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ornell University announced that it has moved to alert level yellow in its COVID-19 tracking dashboard on Sept. 3, following a week-long rise positive test results among its students.

Yellow means that the university considers incidence of the obtaining the virus remains low, but indicators show increased or potential for increase in transmission.

The announcement specified that over the week its Ithaca campus has seen an increase in positive tests results from students since Aug. 28: nine on Friday, Aug. 28; two on Saturday, Aug. 29; one on Sunday, August 30; five on Monday, August 31; seven on Tuesday, Sept. 1 and 14 on Wednesday.

Currently the total number of active cases sits at 47, with one case being reported last Thursday and eight unrelated to the growing cluster.

The university said that it has moved to yellow alert as it expects for the cluster sizes to grow as it awaits the results of pending test results. Tompkins County Health Department defines a COVID-19 cluster as five or more connected cases. The university said that the recent numbers, with the exception of eight non-cluster related cases, are the result of a number of small social gatherings where social distancing and safety guidelines were not observed.

The university said that among the 39 new cases, the cohort of students who comprise the largest number of positive cases are student athletes, 36 cases in total.

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Protesters gather around a car attempting to move through rally. (Screenshot from video)

Myrick releases footage of scuffle outside IPD

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ayor Svante Myrick released video footage of a confrontation that took place between protestors and a couple outside the Ithaca Police Department following on Sunday August 29.

Myrick said he decided to release the footage as part of the IPD's investigation into the event. The police department is currently investigating the case following a report of criminal

mischief and assault from a bystander who says they were injured during the incident.

IPD said that it received information that while a vehicle was attempting to pass through protestors on E. Clinton Street the group of protesters surrounded and caused damage to the vehicle. A bystander who witnessed the incident attempted to aid the motorists.

They reported that they were shoved to the ground by some

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of the protesters causing them a minor injury.

"The Ithaca Police Department investigation into the alleged assault of a bystander is continuing, so I won’t comment on that aspect until all the facts are in," Myrick said.

Myrick did offer his thoughts on the confrontation.

He said that after speaking with the motorists, who were both in their 80s, he believes that they meant no harm to the protestors. "I believe that they broadly support the cause of racial equality and justice, and

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James wears the latest in Sense-ational You fashion (Photo: provided)

WHAT IS ONE CLASS THAT EVERY INCOMING COLLEGE FRESHMAN SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO TAKE?

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SENSE-ATIONAL

“Magic Mushrooms 101.”

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CU grad designs sensoryconscious clothing line

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s a proud parent of a son with autism, Deb Bennett knows how hard it is to find different sensory instruments for her son, James. She and James have tried using things like weighted vest and compression shirts, whose weight and tightness can help keep him calm and focused, and chewelry, jewelry that can be chewed on to provide oral-sensory stimulation.

But one of the hardest things for Bennett is knowing the stares James gets when he uses these items.

“We just came back from vacation, and little girls were pointing and talking about James right in front of me,” Bennett said. “That is such a hard thing...We live in a society where if someone looks different, they are looked at.”

Julia DeNey, a recent Cornell graduate and founder of the company Sense-ational You, is trying to create a way to not only make it easier to carry around the many sensory instruments a child with autism might have, but to make them

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From a young age, DeNey always had a passion for working with children, in fact she started working as a babysitter in the sixth grade. She also knew that she wanted to do something with fashion that was meaningful but until her sophomore year in undergrad, she wasn’t exactly sure where these two passions would lead her.

At the same time, DeNey became involved in leading philanthropy projects as part of her sorority, and got connected with Racker, a local organization that supports people with disabilities and their families. After speaking with several employees about her interest in design, she was surprised to learn how difficult it was for parents with children on the spectrum to find sensory-friendly clothing, which is clothing designed to minimize things like itchy tags and seams that are particularly uncomfortable for people with sensory sensitivity.

“I didn’t put it together at

first. The people at Racker brought up a few things about sensory friendly clothing, but I soon learned the kids’ needs went far beyond that,” DeNey said. “I missed working with kids in college, and so I thought children’s wear would be a great combination of my two interests.”

But it wasn’t easy. When DeNey set out to research more about sensory clothing, she found very little information. So she decided to do her own case study talking to many of the families and employees at Racker which led to prototypes of some designs. Now DeNey is in the funding-stages of her project, raising money to create a full-fledged business and online shop.

“Getting to do my senior collection this year, I worked with a few models on the spectrum. Working with them and speaking with their parents made it really click from this theoretical thing that I love, like a passion project, to this is needed now,” DeNey said.

“This couldn’t be just theoretical; it was these kids could use these clothes in school, tomorrow.”

James was one of the models in DeNey’s senior collection. Bennett remembers how amazed she was when she saw the clothes actually worked.

“I was getting stressed out

[during the show] because it was a long day and they kept having technical difficulties and malfunctions. I cannot believe how well James did, and I attribute that to the shirt that Julia designed for him” Bennett said.

The way DeNey’s designs work is that she not only designs sensory-friendly clothing but she also incorporates some of the sensory instruments into the garments themselves. For example, children with autism might wear noise-cancelling headphones to block out sound many parents worry could hurt their child when they are playing, as well as look awkward and are hard to carry around, which DeNey learned through her case study .

Instead of these headphones, DeNey began reaching out to companies that work on soundproofing and was able to connect with someone in the industry whose son has autism.

After working with him, she found a way to incorporate noise-minimizing materials in the hood of a jacket. “Noise cancelling headphones, it’s not like you have something hooked to it and listen to music. These are big, bulky things,” Bennett said. “It’s just amazing that [DeNey’s] trying to make the lives of people with disabilities better and also enhance their social appearance.”

“The families can get a little more peace of mind knowing that their children are not being picked on,” Bennett added.

In the future, DeNey is excited to continue building and designing her clothes around her customers and hopes to create clothing with and without the added functionalities, like the noise-cancelling hood, so that everyone can wear her designs.

“I really want to show people that clothing doesn’t need to look any different to meet someone’s needs,” DeNey said, “Functionality does not have to mean not fashionable.”

Marin Langlieb

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Threat Level Yellow Cornell moved from alert level green to yellow this week. The university said that it made the move ahead of expectations of growing numbers among its student population.

TC3 Extends Closure TC3 has extended its campus closure until Sept. 11. The campus closed after the college was notified of five active positive COVID-19 cases on its campus. It initially closed for five days.

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Coronavirus Only three new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Aug. 8 after 5,000 tests were performed on Labor Day, reports the health department. Tuesday marked the second consecutive decrease in total active cases since Cornell, IC and TC3 students returned to school.

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CINEDIPITY

Serendipity and Cinemapolis partner for “Movies on the Backlot”

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he Drifters said it best, people will, indeed, be having some fun on the Backlot (Backlot)— or was it someplace else?

In any case, Serendipity’s BackLot, the caterer’s new outdoor restaurant and bar on the South Hill Business Campus, 950 Danby Road, which was unveiled last week, is a place of much of excitement, especially now that it has teamed up with Cinemapolis to create “Movies on the Backlot.” Sept. 4 marked the first screening with Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’. It was re-screened the following day.

Every Friday and Saturday, Cinemapolis owner Brett Bossard and Serendipity owner Stephanie Holzbaur will bring the art house classics moviegoers love and the Americanmix cuisine foodies love to eat.

This will mark Cinemapolis’s first in-person viewing since it

was forced to move to entirely virtual showings since April..

This new series marks another “pivot” for the non-profit movie theater, as it manages to fulfill its mission during the COVID pandemic. “When Stephanie approached me with the idea for an outdoor screening series, I jumped at the opportunity to show movies again,” says Cinemapolis executive director, Brett Bossard.

The cinema has been closed since March 13 and is awaiting guidelines from the governor’s office on when and how it can safely re-open.

“Movies on the Backlot” has allowed the theatre to reconnect with moviegoers who might’ve missed the in-person theatre experience. Since the start of summer, a number of drive-in theatres have popped up around Ithaca and surrounding towns.

