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Cornell helping transition from soldier to student

Above: Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government, leads a discussion with participants in the Warrior Scholarship Program (WSP) in Cornell’s Carol Tatkon Center (Photos: provided).

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aul Rojas would not have described himself as gung-ho over the prospect of war when he joined the United States Armed Forces several years ago, but he also would not have admitted to thinking much about the purpose of the military. It has been through his academic pursuits, expanding his knowledge of democracy, that Rojas has developed a context for what military personnel do and why they do it.

The development of this context for war alongside academia is part of the goal of the

Warrior Scholar Project, whose lessons interweave seminal texts from the history of the United States with military values such as discipline and diligence.

The Warrior Scholar Project is a program for enlisted veterans which aims to ease the transition between active duty and higher education. Founded in 2012 by Jesse Reising, a football player at Yale unable to join the military after graduation due to a sports injury, the program is designed to give back to a population whose experiences uniquely influ-

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ence their time at college. In its seventh summer, the program now hosts one- or two-week long intensives at seventeen universities, bringing in over 245 participants. One of the week-long intensives was held July 21-29 at Cornell University.

Providing for everything besides transportation expenses, the cost-free program relies on donor generosity and volunteer instruction from local professors, Cornell University and Ithaca College faculty in this case, and brought 14 veterans to Ithaca.

The veterans range in academic experience, some having been out of high school four years, some fifteen; some waiting to apply to college, some having completed an associate degree and transferring to obtain their bachelor’s; two of whom will be attending Cornell in the fall.

Since completing his service, and after earning his associates degree, Rojas will be entering Cornell University this fall, working towards a degree that utilizes the close relationship between CALs and the Dyson school to act on environmental concerns through business.

Besides the challenges that accompany the transition from military life to academic work, there are the additional challenges of adjusting to civilian life, and the social implications that come with being an untraditional college student.

For Rojas, one of the most difficult aspects of earning his associate’s degree was the lack of camaraderie he felt at his college, especially in contrast to the constant camaraderie of the military. Even so, Rojas made sure to recognize his wife’s role as a friend and source of support throughout his college endeavors. “If you write anything about me, make sure you mention my wife,” said Rojas, attributing his capacity for perseverance to her role as his motivator.

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BetterLesson is a personalized professional development program that individually coaches teachers in order to help them improve their teaching skills. One of the places where BetterLesson has taken up roots is at Groton Elementary School, where they’ve been helping teachers improve their instructional skills since September 2016. Groton Elementary School Principal Kent Maslin described the benefit that BetterLesson is having on the nineteen teachers at his school that currently use the program.

“From a teaching perspective, they really like the fact that it is personal and that they don’t have to reveal everything to everyone in the building,” he said. “They [teachers] are constantly making judgements and trying to improve their craft, and they’re competing with people in the classroom literally right next to them.

So it’s nice to be able to have a private place to work on things without it having to be everybody’s business.”

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Sidewalk Improvement Program’s 2019 Plan Now Open for Comment

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here may never be a time when Ithaca’s sidewalks are entirely devoid of cracks or divots, mainly because people walk and tree roots grow. But with another year of the still-young sidewalk improvement effort incoming, that doesn’t mean the city won’t try.

Public comment period on the Sidewalk Improvement Draft Plan is currently ongoing, meaning the community can voice any concerns they may have about the current outlook for the city’s reconstruction strategy.

The proposed work plan for 2019 matches the tax levy that was announced for the 2018 plan, at $855,876. District 3, which encompasses most of downtown Ithaca, predictably takes the largest piece of the funding, followed by the District 4, more the South Hill and retail areas of the city. In total, city officials estimate they have fixed close to five miles worth of sidewalk in the previous five years, and, according to the program’s draft plan, aim to initiate construction on another 4,840 feet of sidewalk in 2019.

Ithaca’s sidewalks play a subtle but significant role in the city’s grander goals of density and walkability, as ensuring pedestrians can safely traverse those routes is going to be vital to convincing more people to switch from cars to bikes and feet. It also behooves the city to repair more and more sidewalk issues as they try to invite more walking commutes to protect itself from potential personal injury lawsuits stemming from trips and falls.

The Sidewalk Improvement Program was born out of a task force created by Mayor Svante Myrick in 2013 to address then-policy which required property owners within the City of Ithaca to repair sidewalks that were adjacent to their properties. This consequently led to long delays in sidewalk repairs, since residents were either unwilling or resistant to responding to complaints, matched with having to find the right contractor to fix the issue. More treacherously, a homeowner could try a do-it-yourself method that could leave the sidewalk not only unfixed, but possibly

Farm Street Sidewalk Repair (Photo Casey Martin)

more dangerous.

John Licitra, who runs the SIP for the City of Ithaca, said reviews have been positive from residents since the plan was implemented, even if there are some bureaucratic hiccups that can make getting out to

make the actual repairs a slow process at times.

“The downside of the program is it could take a year or longer to get to all the requests,” Licitra said. “The goal of the five districts, as opposed to just one district for the whole city, is that money raised in that district will stay there.”

Money is raised for the districts through tax assessment additions, judged by the type and size of the structure on the property.

“For most one- and twofamily homes, they’re assessed a one-year fee of $70, and all the other lots will get an annual fee of $140,” Licitra said, adding that those other lots also receive a fee of 1.5 cents per square foot of property area because they’re often deemed high sidewalk use, along with a few other factors. Licitra is realistic that the program may never be able to totally catch up with the natural erosion of sidewalk infrastructure, but he said they have made solid progress so far. `“Because of the five districts, I think we have a nice scattershot throughout the whole city,” Licitra said. “At one point there were probably a thousand sidewalk repair requests, now we’re down to a few hundred. We’re making headway, but there’s still much to do.”

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Ithaca Gun Site Sees New Life After Years of Clean-up

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long-dormant project has new life after developer Frost Travis introduced renewed plans for a redevelopment of the Ithaca Gun Factory site.

Travis, of development firm Travis-Hyde Properties, presented a proposal that would bring a residential building to the former site of Ithaca Gun, which has been out of operation for decades and was torn down in 1986. The apartment building would include 74 units along with parking beneath the building and some exterior parking to the east.

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Since the project was just introduced Tuesday night to the city’s Planning Board, and no paperwork has been officially submitted yet, virtually every aspect of the project is still subject to change. Still, details are scarce: the project site has a maximum height of 585 feet, which the building will just about meet as currently designed, and should include about 86 parking spaces total.

Travis said the apartment project will be limited to those 55 and over, targeting “active senior citizens” and the development team said they haven’t

made many energy decisions yet.

The project is the latest iteration of redevelopment attempts at Ithaca Gun, all of which have been beset by issues related to the remediation of rampant pollution at the site, a result of its industrial past. Large-scale soil removal has served to reduce the ability of developers to build larger there, which most likely explains the relatively low unit count of 74 compared to other similar projects (and even previous proposals to redevelop the location). It is, though, an increase from a previous Travis-Hyde proposal.

The building’s exterior, according to the development team which includes Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Architects, is designed to compliment the gorge it will loom

above by utilizing a stone-type lower level exterior before evolving to white/gray further up. The design emphasizes glass and community spaces, especially on the ground floor for the latter.

Initial reception from the board was enthusiastic, with nearly universal excitement that some project at the site was finally able to move forward, even if tentatively. There were some critiques on design and connecting the building’s site to the surrounding trails and walkway network. The current schedule, as Travis stated, is to submit the project in earnest in August and receive preliminary approval in the next few months after that.

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Hawkins Aiming Upstate During Another Governor Campaign

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owie Hawkins – perennial candidate for any and every office worth running for, a long-time activist for numerous liberal causes, and the only noted socialist running for the state’s top post this year – simply wants more credit.

Howie Hawkins speaking at the Tompkins County Workers Center (Photo: Casey Martin)

The Green Party’s threetime candidate for Governor of New York State says he has, in recent years, done more to promote the cause of socialism and green energy policies in New York State than any other candidate. Behind policy positions such as a complete shift to clean energy, guaranteed health care for all New York State residents, publicly-financed elections and statewide rent controls, Hawkins speaks of the status quo of New York State with disdain. He preaches the gospel of tax reform and conscientious spending coherently enough that – as a thirdparty candidate in 2014 – he managed to rally 5 percent of New York voters around the idea that socialism, when applied to the third-largest state in the union by total GDP, is a winning-model: a number significant enough that has led Hawkins to believe he’d pulled Cuomo to the left, in order to garner a share of the Green Party vote.

Understandably, when visiting the Ithaca Times offices on Friday, he seemed a little upset when the New York Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America – its membership up significantly in the wake of upstart socialist candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this year – announced it would be endorsing actress and Democratic Gubernatorial Primary candidate Cynthia Nixon over him in the governor’s race this year.

It could be, in part, because of star power and their lack of ability gaming the New York City media. He’s been to all the right events – hunger-striking with NYCHA tenants earlier this year against gentrification, on-the-ground at the foundation-laying spectacle that kicked off the movement known as Occupy Wall Street – yet, despite highly crafted positions tested over decades and his own perceived impacts on the policies of the mighty Democratic incumbent, Governor Andrew Cuomo, he has gained little traction amongst a mainstream press otherwise enamored with progressive and socialist-friendly candidates.

“Socialism is no longer a dirty word in America,” The Guardian newspaper declared a week ago and, two years after the candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders for President, thousands of Americans – particularly millenials – have begun researching in-earnest exactly what the ideology means to them.

In response to spikes in search engine traffic, explainers have been written on exactly what the word means. Yet, as the conversation has picked up around the topic, Hawkins – a long-time member of renowned Socialist activist group Solidarity – feels slighted in this year’s political cycle, particularly as the issues he has championed for years have become more mainstream.

“My take is she’s a movie star,” he said of Nixon. “[The media] is looking for a reality show to sell ads, get clicks. I think Cuomo’s moved more

progressive because we got 5 percent of the vote last time, and he wants to go for president, and needs to compete for the Green vote. The ban on fracking has been a central demand of ours since 2010, the movement toward a $15 minimum wage, tuition-free higher education, paid family leave, criminal justice reform.

He has moved our way, at least rhetorically. Nixon means he has to keep doing that. But he was already doing that.”

Apart from several visits to Albany and New York City, Hawkins has focused most of his efforts on Upstate New York. He’s visited Ithaca twice this year, Binghamton and Rochester several times each, and on Sunday made an appearance on a Syracuse-based news station – his hometown, and the place he’s ran for mayor 21 times – for an interview.

