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n a press release last week, the Tompkins County Solid Waste Division announced that its curbside food scraps pickup pilot will end Dec. 31 because it is “simply too costly to maintain and expand.” The three-year pilot program, begun in 2014, currently services 1,200 residential households in the area and has diverted 174.4 tons of food waste from the landfill to date. Tompkins County Solid Waste Manager Barbara Eckstrom made clear that the curbside pickup program was not ending because of a lack of success. “The program has worked well, and its services have been well received by residents,” she said. Despite these successes, Eckstrom said that the pilot program would not be continued past year’s end since the Solid Waste Division needs to cut costs by $200,000 to $300,000 in the near future. The primary reason for these cuts, she added, is the “rapid decline in the amount of revenue coming into the Solid Waste Division from the sale of recyclable materials,” which provides 15 percent of its yearly revenue. Although there will be no more curbside pickup after the new year, Tompkins County plans to continue to expand its food scraps recycling drop spot program. Earlier this summer, the Solid Waste Division opened its eighth location at the Brooktondale Community Center, and it soon hopes to increase this number with the addition of drop spots in the village of Trumansburg and West Hill in 2017. The drop spot program “wasn’t our first choice,” Eckstrom admitted, “but it does work.” As evidence, she cited how residents made more than 20,000 drops last year that amounted to over 400,000 pounds of collected material. She also noted that the Solid Waste Division gave out “thousands and thousands of toolkits,” which consist of a kitchen caddy, compostable bags, and information on how to get started. Residents can pick them up for free at Recycling and Solid Waste Center. For more information regarding the drop spot program, go to: recycletompkins.org. -Rich Heffron

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legislators to read. “We’re all concerned about the police misconduct issues that have arisen in the national news lately,” Lucente said. “With a position like sheriff, the important thing is really checks and balances. The lawmakers and law enforcers should be separated because it creates more accountability.” “We have a real concern that if there is an appointed sheriff who is a friend or ally to legislature, are those legislators going to be as hard on them as they would be with [current sheriff] Kenneth Lansing and the standoff in Danby?” he said, adding that “there is no greater example of transparency as an election.” Members of the public said they

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ompkins County’s voters will not see a referendum on the ballot this fall regarding the sheriff ’s office. The Tompkins County Legislature voted at a meeting August 17 not to hold a public hearing on the matter of changing the position from an elected position to an appointed position, and that hearing would have been necessary to bring the issue to the voters as part of the general election. Legislature Chair Michael Lane (D-Dryden) and other legislators supporting the resolution claim that now would be the best time to make the switch, in part because Tompkins County Sheriff Ken Lansing has said that he will not be running again when his term expires at the end of 2018. This discussion, first introduced in the form of Rocco Lucente of Ulysses collected over 300 signatures in favor of keeping the a recommendation by the sheriff an elected position. (Photo: Jaime Cone) Tompkins County Charter Committee in July, comes a year and a half after a view the potential change to an appointed four-day standoff between a Danby man position as a “power grab” by the and the sheriff ’s department that ended in legislature, which would be making the the man’s suicide. appointment. Amy Foster, of Freeville, Eight members of the public shared that view, saying, “The sheriff is our addressed the legislators about the sheriff; protection from the federal government all but one were opposed to making it and state government—people who want an appointed position. Rocco Lucente of to take our rights away.” Ulysses presented the legislature with a Deborah Dawson of Lansing spoke petition started by the Tompkins County in favor of an appointed sheriff. “I have Republican Party that had 340 signatures spent 30 years on the legal side of federal of people opposed to the change, 315 of law enforcement and federal regulatory which he said are from Tompkins County. Along with the petition there were also continued on page 4 120 comments, which he encouraged the

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who has developed connections with community partners to enhance his students’ learning experiences.” According to Braun, “Steve’s leadership in school settings and management of youthserving organizations impressed us. ” Manley succeeds Christine Sanchirico who is stepping down after three years as IPEI’s first executive director. He will be relocating to Ithaca with his wife, Aubryn Sidle, and their two children.

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pstate New York’s job growth is far below the national rate, but Ithaca remains a strong point, fueled by large employers like Cornell University and a budding technology sector, according to an economic briefing from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and new data released Thursday, Aug. 18 by the state Department of Labor. While New York City has seen strong job growth over multiple industries, hirings in most upstate regions have been modest, said William Dudley, president and CEO of the reserve bank. Ithaca, however, has bucked that trend because of its strong education and healthcare sector, and because it does not rely heavily on the declining manufacturing industry, which has crippled upstate economies. “A place like Ithaca stands out as being particularly strong,” said Jaison Abel, research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “This is a small metro area that’s dominated by higher education.” “It’s fair to say that Cornell is a very important part of that regional economy and to the extent that it continues to hire, that is going to be good for that region,” he added. New statistics from the New York State Department of Labor show that Ithaca is outperforming much of the Southern Tier and is toward the top in job growth among 14 metro areas statewide. Ithaca added 2,200 private-sector jobs from July 2015 to July 2016, according to preliminary statistics that indicate the numbers are driven by private education

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enforcement, and saw few situations in which an elected law enforcement officer was in any way better or more accountable than an appointed one,” she said. “I don’t think we have the constitutional right to vote for sheriff; the county charter can be changed with a vote by the people.” Several legislators emphasized during the discussion that the resolution before the legislature was to approve a public hearing so that the issue could go to a vote on the November ballot; it is the voters of Tompkins County who would be making the final vote on whether or not to make the change. “I’m not going to support this at this point,” said Legislator James Dennis (D-Ulysses). “My sense is tonight the time has not yet quite come. Even though the county has been talking about it in various forms for many years, many other things have to go forward.”

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and healthcare services jobs. There were 69,300 non-farm employees in Ithaca in July, more than half of which were in the education and health services field, according to the new data, which also showed that employment in that field grew 6.4 percent from the previous July. Abel said there has been more concern over increased wealth disparity, as growth in low-paying and high-paying jobs has been outpacing growth in middlewage jobs. “That job polarization has contributed to rising wage inequality,” Abel said. There appears, however, to be a resurgence of middle-income jobs, which are defined as positions that pay between $30,000 and $50,000 annually. Although the growth of middle-class jobs in upstate New York is muted when compared to downstate or northern

New Jersey, the increase “is representing a real reversal from what we’ve seen in the early part of the recovery and this is encouraging,” Abel said. Between 2010 and 2013, upstate New York lost 25,000 middle-income jobs and gained 37,000 higher- and lower-income jobs. But between 2013 and 2015, the region has bounced back, albeit slowly, adding 5,000 new middle-income jobs. Local unemployment statistics are not yet available for July, but Tompkins County will likely have one of the three lowest unemployment rates in the state, according to Christian Harris, a labor market analyst for the Southern Tier region. “Ithaca is a consistent job grower and as you have more people moving in

“If we’re able to sell the idea, then I think we’ll have the public support for it,” Dennis added, “but I kind of view this as something we have to educate the people on and tell them the pluses and minuses, and that we never viewed it as taking away someone’s chance to do something.” Legislator Dooley Kiefer (D-Cayuga Heights), chair of the Charter Review Committee, said she supports having an appointed sheriff because she believes the job has become much more complex over time. She said the sheriff is now responsible for dealing with mental health issues, poverty issues, homelessness, privacy issues, issues with diversity, addition behaviors, plus “they also have to manage and use and respond to the use of really heavy-duty militaristic armament.” “It’s not the old fashioned sheriff ’s job that it once was,” she said, “and it’s all those things that make me realize we would be best served by an individual who is not elected based on a particular party ballot, or because he is a good guy and we

like him—the cut of his jib or something.” She added that this year would have been a good time to bring the issue forward because of the large voter turnout of the general election, but she said she has resigned herself to realizing that her colleagues are not ready to bring it to the voters. “We’ll have to bring up next year,” she said, “have special election, and turnout will not be what it should be unless we do an incredible job educating residents on why they should turn out and vote for this.” Legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden) advanced the motion to table the issue, which was approved by a 9-5 vote with Legislators Kiefer, Anna Kelles (D-Ithaca), Will Burbank (D-Ithaca), Dan Klein (D-Danby), and Lane voting against tabling.

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▶ A friendly campus, Campus Pride has once again included Ithaca College on its annual list of the most LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities in the country. The national organization — which works to create a safer environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning students — highlighted the 30 institutions that are most inclusive for those students. Ithaca College gained the highest possible rating, earning 5 out of 5 stars.

n Monday, Aug. 22, Nicholas Hyde from GHD—an international engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm—presented the results of the company’s study of the East Hill water system to the Ithaca Town Council. The system is located between Ellis Hollow and Slaterville roads, and consists of two service areas, Hungerford and Pine Tree, which have their own water storage tanks. The current study is a continuation of the town’s ongoing evaluation of its water system’s capabilities and inefficiencies. In 2014 GHD completed a similar study of the town’s northeastern water system, the findings of which led the town to replace the water tanks at Christopher Circle and Sapsucker Woods. In the case of East Hill, GHD found that the Hungerford and Pine Tree service areas (except for four homes in the former) met the state regulatory requirements of minimum and maximum water pressures during normal and fire conditions. The Pine Tree area, however, failed to meet the town’s goals of three-days of storage in its water tank and 1,500 gallons per minute (gpm) available for all fire hydrants. In order to meet these goals, Hyde suggested to the town board three improvements: “raise the elevation of the Hungerford tank by 10 feet” to increase the normal water pressure in the zone; replace the 6-inch water pipes on Pine Tree and Slaterville Road with 12- and 8-inch pipes, respectively, to raise hydrant pressure to 1,500 gpm; and replace the existing Pine Tree tank (200,000 gallons) with one or two larger tanks to meet the three-day storage goal. The decision to replace the Pine Tree tank, Hyde noted, will depend on future development in the area, especially the proposed Maplewood and East Hill Village Apartments, which could increase its current water demand from 138,000 to 351,000 gallons per day. Nevertheless, the additional demand should not have a “significant impact on the hydraulic effectiveness of the area’s water system,” Hyde said. The town board members

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.” Proposed water tanks (above) and location map (below) of Town of Ithaca water tanks (Courtesy of GHD)

Heard&Seen ▶ Alcatraz, the documentary, “Alcatraz is not an Island” tells the story of the legendary 19month occupation of Alcatraz by American Indians beginning in 1969. American Indians occupied the Island under the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which established that all abandoned or unused federal property was to return to the Native peoples. The film provides an in-depth look at this historic event and the issues surrounding it. The screening will be August 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Cinemapolis. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Aug. 14-13 include: 1) Too Few at a Fire: Declining volunteer numbers leave departments vulnerable 2) New Life Planned for Old Playground 3) Maine-Endwell Little League Opens LLWS With Win 4) Dryden Girls Soccer Team Sees Rare Turnover 5) Speed Limit to be Lowered in Groton City

were also quick to point out that study’s estimates for the amount of residential development in the Pine Tree area were certainly on the high end. • • • What to do about Airbnb? Later in the meeting, the town’s director of code enforcement, Bruce Bates, brought up for discussion the issue of how his department should address complaints about Airbnbs. “The town has taken a don’t ask, don’t tell policy towards Airbnb in the past,” Bates said, but he added that this policy is becoming increasingly difficult for his department to maintain as it receives “at least three to five complaints a week” about Airbnb rentals—the existence of which typically violate either town zoning ordinances or state building codes. Bates noted that the situation has been further complicated by Tompkins County’s recent tax-collection agreement with Airbnb.

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In response to Bates’ query, the town board’s consensus response was that the coding enforcement department should apply the town’s zoning ordinances when complaints were filed. Eric Levine said that he “doesn’t want to see a crackdown on someone who is just temporarily renting out a room,” but he also “doesn’t want people buying multiple dwellings to use for short-term rentals.” A sentiment that was echoed by Tee-Ann Hunter who believes that Airbnb can provide a way for the town to use its “built environment to its max capacity,” although she emphasized that it is a “big issue” that will need to be dealt with cautiously. Moving forward, Supervisor Bill Goodman assigned “the big issue” of Airbnb to the September agenda of the Codes and Ordinances Committee. •

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n his guest opinion (July 27 issue) Creamery in Interlaken, I probably hire Pete Meyers of the Tompkins County more high school students than most Workers’ Center very eloquently other businesses. I have close to 30 high explains all of the positive things about school students, mostly juniors and raising minimum wage. However, he seniors, on my staff. They truly do not does not explain the real consequences need to make $12 to $15 per hour, as of a minimum wage increase. most of them live at home, pay little to First of all he misses the point that no rent, have marginal food expenses the minimum wage is not and don’t have to pay for and has never been meant health insurance since to be a living wage but they are on their parents’ rather it is a training wage policy until 26. primarily meant as an initial In 2013 and salary for people with very 2014 minimum wage little to no experience in increased by 75 cents the work force. Secondly each year. This cost me he fails to explain what an in excess of $50,000 in increase in minimum wage salaries and associated will mean to the elderly costs such as insurance Jeff Kostick on fixed Social Security and taxes. Because of incomes (Social Security that, I have been forced has not increased in two to increase my prices. A years) or those on state subsidies like one scoop of ice cream, which was $2.75 welfare, HEAP, childcare subsidies, etc. in 2013, is now $3.95. When the $12.50 There is currently no legislation in the minimum wage becomes reality the cost state Senate or Assembly to raise the of that same one scoop will be around caps on any of these plans. Therefore, $5.50, and my salary budget will increase many low-income individuals will by $120,000 to $370,000. None of these become ineligible for these subsidies or numbers take into account that, as a at the least receive less. Housing may be business that believes in supporting the expensive in Ithaca, but when a landlord local economy where possible, the cost has to pay more for services including of ingredients will go up as our suppliers plumbing, electrical work, painting, will have to increase their prices as well. etc. don’t you think they will pass that The second alternative is for me increase on to the tenants making to lay off half of my staff. What is this housing even more expensive? As the owner of Cayuga Lake continued on page 7

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f there were a magazine called Avoiding Natural Disasters, with an attendant list of “Top Ten Places To Live,” Ithaca might make it perennially. We are in a pretty nice environment here, in our bucolic Finger Lakes. We have no wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes, or hurricanes. No sinkholes or mudslides. No heat waves severe enough to take lives, as big cities often suffer. No tsunamis, nor’easters, or waterspouts. Blizzards are not unknown here, but severe ones are uncommon. We don’t get crippling lake-effect squalls, as Buffalo, Syracuse, and environs do, with storms traveling across the Great Lakes picking up water vapor from the warmer lake surfaces, and dumping it all—the origins plus the additions—once reaching colder land. Buffalo gets it from Lake Erie, Syracuse from Lake Ontario. Buffalo has the rep, but Syracuse is among the top ten cities in the U.S. for snowfall. Luckily for Ithaca, while Syracuse is only 50 miles north, its microclimate ends about 40 miles from us, near Tully. In fact, we get a kind of reverse effect from our Finger Lakes, which are too small to augment passing storms with vapor. Instead, they serve benignly to bust up storms with frequent, narrow, warm interruption. In downtown Ithaca on stormy winter mornings, you can tell the cars from Trumansburg (snow-encrusted, from vulnerable lake west) from the ones from Lansing (clear, protected on lake east). Occasionally, Ithaca gets flooding from excessive rain—not catastrophically, as low-land Louisiana is experiencing now; just mildly overflowing inlets and creeks. In past years I have seen Wegman’s parking lot become an inlet adjunct, replete with live fish. I live a hundred paces from Six Mile Creek, in the city (on Plain Street), and once got a weather evacuation warning from the authorities, in the early morning, after a full day-plus of hard rain. There was banging on my door at 5 a.m., and emergency vehicles on the street, and

a worker telling me the creek was at street level, and residents should prepare to go, as the street might flood. “Look, man,” I said, rubbing my eyes. “I work till midnight and I went to bed at three. I live in an apartment up a flight of stairs. I don’t have anything downstairs. What do you say if I just want to take my chances and go back to bed, and thank you for your trouble?” “No problem,” he said. “If you don’t mind waking up in a few hours to your power cut off, and looking at a street filled with water.” Okay. This was professional advice from a safety guy who also happened to be, unlike me, wide awake. So I took it. Beyond that, I am superstitious (completely: not just stitious), so I reasoned that if I went back to bed, defiantly, the creek would rise even faster, to punish me; but if I stayed up and prepared to evacuate, in the end I wouldn’t need to. That’s what I did, and that’s what happened. Ready to go, by 6 a.m., I never had to. The creek subsided. Conversely, regarding water, Ithaca is experiencing a drought right now, which has affected the city’s water quality, making it run in shades of brown. For a week or so, it wasn’t too bad, the water just tan. I can stand tan. But last Friday, I opened the tap, and it ran the color of Bosco: deep chocolate, nearing black. I needed to shower for work, but wondered if this would be counterproductive. It was. The shower of brown gave me new, body-wide freckles. It splashed seriouslooking stains around the rain room. I realized this wouldn’t do, and toweled off my new skin tones, and grabbed a spray bottle of (old, clear) water (mixed with vinegar, isopropyl alcohol, and frankincense, my personal DIY bathroom cleansing blend) to wash down the walls and shower curtain liner. It all reminded me of the old saying, “You don’t miss your water till your well runs dry,” and fathom it with new, crisp clarity. It also made me appreciate our natural region in Ithaca, which provides so much, and threatens so little. •

