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he Tompkins County Public Safety Committee voted to accept a number of grants at its Monday, Nov. 16 meeting: $5000 for the sheriff ’s child car-seat program, $5000 for sheriff ’s department equipment, $20,000 to replace the Livescan fingerprinting machine, and $115,000 for the program and supplies budget. In addition, an insurance payment of $20,200 to cover the replacement of a damaged patrol vehicle was accepted.

Unexpected medical expenses for prisoners required a transfer from fund balance to cover them.

Sheriff Ken Lansing and undersheriff Brian Robison addressed the committee to explain what the grants were for. The child safety seat program, for instance, provides free car seats for families with kids.

Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) wanted to know how the sheriff decides who gets safety seats, and whether the program might be leaving anyone out. Lansing assured her, “We’ve never refused anybody who’s come up for a car seat.” As for judging the family’s need, “We don’t ask.”

Lansing said he didn’t have the number to hand, but ballparked the car seats given away this year at around 300.

The second grant of $5000 was for fire prevention at the sheriff ’s department, and was quickly approved.

The Livescan fingerprinting device, Robison explained, is used for screening job applicants for local agencies and school districts. All applicants for school district jobs, from bus drivers to principals, are required to submit fingerprints for background checks.

The grant came through the New York Department of Criminal Justice.

Chock had more questions about the Homeland Security grant for $115,000, in that she wasn’t clear how the grant was being spent. County administrator Joe Mareane tracked down the numbers for her. The grant was used in two expenditures: one of about $86,000, approved earlier in November, and the amount under discussion, around $28,000.

The grant was assigned to be used for simulator and radio equipment. “I’d like to know what we are stimulating,” said Chock.

“It’s a simulator,” corrected Robison.

“It’s like a video range; we’re permanently mounting this at the CFR building.” The simulator is used to simulate crime scenes for training, he explained. When it’s done, continued on page 7

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signed in 1995 during Mayor Ben Nichols’ administration and updated several times since. The $6 million number is drawn from a demand made by Mayor Svante Myrick for one-fifth of what Cornell would pay the city if what’s said to be $2 billion worth of property was taxed. That demand was detailed in a February 2014 Ithaca Times in-depth feature, “Big Red Control: Ithaca Seeks Bigger Payment petition asking Cornell to pay From Cornell.” the city $6 million to help Ithaca’s The county assessor’s 2016 tax budget has collected a bit over 800 exemption analysis included in the new signatures so far, according to organizer city budget estimates that just over $2.5 Caroline Byrne. billion of “Over half of property will the property in be exempted Ithaca is owned by from the tax Cornell,” Byrne’s rolls in the online petition city. $2.066 opens. “Cornell does billion of that not pay taxes on is listed under most of its property educational because of its tax institutions; a exempt status, yet rough estimate it relies on Ithaca of the tax for some of its on collection on campus services.” that property Byrne, a local value at the artist and 1998 2016 rate of Cornell graduate, $12.89 per said she decided to $1,000 would circulate the petition be about $26.6 while reading million.

Val Plumwood’s Byrne Feminism and the concludes Mastery of Nature, her print a classic on the petition with “mind body, gown the statistic town” divide. Lots of Caroline Byrne is petitioning for a greater contribution from that $1.25 people have wished Cornell to Ithaca. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) million is only her luck, Byrne 0.28 percent said, while she’s of Cornell’s Ithaca and says “in all been tabling at the West End GreenStar fairness, Cornell must make this modest or on nicer days, the Commons, with a contribution” of $6 million. She’s kept footnoted version of the demands. her rhetoric toned down, but said lots of “Some people say, ‘It’s not going to work, but it’s cool you’re doing this,” Byrne people have expressed their agreement with the petition and not signed because said on Monday. “There’s been so much of fear for their livelihoods. Byrne, a positive feedback.” She laughed. “It’s been 1998 Cornell alum who has a “sporadic” great, a little bit weird. I’m used to doing research assistant gig there, says it’s good so many weird art projects that people she’s “not so embedded in this place to be don’t see.”

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▶ New legislators take seats, On Nov. 15, with family, friends, and current and former Legislators looking on, Tompkins County’s newest Legislators, Anna Kelles (District 2) and Richard John (District 4) were administered the oath of office by County Clerk Maureen Reynolds.

Legislators John and Kelles, elected by special election this month, now officially join the Legislature, assuming the seats left vacant by the resignations of Legislators Kathy Luz Herrera and Nate Shinagawa.

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Legislator John said that this month’s election results were extremely gratifying. “By different routes, we both got here,” he said.

Because he and Legislator Kelles are taking their seats right after the special election, he said, “we are both learning on the job…and that makes it harder and very exciting.” He thanked all of the people who “came out of the woodwork” to vote.

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When you are done with clothing what do you do with it?

“ It goes to Sal’s Boutique – the Salvation Army.”

—Jeff Collins

“I live in Fall Creek, so you put it out in the treeline and it disappears” —Timothy Weber

“(MB) Salvation Army. (KC) I don’t take mine to the Salvation Army because they run anti-gay campaigns, I go to Trader K’s. (MB) I didn’t know that.”

—Kal Cannon & Michael Blake

“Those donation boxes at the mall or a church. I’m too lazy to do Trader K’s, and then it goes to charity.”

—Amie Roe-Weaver

“The Thrifty Shopper. The proceeds there go to the homeless and they’re so nice.” ­—Deb DeAugistine

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here’s money sitting unused in your overfull closet. Clothes that get thrown into the donation bins that sit in parking lots do make someone money, though it might not be you.

We had a few questions come in about who profits from clothing donations after New York State’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, announced a $700,000 settlement with a for-profit group, Thrift Land USA, in late October. In short, the company was saying on its bins that all the proceeds benefited charities while making a profit and only paying a rental fee for space to the charitable organizations.

This Times investigation into the matter hasn’t turned up any such scandal in Tompkins County, where a number of companies and organizations take textile donations. USAgain, a national for-profit, has seven bins listed here, while Planet Aid (PA), an international non-profit, has two of its yellow clothing and shoes containers in this county.

PA has occasionally come under scrutiny by CharityWatch, a watchdog organization, for how much of their proceeds go to its charitable mission.

“In 2013 Planet Aid brought in over $42 million from selling these [used] items,” CharityWatch says in a December 2014 report. “This proves that there is a ready market of buyers willing and able to pay large sums of money to purchase used clothing, shoes, and textiles like the ones Planet Aid collects. It is ridiculous for this charity to assert that items worth millions and millions of dollars would end up in a landfill if Planet Aid did not collect them.”

PA accounting for money spent on recycling costs as “program costs,” rather than fundraising, is a bad practice, CharityWatch concluded.

“We emphasize we want people to donate clothing somewhere,” PA Communications Director John Nagiecki said via phone from the company’s headquarters in Maryland. “The truth of the matter is out of 25 billion tons of used textiles, only 15 percent of that will go to a recycler or a charity. What we try to do is make it convenient for people to put clothing in a bin. There’s plenty of research that people don’t recycle if it’s not convenient to do so.”

According to Les Platt, the textile market, while lucrative, is tight now, and charities like PA are “having a hard time moving stuff.”

Platt, who is based in Broome County, started putting out “blue bins” for All County Used Recycling in the late 1990s.

His involvement with recycling goes back to the late 1970s, when he surprised IBM executives by selling some of their waste

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for a profit. The company then decided it should be recycling more.

Platt no longer owns the blue bins, of which there are five in Tompkins County and about 50 across central New York and the Southern Tier. He says when he started out, he split the proceeds with a nonprofit 50/50.

“I either leased a space from a profitmaking place to put a bin or donated to a nonprofit to have them find a location for us,” Platt said.

PA puts their revenues into

Donating clothes . (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

development and education programs across the Global South. The Rescue Mission and the Salvation Army, which have no boxes in this county but takes donations at its Thrifty Shopper location, support their shelter and community outreach programs with thrift store sales.

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terrified of doing this thing.”

“I’m attached enough to care to do it, but if someone decided to make my life miserable, I could just like, move,” Byrne said. She says there were a few incidents that increased her belief the “bland, weird corporate vibe” was increasing at Cornell.

One was finding out TCAT bus pass rules had changed: “I spent half the day trying to find details about why, until I found someone who said ‘The trustees made this decision. That’s why.’”

When she received her alumni trustees ballot, Byrne said there “was no information on them.”

“It’s so bland: so we’re going to vote for a white woman, or an Asian man.

There’s nothing about any of the people.

It’s voting, but not voting.”

Byrne also questions the university’s use of its endowment, particularly on

textiles up from its boxes and takes them back to Rochester for sorting. Then they “go into a container and are shipped to whatever customer was asking for clothing at that time.”

That usually means overseas, Nagiecki said, everywhere from Central America to Asia.

“An importer will buy bales of clothing, and that person will have customers there who say they want five bales of clothes directly from our facility.”

Grading used textiles is a “multimillion dollar industry,” Platt said. Organizations like PA and Goodwill are starting to be more discerning about how they extract value from those textiles. Platt noted that Goodwill is adding “boutique” stores that take the best available items. And PA, according to Nagiecki, is beginning to open up thrift stores, with their first now in Baltimore.

“We accept every type of clothing, and we hope we can retain the value from that clothing better,” Nagiecki said. “We tell people we accept clothing and shoes, and we get a lot of other stuff, and we work hard to find places to accept it.” •Textile graders “sort for Chile, the Caribbean, what they call the African market,” Platt said. “The torn and soiled of what’s left over goes to mixed rags.” Industrial wipes, like those used in industry or at auto garages, come from some of these rags, and some become “industrial feedstock” for things like carpet backing.

According to Kendall Slee of the Rescue Mission, even those clothes her organization receives go to a central warehouse to be graded, though they might return so you can buy them back later.

“We have employees who are amazingly quick at watching as stuff comes down and sorting it out,” Slee said. “They have tremendously skilled eyes at picking out items that will sell well at our stores and what should be moving along to the textile market.” • —Josh

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personnel decisions in the wake of the financial crisis. Cornell’s endowment has been most recently reported at $6.3 billion.

“It should exist as some sort of umbrella for the school if it’s having a bad day, if it needs to build bunch of buildings, if the economy is bad,” Byrne said.

“During the financial crisis, the numbers of how many they fired immediately … I don’t know anything about economics, but this is not how this should work. I feel like they have all this money, they should use a chunk of it.”

Byrne says she’s enjoyed hearing stories from people at Cornell, from work experiences to adamant rumors and rhetoric. She is sick of one argument.

“So many people say ‘But what is this town without Cornell? It would be nothing.’ Which is maybe true. I don’t know what to say to that. It’s not even an argument. So what? They’re here, and they’re not paying taxes or anything.” • —Josh

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oe Sammons started his tenure as executive director of Challenge Workforce Solutions in early November, replacing former president Patrick McKee, who left Ithaca for Vermont in 2014. Sammons was formerly director at Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes and before that lived in Boston, where he worked at the Geiger Gibson community health center.

Challenge Workforce Solutions is a nonprofit that provides services like “Job Club,” a six-week program that helps people prepare to search for work, job counselors, and a summer youth employment program. The organization operates a number of businesses. Around 30 people currently work at Finger Lakes Fresh Food Hub in Groton, which opened in 2014 and is a processing center for area farmers. The Food Hub has also hosted local food start-ups Emmy’s Organics and Ithaca Hummus. Challenge does contract staffing for dish room operations at Ithaca College and Cornell; commercial cleaning; photo and document scanning; and contract production for food packaging, light assembly, and shredding.

The Ithaca Times sat down with Sammons to talk about the opportunities and, yes, the challenges of his new job.

Ithaca Times: In your first week on the job, what are the challenges you see facing this organization?

Joe Sammons: Challenge is a 47-yearold organization that has been delivering on a critical issue in this community by giving everybody, especially those who have disabilities and other barriers, the support to get a job, keep a job, and be fully integrated in our community. The fact is we’re in a period of trial that’s related to the same things every nonprofit goes through. We have a new capital project, the Food Hub, that’s costing more than we anticipated. And it’s no secret that after Patrick left is we didn’t have an executive director for a year and a half.

What’s remarkable is that given all of those difficult trials, this is an extremely strong and vibrant organization with, I think, a very compelling story and a bright future.

IT: What kind of specific funding challenges are you facing right now?

JS: The state is dramatically changing how it supports those with disabilities, what are the rules around integrating people into the community, and how we get paid for it. We literally have to bill in 15-minute increments now, which is a completely different approach to financing a human service organization like ours.

That’s a challenging thing because it’s a completely dramatic change to our systems. Instead of tracking how many Photo: Rye Bennett

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people you’re taking care of in a given month, you’re tracking how many minutes you’re taking care of them in a given day, which is a lot more complicated. It doesn’t mean we can’t do it, but it’s one regulatory hurdle we’re in the middle of cascading over.

IT: How does your funding break down by source?

JS: Fifty to 60 percent of our money comes from state and local funding.

Funding can come in the form of grants. It can come through Medicaid as a reimbursement for services.

We have a pretty wide variety of social enterprises we run that generate about 40 percent of our agency revenue and employs hundreds of people, some with disabilities and some without, which allows us to have an integrated workforce. We’re a little bit ahead of the curve because we have these other businesses and social enterprise funding streams that us prepare. If the state’s taking too long to reimburse us because they can’t figure out these minute-by-minute bills, we do get funding from our businesses.

