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Ithaca In Line for Cuomo Billions

New State Law Pricks Tattoo Artists

ubmissions to the so-called “Upstate Hunger Games” were sent to the Capital Region on Monday, Oct. 5.

Proposals were due for funding through the Upstate Revitalization Initiative, a $1.5 billion prize pool from financial crash settlement cash that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is dangling in front of three upstate regions.

These games require more than a bow and some mojo to attain glory. For one, the funding requires a minimum five-to-one private and local match to the grant funding. And rather than receiving death, the losing regions will still get a consolation prize, with another $750 million in funding available to split among the 10 Regional Economic Development Councils in 2016.

A 200-plus-page strategic plan developed by stakeholder types is required to play these games, and the Southern Tier’s, which includes Tompkins County, is full of references to Brookings Institute studies and talk about its “innovation index” score, STEM degrees per capita, and maximizing intellectual capital.

There are four focus areas of development outlined in the plan. They are the “Greater Binghamton Innovation Ecosystem,” which proposes to add mixed-use development in Binghamton, a health and technology park in Johnson City, and a 3-D industrial printing center in Endicott, among other projects.

Investing in advanced manufacturing is another focus. “Transform” the food and agricultural industry is a third point of emphasis, and “Promote the Southern Tier’s Innovative Culture” is the fourth, with some emphasis on making the region a global hub for cybersecurity and secure electronics.

“There were certain characteristics of a strategic plan the state was looking for,” said Michael Stamm of Tompkins County Area Development (TCAD). “Getting people out of poverty, giving long-term employment opportunities, and urban or town-center revitalization were some.”

It’s likely that in Tompkins County, Stamm said, “from a private sector point of view, we’ll have medium to small advanced manufacturers trying to access funds for expansion.”

Transportation products, components, and system controls are a focus of the advanced manufacturing initiative; Borg-Warner, Therm, Incodema

attoo artists across New York State are agitating for changes to a regulatory bill signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August.

Besides some new paperwork requirements, the bill, S.B. 1421, requires tattooers to use ink and needles that come in singleuse packages. The artists say that highquality inks in that form don’t exist, and the rule will put an undue burden on the industry that could destroy livelihoods.

Carol Oddy, co-owner of Medusa Tattoo on West State Street, has been active in fighting for a change to the regulation before the public comment period ends in December and the law goes into effect. She has Phoebe Aceto of Model Citizen Tattoos (Photo: Josh Brokaw) been encouraging her colleagues and customers to sign founder] James [Spiers] has been using a change.org petition started by Bridget for 20 years,” said Phoebe Aceto of Model Punsalang, an Albany-area artist, that’s garnered over 48,000 signatures. In a letter Citizen Tattoo on East Seneca Street. “It’s not fair to ask artists to throw away that sent to Sens. Tom O’Mara (R-Elmira) investment.” and Michael Nozzolio (R-Seneca Falls) To Nate Waterman and Ron Wilson and Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton of Artistic Point Tattoo Company on (D-Ithaca), Oddy laid out the tattoo West State Street, the state’s attempt at industry’s primary complaint about the regulation smells of ignorance—since the single-use ink requirement.

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▶ Spotting Money Problems, Negative financial news can be a harrowing event for a non-profit agency, particularly one without substantial reserves. Increasing revenues or reducing spending are both easier said than done. If you take action too slowly your agency can deplete critical reserves and make a problem much bigger. If you act too quickly you can harm the clients and the mission you care about and sully your reputation as a trusted resource.

Duane Shoen, CPA, brings his long experience auditing Tompkins area non-

area in a closed cabinet or drawer) into a small disposable container known as an ‘ink cap’, which is thrown away after the tattoo is done,” Oddy wrote. “In the 44 states other than [New York] that have some form of either statewide legislation or Health Department Regulation in place, 34 specifically mention ink or pigment, and none of them require the use of the above-mentioned ‘single use ink.’”

Artists have their favorite brands of ink and often stock up in advance. Inks aren’t cheap, either. For example, a Top 25 set of colors in one-ounce bottles from Eternal Ink, a leading brand, costs $185 online.

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The workshop will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. The fee is $65 It will be held in the Borg Warner Conference Room, Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green St. at S. Cayuga St., Ithaca. Presented by the Human Services Coalition. Co-sponsored by the Tompkins County Public Library Register now by emailing registration@ hsctc.org or call 607.273.8686 Walk-ins are welcome.

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What’s so funny ‘bout peace, Love and understanding?

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Housing Orgs Now Joined, But Not One

T “I don’t think there’s anything funny about that concept – but if I want to be cycnical, nobody’s practicing it like they’re supposed to.”

—Audia Denton

“It’s a lovely idea. It may be corny, but there’s nothing funny about it.”

—Hadda Forman

“There’s often a lack of communication about how to get that, so it can be funny sometimes. If we figured out how to get it, then it wouldn’t be funny.”

—Maria Gimma

“Though we all say we want peace, love, and understanding, we fight the most about how to get it.”

—Sam Bosco

“What’s funny is asking that of three yoga teachers in Ithaca.” ­—Zainab Zakari, Elizabeth Gabriel, and Gina Newlin

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wo Tompkins County nonprofits that have developed and managed affordable housing here for over 30 years are now, officially, acting as one.

The “affiliation” of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services and Better Housing of Tompkins County is a fact, after the decision to combine resources was announced last November.

Don’t call it a merger—though a total of 36 employees are now employees of INHS and work out of their offices on Clinton Street, both entities will live on in word and deed.

“We looked strongly at the staffing of both organizations to be sure a blend of the two staffs would be effective and better served the housing needs of the community,” said Greg May, chair of the Better Housing board and a senior vice president in residential mortgage lending at Tompkins Trust Company. “We found there to be remarkably good synergies to pull the two organizations together.”

The combined portfolio is 397 units right now, with about another 120 in development, with most of those at 210 Hancock Street in Northside and in the Greenways townhomes on East Hill in the town of Ithaca. Besides combining the 21 staffers from INHS staff with 12 from Better Housing, the non-profits’ boards will also become one. Keeping some activities separate, though, will have practical benefits for their mutual mission Revitalization$$$ contin u ed from page 3

3D, Innovative Dynamics, C&D Assembly, Stork H&E, and Standard Hydrogen are the Tompkins County businesses listed here. A metrology project from Incodema, at $375,000, and Finger Lakes ReUse at $500,000, are listed in the “projects ready to go” for funding in Year One section.

According to Binghamton University president Harvey Stenger, the Southern Tier’s “location quotient,” which measures concentration of industry, found that the region’s score for transportation manufacturing is nine times more dense per capita than the rest of the U.S., on average.

Under the food and agriculture heading, Cornell takes first billing with a planned “Plant Science Innovation and Business Development Center” that will cost $20 million over five years and focus on the goal of fulfilling the Southern Tier’s destiny as a “natural location for a national controlled-environment agriculture hub.”

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of increasing housing opportunities for the modestly compensated in this competitive market.

“Some programs have limits of one funding application per year,” said Paul Mazzarella, INHS executive director.

“By keeping two organizations, we can effectively submit two applications for funding.”

Both INHS and Better Housing are considered “community-based housing organizations” by the state, but INHS is called a “neighborhood preservation company” and Better Housing is a “rural preservation company.” The combined forces of the two will also be projected into

six adjacent counties, since INHS has seen its formal service area increased by the state.

“There’s a vacuum of services in the outlying counties,” Mazzarella said, “and things we’ve already started doing are showing some success. The most visible thing we do is when we build houses and sell them, but to a far greater extent we’re very active promoting home ownership with home buyer education and giving people loans to help them buy their home.”

INHS has started offering their “Home Buyer U” class in Cortland and

“philosophical” considerations heading, it reads “at a time when many places in the U.S. are battling drought, the Southern Tier’s water makes it unique and poised to fill gaps in agricultural production.”

It takes 6 percent of the nation’s total product—of any one crop—to feed upstate New York, but it only feeds itself with six crops: beans, cabbage, squash, apples, sweet corn and onion. Organic farming is also viewed as a strength ”because the smaller farm size is more conducive to the organic supply chain;” sales of organic crops in the region were over $12 million in 2012. A “vineyard reclamation and replacement” program is mentioned as one potential benefactor of funding, and an expansion for Groundswell’s farmer incubator is another, with $110,000 requested for 2016.

Potential ready-to-go projects in the food and drink space include a “Ultra Premium Beverage Center” in the Schuyler County business park that will be the logistical hub for “ultra-premium” wines; a $7 to $10 million investment in an Ithaca Hummus expansion with capacity to get into every grocery store on the East Coast by 2018; a canning line for Ithaca Beer

($175,000 in 2016); a Piggery expansion; an expansion for the Hopshire farm and brewery ($60,000); and a proposed potato vodka distillery in Steuben County.

So far as promoting an innovative culture is concerned, Collegetown redevelopment—that is, the fire house project, at $1.2 million—is listed as ready-to-go, along with something called “Authentic American Experience in Our Downtowns.” “Place-branding” and retaining talent is the focus, as summed up well by this paragraph: “As long as the narrative of the region is one of malaise and economic weakness, with hollow downtowns and empty storefronts, the region cannot expect its best and brightest and the large number of students that come here for an excellent education to put down roots.”

Whether all of this will be funded is, as always, a question. For his part, Stamm is optimistic.

“You would think a region that needs help and also submits a really good plan will be successful,” he said. “I think we fulfill both of those.” •

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t their Monday, Oct. 5 meeting the City of Ithaca Board of Public Works rejected a proposal brought before them by the State Street Triangle developers to change the intersection of Aurora and State streets.

The changes would have expanded the sidewalk outward at the expense of the “slip lane” that lets drivers coming off South Hill turn right at a yield onto East State Street.

City engineer Tim Logue said that the changes would bring a small increase in revenues, since the space was earmarked for outdoor dining, and would not have much effect on heavy vehicles turning there.

If the city considers one of the many changes to traffic flow around the Tuning Fork—making State Street eastbound only for a block and taking Aurora to a twoway—the Campus Advantage proposal “would be a step in that direction,” Logue said.

Nevertheless, the board wasn’t impressed and sent Campus Advantage back to make another plan, with instructions to consider using non-city property for making a wider sidewalk.

The paint was just dry on new lane markings on North Cayuga Street when Monday’s board of public works meeting began. Yet neighbors had already found problems with the new lane alignment, which includes an unprotected bike lane on the east side of the street.

Rita Boothroyd of the 800 block of North Cayuga told the board that when she came home she saw a west side of the street that was narrower—where all parking is supposed to go now—and that she and her husband, who in their 80s, will now have to park a block or two away from their house.

A letter from Alderperson Josephine Martell (D-5th) was read by Mayor Svante Myrick at the meeting, which called attention to one resident who thinks he will have to move because of the realignment and called for a reconsideration of the bike lane plan.

Alderpersons Ellen McCollister (D-3rd) appeared on Martell’s behalf, with Alderpersons Seph Murtagh (D-2nd) and Graham Kerslick (D-4th) weighing in for taking another look at the lanes.

Alderperson George McGonigal (D-1st) was there to offer his opinion.

“I implore you to consider the needs of the neighborhood as well as the very well-organized bicycle lobby,” McGonigal said. “Tioga [Street has] just been made a safe route to school and Utica [Street] is a safe route north to south. I don’t think we need three adjacent streets to be special

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sign changing; and, at Donna Fleming’s for bicycles.” suggestion, a meeting will be scheduled to Board member Bill Goldsmith discuss the issue. responded to the council members’ “Now we’re getting the backlash from concerns by saying he was “a little the bike lanes,” Myrick said, “and if we shellshocked” they were bringing this up reverse the lanes with no public notice, now that the project was in place. we’ll see the backlash to the backlash.”

“We discussed this at least at two BPW decided against installing long BPW meetings, and it was probably protected bike lanes in June, after it was more like four,” Goldsmith said. “We decided in March that painted bike lanes expect some people to say we didn’t know were a good idea. that was going to happen, but we don’t expect members of Common Council to come in and say when was this at?”

