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Why should the people of Ithaca be able to aimlessly shop and distract themselves from the blatant racist annihilation of young African Americans in this country TODAY? We are organizing to stop traffic, make noise, and bring much needed awareness to the tragic and unlawful murders of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown and especially tonight Eric Garner, killed by an illegal choke hold used by NYPD in his arrest. Please do your best to be prepared to sit in the busiest intersection of The Commons for an indefinite amount of time. The goal of this organized sit-in is to disrupt the comfortable… Thursday night’s demonstration in Ithaca comes more than a week after a Missouri grand jury opted not to bring charges against Darren Wilson, a white,

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s things stand now, it appears unlikely that plans for a new Maguire Family of Dealerships in the town of Ithaca along Route 13 in “Inlet Valley Gateway” will move forward. During its public meeting on Monday, Dec. 8 the town board agreed to table a resolution to continue discussion of such a possibility. Maguire Family of Dealerships already has car dealerships in the city of Ithaca, the village of Lansing, Watkins Glen, and outside Trumansburg, but is hoping to expand its business in the town of Ithaca. However, Town Supervisor Herb Engman said, that in a letter to the town, the attorney of Maguire Family of Dealerships stated that the only thing that would be acceptable for their current expansion proposal would be a rezoning of the area, and not a Planned Development Zone (PDZ). He added that after multiple discussions, the town has the opinion that “changes in zoning now is not the appropriate thing to do,” as the town recently completed and adopted its 2014 Comprehensive Plan, and is focused on implementing formed-base code. The town is intrigued by Maguire’s proposal, but has previously said that moving forward with the discussion could be complicated, as the recently adopted 2014 comprehensive plan outlines a conflicting vision for the land. According to the plan, the Inlet Valley Gateway calls for “small-scale retail.” Director of Planning Sue Ritter said in November that it was too early to speculate as to the exact wording changes in the plan that would be necessary, but that if the town were to move forward with the Maguire proposal, it would need to amend its comprehensive plan. “Changing now would not only be very difficult,” Engman said, “but I don’t think we have the time to put in all of the new elements that we would be interested in seeing [in any new or changed zoning]. So I think we’re basically at a standstill at this because it’s not feasible for the town to rezone, and Maguire representatives have said they won’t accept anything but a rezoning.” Maguire President Phil Maguire said his team needed to digest the town’s latest feedback and information before coming back to the table. He added that whether it’s in Ithaca, or possibly in a neighboring

irroring other nationwide protests sparked by the recent deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of police officers, roughly 100 demonstrators occupied a busy Ithaca corner Thursday night, expressing their solidarity and sharing stories of police brutality before marching to City Hall. At 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, protestors chanted “No Justice, No Peace” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” while seated in the roadway at North Aurora and East State/ MLK Jr. streets. The demonstration snarled traffic and forced the Ithaca City Police to close down the “Restaurant Row” block of Aurora Street. Northbound commuters on South Aurora were directed to East MLK Jr. Street and Protestors lie down in the street on North Aurora. to Seneca Street. (Photo: Michael Nocella) The protest was organized by Ferguson, Mo. police officer who shot and Ithaca College senior Evan Scott. Scott killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black said the protest was to let people heal in teen. In another case, a Staten Island grand a time when “a lot of us are hurting.” She jury on Wednesday cleared the officer who told this publication that her goal was to administered a chokehold on 43-year-old “disrupt traffic, a little bit if we can,” and Eric Garner, who died as a result of the that if it was up to her, she would be there July incident. “all f***ing night.” Traffic was disrupted “Abuses coming to the surface now for nearly two hours, and roads were are endemic, ” said one man who, like other reopened before 6:30 p.m. participants, stood and addressed his The following is an excerpt from the press release distributed to Ithacans to continued on page 5 help organize the protest:

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▶ Building Neighborhoods, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS) recently purchased the former Neighborhood Pride grocery store at 210 Hancock St. with the intent of redeveloping the site into an exciting mixed use project that will become a new centerpiece of the Northside neighborhood. It is inviting the public to participate in a community visioning process that will result in a master plan for the site. Paul Mazzarella, INHS Executive Director, commented: “Our first meeting was very successful. The more than 80 people who

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attended were extremely engaged in discussions with our design team and each other.” The second meeting will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 17 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. inside the former grocery store at 201 Hancock St. It is open to the public and will be structured to encourage “open-house style” participation rather than formal presentations. Please contact Joseph Bowes, Senior Real Estate Developer with questions at jbowes@ ithacanhs.org, or 607-277-4500 x 204 and visit www.210hancock.org for more information.

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Who Would Be your Evil Twin?

N Tompkins County IDA

“My friend.” —Haewon Hwang

“Bill Maher.” —Peter Bradbury

Many Oppose Fane Tax Abatements

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“A dour, joyless person.” —Stacey Dickerman

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“I think I’m the evil twin for somebody else.” —Yari Yanav

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a trash problem,” she said. “People throw it from above.” Darlington predicted that the same thing would happen to Six Mile Creek. “A building degrades the appearance of the place, even if it was attractive,” she said, “and this one is not.” Ashley Miller focused on Fane’s “sorry record” in the community. She cited his empty storefronts in Collegetown and downtown and the deterioration welve people spoke of the Masonic temple on North at the public hearing Cayuga Street. “His business held in advance practices leave a trail of bitterness of the Tompkins County and anger,” she said. Industrial Development Brian Eden of Cayuga Heights Agency (IDA) decision presented a political argument as to whether to grant against the abatement. Taking tax abatements to a the long view, he talked about the residential building shift of the tax burden to local proposed by developer municipalities since the Reagan Era, Jason Fane. Only four of which forces them to hang a “free the speakers supported the money” sign on city hall. Developers, tax abatement plan. The he said, now won’t go ahead unless opponents largely came they get something for free. out against the project on “Not all infill is good,” he environmental grounds, said. “This will not enhance the but several mentioned neighborhood and will not help with Fane’s poor record as a the county carbon reduction plan.” The proposed building at 130 E. Clinton St. The Cayuga Street parking garage landlord and landowner in Dan Hoffman, former city is visible at left. (Image: Jagat Sharma) the city. attorney and 46-year resident argued Heather Filiberto that the tax abatement was a misuse summarized the project of the IDA mission to use them to create Ithaca.” Downtown Ithaca Alliance before asking members of the public jobs by expanding the manufacturing Executive Director Gary Ferguson noted to speak. She is the Vice President and sector. He also noted that it was giving a that the Fane project met all the criteria Director of Economic Development break to someone who owned $19,458,000 of CTAP. Joann Cornish, city director of Services at Tompkins County Area worth of real estate in Ithaca. planning, said that the applicant has said Development (TCAD), which handles the Peter Bardaglio, the president of Black he is willing to mitigate in response to administration of the IDA. The project at Oak Wind Farm, said he was in favor of tax environmental concerns. Phyllsa DeSarno, 130 E. Clinton St. (across from the police breaks and had benefited from them. He deputy director of economic development station) will be exempt from the real estate was also in favor of increased density, but in city planning, reminded everyone transfer tax and also from general real reminded the IDA of the county and city that downtown needs more housing and property taxes. The latter will be offset mission to reduce its carbon footprint. This the one-bedroom apartments in Fane’s by a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) building, he said, is against the spirit of that agreement. The property is eligible through proposed project are what the public is effort. looking for. the City Tax Abatement Program (CTAP). Hilary Lambert, the steward for Pamela Johnson, a downtown resident Filiberto asked speakers to express their the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network, for 10 years, argued that adding another views concerning the nature and location protested the further “canyonization” of the residential building was a poor way to of the building and the financial aid that waterway and called it an “environmentally conceptualize densification, which calls for was being contemplated. risky” site to build. more mixed-use buildings. She said that The actual decision will be made by County Legislator Dooley Kiefer Fane does not take care of the property he the IDA on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 4 p.m. reminded the IDA that they are a county already owns, so why reward him with an Will Burbank, a county legislator and the body and that the city and county don’t abatement? only member of the IDA board present at always see eye-to-eye on land use. • Betsy Darlington, who has lived in the Dec. 3 hearing at the Old Jail, said that Ithaca since 1963, deplored the idea of more public comment would be accepted – Bill Chaisson building on this site. “Cascadilla Gorge has at the IDA meeting, which will be held in

“ Myself, sometimes.” —Alexandria King

municipality, expanding their business is something they want to do. The current, admittedly rough concept proposal for Inlet Valley Gateway, would move sales of automobile brands—Subaru-Hyundai, Fiat-Alfa Romeo, and Nissan—now in the city down Elmira Road, out to the town. It would also relocate its Chevrolet Cadillac dealership from Lansing to Ithaca, and renovate its Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram dealership, which is in front of Wegmans. “We are trying to do a couple things,” Maguire said in November. “First and foremost, we would like to upgrade our current facilities that we have, both in

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the legislature chambers at 121 E. Court Street. Mike Cannon, a commercial lender at Tompkins Trust Company, reminded everyone that a decision about tax abatement is not a popularity contest and that downtown development needed to be encouraged to prevent a “more suburban

Ithaca, and also expand with a couple of new franchises. In doing that, we would need to add real estate to basically put up three new dealerships, because we’re pretty congested in our existing sites. So, we’re trying to move the Chevrolet Cadillac dealership up in Triphammer [in Lansing]. We’d like to move that to downtown Ithaca, and build a new dealership.” Maguire and his team have previously explained that the site his company is looking to purchase is currently occupied by Roadway Inn & Suites [654 Elmira Rd], but that the owners are eager to move out of Ithaca and relocate to California before it loses any more business to ongoing hotel boom in the city of Ithaca, where more than 300 rooms are expected to be up and running by 2017. Maguire’s proposal,

however, would be more complicated than simply knocking down a motel and building a car dealership. It would also relocate the proposed Sapony Park, which was intended to be next to the 654 Elmira Road property, but was never built, Maguire said, because of a bad location and poor planning. Maguire has proposed relocating the park on Seven Mile Drive, and more than doubling its acreage from 8 to 17 acres. The park would then act as a buffer between the new car dealerships and the residential area. At this point in time, however, these plans might never come to fruition. – Michael Nocella

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▶Walking for Cookies, On Saturday, Dec. 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Center Ithaca (during the Downtown Ithaca Chowder Cook-Off and Ice Sculpture Carving) Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland Counties will have a huge variety of fabulous homemade cookies available for sale by the pound, along with FREE COFFEE! Can’t make it downtown Ithaca

ity of Ithaca Common Council unanimously approved and entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Solar City of San Mateo, Calif. for a forthcoming solar farm to be constructed on a parcel of land near 766 Warren Road, next to the IthacaTompkins Regional Airport in Lansing. Solar City has proposed developing, building, owning and maintaining the 2,400-kilowatt solar farm. According to council’s resolution, the solar farm will generate an estimated 2,763,805 kilowatt-hours annually, or “enough GHG [greenhouse gas]emissions-free electricity to provide an estimated 30 percent of city government’s 2010 electricity needs.” The city’s motivation to enter into such an agreement is not only environmentally friendly, but financially friendly as well. For each kilowatt-hour generated by the solar farm, the city will receive an estimated 10.5 cents credit from New York State Electric and Gas Corporation (NYSEG), and pay an estimated 7.9 cents combined to Solar City and Tompkins County (the county will receive a half a cent per kilowatthour as the city’s rent payment for leasing the parcel of land). The half of cent per kilowatt amounts to approximately $13,000 annually, Chief of Staff Kevin Sutherland said during council’s Wednesday, Dec. 3 public meeting. The city, in effect, will save more than $40,000 using the solar farm instead of NYSEG for the presumed 30 percent of its electricity needs. “This is a big deal,” Myrick said. “It’s a big step forward [in how the city goes about meeting its energy needs].” Since the city will be technically leasing from the county the land the solar farm is on, the county needed to sign off on this agreement as well. Tompkins County Legislature did just that during its Tuesday, Dec. 2 public meeting. The approval supports an agenda to decrease greenhouse gases for both the city and the county. The City of Ithaca Energy Action Plan for 2012 to 2016 recommends exploring energy options to power city facilities, and identifies “solar photovoltaic systems as one of the most feasible technologies,” according to the passed resolution. It adds that in 2006, council adopted the “Local Action Plan,” which commits to reducing GHG emissions from municipal operations by 20 percent below 2001 levels by 2016. The action plan commits to reducing GHG emissions community-wide by 80 percent below 2010 levels by 2050. Solar City applied for the solar farm’s

