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Brenda Michaud’s long road back

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he New York State Liquor Authority announced Friday that it had conducted a sting operation in Tompkins County last week, snaring three Ithaca businesses selling alcohol to underage customers.

Sam’s Wine and Spirits, Ithaca Ale House and the Ithaca Marriott Downtown were all named as violators in a press release from the SLA on Friday. The lone Ithaca business named as refusing to sell to minors: the Commons Market.

It’s unclear how or if the offending businesses will be punished, though a spokesperson said that the violating businesses have mostly spotless records, at least recently.

“The penalties are determined by the three member Board of the State Liquor Authority, who take into consideration the history of recent violations at the locations,” SLA spokesperson William Crowley wrote in an email. “All three Ithaca locations have a clean recent history; this is the first violation for ‘Sam’s Wine and Spirits’ and the ‘Marriot’—the ‘Ithaca Ale House’ has not had a violation since 2002, which was also a sale to a minor.”

The SLA stated that licensees charged with underage sales could face penalties of up to a $10,000 fine per violation, with fines starting from $2,500 to $3,000 for first-time offenses. Repeat offenders run the risk of license suspension or revocation. There’s also the possibility of misdemeanor charges for selling to minors.

The SLA also hit Steuben County on the same day, catching three businesses selling alcohol to underage customers.

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Commons spectators monitor the disassembly and removal of a 300-ton tower crane. Its service on the new Harold’s Square construction site ended last week (Photo: Casey Martin)

DEC says Clinton West Plaza no longer an environmental threat

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n a fact sheet released Friday, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation downgraded the land at Clinton West Plaza to a Class 4 site, meaning it “no longer poses a significant threat to public health and/or the environment.”

Before the reclassification, the plaza site, listed as 609-625 W. Clinton St., was listed as Class 2, having been investigated in 2005 and found to contain chemicals from a laundromat that had previously occupied part of the site. The investigation found vinyl chloride, trichloroethene, tetrachloroethene and dichloroethene.

A remediation plan was

introduced and improved in mid-2016. It contained the following measures, which according to the state have rehabilitated the site to the point of relative safety.

“Remedial activities completed at the site included in-situ chemical oxidation treatment of groundwater in the southwestern portion of the site,” the report states.

“This involved injection of a carbon source to further degrade contamination; and the construction of a cover system comprised of building slabs, concrete, pavement, and two feet of clean soil. In addition, sub-slab depressurization systems were installed in one on-site building and one

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off-site building to mitigate the potential for exposures as a result of soil vapor intrusion.”

Groundwater at the site is still unusable for the public, and the site’s uses are still restricted by DEC-mandated regulations.

Other air quality maintenance practices have made the air around the site safe as well, helped by subterranean filtration systems.

“A sub-slab depressurization system (system that ventilates/ removes the air beneath the building) has been installed in the on-site building and one off-site building to prevent the indoor air quality from being affected by the contamination in the soil vapor beneath the building,” the report states.

“Sampling indicates that soil vapor intrusion is not a concern for other off-site buildings.”

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of golden brown and knowing when a hot dog is on fire. Students will learn how to create a rich mix of flavors from Chef Patrick using a Dutch oven. The course is held on August 10 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Coltivare’s Cooking Lab. The course is $50 price per person is all-inclusive (food/adult beverage/ recipe cards). Tickets available for purchase online through Eventbrite.

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IF YOU COULD SELECT AN ITHACAN TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT, WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

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Cornell will begin offering a marijuana class in the Fall 2019 semester

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Carlyn S. Buckler has organized the first batch of courses on the marijuana industry, starting this year. (Photo provided)

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ith marijuana recently decriminalized, but not yet legalized, Cornell University is taking advantage of the burgeoning commercial industry weed is sure to inspire by becoming one of several schools that will begin teaching courses in cannabis.

The course, Cannabis: Biology, Society and Industry, will give students a background in dealing with cannabis through several academic lenses and contexts.

Carlyn S. Buckler, an associate professor of practice with Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science, created the course to help students garner more skills within the cannabis industry.

The course is designed to explore the history, culture, pharmacology, breeding,

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he Ithaca Children’s Garden (ICG) is an award-winning public children’s garden free and open to all every day of the year, from dawn to dusk.

Its mission is to inspire the next generation of environmental stewards, and does so through authentic, hands-on, child-led engagement with the natural world.

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horticulture, equity, policy and legal challenges of cannabis and its industry. The class will also be an effort to inform and stimulate new ideas for anyone entering the cannabis industry in the future.

Buckler was motivated by the noticeable profitability of the industry, but realized there are numerous hurdles in the path to a career in the field.

“The potential profitability of this industry is clear, but the obstacles to its economic and industrial development are significant and include establishing better agricultural supply chains, breeding research to develop more vigorous and disease-resistant varieties, refining/improving farming practices, as well as policy and legal challenges associated with cannabis,” Buckler said. “According to Indeed. com, there are around 5,000 job openings in the industry to date; but entrepreneurs say they need people with a breadth of knowledge of the industry—not just breeding, pest management, agricultural supply chains, etc., but also the legal and policy aspects, as well as best practices for business, marketing, and communication.”

During Cornell’s early registration in April 2019, 50 people signed up for the course. Buckler is confident the class will be at maximum capacity, 200 students this year, though she has plans to expand the cap in the following years. Putting the course together was not difficult, she said, especially considering her background in plant genetics.

“I can talk about the biology of the plant, breeding efforts, farming practices, etc.,” Buckler said. “I am having other professionals at Cornell come in and talk about plant pathology and microbe biology, as well as a pharmacologist from University of Binghamton, a specialist in cannabis policy from the Brookings Institute, a lawyer who understands law in the industry, and several entrepreneurs,

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Ithaca Bakery is a local destination that has stood the test of time and remains today one of the busiest eateries in town.

And so it made perfect sense for these two Ithaca favorites to work together in the best interests of our community. Ithaca Bakery donates cold brew coffee to be sold at the garden’s Teen Urban Farmers (TUF)

some of whom also specialize in helping the underserved population become entrepreneurs.”

Recently, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer announced work will commence on the nation’s only Industrial Hemp Germplasm Repository (IHGR), located at Cornell University. This program will be rebuilt with an initial $500,000 investment by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at the Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PGRU) located at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva.

With an abundance of jobs opening up in the world of cannabis, there are plenty of majors and concentrations that pair well with this field.

“Everything from plant breeding and pest management, to human ecology, veterinary medicine, pharmacology, law/ policy, and entrepreneurship,” Buckler said. “I am thrilled that there is already a diversity of people in the course. As one expects, many are from plant science, animal science, entomology, etc. But there is about 35 percent of the class who are interested in environmental sustainability, international agriculture, global, and public health, the Johnson School of Management, the Dyson School, the School of Hotel Administration, and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The class is project-based, and the student will often be working with others outside their field.”

The course’s only prerequisite is a college-level introduction to biology course.

One of the challenges in assembling the class was ensuring that Buckler could find the best people outside of Cornell, which is crucial to the course’s success. There’s still a significant amount of misinformation about cannabis, and she wanted to find content based on peer-reviewed scientific information.

Currently, the program is under consideration for development into a new specialization under the master of professional studies in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. For now, it will act as an introduction to the proposed master’s degree program, which is still under review but could debut as early as the fall 2020 semester.

E dw i n J. Vi er a Farm Stand Café all summer long. Emmy’s Organics macaroons, other drinks, healthy snacks and new ICG merchandise will also be available for purchase. Pete’s Dandy Mart supplies daily ice needs. Feel free to enjoy your refreshments on the new Farm Stand patio area, which was made possible by support from the Haslinger Foundation out of Akron, Ohio. All proceeds from sales at the stand will go toward providing critical support for the TUF program.

“Ithaca Bakery has been a phenomenal partner to ICG over the years,” Erin Marteal, executive director of ICG, said.

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▶▶ Thumbs Up - To now former intern Maryam Zafar for helping us out so much over the summer. Maryam provided solid coverage, thorough reporting and a good eye for news during her admittedly short time with us. She will now defect, as so many have, to the Cornell Daily Sun for the school year, where we will mercilessly compete with her. Thanks, Maryam.

▶▶ Thumbs down - Toni Morrison passed away just as our deadline was approaching, or perhaps we would have been able to offer a more substantial tribute.

Morrison had some local ties, having graduated from Cornell University, but beyond that was one of the most brilliant authors humanity had to offer and the world is less creative without her around.

Police Training

Local law enforcement exploring de-escalation tactics

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or the last seven years, the Cortland Police Department has mandated their officers take a 40-hour training course that teaches them how to handle someone during a mental health crisis, which has managed to reduce the use of force by the department’s officers by 20 percent.

In a similar effort to reduce the use of force in certain situations, the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office (TCSO) and the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) have been examining training courses they could implement that would emphasize using less force and de-escalation tactics. The topic has been at the forefront of community policing over the last several years but especially locally since anger has arose over the arrests of Rose De Groat and Cadji Ferguson on the Ithaca Commons in April.

While Tompkins County Sheriff Derrick Osborne has only been in his position since January, he has been keeping an eye on numerous types of training that are available for handling disputes. But it starts, he said, with a pre-hiring screening process that helps them determine if a person’s temperament is right for policing in Tompkins County.

“We do a lot of things to prevent unnecessary use of force incidences, right from the hiring process,” Osborne said.

“We do a very, very thorough background investigation, trying to identify anything in that person’s background that may lead us to believe they have violent tendencies or perhaps don’t have skills in the area of de-escalation or things of that nature.

When they do go to the police academy, they do have extensive training there in handling crimes in progress, where you have to do role-playing and interact with

people in a variety of situations so the instructors can see how the person handles that.”

Osborne has implemented certain training regimens already, with several courses being offered to officers later this year. Those sessions are designed to teach officers about a variety of situations, though Osborne has seen in studies that citizens with mental health issues are more likely to be involved in incidents that require force from officers. It’s this area in particular that Osborne has concentrated on.

“We’ve put on a mental health and first aid course with the National Council for Behavioral Health for our deputies, that went over very well,” Osborne said.