“I’m philosophically troubled by infrastructure concerns that are motivated by local residents,” Myrick said. “I can tell you if that was how we made all of those decisions, there wouldn’t be a block in our city that didn’t have speed bumps White line separates bike lane from traffic. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) and wasn’t a dead end to traffic.”

“I am moved though by An informal measurement of Cayuga arguments that there are attractive options adjacent to Cayuga,” the mayor continued. Street’s width at Lincoln, Marshall, and Yates streets shows from curb to curb, bike “One thing Tioga or Utica doesn’t have, lane widths of 7 feet, with 14 foot traffic though, is Cayuga connects all the way to downtown and the Southside … and going lanes. Parking is allowed on the west side.• north it connects to the high school.”

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other motivation they list for a bad law, greed, doesn’t make any sense with no one set to make money off the one-time-only ink packets.

“New York City already has laws in place, and they work,” Wilson said. “Why didn’t they take the laws that work and pass them on to the rest of the state?”

“It’s like me making rules for a hair salon or a nail salon,” Waterman added. “If [single-use ink packs] were such a great money-making thing, more companies would do it.”

Even if their favorite inks started to make one-time ink, tattooers are afraid their costs will increase and drive customers away to underground artists or other states, an argument Oddy has made in her writings to state legislators. Lower quality ink also “causes slower and more difficult healing,” Oddy writes, “which then increases the risk of infections.”

Artists say that if New York is serious about regulating tattooing, there are plenty of other ways to go about the task. According to Aceto, tattoo artists in

Tompkins County have no contact with the health department; everything is based on best practices.

“The only time you hear about anything is if a shop is shut down if something bad happens to someone,” Aceto said. “We talk to each other … If we hear about someone tattooing minors or working in a grungy place, we let people know.”

“Most of the horror stories these politicians hear are always some jackass working out of their house who don’t have the artistry or the training to be in a shop,” Waterman said. “Instead of trying to change the things we use, why don’t we change the education level.”

In California, where Waterman tattooed for nearly a decade, shops are subject to surprise inspections; artists are required to take classes on blood-borne pathogens and communicable disease; and they must register with the health department.

“That way if the health department is hearing bad things about Billy Bob, then they know where to find Billy Bob,” Waterman said. • —Josh

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Ups&Downs ▶ Cornell hires Stephanie Creary to business school, Dr. Creary is one of only 186 female, African-American, management business school professors in the U.S., most of whom have become professors since The PhD Project was created in 1994. The Project’s vision is to diversify corporate America by increasing the number of minority business professors (African-American, HispanicAmerican and Native American), who attract more minority students to study business in college.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Being a mock juror, Cornell Law School’s Trial Advocacy Class is once again seeking jurors! Would you like to serve as a mock trial juror?

Jury selection demonstration will be on Wednesday, Nov. 11, noon to 2:20 p.m. at the Cornell Law School.

They need only 12 participants for this demonstration. Each juror will receive $20 for participating. Please email stk22@cornell.edu or call Sharon (255-4196) at the Law School. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6 include: 1) Apple Harvest Festival 2015: Holding It on the New Commons 2) Candor Cheerleaders Eye Orlando 3) Local School Lunch Programs Face Healthy Competition 4) Newfield Man Arrested for Contraband, Drugs 5) Best of Ithaca 2015: Food & Drink For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Hug a Student Today L ately there have been public discussions of the Triangle Building, public trepidation that it and Collegetown Terrace represent the blueprint for the future of Ithaca.

Generally negative receptions have been given to proposals for dormitory-style housing in both Cornell Heights (most recently on Ridgewood Avenue) and Cayuga Heights (on Wyckoff Road). All of this has exposed a surprising strain of anti-student feeling in the population of Ithaca.

This is odd in light of the fact that nearly 62 percent of Ithacans (according to the U.S. Census) have a bachelor’s degree. This means that they were once students somewhere at some time. We rather doubt that all of them always behaved in an exemplary and blameless manner. This seems like a variation of what British musician and sage Robyn Hitchcock has termed “the eraser effect.”

He was referring to fatherhood, but he remembered, for example, being 10 years old with perfect clarity … until his eldest child reached the age of 10. Then he suddenly utterly forgot what it was like to be 10 years old.

With over 21,000 students at Cornell (over 14,000 of them undergraduates) and 6,700 students at Ithaca College (most of them undergraduates), Ithaca has a fairly huge student population as a percentage of the entire population.

The combined population of the city and town of Ithaca is about 50,000, and students are counted in the census. That’s

about 55 percent of the population.

Cornell is fond of comparing itself to other Ivy League schools.

So for something on a smaller scale, but with a similar percentage look at Hanover, New Hampshire. It has about 11,000 residents and 6,700 of them are Dartmouth students (about 60 percent of the population). In contrast, New Haven, Connecticut has about 130,000 residents, but Yale University only has about 12,000 students (less than 10 percent of the population).

Although these students are being counted as residents here, their income is derived from families that live elsewhere. Many of these places have a much higher cost of living than Ithaca. If you are from the Middlesex or Monmouth county in New Jersey, you are paying 25 percent more for housing; Ithaca looks like a bargain. If you are from the suburbs of Boston, housing in Ithaca cost 44 percent less than you’re used to. So there is this colossal pipeline of money coming into this town from these places where things that students consume—groceries, housing, utilities, health care—cost more than they do here. If you hold the cost of tuition steady, it’s cheaper for these parents to send their kids to Ithaca than it is to keep them at home.

College kids don’t consume in the same manner as they once did.

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In the Blessed Oasis

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appily, the story ends of the woes of downtown merchants around the Commons, as its long reconstruction is done, and crowds are back, bigger than ever.

Incongruously, then—perhaps even absurdly—there are now complaints from some merchants that new high-rise residences proposed for downtown will bring too many people.

The mayor and planning board must be wondering how you can win.

Just last week, the New York Times ran a long piece on the economic troubles of New York’s Southern Tier, citing an “aging and shrinking” population, and towns without “enough money to pay for basic services like water and sewage.”

Ithaca is a blessed oasis in the region.

There are reasons to come here. There are reasons to stay. People wanting to live here is life’s blood.

The disparagement of people wanting to live downtown by business leaders gives a new twist to the term “urban density.” This is supposed to be a smart town. Chances are Binghamton, Elmira, Owego, and other towns do not construe people in their downtowns as problematic. Empty streets, stores, and coffers teach other lessons.

I owned a retail business in Ithaca for a decade and don’t remember a day when I wished I wouldn’t see too many people. I had bills to pay and having people around helped me do it. I considered it practically central.

Let’s be clear: not all our merchants are decrying new residents downtown.

But one wonders about the thinking of those that are. It reminds me of the story about (the late, great) Yogi Berra, who once declined dinner at a particular restaurant, saying, “No one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” Yogi was a ballplayer, of course, not a business owner. You’d think any bona fide business owner would have a more sagacious take than this. But apparently not.

It also reminds me of Linus Van Pelt, who said, “I love humanity. It’s people I can’t stand.” A business owner with that attitude

probably won’t be bothered very long.

Thirty years ago, I managed a small café/retail store in Washington, D.C. The owner sold the business but I stayed on for the new owner, who quit a government job he hated to become an entrepreneur. He described his excitement to me.

“I used to have to answer to my boss every day, day after day, year after year. You don’t know what that’s like,” he said. “I’m my own boss now, at last.”

I had only been working a few years, out of college, but it had all been in small business, so I figured I’d better clue the guy in.

“Yeah,” I said. “But, see that door?” I nodded towards the entrance. He looked quizzical.

“You used to have one boss,” I said.

“Now, every single person who walks through that door is your boss.”

He blanched. (He also lost the business within a year.)

I like the give-and-take of small business. I used to keep an office on the Commons and once a week or so would get a couple of slices from the pizzeria next door. Always the same order: “Two plain slices to go, please.”

One day the guy looks at me. “Two plain slices? Or two cheese?”

I look at him. “Tell you what,” I said.

“Make it one plain and one cheese.” He laughed and I smiled.

Sometimes, of course, it’s not easy for an owner. Not everyone walking through the door is funny or nice.

Recently I was next in line at a coffee shop on the Commons and the patron in front of me ordered his drink.

“Are you going to have it here?” asked the owner.

“Well. Not right here,” came the reply, from a guy with similitude of time to waste.

“I’ll probably move somewhere else. But right around here.”

The owner didn’t even roll his eyes.

Such patience doesn’t necessarily guarantee business success. But it doesn’t hurt.

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At the end of last week, I found out from my next door neighbor that there was a good chance a sorority, Phi Mu, would be moving into our neighborhood on Wyckoff Road in Cayuga Heights. I live on 516 Wyckoff Road, and the house the sorority has chosen is located at 520 Wyckoff Road, approximately 150 feet from my house. After living for thirty years in Minneapolis, I moved back in 2008 and in 2011 bought a duplex in the locality where 6

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I now live. I reasoned that Cayuga Heights was a beautiful and well-kept community. I had lived there as a small child in a rented basement apartment on Sunset Drive and had formed an attachment to it.

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he proposed Campus Advantage project on the Trebloc site in downtown Ithaca has rekindled a community discussion about the merits of density in downtown Ithaca. Regardless of your position on this particular project, it is important to step back and consider the rationale for a denser downtown. Why do we care about downtown density?

Communities, including Ithaca, are always evolving. Sometimes this change is bold and obvious, like a big new project downtown. Most community change is less obvious: a new subdivision, a new gas station, a new strip plaza. In Ithaca and elsewhere, most of this change occurs at the peripheries of town, along arterial corridors and in easy-to-build open space.

Former Ithacan and Cornell regional planning professor Dr. Rolf Pendall did extensive research on the impact of suburban sprawl on the upstate New York landscape during the 1990s. His studies showed that in a period when population growth was essentially flat, we managed to add 30 percent more developed land to our communities. In other words, the same number of people consumed 30 percent more land.

This kind of growth that gobbles up open spaces at a pace that far outstrips population growth is clearly not sustainable. Suburban sprawl’s impacts are far-reaching, affecting such diverse factors as personal health, carbon emissions, and the quality of our schools. Its biggest impact, perhaps, is its slow evisceration of city centers.

For a community like ours, which is so concerned about the vitality of its walkable core and its commitment to reducing its carbon footprint, locating housing, retail, and lodging projects outside of downtown exacts tremendous costs.

Still, some have asked: are large, tall buildings in our downtown compatible with our community character? The answer depends on your concept of community character. Larger, taller buildings change the urban landscape, but we trade denser urban development for more unspoiled residential neighborhoods and farmland, and less commuter traffic entering and leaving the city each day.

Of course, this assumes the city wants to grow at all. Some residents have voiced a desire to remain as we are and to not add any more people or projects. They wish to preserve and protect what they have, and they feel that the best way to do that is to stop any further development. These folks don’t really care where pent-up demand and growth will go, as long as it is not in their city.

Unfortunately, growth cannot and will

not stop in our community. It will simply shift to where it is easiest to develop—to the edges of the community, taking jobs, housing, shopping, and entertainment with it. Campus Advantage’s market research clearly shows high demand for housing for students and others. If this project does not happen, that demand will not just evaporate. Rather, it will be dispersed throughout the community as numerous smaller projects, many in our quiet neighborhoods and others beyond the city limits where automobile use will be imperative and open spaces will be spoiled.

Just how much open space is saved when development occurs downtown?

We at the Downtown Ithaca Alliance calculated that a 70-unit housing project that could occupy a portion of a city block would take up a full three blocks in the Fall Creek neighborhood or a staggering 121 acres in the town of Ithaca or Lansing.

The much-discussed Campus Advantage project will pull up to 600 students from nearby neighborhoods.

Ithacans have long complained about the traffic leading into and out of the city, especially during rush hours.

Downtown development actually reduces this congestion. Downtown residents and hotel occupants are not jumping into their vehicles each and every morning.

Rather, they are walking or using our excellent bus system. If you build units outside of downtown, traffic through our neighborhoods will increase.

Despite the obvious benefits of downtown density, we recognize that density must be accomplished in tandem with character. But what character? There are several key considerations. The first is an active retail and commercial street level, without large blank walls and other caps in the continuous commercial fabric.