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In Memoriam: Three Singing Eagles

Many local folks will remember long term Ithaca resident, award winning video producer, herbalist, poet, mother and gentle soul, Three Singing Eagles, also known as Ma Prem, who ended her journey on this planet on Aug. 15. Perhaps best known for her long running, how-to program on cable channel 13 describing how to identify, prepare and use wild edible 6

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Lessons From 1969 Editor’s note: David Burak, the author of the opinion below, was a Cornell graduate student and a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the mid to late 1960s. He was a participant in the events described below, but his perspective is his own. For a more complete and alternative view by another SDS member, see Bruce Dancis’s memoir Resister. In light of protests last fall at campuses around the country we thought it would be interesting to look back.

ast April, the Chronicle of Higher Education, probably America’s premier weekly covering what goes on at universities and colleges, ran a front page feature story on why it still matters to understand the occupation of Willard Straight Hall by black students at Cornell in the spring of 1969. Motivated in part by the Chronicle’s reflection, I’ve made an effort to elaborate on some of the less known points that are germane to our perceptions of that turbulent period. In an effort to figure out the best way to present some of the key facets regarding what happened and how things escalated in a manner that involved guns, threats of violence, and a number of angry faculty resignations amid significant questions about the viability of academic freedom, I chose to create an interview format involving myself and a reporter who could’ve been a freshman or sophomore back in ‘69. Q: What are some of the insights that can be drawn from events like the occupations of the Straight and Barton Hall? A: One key element of the Straight takeover and the fact that black and white students were successful in working together is that there was a viable rapport between several of the leaders of the African American students who, incidentally, in the midst of the spring of ‘69, changed the name of their organization to the Black Liberation Front. Several of those relationships predated our transition into radicalism and/or militancy. That feeling of mutual respect and trust become quite valuable when tensions mounted and there were significant disagreements between us. A: I knew Tom Jones, leader of the Afro American Society as a fairly reasonable and rather intelligent individual. So, when he made his histrionic speech to the crowd of nearly 10,000 in Barton Hall, declaring that Cornell had “an hour left to live” unless the black students’ demands were meant, I felt he could be persuaded that his posture was untenable, and, probably dysfunctional. That proved to be an accurate assessment,

as within an hour or so, Tom announced that he and his cohorts were willing to join the students and faculty gathered in Barton, who felt we should refrain from making any decisions about further “militant” action until after we heard the results of the next day’s faculty meeting. Q: During that late ‘60s time frame how were your cohorts and you impacted by the social and political conflicts that took place in America and throughout the world?

Willard Straight Hall, 1969 (Photo: Ezra Magazine)

A: As you can imagine, we were moved in several ways. For example, there was a situation in which members of the Black Panther Party went to Sacramento to protest against the passing of legislation which would strip them of their right to carry rifles and shotguns, which they perceived as an intrinsic element of their “people’s patrols” in Oakland. Q: How did that protest have relevance to events at Cornell? A: Notably, the photo of the group of Panther leaders standing at attention in the California State legislature’s visitors’ gallery in their berets and leather jackets, cradling their shotguns and rifles in their arms, got major media coverage, including feature stories in the New York Times and many other newspapers. Q: What resulted from these armed protests? A: In the Cornell case, President James Perkins, a practicing Quaker, managed to prevent outside law enforcement from coming onto campus. Within what came to be called “the Barton Hall Community,” a range of individuals, such as Dave Matthews, an activist and grad student in chemistry; Eldon Kenworthy, a government professor; Jack Goldman, a grad student and communityoriented organizer; and Steve Telsey, a concerned student affiliated with CURW (Cornell United Religious Works), as well as several CURW ministers, were all significant advocates of a relatively nonconfrontational approach to the issues. For most of us, the key question of the moment was how could people involved in

the Barton Hall community have a positive impact on the crucial faculty vote of the next day. Q: How did you and your cohorts avoid a confrontation with the 350 sheriff ’s deputies who were in the downtown Woolworth’s parking lot? A: After Eldon Kenworthy’s impassioned speech calling upon those in Barton Hall to wait until after the next day’s faculty vote on the agreement with the black student leaders, I urged students to lobby their professors. Based on my feeling that the highly engaged assembly of around 10,000 people would be responsive to a proactive proposal that would entail more than just waiting around until hearing the result of the faculty vote, I made a motion that we “declare Barton Hall seized.” Q: How was this motion received? A: The majority of people in Barton put up their hand in support of the motion. While a substantial number of my cohorts in SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) were opposed. The most frequently cited reason for various peoples’ opposition was that they felt that seizing Day Hall would’ve been the militant thing to do. Q: Given the current epidemic of shooting of unarmed black men by police, what do you think about the role played by law enforcement during the crisis of ‘69? A: We are all fortunate that, despite feelings of anger, combined with threatening articulations, the representatives of the IPD, the sheriff ’s department, and the state troopers made no effort to override the agreement with the Cornell administration to remain off campus unless there was significant student movement towards Day Hall. Also, the CU campus police were effectively low key, and their approach to the situation helped to prevent any violence.•

improvement in the labor market since the Great Recession. “It’s also important to note that Ithaca has a very well educated workforce and ... locations that attract highly-skilled, well-educated workers have been very successful in this recovery and over a longer term period in growth,” Bram said.

David Burak is an English professor at Santa Monica College in California.

Jeff Kostick is the owner of Cayuga Lake Creamery in Interlaken, which was named as one of the 51 Top Ice Cream Parlors by USA Today in 2010.

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going to do? It’s going to do two things: my lines are going to be even longer than they are now; people already complain about the length of the lines and customer satisfaction will go down. When customer satisfaction drops, people will stop coming, which will end up causing me to go out of business and 35 people will be without jobs. Lest you think my words are empty, after four decades of service the Del Rio Diner in New York City closed forever on July 25 “done in,” the owner said, “by craven New York politicians pandering to the ‘fight for $15’.” In the coming months we’ll hear more about other New York businesses that run on tight margins. While I’m not debating the need for a living wage—especially in cities—rents in towns like Interlaken are not what they are in Ithaca, so a one-size-fits-all wage will increase the cost of living statewide, put small businesses out of business, and add another nail in the coffin of New York being open for business. When I was talking to state Senator Michael Nozzolio about this issue, his comment was very simple, “All you have to do is sell an additional 40,000 ice cream cones each year.” Mike was being sarcastic knowing this is impossible for my small, family-owned operation.

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or commuting in to take advantage of the strong economy there,” the housing market is also likely to show gains, Harris said. Technology jobs have also increased in the Ithaca area, Harris said, due to businesses like Incodema, which makes metal machine parts, and Kionix, which produces accelerometers and other sensors. Many employers in the technology industry are “spinoffs” from Cornell, Harris said, and thrive among Ithaca’s educated workforce. The companies “are smaller, but they’re really forward-thinking in their technologies,” Harris said. “Ithaca is ahead of the curve as far as bringing the brainpower to the market.” James Bram, a research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said at the reserve’s economic briefing Thursday that the educated workforce in Ithaca has been vital to the area’s ongoing T

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Black foundation, multi-ethnic future

n July the Southside Community Center (SSCC) board of directors decided not to become a part of city government and to remain an independent non-profit organization. It did so in part on the strength of a reorganization led by interim director Nia Nunn, an assistant professor in the Department of Education at Ithaca College and a native Southsider. When Ithaca Times reporter Josh Brokaw spoke with Nunn in late June, she was adamant about keeping the SSCC independent. “I want to do what I can with others collectively, to restore the faith in this organization,” Nunn said in June. “I want to help transition an executive director who has the administrative skills to operate financially and all of that jazz, and someone who’s also very innovative and has a passion for the mission and a willingness to learn the history of this place.” At their meeting during the first week of August, the SSCC board chose Leon Lawrence to be its next director, and they created the position of deputy director and hired Wytheria Harriett away from Tompkins County Action to fill it.

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In May 2015 Leslyn McBeanClairborne became interim director of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) with the retirement of Marcia Fort. McBean-Clairborne had been deputy director since 2004 and had served in various leadership roles at GIAC for 12 years when she was selected to be the new director in March 2016 after a national search. McBean-Clairborne has been in a 8

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Pa r t i c i pa n t s i n a S o u t h s i d e C o m m u n i t y C e n t e r s u m m e r good position to observe the evolving p r o g r a m . D e p u t y d i r e c t o r Wy t h e r i a H a r r i e t i n o r a n g e s h i r t relationship between GIAC and SSCC and at t h e c e n t e r o f t h e c r ow d . ( P h o t o : D i a n e D u t h i e) between SSCC and the city. “[In 2015] Southside Community “and we looked at many options, always force emerged after several weeks Center approached the city about taking the city budget into consideration. of “spreadsheets, flow charts, and changing its relationship,” said the GIAC As we looked at it, the one option that was chalkboards.” But when the idea of director. “They didn’t know whether they doable was to merge GIAC and Southside.” merging with GIAC in order to become wanted to become a department of the Consolidating the organizations under one a part of city government was presented city or whatever. The mayor asked for director and shared staff was what the City to the SSCC board, they decided to reject Southside Community members’ input. of Ithaca could afford. it. It wasn’t the same board that had Did they want to be something similar to “[The task force] recommended presented to the problem to the city in GIAC?” McBean-Clairborne became part making the 2015. of a task force that looked into Southside “The new board is very active and options for SSCC. Community involved, ” said McBean-Clairborne, “and “Last year in October the Center a part they now have a full complement. Nia was Southside Community Center of the city,” said doing really good work, pulling the center came to the city council to the mayor. “That back to a place where it used to be.” request more funding support would include to raise the wages of the center,” investing about said mayor Svante Myrick. $80,000 more into “The council discovered at Thia Harriett’s first day as deputy the center and that time that the center was director of the SSCC was on Monday, Aug. giving Southside operating with a board that 22, but she had been actively working at the administrative was less than half [the size] it Southside for five or six months. She was support that was supposed to be, had lost volunteering there and she was also the our other one of its major funders, and president of the newly revitalized board. departments was in a state of constant “While I was serving as president,” L e s ly n M c B e a n receive, HR, transition from one leader to she said, “I noticed that there was not a Clairborne IT, legal and another. So council wanted lot of structure in place.” Harriett said that ( P h o t o : C a s e y M a r t i n) infrastructural to help, but thought that the Nunn, in capacity of interim direct since support.” center needed more than just May, had sat down with funders, drawn up According to city controller Steve more money.” a new organizational chart, and cleaned up Thayer, the city government supports The task force used GIAC’s the personnel policy after going through it the Southside Community Center with relationship with the city as a model. approximately $79,000 per year in building with a fine-tooth comb. GIAC was originally a division of the “We went through everything from maintenance and support—the city owns city youth bureau, but it had its own the finances to the personnel policy,” said the building—and gives SSCC $145,877 policy-making non-profit board from its Harriett, “decided what was wrong and per year to support programming. beginning in 1972. GIAC is no longer a then fixed it. Then we presented the new “The additional $80,000 that the mayor division of the youth bureau, but has been structure to the board.” mentions, ” said Thayer, “would be added its own department for over 20 years. The Harriett’s position is new. She will to the above annual support. ” staff is all on the city payroll. directly manage the five departments of McBean-Clairborne said that “We had a series of meetings,” the SSCC, each of which will now have its the recommendations of the task McBean-Clairborne said of the task force,

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own director. Harriett said that she was grateful to the task force of the Common Council for all the work they did on putting together a proposal for the center’s future. But according to the former board president, the board heard from members of the Southside community on the subject too. “People showed up to say they wanted to remain independent,” said Harriett. “They didn’t want to lose that sense of family.” She said the center had a barter system that helped community members to afford the programming at the center. “If its a mother with four children, and she can afford the program for two of them,” said Harriett, “then she can match the other two with services provided.” She would, for example, become part of the volunteer corps at Southside that sets up and breaks down for events. Leon Lawrence, the incoming director, retired from Cornell a few years ago after working there for 12 years. Lawrence came to Cornell after spending four decades working for IBM in the Burlington, Vermont area. Born in Atlanta, he was brought up in Peekskill, New York, joined the Air Force, worked briefly for IBM before attending college at the University of Vermont (UVM), and graduated with a degree in communications. IBM then helped Lawrence complete his master’s degree, and he began his long career in human resources, moving from one focus to the next: writer for internal newsletters and the newspaper, salary analyst, benefits coordinator. He initially left IBM to work for UVM, where he worked with students of color. “Whatever community I’ve lived in,” said Lawrence, “I’ve taught to always give back. It’s never about me; it’s about we. You contribute and you make the world a better place.” He has volunteered at Southside Community Center since he moved to Ithaca and has watched the “revolving door” of executive directors and board members. “I’m an action-oriented person,” he said, “so I decided to come out of retirement.” Lawrence began reading about the history of Southside, uncovering the story of Vera Irvine and Jessie Cooper, who founded the Servus League in 1928 and two years later changed the named to the Southside Community Center. The present building was erected as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in 1938. “They started the Southside Community Center to uplift the community,” said Lawrence. “I wanted to honor that tradition; I didn’t want to be silent.” In preparation for his interview he learned the demographics of all 19 of Ithaca’s neighborhoods and the geography of all the towns and hamlets in the county. “As director,” he said, “I’ll have to go out and talk to all those people. We live in a diverse community and we want everyone to feel welcome at Southside.” Interim director Nia Nunn met Lawrence during his volunteering days at Southside. She had a voice in the

selection process that led to job offers to Harriett and Lawrence. One of the more striking similarities that you hear when you speak to both Lawrence and Nunn is the weight they give to hearing what their constituents have to say. “One of the most important things is listening,” said Lawrence. “You know the old saying, ‘Why do we have only one mouth, but two ears?’ I won’t be using my office much, because I have to spend my time out in the community to find out what people want and need and then make those things happen. “We can’t make everything happen,” he continued, “and I won’t promise that. But it’s important to go to the community and not wait for Southside to come to us.”