“We also have been sending deputies to effectively respond to emotional crisis, that’s put on through the Office of Mental Health and in the works, right now, we’re just setting a date for this training and organizing it, we are going to be holding realistic de-escalation training. That’s through the FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology) Science Institute and Fair and Impartial Policing.”

During these training sessions, deputies learn how to recognize signs of mental health problems or other emotional distress. Once deputies recognize the signs, they find ways to interact with that person to de-escalate the situation. Though Osborne said he can’t promise this training would be done annually, he’d like to see it frequent enough that it becomes an important tool for deputies to learn.

Acting Ithaca Police Chief Dennis Nayor echoed some of Osborne’s points, saying that an officer’s background is always thoroughly evaluated before they are hired. However, Nayor abides by the

IPD acting chief Dennis Nayor points to the code of ethics on the walls of the department building. (Photo by Edwin J. Viera)

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policing principles of Sir Robert Peel, a British lawman who developed an outline on police force. In situations involving the use of force, he looks to the fourth and sixth principles: that cooperation should be prioritized over compulsion, and to use physical force only as a final option after “persuasion, advice and warning.”

Chief Nayor described some of the methods officers already use to keep tension to a minimum.

“In law enforcement, we respond to the situation and a lot of situations go extremely well,” Chief Nayor said. “Currently, sometimes when there is any issue that force is used, even though it’s justified and appropriate to the situation, that seems to get the attention and it’s just the times that we’re in. We work extremely hard to make sure officers are trained in proper verbal skills and de-escalation, their defensive tactics skills are current and using the best practices.”

Officers have been undergoing a refresher course of training on defensive tactics training, which has become a priority for the police department. The officers also work on cultural competency training to better understand how to deal with all segments of the population. The entire department has had to undergo implicit bias training, which is a factor of the police academies IPD officers are sent to. In one instance, IPD officers responded to a parolee who said he wouldn’t go peacefully.

However, things took a different turn.

“We were called to the scene of a parolee who was adamant that he was going to fight and that he was not going to get arrested peacefully,” Chief Nayor said. “It was going to be a challenge. But the officers spent about twenty minutes talking to the person, defusing, listening, showing compassion, de-escalating and he went peacefully. He told the officers that he did so because he appreciated their respect.”

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read with great interest the letter published in the Times’ 7.31.19 issue with regard to “Cornell’s Relationship with Qatar.” In general, I’m in agreement with the assertion by Mr. Hanna and the “People’s Organizing Collective at Cornell University” that the relationship between Cornell, Weill Cornell Medical College and the Qatar Foundation bears continuing scrutiny mainly because of the welldocumented abuses of migrant laborers in that country. These are the people who are literally building Qatar and its capital city, Doha, as well as the Education City campus where Weill Cornell, among numerous other American universities, has its medical school.

I taught writing in the pre-med program of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar from 2005 to 2009, near the beginning of that joint collaboration project to educate medical doctors abroad in the American system. I have since remained in close contact with former colleagues and I keep abreast of a wide variety of topics as I

complete a memoir of my years in Qatar and my experience of life in the Gulf Arab World.

I feel that I must, however, take some issue with some of Mr. Hanna’s inflammatory rhetoric and loose, unsupported allegations about the Weill Cornell project, Qatar itself, and the royal family, whose monarchy, under Islamic law, has sponsored myriad progressive enterprises.

Some of Mr. Hanna’s assertions approach a degree of libel, and I won’t repeat them, even though I do concur that the government, despite its stated best intentions, ought to be doing more to protect the rights and lives of the many underpaid and overworked people who have served the astounding developments in Qatar over the past 30 years.

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f you have a vague and persistent feeling that everything’s going to hell, you may have a point. Burned French cathedrals, closed firehouse-themed Collegetown restaurants, sober-curiousity, Reichskanzler Trump, vaping… Several times a day, the scientific community revises its climate prediction, and it’s reliably disheartening.

Apparently, by some time around Thanksgiving of this year, Ithaca will have the same weather patterns as the Piedmont region of Alabama. Are we doomed to a world of kudzu, grits and aggressive anti-abortion laws? I say no! There is still much that is unique in Ithaca to bring us joy. It’s up to us to keep it going.

Watch a Crew Race on the Inlet while the water’s still deep enough for rowing. Nature has this way of reclaiming wetlands, and soon the athletes will be plowing through cattails and alligators.

Complete the Pinesburger Challenge.

Four pinesburgers in one hour. The Glenwood Pines has an on-site cardiologist and fully-charged defibrillator, so it’s all perfectly safe.

Sit outside on the Commons. Commons bingo cards are available at the Paperie, next to the presidential greeting cards. Watch for undergraduates pretending to not be with their parents or a rare sighting of anyone not looking at their phone. With another two or three building projects, we’ll also be protected from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. Bonus!

Walk downtown from one end to the other. It’s faster than driving. A lot faster.

Who could possibly have ever foreseen that increased urban density would make our roadways as clogged as Rush Limbaugh’s arteries?

Limebike-pedestrian jousting. I’ve found that the odds have shifted distinctly in my favor since I started packing a steeltipped lance when walking the dog.

Engage in an actual face-to-face conversation with another human being

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for five or more minutes. Your only real shot at this is to pick somebody pushing a shopping cart full of recyclables.

They’re generally willing, and nobody else is off their device for that long. In 2016, the Census Bureau declared that we’ve officially entered the era where the live person in your presence is the distraction to your online activities and not the other way around.

Eat an ice cream sundae at Sweet Melissa’s. It’s established scientific fact that the sundae was invented in Ithaca.

But one day soon, refined sugar will be designated a controlled substance or banned altogether, and we’ll be horrifying our children with yarns of a time when people ate ice cream with impunity, even in school cafeterias. Go now, before it’s too late.

Cruise Big Box Boulevard from Texas Roadhouse to Kohl’s. These venerable 21st-century edifices, steeped in months of history and decorated with quaint corporate logos, have come to typify Olde Ithaca for thousands of visitors. And yet, there are no guarantees in the ever-challenging world of big business, and you never know who will still be there tomorrow. Just ask Tim Horton.

See a pileated woodpecker at Sapsucker Woods. Before long we’ll be looking at toucans and parrots. It’s an exciting time to be alive.

Watch a Cornell football game.

They’ve had two winning seasons in the last 20 years, but it’s not really about the football. I’d say support IC in the Cortaca game, but for reasons that defy rational explanation they’re playing out this local rivalry in East Rutherford, New Jersey this year.

Play trivia at Liquid State. There may be hope for the future yet. If excellent beer in a quasi-industrial setting with hard questions is a harbinger of what’s to come, I’m in.

the ruling family engendered a high sense of esteem in particular for the wife of the Contin u ed From Page 6 Emir at that time, the visionary Sheikha Moza, the force behind the Education research assistants and lab technicians City project. who are employed directly by Cornell, As I learned early on, in the Arab and if so, their conditions ought to be, as World, in general, “things come from Mr. Hanna says, commensurate with their above,” and furthermore, what the rulpeers on the Ithaca and NYC campuses. ing elites do among themselves is quite The most egregious exploitation of the opaque to foreigners, even those with labor force in the country, however, is of whom they have entered into business construction workers, and unfortunately, partnerships. Therefore, as Mr. Hanna in Education City there have been fatal implies, lobbyaccidents, posing for positive sibly as a result changes in labor of the lack of practices whether safety protocols. with the Qatari These laborers are government or predominantly with Cornell ought uneducated, unemto be directed to ployed, impoverthe people at the ished young men top. However, from places in disparaging them Nepal, Pakistan with unproven and India, whose allegations is contracts are with uncalled for and non-Qatari corcounterproducporations licensed tive. Whether by the governwe’re talking about ment. Throughout Qatar—quite the entire region, progressive and and for a long liberal minded by time, this kafala Gulf standards—or system has been Saudi, or the UAE, used to recruit tribal thinking such workers from persists in these Peter Fortunato other countries. Its cultures and it often offenses have been includes ages old widely documented biases, rivalries, and grudges outsiders by human rights organizations—and it can hardly comprehend. I caution Mr. has proven terribly intractable so far to Hanna and others against making well remediation. intentioned but facile statements about a Things might have changed since I lack of transparency that impedes Westlived in Doha, but all of us who taught ern values in such cultures. at Weill Cornell in my time were acutely I can understand that students on the aware of the compromises we were makIthaca campus would want to know where ing on a daily basis in order to be there: and how their tuition dollars are being we’d come to help educate future doctors spent.

Certain issues need to be pressed and to represent the educational values with Cornell, whatever the Federal of Cornell and of the United States in Department of Education investigates a region of the world where goodwill regarding financial transactions between toward the USA is not necessarily to Cornell and the government of Qatar, be expected, and we thought this was a which has subsidized Cornell’s operations good thing, even a courageous thing to in the country. However, Mr. Hanna’s do, especially given the proximity of the Iraq War and the US posture toward Iran. most inflammatory remarks are vague and unsupported. I don’t claim to be an I weighed the situation in terms of my own wish to share something of America, expert on my alma mater and former more particularly of Ithaca, with the Arab employer’s actions, nor on the arrangement two Cornell Presidents engineered and Islamic World. I compromised, in more than 15 years ago with the governother words, and did my best to bring the ment of Qatar, but I do believe that the values of Western humanism not only to school’s presence there has been overmy future doctors, but also to whomever whelmingly a good thing. Of course, good of the working classes I encountered in things might be made even better. that stratified society. My impressions of CORNELL QATAR

Correction In last week’s preview for the Running to Places performance of Mamma Mia we listed the opening date incorrectly. The Show opens THIS coming Thursday August 8 at the Dewitt Middle School. Performances are held Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

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n June 13, 2019 Governor Cuomo signed legislation that removed non-medical exemptions from school vaccination requirements for children. This means parents or guardians may no longer claim any exemption other than a medical one. To attend public, private or parochial schools for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 or to attend child day care, children must be fully vaccinated unless they have a medical exemption.

It is important for parents and guardians to be aware of what qualifies as a medical exemption.

Your health care practitioner must follow guidelines created by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Only a factor your practitioner believes to be a true risk to your child (what your doctor would call a contraindication) would be acceptable to provide exemption. Complications resulting from a vaccine may last a few to several days but can last much longer and in some cases, be lifelong. The best way to sort this out is to have a conversation with your health care practitioner.