Second, there should be interesting, wellarticulated building facades that provide visual character to the urban landscape.

Character does not mean that all buildings need to be quaint, small, or historic-looking. Each time period should have its own look and its own character.

Buildings built in 2015 will and should look different from buildings built in 1915. Character means an active, diverse, pedestrian-oriented place where people want to visit and live. Buildings that are old, new, tall, and small can coexist in a vibrant downtown.

A longtime Ithacan whose name I now cannot recall once told me that Ithacans like their city the way they found it when they moved here. That sentiment makes sense—after all, the look and feel of the city is part of the reason they choose to move here. But we forget that communities

are always changing and that Ithaca will never again be the Ithaca of 50, 10, or even five years ago.

Downtown density is not easy. Most communities of our size are not able to undertake or sustain such a program. The pressures to sprawl are simply too great, and the results are predictable: those downtowns are not robust, not sustainable, and not growing.

Here in Ithaca we have chosen the difficult path to pursue downtown density.

We’re confronting suburban sprawl headon by building larger and taller buildings in our walkable urban core while seeking to nurture a character based on good aesthetics and street vitality. This will require more debate and discourse, and it will require us to modify proposed projects. But density is a roadmap for long-term community health. Our choices were density or sprawl, and I am so glad we have chosen density. • Editorial

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and is used with alacrity by the student demographic. Furthermore, the landscape of the suburbs has also been imported to Ithaca, starting with the Pyramid Mall in the 1970s and culminating (one hopes) with the Elmira Road strip in the 1990s.

These familiar box stores serve the student population. Their friendly logos and brand names constitute some podunk subset of what they have at home.

But the worm is turning. The cult of sustainability appears to be making inroads into the student population.

The “local first” mantra is becoming the new normal, at least among the more progressive-minded collegiate set. Unlike the “back to the land” and “simplify, simplify” movement of the 1970s, which required that you get dirty and do without fripperies, the green movement of the 21st century requires, at a minimum, only that you shop differently.

This is good news for downtowns like Ithaca’s, which has made a successful effort to remain a commercial district populated largely by locally-owned small businesses (with exceptions like Urban Outfitters and … Subway). Students now seem to be finding their way down East and South hills in greater numbers, especially since the completion of the new Commons.

We have no solid numbers as yet, but our office is downtown, and we live only three blocks from there, and we have not seen it so crowded with students before. The renovated Commons looks and feels like a Mediterranean piazza—until it starts snowing—and it seems to invite young people to come down and stroll, lounge around, socialize, perchance to shop.

And yet they do not dominate the proceedings by any stretch of the imagination. They sit and walk alongside obviously older people who work downtown and obviously more laid-back people who just live here. Keeping in mind the percentage of the entire population here that are students, downtown looks more or less like a representative microcosm. Adding 580 students in the T

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will begin offering that in Tioga County next year. INHS has seen its number of loans made double and attendance at the classes is up 60 percent, Mazzarella said.

Education, for the homebuyer, adds “a tremendous amount of value” when lenders look at offering loans, May said.

Tompkins Trust has worked for years with INHS and Better Housing to offer “unique programs for modest income borrowers,” that, while market rate, have “unique benefits as far as a lower down payment and a little easier qualifying that helps people into those first homes.”

So far as future development of new affordable housing goes, INHS board chair Michael Cannon, vice president for commercial banking at Tompkins Trust, says the new organization plans to “keep putting a dent” in the need.

“We’ll keep doing as many projects as we can, but certainly not more than one a year,” Cannon said. “We welcome anyone into this business.”

Both INHS and Better Housing have worked with Conifer Realty, a Rochesterbased for-profit that built and manages Linderman Creek and Ellis Hollow apartments, among other local projects.

Partnering with for-profits brings in capital, for one, May said, and Mazzarella added that after a 15-year regulatory period the partnering non-profit has an opportunity to take over the property.

Liquid funds are always needed in the affordable housing business, since the high point of funding was probably 1980, Mazzarella said. “Before Reagan,” Cannon added. Whenever you hear the word “sequestration” used in a story about federal budget battles, there’s a chance that funds earmarked for affordable housing are being withheld.

Some neighbors of the last couple INHS projects, on Spencer Road and 210 Hancock Street, have spent quite a bit of time at city hall protesting the developments. For those who might be nervous when they hear an affordable housing project is coming to their neighborhood, Cannon says, “Look at our track record.”

“Stone Quarry is a gorgeous project, and Breckenridge, try to find somebody on the street who says anything negative about Breckenridge. It’s lovely and fits into the downtown well. It’s permanently affordable,” Cannon said. “There are certainly going to be outspoken people who are afraid for their neighborhoods, but it’s a very vocal minority.”

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pitting alpacas. Sharp-toothed donkeys. Turpentine the tom turkey nipping at your thighs.

Shooting bright lights into stuffed animals’ eyes.

These are some of the antics of the crazy mammals on the new Nat Geo Wild television series Vet School, now airing Saturdays at 10 p.m. through Oct. 31 and streaming at all hours online—if you still happen to pay for cable.

Vet School was filmed at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine and their hospital for animals in fall 2014

by Thinkfactory Media, a docuseries production company. The show’s stories and vignettes come from classrooms and exam rooms, and they show everything from students learning how to milk a cow to doctors delivering sobering or heartwarming diagnoses for beloved family pets. Seven students are featured: three just starting out, and four fourthyears who have now scattered to the job market winds.

Film crews were awaiting students when they arrived for their first day of school.

“I think I wasn’t really totally prepared for what I’d gotten myself into,” said Hannah Brodlie, now a second-year student. “When they followed us into the anatomy lab, I was not thrilled. It took me a couple of days to adjust, because you were meeting this whole new group of people.”

“My first couple labs I definitely was a little nervous. I wasn’t asking as many questions as I usually do,” said Dan Cimino, another current second-year who is featured in Vet School. “That went away relatively quickly, within a month. After a while I didn’t notice [the camera crews] were there anymore.”

Brodlie and Cimino said they received an email from the college’s dean of students about a month before classes began, asking about their interest in being featured on the show.

“I did a 15-minute Skype interview with the network, and I was a total ridiculous human and thought they’d

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never call me back, and I guess they thought that was great,” Brodlie said. After consulting with his parents and asking if his personal life would be featured—the answer was no—Cimino said he felt comfortable signing onto the show.

Thinkfactory approached the College of Veterinary Medicine in October 2013 about filming a show, said Claudia Wheatley, a college spokesperson.

“We were interested because Thinkfactory had produced high-quality video for Nat Geo in the past, and National Geographic itself has a long history of excellence in media,” Wheatley said.

“We came to view the show as a fantastic opportunity to raise the profile of the veterinary profession and to help the public understand the rigorous education leading to a veterinary degree.”

Sam Dicker, who is now a resident at Garden State Veterinary Specialists of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, said that there was usually “a posse of five to eight people following you at any particular time.” Two cameras, a couple producers, perhaps a production assistant, and a sound guy or two made up the crew. In some situations, the crew did make things feel a bit cramped, according to Dr. Eva Oxford, a resident in cardiology.

“Even with how big our E.R. is,” Oxford said, “it doesn’t feel that big when you have all of the doctors, technicians, and students [in there], and then about 10 people from the film crew cramped along the walls trying to film everything.”

As Wheatley noted, it’s not unusual to have cameras in the operating room.

“Many procedures are recorded so surgeons can learn from each other and evaluate protocols for possible improvements,” Wheatley said. And though there are no HIPAA privacy protections for pets, releases were required for their stories to be on television.

Students who weren’t enthused about being featured on the program have their faces blurred out in group shots.

Besides initial nerves and space occasionally feeling tight, no one who spoke for this story had anything but

praise for the crew’s professionalism.

“I’d never given it much thought, but [filming the show] is a lot more work than you’d think,” Oxford said. “The amount of footage they have for any given storyline is probably tenfold compared to what we see in the final production.”

“They were awesome people,” Brodlie said. “Whenever they were there they’d sometimes ask you a question—say, ‘Can you tell me what you’re doing with this cow?’ Sure, I’ll take five minutes and explain.”

Crews captured lots of firsts for the new students: “All basic first-year anatomy lab stuff that happens every year,” Brodlie said. “How to do a physical exam, how to do a thoracic exam on a horse, how to find their laryngeal cartilages.”

Vet School shows the more amusing moments from these introductions, including an alpaca that decided to target student Cristina Bustamante, another of the then-first-years featured, and performing eye exams on “stuffies” before moving on to real cats. In one bit, Brodlie, Bustamante, and Cimino are asked to explain the “stay apparatus” of equine anatomy that allows horses to stand upright even in sleep. Their answers showed them to need some more time studying their definitions.

So far as stories from the operating and exam rooms go, there was no way for the producers to tell what might become a good story and what footage would be left on a cutting room hard drive.

According to Dicker, the producers might ask in the morning what cases were to be seen that day, and they liked “starting from scratch,” with a consultation that could begin a new story. In cases where the story would be too short—Dicker said at least once in his experience, the story ended with the pet being put to sleep—the crews moved on to filming something else. Since the stories had to come from day-to-day hospital activity, chance, as well as editorial direction, influenced what ended up on the program.

“The two-week block when Aziza [Glass] was on cardio rotation, it just happened that everything sort of exploded with a lot of very critical cases,” Oxford said. “Very emotional cases. There wasn’t a lot going on elsewhere in the hospital, so the crew spent a lot of time with us.”

Since Vet School has gone to air, the featured performers have, quite naturally, heard about it from family and friends.

“The nurses here or the doctors say, ‘Hey, celeb, I saw you on TV last night.

Can I get your autograph?’” Dicker said.

“I was standing here at the reception desk and saw the Ithaca Times pop up on the caller ID—I said, ‘You don’t have to page.

C o r n e l l v e t s t u d e n t C h r i s t i n a B u s ta m a n t e h a d t o g e t u s e d t o c a m e r a c r e w s f o l l ow i n g h e r e v e ry w h e r e . ( P h o t o : N at g e o C h a n n e l) That’s going to be for me.’”

Dicker and some of his fellow 2015 graduates had a taste of notoriety last spring, when their senior class skit, a parody of Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” entitled “Vet School Funk,” hit the Internet’s viral wires to the tune of nearly 250,000 YouTube views. The students had considered the previous class’s knockoff of Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” to be a “particularly poor performance,” Dicker said, and they had made sure to raise the bar for classes to come.

As part of their star turn, Brodlie and Cimino traveled to Los Angeles this past July as part of the Vet School delegation that visited Jay Sherman and friends at the Television Critics’ Association biannual season preview shindig, held at the Beverly Hills Hilton.

“That was a total trip,” Brodlie said. “An out-of-body experience.

You go to L.A. and stay in this fancy hotel, and people take your photo like you’re somebody, and you know you’re nobody. It was a bizarre experience and super-fun. I would do it again, if they wanted to fly me out there, but it’s not real life.”

The critics weren’t too harsh on

these amateur players; during Q&A time, Cimino said “one lady raised her hand and said how much she liked cats, and that was about it.” During the cocktail meetand-greet, one guy asked Cimino about his Ithaca College football career and then showed off pictures of his own dog.

Oxford said that the coolest thing that has happened because of the show so far was when they received an email from the owners of Millie, a bulldog whose heart surgery was documented.

“They had a little viewing party for family and friends, and I got an email from her family saying how much they enjoyed watching the show and reliving it,” Oxford said. “They said everybody cried watching it.”

In the interviews and activities, Vet School accurately reflects the people featured and real vet school life.

“Everybody gets to see us just sort of doing our jobs,” Oxford said. “There are a lot of different movies and books about becoming a veterinarian ... This show is very realistic in that it shows the ups and downs of choosing that as a career.”

“I don’t censor myself—I’m kind of a quirky, silly person, I guess,” Brodlie said.

“I sometimes look at the show and wish I was a little more put together. But such is life.”

“They definitely didn’t hide anything,” Cimino said. “[The crew] kept saying this is what they love about making TV—they get to tell a story and put in everything that’s there and make it realistic as possible.

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“The music is a kick,” Brodlie said.