“It’s always been surprising,” MArk Dunlea, a Green Party candidate running for state Comptroller who attended a Friday afternoon meeting at the Tompkins County Worker’s Center alongside Hawkins, added. “The Green Party has always polled better outside of New York City than it does there. We usually do better in more Upstate areas, probably because of the great media coverage we get here. It penetrates.

They’re much more aware of us here.”

Their positions, both Hawkins and Dunlea say, are not new, nor are they unpopular. The pair throws out more information than a standard wonk can handle, throwing out conceptual ideas of what government should be – with research – to back them up.

Cut to size, however, their stances are quite simple. They want more transparency out of New York State Government, and more than what they see as lip service by the Cuomo administration toward renewable energy, and named policies around transitioning workers off of dirty energy jobs similar to what Dunlea called a “superfund for workers” as a means to make that happen. The ultimate goal? Reaching 100 percent renewable energy production by 2030 and making a step toward a complete divestment from fossil fuels – part of a larger plan of the party’s known as the “Green New Deal,” a central tenet of Green

Party policy which, through moving away from regressive tax models they say grow income inequality, would raise massive amounts of revenue that would then, be reinvested in large-scale, sustainable infrastructure projects.

“We’re way behind other states, like California and Massachusetts,” Dunlea said. “We need to speed it up.”

The party also wants to make a push toward real tax reform at the state level – raising income taxes on the wealthy, lowering property taxes overall while instituting a land value tax in New York State (a tax on the value of unimproved land) to offset the property tax cap, carbon taxes and creating a public bank, similar to that used in North Dakota. Dunlea also offered ideas including the re-focusing on old policies such as small taxes on individual trades on the New York Stock Exchange, which Dunlea believes in the age of computerized trading could result in billions of dollars in new revenues for New York State.

They’re not done there: They want an expansion of public housing in New York State at human scale (distributed evenly between cities and suburbs and built sustainably), substantial reforms to the financing of public education and desegregation of schools between the inner cities and the suburbs, the decriminalization of all drugs along the lines of the Portuguese national drug policy model, and what he characterized as reasonable gun regulations, i.e. the banning of all assaultstyle weapons, except rifles, sidearms and shotguns. A $15 minimum wage – or $20 by 2020 – is another goal of Hawkins’, which he said could be paid for by saving businesses money in “other ways.”

“We want to lower health care costs through a single-payer health system, lower taxes through reforms that will lower property taxes, a public energy system… we want to lower the cost of living of doing business,” Hawkins said.

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▶▶ Thumbs Up: Tim Paulson, the Ithacan best known for his CrossFit prowess and for owning CrossFit Pallas in Ithaca, is competing again soon in the nationwide CrossFit competition, looking to improve on his 20th place finish last year. Go get it, Tim, but don’t worry: we’re all jealous of you already. ▶▶ Thumbs Down: If you’re under the impression there’s a bit of a lull in Ithaca happenings currently, Common Council agrees with you, considering they canceled their August meeting. Don’t get us wrong, we love a good summer Wednesday night off, but we’ve got a paper to fill here, people. ▶▶ Heard & Seen Ithaca Ale House announced late Tuesday that it would be moving from its current spot to the incoming City Centre building, which is that large construction project you’ve all seen at the intersection between Aurora and State Street. It’s the first confirmed business we’ve seen moving to the new project. Fairly sure they’ll still have the nachos, though.

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ne recent Saturday, after I went to the and only followed Colin’s story in the paper, farmer’s market, was moved to go and show I walked down my respect to the family. to the High School for a Ithaca is a place that an memorial celebration of average citizen might be ten-year-old Officer Colin’s moved to do that. I was life. Then I went to the not alone.

History Center’s program A well-postered poem on the lives of two other

by Dick Lourie in 1978 is Ithacans: Carl Sagan and titled “What it’s Like to Rod Serling. Between the Live in Ithaca, NY.” He two, I joined the rally on loses his brakes on his the Commons against VW bug leaving Colguns. On one day this was legetown and plummets, how Ithaca was rememberout-of-control, down Bufing three extraordinary falo Street hill. Just before Ithacans who had died too he mows down the crowd young - Officer Colin, way crossing by the Unitarian too young. Sagan and Serchurch, they all look up ling had been able to grow and realize it’s him. That’s up and do great things. what it’s like in Ithaca David Schwartz Colin had a dream of what he . What Ithaca is like means wanted to do when he grew up. the unique ways we do things He wanted to be a police officer. here, in this place: the way we But everybody realized that he was not going celebrate, the way we mourn, the way that to get to grow up. So then-chief John Barber we attempt to take care of each other. Every and his colleagues stepped in and made his place in America used to have their own wish true. When died, he was given the full uniqueness in this way. honors due an IPD officer. Even I, an ordinary Ithaca citizen who had had never met Colin continued on page 7

ast month, Architectural Digest issued a list with the single prettiest town in each of the fifty states, and Ithaca made the cut. One can only hope that we can maintain our humility now that we are in such heady company as Valentine, Nebraska and Davis, Oklahoma. Personally, I haven’t felt this giddy about an honorific since Outside Magazine named Ithaca one of America’s Top Ten River Towns in spite of the complete absence of a river anywhere near the city.

Already, I’ve noticed an uptick in touristy types. Even normally, the New Jersey roadhog students are replaced vehicle-for-vehicle by New Jersey roadhog tourists, but it seems even harder this summer to get a cup of coffee without someone asking directions. Makes sense from a global security perspective, too, I suppose.

With allies now enemies and enemies now friends, people are opting for more modest vacations. My own family has cancelled our cross-country trek and decided to visit someplace closer to home. Like Tops.

Still, it’s nice to think of Ithaca as a tourist destination. Of course it’s only true in summer and fall. Anyone booking a B & B just for fun in February is headed for a competency hearing in Tompkins County Surrogate’s Court.

There are the classic attractions: Moosewood, the gorges, the Commons, Sapsucker Woods, Wegmans’ cheese caves…but there are also neglected gems throughout the city that fairly cry out to be noticed. For one thing, we now have a skyline of glittering glass towers. Take that, Valentine, Nebraska. Also, our Superfund Environmental Remediation Sites are under-visited. Stop by Ithaca Falls overlook and pick up some souvenir lead pellets over by ye olde Ithaca Gun Factory.

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mentioning that Cornell University has a substantial Russian Language program. Seems like that might be handy in the near term. Oh, and for our red-state visitors, there’s the Texas Roadhouse Restaurant on Meadow Street. They don’t advertise it, but any member of the waitstaff can take you to the back room, where local dining dollars are being bundled and shipped to corporate headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville did not make the prettiest town list. Just sayin’.

Nobody should miss the Crown Jewel of the Ithaca Commons – the fountain. Safely hidden behind flower planters, it’s been shut down only twice in the thirteen months since it opened: 48 hours after it was turned on, and this summer. With just a pinch of imagination, though, you can revel in the magic that a $466,000 water feature can bring to a public space. Or you can visit any of the numerous free waterfalls within city limits.

A new and barely-explored local attraction is the thrill of LimeBike Roulette! Bike Walk Tompkins and the City of Ithaca partnered with the LimeBike company to bring a couple hundred lime-green and yellow bicycles to the city for a new dockless bike-share program that launched this spring. The game was an immediate sensation. The rules, as I understand them, are that all bikes are to be ridden exclusively on sidewalks, and only pedestrians may wear helmets.

Texting is optional but encouraged for all players. It’s truly an exciting time to be alive and walking.

Visitors appreciate being taken off the beaten path, and it makes for an authentic ‘Ithaca’ experience they can share with their friends back home. I have more, but I suspect Chamber of Commerce aparatchiks have hacked into my computer. Besides, we’ve got to pack for our trip to Tops.•

YOUR LETTERS On the State of the Democratic Party

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am very disappointed with the national Democratic Party and its candidates for the House and the Senate as well as its members of the House and Senate. I think we sorely need more “Bobby Kennedys”, and I see few in sight.

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loving, compassionate, and empathetic, and can relate to and identify with Americans who suffer in life.

Research shows that most Democrats in the Congress are wealthy. They are not everyday people like my wife, myself, and most of your readers.

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and frightened like my wife is every time she hears that the Republicans in Congress want to cut our Social Security Retirement benefits. I just don’t see a “burning desire” to want to help those who struggle with moneyworries.

Stewart B. Epstein Rochester, NY

On Democratic chances in the NY-23rd race It’s pretty simple. I know who Reed is - Look! there’s a picture now! - I have heard him speak and what not.

Mitrano I have no idea who that is, no picture, no words, no description, no platform any place for me to see without me seeking them out.

Joleen Stone Krogman, via Facebook

A new proposal for Ithaca Gun redevelopment Is this going to be another development that is incredibly unaffordable for normal residents?

Kevin Olmstead, via Facebook On State Congressman Tom O’Mara’s campaign expenses “I hope people actually read the expense page the article provides. It

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After tedious years of listening to politicians who were not yet born in the fifties extol the virtues of that simpler time, I have to chuckle. I am old enough to remember the fifties, good and bad. When I sit on my porch on Cascadilla Creek, looking up at the skyline of Cornell, listening to the bells, giving dog biscuits to the neighborhood dogs as they pass by, it is just like being a kid in my childhood neighborhood. Take out the sodium-vapor lights and change the models of the cars, and you couldn’t tell now from then. It’s the 1950s with tofu and good coffee.

Alexis deTocqueville observed in 1834 that the single most unique thing about America was Americans’ tendency to organize themselves into associations to make improvement, rather than appealing to the nobility as in Europe. In this way, Ithaca may remain one of the last surviving American towns. We have conserved that. You could say, in this way, that Ithaca is conservative, in the way that agriculture can be conservative: of

proves that there are no Democrats nor Republicans in NY’s legislature.

They’re all THIEVES! This year, don’t vote for any incumbent; throw them all out!”

Jerry Dennis, via Facebook

On Environmental racism and the Seneca Lake power situation “Ok, I want to get this straight- you got what you demanded after all that time, and now you want to turn it into a racial issue??”

David Bickal, via Facebook

On a local resident being charged with theft for taking down Tom Reed campaign signs.

“Following the logic of Point #2, a person who is guilty of carjacking cannot be found guilty of kidnapping if he did not know the baby was in the car.”

David Newport, via Facebook

On Tracy Mitrano’s appeal to Democrats “Voters want a true distinction and they want a candidate who can understand and promote the values of workers, taxpayers, and families.

These are things lying republicans only say, while handing off trillions to billionaires and supporting Trump economic insanity. The values of Balter and Mitrano have big constituencies and Ds need to mobilize them.”

Dennison Wolfe, via ithaca.com the place, of the soil, of the plants, of the people. We have the same aims as the federal Soil Conservation Service.