Holzbaur said she feels that

the program is a natural extension of the services Serendipity already provides. “Cinemapolis is a perfect addition to the Backlot,” she said. “This series will only enhance our space where the whole family can feel comfortable and safe while enjoying great food, drink, and now movies!”

This is the latest partnership between Cinemapolis and Serendipity. The caterer has helped host the annual Awards Night Party at the cinema for the last two years.

Serendipity’s Backlot was already designed with socially distanced seating in mind, as well as an online ordering menu and payment for contactless transactions. The Backlot film screenings are located an exceptional distance from the dining area in order to achieve optimal dimness and quiet. The Serendipity menu features a broad selection of

foods, drawing upon their own local farm as well as several local vendors and distributors for its offerings. It also includes options for kids, as well as house-made dog treats and a wide beverage menu.

Serendipity will also be serving popcorn with the Cinemapolis’ signature nutritional yeast topping, said Holzbaur.

Weather permitting, these outdoor screenings will continue on Friday and Saturday evenings for the next several weeks. Updates on upcoming titles and other special offers will be available at Cinemapolis.org and on the Facebook pages for Cinemapolis and The Backlot. The next screening will be on Sept. 11 and 12.

To make reservations for Serendipity visit their website.

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By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s ucia Jander grew up in Slovakia, a Desiring more clinical experience, part of Czechoslovakia before the Lucia next began her 4-year medical resicountry separated in 1993. After dency at Boston University, which hosted high school she attended medical school in a wide array of international medical Prague. Upon graduation students and physicians.

Lucia left post-Commu“During my residency nist Eastern Europe for I served patients in the a one-month fellowship VA, Boston City, and at Harvard, arriving in University Hospitals.

Cambridge, MassachuThis provided me with setts in September 1993. a very wide range of After the short fellowship, patient needs from all Lucia began a two-year walks of life, young and project in a hematology old, rich and poor.” laboratory identifying Following her resireceptors for a thrombodency Lucia worked with poietin gene in different patients in a Medicaidcell lines. Lucia modestly funded health maincomments: “It was a steep tenance organization learning curve.”

(HMO), which provided During Lucia’s disabled people with research project she also community-based serDr. Lucia Jander met her future husband vices. “I was able to work Georg Jander, who had with a smaller caseload arrived from Germany as a kid, and was of high-intensity patients with severe disstudying the genetic and biochemical ability”. interactions of plants with insects at MasLucia also modestly credits her supersachusetts General Hospital. Fortunately, visor who introduced her to expert manin addition to her native language, Lucia also spoke Russian, English and German.

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H

ow do we self-quarantine? Let us count the ways.

The media are full of ideas for activities in isolation, with much of the world shut down. Let’s encapsulate.

Read big books: the bigger the better.

You can do it alone or with virtual company. The internet is replete with online reading groups tackling weighty tomes together.

Learn a language. There are plenty of online sites for this too. Sign language might be especially apt these days.

Learn to play an instrument. A quiet one, so as not to annoy housemates or neighbors. Ukulele, for instance, not harmonica or tuba.

Learn origami. Bake.

Birdwatch. Take up yoga. Meditate. Keep a journal.

This last most naturally interests us here, at a newspaper, where we work with words and exposition, and in fact are technically called journalists.

We wouldn’t be doing it professionally if we didn’t think it worthwhile. Personal journaling is valuable, too.

Simply put, by writing about a situation you claim authority (note that word’s root) over it. With a journal you’re creating structure for your days and life.

If you have the goal of solving problems, acknowledging them in writing is a step toward taking control.

You might think that one day of your life is not different enough from the next to be worth noting. But you don’t know until you do it what distinctions you might find.

It describes a different medium, but the 1995 movie “Smoke” features a character named Augie who runs a cigar store in Brooklyn, and every morning over many years takes a photograph of the storefront from across the street.

The pictures tend to seem the same.

But many days, for instance, there is someone carrying a boom box, then one day there’s not, and there never is again.

Soon there’s a person with a Walkman, then a lot of them, then 3,000 pictures later there are none. In the early photos people walk by with blue-and-white paper coffee cups bearing faux Greek designs and the words “We Are Happy To Serve You.” Soon, then only, the cups say Starbucks.

Like Augie’s photos, a journal makes art of the mundane, and records history: personal, particular, perhaps peculiar, but history nonetheless.

Personal art or expression needn’t be confessional, if you don’t want that. And of course by definition, or at least repute, it needn’t be professional, either in aim or outcome.

So what might a journal look like, hold, or relate?

Well, like a gamut of things: unique to any journaler. But I have my own as an example.

I’ve kept a journal since I relocated to Ithaca in 1993 (and for years before that).

For the sake of scholarship, as a handy reference, let me present segments of various entries of mine over the years for the date of September 9, the publication date of this week’s Ithaca Times, just as a relevant point in time.

I’ll hedge on that a bit to relate what I journaled about this week’s column: that I started it on September 2, then took a break midway to turn on the TV to see how my team, the Mets, were doing in their ballgame, and heard the bulletin that their Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, a boyhood idol of mine, died of dementia and the coronavirus at age 75. That stopped me writing this column for the night.

Years before, on 9/9/93, newly in Ithaca, I had breakfast at the State Diner, where I was impressed by the “mandatory three-count of toast.” In Bethesda, Maryland, whence I came, diner breakfasts came with two. Big news, clearly.

On 9/9/99 I got a $10,000 loan from Alternatives Credit Union to start Small World Music, a CD/record shop. I was involved with GrassRoots Festival then and it seemed a logical business extension.

Fast-forward to last year, 9/9/19. I visited Angry Mom Records, Ithaca’s current record store. I bought an LP by Sonny Boy Williamson and discovered a song where he sings in imitation of Howlin’ Wolf about what he wants for Christmas.

I played it five times straight.

You get the idea. With journal entries like this you can keep, recreate, or at least remember a world in whatever ways please or amuse you.

Maybe no scholar will ever peruse your humble spiral (or fancy Moleskine) notebooks. Maybe in the future you will hardly ever look at them yourself.

It doesn’t matter. With a journal you show that everyone is an artist or historian, potentially; and that there are no uncared for, forgettable, or immutable days.

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agement techniques to enhance the lives of disabled persons. Some of the patients had terminal diagnoses and caring for and minimizing the pain of death became a central theme in Lucia’s ability to care for all her patients through all stages of their lives.

In 2002 Lucia and Georg arrived in Ithaca in time for the birth of their third child. Lucia found medical positions that provided some flexibility, while raising four children, all under six years of age.

Serving at Beech Tree (then known as the Reconstruction Home) and Oak Hill Manor, Lucia also got to know a wide range of medical colleagues.

In 2004 Lucia joined the much respected and much-loved internists Ann and John Costello (whose practice so many of us have applied to join as patients and been turned down due to limited patient size). Lucia has provided patients, ages 18 and older with primary care as part of this terrific team. Although this practice is independent from Cayuga Medical Center, Lucia highlighted the many ways Cayuga Medical admirably serves the entire medical community-with its credentialing of practices and its unique community involvement, citing Cayuga Med’s valiant volunteer medical service in NYC, and its vision, coupled with long arduous hours, to offer widescale Covid 19 testing for the entire community, at great cost to CMC. During Lucia’s years treating the terminally ill, she continually noted how much our local nursing homes manage to provide with so little resources. “So many staff members, paid little, provide difficult care, day after day, and through the nights in the trenches, with such compassion and goodwill. And administrators who creatively stretch their inadequate funding stream to care for the most vulnerable population.”

Working with the Costellos and great

nurse-practitioners Lucia utilized flexible scheduling to juggle work and home. And these days with two college-aged sons in engineering programs, a daughter soon to begin an engineering program at MIT, and a son who is a junior in high school, she has somehow managed to include an invaluable community resource to her already-stretched schedule: As our country’s population ages out, Lucia began providing end-of-life care to more patients. Seeking best practices, she obtained certification as a Hospice physician, working part-time as an associate medical director in this region’s renown Hospicare program since 2010.