Some parents wish to seek a medical exemption for their child when there are no medical complications present. The guidelines are clearly written, and the practitioner is limited to the conditions specified. In addition, the practitioner must present enough information to prove the condition exists. It is a violation of law to falsify a record.

Once the form is completed, it must be submitted to the school or day care program which the child is to attend.

The final judgment about the document is made by either the principal or school superintendent. If the parent or guardian disagrees with the decision of the school, there are ways to appeal the decision. This can be done through the State Education Department Commissioner, however, there is no appeal process for child day care programs. These programs must comply with all applicable laws.

The deadline for obtaining your child’s first vaccine doses for attending school or day care this fall is 14 days from the first day of school or enrollment in day care.

Within 30 days of school starting, parents and guardians must show that they have scheduled appointments for all required follow up doses.

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This helps to prevent a child that cannot be vaccinated from being exposed to the disease, helping them (and all of us) live longer and healthier lives.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Tompkins County Health Department at 607-274-6604 and ask for “Immunizations.”

Dr. William Klepack

In response to “County Medical Director clarifies new school vaccination rules” “This law is misguided and written by the pharmaceutical industry. There was absolutely no connection between the few hundred cases of measles that the state experienced and the 26000 students in the state with a religious exemption. Even the Mayor of NYC admitted as much in an article in Politico. This ginned up “epidemic” was a law that pushed medical fascism into the face of New Yorkers. Don’t be fooled by Democrats who rally against corporate fascism when they participate in it as much as any.”

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In response to “Study shows demand growing for Ithaca conference center” “These are historically money losers for every community that puts them in. One major reason is that they are in a sense, businesses competing with other regional businesses, yet local governments never fully privatize them. They become little quasi-government run businesses, run with all the competitiveness, energy and efficiency governments bring to bear in their normal monopolies. Yes, sarcasm.”

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In response to “Study shows demand growing for Ithaca conference center” “So millions in taxpayer money and something designed to lose money all to boost the bottom line of Hotels? No thanks.”

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Southside Strife Wage theft and worker mistreatment at Ithaca community center

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By M att Bu tler n the minds of many, Southside Community Center is one of the most important entities in Ithaca.

Though small, it serves as the premier supporter of black culture in Ithaca, highlighted by its celebrations of Juneteenth and its general fostering of the city’s African-American community through education, promotion and celebration.

But within the walls of the legendary building on Plain Street, workers have been lodging complaints for years about their treatment at the hands of Southside’s leadership and management. Among those complaints are allegations of wage theft, discrimination and retaliation that have contributed to frequent turnover in staff and facilitated a culture of mistrust among workers, according to several sources who spoke to the Ithaca Times both on and off the record.

Rob Brown, of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC), emerged as the primary handler of Southside cases, of which there were several—most notably a cluster over a three month period in 2016.

Since that time, Brown estimates that 16 people in total have come to the Workers’ Center with separate but very similar complaints about their treatment at Southside, which employs only around 10 employees at a given time (one indication of the center’s high turnover) and has a yearly budget of around $300,000. Alarm bells, he said, always go off when there are that many people from a small organization who are upset about working conditions, 8 T

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especially when they begin to report to the workers’ center during the same time frame.

“It breaks my heart when we encounter that much misery coming out of people who work for a mission-driven organization that chiefly exists to bring light to the community,” Brown said. “A labor violation is a labor violation, anywhere it happens. It feels way different when it’s coming out of a mission entity.”

In a statement, Southside Community Center Executive Director Nia Nunn offered a blanket denial of the allegations in this article. Brown did note that complaints from Southside workers have slowed down since that initial cluster in 2016, though they do still come in with some regularity. Whether that gradual dissipation is a result of a new era at Southside, as has been touted previously, or some other factor isn’t clear. The center’s beneficial community work has continued, even with tumultuous leadership, but is clouded somewhat by charges from workers there over the years.

Some, but not all, of those workers have pursued action against the community center via a variety of different methods: small claims court, the New York State Department of Labor and the New York State Department of Human Rights among them. Some have been successful, to a certain extent, while others have either chosen to let their issues lie unresolved or haven’t been able to suitably prove their cases.

Wytheria Harriett served in several positions with Southside: volunteer, deputy

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J e n n i f e r F o r b e s , f o r m e r e x e c u t i v e a s s i s ta n t at S o u t h s i d e C o m m u n i t y C e n t e r . ( P h o t o b y C a s e y M a r t i n) director, executive director and president of the board of directors for the organization. During her time as deputy director, the executive director was Leon Lawrence, a beloved community figure who became ill and tragically passed away briefly into his tenure at the helm. During his illness, Harriett began to oversee the organization’s finances, which led her to question where some of the funds were going and to what. That led to tension between Harriett and Nunn, she said, which increasingly worsened. Eventually, she was asked to resign from the executive director position by Nunn in January 2017 after six months at the position, and was promptly replaced by Nydia Boyd, who served until earlier this year. At the time, Harriett sent a lengthy email to the center’s board of directors in which she states her resignation was forced, and arguing she should have had an opportunity to make her case before the board. In the end, Harriett said she felt that despite her leadership position at the center, she wasn’t in control and was the subject of undermining and disrespect.

“I couldn’t supervise my staff,” Harriett said. “It just became hostile.”

That was followed by criminal charges filed in the City of Ithaca against Harriett

by Southside for theft and misappropriation of community center funds. Harriett said she felt the charges, which she argued were over issues that had already been discussed and settled amicably between her, Nunn and other leadership at the commu-

nity center (namely a company-purchased cell phone Harriett says was agreed upon and other expenses), were a retaliation and a “scare tactic” designed to silence her from stating her argument to board members about her dismissal. Eventually, Harriett was acquitted of all charges lodged against her.

Jennifer Forbes, a former executive assistant at the community center, started at Southside in 2014. Shortly after Nunn returned as president of the board of directors in mid-2016, Forbes was asked to step down after questioning the center’s finances as she implemented a QuickBooks accounting system. Nunn’s stated reason was previous allegations regarding Forbes’ contact with a minor, Forbes said, but that had been investigated internally and determined to be unfounded, according to Forbes and Harriett, who was still in the organization’s leadership at the time.

Forbes did end up resigning after deeming the situation untenable, but after an extended back and forth with Southside over thousands of dollars in delayed pay, Forbes did pursue further action for unpaid wages and won her case against Southside through the Department of Labor. She was subsequently awarded $5,000 through small claims court, the maximum amount allowed in that court system. According to Forbes, Southside didn’t show up to fight that case, but then asked for the case to be reopened. At that time, they alleged countercharges against Forbes that

included “destruction of agency records, false statement of grant entitlement, history of financial misappropriation of agency funds, etc.,” but after several adjournments and postponements, the case was again decided in her favor, and again without Southside’s attendance. Forbes provided dozens of pages of emails and budget reports to thwart these counterclaims to the Ithaca Times, but since Southside never officially stated their case, the validity is hard to determine. She, like Harriett, felt the charges were meant to scare her into submission.

Eddie Moran, the former computer lab coordinator and computer literacy teacher at Southside, filed a separate case with the Department of Labor for unpaid wages through accrued vacation and overtime after he was terminated for an alleged misappropriation of funds incident. The Department of Labor ruled in his favor for $3,000. Harriett, who fired Moran over the alleged theft, said she pushed to bring him back after his explanation of the circumstances (a pre-entered credit card number on a GrubHub order), but was overruled.

While those cases were decided in 2017, it took until January of this year for Forbes to receive her payment; the lapsed time forced her to give up her car because she couldn’t keep up with the monthly payments, she said.

Both Forbes and Harriett said the workplace dynamic shifted when they began to raise questions about what they felt was improper spending practices regarding grant funding and overall center finances. One of these grant-related allegations is shown in Forbes’ court case, which listed $1,265 in unpaid wages from her work with the Sista4Sista women’s peer advocacy program that was funded via grant.

The Ithaca Times could not independently verify these allegations, but other sources confirmed, at least, that Forbes and Harriett both left (or in Harriett’s case, was requested to resign) shortly after they began raising questions about grant funding.

Harriet said she was told she has three years after her January 2017 departure to file a lawsuit against Southside, and is still deciding if she wants to proceed with litigation. She said she was owed 103 hours of overtime wages, but missed the filing deadline for that particular complaint and will be unable to collect those funds. At $30 per hour, that money also would have reached just over $3,000.

Southside Community Center’s executive director, Nia Nunn, issued a statement to the Ithaca Times denying the allega-

tions listed here, and noting that none of the cases mentioned have been decided on merit, meaning Southside didn’t officially challenge them (despite the request to reopen Forbes’ case). She said they value all of their workforce, but noted it is difficult to discuss specific employee cases.

“Southside Community Center is confident that any investigation will prove current allegations to the Department of Labor regarding former employees from years ago to be unfounded as well,” Nunn wrote in an email statement, deferring comment on the criminal proceedings against Harriett to police and prosecutors.

“A dedicated volunteer Board, members of the staff, and committed volunteers continue to remain engaged in the agency’s mission and purpose. These allegations will not interfere with the vibrant and impactful work that Southside Community Center has been offering for the past several years. We are incredibly grateful for everyone in the community that is truly invested in the Southside Community Center’s mission and purpose.”

Nunn went on to say that Southside is in the process of hiring a new executive director, and had just received funding for a part-time human resources employee to “help with managing operations in an effort to support the agency with strengthening its policies and procedures.”

Forbes and Moran were both terminated during sweeping changes at the organization, which also included the ousting of several other Southside employees and eventually Harriett, a group that garnered the nickname “the Southside 8” at the workers’ center. Along with Forbes’ car, Moran and Harriett both reported difficulty finding jobs after their experience at Southside. Harriett said the charges, in particular, affected her daily life and standing in the community.

“I had great community ties there in Ithaca, I had done great work in the community before that, but the way they slandered my name was really distressing,” said Harriett, who now lives in Georgia.

“That whole first year [afterward], I really just withdrew from everything.”