The idea is to reduce our reliance on grants and state funding challenges.

This is the third nonprofit that I’ve run, and they all face these hurdles. The state is confusing, and the rules change a lot, and they’re slow to pay.

IT: What kinds of services does Challenge provide to those who are looking for work?

JS: We can provide pre-vocational services, that is, for people who don’t yet have jobs who need support, training, coaching. This isn’t just for people who you might think of as disabled or handicapped. It’s anybody with a barrier: they might be coming out of an abusive relationship. They might be getting food stamps because they’re having

a financial crisis. There are people who just need opportunities in the employment market. We offer an extraordinarily diverse set of skills and experiences to help them get ready to integrate into the community.

IT: How does serving those with mental health issues play into your mission?

JS: Someone might be suffering from severe or chronic depression or anxiety, bipolar, who knows?

Those folks find it hard to get and keep employment, though they may be very highfunctioning.

They can come to Challenge and we can integrate them into our workforce teams and provide them with the supports that they need. We can either hook them up with counseling and other services, or even job coaching, that helps them deal with things that come up in their everyday lives.

IT: Going forward, what vision do you have for Challenge? Are there any new businesses on the horizon?

JS: It’s less about me dreaming up new ideas, as it is our staff, our partners, and our community. Part of my position is to help steward that dialogue, and to teach our staff how to be receptive to what those ideas are and how to plan for them correctly. I don’t have a specific thing in my mind that I say, ‘I wish we could go do this.’ I want us to be intentional about creating a positive culture within our organization and intentional about creating the kind of community that says whatever the problem is, whatever the need is, we can go out and solve it. The Food Hub is an example of one of the best ideas when a variety of people say ‘a-ha.’ This is the solution for all of us and a trained, diverse workforce is a key element to our success. • —Josh T

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Ups&Downs ▶ Prize winners collect your prize, Several people managed to identify all (or a lot) of the letters that our production manager collected from signs around the city to make our Best of Ithaca cover last month. They’ve got prizes coming to them, but should swing by the office at 109 North Cayuga to pick them up. And the winners are ... Beth Steves, Jay Woizley, Sean Carter, Cassandra Aiken, Tracy Fuller, Mark Lucas, Maddy Walsh, and Jenny McLafferty. If you know them, pass the word.

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 ▶ Santa Gets Fit, Starting Tuesday, November 17, the Planet Fitness gyms in Ithaca will host a Salvation Army Angel Tree which is a Christmas tree decorated with tags representing holiday gift needs. Selecting a tag for a child or a teen often means a Christmas present for someone who might not get a present otherwise. The Planet Fitness gym, located on Catherwood Road, will be participating and members can select an Angel Tree tag to purchase a gift and return it unwrapped to Planet Fitness. This holiday campaign runs from November 17 to December 17. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Nov. 11-17 include: 1) Dear White People: Race Tensions Lead to Activism at IC 2) Police Chief Lazaric Retires After 26 years 3) Finger Lakes Estate & Auction Co.’s Easygoing Auctioneer 4) Health | Tai Chi Melds Mind, Body & Spirit 5) Cortaca Jug Game is Sold Out For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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When Your Gift Goes Away W here you drop off used clothing can really make a difference. Depending on which box you use, you’ll either be supporting local charities that benefit local people, like Salvation Army or the Rescue Mission, or add to the huge profits of distant private businesses.

Perhaps in the past several years, you’ve noticed or dropped donations off in one of the numerous large white, green, yellow or red boxes that have appeared throughout Tompkins County and the outlying rural areas. These boxes belong to either Planet Aid (PA) or USAgain, which do not share these clothes with people in need. USAgain is a for-profit business, while Planet Aid has nonprofit charity status through the IRS. Both businesses sell all donated clothes in poor countries around the world, and not cheaply. In one year, PA collected 58 million pounds of clothing and USAgain 60 million.

Planet Aid says it uses funds for “international aid.” However, the American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP), an independent, non-profit watchdog group for charities gives Planet Aid an “F” grade, because PA only spends 23 percent of its funds on their version of “international aid” (60 percent is considered appropriate). The Better Business Bureau has also refused to recognize PA as a charity. Investigations show that much of this “aid” money goes to “The Teacher’s Group,” part of the same Danish business organization, Tvind, of which Planet Aid is

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part—along with USAgain and “Gaia,” “IICD,” and “Humana,” which collect clothing elsewhere. The Teacher’s Group’s teacher training colleges in the U.S. receive much of the funds according to www.religionnewsblog. AIP also reports that journalist Michael Durham, who’s researched Tvind for years, has found that Tvind has over $860 million in assets.

Tvind has been investigated and prosecuted by the Danish government, “which alleges it’s a multi-million dollar international business masquerading as a humanitarian organization.”

(Christopher Malo at phlmetropolis. com, Nov. 17, 2012). Eight executives were accused of embezzling $9 million and illegally evading $11 million in taxes. Only one of them was found guilty. However, the other seven fled Denmark before the government began appealing the court’s decision.

It’s interesting to me that the Teacher’s Group spent $10 million on their new private retreat, according to thebollard. com (April 4, 2009).

How much money are we talking about? In 2007 Planet Aid was a $30 million enterprise. It’s also received over $33 million worth of wheat from the U.S. government. So why do I care? Because the clothes people leave in these boxes are leaving our area to profit a small number of people. PA has 10,000+ boxes in 20 states, USAgain: 10,000+ in 17 states. continued on page 7

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enerally cold, usually gray (at least around here), Thanksgiving is nonetheless, I think, the loveliest day of the year. It’s a wonderfully unifying holiday, not of religious or political dogma, but secular, open to everyone, a day of simple humanity: families convening, for maybe the only time all year, to share a meal, enjoy and strengthen their bonds, and give thanks for their blessings.

I look forward to the day of grateful reunion and reflection with my family.

For Ithaca Notes, where I endeavour to chronicle some of what makes Ithaca special, I’ve looked back at columns from 2015 to remember things I appreciate in my adopted hometown. They are quotidian things, to be sure; the more soul-stirring sides of life I will share with my family at dinner, as I hope you will with yours.

Often, this column notes the simple life and general lack of conspicuous consumption in Ithaca. I appreciate these qualities, as my own modest tastes can make even Samuel Beckett look gaudy.

I sometimes wonder, however, how dry cleaners make a living here. I’ve never been to a dry cleaner in Ithaca. I have some nice clothes from my past life in Washington D.C. that I haven’t had occasion to wear since the Clinton administration.

I like living in a place that celebrates itself as Ithaca does. If you don’t blow your own horn, there’s no music, you know. It’s a pleasure to report in this column the annual arrivals of the Ithaca Festival, GrassRoots Festival, Peter DeMott Trot, Porchfest, Apple Harvest Festival, and Streets Alive.

All these events were created and are run either by local businesses, aided by volunteers, or entirely by volunteers.

The volunteer spirit in Ithaca is broad and varied. The 2014 Best of Ithaca poll in the Ithaca Times had a category for Best Volunteer. Forty-two different people got votes. That’s a lot of candidates.

Greenstar Cooperative was started by volunteers four decades ago. For years, there were no paid employees. Today, with years of progress and success, Greenstar is

among the top 30 employers in Tompkins County. Still, the co-op is owned by its members: 10,000 of them. It offers a 17.5 percent discount to member-owners who volunteer two hours a week in the store.

I appreciate the great food offered at Greenstar, much of it local, and at our venerable and lovely lakeside farmers market, where all the food is produced within 30 miles. I appreciate the new bike path along the lake which, as part of its route, connects these two, for a fitting touch of green.

I appreciate our community radio station, WRFI, also created and run by volunteers. On Nov. 10, legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint died, at age 77, of a heart attack after a show in Madrid. His passing is a momentous event, but not the kind you will hear much about in mainstream media: maybe a 15second mention on the evening news. I knew, however, I would hear a tribute to him on RFI. I came home from work the day after his death was reported, turned on Felix Teitelbaum’s show, and heard “Working In The Coal Mine,” “Yes We Can Can,” “Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky,” and other Toussaint songs. I picked up the phone and called in my annual pledge.

I’m grateful for the Ithaca Times.

The Internet age is a marvel, but there is still great pleasure in written word on paper. Newspapers of all stripes all over the country have folded, but the Times continues, a robust new issue every Wednesday.

There’s value in a newspaper that helps set an agenda for a community. We’re all looking at different things online. Ithaca still has this shared forum every week. (And it’s free.)

I was grateful for this paper long before I started writing for it, but more so now. I appreciate the opportunity to share life in Ithaca with you in words here. Thank you for reading. Thank you for everything you do to contribute to the life of our town. I wish you and yours a splendid and joyful Thanksgiving. •

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A Tough Loss for Ithaca

I had the opportunity to once again attend the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) Boys’ Soccer Class AA Championship as Ithaca played off against Ballston Spa. I came to support my cousins Sohrab #3 and Ali #33 who are both on the varsity team. After a shootout against Arlington last week, the undefeated Ithaca would face a challenge overcoming the undefeated Ballston Spa team from the Albany area.

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Middletown High School had a large sports complex that was hosting the other class championship games at the main stadium. Despite being relegated to the smaller stands, the crowd was jam packed with supporters from both teams. Ithaca started off the game aggressively playing to their strength of teamwork and moving the ball up the field. Two goals were scored in the first half putting Ithaca into a strong continued on page 7

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There’s also the issue of deception by PA such that people think they’re donating to a charity doing good works. This is very different than when we donate to local organizations like Salvation Army, the Rescue Mission, and others elsewhere like Goodwill and St. Vincent de Paul. Our donations to local groups generate funds that go to programs that benefit local people in need. People donating also can take a charitable deduction for it, unlike with USAgain. Giving clothes to PA and USAgain is taking our resources out of our community and losing all the benefits our local groups offer people. We also get to buy donated items locally; these goods stay in our communities.

A former USAgain manager, Lea White, said that “she and other employees never explained the for-profit nature of the company to owners of sites where boxes were placed … Yes, your community is being deceived,” according to the Herald & Review (Decatur, Georgia; Feb. 9, 2011).

According to Malo (phlmetropolis. com), Mark Boyd, a CEO of Goodwill Industries, said, “If you give that donation to Salvation Army … it goes directly to their rehab programs. They help people with substance abuse issues. And all their donations go to their stores.” Boyd continued, “Goodwill is the largest employer of people with disabilities in the world …When people are donating their material goods, they have an opportunity to make a difference in their community.”

Goodwill helps people with disabilities and disadvantages realize their economic potential via a job, including offering training, jobs, job placement and more.

Goodwill also provides job training and placement to ex-offenders.

Ithaca’s Catholic Charities, where I’ve sorted clothes, is a wonderful resource for people in need, offering free quality clothing and bedding. Their lovely women’s clothes can be very useful for job interviews. By the way, they are usually in great need of men’s and children’s clothing and shoes. Catholic Charities is where I take my friends’ clothing when they’re downsizing. Our local Rescue Mission offers services to homeless people, including shelter, with some support coming from sales of donations at Ithaca’s Thrifty Shopper store.

These corporate boxes are impacting these local charitable organizations’ services. According to thebollard.com article, in Portland, Maine, the Salvation Army administrator said that since PA came to town, donation revenue dropped by 10-15 percent. He said, “We’re operating pretty much at a minimum right now, [but] I’m not going to cut back on feeding my guys.” Goodwill’s Boyd told Malo, “We’re struggling to maintain our historical level of donations” because of the PA and USAgain boxes.

The website religionnewsblog.com reported that New Jersey was considering a bill that “would make it more difficult to place a box without providing more information on the charity.” Some

communities have considered laws banning these boxes, which would prevent local governments from permitting them on public property, which some have allowed. However, a government can’t prohibit people from permitting them on their property.

I hope you’ll consider leaving these boxes alone and bringing your unwanted clothes and shoes to our local organizations. And I ask those who’ve given permission to Planet Aid and USAgain to leave boxes on their property to contact them and tell them to take them away.

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lead 2-0.

When the second half came, disaster struck: two goals by Ballston Spa in the first six minutes of play and a third goal at the 15-minute mark. Whatever the Ballston Spa coach told his team at half time pushed them to excel above and beyond what they had done for the first half.

With a fourth goal at the 35-minute mark in the 40-minute half, it was all but over. In a crushing defeat of 2-4. Despite the long car drive and the loss, I can only feel pride at our team playing their hearts out and making it this far.

–Michael Deyhim, Town of Ithaca

Upset by Cover Story About Hunting

Your cover story [Nov. 4] and its title “Hunting Anyone?” is just plainout highly offensive and crude—a good portion of the citizens in Tompkins Co. are not hunters—probably the majority... and another significant number are very disturbed by the slaughter and suffering of deer—these very gentle, and yes, problematic, animals---The tone of the article’s title—“Hunting Anyone?” is obnoxious, cavalier, and cheeky-stupid--in addition, using the image of a bow hunter is doubly offensive---When making this editorial decision, did anyone take into consideration the extreme amount of suffering and prolonged pain inflicted on these animals when hit with an arrow?—VERY few deer die quickly when shot with an arrow--(especially from a hand pulled bow as opposed to a crossbow) and run and stagger around the community for hours and days--and longer---(an especially nice thing for kids to see).

Honestly, how does that make you feel in your gut?—in your heart?--feel anything?

It’s time to evolve—and quickly; but it takes the will and the effort to do so.... good luck on your journey.

