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thaca’s city planners and council have begun the public process of creating a new incentive program that will, they hope, induce developers to build more affordable housing. Lynn Truame, planner for the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, brought to the city’s Planning & Economic Development Committee on March 9 a proposed incentive zoning law that’s been in the works since last May. For developers who would build new housing or add units through a renovation, the incentives that may be selected are: an exemption from site plan review; adding an extra floor beyond zoning in the downtown and waterfront areas; or an exemption from parking requirements. To gain one of those privileges, the price to a developer would be making 15 percent of the new units affordable in either for-sale or for-rent housing. Small projects would have the option to add one affordable unit. If a developer offers their affordable units at the rent limit appropriate for people living at 50 percent of the area’s median income, they only must keep 10 percent affordable. Otherwise, the affordable limit for rentals or for-sale units are set at 60 percent of area median income, which currently means a rent limit of $780 for a studio, with an income limit of $32,460 on one person. A family of four could be making up to $46,320 a year, and be looking for a three-bedroom that falls under the $1,375 limit. Developers could also make a onetime $100,000 payment to the city’s affordable housing fund to gain one of the incentives. Truame said developers told her avoiding site plan review was “the best inducement we have.” Developers often spend months in the process of receiving the planning board’s imprimatur for a project’s look, so the time-savings are not insignificant. Environmental reviews would still be required of projects, Truame said. “I’m a little skeptical developers will take advantage of this. I’m not sure the incentives are strong enough,” Alderperson Seph Murtagh (D-2nd), the committee chair, said. “It’s all carrot and not any stick … Whatever we do, we should put a sunset on it to see if [developers] are taking advantage of it.” continued on page 4

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very deliberate process, but first we need to get our marker in for a grant for the study.” Mareane said the study would look at a wide range of opportunities for savings, not just full consolidation of all area law enforcement agencies. “We want to look at the full gambit of options available to us, shared services all the way to a full consolidation,” he said. At Common Council, Alderperson George McGonigal (D-1st) asked for the opinion of Mayor Svante Myrick and city attorney Ari Lavine, saying that if they thought it was a “wild goose chase initiated by the governor of New York,” he would oppose the project. “We feel like it’s worth supporting,”

n March 1, the Tompkins County Legislature approved by an 8-5 vote applying for state funding for a study that would assess the feasibility of consolidating services within the Ithaca Police Department and the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department. The county’s four village police departments would have the option of participating. Common Council unanimously approved pursuing the study in a vote at its March 2 meeting. Among the legislators who did not vote in favor of the resolution, the main argument against it was that there was very little opportunity for public input; the project was fast-tracked because the deadline for the first step of the municipal restructuring grant application process County administrator Joe Mareane (File photo) is March 15, a deadline, county administrator Joe Mareane said the state just announced in Myrick said. “We couldn’t tell you for sure the last month. The resolution was not right now how [consolidation] would on the agenda, which Mareane said was work out … the interpersonal politics an oversight. “It didn’t make it into the between the two agencies might make it system, and that’s my fault,” he said. not worthwhile and the costs might not Mareane said he didn’t believe add up.” it would be be wise for the board to McGonigal was concerned about postpone the vote. “If there are savings the cost of the study, which calls for a to be achieved [through state grants] consultant ($150,000) and outside legal then we should do everything we can to assistance ($50,000) along with a large realize those savings in the fastest possible amount of city and county staff time. timeline,” he said. Twenty percent of the salaries of both the “I don’t want to imply that this is rushed,” Mareane added. “This will be a continued on page 5

▶ Given a Chance, On Thurs., March 3rd, The Solomon Organization and Ithaca Apartment Management were joined by Village of Lansing Mayor Don Hartill and Dave Ashton of WYXL’s Dave and Jen in the Morning to celebrate the hard work of philanthropic organizations in the region with its Give A Chance raffle. Thirteen nonprofits signed up to get votes on The Ithaca Apartment Management’s Facebook page; each vote counted as an entry into a lottery to receive $5,000, and two second place prize winners received $500. The organizations

were: Alzheimer’s Association, East Shore Arts Council, Hubbard’s Hounds, Hospice and Palliative Care Services, Ithaca Community Child Care, Ithaca Youth Bureau, Lansing Community Council, Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins County, Mariposa DR Foundation, Franziska Racker Centers Inc., The State Theatre The Tompkins County 4-H Youth Development Program, and YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick (not present) officially proclaimed March 3, 2016 Give A Chance Day in Ithaca and local caterer, Agava donated some of its services to the event.

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By Josh Brok aw When do you know it’s spring?

unaways, homeless, and couchsurfing young people are in their predicament most often because they have nowhere safe or comfortable to stay. Providing a safe place to rest in a moment of crisis is part of the mission for the Open Doors program, operated by Family & Children’s Services (FCS) of Ithaca since January 2015. Open Doors is seeking more people to join in hosting youths who have nowhere else to go: a free informational session for potential host-home volunteers will be held at 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 17 at 211 E. Seneca St. The temporary home-stay program provides a safe shelter while the youth figures out his or her next step. “Our goal is family reunification,” Open Doors caseworker Juliana Garcia said. “Our goal is to either keep them at home, or get them into a home environment that’s stable,” added Marisa Matsudaira, FCS clinical supervisor for youth services. Half of her caseload, Garcia said, are “kids who are thinking of running away, and we’re trying to prevent that.” Open Doors maintains a “warm line,” a phone line staffed during business hours, which young people can call without parental permission. Garcia’s text-friendly cell phone number is on cards and flyers she leaves wherever the young congregate. “[The youth] might be spending lunch texting their friends, asking, ‘Who can I stay with?’ Or they’re freaking out about coming out of school, because they don’t know where they’ll go that night,” Garcia said. “We’re here to help have someone on their side.” Referrals might come from a parent who has a child’s friend staying on their couch for a week, Garcia said. School social workers also send lots of referrals to Open Doors, Matsudaira said, whether the

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Adopting an “inclusionary” zoning plan would give the city a “stick,” in the form of legal compulsion that any new development include some affordable units or a cash-payment-in-lieu. In her memo, Truame wrote that there are potential legal issues with inclusionary zoning, including a California case recently submitted to the Supreme Court, which made her team wary of recommending the idea. California Building Association, a

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student asks for help or someone notices after Berkshire Farms, a Canaan, New they are wearing the same clothing a few York-based provider of youth services, days in a row However the youth hooks shut down its “Bridges” program for up with them, Garcia starts out by asking runaway and homeless youth. about their basic needs. Do they need to County funding for the Bridges make a trip to the food pantry? Do they program was set at $74,479 in 2011, and have a winter coat? And Open Doors had declined to $51,255 by 2014. The reaches out to the parent or guardian to county budget line for Open Doors was start assessing the situation. $51,255 in 2015 and $52,442 in 2016. “We want to help kids stay in their Youth who want to contact Open own networks as often as possible,” Matsudaira said. “It’s always a matter of case management. If they’re 19, maybe it’s not clear whether they should be at home or not.” If young people do need a place to stay, that’s where the host homes come in as an option. “It’s a place to have a respite, not the intervention,” Matsudaira said. “It’s likely a kid leaving a bad situation at home might say ‘Can I stay with you forever?’ Part of the training is setting boundaries. When you run into someone at Target, it can be an awkward conversation. You say ‘This is a friend.’ Not ‘Here’s the runaway or homeless child that’s staying with us.’” The training for hosthome volunteers includes a background check, a home visit and inspection, a two-hour orientation, and four hours of training a year. One family was certified to host in autumn 2015. There’s no other shelter option for teens Open Door staff: Youth Service director Jessica Brown, intern David McCalister, in Tompkins County. The caseworker Juliana Garcia (Photo: Josh Brokaw) Rescue Mission requires someone be 21 to stay in its shelter. Recently, CFCU announced a threeDoors or potential host-home volunteers year commitment to help fund Open can call 607-273-7494. • Doors. The program gets government support, but just enough for staffing, – Josh Brokaw Matsudaira said, and other grants are reporter@ithacatimes.com always welcome. Family & Children’s Services launched the program last year trade group, sued the City of San Jose for an inclusionary zoning law requiring developers of projects with 20 units or more to sell at least 15 percent of them at an affordable cost. In the June 2015 California Supreme Court decision upholding the San Jose law, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote that the affordable housing crisis has “reached what may be described as epic proportions in many of the state’s localities,” according to the San Jose Mercury News. The Pacific Legal Foundation, the non-profit representing the California

builders, announced on Feb. 29 that the U.S. Supreme Court had denied its writ of certiorari for review; the builders’ argument was based on the “unlawful taking” clause of the Fifth Amendment. Further legal advice on the idea of a housing impact fee was requested by Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st), which she said would be “much easier to enforce and maintain.” An impact fee would charge new development a per-square-foot cost for the city’s housing fund. • – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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n March 7, several local media outlets ran stories noting that Chemung Canal Trust Company would be moving out of their Commons location at the corner of Bank Alley, effective May 31. The stories were based on a press release sent out by Chemung Canal, in which president Anders Tomson was quoted as saying the bank had been in lease negotiations “for more than a year” with the landlord. “Unfortunately,” Tomson said, “we were just not able to reach mutually acceptable terms for our continued occupancy.” On March 8, landlord Jason Fane’s attorney Nathan Lyman sent out an email complicating that narrative. Attached was a statement from Fane questioning Chemung Canal’s claim that they had been in negotiations. Fane cited a letter of Dec. 19, 2013 from Chemung Canal exercised its option for a 10-year extension to the lease, beginning Jan. 1, 2016. Chemung took over the lease from Bank of America when they bought out several area branches in November 2013. “It is more disappointing in that they appear to be misleading their customers and the public about their decision to abandon downtown Ithaca,” Fane wrote. “Why is a big bank, with $1.6 billion in assets, acting this way? How can they write to me extending the lease ten years, and then say to their customers the lease expired?” Lyman, in the same letter, said the bank had requested feedback on potential Policeconsolidation contin u ed from page 3

city and county attorneys, along with a deputy administrator, are requested in the proposal; 10 percent of the salary for 10 more positions is also requested, including that of the county sheriff and IPD chief of police. Mareane has authorization to effectuate the project charter by preparing and releasing a request for proposals for the study. “If the funding hunt is successful, we could proceed with the RFP,” he said. “There we understand this is a big one, and we would come back to the legislature to review the RFP before it went out, and we have normal procedures for that to happen,” he said. The amount of the total grant would be 20 percent of the projected savings resulting from the increased efficiencies over 10 years. Currently it’s estimated that organizational realignment in Tompkins

seven-story Bank Tower to create apartments. A walk-through of the tower reveals floors three through seven to be entirely office space, with two active tenants. Law firm Miller Mayer recently moved their operations over to the Rothschild building, leaving the top two floors empty. In response to Fane’s letter, Chemung Canal vice president Michael Wayne said that “specific terms and details of a possible extension were never determined and agreed to prior to the Dec. 31, 2015 expiration of our lease.” Wayne couldn’t comment further, with litigation likely pending, but did confirm that Chemung Canal has three-and-a-half fulltime positions working at the branch right now, all of whom will be given positions in other Ithaca branches. The Bank Tower owned by Jason Fane will house Chemung Canal Trust Lyman emailed Company only to the end of May. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) screenshots he said were of the lease, showing language supporting the claim that changes to the space beginning in March there was a right to extend it, and noting 2015, with answers not forthcoming until in his email, “A right to extend does not February 2016. include a right to ‘re-negotiate.’” The changes last requested would Fane purchased the Bank Tower “imperil architectural features,” Lyman along with 111 N. Tioga St., the adjoining said. In tentative plans brought before the building behind it, for $1.5 million in Commons Advisory Board in February, 1997. The two buildings combined have drawings showed an approximately over 40,000 square feet of floor space. • 2,800 square foot space for a redesigned Chemung Canal branch with another – Josh Brokaw retail space added onto the ground floor. reporter@ithacatimes.com Fane said that he is planning renovating the upper floors of the County law enforcement would result in a savings of at least $475,000 annually. “Based on the tax levy data provided by the state comptroller as part of the government efficiency plan process, this represents a recurring annual savings of 0.07 percent of the combined levies of the participants,” the draft project charter states. That charter, which is a short summary of the project, is the first part of what must be submitted by March 15; Mareane said that after learning more about proper structure for the charter, the summary shared with the legislature would only need a couple tweaks but “nothing of substance.” “If they like it, they will provide five percent of what the total grant amount might be out front,” he said, adding that the estimated cost of the study is roughly $600,000. The maximum the county could receive for the first stage would be $50,000.