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funding on behalf of the city to New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and was awarded $903,538 in October. The agreement comes with little risk for the city. However, Alderperson Seph Murtagh (D-2nd) said he had some reservations about committing to such a long-term contract after conducting a brief “Google search” on the company in which he said he read some reports that stated Solar City has struggled to turn a profit in recent years. He brought up the hypothetical situation in which the solar farm gets built, is up and running, but then Solar City goes bankrupt or is bought out by a different company. Murtagh asked what would then become of the city’s agreement with Solar City. City Attorney Ari Lavine said that scenario would still be relatively low risk, since there would still be a solar farm producing the electricity, and that Aurorastreet contin u ed from page 3

fellow demonstrators. Garner “showed no threat and was choked to death, and it was caught on video,” the man said. “There are cops who don’t know how to control their friends.” The man then removed his jacket and shirt and placed his hands behind his head in a show to nearby police officers that he was unarmed. “We can’t believe what’s happening in this country,” Lori Gordon of Ithaca said as demonstrators prepared to march to City Hall. “We can’t believe the decisions that have been made, and we can’t believe that others aren’t as outraged as we are. It surprises me in this world that people think that it’s okay, especially with the [Garner decision]. It was on video tape.” Gordon said she has a 21-year-old black son, and she is concerned for him. “I had the same conversation that I think everyone who has a black son has: if you come into contact with a police officer, put

the energy source would likely still be operated by another company, if not the city. Worst case, Lavine added, the city could always return to NYSEG for the price that it is currently paying. In a memo to council, Sustainability Coordinator Nick Goldsmith recommended his full support to the city to follow through with the PPA. “The sustainability coordinator,” he wrote, “with support from the office of the mayor, the city attorney, the city controller, and other city departments, is managing the solar farm project, through which the city would sign a Power Purchase Agreement with Solar City to buy the clean electricity generated by a 2,400kilowatt solar farm located on county property near the airport, reducing GHG emissions and saving the city money.” • – Michael Nocella your hands up or put your hands on the dashboard, if you’re in a car.” She said she had this conversation with her son when he was just 10 years old. At 5:30 p.m., demonstrators walked down the middle of East Seneca Street as police held traffic at the East Seneca and North Aurora streetlight. Protestors then turned south onto North Cayuga Street, to East Green and eventually to City Hall. There, Dubian Ade, an Ithaca College senior who helped organize the demonstration, encouraged the group to stay engaged with issues of justice, race and equality. “Just coming out here and being in solidarity with each other is more than I can ask for, especially during this time,” Ade said afterward. “[The demonstration] was to raise awareness that people in Ithaca are tired of this, just as much as everywhere else in this country.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Diversity of Perspectives, When it comes to building and sustaining successful social justice strategies, the sharing of individual stories related to human rights, diversity, and inclusion is an important endeavor. “A Diversity of Perspectives” will engage the community in a conversation about how a variety of views and approaches can come together to achieve collectively-desired outcomes. Wednesday, Dec. 10, 5:30 p.m. at the Tompkins County library. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Dec. 3-9 include: 1) Feds Fine Newfield Home Company $7K in Worker’s Death 2) Catching Up with S-VE’s Jeff Foote 3) 4 Locals Arrested at Proposed LPG Site 4) Pedestrian Struck and Killed on Route 96 5) This Week: Ithaca Wegmans Expansion Comes Before City Planners For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Adjunct Profs Going Union D

ear President Haynes and Members of the TC3 Board of Trustees, The TC3 Adjunct Association looks forward to the official confirmation of our majority from the Public Employees Relations Board (PERB). We are confident we can then begin the process of forming a strong and mutually beneficial relationship with TC3 administration and the Board of Trustees, one similar to that enjoyed by the three existing bargaining units on campus. Since October 22, when you were first notified that a majority of TC3 adjunct faculty had chosen union representation, we were straightforward that we were prepared to demonstrate majority support of our union—The TC3 Adjunct Association—before a neutral third-party. We heard nothing directly from you in response other than your November 18 formal rejection of our request for voluntary recognition. We did hear many indirect statements from you— letters from [Provost] Dr. [John] Connors, a press release, quotations from members of administration in the media—all of which shared the same underlying theme that you were doubtful that a true majority of TC3 adjunct faculty had chosen union representation. In an effort to put those doubts to rest, late last month we asked Reverend Richard Rose of Ithaca’s First Baptist Church to confirm our majority support, which he did. As you know, we then sent the authorization cards

and requisite paperwork for our union’s certification to PERB, the state agency that members of your administration have described as the “legitimate arbiter of the majority question.” We have been transparent from the beginning that our goal is to exercise our legal right to form a union, so as to ultimately benefit from what other TC3 employees already have through their unions, namely, the right to negotiate the terms and conditions of our employment through good faith negotiations. We trust that your concerns, which we have learned of through members of your administration and through the media, are similarly unambiguous. Aside from your stated doubts of our majority support, you have repeatedly said that you would prefer PERB conduct a conventional secret-ballot election, a preference we assume you must know will soon be moot, since the labor laws of New York State are clear: once majority support is confirmed, PERB is empowered to certify the union. The only thing that would delay the certification is if the employer raises objections about other issues, such as the make-up of the proposed bargaining unit. So we ask you now to let us know where you stand. Is it correct to say that you simply want to confirm that union representation is indeed the choice that a majority of current TC3 adjuncts has made? Is it correct to say that you continued on page 7

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Service For Your Smile By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

few weeks ago we wrote here about business and the importance of customer service. We were thinking about it in terms of retail and restaurants, mostly, but recently revisited the idea with regard to the professions when we finally found a good dentist in this town. We‘re not saying Ithaca is a town of crummy dentists. We’re just saying we haven’t had much luck with them. Customer service and first impressions have played a big part. The first dentist I ever visited in Ithaca finished the exam and told me all the work I needed done and said see you next time. I asked what we’d be doing next time. He said it depended on his schedule that day. It didn’t matter, he said, because we’d be doing all this work eventually. I said it mattered to me, because I’d want to prioritize the work by time and money. He took off his gloves (literally) and laughed and said, look, this isn’t like going to a car mechanic or something. I took off my gloves (figuratively—I like being laughed at when I’m trying to be funny, but not otherwise) and said, yeah, except it’s exactly like that. Or like not going to a car mechanic. I didn’t return. I think these days dentists are more sensitive to money concerns, as people have less insurance coverage (if they have any at all). They seem to have concerns themselves, as their offices sell retail products to patients now, a move which requires heightened customer service, but I haven’t seen it. I was trying a new dentist last year (my regular dentist of many years had retired) and, during the cleaning, the hygienist told me about a fluoride treatment she could add, if I wanted, although it was not

covered by insurance, and would cost extra. I don’t remember if she told me how much extra. Probably not, because I couldn’t ask, because I couldn’t talk (midcleaning). I didn’t like the unexpected question at the inopportune time, but nodded “okay.” How much extra could it cost? They put fluoride into toothpaste for free. It turned out it cost $35, which is about two months’ worth of insurance premiums for me, but it was less about the money than about someone asking me for money while holding sharp metal objects in my mouth. There were some larger issues in this session, too, and I didn’t go back. The next place I tried was only slightly worse. I got the same fluoride question, but declined this time. Then I was told about some special mouthwash the office sells, and did I want the 16-ounce or the 32-ounce bottle? I thought if anything, the question should be do I want it at all, not which size. So I indicated that I wanted the zero-ounce bottle. It might be my imagination, but the picks in my mouth seemed to get a little sharper in use. The hygienist also insisted on taking x-rays, although I’d brought a fresh set. I wondered whether this was necessary for anything other than the $100 charge. I asked the hygienist if I could see the dentist, and was told the dentist was not on the premises. So, soon and since, neither was I. But as my Irish grandmother used to say, “It’s a long road that don’t turn.” My dental odyssey seems to have ended. Last week I went to an office of pleasant, efficient professionals who did good work and tried to sell me nothing. They asked if they could continued on page 7

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Our Anti-Democratic Bias

Your recent editorial “A New and Improved Ithaca” reveals an anti-democratic bias that is not in keeping with your otherwise public-spirited publication. To say “the public consistently wants to keep things the way they are” and to contrast it with our presumably enlightened officials who push for more development because they “pay more attention to civic matters than we have time to do” describes, in a nutshell, the problem with politics in America. The citizen’s voice is lost in the wind when up against big business and lobbyists at every level. Is it always the case that officials, elected and appointed, know best? It was officials, not citizen demand that brought big box stores to Ithaca. It was 6 T

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officials, not citizen demand that carved out the wetlands near Buttermilk Park to build parking lots. And it was officials who gave the green light to tear town the trees and a functional public space known as the Commons to replace it with a boondoggle construction pit that just won’t go away. Even with federal funds, wrong-headed development costs this town dearly. And even when our officials are better than average, they need to respect and listen very carefully to the public. How else to guard against ill-guided development that only an official could love because it generate more tax money for their own budgets? Beware of development schemes continued on page 7

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will not raise any other objections—such as those raised last year at Cayuga Community College—which would unduly delay PERB’s certification process of our union? We look forward to your response, and working cooperatively with you in the best interest of the TC3 community. Respectfully and on Behalf of the TC3 Adjunct Association Organizing Committee, Herman Altmann (Biology), Betsy Caughey (English), Robert Chapman (Political Science), Cynthia Coleman (Sociology), Nancy Crane (Spanish), Robert Earle (English & Sociology), Elizabeth Grant (English), In Shik Lee (Graphic Design), Kristin Lovelace-Ross (Mathematics), Randy McGory (CAPS), Barbara Need (English), Jaclyn Pittsley (English), Jessica Ryan (Sociology), Patrick Sewell (Environmental Studies), Lorraine Sinclaire (English), Sherry Tacktill (English), Gregg Weatherby (English), Steve Weed (English), Butch Westlake (Sociology), Michele Whitecraft (Chemistry), Diane Williams-Altmann (Biology), Brandy Williams-DeBottis (Psychology), Sarah Wolff (English) Ithacanotes contin u ed from page 6

contact my ex-dentists for my x-rays so they wouldn’t have to take new ones. I guess what I am really talking about is professionalism as much as customer service. Professionalism is crucial when talking about health. But the little things mean a lot, too. When I left this office, they gave me toothpaste, a toothbrush, floss, dental picks, and an Eez-Thru floss threader (which I had never heard of before). I know free stuff from the dentist is usual, but it felt like the kind of merch bag people get at big awards shows. And this office deserved an award last week, for getting someone to look forward to visiting the dentist. • Youropinions contin u ed from page 6

that sacrifice local, sustainable tradition for a new revenue stream, or urban “density” campaigns that push away affordable shops and housing to make way for hotels and luxury real estate schemes. Small towns are not immune to the greed of hidden interests and small time officials are not immune to corporate lobbying; it is important that we do not let profiteering schemes of absentee landlords and distant corporate interests to ruin this fine community. In keeping with the holiday spirit, and the upstate roots of the Hollywood classic, it seems an opportune time to re-watch Frank Capra’s, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” – Phil Cunningham, Lansing

Low Graduation Rates: Shut Down New Roots

Picture the distress of a student and the student’s parents when after a few years at New Roots Charter School they find that graduation is not in their future. After all those promises, inducing them to abandon their successful home district public school, New Roots has failed them in providing a vital result, a good education ending in a diploma. It happens to so many New Roots students. New Roots Charter School reported a 51 percent four-year graduation rate for the 2010 cohort in the 2013-2014 Accountability Plan Progress Report. Fact: At the time she founded New Roots Charter School, Tina Nilsen-Hodges pledged a 100 percent graduation rate. The charter that governs New Roots has three requirements regarding graduation: 1) a minimum of 75 percent graduating within four years, 2) a minimum of 95 percent within in five years, 3) achieving a graduation rate that meets or exceeds its local high school (Ithaca City School District). New Roots has met exactly none of these requirements in the five years it has been in operation. By its own admission, it will continue to underperform all high schools in this area including Ithaca and Lansing High School (each graduating 92 percent) and will not come close to meeting the 95 percent graduation rate for its five-year students. Furthermore, over half of the students who do somehow manage to graduate despite attending New Roots do so only with Regents credits they earned while enrolled in their home districts. New Roots may be entitled to its own opinions, but not to its own facts. And, it is supposed to measure up to its own charter. New Roots was not chartered as a “second chance” high school. Its chartered mission is to provide an education for all of its students that meets or exceeds the education offered by schools in this area. Clearly it fails to do so. Charter schools, which divert resources from public schools and duplicate facilities were envisioned as a way to help parents avoid failing schools. Which school is failing here? Obviously New Roots is the failing school. So, why are we supporting this failing school at the cost of successful ones? The public taxpayers of all feeder districts to New Roots have nothing but empty promises to show for the over $14 million dollars already invested in this school. It is underperforming other public schools across New York State that are being closed due to low graduation rates. It has no business continuing to do business in Ithaca. How many more young people’s lives will New Roots unfulfilled promises uproot? The Charter School Institute should stop protecting this failing charter school which leaves so many of its students without diplomas and revoke the charter before more irrevocable damage is done to young people. – Henry S. Kramer, Town of Dryden