– Dick Alexander, Town of Ithaca

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“You’ll be able to come up and try it,” he promised.

Grants accepted, the committee moved to budget items for the sheriff ’s department. The amount of $104,000 had to be transferred from the fund balance to medical and boarding out expenses. “We’ve had an extraordinary set of strange circumstances,” said Lansing.

When people are incarcerated at the jail, the sheriff ’s department takes over responsibility for their medical costs. “One gentleman had a prescription for pills that cost $1000 a day.”

Robison later explained that some prescriptions, such as one for the new antibiotic resistant tuberculosis, can run over $1,100 per pill. “All county jails are dealing with this,” he said. “And we’ve had a couple of people on kidney dialysis.

That’s not cheap; they have to go three times a week.”

Lansing added that the personnel cost of transporting prisoners to medical appointments also adds up. Prisoners who are hospitalized require guards. Further, “We have to pay the medical costs of people we board out,” said Lansing.

Chock asked, “Are we seeing trends in health needs that we might anticipate

continuing?”

“I don’t think there’s a trend per se,” replied Lansing. “Except that, as we know, corrections facilities are becoming a dumping ground for people with mental health issues and other disabilities.”

Legislator Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses) suggested looking at the medical budget over the last five years to see if there were a trend. “The only thing I do know is,” he said, “we have to take care of people when they come into the facility.”

After some discussion of the arrest records for September, the committee queried the sheriff and undersheriff about their testimony to the task force on court consolidation. Robison said their testimony wasn’t politicized: “Things like central booking, or the possibility of an arraignment court, is them asking the sheriff ’s department, ‘What would be most efficient for you?’” Robison said they provided information on what would impact the sheriff ’s department, but “a lot of the things folks ask for require changes to the law.”

County administrator Joe Mareane pointed out that the task force hearings are recorded, and can be accessed through the county website. The sheriff ’s department spoke to the task force on Oct. 28. • — Gly n is

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Fixing the Demographic Numbers We put incomplete numbers in the “Dear White People” cover story last week (Nov. 11), which proved to be confusing.

An IC faculty member noticed something awry with the demographic numbers listed in the article. They were drawn from collegefactual.com, which has since revised its numbers. They are presented in a pie chart and no source is listed. If you go to the site today (Nov. 12; as opposed to two weeks, when I found the numbers reported above) you will find the following. At Ithaca College the student body is said to be 69.1% white; 4.7% black; 7.3% Latino; 3% Asian; 2.9 mixed race; 10.8% not reported/unknown; and 2% resident alien. This totals to 99.8%; the 0.2% is a rounding error.

By comparison, collegefactual.com (which may or may not have been using the same data source as it did for IC) says the Cornell student body is 42.4% white; 5.8 black; 11.1% Latino; 16.3% Asian; 4.2% mixed race; 9.9% not reported/unknown; and 9.9% resident alien. This totals to 99.6%; again, this is due to a rounding error.

The faculty member was troubled that the numbers reported in the article did not sum to 100%. Resident aliens were left out of those numbers because they weren’t the subject of the article. That was an error on my part. It would not have taken up that much room. The faculty member directed me to the Office of Institutional Research at IC, which keeps demographic statistics. Their numbers for the fall semester of this year differ from those of collegefactual.com. This semester 71% of IC students are white; 5.5% black; 7.3% Latino; 3.5% Asian; 3.0% mixed race; 7.5% unknown; and 2.2% international.

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Nowhere on Cornell’s own website does it state that white students are a minority.

The number of minority students is stated as 38% or 39%, depending on where you look. If you add up the collegefactual.com numbers for Cornell using IC’s ALANA definition, that comes to 37.4%, roughly what Cornell claims. On their “University Facts” page Cornell implies that some minorities do not report their ethnic status and therefore “actual counts may be higher.” So what causes “white” to appear to be a minority category at Cornell is that nearly 20 percent of the student body is international or does not declare an ethnicity. If fewer than half in those two categories are white, then a minority of Cornell students are white.

Rather than comparing IC to Cornell, what if one tries to find a somewhat comparable college in the Northeast? That is difficult. IC is a rare bird in terms of its size and geographic location. Providence College is one possibility is smaller (~4,500 students) and in a larger city, but its mixture of applied subjects and liberal arts seems comparable.

According to collegefactual.com, its student body is 76.7% white. What about Springfield College? Again, it’s a larger city and a smaller (2,100) student population, but the curriculum is similar. Student body? 81.7% white.

Vanderbilt University is of comparable size, but in a larger city and more of a liberal arts school. The student body is 60% white.

Collegefactual.com also tells you whether a school is above, on par, or below average in terms of ethnic diversity. Ithaca College is rated as being “on par,” which is to say that compared to all the other schools in the country, they are doing about as well as most.

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They are Class AA regional champions after going undefeated in the regular season and 3-1 in the postseason.

Consider this astonishing statistic: they scored 94 goals and allowed only 6. In state sectionals, they defeated Corning, MonroeWoodbury, and Arlington, but fell to Ballston Spa in the final four; a feat that is all the more impressive when considering the pool of talent available at the larger schools they faced. They went into the final four last weekend with a well-earned #1 state ranking and #5 national ranking.

These statistics say that something rare has occurred in the Ithaca community. To succeed in high school sports at this level, athletes are nearly required to train yearround. In order to do just that, 23 players on the IHS team have attended the TC Waza Academy, a soccer-meets-martialarts school, some for up to 10 years with coach LaMarr Peters. On top of this, Ithaca is home to a multitude of international people, many of whom play soccer.

The Waza Dragon

Back in August, as a member of the Cayuga Cosmos, I had the opportunity to play in a match against this formidable team of teenagers. Peters fielded a TC Waza team of his best players in the Lansing International Futbol Academy (LIFA) Summer League, the highest level of adult competition in the Finger Lakes region.

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Pierre Clavel, Mason Wolff, and Jared It h ac a H i g h ’s P i e r r e C l av e l d r i v e s d ow n f i e l d .

Brooks all took turns firing shots that ( P h o t o : E d n a B r ow n) seemed on par with a major league baseball pitcher. Our attacks were easily foiled had a break, if I could get him some coffee. by defensive powerhouse Eric Denbow, Smiling wide with arms outstretched, with help from the deft Ali Mohammadi.

Ithaca has a high per capita population appearing to hold the team behind him, he However, at the conclusion of a nail-biting of international people. Many Cornell replied, “I got this!”

90 minutes, we defeated the Waza dragon.

University students and faculty move Last week, I caught the second half On average, the Cosmos have 10 more here from overseas and inevitably seek of a blindingly high-speed game in which years of playing time than the teenage to play their pastime sport. It is common a TC Waza team of mostly-15 year-olds players, some possessing college or semiwere defeated 1-2 by the Netshakers, a local to play soccer in Ithaca with people from pro experience. countries around the world, including adult team competing in the LIFA Indoor One aspect of this team stands out: Brazil, Germany, Jamaica, Senegal, Korea, League. The boys they place an iron and Guatemala. It is a thriving community. filtered off the field trust in the imperious “Now I can step back and As Samir Naamane of Morocco exclaimed, to convene in the voice of Coach lobby. Coach LaMarr “The only reason I am here in Ithaca is see them; how they’ve LaMarr sounding soccer.” sat at meditative always picked their from the sideline. He The IHS team and the younger repose as the players broadcasts concise generations to come are heirs of this own lessons, they’ve hydrated and settled commands to specific tradition. They have emerged out of a in, forming a pack strengthened their own ears. Peters possesses around their mentor. complex mosaic. In the 1970s, both Ithaca weaknesses.” a rare kind of rapport High and Cornell University fielded Waiting for his with his soccer highly successful teams. Coach Dan Wood —Lamarr Peters, TC Waza Coach audience to gather players. They react to famously recruited 10 IHS players to his focus, he glanced his calls with cat-like Cornell team. Bruce Arena, coach of the around at the player’s parents gathered on reflexive certainty. His novel jargon relates L.A. Galaxy team and former coach of the fringe, using eye contact to confirm a lesson from that week, or from five years the U.S. Men’s National team, played for their trust in him. At the moment one back in his storied hyper-focused training Wood’s Big Red team. Wood also helped could hear a pin drop, Peters began his regimen. I talked with Peters about the form the Ithaca Youth Bureau (IYB) and its post-game monologue. He told them significance of his work with these youth. soccer teams in 1974. about the IHS varsity squad’s performance “I am fostering a relationship with these In 1976 an influx of Chilean in the state semifinal competition earlier kids,” he said, “where we become like immigrants fleeing the Pinochet regime that same day: how, even though their family. They are brothers to me—nephews, brought the South American game to “older brothers” ended as victors, their nieces, or cousins. That will happen after town. IYB program specialist Tito Villa endurance was tested to its end. “Now … ten years of showing up.” said this was a “golden age” of soccer you know why you lost,” he said. “Use that in Ithaca. “Soccer,” he said, “was a very feeling to get to know yourself.” Heads important piece to the [Chilean] cultural nodded, with eyes fixated on their coach. transition here. It was the place to be! The A few mouths whispered, “Okay … yes.”

Once, I greeted Peters after 10 hours ‘International All-Stars’ played weekly Their determination to do better was of continuous coaching. He had no less against community members, establishing palpable. enthusiasm, nor any complaints, offering crucial relationships. Soccer was the bridge a vivacious pound hug. I asked him if he’d

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to Ithaca. It was the constant in a chaotic time.”

Jano Parra, of Chile, helped establish the Ithaca United Soccer Club (IUSC) in 1980. After 35 years of continuous growth, it now has 30 teams with over 600 local players. Current IUSC manager Ibe IbeikeJonah, originally from Nigeria, said IUSC is “a pillar of cohesive diversity in the county, bringing people of different backgrounds together to engage in fun recreational soccer.”

In 2009 Roger Vargas, a former professional player from Mexico City, started the LIFA League. The mission of LIFA is “to encourage professional behavior at an amateur level,” said Vargas, “where youth can learn from adults in a safe environment, and share our love of the game.” Commenting on the efficacy of this combination, Peters said, “They get a soccer soup of internationals and exposure to styles they’d never see in youth competition.”

nothing at all. Winners feel it, but stay calm.”

Though they didn’t hear Coach LaMarr from the sideline through their journey to state finals, they surely carried his indoctrination in muscle memory.

Current IHS varsity coach Gilbert Antoine basked in the luxury of fielding a team that was thoroughly conditioned and prepared for the challenges they faced.

A Culture of Development

Center of the Triangle=Center of Gravity

TC Waza promises a serious contribution to our youth. The word “Waza” is Japanese for “good technique.”

It is also a Swahili word meaning “to think clearly.” Expressed as an acronym, it stands for Wisdom, Awareness, Zen, and Application.

Martial arts are presented as a foundation of Waza training. “They master the basics,” Peters said, “to be able to individually function, having a toolbox to then work well in a group. Martial arts are very direct, where every single move has a function to achieve something efficiently— nothing is wasted. You see, soccer is a martial art. It is a self-defense system; every movement has a beginning and an end that connects in some way with the ball, the goal. So movement and thought are simultaneous. You have to have the stillness of mind to be able to move correctly. There are a million different things you could do, but they learn to do the right thing.”

I told him I had been hypnotized by his team during our match. He laughed in the way a satisfied sensei would as he observes a student acquiring a lesson.

“That,” he said, “is because I tell them, ‘We are leading the dance, we are dictating the terms of this thing, while keeping this fact unknown to the opposition.’ Again, martial arts are defensive, cycling that energy back to become very aggressive, while still being subtle.”

This synthesis of power and subtlety is evident in the performance of IHS centerback Mason Wolff. His sense of balance is visibly advanced in both mentally-challenging high-stress game situations and in his rapid athletic response time.

Pierre Clavel, a senior at Lehman Alternative Community School (and player on the IHS team), is another product of this Zen training. His extraordinarily creative midfield play is an exhibit of efficiency: energy-conserving micro-touch

F r o m To p L e f t : A n d r e w A r a n e o ; S o h r a b M e m a r ; L a m a r r P e t e r s (i n y e l l ow d r ag o n s h i r t) w i t h y o u n g T C Wa z a p l ay e r s ( P h o t o s : p l ay e r s b y E d n a B r ow n ; P e t e r s b y R y e B e n n e t t) ball control and a consistent ability to be in the right place at the right time.

Clavel would make a good heart surgeon some day. His kind and focused demeanor, with his surgical approach to the game, indicates just the right traits.

When asked to comment on his coach of 10 years, he had much insight into Peters’ tutelage. “I learned the game from LaMarr’s constant comparisons to martial arts,” said Clavel, “whether it be Dragon defense [a form of jockeying] or left-hand solid, righthand loose and flowing … as a description of transitioning from offense to defense.”

Of Peters’ personal influence, Clavel said, “LaMarr’s coaching has shaped me not only as a player, but as a person. From simple technical drills I learned in my youth, to more complex runs of play, I understand that I am still learning now. …

I have developed a ‘ceaseless’ psychology that has allowed me to pursue all of my passions.”

Being balanced and relaxed while enduring sometimes-immense mental and physical pressure is the lesson here.

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Peters moved to Lansing, New York from Detroit in winter 2004, bringing Waza Flo with him. He soon merged it with TC United to become TC Waza, thus providing access for local players to the Waza world of soccer. Today, there are more than 180 Tompkins County youth registered in the academy. The oldest generation of Waza trainees make up most of the #1 ranked IHS varsity squad.