That money would be used to hire a consultant to help develop a roadmap for how the county would proceed, which would be outlined in a much more detailed summary. If the state approves of the county’s approach, it will award another grant for 35 percent of the total grant. Those funds will be used to create a “proof of concept,” which Mareane described as a scaleddown version of what the municipalities will ultimately provide. And based on that, the state will award the full grant if it believes the plan can be successfully carried out. “The goal,” said Mareane, “is to make sure that the study is fully funded with additional money there to help with the implementation costs.” •

Ups&Downs ▶ Sister Friends, will be held March 18, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Emerson Suites, Ithaca College. The event celebrates women and girls of all ages. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Nia Michelle Nunn, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Ithaca College. The event opens at 10a.m. with a Women’s Market featuring local female entrepreneurs. The program goes from noon to 1:30 p.m. and includes presentations from community artists. If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Elizabeth Garrett remembered, A memorial gathering for President Elizabeth Garrett will be held Thursday, March 17, at 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall. The public is welcome to attend. Cornell leaders, family members and friends are expected to speak, and the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club will perform. The event will be live-streamed on CornellCast and on the In Memoriam page that launched today. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of March 9-15 include: 1) Site of First Black Frat Catches State’s Eye 2) Fatal Vaccination: Newfield Marine’s son battles with VA for five years 3) Village Uses Nuisance Law to Sue Landlord 4) Down Home and Healthy- New Chef in Groton 5) Ace Hardware Launches Kitchen/Bath Showroom For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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thaca has a popularity problem. Like so many other places where a high quality of life has been nurtured, a steady influx of new residents has created a chronic housing shortage— driving up prices and gentrifying neighborhoods. In 2015 our community wrestled with disagreements about specific building projects affecting specific places and people. Some elected officials and business leaders urged rapid approval of housing projects to alleviate pressure on housing prices and increase the tax base. Some community leaders and neighborhood residents pushed back, questioning the fairness of how the costs and benefits of development were being distributed. In the heat of these battles, it was hard for anyone to get a birds’ eye view of the overall problem as it is unfolding over time. It’s certainly a challenge to wrap our minds around such a complex and dynamic system with difficult-tointegrate needs and goals. But perhaps we can help each other by working on a shared understanding of the market drivers, trends, constraints, and options for local development—along with collective scrutiny of the underlying assumptions of our economic theories

or governance philosophies that are guiding our choices. By taking time for a bit of systems analysis, we may be more effective together at guiding development patterns toward sustainable, equitable, and inclusive outcomes. Sustainable Tompkins will be hosting a community conversation on local development at its Earth Day Ithaca celebration on Saturday, April 23 (see SustainableTompkins.org for details). Our objective is to create a space for critical thinking about how our current system works and how it might be redesigned. As a prelude to that conversation, we have organized a series of opinion articles in the Ithaca Times. Over the next six weeks, we’ll hear from elected officials, developers, and Gay Nicholson community leaders as they explore what’s driving our current development patterns, and what options we have for accommodating new residents without decreasing quality of life or increasing gentrification. We need to work this problem together. If we want to identify some continued on page 12

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ews item: Ithaca was named No. 4 on MarketWatch’s list of the brainiest cities in America in 2015. Though we lost to Boulder Colorado; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Corvallis, Oregon, respectively, we still beat the likes of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and oh yeah, every other city in the country. Let’s visit a local eatery in Our Fair City and see what fourthsmartest looks and sounds like … Scene: The counter at a diner in Ithaca, New York. It’s breakfast time, and the stools are occupied by a motley collection of patrons. The music of Arnold Schoenberg is crackling over the speakers. Humming along is Dr. Lurlene McCoy, a post-doctoral scholar specializing in the early works of Friedrich Schiller. She’s working the counter and waiting on several booths besides, and her waitress uniform bears evidence of a busy shift. She is serving an order of home fries to Rufus Cornstarch, a customer wearing a Jiffy Lube uniform. CORNSTARCH: Ah! Solanum tuberosum! And à la Provençale, too! Thanks, Doc. McCOY: Not a problem, sport! Where’s your little co-worker buddy? CORNSTARCH: Didn’t you hear? He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his ground-breaking work in petroleum replacement techniques at the Jiffy Lube in … get this … Boulder, Colorado! The smartest city in America! An appreciative murmur ripples down the counter at the mention of Boulder, Colorado. McCOY: I guess that paper you two presented at the Royal Society did the trick, huh? CORNSTARCH: (Holding up a skewered home fry.) Indubitably. McCOY: Did I hear something about a certain committee in Stockholm? CORNSTARCH: Bah! Those fools wouldn’t recognize a good idea if it bit them in the gluteus maximus. CLETUS BODINE: (Another customer, wearing a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, half moon reading glasses and a rayon baseball hat with a ‘Fastrac Markets’ logo on it. He raises a single eyebrow.) You talking about “Postmodern Materialism: Inductive Relativism and the Deconstruction of 10W-30 in Dodge

Neons”? I read that piece of tripe. Your basic assumptions were fundamentally flawed. CORNSTARCH: (Standing up and dumping his home fries in the process) Why, you Lotto-ticket-peddling miscreant, I oughta … BODINE: (Also standing up) Bring it on, oil-jockey. CORNSTARCH: That’s ‘Doctor’ OilJockey to you, Mr. Still-Can’t-Finish-HisThesis-After-Nine-Years! Suddenly, the diner door swings open and a stranger walks in. Everybody freezes. The stranger is wearing a Cambridge, Massachusetts Rocks! T-shirt. The unspoken truth is that Cambridge didn’t even crack the smartest-cities list in 2015. For a moment, there is absolute silence. Finally, Dr. McCoy collects her wits and picks up a special menu … one with simple words written in bold type and pictures of all the menu items. Cornstarch and Bodine sit down, sheepishly. McCOY: (approaching the newcomer and steering him toward a cushioned booth) Good morning … me waitress … you sit down? The new customer nods nervously and hands Dr. McCoy a piece of Harvard stationery, on which is written “one cheese omelet, pre-cut, with wheat toast and coffee in a sippy cup. No sharp implements, please!” McCOY: (nodding and maintaining eye contact) I’ll be right back with your order and a bib. Don’t you go anywhere. Back at the counter, there is a minor sensation. One of the customers, Mayor Svante Myrick, has managed to prove the Hodge Conjecture on the back of a napkin. He is shrugging modestly when the front door swings open again and a breathless young woman bursts in. BREATHLESS YOUNG WOMAN: Quick, everyone! They’re giving away grant money on the Commons! Pandemonium ensues. Chess pieces fly everywhere. After a mad scramble out the door, the only person left, blinking, confused, and waiting for his omelet, is the poor visitor from Cambridge, Massachusetts, at best, the 11th brainiest city in the land … FADE OUT. •

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Hil ary Shines

I would like to present a different perspective on the 2016 presidential primary race than that offered in Josh Brokaw’s recent article (Ithaca Times, March 2). Many people assess a political candidate’s desirability based on his/her qualifications. In this case, 6

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can diminish the financial viability of a f you live in Ithaca for any amount project. The developer is always the last to of time, you will likely form strong get paid—first come municipal fees and opinions about real estate development property taxes, the architect, the engineer, in general and housing in particular. In and the construction firm. If a development some ways, Ithaca is a victim of its own firm uses due diligence in pursuit of a success. With our world-renowned local project, they may make some money, if not, educational institutions, and a strong they may go bankrupt. local culture of innovation, Ithaca and its In 2013 the City of Ithaca championed entrepreneurial ecosystem will continue rezoning along State Street and to be a strong draw for people in the west end to allow greater at all stages of life. From density and presumably to students excited to get into entice developers to build more the school of their choice, housing. On a parallel track, a to inventors interested in community conversation began starting a company, to retirees about form-based zoning and considering living downtown, inclusionary zoning, and both there are many constituencies of these concepts promise represented in Ithaca’s growth. to introduce some efficiency Tompkins County Area and predictability into the Development (TCAD) recently Frost Travis development process. Formannounced that two years based zoning creates simple, into its five-year Transform community-driven design guidelines, and Tompkins initiative, which set the goals inclusionary zoning provides an incentive of $450 million in investment and 750 for affordable housing. Energy-efficiency new jobs, they have raised $290 million in incentives also provide an inducement to investment and have attracted businesses build in a more energy-efficient way. While that have added 410 new jobs. While this all of these actual and proposed regulatory speaks well of TCAD’s efforts, it doesn’t changes are encouraging in the abstract, in address the need for housing these newly practice the stated goals are often not met. hired workers. Two downtown Ithaca housing In Ithaca’s housing market, where projects were recently stopped by demand greatly exceeds supply, owning community activism. Both were legally and managing real estate would seem to be permissible projects, fully compliant low-risk and profitable. However, creating with existing zoning and environmental new housing supply to meet demand is an regulations. In both cases, the developers enormously risky, slow, and Darwinian spent more than a million dollars pursuing process in Ithaca. Few developers are able their vision for their projects. Depending to pay for buildings out of pocket, and on its size, a development firm can debt is an important instrument in any occasionally absorb a failure such as the developer’s business plan. No bank will Clinton Street apartments or the State lend to a developer, if it is not convinced Street Triangle project, but when rules are that the fundamental financial and market changed mid-stream in a project, it’s very assumptions of a project are sound. But difficult to conduct business. before a construction loan can be secured, Clearly, Ithaca is not ready to accept a development firm must first commit the amount and pace of development several hundred thousand dollars or that can be supported by demand—and more—depending on project size—to complete a project feasibility process. There demand is unlikely to abate in the next five years. There is already a great deal of is no guarantee that those dollars will ever development occurring and one person be earned back. at a public hearing last summer described Securing control of a development the community as suffering from PTSD. site starts the process of creating new However, while I can appreciate this housing. Then the developer, under sentiment, I also believe that as long as intense public and media scrutiny, can Ithaca shines as an engine of economic start paying architects, engineers and development, people will want to come other consultants to shepherd a project through the predevelopment or entitlement and they will need to be housed, whether within or outside the city limits. Demand process. If that is successful, building drives development, and without a plans must be reviewed by code officials predictable process in Ithaca, development to determine that the building will be safe will continue to leapfrog into surrounding and code-compliant. If plans are deemed communities. • safe and code compliant, a permit will be issued. By now at least a year has elapsed, – Frost Travis, or perhaps even more time for a complex Travis Hyde Properties or contentious project, and it is only at this point that a lender may loan money to a This guest opinion is the second in a project. series on sustainable development organized At any given time in the life of a by Sustainable Tompkins as background to project, unforeseen conditions can lead a community conversation on housing, April to costly change orders and create delay 23 at Earth Day Ithaca. in a project schedule, both of which

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president this year. But, when deciding whom to vote for, we shouldn’t overlook a candidate’s ability to work constructively with Congress to pass legislation? This year, millions of voters are understandably upset with our country’s political processes. People are tired of “gridlock” in Congress, obstructionist defiance by small groups of legislators, and a generally dysfunctional political system. This explains in part the popularity of candidates such as Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Bernie Sanders. All three would seem to offer a fresh start on politics as “outsiders”, bypassing the system. However, as a president, could they really bypass the system and single-handedly govern? Could these men eliminate gridlock and get a meaningful agenda through Congress? Trump and Cruz (republicans), and Sanders (a democrat), are independents who have chosen to adopt one of the major parties out of convenience. Because of their language and mannerisms, or their narrow, extremist opinions, they are considered as undesirable by mainstream members of their respective adopted parties. It is noteworthy that none of these three candidates has received many (or even any) endorsements by members of Congress or state governors. They are outspoken independents, not team players in any political party, and will have a very difficult time governing. They will aggravate our current problems, and fan the flames of extremist ideologies in a self-defeating, endless cycle of pushback and strife. By comparison, Hillary Clinton shines again. She has proven over long years of service to this country that she has the best chance of working collaboratively with others and bringing a measure of unity to our government. We cannot afford to take a chance with other candidates who either have no experience in government or no track record of being able to negotiate effectively with others. As a country, we may be our own worst enemy. A divided country, with a dysfunctional government is perceived as a weak country. We shouldn’t let potential adversaries like Russia, China, Iran or N. Korea think they can make aggressive moves at the world’s expense. Let’s send Hillary Clinton to the White House to help keep our states UNITED.