Forbes echoed that sentiment. Several other workers at Southside refused to comment for this story despite their involvement, either formal or informal, with the workers’ center. But they did confirm the accounts, in parts, of Forbes, Moran and Harriett, and generally confirmed the volatile working climate there over the last few years. Their reasons for refusing to comment or go on the record ranged

parable circumstances, the overall themes behind these folks’ allegations or workplace challenges have been fairly consistent,” Brown said. “Substantiating them, other than that employees routinely feel unhappy and unfairly treated which seems well established, still rests in the outcomes of any formal actions the workers may have chosen.”

Whatever changes have been made, either by Nunn or otherwise, it’s unclear if they have had any impact. Charles Rhody, a prominent community figure who runs Southside’s food pantry, filed a complaint with the Division of Human Rights over his workplace situation in October 2018.

He claimed gender discrimination, retaliation for an “honest opinion, in favor of an [unspecified] female employee who was ultimately terminated by Respondent,” and a hostile work environment over the previous year or so, but the division found insufficient evidence that the Human Rights Law was violated in any of his claims.

In a special proceedings filing in June, Rhody asked the Tompkins County Courts to examine his case further, restating his claims but softening the gender discrimination allegations and arguing that the DHR’s investigation and hearing process had been improper.

Rhody declined to comment for this article, so it’s difficult to know which unspecified female employee the suit refers Southside Executive Director Nia to, although Harriett stated N u n n . ( P h o t o b y C a s e y M a r t i n) that he was prepared to testify on her behalf during her criminal trial. sented as a way for the City of Ithaca to During several interviews for this provide more resources to Southside. But story, one thing became very clear: those a City of Ithaca official confirmed to the complaining about their treatment at Ithaca Times that the effort was motivatSouthside all support its stated mission ed, in part, by a fear that the community center would fall apart entirely without the of supporting and championing the black community, which is especially necessary city’s intervention. That effort was eventuin a place where the black community repally rebuffed, and was opposed by Nunn, resents under 10 percent of the total popuwho did not answer when asked why she lation. But in deciding to talk openly about resisted the move. Annually, the City of their experiences for the first time, they Ithaca contributes between $140,000had reached a breaking point. $150,000 per year to Southside.

“I really didn’t want it to come to this, TCWC has had discussions with SouthI didn’t want it to be public,” Forbes said, side leadership to address worker confrustration clear in her voice. “I’m just a cerns, but Brown couldn’t speak to the little girl from South Carolina and I uneffectiveness of those talks. Nunn didn’t derstand what Southside is supposed to be. respond to a question about changes imThey’re supposed to be at the helm of the plemented. community, uplifting everyone.”

“Understanding that everyone’s situation ends up being unique even in comfrom fear of reprisal from the community, a prevailing support for Southside’s overall mission, or a desire to avoid reopening old wounds from their time there. A few, including Harriett, said at points, working at Southside was some of the best time of their lives, but the end of their tenures left an overwhelmingly sour taste.

Nunn is once again the executive director after stepping away several years ago to become a full-time teacher at Ithaca College. While she was gone, the top positions at the community center became a revolving door. Leadership turnover at Southside, among other issues, has been a longrunning concern, even leading to an effort in 2016 to bring Southside under the umbrella of the City of Ithaca by combining it with the Greater Ithaca Activities Center.

At the time, that move was publicly pre-

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ike so many who know Brenda Michaud, and who have seen the passion, dedication and intensity she brings to her workouts and the diligence she brings to her diet and maintaining a healthy mindset, I was among those who looked at her Facebook post last summer in disbelief. I am guessing that my reaction was similar to that of the rest of her Facebook friends, and anyone else that may have received the news by other channels. That reaction was, “Wait, who has cancer? You? No way.”

I sat down with Brenda in the café at Cayuga Medical Center, where she is employed as the facilities manager, to discuss her challenges and triumphs and, since this is a sports column, to talk about her participation in this year’s Cayuga Lake Triathlon. I told her how I did a doubletake when reading her post last summer, and she said, “That was a common reaction. My [teenage] daughter said, ‘Mom, you can’t have cancer.’”

Having seen Michaud’s competitive spirit first-hand (she thrashed me in a game of pool), I offered her an opportunity to self-evaluate. I said, “So, on a scale of

1 to 10, with 1 being a couch potato and 10 process, and they would clean up my being workout-obsessed, what are you?” blood and I would donate it back to With the speed and assuredness one myself. I would basically hover near death might expect in a medical facility, she said for a few days, and I had no immunity. I “I’m a 10. I set a lot of goals for myself, and couldn’t go to the gym. I had to stay away I’m very driven.” from people, stay out of the lake, stay away Of her diagnosis, Michaud asked me, from my pets. It was tough.”

“Can you believe it has been over a year?”

By July of 2018, Michaud was deemed She retraced the timeline and recalled, “In ready for her stem cell transplant, and the fall of 2017, I was training really hard on Sept. 6th, she swung her leg over her on the treadmill bicycle to do a and my back century ride. started to hurt.

(For the uninitiI assumed it ated, yes: a cenwas from overtury ride is 100 training, so in miles.) As she February, I went was cranking in to get checked her way through out.” it, a friend Michaud was asked, “Did your shocked when oncologist apan MRI revealed prove this?” Her that she had a reply: “I didn’t cluster of lesions tell him.” along her spine.

In October, She underwhen she was went a series of ready to handle Brenda Michaud during one of her biopsies, and the higher triumphant returns. (Photo provided) when the diagimpact effects nostic process of running, was complete six weeks later, she learned Michaud completed the Cancer Resource what she was facing. She said, “The type Center 5K, the Danby National Forest 15K of cancer I was diagnosed with, multiple and then the Turkey Trot 6-miler. Next up myeloma, is a plasma cell cancer that steals was the “It’s a Wonderful Run” race in Sencalcium from your bones, and that is why eca Falls in December, the Frosty Loomis, my back hurt so much.” and then came the Hammond Hill 10K In Michaud’s words, “In April of ’18, Snowshoe Race.

I was in full chemo. That was a 12-week Michaud stated, “I felt like I was ready

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to start training for half-marathons, and when I went across the finish line at the Skunk Cabbage Half (in April of this year), I was exactly at my goal, to the minute.”

Feeling ever-stronger, she took part once again in the Seneca 7, a seven-person relay covering 77.7 miles. Participants run three seven-mile segments and ride the bike segments between runs.

Michaud is fully convinced that her lifelong commitment to fitness played a factor in her quick turnaround. She said, “I am currently in remission, and I will be on chemo for the rest of my life. I go every two weeks, they test my blood, and if I pass, I get an injection. That’s okay with me. I can handle it.” She also said that Bikram Yoga (practiced in high heat and humidity) is an important part of her healing regimen, stating, “It helps to retrain your mind, to use your will to get through this.” She provided literature that states that Bikram has been found to be useful in not only preventing cancer, but in “reversing cancer processes,” given that “the act of heating up the skin for a period of time causes a release of toxins from the skin.”

Michaud, who turned 57 three days before the Cayuga Lake Triathlon, where she subsequently added an appearance on the podium to her comeback story, told me she is looking forward to the race. It was her 10th CLT. She started the event with a 1,500-meter swim, then rode her bicycle 24.3 miles and finished with a 10K run.

She said, “I feel stronger in my training now than I did before I had cancer. I’m very grateful for that.”

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Blooms are Back

Photo of a 2009 algal bloom on the southeast shore of Pelee Island, Ontario (Photo: Tom Archer)

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uly saw the first reported impacts of Cayuga Lake’s notorious harmful algal blooms (HABs) when they briefly shut down the Ithaca Yacht Club and Taughannock Falls State Park. The toxic blooms have been a recurring problem in the area, popping up during the warm weather months and frequently hampering enjoyable summer activities like swimming in the lake for fear of contracting a rash.

Other blooms have been reported in the area as well, tracked and monitored by the Community Science Institute on their website. So far in 2019, there have been 42 algal blooms reported on the CSI website, although results are pending for some of the blooms and some were not ruled to be harmful, either due to the type of bloom or their concentration.

Whether or not a bloom is rated as toxic, humans should avoid contact with them, as exposure can still pose health risks. High levels of toxins present in an HAB can cause nausea, vomiting, skin and eye irritation or allergic reaction-like symptoms.

According to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation research scientist Tony Prestigiacomo, the frequency and intensity of blooms can result from a massive variety of factors, including temperature, sunlight, location in the lake, and overall climate.

“The DEC reports blooms all over New York State in lakes, rivers, ponds, all sizes, all of the Finger Lakes have had reports of blooms in recent years,” Prestigiacomo said. “It’s definitely not unique to Cayuga

Lake.”

So far, those on Cayuga Lake have been restricted to the typical HAB spot, which is not in the open water. That also means that, for the most part, any wildlife in an impacted section of the lake are able to escape any negative effects that a HAB might have on their habitat, DEC spokesperson Stephanie Wilson said. If an entire lake were to suffer an algal bloom, that could be a concern, but that hasn’t been the case.

“We have no indication that the whole lake has been impacted by HABs at this point,” Prestigiacomo said, noting that all the reported HABs this year have been adjacent to a shoreline in Cayuga Lake.

“These reports don’t affect the open water part of the lake.”

People can report HABs on their own to the state at the new HABs Notifications Page, which was created to field potential spottings and show the public where the

ones discovered to be toxic are located.

That’s the central hub, as Prestigiacomo put it, for a constant tracker on HAB incidents. He said it was too early to tell, even with the new and expanded tracking methods, if this year has seen more HABs or not, either in Cayuga Lake or elsewhere.

Climate change, Prestigiacomo added, is probably a factor in the steady increase in HAB sightings over the last several years due to its effects on the central New York climate that create an environment more likely to foster HAB growth.

“We feel that it’s likely that climate change, from increasing temperatures, longer growing seasons, increasing heavy rainfalls, is likely an important factor relating to the recent observations in HABs that we’ve had,” he said.

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garden, which is investing in the environment and also in the youth and teens who will lead us into the future, and they actively support that work in a way that is meaningful. We love the gift of cold brew coffee because it gives multiple times: once for the teens to learn about business and entrepreneurial skills; once when staff, camp parents and visitors who buy it and improve their experience at the garden with a cold coffee; and once when we are able to reinvest the proceeds back into supporting this job skills program.”

Marteal said ICG serves more than 70,000 people a year, and with support from partners like Ithaca Bakery the mission to faciliate people spending time outdoors and in nature is easier.