“You get used to it after watching the show a couple times. It’s pretty hilarious having lived it and going to school here and working in hospital here.”

“There’s something I would do every single day, and they add dramatic music.

You kind of roll your eyes,” Dicker said.

“It’s for effect. Television needs to be interesting, it needs to be compelling, and you need a storyline and drama for people to stay tuned. At the end of the day, it’s a good show.”

If there’s one thing that separates even the most accurate documentary filmmaking or true-to-life TV from reality, it’s the compression of days of not-muchdoing into an hour of entertaining scenes.

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was an historic district that was located mainly in Ithaca, but overlapped into Cayuga Heights. I obviously knew that duplexes were allowed. While I live next to a single-family house on one side, I have a rental house with several apartments on the other. However, the students in our immediate neighborhood are quiet and respectful. When we have trouble with noise, it is often from the Greek houses, although they are a fair distance from us. But there are some nights when the noise is intolerable. I certainly don’t want there to be more noise. It’s the density of students that would come with a sorority that we are worried about.

On Monday night, Sept. 28, my neighbors and attended a meeting of the planning board in Marcham Hall in the village of Cayuga Heights. Most of those who could not come wrote letters. We presented our situation and the board presented theirs, including an explanation that we resided in a Multiple Housing District. Everyone was polite, but the meeting ran long. A decision has not been reached as to whether Phi Mu can move in. The planning board will meet again on Oct. 26.

We have had very little notice and are trying to figure out what this will mean for all of us. Between 12 and 16 young women would live in the six-bedroom

house, but there are 118 students in the sorority. What will happen when they have parties? Wyckoff is a steep road and we already have trouble with drivers speeding up it. The sorority has an agreement with Westbourne Apartments to use part of a parking lot, but I think that means they will be walking on the road during the winter when they would be safer in a car. You are not allowed to park on the shoulders in Cayuga Heights, but occasionally we all do this to allow plumbers and other workers to get in our driveways and I’m sure they would end up doing it often.

One of my other concerns is the proximity of the house to the gorge and the likelihood that parties would take place on the multi-level deck in the back. I am concerned about students falling off it, especially in light of the situation recently with the young man who fell off the roof of a fraternity house on Ridgewood Road. The gorge is beautiful and was a major attraction for me when I made the decision to buy my house, but the gorges can also be a serious problem for young people who are exploring life.

The house in question is the Morse house, the Tudor Revival House where Ev and Fleet Morse grew up. They are the grandchildren of the founder of Morse Chain. It is without a doubt the most beautiful house in the neighborhood.

I would argue that it has historical importance because it is the Morse house.

At the planning board meeting we were

told that the district is historic, but that the house has not been deemed an historical site. In fact, as Brent Cross, the village code enforcement officer later told me, the Cayuga Heights planning board does not have the power to confer special status on a particular house. Even so, I hope that it will be well maintained. The adult sorority representative from Atlanta who was present at the meeting admitted that there would be a house director, but no alumni supervision. It is not the kind of house I think should serve as a sorority.

I guess that the message for me that I need to get more involved in my community. Until a week ago, I had no idea what was going on in my own neighborhood or that it was part of the Cornell Heights Historical District.

– Kathryn Mapes, Cayuga Heights

Standing Up for Seneca Lake

I am one of the 400 Seneca Lake Defenders arrested in the last year at Crestwood on Seneca Lake.

When I attended a presentation by two members of We Are Seneca Lake and learned what is going on at Crestwood Midstream (a Texas gas company) and what their plans are for our beloved Finger Lakes, I had to act.

Community members need to be informed about Crestwood’s activities.

If they are allowed to go forward as they plan, they will industrialize our area (with

gas storage in old salt caverns as well as pipelines and rail transport and truck traffic), changing our lives, threatening our drinking water and contaminating our air, exposing us to potential dangerous explosions and spills. New York may have banned fracking itself, but now we must contend with plans for fracking infrastructure. We cannot become a major gas hub for the Northeast. We must stop them.

– Robyn Bem, Dryden

Eli Kirsher Not Qualified for Office

As a resident of the 4th District [for the county legislature] in the city of Ithaca, I am writing to express my anger with the [county] Democratic Committee for selecting an unqualified candidate in this year’s Tompkins County Legislature special election. The triple simultaneous announcements of Kathy Luz-Herrera, Nate Shinagawa, and Elie Kirschner immediately prior to the special election deadline clearly indicate that the process was engineered to avoid a primary.

Without a primary, the four people on the Fourth District Democratic Committee chose the inside candidate, a 19-year-old sophomore at Cornell.

Rich John is a lifelong Ithacan, a lawyer, and fellow homeowner in the 4th District with a wealth of experience that would be useful on the county legislature.

When asked for potential candidates, I helped promote Rich since he would be

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the best candidate to serve the people in our district. The committee’s supposed reason for overlooking the experienced candidate was the importance of trying to encourage students to vote.

While this goal of student participation is interesting politics, picking a lesser candidate just for demographic reasons does not make much sense. The real goal should have been to choose the best candidate instead of protecting a small club inside the Democratic Party.

While I am sure Elie is a pleasant person, as a taxpayer, parent, and homeowner, I want a grown up on the county legislature.

Frankly, the students in the district should want the same, since volunteering as an intern at city hall is just not enough.

The process smells, and the committee made a remarkably poor decision. I, for one, am going to write in Rich John on Election Day, Nov. 3, and I encourage my neighbors in the district to also send this message as well. We deserve better.

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They also believe that women deserve accessible and compassionate health care.

Unfortunately, the Republican politicians who represent all or most of Tompkins County in Washington and Albany actively dissent from these mainstream views.

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college basketball royalty, having played under legendary coach Kay Yow at North Carolina State when the Wolfpack was one of the NCAA’s top three programs. Both women went on to play professionally, and Faye also coached at the collegiate level and became a certified, high-level basketball referee. Her sister was married to Bill Cowher, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for 15 years. Faye’s was by any measure a first-rate athletic résumé.

My conversations with Faye made me realize that she did not think she was too qualified for the job. Jane Bryant, her friend and coaching colleague at Ithaca High, told me, “Faye was an incredibly strong and courageous woman who was extremely humble about her accomplishments. She was recently named as one of the Top 100 players in U.S. basketball history, and she was humble about that too.” Jane added, “Even with her vast knowledge of the game, it was still about teaching, about helping the players learn the fundamentals.”

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n Aug. 15 the last of seven new operating rooms at Cayuga Medical Center began receiving patients.

The new and renovated rooms became active over a long period in order to make sure that the medical center could always meet the needs of the community.

“It was a phased construction process that began in July 2013,” said Sarah Searles, the operating room manager. “The [four] new ones were built first, and we began using them while a portion of the space used by the old rooms was renovated.”

The operating rooms that were just replaced had been built in 1978, and a lot had changed in the world of medical equipment since then. “There have been advances in technology and equipment in the last few years,” said Searles, “and the rooms were no longer up to the standard.

We need the square footage to get the new equipment in there.”

The contemporary plan for an operating room puts as much as possible into an overhead boom instead of running cords over the floor. This keeps the room tidy and it is also much more integrated with all the monitors on the booms being controled from a single nurse’s station “We can now have multiple pictures on different screens,” Searles said. “You can have an MRI on one and real time of what he is working on on another. Everything can rotate 360 degrees so everyone can see

everything.”

All the improvements boil down to protecting patient safety, said Searles. The new layout allows for more efficient care and greater staff satisfaction.

“It’s easier to manueuver,” Searles said.

“You can now stay ‘at the field’ for the entire time [of the operation]. Formerly you had to leave in order to look at another monitor.” The field that the operating room manager refers to is the sterile zone immediately around the patient on the table.

The less time that a patient spends in the operating room, incision to close, the better. Speeding up operations through greater efficiency therefore leads to generally shorter recovery times.

Another benefit of the increased size of the operating rooms is experienced by the anesthesiology staff. There is now more space for the Pyxis machine. This, Searles explained, is a station that dispenses medication, both controlled and uncontrolled substances. It needs to be outside the sterile field because it can only be accessed via a fingerprint screen.

All of the new equipment is run through computers, which means rebuilding the operating rooms demanded a lot of new wiring. Searles said that the medical center’s information technology staff worked closely with the representatives of the various companies whose equipment has been installed in the operating

Surgical technician Nate Knapp, ST and Ashley Hall, RN, RNFA demonstrate the use of orthoscopic surgical tools during an August open house in the new operating rooms at Cayuga Medical Center. (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

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Images, such as X-rays and MRIs, are now all electronic, so they can be accessed from a remote server and put up on the monitor in the operating room.

In addition to providing space for more machines, the larger rooms make it easier to accommodate more people.

An operation requires at a minimum, a registered nurse, a technician (who may also be an RN), and a surgeon. But, depending on the nature of the operation, there may also be anesthiologist, a nurse practitioner, a physician’s assistant and other staff present.

Cayuga Medical Center is able to do most operations except open heart surgery and organ transplants. Searles said that with the new rooms allowing for a greater number of operations per day, the facility is looking to expand the types of opera-

tions they can offer within the specialities of orthopedics and neurosurgery. This will require hiring (or establishing relationships with) more physicians and also allow those already on staff to develop new expertises. More nurses will be needed as well, according to Searles.

There was no net increase in the number of operating rooms. Four new ones were constructed in an addition to the medical center, and three were rebuilt on the existing surgery footprint.

The medical center is presently working alongside the representatives from the companies that supplied the new equipment. “The reps came in before we started using the equipments,” said Searles, “in order to teach the staff and the surgeons how to use everything. They will be here for a few more months. So far, everything is going smoothly.” •

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I know the world is full of dangers and conflicts that, sadly, we as adults must communicate to our children. As my own children grew up, it pained me to have to tell of the dangers out there in the big world, and as a responsible parent, I also tried to teach them ways to make the world a better place. I don’t deny that young children can learn about many important issues we confront these days, and I deeply respect the wisdom of children, but for anyone to put them in the middle of a complex international conflict, with deep ideological differences and killing on both sides, appears to me to be a reprehensible affront to what we call Childhood.

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that ultimately led to her passing.

Jane Bryant had this to say: “The greatest testament to her legacy was that when she passed, it brought so many former players together. She left such a great legacy, and she made all of us want to live up to her level. Coaching with her was a pleasure and a privilege.”

• • • Ed Hart was a local ophthalmologist, and I got to know him during my tenure at Cornell Athletics in the 1980s. He ran, swam, or biked virtually every day, and it was not unusual for him to hop on his bike well into his 60s and do a little leisurely century ride around Cayuga Lake. He was a fixture at every Skunk Cabbage Run and Ithaca 5 & 10, and he was in incredible physical shape for a man who lived into his late 80s. Ed ran many marathons and a few ultra-marathons, and in fact, “Ed’s Ultra,” a local event, is named in his honor.

I recall a foggy morning on Cornell’s outdoor track when I saw a runner approaching me. I assumed it was—based on the stride, the posture, and the pace—a college student, but as he approached, I saw that it was Ed. At the time, he looked much younger than his age of 50-something. As he got older, his pace slowed and his posture changed, but his “get out there every day” attitude remained intact.

Having written this column for 23 years, I am approached by many people who say, “I really liked that story you wrote recently, but I can’t remember what it was about.” Even in his late 80s, Ed would invariably recall in great detail my last four or five columns and would offer up anecdotes about someone he knew that was in the article, or give me a story idea. He was very involved in the community (he was past president of the Finger Lakes Runners Club and very active in the Finger Lakes Land Trust and The History Center), and I recall him being so gentlemanly and respectful in the presence of Jocelyn, his wife of 57 years, until her passing a few years ago. I have met a lot of classy people in my life, and Ed was among the classiest. •

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By Michael Nocella been a delight to watch this area blossom into a beer destination.

“In the last seven to 10 years,” he said, “it’s just blown up in this region. There are 70-something breweries in this area; there’s even a beer trail. And it’s just something that continues to grow. With all of the breweries and the trails, and then you factor in the wine trail, it’s a great place to be.