from across the planet convinced me that it would be worth the time, effort and cost to put an album out there. Altitude Adjustment was released worldwide via CD Baby, and over two dozen other platforms, like iTunes and Amazon. Also physical CDs are available in Ithaca at Angry Mom Records and Ithaca Guitar Works. – Gene Ira Katz, Boulder, Colorado

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ithaca com We got this response online to the announcement that Bill McKibben and 56 local protestors were arrested at the Crestwood gas storage facility on Seneca Lake: Awesome! Thank you heroes for standing up for public health, safety and general welfare of the community, the environment, especially when our public officials blindly follow the corporate interest, ignoring the bigger picture. – Daniel Keogh In response to the article in the Groton Independent (“Village Uses Nuisance Law to Sue Landlord”; posted Mar. 6) that documented the campaign by the village government to shut down the SROs owned by Norfe Pirro in the village, a former tenant aired his opinion: A few years ago, I was forced for economic reasons to rent from Pirro, in one of his Ithaca properties. It was shameful, and Pirro himself, in my opinion, should be run out of Tompkins County. He represents all the worst kind of slumlord. The building i rented in was infested, falling apart, the fire alarm system was always malfunctioning, which would bring firetrucks, the police were always there performing arrests, they would camp out across the street to watch the place. I contacted the City codes official to report the deteriorating condition of the building, repairs were never made, I also surreptitiously filmed Pirro and his “goon” while they “shook down” a financially struggling tenant for money. I am well out of the apartment now. In my opinion, Pirro is a criminal. I feel sorry for anyone who is forced to rent from him. Like it says in this article, all that he cares about is the dollar. – Andy Ginter

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Much gratitude to the Ithaca Times for remembering me and covering the release of my debut CD, Altitude Adjustment. While it’s true, as Bill Chaisson wrote, that Todd Rundgren’s self-produced recordings were an inspiration, actually the primary drive for making this album were the thousands of listeners from all over the world who have been clicking onto my SoundCloud and YouTube pages since I began posting home recorded productions over the past half dozen years. Seeing the amazingly positive response from strangers T

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“We Are Underpaid”

Ithaca teachers say salaries lower than in other districts By Bill Chaisson

igns posted around the high school and brandished along Elmira Road during teacher protests in November and January have stated emphatically that Ithaca teachers are underpaid. The Ithaca Teachers’ Association and the district adminstrators have been in negotiations since April 2015 to rectify this situation. When asked if there were other topics under discussion, union president Adam Piasecki said that salaries were the primary issue. On Tuesday, March 8 the board of education of the Ithaca city schools voted to accept an interim one-year contract with the district’s teachers. The 600-member teachers’ union had voted in favor on March 2. The Ithaca Times asked a school administrator, “Areteachers actually poorly paid? When you compare two teachers with the same number of years experience, teaching the same grade level and the same subject, in a community with a comparable cost of living, is the Ithaca teacher paid less?” Deputy superintendent Matthew Landahl said that question is still a topic under discussion in the negotiations for the multi-year contract that have just begun. He therefore could not comment on the subject.

The Current One-Year Agreement

“We usually start these meetings before the expiration date [of the contract],” said Adam Piasecki, the president of the Ithaca Teachers’ Association (ITA), the local teachers’ union. “The goal is to have a new contract in place before the old one expires.” Negotiations to put a new contract in place began in April 2015, but they were not concluded until late February of this year, eight months after the old contract expired at the end of June 2015. “It’s called collective bargaining for a reason,” said Brad Grainger, a member of the school board who sat in on many of the contract negotiation meetings as an observer. “Each side goes in expecting to give a little and to get a little.” What the teachers got was a 1.5 percent increase to their base salaries, retroactive to July 1, 2015; an additional $600 added to the base salaries of all teachers; and an additional 0.7 percent increase to base salaries, effective June 30, 2016 (the last day of this interim contract). What the district got was changes to the teachers’ health care coverage, Classic Blue Cross Blue Shield. The out-of-pocket maximum for teachers doubled from $50 to $100 for individual plans and increased from $300 to $450 for family plans. The

co-pay cost for brand-name medications also doubled from $10 to $20. Significantly, the union members also agreed to give up sabbaticals. These are paid leaves of absence that teachers use to learn new skills and then apply them in the classroom upon their return. According to Piasecki, 74 percent of district teachers voted in favor of the new contract. He said that the final numbers for salary and benefits involved concessions made by union representatives, but that the elimination of sabbaticals was “huge.” Teachers are eligible for a sabbatical after seven years. Piasecki said that between three and eight teachers per year earn a leave of absence after having their proposed project approved by a committee of teachers and administrators.

Piasecki has been president of the Ithaca teachers’ union for four years, and has been an officer in the ITA for a decade. His predecessor Susan Mittler stepped down after 16 years as president when she retired from teaching. Piasecki said that what teachers are characterizing as “uncompetitive” salaries represents a slow loss of ground over several years. After 12 years in the district’s employ, Piasecki, a third-grade teacher at Enfield Elementary School, earns $52,673 per year (according to nydatabases.com). This is slightly more than the current median salary in the district, $51,747. It is precisely these sorts of numbers that are the chief bone of contention between the district and its teachers. There are a number of databases available on line that supply the curious taxpayer with the median salary in any district or the salary of any individual teacher (or any state employee, for that matter). The median in any set of numbers is the value for which there an equal of number of values greater than and less than that value. (In contrast, to find a mean or average value, you would sum all the values and then divide that sum by the number of values in the set.)

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Te ac h e r s’ u n i o n p r e s i d e n t A d a m P i a s e c k i ( P h o t o : D i a n e D u t h i e) The median salary in a district, both the board of education and the Ithaca school administrators argue, is a very misleading number to compare among districts. Some of the differences in salary may be compensated for by variations in the generosity of benefits packages among districts. This is a complex topic. “One of the stipulations for the current settlement,” said Landahl, “included both parties agreeing to facilitated negotiations with the Director of the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). Given the complexity of attempting to compare the entirety of benefits packages across districts, we feel it best to at least initiate this conversation in collaboration with the ITA and PERB facilitator.”

Comparing Districts and Salaries

“There is a fair amount of misinformation out there,” said Rob Ainslie, the president of the Ithaca school board. “We have to weigh what we pay versus what we can impose on the taxpayer versus what Albany imposes on us.” Ainslie was referring to the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) that was instituted to balance the state budget during the fiscal crisis following the collapse of the housing and financial markets in 2008. This is essentially money that Albany deducts from the amount of aid that is due a district. The figure was $1.1 million this year, down from $1.7 million last year. Ainslie recalled it being as high as $5 million during the depths of the Great Recession. This year’s “adjustment” is out of a total 2015-16 budget of $115 million.

In the Ithaca City School District only 25 percent of revenue is received as state aid and the rest is largely raised through the local tax levy. Compare this to Trumansburg Central Schools, which has budget of $26 million of which about 60 percent is received as state aid. “In the past five years,” Ainslie said, “$21 million has been sucked out of the district [by the GEA]. Everyone has gotten a raise through all of this. All the while we have also been trying to maintain small class sizes, all of our programming, our paraprofessional staff, and support for the teachers.” A shortcoming of most of the online databases that provide information about teacher salaries is their failure to taken into account the cost of living in a particular region. The difference between upstate and downstate is stark. According to the Empire Center for Public Policy (empirecenter.org) the median salary for a Long Island teacher is $101,692, while the median salary in central New York is $59,042. However, if one considers the median price of a home to be a rough proxy for the cost of living, then Long Island teachers don’t look as well paid. In Nassau County the median price for a home is $460,000, roughly four and a half times the median teacher salary there. The median home price in Tompkins County is $157,000, or roughly three times the median salary for Ithaca teachers. Comparing Ithaca’s median salary to all others in the state—it is 579th out of 667 districts—does not take into account the geographic differences in the buying power of a particular salary. While a central New York teacher may have more purchasing power than her downstate colleague, the ITA has

pointed out the median salary of an Ithaca teacher ($51,747) is also below the central New York median. It is also lower than that of all other districts in Tompkins County save Newfield Central Schools ($48,668) and is essentially equal to that of Dryden Central Schools ($51,756). Ainslie explained that the Ithaca school board kept layoffs to a minimum through the tough fiscal period after 2008. Instead, working with the ITA, they offered three rounds of early-retirement incentive packages in order to decrease the number of highearning long-tenured teachers on the payroll. “Sometimes we were able to hire two people B o a r d o f e d u c at i o n p r e s i d e n t R o b A i n s l i e in their place,” he said. ( P h o t o : D i a n e D u t h i e) “We did this with the administrators too. In other words, compared to Union Many districts simply laid people off and Springs, twice as much of the money that cut programming.” goes toward teachers salaries must be When a district retires highly paid raised via the local tax levy in Ithaca. In teachers and hires two lower-paid people the face of the tax cap imposed on school in the place of one, it will reduce the districts by New York State, both Union median salary for the district. This is Springs and Ithaca have been taking especially apparent when the median money from their fund balances in order salary of a district that has used the to minimize the rise in their tax levies. early-retirement approach is compared to According to the Empire Center districts like Trumansburg, Dryden, and for Public Policy, the central New York Lansing that simply laid off full-time and district with the highest median salary, part-time (“itinerant”) teachers and aides. $65,943, is Baldwinsville, outside Syracuse. This leaves the question of whether (According the Syracuse Post-Standard, teachers with equal amounts of experience Baldwinsville schools laid off 29 teachers are being paid less in Ithaca, the question in 2010-11 and 25 in 2011-12. Emails to that Ithaca adminstrators would not Baldwinsville school board members did answer at this time. For this there is only not get responses by press time.) anecdotal evidence. Pearse Anderson, The school tax rate in Baldwinsville the news editor for The IHS Tattler, the is $24.43 per $1,000 of assessed value. school’s monthly newspaper, reported In Ithaca the rate is $18.16 per $1,000 of that Jenny Smith, a teacher at Boynton assessed value, the lowest in Tompkins Middle School, had researched the pay County, save Newfield, which is $17.92 per disparity. Anderson said, “[she] came to $1,000. the conclusion that some teachers with Baldwinsville teachers can be paid equal experience are making $14,000 more in part because the taxpayers are more elsewhere. I’ve had several teachers charged more and the school receives tell me that if they moved from this great more state aid (a surprising 40 percent community to someplace like Union of the budget) than Ithaca does. In Springs, they’d be paid at least $10,000 addition, Baldwinsville residents are more.” (“Fighting Fatigue: ICSD Teachers more able to pay those higher taxes Protest,” February Tattler) because the median income for a family Leaving aside the casual chauvinism there is $51, 549, compared to $42,304 of Anderson’s remark, how and why would in Ithaca. Baldwinsville teachers salaries Union Springs teachers be paid more than have greater purchasing power than their Ithaca teachers? The amount of state aid a Tompkins County colleagues as well; the district gets is a factor. median price for a home in Onondaga Budget information from the 2015County is only $108,900. 2016 school year reveals that Union In sum, comparing teachers salaries Springs had total revenues of $17,883,053, from district to district is a complicated of which $9,273,053 or 52 percent comes business. in the form of state aid, compared to 25 percent in Ithaca. continued on page 10 T