Ithaca Bakery’s Ramsey Brous said, “Originally, the Ithaca Children’s Garden came to us in 2018 asking to buy iced coffee to sell at the Farm Stand. Being huge fans of the garden since its inception (and before), I suggested that we do a donation instead. We started supplying them with iced cold-brew coffee on a daily basis shortly thereafter and have continued to do so for the 2019 season. It is gratifying to be able to help in this venture.”

The Teen Urban Farmers (TUF) is a weekly after-school volunteer program and six-week intensive summer program where teens take on leadership roles, providing key support for critical garden operations while learning basic job skills, which can range from carpentry and sales to working with children, composting, working as a team, solving problems, and persevering through all kinds of weather. The program empowers teens by building a strong work ethic and marketable skills in the areas of horticulture, entrepreneurship and leadership, and has been running continuously since 1999. It was previously known as the Youth Horticulture Apprenticeship Program. The partnership with Ithaca Bakery has helped them expand their work.

ICG’s Farm Stand is run by TUF, who sell fresh produce and cut flowers during the summer. All produce is grown organically and sustainably grown by youth and teens. The stand is open from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday until Aug. 31.

It is located at the entrance to the Garden, 121 Turtle Lane at Cass Park. And, as is so often the case, “it takes a village,” so special thanks go out to Kristen McClellan and Snappy Screens for the donation of the structure, Alan Vogel and friends for retrofitting the shed into a functioning Farm Stand, and Steve Austin for installing a rain catchment system.

The Ithaca Children’s Garden is an oasis of learning, skill-building, teamwork, productivity and good old-fashioned fun.

Remember those crazy days of summer, just playing the the dirt? Well, head back in time and do it all over again at the garden and stop by the TUF Farm Stand for a beverage and snack.

To learn more about the program, please visit https://ithacachildrensgarden. org/education/teen-urban-farmers/.

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Chenango County Blues Festival back for a 27th year

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entral New York’s long history of embracing blues music continues this month with one of its most high-profile celebrations of the genre, the Chenango County Blues Festival.

This year’s festival takes place on Aug. 16 and 17 at the Chenango County Fairgrounds in Norwich, New York. At Friday’s portion of the festival, which is free of charge, the Gabe Stillman Band, Joanna Connor, and Rick Estrin and the Nightcats will perform from 5:30 until 10:15 p.m., with gates opening at 4 p.m. The next day, gates open at 11 a.m., and the performances, held at two different stages simultaneously all day, begin at 11:30 a.m. and continue until 9:45 p.m. Saturday will feature Tab Benoit, Mississippi Heat, and Jontavious Willis, among several others. Tickets are available before the festival’s first day for $25 at chenangobluesfest.org and $35 on the day of the show.

Festival organizer Eric Larsen thanked the team of people who help make the event possible each year, and said the 2019 festival would follow much of the same formula as

years before, which has proven to be successful. Like always, there is an emphasis on keeping the event accessible and affordable for people of all backgrounds.

“We try and run an event that is good for both fans and artists and that is family friendly and affordable for as many people as possible,” Larsen said. “We are an all volunteer run group with no paid staff and no profit motive, so we try and bring that vibe forward in to the event. Nothing against big festivals, but we kind of strive to be the opposite of the events where you pay $5 for a water and $15 for a beer. We are in it to share great music with as wide a group of friends as we can round up.”

Organizers cast a wide net when recruiting a lineup for the festival, in order to give blues fans in the area the most variety of musical options. Looking for up-and-comers who might not have attained much fame yet is also a priority, Larsen said, which likely guarantees that fans will be hearing the artists for the first time.

“In developing our lineup, we always look for diversity first,” he said. “We want to represent as many different styles as we can realistically fit in. We want to move it across the regions: west coast, south, and of course Chicago is its own region. If we can get someone international, that’s always fun, and we also try and dig up a couple artists that people probably haven’t gotten the chance to hear yet.”

Larsen’s excited about the lineup, which he said has drawn compliments from regular festival-goers. Pokey LaFarge, who is perform-

ing on Saturday, doesn’t normally make it up to the central New York area, Larsen said, so he’s excited to hear from him, plus Tab Benoit and Downchild Blues Band are both capable of electric live performances. There are also award winning acts like Lurrie Bell, who Larsen mentioned won the Living Blues Critics Poll Guitar Player of the Year, and will be closing down the festival with Mississippi Heat. The music is the main attraction for the crowd, but Larsen said he also thinks people enjoy the community feel of the festival.

Though it has the production value of a formal event, it can avoid the hassle of larger and more crowded festivals.

The event wasn’t going to be a yearly event, Larsen said, until Joe Portelli grouped together his friends as volunteers to see if they could keep it going for an additional year after the inaugural event 27 years ago. They hit their goal of 200 attendees that year and decided to go for a third, and it has stayed alive since then. The festival has been able to grow over the decades with the help of volunteers and local sponsors, plus the persistence of organizers.

“If it weren’t for a core group of about a dozen people, it wouldn’t be possible to put the festival on,” Larsen said. “My favorite part is easy, looking out at a lot of people coming together and having a good time listening to music. It’s community in the best sense of the word. Having people pat us on the back and thank us for doing it is an incredibly rewarding feeling.”

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The gathered crowd at last year’s Chenango County Blues Festival enjoys Elvin Bishop. (Photo online)

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D o v i D i s c . $ 1 9 1 8 F a c t o r y R e b a t e $ Joe’s, in Ithaca, has remained as one of the more iconic restaurants in 3 downtown Ithaca over the last several decades. (Photo Casey Martin) 9 2 5 dining

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eaders of this column know I like to begin restaurant reviews with a bit of history of the establishment, and Joe’s past is one of the most interesting in Ithaca. When I graduated from Cornell in the mid-20th century there were already many restaurants in downtown Ithaca. In the intervening years, only

one has remained with the same name at the same location, and that’s Joe’s at the corner of Buffalo and Meadow streets.

Years ago, that intersection was one of the busiest in Tompkins County, and was the reason many diners found Joe’s and enjoyed it. In the 1920s, the site was a grocery store, and the area that now serves as

the bar was a grocery display case. In 1933, when prohibition ended, the display case was converted to a more profitable bar and the store itself was renovated into a restaurant, with the owners living above it.

In 1947, after World War II ended, troops returned to the U.S., and many wanted to enjoy the pizzas that were so popular in Europe. This prompted the owner of Joe’s to travel to NYC to buy, and bring back, the first pizza oven to Ithaca. Pizzas became so popular that other local restaurant owners soon were serving them.

In the almost 100 years between 1923 and 2019, Joe’s has changed hands several times and, in fact, closed completely three times. With each change in ownership came changes to the character and quality of the establishment, even though the name, Joe’s, became an icon in the area and each new owner retained it. With the heavy traffic at the intersection, it’s convenient that Joe’s still has free, off-street parking behind the building.

The main dining room, on Buffalo Street, where many of us used to eat, no longer serves meals. The tables and chairs are gone and the space is now used for “special events.” Dining is limited to the bar area, with seven chairs, three booths and a TV and its extension to a modest space with booths and tables on the Meadow Street side of the restaurant. The closing of the main dining room is an obvious reflection of a significant reduction in Joe’s popularity.

And now, to the food.

I’ve tried two appetizers. The chicken wings were fine, except I ordered the parmesan/garlic dressing, and the four wings, cut into eight pieces, had no discernable parmesan/garlic flavor. There was a mysterious glob on the plate, under the wings, which the server couldn’t identify but reported, after checking in the kitchen, was the cheese. I couldn’t cut into it, so I ate the wings without flavoring and enjoyed them, as they were cooked well

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and were accompanied by a bit of blue cheese dressing for dipping and flavoring.

The Tuscan soup was loaded with generous portions of sausage, potatoes, kale and bacon; however, it was so salty I didn’t eat it. My companion ordered a house salad as an appetizer, and was pleased that the “mixed greens” turned out to be romaine lettuce and there were copious amounts of tomatoes, peppers, olives, and red onions.

In fact, one of the best aspects of Joe’s is that the portions are generous.

The menu does not have any veal selections (which should make some Ithacans happy, some not) or lasagna. The evenings I was there, lasagna was one of the three specials on a small specials menu, which is often utilized for several weeks. All I want to say about the lasagna is that others served in town are better. I also ordered white clam sauce, which featured small, Little Neck-type clams both in the shell and out. The clams were not tender, the linguine was obviously not homemade, and the sauce was on the bland side.

Desserts are rather ordinary and none are homemade.

The wine menu, though small, covers all the bases. All the basic grape varieties most wine drinkers would choose are represented in the nine reds and five whites.

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Born Yesterday

Cast emphasizes an old-school approach at CRT

By Br yan VanC ampe n Damon Runyon meets “Pygmalion” in Garson Kanin’s ever-sturdy 1946 comedy “Born Yesterday,” on the boards at CRT through this Saturday. It’s a much better version of Kanin’s play than Disney’s dismal 1993 film version, starring John Goodman and Melanie Griffith. It’s one of those time-travel comedies that take the audience back to a faster-talking time, a time when people had moxie and, yes, talked really fast.

The setting is 1946, in the best hotel suite in Washington, D.C. The suite is currently occupied by self-made junk king Harry Brock (Bill Coughlin), his mistress

Billie Dawn (Briana Gantsweg) and his entourage, which includes right-hand man Eddie Brock (Michael Antico) and boozy politician Ed Devery (Patrick White). Harry Brock has come to conquer the political world and consolidate his power so he can do whatever he wants. Billie has been signing papers she doesn’t understand, and so Harry decides she needs some education, and so he hires local reporter Paul Verrall (Woody Minshew) to tutor Billie in the ways of the world.

This is one ensemble that has what I like to call “TCM appeal.” That means that all the performers dip back to the more

presentational, oversized performances of the great 1930s and ‘40s, before Brando and the Method, when actors had the kind of bigger-than-life characteristics that could be parodied by impressionists.

For instance, Steven Bidwell and Nancy Kane are absolutely spot-on as a stuffy senator and his stuffy wife. Bidwell looks like Wally Cox right down to his dowdy glasses, and Kane clearly knows that she’s there to play a variation on Marx Brothers foil Margaret Dumont.