When medical director Suzanne Anderson (Lucia’s unsung hero) retired, Lucia became director.

Every one of us will someday reach our final stage of life. Patients and their families find themselves in uncharted waters whenever we reach that point. Dr. Jander: “Hospicare is there for you when you need us. Please do not hesitate to contact us, we are here to help in any way we can.”

Dr. Lucia Jander and the outstanding staff at Hospicare are a community treasure: “Since 1983 Hospicare & Palliative Care Services has been providing care for people of any age, with any terminal diagnosis in Tompkins, and now Cortland Counties. “Our goal is to help people live their final months as fully and peacefully as possible. High quality healthcare is important at every stage of life and we consider it a privilege to walk alongside those who are facing terminal illness, coping with grief, or seeking to learn more about these profound experiences…Our palliative care service specializes in relief of pain, symptoms, and stress at any point in an illness. Additionally, our bereavement support services provide grief counseling and support groups to those who are grieving a loss.” https:// www.hospicare.org/ For more information contact HOSPICARE 607-272-0212 info@hospicare.org

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simply found themselves surrounded by people in the street and were unsure what to do."

Myrick said that after speaking to the protestors, as well, he learned that the protestors did believe that the drivers of the vehicle intended to strike them.

He asked the community to remember to be patient with one another and use this incident as a reminder that the community can still work towards agreed goals so long as it works together.

"Even people who agree can scare each other and hurt each other. So I would urge everyone – protesters, bystanders, motorists, everyone – to be patient with each other. I’d ask us to whenever possible assume positive intent," said Myrick.

After some time, the motorists and the drivers came to an agreement and the

motorists were allowed to pass. The vehicle was damaged in the confusion. In his statement, Myrick also complimented the police department's efforts to protect protestors and property over the 14 straight weeks of protests.

"The IPD has been diligent about closing streets to protect protestors even when those closures were needed unexpectedly.

I am grateful for their professionalism and dedication in this work, as I am in all of their work," he said.

The protest, which takes place in the Bernie Milton Pavilion every Sunday, ended in front of the Ithaca Police Department where the incident took place.

Protestors have been calling for the City to defund the police department and hold named officers responsible for various misbehaviors.

always have so many memories because he was such a great guy. I’m praying for his family and send my sincere condolences.

Jen Lee, via ithaca.com

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Re: Tompkins County police will be first response agency to large public gatherings I appreciate the efforts of the Sheriff to respond rationally to likely large gatherings of young people. Education is important. Science is good. Delusion is not useful.

Dwight Mengel, Via ithaca.com

YOUR LETTERS Re: Shahid Arthur DiDomenico 1980-2020 He was such a genuine and nice person. I remember how much he cared about other people and went out of his way to help those who truly needed it. I’ll

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to protect the public health of our community," stated the university.

In response to the growing number of cases, the university said that it has instituted an additional testing measure called adaptive testing, which will target students the school feels might have been impacted, including members of its athletic teams.

This contrasts its original plan which focused on only testing individuals who came in close contact with a person with a positive test result.

For violation of the Behavioral Compact, which all students are required to agree to before attending schools, Cornell said that it has "dealt with [its students] through significant consequences." Among the consequences, Cornell listed banning from campus and suspension.

"We will not shy away from continuing to impose such sanctions where appropriate," stated the university. " All of us share a responsibility to conduct ourselves in ways that do not put others at risk, and we cannot allow the actions of a few to ruin the possibility of an in-person semester and risk the health and safety of our community."

As per the guidelines of Cornell's COVID-tracking dashboard, the university has taken the additional measure of capping all student social gatherings to 10 people, for the time being; all in-person university sponsored activities remain suspended until the end of September. Students can also expect the following: Enforced physical distancing, masks wearing and hand washing.

Combination of in-person/hybrid and online learning.

Frequency of testing may be increased for some populations.

Cornell may further reduce capacity of on-campus spaces.

Student gatherings may be limited to 10 people or fewer (physical distancing and masks required).

Visitors will not be allowed on campus and travel is strongly discouraged.

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The university's move to yellow alert has undoubtedly been impacted by the Governor's decision last week that any schools or universities seeing 100 or more positive cases within two weeks cease inperson instruction and move entirely to remote instruction. Students will still be permitted to remain on campus, however.

"It is our sincere hope that all of us will similarly learn from the experience of this past week, that we will rededicate ourselves to abiding by all of the county’s and Cornell’s public health guidelines, and that we will be able to enjoy a healthy and productive semester. We can do this."

Individuals presenting symptoms or with concerns about being exposed should seek testing.

Cayuga Health Sampling Site located at The Shops at Ithaca Mall parking lot, 40 Catherwood Rd. Register for an appointment online at cayugahealthsystem.org or call the Cayuga Health Call Center at 607319-5708. Regular hours for the Sampling Site and Call Center are Monday-Friday 8:30AM-4:00PM. If potentially exposed, Cornell University students should contact Cornell Health at 607-255-5155; do not go to a surveillance testing site.

All other students and community members should seek testing at the Cayuga Health Sampling Site.

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he Coronavirus has upended many of the tried and true practices of just about everyone on our planet… and, of course, has significantly affected restaurateurs and diners everywhere. If you spend time with owners and managers of restaurants in the Greater Ithaca Area, you might share my admiration for their overall optimism, adaptability, and resilience. During this incredibly difficult period, they have had to be flexible in order to respond to the preferences and demands, of anxious customers, as well as changing rules and regulations.

In early August, I began talking with people who spend at least some of their dining time eating out in various restaurants, asking what they look for when they choose a restaurant during the pandemic.

The most frequently mentioned item was outdoor dining availability, preferably with awnings, canopies, or umbrellas to protect them from the sun. Adequate spacing between tables was next, but that’s the law in New York.

Following (in no particular order) are other issues mentioned by restaurant diners: servers to be masked and gloved, with gloves changed frequently, in order to avoid using the same ones accepting credit cards and cash to serve food; individual portions of ketchup, mustard, salt, and pepper; single-use menus on recyclable paper that can be scanned with a smartphone; daily specials, if the menu items themselves aren’t changed; and witnessing staff sanitize the tables after each use.

In an effort to learn more about how restaurant owners and managers were adapting to the frequent regulation changes, I reached out to Mark Campagnolo, owner of Ciao in Lansing and The Boatyard Grill at the Cayuga Lake inlet.

Campagnolo has been operating restaurants in this area for many years and is one of the more innovative restaurateurs. He has not reopened Ciao for lunch and relies exclusively on takeout and dinner, during which time every other table has been closed thereby reducing the capacity of the restaurant from 132 seats to 60 seats.

At the Boatyard Grill, he has also closed the restaurant at lunch time, including during the formerly lucrative weekends. To accommodate the current situation, the outside bar at The Boatyard has been closed

By Hen ry Star k and a canopy tent was erected on the property. The original capacity of the restaurant deck was about 100 and was reduced to about 60, but the addition of the tent has added another 100 seats, even when safely distanced.

At both establishments, in order to cut costs and operate more efficiently, Mark has reduced the size of menu offerings by about 20 percent, with a focus on the most popular items. If you want salt, pepper, ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise, they will be delivered in individual packets. Even the check, at the end of the meal, will come in an individual plastic cup.

When ordering, you’ll be offered a QR

It seems counterintuitive but his business has increased about 50 percent since March as the takeout business has soared.

Mark has invested in a new CDC approved filtration system–– an electrostatic application in the form of a fog disinfectant– in both restaurants. One of the most positive aspects of the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) is that it brings in large quantities of fresh air while expelling stagnant air.

You’ll also notice the busboys circulating around both establishments cleaning and sanitizing.