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If the median-salaried teacher worked 260 days per year (i.e. five days per week for 52 weeks), they would be earning $73,861 per year. However, these numbers are quite misleading. In The IHS Tattler, Anderson interviewed protesting teachers standing next to Elmira Road in front of Wegman’s. All requested anonymity. One teacher stated that it was common for her colleagues to work 50 to 70 hours per week, The above-quoted teacher noted that most teachers have master’s degrees, but are “disproportionately compensated” compared to others with that amount of education. We compared teacher salaries with two other types of professionals working

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Where They Stand

The agreement reached in late February and ratified by the unions members and approved by the board of education in early March will immediately boost the median salary in the district by 1.5 percent or $1,376. The work year of an Ithaca teacher is 187 days (working 6 hours per day), so the median-salary earner will be making $7.36 more per day until June 30. Dividing the median salary by the number of days yields a daily pay rate of $276.72, or $284.08 per day, including the raise derived from the new agreement.

for non-profits, usually with master’s degrees. According to glassdoor.com, lecturers at Cornell University make on average $55,199 per year, based on a survey of 39 salaries at the university. The same website also provides salary data for clinical social workers, who also usually have master’s degrees. Based on a survey of 213 salaries, the average yearly pay nationwide for a social worker is $54,000. These average salaries are $3,000 to $4,000 higher than the median salary of an Ithaca teacher. In contrast, according to payscale. com, salaries for holders of an MBA, who tend to work in the for-profit world, average $76,013 per year for people with five to nine years experience. Dissatisfaction within the ranks of

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Ithaca teachers is high. Piasecki told Anderson that 35 teachers retired or left the district during the fall 2015 semester. “There are still things we would like to continue to address,” said Piasecki, in reference to the ongoing negotiations for a multi-year contract, “so that way we can have the best teaching staff here for students in the Ithaca City School District. We want to make sure that’s a top priority. We will continue to discuss with district administrators and the school board issues around base salary and issues around salary with respect to longevity.” The current one-year agreement took 10 months to reach. “Even though this was hard to settle,” the union president said, “and it doesn’t go over really well within the membership, we are looking forward to having facilitated negotiations within next few weeks. We’re very thankful for community and parent support, whether it be at a rally or emails or speaking at a board meeting. We know you support us and we obviously work really hard and work for students as hard as we can.” The district’s negotiating team includes superintendent Luvelle Brown, deputy superintendent Landahl, Director of Human Resources and Labor Relations Robert VanKeuren, and chief operations officer Amanda Verba. The district has no legal counsel on the team. “Dr. Brown prefers to keep lawyers out of the room,” said Ainslie. Grainger has been present as an observer on his own initiative. Piasecki described Grainger as “caucusing with the administration team and speaking at the meetings.” The teachers’ negotiating team includes Piasecki and several teachers who have been elected or selected as at-large representatives rather than as representatives of particular schools. The team also includes a labor relations specialist supplied by the New York State Union of Teachers (NYSUT) whom Piasecki described as “someone with specialized knowledge in the Taylor Law, education law, and bargaining.” The Public Employees Fair Employment Act, often called the Taylor Law, defines the rights and limitations of unions for public employees in New York. “We were ready months ago for an agreement,” said Ainslie. “Misinformation from the union poisoned the environment.” Ainslie looked back on the 16 years of Mittler’s leadership of the union and the agreements reached between the district and the union during those years. “Our books are open,” he said. “Thoughtful people would understand what we have to go through,” referring to the budget difficulties engendered by declining state aid. “Suddenly we don’t pay as much? How would Susan [Mittler] let that happen? It defies logic.” •

Social Justice

Grady Flores Out of Jail to Wait on Appeal

have had former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark testify to a Town of DeWitt justice about the connections between international war crimes law and local law in cases where they’re charged for disorderly conduct and/or trespassing. The short of their argument, Grady Flores said, is the “justification rule.” “If there’s a fire in a house you have a right to break a front door to save a life,” she said. “We can’t leave it only to those who are in power and we’ve known that throughout history. In the case of wars it’s been the veterans themselves who have had that quantum-leap moment where the secret is out and they want to know why they’re marching to wars and dying in the thousands. In the case of the drone pilots,

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thaca peace activist Mary Anne Grady Flores was released from the Jamesville jail in Onondaga County on March 7. She had spent 49 days in lock-up for violating an order of protection against Col. Earl Evans, commander of Hancock Air Force Base. Grady Flores’ imprisonment came about from her involvement with the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, which has staged protest actions at Hancock since 2010. The base hosts a command center for the remote pilots who control MQ 9 Reaper drones, which are used in missile strikes at alleged terrorists in numerous countries overseas. At a demonstration on Oct. 25, 2012 outside the Hancock base gates, Grady Flores was arrested with numerous other protesters and taken to the DeWitt Town Court. There, a oneyear order of protection to keep them away from Evans was issued to the arrested. On Feb. 13, 2013, Ash Wednesday, Grady Flores was Mary Anne Grady Flores and her grandchildren (Photo: Diane Duthie) taking photographs of other protesters outside the base gates. “I wasn’t planning on getting arrested,” they’re succumbing to [post-traumatic stress disorder].” Grady Flores said in an interview with the In July 2015, Grady Flores was Times. “I had a catering job the next day.” sentenced to a year in jail and a $1,000 As the police moved to arrest the fine, which her attorney Lance Salisbury protesters, Grady Flores started walking notes is the maximum and “extremely down the road to a diner to freshen up unusual and severe.” When an appeal to and get a cup of coffee when a police car the Onondaga County court was denied, swung around to pick her up. She said Grady Flores had to surrender on Jan. 19 that photographs of that day show she to begin her sentence, which had been never set foot on the base’s property—and reduced to six months by that time. moreover, where property lines are there The experience of incarceration has are unclear. its rules and routines that seem minor, “It’s important to explain this stuff, but add up to a less than wholly human but it’s a huge distraction,” Grady Flores experience. said, as she traced out the geography of “No one is allowed to give hugs the protest area with her hands. The base or touch one another in jail – you’re has eventually said that its property goes out to the double yellow line in the middle supposed to get seven hugs a day to be healthy and I’m in starvation mode,” of Molloy Road, though many officers Grady Flores said. Even something so arresting protesters have admitted later in simple as the guards making their rounds court they did not know where that line every 15 or 20 minutes, with keys jangling was. and their “bloody bleeping” scanners takes In February 2014, Grady Flores was some time to block out. one of 12 protesters from the October Incarcerated in a pod with about 60 2012 action to be sentenced to 15 days other women, Grady Flores said there in jail for disorderly conduct. In May were moments of joy. On one day, Grady of that year, her charge for violating the Flores’ friend Carissa returned from the order of protection went to trial. That downtown Syracuse jail excited, because trial was frustrating because the moral she had met four women who had been and legal arguments that protesters have raised in the past were all off-limits, Grady continued on page 11 Flores said. In the past, drone activists

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that were not under discussion. For example, when some leaders pushed for rapid development to solve the housing crisis, I wondered what time period they had in mind. One can easily imagine housing results similar to road widening projects to solve traffic jams that result in just more traffic—which leads to more road widening. The temporal nature of

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plan goals for equality, climate protection, and healthy neighborhoods? During last year’s debates over development projects, I often found myself wondering about a number of questions

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the problem has to be part of the system analysis. What are our assumptions about population growth over the next several decades? Are those valid assumptions? Another puzzle is whether downtown densification really does prevent rural sprawl. That is a claim that is often made, but without a growth boundary in place will that be true over time? How strongly linked are these variables? The growth in Lansing of both high-end housing developments and car-dependent apartment complexes continues despite new housing coming online in the city. Can these be brought into balance with demand? If rural sprawl does slow down, is that because of housing opportunities in urban areas or a shift in housing preferences of the Millennials and retirees moving into the area? Will those preferences change with time or the demographics of those moving here? How confident are we that we don’t need policies to more actively prevent rural sprawl? Just as people are questioning when eminent domain is truly in the best interest of the community over time, people are also questioning whether growth is always a good thing. How do we determine the limits to growth— before we shoot past them? Which brings me to questions about endpoints and carrying capacity. This is the idea that an area’s resource generation rate and infrastructure determine the population size that can be hosted. Where we set “carrying capacity” has a lot to do with what we consider desirable living conditions and how those are distributed across the population. We are all familiar with the sad cliché of attractive places that grew fast from an extended inflow of new residents, which only slowed after the original quality of life diminished due to gentrification, crowding, and poorlymeshed new development. Is it possible to avoid this fate? Can

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we grow our population and diversify our economy while maintaining a sense of place and a sense of fairness? Of course a few newspaper articles and a couple hours of conversation aren’t going to solve this complex and unfolding set of challenges. But I hope that it can help us move away from casting each other in the roles of rapacious developers, NIMBY residents, clueless bureaucrats, or Luddites wanting to live in the past. And hopefully we all come out of this with a more complete mental model of how this creature is constructed and moving across our timescape. Let’s work the problem. Together. • – Gay Nicholson, President, Sustainable Tompkins This guest opinion is the first in a series on sustainable development organized by Sustainable Tompkins as background to a community conversation on housing, April 23 at Earth Day Ithaca. gradyflores contin u ed from page 11

arrested at a Jan. 28 action at Hancock. Later, Grady Flores was called to the TV room to see her comrades on the 6 o’clock news. And while she’s a self-proclaimed radio news junkie with no television for 20 years, Grady Flores did discover she liked the Ellen DeGeneres show while “in the hole.” Grady Flores is originally from the Bronx, which gave her “a lot of street cred.” One of the guards said hello with the greeting “What’s up, OG,” one day. “What’s that mean? Old Grandma?” Grady Flores asked the guard. “No, he said, old gangster.” Grady Flores might yet have to return to jail. She’s out on a “stay of judgment,” while the New York Court of Appeals, its highest court, decides whether to hear her appeal. That appeal relies on a misuse of the order of protection, typically applied in cases of domestic abuse. At her trial for violating the order, Evans took the stand and admitted “he doesn’t know me or any of the others, he’s not afraid of me, and he never had a conversation with me,” Grady Flores said. “It was just a piece of paper to keep us away from the base.” Grady Flores’ mother is in hospice care and she said she hopes to stay out of jail long enough to see her to the end. While Grady Flores is catching up on the news and continuing to pay attention to drone warfare, she also wants some family time. “There’s a bombardment of messages from society all about numbing ourselves and not taking an honest look at this thing, which is pretty hard to look at,” Grady Flores said. “I’d rather not look at it myself. I’d rather hang out with my grandchildren at the playground and waterfalls, make cookies. And I will do that, that’s what feeds my soul.” • – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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Sports teaches you time management By Ste ve L aw re nc e

went to a softball practice recently (this is the 15th consecutive year I have done so as a softball dad), and I struck up a conversation with another guy as we watched our 12 year-olds hone their skills. He said, “Your daughter said she’s going to Florida to watch her big sister’s college team play. She seems excited.” I said, “She sure is. Having made the trip to Arizona last year, and seeing her sister play at the college level and seeing her relationships with her teammates, she dialed up her own commitment to one day follow in her footsteps.” I then asked him if his daughter ever expressed a similar wish, and he replied, “We won’t let her play in college. We want her to focus on her grades.” My brain revved up, as that statement elicited not only a column idea, but also an opportunity to have a dad-to-dad conversation about two really important topics. I decided that I would write the column, I would discuss the student/ athlete issue with him, but I decided I did not yet know him well enough to bring up the “other issue.” More on that later… I said, “Joe, having written about student athletes for 24 years and having raised one myself, I’d like to—if I may— share my view on the balancing act that is collegiate athletics.” He was amenable, so I said, “I have written about hundreds of such athletes, and I will tell you this: If a kid learns time-management skills early, he or she can not only play a sport in college, she can also further load up the tool box of life skills.” I said, “I have interviewed many kids whose grade-point averages are actually higher during their sports season, as they have learned to lock in, stay focused and be very efficient with their time. That skill set, I will tell you, is very attractive to future employers, and I know that many athletic programs have a hiring pipeline consisting of many former athletes and alums that are looking for people that have proven they have those time-management skills.” I told him that my own daughter, Hannah (who plays for the Alfred University Saxons), was maintaining high grades, having a great time as a softball player, scored two great marketing internships at Watkins Glen International Speedway, and that her employment prospects were very bright. Joe thought about that, and to his credit, said he’d “consider that perspective.” • • • As for that “other issue”: I really wanted to ask Joe why he felt that whether his daughter played college sports should be his decision. I respect that people parent differently, but I really value the fact that my daughters (the oldest of the three

just finished grad school and landed a great job) are very self-directed, internallycontinued on page 14

Hannah Lawrence, (right) in 2002 and (far right) in 2015. (Photos: provided and Fran Passuite)

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City Forester Plans Ash Borer Defense

he spread of the insect to Ithaca is inevitable,” says the city’s updated management plan for the emerald ash borer. In recent weeks, city forester Jeanne Grace gave Common Council and the Board of Public Works the run-down of the 2016 plan update; the city first put a plan into place in 2013 for dealing with the little green bug that feasts on ash trees. “It could be next year when it arrives; it could be three years,” Grace said. “We don’t know how much time it will take.” Agrilus planipennis is native to eastern Asia, but only came to prominence after its presence was first confirmed in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario in 2002. The closest the bug has been confirmed is in Bath, in Steuben County, and in the Syracuse area, with its first New York sighting in Randolph, circa 2006. The emerald ash borer (or EAB, for short) seems to move mostly in firewood and pallets, rather than under its own power; preventive treatments aren’t required until it has been confirmed to be within about 10 miles.