Southside: Going Forward

The area between West State State and Six Mile Creek and from South Albany down to Meadow Street was predominantly African-American when Nunn grew up there in the 1980s. “Well, the neighborhood is fairly white now,” she said, “but the unapologetically black foundation of Southside Community Center is respected.” Although that part of the city is now more ethnically mixed than it was, Nunn said that the Afro-centrism with which she was raised included embracing universality and welcoming all into your community. The listening policy that Lawrence plans to make his modus operandi as director is already Nunn’s practice as interim director. “I have been having a lot of conversations on the street,” she said, “and the community conversation on July

Clockwise from left: Nia Nu n n(Photo: 9 that Josh wrote about D i a n e D u t h i e) ; L e o n L aw r e n c e (C o u r t e s y o f (“Southside Looking for C o r n e l l M e n o f C o l o r C o u n c i l) ; S o u t h s i d e a New Leader”; June 29) C e n t e r b e i n g b u i lt i n 1 9 3 7- 3 8 (p r ov i d e d) was transformative and informative. It really but she is looking forward to being provided some clarity and got some fears a very active board member. “In the out of the box.” ‘80s Southside was the place to be on a As Harriett mentioned, Nunn also sat Saturday,” she said. “I want to bring that down with the SSCC’s funders. “They were back.” She would like the gym to be open, helpful and enlightening,” said the interim a movie night, a book club (she already director. “They were, ah, beautifully raw has Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls with me.” considering suicide lined up as the first Speaking with people who provide book); and “dollar dance classes” (because funding helped Nunn “learn the animal learning to dance shouldn’t be expensive of a not-for-profit.” She learned what to to or exclusive). look for in a good executive director and a Monique W. Morris, author of Push good board of directors. “It strengthened Out: The Criminalization of Black Girls in my attraction to be on the [SSCC] board,” Schools, will be visiting Ithaca College this she said. “A good board can strengthen fall. Nunn hopes to get some Southside the dynamics of the structure [of a nonyouth to read the book. “I’m going to try profit].” to get her off the hill,” said the professor. These conversations led her to hear “How powerful would that be to have an the “heartbeat” of the center, which she author right here?” said, echoing Lawrence, was “responding Sean Eversley Bradwell, Ithaca school to the needs of the people and being held board member and IC professor, Mayor accountable for following through.” Svante Myrick, and Nunn will lead The revised structure of the SSCC discussions of Michelle Alexander’s The doesn’t include any additional employees; New Jim Crow at GIAC this fall. She plans there are still eight. The youth program to enliven her discussions by inviting director is Harmony Malone; the director spoken word and dance performances that of nutrition and recreation programming respond to the book. is Charles Rhody; Mustapha Ali is the Nunn and the re-organized Southside director of Recycled Ithaca Bicycles Community Center want to make their (RIBs); Dave Brown is the director of neighborhood a destination again. “I’ll Unity Studio; and “Media Blast” has a new tell you a secret,” she said (we didn’t have visual media arts director, Nydia Blass. the heart to tell that hippies do this too). This last department’s focus had been on “When black families move to a place they the computer center, but Nunn said that always ask, ‘So where are some folks?’ Blass was going to emphasize more visual and you show them around. Well, I want and performing arts within it. Southside to one of those important Nunn will return to her position at spots.” • Ithaca College at the end of the summer, The I thaca Times / Augus t 2 4 – 3 0 , 2 0 1 6 9

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State vs. County Over Jail Variance

t a meeting on August 16, the Tompkins County Legislature appropriated $85,000 to study the Tompkins County Jail’s population and its trends and to develop design options to accommodate the jail’s population. The vote is meant to demonstrate to state officials that Tompkins County is serious about tackling overcrowding in the county jail. Sheriff Ken Lansing was notified July 21 by the New York State Commission of Correction (SCOC) that

as of Sept. 1 it is revoking a variance allowing 18 more beds than the 82 it was originally designed for. The legislature will meet with members of the SCOC on August 30 to try to convince them to continue the variance. If they fail, the county will have to reduce its population by boarding out the extra inmates to other jails at a projected cost of $558,000 per year. The resolution states that because of an inmate classification system that segregates incarcerated individuals by age, gender, and other safety-related factors, the number of inmates that can actually be housed in a jail is generally an average of 80 percent of the permitted capacity of that jail, meaning only approximately 66 individuals can be housed at the Tompkins County Jail if

only 82 beds are permitted. The current average daily population of the county jail is approximately 90 individuals. Last year the jail added seven more beds by converting a recreation area into bed space. The county has opted not to pursue any larger-scale expansion of the jail, instead adopting a strategy of keeping inmate population low with reentry programs and other efforts. Captain Ray Bunce, head of the county jail, said that the jail’s current practice of “double-bunking” is not ideal and that he is in favor of building a larger, updated facility. “What the number of beds for that jail would be—that’s up in air,” he said in an interview earlier this month, “but I think that programming space should be a good portion of new construction for housing inmates.” Bunce was present at the recent

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legislature meeting but did not make any statement. “I think it’s pretty well accepted—Captain Bunce, it’s nothing personal—that incarceration doesn’t really help anybody,” said Legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden). “For many reasons our policy in this county has been to try to reduce the population in a safe manner.” “Jail often does more harm than good,” agreed Legislator Anna Kelles (D-Ithaca). “I think there’s something powerful in saying we are going to put our emphasis on reduction.” Tompkins County is currently in the process of securing grant money to fund the jail studies; Legislator Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses) called the appropriation of the monies from the contingent fund a “placeholder” that will demonstrate to the SCOC the county’s intentions. Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) made a motion that language in the resolution regarding the study of “cost-effective options to expand the capacity of the jail to a level that will accommodate the projected population” be replaced with “cost-effective design concepts that accommodate such projected populations.” She said she was not comfortable with using the word “expansion.” Tompkins County Administrator Joseph Mareane, who drafted the resolution, said he doubts the change would have any effect on the SCOC’s impression of it. “They want to see that we are serious,” Mareane said. “They view the situation right now is that we have an overcrowded jail, and they would like to see a serious response to that.” The motion for the amendment passed, with Legislators Michael Sigler (R-Lansing), Glen Morey (R-Groton), Peter Stein (D-Ithaca), and David McKenna (R-Newfield) voting against it. The amended resolution was passed unanimously. Legislature Chair Michael Lane (D-Dryden) also appointed a fivemember Jail Study Committee, chaired by Legislator Richard John (D-Ithaca), charged with reviewing and recommending to the full legislature how the county should address overcrowding at the jail and bring the facility into compliance with SCOC regulations. Tasks in the committee’s charge include reviewing the prior jail study report, supervising and reviewing the reports of the two new studies, investigating costs and recommending alternative methods to meet overcrowding at the jail and determining the financial implications of those alternatives for county taxpayers. Also assigned to the Jail Study Committee are Legislators Robertson, McKenna, Kelles, and Dennis, with other key county and agency staff also expected to participate. An interim report from the committee is expected in three months, with a final report in six months. • – Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org

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Men At Training Camp

The Buffalo Bills at St. John Fisher College By Ste ve L aw re nc e

wonder if Rex Ryan thinks I have a man-crush on him … A few years back, I visited Cortland when the New York Jets held their training camp there, and on Monday I showed up on the campus of St. John Fisher, where the Buffalo Bills are getting ready for the 2016 NFL season. Well Rex, when a sports writer lives at what one might call New York State’s 50yard line, there is quite a lot of love for the Empire State’s three NFL teams (although many say the Jets are a New Jersey team). Plus, I have had an interest in the Bills since I was a seventh grader, and they picked up a player by the name of O.J. Simpson. I wondered how this brilliant player from sunny California would survive our winters, and during his time in Buffalo, O.J. emerged as a sports/entertainment icon. Over the past 20 years or so, my high school baseball teammate, John Marzo, was the Bills’ team physician, and whenever I was watching a game, I would see John come onto the field to attend to an injured player. I would then ask my viewing companions if I had ever told them that Dr. Marzo was my high school teammate, and I would be informed that I had made that information available at least a hundred times. John has now retired from that job, and I can once again use the injury timeouts for their real purpose: bathroom breaks. I remember when the Jets announced that they would move their training camp back to New Jersey. The Cortland area was extremely disappointed, as these camps generate a tremendous amount of interest and money. When I arrived at the Bills’ camp at St. John Fisher, my traveling buddies Ken and Richie headed for the tent sponsored by Ithaca College. I navigated several packed parking lots and two shuttle buses, as there were about 20,000 Bills fans in attendance, many—Ken included—resplendent in their head-to-toe Bills swag. It always amazes me that grown men will shell out a hundred bucks to wear a jersey with another person’s name on it (although Ken’s Bills wear was generic). Many of the jerseys bore the names of players that had retired or been traded several years ago, but hey, for a Benjamin, those jerseys would be worn until threadbare. The training complex is amazing. Two state-of-the-art turf fields, a massive temporary building, all manner of vendor booths and tents, and for hundreds of the fans, it was standing room only. They packed the area in front of the bleachers, Sharpies in hand, some nearly trampling others in their quest for a scribbled autograph. Ken used some O.J-like maneuvering to weave his way through the crowd and come out with an autograph

from Mario Butler, the cornerback from Georgia Tech. On the field, the Bills looked hungry and ready to play. Quarterback Tyrod Taylor—who just inked a huge contract and is regarded as the future of the franchise— came into camp as “The Man,” having beaten out E.J. Manuel and Matt Cassel in 2015. Taylor is a threat with his arm and his running ability, and he seemed to mature each week last year as he got more snaps. He looked smooth and confident, his red jersey sending a clear signal: “Do Not Hit!” There were some rumblings in the crowd regarding the four-game suspension of Marcell Dareus for another violation of the league’s substance abuse policy. Half of those fans grumbled about the choices made by the big defensive tackle, and the other half saw the policy as ridiculous and antiquated. They believed that in such a violent world, using marijuana as a pain management tool is no big deal. Kicker Dan Carpenter put on a show, the crowd’s enthusiasm ramping up ever higher as he boomed kicks from the 30 then 35, then 40, all the way up to blasting a few through from well over 50 yards. If he can do that with 6’7” 330-pound guys bearing down on him, he’ll keep his job. Monday was the last night of training camp, and the Bills had best be ready, as they open the season against the alwaystough Baltimore Ravens. Next up will be the Jets, then the Cardinals and then, the Patriots. •

Ken Hohwald with the Buffalo Bills’ mascot. (Photo:Audrey Lawrence)

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“When you work with life and death and touchy things like that, it kind of brings people closer together. Sitting around the kitchen table and feeding all of these babies, it’s a really unique thing we’ve got going on here,” she said, adding, “everyone’s personality quirks have benefits here.” Ethan Schwed, who began volunteering under Wohlgemuth five years ago, when he was 16, is the longestrunning volunteer and is now studying wildlife science at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks. He said work at the Wildlife Wishing Well could be difficult and frustrating, but that it has helped him grow as a person, and it was rewarding to help the animals and the public. “There’s a huge human health aspect to it as well, because we work primarily with rabies vector species, and we vaccinate all of our raccoons prior to release,” he said. “That creates this rabies-

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ichard Wohlgemuth leaned back against his kitchen counter, which was lined with dozens of empty cans of kitten milk replacer, as he assigned tasks to a group of about five volunteers over the scratching and whining of animals. “We’re going to release three skunks and two raccoons today,” he said, reading from a clipboard. The volunteers, most in their 20s and all wearing the same neon-green shirts, had rolled out of bed in time to get to Wohlgemuth’s house at 8 a.m. on a Saturday, and stood around his kitchen table. “You take care of Winky—she’ll need Visine,” Wohlgemuth said to one volunteer, referring to a baby raccoon that had lost its eye to maggots. “The two skunk cages need to be cleaned because”—he paused—“well, because there were skunks in there.” So began Saturday, Aug. 20 at the Wildlife Wishing Well on West Hill, a licensed wildlife rehabilitation center that has accepted more than 250 animals so far in 2016 from 32 counties in New York. More than 200 of the animals have been raccoons, but the center also rehabilitates foxes, Richard Wohlgemuth (left) and his team at Wishing Well (Photo: Diane Duthie) skunks, and other small mammals. Wohlgemuth, 74, free bubble in areas of release, which is has run the center out of his own house beneficial to human health as well as the for eight years, and largely out of his own health of domestic animals.” pocket, subsidized only by donations Volunteers must get a wildlife and the generosity of local veterinarians. rehabilitator license from the New York He refers to the animals as “residents,” State Department of Environmental “youngsters” and “patients.” Conservation (DEC) to rehabilitate Two raccoons, Mary and Ash, were animals, which requires passing a test. To brought from the pre-release center to the work with rabies vector species (RVS)— soft-release area, six nests on the back of raccoons, skunks and bats in New York— the shed, where they stay for up to two they must also get a rabies vaccination, weeks before heading into the wild on which costs at least $800, and attend an their own. Mary and Ash were found in annual eight-hour RVS class. a chimney with their sister, Cinder, who Emma Farquharson, who works ultimately died of smoke inhalation. at Cornell University’s Animal Health “I’m going to miss Spunky,” Wohlgemuth said, pointing to one of three Diagnostic Center and volunteers at the skunks that were being released. “He came Wildlife Wishing Well, said working with Wohlgemuth had helped to change many here as a hairless, bottle-fed skunk, so people’s perception of wild animals. covered in mud that the mud closed his “When you think of wild animals, my pores and his hair couldn’t grow.” knee-jerk reaction is the childhood fear Monica Weimer, who began volunteering at the center in 2015, said the of my family being like, ‘Stay away from volunteers have to trust each other and are continued on page 14 friends as well as colleagues.

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all hours of the night from worried nonrehabilitators (he calls them “civilians”) who find injured animals, agreed with Weimer’s assessment. “Because of our busy personal lives and, on top of that, the busy hustle-bustle and concern for how we’re going to find the time to take care of our guests [the animals], we don’t have much—at least some of us—don’t have much time to socialize,” he said. “So, this gives us a chance to sit around the table and get to know each other. Wohlgemuth spent 27 years in the U.S. Army before moving back to Ithaca 10 years ago with his wife, where they had lived briefly before. “Don’t ask me how it happened, but everywhere I went, I was known as the raccoon man—no one knew my name,” he said.