Between Cortland and Ithaca, there’s us and Hopshire—and then Bandwagon and Ithaca Beer Company in Ithaca—so that’s also a nice little dynamic. It’s makes for a nice day trip for beer lovers to do.”

Shallcross noted that Bacchus will have three different new beers this fall for visitors to try out.

“For the last two years,” he said, “I’ve done a harvest beer, which utilizes fresh hops from a farm in Geneva. The farmer picks the hops in the morning, and I pick them up the same day. This year—which is a sign of progress, I think—I’ve got the most hops I’ve ever got. I got a couple hundred pounds of hops this year, which is a lot. The beer itself is lighter, maltier with a real wet, fresh hops presence. I also do Belgian Pale Ale with the wet fresh hops, and our traditional Cyclops IPA. So we have three fresh-hop beers this fall for people to check out.”

Right around the corner on Route 13 in Dryden, Hopshire Farm and Brewery is entering its third year. Owner and head brewer Randy Lacy is excited to be part of the growing beer industry in the Finger Lakes region.

“It’s great; it’s exploding,” Lacy said.

“Every brewery has its own model, its own beers, and takes on the personality of the people who run it. It’s a great time for beer travelers and brewers in this area.”

Lacy explained the vision behind Hopshire, which is unique.

“My wife and I traveled, and we always visited breweries and brew pubs,” he said.

“What we found was there’s all different types

Richie Shallcross of Bacchus Brewery (Photo Provided)

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ny beer lover will tell you fall is one of their favorite seasons. From pumpkin beers to Octoberfests, it’s a good time of year for a cold brew.

Here in the Finger Lakes region, local breweries celebrate that fact by gathering at Watkins Glen International race track, where 15 New York State craft breweries offer more than 30 craft beers. This year’s festival will be held on October 15.

However, if you live in the greater Ithaca Area, you don’t need a beer festival to experience multiple craft breweries. Obviously, Ithaca Beer Company leads the way and is well established at this point. But just around the corner, several microbreweries have followed their lead, as Bandwagon Brew Pub (Ithaca), Scale House Brew Pub (Lansing),

Rogue Harbor Inn’s Stouthearted Brewing (Lansing), Bacchus Brewing (Dryden) and Hopshire Farm and Brewery (Dryden) have built successful reputations in the last few years. While Stouthearted Brewing will be the only brewery of that bunch attending the Finger Lakes Beer Festival, all of the breweries are excited about their fall tap offerings.

Bacchus Brewery, located at 15 Ellis Drive in Dryden, is entering its fourth year and is led by Head Brewer Richie Shallcross, who has led the brewery’s operations for the last three years. Shallcross said it’s

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he Greater Ithaca Art Trail is happening now. An annual tradition since 1999, this year’s event takes place over two weekends: Oct. 10-11 and 17-18. Forty-four artists scattered around 42 Tompkins County sites will be opening their studios to the public between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day of the event.

This month, the State of the Art Gallery is hosting their annual “Art Trail Show.” The preview exhibit features a single piece each from most of the trail artists. Included is work by SOAG members Stan and Mary Ann Bowman, Barbara Mink, and Ethel Vrana.

The exhibit includes work in painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture, as well as the decorative and functional arts.

Painting seems particularly predominant this year, with the expected range of mediums and genres: everything from small watercolor still-lifes and botanicals to larger landscapes and abstractions in oil and acrylic on canvas.

Domenica Brockman’s Looking Up, a large, upright oil on canvas piece, captures the feeling of being in a forest with a disciplined expressionism. A dizzying confetti of broken brushstrokes fills the air—pale yellow and occasional red-brown as well as the more expected range of greens. Thin trunks, grayish and twisting, provide a kind of scaffolding.

Sue Hertz’s oil on canvas landscape Cape Point shows a distant seaside landscape seen from a shrubby perch high above. Bluffs enclose a sandy beach, and choppy, faintly greenish waters fade into a distant horizon. Her use of rough, encrusted paint texture to capture the roughness of rock and froth is particularly compelling.

There is also an abundance of photography; like the painting, much of it is aimed at rendering nature. But the best artists can wrest poetry from anything.

Photographer Dede Hatch brings her lyrical approach to her pigmented inkjet print LA Rooftop, soft focus and subtle colors humanizing even the garish towers in the distance. The scene is twilight. A chain-link fence crosses the bottom edge. Suspended diagonally in the air—descending to the right—is a line of small, globular incandescent bulbs. They are unlit, but the two in the center pop out due to a carefully placed sharpening of focus.

Harry McCue is a retired professor of art at Ithaca College. His intaglio print Fallen Willow is a panoramic scene of beautifully rendered chaos, managing to convey epic scope within its tiny area.

Of several artists showing work in mosaic, Margaret Corbit’s Floral I is the most compelling. The piece is composed of handmade ceramic tiles attached to an irregular, wide oval base. It centers on a piece of sprouting white garlic, and surrounding it are abstract designs suggesting leaves and shoots. The colors are strikingly subtle: cool gray, sky blue, springy green, and Indian yellow. The edge of the piece is delightfully rough.

The State of the Art Gallery focuses on “fine art,” and the artists working in the more decorative or functional idioms are perhaps less well served by the sparse

Dede Hatch’s L.A. Rooftop (Photo Provided)

hanging and focus on wall-mounted works here.

I was struck by a three-piece ceramic tea set by Hannah Graeper and a cherry cabinet by the team of Elizabeth Bly Wolff and James Nagel. Graeper’s pot and mugs are familiar enough in form but beautifully glazed in pale greens and earthy brown, with leaf-like designs around the bottom.

Wolff and Nagel’s small Bloodroot Cabinet, though otherwise plain, has a front intricately carved with flowers and leaves.

The Art Trail is administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County. More information about the event can be found at www.arttrail.com, by calling CAP at 607-273-5072 x20, or by picking up a brochure from the State of the Art Gallery. •

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bacon. We were in bacon heaven. A second appetizer (no bacon here) was a bowl of roasted root vegetables: carrots, beets, potatoes, parsnips, and sweet potatoes with beet greens or chard, doused with a lemony vinaigrette. We could have called it quits right there. That was a bellyful of flavorful food.

But we forged on, ordering the grilled flank steak tacos, with their side of tomato-y Spanish rice bedecked with peppers and onions, and escabeche: vinegary pickled carrots, cauliflower, and whatever. The soft double-shell cornmeal tacos came with a layer of crunchy jicama matchsticks, a hash of steak, and a dollop of guacamole. Our pulled pork sailed out with its mélange of soul-satisfying stewed collards, onions, carrots, and lima beans and a side of deep, dense, moist, sweet cornbread with an unusual oat topping. We rashly considered ordering the consummate comfort Atlas Bowl (Photo by Rye Bennett) food, totchos—tater tots, bacon, cheddar cheese, green onions, jalapenos, and sour cream, but, uncharacteristically, matzo meal, and he gazed at me with reined ourselves in. great wonderment), a cut-rate grocery, There’s plenty on their menu for and dozens of Trumansburg Rotary fundraising barbecues. In addition to Atlas vegetarians, vegans, and those with other dietary peculiarities, as well as burgers, Bowl, the property also hosts a physical dogs, and improvements on standardtherapy office and gym, and still has one section for rent (bring back The Burg!). But issue bar food, with most prices hovering the owners have done an ace job of turning around the $9 to $12, a few in the $14 to 18 range, and sides (biscuits and gravy, fries, their long-empty space into a draw for naked tater tots, house salad, etc.) priced those in search of evening food and fun. at $4.

The setting is glam, hip, with the requisite And what would dinner be tattooed barkeeps, one of whom sported without dessert? The dessert menu was a chlorophyll rainbow of green locks. A dozen or so bowling-pin-shaped beer pulls disappointingly short, but though we were bursting at the seams and wound up taking grace their beautifully designed full bar.

And the lanes are refurbished ‘50s-era ten- much of our dinner home, there’s always pin lanes; you record your own scores—on room for ice cream, so split a martini glassful of vanilla with salted caramel paper! Shoe rentals cost a dollar.

We were pleased to find local ciders on sauce, and waddled out into the cool fall evening, quite happy. its booze list, a wine list that pays tribute Drink: If you’re having trouble to the best of the locals by the bottle and ingesting the requisite apple a day, Atlas glass, as well as a smattering from Europe, New Zealand, California, and others, and a had four local hard ciders on their menu the evening we visited. Going into fall and nice selection of beers on tap. winter, cider is our perfect tonic. Full bar, The food: A fish chowder special was nice selection of local and “furrin’” wines. creamy, full of smoked fish and vegetables Service was attentive and jolly, there’s and topped with plenty of shredded plenty of parking in the lot out front and bacon, and it beat the pants off thin, more across Main Street, and Atlas is open runny chowders we’d had a week prior for drinking, dining, and bowling seven in Maine. Appetizers include overstuffed days a week, which gladdens our hearts. • deviled eggs, also topped with crumbled iding out Trumansburg’s midweek torpor on a Tuesday evening, the chefs at Trumansburg’s one and only bowling alley, Atlas Bowl, energetically served forth their more-than-bar menu, while families with kids gave the seven bowling lanes a workout during happyhour half-price bowling.

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“Embracing My Purpose: How Did I Get Here?” a National Coming Out Day talk by Cornell Woodson ’09, associate director for diversity and inclusion in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; 7:00 p.m., Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall.

MONDAY OCT. 19 Music

Manley and Doriseve Thaler Jazz Concert performance by the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, two-time winner of DownBeat magazine’s critics’ poll for “rising star big band”; 7:00 p.m., Ford Hall, Whalen Center.

TUESDAY OCT. 27 Lecture

“Leadership: Don’t Leave School without It,” a presentation as part of the Jahn Family Civic Leadership Series by retired U.S. Army Major General Arthur M. Bartell, who formerly oversaw all Army ROTC and JROTC units nationwide; 7:00 p.m., Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall.

THURSDAY OCT. 29 Screening

Ithaca College Gerontology Institute showing of Maggie Growls, a documentary portrait of Maggie Kuhn, who became an activist for older Americans and founded the Gray Panthers in 1970 after being forced to retire from a job she loved; 7:00 p.m., 102 Textor Hall.

This is just a sampling of October events on campus; to view more, visit events.ithaca.edu.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should call 607-274-3011 as much in advance of the event as possible. Unless otherwise noted, all listed events are free of charge.

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to the storyteller to start wrapping it up. eople begin to filter in after 7 p.m., which is the announced starting time At six minutes he shakes the maraca more violently. Several judges volunteer to rate for Trampoline, the local monthly the performances based on content and storytelling forum at Lot 10. As people presentation. arrive they fall into groups and chat avidly There is a jazz jam happening on the with one another; this is a regular crowd. floor below. Apparently the musicians set The storytellers are not a separate group; up under the ventilation duct one night they are part of the audience. Bob Proehl, and their music flooded into Trampoline. the host for the evening, is at the bar They have since moved, but Proehl asks the behind the stage, greeting wellwishers and having a cocktail.

Proehl selects the theme for the evening a month ahead of time and circulates the information via social media. He modeled Trampoline after an event in Philadelphia called First Person held at L’Etage, a night club, cabaret and performance space.

Proehl got up on stages at First Person “to know what it felt like.”

“I didn’t tank,” he said. “It’s the opposite of what I normally do, which is long-form Bob Proehl at Trampoline (Photo Bill Chaisson) fiction writing. This is short-form memoir with no revision.’

Because he had audience to stomp their feet at the start of experienced it himself and found that “it each story, just to let the jazzbos know the wasn’t terrible,” he decided it would be OK storytellers are in the house. to subject other people to the experience.

Proehl primes the crowd with his own Trampoline got underway as soon as Lot story of attending his brother’s marriage 10 opened in January 2012. Proehl said into a traditional Korean family in that he and Lot 10 owner Matt Riis had Chicago. A regular Trampoline participant talked about doing something other than called Charles then weaves together a skein live music all the time. Initially they had that involves DEET, salmon fishing, and considered a regular poetry reading. Then hallucinations. Melody then spins one they thought of doing something like about feminist activists in the 1980s. Molly, the Moth Radio Hour, but without the a University of Maine student, skips out on celebrity culture that surrounds it. That’s Maine Day on campus to complete a quest when they abandoned the idea of poetry to the Anemone Cave on Mount Desert reading.