For this we are dismissed as liberals, a once-positive term that has become contemptuous. It has become contemptuous to conserve.

At the rally against guns on the Commons, speaker (and local bluesman) London McDaniel ended his address with a stirring charge: “Ithaca is ten square miles surrounded by reality” is wrong. We are reality!

Maybe we Ithacans remember something that others may someday wish to rediscover. What is an extreme liberal, anyway? It reminds me of a conversation I had a while ago drinking beer in Elmira with a guy from down near the Pennsylvania border. Wielding a bottle of “Druid Beer,” he joked that it must be from Ithaca. “Naw,” I replied dismissively, “Everybody knows the Hippies killed of the Druids by the early seventies.”

Any of that Druid beer left now, or are we down to PBR? David B. Schwartz, Ph.D. lives and practices in Fall Creek. You can learn more about him at www.sidewalkpsychotherapist.com

Tompkins County

OHR Enters New Era

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etails are beginning to emerge this week about the future of the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights, which finds itself looking to rebuild after several years of administrative turmoil.

Since the investigation of the leadership – and subsequent firing – of its Executive Director, Karen Baer, the office, which is funded by and overseen by Tompkins County, has been looking to redefine its role after nearly a decade of “going rogue,” in this sense operating under an memorandum of understanding with New York State that, until 2008, allowed the office to investigate probable cause in human rights cases for its clients. (The state, which investigates probable cause on its own for all counties except major areas like New York City, Nassau and Suffolk Counties, has since deemed this practice unnecessary, and has asked the local office to cease independent investigations.)

After the appointment of a new interim director, Dr. Kenneth Clarke, in May, and a heated community meeting held around the office’s future in late June, Tompkins County officials have since begun laying the groundwork for a redefinition of what the Office of Human Rights could be, reaching out to various social service officials, landlords and community leaders of color to define exactly what the office can be in order to best serve the community. In a nearly hour-long interview, the Ithaca Times had the opportunity to ask county officials what their vision is for the office, why things simply couldn’t be left alone, and why it took so long for the county to respond to claims made in the community meeting some questioned as dubious.

The New Office Of Human Rights Clarke – who was appointed as a “special advisor” to the Office of Human Rights last November by then-administrator Joe Mareane – noted that there are no limitations to what the office’s role can be. It’s just gleaning out how the office can be most effective that’s the challenge.

He – along with Molino – said he believes the first step is getting back to the basics.

The office, Molino said, has always been available to assist Tompkins County residents with accessing and filling out complaints in the state’s complaint process.

Currently, the county has an office set up with some resources available, including computers and phones, to help facilitate that, while Clarke is available to help people fill out those complaints. The office also offers translation services and devices to assist the hearing-impaired, and will eventually be moving onto a phone relay service for hearing or speech-impaired individuals that can convert text-to-speech, Molino said.

What they won’t be doing anymore is conducting investigations on behalf of clients.

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of complainants,” Molino said. “In the past, the state has asked us specifically not to do that – our job is to facilitate the complaint being filed – and we have a notary there, so it can be completed, notarized and sent to the state so they can begin their investigatory process.”

From there, the county wants to see how it can best dedicate the office’s time and resources to helping clients in other ways, Molino said. The office is currently engaged in a community needs assessment process, at a stage now where Clarke is meeting with current and potential stakeholders in OHR. The meetings, which should wrap up in mid-August, have involved everyone from landlords to members of the local clergy, local businesses and community leaders to gauge their perceptions of the most pressing human rights needs in the region today.

What they’ve found so far, to be a consistent theme in their stakeholder conversations, are housing issues, particularly around issues of supply and accessibility for marginalized communities.

“Their suggestions on how those needs might be met and looking at ways we can work collaboratively with these entities to be able to strengthen connections with each other,” Clarke said.

“To a certain extent, it’s always going to be tailored to the needs of its county,” Molino said. “We’re going to operate differently than say, Schenectady County or Sullivan County.

It is very flexible, there’s no mandated slate of services like the Department of Social Services… it’s a discretionary department a lot of counties don’t have. This is a good thing.

We choose to serve the community the best way we can.”

“Context dictates approach,” added Clarke. “I think that’s what we’re trying to discern – what needs our attention? Figuring that out helps us set priorities for the types of things we should address.”

In September, County Administration expects to put the finishing touches on a report outlining the office’s role, which will then be up for review by the County Legislature, who will contemplate those findings in the ensuing budget season. County Legislature Chair Martha Robertson, in an email, said she is pleased with the progress of the office so far, and that the legislature is “actively involved in Dr. Clarke’s review of the Office and its functioning.”

“Our role is not just about passing a budget,” Robertson, who in her email affirmed the legislature’s backing for human rights protections, wrote. “How well we use the funding we allocate is crucial as well.

With our staff, we are engaged in a process to identify the community’s needs and to make sure that our resources are being used as wisely as possible to meet those needs.”

The county legislature will address the Office of Human Rights’ future at the meeting of its Health and Human Services Committee on August 13th at 4 p.m. in the County Legislative Chambers on the second floor of 121 E. Court Street.

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Consider the Mighty Zehan Baseball is a rollercoaster of failure. Here’s how one team rallied to carry a player from low to high

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B y R . C . S av o i e n his first game of Ithaca’s Cal Ripken Little League baseball, 12 yearold Zehan Lama-Nelson stepped into the batter’s box, leaned his body into the strike zone, and was drilled by a wild 70 mph fastball. It hit him right on the hands.

“I couldn’t feel my fingers until the next morning,” he said.

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didn’t happen until his final game, and only then after a dust up at home plate between the coaches, opposing pitcher, and an exasperated umpire who finally waved the boy to first.

Later everyone involved would agree that it was a defining moment for Little League baseball.

After getting plunked in his first game, the first two pitches Lama-Nelson saw in his second game sailed four inches over his head. Things like this make skeptics wonder about curses, karma, bad luck. The

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boy dropped to a poof of orange dust after both pitches.

The second time he didn’t get back up.

Lama-Nelson’s third base coach, Bill Austin, an unassuming former farmboy, immediately sprinted to home to find Zehan rolling around dirt clutching his throat.

Austin was convinced the boy was having a seizure. Zehan wasn’t having a seizure though. He was having a panic attack.

The park fell to murmurs as everyone rose to watch the coaches huddle on knees around the boy. Zehan’s father Zach, a

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wiry park supervisor from Ithaca, ran out to calm him. Out on the mound the pitcher’s body hung like wet noodles, his arms and legs limp, torso suddenly deprived of a spine. His coach jogged out to console him. Eventually Zehan’s breathing evened.

His head coach, Tony Podufalski, quietly asked if he wanted to continue.

He did not.

So Zehan’s father escorted him off the field, where he spent the rest of the game watching from a nearby hill. No one was surprised when he didn’t show up next

game.

One of the great things about baseball is its embrace of the anti-bullying movement. Bullies were never heroes, but they were quietly encouraged and even admired in male locker rooms with the type of snickers that affirmed a brutal Nietzschean rule of strength. However, where professional baseball was once made of men spitting tobacco and racial epithets, it’s now rich with displays of sportsmanship and player support. One only need watch a few major league games to see how pull your weight has evolved to support your teammate. Coaches and players frequently slap support on an ineffective pitcher’s back. Team leaders are seen sitting with struggling hitters on the bench, giving quiet zen-like advice. Of course baseball is not all daisies and kumbaya.

There are millions of dollars involved in professional sports, so if you don’t produce you will eventually lose your job. The occasional bench-clearing brawl still happens as well. However, it’s often team leaders who actively try to diffuse things.

This is baseball in the 21st century.

So maybe it wasn’t so surprising when Lama-Nelson came back, and further, didn’t miss a single game the rest of the season. As Austin put it, “he had to make that choice. He had to find it in himself [to come back].” However, as both his father Zach and Coach Tony noted, his teammates had a lot to do with it.

Lama-Nelson’s team was C&M Residential Builders. Coach Tony’s father, Frank Podufalski, sponsored the team and named it after his construction company. Tony’s mother, Patricia, as well as his grandmother, Marjorie, had both battled and survived breast cancer. Patricia’s case was just a year old, so the team chose pink to honor her struggle. It’s not exactly a manly color, and while traditional gender roles have eroded, many prepubescent boys still cling to the “girls are icky” stage of ego development (until the hormones kick in, wherever that may lead). Yet these boys embraced the color without hesitation or dissent.

“That’s when I knew I had a special team,” said Podufalski.

Even though he was back, every pitch drove Zehan three feet out of the batter’s box. It didn’t matter where the ball was going. As soon as the ball left the pitcher’s hand he would jump away. Then he’d look down, heave his chest with a deep breath, and step back in.

“We tried to get him comfortable by working with him in the batting cage to

learn to swing again,” Austin said. “But even with me throwing to him he just couldn’t do it.”

“Baseball teaches failure,” said Michael Smith, the coach of the final team Zehan would face. “In no other sport is failure such a large part of the game.”

In baseball, if you fail 7 out of 10 times you are considered an elite hitter, so successful players need to accept incredible amounts of failure. Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra once quipped that “baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.” Berra’s 90 percent mental part of the game is dealing with failure. When players break out of a slump, they frequently confess that it got in my head, meaning that failing itself created a self-perpetuating cycle of failing. To break the cycle, they had to learn their way out of it. This is why players chant mantras like “you have to take it one game at a time” and “you need to forget the previous at bat.” While these clichés are certainly regurgitated PR copy, there is a certain truth to them. They speak of the mindset needed to endure failure.

This is what baseball can teach children.

Consider the case of the Mighty Zehan.

Or perhaps the Mighty C&M, because every time Zehan went to bat his entire team stood up to cheer. This is no dramatic exaggeration. Every time he stepped in the box they were on their feet yelling, “You can do it Zehan!” Every time he still jumped away from the pitch. Then he went back in.

“That’s alright!”

“You got this!”

His teammates remained as undeterred in their support of Lama-Nelson as he remained committed to batting. All season he would continue to jump out and step back in, jump out and step back in, every game failing spectacularly as his teammates chanted “Zehan! Zehan! Zehan!”

C&M didn’t just have heart. They had talent. Their lineup featured Coach Tony’s stepson, Kaleb, who could hit and field with a real talent for stealing bases. It wasn’t just his speed that made him good, it was his ability to read the pitcher. At the slightest flinch Kaleb would take off, sometimes reaching second before the ball hit the catcher’s mitt. Whenever he reached first it was a near certainty he’d steal his way to third. Kaleb could do everything except one crucial skill: pitch. For that C&M had Garret Potter.