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New Roots Charter School releases four-year graduation rates for 2010 cohort New Roots Charter School reported a 51percent four-year graduation rate for the 2010 cohort in the 2013-2014 Accountability Plan Progress Report. Stating bluntly that the graduation rate was “unacceptable.” New Roots Principal and Superintendent Tina Nilsen-Hodges emphasized that it is an historical anomaly created by the unique composition of the cohort. In sharp contrast, New Roots is projecting a 75percent graduation rate for the 2011 cohort. Seventy-one percent of the 2008 cohort and 67percent of the 2009 cohort graduated in four years. Eighty percent of the 2010 cohort did not start high school at New Roots, and that impacted four-year graduation rates, Nilsen-Hodges said. The five-year graduation rate for the 2010 cohort will be 69 percent, if nine students who started at New Roots late and are still enrolled graduate in June 2015. Only 40 percent of this year’s senior class has been at New Roots less than four years, which may account for the projected 50 percent increase in the four-year graduation rate for the 2011 cohort. “The school’s commitment to providing all students with a ‘second chance,’ even late in their high school careers, has obviously depressed our fouryear graduation rates,” said board chair Jason Hamilton. A graduation (or total) cohort is the group of students who entered ninth grade in September of the same year. Any student who enrolls in a school and stays for at least one day is part of a school’s graduation cohort unless they leave and enroll in another public or private school, homeschool, or start post-secondary education before earning a high school diploma. The cohort is identified by the year they entered high school. “Our graduation cohorts are very small—between 34 and 66 students—so every student counts for 2-3 percentage points,” said Nilsen-Hodges, adding, “The rules and metrics were developed to measure outcomes of large district high schools, not the outcomes of a very small and unique regional charter high school serving students who live in 22 districts in the region.” New Roots Trustee Joe Wilson, a former Ithaca high school principal, now in Baltimore, said, “What caused me to join the board here was that I could see how hard and quickly the entire staff was moving to adapt their methods to support the more challenged students. So, while I join everyone associated with the school in finding these results disappointing, I am very much encouraged by the adaptations which have been made, the number of non-graduates who have stayed on to graduate in their fifth year, and the projections of graduation rates going forward.” – Tina Nilsen-Hodges, New Roots Charter School Principal and Superintendent T

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ithaca com Commenting on a past report, Osteoarthritis: Silver Service Lecture to Offer Information, Treatment Ideas: “Exercise is one of the best advice that you could follow and this is a treatment that can be used to other health issues too. There are also natural remedies for arthritis made from plants but you can use the nature to stretch your bones and muscles too. It is important to have a healthy body no matter what and you don’t need to engage yourself in hard physical activities.” - antonovici Commenting on our online report, Proposed Tax Abatement for Fane Attracts Opponents: “What did the other people have to say? Nice touch quoting government officials and bankers but not the citizens who came to express their opinion.” -IthacaNative Commenting on our online question, Do you feel safe riding a bicycle in the city of Ithaca? “If this question interests you, get involved. Whatever the conditions are, they can be improved upon! The City of Ithaca Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Council meets the Third Monday of each month in City Hall. http://www.cityofithaca.org/calendar. aspx?eid=861 There is a lot of great things that are coming up, with more people advocating for better bicycle infrastructure, city policies and street design, among other things, it would be very helpful to have people’s support on different levels. Also check out the Bicycle Pedestrian Advocacy Group (an unaffiliated group) on Facebook!” -Human Powered Transportation

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What You Can Do

Our annual survey of local non-profits. We ask them what help they need in this season of giving.

By Michael Nocella C o m p u t e r C l a s s at t h e Wo m e n ’s O p p o r t u n i t y C e n t e r . ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a)

he holiday season, which traditionally begins after Thanksgiving, is a popular time for many people to give back. In fact, like many things in the year 2014, giving to charities even comes with a hashtag, as Americans can find what charity they would like to donate to with a #GivingTuesday Twitter search. However, in Tompkins County, no such search is necessary. There are plenty of worthy organizations that need your help— whether it’s your time, your money or both —that are readily available in the community. Here at the Ithaca Times, we took a look at six organizations that can really use your charitable spirits this holiday season. Community Foundation of Tompkins County Located in the heart of downtown Ithaca at 200 E. Buffalo St., the Community Foundation of Tompkins County is dedicated to making our area better through local philanthropy and civic engagement. How? By awarding foundation grants to organizations that do good. According to their most recent financials, the Community Foundation has awarded a total of $1.2 million to local organizations 8 The Ithaca Times /Decemb

so far this year. Among the grantees last about gratitude, appreciation, and giving year: local libraries, community events like back. And we’re a place where people want Ithaca Fest, and food pantries and kitchens to give back in a more long-term kind of like Loaves and Fishes. fashion. We can combine their gift with Chief Executive Officer George Ferrari the gifts of others to maximize the impact. said that vision can only be accomplished That’s how you magnify philanthropy—by with the help of the community as a whole. pulling everyone, and everything, together. “The concept is that we acquire, we I think Ithacans understand buying locally, steward, we analyze, and we distribute. and giving locally. This is about giving We take in and locally. This is a place put out two types “We have great need for for people who love of resources: immediate funds that we this community, and information about can use for whatever arises there’s a lot of people needs and best who love Tompkins today, right now. There’s County.” practices, and then never enough money to also financial gifts. Ferrari said meet all the needs.” “We’re that—in addition to always looking —Randy Ehrenberg, Children & Youth Fund supporting the funds for volunteers,” he that his organization continued. “We have administrates—he probably 70 different welcomed donations volunteers that do everything from helping to the Community Foundation itself. here in the office to reviewing grant One of the goals of the foundation is to applications and serving on committees, so educate the generous in order that their there’s always a place to come and help out. gifts will be more impactful. Ferrari calls This is everyone’s community foundation.” this “philanthropy education”, and he Ferrari noted the holiday season is encourages people who have perhaps always a time of year residents are looking recently sold a business or inherited money to get involved, and he welcomes such an to seek out a class with the Community impulse. Foundation. “We can help you,” he said, “to “It is a time of year when people get learn to do this in the best way.” more reflective,” he said. They’re thinking The Community Foundation has e r

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given out nearly $1.3 million in grants as of September 2014. More than 225 grants are given to services that impact arts and culture, community building, education, environment and human services every year. Those grants come from different funds. There are 84 funds under the Community Foundation umbrella: 55 donor-advised funds; 21 designated funds; 6 field of interest funds; the Tompkins Today & Tomorrow Fund for unrestricted grant making; and an operational endowment fund. Two funds that the foundation is currently making a priority are the Children and Youth Fund, and the Women’s Fund. Both funds are collecting money for today, and, arguably more important, tomorrow. “We’re building endowments,” Ferrari said, “for the Children and Youth Fund and the Women’s Fund. Those are dollars that will be available forever, in our control, to support those needs in our community that we can’t even see or anticipate right now. People can make a gift of any size. It’s really important people realize that. Gifts given to the Community Foundation come from all different kinds of resources, but gifts of $5 and $10 make a big difference.” Donations of any kind can be done through mailing a check to the foundation,

in person at its office, or through its website. Children and Youth Fund & Women’s Fund While the Children and Youth Fund and Women’s Fund fall underneath the Community Foundation’s large administrative umbrella, both essentially act as their own entities, with each fund having its own board. As mentioned above, both funds make allocations for immediate funding and grants, but they are also endowments collecting money for future needs. The Children and Youth Fund has collected more than $60,000 toward its $100,000 goal, while the Women’s Fund has more than $225,000 of its $500,000 goal. Children and Youth Fund Committee Chair Randy Ehrenberg explained how the fund operates and the types of impact its grants eventually have. “Grants have been given from this fund for a variety of purposes,” she said. “Some of the things we try to do are things that touch the lives of children and youth now. In 2008, the economy took a dive, and so money coming into agencies serving that demographic began getting smaller and smaller. We’re trying to fill those gaps. “One of the things,” Ehrenberg continued, “we’ve been able to help out with, for example, is when we heard of a need for transportation for rural youth to get to activities in Ithaca. For children in Caroline, we were able to provide transportation. Other kinds of things would be something like when we hear of anti-bullying efforts going on in the community, we help supplement funds that are needed for such a program. It’s a wide range of needs that we aim to address.” While the endowment is certainly a priority, Ehrenberg said she encourages those looking to make a donation to do so to their immediate funds, which have been lacking as a result of the focus on the endowment. In fact, their immediate funding for grants is down to only a few thousand dollars. “The endowment fund is extremely important because we want to know we’ll have money to give out in the future. It’s like a bank account that you put your savings in. We’ve been investing a lot of our resources and energy into this endowment this year, so consequently we have an immediately great need for this year and into next year. “We have a great need,” she continued, “for immediate funds that we can use for whatever needs arise today, right now. There’s never enough money to meet all the needs. You feel like you’re playing god because you’re juggling, and you want to support everything, but you can’t.” As for the Women’s Fund, Women’s Fund Committee Chair Carol Travis said the fund is always in need. “I would say we’re always in need of more money,” she said. “The more money we have, the more we can give out in the community. We’re also growing an endowment, because what’s happening

need have been far from consistent. The center, just a few years ago, received up to $500,000 a year in state funding. Now, it gets $100,000, According to Assistant Director Celia Miller. “In general, funding is a huge issue,” Miller said. “We’ve lost most of our state funding. The program began entirely funded by the New York State Department of Labor, and that money has almost disappeared in the last few years. Our biggest expense is staff. And if you don’t have money, you don’t have staff. And if you don’t have staff, you can’t serve clients.” Those looking to make a contribution have several options. The center is looking for the following items: Planners, calendars, reusable bags, nonperishable lunch-style foods, two-pocket folders, hats, gloves, scarves, C e l i a M i l l e r , A s s i s ta n t d i r e c t o r o f bus passes and money t h e Wo m e n ’s O p p o r t u n i t y C e n t e r . donations of any kind. There’s ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) also the gift of experience, Miller said. everywhere, is the funding is being pulled “We would love to have more back from the federal government and volunteers that could teach computer the state government, and eventually, communities will be responsible for raising classes and soft skills. Soft skills are things like customer service, relating to people, the money for programs and foundations and getting along with coworkers. Things that need the support.” you need for almost any job. One place grants from the Women’s “We serve a lot of single moms,” Fund go is the Women’s Opportunity Center, which finds itself with less state funding year after year. In Ithaca, that could become problematic, Travis said. “In Ithaca, we have a lot of poverty,” she said. “Thirty percent of single parent homes ran by women are below the poverty level. Even though we think we’re all doing really well, there’s a lot of need in the community.”

better.” And finally, you can also give back by getting yourself something, if you’re so inclined. “We have a boutique,” Miller said. “The Mary Durham Boutique on West Court Street [between North Cayuga and North Geneva streets] is a store that’s open to the public that sells new and used clothing, and all of the proceeds benefit our programming. A lot of people are still learning about that store. It’s kind of an upscale used clothing store. So it’s a nice place to shop.” Donations and inquiries can be made at the center or at its website at www. womensopportunity.org.

The BackPack Program At the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, the BackPack Program aims to feed nearly 300 students in Tompkins County, said Community Programs Manager Jennifer Edger, “and all 43 school districts in the Southern Tier.” Students eligible for free and reduced lunches stay nourished through the weekdays while at school, but what about weekends? That’s where the BackPack program comes in, sending students home with a backpack filled with nutritious food every Friday throughout the school year. “The BackPack Program serves over 2,000 children each week,” she said. “Feedback from teachers is that the children who are receiving food over the weekend through the BackPack Program are less anxious. They are not worrying about where their next meal will come from, and neither are their parents. Teachers also tell us that these children have more energy, have fewer school absences, and fewer trips to the school nurse. The children tell us that they like to get the packs because it can get stressful when there is not enough food to go around in their home. It makes them feel happy when their bellies are full.” The program, which began in 2005, is always in need of more food, Edger added. Currently, their Women’s wish list items for Opportunity Center donation include For more the following: than 30 years now, peanut butter, The Women’s E x e c u t i v e D i r e c t o r L e e - E l l e n M a rv i n , S u i c i d e P r e v e n t i o n a n d canned tuna or Opportunity C r i s i s S e rv i c e s . ( P h o t o : B i l l C h a i s s o n) chicken, boxed Center, located macaroni and cheese, canned soup, she continued, “who have a lot to do in at 315 N. Tioga St., has aimed to help individual servings of cereal, sandwich addition to looking for work. I think that’s women (and men) re-enter the workforce. crackers with cheese or peanut butter. probably what I see a big need for: people Their focus is skill-building, equipping The program also collects small boxes of need encouragement and support to work community members through job search towards some of those difficult goals in life and preparation workshops. While the that will make their life, and their kid’s life, continued on page 12 need is ever-present, funds to address that T

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a preschool in Brooktondale; Doug Austic, longtime supervisor of the Town of Ulysses; Ray Buckley, former superintendent of Lansing schools; Dennis Mastro, former chair of the Ithaca/Tompkins Chamber of Commerce; Teresa Robinson of Groton, the first female town supervisor in the county; and Stu Stein, Cornell planning professor and county legislator. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, located on the edge of campus in Collegetown, was recognized for it’s “Bair Walk” during which volunteers knock on Collegetown doors and distribute resources with the aim of building community. Rev. Rick Bair accepted the awards, along with volunteers Judy Tennant and Julie Paige, saying, “We’re not here to convert, but to converge.” The Cayuga Lake Monitoring partnership began as a monitoring project with the New York State Department of Environmental Management because of concern over phosphorus pollution, but has broadened into an ongoing collaboration among the city, county, and the university to keep an eye on the health of Cayuga Lake. Roxy Johnston of the Ithaca Water Treatment Plant, Frank Proto of the Water Resources Council, and Bert Bland, a senior director of Cornell Facilities Services came forward to receive awards. Johnston called the group a “useful conduit for the exchange of information.” Kids Discover the Trail (KDT) was started by the Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI) to bring public school children to the Discovery Trail sites free of charge. Receiving awards were Mary Grainger of IPEI, Charlie Trautmann of the Sciencenter, Sonja Skelly of Cornell Plantations, Mary Winston of the Laboratory of Ornithology and Carol Hockett of the Johnson Museum of Art. Trautmann said he had looked around the country for an analogous effort and had not been able to find one. KDT is responsible for 25,000 free trips for school children. Chris Travis of Travis/Hyde Properties, Carl Haynes, President of Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3), and Tom Schryver, Cornell Executive Director for Regional Economic Advancement accepted ToGo awards for Rev, the business incubator, a joint project of Cornell, Ithaca College, and TC3. But it was the representatives of the regional food distribution organizations that got a standing ovation on Saturday morning. Presenter Joel Malina, the Vice President of Community Relations at Cornell, noted that a rising number of local households that report not having enough food and that “it is difficult to think of a more important job than providing people with food.” Food Bank of the Southern Tier, the Friendship Donations Network, the Tompkins County Food Distribution Network, Loaves and Fishes, and Foodnet received

recognition. Also cited were Cornell Dining, the Cornell University Vegetable Research Farm and the Cornell chapter of the Food Recovery Network. “It’s appropriate that you see so many people here,” said Christina Culver, Executive Director of Loaves & Fishes, “because it really is a network with a lot going on behind the scenes.” Before individuals received their ToGos, the assembly paused to say goodbye to departing Cornell President David Skorton. Luvelle Brown, superintendent of Ithaca schools, Jean McPheeters, recently retired head of the Ithaca-Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, and Marcia Fort, director of GIAC toasted the president, who will leave at the end of the academic year.