Coughlin as Brock bellows and blusters, but he’s not the imposing presence that actors like Broderick Crawford and John Goodman have brought to the role. Antico, wearing one of those odd mid-century jackets and hats, seems to have stepped out of a Preston Sturges movie, and White’s smarmy, slightly desperate character is a real scene-stealer; it was a pleasure seeing him after his turn last season in CRT’s “Our Town.”

All the craziness that ensues revolves around Billie Dawn, one of those plum comic roles that can go for cartoon effect.

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Briana Gantsweg certainly sounds like a Looney Tune. Her epic squawk owes a lot to original star Judy Holliday, but Gantsweg, perfectly turned out in one amazing outfit after another, certainly makes the role her own. Whether she’s picking jelly beans out of a dish to play a round of bowling, or taking Harry to the cleaners during a nearly silent battle of gin rummy, Gantsweg makes the rest of the world respond to her deliberate, oddball rhythms.

Cortland Rep “Born Yesterday,” written by Garson Kanin. Directed by Mark Reynolds, scenic design by Jeremy Hollis, costume design by Orli Nativ. At Cortland Repertory Theatre through August 10.

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The BBQ V, as it is now known, returns for its fifth year of food, music and arts later this month. The event, formerly known as the Big Mean BBQ after popular local band the Big Mean Sound Machine, is looking to continue despite its eponymous band’s hiatus.

The annual event just announced its lineup, boasting 20 acts from a variety of genres who will come together on Aug. 23-24 at 3150 Agard Road in Trumansburg, at one of the GrassRoots offsites.

There’s a deep roster of talent lined up for the event, from singer-songwriters to dance bands to jazz groups to rockers to funk performers and more.

The event is being headlined by the Ryan Montbleau Band, RubbleBucket, Driftwood, Sophistafunk, plus 16 other groups filling out the rest of the two day festival. The BBQ is billed as a chance to “bring the community together in order to ignite the body and mind through music and dance.”

The food, of course, is another highlight. The BBQ V will have an array of dishes available, provided by Copper Horse Coffee, The Piggery, Blue Tusk, Franco’s Pizzeria and Silo Food Truck.

Tickets for the event are on sale now online at www.thebbqny.com, and are available at a reduced price before the day of the event. Weekend passes are on sale for $70 until Aug. 22, after which the price jumps to $90 at the gate. Single-day passes can be purchased for $35 until Aug. 22,

when the price increases to $45. Camping options are also available.

In a way, the festivities have already started for The BBQ V. The Pre-BQ was held this past weekend, inviting attendees to the Westy in downtown Ithaca for a warm-up event. The Pre-BQ also featured performances by Driftwood, as well as ticket giveaways.

The event is in need of volunteers to help set up and work the BBQ, and those interested can sign up via the Google form on the event’s Facebook page.

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Blue Ship Tearoom

Debra Bermingham makes a rare area appearance

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distinguished realist painter associated with New York City’s DC Moore Gallery, Debra Bermingham is a 1970s Cornell MFA graduate and longtime resident of the Finger Lakes area. However, she rarely exhibits regionally.

Bermingham’s current show at Corners Gallery, “Tales from the Blue Ship Tearoom” (through Aug. 31), thus has the feeling of a homecoming. But it’s also a departure, as it features not her betterknown traditional painting but her recent work with collaged and assembled objects.

Using antique wooden frames and supports, old book covers, paper ephemera, ship models, and delicate metal bits, the artist conjures a pre-20th century maritime fantasy—an interesting choice for the conspicuously landlocked artist.

Her work here, most of it wall-mounted, is profoundly attentive to color and touch. In addition to found textures and scrawls, the artist incorporates her own small painted panels. These underline a deeper link to her earlier practice, char-

acterized by a subtle, airy rendering and often featuring eccentric still-life.

Particularly since its 2014 expansion, the Cayuga Heights gallery has emerged as Ithaca’s most self-consciously “sophisticated” exhibition space. Framer-curator Ariel Bullion Ecklund, who took over the business a decade ago, has transformed it from a frame shop that did casual exhibits into an urbane showcase for local and national artists. Not that everything at Corners is equally daring or successful, but a certain degree both of surprise and quality are to be expected.

Introduced into the European mainstream by Cubist artists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in 1912, collage, and its three-dimensional offshoot assemblage, has tracked some of the most interesting developments in 20th-century art.

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Two broad directions are discernible: a “formalist” tendency characterized by an abstract-leaning emphasis on color and space versus a more narrative, surreal focus on disjointed imagery.

Bermingham synthesizes both approaches with results that are both pleasing and naggingly unsatisfied. Her sense of formal design is highly precise. Characteristically, she juxtaposes the classical symmetry of her framing (or frame-like) furniture forms with the calculated asymmetry of her attached accents. Results suggest books or display objects on shelves.

Although she only occasionally borrows his signature “box” format, Bermingham’s assemblages recall those of American Surrealist Joseph Cornell in their combination of rigorous structure and dreamy fantasy.

As with Cornell’s obsessively elaborated ephemera, the question arises: Does the work transcend kitschy décor to succeed as the “serious” art?

A couple small freestanding pieces recall the Dadaists and Surrealists with their interest in toys and machines. Bermingham’s main direction however, is a series of larger, wall-mounted works. These read as reliefs rather than fully “in-the-round” sculptures—an understandable approach for a painter. (While Cornell’s boxes have

a relatively deep, stage-like space, her constructions suggest boxes or shelves that have been stuffed full, creating a more flattened, picture-like effect.)

“The Knightes Tale,” a portrait-format piece, is characteristic of the artist’s general approach, if not her iconography. Blocks of faded orange, browns, dark grays and green, bright and off-whites surround a miniature gallery of images: an exquisitely painted knight-on-horseback toy, a reproduced color drawing of a walled medieval city, heraldic patterns.

Done on an old wooden trunk lid, “Sea Chest” stands out here with its barely contained raw energy. It’s a welcome diversion. The hinges at the top and the dark, battered wood serve as an equal partner to the row of pages collaged across the center.

The grisaille colored sheets are scratched and scarred, text and imagery barely legible.

“Tales” is an ambitious show and deserves in particular the attention of anybody interested in the possibilities of the found object for contemporary art.

Collage and assemblage have considerable purchase in Ithaca: both as a kind of folk or popular art and as something more ambitious.

I was both intrigued and frustrated by Bermingham’s conjunction of overall symmetry and smaller-scale asymmetry. While the former embodies a classical aesthetic, the latter often suggests a more modernist approach. Their yoking together works perhaps too neatly. It would be interesting to see more variation and more extremity.

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Concerts in the Park | 7:00 PM, 8/7 Wednesday | Hickories Park, 359 Hickories Park Rd., Owego | 8/7 - Basin Street Jazz Band

Pink Talking Fish | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Thursday | East Side Park, 1 S. Broad Street, Norwich | Part of Free Thursday Summer Concerts in East Side Park, Norwich, NY

Rhythm & Brews | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

Diana Leigh Trio | 1:30 PM, | Buttonwood Grove Winery, Romulus

Campfire Concert ft. Pas Musique PHUNgEYE, Soft Hail, and Kompyootur Muhsheen | 7:00 PM, | Grayhaven Motel, Ithaca | $10

The Felice Brothers w/ Diana DeMuth | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15 - $18

Alice Cooper | 7:00 PM, 8/7 Wednesday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua |

Lee Greenwood w/s/g Crystal Gayle | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Benefit for Southern Tier Veterans Support Groups. | $20

8/13 Tuesday Music in the Hollow 2019: The Small Kings | 6:00 PM, | Ellis Hollow Community Center, Ithaca Professor Tuesdays Jazz Quartet | 6:30 PM, | ZaZa’s Cucina, Ithaca

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Elmira Jazz Festival | 2:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Thorne Street Park, Horseheads | The weekend of jazz continues with Jazmin Ghent,Vincent Ingala, and Julia Pratt.

Jason Aldean | 7:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | Taughannock Falls State Park Summer Concert Series | 7:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Taughannock Falls State Park, 2221 Taughannock Park Rd, Trumansburg | Gunpoets - Hiphop, rock, funk with positive vibes| $5 parking The Smashing Pumpkins & Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | 7:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | MUSIC AT FISHS EDDY presents-Allen Krantz, Classical Guitar | 3:00 PM, 8/11 Sunday | Old Pioneer Church, 669 County Rd. 28, Fishs Eddy | Master guitarist Krantz’s program includes the premiere of his newest composition, Prelude and Rondo for guitar and harpsichord, along with old and new music by Weiss, Vivaldi and Chopin.

Beck and Cage the Elephant | 6:00 PM, 8/13 Tuesday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | Tommy Castro and the Painkillers | 6:00 PM, 8/15 Thursday | East Side Park, 1 S. Broad Street, Norwich | w/ the Nate Gross Band. Part of Free Thursday Summer Concerts in East Side Park.

Hall and Oates | 7:00 PM, 8/15 Thursday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | 2019 Chenango Blues Festival | 5:00 PM, 8/16 Friday & 11:00 AM, 8/17 Saturday | Chenango County Fairgrounds, 168 East Main St, Norwich | w/ Gabe Stillman Band, Joanna Connor,†Rick Estrin and the Nightcats

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Thru 8/10. A comedy that skewers Washington corruption and praises an educated electorate!

Little Women | 7:30 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Thru 8/17. A fresh new take on the novel by Louisa May Alcott by actress and playwright Kate Hamill.

Katrina, A New Musical | 7:00 PM, 8/9 Friday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Thru 8/11. A show about the people of New Orleans as they navigate the raging waters of natural disaster, personal tragedy, racism, and politics.

R2P presents Mamma Mia | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Thursday | DeWitt Middle School, 560 Warren Road, Ithaca | Thru 8/11.

Keith Urban - Benefit Concert for Abraham House | 6:00 PM, 8/16 Friday | En-Joie Golf Club, 722 W Main St, Endicott | | $75

The Tragedy of Macbeth - Free Shakespeare in the Park | 7:00 PM, 8/9 Friday | Suggett Park, 25 Homer Ave, Cortland | Fri-Sun; 7pm on Fri & Sat; 2pm on Sat and Sun.