In nearby Trumansburg I found quite a different approach. Arguably the best res-

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I asked Mark about staffing and he replied that both restaurants are hiring for the kitchens and the dining rooms. Several former employees left when the $600/week federal supplement was offered and some have not returned.

Another issue I wondered about is the return of college students. This is not an issue for him as both restaurants mostly served them on weekends and at special events when other customers were plentiful and very few of them served as employees.

taurant in town, Hazelnut Kitchen doesn’t offer any outside dining and for self-protection has adopted the following policy: Reservations are required. Be aware that upon making a reservation you’ll be asked for your credit card number and if you cancel or even if you arrive more than 15 minutes late your card will be charged $15 and your reservation could be cancelled. The restaurant, which is now open from Wednesday through Saturday and only at dinner time, has revamped its extensive menu to offer a three-course prix fixe menu, each course with a choice of two items. Finally, management asks that you limit your dining time to 90 minutes.

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joyed complete lunches working only with the salad bar as the ingredients included an assortment of three pizzas, a pasta dish and a hearty soup. Since it’s one of the very best salad bars in our area, it has been a significant source of revenue for the restaurant.

Unfortunately, it’s no longer available. (Salad bars and buffets have practically disappeared at most restaurants). However, coowner Jessica Gardner told me she’s hoping to bring the salad bar back as soon as possible.

There is limited outdoor dining available (three tables). The large and varied menu has just been restored after a period of reduction brought about by closures of meat packing plants in the Midwest in the wake of the pandemic. Gardner ruefully told me that during that extended period she was being charged $8/pound for basic hamburger meat.

Another restaurant that is trying to resume normal footing is Agava, near the East Hill Plaza.

It reduced its days and hours of operation after March, but now is back to opening six days/week, serving lunch and dinner. Translucent barriers have been stationed between tables, the patio is now limited to takeout, and more space is being allocated for outdoor dining.

I chose the outdoor option when it was first offered and the service was a bit uneven as only one server had to cover a very wide area, including all around the parking lot. When I approached a table and four chairs constructed of metal grillwork I was confronted by a large sign on the table: “STOP! This table has yet to be sanitized.

Please choose a sanitized table.” On the reverse side it read: “Good to go! This table has been sanitized.”

They make their own sanitizer and spray every table after customers leave. The restaurant had several other features which helped to make me feel comfortable: I had no problem getting permission to take the individual paper food and beverage menus with me. Individual cutlery packages with a paper napkin were offered; condiments were served in individual ramekins, and an umbrella shaped opaque dome sheltered me from the sun. I’m not wild about drinking beer and water from a disposable plastic glass, but I also understood the decision.

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ow strange it must feel in these strange times to be a TC3 Panther cross-country runner.

While all other fall sports are on hold, the Panthers are gearing up to host their firstever intercollegiate meet on the Dryden campus. The Tompkins-Cortland Invite will be held this Saturday (September 12th) and it will kick off a busy fall schedule that will see the Panthers compete in seven different meets, all packed very tightly together.

It says on TC3’s website, “While all teams will be able to practice during the fall semester, cross country, a non-contact sport which can compete in a manner that is in alignment with current safety protocols, will be the lone team competing for Tompkins Cortland this fall.”

While the team will indeed compete, it will do so in a revised format, and to get some clarification I reached out to Panther runner Robert Brehm. Brehm was one of the two original signees when the program was launched in the Fall of 2019, and when asked if his veteran status made him a team captain of sorts, he told me, “Yes, I am one of the leaders, and Andrew

McDaniel (the other original signee) have a split role. He and I will be leading the charge.”

I asked Robert if the roster numbers have held steady, and he said, “We started last season off with six or seven runners, and we had a couple compete off and on.”

He added, “You know… injuries, life…” have This season, Brehm says, “We picked up a couple more kids,” and he talked about the preparation involved in gearing up for the first-ever Tompkins-Cortland Invite.

“There is a lot of work involved in setting it up, for sure, but it is different preparing as a runner.” Asked why, he stated, “In a normal cross country conference race, all teams are competing at the same time, and you will likely have fifty to sixty runners on the course. . It can be a little tight out there. Now – due to the circumstances and the need for safety and distancing – each team will be going out at a different time and running by itself, so there will only be five to ten runners. There won’t be as much contact.”

Brehm went on to say, “As the lead runner, I will have to know the course a

We also talked about how a Division III or a Junior College runner might be able to make the transition to a D-1 or a 4-year school.

“Some runners at our level are here beRobert Brehm lead the charge of the Tompkins County cause they Community College Cross-Country team. just did not have an opportulot better than I would in years past, and nity to go to a Division 1 school, ” Brehm when you’re not chasing someone it can offered.

“It could be financial, it could be be a little more of a challenge to find that something else.” Many runners do hope extra motivation.” to use this experience as a stepping stone, Robert and I talked about how cross and in Robert’s case, the jury is still out, so country is different than other sports, to speak. He said, “I missed a year of basegiven there are no judges, and therefore ball eligibility due to Covid, so I’ll know no room for argument. If a diver, for more after the baseball season next spring. example, does not like how a dive was scored, he or she might have an argument. Maybe I’ll stay and play two seasons. I’m still undecided.”

In cross country, if you hit the tape first, (The remaining meets will be held on you win. (Of course, there are some ofSeptember 19 and 26, October 3, 10 and ficials in place in some races to assure that culminating with the MSAC Championall runners stay on course and do not take ship and the Region III Championships, shortcuts.) both of which will be held at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua).

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he Kitchen is closed. Well, more or less for the time being. Finishing up the end of last season, The Kitchen Theatre Company announced the arrival of its new Artistic Director David Winitsky, after the unfortunate departure of the ever-insightful M. Bevin O’Gara. Now, under the leadership of Winitsky, the Kitchen will cook-up a new season, with a new staff, and new director in the middle of a pandemic that has essentially limited indoor in-person audiences to zero.

We caught up with David Winitsky after one of his commutes between South Philadelphia, where he is still a permanent resident, and Ithaca to find out what audiences can expect this coming year— a year of change, discomfort and innovation.

Ithaca Times: Can you tell us who you are?

David Winitsky: Well, Glenn, that’s such a good question! Do any of us actually know who we are? [laughs] I am a producer and director who has spent a vast majority of my career working in new play development and production.

About nine years ago, I founded a company in New York called the Jewish Plays Project, which is a new play development organization for specifically 21st century Jewish content, as we say in marketing materials. I’ve also been the Producing Director of the New Play Company in Madison, New Jersey called Playwrights Theatre and I was the General Manager at the Theatre Arts Center in Downtown Manhattan.

More importantly, I am the husband of painter and writer and creative director Elizabeth Samet and the father of Zeke, who is 19, and Lex, who is 19.

By G le n n Ep ps IT: What brought you to Ithaca?

DW: I went to Cornell undergrad a million and a half years ago and I came up to visit Cornell with my eldest son when he was looking at colleges and while I was up here the head of the theatre studies department who was an audience member of mine at my company in the city. We talked, and I told him about a class I had taught a couple of years before that was called ‘Sitcom Jews.’ a history of Jewish-ethnic representation in television, and after a few more discussions we teamed up and this fall will be my third year teaching that course. Then last December the theatre asked me to direct a reading of a new play and I cast Rachel Lampert, who had been a longtime Artistic Director at the Kitchen, and so when Bevin announced that she was leaving the theatre announced they were looking for an interim AD, I was very excited to throw my hat into the ring.

IT: So, why the Kitchen Theatre?

DW: There’s a lot of reasons, but the core of it is that this a great town with an incredibly supportive, intellectual and engaged audience, both for the kind of work we do at the Kitchen and The Cherry, and the Hangar and Civic— this is really a savvy and sophisticated theatre audience here and that’s an awesome thing. My history at the Kitchen actually goes back to my undergrad. I graduated in ‘93, and when I was here a bunch of acting teachers got together and started a theatre company called the Kitchen and I actually saw the first couple of productions.