Brown recalled that Skorton invited him up to campus within days of his arrival. He admitted that he didn’t remember a thing the Cornell president said to him that day, but he recalled that when he left he felt good. McPheeters said baldly, “Cornell is our economy, and they have to run it like a business.” She thanked Skorton, who is a physician, for instituting a program that brought doctors to the Ithaca area—for which it is difficult to find recruits—by allowing them to also practice at Cornell Weill Medical Center in New York City. Fort complimented Skorton for staying engaged with the community of color for the entire eight years he lived and worked in Ithaca. Former Ithaca mayor and now Cornell

Director of Community Relations John Gutenberger presented ToGo statuettes to Terry Byrnes, a founder of IPEI; Audrey Cooper of the Multi-cultural Resource Center for 41 years of public service; Mimi Melegrito, first woman president of Ithaca Kiwanis and a “match specialist” at Big Brothers, Big Sisters; Jean McPheeters for being able to “build on commonality to create a solution that no one is entirely happy with, but everyone accepts”; Nancy Potter for 30 years of service at Cornell Cooperative Extension; and Aurora Valenti, the retiring County Clerk for being at the forefront of digitizing government records. • – Bill Chaisson

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he Ithaca “sports community” said two difficult goodbyes last week, and while I was only marginally acquainted with Dan “Boone” Wells and Max Addy, I know many people that have been affected deeply. “Boone” was a security guard/ jack-of-all-trades at Ithaca High, and for 40 years he mounted his trusty golf cart and patrolled the parking lots and surrounding streets looking for students who were not where they were supposed to be. He was a masterful sleuth, and many students laugh when Dan “Boone” Wells, jack-of-all-trades at IHS and a lifelong Little Red they look back and remember how fan. (photo provided) they thought they were free and clear for a day of skipping school, moved to Hospicare. Predictably, his reply but Boone would magically appear was, “What’s easier for1 you?” 40 The Commons and kindly herd them back. A few hours later, Boone hopped on a My interactions with Boone happened golf cart outside the Pearly Gates, rolled on at the athletic fields, where he spent countless hours over the years as perhaps the in, and immediately started helping St. Peter round up the truant and the tardy. most dedicated and loyal booster the Little • • • Red have ever known. If I was ever looking The following is an excerpt from a letter for a coach, or an athlete, or get clarification written in Boone’s honor, one he had on on a rescheduled game, the answer was display in his hospital room during his final always the same: “Ask Boone.” He knew I days, and one he asked everyone to read: was a small-time journalist, but if I were Boone has been such a huge part of what there to shine a positive light on any of his it means to walk the halls of IHS. He has beloved Little Red athletes, and give them shared his time, his money and like most of the recognition he knew they deserved, he the people that make this world a better place, would go out of his way to help me out. his friendship. He’s done it because he loved Boone was an interesting role model the community and the people in it. Anne in a town that is home to Nobel Laureates, Division 1 athletes, and professional athletes. Frank wrote “No one has ever become poor by giving”, if this is true, then our friend Boone is He was a CYO youth basketball coach a truly rich man. - Justin Coffman/Assistant many years ago and he helped out at Jim Coach, I.H.S. Boys Varsity Lacrosse / Ithaca Boeheim’s camps at Syracuse. He was one High School, Class of 1998 of those people who made kids realize that • • • if you brought your best game every day, The Ithaca and Newfield communities treated people with kindness and respect, also said goodbye to Max Addy, a 2014 remembered their names and conveyed Ithaca College grad, a former player on the on the most basic level that you really Bomber baseball team and a guy whose did care about them, your job could be a calling hours saw a line of mourners nurturing and sustaining part of your life. You could build relationships that would last stretch from Immaculate Conception to the Commons. Max was a youth hockey throughout your life, and you could make player in Ithaca, the captain of the basketball a real impact. There was certainly nothing and baseball teams at Newfield (where flashy about Boone, but when his memorial his mom, Melissa is a teacher), and his is held this Saturday, you can be sure the passing so affected the community that the gym at Ithaca High will be packed with Newfield schools were closed so the town friends from across the decades and across could attend Max’s funeral. I met Max a the country. few times—as I always love writing those Boone’s illness was only recently “local-kid-makes-good” stories—and my diagnosed, and when it was clear that it had daughter was among his circle of friends. He advanced to the degree where it was not was a classy and magnetic guy. Max passed treatable, his friends came to the hospital away unexpectedly at home the day after and “inducted” him into the Ithaca High Thanksgiving, and I am among those who Hall of Fame (he was slated to gain entry in extend my deepest condolences to Tom, January). Later that day, his doctors came into his room at Cayuga Medical Center and Melissa and Cal Addy as they do what they asked Boone if he’d rather stay at CMC or be must to move forward. •

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Snow Leopard, an older white cat, lder dogs hold a special place in and Duke, a Brittany Spaniel cross, also the heart of Carol Turton. The over ten, were leaving the shelter to go to volunteer, who puts in “up to five permanent homes that day. Duke’s future days a week” at the SPCA on Hanshaw owner stopped by to give him treats and Road, leads to the Plexiglas-walled room talk to him for a while, and when the where Cookie, a 10-year-old Chihuahua, young man left, Duke sat at the door is waiting for new owners. “They’re most with a patient air. Maybe he did know, on always housebroken. They’re past the some level, that his time in the shelter was chewing stage and all that stuff. I can’t say coming to an end. enough for older dogs. Young dogs are for The SPCA is young people.” in the middle of Cookie was its “Home for the among the small Holidays” campaign, dogs airlifted east making a push to get by Best Friends, a the animals in the charity that saves shelter, especially the pets from euthanasia ones who have been by sending them there for a while, into to places where “forever homes.” An they have a chance anonymous donor of being adopted. has pledged $1,000 to Perhaps because the the shelter on behalf Tompkins County of Lucy, a nine-yeararea has so many old cat who was apartment dwellers, given to the shelter small dogs are because a child in her very popular here. family developed an Cookie arrived in allergy to cats. “She’s November with shy, so she just gets several other small overlooked,” said dogs from Los Thomas. “But this Angeles, but she had a few dental Carol Turton with Cookie, a 10-year-old Chihuahua at donor has challenged us to find a good problems that the SPCA. (photo by Glynis Hart) adopter before the needed to be set end of the year, and if right before she was we do they’ll donate $1,000.” adoptable. She’s in good health now, alert A possible disadvantage to adopting and quiet: “She could well live to be 16,” an older pet is the prospect of expensive said Turton, giving her a treat. veterinary care, but pets coming through Some people make a policy of only adopting older animals, both for their own the SPCA have the advantage of having been thoroughly doctored by the and the animals’ sake. Older animals tend veterinarians at Cornell, said Thomas. to be quieter and less rambunctious than youngsters. “We fostered an older dog, and They’re in good shape, or else the shelter won’t let them go. “With good exercise I thought nobody would ever adopt him and being properly fed, most dogs will because he was blind,” said Turton. “But I was wrong: he has a wonderful home now. do quite well,” said Turton. Further, there He’s a wonderful pet. He’s happy just to lay are people getting up in years themselves who prefer to adopt older animals, not at your feet.” only because they appreciate quieter Maggie Thomas, Director of companions, but because they don’t want Development and Marketing at the SPCA, to outlive their pet. After all, that is how said they appreciate folks who adopt many senior pets end up in the shelter; older pets. “Sometimes it’s harder; older the person who took care of them passed pets can be more shy. It’s a big change for them, because they’ve come from living in away. At the moment, Turton has no pets a home. They may not put their best paw at home; she contents herself with nearly forward.” daily visits to the four-legged friends in “Young kittens and dogs bop around the shelter. She and her husband foster and are adorable.” On the other hand, animals, meaning they take them home for behavior patterns in older animals are a period of time until a permanent home already set: “You’ll know what they’re can be found. When she’s ready to get going to be. Although once they’re another dog, however, she’s going to get an adopted and they’re in a loving home they older one from the shelter: “You truly save may change a little, for the most part they a life when you adopt a dog,” she said. • are who they are.”

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Interior of former Werninck’s, renovated to house Incodema 3-D printing company. (Photo: Tim Gera)

Incodema3D becomes first local START-UP NY project with new 3-D printing spin-off By Bill Chaisson

ncodema3D is the first local company to be accepted into the START-UP NY (SUNY Tax-free Areas to Revitalize and Transform Upstate NY) program. As part of this state economic incentive effort each upstate SUNY campus was allotted a set amount of acreage to devote to startup companies that would then operate entirely tax-free for 10 years. Incodema (pronounced “in-COHduh-muh” and an invented word created from “invent concept design manufacture”) designs and makes metal machine parts at its Cliff Street location. Founder Sean Whittaker brought new investors to create an entirely new company in January 2014, Incodema3D LLC. It will occupy part of a 60,000 square foot building that was formerly the home of Werninck’s, the appliance store that closed in fall 2013. The building is on 24.24-acre parcel on Rt. 366 (330 Main St.) outside of Freeville. The original company, founded by Whittaker in 2001, will continue to operate at the 30,000 square-foot building on Cliff Street.

The START-UP NY website itself indicates that a building at the Cornell Technology Park on Brown Road was initially considered for Incodema3D: “This building [330 Main Street] has an open warehouse floor plan and is well suited to the needs to a high tech light manufacturing company. Incodema3D is growing at a rapid rate and realizes that they will outgrow the space at 10 Brown Road in the B&T Park faster than they initially anticipated. This allows for their rapid expansion. They will designate a portion of the building. As this property is more than 1 mile from campus (3.9 miles from campus) we are asking ESD to issue a waiver to designate this property.” According to controller Illa Burbank, who has been with the company since its inception, the Freeville property was purchased shortly after Incodema was accepted into START-UP NY in June. “We trying to find a better place and that property came up for sale,” said Burbank. “We did the paperwork to have it become an ‘approved site.’ Cornell did not own a

space that was big enough,” she said, “and that had doors big enough for us to use.” Each SUNY campus—four components of Cornell University are state “contract colleges”—was assigned to a designated amount of space for the program. So three committees at the university had to decide which 20,000 square feet of their own property to exclude in order to let Incodema3D use its own space. To take part in START-UP NY Cornell University has set aside 35,830 square feet of vacant space and nearly 81 acres of developable land on campus and 79,151 square feet of vacant space and land off campus. The school is targeting businesses that fit within several of the core research areas of the university, including advanced materials, agriculture and food, chemical industry, communications and electronics, genetics, life sciences, green technology, and imaging and optics. Incodema3D has been working with researchers in the material science program at Cornell to develop the T