Island. Kai, a student at a Boston university, There are two black leather couches, recalls “the weirdest night of college,” three café tables and four rows of folding which includes a pimp in a pizza parlor chairs. By 10 minutes after seven there and some very rich students at a party in a are 16 people in the room, more than you high-rise. might find at a mid week show for many This brings the event to the usual local bands. By 7:30 p.m. some of the halfway point, but Proehl is out of chairs and all of the couch space has been storytellers on this lean summer night. occupied—there are about 25 people in While they are deciding how to proceed, the place—and this was a summer show, we make our exit, stage left. definitely a low ebb period for downtown On Thursday, Oct. 8 this past season’s venues.

The August theme was “Off the Hook.” 12 winners (there are judges) will compete in a championship. The winner will take Proehl explained that the themes are home tickets to the Moth Radio Hour. purposefully vague, but are meant to put In November regular competition will some constraint on the subject matter for resume. The theme: “Juvenilia.” • a particular evening. At five minutes into a story Proehl shakes a maraca, the signal

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familiar from past community-based pieces. What’s new and wonderful about this piece, which Chalmers co-authored (with community input) and is codirecting with Simmons, is that it has a full story arc, rather than being a set of scenes around a theme. At the heart is the issue of an African-American family and the toll that America’s long history has taken upon them.

Playing the mother is Sylvie Yntema, seventh grader James Schultz plays the young Julian, Simmons plays the father, and Andrea Owens plays the daughter. Eric Worthington plays The Officer.

Also in the multicultural ensemble, an exciting mix of the experienced and the very new to the stage are Alan Godfrey, Helen T. Clark, and Donna Acquavella.

The A scene from On The Corner (Photo Rye Bennett) script is wonderfully theatrical, often quite funny (tour guides relationship between civilians and law fight over their interpretations of NYC’s enforcement. This year the extension Slave Museum), and moving with of it is looking at class and race and the moments of song and dance. Joining invention of racism in the United States, in the dance are young people from the where that all came from. It does so through the prism of an African-American summer CUMEP program at Southside founded by Fé Nunn and now directed by young man named Julian, who is detained Dr. Nia Nunn Makepeace. The Chorus is by a white police officer named James.

They end up going on a journey that is sort both mischievous and all-wise, and has a panoply of voices and styles built on the of magical.” performers: Southern, Latina, AfricanJulian, played by Ithaca College American, Northern. theatre major Jharrel Jerome, has been The cast is having its first runsent to Ithaca from the Bronx to keep him through, and at this point a practiced eye out of trouble, He is wandering through can tell the newcomers from the more Cayuga Heights, mourning the recent experienced, but Chalmers is gently death of his mother, when he is stopped coaxing each actor to their strengths. The by the cop. His question is, “How did we sense of ensemble togetherness is palpable. get here?” (being detained for no reason).

Civic Ensemble has made central Suddenly the Chorus shows up, four beings played by Mar Pérez, Heather Duke, to their work the slogan that theatre is everyone’s birthright.

Terrell M. Dickson and Jason Wilson.

“When we say theatre is everyone’s They are here to answer Julian’s birthright it’s about the value that we question; and the answer is to travel as a society place on theatre, as well as through time, “They go all the way back removing the barriers for everyone to to the 1690 Wall Street, 1978 Bronx, and participate as they wish to participate,” Mississippi in the ‘60s,” said Simmons. explained Simmons. “The idea is that as Sarah K. Chalmers was busy last Friday putting the cast through a sequence a whole, that a theatre’s body of work as a season is serving people, a sense that it is where each comes on to talk about the accessible, it is open…hey, we’re coming to color of their skin and what it means to you.” • them, a choric, poetic moment that is he Civic Ensemble, Ithaca’s “civicminded theatre company” presents its third community-based play this week. This year’s play is titled On the Corner and plays Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m. at the stage in the Beverly J. Martin Elementary School Library. (More info at civicensemble.org) According to Godfrey Simmons, Civic Ensemble’s artistic director, in an interview on WRFI radio, “It’s a continuation of Safety. With Safety, last year’s community based play, we were looking at the

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of models: big ones, little ones, breweries out of basements, garages. There’s no one model that works. What we didn’t see, but thought was a great idea, was combining hop farming with brewing.

It’s more like the model of wineries with the vineyard right there. Once we hit that

Lakes Beer Festival appearance. Owner and Head Brewer Chris Williams recalled how he entered the local beer scene.

“I’ve been brewing beer since Jimmy Carter made it legal to brew at home,” Williams said. “As a enterprise, I started planning a brewery well over a decade ago. It was on a completely unrelated business matter that I meet Eileen Stout,

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Sept 16 Audrey O’Connor Lecture Blame It on Columbus: Chile Peppers Around the World Dave DeWitt, Author and Food Historian Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium

Sept 30 Elizabeth E. Rowley Lecture From Glaciers to Generations: Climate Change Affects Landscapes and Lives Gary Braasch, Photojournalist Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium

Oct 14 William Hamilton Lecture Modern Plant Exploration in the Tropics: The Age of Rediscovery Marc Hachadourian, Director of the Nolen Greenhouses, New York Botanical Garden Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium

Oct 28 Plant-Based Medicines: Ancient Greece and Rome and Beyond Courtney Roby, Assistant Professor of Classics, Cornell University Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium

Nov 11 Class of 1945 Lecture Ginkgo: The Tree that Time Forgot Professor Sir Peter Crane, FRS, the Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium For more information, please call

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(Top) Chris Williams doing his thing (Below) A Rye Stout from Stouthearted (Photos Provided)

idea, that felt like the really good idea for us. And so far, it’s worked really well.”

Just like Bacchus, Hopshire will also utilize local fresh hops to create its fall brew.

“The beer we have a lot of fun with,” Lacy said, “is a fresh hop ale where local hop growers bring in their hops and drop them off. We did that on August 29 this year. We had over 30 people drop off hops. We give everybody credit. The next day we make the beer with all of the hops. Fresh hop beers are very different flavors than dry hop beers. It’s one of the cool things we can do in this area. On September 26, we’ll have a release party for that beer.”

Over in Lansing, Stouthearted Brewing is gearing up for its first Finger

the owner of Rogues’ Harbor. During our initial meeting, Eileen commented that a brewery would be a nice addition to Rogues’, and since I had a plan for a brewery, Stouthearted Brewery at Rogues’ Harbor Inn began in the spring of 2011.”

He added that his peer brewers do a great job, and together, help create a natural beer trail for people to travel.

“With all the breweries within arms length of Ithaca,” Williams said, “you are sure to find something new, almost weekly. It takes two to three weeks to turn out a batch of beer, so brewers usually take the liberty to try something new, or re-brewer a favorite of past.” •

Music bars/clubs/cafés

10/07 Wednesday

Salsa Dancing | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Latin, Jazz, Soul, Dancing.

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band featuring members of: Mosaic Foundation, Big Mean Sound Machine, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown’s Body and More!

Open Jam with Featured Songwriters | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Join hosts David Graybeard and Mitch Wiedemann. We are looking for local songwriters, poets and authors to showcase their work.

Each week we will spotlight an artist for an hour, from about 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM, to perform (mostly) original compositions Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Grassanova | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Bluegrass, Americana.

Evil City Trio: Cider Stomp Hoe Down and Open House | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Old Time, Appalachian, Bluegrass.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio

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Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

10/08 Thursday

Randy Z | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Classic Rock, Blues, Americana.

Jen Middaugh Quartet | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St #2, Ithaca | Stars | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Indie Pop, Electronic, Baroque Pop, Indie Rock, New Wave, Chamber Pop. Fabi Patino | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Grassroots Fans get ready Fabi Patino from Lanzallamas is coming to play the Rongo. It’s an open jam with his allies from the festival getting up to sit in with this spirited performer making his summer home in the Finger Lakes all the way from Miami Florida. A special night indeed.

Jami Sieber with Steve Gorn | 7:30 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Electric cellist/vocalist, Jami Sieber will be joined by master bansuri flute player, Steve Gorn for this special concert. Steve played on Jami’s recordings Unspoken and Only Breath and they have toured together in the NW and NE of the USA. Jesse Collins Quartet | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Jazz, Hard Bop, Free Jazz.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB. Hoodoo Crossing: Blues, Brews and BBQ | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues. Rock. Ribs.

10/09 Friday

Pollen | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Rock.

Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Classic Rock, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Punk, Covers.

Jesse Lége: 5 Zydeco Dance Party | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Cajun Dance Hall, Zydeco, Roots.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner.

Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110.

John Stetch and The Relative Quartet | 8:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | John Stetch on piano, Chet Doxas on sax, Michael Bates on bass, and Owen Howard on drums. Jazz.

And The Kids | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Alternative Rock, Folk, Indie Rock, Indie Pop. Gerard’s Crossing | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Americana.

Go Gone | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Roots, Rock and Roll, Blues, Americana.

Cathie Coiro | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Jazz, Blues, R&B.

10/10 Saturday

Harry Nichols | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Alternative Rock, Star Wars Rock, Indie Rock, Pop,

10/9 PATTY GRIFFIN 10/10 THE MACHINE 11/6 DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE 11/7 NORAH JONES SOLD OUT 11/8 POSTMODERN JUKEBOX 11/11 ARLO GUTHRIE 11/13 BO BURNHAM 11/14 GORDON LIGHTFOOT 11/20 GUSTER

Power Pop, Nintendo Pop. Radio London vs. Immortal Jellyfish: Battle of the Bands | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock and Roll, Early Rock, 50’s, 60’s, Classic Rock.

The Dupree Brothers | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Papa Muse, Vacuoso, & Misses Bitches | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Double CD Release Rock Gala and Video Shoot! Be part of the music video! Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Singer Songwriter, Dark Pop, Folk Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative Country.

Art & Timna | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Old-Time, Americana.

Clayfoot Strutters | 4:00 PM-11:00 PM | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Fusion of contra tunes from New England, Appalachia, Ireland, and Quebec, laid over a hot bed of Texas swing, Cajun, zydeco, Afro Pop, funk, and Latin grooves. Caller George Marshall, renowned for his knack of matching music to dance and for his smooth, concise teaching and presentation, will lead the dances.

Under Construction: Enfield Harvest Festival | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM | Enfield Elementary School, , Enfield | Rock and Roll, Country, Blues, Soul, R&B, Old-Time.

10/11 Sunday

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

Jon Mueller, Matt Weston, Sarah Hennies | 8:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State

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10/08 Thursday

Jazz Ensemble | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Mike Titlebaum, director Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | The group will be performing music by Bill Holman, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and more.

Jazz, Big Band.

Roomful of Teeth | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The Grammywinning octet from New York, merges traditional classical singing with vocal techniques from all over the world, which the members learned directly from Tuvan monks, Inuits, yodelers, throat singers, and Balkan belters.

Classical, World, International.

Pink Talking Fish | 7:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Psychedelic, New Wave, Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, Funk. Phish, Talking Heads, and Pink Floyd covers.

10/09 Friday

10/13 Tuesday

Quincy Mumfoed & The Reason Why, I.AMTRUSTARR | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rock, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Surf, R&B, Alternative.

Patty Griffin | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Rock, Folk, Country, Singer Songwriter.

Godsmack, Rob Zombie | 7:00 PM | Floyd L Maines Veterans Memorial Arena, 1 Stuart St, Binghamton | Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Nu-Metal.

Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | SaintSeneca, The Sidekicks, Yowler | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Alternative Folk, Indie Rock, Punk, New Wave, Pop. Singer Songwriter, Gothic Folk.

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Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats.

Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

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St, Ithaca | Experimental, Electronic, Jazz, Sound Collage, Percussion, Avant-Garde. Ithaca Underground presents.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

Robbie Fulks | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Alternative Country, Classic Country.

Melanie & the Boys | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Americana, Folk, Bluegrass, Blues and Rock.

The Gully Hubbards | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Americana, Alt-country, Rock, Folk, Pop. A Cast of Thousands | 4:00 PM | Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | Alternative Rock, Post-Rock, Pop Rock.