Stage

Our Lady of 121st Street | 8:00 PM, 8/9 Friday | The Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd. E., B201 , Syracuse | August 9-17. Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. The Ortiz Funeral

Born Yesterday | 7:30 PM, 8/7 Wednesday | Little York Lake Pavilion, 6799 Little York Lake Rd, Preble |

Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City’s most emotionally charged, lifechallenged neighborhood denizens, trying to find a place to put their grief, checkered pasts and their uncertain futures. | $17-20 South Pacific | 8:00 PM, 8/9 Friday | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Thru 8/28. Rodgers and Hammersteinís famous musical.

Set against the backdrop of an island paradise during WWII, this musical comedy features all of the songs you know and love, including ‘Gonna Wash That Man’ and the iconic ‘Some Enchanted Evening.’

The Ghost of Versailles | 1:30 PM, 8/12 Monday | The Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown | Thru 8/23. A humorous nod to The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. The ghost of Marie Antoinette is upset about her untimely ending, so her favorite playwright, Beaumarchais, attempts to amuse her with a new work.

We Will Not Be Silent | 8:00 PM, 8/16 Friday | Morgan Opera House, 370 Main St., Aurora | Presents the intense confrontation between 21-year-old Sophie Scholl, a university student activist who led the only major act of civil resistance to the Nazis during WW II, and Kurt Grunwald, her interrogator. Both wield strength; one wields power. Based on the true events which occurred in Munich, Germany in 1943. | $10/$8/$5

Art The Other Side: Charles, Caesar, Harry, Sam, Pompey, Lon, and Isaac | Ongoing | Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls | Emerging Artist Series: Maxwell Wood | Ongoing | Cayuga Museum, 203 Genesee Street, Auburn | $5/ members free Ivy Stevens-Gupta, Infinite Hues | Ongoing | The Bookery & Gallery, Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Summertime | Ongoing | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | The newest exhibition of Brian Keeler’s works of Summer.

The Ink Shop Member Exhibit 2019 | Ongoing | Ink Shop Studio Gallery, 330 E.State / MLK Street, 2nd floor of CSMA building, Ithaca | All Access Art Club | 1:30 PM, 8/13 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Art Club Series for People of All Abilities.

Teen and adult artists are invited to this weekly inclusive art experience led by Laura Rowley.

Painting with Friends (Adult Class) | 6:00 PM, 8/13 Tuesday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Express yourself through art and make some new friends! No experience is necessary. An instructor

will be there to guide you through the process. Free. All supplies are provided. Must preregister.

Film Cinemapolis Week of Friday, August 9 through Thursday, August 15. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first*.

Maiden* | The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. | 97 mins PG Sword of Trust* | A couple show up to collect the wife’s inheritance from her deceased grandfather, but the only item she receives is an antique sword that was believed by her grandfather to be proof that the South won the Civil War. | 88 mins R Them That Follow* | Set deep in the wilds of Appalachia, where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God, a story of a pastor’s daughter who holds a secret that threatens to tear her community apart. |98 mins R Midsommar* | A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown’s fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. |140 mins R Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love | An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. | 102 mins R The Farewell | A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies. |100 mins PG The Art of Self-Defense | A man is attacked at random on the street. He enlists at a local dojo, led by a charismatic and mysterious sensei, in an effort to learn how to defend himself. | 104 mins R

LITTLE WOMEN

OPENS FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 8:00 PM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 AT 6:00 PM.

Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd. | A reimagined take on the classic story, making its regional premiere fresh from an off-Broadway run this past May. Playwright Kate Hamill, a Lansing native and Ithaca College alumna, is currently one of the top five mostproduced playwrights in the nation. (Photo: Rachel Philipson)

Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca Commons | A fun double-bill on the Commons this week! Janet Batch (pictured) sings songs that swing between joy and heartache. Rose & The Bros are a powerhouse ensemble specializing in irresistible Zydeco and Cajun dance grooves resonating with sweet vocal harmonies and crooning country roots. (photo: Facebook)

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Sleuth | 7:30 PM, 8/14 Wednesday | Little York Lake Pavilion, 6799 Little York Lake Rd, Preble | Thru 8/24. A Tony Award winning thriller/comedy, the ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out in a cozy country house, owned by celebrated mystery writer Andrew Wyke.

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Wine of the Month

Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity. | 135 mins PG-13 Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood | A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. |161 mins R The Lion King | Live action remake of the story of Simba, a young lion prince who flees his kingdom after the murder of his father, only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery. |118 mins PG Stuber | A detective recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure. |93 mins R

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Crawl | A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators. |87 mins R

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Finger Lakes Drive-In Movies run Fridays thru Sundays at 8:55.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark/ Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood | Friday, 8/9 & Sunday, 8/11 Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood/ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Saturday, 8/10 Regal Ithaca Wednesday 8/7 through Tuesday, 8/13. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first. *

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark* | A group of teens face their fears in order to save their lives. | 111 mins PG-13 The Art of Racing in the Rain* | Through his bond with his racecar driver owner, golden retriever Enzo learns that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. | 109 mins PG The Kitchen* | The wives of New York gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their

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friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold. | 102 mins PG

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Special Events

Chenango County Fair | All Day 8/7 Wednesday | Chenango County Fairgrounds, 168 East Main St, Norwich | Thru 8/11.

Tioga County Fair | All Day 8/7 Wednesday | Tioga County Fairgrounds, 2258 Charleston Rd., Wellsboro | Livestock Shows And LOTS OF Live Music Every Day! Thru 8/11.

Time Flies - A Youth Circus Show | 11:00 AM, 8/8 Thursday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, Ithaca | Presented by students of Circus Culture. 8/8 at Ithaca Children’s Garden; 8/9 at Dewitt Park.

Movies in Stewart Park: Mary Poppins (original) | 9:00 PM, 8/9

Friday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Movies in the Park is our annual summer movie series, hosted in Stewart Park on Friday nights in August. Movies are always free and family-friendly. Food trucks and activities will be available for mark your calendars for one of the highlights of the Ithaca Summer.† Sterling Renaissance Festival | 10:00 AM, 8/10 Saturday & 8/11 Sunday | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Farden Rd, Sterling | Tompkins County Open Farm Days | 12:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday & 8/11 Sunday | Visit Real Farms! 10 farms open each day featuring fruit production & cider making, hops, bison, veggie culture, fiber animals, small diverse livestock farms, commercial dairy farms and more! For more information contact Cooperative Extension Tompkins County - ccetompkins.org or call 607-272-2292.

6th Annual Northside Community Celebration | 3:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | 2019 Northside Community Celebration, 210 Hancock St. Parking Lot, Ithaca | There will be free food, ice cream, live performances, dj, tables and childrens activities. Sponsored

by Northside United, Ithaca Friends Meeting, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, Free Science Workshop, and the Sciencenter Camino De Cayuga | 11:00 AM, 8/11 Sunday | Toro Run Winery, 3050 Swick Road, Ovid | Benefiting the Finger Lakes Land Trust, enjoy food & wine pairings throughout a 2-mile hike and scavenger hunt. After finishing, join us back at our pavilion for festivities including live music by Bob & Dee, our famous Paella on the Patio, and prizes.

Bring your kids and dogs for a full day of fun! Picnic blankets and lawn chairs are welcome. | $10/$15 6th Annual ROTARY ROAD RALLY | 1:00 PM, 8/11 Sunday | Maguire Toyota Of Ithaca, 370 Elmira Rd, Ithaca | All proceeds benefit the Ithaca Rotary Club’s programs. Advance registration is encouraged but not required; walkins are welcome the day of the rally. | $20 adults/$10 under 13 Steuben County Fair | All Day 8/13 Tuesday | Steuben County Fairgrounds, 15 E. Washington St, Bath | Featuring

RAPTOR WEEKEND!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 7:00; SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 &11 AT 2:00 PM

Morrison Hall, Room 146, 48 Judd Falls Road, Cornell University | The Cornell Raptor Program is pleased to present this year’s return of Raptor Week(end)! Come learn about birds of prey and meet a fantastic assortment of LIVE education ambassadors. This event is free and open to the public. (photo: Facebook)

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Carnival, Harness Racing, Horseshoe Pitching Tournament, Free Style Motocross, Truck Pull, Talent Contest, Watermelon Eating contest, Pie Eating Contest, Demolition Derby, Turkey Calling Contest, 4-H Shows, Bad Habit Band, Easton Corbin, Alyssa Trahan.

Thru 8/18.

Kitten Karnival | 4:00 PM, 8/14 Wednesday | SPCA of Tompkins County, 1640 Hanshaw Rd., Ithaca | Weekly Wednesday Kitten Karnival through September from 4-7 PM. | $25 per Kitten RE:Stock | 6:00 PM, 8/15 Thursday thru 8/17 Saturday | Downtown Corning, Corning | 60ís-Era Tunes, Dress, Food, Drinks, Games and More!

A3-day tribute party. Music from Doc Cavallaro band on 8/15 and by Handsome Young Ladies on 8/16.

Annual 3-Day Grand Recycle Sale | 9:00 AM, 8/17 Saturday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | On Sunday, 50% off everything! On Monday, everything that remains will be free, with donations appreciated. The weird to wondrous -- from ballgowns to bowling balls and fish tanks....with furniture, housewares, art, clothing and lots more in between. Beginning in the mid-1950s, the church has held this huge SALE of good quality, gently-used and reasonable-priced items ever since.

Family Fun Day | 10:00 AM, 8/17 Saturday | Stewart Park, Ithaca | Bring the kids to enjoy FREE carousel rides, popcorn, and kids games! There will also be a FREE raffle for adults!At the same time, meet members of your local Democratic Committee, share your thoughts and questions, and learn about simple ways to get involved.All are welcome!

Ithaca Dog Fest 2019 | 10:00 AM, 8/17 Saturday | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd (Route 89), Ithaca | A Meet to Adopt and Fund Raising day all about finding HOMES for dogs and supporting the Rescue & Shelter groups that save lives.

Summer Peach Festival | 10:00 AM, 8/17 Saturday | Cayuga Ridge Estate Winery, 6800 State Route 89, Ovid | Nothing says summer like a peach!