Alongside Peters, coming from the merger with TC United, is coach Maureen Whitehead. She works mostly with the boys and girls under age 12, focusing on foundational skills. As she delivers laser sharp criticisms to her players, buoyed by a propelling and inspiring tone, their confidence visibly blossoms. They respond with amplified energy; they seem braver.

Whitehead previously coached the statelevel Olympic Development Program and Lansing varsity girls’ soccer.

An auxiliary to TC Waza, former Jamaica National Team player Chris Thomas currently coaches a girls’ academy known as Ithaca Power. Thomas brings a breadth of experience to the region. “We all teach that a balance of technical skills with mental acuity is essential to the game,” he said. “You can’t have one without the other.”

One of the most dynamic and inspiring local players is DJ Roberts, born in Kingston, Jamaica. His presence forces everyone else to step up their game. A recent graduate of Wells College, Roberts is working toward a professional career with Major League Soccer. DJ’s perspective has merit. “The Waza guys are incredibly talented,” he said. “I think them knowing my story, going pro from rec leagues here, just shows the infinite possibilities that lie ahead for these kids.” Commenting on the academy’s prospects, Samir Naamane, an under-12 coach at TC Waza, said, “There are some very talented guys in the next generation at TC Waza who will make good Ithaca teams for 10 or 15 years to come.” •

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public presentation of the Cayuga Lake Modeling Project’s (CLMP) findings was held Nov. 13 in the Old Jail meeting room on East Court Street. Elizabeth Moran, president of EcoLogic, gave out the project’s findings to a room packed with local officials and concerned residents. Three years into the CLMP, the study appears to have raised as many questions as it answers: studies of temperature, phosphorus load, and their effect on algae growth all lead to new questions on what these measurements really mean to the health of the lake.

Moran explained that, as a condition of Cornell’s permit for the lake source cooling (LSC) plant, the university runs the CLMP under New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) auspices. The LSC plant on East Shore Drive makes a heat exchange between water from Cornell and cooler water pumped up from the depths of the lake. This contributes heat to the lake and brings phosphorus up from cooler levels of the lake. The DEC’s concern with LSC is this rise in phosphorus content.

Phosphorus is a problem because it leads to plant growth and algal growth; the DEC’s limit for total phosphorus load (total P) is 20 micrograms per liter for recreational water bodies. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “Phosphorus is a common constituent of agricultural fertilizers, manure, and organic wastes in sewage and industrial effluent. It is an essential element for plant life, but when there is too much of it in water, it can speed up eutrophication [a reduction in dissolved oxygen in water bodies caused by an increase of mineral and organic nutrients] of rivers and lakes.” The southern quarter of Cayuga Lake was placed on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) list of impaired water bodies in 2002 because total P in the south end of the lake occasionally goes over this limit, said Moran.

The modeling project, which has completed phase one (gathering data and planning) and is now in phase two (modeling), should wrap up in 2016. In 2013 a major finding was that 97 percent of the bioavailable phosphorus was from nonpoint sources. Point sources are easy to find: the water treatment plants and LSC, mainly.

These are heavily regulated, and their output is monitored. Non-point sources are less easy to monitor: parking lots (and other impermeable surfaces), lawns, agricultural areas, and golf courses contribute both fertilizer runoff and organic matter, like rotting leaves. “We’re also looking in great detail at the watershed to see what the sources of phosphorous are,” Moran said.

However, she said, there’s another issue, which is whether that phosphorous is bio-available. “The elevated total P concentrations are entering during runoff events,” she said, using a chart to

demonstrate. “They come with the mud, which means they have low bio-availability.”

The DEC limits don’t take into account the difference between bio-available and low bio-available P, said Moran. Sediment or low bio-available P is strongly bound to mineral or organic sediment, and has the potential to become available with time, but algae can use bio-available P immediately as fuel for growth.

“Total P is a flawed indicator of algal growth potential, [in a system] dominated by muds with low bio-availability,” said Moran.

Time was another factor. The CLMP has found “lake circulation is dynamic and complex,” said Moran. “There’s a lot more exchange between the main lake and the shelf [at the south end]. This has implications for algae.” Cooler water from the north end or middle of the lake exchanges with the warmer water in the south end, a process accelerated by wind.

This may be why the south end is not seeing harmful algae blooms, she explained.

Finally, another interesting finding has come up: “Cayuga Heights and Ithaca wastewater treatment plants [WWTPs] reduced [their] phosphorous [output] by 80 percent, but the massive reduction from the WWTPs has not reduced chlorophyll a.”

Measurements of chlorophyll a are used to estimate algae populations.

Before taking questions from the audience, Moran outlined what will happen next. The CLMP continues for another year, until December 2016. In the meantime, the project managers expect to “review the regulatory status with the DEC and EPA,” including commenting on the difference between bio-available P and sediment P; and “advocate for a robust watershed management approach, reflecting detailed scientific investigations” into non-point sources.

Moran noted that studying phosphorous content in water bodies is a developing and emerging field, and projects such as this one are uncommon. How to measure P, and what the measurements mean, is still evolving.

Local environmental watchdog Walter Hang raised a question. “LSC is contributing about 6 percent of phosphorous to the lake. Doesn’t that confirm that the LSC shouldn’t have gotten a permit, because it’s contributing phosphorous to an impaired section of the lake?”

Robert Bland, a Cornell engineer who has been involved with LSC from the beginning, responded: “I think you’ve raised that question many times with the DEC, and that’s [partly] why we’re doing the study. There’s going to be an outcome of this model that will answer that.” He went on, “That 6 percent is a dry weight of phosphorous. ... Some amount of phosphorous is essential to life; without any phosphorous it would be a sterile lake.”

Environmental educator Bill Foster asked, “What about the role of turbidity in the south end of the lake, in terms of algal growth?”

Moran said, “The model is looking at that.” • — Gly n is

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Diving in Florida

Ayla Bonniwell is a much sought after athlete

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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ust keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming…”

So said Dory, the great philosopher and motivational speaker to Nemo’s dad, Marlin, in the Disney movie Finding Nemo, just in case he was thinking about giving up. Apparently, Dory met up with Ayla Bonniwell and said, “Just keep diving, just keep diving, just keep diving, diving, diving.”

Not that Ayla ever thought about giving up, but to get to where she is now, she sure had to do a lot of diving.

I wrote about Ayla last year, soon after she won the state championship for Ithaca High, having overcome a large deficit entering her final dive. Since then, the high school senior has shifted gears somewhat—choosing to be homeschooled for her final year of high school—but her dream of diving at a major college was never in question. Last week, when she signed her National Letter of Intent to compete for Florida State University, she drew closer to living that dream.

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“I decided about two weeks ago that I would choose Florida State,” Ayla told me.

“A week earlier, I visited the University of Indiana on one of my official visits, and the Indiana coach really wanted me to make a decision.” She added, “I was really torn, but Florida State was my first visit, and I compared the other schools to FSU, and I called the Indiana coach and told him of my decision.”

Ayla was a highly sought-after diver, as Arizona State, the University of Texas, and Ohio State University were also wooing her to bring her talents to their campuses. The decision might have been complicated a bit by the fact that Ayla’s club coach (Ayla spends several months per year in Ohio, doing her schoolwork remotely) is also the head coach at Ohio State, but Ayla sounds like a young woman that has made her decision and will not look back.

The decision to forego Indiana’s offer was a tough one too, Ayla said, adding, “Head coach Drew Johansen was the coach of the last U.S. Olympic team, as

Ayla Bonniwell (Photo: Tim Bonniwell)

he had the most divers on the team. He came over from Duke, and my mom really wanted me to go to Indiana, but I knew I wanted to go to Florida State.”

At FSU, Ayla will have year-round access to the Seminoles’ outdoor pool, and that was a real draw to a kid that grew up here in Ithaca. I asked her if she knew any of her future teammates, and she said, “They have all been a part of USA Diving, and since we’re in different age groups I

have never competed against them, but I have met them.”

Given Ayla’s decision to complete her final year of high school through homeschooling made her ineligible to compete for Ithaca High this year, she initially planned to graduate in January 2016 and head to Florida. But, she said, “I changed my mind, and I decided to finish in June with the rest of my class and go to FSU in the summer.”

Ayla plans to be at Florida State for all four years of her eligibility, but she is taking this journey one step at a time. I asked her what she thought about any possible future Olympic team plans, and she replied, “It’s always in the back of every athlete’s mind, but I am honestly not thinking about Rio in 2016. I don’t yet have some of the dives needed to be an Olympic diver, and you need to make a name for yourself.” She added, sounding very confident, “This year at Nationals, I started to make a name for myself, and if I think about the Olympics, I think about Tokyo in 2020.”

For the immediate future, Ayla is taking some time off to recuperate from a broken hand she suffered as a result of whacking it on the diving board. Taking time off is surely a strange experience, given Ayla has been diving with the club team since ninth grade and working out two times per day, five or six days a week, but she will adjust. As for her parents, Tim and Lisa—both former collegiate divers themselves—I look into my crystal ball and see two words: “Frequent Fliers.” •

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charges, have done their work pro bono.

This new prospective round of case We Are Seneca Lake’s costs have mostly dismissals, Gibson said, is due to the been in maintaining a legal resource center district attorney’s office now agreeing that at Sujata Gibson’s law office, which takes in about of half the 200-plus cases it has $3,000 per month. That pays for the work reviewed, We Are Seneca Lake protesters of paralegals; they help self-represented were arrested on public land. activists with their cases, draft motions, “They’ve been reviewing lots and lots of case files and determined 120 people of those didn’t have enough evidence,” Gibson said. Numerous arrested protesters were scheduled for a Nov. 18 Town of Reading court hearing, but that was postponed on Monday to a date to be named shortly.

We Are Seneca Lake had Protesters arrested at Crestwood in September. (Photo provided) an actual firstyear celebration on Sunday, Nov. 8 with music and speeches at the Rongovian and process paperwork. Incidentals have Embassy in Trumansburg. also cost a few thousand dollars this year, The event featured music from Quarles said—material for banners and Colleen Kattau and Dos XX, and a silent hand-warmers for the early morning auction and raffle, which raised about outdoor actions. $7,000 for the group’s costs. That money “We’re like an all-weather team,” will go toward legal defense, according Quarles said. “We don’t want to have to to Jan Quarles. All of the attorneys who do this. It’s dark, it’s freezing cold, and you have defended protesters arrested outside get up at five in the morning to do these.

Crestwood’s gates, mostly on trespassing We have to defend the commons against Day.

Environment

LPG Storage Protest Gets Dismissals

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riday the 13th proved to be a lucky day for We Are Seneca Lake, the group formed about a year ago to stage direct action protests at the Crestwood Midstream methane storage facility in the town of Reading.

The Presbyterian minister Rev. Jane Winters was arrested on trespassing charges along with 16 other protesters blockading the Crestwood gates on the morning of June 30. On Nov. 13, her case before the Town of Dix town justice was dismissed “in the interest of justice” by the Schuyler County district attorney’s office, according to a Dix office clerk.

Winters’ case was moved from the Town of Reading because she was a resident there for 13 years and knew town Justice Raymond Berry, according to Ithaca attorney Sujata Gibson.

Gibson says that the dismissal is what she hopes to be the first of about 120 from the office of Schuyler County D.A. Joseph Fazarry. His office and Gibson’s team had reached a deal this past April to dismiss earlier protesters’ cases, but Gibson said the deal was rescinded when 19 more protesters were arrested on April 22, Earth

a corporation putting in a private gas station.”

About 200 people were in attendance around 5 p.m. as talks and presentations were coming to a close and the music was about to begin.

“People get to know each other, standing together, going to jail together,” Quarles said. “It was nice not to have an arrestable event, but have a beer, dance, and celebrate our one-year anniversary.”

Concern was not entirely absent from the Rongo, of course.

Sandra Steingraber told the crowd that their fee for leaving was sending on their comments against using natural gas and biomass to repower the Greenidge power plant in the town of Dresden to the state Public Service Commission. The formerly coal-burning plant, built in 1938, was shut down in 2011; comments to the PSC were due this past Monday.

“We chose the name ‘We are Seneca Lake’ because there are 100,000 people who live in the Seneca Lake watershed,” Steingraber said. “65 percent of all of us

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he said. “Although I didn’t know yoga or anything about India, I was a long-time meditator, so I was responsive.” Begg said that most of what Bhatnagar said that night was gibberish to him, but one remark got through.

“Out of the fog one point woke me up,” he said, “and set off a light bulb. I thought, ‘He is so right. I’d never thought of it that way. It intrigued me so much that I

Finding Focus Through Sound

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ri Shyamji Bhatnagar approaches spirituality as bridge-building exercise toward science. In addition to practicing Naada yoga in his youth, he also studied philosophy and psychology, and he considers his work with others today to be a psychology practice. He will be at Light on the Hill Retreat Center in Van Etten on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21 and 22 for workshop.

Bhatnagar’s work is focused on the chakras, the traditional “spinning wheels of invisible energy” arrayed along the central axis of the body and connected to the spine. Bhatnagar’s innovation, his addition to this ancient idea, is his conception of the “microchakras.” His central text is Microchakras: Inner Tuning for Psychological Well-being, written with retired psychology professor David Isaacs.

The microchakras are described as the rays of energy that connect the chakras to the spine. They can be either blocked or open, with obvious consequences.