They were beautifully acted and impactful.

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IT: And back then, as an undergraduate, you were studying mathematics. How does a mathematics major end up in theatre?

DW: My senior year of college, a friend of mine asked me to be in a show he was directing and I did that. Then he said, ‘hey, do you wanna direct something for the company?’ and I said, ‘alright, let me give it a try.’ I sat in that director’s chair for the production of Neil Simon’s ‘The Good Doctor’ and it just all fell into place.

IT: The Kitchen Theatre is pretty well known for its motto ‘Important conversations happen at the kitchen,’ what important conversations are you bringing to the Kitchen during your time there?

DW: Oh, Glenn, I don’t know, it just doesn’t feel like there’s much to talk about in the world right now! [laughs] IT: You know, it has felt a tad boring lately.

DW: [laughs] Yeah, there’s so much going on, that’s so unfortunate and as a parent to teenagers and sort of feeling the generational divide. Obviously, this summer was explosive; and in ways that feel really uncomfortable and really productive. What the theatre offers us is a chance to embrace those big ideas in ways that are about human fail situations. It’s about being with people from your own community and people who aren’t and experiencing something together in real time that allows you to process these big ideas. This year is not going to be

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like any other. What we’re calling our season a journey to 30 because next season will be the theatre’s thirtieth anniversary. Most theatre companies don’t even get close to that. We’re going to take the season to visit the past, present and future of the Kitchen Theatre.

IT: Another thing is there’s a lot of changes to the Kitchen. Many of the Kitchen’s familiar faces are not there, I’m talking about the departure of Associate Producing Director Lesley Greene and Managing Director Stephen Nunley. How will that change the dynamic so many people were familiar with at KTC? DW: Everyone whos helped to get the theatre this far are really incredible; and what Stephen, and Lesley, and Rachel and Bevin have accomplished here, transforming this into a real institution that has true recognition well beyond the city limits is nothing short of extraordinary. My only goal is to be worthy of continuing on what they’ve built. What the community can expect, which I can say very convincingly, is that this will continue to be a place where everyone can feel welcomed and see really good theatre.

IT: Will it be an in-person season?

DW: I don’t want to scoop our season, but what I will say is that I’m very committed to theatre as an in-person medium. As much as we can, we are going to welcome people into the space. Everything we do will be accessible both inside the theatre and online. Rest assured, not only will the company have a great journey to thirty. We’re going to have a great next thirty years.

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And they’ve done so in Ithaca as well, especially with summer options from the Hangar, Ithaca Shakespeare, and Cherry Arts.

Locally, theaters are now preparing their fall productions, which will continue mostly online.

But the Cherry Arts is taking a bold step for its 2020-21 season, with its initial show produced in a socially distanced venue in Stewart Park.

The free community event, also available online (check end links) runs September 17-26.

Billed as “a wild and wooly outdoor masked comedy,” “The Fan” is a 18th-century classic by Carlo Goldoni, who also penned “The Servant of Two Masters” (remember James Corden in the National Theatre’s madcap version?). Cherry artistic director Sam Buggeln directs.

Audience members, who are welcome to bring picnics, will be seated in separate pods of one to five. Recorded video –– of dialogue, music, and goofy sounds –– will mix with live performances from Karl Gregory, Jahmar Ortiz, Erica Steinhagen, and Sylvie Yntema.

All actors will be wearing masks –– it’s “lip synching without lips,” Buggeln says.

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by Wendy Dann and Buggeln. Written by Québecoise Gabrielle Chapdelaine (November 13-21), this work received the Canadian 2018 Gratien Gélinas prize for best new play. In the spring, there’s “Hotel Good Luck,” by Mexican playwright Aljandro Ricaño, directed

by Buggeln (February 12-20); and “Trap Door,” by poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, directed

by Cynthia Henderson (May 20-30), which explores Ithaca’s underground railroad and civil rights era history.

A creative mix of virtual events comes from Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts: First, the “10-Minute Play Festival” (Oct 8-10); then the collaboratively drafted “Virtual Vibrance: Making, Shaking, Breaking Performance” (October 29–31).

Film and theatre students will work together producing “Off-Campus/On-Screen” (December 11–13), a series of short dramatic films exploring experiences of lockdown, economic crisis, pandemic, and protest.

And Ithaca College, which had to cancel promising spring shows, returns with a remote fall season focused on new voices, BIPOC artists and their stories, and developing student playwrights. Dates will be announced soon, with subscribers and single ticket buyers then being personally contacted. The season opens on the student-directed “IC New Play Incubator 2020,” featuring the work of seven undergraduate and alumni writers. Guest judge is LatinX writer Caridad Svich.

The season continues with Qui Nguyen’s “She Kills Monsters”; Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas’ “Light in the Piazza”; Aaliyah Warrington’s “Gather Ye Children”; and Nick Malakhow’s “Off the Palisades Parkway”; original dances in “Shifting Spaces”; and “Moments: An Evening of the Work of Douglas Lyons.”

Opera Ithaca keeps a sense of humor with its first online offering, a 55-minute newly filmed version of Giocomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi,” in Italian with English subtitles, scheduled for early October. The comic oneact premiered in the midst of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, and this version, set in the present, reveals “just what happens when opera's favorite dysfunctional family goes into quarantine.”

The innovative film, produced by Opera to 30” –– to be announced on Friday, October Ithaca director Ben Robinson and David 2 –– will open in January with a full menu of Kossack of PhotoSynthesis, will stream first virtual, hybrid, and in-person events celebrating through Cinemapolis for two weeks and for the theatre’s past and future.

Smaller theater companies are already several more on the opera website.

In the spring, Opera Ithaca features two planning fall online productions. Walking on Water (WOW), emphasizing new musicals and shows, the first, a double food-themed bill laced Georgia@ithacatimes.com 607-277-7000 x220 with comedy: Lee Hoiby’s “Bon Appétit” (about their artists, will present “A Virtual Cabaret,” directed by founder/artistic director Priscilla Julia Child’s French Chef) and Engelbert Newspaper: Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” Next, Hummel –– with excerpts from past shows, “Inside the Creative Process” reveals how a new some surprises from the present, and a hint of opera, “We Wear the Sea like a Coat,” takes the future (November 20-21).

“Humans first, creators second’ is the shape –– showcasing composer Sally Lamb McCune and librettists Rachel Lampert and motto of Clockmaker Arts, a “international storytelling” company of young local artists Yvonne Gray.

Now in its 29th year, the Kitchen Theatre that debuted in August. The group is dedicated Company is forging a new path under its to producing “original creative content to interim producing artistic director, David help connect, heal, and transform the world.”

Winitsky. The anniversary season, “The Journey Looking ahead to winter, “What If, in a

Snowstorm…” premieres December 12 and runs live for a week on YouTube. It’s by artistic director Elizabeth Seldin, who will also be partnering this year with GIAC, helping kids write, compose and choreograph their own original show.

Running to Places children’s live theatre is on hold, or “in hibernation,” says founder and artistic director Joey Steinhagen. This summer, Client: free online workshops were given –– R2P@ home providing kids’ performance classes and R2PUnplugged offering deep-dive discussions into works that for content or licensing can’t be produced by R2P, shows like “Hamilton,” “Wicked,” and “Dear Evan Hanson.” The company looks forward to a time when it’s safe to re-open in person, as, Steinhagen says, young

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at Ithaca College, as an actor and teaching artist at the Hangar, as a teacher and actor at Cornell, and as the founding member of two local companies: Kitchen Theatre and Civic Ensemble. In her journeys away from Ithaca she has acted in Chicago, Seattle and New York City.

She also spent two years as an environmental activist working with First Nation people and others fighting the slaughter of buffalo. There,

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They're always playing the race card.’… that wasn't the only story.”