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might feel like you’re about to take a class f you smell something good near the at Hogwarts. Two-thirds of the store newly-minted Press Bay Alley shops, it might be something other than Life’s consists of walls of jars full of different herbs, with a mobile ladder available to So Sweet Chocolates. It might just be help navigate the selections. Its certainly Bramble Community Herbalism, a new store owned by four herbalists that looking one of the more unique shopping experiences in Ithaca, which is saying a to bring accessible, sustainable medicine lot. But just what is herbalism, and more to the Ithaca community through a vast specifically, Bramble, all about? variety of herbs. “We’re about community herbalism With over 45 years of training and and the sustainability aspect of it,” services combined, Amanda David, Darcie Black, Ciele Gladstein, and Jennifer Whitmore said. “We focus on locallygrown herbs and how Whitmore decided to help people that live the opportunity to locally be empowered to join forces and to sustain their choices, as open up an herbal far as health goes. collective business in “You can find a lot downtown Ithaca was of stuff in here,” she too good to pass up. continued, “that will While the quartet was act as remedies for all loosely acquainted sorts of things. Whether beforehand, they have you have the sniffles, learned lately that or maybe you’re seeing their personalities a doctor, and you have are just the right a major issue going blend for success, on, and you’re just Whitmore said. looking for support [for “Amanda knew prescribed medication].” Darcie and Ciele, and Bramble currently then she knew me offers a flower essence a little bit,” she said. class and a medicinal “And then when the mushroom class, and idea of renting out plans to expand its a space in Press Bay offerings, and class sizes Alley was brought when the weather warms up, I was one of the up and the outside of local people that she the store can be used sent out an email to Jennifer Whitmore, one of four partners looking for partners to who run Bramble Community Herbalism. for additional seating. (Photo: Michael Nocella) Two of the owners are also do this, and so I just qualified to give official jumped on board. I herbal consultations, if a mean, everyone I knew customer is seeking more than general was just like, ‘You have to do this.’ advice. “We didn’t really know each other “A lot of times,” Whitmore explained, that well,” Whitmore continued, “so we “when someone is starting a family, they’ll kind of eased into this cautiously, but it’s start to think about what they’re putting been amazing because our personalities into their body, what they’re eating, using. really bring out the best in each other, They might want to make a change. And and we definitely have totally different so, a lot of times a pregnant mom might perspectives on things, and we all want to come in and get something to complement each others’ weaknesses and help her sleep, and go for a special kind strengths really well.” of tea rather than using a supplement. Bramble opened in October, and Other times, it’s just someone with a Whitmore said she can tell from the common cold asking what they can take feedback she has gotten from the for it. We see a lot of chronic conditions community that people are intrigued. like inflammation that people just need “One thing is for sure,” Whitmore support for. If they just want a quick said, “everyone comes in here and says, answer, we’re always happy to help self ‘Oh it smells good in here.’ What we’ve direct someone. But we can’t really sit experienced is that people come in and consult unless we sit up an official expecting to stop in for a minute and consultation.” end up staying, hanging out, and looking Whitmore added that herbalism is around. People are definitely curious, and they’re definitely impressed with how well stocked we are.” continued on page 18 When you walk into Bramble, you

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manner. “You lay down a layer of powder,” explained Baker, “and then you fuse it with a laser. Then you fuse layer to layer as you lay down subsequent layers. You can then clean off the powder that was not fused and reuse it.” The trick, the material science professor said, is to make the finished product hard enough. During the conventional subtractive manufacturing process metals are hardened through plastic deformation or heat treatments. The metal parts made by an additive process must be hard enough already; they must be stuck together without any voids at all. Baker and his students will be testing the strength of Incodema parts made via the “printing” process to determine their resistance to bending and cracking. In addition, the bending and cracking the parts they will be analyzing them via x-ray diffraction and using an electron microscope. “A few metals are easy to use,” Baker said. “Others, like aluminum, you would like to use, but it doesn’t sinter well.” Baker was put together with the Incodema team when they approached the Cornell Center for Materials Research, which has an industrial outreach component. He is working with them through the Jumpstart program. “Conventional modes are limited by the tools that use to create the finished parts,” said Whittaker, the mechanical engineer who founded Incodema. The shapes of the parts are mapped out using a computer-aided design (CAD) process, which produces a three-dimension matrix or model for the printer to follow. “You then use a layer-by-layer process to grow the part,” Whittaker said. “You can do things that can’t be done by conventional means, like make a hollow ball. If you went the conventional way, you would have to make the two halves and join them together.” The “conventional” way of making metal parts includes bending sheet metal and carving out blocks of metal with precision grinders, routers, and drills. While final products look similar to those made via 3-D printing, Whittaker said that the new parts are lighter and stronger, and they are made more quickly and are less expensive to produce. The lighter and stronger attributes are ideal for making advancements in the aerospace industry, the engineer noted. Whittaker grew up in Ithaca, attended high school here, and then went off to the Rochester Institute of Technology to

get his engineering degree. He started Incodema after coming up with an innovation that allowed for a more rapid turnaround in the design/manufacture process for parts made from sheet metal. Since 2001 Whittaker’s company has diversified to include high-quality prototype sheet-metal stampings, intricate metal forming, short-run production stamping, laser cutting, photochemical machining (PCM), CNC machining, fused deposition modeling (FDM), wire EDM, and laser printing technologies like stereolithography (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS) and direct metal laser sintering (DMLS). (Sintering is the process of shaping heated solids without melting them into a liquid.) At present Incodema employs 45 engineers, designers, quality-assurance experts, and administrators. According to Whittaker, 10 of his current staff members will be moving from the Cliff Street to the Freeville facility to begin with. Incodema3D will initially be using 20,000 of the 60,000 square feet, with the remainder available for lease. Over the next two years he plans to hire 50 additional employees. Incodema also has facilities in Newark, N.Y. and Binghamton. According to the “inducement agreement” with the Tompkins County IDA, Incodema3D acquired I-Want-ItNow-RP, Inc., a plastics 3-D printer in Syracuse, and will move six employees from that facility to its new plant in Freeville. The plastics and the metals divisions use the same machinery, and therefore should be in the same building. In addition to being part of the START-UP NY program, the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) helped Incodema finance the renovation of the old Werninck’s property by getting them exemptions from state and local sales and use taxes for expenses related to construction. Signed in July, the agreement states that Incodema may spend up to $6 million on the changes to the 20,000 square feet that they will use for manufacturing and qualify for relief from up to $480,000 in taxes. In a separate agreement, the IDA gave 330 Main St. Holdings LLC, the holding company set up to administrate the property, relief from an additional $25,600 in state and local taxes. The holding company will not have to pay mortgage tax associated with the financing agreement either. The IDA also intends to enter into a payment-inlieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with 330 Main St. Holdings. According to Burbank, the property-tax abatement going forward will apply to the increased worth of the property as a result of improvements that Incodema makes to it. §

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Handwork member Caroline Spellman (paper-quilled birds and wildlife artist) took on the role of Interim Operations Manager of Handwork Coop in June 2013. With her knowledge of business management, Caroline reorganized, updated, and made many retail processes easier on the 45-some artist members who own and staff the store. After several months of reviewing applicants, Handwork is pleased to announce the hire of new employee, Operations and Finance Manager Elly O’Brien. She was hired in September 2014 and is delighted with the challenges and rewards faced when working within a

cooperative. O’Brien is an Ithaca native as well as an avid knitter and painter. With extensive experience in small business retail, management, and accounting, She is dedicated to working within a local business, and she believes it is necessary to create a welcoming and unique shopping experience that builds pride throughout the community. As accounting assistant and current employee at Knitting Etc, O’Brien understands the necessity of attention to detail that comes with the operations and finance position. O’Brien has already demonstrated great ability to balance priorities when faced with a time crunch. The Operations and Finance Manager reports monthly to the Handwork Executive Committee

and works closely with Jill Hoffman, the Marketing and Promotions Coordinator; together developing new ways of adapting to the changing downtown business environment. Handwork is very happy to have gained Elly O’Brien as a team member. With O’Brien on board, Handwork will continue to grow, fostering the cooperative spirit and housing some of the area’s most talented and unique artisans. Handwork has gained several new artist members from 2013 to the present day and is celebrating its 38th year as an Ithaca establishment. The cooperative looks forward to the many improvements and exciting changes with the coming years.

New Downtown Market Director

The Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) is very pleased to announce the hire of Allison Graffin as its new marketing director. She comes to the DIA having spent the last six years as marketing director for Ithaca Beer Co., helping to grow the brewery from a small family business to a nationally acclaimed brand and organizing the popular annual Ithaca Brew Fest event from 2008 to 2011. Graffin said her primary objectives in her new position at the DIA are to “restore faith among the businesses downtown by conveying that the end of the Commons construction is in sight and to drum up incentive opportunities to bring locals and tourist to the Commons right now. Ithaca is teeming with unique opportunities; Graffin we just need to deliver the message effectively.” Now settling into her new office in Center Ithaca, Graffin is enjoying the convenience of working downtown. “Now I can take care of all my errands over a lunch break—drop off my dry cleaning, mail letters, pick up a birthday cake—without even having to even get in my car. The efficiency is simply wonderful and it has really brought me so much joy and peace of mind.” Graffin also joins the rest of the downtown business community in looking forward to the new Commons design. “In the immediate future, I’m looking forward to once again darting back and forth across the Commons with ease. I’m also really excited to see the completed Bernie Milton Pavilion in Bank Alley; it’s going to be a very beautiful spot to gather for the Summer Concert Series and other special events.” sellingherbs contin u ed from page 16

something that needs to be taken seriously, and has proven to yield tremendous results in her own experience, and of people that she knows. While it might not be the remedy for every illness, it certainly has a place in the medical world, she said. “While I love medical doctors, and totally believe that people should see medical doctors for the things they’re worried about, I think people need to know that there are alternatives and support that are out there. “Our goal is just to have as many options here as possible,” she said, “and as much locally-made products as possible to support the local economy. We don’t want to make things too mysterious or cloud over any of the details. We’re just representing the herbal community in a simple way, and if people can take advantage of our classes, they’ll have more choices and knowledge available to them. I think that will open up their perspective on how herbs can be used.” § 18 T

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“[Center for Neighborhood same car payments for the individual living Technology] has a mapping tool,” Williams downtown, minus the commute. The latter said, “that looks at tax parcels, census would cost just under $500, and takes parcels, and parcel by parcel they figure a monthly parking pass in Green Street out what areas that formula works for. garage into account, according to Commute Essentially, downtown Ithaca, and a little bit Solutions, which Williams used to calculate of the southwest portion of the city are the both scenarios. only two communities in a 50-mile radius “Even with a substantially higher rent that meet this affordability. We’re not trying bill,” DIA states, “the downtown resident to pick on Groton, we where just using it as will expend on 44 percent housing and an illustrative transportation costs—an affordable tool. It could proportion—while the Groton resident will be plugged in expend 55 percent.” anywhere. We DIA’s third hypothetical individual is needed a point a Wegmans manager who does not own to plug in. a car. This person, DIA claims, can get by The numbers on transportation costs for less than $200, would be which would drop their H+T affordability different proportion down to 34 percent. depending “I said under $200,” Williams said, “but where you it could [in theory] be $0. Two-hundred pick. But dollars gets you TCAT, a basic membership [downtown to Ithaca Carshare, some cab rides—a full Ithaca more smatter. It would also probably buy you a affordable to decent bike for the year.” Ferguson said solving a math equation live in than was not the point DIA was trying to make, any other but rather showing residents that living in surrounding downtown Ithaca can be more affordable municipality than it is often perceived to be. (The New in the given York Times, using Zillow rent rates, recently radius].” ranked Ithaca 11th in a list of American However, cities where rents were highest relative to DIA’s estimated median incomes). cost of owning “The point is not to argue specifics a car and A one-bedroom apartment at Cayuga Green. (Photo: C. Palmyra) here,” Ferguson said. “This was meant to be commuting an illustrative example. The bigger point is from Groton that living in downtown Ithaca has its own seem to be on the Ithaca Commons, over half of the efficiencies. When you look at the bigger the high end. Williams said he used the households qualify.” picture, that’s really important to consider. DIA’s surprising conclusion is based on “national average monthly cay payment When you look at the cost of rent, you for owning a mid-size sedan” and assumed might say ‘Oh, gosh, that’s pretty expensive.’ some specific assumptions, Williams told the individual would be driving to Ithaca But if you look at it in the total picture, this publication. For instance, DIA paints from Groton seven days a week. He also along with other expenses, especially a hypothetical one-on-one comparison added in trips for errands, wear and tear transportation, then you see that it’s—I of two Wegmans managers, both making on the vehicle, and “a couple of road trips” don’t know if I want to say affordable—but $3,300 per month. One lives just off the it’s certainly comparable or better than per year to come up with a figure of $1,200 Commons, the other in the village of other cases. Living in an urban area has a month commuting from Groton daily Groton. According to Rentometer (DIA’s some economic benefits.” § for work. To Williams’ credit, he used the reference), the average one-bedroom apartment in Groton is $600, while an homeowner insurance average one-bedroom apartment in downtown Ithaca is $950. This is where DIA’s claim wavers under scrutiny, as finding a one-bedroom apartment for $950 Auto • Home • Business in downtown Ithaca could be a challenge. After phoning several downtown property True Insurance managers we found the range for a one273-7511 bedroom apartment in Ithaca is $900 to www.trueinsurance.com $1,500. I.e., $950 apartments are rare.