“Let me give you a physical example,” said Bhatnagar. “The sun shines and light is received on your body. Vitamin D is created. If you have no exposure to the sun, you don’t get that, and you get sick. The chakras are source of light, but it’s a subtle light. We expose ourselves to it through meditation. If the microchakras are blocked then we do not receive the energy.”

The microchakras are blocked in various ways by experiences that begin at birth. Being born in a hospital will block a microchakra next to the chakra near your heart.

Bhatnagar makes a map of an individual’s microchakras, noting which are blocked and which are open. He then unblocks them with sound. Naada yoga is the yoga of sound.

“Shyamji is a master of Naada,” said Richard Matusow, a beverage entrepreneur and a student of the Shyamji’s. “Sound creates space and the purest sound opens a ‘golden space’ where there is stillness.

Sound is the superhighway to stillness.”

Matusow said that Shyamji chants in Sanskrit, which “includes all the sounds in the universe.”

Matusow has been studying yoga for 15 years and was introduced to Shyamji’s ideas five years ago. He described the personal practice. “It’s very practical; he makes a chart that connects the subtle and gross anatomy and gives you a mantra to open blockages in your microchakras.”

Practitioners should rise before dawn to meditate for 40 days before another visit with Shyamji. Matusow saw it as “a direct approach to spiritual growth.”

The entrepreneur, who founded a company called Sambazon, which makes a beverage from the açai palm of Brazil said his attention to microchakras gave him “increased energy, vibrancy, and

Sri Shyamji Bhatnagar playing the tambora. (Reflections Yoga)

circulation” on physical level, but more subtly he felt “more purity and clarity” in every aspect of his life.

Jack Begg, the head of the research department at the New York Times, was introduced to Shyamji’s idea through another Times staffer. “She was interested in voice, was impressed by a workshop and asked me to come along to the next one,”

went back.”

Begg said he had been looking for a teacher, someone to tell him what life was really about, why we’re here. “He’s one of the few who can tell you,” the journalist said. “He guides you in the direction that you were going anyway. He’s the classical boatman: when you get to the other side,

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it’s up to you. He doesn’t want anyone to become dependent on him. He shapes you, so you can do it on your own.”

Bhatangar said that after one’s first three years of life the microchakras can begin to be unblocked. The process can take a long time. Matusow has been practicing for five years and Begg for nine.

There is a related practice called Svara, which focuses on breath and balancing the energy in the left and right halves on the body.

But it is relationship with sound that Bhatangar is known for. “Sound created the universe,” he said. “You must understand direct and indirect notes and the science of the mantra.” When he makes a microchakra chart for a person he gives them a mantra populated by sound that will address their particular blockages. “Each microchakra can open,” he said. “Some resist and some are more responsive. We work with the responsive ones first so people are not discouraged, and the move on to the more difficult ones.” • —Bill

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Hunting Safety

Reminder: No Duck Hunting in the City

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olice Chief John Barber would like to remind residents and visitors that the Ithaca City Code prohibits any person from hunting within the city, and from even possessing a firearm in Stewart Park. The Tompkins County Environmental Review Committee (ERC) of the Environmental Management Council has been working to clarify and understand the issue of waterfowl hunting within city limits, which northerly limits include a boundary line over a portion of southern Cayuga Lake.

Up until 1994, city law made an exception for waterfowl hunting around the Hogs Hole area of the city.

However, in that year the city passed a

law extending the hunting prohibition to everywhere within city limits, no exceptions. The change was made because more people have been intensely using these areas, especially due to the waterfront trail and the promotion of a “blue way” for human powered boating.

Ithaca Police Department officers will enforce the firearm discharge prohibition in all areas of the city including on the water within the city lake boundary. Anyone hunting ducks within this boundary will be charged with violating Chapter 219 of the City Code, punishable by a fine of up to $250 or imprisonment of 15 days.

Effective immediately, the City of Ithaca will extend the city’s enforcement of its law against firearm discharge and hunting to include the city’s open water portion of Cayuga Lake (see map of same). The entire portion of the Ithaca City Code pertaining to waterfowl hunting can be found at: ecode360. com/8390733 •

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is water from Seneca Lake. Our blood plasma, our cerebral spinal fluid, an exhaled breath on a cold day is all the lake.”

Kim Fraczek and Patrick Robbins, co-directors of the Sane Energy Project out of New York City, showed off their new New York gas infrastructure map, available at youareherenymap.org. The interactive map, Fraczek said, is intended to combine location and data about different gasrelated entities in New York state – pipelines, wastewater plants and landfills that accept fracking waste – with stories about those places, all in the same window.

The Seneca Lake defenders still await a decision from the state Department of Environmental Conservation on a liquid propane gas storage facility that is also on a permitting track next to the methane in the emptied salt mines on the Crestwood property. An adjudicatory law judge is still determining whether enough information has been presented for the DEC to make a decision in that case.

Gas Free Seneca, an older group, is more focused on the LPG storage decision, since that group has legal standing on cases and has avoided civil disobedience to maintain that status.

When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled that Crestwood could store methane in Reading last October, everyone “freaked out,” Quarles said. Gas Free Seneca and We Are Seneca Lake and took “two ways that forked,” with the latter taking the path of direct action to try and reverse the federal decision.

“During the ‘60s, there were the inside and outside paths,” Quarles said. “Civil disobedience in the streets and inside, in the courts. We Are Seneca Lake isn’t a legal entity and never will be, so we don’t care if we get arrested.”

The next announced event from We Are Seneca Lake is a 1 p.m. march on Nov. 29 in Watkins Glen before the United Nations climate summit begins on Nov. 30 •.

Arts&Entertainment

All In TheFamily Giselle Potter’s illustrations on display at Eye Gallery

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by A rt h u r Wh itm a n

The couple lives together in Rosendale, New ompelling, well-presented exhibits York, where they moved from Brooklyn in of illustration are something of a 1999. rarity in Ithaca.

Potter studied illustration and fine A new gallery above Petrune art at the Rhode Island School of Design, on the Commons—eye—currently features graduating with a BFA in 1994. During her “The Lustrous Work of Giselle Potter.” The senior year, she was in the prestigious RISD show highlights 23 small pieces on paper by in Rome program, during where she worked the well-known Hudson Valley illustrator. on material that would later become her first It includes original paintings for her self-written commissions book, Lucy’s as well as Eyes and freestanding Margaret’s works.

Dragon: The Potter comes from a family of artists. Her grandfather Fuller Potter was an Abstract Expressionist painter and an acquaintance of Jackson Pollock. (His brother, Jeffrey Potter also knew the pioneering “drip” painter and wrote the popular Pollock biography To a Above: Giselle Potter’s Alone. Right: Giselle Potter’s book cover illustration Violent Grave.)

Orphan (Photos Provided) Giselle’s mother and father, Daniel and Melisande, Lives of the Virgin Saints. founded The Mystic Paper Beasts, a mask Moving to Brooklyn, she was fortunate and puppet theatre company, in 1976. When Giselle was a child, she and her younger sister enough to get freelance illustration work Chloe (now a photographer), toured America with the New Yorker, a job that led to other magazine assignments and eventually to her and Europe performing with the troupe. first children’s book. Mr. Semolina-Semolinus: Potter cites this early experience as a key A Greek Folktale was written by Anthony L. influence on her work. She based The Year I Manna and Soula Mitakidou and published Didn’t Go to School—one of four wholly selfin 1997. She has completed around 30 books authored books—directly on the experience. since. She has also done advertisements and Her love of fanciful narrative, animal has recently returned to editorial work with characters, and folk art style all spring from paintings for the New York Times. her formative years. “I think a lot of the time Potter works in traditional media: my work looks a little like the aesthetic of the primarily watercolor and gouache (an opaque puppets my parents made,” she recalled. watercolor). She adapts her illustrations from The artist’s parents are multi-talented. finished text, usually submitted to her by a Trained as an architect, Daniel is also a collaborator. (According to her, the process of sculptor as well as builder of theatre props. interpretation sometimes requires historical Melisande has been a pianist and dancer research but often is highly imaginative.) and is also a children’s book illustrator. Her Potter sketches her images in pencil and then husband Kieran Kinsella is a furniture maker experiments with the layout of the text— known for his pieces made from tree stumps.

using collage—before submitting the work for editorial revision. A revised drawing is used as the basis for a finished painting.

Occasionally Potter uses collage in her finished work. For her it’s a challenging technique. “Painting I just kind of do it and it’s really fluid,” the artist explained. “And then with collage I get really stuck—I redo it more and more times and there’s no end to it.”

I was most struck by Potter’s use of watercolor. (She also uses a bottled ink she describes as “between ink and watercolor.”)

These feature rich color, crisp contrasts, and subtle wet-on-wet effects—all adding another

dimension to her marvelous drawing. Her gouaches seem a bit flat in contrast.

Commissioned for a music festival in Hunter, New York, the watercolor Mountain Music is a highlight—filled with sweet, jewellike colors and a complex arrangement of human and animal characters. It depicts a nocturnal revelry with musicians and onlookers. The dramatis personæ include a man playing guitar while seated on a stump, a beskirted majorette blowing a bugle, a dancing couple, an infant in a blue suit and two distant figures seemingly fighting.

Framing the scene above is a dark blue sky punctured by white dots and prodded dull green hills and treetops bedecked with birds of many colors. Dark brown trunks lean in from the sides while bright leaves and continued on page 21

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and my loitering.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

stage

I Believe in You My Soul

Two classmates shift through Whitman’s world

By Bil l C h ai s son Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

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nthony announces himself at Caroline’s bedroom door with the last line of this stanza from “Song of Myself.” It doesn’t take long before he explains to her that he has to do a presentation on Whitman, and he has come to her house for her help. The first half of the first scene of I and You, the current production at the Kitchen Theatre, is spent getting you to believe that a teenage female would accept a teenage male that she doesn’t know suddenly appearing in her room. One is required to accept the extremity of Caroline’s social isolation and the perfect charm of her intruder to suspend disbelief and get on with the rest of the play.

Caroline is essentially a prisoner of her bedroom because she has a chronic liver disease that has been slowly killing

her since birth. Anthony is an exuberantly confident basketball player / scholar who is woefully deficient in the graphic skills needed to create a decent poster for this assignment. Among other things, he is colorblind. This is a typical example of the sort of mild, but progressive humor built into Lauren Gunderson’s play; Anthony is African American and Caroline is white.

The set of this two-person production is Caroline’s bedroom, a disheveled mess with one wall covered by her own photographs. They are a mixture of extreme close-ups, astutely cropped, and colored patterns and textures. Caroline herself is quite bitter, having faced her own death her entire life, she has built up a steely persona laced with sharp humor and brutal candor. “Being impossible,” she says, “makes a s***** life a lot more fun.”

Why has Anthony sought her out?

Because she is “this mystery” at school: the missing classmate. Furthermore, he thinks that she will understand Walt Whitman, especially his obsession with death and life

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab

Anthony declaims this and tells Caroline that she is the spotted hawk. The heart of the Whitman assignment is to untangle the meanings of his varying uses of the pronouns: I and you.

Anthony and Caroline are the embodiments of this central dyad. Whitman’s endless shifting of the meaning of “you” Anna Stephanic and Ian Duff in I And You (Photo: George Cannon) through “Song of Myself ” (indeed, all of Leaves Stephanic perhaps makes Caroline a of Grass) makes it clear bit livelier than someone suffering the end that self and other are inextricably bound stages of liver disease might be, but then together in a whole, something the play again she plays her as a real pistol, which brings home in its dramatic conclusion. is true enough to Gunderson’s script. Duff Anna Stephanic (Caroline) and Ian moves in the confined space with grace, Duff (Anthony), are two newcomers to the and so is believably an athlete, but also Kitchen Theatre. Both are part of the New conveys well the mixture of confidence and York City theater community, Stephanic self-doubt written into his character. has worked with the New Light Theater Director Emily Jackson’s work is Project, a writer-based collaborative, most apparent in the blocking of the two and the Bedlam Ensemble, “a company actors. While they are getting used to each committed to the idea of theatre as an other she has them essentially circling evolving art form.” around one another in the restricted Both Stephanic and Duff are in their space. As their intimacy grows the space 20s, but do an excellent job of portraying between them shrink and the pace of their teenagers as teenagers. They take on the movements slows, until finally they are subjects of life and death and sex with sincerity and believable amounts of insight. simply together •

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Batting Second From Berlin

Second round of auditions for Cayuga Orchestra

By Jane D ie ckm ann

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he second candidate for music director of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Brandon Keith Brown, leads the ensemble in an all-Mozart concert on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. in Ford Hall at Ithaca College. On the program will be two short marches (the conductor’s choice); the well-known late Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, with soloist Michael Galván; and the beloved Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543, the gentlest of Mozart’s final three symphonies. The customary preconcert talk begins at 6:45 p.m.

Brown is having a busy audition week, as he follows the fixed schedule set up for all four candidates. Coming to Ithaca from Berlin, his home base for some time now, he was greeted at a Tuesday welcoming reception. Wednesday’s schedule includes working with sixth- to eighth-grade string players from Boynton Middle School, a lunch with the orchestra and search committees, and a first rehearsal with the CCO. On Thursday morning he meets with Galván. Then come the routine orchestra rehearsals on Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday morning, followed

by Saturday’s concert.