These experiences propelled her to seek more grounding as a theater-maker and teacher, so she applied for the brand-new program in Applied Theatre at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, under Chris Vine and Helen White, “who are my mentors and teachers and are wonderful.”

It gave her a framework.

“I can name it in a more succinct way now that I've gone through that, the different journeys that I've taken,” Chalmers said. “I do theater, because it has a power like no other thing, no other practice, to bring together our cognitive and Sarah K. Chalmers, one of the founders of the Kitchen affective selves, Theatre and the Civic Ensemble. (photo Rachel Philipson) to think and feel [...] Every story we put out there has a point of view. And what I eventually have come to understand that it matters whose story it is. It matters how the characters are painted and who's playing them.” theater can do.”

Her impact while in Ithaca is attested to Sarah first landed in Ithaca in 1990 as a student in IC’s BFA acting program. I first by her students and colleagues. Irving Torresencountered her in an astonishing performance Lopez, now at the Public Theatre in NYC says, as Agave in “The Bacchae” directed by the late “Sarah understands the needs of her actors with Earl McCarroll. “Earl helped me have more such care and compassion. I am grateful to have confidence… There's a way to own how good had the chance to work with her during my time you are and have humility and live in the present at Cornell.”

Chisom Awachie said, “working with Sarah and own your power and use it for good, both as a colleague and as a performer, and I admired during undergrad helped me realize a dream that I think every PMA [Performing and Media and emulated Earl in that way.”

With fellow IC students Matt Tauber and Arts] acting major had: watching, learning Tim O’Brien, she became a founding member from, and breathing the same air as someone of the Kitchen Theatre (1992), acting in several who has a deep knowledge of and commitment shows. Matt and Tim “cooked it up in their to the work. [...] It was daunting and exciting ‘b*tchin’ catharsis kitchen.’ They were like, to be treated as a professional, entering the Ithaca needs this. It doesn't have a cool young rehearsal room with the understanding that I had something unique to offer… I learned so thing happening.…

“And we toiled. It was like, hey let’s put much from Sarah in such a short period of time, on a play, but like serious theater folk with the namely a confidence and stamina that serves me training… It reminds me of Civic in the way of to this day. My time at Cornell was changed for just we kept saying, yes, and we kept moving the better because of her, and I can’t thank her enough.” forward.”

Her colleague at Cornell and frequent After school, she pursued acting in Chicago and Seattle, fell into activist work, director Beth Milles writes, “Sarah is simply one and eventually she and her sister found their of the most gifted and passionate artists I have way back to Ithaca. She met Rachel Lampert, ever worked with…She commands such a vast and while acting at the Kitchen, Alison Van and powerful imagination,… has a remarkable Dyke encouraged her to apply as a Resident emotional capability (she can level and devastate Professional Teaching Associate at Cornell, with a simple gesture)—and can suggest within acting in shows while teaching beginning a mere moment the secret depths of the human acting. “It was like Christmas for that whole soul. Sarah is a force to be reckoned with-—who offers (willingly—and with a brave fortitude) an first year.”

Sarah and Godfrey met as RPTAs and open heart in every rehearsal space.”

“It's hard to say goodbye,” Sarah added. actors in “Antigone” at Cornell. When the program wound down, she followed him to “Ithaca is my adopted hometown. I've learned NYC, where she worked in NYC High Schools and grown so much here. I'm sure I won't be a as a teaching artist for Epic Theatre Ensemble. she lived in a cabin with 30 people, learned to cross-country ski, chop wood, and make decisions by consensus.

“That place really forged my [understanding of] the community being bigger than the individual,” she said. Afterwards, she interned a few months with Winona LaDuke, then worked and was mentored by Rosalie Littlethunder. “I think, leaving the theater several times helped me to strengthen my practice and broaden

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The constant back and forth of the TCAT 82 bus on the side road and other traffic in front on Pine Tree Road was a nuisance, but understandably can’t be helped and I did feel safe.

Simeon’s, on the Ithaca Commons presents a very different situation. When the block of Aurora Street closest to the Commons was closed to traffic, they instantly gained a large amount of sidewalk space to connect to the space they already had on the Commons. This allowed them to virtually double their outdoor dining capacity from 30 seats to 60 seats.

At the same time, because a portion of their clientele preferred outside dining to indoor, they halved their indoor capacity from 100 seats to 50.

Co-owner Dean Zervos told me he was wrestling with the menu situation. He’s printing a two-sided single paper menu which is recycled after each use. However, he’s paying $300-$400/week just for printing toner and each color menu costs $.65 and each black and white would be $.40. At this writing, he is working on a laminated menu that can be sanitized after each use.

Another option is a smartphone QR scan-

ning device to show the entire menu. Because Zervoz wants to limit the menu to one page, he’s lost about a half dozen pages of beverage listings.

The business hours at Simeon’s have been reduced slightly because Dean observed, “People just don’t like coming out later and, since they have to order food with their drinks the bar just isn’t as popular.”

They now close at 9:30 instead of 10:30 on weekends. I asked if Simeon’s is being affected by colleges limiting on-site attendance. He replied that it detracts from the number of customers but not from staffing as the student population is not a good source of full-time employees because they leave town several times each year for spring and fall breaks, need time off for exam weeks, and there’s always Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

Writer’s comment: On August 22, one of the owners of Simeon’s tested positive for Coronavirus. The owners immediately shut the restaurant. It has been closed for a few weeks as employees get tested and are quarantined; and the facility is sanitized.

As I write this, after talking with the health department and Simeon’s owners, I expect the restaurant will have already reopened.

So what’s the future for dining out in Ithaca? It’s hard to tell….so much is changing and it’s all happening so fast. The weather, too, is changing. The inevitable colder weather of Ithaca autumns and winters is almost upon us. Soon, dining al fresco won’t be an option.

Several restaurant owners are looking at various sanitizing ventilation systems, including stronger air filters, but they’re expensive and the accelerated demand has slowed delivery times.

A few restaurants have already closed and others will surely follow, but for the significant majority, I’m sure that the innovative, adaptable, creative, and flexible Ithaca area restaurateurs will come up with a variety of solutions that will help us to continue to enjoy dining out safely.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Boatyard Grill has temporarily closed after two employees reported and were positively identified as carriers for the COVID-19 virus.

The online article will be updated as the restaurant decides its next course of action.

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people connecting is as important as the shows themselves.

Further afield, Cortland Repertory Theatre has cancelled its fall season and hopes for a spring re-opening; like most theatres, it’s actively fundraising. And Syracuse Stage will be announcing its 48th season of six productions, available through video on demand, within the next week or so.

Re-imagining and producing theater now is nothing short of miraculous –– considering the financial losses, furloughed employees, complicated rights negotiations, technical challenges of new modes of delivery, and rehearsing across time zones. One positive outcome of the pandemic, though, has been the fresh collaboration of artists in different mediums. Theatre folk have proven themselves markedly resilient and flexible –– and supporting audiences can respond in kind: be sure to re-check production dates and times!

For tickets and final dates, check company websites: thecherry.org • https://pma.cornell.edu/ • https:// www.ithaca.edu/theatre-season • operaithaca.org • www.kitchentheatre.org • https://www.walkingonwaterproductions.org/ • https://www.clockmakerarts. com/ • http://www.runningtoplaces.org/ • www.cortlandrep.org • syracusestage.org Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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paint, they are built to last. Even though everyone says they look so delicate, they’re hen I first met Gerry actually pretty sturdy, unless you sit on them.”