Emerald ash borer “galleries” in a green ash (Photo: Wikicommons)

The EAB attacks the “weak and stressed” trees first, so the city will give some priority to treating those ash trees with better prospects when the time comes. Grace is recommending the city use “Tree-age,” a product of Woburn, Massachusetts company Arborjet. Treeage uses emamectin benzoate as its active ingredient, has an expected efficacy of up to three years, and can be injected directly into the trees’ vascular systems. Priority will be given to trees greater

than eight inches in diameter. Trees in poor health and large trees with “compromised vascular systems” will be left to take their chances in most cases. Trees in spaces where their growth will be limited, like those near power lines or in “tree lawns” with less than five feet of room between road and sidewalk, will also be left on their own. At Stewart Park and the Newman golf course, where ash trees make up about a sixth of the total tree population, some exceptions might be made to the rules to maintain the area’s character. The city currently maintains about 350 ash trees: about 150 of those are street trees that meet the treatment criteria. There are over 50 in Stewart Park, with more than 40 of those in a condition meriting Tree-age. At $7 per inch of diameter, the management plan estimates a cost of about $15,000 every three years to treat the street trees, and about $6,000 every three years at both Stewart Park and the golf course. Grace stressed that the treatment is a bargain, compared to the cost of taking down dead trees. “If we manage an infestation reactively and remove dead trees as they appear,” the plan reads, “the rate of tree death would eventually exceed the rate of removal that the City of Ithaca tree crew could manage.” • – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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motivated people, and since the day we became a parents, their mom and I have pointed to the bumper sticker that says “Teach You Children How to Think, Not What to Think.” In any case, I know my friend will do what he feels is best for his kids. • • • I love the Ithaca College Bombers, and while I have tried to maintain some objectivity in my coverage of them for 20some years, I have always rooted for them. Except, that is, when they are playing against Alfred. It is an absolute joy to watch my kid play NCAA softball, having been her primary coach from the time she was 7 years old, until I entrusted much of her skill development to travel team coaches a few years later. After being recruited by Alfred, she broke her wrist in the fall of her freshman season, broke her nose the next spring, and then injured her MCL last spring. Each time, she battled back to become a starter, and to be in Florida last week watching her rip line drives, steal bases and help her team to an 8-4 spring trip record, well … it’s just a wonderful experience. As I stated, her 12 year-old sister says she’s next. It’s okay … retirement, I hear, is overrated. •

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An early opera comes to life at Cornell

ere is a unique opportunity to witness the American premiere of a basically unknown opera dating from 1606 called Eumelio. The Cornell Early Music Lab (CEML), Cornell Chamber Singers, and guest soloists are presenting two performances on Saturday, March 19, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 20, at 3 p.m., in the auditorium of Cornell’s new Klarman Hall. A reception will follow both performances. On opening night SUNY professor emerita Barbara Russano Hanning, a specialist in Italian music of the 16th and 17th centuries, will give a lecture at 7 p.m. The opera, by Italian composer and music theorist Agostino Agazzari (1578– 1640), was first performed in Rome, just a year before the premiere of Monteverdi’s Orfeo—considered by most historians to be the first “real” opera. Described as a pastoral drama in music, Eumelio is in three acts plus prologue (sung by Poetry). Based on the Orpheus myth, it features Greek deities, shepherds and shepherdesses, evil spirits and demons, energetic choruses, and a varied baroque orchestra. Eumelio is the story of a (Above) The Cornell Early Music Lab (CEML) rehearsing for boy who is lured away from a simple pastoral Eumelio. (Right) An old painting depicting Eumelio, based life by the Vices and is then rescued from the on the Orpheus myth. (Photos Provided) Underworld and returned to Arcadia by the sun god Apollo and Mercury. The composer, a native of Siena and later scores and recordings. The second part in life the organist at the Siena Cathedral, is was devoted to work and research on best known in musicology circles for writing Eumelio. one of the earliest treatises on the basso Zaslaw had already assembled continuo. Early in his career he went to Rome much of the needed material and put and became maestro di cappella at the Roman the participants—mainly candidates for Seminary. There he composed the opera to Ph.D. in musicology along with music a libretto written by two seminary priests. department professor David Rosen, whose Written very quickly, it was performed at speciality is opera, and his linguistics Carnival in 1606, with a revival elsewhere in professor wife, Carol, both retired—to Italy a few years later. The music is set mainly work on preparing a modern edition for single voice and continuo, with recitatives of the work. Together they uncovered and strophic arias. The choruses of Vices/ considerable new material, including Demons and shepherds play an important role, a German translation of the libretto especially at the endings of the acts. published some thirty years after the first This unusual production at Cornell has performance. And before long there was talk quite a story. Neal Zaslaw—best known as about doing a production at Cornell, an idea Cornell music department’s (and the world’s) enthusiastically embraced by these scholars. Mozart specialist—was asked to teach the Although not every seminar member is seminar on baroque music for the 2015 spring performing, all have been involved in various semester. He told me he wanted to find a topic ways. that was both educational and the basis for The Cornell Early Music Lab—a graduateserious research. So he looked over the group professional group that promotes early music of documented works from the first decades activities at Cornell (it’s partly a successor to of the opera form. Many were not complete, the previous Baroque Orchestra and Les Petits either the music or the libretto was missing. Violons and includes seminar members) has Many had printed editions. Then he came assumed the realization of the Eumelio project, across Eumelio, with libretto and complete under the leadership of its executive director musical score and in a style characterized by David Miller. These musicians come to Zaslaw the outpouring of emotion. for answers to questions and for advice, but He uncovered three un-staged or semihe finds he has little to do. They have “already staged productions in Europe since the 1980s, gone so far in early music,” he said, “and want none resulting in anything permanent—no to teach others.” And as a legitimate student published scholarship, no recordings, no organization, they have been able to secure edition. So here was the topic. The first part funding for the project. of the seminar was spent reading about and The CEML had to gather together the discussing very early operas with available cast, chorus, orchestra, and production

Arts&Entertainment

Into the Underworld

by Jane Dieck mann

people. “Just look at the social structure at the time,” Zaslaw points out, “there were no opera companies, no orchestras.” One relied on the church choir and its solo singers, and got the fiddlers and wind instrumentalists from local and itinerant performers. Some additional music was needed for the overture and interludes between acts, so after looking through parts for theater music of the time, several “sinfonias,” by Salamone Rossi (1570– 1630) from Mantua, were selected. “This is good music,” says Zaslaw, “from the same period.” The opera will be sung in Italian, and the program will provide a complete translation of the libretto prepared by Carol Rosen. Four guest artists will sing the opera’s major roles. Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, visiting lecturer at Cornell, will be the eponymous young shepherd. She has already sung in several concerts here this season, most recently with pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough in continued on page 21

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In Black and White Truth Local Photographer visits memorial sites By Ar thur W hit m an

here is a strange kinship between photography and the structures people build to commemorate historical tragedy. Photos have the ability to pull from the past—a particular moment and point-of-view, a unique appearance. They give a semblance of immortality to the evanescent. Memorials, of course, have a physical presence that photographs lack. Often they take on an abstract form, easily legible, meant to dignify loss but at the risk of distracting or distorting. But the two modes complement each other—think of how iconic façades lend themselves to postcards. Both make public what might otherwise be private. The intersection of these two forms of remembrance is a major concern for Ben Altman, an Ithaca-area photographer who also works in sculpture, installation, and performance. A British native, Altman has been a full-time artist in the area for about a decade. Since 2013 Altman has made several trips, traveling around Europe, the United States, and Japan, seeking out memorial sites and markers. The Holocaust has been a recurrent theme, but Altman’s investigation is more general. How do people give physical form to traumatic memory? Nearly 50, mostly recent, images from Altman’s ongoing “Seeing Memorials” series compose an exhibit of the same name, currently on display at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA). The show, which concludes this month, was put together by Altman with help from CSMA director Robin Tropper-Herbel. A series of four Charred Remains prints from a decade ago serves as a kind of prelude. Shot in Idaho in the aftermath of a fire, these black-and-white close-ups of fallen trees revel in crisp details, rich textures, and abstract but familiar forms. As

with Edward Weston’s (1886-1958) famous shots of green peppers, an analogy to the human form is inescapable. In the context of “Memorials,” these reclining, contorted torsos become sinister. Most of the work here was shot using a Holga, a cheap “toy” camera made without standard controls and made entirely out of plastic—including the lens. Manufactured in Hong Kong since 1981 and recently discontinued, the device has developed a cult following that has built an aesthetic around its technical limitations. Altman’s Holga images display a characteristic loss of peripheral focus and vignetting—a quite noticeable shadowing around the corners. According to the artist, this is meant to be akin to human vision, which also loses color and focus outside its center. More broadly, it serves as a metaphor for the limitations of human understanding, memory, and empathy. The bulk of “Seeing Memorials” is made up of 12” x 12” Holga images with the larger prints shot using a 4x5 (film) view camera. The pictures have been arranged in rows and (in the case of the latter) stacked grids, meant to emphasize formal and thematic connections. The overall presentation has a neat symmetry and a deliberate quality that is rare in exhibitions of local art. Most of the pieces have been printed in black-and-white, with strategically placed color images adding to the varied cohesion of the overall collection. A row of three large (20” x 26”) monochromes hung on the gallery’s central back wall forms a centerpiece. In placing them together, Altman has used similarities of form and composition to draw analogies between the three disparate sites. On the left is Cenotaph for the Victims of the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, unusual here for its symmetrical

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composition and straight-ahead perspective. The view centers on the saddle-shaped concrete arch, which shelters a symbolic grave stone. Through it—in a carefully calibrated view—we see the famous Genbaku Dōmu (Atomic Bomb Dome), the ruins of the pre-war Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. Occupying the center of the CSMA lobby’s back wall, WWII Memorial Outside Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London shares the neat left/right symmetry of Cenotaph—this time, our view is aimed downwards, a mild disorientation. The structure commemorates Londoners killed in the war. Its design is modest but elegant: a flattened cylinder of dark metal with indented, serif-capped letters. We can read: “1939-1945 REMEMBER.” On the right is Cemetery Entrance Gate, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA. The picture has its own dignity yet does not attempt to conceal the awkwardness of the site. The viewer is placed at an oblique angle to the gate, which consists of a narrow bridge of scaffolding—surmounted by a cross—held up by two thick pillars of brick and whitewashed blocks. Mismatched fences surround it. Memorial Plaque, Amiens Cathedral, Somme, France is the most aesthetically striking of these. Improbably enough, the French and English plaque—hung above us to the right—commemorates a division of soldiers from New Zealand who died

in the Battle of the Somme. (The sign, though emphasized in the shot, must be an inconspicuous presence within the grand Gothic interior.) Here we see the skinny bundled columns, archways and tall windows through a dream-like atmosphere of shadow and blur. Hung near the staircase leading to the CSMA’s basement gallery, another subseries recalls the work of Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), whose photographs of textured surfaces are frequently compared to Abstract Expressionist painting. Shot at the Nazi camps of Breendonk, Mauthausen, and Ravensbrück (in Belgium, Austria, and Germany, respectively), these larger digital color images have a beguiling beauty that is difficult to reconcile with the unspeakable acts we are meant to associate them with. Breendonk, located outside of Antwerp, was constructed as a fortress in continued on page 19