Jeremy Attardo | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano.

Eric Aceto Duo | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | World, Latin, Jazz.

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The Machine | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Performing the music of Pink FLoyd.

10/8 STARS 10/13 SAINTSENECA 10/23 OLD 97’S 11/6 THE MEDITATIONS 11/10 EARPHUNK 11/20 THE ENGLISH BEAT THE HAUNT

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Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Art Rock.

Choral Collage | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Performances by the Chorus and Madrigals conducted by Derrick Fox and the Women’s Chorale and Choir conducted by Janet Galvan.

Kevin James | 7:00 AM | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | Stand-Up Comedy.

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King, Jr. She continues today to spread her message of freedom and hope to people around the world through song.

Roomful of Teeth | 3:00 PM | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | The Grammywinning octet from New York, merges traditional classical singing with vocal techniques from all over the world, which the members learned directly from Tuvan monks, Inuits, yodelers, throat singers, and Balkan belters.

Classical, World, International.

10/11 Sunday

Deathgasm | Friday, 10/09, 9:30 PM, Cinemapolis, Ithaca | Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives. | 91 mins NR | Millie and the Lords | Thursday, 10/15, 7:00 PM, Cinemapolis, Ithaca | Millie and the Lords tells the story of Milagros Baez, a young, working class under-confident Puerto Rican woman whose life is changed for the better when she begins to learn about the Young Lords Party and her rich Puerto Rican history. | 91 mins NR |

10/12 Monday

Spiritual Rez | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Roots, Rock, Reggae, Ska. Chamber Music: Sunset Recital | 6:00 PM | Red Newt Cellars Inc, 3675 Tichenor Rd, Hector | Red Newt Cellars is pleased to welcome international artists Alfredo Oyaguez (piano) and Andrew Smith (Cello). Guests at this “Sunset Recital” will experience a world class musical performance combined with elegant wine, delicious morsels, and an incredible sunset. Classical.

Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers | 4:00 PM | First Presbyterian Church of Ulysses, 69 East Main St., Ulysses | A community chorus named in honor of civil rights pioneer Dorothy Cotton, a resident of Ithaca, New York, who served as education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference alongside Dr. Martin Luther

That 1 Guy | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Rhythm and Sound, Experimental, Funk, Jazz, Gypsy.

Three Chord Monty | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk.

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10/13 Tuesday

Breathe | Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there’s nothing average about how she feels in Melanie Laurent’s sexy sophomore film. | 91 mins NR | Grandma || Lily Tomlin stars as Elle who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle’s granddaughter Sage unexpectedly

Wind Ensemble | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Matthew Marsit, conductor | Wendy Mehne, flute Karel Husa: Music for Prague 1968 Dana Wilson: The Conjurer Adam Gorb: Farewell Christopher Marshall: L’homme arme: Variations Brent Johnson and the Call Up | 7:30 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Blues, Rock, Soul.

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Stage As You Like It | Clark Theatre, IC, Danby Rd, Ithaca | When a duke in exile, his banished daughter, a willful young man, and their loyal followers flee to the tranquility of the forest, they discover their true selves and the power of redemption. This most exquisite of Shakespeare’s comedies combines a road movie, a buddy picture, a love story, and a battle of wills. Runs through October 10. Tickets and info at www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/theatre/ mainstage/theatre1516/asyoulike/ Other Desert Cities | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Five Tony Award Nominations, and The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.

After six years away, prodigal daughter Brooke Wyeth returns to her Palm Springs desert home to celebrate the holidays and announce plans to publish her childhood memoir – complete with revelations of deep family secrets.

Retired ambassador dad, savvy mom, rehabbing aunt and ne’er-do-well brother team up to try and stop the publication. For tickets and showtimes visit www.chenangorivertheatre.org.

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/07 Wednesday |

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Keep in touch with all things special about the fall at this annual town festival. Scarecrows, quilts, wood carvings, local baked goods, book sales, unique town tours, and the Kick The Can fundraiser for the Bread of Life Food Pantry are just some of the events and happenings one can expect the fest. The 4th annual Scarecrow contest is already under way, and kicks off this town-wide celebration! Small town charm at its finest!

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An Ithaca resident since 1987, this artist has shown her work both nationally and internationally, and has work in permanent collections all over the world. She uses imagery inspired by pictorials and text found in early and mid-twentieth publications in her work, and fuses a strong graphic sense with playful surrealism that reminds viewers of the importance of using critical thinking in fine art. h e

Losing Ground | 7:15 PM, 10/07 Wednesday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis.

When the wife goes off on an almost unbelievable journey to find “ecstasy”, her husband is forced to see her in a different light.

The Trial | 7:00 PM, 10/08 Thursday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges. Orson Welles directs.

Amy | 9:30 AM, 10/08 Thursday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | The story of Amy Winehouse in her own words, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks.

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On the Corner | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School Library, 302 West Buffalo St., Ithaca | Civic Ensemble presents On the Corner, which follows Julian, an African-American teenager, and Officer James, the white police officer who detains him, as they travel from the Wall Street slave market of 1690, to a Bronx high school in 1978. October 7, 8, 9, 10 at 7:30pm, October 11 at 4:00 p.m. Go to civicensemble.org or call 607-241-0195 to reserve a seat.

Other Desert Cities | 7:30 PM-, 10/08 Thursday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Upper middle class angst in Palm Springs.

Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM-, 10/08 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | To Kill A Mockingbird | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 10/09 Friday | Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | Taking place during the Great Depression in the fictional “tired old town” of Maycomb, Alabama, this play focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch and lessons learned about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. For tickets and showtimes visit tiahwaga.com Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM, 10/09 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Never Fight a Shark in Water: The Wrongful Conviction of Gregory Bright | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | 7:00 PM, 10/10 Saturday | A one-man show performed

by Gregory Himself. Gregory was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 27 1/2 years in prison.

The Mountaintop | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | By Katori Hall.

Runs October 11 through October 25, 2015. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2009, The Mountaintop is a powerful, surreal imagining of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last night on Earth. A conversation between King and a mysterious hotel maid who brings him a cup of coffee prompts him to confront his life, his legacy, and our national story. (Ages 14+) For tickets and showtimes visit www.kitchentheatre.org

CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life.

An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com.

Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/08 Thursday | Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays. Each contestant will be given 3 minutes to share their story and enter for a chance to be crowned the first ever Trampoline Story Champ.

Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/09 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December.

Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Local seasonal produce, honey, flowers, baked goods, meats, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, glass, fiber arts and the Owl’s Head Fish Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking.

Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/11 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage.

Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 10/13 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

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Trifecta for Your Health | 8:15 PM, 10/07 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | The most effective way to improve your health, manage your weight and get off medications is through a combination of exercise, nutrition, and coaching. Jesse King and Travis Barnes, as seen on WETM News and featured in the book titled “Journey Fitness” will teach this class. Registration is required

- sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Should Intelligent Design/ Creationism be Taught in the Science Classroom? | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 10/07 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Professor Ahren Sadoff received his BS in physics from MIT and his PhD in elementary particle physics from Cornell University.

Shops at Ithaca Mall Job Fair | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 10/07 Wednesday | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, , Ithaca | Job seekers will have access to employers, non profits and organizations seeking talented candidates in many industry areas from hospitality and health care to retail, finance, education, communications, technology and management-from entry level to professional. For more information, call 607-273-5335 or email tami.byron@stafkings.com Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/07 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Reppy Institute Seminar: Nuclear Energy and Proliferation: Examining the Links | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 10/08 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell, Ithaca | Speaker is Nicholas L. Miller, Frank Stanton Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy, Department of Political Science; and Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. For more international activities please visit http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/ calendar Metrix E-Learning Information Sessions | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 10/08 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Metrix E-Learning is an online skill and job-related training program that contains over 6,000 courses. Courses range in topics from accounting, leadership, healthcare and computer programming, etc. Once registered, customers have accounts with unlimited access for 180 days. For more information contact Ramona Emery at 272-7570 X126.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/09 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins

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Meetings City of Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM, 10/07 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.

IURA Neighborhood Investment Committee (NIC) | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 10/09 Friday | Common Council Chambers, Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | NIC meetings are ordinarily held on the 2nd Friday of every month at 8:30 a.m. in Third Floor Conference Room, Third Floor, City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca.

Ithaca City Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 10/13 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission | 5:30 PM, 10/13 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC) | 5:30 PM, 10/13 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The ILPC is charged with administering and interpreting the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Ordinance.

John Stetch and The Relative Quartet play the Carriage House Friday, 10/09 at 8:00 p.m. (Photo Provided) welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza.

Fossilmania & Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, 10/10 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Go fossil crazy at Fossilmania!

The museum will be filled with fun, family entertainment and education about life on earth since the large extinction 65 million years ago. Come celebrate National Fossil Week. It will be a great look back at the ancient world of New York. Bring your mystery fossils and have them identified, and learn about how the Hyde Park Mastodon came to the Museum!

Phil Shapiro’s Group Folk Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 10/12 Monday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | Learn to play acoustic guitar, or improve your guitar playing, with this inexpensive course. There are eight one-hour lessons, on Monday evenings, starting Monday, September 14, 2015, in the International Lounge of Willard Straight Hall. Registration is at the first lesson.

Special Events Farm to Fork | 3:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/08 Thursday | The Deck, Front Street, Owego | Thursday evening farmers market with 4 local eateries will create fresh street food for you to enjoy

while listening to music. For more information visit www.facebook.com/ OwegoFarmtoForkEveningMarket Candor Fall Festival | Candor Village Hall, Main St, Candor | There will be lots to do during the annual Candor Fall Festival October 9, 10 and 11. Mix in scarecrows, quilts, wood carvings, baked goods, book sales, tours, a Kick the Can fundraiser for the Bread of Life Food Pantry, good food, yard sales, a variety of other great experiences and you have the 2015 Candor Fall Festival. The fourth annual scarecrow contest is already in progress! The contest is open to all Candor residents and organizations. For further information contact Hope Van Scoy at 607-659-5213, hvanscoy@frontier. net or PO Box 25, Candor, NY 13743 or check out the Candor Chamber of Commerce web page at www. candornychamber.org or the Chamber’s Facebook page.

Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 PM-5:00 PM, 10/10 Saturday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 p.m. through November 1, 2015.

For more information go to www. decodog.com./inven/tiogadown.html Cemetery Tours in Tompkins County | 2:00 PM, 10/10 Saturday |

Asbury Cemetery, 100-174 County Rd. 108, Lansing | Cemetery Walking Tour.

Cornell Football | 12:00 PM-, 10/10 Saturday | Schoellkopf Stadium, Cornell, Ithaca | Vs. Harvard University.

Enfield Harvest Festival | 11:00 AM-3:30 PM, 10/10 Saturday | Enfield Elementary School, Rt. 327, Enfield | Family Friendly. Chicken BBQ, Children’s games, Music by “Under Construction”, Cake Wheel, Silent Auction, Music, Fire trucks, airplane Ping-Pong Ball Drop, Quilt Raffle, Vendors, Info booths, and much more. The fundraising helps Enfield’s youth programming.

Varick Winery’s Pumpkin Chunkin | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, 10/10 Saturday, 10/11, Sunday | Varick Winery, 5102 State Rte 89, Romulus | Release your tensions by hurling pumpkins. For more information call 315-549-8797.

Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/11 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast or Waffles, Sausage & Bacon or Ham, Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Sausage Gravy & Biscuits, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages. And this season we’re serving REAL HOMEMADE BUTTER! Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm | 10:00 AM, 10/13 Tuesday | Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm, 6425 Rt. 17C, Endicott | One of the oldest and largest Pumpkin Farms in NYS. 20+ activities including Hayrides, Haunted House, Displays,

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Nature & Science Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 10/09 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/10 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Bring your mystery fossils in to the Museum of the Earth and get them identified.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 9:00 AM, 10/10 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

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A horror-comedy film that made its debut this year at South by Southwest to critical acclaim, Deathgasm is about two teenage heavy metal fanatics who unintentionally summon a demon, and the aftermath that ensues. It has been hailed as “the most metal horror film ever” by film critics, and has been praised for its urgency, its homage to both classic horror films and heavy metal music, and for its special effects.