Monaghan, it was While the answer won’t be supplied today, early morning and I what he can focus on is making lasting durable was making my way work, which is what he does. But chalkwork through the Comisn’t exactly durable. For Gerry, the work he mons to go to work. does with chalk is like a hobby— if you can He was in the middle of the streatery/ restaucall an artist producing side-art a hobbyist. rant row doodling what looked like a giant sun He got the idea to do the art work one day with a smiling face. I couldn’t quite make it in March when he looked out the window out when I passed by, but the art wasn’t what of his home and saw the street covered in seized my attention drawings produced and the attention of by neighborhood the other passersby youths; and he who stopped, paused wanted in. and observed what That’s also how Gerry was doing. he conceived the What seized our idea for his five foot attention was that pencil, inspired by Gerry was drawing Matisse. Chalkwork, on the road with a for the most part, is a stick. young person’s game, With an old dowel but the pencil allows rod, a dollar-store him to stand up and chalk extender and participate. some duct tape, Ger“When working ry had made himself with adults, they a five foot pencil with bring a lot more of which he effortlessly their own intent, and marked up the street. kids are much more Standing perfectly open books. They still in the middle of just want to learn and the road later to be experience. They will crowded by pedesdo things that I’ve trians, he glided never even thought Gerry Monaghan doodles in Press Bay (Photo: Provided) the chalk across the of doing with my ground like a child materials and my drawing circles in processes… What I’m dirt. more interested in is making marks on paper, he creates tabletop sculptures, figures that “Why would you make it here,” I asked. and eventually all the marks will add up. dance when the wind blows and person-sized “It’s the perfect place,” he stopped and There’s no pressure to draw, we’re just making dreamcatchers. rested his fist on his hip to look at me. “With marks… I tend to think I get a lot back from “We’re actively being ancestors. With the all of the people sitting outside, it’ll be nice for help of computer technology and the materikids [in that way].” them to have something to look at.”

For Gerry, who says he works a lot betals that we have, we can actively create new Standing in front of me, he was the spitting artifacts, new heirlooms, like our ancestors ter when collaborating with other artists, the image of Matisse in the later years of his life, gave to us...There’s nothing more archival than pandemic has been isolating, in many ways, with the addition of a lure hat. I never knew but it’s also inspired him in others. This sumplastic,” he said.

Matisse, but I also imagine that Gerry had mer he’s been working with Ithaca Children’s His work, which he calls the Ancestry a friendlier disposition. We waved goodbye Project, looks at time differently than we most Garden and with various others in parks, and I headed to work like everyone else, but I sharing his artHis drive to collaborate with the often do. For him it’s something far-off, that knew I would be back to see what he’d drawn. young artists led him to using the chalk that we cannot imagine, but individually possess And I knew I would have to speak to him the power to influence and communicate with. had been tucked in corners around his house again. after his kids grew up, which led to our chance While western thought often sees time as a Gerry’s been drawing since he was young, meeting on Aurora St.. linear construction that human beings are he told me. After he left school he went on to The day I met Gerry it rained and his artmoving through its limits are often based on become a graphic designer creating what he work was washed away, quickly, but it wasn’t what we foresee we might see— life within a calls “disposable art.” He worked in publishgeneration or two. However, when Gerry talks his first chalkwork and it wouldn’t be his ing and eventually worked up to a position about creating art, he often describes his work last. He’d been leaving work everywhere: one where he was able to design the packaging for long doodle along the trails at Stewart Park, as meeting anthropologists hundreds of years Campbell’s soup, but looking back, he says the in the future, and he asks himself ‘what will flowerscapes in Press Bay, cartoon faces in work lacked the thing he works to instill in his they learn from the piece when they see it?’ parks and poetry along not so busy streets— art today. those are his— or at the least, likely have been “One of my focuses now is on rendering “I spent my whole life doing that kind of since the start of the pandemic. And when permanence and creating artifacts that speak commercial art, which to me is disposable art,” to personal history...With my sculptures, I the rain comes, as it inevitably will, we’re only said Gerry. “It was wonderful and at the same reminded of how much can be accomplished work on them in a way that they really are time, I would make something and they would bonded, albeit with Elmer’s glue and acrylic with what time has given us. go and print four million of them, but those four million pieces are all in the trash now. To make commercial art is inherently to make disposable art.”

Now he says his passion is for creating ancestral art out of archival materials; and art that has a personal history. The materials he uses, which he defines as archival, are easily sourced, cheap and everyday. In the past, the Ithaca Times highlighted his work with toothpick weaving, which had gained him some notoriety. Out of everyday materials,

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ew York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement this past week that low-risk scholastic sports are allowed to compete beginning on Sept. 21 – and high-risk sports may only practice with no physical contact at the same time – has kickstarted the discussion among local school districts of the feasibility of holding a sports season this fall.

At a meeting on Aug. 31, Superintendent Margo Martin provided an update to the Groton Central School District Board

of Education on the state of athletics heading into the school year. At the moment, it is not a given that athletic competition will begin on Sept 21. Section IV is still waiting on the guidance of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) as to how districts can prepare for a fall season.

Based on that guidance, the section will make a decision on whether the fall season will start on the governor’s date or if it will be delayed. One section, that being Section VIII, has already chosen to delay the

start of its fall season to January 2021 and will run all three athletic seasons from that point. (Each school will get a vote on the plan created by the section. The majority determines what the section will do.)

“It’s really going to come down to what is the practicality of being able to meet all these guidelines and still have a season,” Martin said.

If Groton were to have a fall season, soccer and cross country would be the only low-risk sports competing, while football and volleyball would be allowed to practice. Martin said schools would be permitted to compete against contiguous regions or counties, but cannot travel across the state to compete.

“Initially, we thought we weren’t going to be able to play a school like Cortland

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because Cortland is in the Central New York region and we are in the Southern Tier region, but they clarified that you can indeed play counties that you border or regions that you border,” Martin said.

Martin said the New York State Council of School Superintendents wrote a letter to Cuomo outlining its concerns with the approval of sports for the fall and asked him to delay the start of the fall season. Cuomo has responded saying he will not change his decision on the start date.

From a recreational sports perspective, President Sophia Darling said she has trouble seeing how athletics can be played this fall.

“The logistics that go, that are involved in this type of planning,” Darling said.

“There are so many other considerations – the spectators … how do you have spectators and what does it look like in terms of distancing out there and the protection of the players, and are you going to have everyone [get tested] coming into the field?”

Martin brought up the guidelines for sports issued by Cuomo for this summer and all the factors that were needed to be taken into consideration, factors that will more than likely need to be considered thoroughly if there were to be a fall season.

“That guidance says two spectators per player; all spectators have to maintain appropriate social distancing,” she said.

“Schools have to have set up hand sanitizer stations at the entrances and exits.

You have to be monitoring the use of your facilities in certain terms of maintaining social distance with restrooms. You have to make decisions about concession stands and do you even allow them at all. You have to make decisions about charging money at the door – if they’re recommending no cash at all be exchanged, and that it be handled via some kind of PayPal/ Venmo system.”

She said bussing would be another issue for the district as well.

“I mean, we already struggle to get teams places without a pandemic, right,” Martin said. “So if we’re trying to put two teams together on a bus to save drivers and get them where they need to go on time, you can’t do that right now.”

Elementary School Principal Kent Maslin said allowing athletic competition could impact in-person learning if an outbreak of COVID-19 were to occur because of, for instance, traveling between districts to play.

“We know how important athletics are to so many children,” Maslin said. “We also realize that all that transferring between communities and other places puts us potentially at risk of losing the opportunity to teach the kids in person, and that’s a difficult balance to strike, right?”

NYSPHSAA’s guidance was expected to be released on Sept. 4. NYSPHSAA has already announced that the start of the winter season will be pushed back from Nov. 16 to 30.

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I had never seen it. It really holds up. You see where “Jurassic Park” is a total rip-off of “King Kong”.

IT: And it’s the movie that inspired Ray Harryhausen to go home and build a studio in his garage and start his life’s work of making stop-motion animation.