Originally from North Carolina, Brown got started in music with a teacher in fourth grade who would bring all sorts of orchestra and band instruments into the classroom. He was fascinated early on by the sounds of these instruments, and he started composing at age 9. Brown feels his serious boost came in Chicago, where he studied violin and took graduate classes in conducting while at Northwestern.

Winner of the Peabody Career Grant, Brown has a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from Peabody. He has also been at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, studying with David Zinman, and he was an apprentice to the late great Lorin Maazel. The laureate of the 2012 Sir Georg Solti Competition for Conductors, he has led the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Other important conducting opportunities with German orchestras include the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, which has engaged him for a return concert in May 2016.

When asked about the CCO position, he said he would want to make sure the

orchestra reached its full potential. The chamber orchestra, in his view, is “every conductor’s dream,” as one can do such “intricate, intimate” music with it. He is enthusiastic about the great variety of repertory. As for contemporary music, “you have to give a voice to new composers.” Brown would promote a big competition for one new composition per season.

Saturday’s concert opens with a march in D major (K. 335), probably taken from the famous “Post Horn” Serenade (K. 320). Brown calls it “fun, with quirky techniques in it.” As for the familiar and very popular Clarinet Concerto that follows, he feels that this work reflects a certain innocence, love, and contentment. It is also very long, and challenging, as the composer was writing for a great clarinetist, Anton Stadler. Brown feels that his soloist will have a marathon evening, as the clarinet plays an important role also in the symphony. Galván, professor of music at Ithaca College, has been the orchestra’s principal clarinet since 1985, and he has performed with all its conductors since then. Clearly he is up to the task.

Following intermission comes the second march, this one in C major, K. 408/3. Brown calls it a standard piece that “feels like the closing act of an opera.” The lovely Symphony No. 39 will close the concert. Mozart specialist Neal Zaslaw describes the opening as suggesting the influence of French overtures, with its noble dotted rhythms, while the rollicking finale shows the kind of good humor that

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St. Martin’s Press published Marinelli’s first book of photography, Old Timers: The Italians, in 1979.

Burden of Wings contains not quite 100 photos, shot in various graveyards in upstate New York, New York City, Philadelphia, and Milan and Genoa, Italy.

All of the photos were shot with a Polaroid camera.

In his essay, Marinelli writes, “When I first started this project, I began shooting in black and white with a 35 mm camera. I could see the potential for a photo project, but … the images were too sharp, the statuary was only statuary, too dour, too maudlin. Not how I felt about cemeteries at all.”

Then he switched to a Polaroid and “used the Polaroid as a painter might use a sketchpad.”

He writes: “I shot freely, and, as the images appeared, I loved what I saw. …

The limitations of the plastic lens softened

the features captured in stone; the softened stone wings became real wings. Color did not have the solemnity of black and white.

The images now looked like how I felt.”

How did he feel? “I’m crazy about cemeteries.”

I viewed this book of photos like a gallery of paintings.

And, as I am personally more attracted to representational art, I found the statues the most compelling. And, with the softening effect of the Polaroid camera, they do seem somewhat alive.

We see a young woman, lying on her back, her hand over her eyes. A young woman kissing another young woman on the forehead. A close shot on a female thigh with flowers left on the mons veneris. A young woman attending a baby in a crib.

Two lovers in a passionate kiss. Two hands clasped upon a shoulder.

Stone angels are a recurring motif: Young woman angels. Baby angels. Angels with bowed heads, angels gazing intently at us, angels scanning the sky. Angels glowing with light.

Marinelli creates equally excellent abstract compositions with the austere planes of stone tombs, and a severe use of light and shadow on stone crosses.

And he uses contrast between the stone creatures of the graveyard and the living patterns and textures of the natural world. We see an ornate fleur-de-lis crucifix half buried in the snow. A smooth stone cross contrasting with the organic texture of tree bark. Gravestones and statuary lost in soft mist.

And he does some striking work using full silhouette. The silhouette of a winged cherub on a hill framed against the sky.

The silhouettes of a ponderous stone cross and a stone angel in the flaring light of the sun. The silhouette of a cross echoing the silhouettes of birds flying in the sky.

And Marinelli’s concluding essay on the subject of our mortality is excellent, as contemplative as his photos.

He writes of his love of cemeteries, how we tend to ignore death in our culture, and the way we, the living, attempt to hold on to the memory of our loved ones.

(I might add here how my favorite philosopher, the late Alan Watts, once suggested that if the prospect of your own death alarms you, you might try meditating on where you were before you were born.)

There are several quotes in Marinelli’s essay. I found this one, an Eskimo proverb, charming and moving, so I’ll conclude with it:

Perhaps they are not stars, But rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones Pours through and shines down upon us To let us know they are happy. •

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mushrooms poke up in front—as do a scattering of be daisies.

Music has a striking compositional unity that not all her pieces share—there’s no need for words and indeed there would scarcely be anywhere to put them.

Another watercolor, Orphan is featured on the cover of Potter’s 2011 book The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece, which was written by her previous collaborators Manna and Mitakidou. The cover image is a variation on the right hand side of a two-page spread from inside the book. In both versions we see the nameless heroine wearing a starred tiara and a green gown while escaping on a white mare—all gifts of the gods, as is her single blue shoe. The inside spread fills out the story: the front steps of a church where her other shoe remains stuck, the prince’s uniformed guards in futile pursuit, the townspeople distracted by the gold coins she has thrown.

Orphan is filled with memorable details. The girl’s long, improbably stiff brown hair echoes the horse’s tail. A pair of light-green trees with intricate detailing flank her to the left and right. Potter has used white gouache to offset the delicacy of her watercolor—most strikingly rendering the round paving stones below.

Written by Roni Schotter, Potter’s 2006 book The Boy who Loved Words is an eloquent modern fable. A story of quests and romance, it portrays a boy—later

a young man—Selig, known to all as Wordsworth for his love of “collecting” unusual words.

Alone shows Wordsworth in a moment of uncertain solitude. Against a vague interior painted in blocks of pale green and beige, Selig sits in a maroon armchair leaning to one side. His brown hair is neatly parted, his plaid shirt and trousers dull blue. Around him is a mess of words and open books. A grey cat hides behind the chair. To his left is a small wooden table with a pleat-shaded lamp.

Language has become a physical burden.

According to the artist, two gouache portraits here are based on “found photographs of strangers.” Frau is an upright oval (a tondo) and features an ornate, gilded frame, seemingly vintage. (Most of the pieces here are in plain wooden rectangular frames.) We see—at almost full length—a wavy-haired brunette woman in a plain maroon dress.

She bends her right arm back as if to brush her stylish coif. The background is a solid turquoise while a blue bird and exotic-looking flowers sprouting from below.

A similar, vaguely vintage aura characterizes Flora. We see the head and shoulders of a young woman overgrown with leaves and intricately folded flowers as well as a hummingbird and a bee. All of this has been painted in delicately pale colors. The background is blackened crimson with a checker-like pattern formed by brighter red leaf shapes.

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here to suggest a more surreal, slightly disquieting aspect to the artist’s work.

Diamond combines photo-collage and color drawing in a manner that recalls the subversive early twentieth century collages of the Dadaists and Surrealists. Like many of those, it playfully deconstructs the human body—here a woman’s. Drawn elements (in ink or watercolor) include a cartoonish head in profile, hose-like arms and a red-checkered backdrop. She faces a turquoise gem shape floating midair.

Several pieces have been collaged in a deliberately incongruous fashion. In black-and-white, she sports an oversized pair of breasts wearing a fifties style bullet bra. She sits on crossed bare legs—in color but propped up on black-and-white feet clad in high heels.

Alongside the similar collage Pie, Diamond satirizes traditional femininity— an interesting choice for a gallery adjoining a store that sells vintage clothes.

Accompanying the hung work is a display table featuring reproductions of Potter’s work, as well as a selection of her books.

Although only on their second show, eye is well on its way to becoming a fixture of the downtown art gallery scene.

Director Julie Simmons-Lynch’s inaugural show, held this past September and October, featured panoramic black-andwhite photographs by local artist Justin Hjortshøj, who has built his own film cameras.

Petrune owner Domenica Brockman also deserves credit. As an acquaintance

from their overlapping time in New York City, Brockman brought Potter’s work to the gallery. (Brockman, not by coincidence, is married to Hjortshøj—a case of social ties working for the better.

She’s also a skilled landscape painter.)

The next exhibit (it opens on Feb. 5) will feature local cartoonist, painter, and muralist Jim Garmhausen. Garmhausen borrows from his background as a newspaper comic strip artist to create a distinctive cast of characters both humorous and grotesque. His narrative wit and use of collage tie his work to Potter’s.

According to Simmons-Lynch, further exhibits next year (she is thinking of closing for January) include British science fiction illustrator John Harris, a group show (theme and artists TBA), and local abstractionist Melissa Zarem.

Simmons-Lynch, a freelance writer and editor, is currently an administrative assistant in Cornell’s Cognitive Science Program. She was previously an editor at Heavy Metal, an illustrated fantasy magazine. Although she has expressed in an interest in showing all types of visual art, she brings to her new venture a particular interest in comic and fantastic art – a specialty that may strike a particular chord with local artists and viewers. • “The Lustrous World of Giselle Potter” runs from Nov. 6 through Dec. 24. eye is open on Saturday and Sunday, from noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment or “catch-ascan-can” Wednesday through Friday.

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11/18 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!

Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

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 Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Aaron Lipp & Richie’s Band: Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Roots, Americana, Folk.

Cold Weather Company | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Acoustic Folk, Alternative, Folk Rock.

Whistlin Dyl’s Dallyers | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, # 2, Ithaca, New York | Hillbilly Soul, Country, Rock.

Moosewood Thursday Night Live | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70,

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11/21 Saturday Mighty Jet Band | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Blues, Folk, Rock, Soul.

Bronwen Exter and Laila Belle | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Lounge, Country, Noir, Americana.

El Caminos | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Alternative Country, Rock, Southern Rock.

Cielle And All Sounds On | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Blues, Folk, Americana.

Contra Dance | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Escape contra

11/20 GUSTER 12/3 CITY AND COLOUR 12/4 MATISYAHU WITH KEVIN KINSELLA 12/5 GRACE POTTER 12/6 PUNCH BROTHERS 1/29 GET THE LED OUT 2/20 THE MOTH MAINSTAGE 2/28 JOAN BAEZ 3/26 STEVEN WRIGHT

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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. Call 607-273-8678; on Fridays, 607-3424110.

Cascadilla Creek | 7:30 PM | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | The players in Cascadilla Creek are Carolyn Blake, Hope Grietzer, Barb Herrman, Andrea Katz, Cindy Mallery, Susan Murphy, Suzanne Schwartz, and Kathy Selby.

The English Beat | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | 2 Tone, Ska, New -Wave, Post Punk.

Radio London | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | 50’s, 60’s, Rock, Early Rock and Roll.

Sundown Sally | 5:30 PM-9:00 PM | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickok Rd #1, Interlaken | Alternative, Americana.

Michael Stark’s Galactic Organ Grinder | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Interstellar Soul, Jazz.

The Geronimo Line | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Spaghetti Western, Reggae, Folk, Grunge, 80s pop, African Groove and Latin Ballads.

Hey Mavis | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Appalachian, Americana, Old-Time, Folk.

Steamboats | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Album Release. Singer Songwriters, Soul, Vocals.

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Brahja Waldman’s Quintet | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Jazz.

Rocky Dawuni | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Reggae, Roots, World.

8th Annual Classical Guitar Event | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Dryden Community Center Cafe, One West Main St., Dryden | Music performed by Students of the Guitar Studio of Pablo Cohen Professor of Music at Ithaca College will be performing the works of: Bach, Villa Lobos, Barrios, Diabelli, Turina, Brower and others. Classical.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Hoodoo Crossing: Blues, Brews and BBQ | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues. Rock. Ribs.

Dinner with Jim Hull | 6:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Acoustic Folk, Singer Songwriter.

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dance with Bob Nicholson calling, Tim Ball (fiddle), Gail Blake (guitar), and Peter Blue (button accordion, nyckelharpa, percussion) Info at www. hands4dancers.org or 607-273-0249.

Tink Bennet and Tailor Made | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Country, Classic Rock, Southern Rock.

11/22 Sunday Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

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

Ariana Kim & Guests | 7:00 PM-8:30 AM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Ariana Kim, violin, with guests Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano, and Jennifer Curtis, mandolin/violin. This debut album release concert features music from Kim’s forthcoming CD of compositions by American women.

Dennis Winge Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Purple Valley | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Country.

David Pulizzi | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | American Folk, Country, Blues, Rock.

Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Crow’s Nest Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | The Crow’s Nest is trying for a pirate ambiance. Got any pirate songs? Open mic folk night.

Cayuga Blue Notes | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Country, Blues.

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

Locavore Jazz Brunch: Bryan J. Flood and Trevor Findley | 11:00 AM-2:30 PM | ZaZa’s Cucina, 622 Cascadilla St, Ithaca | Classic American Songbook Tunes, Swing and Gypsy Jazz.

Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys: WVBR’s Bound For Glory | 8:30 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Chamber Twang, American Country, Folk.

11/23 Monday 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.

11/24 Tuesday Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Don Slatoff & Harry Aceto: Viva Rongovia! | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Folk, Old-Time.