When he moved Wohlgemuth suspected back to Ithaca, a might have been rabid. contin u ed from page 13 raccoon walked Wohlgemuth took through his doggythe babies into his them, watch out!’ but in reality they’re door one night and home, quarantined very, very sweet unless threatened,” she he rehabilitated and them and called the said. “A place like this in Ithaca, which released it, which led department of health, is considered a city, reminds people that neighbors to discover which led to a knock wildlife matters and people should care.” that he was adept at on his door from the Weimer said the volunteers come to raccoon rehabilitation. DEC saying he needed the center to help animals, but also enjoy From there, it a license to take care of making jokes with Wohlgemuth around snowballed. raccoons. his kitchen table, covered in raccoon “I didn’t want to The U.S. figurines and value packs of peanut butter Raccoon at Wishing Well (Photo: Diane Duthie) Department of take in raccoons, but crackers. how do you say no if Agriculture inspected “Sometimes we sit around and have somebody pleads that Wohlgemuth’s coffee and talk about politics. I think we they have an animal in need.” unofficial rehabilitation center and found kind of keep him young,” she said. “He A woman called him in 2006 after only two problems: he needed doublelooks out for us, and we look out for her dog got into a battle with a family of screened doors and a sign marking the him—he’s kind of alone out here, so we’re raccoons. The mother raccoon had died, shed as a rabies quarantine area. his little family.” but there were three baby raccoons that Since then, the Wildlife Wishing Well Wohlgemuth, who answers calls at has accepted more animals each year, admitting 17 baby raccoons in one day this spring and housing 67 at one time. Infant raccoons require feedings every two hours, 24 hours each day, something Wohlgemuth said the army prepared him for. “The military conditions you to carry on, to do your duty, to go without sleep,” he said. “I really think the Army taught me how to do this.” But the center is thousands of dollars in debt and needs repairs, like the shed’s roof, which raccoons punched holes in after they broke a light. Compounding the problem, several of the 11 volunteers are heading back to school this fall. Wohlgemuth’s wife died in January after being in a coma for seven years after Umashankar Ballehaninna, MD suffering a heart attack in the YMCA pool. Vascular Surgery Her love for animals, Wohlgemuth said, was one of the reasons they got married. “I did all the heavy work, and she did all the cuddling and nurturing and bottlefeeding,” he said. He used part of her Social Security checks to fund the center, but since she died, he said, he has had to take shortcuts, and rely more heavily on local veterinarians who donate their time to vaccinate all of the raccoons who leave the center. One veterinarian, Tanya Jackson, who worked with the center for years, Guthrie Vascular now lives in California but still advises the The Guthrie Cardiac and Vascular Center welcomes Umashankar Ballehaninna, MD, Surgeons volunteers via Skype. a fellowship-trained vascular surgeon. Dr. Ballehaninna treats conditions that affect The nursery’s floor needs to be Umashankar the body’s circulatory system, including: Ballehaninna, MD, RPVI redone, which Wohlgemuth said will • Varicose veins • Aortic aneurysm cost about $4,000, and repairs to the preSilviu Marica, MD release center, which must be done before Lawrence Sampson, MD • Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) • Carotid artery disease spring, will cost at least $2,000. Those costs are in addition to the price of taking Dr. Ballehannina performs a variety of surgical treatments, including vascular stent care of the animals, $123 each, on average, or about $1 a day, per animal. placement, bypass procedures, grafts and thermal ablation. But Wohlgemuth and his troops continue to perform their duties: feeding, To schedule an appointment, call 607-257-5858 in Ithaca, or cleaning, loving and releasing wild animals 570-887-2848 in Sayre. “I see that this is keeping me alive,” Wohlgemuth said. “I’m 74 years old and I don’t feel 74. Being with the young volunteers, being with the animals—I’m tired, I’m worn down, but I feel good.” “Ask what medications I take,” he said, before answering his own question. “None. I drink a lot of coffee.” • www.Guthrie.org wishingwell

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Drinking Too Much + New Place = Trouble School officials say, please, please, please stay away from drinking shots and chugging alcohol By Nick Bogel-Burroughs

ororities, fraternities and college town bars are waking from their summer slumbers this week as thousands of students arrive in Ithaca, many for the first time, as classes begin at Cornell University and Ithaca College. First-year students will revel in their new city, meeting friends and creating memories, but the unfamiliar environment also means they need to be especially careful when drinking alcohol, health officials say. The legal drinking age in New York State is 18 years old, but underage drinking is a problem that is compounded by binging. Bangs Ambulance responds to many more calls for unconscious people where alcohol may be involved in the first few weeks of the school year than at normal points throughout the year, said Tim Bangs, president and owner of the ambulance service. Bangs estimated that calls for that type of emergency increase between 25 and 30 percent for

the first three weeks of the academic year, attributing the rise to students who are “unfamiliar with what they’re getting involved in.” Lt. Tom Dunn of the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management at Ithaca College said that his department transports at least two students to the hospital for alcohol or marijuana-related emergencies each week, but added that the number increases in the first few weeks of the school year. Drinking in a novel environment with new people, or trying new types of alcohol, affects people’s situational tolerance, meaning they may feel more intoxicated than usual even with the same blood alcohol content, said Nancy Reynolds, program director at Ithaca College’s Center for Health Promotion. “For someone who is coming into college for the first time, basically all of those cues are going to be different,” Reynolds said, adding that new students “should be more aware than usual about

what their BAC is going to get to or how many drinks they’re having, because they are going to feel the effects quicker than they usually would.” Reynolds said that when she hears from students who have had bad experiences with alcohol, their nights often included shots of hard liquor. “Usually, when shots are involved in the night of drinking, the outcome is not positive,” Reynolds said. “Avoiding hard liquor is a really important harmreduction technique. Shots can take you down that road that you don’t want to go down.” Likewise, Cornell encourages students who choose to drink to stick to beer and sip their drinks rather than taking shots or chugging alcohol. The university also tries to reduce any pressure on incoming students to drink, noting that 65.8 percent of first-year students said they were nondrinkers in a survey from fall 2015. Slightly more than half of firstyear Cornell students said they did not T

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consume alcohol in the first 30 days after arriving on campus, said Sharon Dittman, associate director for community relations at Cornell’s Gannett Health Services, referring to a 2014 survey. Those who do drink, Dittman said, should “stick to the buzz,” eat real meals before they go out, drink water throughout the course of a night and be sure to keep track of their friends. Both Cornell and Ithaca College have good Samaritan, or medical amnesty, policies that reduce the judicial consequences for students who call for medical attention for someone who has had too much to drink. In addition, Dittman said, New York law prevents people who call 911 for drug or alcohol emergencies from being charged with certain crimes, including underage drinking. At Cornell, the person who needs continued on page 16

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medical attention will not be subject to Cornell judicial action for underage drinking, use of drugs or disorderly conduct, but may receive a warning from the Judicial Administration and be required to attend a free, educational evaluation of their drinking habits. The person who calls on behalf of someone in need will not be subject to judicial action for those three offenses and will not necessarily be given a warning or have to attend the evaluation. “When you’re drinking with a friend and your friend is showing signs of an overdose, if you call for help, you won’t be penalized by your college because we’re really prioritizing health and safety,” Reynolds said. The amnesty policies have been effective at Ithaca College and at Cornell, Reynolds said, and students are calling for help for themselves or a friend more often and earlier on in the night. “Ultimately, it’s saving lives,” Reynolds said. Lt. Dunn also lauded the policy and the prioritization of safety over punishment, and encouraged students to not hesitate before calling his department. “We’d rather [students] get the medical help they need rather than face any

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tudents returning to the chaos that is Collegetown and wondering what the heck is going on could do worse than sit down in front of Brian Crandall’s

blog “Ithacating in Cornell Heights.” Crandall, a recent Cornell graduate, has been following development in both the city and the town since June 2008. He is a

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relentless data miner, obviously intimately familiar with not only the document archive for the City of Ithaca planning and development board, but also the various government and financial websites that record the filing of permits and loan applications. Construction has been going on all summer in Collegetown, with the focus at the very center of the neighborhood— College Avenue and Dryden Road—both of which have been impassable for several weeks. This impassibility caused a one-week delay in the opening of the new Greenstar Cooperative Market at 307 College Ave. (see separate story on page xx) because tractor-trailer delivery trucks simply couldn’t get to it. Developer Josh Lower is building five stories of

apartments above the grocery store; “Collegetown Crossing” is scheduled to be home to the fall semester students. This building has been six years in the planning. It was the focus of a prolonged discussion over how much parking should be required for a given building. In the end (2014) the city opted to change its ordinance for central Collegetown to an approach called “form-based” zoning. In traditional zoning a polygon is drawn on a map and within that area a single category of use is allowed: residential, commercial, or industrial. With its storefront businesses and apartments on the upper floors, Collegetown has long had “mixed continued on page 20

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Districts” prescribed by the city and followed by developer Todd Fox. Fox purchased the parcel at the corner of College Avenue and Bool Street, which is in a overlay district that allows five-story buildings up to 70 feet tall to be built. It is, in fact, the very eastern boundary of the same district in which Lower is building Collegetown Crossing at 307 College Ave. Golder has lived at 203 College Ave. for decades, but just added solar panels to his roof last year (2015), one year after the new zoning was introduced. Fox’s proposed building would at the very least shade out Golder’s panels, and Golder is further charging that the tall building would change the character of the neighborhood. He sued the City of Ithaca and Fox, but his case was dismissed on a technicality—the plans for the building

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use” (MU) zoning along commercial streets, but the new approach focuses on the size (height and mass) of buildings rather than their uses. MU-1 and MU-2 form the axis of Dryden Road and College Avenue with the latter arrayed around the central intersection and allowing for the tallest (80 feet high) buildings. CR (Collegetown residential)-1 through CR-4 allow for progressively less dense housing toward the edges of the Collegetown neighborhood. Crandall chronicles the struggle of College Avenue Neil Golder with the advent of the “Collegetown Form Overlay

that he cited were not the latest ones—and he has vowed to bring suit again. John Novarr of Novarr-Mackesy, which is responsible for the rather monumental Collegetown Terrace development on East State Street in “Lower Collegetown,” has purchased for $4.75 million the three frame houses (119, 121, and 125 College Ave.) down the street from Golder’s home. He plans to build four to five-story townhouses in their place; they will include 50 to 50 units. Novarr made the purchases through an LLC (limited-liability company), which has become a local trend. When creating an LLC in New York State, one does not have to list all the partners and investors who have contributed to its formation. Many of the buildings that you see rising in Collegetown now and increasingly in

the future will be nominally constructed by LLCs. In an October 2014 cover story (“Boomtown over Cayuga”) and a more recent one in April 2016 (“Going Up Again”) the Ithaca Times documented the influx of non-local investment money into the regional market. In the aftermath of the 2008-2011 college-town real estate has been recognized as a safer place to make money than the stock market. The Dryden South building at

Construction workers at 327 Eddy Street, a residential building with 56 bedrooms being developed by Steve Fontana. It will be ready for fall occupation. (Photo: Casey Martin)

205 Dryden Road is, like Collegetown Crossing, almost complete. Developer Pat Kraft, following the form-based mixed-use model, will relocate his store Kraftees in the ground floor (it has been on College Avenue since the old Dryden Road building was demolished) and put 10 apartments (40 bedrooms) in the floors above. However, right next door at 209-215 Dryden Road, John Novarr is erecting a much larger building that is not due to be complete until spring 2017. To be called the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education and will be an extension of Cornell’s Johnson business school. It being Cornell, there is a nifty little video (available at Crandall’s site) that leads you through the plan and purpose of the center. It will be 76,000 square feet of classrooms, faculty and student offices, “break out rooms,” plus commons and social spaces. The video tour shows it to strongly other recently-built Cornell campus buildings: an airy interior finished in metal and wood and offering all the 21st century amenities. Rather than looking out on other campus buildings, however, this will offer views of restaurants, cafés, and apartment buildings, a bit more like NYU than Cornell. § 20

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New Star on East Hill Is Green local Cooperative food market expands to Collegetown By Bill Chaisson

he new Greenstar Cooperative Market, which opened on Wednesday, Aug. 24 is the first grocery store in Collegetown since the IGA shut down in the late ‘80s. It was scheduled to open a week earlier, but all the construction going on all around it made it impossible for full-sized delivery trucks to get to it. So instead Greenstar staff brought merchandise in by hand in the back of small moving vans. A decade ago developer Josh Lower first approached Greenstar with the idea of opening a Collegetown store, but that idea ran aground. Six years ago Lower came back to them and the planning began in earnest. Greenstar actually has a trained architect on their roster, Pam Wooster. She and other members of the marketing staff designed the interior of the retail area. Lower’s building is commercial on the ground floor and residential on the upper floors. “There is a huge focus on the grab and go,” said general manager Brandon Kane, “with as much regular grocery as is possible.” The space is about half the size of the West End Greenstar and the focus will be getting customers in and out quickly. It will be entirely self-service; there won’t be any people behind a deli counter measuring out prepared foods. There will, however, be a dining area, which marketing manager Joe Romano described as “comfortable, beautiful, and simple.” It is meant to be a place that students can hang around if they just need to get away from their roommates, he said. Greenstar hired a manager for the Collegetown store three months ago. Nathaniel Foster was a known quantity; he had been a representative for United Natural Foods, the largest distributor of natural and organic foods in the country. “He was our sales rep with them,” said Romano. “But he was traveling from Maine to the Carolinas, and he wanted to get back into the coop world.” There are 14 employees at the new store. It is a mixture of seasonal staff from other Greenstar locations and new hires. Romano said that several employees volunteered to move to the Collegetown store because “everything is shiny and new there.” The biggest challenge related to the new store, said Romano, was building systems to distribute stock to all three of the Greenstar locations. That is now done from the business office across West Buffalo Street from the West End store. The project also faced challeges for several years before ground was broken. Initially the parking requirements in the zoning ordinance prevented the project from going ahead. Changes to the zoning laws for Collegetown in 2014 solved that

Nathaniel Foster, manager of the new Greenstar Cooperative Market on College Avenue in Collegetown. (Photo: Casey Martin)

problem. Greenstar used the long lead time before construction began to do research on what sort of store would serve the East Hill customer base best. “There is a large bedroom community behind Collegetown that was not as well served by Greenstar,” said Romano. Kane pointed out that the Belle Sherman neighborhood had the lowest ratio in the city of residents to Greenstar members. “So, we hope they come to visit us now,” said the marketing manager. Romano and Kane said that they don’t assume that people further down East Hill we walk up the hill to College Avenue. “There is a real geographical separation created by that hill to keep them away,” said Romano. These residents are already in the habit of using the Dewitt Mall store. To gather data about their potential customers Greenstar conducted surveys in the foyer of the West End store, held a meeting at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Collegetown, and Lower hosted several events to seek public input. “It didn’t really come out in the surveys, but I’ve heard it anecdotally so many times,” said Romano, “that students take the bus to Wegmans, but they say they would go to a store in their neighborhood if it was there.” One thing Romano was surprised to find out about was the amount of “food insecurity” on the Cornell campus. Although the student body has the reputation of being wealthy, there are low-income students on campus for whom transportation out of the Collegetown

food desert had been a problem. Greenstar has arranged for students who are receiving Pell grants or other federal financial assistance to be eligible for the Greenstar FLOWER (Fresh, Local, Organic Within Everyone’s Reach) program, which entitles you to a 15 percent discount on all merchandise. Non-members who are accepted into the FLOWER program receive a free one-year membership. Collegetown is notoriously empty during the summers, but Greenstar has decided to not only stay open through summer 2017, but also maintain its regular hours, which includes being open seven days a week. “We’ve gone and talked with other businesses—the liquor store, the convenience store, the deli, even the Starbucks—about the yearly cycle,” said Romano. “We’ll see what happens this year.” One thing that Romano knows is that the buzz about the new Collegetown store is bigger than any other project Greenstar has taken on. Far greater than the opening of the Space@Greenstar, for example. “I’ve been shocked by how well informed people are,” he said. “They are asking about the availability of bike racks; they’re drilling that deep.” People have been walking in off the street to ask questions before the store is even open. There will be a grand opening weekend with a Thursday night concert on Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. and then events at the store on Sept. 9 and 10. § T

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Not An Enclave

Students volunteer to feel they are part of the Community By Erica Dischino

ara Kim, a senior at Ithaca College, first began volunteering as a high school student through organizations such as National Honor Society and Key Club. After graduating from high school, she realized wanted to further her service involvement at Ithaca College. “Volunteering has always been something that I liked to do,” Kim said. “It first started off as giving me something that allowed me connect with the community, and once I realized the impact of it, I wanted it to become regularly a part of my life.” She was able to do that through the various volunteer opportunities Ithaca College offers. Her first service opportunity at the college began with the Jumpstart program, which aims to help new students transition into their first year. Out of the four programs new students could choose from, Kim participated in the Community Plunge Jumpstart program. Community Plunge places participants in multiple volunteering sites around the Ithaca community to provide service, such as making wheelchair accessible nature trails and preparing

lunches for senior citizen facilities, for local organizations. “Jumpstart made me realize that volunteering was something I wanted to include in my career or somehow have it as a career path,” she said. Kim went on to become a Jumpstart leader for the Community Plunge during her sophomore and junior years. But, this is not the only form of volunteering she has done at Ithaca College. Many of her opportunities were provided by community service initiatives through the college’s Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs (OSEMA). These initiatives aim to “foster a lifelong commitment to civic responsibility,” “strengthen college-community relations” and “provide opportunities for active learning through collaboration.” Don Austin, the assistant director of community service for OSEMA, said these opportunities are created through Service Saturdays, alternative spring breaks and other general volunteering opportunities. “Volunteering is an important part of a college student’s learning experience. Whenever we enter our professional lives