Celebrate with fruit wine, Peach

Essence. Local peach farmers will be on hand, as well as local Amish with peach preserves and peach pies.

Books

J. Scot Witty Reading: The Rose and the Sword- Hibernia Chronicles: Book Three | 6:00 PM, 8/7 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A book talk with Local Voices contributor J. Scot Witty.

Adult Summer Reading Book Discussion Group | 6:30 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, the first title in his Space Trilogy. If there is enough interest, book discussions of the second and third titles of the trilogy, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, may also be offered. To reserve a book and a space in the discussion group, contact Joyce at jwheatley@tcpl.org.

John Nizalowski Reading | 5:30 PM, 8/9 Friday | Riverow Bookshop, 187 Front St, Owego | Will be reading from his most recent publication, CHRONICLES OF THE FORBIDDEN in which he relays his experiences hiking and exploring the west, at times with his two young daughters.

The Escape Manual for Introverts Book Signing | 12:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Riverow Bookshop, 187 Front St, Owego | Detailing funny, sometimes absurd ways and excuses to escape painfully awkward social situations.

Author Reading: Adam O’Fallon Price and J. Robert Lennon | 5:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Come hear Adam O’Fallon Price read from and discuss his new novel THE HOTEL NEVERSINK with friend, accomplice, and fellow author J. Robert Lennon!

TCPL Tween Book Club | 3:45 PM, 8/14 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In August, the club will be reading Turtle in Paradise, by Jennifer L. Holm.

Registration is required. Register and pick up a free copy of this month’s book

ELMIRA JAZZ FESTIVAL

FRIDAY, AUG 9 AT 6:00 PM; SATURDAY AUGUST 10 AT 1:00 PM

Friday at The Clemens Center; Saturday at Thorne Street Park, Horseheads | A weekend of jazz kicks off Friday evening at the Clemens Center with acclaimed pianist and composer Keiko Matsui (pictured). On Saturday, soak up the sunshine outside at Thorne Street Park in nearby Horseheads with Jazmin Ghent, Vincent Ingala, and Julia Pratt. (photo: Facebook)

Kids Movie Nights at the Cayuga Heights Fire Station | 6:00 PM, 8/7 Wednesday | Cayuga Heights Fire Station, 194 Pleasant Grove Road, | Ratatouille CozyBop, a Babywearing Dance Class | 10:00 AM, 8/8 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | These classes are suitable for babies six weeks or older who have head control. Please register at nursercise.com or yogacheryl@ gmail.com.

Children’s Shadow Puppet Workshop with Lily Silly | 1:30 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children will first experience a short shadow puppet show that models what shadow puppets can do. Then they will use templates, card stock, tape, pencils, and other materials to make their own shadow puppet, which they can then try out in the puppet theater. This workshop is best suited for children ages 5 and up.

Maker Thursdays for Teens at TCPL | 3:00 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Money as You Grow | 3:00 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A financial education focused storytime cosponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension and presented by Kenneth McLaurin, Jr., with children’s books used to help families learn and discuss new financial skills. Space is limited for this free program, and registration is required.

Lego Club | 5:30 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | All ages welcome.

Weekly challenges provided.

Toddler Free Play | 9:30 AM, 8/9 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Kids can enjoy the Toddler Play Space.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 8/9 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 8/9 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months embrace early literacy through books, music, movement and rhyming. This storytime is followed by an hour-long Baby & Toddler Playtime at 11:00 am.

Story Time | 10:30 AM, 8/9 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | All ages - songs, games, & crafts, too.

Circus Culture Workshop | 12:00 PM, 8/9 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For ages 8+. Learn juggling and use other circus props with the assistance of Circus Culture. A free, drop-in series.

People of all abilities are welcome to join in.

teens in grades 6 -12. Registration is required.

Miss Judy’s Musical Adventure Series | 4:00 PM, 8/12 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Judy Stock uses the banjo, guitar, spoons, and many more instruments to bring music to children, from newborns to 5 years of age.† Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 8/13 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

Summer Reading Club Final Party | 2:30 PM, 8/14 Wednesday | Van Etten Library, 83 Main Street, Van Etten | Field day: Inflatable bouncy house & water slide!! Crafts, games, prizes & snacks! Rain or Shine!

“Maker Kids” at TCPL | 3:45 PM, 8/14 Wednesday | Each session will provide a range of activities for varying ages and ability levels; the program is most well suited to children ages 5 to 12. No registration required.

Raptor Weekend! | 7:00 PM, 8/9 Friday; 2:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday & 8/11 Sunday | Morrison Hall, Room 146 (Cornell University), 48 Judd Falls Rd, Ithaca |Learn about birds of prey and meet a fantastic assortment of our LIVE education ambassadors. This event is free and open to the public.

Template Resumes 101 | 1:30 PM, 8/9 Friday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Ovid Farmers Market | 3:00 PM, 8/9 Friday | Papa Bear Building (Ovid Courthouse), 7175 Main St., Ovid |

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 8/10 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Craft a Foam Blade Sword Workshop | 4:00 PM, 8/12 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Space is limited for

Learn Poster Design with Adobe Photoshop and InDesign | 5:30 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Participants will learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop by making an event poster (image will be provided). Class size is limited, and registration is required.

MUMC Check-It-Out Thrift Shoppe | 9:00 AM, 8/9 Friday | Check It Out Thrift Shop, 6609 Turnpike Road, Mecklenburg | High quality used items at reasonable prices.†Each Friday and Saturday this summer.

Family Fit Yoga & Fantastic Food | 10:30 AM, 8/10 Saturday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Free yoga mats, books, and food samples for participating families.

For families and children 5+, please register.

Open Heart Kids Yoga | 10:00 AM, 8/12 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Best suited for children ages 3 to 9, but younger siblings are also welcome.

Space is limited for this free program, and registration is required.

Candor Farmers Market | 3:30 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Candor Town Hall Pavilion, 101 Owego Road, Candor | 18 Vendors with fresh produce, baked goods, jams, maple syrup, honey, tea, herbs, plants, soaps, hand crafts, tool sharpening and more!

How to Engage the Public through Social Media | 9:00 AM, 8/9 Friday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Workshop: 9amnoon; Optional lunch and practicum: 12pm-4pm. Registration is required.

This two-part workshop is designed to help graduate students and early career scientists learn how to build an online presence and engage the public on social media platforms.

Astronaut Training Camp (Grades 3-5) | 12:30 PM, 8/9 Friday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Join us for a fun, active camp that includes crafts, activities and more! Must preregister.

LEGO Building Program | 3:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | T

8/14 Dinner: The Mix; Host: Kristiana K., RSVP: kristiana.kalab@gmail.com

OPEN FARM WEEKEND – WEST SIDE OF CAYUGA LAKE Sunday, August 11 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Farms in Trumansburg and Interlaken | Spend an afternoon visiting local farms that raise alpaca, heirloom apples, mushrooms, dairy goats, sheep, vegetables & more. Meet hard cider makers, cheese makers, pick blueberries, tour a dairy, a hop farm & brewery, winery and more.

There is a different theme each week.

Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM, 8/13 Tuesday | DeWitt Park, Cayuga St., | Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 8/14 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 8/7 Wednesday | 8/7 Dinner and Live Jazz: Starlite Room, Elmira; Host: Dave P., RSVP: dpreisendanz@verizon.net;

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 8/10 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 From Seeds to Wisdom: Exploring Haudenosaunee Cycles Corn Husk

Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 8/11 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Excel for Beginners | 2:00 PM, 8/12 Monday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Must preregister.

Free Adult Tutoring Services | 10:00 AM, 8/13 Tuesday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Learn to Use the Online Networking Tool LinkedIn | 2:30 PM, 8/13 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Learn how to create an account, how to use best practices when maintaining a profile, and how to utilize tools to create connections with other professionals. Class size is limited, and registration is required.

Car Pride of Ithaca Open Club Meet | 5:00 PM, 8/13 Tuesday | Ithaca Wal-Mart parking lot, Memorial fairgrounds parkway, Ithaca | Domestic, import, old, new, cars, trucks, r.v.s, & more. CAR PRIDE is an open club that is free to join.

Grant Writing Basics | 5:30 PM, 8/13 Tuesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Smith Opera House Tours | 10:00 AM, 8/14 Wednesday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | The public is invited to experience a bit of Smith lore and enjoy its unique architecture and decor via a tour of the theater.

Tips for Job Hunters Over 50 | 10:00 AM, 8/14 Wednesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Discussion topics will include myths and stereotypes about the older worker, ways to overcome them and changes in job search methods and materials.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 8/14 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

6TH ANNUAL ROTARY ROAD RALLY

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 FROM 1:00 – 6:00PM

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 FROM 12:30-2:00 PM

Maguire Toyota of Ithaca, 370 Elmira Road, Ithaca | Participants will follow clues in their cars along 30+ miles of country roads in and around Tompkins County, answering riddles and taking pictures along the way.

The Rotary Rally will finish with the checkered flag at a “mystery” restaurant for prizes, drinks, and dinner. (photo: Facebook)

Tompkins Center for History and Culture, 110 N Tioga St. | What if a doll were your caretaker? Join Seneca artist Penny Minner for a family event about the Haudenosaunee corn husk doll. The event will include storytelling and making your own corn husk dolls. For families with children ages 6 to 12. (Photo: Penny Minner)

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Unveiling Ithaca’s Living Past Tour | 4:00 PM, 8/9 Friday | Tompkins Center for History and Culture, 110 N Tioga St., Ithaca | Focuses on elements of living, working and playing in and around what we now know as The Commons from both historical and current perspectives.

Dolls | 12:30 PM, 8/11 Sunday | Tompkins Center for History and Culture, 110 N Tioga St., Ithaca |

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Hours offered each week may be more or less than stated in item 11 depending on weather and crop conditions. Workers not required to work extra hours offered. $13.25 per hour. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest office of the SWA. Job order #228806. May perform any combination of tasks related to the production and harvesting of apples, ears, peaches,nectarines, plums, and apricots including pruning, thinning, hoeing, baiting, irrigating, mowing, fertilizing and harvesting. Workers will be using straight and stepladders and will be required to lift approximately 50lbs while descending and ascending ladders on a sustained basis. At least two months experience in duties listed above required.

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