To look at him you wouldn’t suspect Potter to be a great athlete. He’s a short and skinny little guy who acts like a com-

plete goofball in practice, doing cartwheels in the outfield and enthusiastically shouting jokes. Yet on the mound he featured “a curveball, a fastball, and a slider, and they were all devastating pitches,” according to Tony. Potter was C&M’s ace pitcher, the one Podufalski chose to start their final game, a sudden death playoff match, and also the pitcher he saved to shut out the final inning in case they were winning.

Which they were.

To understand how remarkable that was, consider that C&M squeaked into the playoffs when they won their final game.

This meant they had to play the best team in the league in the first round, the dreaded purple team, which was coached by the formerly mentioned Michael Smith.

It was in that game that Lama-Nelson reached base his second time.

To C&M, Lama-Nelson’s at bat was nothing unusual. Step in, jump out. Step in, jump out. To the opposing pitcher though, a tall lanky boy named Will Thomas, whose hair was so red it looked like it was engulfing his cap, this was an enormous distraction. Every time Thomas would wind up, Lama-Nelson would jump out of the box. The strike zone is not a set area: the horizontal plane is fixed by home plate, but the vertical plane is determined by the batter’s knees and torso midpoint.

So Thomas rightly questioned the ump’s ability to make calls if the batter was gone before the ball even reached the plate.

His first pitch was called a ball. The second was also a ball. The third, a ball. The fourth? “Ball.” Four balls means the batter walks to first base. That’s when Thomas threw up his arms and yelled, “He keeps jumping out of the box!”

Coach Smith jogged out of the dugout with the rulebook in hand, certain that what Lama-Nelson was doing was illegal.

“I regret doing that,” he later confessed. “I shouldn’t have brought out the rulebook.

But it was playoffs and well…” he trailed off. “I wish Cal Ripken didn’t have a playoffs.”

When Smith emerged from the dugout, his counterpart Podufalski ran red-faced to home plate. Podufalski is a big man with a stainless steel goatee, all of which lends him a rather severe look that’s illsuited to his big heart. When interviewed, both Smith and Podufalski had nothing but positive things to say about one another. The moment was a hot one though, and an argument ensued.

“He can’t jump out of the box,” said Smith calmly as he flipped through the rulebook.

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“Are you guys kidding me?” Podufalski shouted. “This kid has reached base twice all year. Once by a hit pitch and now a walk, and you’re going to deny him the walk?”

“I can’t see the strike zone,” piped Will from the mound.

“It’s a matter of rules, Tony,” noted the ump with a scrunched face, clearly reconsidering his call.

The whole time Zehan stood aside, bat limp in hand, less curious than baffled by the sudden adulting exploding all around him. Then Smith had a moment of clarity.

He stopped flipping through the book. He looked up at Tony. He looked over at the ump. He looked down at Zehan.

“That’s the moment we all remembered why we were there. We remembered the purpose of Cal Ripken,” Austin later said.

Coach Smith nodded to the ump, nodded to Tony, then went back to his dugout.

The ump pointed to first and said, “Take your base.”

C&M wouldn’t go on to win the game.

They would lose in heartbreaking fashion. When the final inning came they were winning 5 to 2, and as was the plan, Tony brought in his ace pitcher to close it out.

Potter gave up four runs and lost the game.

As was custom, C&M gathered in the outfield for a post-game talk. Podufalski emphasized that they had played as a team and lost as a team. Potter lay just outside the circle, face down in the grass, blue eyes flooded. His teammates patted him on the back, said what they could, then all wandered off to their parents.

Podufalski stayed behind. When they were alone he leaned in and said, “You need to lose like this sometimes to refuel for the next season.”

Potter nodded understanding, then picked himself up and headed to the dugout. While he was gathering his things, one of the team fathers wandered in and quietly said, “Hey Garret.”

He looked up.

“Even Mariano Rivera blew Game 7 of the World Series. And he was the greatest reliever of all time. You’re going to be alright.”

“Thanks,” the boy said.

That’s baseball.

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Personal Health

Catholic Charities Debuts New “Health Coaching”

By Nick Re y nol d s

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ver the past several years in communities without free clinics or for those in the countryside with little connection to the outside world, a growing number of people living there – neglectful of their health for years – would often find themselves in hospitals awaiting treatment for illnesses that may otherwise have been avoided, putting a greater burden on the state’s medicaid system.

A new program locally, stemming from efforts meant to reduce those with preventable illnesses entering New York State’s hospitals, hopes to prevent these problems by going directly into the communities, “coaching” individuals on how to properly take care of themselves. Offered through Catholic Charities of Tompkins and Tioga County, the program seeks to “assist individuals in taking proactive steps to care for themselves and in developing a sense of

control over their own health” through a mix of outreach, relationship building and more through community centers in the most far-flung reaches of the county.

The program will look to directly teach its clients how to take on sustainable practices for long-term health. This is similar to programs already in place from groups like the Visiting Nurses Association, which trains people being discharged from the hospitals to care for themselves and follows through post-procedure with periodic checks to ensure vulnerable patients are looking after themselves.

The model being pursued by Catholic Charities is somewhat different, in that the organization is focused more on preemptive care, trying to stave off preventable ailments before they happen. To reach potential clients, people like Sarolta DeFaltay, a Community Health Worker with Catholic Charities, have been focused

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Anticipated need for the program is currently unknown, as Catholic Charities seeks to cast a wide net, looking to reach out to the elderly, people exiting physical therapy programs, and anyone suffering a health or wellness issue: essentially, anyone who could benefit from someone keeping them on a routine and offering them connections to the community they otherwise, may not seek out on their own. Doing so, however, involves the challenge of finding ways to motivate clients to take on making those changes voluntarily. Sometimes it’s about connecting with people who might be overwhelmed by all their appointments and health problems, helping them to break down massive problems they might be facing into smaller, more manageable tasks – like limiting one’s self to a single cigarette a day by the end of the month to taking a bike ride three times a week – to help spur other, positive changes in their lives.

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“It’s really about the person being selfmotivated, because real change doesn’t happen unless someone wants that change.

They have to be motivated.”

According to a news release accompanying the announcement, participants will choose which personal health issues they will focus on, whether it be addressing issues with diabetes or smoking to asthma and obesity. Some program participants, according to the release, will be offered “health-positive” incentives such as access to free classes on exercise, cooking, and gardening, and those without transportation can access home visits should they choose to. Workers with Catholic Charities will also help clients recognize the warning signs they shouldn’t ignore, as well as assist clients as they manage their health records in order to give their health care providers accurate information.”

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Denkovic appreciates the program for its work towards de-stigmatizing veterans in higher education, proving they are capable of succeeding in the classroom after service.

While this stigma may be held by the public at-large, there can be a deep-seated disbelief in one’s own academic capabilities held by many veterans. Part of the program’s mission is to instill a level of self-confidence in the veterans, said Georgia@ithacatimes.com 607-277-7000 x220 Meghan-Rose O’Neill, Program Manager for the Warrior-Scholar Project.

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writing with the reader in mind, and study TEACHERS skills such as working in a group were Contin u ed From Page 3 techniques for learning which veteran Christian Trenco felt were particularly improving the teaching skills and lesson relevant lessons which would aid him in plans of the teachers they coach. These are being prepared for the level of thought the goals highlighted by Seth Cohen, the expected in the classroom.

Head of Partner Success at BetterLesson, Jessica Nelson was a participant in one who said the program was the result of a of last year’s intensives, hosted at Princdesire to empower educators. eton. After attending Texas A&M, she “The genesis of BetterLesson was ‘by transferred this year to Smith College. Nel- teachers for teachers’ and we started by son is acting as a fellow for the program, saying ‘How can we create a space where responsible for many of the social lessons teachers can be sharing their practices with worked into the program’s curriculum. each other, their lesson plans, curriculum Having completed a year of college as an materials, things of that nature?’” he said, alum of the program, Nelson’s perspective The tactics used by BetterLesson to allows for “de-greening” tips, or tips on recoach teachers meets a four-piece criteria: entering society which are undeniably usetheir coaching is personalized, continuous ful for other veterans. “The freedom that and flexible, job indebted and aligned, and you have and how you handle it makes a it’s supportive and non-evaluative. difference,” advised Nelson, speaking to a “In terms of being personalized, each change in positionality within the world educator is matched with a coach who is that unfurls for veterans once entering an experienced educator who can work to civilian life, or college. understand each educator’s needs,” he said.

“One of the things taught in the mili“In terms of being continuous and flexible, tary is to power through,” said Trenco, something that really makes us stand out is referring to how the same can be said about getting work done in college. Hope- that our coaching occurs on a regular basis Client: fully though, with the lessons provided by over the course of the year. Something that’s very different in professional develthe Warrior-Scholar Project, participants won’t have to simply put their heads down opment elsewhere, where most of the you sit in a room, hear an experienced educaand power through, but they will have tor, and then that’s the end of it.” the tools to manage their workload, find Maslin also noted that his teachers resources, and befriend like-minded combenefit immensely from BetterLesson’s rades, making the powering through a bit focus on flexibility and the convenience of easier, if not all the more exciting. educators. He stated that the consistency C h l o e W r a y of the coaching sessions, coupled with the ability for teachers to prioritize their areas

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The company touts very positive teacher feedback as a measure of its success, and outside evidence seems to back that up. A further investigation of the results of the BetterLesson program, conducted by the Department of Education, found a “statistically significantly positive impact on the academic achievement of students.” This is particularly true for African-American students, as well as disabled students, who the DOE noted to have garnered the biggest gains in academic outcome.

BetterLesson, and their commitment to teacher’s growth and improved student achievement, has created a climate of increased academic prosperity and growth among schools all across the country. And their organizational goals look to continue this trend, as Cohen stated, he wants BetterLesson to expand their reach.

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he Glimmerglass Festival this year is presenting two wellknown main stage shows, “The Barber of Seville” by prolific opera composer Gioachino Rossini and the American classic musical “West Side Story” in honor the centennial anniversary of composer Leonard Bernstein’s birth. The crowd was fortunate to be able to see them on successive afternoons.

Rossini’s masterpiece is among the most popular operas in the entire repertory, and this production is a smash hit, an outstanding example of inspired and clever staging, fine comic effects, not to mention brilliant acting and singing. There were delightful surprises, especially for many who have seen numerous productions and might have wondered what could possibly be new.

Although the first performance of “The Barber of Seville”—in Rome in 1816—was a total flop, the opera rebounded and has been a major triumph ever since. It features not only rollicking and sparkling music plus enormous fun but also a first-class plot based on the opening work of a highly successful trilogy by 18thcentury French playwright Beaumarchais. This story is about Figaro, whose marriage is the subject of the second play, which inspired the libretto of an equally famous opera (premiered thirty years earlier) by Mozart. A master of comic timing and clever dialog, Beaumarchais’s works proved the perfect source for both eminent composers.