OSEMA students at work. (Photo provided)

after college, we are forced with having to utilize a whole variety of skillsets that students can pick up through volunteering. Going into a community and providing service creates a whole new set of challenges and opportunities to expand their skillsets that is different than what they could find in the classroom,” Austin said. Ithaca College students consistently contribute over 1,700 volunteering hours per year. Austin advises around six service-

related student organizations, and around 30 service-organizations exist on campus overall. Some of these organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity and Ithaca College United Way, are college chapters of larger volunteer groups, but others were created by students interested in serving something specific to them. Service Saturdays are held every month continued on page 20

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Include More Voices Inclusion programs on Campus bring Everyone in By Erica Dischino

ast fall, colleges and universities across the U.S. erupted with student protests in response to racial tensions and a lack of action toward inclusion on their campus. Ithaca College was no different. Students, including the main protest group called POC@IC, took part in campus-wide protests addressing a no confidence vote of the current president, Tom Rochon, and frustration with the administration. Despite the frustration, there are multiple inclusion programs both run by and available to Ithaca College students that aim to provide a safe space for marginalized members of the community. In spring 2016, after the events that occurred during the fall semester, former senior Namarah McCall created IC Color. At the initiative of McCall and three other student team members, this weeklong convention was held in mid-April to improve the communication among various groups on campus, specifically among marginalized communities, student organizations, staff and faculty, and the administration. This was done through presentation of various art forms to celebrate and honor the issues specific communities wanted to address while also expressing their individuality. These communities included LGBTQ, people of color, women, and individuals with mental health problems and illness. Music and dance, and spoken word performances, art galleries, panels and talking sessions were hosted in collaboration with other student organizations and school programs throughout the week. “We worked to create spaces where individuals can come commune and share,” McCall said. “A lot people think that we need a voice. These individuals in marginalized communities have a voice; they just don’t have the reach. We wanted to create the bridge and be the connection that’s missing.” IC Color is currently in the process of becoming an officially recognized student organization that will plan the event in the fall and execute it in the spring. The former leader said that the makeup of the weeklong event would not be the same every year. “To expect the same make-up,” she said, “is to also say that the community we have is not a growing and changing one. IC Color needs to be a community that first listens then creates. By observing the campus issues and trying to find what it needs, we can provide the most encouraging and uplifting space.” In addition to IC Color, there are a number of other student organizations at the college that offer support to marginalized communities. PRISM, one out of four of the college’s LGBTQ organizations, is a campus queer-straight

alliance that provides a safe space for LGBTQ students and allies to connect. Elijahda Warner, the vice president of PRISM, said the group allows for those who identify with that community to connect, grow and find long-lasting relationships on campus. “As a member of PRISM as well as Elijahda Warner, vice president of PRISM (Photo provided)

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Getting Off the Hills Why Students should go into town By Erica Dischino

ou’ll often find Connor McNeish, a senior at Ithaca College, eating Bandwagon Pub’s salty fries during their three-dollar Wednesday night fry special. You can also find him frequently strolling the Commons on the first Friday of every month for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) Gallery Night. “I really like looking for new places to eat and things to do that aren’t necessarily right on campus. There’s a ton that the town offers that isn’t just geared toward college students,” McNeish said. “It’s nice to get out of that bubble that is the IC campus.” Plenty of students, both from Ithaca College and Cornell University, find themselves getting off the hills and exploring the Ithaca area. Whether it is the various gorges, nature trails, festivals, and farmers’ markets, college students have plenty of motivation to explore the greater community. McNeish said he always felt connected to the community even as a freshman without a car. He would often use the TCAT bus system to head downtown to explore. “I think if I only stayed on campus, my view of Ithaca would be very limited

to what the town actually is. Even though we are college students and are here for four only years, we are part of a larger town where people live. It’s not just about IC and Cornell,” he said. The college senior also joined Ithaca College Big Brothers Big Sisters, a campus chapter of the national organization that pairs volunteer mentors with children in the Ithaca community. As a first year student, he chose to mentor a child in the local area and form a relationship with them through visiting different parts of Ithaca. “It was a nice way to force myself to get off campus and experience the area in a new way. A lot of student organizations [at Ithaca College] have partnerships with local organizations. There are tons of opportunities to really get out there and dive in head first,” he said. Cornell junior Felix FernandezPenny has a different motivation to get off campus. Growing up in Ithaca, he said that there is a distinct separation between being a “Cornellian” and being an “Ithacan.” Coming from both spheres, he often finds himself exploring Ithaca through the different types of dining options and encourages his college friends to head to his favorite sights he grew up

A popular reason to go into town. (Photo provided)

with. “Cornell has a very discreet, closed campus. It’s important that Cornell students are exposed to what’s going on around them,” the Cornell junior said. “It’s a proponent of exposing yourself to different cultures and seeing what each town has to offer. Ithaca definitely has it’s own culture which is most likely very different from where a lot of Cornell students grew up.” Fernandez-Penny said he usually recommends to his peers to spend a summer in Ithaca without the stress of schoolwork and to branch out from the Cornell campus. “It’s fun town worth exploring. It has a rich culture and grassroots theme that many Cornell students could benefit from,” he said. Students who spend the summer in

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Ithaca, like Ithaca College senior Helen Murphy did this past summer, often see a different side of the area. Murphy said she was able to expand her idea of what options students have for recreation and become more integrated with the town. “Exploring downtown broadens your horizons. Ithaca is a one-of-a-kind place and being exposed to different types of experiences by integrating more with the community, especially at the collegiate level, is what makes Ithaca a unique place to go to school. Not only are you taking classes but you’re also reaching out and engaging with the local area,” Murphy said. As classes begin, McNeish hopes to continue to explore the area especially since he has only one year left at Ithaca College. Because the town and colleges are so influential on each other, he said, it is vital to know what is going on in both areas. “We are tucked away on South Hill and there’s a ton that our school offers on campus, but by just staying on the hill we’re not experiencing all Ithaca has to offer,” he said. “Whether it’s different food, concerts, festivals and exposure to different ways of living. These are all just as important of going to school in Ithaca.” §

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during the academic year. Students are taken to places either on or off campus for the day to volunteer in the Ithaca and Tompkins County community. The Service Saturday kick-off event will be held on Sept. 24 this year, a Saturday. Kim said she tries to participate in as many of these monthly events as she can. “Through Service Saturdays, I was able to incorporate volunteering and giving back to the community on a much more regular basis which was one of my goals coming out of high school,” Kim said. “I was able to understand Ithaca and its needs on a much deeper level. I saw a side of the city I wouldn’t have seen without going out and volunteering.” OSEMA’s volunteer opportunities are not limited to just the Ithaca area. Students are taken to sites throughout the U.S., including the Outer Banks and Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, for the alternative break program. These trips are held during fall and spring break as well as during the summer session. Austin said that students gain knowledge and skills during these trips that they bring back the campus and Ithaca community. “[Ithaca College] is a part of this community. We are not separated from it. We are not an enclave inside of another community. We’re an integral part of it,” Austin said. “In order for us to uphold our end of the bargain and uphold the space that we share, it’s important for students to give back to the community. A lot of organizations would not be able to do what they do without the support from Ithaca College students.” Those interested in finding a complete list of service organizations can search on OrgSync, the student engagement portal for campus organizations, with their college username and login. Students can also visit ithaca.edu/sacl/osema for more information. §

a person of color, it was extremely eyeopening to experience the protests on campus. It made me realize that a lot of my peers didn’t understand that not only can you experience racism, but you can experience homophobia at the same time,” the PRISM vice president said. “That’s what made me want to get involved with PRISM more, to help people understand that intersection and include more of those voices.” The college also provides workshops and sessions run by students a part of the diversity peer educator (DPE) program run through the Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs (OSEMA). This program aims to “improve cultural awareness and understanding at Ithaca

College, as well as enhance each student’s comprehensive knowledge of, and relationship to issues of diversity and social justice.” Katrina Clark, a DPE and senior at the college,

inform audiences such as student leaders and those involved in residential life. These presentations address issues revolving around microaggressions, privilege and social justice at a fundamental level. “Having these types of conversations and helping other people start those types of discussions is really rewarding. You might not be able to see the benefits of it, but it is so crucial especially in today’s society,” the DPE said. Clark said there was a need for more spaces for students to talk and question the world around them especially after the previous protests. “Our role as DPEs is important all the time but the need is presented more especially at time of campus unrest,” she said. “It’s really beneficial to you and others if you understand structures of power and how that interacts with individuals on a institutional and personal level. Students will gain a deeper awareness who they operate which increases empathy and you can learn how to leverage that in today’s world but there is still so much work to be done.” For more information on Ithaca College student organizations and OSEMA visit ithaca.edu or login into OrgSync. §

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A classic tale with roots in Ithaca

ess of the Storm Country, starring Mary Pickford, will be screened outdoors under a waning moon this Saturday, Aug. 27, on the south lawn at Taughannock Falls State Park in Trumansburg. Dubbed the “Evening Under the Stars,” by the Wharton Studio Museum (WSM), the silent film showing begins at sundown around 8:15 p.m. but events are planned beforehand. The evening will be “phenomenal” said Josh Teeter, environmental educator with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, a collaborating partner with WSM. The family-friendly event welcomes picnickers sharing a meal on the lawn during the event. Written in 1909 by Ithaca resident Grace

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the rich and the poor, the haves and the have nots, “the 1 percenters living on the hill” versus the community of squatters below, said Aceto. Pickford starred in the movie twice, first in 1914 and again in 1922, when she also was the movie’s producer, having purchased rights to the book for $400,000. In a scroll rolling at the beginning of the 1922 version that will be shown this weekend, she writes, “The re-creation of Tess of the Storm Country, under the improved conditions of modern photography production, is in response to a demand among my friends. It has been a work of devotion, for, of all the characters I have portrayed, Tess is the one I have most loved.” The modern photography Pickford mentions refers to the improved production values, including the ability of a camera lens to zoom in on a character’s face to capture her expression. Portions of the movie were filmed in New Jersey and other places, but the squatters’ village was re-created on a Hollywood set. However, the book takes place in Ithaca. For example, DeWitt Park and the jail on Court Street (now county government offices) are mentioned in the book, said David Kramer, assistant professor of English at Ithaca College. Kramer is working on an annotated and illustrated edition of the book to explain what was going on socially in Ithaca at the time White was writing. For example, the suffragette movement loomed large in Ithaca in the early 1900s. Susan B. Anthony visited several times. Tess is insistent on women’s right to speak in church, said Kramer. When a priest refuses to baptize a child, Tess walks up to the baptismal font and assumes the priestly function,” Kramer explained. Grace Miller White shows Tess trying to remake her world, to have a voice, and do what was denied to her by a repressive system, he said. Kramer’s book will include maps and photographs with contemporary descriptions illustrating where scenes took place, such as the Chi Psi fraternity fire at Cornell where several fraternity brothers and local firefighters died in 1906, and the squatters shacks in Ithaca’s West End, which were generally in the vicinity of what is now Cass Park. The movie “follows the book pretty well, but not entirely. Some of the changes made are quite clever,” Kramer said. “They serve to knit together sprawling pieces of the book that could not be contained in two-hour movie.” Raised vegetarian, White reportedly never tasted meat during her entire life. She had great sympathy for the plight of animals. The character Tess “is keenly aware of the casual cruelty that people inflict on animals and is appalled by it,” said Kramer. White was “deeply dissatisfied with the status quo, with respect to women, the poor,

(Above) Mary Pickford in “Tess of the Storm Country” (Photo Provided)

Miller White, the novel, which has been made into a movie four times, including twice as a silent film, is in many ways is relevant to current events. The movie portrays “social stratifications” between the rich living on the hill with a view of the lake,” said Robby Aceto with the Cloud Chamber Orchestra who will be playing on risers to the side of the film screen, “and the poor squatters subsisting on fish they pull from the water.” The star of the show, Tess, has a true belief system at the core of her persona. Other characters give lip service to their religious values but fail to practice what they preach, Aceto said. The film depicts the friction between

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Carrying the Cross

Simon of Cyrene’s tale of Jesus and his teachings By Bil l Ch ai s son

ohn Smelcer is one of the youngest speakers of the endangered Ahtna language of southeast Alaska. He is a member of the tribe and was raised with traditional ways. Ahtna Native Corporation supported John’s college education since the early 80s, including postdoctoral studies in world religions at Harvard University. John earned a Ph.D. in English at Binghamton University. John Gardner was his writing mentor. Smelcer is a prolific writer of diverse books. Many of his novels are set in Alaska and he has collected stories of the Native traditions of the state. The Gospel of Simon is different. Set in the Middle East, Smelcer’s new novel reconstructs the day that Jesus of Nazareth died and the role played by Simon of Cyrene. I got a chance to meet Smelcer earlier this summer when he and his family came to spend several weeks on the land they bought off Cayuga Lake. He worked on Simon while he lived on South Hill in Ithaca in 2012 and 2013. Ithaca Times: Why Simon of Cyrene? Why his perspective? John Smelcer: The Bible says that only Simon of Cyrene could have witnessed Jesus’ passion and death on the cross. All of his disciples had fled out of fear of being captured and similarly tortured and executed. It seemed to me that someone needed to tell Simon’s story, why he was in Jerusalem that day, how he happened to be impressed by Roman soldiers to carry the cross, and what he heard and saw. IT: In the dream sequence in the novel where Simon is speaking with Jesus, Jesus spends most of the time giving speeches, which I am pretty sure he did not tend to do in the New Testament. Why didn’t you include more parables, which (I thought) was Jesus’s usual way of imparting wisdom? JS: Jesus was a preacher. He talked. Sometimes he talked a great deal, such as during the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus spoke to an audience of 5,000 for three days. He spoke for so long that the listeners ran out of food and became hungry so that Jesus had to perform the miracle of feeding 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish. The notion of Jesus as a hermit in a mountain top cave uttering terse sayings of wisdom is erroneous. What has survived in the Gospels are likely a fraction of what he actually said—only those things that early followers remembered and found relevant to the growing religion around Jesus. Certainly he awoke some mornings, looked out the window and said, “Looks like it’s going to rain today” or “Pass the beans” during a meal. Lastly, this is a novel. The fictional conversation between Simon and 28

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Jesus occurs during the ambiguous dream sequence. As such, a little poetic license should be permitted for the author to get his message across. IT: I remember reading that dream sequence and listening to Jesus’s advice to Simon about how to live and thinking, “This sort of makes the material progress of civilization difficult, if not impossible.” JS: Jesus’s message was to love each other. That was his primary message if all other messages were lost or forgotten. It was not to prosper and make money, despite the church leaders nationwide who espouse

to abhor no one. My Jesus is even an environmentalist who cautions against destroying the natural world. IT: Christianity has been called a “peasant ideology”—by Friedrich Nietzche—because it seems that Jesus essentially tells us to turn away from the use of power. Your Jesus espouses this message as well, in my reading. How in the world do you live in a modern, industrial society by simply being nice to everyone all the time? JS: Maybe the answer isn’t about “nicety” but about the fundamental tenets of modern society. There is great truth to the saying “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Can the “every man and every woman for herself ” philosophy of capitalism work for humanity in the long haul? What democracy is there when 1 percent of the population hordes all the wealth (and power). Friends tell me all the time that nothing should get in the way of “progress,” equating progress with wealth to some. To their way of thinking, as long as a few people make a lot of money, then that’s good for society (even if it’s devastating to the environment in which we