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 | Rulloffs, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | concerts

11/18 Wednesday Sinfonietta | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor | Bach: Fugue in g minor; Mozart: Symphony No. 29, first movement; Beethoven: Coriolanus Overture; Whitacre: October; Wagner: Introduction to Act III of Lohengrin

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Cornell Baroque Orchestra | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | The Old Main, Judge Gaza | 8:00 AM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave, Syracuse | Americana, Folk, Rock.

11/19 Thursday Music of a Bach Wife and Widow | 4:30 PM | Lincoln Hall Rm 124, Cornell, Ithaca | David Yearsley received his PhD in musicology from Stanford University in 1994. At Cornell he continues to pursue his interests in the performance, literature and history of northern European music, investigating literary, social, and theological contexts for music and music making. Yearsley’s book, Bach’s Feet: the Organ Pedals in European Culture (Cambridge, 2012), presents a new interpretation of the significance of the organ by investigating the German origins of the uniquely independent use of the feet in music making.

The Hornitz, Let’s Be Leonard, The Goodfruits | 8:30 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Party Funk, Hard Funk, Experimental Rock, Jam.

11/20 Friday Guster | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Rock, Alternative Rock.

Cornell University Wind Symphony | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | James Spinazzola, conductor, with the Jazz Band; Paul Merrill, director.

Features music of guest composer Patrick Williams, Vincent Persichetti’s Sixth Symphony and Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments.

Funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Heavy Pets, Mister F | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rock, Funk, Reggae, Jam. Hardcore on the Hill: Trench Fight, Love in Fear, Guilt, Media Limits | 8:00 AM- | Hardcore, Sludge Metal, Doom Metal, Punk.

11/21 Saturday Cornell Symphony Orchestra | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Chris Younghoon Kim,

11/19 ROCKY DAWUNI 11/20 THE ENGLISH BEAT 11/27 MATUTO 12/6 ALL THEM WITCHES 12/12 THE JOHN KADLECIK BAND THE HAUNT

11/27 GUNPOETS 12/2 THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS 12/5 SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS 12/19 DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET 2/13 FREAKWATER 3/12 STEVE FORBERT THE DOCK

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11/23 Monday Mike Cheng-Yu Lee, fortepiano | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann.

Film Spaceballs | 8:00 PM, 11/21 Saturday | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | Planet Spaceball’s President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia’s abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them. | 96 mins PG |

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Friday, 11/20 to Thursday, 11/26.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes The Assassin | Cinemapolis, Ithaca | An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in 7th century China. | 105 mins NR |

Suffragette | The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. | 106 mins PG-13 | Meet The Patels | An IndianAmerican man who is about to turn 30 gets help from his parents and extended family to start looking for a wife in the traditional Indian way. | 88 mins PG | Brooklyn | An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a new romance. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. | 111 mins PG-13 | Labyrinth of Lies | A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II. | 124 min R | Room | After five-year-old Jack and his mother escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his

entire life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery: the outside world. | 118 mins R | Spotlight | The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. World War II. | 128 min R | Trumbo | In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood’s top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. | 124 min R | Olive Branch Film Series: Private | 11/18 Wednesday 7:15 PM | The nightmarish story of a middle-class Palestinian family whose strategically located house is commandeered by an Israeli platoon. | 90 mins NR | Info at olivebranchfilmsithaca.net or Neil Hertz at nnh4@conrell.edu cornell cinema

Wednesday 11/18 to Tuesday 11/24| Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Rocco and His Brothers | Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone. | 180 mins NR |

Solar Water Heating | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/18 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Bob Nape of Solar is Hot will present information about various types of solar hot water systems, and discuss the financial incentives that are available to homeowners and businesses at the federal and state level. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Native Plants In The Landscape: Myths And Realities | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/18 Wednesday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | A slide show & talk by Dan Segal, Owner, The Plantsmen Nursery, Founder of Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium; National Board Member, Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes.

Open Door or Fortress: Greek and European Responses to the Refugee Crisis | 4:30 PM, 11/18 Wednesday | Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, 232 East Avenue, Ithaca | Speaker: John Psaropoulos, freelance reporter based in Athens, Greek and former CNN International Reporter.

Art Classes for Adults |11/18 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.

Women’s Fund Fall Gathering: Issues and Experiences: Women and Poverty | 4:30 PM-7:00 PM, 11/19 Thursday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca | To share demographic data, local services and personal stories of women speaking from the perspective of lived experience with poverty. CaRDI’s (Community and Regional Development Institute) Robin Blakeley Armitage will share demographic data.

The Art of Gratitude Motivational Event | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 11/19 Thursday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A free talk and inspirational retreat facilitated by Michelle Courtney Berry and James Brown. This will mark the second year the two have collaborated to inspire the community in the month of

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conductor. Features Barber’s Essay for Orchestra, led by Dietmar Friesenegger, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.

Cornell Chamber Singers | 3:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Robert Isaacs and Stephen Spinelli, conductors.

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Comedy’s Best Kept Secret Tour | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Come see what happens when National touring Comedians embark on a road trip from New York City to Anchorage Alaska to perform in all points in between. Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ comedys-best-kept-secret-tour-2015tickets-15673753619

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Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21 at 7:30. Tix at door.

I and You | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | By Lauren Gunderson.

Runs November 8 through November 22, 2015. Chronically ill Caroline hasn’t been to school in months when Anthony turns up at her door with waffle fries, a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and an English project deadline. (Ages 14+) For tickets and showtimes visit www. kitchentheatre.org Fool For Love| Theatre Incognita, Circus Culture, Press Bay Alley, 330 E Martin Luther | Friday, 11/20, 8:00 p.m.

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By Sam Shepard. A motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert. Two former lovers. Bruised with desire, tangled with misfortune. A new guy, the old man, secrets, and a lot of stories. http://www.theatreincognita.org/

Dope | Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who’s surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure. | 103 mins R | F For Fake | Orson Welles’ documentary about fraud and fakery. | 89 mins PG | Minions | Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlett Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world. | 91 mins PG |

Stage On The Corner: Encore Performance | 7:00 PM, 11/19 Thursday and 11/21 Saturday, 2:00 PM, 11/22 Sunday | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Highly regarded local production by The Civic Ensemble that dramatizes the historic roots of systemic racism in America.

A Midsummer’s Nights Dream | 7:00 PM, 11/20 Friday | BOCES McEvoy Center Auditorium, 1710 State Route 13, Cortland | Gods mix with mortals, a feuding king and queen unleash magical practical jokes on one another, spells yield improbable love affairs and a band of comical tradesmen wander into an enchanted wood in the Summer of Love, 1967 and are transformed in

Open Jam with Featured Songwriters | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM 11/18 Wednesday | 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 Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 11/20 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca |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.

Kol Haverim Open House | 11:00 AM-12:00 AM, 11/22 Sunday | Kol Haverim, , Ithaca | We are a community of friends and families centered around Jewish and Humanist culture and background. We celebrate Jewish holidays in a humanistic and secular fashion and organize independent programs throughout the year. Brunch and good company will be provided. RSVP to programs@ kolhaverim.net for directions.

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The Haunt, Friday, November 20, 7:00 p.m.

Circus Culture, Press Bay Alley, Friday, November 20, 8:00 p.m.,

The Beat, known in North America as, The English Beat, began their ska-punk-2 tone crusade in the wasteland known as 1980’s Birmingham, England, and toured with the likes of David Bowie, The Clash, The Police, and The Talking Heads. Disbanded in 1983, briefly reunited in 2003, and then on again in 2006, this band brings the nostalgic sound of 80’s new wave and punk, and molds it with great songwriting that’s birthed classics like Save it For Later and I Confess.

Theatre Incognita’s artistic director Ross Haarstad directs this classic Sam Shepard play about battling lovers at a Mojave Desert motel. The original play debuted in 1983 at the Magic Theater in San Francisco, where Shepard was the working playwright in-residence. A favorite play among a great width of famous and infamous actors and actresses alike, Ithaca’s local best get a crack at it this turn around, showing just what they’re capable of.

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November. This program will encourage participants to explore both the art of being thankful and the health benefits of expressing gratitude.

Jennifer Doudna: CRISPR Biology: Basic Science and Biotechnology | 4:00 PM, G-10 Biotech Building, Cornell | Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, one of the scientists who pioneered the technique, will give a lecture.

Research by Doudna into how RNA molecules control the expression of genetic information led to insights about CRISPR-Cas9-mediated bacterial immunity that enabled her lab and that of collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier to redesign this system for efficient genome engineering in animals and plants. Doudna will offer a seminar on “The CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Engineering Revolution” followed by a reception. The seminar will be live streamed via Webex; register at http:// bit.ly/1LEn7Yk and enter MBG@cu1 as the password.

Rethinking Thanksgiving with Storyteller Perry Ground | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 11/20 Friday | Greater Ithaca Activities Center, 301 W. Court St., Ithaca | This lively, engaging presentation gives an overview of this very misunderstood holiday.

Storyteller Perry Ground recounts the actual events of 1621, the feast, the relationship between the English settler and the Wampanoag, and how this story became the holiday we know today! http://ithacachildrensgarden. org/programs/rethinking-thanksgiving Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 11/20 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 11/20 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Come meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College.

Sunrise Yoga Workshop: Yoga Texts and Philosophy | 2:00 PM-4:00 AM, 11/21 Saturday | Sunrise Yoga, 119 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Understanding the major yoga texts allows us to more fully understand the history and philosophy of yoga and how they relate to our physical practice on the mat today. In this two hour workshop, you’ll

be introduced to the Yoga Sutras, the Hatha Yoga Pradapika, the Bhagavad Gita and a few other gems. Expand your yoga knowledge to deepen your practice! Workshop is lecture and discussion based. Visit www. sunriseyoga.com for more information.

Sign up at the Studio or email astridjirka@gmail.com please.

The Cornell Raptor Program visits Varna. | 10:30 AM-1:00 PM, 11/21 Saturday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Learn about owls, hawks and other birds of prey. There will be live birds to see and you can ask all the questions you want of Cornell’s Bird experts.

ASLCI: American Sign Language Learning Group | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/24 Tuesday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | ASLCI is a casual group for Ithacans of all signing abilities. We welcome everyone, Deaf or hearing, to learn more about Deaf culture and practice ASL. Our group meets every Tuesday at Barnes & Noble (614 S. Meadow St.) from 5-7pm, in the study area behind Starbucks.

You may arrive and leave whenever you wish. For more information and resources for beginning signers, please visit our website: aslchatithaca. wordpress.com

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Doug’s to Go Fish/Shrimp/Scallop Fundraiser | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 11/20 Friday | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg | 100% of all proceeds goes back to the Trumansburg area community for those in need. More info at http://www. dougsfishfry.com/dff_togo/about.php.

Some items are limited so make sure you order early. See any T-burg Lions club member for pre-order forms.

Cayuga Wine Trail’s Holiday Event | 11/20 Friday, 11/21 Saturday, 11/22 Sunday | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | The event begins first on Friday at Montezuma, Long Point, Treleaven and Six Mile Creek wineries from 1-5pm. Early Saturday starters can visit Treleaven and Long Point Wineries after 9am and then travel the trail to visit the others until 6pm Saturday and 5pm Sunday. Some of this year’s delicious recipes are Chardonnay Reserve Stuffing at Toro Run, Decadent Red Velvet Bars from Goose Watch, and Chef John’s Creamy White Bean Spinach and Roasted Garlic Soup at Knapp Winery. Participants

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Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/19 Thursday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Monthly Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/24 Tuesday | 316 E Court St. Enter Court St side, Ithaca | Professionally facilitated

by Jane Baker Segelken and Cathie Simpson. Participants are encouraged to bring a memento and/or a photograph to share. For information: Jane at 607-351-2740 or Cathie at 607-273-3063, or email petloss@gmail. com.

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 11/24 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees.

The only requirement for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine.

The hard edged Americana-country-folk trio Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys, play on WVBR’s Bound For Glory this week, Sunday, 11/22 at 8:30 p.m. (Photo Provided) who surrender their ticket at the end of the event are eligible to win one of six Grand Prizes: a Cayuga Lake Wine Trail 2016 Season Pass, a hand crafted vase from Corning Museum of Glass, a $250 gift certificate for Geneva on the lake, an overnight stay at La Tourelle, an overnight stay at the Holiday Inn Finger Lakes, or a $250 gift certificate for S & S Limousine.

O Tannenbaum | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 11/21 Saturday | Tioga County Historical Society Museum, 110 Front Street, Owego | O Tannenbaum is a German phrase meaning “Oh Christmas Tree”. The lyrics of the song express the beauty of an evergreen tree and how it stays true in form and color year round. TCHS’s event brings a similar delight, pleasure, and joy to the community. It is a special time for children, adults, families, organizations, and businesses to experience friendship, camaraderie, and the joy of the season. Children can write and mail letters to Santa – and receive responses in the mail – and even visit him when he stops by the museum!

Christmas Country Store | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 11/21 Saturday | Caroline Valley Community Church, 546 Valley Road, Brooktondale | Local arts,

crafts, hot food, bake sale, frozen pies available. For more information, please call 607-539-3114.

Silver Needles Machine Knitters | 10:00 AM, 11/21 Saturday | Cortland Ramada, 2 River St., Cortland | Bring any kind of machine to work on a group project, get help, and learn from club members. Visit www.fingerlakesknitting.com/silver_needles_ knitting_club for details.