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n an attempt to debunk the reputation that downtown Ithaca is an expensive place to live, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) recently circulated a press release, “Downtown Ithaca Living: Is it Affordable?” The article, put together by DIA Executive Director Gary Ferguson and Office Manager Evan Williams adds transportation costs into the rent affordability equation to highlight the cost benefits of living and working in the city of Ithaca. DIA used researchers at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, based in Chicago, and its Housing and Transportation (H+T) index, which sets the benchmark of affordability of the two expenses taking up no more than 45 percent of a household’s income. “It tries to expand on the notion of affordability,” Williams said. “Usually, you just talk about housing costs, which is reckoned to be 30 percent [of an individual’s income]. This formula shows that 15 percent [of an individual’s income] is sort of the threshold for affordable transportation, which is the second largest expenditure for most households. So they put those two numbers together, and that’s how you get 45 percent.” According to DIA’s estimate, using the H+T metric, downtown Ithaca and some adjacent neighborhoods to the southwest are “some of the most affordable places to live in the area and indeed the entire state.” “Looking at a broad swatch of upstate New York,” DIA wrote, “that includes Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, the proportion of households that meet the H+T definition of affordability is about 35 percent, but that figure drops precipitously to less than six percent when you zoom into a 50-mile radius surrounding Ithaca. Zooming further and further into the heart of the city, however, yields a surprising result: in a one-mile radius around

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his summer, after almost 35 years in the hat and drum business, Spencer resident Tom Kozlowski finally sold ToKo Imports and retired. Well, sort of retired; he is still helping out at the store some, and he is still serving as a village

trustee, so he is certainly keeping himself busy. In 1980, when Kozlowski started the business that is now known as ToKo Imports, he sold sweaters out of the back of his car on Route 13 in Ithaca. He explained

how the business got started: “I had a friend who had some sweaters from Nepal that he would just sell out of his house, but … he had to leave the country to take a job in Tanzania, and he left me the stuff and said if I felt like trying to sell it, we’d work something out.” After making his initial sales on the side of Route 13, Kozlowski moved his business to a second-story loft on the Commons. Because the location had no visible storefront or signage, Kozlowski got permission to hire someone to walk up and down the Commons with a sandwich board advertising the store. He said, “That lasted for six years, and it was a really marvelous time to be on the Commons. It certainly was different in the mid-‘80s. There were a lot of family stores, and there was a real

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Local Literary Journal Makes Run for Non-Profit Press Status

by Bill Chaisson

he truest measure of the resolutely idealist nature of the local literary journal Essays & Fictions is that there is nothing about their current Indiegogo fundraiser at their website (essaysandfictions.com). There is only the striking cover of Volume XII (Spring 2014) and a link to the table of contents (everything is available online) and another link to a PDF of the volume so you can see what it looks like on the page. The Indiegogo campaign started on October 30 and will wrap up on December 16. They are trying to raise $5,800 in order to make the transition from simply being a literary journal to being a not-for-profit press. In a town full of earnest people explicitly seeking the truth in its many forms—spiritual, political, artistic—Essays & Fictions trades in deliberate falsehoods. One of the founders, David Pollock, explains their reasons for this below. The journal would seem to be carrying the flag of poststructuralism into the 21st century. This strain of post-modernism questioned the existence of facts that exist independently of the values of the observer and generally encouraged its students to question all forms of received wisdom. Ithaca Times: When and why did you start Essays & Fictions? David Pollock: Danielle Winterton, Joshua Land, and I started Essays & Fictions in 2007. Danielle and I had recently gotten our MFAs from the New School writing program, and she and Josh were both working at the Village Voice. We were thinking and talking much about French theorist Jean Baudrillard’s ideas of symbolic exchange; the American writer Fred Exley’s hallucinatory memoir A Fan’s Notes; the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up, which crosses the line between documentary and fiction; as well as about the works of writers like Borges and W.G. Sebald, who were masters of iniquity. These works all have styles that blur lines between objectivity and imagination. We felt this aesthetic was essential at a time when there was much talk in the news, as well as in literary circles, about what constitutes a true account. Instead of embracing the outraged response typical to the American left regarding forged documents and forced outcomes in the Iraq War, we decided to celebrate these spaces of falsity. We imagined a publication of dense, intelligent, sensual work that neglected the brutal authority of the truth and the fact by publishing non-fiction side-byside with fiction and works of fiction that pretended to be non-fiction, and pieces of non-fiction that were written as if they were stories. These notions appeal to me in the same way the works of Kierkegaard appeal to me. Kierkegaard was very aware of the way a destabilized form could cause a reader to go through the kind of moment of existential awareness that his own work was about. By writing under different names, embracing different perspectives, and interspersing comic narratives with continued on page 29

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hat happens when the past is cut away? When the revolution comes undone, up short, busted up? When the revolutionary’s name becomes just a token shout-out in the DJ mix, a tasty artifact for academics? What happens to the children of the revolution? Dominique Morisseau’s brilliant, caustic, deeply felt play, Sunset Baby grapples with these charged questions of two generations of the Black experience. She uses a small canvas to great effect: condensing the chaos to an urban triangle of father, daughter, lover. The Kitchen Theatre brings it to life in a searing, ground-rattling production packed with three smoldering performances. There is Kenyatta Shakur (Alexander Thomas), the estranged father, a strategist and organizer from the Black Power movement, locked up for years after an armed Alexander Thomas and Gillian Glasco of Kitchen Theatre’s Sunset Baby. robbery, video-recording (photo by Dave Burbank) his hopes and dreams to the daughter he abandoned. There is Damon (Carl Hendrick Louis), theater space into a listless apartment, Amanda Cardwell-Aiken’s costumes that the street hustler, thinking 30 is too old to combine flash and comfort, Arsenault and be playing the game, finding solace in his co-lighting designer Andrew Scharwath’s partner in crime and lover, complaining ability to both heat and cool the space with about his ex not letting him near his son. subtle shifts, and the propulsive sound score At ground zero is Nina (Gillian from Ryan Mutton. Glasco), named for the great Nina Simone Louis finds a Damon who can be by her famous activist parents, grieving the dazzling in rhetoric, sultry and seductive, loss of her crack-addicted mother, covering her wounds and fury with a ferocious, take- wistful, but always locked within himself, always settling for menace and possession no-prisoners attack on her world, out to get when the chips don’t fall his way. It’s a walk what’s due her, yet setting her dreams on of flash, pomp and some grace. escape to the latest fantasy served up by the Volcanic fury, mixed with a heart Travel Channel. bursting with love, lie concealed beneath “What happens to a dream deferred,” the gentle exterior of Thomas’s amazing asked Langston Hughes, “does it dry up … portrayal of Kenyatta. His deft performance or does it explode?” Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun looked is so economic in its means that he simply seems to exist from one breath to the next, at an earlier crux in the African-American suffusing the play with his presence. experience. Morisseau ranges over similar And Glasco takes the stage by storm territory a half-century later, again with Nina. She is abrupt, powerful, wrapping her urban poetry up in the guise combative, scathingly witty, charged up of the realistic American family drama. In to leaping out of her skin. Then alone part the play echoes of lament, like Suzan Lori-Park’s Top Dog, another brilliant use of the fatigue sets in, the face momentarily crumbles, a deep sadness wells up in her “realism” to excavate a dream deferred. bent shoulders, before she shakes herself What this means in the play is the back. This woman takes up space, needs consequences of a fatherhood on the run, space, needs to fly, to see a sunset. Glasco of smart youngsters who put all their takes us thrillingly through every nervy step scheming into gaming their little corner of her desperate journey. • of the system, robbing their own people, of how important a stash of letters left by

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nd hot stuff she was. Sophie Tucker, born Sophie Kalish in the Ukraine in 1884, 1886, or 1887 (you know how those things are), grew up in her parents’ Hartford, Conn., restaurant, serving up chopped liver and belting out songs for extra tips. Learning early on that the customers were willing to shell out a few shekels for the little girl with the big voice, she was hooked on show biz, and had the chutzpah, work ethic, and the smarts to invent a persona that audiences loved for all of her 60-plus years of performing. In I Am Sophie Tucker: A Fictional Memoir, authors Susan and Lloyd Ecker have done a masterful research job, and

an equally fine one of fictionalizing the life of this raucous, rambunctious, selfassured, diligent, poker-playing, talented, generous, brash and brassy broad. Lending the project a helping hand, the Last of the Red-hot Mamas did a pretty good job of reinventing and fictionalizing herself. The Eckers, both Ithaca College alumni, had their first date at a 1973 campus Better Midler concert, and were fascinated by Midler’s “blue” Sophie Tucker jokes. They’ve spent many years researching Tucker’s life, speaking to everyone they could find who knew and remembered her, and going through her dozens and dozens of scrapbooks; the woman seems to have saved every scrap of paper she ever held— telegrams, contracts, mash notes, letters, reviews, programs.

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She was chubby, definitely not the chorus girl type, but, with her larger-thanlife personality and voice, and her dogged determination, she found her way into the Big Apple’s cafes, and, from there, into burlesque, where the only way she could break in was in blackface. She destroyed most evidence of that period, but the Eckers’ years of research managed to turn up one incriminating photo. Her burlesque cohort included the likes of Fanny Brice, Al Jolson, and Jimmy Durante. From there she graduated to vaudeville’s Keith Circuit, radio, recordings, and television, for a career spanning sixty years. Devoting herself to her work, she played as many as fourteen shows a week, traveling coast to coast by train before the days of commercial air travel, sending penny postcards to fans advising them of her imminent appearance in a theater near them. She delivered command performances for royalty and presidents, cabbies, crooks, and socialites, acquiring good friends among show business stars as well as the likes of Al Capone (he controlled the

Chicago club scene), J. Edgar Hoover (reputedly a cross-dresser, who, she claimed, asked for one of her dresses), and John F. Kennedy (who is reported to have behaved himself). In 1909 she joined the Ziegfield Follies. Her popularity didn’t sit well with the stars of the show, who had her fired. The next year she introduced the song “Some of These Days” which became her theme song. The Eckers kick off each chapter with an image of a relevant piece of sheet music featuring Ms. Tucker, and the book is peppered with show-biz photos, though some of them seem irrelevant. It’s also a compendium of commonly used Yiddishisms, with footnoted definitions that were spot on. Tucker knew what she wanted and she went for it. Her costumes dripped with furs, feathers, and jewels, she knew how to make an entrance, and she was the queen of double entendre. She knew what her audiences wanted and she gave it to them. In clubs and on Broadway, she could be very raunchy. But before three generations of royalty, she knew how to behave. She wanted to come across as a class act. Tucker herself published an autobiography in the mid-twentieth century, but the publisher’s censors expunged any of the racier material, leaving the bland, whitewashed story of a goody two-shoes, which Ms. Tucker certainly was not. Fictionalized (or perhaps not), the new biography does a good job of presenting the essence of the Tucker’s personality, drive, and talent. •

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very appealing)—a painting of a very large ristin Letton Dutcher’s day job is lavender rose—a bit like Super-Realism teaching painting at Uncorked morphing into a luminous Expressionism. Creations, an Ithaca Art Studio There are a couple of series. where they teach people the art of painting Frankenflower I and Frankenflower II are while drinking wine, (“Learn to Paint paintings of flowers While You Enjoy where varied flowers a Drink!”), which and backgrounds sounds like fun. are sutured together Dutcher has a with large crude current exhibition of cartoony stitches her personal work at like those of Boris Collegetown Bagels Karloff in the on Aurora Street in Universal Studios downtown Ithaca. Frankenstein I had met movies. In Dutcher before on Frankenflower, one the October Gallery flower is blue, one Night at Uncorked yellow and one red. Creations, and Their respective ran into her again backgrounds are at her show at complementary Collegetown Bagels colors of orange, on the December violet and green. Gallery Night. She is The result is a an appealing young sort of stitched woman (with the together reality piercings and tattoos like something the that young people cartoonist Steve affect.) Dance, Motherfu*@er, Dance, by Kristin Dutcher. Ditko would have At Uncorked (photo provided) done in an old Dr. Creations, Dutcher Strange comic. teaches people to Another series is the witty Ready For paint with acrylic. At Collegetown Bagels, My Close-Up # 3 & 4. Black-and-white, her paintings are all painted in oil. painted, filmstrip sprockets border the There is a range to Dutcher’s work. paintings, and the subject matter, painted in Wine-o and Everything’s Pear-y, luminous tones of pink-and-white-and-redexpressionist paintings of, respectively, and-blue, looks like some sort of Fantastic a glass of wine and a pear, are more Voyage super-close-up of internal organs in conventional, early 20th century sort of works, employing neo-Cubism and the human body. Abstract Expressionism. There are several paintings of flowers, She also has a very effective mandala Flamer, Sunflower Spiral, Compliments painting (which seems appropriate for Our (#2), and Blue Orchid, where the flowers Hip Little Tibetan Buddhist Town). But are blown up very big, and the technique is there is a rougher, cartoonier feel to it, that expressionist, stylized and cartoony. makes me think of Cubism rather than the And, finally, Find Thyself is almost like slicker, neo-airbrush look of the post-1960s something Juan Míro would have done—a psychedelic mandalas. dark purple blue painting with charming, My favorite painting is Grassy Death ornate, organic, cartoony, childlike forms … an expressionist painting, largely in painted upon it, popping off the canvas green, of wild leaves of grass and flowers with a use of hundreds of pointillist dabs of exploding from a shattered skull in the white paint looking like white Christmas grass. I like the cartoony stylization of the lights. And “Find Thyself”, what an skull, the detailed exploding flowers, the important admonition! green flame-like expressionist waver of the Anyways, it is an altogether lovely little grass. show (in such an appealing venue) and I also like the painting Dance, well worth the Readers attention the next Motherfu*@er, Dance, which riffs on a time he or she is having a milkshake or a similar theme. This is large painting of a smoothie or a coffee at CTB. dancing skeleton in a world of giant pink And a final thing I would add here, is roses and shimmering green foliage. It that, as Kristin Dutcher is a young person, I could easily be a lost Kelly/Mouse Grateful look forward to what she does next … Dead album cover. The exhibition Flowers & Bones will be up A Rose By Any Other Name is one of at Collegetown Bagels, 202 Aurora St., Ithaca the more conventional paintings (although through December. •