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a gospel of prosperity. In contemporary politics, one presidential contender recently said, “When I see money, I just want it all. Money, money, money,” while gesturing as if he was scooping up piles of money. At the same time he said he was a conservative Christian. Greed and selfishness are contrary to Jesus’s message. IT: Whose Jesus is the Jesus in this book? I felt like I was listening to the Berrigans and other left-wing Catholic exemplars, but not hearing from Jesuits like, say, Teilhard de Chardin. JS: It’s brilliant that you picked up the Berrigan’s sentiments in the book. As you know, Daniel helped me with the book. I’m impressed that you know Chardin, who influenced me as well. In fact, my characterization of Jesus is not from a single source or from any preconceptions. I formed my basis from diverse sources spanning the centuries, but I admit that I leaned toward the middle and left of the religious spectrum, hoping to create a Jesus that reminds us to love everyone, u g u s t

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live and breathe). Nowadays, corporations have the same rights as people. (Do they have a soul?) Jesus said to eschew power over others and that the real goal in life should be to serve others, to uplift one another—an idea as radical today as it was 2,000 years ago. IT: I don’t have any faith at all and I’m not as cynical and grouchy as the young Simon in this book. What do you think causes people to be like him and what part of the message of this book fixes that condition (when you are not actually a direct descendant of a player in the story like he is)? JS: It’s true that religiousness in America (and the Western world) is markedly declining. For me, I’m sickened by all the news in the media of individuals and groups around the world killing other people in the name of religion, despite the tenets of their religion that says not to kill. My young modern day Simon says as much. For many, religion has been used for too long to oppress the rights and freedoms of others, despite the tenets to love your neighbor and your enemy and treat others

as you would have them treat you—a tenet found in every major world religion. In writing The Gospel of Simon, I wanted to craft a Jesus that reminds us, in his own words, that his message was love, simply and invincibly love. IT: Are there any other instances in the New Testament of Jesus expressing anger, outrage, or even impatience with commerce? I feel like leftists seize on this story as evidence that Jesus/Christianity has an ax to grind with capitalism, which seems pretty flimsy. Wasn’t Jesus actually angry at the temple priests because they were failing in their regulatory duties? Capitalism has never claimed to have any morality, and while it’s anachronistic to imply equivalence to whatever mercantilism was going on in 27 A.D. Jerusalem, isn’t Jesus’s real quarrel always with government and governing bodies? JS: The New Testament is rich with sayings that caution against spending your lives trying to get rich. “Blessed are the poor” and “It is harder for a rich person to get into Heaven than threading a camel through the eye of a needle” (paraphrase) come to mind. Capitalism implies pitting people against one another to gain or take resources from one another so that some will have and others will have not, the mantra of colonialism. Jesus’s message was just the opposite. If Jesus had a quarrel with government, it was against the Roman Empire, the epitome of governmental power taking whatever it wanted and of pitting one group of people against other groups. Regarding power, Jesus cautioned, “If you want to be first in the Kingdom of God, you must be last here,” implying serving others, not setting yourself above others. IT: Would Islamic readers possibly take umbrage at the message of this book? Portraying Christianity as a religion of love when there is so much evidence to the contrary might be a little aggravating. Is there a similar contradiction within Islam? JS: This is a very politically charged question, one I may be unfit to reply. However, based on my own observations I will say that all major religions have tenets of non-violence and the Golden Rule. In Judaism, there is a classic story of a student who asks a famous rabbi, “What is the meaning of life?” to which the rabbi quickly responds, “Do to others as you would have others do to you. All else is academic. Go study!” Jainism says to harm no living thing. Buddhism offers a rich tradition of peacemaking and nonviolence. As for Islam, the word jihad does not mean holy war. It refers to the inner struggle, or effort, to live lives confronting our baser human impulses and of confronting social injustice. Helping the poor is a requirement in Islam. The very word “Islam” comes from the root word salam, which means peace. Jesus implores Christians to struggle to right injustice, to help the poor, the hungry, and the downtrodden. He also says in the Beatitudes “Blessed are the peacemakers.” The Ten Commandments say “Do not to kill.” Regarding our failure as human beings to live up to our central religious beliefs, Jesus in my novel says, “It is never God’s mercy that is absent from the world. It is always humanity’s.” •

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threads on the little shirts swim to the forefront. These markings change the premade shirts into a conscious he wheel, a monstrosity of absolute decision. The shirts are transcended and made into a higher art, moving perfection that first appeared past craft into the ether known as an sometime in the Neolithic era, idea. The first craft though—e.g. the levels out as one of mankind’s most wheel, pottery, and agriculture—was fundamental and generously made an idea, but its predecessors are simply creations: functional, stratospheric, and craft: a reworking or copying of the grand in inspiration. It is essentially a original inspiration used primarily work of art as well: a statue of mankind’s for consumption (visual, auditory, or legacy. And with its inception, a natural sensual). The difference between Marcel progression of pain, corruption, and Duchamp’s readymades and say, a damnation: the story of mankind. landscape painting painted from a photograph, is the idea: the decision to stand for something within a context. Pincus chooses to alter the little shirts, and in doing so she attempts to break free of her own conception of what a thing is. Perhaps the shirts stand for her childhood, her adulthood, or a tangent of disinformation made straight. There’s a good chance the whole thing is subconscious. In Orange Gold the stitched shirt is in a cubist form. Molded in a twisting motion, and stamped as final by the artist. She has chosen to rearrange Lisa Pincus’ “Orange red blue thread match hairy front” the circumference, and in doing so, (Photo Provided) she rearranges the future. White Grid —perhaps the strongest of all the pieces—is also cubed and wrangled. Appearing almost as a dance, the shirt Textiles, like the wheel, are vast in their is a ghost. It stands for a motion within interlocking web: ultimately, they rise an idea, clamping and holding onto the metaphorical as the struggle for worker’s patterns Pincus has weaved. Perhaps rights. envisioned as an enslaved child textile Eye gallery’s newest exhibit “Shirt Happens! Linear Threads” by Lisa Pincus, worker, the shirt dances with a hopeful fantasy, and is stamped with a defining swallows a full cup of introspection, order. That Pincus sows the powerful maneuvering around itself as a strange marks makes the piece that much more inter-personality test. The show’s a little divisive: challenging, essentially. creepy and ghostly. With its child-sized In 1844 the Lowell Mill factory shirts hung in parallel fashion across workers organized the first working the gallery’s three main walls, adorned women’s union know as the Lowell and conceptualized with geometric Female Labor Reform Association sown threads, there’s a stark and deep (LFLRA). The history of the Lowell Mills contrast to the obviousness of childhood is a brutal one, and the women of these throughout. It is also very interesting, dungeons that organized and defied a particularly with its ruffian effort to corrupt order are heroes to us all (except establish a sort of power within itself. maybe you Capitalists), most notably It’s a welcoming effort to the galleries to labor unions. Pincus’ works remind of Ithaca: places where fine art and me of the power of action. Reforming craft seem to intersect almost regularly, notions. That the works are children’s and usually without making any clear shirts, begs for a deeper introspection distinction between the two forms. on role, identity, and gender politics. A Pincus’ overall design is aiming for a little bit of fantasy, horror, feminism, statement, a mark, and an attempt to and communism hover like a hazy unglue an outlining thought. This is what smoke above eye gallery’s newest separates art from craft. What that thought is though, appears offering: dancing with the idea of craft, destiny and art, within a city of crafters murky. And perhaps this is best and even … er artists. It’s a good one. • intended. There are defiant stamps set forth: the gorgeously sown multicolored

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Your Local Programming Baking with the harpies of cable access By Br yan VanC ampe n The Kitchen Witches, by Caroline Smith. Directed by Mark Reynolds; scenic design by Carl Tallent; costume design by Jimmy Johansmeyer; lighting design by Eric Behnke; properties design by Joe Dotts; sound design by Seth Asa Sengal. At Cortland Repertory Theatre through Aug. 27.

fleabag TV studio in the middle of nowhere to watch the final taping of a TV show called Baking With Babka. (The ratings are so anemic that the show is being bumped for an arts-and-crafts show hosted by a nun.) Stephen Biddle (Jason Shipman), the show’s producer, writer and announcer, comes out to warm up the crowd, point out the “ON-AIR” sign and get everyone pumped for the live taping. (Shipman as Biddle asked if anyone had ever been to a TV taping, when someone in the audience said they had seen a Dick Cavett show in New York City, the crowd went “Ooooohh …”) As diminutive and long-suffering Rob the Camera Guy (backstage guru Seth Asa Sengal) points his lens, the show goes on the air. “Babka” is really a washed-up culinary ham named Dottie Biddle (Diana Wilde), who comes on like a character actor reject from a bad old werewolf movie, playing up a goofy gypsy character making borscht. Things start out bad—Dolly has an unfortunate tendency to sample large quantities of alcohol required for the

ne shudders to think just how far down the cable line-up you’d have to go to find the cable access channel that runs tonight’s cooking show, Baking With Babka. Forget Alice in Wonderland, that’s the real rabbit hole. I imagine a cable wall so thick that you’d have to get down into the golf channels in the mid-500’s and then ask for directions. I co-hosted a cable access show with Beth Saulnier for 11 years, so I know what I’m talking about, and for the most part, so does Mark Reynolds’ CRT production of the regional premiere of The Kitchen Witches, Caroline Smith’s farcical and sitcom-caustic look at TV culinary shows. The set-up couldn’t be simpler: we, the audience, have been recruited to sit in a

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weekly recipe—and get worse when Isabel Lomax (Rebecca McGraw), a bitter rival with ever-twisted ties to Dolly and Stephen, crashes the show and creates a huge scene. Then something happens: the ratings go up, the phone starts ringing off the hook and a program executive offers the two ladies their own show under the title The Kitchen Witches. As a long-time PA producer, I appreciated all the Rebecca McGraw as Isabel Lomax and Diana Wilde as Dolly Biddle in Cortland little details, like the Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Kitchen Witches”. sad plastic plants that seem to be in the corner (Photo: Eric Behnke) of every TV studio and the random shelves of has been doing wonderful stuff behind the parts and junk littered scenes at CRT, and how he’s doing great everywhere. I’m not sure that Smith really things as the show’s mute camera dude. understands the world of public access. All That leaves Shipman, who I termed droll this talk of executives and ratings would be in the previous murder mystery at CRT. As better suited to the milieu of basic cable, the desperate peacemaker between Izzy and but then again, this riotous evening of Dolly, Shipman steals the show. You can see bitchy badinage is clearly not meant to be a why his character needs a nicotine patch, documentary. for sure. • McGraw makes a good living playing The Kitchen Witches runs through a one-woman show about Ann Landers, Aug. 27. Tickets may be purchased by calling and she plays Isabel like Nurse Ratched 800-427-6160 or at the CRT Box Office at 24 in the kitchen, opposite Wilde’s selfish Port Watson Street in Cortland. Tickets are bohemian type; Wilde comes off like an also available for sale 24 hours a day through Andrea Martin character from SCTV, all the CRT website at www.cortlandrep.org bravado with nothing to back it up. Sengal

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act and fiction deliberately blur in color lithographs and other assorted media by Beauvais Lyons and Jennifer Scheuer. Skilled in traditional printmaking techniques, the two artists cultivate a distinctly antiquarian look, creating expert parodies of vintage scientific illustration. For their current two-person show, “Conceivably Plausible,” the pair tackle botany, zoology, human biology, medicine, and archaeology with a sly wit and marvelous drawing. The exhibit, which has been up at the Ink Shop downtown through July and August, comes down after this Saturday. Lyons is a long-time professor of art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Scheuer a former student of his. Scheuer currently works as a printmaking assistant at Cornell’s Department of Art. Although the display here focuses on traditional prints, Lyons’ work also incorporates elements of mixed media, performance, and scholarly parody. His drawing style mimics the studied neutrality of traditional illustration, but with a subtle quality of caricature that gives life to his myriad inventions. Colors are subdued and a realism of shading and texture vies with collage-like incongruities—appropriately

enough, as his images sometimes begin life as actual collages. As the self-styled proprietor of “The Association for Creative Zoology,” Lyons’ recent prints feature strange hybrid animals—nodding in the direction of traditional mythology while parodying the recent vogue for “intelligent design.” What if the creator was a collage artist? Or so goes his rather pointed conceit. Female North American Raccoon Crow is typical of this approach: a black-and-white bird with an over-sized raccoon’s head, perched precariously on a branch. Genesis 6:19 both quotes and playfully interprets the Biblical flood narrative. Association for Creative Zoology Membership Print pokes fun at heraldry in its imitation of a metal plaque in stiff relief. The Ink Shop exhibit also includes work from an older series, mockarchaeological renderings of artifacts from the ancient “Aazudian” culture. A witty look at sports, Fresco Fragments Depicting Aazudian Ball Players is one of several pieces that ingeniously mimic fragments of stone relief tablets. Alte Steindenkmaler depicts an array of eccentric, ziggurat-like structures. Scheuer’s classical drawing style adds

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The Trouble With Insanity The Killing Joke put to the big screen By Br yan VanC ampe n Batman: The Killing Joke, directed by Sam Liu, available on home video.

was never a voracious comic book reader, but I remember everything about the weekend I read Brian Bolland and Alan Moore’s Batman: The Killing Joke. It was 1991, and I had been at the Times for about five weeks. I was visiting a friend in Washington, D.C. for a house party and some much needed R & R. Little did I know that weekend I would re-connect with an old friend, a meeting that would lead to a year of romance. I also remember reading someone’s copy of The Killing Joke. To this day, alongside Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight and Mark Hamill’s voice in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, it is my favorite Joker tale, and a true dark jewel. The Killing Joke ping-pongs back and forth in time between the Joker (Hamill)

stalking Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl (Tara Strong), and the Joker’s origins as a struggling, broke stand-up comic forced into criminal activities to support his family. Underpinning the grim tale is a ray of hope embodied by Batman’s desire to understand the Joker, and not just punish him. So you can imagine my confusion when I popped in the DC Universe animated adaptation of The Killing Joke, only to see an entire first-act that’s been added to the story that was nowhere in Bolland and Moore’s original story, some codswallop about Batgirl and Batman (Kevin Conroy) finally succumbing to their animal urges and going through a bad breakup as Batgirl pursues a sleek, sleazy bad guy named “Paris Franz” (Maury Sterling). None of it adds to what made The Killing Joke a classic graphic novel.

both plausibility and sweetness to her far-ranging ruminations on the relationships between botany, medicine, and cultural history. A series of upright, handcolored prints combine scattered depictions with instructive text in the manner of a medical guidebook: Foxglove/Heart, Ginger/Stomach, Bloodroot, and Ginseng/Aging. The latter is particularly memorable with its gnarled roots portraying mummified figures—a clever allusion to mortality. Scheuer is also showing a pair Beauvais Lyons’ “Female North American Raccon Crow” of lovely, hand-made books, which (Photo Provided) can be freely perused by the visitor. Both combine lithography with Rabbit, a standing paper-fold. Echoing the digital printing. The covers are wrapped classic back-cover entertainment from Mad in richly colored cloth and pages unfold magazine, the piece is a characteristically eccentrically. Many are transparencies, offbeat take on the classic illusion. which both obscure and reveal succeeding Suggesting the ambiguities of visual layers. Perspectives Book is a plausibly perception, the creature is either/or—a vintage treatment of four humors theory: duck or a rabbit depending on your pointa classic bit of medical mythology linking of-view. human psychology to human viscera. Scheuer is also showing small prints Her other book, Errs of Gynecology, is from her “Anatomies”: sepia toned even more intriguing. Pointedly political, photogravure prints showing found its pages unfold in several directions, imagery related to both human and plant likewise combining text with anatomical anatomy. They seem to be in search of a transparencies. The female body, we learn, more elaborate context then this compact has been portrayed since classical times, in derogatory terms: as passive, as lacking, as a exhibit would readily afford. “Conceivably Plausible” absorbs the mere distortion of the ideal male body type. viewer in an engaging fictional reality that The background image—a female nude teases both the eye and the imagination. standing in a lushly Edenic garden—is a Although proudly “academic” in tenor and kind of poignant counterpoint to what might otherwise be an overly didactic work. subject, the work avoids self-referential sterility and tired avant-garde posturing. The contemporary artist’s book is a This is yet another intriguing, unexpected notoriously elastic category—probably exhibit from the Ink Shop. • elastic enough to include Lyons’ Duck &