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It’s a Sci-Fi Kind of Week New films dazzle in fantastical realms By Br yan VanC ampe n Creative Control, co-written and directed by Benjamin Dickinson, opening Friday at Cinemapolis; 10 Cloverfield Lane, directed by Dan Trachtenberg, playing at Regal Stadium 14.

enjamin Dickinson’s Creative Control is one eccentric East Coast sci-fi Woody Allen-type auteur movie. I wasn’t familiar with Dickinson before, but this is his second film, and like Allen, he co-writes, directs and stars. In a nearfuture—like five minutes—Brooklyn, we meet David (Dickinson), an ad executive about to unleash a new Augmented Reality technology, the highest-tech pair of glasses

clarity of character and lack of ego. And where Manhattan made room for urban oddball cameos from the likes of SNL’s Michael O’Donoghue and Wallace Shawn, the new model allows for good stuff by H. Jon Benjamin (Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist) and a magnificent meta cameo by Reggie Watts (Comedy Bang Bang, The Late Late Show with James Corden).. So yeah, Creative Control is sort of like what Woody Allen’s Manhattan would have been like with cutting edge technology. Actually, it plays like Allen’s version of Minority Report. It’s Noah Baumbach’s The Matrix. It’s Jim Jarmusch’s Pleasantville. It’s cool. And Austin Ku, who was great as Dr. Frankfurter in the Hangar Theatre’s 2011 production of The Rocky Horror Show, has a featured role in David’s Viceinspired think tank.

• • • Darn you, J.J. Abrams! Movies like Super 8, Cloverfield, and the new Star Wars film are so surprising and entertaining that you want to avoid talking about the story. The new quasi-sequel to Cloverfield, 10 John Goodman stars in 10 Cloverfield Lane (Photo Provided) Cloverfield Lane is like that. Abrams and company made you’ve ever seen. And, despite having the it under Bad Robot’s usual terms of secrecy love of Juliette (Nora Zehetner of Brick, and kept it off the radar until a month or so “Maron”), a lovely and talented yoga ago. Some movies build up so much hype. instructor, he uses the glasses to create an You want to see them just so the hype will avatar of his best friend’s girlfriend Sophie stop. This movie feels like a party crasher. (Alexia Rasmussen). So let’s just say that Mary Elizabeth Co-written by Micah Bloomberg, Winstead (Sky High, Deathproof, Live Creative Control flits between well-funded Free or Die Hard) wrecks her car while start-up companies, yoga classes, and leaving New Orleans in a big hurry, and high-end photo shoots, doing for Brooklyn wakes up chained to a pipe in a room in what Woody Allen did for Manhattan an underground bunker. And let’s say that in Manhattan. Like Manhattan, Creative John Goodman gets his best role since Control was photographed by Adam Trumbo, the last movie he was in, and Newport-Berra in black-and-white his best of a certain flavor since Barton anamorphic widescreen. There are also Fink. Counting John Gallagher Jr. (Spring echoes of Fellini and Antonioni, but the Awakening), it all plays out like a cross main model is Manhattan. It depicts a between War of the Worlds and Misery. fickle, superficial artistic community where If you’re expecting the found-footageeveryone works hard and is miserable, and style and Godzilla-style monsters of the when it comes to romantic relationships, original Cloverfield, expect again. The the grass is always greener, etc. Cloverfield franchise seems to be shaping On the surface, Dickinson plays the up as Twilight Zone style anthology, united kind of ad man who could be on the cover more by a sense of surprise and style of magazines, but he’s really a druggedthan a continuing story. If there is a third out drunken hedonist once you get to Cloverfield, I hope it veers even further into know him. Like fellow East Coaster Larry Rod Serling-Richard Matheson-Harlan Fessenden, Dickinson has a surprising Ellison left field. •

IC3’s 14th Annual Silent Auction Benefiting the Ithaca Community Childcare Center Scholarship Fund

Saturday, March 19, 2016 6:30 — 10 P.M. Phillips Hall, Emerson Suites Ithaca College “I know the care and education my children received at IC3 willbenefit them for a lifetime. Without the IC3 Scholarship Fund, my children would never have been able to experience such a high quality program.” -IC3 Parent Special thank you to our primary sponsors, Cayuga Medical Center, Tompkins Trust Company and Tompkins Insurance Group, our co-sponsors: McDonald’s, CFCU Community Credit Union, and C.S.P. Management, our media sponsor the Ithaca Times, IC3 Board of Directors, classrooms & parents, and the following donors for their support!, 139 Auto, Agava, Agway, Aimee Deriziotis, Alphabet Soup, Amanda O’Bannion, Applebee’s, Argos Inn, Ashleigh Knight, Auburn Doubledays, Barnes & Noble, Best Auto Repair, Bethany Woodman, Boat Yard Grill/Ciao!, Bool’s Flower Shop, Boxy Bikes, Brittney Haviland, Carisia Koski, Cat’s Pajamas, Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, Cayuga Landscape, Cayuga Nature Center & Museum of the, Earth/ PRI, Cayuga Pet Hospital, Centerline Fitness & Martial Arts, Chili’s, Cinemapolis, Circus Culture Ithaca, CNY Hot Tubs, Coltivare, Community School of Music & Arts, Cooperstown BB Hall of Fame, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell Plantation, Corning Museum of Glass, Cost Cutters, Country Inn & Suites Ithaca, Cross Roads the Clown, Daisy Maid, Dan The Snakeman, Dawn Shoemaker, Dolche Delight, Eastern Mountain Sports, Emmy’s Organics, Experience! The Finger Lakes, Fairfield Inn & Suites of Ithaca, Family Reading Partnership, Fat Jack’s BBQ, Fausel Imagery, Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival, Finger lakes Soap Company, Fire Walk Tony Simons, Flower Fashions, Freddy’s Diner, Gimme! Coffee, Good to Go!, Greek Peak, Green Star, GreenTree Garden Supply, Groks Rx Kitchen, Hampton Inn Ithaca, Handwork Co-Op, Hangar Theatre, Head Over Heels Gymnastics, Hilton Garden Inn, Home Green Home, Hopshire Brewery, If Only Farm Equestrian Center, Imagery (Jewelry by Clare Ulrich), Instant Replay Sports, Island Health & Fitness, It Works! (Body Wraps by Marcy Brandt), Italian Carry Out, Ithaca Bakery/CTB, Ithaca Car Share, Ithaca Coffee Company, Ithaca Swim Club, Jane Morgan’s Little House Ltd, Jeffrey Foote Photography, Jimmy Johns, JJ’s Cafe, Joanna Mira Photography, John Rotella, Judd Falls Wine & Spirits, Julia Dean, Just a Taste, Kassi Gardner, KB Photography, Kitchen Theatre, La Tourelle/ August Moon Spa, Le Café CentDix, Life’s So Sweet, Lucas Winery, Lynne Taetzsch, MacKenzie-Childs, Madeline’s Restaurant, Magical Castle Vacations, Mama Goose/Mimi’s Attic, Mansour Jewelers, Maria Lloyd-Jones, Maribu Spa, Mark’s Pizzeria, Maureen Clark, Maxi’s Supper Club, Melanie Dykeman, Mercato, Michaleen’s Florist & Garden Center, Mickey Roof’s The Jewelbox, Miel Beauty Bar, Mighty Yoga, Model Citizen Tattoo, Monroe Payne Photography, Moore Tree Farm, Mossewood Restaurant, My New Born is Art Photography, Nancy Cheri Arif, Nancy Pedersen, Northeast Pizza /Scale House Brew Pub, Northstar, Olive You by Gabrielle Moracco, One World Market, Parakeet Feet, Percision Locks, Perrywinkle’s Fine Jewelry, Pete’s Wine & Liquor, Piggery, Plenty of Posies, PSP Unlimited, Purity Ice Cream, Rasa Spa, Red & White Café, Red Feet Wine Market & Spirit Provisions, Robin Blakely-Armitage, Rose’s Home Dish, Ross Park Zoo in Binghamton, Sarah Clark, Satori Salon and Day Spa, Sciencenter, Shai Gear LLC, Shawn Potts Photography, Significant Elements, Silly Reggie Greeting Cards, Simply Alexis Photography, SPCA, State Theatre of Ithaca, Stella’s Barn Country Restaurant, Sue Hertz, Sweet Fern Studio, The Frame Shop, Three Brothers Wineries & Estate, Ultimate Athletics, Waffle Frolic, Wegmans, Wild Birds Unlimited, Wine and Design, Wings Over Ithaca, WonderWorks YMCA, Zugibe Vineyards

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The Man Upstairs

Eclectic English musician makes a trek to The Dock By Br yan VanC ampe n

obyn Hitchcock has been playing his own particular blend of British psychedelic sounds for almost 40 years since forming the Soft Boys in the late 1970s. Both prolific and varied, he’s released 20 studio albums and as many compilations, rarity collections, and live albums. Check out I Often Dream of Trains, Perspex Island, Jewels For Sophia and the live Gotta Let This Hen Out. He’s also made a concert film, Storefront Hitchcock, directed by Jonathan Demme. He and his partner Emma Swift will play at The Dock on March 24. He spoke to the Ithaca Times about Swift, the perils of having too many songs and the elusive connection between David Bowie and Monty Python. Ithaca Times: It always annoyed me when critics said you only write about sex, insects and death, when I see such a wide breadth of stuff over the years. I was really curious about what you’ll be playing. Robyn Hitchcock: Well, whatever I play will be a fraction of what I have, unfortunately. We do ask now for requests on Facebook, simply because there’s so much, so many things I could play. So it’s nice if people make suggestions. You never

know, someone may suggest something good. There’s so much material. But you know, sex and death, most great art leads into sex and death. If we didn’t have any, we wouldn’t have any need for art as we know it. And art is really there to process your life, the same way dreams are. If you don’t dream, you go insane, and the same goes for art. Some go insane if they can’t create, and some go insane if they can’t receive it. It’s definitely good for your mental health. IT: I really enjoyed Robyn Sings, your album of Dylan covers. Is there another artist you’d like to do that with? RH: Well, I’ve done it live. But the Dylan covers record was really because there were so many live recordings of me singing Dylan. There’s a recording of me and a bunch of musicians in London playing Hunky Dory by David Bowie, performing that album in its entirety. And there’s also a Captain Beefheart. IT: You mentioned David Bowie. RH: I think my partner Emma Swift, who’ll be opening the show, put it very neatly the other day. She described him as a magician. That’s what he was. He

transformed people. David Bowie made life exciting for people. He came up at a time in Britain when life was fairly safe. IT: Is this pre-Python? RH: This is around the same time as Monty Python. This is like Bowie, very early ‘70s. Bowie got popular in ’71, ’72, and the second Python series came out in 1972, which is the same year that Robyn Hitchcock (Photo Provided) Ziggy Stardust came out. So it’s the time that be Laurel Canyon in 1971 or ’72. We both people like me were just bubbling up to 20 like Leonard Cohen, so we’re both singer[years old]. songwriter types. I come from the sort of IT: Tell me about your partner Emma psychedelic compost … Swift. IT: [laughs] RH: Emma is Australian, but we live RH: … but my songs have probably together; she’s based in Nashville. She is simmered down over the years. They’re not an Americana singer. She likes the pedal kind of jumping around the way they were steel. She’s only made one record so far, but 35 years ago in the Soft Boys era. My stuff it’s drenched in pedal steel. She’s a big fan is probably more kind of … I don’t know, of Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton, but hard to say. You know, I’m an Americana also Elvis Costello and Neil Young. Gram act now. Not that I have a choice, but I’m Parsons is probably her all-time favorite. Americana the way that Nick Lowe or Billy We’re both quite traditional, we’re sort Bragg are Americana. of very old fashioned in our tastes, you Read the full interview with Robyn know. Her dream period would probably Hitchcock at Ithaca.com.