Leading this opera is veteran conductor Joseph Colaneri, music director at Glimmerglass since 2013. He is joined by artistic and general director Francesco Zambello, whose guidance of a gifted cast was admirable and right on the mark. After a rather sedate and traditional rendition of the overture with its typical Rossini crescendos, the music came to life, deftly performed with seamless transitions in sync with the action. Clearly conductor and director make a very good team.

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by Figaro, who customarily enters from the wings. In this production he bounds in through audience, and to my surprise his first notes rang out at my right elbow. This mover-and-shaker was expertly played by Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins. His voice is rich and assured, and the first-act ensemble with Walton was delightfully precise.

As Rosina, mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo, also from Canada, sang with confidence, a full sound, and excellent understanding of her role.

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every voice student is encouraged to tackle) was brilliant. Her voice at times sounded too heavy for the house, however. and some ornamentation lacked clarity. Her acting was admirable, and she looked gorgeous.

In the smaller roles American bass-baritone Dale Travis started somewhat slowly as Doctor Bartolo, and then provided some wonderfully pompous comedy. His dialogs with the Count (in different disguises) were amusing in their variety, and his contribution to the music lesson, suddenly in falsetto, was hilarious. Bass 1–7 ,

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Timothy Bruno as Don Basilio—his aria “La calumnia” was sufficiently dramatic, aided by some astonishing stage business, and his comic timing masterful— and mezzo soprano Alexandria Shiner as Berta, both in the Glimmerglass Young Artists Program, were remarkable. But the endearing little guy, 10-year-old Rock Lasky from the Glimmerglass Youth Chorus, who as Figaro’s Assistant played multiple roles including scene-changer, stagehand, messenger, and mime, nearly stole the show.

The traditional costumes by Lynly Saunders were both beautiful and ingenious. Especially notable was Figaro’s bright red vest and brown suede britches, with striped knee socks. The men’s chorus, dressed in commedia dell’artetype balloon pants, floppy tops, matching hats, assumed different roles with the help of props, becoming musicians with odd fake instruments and later “la forza” by holding up cut-out placard uniforms. The sets by veteran John Conklin were minimal and highly effective, with Rosina’s entrances and exits suitably engineered. A rotating balcony window also worked effectively.

The show had many amusing and informative comic touches—banners with sententious messages and scene descriptions, the depiction of lightning in the storm, cards spelling out names with scrambled letters needing rearrangement—bringing much appreciative laughter and applause from the audience. This is a show to see. Don’t miss it.

“West Side Story” is playing to full houses and is sold out for the season. It too is a fabulous production, conducted by David Thomas Abell, who was assistant to Bernstein and helped prepare editions of the composer’s musical theater scores. The leads—soprano Vanessa Becerra as Maria and tenor Joseph Leppek as Tony—sang beautifully and portrayed their tragic situation in a touching and convincing way. The dancing, prominent in this story, was an adaptation of Jerome Robbins’s original choreography by Julio Monge. Zambello directs, and her dedication to helping the many young people in the cast deal with the conflict, hatred, and misunderstanding that dominate this story was clear. We are all sadly reminded by this classic musical that not much has changed in our world since 1959 when the show opened.

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rom a young age, Alec Simmons has had a passion for filmmaking.

It began with filming household objects on a camcorder, and then a YouTube Channel in middle school. At the end of his eighth grade year in 2014, he began interning at the local Photosynthesis Productions, where he still works as a visual effects artist.

In the past few years, Simmons’ short films have received recognition at the Rod Serling Film Festival, Marlboro College’s Beautiful Minds Challenge, and the AllAmerican High School Film Festival. And on August 4, his most recent work will premier in his hometown on the screen at Cinemapolis .

Chocolate School, which runs just under 28 minutes, is Simmons’ longest production to date. The film tells the story of eccentric professor Jon Remington (Cody Zusman) and his uninhibited teaching style at the Chocolate School, a college dedicated to one subject: chocolate.

Although Remington is despised by his colleagues due to his unorthodox approach, he has the support of the headmaster of the school.In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Remington has devoted his life’s work to the discovery of the chocolate theorem. But unbeknownst to his sole employee (Roman Predmore) who is a skilled mathematician and devout pacifist, Remington has turned to more sinister methods to obtain the chocolate required for his research.

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Lehman Alternative Community School (LACS), the concept of a Chocolate School came to Simmons while filming a commercial with Ramanujan for a school Spanish trip earlier that spring, but it wasn’t until the fall of 2017 that the plot really developed. Simmons says he and Predmore, who co-wrote the film, spent two weeks bouncing ideas off of each other evolving a loose idea into a feasible project. The film’s themes are consistent with Simmons’ work thus far, as he has spent time developing his cinematic brand.

“Usually, my style that I’ve been building in recent years is a dark-comedy type of thing: something that isn’t completely farcical and stupid, but also isn’t a really serious drama, because I’ve had trouble making something truly serious and a sad thing, but I don’t like being too silly,” says Simmons.

Throughout his young career, Simmons has always cast friends in his films.

Chocolate School is no exception, and it features an LACS-flavored cast: Zusman graduated from LACS in 2017, Ramanujan in 2018, and Predmore and Alpern are rising seniors.

Filming, which took place around Ithaca starting in January 2018, was done entirely handheld, as Simmons prefers the freedom the technique provides. In the end, the total expenses were $750, Simmons estimates, and were all out-ofpocket.

Simmons, who will be pursuing film at Bard College this fall, said the amount of time and effort the film required is worth it to him. “[M]ost of senior year was built on the production of this movie, and that’s where most of the memories are going to come from,” says Simmons, while later adding: “Looking back on it, I am more happy with this than I’ve ever been with anything else.”

Ramanujan agrees: “It was a classic ‘high school kids make a movie,’ and I think it’s a fond memory for senior year.”

To the film’s audience, Simmons doesn’t want to specify what the film’s meaning is, or if there even is only one. “It does have themes that are constantly insinuated throughout, and there are some emotional moments despite the absolutely absurd idea of a chocolate school,” he said. “I’m kind of balancing that. I don’t want to totally say what themes there are or what I was intending—I want to leave that to what the audience might think.”

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umi ink layers nose extending out and upon itself in eyes presumably squeezed ghostly forms shut in an act of thinkthat float amongst each ing (about what exactly, other. Fluid dimensions the viewer is unaware). In of texture appear almost most cases, however, each collaged as lines, clearly figure’s form is as vague as defined to the visual eye can be, reduced at times to and separate from one the mere circle of a head, another, simultaneously to the outline of shoulders. appear to melt and drip The rest of each scene, and in watery amalgamations the inner happenings of the of form. It’s indescribbodies themselves, are filled able: the black shadows in with oceanic shapes of of concentrated ink that the water and ink. cast over a milky, ethereal Following his belief that backdrop of whitish gray “we are all equal manifestathat is itself active with tions of the same torrent movement. The scene is of vital energy” rather than smoky, as if diving into separate entities barred the depths of a mental from one another through space that is hidden away, our insistence of individual somewhat hesitant to be novelty, Llosa’s artwork seen. The scene is neither emits this sense of unified abstract nor figurative but verve. Collected together, somewhere in-between. his figures are neither one A human figure’s eye apthing nor another, but topears near the middle of gether a shared experience the piece, looking upward, in which each is equivalent and the shapes around to one another. him birth the vague Along with the ink Very Green Leaf by Fernando outline of his head. The paintings, and a scattering Llosa rest of the image, which of oil paintings displayed as is entitled Insight, could well, the show also includes potentially be described as chaos. various hand-bound journals created by “The material components are, in the artist himself. Continuing his play with themselves, nothing: nothing in the white figures, some of the journals are embossed, of the paper, the transparency of water, while others create forms via found and the opaqueness of black ink,” the artobjects, such as stones from Cayuga Lake ist, Fernando Llosa, remarks. “However, placed together to produce forms entanwhen mixed together and gently moved gled in embrace or the scene of a parent around, these elements are capable of gen- holding hands with an exuberant child. erating almost unlimited form well beyond An evident overachiever of sorts, the technical skill and the intellectual and Llosa’s work is also currently displayed aesthetic acumen of this artist.” other places beyond Mockingbird PapeDisplaying a collection of primarily rie. Home Green Home, also downtown, ink paintings at Mockingbird Paperie this hosts a series of Llosa’s photographs taken month, Llosa explores concepts of human in the local area. Playing with the same unity and division, and the impending abstracted sense of movement as his other sense of alienation (“a fraudulent sense of work, with focus on water’s fluidity and separate and unique experience,” as he de- the placement of parts, the photos impresscribes it) evident in the human condition. sively bring an ethereal and dreamlike lens Faceless forms look back from their glassto captured scenes of the real world. Red enclosed frames, their figures expressively Roots is a favorite of the images, a largeshaped as if vaguely appearing through the scale photograph focused on clusters of bends of rippling lake water, soon to disred roots surrounded by green. It’s unclear seminate at the first sign of disruption. whether these roots are simply abstracted At times certain features are visible: or, more likely, submerged underwater. in Seeing Through the Deception of Regardless, they stick out, earthy and Separation, a figure’s mouth, lips open vibrant, gloriously beautiful. to reveal two front teeth in surprisingly If you happen to be in Trumansburg, solid detail, stands out in an otherwise where Llosa is based, he also has a small amorphous scene. In Emergence into show of work on display at Gimme Coffee Life (the Cloud of Unknowing), a figure’s as well. • side portrait is displayed, lips shut with

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By Steve Lawrence It am a zing th at a jour n ali st c an ge t so m any inte re s ting inte r v ie ws r ig ht he re in Ith a c a .

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ver the course of nearly three decades, my checklist has been an impressive (and enjoyable) one, and it just picked up another check that I really did now know I was looking for. Let me explain…

Up until last week, my list read as such:

Olympic Gold Medalists: Check. World Series winners: Check. Super Bowl Winners: Check. Stanley Cup MVP: Check.

Hall of Famers: Check. Four-time NCAA wrestling champ: Check. NFL Lawyer: Check. Nobel Prize winners: Check… The list is longer, but you get it.

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Open Water Swimmer Carolin Block (Photo: provided)

Last week, my friend Paula reached out and said, “I think you might be interested in a swimmer in Ithaca, who swam Cayuga Lake recently (the long way), and is either preparing or already did the English Channel. She’s a Cornell Law student. Her name is Caroline Block.”