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IT: What are advantages of doing this in Ithaca as opposed to somewhere else? contin u ed from page 21 DP: The writing department at Ithaca College has been very supportive of ruminations about death, responsibility, Essays & Fictions. The Community Arts and thought, he was able to mimic that Partnership (CAP) has also been very feeling of shock that has become such a supportive of our journal and has allowed convention that we no longer feel it, which us to host readings and workshops during is, of course, looking into the mirror and the Spring Writes Literary Festival. thinking “This is me, here again.” Ithaca is a great place for writers and IT: What sort of background and small publishers. This is something the experience are you bringing to this Ploughshares blog picked up on a few years enterprise? back (we have a mention in it: tinyurl.com/ DP: I have an MFA from the New kku7wl4) School writing program and have acted We have made some invaluable literary as founding editor of the journal since its connections while living here. For example, inception. Jacquelyn White is our editorial we have published two pieces by local assistant. She has been instrumental in our author Bob Proehl, who has recently sold current fundraiser. She graduated from his first novel. We have published works Ithaca College, where as a student she of some Cornell MFA graduates, such as served an internship with us. Michael Paul Simons, Pelin Ariner, and IT: Who submits to E&F? How do Will Cordeiro. people find out about your journal? IT: How do you and Danielle split the DP: People from all over the world work? Who does what? submit to Essays & Fictions. We’ve DP: Danielle has recently decided to published authors who live in France, step away from her leadership position, China, Greece, Morocco, as well as all over though she is staying on as a consultant the United States. We are listed in Poets and Writers, the Writers Market, the Fiction and will continue to advise on issues regarding layout and design. Writers Market, as well as on websites such In the past, we split the work up evenly. as Duotrope. Years of connecting with We worked independently on the pieces other authors and independent publishers we felt closest to. Design, layout, and copy have allowed us to develop a network of editing tasks were shared. dedicated contributors and readers. IT: I confess that I haven’t seen a hard The authors whom we publish all have copy of the journal. Do you print copies? If an interest in destabilizing their readers’ so, why? If not, why not? expectations. We’ve recently published DP: Yes, we do print small runs of each an essay by a brilliant poet, essayist, and issue of Essays & Fictions while also making publisher named Paul Stubbs. He’s British, each entire issue free to the public online. though he lives in Paris, and his essay Our reason for this is we believe that the is part of a cycle of essays about Arthur work we publish should be available to Rimbaud. The essay, which attempts to anyone who would like to read it. shine a new light on Rimbaud’s work, itself We do a print run because we love resists interpretation. It drifts from literary books. analysis to lyrical, metaphysical expulsion. IT: What are your own writing One thing that draws authors and ambitions? readers is an affinity for similar ideas, DP: I have recently been shopping writers and works of art. The title of our around a first novel called Elliot and publication is itself a reference to the two Theresa and am at work on a second. 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Toivo Dance-Party Fundraiser | 3:30 PM-7:00 PM, 12/14 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | to benefit Trumansburg Conservatory Matching Campaign with waltz instruction by Rick Lightbody and Carol Lawrence.

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Symphoria: Holiday Magic | 7:30 PM-, 12/15 Monday | Cortland Junior Senior High School, 8 Valley View Drive, Cortland | with vocalist Danan Tsan and conductor Sean O’Loughlin join Symphoria. Holiday favorites from Irving Berlin, Leroy Anderson, and Tchaikovsky, along with newer pieces including those from Disney’s Frozen, plus a sing-along finale, will be sure to entertain all ages.

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Newfield Schools’ Holiday Concert Band & Choir | 7:00 PM-, 12/17 Wednesday | Newfield High School, Main Street, Newfield | grades 6-12

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Movie descriptions via rottentomatoes.com Birdman | BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:00, 7:00, 9:30. Citizenfour | In January 2013, Poitras (recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Fellowship and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service) was several years into making a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. | 114 mins R | Fri: 4:40, 7:05, 9:25; Sat & Sun: 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25; Mon - Wed: 4:40, 7:05, 9:25; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25. The Homesman | When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad

by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). | 122 mins R | Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Mon & Tue: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Wed: 4:15, 6:45; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. National Theatre Live: Skylight | Sat: 1:30 PM. Rosewater | Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. | 103 mins R | Fri - Thu: 4:50 PM The Theory of Everything | The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. | 123 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Sat & Sun: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Mon & Tue: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Wed: 4:20, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Whiplash | Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. | 106 mins R | Fri & Sat: 7:00, 9:15; Sun: 2:30, 7:00, 9:15; Mon - Wed: 7:00, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:30, 7:00, 9:15 cornell cinema

The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson’s latest features the tale of Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), a concierge at the titular plush hotel in the fictional European republic of Zubrowka in 1932. | Wed 12/10 7:15 PM; Thu 12/12 9:40 PM; Sat 12/13 9:15 PM Pitch Perfect | Beca, a freshman at Barton University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school’s all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition. | Thu 12/11 7:15 PM; Fri 12/12 7:15 PM. Space Jam | Everyone’s favorite 90s movie about basketball players and well-loved cartoon characters fighting aliens returns to the big screen. | Thu 12/11 9:40 PM; Sat 12/13 7:15 PM.

Stage Sunset Baby | 7:30 PM-, 12/10 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 12/11 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 12/12 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 12/13 Saturday; 4:00 PM-, 12/14 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 12/17 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre, 471 W State/MLK St, Ithaca | By Dominique Morisseau. A former Black revolutionary, his outside-the-law daughter, and her drug dealing lover struggle to overcome the forces that derail families. What happens when the line between sacrifice and selfishness is blurred? Hairspray | 7:30 PM-, 12/10 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 12/11 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 12/12 Friday; 3:00 PM-, 8:00 PM- 12/13 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 12/14 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 12/16 Tuesday; 7:30 PM-, 12/17 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 Genesee Street, Syracuse | The hit Broadway musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance, and deliriously tuneful songs. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can’t stop the beat, and truth be told, you won’t want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 12/10 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM-, 12/11 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 126 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM-, 12/12 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | The Nutcracker | 7:30 PM-, 12/12 Friday; 3:00 PM-, 12/13 Saturday; 3:00 PM-, 12/14 Sunday | State Theatre of Ithaca, Inc., 107 W State St, Ithaca | Choreographed by Lavinia Reid, and set to the familiar Tchaikovsky score, Ithaca Ballet’s Nutcracker is a treat for the whole family and an Ithaca tradition. Children of all ages will delight in Clara’s victory over the mice and her voyage to the Land of Sweets. The performance in Geneva and the Friday night performance in Ithaca feature a live orchestra the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra. A Christmas Story | 8:00 PM-, 12/12 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 12/13 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 12/14 Sunday | Tiahwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine St, Owego | For the twelfth consecutive season, the popular holiday classic “A

Christmas Story” portrays the riotous trials and travails of young Ralphie Parker on his quest for the one thing he wants for Christmas: a Red Ryder BB gun.

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 1 | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@yahoo.com.

Meetings Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 12/10 Wednesday | The Antlers, 1159 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | 607-273-4421. hans_fleischmann@yahoo.com Ithaca City Planning and Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM-, 12/10 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Facilities and Infrastructure Committee | 10:30 AM-, 12/15 Monday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM-, 12/16 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome. Ithaca City Planning and Development Board | 6:00 PM-, 12/16 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca Town Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 12/16 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca City School District Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 12/16 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | Amnesty International Group 73 | 7:30 PM-, 12/16 Tuesday | Cornell University - Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | For information please contact Gwyn Singer at 277-1762. Tompkins County Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee | 3:30 PM-, 12/17 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 12/17 Wednesday | Aladdin’s, 100 Dryden Road, Ithaca | 607-272-6013. map10@ cornell.edu Ithaca City Administration Committee | 6:00 PM-, 12/17 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca | -

Lectures Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 12/11 Thursday | Beebe Hall, 2nd Floor Conference Room; Cornell University, Ithaca | w/ Christopher Wildeman, Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University An Example of Translational Research in Parenting Education Silver Service Lecture: Stroke - Time is of Essence | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/12 Friday | Kendal at Ithaca, Auditorium, 2230 North Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Free lecture presented by Susan Cowdery, MD. All lectures are free and open to the community. Light refreshments, plenty of parking. The Real You – No Limitations / How You Can Change The World | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM, 12/13 Saturday | Christian Science Reading Room, 117 South Cayuga St., Ithaca | Two free talks on the spiritual approach of Christian Science--The Real You, No Limitations (11:00 to 11:30) and How You Can Change The World (1:00 to 1:30).

Nature & Science Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 12/13 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 12/14 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Bird walks around Sapsucker Woods are sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club and are targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information. Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/13 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Bring your mystery fossils in to the Museum of the Earth and get them identified. Cayuga Trails Club: Cornell University | 1:00 PM-, 12/13 Saturday | Nevin Welcome Center, Plantations, Cornell University, Ithaca | A 3 to 4-mile hike through the natural areas of Cornell University. Meet at 1:00, parking lot, Cornell Plantations Brian Nevin Welcome Center, One Plantations Road. For more information, call 607-272-8679 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

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Thursday, December 11 – 5 p.m.

Thursday, December 11 – 5 to 8:30 p.m.

Ithaca Winterfest is here, and this week brings several must-see events. On Thursday night, on the Commons, check out the Ice Wars Ice Carving Competition and have a drink at the outdoor ice bar. Come Saturday, warm up at the 5th annual Chowder Cook-off from noon to 5 p.m. on the Commons. (photo by Shannon Williamson)

Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca.org. Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots | See website for location and meeting dates | Writing Through The Rough Spots. Fall and Winter Classes in Ithaca. www.WritingRoomWorkshops. com Microsoft Publisher | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/10 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Matt Barkee will teach participants how to create, edit and save Publisher documents as well as advanced features to create professional looking posters. Registration required. Warming Winter Fare | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 12/11 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to make a balanced gluten-free, plant-based delicious meal to keep you warm in the winter. Dinner and recipes are included. Join Priscilla Timberlake, coauthor of The Great Life Cookbook, for this festive meal. This class is open to the public, and will be held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. An Evening of Book-Making | 7:00 PM-, 12/11 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Laura Rowley will present her practice and projects in bookbinding, printing, & hand papermaking.¨Then participants will have the opportunity to create the content for his or her own book and learn a unique binding. All ages and abilities are welcome, and the workshop is free. International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 12/14 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested. An Evening on Doula work with Tiffany Brown | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 12/16 Tuesday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 1251 Trumansburd Rd, Ithaca | In this course Tiffany will discuss what it is exactly that a doula does before, during and after birth. She will talk about how incorporating a doula into your preparation time and during birth can lead to a more mother and child centered birth experience. If you’ve ever wondered about what a doula does, now is the time to find out.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/16 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Ithaca’s got a new art space. This Thursday, an exhibition of work from Monica Franciscus’s I love you series opens at 224 Columbia St., a newly built space constructed by a local architect. Check it out. (photo provided)

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Mineral ID Day | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 12/14 Sunday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Have you or your kids found a funny rock? Curious about a crystal? Bring them to the Museum of the Earth as The Finger Lakes Mineral Club will be on hand with special equipment and experts to identify rocks and minerals for Museum visitors. Winter Tree Identification Day | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/14 Sunday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | How do you identify trees with no leaves? Come on a snowy hike with us as we explore the clues around us to aid in identification of tree species in the forest. We’ll consider everything from location, bark type, visible birds nests and even pest preference in a close up examination of our trees. So bring, or borrow from us, a copy of Winter Tree Finder and come play detective for the day.

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Middle School Craft Night | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/10 Wednesday | Newfield Public Library, Main Street,, Newfield | Mrs. Esposito will lead our first ever Middle School craft night. Join us to make fun holiday crafts. Dorothy Cotton Institute Gala Dinner | 5:30 PM-9:00 PM, 12/11 Thursday | Statler Hotel At Cornell University, 130 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | In celebration of International Human Rights Day. The Gala Dinner will begin with a silent auction at 5:30. Reception and cash bar featuring live R&B jazz at 6:00 pm, with dinner at 7:00, followed by a program and entertainment. Mr. Cal Walker will serve as Master of Ceremonies. The program will include a tribute to Vincent Harding and remarks by special guest Tavis Smiley. Entertainment will include live jazz and R&B by Fe Nunn and Friends. Dinner will feature live jazz by The Molly MacMIllan Trio and Trece. Schuyler Hospital Auxiliary Festival of Lights | 6:00 PM-, 12/11 Thursday | Schuyler Hospital, 220 Steuben St., Montour Falls | Tree-lighting ceremony at 6 p.m. in the Seneca View Skilled Nursing Facility lobby, including music and light refreshments. Schuyler Hospital Red Cross Blood Drive | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, 12/12 Friday | Schuyler Hospital, 220 Steuben St., Montour Falls | Pre-register at www. redcrossblood.org or by calling the Schuyler Hospital Lab at (607) 535-8607. Double red cells accepted if eligible. Walk-ins welcome.