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The Lamentable Tragedy punk band visits The Haunt By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Titus Andronicus, Craig Finn, Tuesday, March 22, 8 p.m., The Haunt

he industrial zones of Queens may as well be the land of salt mines; there’s an ominous bent to the unnatural state of this area. This is where Patrick Stickles, lead vocalist, guitarist, and overall captain of the New Jerseyand New York-based punk band Titus Andronicus, calls home. “The five minutes around my apartment here in Queens is the length of my universe,” Stickles told me over the phone recently. “Sometimes I take the van to New Jersey to see my parents, but I haven’t ventured too widely this winter. Everywhere’s too far.” Perhaps Stickles is busy processing and considering the abundant halite of the area. Perhaps he’s digging his way out of a collapsed mineshaft. Either way, he’s beamingly resourceful in conversation. Titus Andronicus is a shadowy cerebral punk band, with musical muscle that flexes towards indie-rock with a classic rock touch. The band’s music has the spirit and sinew of bands like Husker Dü, The Descendants, and Dinosaur Jr., while simultaneously leaning towards the sort of sing-a-long heartland anthems that Bruce Springsteen champions. To the band’s credit, they forge a sound that is both honest and engaging, rewarding you tenfold upon closer introspection. I asked Stickles what he’d been listening to lately. “Well I usually listen to stuff while cruising in my van; so whatever I have in there,” he replied. “Copper Blue by Sugar, you know Bob Mould from Husker Dü, his band. I’ve been playing that a lot. Titus and Sugar are both on Merge Records, and I grabbed this re-mastered version of Copper Blue the last time I was at the warehouse. It’s great. What else? A live album by Joe Walsh, I think it’s from Dallas or something; you can’t argue with Joe Walsh, you know.” Fittingly, Mould and Walsh are both artists with which Titus Andronicus shares a similar dynamism: a penchant for pop with a still-wavering flag of individualism. Stickles’ band has an anarchistic heart at its core, but doesn’t hesitate to write catchy and poppy melodies. This is their differentiation. “You know I’ve thought about this for a long time,” Stickles said while pondering my question “Is punk rock was more of a mindset, than a musical style or form?” “I think the distinction is ideological. Initially it was the style of music that signified the form. But it seems to me that the particulars of the birth of punk rock: the reaction to the dominant rock culture and overly pompous and popular material of the time, this is what punk rock was, and

is, naturally opposed to. I think this is its importance. It’s about not blindly accepting the prevalent culture. For me, it’s what good art is.” Stickles elaborated on his insight of the progression of punk rock forms, obviously a student of its history. “You can see how bands that came after the first wave refused to be told what punk had to be,” he relayed. “Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.; bands like that had the same spirit of those initial first-wave bands, but sonically, they were so much different. They created their own punk forms, you know.” Formed in 2005 by Stickles and some fellow schoolmates, Titus Andronicus has cycled through over 20 band members in its roughly 11-year history: a fact somewhat inconsequential, but nonetheless intriguing, and slightly in opposition to the inclusive mentality normally associated with punk rock, but strangely apt given the manic nature of the cerebral and pressing energy of the band. “I’ve also wondered about this a lot too,” Stickles noted when asked about the high turnover. “You know it’s a demanding life, this form of art. Year in and year out, it’s a grind. After a few years this can get to be too much for some people. I’m the one who makes the decisions in the band. It’s my baby, and I’m very personally invested. There’s nothing on the side for me; this is it.” It takes an unyielding drive to be an artistic director: the levels of which vary infinitely and tremendously. Titus

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to the others, setting up a strange visual rhythm overlain with a waffle-like grid of lights coming in from the upper-left corner. As in a Cubist painting, the space—and our relationship with it—is unclear. It isn’t easy to address an act of historical mass killing effectively in a work of visual art, particularly through a series made long after the fact. The art that comprises “Seeing Memorials” combines a palpable material lushness with a literary approach to metaphor and meaning that avoids the trap of easy answers at the possible expense of moral irrelevance. The project is fun, if harrowing, to write about—filled with visual analogies and inviting far-ranging historical reading. Whether it goes beyond this is an open question. • “Seeing Memorials” is on display at the Community School of Music and Arts from February 5 through March 25.

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1906. Obsolete for that purpose, the Germans in the occupied country turned it into a prison camp in 1940. In Breendonk Fortress Camp #1 and #2, Altman has captured one of its stranger details: windows painted blue, presumably to block the light or view for the inmates. The effect in both images is like stained glass, creating an incongruously sacral effect. The human body and its absence forms a subtext for Bathtubs, Ravensbrück Camp for Women, a poignant and eerie still-life. The black-and-white Holga picture shows six abandoned tubs, seen obliquely in a diagonal procession that stretches from background to fore. Two are ajar relative

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Locally Grown Dance Festival takes flight By Br yan VanC ampe n

s I walked into the Kiplinger Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, the cast and crew of this year’s Locally Grown Dance Festival was working on a solo dance piece by Tatiana Ferraro at the beginning of the show, and a quartet featuring Niara Hardister, Jacob Hunter, Serena Lotreck and Maerina Wilkins and a solo by Hunter that play at the end. “The department theme this year is ‘desire,’” said director and choreographer Byron Subers, and the current production, titled Loss, Denial and Desire: The Melodrama of the Krewe of Doberge Ball (March 17 through 19, 7:30 p.m. at the Kiplinger Theater, Cornell), has roots in some older dance pieces he created. Music by A.D. White Professor Wynton Marsalis was incorporated into some of the pieces. Subers is from New Orleans. “Growing up there was a very different world than where I live now in Ithaca, and putting them together is a big effort sometimes,” said Subers. He had worked on a piece about human oddities in 2003, but this evening is more literally about

New Orleans, using music by Marsalis, Fats Domino and Louis Armstrong. Actress Emma Bowers will also read a monologue by Carson McCullers during the show. A standard production of this size might rehearse anywhere from four to eight weeks, but Suber and the students have been working on Krewe of Doberge Hall since last September. “We’re playing with pushing things over the edge and really trying to explode social concepts,” Subers said. “There are nine women dressed in these ball gowns, beautifully colored. So the Krewe is the carnival club, and they have a ball and a parade. ‘Doberge’ is the title of a Wynton Marsalis piece that I did a few years ago, and Doberge is a multi-layered cake that’s very popular. My friends and I got it for our birthday every year. It’s a very fun, special thing. And so by playing with excess in various extremes, there’s the light and the joy, and there’s also despair.” The movements that I saw being rehearsed onstage did have a sexual, sultry quality. Even the low-slung Southern-style couch that Ferraro slumps upon at the

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beginning of her solo feels sultry somehow. As a bluesy tune plays, Ferraro’s drooping body begins jolting to the beat like some down-home electric shock. As she rises to try on various blouses and frocks hanging on long racks behind her, the act of donning clothes gives her spastic rhythms courage to, as they say, explore the space. Hardister and Hunter gradually couple and uncouple in various ways as Lotreck and Wilkins enter, observe and then join in. Finally, Hunter takes the stage alone as something of a broken toy or marionette, collapsing to the floor and rising again and again, as if determined to fix himself and walk tall. After the run-through, Pictured from left: Isabelle Stark, Jacob Hunter, and Zoe Jackson: stars Subers took me downstairs to of Loss, Denial, and Desire,: The Melodrama of the Krewe of Doberge Ball the costume shop and showed (Photo Provided) me some of the muted and gray-checked cloaks meant to hide and reveal some very as melodramatic when it’s actually the way colorful costumes that should bring the that person is experiencing the world at soul of Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street to that moment. So I wanted to bring into the stage of Kiplinger. question who has the ability to define “What I was interested in was playing excess for other people. Where I grew up, with what happens during Mardi Gras and it’s a very different world, and excess is just the excess, because I’ve been very interested a huge part of it. in melodrama, and how melodrama is For information and tickets, go to always defined as excess,” said Subers. schwartztickets.com. • “Sometimes people will define something

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a beautiful program called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flame and Shadow,â&#x20AC;? and will be in residence at the Marlboro Music Festival this summer. As the winged messenger Mercurio (Mercury), tenor Scott Mello comes with considerable experience in baroque music, notably Bach and Handel, and has performed with such ensembles as Apolloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fire, Bach Sinfonia, and Early Music New York. Bass Marc Webster, on the voice faculty at Ithaca College, sings the role of the imposing god Appolline. He has performed often here and widely as soloist in numerous opera and oratorio roles. The first voice we will hear is soprano Rebecca Leistikow as La PoĂŤsia in the prologue. She also chimes in later as the nymph Ecco (Echo). An Ithaca native, she has sung here with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and Musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Recreation and performs widely in opera roles ranging from early to modern. Michael Galvin, a junior at Ithaca College studying for a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in Voice Performance already has several professional choral experiences, and most recently appeared as Cadmus/Somnus in the performances of Handelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Semele at IC. He will sing the role of Plutone. Andrew Carr, also an Ithaca College junior studying for a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in music education and vocal performance programs and recently in the chorus of Semele, will be Caronte. CEMLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director Miller, who also plays violone in the orchestra, heads the production staff. He is joined by Cornellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant choral director Stephen Spinelli, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;among various other activitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is in charge of the Chamber Singers, the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small, specialized and auditioned group. Gary Moulsdale, a 2014 Cornell Ph.D. who teaches voice in both the musical theater program at SUNY Cortland and at Cornell, is stage director. The 10-piece orchestra consists of violin, flute, recorder, crumhorn (a double-reed instrument similar to the recorder), cello, violone (predecessor of the modern double bass), lirone (a stringed bass held between the legs), theorbo (lute with a very long neck), guitar, organ, and harpsichord. Players include a few Cornell undergraduates and at least one local performer, but the majority are graduate students in the music department. The performance will be staged, but not with much emphasis on costumes and scenery. And because the stage area is basically an academic amphitheater, entrances and exits will be simplified. It will be interesting to see how the scene will change very quickly from the Underworld to Arcadia near the end of the opera, and to find out the role of the statuary provided by the Department of Classics. Work on the choruses, especially to master the Italian text, started already in December for the Chamber Singers. Formal rehearsals for everyone began about two weeks before the performance time. Audiences can look forward to this

special production of a work we have never heard about. There promise to be some delightfully amusing moments. The libretto translation has an insertionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at Zaslawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suggestionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of a famous line by Dante. One scene when the god Apollo from on high encounters the god Pluto from below seems amusingly incongruous, as the meeting takes on the tone of two 17th-century friendly aristocrats greeting each other with the customary exchange of pleasantries. The dialogue then evolves into Apolloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s question, in reference to the classical Greek myth: If you gave Orpheus back, why cannot you do it for Eumelio? Both Orpheus and Eumelio, by the way, are Apolloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sons. When Eumelio is asked where he gets his gift of music, his father

answers for him, like so many parents in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world. Moreover, the operaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music will surely entertain. It is varied in style and quite experimental for its time. Not only did it provide a setting for the Jesuits to encourage good morals, it can be both charming and moving. This production is an important event, part of the College of Arts and Sciencesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Century for the Humanitiesâ&#x20AC;? celebration, which culminates in the dedication of Klarman Hall on May 26. Zaslaw points out that Cornellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduate programs, and especially in the sciences, pride themselves in distinguishing between applied and theoretical research. Here is an example, on the other hand, where significant research and its application have been directed toward interpreting

issues relating to different cultures in different times with preparing a modern edition, the first and only one since 1606, and one being used in a new production. Plans for publication are afoot, and the historical and musical findings from this project may well be published in scholarly journals. As Zaslaw says, this is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;model of what the humanities can do when they are functioning well.â&#x20AC;? Come and see Eumelio. The opera with its musical interludes runs for about 90 minutes, with no intermission. And how could we miss a lecture called â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Hell with Early Opera: Before Orfeoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Shepherd Boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adventures in the Underworldâ&#x20AC;?? Performances are free and open to the public. â&#x20AC;˘

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3/19 Saturday Agostino Agazzari’s Eumelio (American Premiere) | 7:00 PM- | Klarman Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | The Cornell Early Music Lab, Cornell Chamber Singers, and guest vocal and instrumental soloists will present the American premiere of Agostino Agazzari’s pastoral drama in music, Eumelio (1606), on Saturday (8 PM) and Sunday (3 PM), March 19 and 20. On opening night, a pre-performance lecture will be given by Professor Emerita Barbara Russano Hanning titled To Hell with Early Opera: Before Orfeo--A Shepherd Boy’s Adventures in the Underworld. Cornell Early Music Lab and the Cornell Chamber Singers | 8:00 PM | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell College, Ithaca | Presenting a revival of Agostino Agazzari’s pastoral drama in music, Eumelio (1606). Livingston Taylor & Tom Chapin | 8:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Livingston Taylor and Tom Chapin will appear together in a very special concert featuring some of the very best in folk music.