My interest piqued, I did a little research, saw that Paula was right, and that Caroline Block is one of Open Water Marathon Swimming’s most accomplished athletes. I couldn’t wait to meet her.

Caroline was very accommodating, and we were soon sitting down to talk about her somewhat common circuitous path to Ithaca, and her very uncommon accomplishments in her sport.

“I grew up in Westchester,” Caroline told me, “and I swam as a kid. When I was 14 (20 years ago) I was recruited to be on a Florida-based relay team of six swimmers that would attempt to break the two-way record for swimming the English Channel.” She added “We did it, and that was great, but I realized I wasn’t going to be able to swim in college so I focused on fencing.”

Caroline became a Division 1 fencer at Princeton, and when she went to graduate school at Johns Hopkins, circumstances aligned to reinvigorate her swimming career. She said, “I was on a research budget, so I took a job as a lifeguard and met some people who were swimming at Coney Island.” Caroline had been training

for a triathlon while in grad school, and she learned that some of the Coney Island swimmers had done the English Channel. She said “The channel is the world’s busiest shipping lane, so they regulate the number of swims allowed each year. In fact, far fewer people have swum the English Channel than have climbed Mount Everest.”

The Channel is, according to Caroline, “a 21-mile swim ‘as the crow flies,’ but given the strong currents push you up and down, that’s not really the distance.” She did a solo crossing of the Channel in 2016 and earlier this year she became the fourth person to swim the length of Cayuga Lake.

The first three people (Claire de Boer, David Barra and Bridget Hobart) swam from north to south (Hobart and Barra separately, but on the same day) and Caroline was the first person to do it starting at the south end. “I started at noon and finished at 9:20 am, so it was a 21 hour, 20 minute swim,” Caroline offered. “My pilot was Warren Miller, and Kelly Lattimer and my mother made up my support crew.”

While Caroline does much of her swimming in area pools (like the YMCA, Cornell, Island Health and Fitness and Ithaca College), she can be found swimming in Cayuga Lake nearly year ‘round.

She stated, “I found a small group of people who do some winter lake swimming, and we start out at East Shore Park (near the sailing center) and swim up the lake, parallel to the shore. This year, the lake stayed very cold for a long time.”

This prompted me to ask whether she wears a wetsuit or a dry suit, and she said “Oh no… the rules of marathon swimming dictate that you wear only a suit, a cap and goggles for a swim to be recognized. Other rules state that you start and end on the shore, and that you never touch the boat or a crew member.” (As for sustenance, Caroline paused every half hour to take in her liquid nutrition, and consumes about 200 calories per hour.)

Caroline has circumnavigated Manhattan as well, and she recently swam the length of Lake George, but she calls these lake efforts “training swims.” She has her sights set on being the first person to do a two-way crossing of the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland (22 miles each way), and she just returned from her second attempt. She has ended those tries in frustration, as in 2017, the conditions were just too rough and this year, the water was so warm that Caroline found herself swimming through thousands of jellyfish. “I swam through them for hours,” she said. “And while the rough conditions last year were unpleasant, the swim through the jellyfish was scary.” She pointed out that since the North Channel is colder, the Lions mane Jellyfish that live there are much larger than their warmwater counterparts, and their stings can be debilitating.

Caroline will continue to swim in our beloved lake for the foreseeable future, given she has 2 more years of law school to complete. “I love it,” she said. “It’s such a gorgeous lake, and there’s often nobody out there.”•

Music

Ithaca Bottom Boys Crowdfund Debut Album

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ith one week left to go on their Kickstarter campaign, high energy, raucous, and a little bit trippy folk rock five-piece Ithaca Bottom Boys had already hit their goal of $1,500 -- “Thanks to their amazing community of fans,” according to lead guitarist Tristan Ross. The money is going towards the creation and release of their 12-track debut self-titled album which they plan to drop in mid-late August. You can preorder the album now on their Kickstarter page -- physical copies are $15 and digital downloads are $10. The album will soon be available for download on their Bandcamp and YouTube pages as well as other music digital and streaming services like iTunes and Spotify.

“We’re hoping to hit at least $2,000 which will help cover the cost of printing more copies of our album and towards use for further musical/artistic ventures such as music videos, new merchandise, and

more music releases,” said Ross.

By pledging between $1-500 or more, options and packages include an 11”x3” vinyl coated bumper sticker with original artwork depicting an Ithacan skyline, all the way up to a performance anywhere within 100 miles of Ithaca, with a lot in between.

The track listing includes popular favorites like “Summer Beavers” and “Gasoline and Kerosene,” both of which which have music videos on the IBB YouTube page. The album is comprised of 12 songs total, some of which the Ithaca Bottom Boys have been playing since the early days of their group.

“As a group we’re really into storytelling through songwriting, and this shows both in songs about experiences of our own that are very heartfelt, and some that are more tongue-in-cheek that take the perspective of tragic characters and devices of our own mind,” said Ross.

One such adventure that inspired the song “Winter Biking” was that of band members Tenor Caso and Leo Maniscalco having spent almost an entire evening in the cold, snowy winter while biking. The two found a small cabin to ransack for food and take shelter. When Caso called his mom who was understandably very upset that the two teens had gotten themselves lost, her words inspired a string of

lyrics.”

“It’s a lot of our early material -- some of the first songs we wrote when we were just 15-17 years old. Those tracks are so awesome because they have lot of raw youthful energy, and with years of performing and playing, we’ve honed them down to a science,” said guitarist Tristan Ross.•

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In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Nora Helmer walked out on her husband, her children and her life, in the “door slam heard around the world.” Fast-forward to fifteen years later, Nora has returned, in Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas HNath. Witness her hilarious and heart-breaking homecoming in this poignant comedy that reunites Nora with the world she left behind.

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8/5 Sunday Bert Salmirs - Jazz Piano | 1:00 PM, | Red Newt Cellars Inc, Hector Sunday Music Series: Dana Twigg | 1:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry Acoustic Rust | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

Music Bars/Bands/Clubs

8/1 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Brett Beardslee | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector Concerts In the Park: Triple Play with Alice Detrick | 7:00 PM, | Hickories Park, Owego Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

8/2 Thursday An Old Fashion Country Music Hoe Down | 11:00 AM, | Southern Tier Stables, Moravia | $35 Rob Ervin | 5:30 PM, | H&J Hospitality (Lansing Events Center), Ithaca CFCU Summer Concert Series: Fall Creek Brass Band | 6:00 PM, | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca

NBT Bank Free Thursdays Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers | 7:00 PM, | East Side Park, Norwich

8/3 Friday

Miller and the Other Sinners | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | The Nines, Ithaca

8/6 Monday Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

8/7 Tuesday

The Tarps | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Virgil Cain | 6:00 PM, | The Boat Yard Grill, Ithaca

Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca

Friday Night Deck Party featuring the Funky Blu Roots | 7:00 PM, | Buttonwood Grove Winery, Romulus | $3

I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

NEO Project | 7:00 PM, | Cornell Arts Quad ,

Concerts/Recitals

Stratcat Willie & The Strays | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

Slayer | 5:00 PM, 8/3 Friday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center |

Alash Ensemble- Tuvan Throat Singers | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15

The Fire Scottish Band | 8:00 PM, 8/3 Friday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | The Fire is a high energy pure-drop Scottish music band, with world class fiddling in combination with bagpipes, guitar, bodhran, whistle, and bouzouki. | $12/$16/$18

Hanzolo | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

8/4 Saturday

Myers Park Summer Concert Series: The Destination Band | 6:30 PM, | Myers Park, Lansing

Folkfaces w/ Ithaca Bottom Boys | 10:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

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Garden Concert Series: Dirtroad Ruckus | 6:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry

Miller’s Wheel | 1:30 PM, | Buttonwood Grove Winery, Romulus

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Not From Wisconsin | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector

Richman and The Poor Boys | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

Ithaca Is Music Podcast: Leo | 7:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

Taughannock Falls State Park Summer Concert Series: Answer the Muse | 7:00 PM, | Taughannock Falls State Park, Trumansburg | $5 parking

Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

John Gain and Sage Mountain | 6:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

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OUR TOWN Thursday, 8/2 through Saturday, 8/4 at 7:30 and Friday matinee at 2:00PM | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble, NY | The classic Thornton Wilder play tells the story of life in the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, NH. The three-act structure is broken down into the common themes of traditional American life and concepts we all ponder about our own existence - Daily Life, Love and Marriage, and Death and Eternity. Come see its debut on the CRT stage. (photo provided).

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Slayer | 5:00 PM, 8/4 Saturday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Thrash Metal legends with special guests Anthrax, Napalm Death, Testament and Lamb of God | $30-$90

Dierks Bentley | 7:00 PM, 8/4 Saturday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | David Byrne | 7:00 PM, 8/5 Sunday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | | $30-$135 Skaneateles Festival | All Day 8/7 Tuesday | Various Skaneateles locations, | World-class music by the lake. 4 weeks, 12 concerts. This season features “Music Mavericks” - performers and composers whose original vision, astonishing dexterity, and uninhibited joy have changed the music world around them. Featuring Joshua Redman, Mark O’Connor,†Andy Akiho, Tai Murray, and Eliot Fisk.

The Beach Boys | 7:00 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | | $40 & up Chicago & REO Speedwagon | 7:30 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | DJ/Dance/Trivia Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Includes free dance lesson from 10-10:30 | $5 Beginning Argentine Tango Class | 7:00 PM, 8/2 Thursday | Cornell University Physical Sciences Building, 245 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | The class is followed by a free 2.5 hour practice where you can practice, socialize, or watch our local dancers.

Micaela and Alberto are the founders of the Cleveland Tango School. | $10 Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 10:00 PM, 8/2 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Trivia Night | 9:00 PM, 8/5 Sunday | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Trivia Night w/ Herman Nugent | 7:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Tango Night | 8:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Tango Milonga, featuring local danc-

LoCaL is seeing your

sketchbook or blank journal, some favorite color and graphite pencils, an eraser, drinking water, and a portable seat. Classes will take place outdoors, or inside the Welcome Center if it’s raining. Pre-registration is required. | $125 members; $150 non-members

Local is powerful. “Success is about the partners you surround yourself with,” says Lev Saltonstall, VP of Treleaven Wines.

For Lev and his parents, those partners include Tompkins Trust Company and Tompkins Insurance Agencies.

Paint Nite | 6:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | | $45

Tompkins has worked with the winery for more than 30 years— helping them become one of the most sustainable wineries in the Finger Lakes, and supporting them as they built a beautiful new concert pavilion.

The World Bewitchíd: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Ongoing exhibit features rare and unique books and documents and examines themes such as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands.