Once producers Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett and Sam Register finally turn themselves to Bolland and Moore’s tale—Moore isn’t even credited, just as he wasn’t on Zack Snyder’s Watchmen—things can’t help but improve somewhat. (Maybe Alan Moore has the right idea. Snyder took a valiant stab at Watchmen, the most unadaptable of all graphic novels, and most of what’s been adapted of Moore’s has missed his mark of quality and excellence.) Batman and Joker duke it out in “The Killing Joke” (Photo Provided) The limited animation style doesn’t do justice to Bolland’s its Bat-casting, bringing in actors like Peter artistic style. (Timm’s crew admitted Weller (The Dark Knight Returns I and II) that adapting Bolland’s art style was challenging due to the realistic quality. They and Jeremy Sisto, but on the rare occaision that I read a Batman comic, I always hear sought out another artist with a simpler yet Kevin Conroy’s voice in my head. very similar style that would be easier to Hamill’s Joker is a giggling gas. May I animate, settling on Kevin Nowlan.) confess that when I walked out of Return At least what’s left of The Killing of the Jedi back in 1983, I got a little sad, Joke has Conroy and Hamill as Batman thinking I’d never see Hamill in anything and the Joker. Conroy’s had the gig ever again, since all he could do was act like longer than any other actor playing the Luke Skywalker. Who knew that Hamill Bat. He’s been providing the voice of would go on to become one of the stars of Batman/Bruce Wayne since the very first character voices in animation? Batman animated series in 1992, and he’s So even if this version of The Killing contributed fine work to many of the WB’s Joke isn’t totally killer, Conroy and Hamill growing stable of DC series and home are at it again. • video features. Over the years, the WB casting department has experimented with T

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and animals,” added Kramer. This comes through in her books. “Tess is keenly aware of the disadvantages of the poor and destitute. The whole social system is organized against them,” Kramer said. Growing up in a Presbyterian home, White became a Christian Scientist but “claimed to find beauty in all religions,” said Kramer. Initially an ardent Republican, she eventually became an FDR Democrat, Kramer noted. She believed in the power of positive thinking and was a friend of Dale Carnegie’s, the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People. Later in her writing career she penned pamphlets for the Christian Science church and before she became a novelist in her own right she “cranked out dime-store novelizations of popular plays from 1904 to 1909,” said Kramer. But she became wealthy after writing her first book, Tess of the Storm County. “It was a sensation across the U.S. and U.K.,” he said. White died in 1957. Aceto, a member of the Cloud Chamber Orchestra, plans to play the guitar and perhaps a banjo at this weekend’s performance. Chris White performs on cello, while Peter Dodge will be on piano or a brass instrument. The three of them, along with sound designer Greg McGrath, watched the film several times beforehand in preparation for their upcoming performance. “Generally, our methodology is we

(Left) The author Grace Miller White (Above) A copy of the novel “Tess of the Storm Country” (Photos Provided)

sit with the film together and watch it. We go off on our own and decide what we are going to contribute,” Aceto said. Saturday’s event will be the sixth evening under the stars sponsored by WSM. Cloud Chamber has played at all of them. “In our rehearsals so far, the music has seemed to lean toward a swampy, gritty, Appalachian feel,” with a natural, roots-like sound, Aceto said. But he said the actual performance also would be subject to the evening’s ambience.

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Each time the Cloud Chamber Orchestra plays the music is different. “You don’t know what it’s going to sound like, except it will have a lot of space and beautiful detail,” said Aceto. Diana Riesman is executive director and co-founder of the WSM. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to preserving and celebrating Ithaca and the region’s silent film industry when Theodore and Leopold Wharton made movies from about 1913-1919. “The Wharton’s were pioneers at a time when filmmaking was an emerging art and an emerging industry,” said Riesman. The WSM wants to transform the original movie studio that is still standing (and being used by the city as a storage shed) in Stewart Park into “a cultural,

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recreational, and educational center by the lake to really highlight this history,” Riesman said. Originally, the WSM sought to turn the entire building into a museum. The building in Stewart Park where the Wharton’s had their studio “is one of only a handful of silent film studios still standing in the country. It is a beautiful little jewel right in our backyard, “ said Riesman. But after recognizing the constraints and challenges involved in establishing a museum in a city-owned building within a public park, Riesman “paired down” the original vision. She says has expanded her vision to celebrate not only Ithaca’s silent filmmaking history but also Stewart Park’s cultural, recreational and natural history. She also is now the board chair of the Friends of Stewart Park, dedicated to the revitalization of Stewart Park. Using a grant WSM secured from the Tompkins County Strategic Tourism Program, WSM’s award-winning architect, Todd Zwigard and Riesman are conducting a planning and design study. Plans likely will call for black-and-white exhibits about the silent film production studio on the outside of the building, including landscape improvements on the lakeside, as well as interior gallery space using approximately 1,000 square feet of the building for exhibits on the Wharton’s’ filmmaking, as well as park and lake history. Riesman anticipates the study will be completed this December. This weekend’s showing will be the first time a film directed by someone other than the Wharton Brothers will be shown. This is because the number of Wharton feature films is limited due in part to a fire in 1929 that burned many of the films, and the unstable quality of nitrate-based films that disintegrate when temperatures are above 70 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity is greater than 50 percent This year something new is planned at the showing. Riesman calls it “the surprise element” of the screening. The Cherry Arts non-profit theatre company is working on an adaptation of the book, to be performed in Ithaca in midSeptember. Patrons will wear headphones and be treated to an abbreviated version of Tess of the Storm Country as they walk around the West End learning about the book, said Samuel Buggeln, artistic director. Cherry Arts began about a year ago and is building a multidisciplinary art space at 102 Cherry Street, on the banks of the Cayuga Inlet in Ithaca’s West End. The company is dedicated to unconventional theatre in Ithaca and occasionally in Brooklyn. This weekend’s production, which will precede the film showing, won’t be a “headphone play,” but Buggeln said the performance would be “unusual.” The Evening Under the Stars is free but parking costs $5 to offset park expenses associated with the screening. In the case of rain, the event will be held on Sunday, Aug. 28. About 600 people showed up last year, said Teeter, the parks’ interpreter. “I hope this year is going to be even bigger than that,” he said. •

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Metal. Dancing Up a Storm: Contra Dance with Tempest and Caller Sarah Van Norstrand | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | This swinginfluenced contra dance band features Tim Ball on fiddle, Chuck Abell on guitar, and Eric Metzger on percussion. More info at www.hands4dancers.org.

Newark Valley | Live music every Friday. Toto | 8:00 PM | Chevy Court, New York State Fairgrounds, Syracuse | Rock, Progressive Rock, Soft Rock. Spaceship Days | 8:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Featuring Cortland Native, America’s Got Talent finalist and Top 40 finisher on American Idol, Adam Decker, Spaceship Days blends digital guitar effects, full orchestration, timeless piano, acoustic solos, rich vocal harmonies, vivid mental images, and intricate mixing techniques to create songs that have mass appeal.

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Band, Rock, Gospel, Heartland Rock, Jazz, Bluegrass, Blues Rock. Mark Rust: WVBR’s Bound for Glory | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | North America’s longest running live folk concert broadcast.

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Florence Foster Jenkins | The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. | 110 mins PG-13 | Indignation | In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War. | 110 mins R |

Embrace of the Serpent | 6:00 PM, 8/24 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This 2015 acclaimed adventure drama tells two related, though unique stories. Set in 1909 and 1940 both stories follow Karamakate, and Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his tribe. She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry | 7:00 PM, 8/25 Thursday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Documentary film by Mary Dore and the beginnings of the women’s liberation movement from 1960 to 1971. For more information, visit www. shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com

Cafe Society | Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to

New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life. | 96 mins PG-13 | Captain Fantastic | In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent. | 118 mins R | Don’t Think Twice | When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all. | 92 mins R |

Hell or High Water | A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas. | 102 mins R | cornell cinema

Wednesday 8/24, to Tuesday, 8/30. Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Walkabout | Two young siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Australian boy on “walkabout”: a ritual separation from his tribe. | R 100 mins | Some Like It Hot | When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band

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| Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. | 117 Mins PG | Dragon Inn | The Eunuch of the Emperor has ordered the commander of his army condemned to death for betrayal and insurrection. The commander’s family was was murdered to cut off his bloodline, but his two youngest, a son and a daughter, were expelled from the empire to the outlands in an attempt to draw out the commanders confidant and adviser | 111 Mins NR | Zootopia | In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy. |108 Mins PG | Captain America: Civil War | Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man.| 147 Mins PG-13 | The Lobster | In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. |119 Mins R |

Treasure Island | August 24 September 10 | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm.; Fridays and Saturdays at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm, Tuesdays at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm | Merry Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn, NY 13021 | A boy. A dream. An adventure that will change him forever. This new musical blends high stakes adventure, wild plot twists, hysterical antics and a compelling, evocative score to create an iconic new production. The Kitchen Witches | August 17 - 27 | Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Sundays at 2:00 pm | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Imagine Martha Stewart and Rachel Ray in a knockdown, drag-outBattle of the Cooking Stars! Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two low-budget cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for years, ever since Larry Biddle dated one and married the other. When circumstances put them together on a TV show called “The Kitchen Witches”, the insults are flung harder than the food! Dolly’s son, who is also the TV show’s producer, tries to keep them on track, but it’s a losing battle – especially when the show becomes a ratings smash! The Smell of the Kill | August 19 Septmeber 11 | Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 7:30 pm, Sundays 2:00 pm. | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | The Smell of the Kill is the story of 3 upscale suburban wives (and their unseen husbands). Tickets can be purchased online at www.chenangorivertheatre. org, or by emailing tickets@chenangorivertheatre.org. You can also make reservations 24 hours a day by voice mail at 607-656-8499. Have Gun - Will Murder She Wrote | Frridays and Saturdays 7:00 pm, Sundays 2:00 pm. | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | For those of you that remember Jessica Fletcher and all the cowboy heroes of the old TV shows, you will have a chance to recreate the thrills of the Ponderosa, Gunsmoke and

Notices Book Sale | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Runs Sept 15 through 20. Books (new and old), movies, music (CDs, LPs), games, and more, for the whole family. www.trumansburglibrary.org Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 8/24 Wednesday | The Antlers, 1159 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | RSVP allenq3@lightlink.com Ithaca High School Class of 1946 Luncheon Reunion | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/27 Saturday | Ramada Inn, N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | 70th Anniversary Luncheon Reunion on August 27 from 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call Gloria Howell at 607-272-8683 or Bob Bartholf at 607-592-9608 Chicken BBQ | 12:00 PM, 8/27 Saturday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Chicken, Potato Salad, Baked Beans, Roll, Desert. Take Out or Eat In. American Red Cross Blood Drives | 8/29 Salvation Army, Ithaca, 1pm to 6pm, 8/30 NYSEG, Ithaca, 11:30am to 4:30pm, 8/30 Brooktondale Fire Dept. 2:30pm to 6:30pm. Yoga Farm Open House | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 8/29 Monday | Yoga House, 404 Conlon Rd., Lansing | Yoga Farm is launching a new educational curriculum combining yoga, meditation and healing that will be offered in its restored century-old barn in Lansing. An open house and celebration to launch the center’s new educational mission will be held.

Learning The MIND Diet | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 8/24 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | The MIND diet is a combination of the heart-healthy Mediterranean

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581 State Fair Blvd, Syracuse, Thursday, Aug. 25 trhough Monday, Sept. 5 Every year, nearly one million people experience this affordable, 12-day celebration of delicious food, eye-opening exhibits, captivating entertainment and outrageous fun. The Fair showcases thousands of animals, hundreds of commercial attractions, scores of exciting midway rides and dozens of big-name entertainers. And it’s all just a short trip away from wherever you live in New York State. Some of this year’s highlights include the bands Toto, Survivor, Three Days Grace, and Flo Rida.

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others. www. oldhavanatheatre.com Moving Landscapes | 7:30 PM, 8/28 Sunday | CRS Barn Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | Annual choreographer’s showcase, Moving Landscapes: An Evening of Dance and Music. Moving Landscapes will showcase work by professional choreographers SarahJane Burton, Amy Bush, Tina Christina-Price, Donna Davenport, Jeanne Goddard, Lesley Tillotson, and others in collaboration with dancers and musicians from the central New York area.

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The Man Who Knew Infinity | The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy. |108 Mins PG-13 |

diet and the blood pressure lowering DASH diet that research has shown helps preserve brain health and prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Charleen M. Heidt, MS, RD will give this class. Registration is required - sign up online at greenstar. coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Gary Snyder | 5:30 PM, 8/24 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Describing his own works, Gary Snyder has written, “I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.” In this lecture, he will explore the concept of “bioregionalism” through the literary works of Daoist and Buddhist hermits and other peoples of the land, and how that perspective relates to the mission of Cornell Plantations. Depression and Antidepressants: A Panel Discussion | 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, 8/25 Thursday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth Street, Ithaca | Are you dealing with depression? Are you feeling stressed or overwhelmed? This workshop at the Finger Lakes Independence Center may be able to help you. Our workshop features a diverse panel of individuals who are focused on providing basic information about depression and anti-depressants, sharing their personal experiences, and offering helpful coping techniques, services, and strategies to help make dealing with the challenges of depression less overwhelming and more manageable. Permaculture Tours | 9:00 AM-8:00 PM, 8/27 Saturday Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute invites you to tour permaculture farms, gardens, parks & homes. Various locations within one hour of Ithaca, NY. See examples of permaculture design. Meet the designers and practitioners. Visit FingerLakesPermaculture.org for a list of sites. Making the Most Out of the College Years: What Major? When? and the Steps Beyond | 7:00 PM, 8/30 Tuesday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd, Lansing | Join join Sherry Burford, a career planning counselor, and Lucia Tyler, a college admissions counselor, in their 7

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The Crucial Reggae Social Club is the house band for Reggae Night every Wednesday night at The Dock in Ithaca, NY. The band is jam packed with local Reggae luminaries from bands like Big Mean Sound Machine, Mosaic Foundation, John Brown’s Body, and Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad. We’re talking interstellar stuff here. Along with their usual Wednesday night gig this week, they’re playing the Rongovian Embassy, Friday, 8/26 at 9 pm. Get dubbed!! (Photo: Casey Martin) PM presentation, followed by Q&A: “Making the Most Out of the College Years: What Major? When? and the Steps Beyond…”. Free and open to the public. For more information, please contact www.tyleradmissions.com or www.horizonscareercoaching.com

Kids Nerf War | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/26 Friday | Groton Park Pavilion, , Groton | Free for all children. Hot dogs, s’mores, and beverages will be served. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Groton Public Library. For more information call 898-5055 or email director@grotonpubliclibrary.org. Ellis Hollow Nursery School Ice Cream Social | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/28 Sunday | Ellis Hollow Community Center Playground, 111 Genung Road, Ithaca | Children ages 2-5 and their families are welcome to the annual Ellis Hollow Nursery School Ice Cream Social! Enjoy a cool treat, play on the delightful playground, and get to know the community. The Floating Classroom: A 4-H20 Event | 3:15 PM, 8/28 Sunday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | For the 11th year running, CSI’s 4-H2O Program will be partnering with the Floating Classroom to collect and analyze water samples across Cayuga

Lake. Participants will learn how to collect water samples, including samples from 150′ down in the lake, and will analyze them while on board the MV Haendel. Data collected by youth volunteers is included in our online database. Please register for this event by emailing info@communityscience.org or calling 607-257-6606.