Meetings Rental Housing Advisory Commission (RHAC) | 5:15 PM, 11/18 Wednesday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | RHAC recommends to Common Council new steps to be taken to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of rental housing in the City of Ithaca.

IURA Governance Committee (GC) | 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, 11/20 Friday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Third Floor Conference Room, City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca. GC advises IURA on issues such as budgeting and finance, personnel and committee membership, strategic planning, regulatory and statutory compliance,

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State Theatre, Saturday, November 21, 8:00 p.m.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Planet Spaceball, led

by Dark Helmet, fights to find fresh air for its choking planet.

But plans go awry as the dark side meets up with the rebels Lone Starr, Barf, Princess Vespa, and Dot Matrix. This legendary movie is obviously a parody of George Lucas’s epic saga Star Wars, but remarkably holds its own, and forges a timeless comedic tale, complete with the infamous characters Pizza The Hut and Yogurt.

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City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 11/23 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Planning and Development Board | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 11/24 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The Board reviews Site Plan Review applications, proposed Subdivision applications, proposed City ordinance revisions, zoning appeals, and other matters it is charged with reviewing.

Health Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/18 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting.

Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Alcoholics Anonymous | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 11/18 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf

Books The Other Racism / Anti-Semitism | 5:30 PM, 11/18 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A new Ithaca book club will examine, The Other Racism / Anti-Semitism, in Ithaca and beyond, by reading the new Kenneth Marcus book, The Definition of Anti-Semitism.

Brendan Kelly | 5:30 PM, 11/19 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his new book The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis.

Cornell MFA Student Original Works Readings | 5:30 PM, 11/20 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | First year students from Cornell’s MFA program read their original works.

Holiday Event | 11/21 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Stop by Buffalo Street Books on Saturday November 21st and 10% of your purchases will go to the Ulysses Philomathic Library. Folks from the library will be here offering gift wrapping, arts & crafts, storytelling, and there will be snacks.

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

Bronwen Exter & Laila Belle, Rongovian Embassy, Saturday, November 21, 9:00 p.m.

Forging unique bossa nova and lounge with alt-country and folk, local songstress Bronwen Exter brings the americana haze with each of her inspired compositions. She excels in the shadows of remembrance, and lays haunting reminders of lives left past. Laila Belle lives in similar clouds.

This band’s americana-country sound reminds one of the old west and the foundations of the frontiers. These two throwback acts complement each other well, and are a sure to bring the tumbleweeds and cowboy hats out with them.

Richard Polenberg | 3:00 PM, 11/22 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his new book, Hear my Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired “Stagolee,” “John Henry,” and Other Traditional American Folk Songs.

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Director’s Choice | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 11/20 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | West End Gallery announces the opening of its newest exhibit, “Director’s Choice”, featuring personal favorites selected by Gallery Director, Jesse Gardner. Each of the Artists represented by West End Gallery will have at least one of their works of art chosen for this group exhibition.

The Gallery represents more than 50 exceptional regional Artists, some nationally known, some emerging Artists, who work in a variety of mediums.

Adolph Kazlauskas Permanent Exhibit | 3:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/22 Sunday | Boiceville Meeting House, , Brooktondale | Permanent exhibit of 100 paintings by noted painter Adolph Kazlauskas installed at Boiceville Cottages. For questions regarding this event contact: Bruno Schickel: (607) 227-479, Amy Dickinson: askamydaily@ gmail.com Linoleum Prints | 5:00 PM, 11/19 Thursday | Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Central Road, Cornell University. | Make a linoleum print at this drop-in workshop open to everyone. Open Thursday night until 8:00 p.m. $10 / $5 for Johnson Museum Members and Cornell staff and faculty / Free for students. Johnson Museum of Art, 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu ongoing EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | The Lustrous World of Giselle Potter.

Artist Giselle Potter is like no other.

Her colors are plucked from nature: her imagery, insanely appealing. She can take an everyday and make it extraordinary.. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker, Potter has illustrated over 25 books for kids of all ages and has shown at the Society of Illustrators in NYC and the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst. | www. eyegallery.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Jay Potter: Lines &

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n days past, when the members of alternative rock band Guster first met at Tufts University, the group played music on just two bongos and two guitars. It would take them a year to cut a record. But that way of making music for the group seems to have changed. With the help of The Shins keyboardist Richard Swift, who is also the touring bassist for The Black Keys, Guster recorded their latest record in just over three weeks. The seventh album, titled Evermotion, released in Jan. 2015, is a pop-sounding album with riffs that are energetic and lyrics that are buoyant.

The band has toured with John Mayer, Rufus Wainwright, Peter Yorn, Ben Folds, Nada Surf, The Submarines, and Tally Hall. This past summer the band performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee and at the Central Park SummerStage in New York City. The current make-up of the group is Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, Brian Rosenworcel, and Luke Reynolds. In this phone interview, vocalist and guitarist Ryan Miller talks about the band’s music and the upcoming show in Ithaca, New York, at the State Theatre on Nov. 20.

Ithaca Times: What was the band’s creative songwriting approach for Evermotion? Such as on the songs “Long Night” and “Simple Machine.”

Ryan Miller: You know, a lot of stuff came out of us just jamming, for lack of

Theories. Photographic prints, graphic work. Through November.

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 |State of the Art Gallery artists will host an all-member show during the month of November. For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@ soag.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

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We would get together, the four of us, someone would come up with a riff or a groove or a keyboard sound, and it would spark an idea. So a lot of it was hashed out between the four of us in a basement, and then at night, and then about half the time I would supervise the melody.

IT: This past year has been unique for the group. How do you feel this tour will be different for the band?

RM: I think we’re at a spot where we are comfortable with the new stuff, and we have been playing this new album since January. And we are playing a lot of places we haven’t played, and so I think where the first half of the tour is kind of figuring out what works and making a lot of mistakes, I think [now] we are a little bit more polished. Which is both good and bad. And I think we will try to find ways to make things feel a little more exciting.

And we certainly feel like these new songs are a huge leap and [give] a whole other shade and a whole other color to our live

5–December 20 The City: Works from the Collection. www.museum. cornell.edu Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | A combined photo and print show of works by Naomi Edmark and Kevin Cruz. The show will run through December 31. | www.wafflefrolicking.com Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | Streetscapes, a new exhibit that brings street art inside the Library. Curated by Jay Potter, Streetscapes will feature a collection of work that draws on creativity and inspiration from our urban surroundings. Using a mixture of diverse media, artists will explore the influence of the urban environment through color, energy, movement and personal experience. | www.tcpl.org

Guster in the blue (Photo Provided) performance. And the fact that I am not playing guitar and there are a couple of songs that I don’t even have an instrument in my hand is kind of fun for me. We’ve added some keyboard textures, and there is another drummer on stage for a lot of good stuff. So yeah, it’s definitely a new iteration for the band, but not radically so.

IT: Would you like to add anything else to what you have already said? About your fans and the Ithaca show.

RM: I am excited to go back to Ithaca. I always have really good food,

CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | This exhibit features new watercolor paintings inspired by the details of the natural world around us. Learn more about Christi at www.christisobel.com.

Through November | www.artspartner. org Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Jay Stooks Show. J ay was born in 1980 in Ithaca NY. His work is inspired by his passion for hip hop culture, cartoons, comics, politics, skateboarding, video games, mathematics, movies, anatomy, science, fashion and everything in between. | 607-272-7224 | www. lot-10.com The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday

and I don’t really know why, but it’s one of those places that I remember playing, and I remember playing the [State] Theatre a bunch. Our bus driver on our last tour owned The Haunt. So we were talking a lot about The Haunt on this last tour. He owned it for a long time. So yeah, I don’t know why, but we almost got arrested by a campus cop at Ithaca College once or something. We always have weird s*** happen to us, but it’s almost always good. •

to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | Platypus Jenny Pope. The show is of multiple color reduction woodcuts; all the colors were carved and printed from one block. There is no going back once a color is carved away; the image must muddle through and survive.7 | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Mon. Wed. Thurs.

11am-6pm; Fri. Sat. 11am-8pm; Sun. 11am-4pm; closed Tuesdays | Brian Keeler: The Spirit of Lake Light. Recent Landscapes of the Finger Lakes Region, and some choice pieces from New England and Italy. Runs November 6 through December 31.| www. titusgallery.com Creative Space Gallery | 215 East State St., Ithaca | The Space Between. A solo exhibit by Naomi J. Falk.

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Cornell Cinema, Sunday, November 22, 3:30 p.m.

With a 91 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and two huge thumbs up by Robert Ebert, this 1960 Italian film directed by Luchino Visconti, is one of the finest screen triumphs of its time.

Film critics compared it to The Grapes of Wrath, with its gritty realism, and leaps of societal unrest. Luchino Visconti di Modrne, Count of Lonate Pozzolo, was a mammoth filmmaker, who’s best know for his later films, The Leopard (1963) and Death in Venice (1971). This film laid the foundation for his career.

Former Cornell History Professor Richard Polenberg will be discussing his new book, Hear My Sad Story. A book about the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs. And of these crafted poems put to music, Polenberg delves into the oft times tragic and ugly truths behind the poetry.

Murders, poverty, railroad crashes, shipwrecks, and natural disasters are the real happenings that have shaped many a American folk song. Be prepared for some history.

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607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage.

805/Business Services

Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!

welch construction Earth Friendly

General Excavation

Septic Systems Hedge Row Removal Backhoe & Trucking 60 Foot Dozer • Excavator reach!

Demolition Basements Beach Wells Todd Welch Composted Dirt Interlaken, NY 14847 Stone Sand

Pond Products

The State of New York Mortgage Agency offers:

Pond Treatments Barley Pellets Dyes & Aerators New Ponds Mosquito Control Pond Cleaning

• Competitive, fixed-rate mortgages for first-time homebuyers • Downpayment assistance available up to $15,000 • Special program for veterans, active-duty military, National Guard and reservists • Funds available for renovation

1-800-382-HOME(4663)

607.532.4673

www.sonyma.org

DONATE YOUR CAR

Homer Schools

Wheels For Wishes

The Homer Central School District has a challenging and exciting job opportunity for a Director of Technology.

Benefiting

Make-A-Wish® Central New York *Free Vehicle/Boat Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *Fully Tax Deductible

This innovative leader will provide vision and leadership for developing and managing information and educational technology initiatives in the Homer Central School District. Higher Education required, supervisory experience preferred.

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WheelsForWishes.org

* Wheels For Wishes is a DBA of Car Donation Foundation.

Ithaca’s only

hometown electrical distributor Your one Stop Shop

Competitive salary. Apply through OLAS at www.olasjobs.org by November 30, 2015.

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Love dogs?

Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

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

Men’s and Women’s Alterations 21 Day Group Personal Training Trial $97 Includes 3x per week Group

for over 20 years

Affordable Acupuncture

Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

Personal Training

Full range of effective care for a full range of human ailments

Nutritional Counseling

Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture

John’s Tailor Shop

Customized Workouts

Anthony Fazio, L.Ac., C.A. www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com

John Serferlis - Tailor

Motivation Accountability:

607-272-0114

273-3192

Same Day Service Available

102 The Commons

Start your Weekend Thursday

We Track You down if you Don’t Show Up!

Buy, Sell & Consign Previously-enjoyed

Journey Fitness Coaching Center

FURNITURE & DECOR MIMI’S ATTIC

607-257-2700

403 W. State St. (607)882-9038 Open Every Day!

journeyfitnesscoaching.com

4 Seasons Landscaping Inc. lawn maintenance spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning patios, retaining walls, + walkways

Sent to your email in box every Thursday

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607-273-4489 Take your yoga home with you!

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES PUNK REGGAE ETC Angry Mom Records (Autumn Leaves Basement) 319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com

dumpster rentals Find us on Facebook!

AAM ALL ABOUT MACS http://www.allaboutmacs.com (607) 280-4729 ABC Clean Community Cash Deals Huge Discounts each month!

Please go to www.abcclean.com to download your monthly coupon!

Around the World

YOGA PRACTICE Saturday, November 21 2-4 pm $30

MIGHTY YOGA

In the Triphammer Market Place

www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682

607-379-6210

The Yoga School

Real Life Ceremonies

Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows Free Estimates South Seneca Vinyl 315-585-6050, 866-585-6050

Macintosh Consulting

DEVELOPING A HOME

Trip Pack n Ship

First Friday Gallery Night Hands-On Weaving Workshop at Handwork Cooperative November 6th 5:00 to 8:00 pm 102 West State Street, 273-9400

snow removal

Packing & Shipping Save 10% with Greenback Coupon

landscape design + installation drainage

Ithaca Weekend Planner

Medical Swedish Sports Deep Tissue

* BUYING RECORDS *

607-272-1504

Sign up for the

OSKAR SCHMIDT MASSAGE THERAPY

Honor a Life like no other

Ashtanga * Vinyasa

with ceremonies like no other.

*Semester Pass $300

Steve@reallifeceremonies.com

*YA registered school * 200 hr TT *Yoga Philosophy * Ayurveda

Signorama of Ithaca

*Cooking & Tea Classes *Gentle Vinyasa

Your Full Service Sign Center

*Over 15 years experience

Independence Cleaners Corp

From Business Cards, to Window Lettering

www.yogaschoolithaca.com

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

A NYS Certified Women’s Business Enterprise

We Buy, Sell, & Trade

FREE Quotes

Black Cat Antiques

607-273-1502

607-898-2048

New at GreenStar

Looking to stretch your grocery budget? So are we!

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