This acclaimed author of the educational Ain’t Nobody Be Learnin’ Nothin’: The Fraud and the Fix for High-Poverty Schools, leads the interactive discussion: ‘Are America’s Public Schools Offering a Fair Shake to Low-income and Minority Students?’ with two former Ithaca area educators. Rossiter is a progressive activist who has spent four decades fighting against and writing about the dynamics and shortcomings of U.S. Foreign Policy.

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The Cayuga Bird Club Monthly Meeting | 7:30 PM, 10/12 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | This month’s speaker will be Bill Evans, presenting “The Impact of Wind Energy on Birds in our Region: Fact vs.

Fiction. Meetings are free and open to the public and anyone interested in birds is invited to attend. For information, call 257-9459, email fishoak@gmail.com or refer to the bird club’s website: http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/

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love Turner Classic Movies (TCM), but I really love it during the month of October and my favorite holiday, Halloween. This is the first of four articles for the month to get you to the most interesting scary movies, and since TCM packs so many creepy classics into 31 days, there’s no way to cover it all; visit tcm.com and spend some time with their monthly calendar.

On Oct. 25 and 28, TCM will screen a Dracula double bill at Regal Stadium 14, with show times both days at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Both versions of the Bram Stoker novel were produced by Universal Pictures in 1931. You’ve certainly heard of the first version, which starred Bela Lugosi. The other bloodsucker is a Spanish-language version that was shot concurrently with the Lugosi sets. It may be the better version; legend has it that the crew shooting the Spanish version saw the dailies from the Lugosi film and began planning more ambitious camera moves and set-ups.

Back home on your (hopefully) widescreen TV, TCM has lots more scares in store. On Friday, Oct. 9, they’ll screen a handful of “graft-core” body horror flicks that all pre-date the work of David Cronenberg. In Karl Freund’s Mad Love (1935), a mad doctor—is there any other kind?—grafts the hands of a murderer onto a concert pianist’s wrists. What is it

Books A Novel Idea - Book Club | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/07 Wednesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Come spice things up, catch up with friends, and get your intellectual side out over delightful cocktails and books that you will not want to put down. Hosted by Buffalo Street Books’ Asha Sanakar.

Theory of the Lyric: Jonathan Culler | 4:30 PM, 10/07 Wednesday | Olin Library, Cornell, Ithaca | Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Jonathan Culler. His new book, published by Harvard University Press in June 2015, examines ancient as well as modern poems and explores the Western lyric tradition.

Sung J. Woo | 5:00 PM, 10/08 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author Sung J. Woo reads from his new novel, Love Love. The Kirkus review says, Joo’s a writer of deep pathos and empathy, Woo has given us a deeply felt novel of parents and children, husbands and wives—the many ways we try to connect and fail; and how sometimes, somehow, we succeed.

Caleb Rossiter | 3:00 PM, 10/10 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author of Ain’t Nobody Be Learnin’ Nothin’: The Fraud and the Fix for High-Poverty Schools leads the discussion: ‘Are America’s Public Schools Offering a Fair Shake to Low-income and Minority Students?’ with two former Ithaca area teachers.

George Drew | 2:00 PM, 10/11 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author reads from his books View from Jackass Hill, and his collection of poetry, Down & Dirty.

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with pianists and these kinds of movies? In The Beast With Five Fingers (1946), after a famous pianist’s murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance, and an experimental hand transplant leaves a pianist driven to kill in Newt Arnold’s Hands of a Stranger (1962).

Seriously, more pianists? Things get a little more cerebral with Mystery Science Theater 3000 favorite The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), and the marathon ends with Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face (1959).

At midnight on Oct. 15, you get a look at two sides of the English actor Malcolm McDowell, first with a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), the adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ dark sci-fi parable that, together with the prep school classic If…., made McDowell the U.K. proto-punk for all time. After A Clockwork Orange, McDowell gets to play the good guy in Nicholas Meyer’s terrifically entertaining Time After Time (1979), which manages to be a great sci-fi tale, a thriller, a romance, a chase, and a satire, with McDowell playing author H.G. Wells chasing Jack the Ripper (David Warner) from Victorian London to modern-day (well, 1979, so look for lots of disco and see-thru pants) San Francisco with the help of a smart yet daffy bank teller played by Mary Steenburgen. She and McDowell fell in love working on the movie, and you can certainly see some serious chemistry between them.

Nannies and kids get the treatment on Oct. 16, starting with The Nanny

ongoing EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | Justin Hjortshøj’s photographs His perspective on seemingly simple scenarios in places as diverse as Haiti, Brooklyn, and Czechoslovakia is mind-boggling.Home and Land. New paintings from the collection of the artist. | www.eyegallery.com

Minna Resnick: Tell Me About It | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 10/09 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Minna is an Ithaca based printmaker and artist, and her work can be described as psychological, wry, and clever, often using appropriated imagery and text from mid-twentieth century handbooks and publications on themes such as home management, etiquette, health and education. http:// www.cornersgallery.com Runs October 6- November 7 Bill Deats | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 10/10 Saturday | Deats Gallery Porch Art Sale, 503 Spencer Rd., Ithaca | Showing of over 100 oil paintings in a range of styles. All work for sale.

Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Angela Han: Burning Mortality. Recent paintings that dive into bold and abstract musings on the human spirit and its place in the universe. Through October.

State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Art Tral Show artist’s galley exhibit. For information: 607277-1626 or gallery@soag.org

Since 1988 the progressive rock sounds of Pink Floyd have been honored and performed by this legendary New York City cover band. While most of us never had the chance to see the original and dynamic lineup of 70’s Floyd, and never will, The Machine is the closest we’ll get. Close your eyes and you’re transformed to the power of Classic Floyd. Cover bands can often be meah, but The Machine are truly epic and timeless.

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Creative Space Gallery | Ithaca College Art Department’s Creative Space Gallery (215 State/MLK St.) | IC creative space galleryEgoluxe and Growing Obsessions. Andrea M. Aguirre and Tatiana Malkin, two IC BFA candidates, exhibit a culmination of work created in the Creative Space Gallery this summer.

Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Espejos / Mirrors is an exhibition of New York State-based artists whose work captures the complex and multilayered richness of the contemporary Latin@ American experience. Runs through October | www.csma-ithaca.org The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | Greg Page - Motifs from the Global Backyard.

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stars in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) as Quasimodo, a deformed bell ringer who rescues a Gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder. In The Fall of the House of Usher (1949, not the Roger Corman-Vincent Price version), an old friend tries to keep Roderick Usher from succumbing to the family curse. Finally, in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), a man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.

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www.ink-shop.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Imprint / In Print, August 8 to December 20. So it goes: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut August 22 to December 20. Huang Hsin-chien: The Inheritance, September 5 to December 20, CUTS: Video Works

by Gordon Matta-Clark, September 5 to December 20 | www.museum. cornell.edu Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Christine McMeekin & M Stein. The shows will be spread between the downstairs and upstairs loft. Both shows will run through Oct 31. Curated by ARTe for more info visit www.ARTeFLX.com. | www.wafflefrolicking.com

Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Mon. Wed. Thurs.

11am-6pm; Fri. Sat. 11am-8pm; Sun. 11am-4pm; closed Tuesdays | WANDERINGS, Recent oil, watercolor, and pastel paintings of Martha’s Vineyard, Italy,and Pittsburgh, by Patricia Mae Young. Patricia has won many awards for her paintings. “Now I paint for the pure joy of enjoying nature and being our of doors,” says Patricia. | www.titusgallery.com

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As an artist, a musician, and a expressionist, this Wisconsin native explores new territories in rock, jazz, and experimental music.

He’s collaborated with the likes of James Plotkin, John Cage, Jason Kahn, and numerous others, brining his unique approach and dynamic individualism. Albany’s percussion innovator Matt Weston and Ithaca transplant Sarah Hennies open up, brining inspiring sound design and aural contemplation.

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(1965), then Mervyn LeRoy’s The Bad Seed (1956), in which a woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.

For some reason, TCM is screening Children of the Damned (1963) before Village of the Damned (1961), but that’s what DVRs are for, right?

Classic horror flicks based on literary classics get their own night on Oct. 23: Victor Fleming’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) stars Spencer Tracy as a scientist, investigating the nature of good and evil, who turns into a murderous monster. Charles Laughton

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Ongoing positions available providing instruction as a Substitute Teacher. Cover daily/temporary leases for T-S-T BOCES Teachers as needed. $90.00 oer day.

Complete BOCES Regional Substitute Application. Detailed job posting listed on the BOCES Web Site www.tstboces,org Apply to TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, Phone: (607)2571551, Fax (607)697-8273, Email: hr@ tstboces.org

Quals & Special Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca website for further info. Salary: $35,918. Exam: 12/5/15. Residency: Applicants must be Tompkins County Residents, City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108n e. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.

(607)274-6539. www.cityofithaca.org.: The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying the workforce

welch construction Earth Friendly

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Office Management: troubleshoot issues that arise and develop systems that improve efficiency; will work with other office employees to coordinate excellent care. contact business901.aol.com

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Cottage with A Lot of Room for Guests

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ake cottages in the Finger Lakes are often outfitted with elaborate decks, just because the topography demands it. The cottage at 8545 Green Lane Shores is a good example of this tendency.

There is a small deck in front of the main entrance, a large deck on the side of the house facing the lake, and then there are suspended stairs that lead down to another deck at the cliff edge.

As if that weren’t enough, you can then take the steps down the side of the cliff to the deck at the base of the pier that leads out over the lake.

As if the decks did not provide enough space to socialize in the out of doors, there is also a gravel patio on the south side of the house and a flat area around a fire pit in the middle of the lawn. This is definitely a place to invite all your friends to have a good time.

And that is just the outdoor portion of this property. When you enter the “front” door on the south side of the house you find yourself in a large room that faces Cayuga Lake. It is a combination living room and dining room. The walls are covered with tongue-in-groove paneling and floor is an attractive laminate.

(Having wood in a place where people are constantly emerging from immersion is a maintenance decision.) There is also a gasAt A Glance Price: $323,900 Location: 8545 Greenlane Shores,

Town of Covert School District: South Seneca Central Schools MLS#: 303542 Contact: Kristin Ahlness, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, RealtyUSA Real Estate; kristinrealtor@gmail.com Phone: (607) 220-5424 (cell) Website: homesweetithaca.com

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You pass the sliding glass doors that lead to the deck and through French doors

8545 Green Lane Shores, Covert

to a family/media room that has a more enclosed feeling than the light filled living room and is floored with a parquet-style laminate.

There is a small bedroom around the corner that presently holds a bunkbed (much of the furniture will convey with the house). Unexpectedly, it has exposed rafters and a skylight.

A larger bedroom is right next door. It has a red ceramic tile floor.

The kitchen is next door. It is surprisingly large. The cabinetry is simple with brass pulls. There is a double sink and an electric stove. They found room to put in a breakfast bar against one wall.

The bathroom is directly off the kitchen. It has a shower stall and in another surprising touch: a pedestal sink.

The largest bedroom is on the south end of the house. It is large enough to hold two double beds. It too has a red tiled floor.

There is also a separate guest cottage that includes another double bed.

The lakeside dock includes a boat hoist. •

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Men’s and Women’s Alterations for over 20 years Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

Same Day Service Available

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Jac, a 19-20 lb. 8 year old male Jack Russell TerrIor white with brown spots was stolen from our yard Monday, September 28th They removed his electric fence collar He needs medications!

Thank you so much for any help!

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PORCH ART SALE

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Special Showing and sale of over 100 Oil Paintings Saturday Oct. 10, 10 am -4 pm 503 Spencer Road, Ithaca, NY

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Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care! www.cayugadogrescue.org www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue

Sunday, Oct. 11 1-3 pm Sign up today & get 1 FREE class! $30 MIGHTY YOGA

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RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Janitorial Service * Floor/Carpet High Dusting * Windows/Awnings 24/7 CLEANING Services 607-227-3025 or 607-220-8739

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Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture Anthony Fazio, L.Ac., C.A. www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com

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