“With Tompkins, everything is easy,” says Lev. “I can pick up the phone any time and get a human.”

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Visit TompkinsTrust.com or TompkinsIns.com.

big idea take off. ers and DJs! Come out and join the dance floor, new dancers welcome!

Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 9:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Trivia Night | 7:30 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | Monk’s Patio BBQ, 120 S Aurora St, Ithaca | Win a pitcher of beer and wings (or an alternative option for our vegetarian and vegan friends) halfway through and a $50.00 gift card to Monks for the grand prize!

Stage Bee Trapped Inside The Window | 8/1 at 2pm & 8PM; 8/2 & 8/3 at 8PM | Lehman Alternative Community School, | Deals with modern-day slavery’s effect on the lives of three women in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut. | $20 - sliding scale Oklahoma! | 7:00 PM, 8/1 thru 8/5 | CRS Barn Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | There will also be a drawing each evening for a basket of goodies, a reference to the picnic hampers that are auctioned during the play.

Holiday Inn | Contact theatre for showtimes. | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 East Lake Road, Auburn | Based on the classic film, this joyous song and tap dancing musical features thrilling dance numbers, laugh-out-loud comedy, and a parade of hit Irving Berlin songs including Blue Skies, Easter Parade, Steppin’ Out With My Baby, Heat Wave, Cheek to Cheek, Shaking the Blues Away and many more! | $51-$62 Our Town | Contact theatre for showtimes. | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Widely considered the greatest American play ever written, the audience follows the small New Hampshire town of Grover’s Corners. Breathtaking in its simplicity, the play focuses on the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and start their own livesÖleading to one of the most famous scenes in American theater.

ComedyFLOPs Presents All You Can Eat Improv | 7:00 PM, 8/2 Thursday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | To benefit Addiction Recovery Services| $5

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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf | Contact theatre for showtimes. | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | | $12 A Doll’s House, Part 2 | Contact theatre for showtimes. | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Fifteen years ago, Nora Helmer walked out on her husband, her children and her life, in the door slam heard around the world. Now, she has come home.

Witness her hilarious and heart-break homecoming in this poignant comedy that reunites Nora with the world she left behind.

Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, 8/2 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The Trials and Tribulations of Trixie Terpsichore | 7:00 PM, 8/3 Friday | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 8/12 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm A Chorus Line: High School Edition | 7:30 PM, 8/3 Friday & 8/4, Saturday| Cayuga Community College, 197 Franklin St., Auburn | A full-length version of the groundbreaking musi-

cal, adapted for performance by young performers. At the Irene Bisgrove Theater at CCC. Visit www.auburnplayers.org for more information or to purchase tickets. | $5/$10/$15

Art Juxtaposition of Light and Texture | Daily| Boyce Thompson Institute, Tower Road, Ithaca | A photography show of flowers and cement abstracts by Nancy Ridenour.

Reflexion | Printmakers of Atelier de gravure de la Villedieu | | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Ongoing exhibit featuring work from a community studio located outside of Paris, exhibiting the work by great contemporary French and International printmakers.

Nature Journaling & Sketching in the Garden | 6:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | In our diverse botanic gardens, we’ll focus on different ways to approach journaling, and accurately recording what you observe with sketches and words.

Ages 12 to adult and all skill levels are welcome. Bring a good-quality

First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 8/3 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different local artists, and sometimes global.

State of the Art New Members Show | 5:00 PM, 8/3 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | During August, State of the Art holds its New Members Show in the main gallery. Featuring works by Saundra Goodman, a textile artist; Tobias Inigo, drawings and paintings; Photographer Harry Littell; and Vanessa McCaffery, drawings that explore various aspects of human relationships with animals.

telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe. | 105 mins R Won’t You Be My Neighbor? |An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers. | 94 mins PG-13 Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot | On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life. | 114 mins R Three Identical Strangers | In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted discover that they are triplets who were separated at birth.

They describe their lives, and what they’ve discovered about why they were separated. | 96 mins PG-13 Leave No Trace | A father and his thirteen year-old daughter are living in an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon, when a small mistake derails their lives forever. | 109 mins PG Eighth Grade| An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school. | 93 mins R Whitney | An in-depth look at the life and music of Whitney Houston. | 120 mins R Regal Ithaca

What is in a Yarn? | 6:00 AM, 8/7 Tuesday | Homespun Boutique, 51 E. Main Street, Trumansburg | An evening of conversation and craft with MJ Packer. Bring a project, bring a friend and join us for an evening of conversation and craft. | donations accepted

Wednesday, 8/1 through Tuesday, 8/7.

Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes.

Film

Mission: Impossible-Fallout | Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. | 147 mins R

Cinemapolis Friday, August 03, 2018 through Thursday, August 09, 2018. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes.

Sorry To Bother You | In an alternate present-day version of Oakland,

Unfriended: Dark Web | A teen comes into possession of a new laptop and soon discovers that the previous owner is not only watching him, but will also do anything to get it back. | 88 mins R

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies | A villain’s maniacal plan for world domination sidetracks five teenage superheroes who dream of Hollywood stardom. | PG

THURSDAY 8/2 & FRIDAY 8/3 AT 8:00PM

The Black Box, Lehman Alternative Community School, Ithaca | If you haven’t had a chance to see the latter half of Ithaca Civic Ensemble’s play festival: “Civic Acts: New Plays Toward the Beloved Community,” this is your last chance! Watch the amazing performances by Janilya Baizack, Sarah K. Chalmers, and Erin Lockett in this play about modern-day slavery’s effect on the lives of three women in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut. (photo provided)

THURSDAY, 7/26 AT 7PM

Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Commons | To quote the

band’s web site, “Music for your toe-tapping, bootyshaking pleasure.” What more do you need to know?

Get yourself to the Commons after work on Thursday! (photo provided)

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The Spy Who Dumped Me | Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy. | 116 mins R Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | While on a vacation with his family, Count Dracula makes a romantic connection. | 97 mins PG Skyscraper | A father goes to great lengths to save his family from a burning skyscraper. | 102 mins PG-13 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | In this sequel to Mamma Mia!, Sophie learns about her mother’s past while pregnant herself. | PG-13 114 mins Christopher Robin | A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winniethe-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life. | 104 mins PG The Equalizer 2 | Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? | R Ocean’s 8 | Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at NYC’s annual Met Gala. | 110 mins PG-13 The Darkest Minds | Imprisoned by an adult world that now fears everyone under 18, a group of teens form a resistance group to fight back and reclaim control of their future. | 105 mins PG-13 Incredibles 2 | Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for Jack-Jack while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world. | 118 mins PG Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. | 128 mins PG-13

we observe the gardens’ progression throughout the growing season. Tours are offered every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. | $5 suggested donation

Chemung County Fair | All Day 8/1 thru 8/5 | Chemung County Fairgrounds, 170 Fairview Rd, Horseheads | Free entertainment, grandstand shows, rides & midway.

Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 8/4 Saturday | Various locations, Ithaca | Enjoy local cuisine on a guided walking tour of Ithaca’s unique restaurants. During a three-hour culinary adventure, satisfy your appetite for inventive and delicious food while getting a taste for our town’s history, culture, and architecture. Call 607272-4830. | $57

Go Bowling at The Glen | All Day 8/2 thru 8/5 | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Watkins Glen International is home for NASCAR’s only trip to New York State, which has become one of the most anticipated stops on the series’ schedule in recent years.

Sterling Renaissance Festival | All Day 8/4 Saturday & 8/5, Sunday| 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling | Each weekend through 8/19.

The Glorious Garlic Festival | All Day 8/4 Saturday & 8/5 Sunday | Fox Run Vineyards, RR 14, Penn Yan | Takes place in the middle of the vineyards of Fox Run. Garlic lovers from across the country join us to celebrate the harvest of garlic. Vendors from around the region show off their amazing home-made products. The garlic growers bring over 15 different varieties to purchase for cooking and planting.

12th Annual Arts & Wine Festival | 10:00 AM, 8/4 Saturday | Courthouse Park, Court Street, Cortland | Join us at the 12th annual Arts & Wine Festival for art, music, wine, food, and craft beer. This cultural event is free and open to the public, and fun for the whole family. Stop by the Children’s Art Tent for free artistic activities for kids, including a sidewalk art contest. Festival admission is free, but admission to the Wine Tent is $16 online in advance, or $20 at the door.

All proceeds of the festival benefit the Cultural Council of Cortland County.

Garden Tours- Cornell Botanic Gardens | 11:00 AM, 8/4 Saturday | Cornell Botanic Gardens- Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Take a relaxing stroll with a Garden Guide through the gardens around the Nevin Welcome Center and discover the beauty and diversity of our cultivated plant collections. Each tour will be a unique experience, as

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Ant Man and the Wasp | Hope VanDyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission to Ant Man that leads him to fighting alongside The Wasp as they uncover secrets from their past. | 118 mins PG-13

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Hosmer’s 33rd Anniversary Party | 1:00 PM, 8/4 Saturday | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Music from Immortal Jellyfish, food from Blowing Smoke BBQ, lawn games, wine beer, mimosas, and special cocktails.

Tioga County Fair | All Day 8/6 Monday & 8/7 Tuesday| Tioga County Fairgrounds, 2258 Charleston Rd., Wellsboro | Empire Farm Days | All Day 8/7 Tuesday | Rodman Lott and Sons Farm, 2973 State Route 414, Seneca Falls | Growing Native: Planning a Native Plant Garden | 5:30 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Using native plants in your garden can save you money, time and water, and can provide vital habitat and food sources for birds and beneficial insects. In this program, we will showcase numerous native species that work well in the home landscape, and demonstrate some simple and effective design techniques for starting your own native plantings.Pre-registration is required. | $30 for members; $40 for non-members

Kids Science Together | 10:30 AM, 8/1 Wednesday & 8/3 Friday| Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your little ones as you investigate sciences processes through hands-on activities.

Family Expedition Cruise | 12:30PM, Daily | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | With a lively narration and optional hands-on activities, including water quality

monitoring and looking at plankton under our microscopes, an expedition with us will please everyone in the family. Cruises every day until 9/12/18. | $80 for a family Summer Teen Writing Workshop | 1:30 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In this workshop, teens will discover how to use poetry and creative writing to craft a meaningful life and shape their futures.

Summer Reading Club Final Party | 3:30 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Van Etten Library, 83 Main Street, Van Etten | Field Day: Inflatable bouncy house & water slide! Crafts, games, prizes and snacks.

Summer Movie Nights at the Fire Station | 7:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Cayuga Heights Fire Station, 194 Pleasant Grove Road, | 8/1 - The Blind Side (outside at dusk) Teen Takeover | 7:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | For teens entering grades 6 through 12.