Special Events Pickin’ In The Pasture 2016 | Thursday, August 25 through Sunday, August 28 | Pickin’ In The Pasture, 2515 Covert Rd., Lodi | Come and experience four days of fun and world-class bluegrass music in the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York State. For a full lineup and more info visit pickininthepasture.com/ index.cfm The Great New York State Fair | August 25 through September 5 | New York State Fair, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse | Visit nysfair.ny.gov for listings, events, vendors, and more. Skaneateles Festival | Wednesday, August 10 through Saturday, Sept 3 | For more information: 315-685-7418 or www.skanfest.org Oriental Rug Event | St. Catherine of Siena Church, 302 St. Catherine’s Circle, Ithaca | Runs Thursday, August

East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 8/24 Wednesday | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | The Market features local produce, local organic and pasture raised meats, baked goods, plants and more! For more information on area markets, visit www.ithacamarket.com. Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 4:15 PM-, 8/25 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-, 8/26 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and newborns under 18-months-old are invited to join Library staff Fridays for music, rhymes, movement and books. 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 8/26 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods. Info: (240) 538-3917. Dryden Farmers Market | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 8/27 Saturday | Dryden Agway, 59 W Main, Dryden | Enjoy local fruits & veggies, honey, eggs, cut flowers, canned salsas & sauces, artisan crafts and so much more. Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Archaeology Field School | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 8/27 Saturday | The History Center’s Eight Square Schoolhouse, 1748 Hanshaw Road, Dryden | A public Archaeology Field School. Contact Carole for fees & info at eightsquare@thehistorycenter.net Taking Care Of Business: Exhibit Opening | 10:00 AM-, 8/27 Saturday | Tioga County Historical Museum, 110 Front Street, Owego | A history of business, industry, and commerce in Tioga County, featuring all of the methods of advertising used over the last 150 years. The Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 8/30 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 524 Valley Rd, Brooktondale | Enjoy farm fresh produce from Elmer Family Farm, Whispering Willow and Nook and Cranny.

| An exciting night to experience and celebrate our healthy relationships to the Earth through film, music and dance. Open to the public, and outside in the amazing Press Bay Alley and inside the dynamic Circus Culture space, this event is the kick off to the Finger Lakes Permaculture Insitute Tour & Convergence Weekend. Event begins at 7pm. INHABIT (Film) starts promptly at 8pm. Words, Wine, and Cider | 6:00 PM, 8/26 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Highlights local wine and cider makers, and local farms and chefs. Feature Ovid wine maker Kelley O’Neill, RandolphO’Neill Vineyard, and Ovid cider maker John Reynolds. The event will be hosted outdoors and feature wine and cider tastings paired with charcuterie from Hazelnut Kitchen and cheese from Crosswind Farms, Kenton’s Cheese Co., and Livey Run Dairy. Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 8/26 Friday | The Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd., Ithaca | Sit, drum and sing around a sacred fire outdoors. Receive the Munay-KiHarmony rites. Info at www. connecting2spirit.com or call: (607) 229-5161 Cortland Celtic Festival | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 8/28 Sunday | Dwyer Memorial Park, 6799 Little York Road, Preble | Irish Dance groups from across NYS, Celtic food and gift vendors, Celtic Musicians, Pub Tent, Medieval SCA re-enactors, Fingerlakes Pipe and Drum Band, Kids Games and, of course, Class A Heavy Athletics of the Scottish Highland Games on both days. Summer on Ice Craft Beverage Festival | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/28 Sunday | Standing Stone Vineyards, 9934 State Route 414, Hector | Celebrate and explore the craft beverages and foods of the Finger Lakes, including ice-style wines, small batch spirits, and more: all made local. Info at www.summeronice.com

25, 2-7 PM, Friday, August 26, noon-6 PM, Saturday, August 27, 10-6 PM and Sunday, August 28, 11-4 PM. Explore One World Market’s collection of heirloom-quality, handknotted Oriental rugs from Pakistan. All the rugs are handcrafted by fairly paid adult artisans in Pakistan, which allows them stable year-round employment and are thus able to provide food, housing, education, and medical care for their families while preserving their village culture. For more information call One World Market (formerly Ten Thousand Villages) at 256-0616, owmithaca.com or search the rug inventory online at rugs.tenthousandvillages.com 3rd Annual Permaculture Tour Weekend | The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, , Mecklenburg | Runs Friday through Sunday, August 26, 27 & 28. Three days of workshops, tours, socializing, networking, and learning in the cities, villages and countryside of the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of NY. Friday through Sunday you can view a movie, visit sites, talk with other practitioners and enthusiasts, try hands-on workshops, and simply immerse yourself in the thriving permaculture scene of central New York. Learn all the details at FingerLakesPermaculture.org Film Screening & Dance Event | 7:00 PM-12:00 AM, 8/26 Friday | Press Bay Alley, 118 W Green Street, Ithaca

Ongoing Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/24 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: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/

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Taughannock State Park, Saturday, August 27, 8:15 p.m.

Lucinda Williams has been maneuvering down a path all her own for more than three decades now, emerging from Lake Charles, Louisiana, where her iconoclastic upbringing helped her forge the stunning Lucinda Williams (aka, the Rough Trade album). For much of the ‘90s, Lucinda moved around the country, turning out work that won immense respect inside the industry. Some of her classics include 1998’s “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”, “West” (2007), and “Blessed” (2011). Don’t miss this legend!

Silent Movie Under the Stars 2016 is excited to be showing “Tess of the Storm Country”, the 1922 adaptation of the 1909 novel by Ithacan Grace Miller White. The film stars the inimitable Mary Pickford. The Cloud Chamber Orchestra will compose and perform the music for the evening. This will be WSM’s 6th annual outdoor summer screening. It’s a great chance to breath some fresh, take in the dazzling night sky, and watch an old classic on the big screen.

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Z Productionz Metal Sideshow Spectacular, with Rip Open the Sky, Dead Mr. Dead, Super Killer Robots, Year of the Locust, Ire Clad, OSFF, Friday, August 26, 7:00 p.m. (Dress up as a freak and get half off at the door)

ongoing The Art Factory | 202 2nd St., 202 2nd St., Ithaca | Collages with antique objects, nature and animals in vintage up-cycled frames. Autumn Leaves | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Wen Lin (aka Lam). Oli and acrylic paintings. Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Harwood: At a very early age, Harwood discovered a natural gift for drawing and this was all he wanted to do. However, growing up in a household where creativity was regarded as something perverse, the fledgling artist drew in secret, using paper grocery bags, cardboard, or cereal boxes. | www.benjaminpeters. com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | In this collection of recent paintings, Lynne Taetzsch explores color, form and pattern. Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Ivy Stevens-Gupta: Micro Expressions in Abstract Art: Communicating with Color. | www.thecellardor.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Photographing the Natural World: The Cayuga Nature Photographers (CNP) present works reflecting a diverse approach to the natural world, from insects, to birds, to flowers, to waterfalls and beyond. | www.csma-ithaca.org Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Natalie Renee Ferreira. Natalie finds beauty in the simplest things, and believes everyone can be creative. | (646) 306-0972 Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Trina Bartimer Bruno. Showing all new work/mixed media influenced by natural world | 319-0944 or visit www. decorum-too.com Eye Gallery | 215 E State St, Ithaca | Eye, 126 The Commons, Ithaca | Following eye‘s mission of being keenly eclectic, object maker, Lisa Pincus’s,

f your angle is Godsmack, Load-era Metallica, Staind, and running around the place like a madman in Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses, than you’re in luck—big time—this weekend. The Haunt’s hosting an alt-metal costume extravaganza with six local bands, a freak contest, a world’s strongest man show, and other wacked-out fantasy stuff, that’s sure to bend your inner Harley Quinn into a spiraling twist. Randy Zaborowski, of Z Productionz: Videography & Photography conjured the whole thing up, bringing to Ithaca his vision of a metal freak-show circus. I caught up with Zaborowski recently and we talked about some things. Ithaca Times: Where’d you come up with the idea for a costume themed-Metal show? Will the event be interactive? Randy Zaborowski: I’m a freelance professional photographer and for the last six years I’ve been to many shows across New York State. I have been taking photos and videos of local bands to help get them noticed. Through all of this, I have built up a family bond with the bands as well as their followers. After a while, the shows became typical to me. The music and

ShiRt Happens!, is like no other textile exhibit you’ve ever seen. Show runs August 5 – September 4th. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | NO BOUNDARES: Work by nine contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists drawn from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl. MATTHEW SCHREIBER / CROSSBOW Through August 28. This site-specific laser installation is an immersive environment that envelops the viewer in a wash of immaterial geometric forms. American Sojourns and the collecting of Japanese Art: Through December 18: This exhibition will explore how American collectors in Japan impacted the Johnson’s collection. LEO VILLAREAL: COSMOS:

the performances were killer but something was missing. Talking to all these bands and hearing of their struggles of trying to hold down a job and still be able to do what they love, made me really want to do something for them. A circus is like a family. They travel and entertain with all of their abilities. Metal music isn’t welcome in many places and it made me think of the fans and musicians of this form as outcasts. Freaks you might say. So I came up with the idea to turn the inside of the Haunt into a circus sideshow attraction. The bands, performers, and the guests, are all encouraged to dress up as a sideshow freaks. The show is interactive as the quests can dress up, and also get their photos done (Above) Kenny Gorzynski of Dear Mr. Dead with the sideshow performers (Right) Harrison Rumsey of Ire Clad and bands. I have decided to put up a photo wall for everyone. (Photos: Randy Zaborowski: Z Productionz There is also a contest for the best Videography & Photography) costume. IT: Are you planning on doing any filming during the event: a The order of the show was a little music video or a documentary? tricky though. I originally wanted RZ: The whole event will be filmed to come out full blast—and still and multiple photographers have been may be able to do that. The hard invited to shoot. Not only do I want to part is making all the bands capture this epic event, I also want to use happy with the time slots they get. These it for promotion of the next show. If things are some of my favorite local bands. I go well, I plan to take this show to other immediately knew who I wanted four cities like a circus would do. months ago and got them. I also know IT: What was the process like putting that the fans love the power these bands together the lineup for the show: why bring. these bands, and did you have them in IT: Could you talk a little about your mind while you were forging the idea for company Z Productionz, and what it the show? RZ: The process of creating this lineup specializes in? RZ: Z Productionz Videography & was easy for me. I know who brings the Photography is just a title for a man who energy and the type I wanted at this show.

Ongoing. Visible day and night, 12,000 white LED lights transform the ceiling of the Mallin Sculpture Court with complex movement and dazzling patterns. | www.museum. cornell.edu Hilton Garden Inn-Seneca Place Gallery | 130 Seneca Street, Ithaca | JULIA DEAN, recent work. With a perfected technique, Julia records natural objects into the surface of her thrown clay forms. This series of larger pieces is a tangent from her production line, which is a collection of functional work using the same surface design technique. www.juliaedean.com Home Green Home | 215 East State/MLK Street | Nature and the Spirit – Fernando Llosa and Ryan B. Curtis. Mixed media paintings and photographs by two local natureinspired artists | 607-319-4159 or

Standing Stone Vineyards, Sunday, August 28, 12:00 p.m.

Standing Stone Vineyards and Wagner Vineyards are co-hosting the first ever Summer On Ice: Craft Beverage Festival on the beautiful Standing Stone grounds overlooking Seneca Lake, showcasing their ice-style wines along with other craft beverages of the region, including the craft spirits of Finger Lakes Distilling along with the best artisan foods of the Finger Lakes Region. There will be 6 walkaround Tasting & Pairing Stations running all afternoon, 2 Craft Beverages Cooking & Mixology Seminars, live music and more.

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Ithaca | Footsteps of a Nomad by Olivia LaVaun. Photographs. | www.theshop. com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Thru-Lines: Jane Dennis, Diana Ozolins, and Terry Plater | Each of the three artists in this exhibition presents a select body of work which shows the development of artistic intent. This show offers both artist and viewer the opportunity to engage the creative trajectory of these individual artists. www.soagithaca.org 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | James Burlitch: Enduring Images Photography: After teaching and doing research in chemistry for thirty-nine years at Cornell University, James Burlitch revived his love of photography developed as a young adult.

Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | MondayThursday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Friday and Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5:00 PM | Outsider Art, artwork from some of the special schools in Tompkins County curated by Jessica Wall Crawford, will be on display during August and September. | www. tcpl.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Rose Gottlieb will be exhibiting select drawings. | www. wafflefrolicking.com

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CRS Barn Studio, Sunday, August 28, 7:30 p.m. Triphammer Arts, Inc is pleased to present its annual choreographer’s showcase, Moving Landscapes: An Evening of Dance and Music. Audiences will enjoy beautiful dance in a beautiful setting. Moving Landscapes continues the studio’s tradition of bringing innovative dance and music partnerships to Ithaca audiences. This is a rare opportunity to see choreographic work in all stages of development and to observe dancemaking in action, in an informal setting with live music.

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www.homegreenhome.com Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Anke Hoffstaetter will be displaying her abstract series at Lot 10 through August. Stop by enjoy some great food by Luna, exceptional cocktails and amazing local art. For more info visit www.ARTeFLX.com.| 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Madeline’s Restaurant | 215 E State St, Ithaca | An exhibit of Guy Ciarcia’s Digital Art Paintings. Born in Union City, New Jersey, Guy Ciarcia is a classically trained artist, who was educated at the Pratt Institute, New York University, and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. | guyciarcia.com Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August The Shop | 312 East Seneca Street,

wears many hats. It is made up of myself, and all of my talents and skills. It’s an outlet for my creative side to shine. I specialize in creative ideas, and can come up with stuff very fast. I love music that moves the soul, and have worked with artists in genres from hip-hop to metal and many in between. I also work with dancers, body builders, models, and athletes. I help them get noticed. I support people that are still trying to do what they love and that’s what Z Productionz is all about. •

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Ellington, CT needs 2 temporary workers 9/13/2016 to 12/1/2016, work tools supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #40204. Workers are expected to perform all activities related to cultural practices involved with production of vegetables, tree fruit and small berries. Operation, care and maintenance is essential for the equipment used for this purpose. Work is often required in extremely hot and cold conditions. Work is physically challenging requiring workers to bend, stoop, lift and carry up to 50 pounds. Ladder work is an essential skill. 30 days experience in duties listed is required.

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Sterling JCT, MA needs 8 temporary workers 9/1/2016 to 10/25/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at North central Career Center, 100 Erdman Way, Leominster MA 01453, 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #7496542. Work may include but not be limited to: plant, cultivate, harvest various crops such as apples, pumpkins and blueberries. Use hand tools such as shovels, hoes, rakes, pruning shears, saws and ladders. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizer, transplanting, weeding, hand thinning, pruning, applying general use pesticides under the supervision of a licensed applicator, picking, cleaning, sorting, packing, processing and handling harvested products. May set up, operate, repair and maintain farm equipment, machinery and buildings. May also participate in set-up and operation of irrigation equipment. Work requires bending, stooping, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds on a frequent basis. One month experience required in work listed.

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