DM: And the stop-motion is really terrific in it, and it’s every bit as entertainFAMILY FILM CLASSICS SERIES 2020 PART 2 ing as it was back then. It’s good storytellBy Br yan VanC ampe n ing, and it’s really well paced. Then we have three “Classic inemapolis’ Family Film Classics Comedy Shorts” series is back after summer vaca(November 15): tion with four films to entertain Laurel and Hardy us through December. The series host, Dain “The Music vid Moreland, spoke to the Ithaca Times Box”, where they’re about the upcoming schedule of movies. moving the piano IT: I have seen “Tom Sawyer” (Sepup the long flight of tember 13), which was one of producer stairs. It’s a halfArthur P. Jacobs’ last films. hour long, and it’s DM: It’s a musical by the Sherman really wonderful. brothers, Richard and Robert Sherman.

We did “Way Out I have never seen it, but a couple of our West”, and it was committee members have. It’s supposed to so gratifying to be a crowd pleaser. see little kids in IT: It stars Johnnie Whitaker, who the audience with was one of the big deal child stars when I their grandparents, was a kid. and everybody was It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) directed by Frank Capra DM: “Family Affair”. just busting a gut.

IT: And he was in “Sigmund and the Laurel and Hardy Sea Monsters”, too. still deliver the DM: And Jodie Foster, you’ve gotta love DM: And then in October, “King Kong” goods. Then we’ll have a 20-minute “Little that. Have you ever seen “Bugsy Malone”?

(October 18), which I had never seen, and Rascals” film. The one I watched was great, IT: Yeah, I remember thinking even as I’m really glad it’s in the series because but it didn’t have Alfalfa in it; we really a kid that “Bugsy Malone” was this crazy it’s so iconic. Every kid and every adult wanna find an Alfalfa one. I hadn’t seen mash-up of kid’s movie and gangster has seen the final scene with King Kong them in a long time and the performances movie. climbing up the Empire State Building, but Film

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And we’ll finish that with Buster Keaton in “One Week”. That’s the 20-minute one where he builds a house from a kit.

IT: Where the house spins around?

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IT: Then you finish out the year in December with Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (December 13), which is pretty good timing for the holidays.

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IT: I didn’t know that. That’s nice. So the State Theatre gets it next year?

DM: Yeah, people can’t get enough of it.

I must say, I went to see “It’s a Wonderful Life” at the State last year, and the more you see that movie, the earlier you start crying in it. I mean, I found myself crying in the druggist scene, which is what, ten minutes into the movie? And already I’m getting’ all weepy. Great movie.

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Art Colors and Creatures | 12:00 PM, 9/9 Wednesday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | A two-person show of work by Stan Bowman and Mary Ann Bowman, September 2-27, 2020. Hours: Thurs. & Fri., 12-6pm, Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.

West End Gallery: Spotlight Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 9/11 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Featuring four artists working in a variety of mediums ñ oil, acrylic, pencil. The exhibit may be viewed in person on Opening Day, Sept. 4 from Noon ñ 7:00 p.m. Appointments not required, but highly recommended.

The exhibit will also be online at www.westendgallery.net Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival | 11:00 AM, 9/12 Saturday | Your home, | A Virtual Festival this year on our YouTube channel. YOU are invited to come to the festival without leaving your house. Juried art, fine crafts for sale, acoustic music by professional singer-songwriters, literary arts, creative culinary arts, and art demonstrations for all ages will be on YouTube throughout the weekend. Visit www.colorscape.org festival weekend for the link.

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The Spirit of Place: A Johnson Art Museum Sampler | 6:00 PM, 9/13 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | These lectures will be presented live on Zoom. To participate in this free online lecture, visit the TCFA website: www.tburgconservatory.org† Colors and Creatures | 12:00 PM, 9/16 Wednesday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | A two-person show of work by Stan Bowman and Mary Ann Bowman, September 2-27, 2020. Hours: Thurs. & Fri., 12-6pm, Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. ìIn The Style Ofî Art Show | 11:00 AM, 9/18 Friday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Members of the art council have used their artistic talent to interpret the style of famous artists. This show will ask visitors to join in the fun spirit of the exhibit by figuring out which famous artist is portrayed. Famous artists will be listed and paintings will numbered. Voting sheets will allow each visitor to make their best guess. A prize will be awarded at the end of the show. Additionally, voters will decide which local artist painted the best representation of a famed artist.

West End Gallery: Spotlight Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 9/18 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Featuring four artists working in a variety of mediums ñ oil, acrylic, pencil. The exhibit may be viewed in person on Opening Day, Sept. 4 from Noon ñ 7:00 p.m. Appointments not required, but highly recommended.

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Virtual Cornell Cinema: Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own | All Day 9/11 Friday | Cornell Cienma, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | Thru 9/17.†An eloquent, visually arresting portrait of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture. Those with a CU NetID are encouraged to view this film via the CU Library: https:// video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/ ursula-von-rydingsvard-into-herown. Those without a CU NetID should send a reservation for a screening link.†visit http://cinema. cornell.edu Virtual Cornell Cinema: The Green Years | All Day 9/11 Friday | Cornell Cienma, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | Thru 9/17.†Nineteenyear-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But whenhe meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide withthe bourgeois trappings of modern life.†For more information visit http://cinema.cornell.edu Virtual Cornell Cinema: 20th Animation Show of Shows | All Day 9/11 Friday | Cornell Cienma, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | Thru 9/17. These fifteen thought-

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Funny, moving, and engaging, the program not only has something for everyone, but is a remarkable and insightful microcosm of our world.†For more information visit http:// cinema.cornell.edu Virtual Cornell Cinema: John Lewis: Good Trouble | All Day 9/11 Friday | Cornell Cienma, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | Thru 9/22. The late, great Civil Rights warrior, Congressman John Lewis is captured late in life reflecting on his decades of activism, from his childhood in Troy, Alabama, to the March on Selma and three decades in the halls of Congress, along with interviews of his peers and rare archival footage. For more information visit http://cinema.cornell.edu | 6.99 per view Cornell Virtual Cinema: John Lewis: Good Trouble | All Day 9/11 Friday | The late, great Civil Rights warrior, Congressman John Lewis is captured late in life reflecting on his decades of activism, from his childhood in Troy, Alabama, to the March on Selma and three decades in the halls of Congress, along with interviews of his peers and rare archival footage. Thru 9/22. | 6.99 per view Cornell Virtual Cinema: 20th Animation Show of Shows | All Day 9/11 Friday | These fifteen thought-provoking films represent the work of artists from six countries and include six student films.

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Cornell Virtual Cinema: Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own | All Day 9/11 Friday | An eloquent, visually arresting portrait of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture. von Rydingsvard’s work† is held in the collections of some of the world’s great museums, but she may be best-known for work in public spaces ñ imposing pieces painstakingly crafted (usually from cedar), with complex surfaces. Thru 9/17.

Cornell Virtual Cinema: The Green Years | All Day 9/11 Friday | Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life. Thru 9/17.

Virtual Cinemapolis: African Violet | All Day 9/11 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Middle-aged Shokoo finds out that ex-husband, Fereydoun, has been placed in a nursing home by their children. She, and second husband Reza, decide to take care of Fereydoun themselves, but in their own home. (93 mins NR) | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Ghost Tropic | All Day 9/11 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | After work one night, Khadija (Saadia BentaÔeb), a fifty-eightyear-old Maghrebi cleaning woman living in Brussels, falls asleep on the last subway train, wakes up at the

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(85 mins NR) | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | All Day 9/11 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. (85 mins NR) | 72 hour rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Jimmy Carter: Rock& Roll President | All Day 9/11 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Charts the mostly forgotten story of how Carter, a lover of all types of music, forged a tight bond with musicians Willie Nelson, the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and others. Low on campaign funds and lacking in name recognition, Carter relied on support from these artists to give him a crucial boost in the Democratic primaries.

Once Carter was elected, the musicians became frequent guests in the White House.† | 72 hour rental available for $9.99 The Karate KId | 8:00 PM, 9/11 Friday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20/car The Secret Life of Pets | 8:00 PM, 9/12 Saturday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20/car Cornell Virtual Cinema: Boys State | 7:30 PM, 9/16 Wednesday | This captivating documentary about the 2018 Texas Boys State

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