Creative Dance Class | 10:30 AM, 8/2 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Amanda Moretti will lead this creative dance program, intended for all families with children ages 3 to 10. This weekly program is suitable for all experience levels and abilities.This is a drop-in class, but space is limited, and online registration is requested.

Food and Fun | 12:30 PM, 8/2 Thursday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Game On! | 3:00 PM, 8/2 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At this weekly dropin gaming program, kids and teens meet for board games, tabletop RPGs, card games, and more. Participants can hone their skills with their old favorites, learn something new, and make new friends.

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 8/2 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | A fun weekly event combining literacy and a fun lego project! Older children read for younger children, modeling success for their peers. Build a fun project out of one of our 1,000-piece kits while you have a snack.

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Participants can bring any white, cotton item to dye (tees, socks, and pillowcases work well). There will also be a limited supply of tees in a range of kid and adult sizes. All events will take place along Green Street next to the Library.

DO RE READ ME: A Story time | 10:00 AM, 8/3 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Story time followed by free lunch for kids up to 18 (and caregiver) at 11.

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 8/3 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months embrace early literacy through books, music, movement and rhyming. This storytime is followed by an hour-long Baby & Toddler Playtime at 11AM. Comic Creation Workshop Series for Teens | 4:15 PM, 8/3 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teens will learn to use the skills they already have to tell stories with art. Attendance at all classes is not required, but each week participants will learn new techniques to build upon.

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Camp Half Blood | 10:00 AM, 8/6 Monday | Ovid Firehouse, Community Meeting Room, 2136 Brown Street, Ovid | Percy Jackson fans (ages 8-12), this is the camp for you. Enjoy mythology-based games and activities each week. Registration required, space limited. Bring a lunch. Snack will be provided. Runs all week thru Friday, 8/10. 10:00am-1pm. Offered by Edith Ford Memorial Library.

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 8/6 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 8/7 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

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Kids’ Club: Super Science Tuesdays | 12:30 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

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Tompkins County Government Operations Committee | 3:30 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome.

The Cat of Dovrefjell: A Norwegian Folk Tale | 10:30 AM, 8/4 Saturday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Presented by Magic Garden Puppets. Every year trolls take over Halvor’s house and eat his feast, but one day a trapper with a beautiful brown bear tries to help. See the show, then stay for a coloring activity and an ice cream from Meg-A-Moos Ice Cream Truck! Appropriate for 3 - 11 year old children and their families.

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Common Council | 6:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Includes privilege of the floor interval when public may speak.

Newfield Schools Board of Education | 6:30 PM, 8/2 Thursday | Weaver Room, 2nd Floor in Newfield Elementary School Building, Main St. Groton Central Schools Board of Education | 6:30 PM, 8/6 Monday |

ALASH ENSEMBLE- TUVAN THROAT SINGERS FRIDAY, 8/3 AT 8:00 PM

The Haunt,702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Alash are “…masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing [a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time]. The musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage.” Come discover this group of musicians hailing all the way from the southern edge of Siberia!

Groton District Office, 400 Peru Rd, Groton | Spencer Village Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | Spencer Municipal Building, 79 E. Tioga St., Spencer | Van Etten Village Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | Van Etten Village Offices and Community Center, 6 Gee Street, Van Etten | Lansing Village Board of Trustees | 7:30 PM, 8/6 Monday | Lansing Village Hall, 2405 Triphammer Rd, Lansing | ICSD Board of Education Meeting | 4:00 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | BoE Curriculum Work Session - Board Room ICSD Board of Education Meeting | 5:00 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | BoE Policy Work Session - Board Room Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome.

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Notices Metrix Overview | 10:00 AM, 8/1 Wednesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Metrix is an online skills and job-related training program that contains over 24,000 courses. Courses range in topics covering accounting, leadership, healthcare, computer programming, and more. Once registered, customers have accounts with unlimited access for 6 months. Please Note: This workshop requires a midlevel competency with computers.

Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga

St, Ithaca | Gary Ferguson, Executive Director Downtown Ithaca Alliance: The State of Downtown Ithaca | $15 Taste of Summer Series with T. Edward Wines | 4:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Aurora Inn, 391 Main Street, Aurora | Join us for a tasting and get an extra 15% off your dinner at the Aurora Inn Dining Room.

Weeding Wednesdays with Cornell Botanic Gardens | 4:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Wednesdays are drop-in volunteer nights this summer at Cornell Botanic Gardens! Stop by and unwind from your day with some evening weeding therapy. Meet new people, learn about plants and gardening from a knowledgeable staff horticulturist, and help keep our gardens looking beautiful. Wear comfortable clothes and bring your own garden gloves, if you have them. Open to ages 15 and older. Cancelled in the event of rain.

produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 8/2 Thursday | Dinner at† Brix (Cortland)Hosts: Jill H. and Margie P., RSVP: jholl9435@gmail.com or map10@ cornell.edu. After dinner we can walk over to the Cortland courthouse park for some free music. Tribal Revival is supposed to be playing starting at 7.

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Open House at Ithaca Waldorf School | 10:00 AM, 8/3 Friday | Ithaca

in a sample Parent and Child class, lead by Miss Karen (for parents with children ages 0-3).

Ithaca Heritage’s Downtown Ithaca Architectural Walking Tour | 4:00 PM, 8/3 Friday | Meet at the trolley circle on the Ithaca Commons in front of Center Ithaca.

Spend an Evening at The Eight Square Schoolhouse | 5:00 PM, 8/3 Friday | Eight Square Schoolhouse, Upper Hanshaw Rd, Dryden | Viewing, games, artwork contest, and fun. This

Wildlife Tracking with Linda Spielman | 11:00 AM, 8/4 Saturday | Thayer Preserve, Town Line Road (off Sand Bank Rd), Ithaca | Hosted by the Finger Lakes Land Trust. With over 20 years of experience in environmental education, tracker and naturalist Linda Spielman will lead a trip to discover what has been visiting this preserve. Please email info@fllt.org or call (607) 275-9487 to register.

“Relational Big Data: How Data Collection Influences How We Live, Work, and Interact” | 7:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | A free lecture from Cornell faculty member, Karen Levy.

Electric Vehicle Ride & Drive | 3:00 PM, 8/2 Thursday | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, Ithaca | Join us to experience the fun and exhilarating feeling of driving electric!*Valid drivers license and proof of insurance will be required for test drives* Candor Farmer’s Market | 3:30 PM, 8/2 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Fresh local garden

Skin Care and Herbal Oils | 10:00 AM, 8/4 Saturday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Herbalist Jaclyn Eisman returns!

Learn how to make oils to use on dry or wounded skin, anti-itch remedies, and natural and effective sunburn remedies. Take home an oil you make and your own aloe plant. Registration is required, space limited. | $3 Historic Ithaca’s Walk and Talk: Archaeology and the Buried Hamlet of Enfield Falls | 11:00 AM, 8/4 Saturday | Robert H. Treman State Park - Upper Entrance, 129 Upper Park Road, Newfield | Meet at Enfield Falls Mill. If you don’t have an Empire Pass, please email pat@historicithaca. org by Friday, August 2, to obtain a parking coupon to get into the park for free.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information.

Outdoor Concert: Three Stone Fire | 6:30 PM, 8/3 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Enjoy a family-friendly Celtic inspired concert on the lawn at the library, bring a chair or blanket.

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ANSWER THE MUSE Saturday, 8/4 at 7PM | Taughannock Falls State Park, Trumansburg | This band offers an intriguing premise – what happens when you combine original music, covers, theatre, meditation, and yoga? Answer the Muse promises to answer that question this Saturday with a musical experience like none other you’ve seen, designing each show to be a unique performance for their audience. (photo provided)

Waldorf School, 20 Nelson Rd, Ithaca | Join us at the Ithaca Waldorf School for a tour of our recently expanded building, learn about Waldorf education through the grades, or participate

event is a part of First Friday Gallery Night in Ithaca, NY. Consider it a one evening summer school that combines architecture, history, education and ice cream!

Saddle Up for Jesus Horse Riding Club | 7:00 PM, 8/4 Saturday | Brooktondale Baptist Church, 2311 Slaterville Road, Ithaca | A Christian, family-oriented riding club. We have club meetings, trail rides, horsemanship clinics for a variety of disciplines, cowboy devotionals and youth programs. Contact Lawrence Canfield at 607-539-6440.

Club Cayuga: Boat Party at Sunset | 7:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | Nothing beats a sunset on the lake!

On Mondays, Discover Cayuga Lake Boat Tours hosts Club Cayuga with discounted fares and local DJs on board (DJ Hameen and DJ Mike Judah) to liven up the mood and possibly inspire a dance party! Feel free to bring your

own refreshments.We’ll provide the sunset! 21 and over.| $16 Sunset Cruise | 7:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | Daily two-hour cruises aboard the MV Teal, that feature a light narration and a chance to chat informally with our crew. Feel free to bring your own refreshments. | $40 regular fare Crafting Your 60-Second Pitch | 9:00 AM, 8/7 Tuesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | 60-Second Pitches, Elevator Speeches and Introductions.

Oh My! Are you unsure what to say when the first question in an interview is: “So, tell us about yourself!”

How do you really introduce yourself to an employer? In this workshop, participants will learn about the 60-Second Pitch, how to use it and begin creating and practicing oneís very own!

Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 8/7 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 522 Valley Road, Brooktondale |

Health Alzheimer’s Support Group | 5:30 PM, 8/1 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca Radical Ridiculousness | 7:00 PM, 8/6 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street BorgWarner Room, Ithaca | This is a FREE FUN TALK about how to transform your life with the power of humor.

Laughter and play are not simply for comic relief, they are part of our very nature. And by changing our behavior from stressful effort to focus and fun, from worry and anxiety to purposeful play, we tap into a power and energy we haven’t felt since we were a kid.

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Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM, 8/7 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken

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Upper Hanshaw Road, Dryden | Unless you recently completed elementary school, there is a good chance that you have never been inside the Eight Square Schoolhouse or even understand what is meant by the name “Eight Square”. All that can change this Friday when The History Center of Tompkins County opens the doors of the historic building for viewing, games, an artwork contest, and fun. This event is a part of Ithaca’s First Friday Gallery Night. (photo provided)

Auburn Public Theatre, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | First published in 1975, The show consists of 20 poems performed as monologues and choreographed to music, emerging as a form Shange coined “choreopoem.” The poems weave together the interconnected stories of seven nameless African-American women dealing with love, empowerment, struggle and loss to form a nuanced depiction of sisterhood. (photo provided)

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