Candlelight Vigil for Brown and Garner | 5:15 PM-, 12/12 Friday | Centerway Square, , Corning | The Corning Committee for Justice in Palestine (CCFJIP) is sponsoring a meditative candlelight vigil near Centerway Square in Corning. Tinsel ‘N Lights Festival | 5:30 PM-, 12/12 Friday | Muldoon Park, Pennsylvania Avenue and on Broad Street, Waverly | A variety of Holiday entertainment including Santa, horse and wagon rides, ice sculpting, live reindeer, free food, music and more. Santa’s workshop, Artwalk storefront mural contest and more. Finger Lakes School of Massage Open House | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, 12/12 Friday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 1251 Trumansburd Rd, Ithaca | Meet the staff, enjoy massage from current students and learn about the school and its massage therapy training programs. This event is free and open to the public. Ithaca Winterfest: Speed Ice-Carving Competition | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 12/12 Friday | Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | Two carvers go head-to-head in a speed carving competition. Legion Fish Fry | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/12 Friday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Road, Candor | The American Legion Auxiliary Friday night Fish Fry. phone: 659-7395 on the night of the dinners Batman 75th Anniversary Celebration | 7:00 PM-, 12/12 Friday | Groton Public Library, , | This event is free for all ages. Featuring the original show plus one animated Batman Adventure along with the premiere episode of Birds of Prey. Batman Collectibles will be on display with Free Refreshments. Breakfast with Santa | 12/13 Saturday | Dryden Hotel, 42 E Main St, Dryden | Have breakfast with Santa and members from the Tompkins County law enforcement agencies at the Dryden Hotel. Benefits Cops, Kids and Toys group. www.copskidsandtoys.org Annual Holiday Cookie Walk | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 12/13 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Fill a box with beautiful & delicious holiday cookies for $7.00 per pound. This is a fun way to treat your family and friends while donating to Habitat at the same time. Handmade Pottery Holiday Sale | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 12/13 Saturday | Malloryville Pottery Studio, 92 W. Malloryville Rd., Freeville | Visit Malloryville Pottery Studio for the annual winter holiday season open house and sale. Rustic functional and decorative stoneware pottery created with nature in mind.

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Book Sale | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 12/13 Saturday | Newfield Public Library, Main Street,, Newfield | Were having a bag sale to help clean up the book basement. All the books you can fit in a Wegmans size shopping bag for $1. We have mostly adult fiction and nonfiction available. Winter Wine Festival | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 12/13 Saturday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | More than a dozen local wine makers and six different Finger Lakes cheese makers at The Space @ GreenStar. Tasting times will run from 12pm-2pm or 3pm-5pm. 5th Annual Chowder Cook-Off | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 12/13 Saturday | Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | More than 20 different chowders from local eateries. Holiday Magic Festival | 4:00 PM-, 12/13 Saturday | Downtown Newark Valley, , Newark Valley | Music, entertainment, and activites at the Village Green, the Rollie Noble Room and the Train Depot. Come celebrate the Holiday season with delicious food, seasonal music, horse and wagon rides, ice sculpting, Santa, kids’ activities and many other delightful pastimes including the annual Gingerbread House Contest. Please go to the website for more information. Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/14 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage. Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages. HOHOHO! | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 12/14 Sunday | Salmon Pottery, 79 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Salmon Pottery Gallery hosts their first annual HOHOHO! A holiday open house with many of the gallery artists present. Refreshments and treats, pottery ornament glazing for $5 each and 20% of sales for the day go to local charities including the Ulysses Food Pantry, Ulysses Christmas Bureau, the Schuyler County Humane Society and Wild Things - a wildlife rehabilitation organization. www.salmonpottery.com, 607.387.3331. Cortland Men’s LGBT Group | 6:00 PM-, 12/17 Wednesday | The LGBT Resource Center, 73 Main St., Cortland | Monthly meeting. Bring a dish-to-pass for a pot-luck supper. ongoing Festival of Trees | 11:00 AM-8:00 PM, 12/10 Wednesday through | Ward O’Hara Agricultural Museum, 6914 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Through December 23, come see this community celebration with trees, big and small, lit and unlit. Dress warm.

Weekend hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Weekdays from 4 to 8 p.m. Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 12/10 Wednesday | McKendree United Methodist Church, 224 Owego St., Candor | Every Wednesday. Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Ithaca Farmer’s Market | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 12/13 Saturday | Steamboat Landing, , Ithaca | Soup and or Chili Nights | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 12/16 Tuesday | Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With dessert and drink. Free Will Donation

Health Alcoholics Anonymous | 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 DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 12/10 Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome. For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance. CALL (607) 274-5345 with any questions. Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 12/10 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@ lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441. Overeaters Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 12/10 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, , Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 12/11 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 12/13 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/15 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/10 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/08 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/10 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 12/10 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center,

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Books Karen Winters Schwartz “The Chocolate Debacle” | 2:00 PM-, 12/13 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Karen Winters Schwartz’s third novel, The Chocolate Debacle, and mental illness and how it affects the family, community and society. Free and open to the public. Young Adult Book Watch | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 12/16 Tuesday | Edith B Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Join Cady to discuss The Maze Runner After Dinner Book Club | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/16 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Teen Reads Group at TCPL | 4:45 PM-5:45 PM, 12/17 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

Arts Art is Hard | 6:00 PM-, 12/11 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | A conversation with local artist, Laurie Snyder. The Reinstalled First-Floor Galleries | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 12/12 Friday | Johnson Museum of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | Explore and enjoy the Museum’s renovated and reinstalled permanent collection galleries of 19th-century to contemporary art. Free. Johnson Museum of Art, 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu openings Opening: I Love You | 5:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/11 Thursday | Art Gallery, 224 Columbia Street, Ithaca | Work by Monica Franciscus ongoing Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Monday-Saturday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Thursday, 10:00-8:00 PM | 273-1371 | Gina Cacioppo and Ursula Hilsdorf, through December | www. benjaminpeters.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Emily Koester: Play, Craft, Transcend, through December | www. buffalostreetbooks.com

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We’re told that, in the ballet world, there are two seasons: Nutcracker and everything else. This is true for the Ithaca ballet, Ithaca’s resident ballet company since 1961. Beginning Friday, the State Theatre welcomes Ithaca Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker. For additional performances, see our Stage listings. (photo provided)

You didn’t think we’d talk about the Ithaca Winterfest without mentioning the Winter Wine Festival at Greenstar’s Space, did you? Of course you didn’t. Partake in offerings from more than a dozen local wineries and a half-dozen Finger Lakes cheesemakers. Note there are two tasting times for the Saturday event. (photo via ithacawinefest.com)

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AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www. DamodarDas.com. Health for the Holidays Open House | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 12/11 Thursday | Nutritional Wellness Center, 520 West Green Street, Ithaca | Raffle Prizes; Free and Open to the Public Free Buddhist Meditation and Dharma Talk | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/13 Saturday | PADMA Center, 114 W. Buffalo St, Ithaca | Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and lively discussions exploring our innate goodness qualities. All are welcome. (607) 865-8068 www.padmasambhava.org. Walk-in Clinic | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 12/15 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West 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). Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 12/12 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 12/14 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. 3 Simple Ways to Make Better Decisions | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 12/15 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | w/ Adrienne Masler, Life Coach. Explore intuition & 3 easy ways to access yours. Make better decisions & create your best life. adriennemasler.com Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 12/16 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 12/16 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505 Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/16 Tuesday | 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, Ithaca | For information and other details, call: Jane at

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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 | Don Ellis: Outdoor Mobiles, through December | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | 12:00 PM-8:00 PM Monday through Thursday; 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM, Friday; 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM Saturday; noon to 6:00 PM, Sunday | Scene: Collages and Drawings by Peter Fortunato, through December | www.thecellardor.com Chemung Canal Trust | The Commons | photo series by Nancy Ridenour, up through 10/08; Finger Lake Landscapes, by John Whiting, opening 10/08 through 12/31 Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | Flowers and Bones, Acrylic Paintings by Kristin Dutcher, through December | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Annual Open Show, Curated by Michael Sampson, CSMA’s Open Show presents works in a variety of media and styles by more than 30 local artists, through December | www. csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Line/Language, 12 artists, up through 12/20 | www.cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Inner Space, works by Andrea Staffeld and Gerry Monaghan, ongoing | (646) 306-0972 Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Ann Day, watercolors, through December | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too.com Dowd Fine Arts Center | temporary location: 9 West Main Street, Cortland | Transcendences: prints, panels, drawings and sculptures by Diana Al-Hadid, Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao, opening 10/23 up through 12/10 | (607) 753-4216 Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | White Noise, Sound and Space Installation by Rebecca Cutter, through December | newrootsschool. org Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | Samantha Liddick, Fine art photography, through December | www.gimmecoffee. com/ Handwerker Gallery | Gannett Center, Ithaca College | Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday, 10 AM to 9 pm; weekends, noon to 5 PM. Closed to the public on Tuesdays | Divergent Series, 15 faculty artists, ongoing | www.ithaca.edu/ handwerker

Encore holiday shows in ithaca by luke z. fenchel

ith the temperatures dropping and snow finally falling, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And this weekend, a few concerts around town are following suit. “A bunch of old friends having way too much fun” is how Marie Burns describes her sisters’ holiday concert, which returns to the Hangar Theatre Friday and Saturday, December 12th and 13th. “The Holiday Show is my favorite show of the year,” Burns said. “There will be several special guests, and it will be a blast. A little comfort from the cold on a winter night.” Marie and Annie will have a lot to celebrate. Looking Back: Our American Irish Souls, their recent recording, will be released in January. Burns called it “an inspirational look at our American Irish heritage.” The album was recorded with musicians including Seamus Egan, Joanie Madden, Blackie O’Connell, Jim Kimball, and three-time Grammy winner Stuart Duncan. CDs will be available for

purchase at the Hangar concerts before with a band. We’ve become slightly to celebrate the holidays at the Ithaca being released to the general public. For edgier, and there is some more country Musicians Office Party. For the seventh the shows, they’ll be joined by Bobby and early rock n’ roll coming through. We year in a row, at least a half-dozen acts Sweet, and Kevin Maul. now have two electric guitars.” will gather over the course of six hours Generally the first set at a space that is the is a traditional holiday one, unofficial living room and the second will be a big for local music. The dance set. Concert attendees show gets underway at are encouraged to bring 6 p.m. Sunday, and all nonperishable food items or to proceeds will go to a make an onsite donation to the non-profit. Food Bank of the Southern Tier. “I have this image Also Friday, December 12, of lampshades on the promoter Dan Smalls gives heads,” Lorson said back by bringing in Miss Tess & by email. “[Everyone] the Talkbacks to the Haunt. The plays short sets, and show, which begins at 9 p.m. is it is a blast to see so free, and generally has food! many fellow musicians Miss Tess belts the chorus and have a chance to to “Sorry You’re Sick” in a way actually dance and have that invokes both Bonnie Raitt fun — and perhaps and the pop standard Ted embarrass ourselves — Hawkins intended it: “What do as one is meant to do at I want from the liquor store? an office party.” Something sour! Something Park Doing’s sweet!” The cover fares as well Atomic Forces will be Miss Tess and the Talkbacks play Friday, Dec. 12 at the Haunt. as the other five covers on The among the songwriters (photo by Shervin Lainez) Love I Have for You, which pivots and bands, which include from jazzy to country to brassy Johnny Dowd, Jennie and back. Lowe Stearns, The RealBads, and Anna Her former band was called the She continued: I’d been thinking Coogan. All the acts will offer brief sets, Bon Tons, but folks found the name about a change for a while and we finally and each will play a holiday-themed confusing. “When I conceived of the settled on a name. With a name like the song. band, we had a horn player and we were Talkbacks, it is what it is.” “It’s mostly about seeing my friends a little more jazz influenced. In the last Work-related parties are common play and sharing the end-of-year mood,” couple of years the sound has evolved, around this time of year, and thanks to Lorson wrote, adding that the venue was something that naturally happens when Mary Lorson and Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, the perfect “comfortable” place to hold you spend so much time on the road bands and artists will have a chance the event. •

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Kids Gingerbread House Contest | Newfield Public Library, Main Street Newfield | Have fun with your family this holiday season. Create a one of a kind gingerbread house to enter in our contest. There are 4 age groups and a prize for each age group. Drop off houses December 10-13. Judging will take place December 15-20 and winners will be announced December 23. Stop in every day to vote for the people’s choice award. Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 12/10 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Science Together | 10:30 AM-, 12/10 Wednesday; 10:30 AM-, 12/13 Saturday | Sciencenter, , Ithaca | Parents and their toddlers and preschoolers explore science through hands-on activities, reading and songs. Sciencenter’s early explorer educator, Victoria Fiordalis, shares research-based parenting tips in an interactive, fun environment. Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/11 Thursday; 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/13 Saturday; 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/15

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Two years ago, the husband and wife indie-folk duo, You Knew Me When, ditched Nashville and their day jobs and set out on tour. They’ve been on the road ever since. The pair plays Ithaca’s Ale House this weekend. (photo provided)

Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM- 12/13 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Sciencenter Showtime! Orion Spacecraft Launch Celebration | 2:00 PM-, 12/13 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Celebrate the launch of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, designed to take humans farther than they’ve ever gone before! Build a model of Orion and meet Cornell’s Mason Peck, one of the scientists who worked on Orion. Lego Night | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 12/17 Wednesday | Newfield Public Library, Main Street, Newfield | We have the Legos and Bailey has come up with a fun holiday theme for Lego night. Bring your imagination and come build a Lego creation which will be on display all month. Lightapalooza! | 2:00 PM-, 12/14 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate optical illusions, bending light, making sound waves visible. Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM-11:15 AM, 12/16 Tuesday | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather. Call 659-7258 with questions.

Toivo, playing traditional dance music of the Finger Lakes and more, will present a Dance-Party Fundraiser at the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the conservatory’s current matching fund campaign. (photo provided)

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