day 6/12 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | After an accident, a little dog

Special Events Directing for the Stage - Virtual Workshop | 7:00 PM, 6/11 Thursday | (for 10th Grade-Adult). Lead teacher: Hangar Theatre Associate Artistic Director Shirley Serotsky. An introduction to the rehearsal and production process from the directorís point of view. In 6 sessions, the class will provide an overview of the directorís process through text analysis, exercises, and discussion, and include topics like establishing point of view, communicating with designers, and working with actors. | $75 Directing for the Stage - Virtual Workshop | 7:00 PM, 6/18 Thursday | (for 10th Grade-Adult). Lead teacher: Hangar Theatre Associate Artistic Director Shirley Serotsky. An introduction to the rehearsal and production process from the directorís point of view. In 6 sessions, the class will provide an overview of the directorís process through text analysis, exercises, and discussion, and include topics like establishing point of view, communicating with designers, and working with actors. | $75 Wharton Studio Museumís 3rd Silents Roar! | 7:00 PM, 6/18 Thursday | Wharton Studios Facebook, | Film

Festival for Youth in the Southern Tier goes virtual! Live Screening and Awards Ceremony† via Facebook Live on Wharton Studio Museumís Facebook Page.

Kids Twelve Dancing Princesses | 10:30 AM, 6/13 Saturday | Hangar Theatre Company, | KIDDSTUFF Virtual Season Opener!

Virtual Kiddstuff: The Emperor’s New Clothes | 10:30 AM, 6/20 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Hangar Theatre Company has been producing plays and musicals for young audiences since 1990. KIDDSTUFF shows are directed by Hangar Drama League Directing Fellows and are performed by the Hangarís Lab Company.

Notices Trumansburg Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | Trumansburg Farmers Market, Corner of Rtes 96 and 227, Trumansburg | Continuing its mission of supplying the community with local and sustainable food while instituting new health and safety protocols related to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Red Cross Blood Drive | 1:00 PM, 6/11 Thursday | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, Ithaca | ALL blood types are urgently needed. Call 1-800-RED CROSS to make an appointment. Donate and receive a free Amazon gift card.

EMERGENCE | All Day 6/15 Monday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | Emergence, an exhibition by eight gallery members, will be online thru June. The gallery is closed until

Red Cross Blood Drive | 11:00 AM, 6/12 Friday | Hilton Garden Inn, 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | All blood types are urgently needed. Call 1-800 RED CROSS to schedule an appointment.

Ithaca Farmers Market | 9:00 AM, 6/13 Saturday | Ithaca Farmers Market, Steamboat Landing, Ithaca | Visit the farmers market every Saturday, rain or shine, from 9am to 1pm at the pavilion. Old favorites and new vendors will be there to welcome you back for another year full of makers, farmers, chefs and community!

Trumansburg Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Trumansburg Farmers Market, Corner of Rtes 96 and 227, Trumansburg | Continuing its mission of supplying the community with local and sustainable food while instituting new health and safety protocols related to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Ithaca Farmers Market | 9:00 AM, 6/20 Saturday | Ithaca Farmers Market, Steamboat Landing, Ithaca | Visit the farmers market every Saturday, rain or shine, from 9am to 1pm at the pavilion. Old favorites and new vendors will be there to welcome you back for another year full of makers, farmers, chefs and community!

Senior Theatre Troupe of Lifelong - Online Workshop | 2:00 PM, 6/11 Thursday | The Senior Troupe of Lifelong has been performing for more than nineteen years. We

“Tompkins Trust Company understands our needs and how we run our business.”

Art Collective Consciousness | All Day 6/11 Thursday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | The first virtual art show experience produced by the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts and the Cayuga Arts Collective. The show runs through August 6. Curated by Marina Delaney and Domenica Brockman.

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