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Annual Women’s Works Concert | 4:00 PM | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The concert will be a perfect complement to Women’s History Month. Programmed are the winners of the Women’s Works’ Young Composer Competition along with other music from American women. Ithaca Concert Band: Mad About Marches | 4:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Featuring a great diversity and variety in the march idiom. Conductor Rick Eleck has selected a program that features Czech, English, American and Russian composers. You’ll hear light, pompous, traditional and not so traditional styles during the one-hour program.

Film 2001: A Space Odyssey | State Theatre, 107 West State St. | Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. | 149 mins G | cinemapolis

Friday, 3/18 to Thursday, 3/24. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Audubon | One Time Showing: Thursday, 03/17, 7:00 p.m. |

Documentary tells the story of John James Audubon’s adventurous life as he traveled the frontier wilderness to paint all the bird species of America. Audubon is considered by many to be the godfather of today’s conservation movement. After the screening, there will be a special Q&A with John Fitzpatrick, Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and one of the experts featured in the film. Additional information about Audubon can be found at www.audubonthefilm.com. Where to Invade Next | To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” them to see what they have to offer. | 110 mins R | Embrace of the Serpent |The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant. | 125 mins NR |

The Hateful Eight | In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters. | 187 mins R | Creative Control | In near future Brooklyn, an ad executive uses a new Augmented Reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend’s

Sarah Ruhl’s electrifying comedy. A true novelty: a sex comedy designed not for sniggering teenage boys — or grown men who wish they were still sniggering teenage boys — but for adults with open hearts and minds. - New York Times Two showings only Monday, 3/21, and Monday, 3/28, both at 7:00 pm. (Note our new curtain time this season). kitchentheatre.org

Notices 2016 Parent Meeting Kindergarten Registration | Newfield Elementary School, 247 Main St, Newfield | Parents of children new to the district who haven’t received a registration packet will need to call the Elementary office at 564-9955, ext. 1145 or 1143. Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 3/16 Wednesday | Tamarind, 503 N Meadow St, Ithaca | RSVP lpd4@ cornell.edu or 607-273-4013 Trumansburg Ulysses Philomathic Library Spring Book Sale 4/14-4/19 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Library Spring Book Sale runs 4/1 through 4/19. All categories of books, movies, games, music, etc. ranging $1-$3 for the whole family. Prices decrease starting April 17. Info at 607-387-5623, or at website www.trumansburglibrary.org. Volunteers for The Friends of the Library Book Sale | Do you like books and people who like books? The Friends of the Library Book sale is currently looking for volunteers for their May sale. If you are interested in volunteering before, during or after the sale, you can find us at www.booksale. org/volunteer or call 272-2223. Coalition for Families Monthly Meeting | 8:30 PM-10:00 PM, 3/17 Thursday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Watch here for more information, or get in touch with Anna, ams69@cornell. http:// ccetompkins.org/, http://www.frct. org/, http://www.human.cornell.edu/ pam/outreach/parenting/programs/ parentingskillsworkshopseries.cfm Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 3/17 Thursday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm. What’s Next? Career Expo | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 3/17 Thursday | Emerson Suites, Ithaca College, Ithaca | This one-day event will help about 350 juniors, seniors, and out-of-school youth ages 17-24 from the Ithaca/

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Sherrie Maricle & 5 Play | 7:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Jazz Concert Series.

it’s the modern age’ | 88 mins NR | Stromboli | Karen, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prisoners camp. But the life in Antonio’s village, Stromboli, threatened by the volcano, is a tough one and Karen cannot get used to it. | 81 mins NR | Elegant Winter Party: Dreams Rewired & Dancing | Saturday, 3/19, 7:30 p.m. | Don your favorite party attire for this early technology-driven extravaganza, which will feature an Interactive Exhibition of Obsolete Media Technologies & Early Cinema Devices, plus so much more!

girlfriend...sort of. | 97 mins R | The Lady In The Van | A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that’s parked in his driveway. | 104 mins PG-13 | Spotlight | The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. | 128 min R| Mad Hot Ballroom | The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition. | 145 min PG | Cornell Cinema

Wednesday 3/16 to Tuesday 3/22 | Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Hitchcock/Truffaut |Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut’s 1966 book “Cinema According to Hitchcock” influenced their work. | 119 mins PG-13 | Dukhtar (Daughter) | In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl’s marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins. | 93 mins NR | Dreams Rewired | ‘Every age thinks

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Cinemapolis, Thursday, March 17, 7:00 p.m.

Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Friday, March 18, 7:00 p.m.

This stirring documentary tells the story of John James Audubon’s adventurous life as he traveled the frontier wilderness to paint all the bird species of America. Audubon is considered by many to be the godfather of today’s conservation movement; spearheading the drive to protect and honor some our fellow life forms. After the screening, there will be a special Q&A with John Fitzpatrick, Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and one of the experts featured in the film.

Forging the unique and timeless energy that birthed modern rock-and-roll with the resolute tradition of the gritty realness of true country music, Ithaca’s Grey Wolf Jam, led by Bob Eller (voice and guitar), Phil Jackson (bass), and Larry Real (lead guitarist), bring a special sense of musical history to the masses of the Finger Lakes. Covering artists like Elvis, Ray Charles, Bill Withers, and Hank Williams, this trio is worth the trip to whatever pub, winery, or concert hall they frequent. The Wolf bring the goods Friday night: don’t miss out!

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To Kill a Mockingbird | Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | 7:00 PM, 2/24 Wednesday Harper Lee’s classic American story of courage and justice. In a small Alabama town, a black man, Tom Robinson, stands falsely accused of raping a white woman. Many townspeople would see him condemned, but attorney Atticus Finch defends Tom and demands justice. Through the trial, Atticus’ children Scout and Jem and their friend Dill come face to face with realty of racism in their small town. Runs February 24 through March 26. For info and showtimes visit syracusestage.org LilySilly Puppet Show | 3:45 PM, 3/18 Friday | Circus Culture in Press Bay Alley, 116 West Green Street, Ithaca | A puppet show for all ages, Aunt Irene’s talk show is filled with music and odd variety acts like a singing sloth and a know-it-all radio. Things go awry when a witch starts casting spells on guests and acts. Live music by Matthew Ocone, and a whole lot of absurdity. Teen Cabaret: A Musical Theatre Geek’s Guide to History | 3:00 PM, 3/19 Saturday | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Event to raise scholarship money for aspiring young singers. The event will feature popular musical theater numbers and desserts donated from local businesses. The participating teens have extensive resumes, including starring roles in school plays, Running to Places productions, and even professional theater. More information, visit: bodysongcenter.com/vocal-studies In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) | 7:00 PM, 3/21 Monday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Homecoming Players continues Murder and Mayhem Mondays season with

Finger Lakes Region explore careers available without a four-year college education. hcooper@tstboces.org Easy Square and Contra Dance | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, 3/18 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | No experience or partner needed. Must be Lifelong members. For more information call 273-1511. Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 PM, 3/20 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Come alone or with a partner. No special dancing skills required. The Hungry Heart | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/21 Monday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | One-night screening of the award winning movie, The Hungry Heart; a new documentary film about prescription drug addiction and recovery in Vermont. Director Bess O’Brien will lead a discussion after the screening. Come and be part of this important conversation. T’ai Chi Classes at Lansing Library | 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, 3/22 Tuesday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd, Lansing | John Burger - Instructor. T’ai Chi promotes balance, flexibility, coordination and can reduce pain. T’ai Chi is also been shown to lower the risk of falls, increase energy levels, enhance sleep, and reduce stress and anxiety. Wear loose clothing. The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM, 3/22 Tuesday | The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 The Commons, Ithaca | Please join us for tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Every Tuesday Night at 7 O’Clock.

light stand to grow seedlings under lights, and gain hands-on experience sowing different types of seeds and transplanting seedlings that they can take home for their own gardens. Pre-registration is strongly recommended so that we can contact participants in case of cancellation due to weather or low enrollment. For more information or to register online go to www.ccetompkins.org/events. Or call 272-2292 or email cab69@cornell.edu to pre-register. The Paleo Diet | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 3/16 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | If you want to lose weight, gain muscle, increase energy levels or just look and feel healthier, the Paleo Diet might be for you. Come learn more and sample some delicious Paleo food prepared by Sean O’Brien from Grok’s Rx Kitchen. Recipes provided. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Defiance and Protest: Forgotten Individual Jewish Reactions to the Persecution in Nazi Germany | 5:30 PM-, 3/17 Thursday | Rockefeller 122, Cornell University, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and Cornell University Library. Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 4:15 PM, 3/17 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. We minimize transitions from standing to the floor, and stay clear of poses and exercises that could inflame injuries or trouble sore joints. Class designed to create a safe and supportive environment to meet the needs of those who don’t wish to practice more strenuous styles of yoga. More info at www.YogaFarm. us Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Rose Goldsen Archive | 4:30 PM, 3/17 Thursday | Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | Opening Lecture: Matter as Media by Paul Vanouse, director of the MFA Program in Art, University of Buffalo. Reception following the lecture in Kroch Library, 5:30 to 6:30 pm. The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Reading featuring Gjertrud Schnackenberg | 4:30 PM, 3/17 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | Poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg delivers the Robert Chasen Memorial Reading as part of the Spring 2016 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series at

Learning Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org. Seed Starting for Beginners | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 3/16 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | In this workshop participants will learn to construct a simple PVC

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Cornell University. creative writing@ cornell.edu Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 3/18 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Come meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College. FARMING 101: Learn the Basics of Operating a Farm | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 3/19 Saturday | TC3 Farm, 100 Cortland Rd (Rt. 13), Dryden | Getting started in a farm business or with a farming enterprise on your land for home food consumption is an exploratory process…start small, find out what you like to do and what does well at your site. Cooperative Extension and Groundswell will co-host a one-day workshop that covers the basics of getting started including talks by experienced farmers on raising livestock or horticultural crops. Advance registration is STRONGLY ADVISED in a case of cancellation due to inclement weather. TO REGISTER: Call CCE Tompkins – 607-272-2292 or email – mjc72@cornell.edu Sharing Our Work for Social Change: Taking Action | 2:00 PM-, 3/19 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | This is the kick-off event for a series titled Sharing Our Stories of Action for Social Justice and Transformation. Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 5:45 PM, 3/22 Tuesday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. More info at www.YogaFarm.us Renovus Community Solar Initiative Event | 6:00 PM-, 3/22 Tuesday | Ithaca Beer Company, 122 Ithaca Beer Dr, Ithaca | Solar is more affordable than ever before & can cost less than your current electricity bill. Solar can meet 100% of your energy needs, with roof no longer required! Join us to learn about the many simple solar solutions now available. The event is free & open to the public. More information at: renovuscommunitysolar.com or http://bit.ly/

Special Events In Memoriam: Gathering for President Elizabeth Garrett | 3:00 PM-, 3/17 Thursday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The public is welcome

to attend. Cornell leaders, family members and friends are expected to speak, and the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club will perform. Memorial gathering live stream: www. cornell.edu/video/elizabeth-garrett-

memorial-gathering. Rock The Commons: Protest of the Clinton Foundation | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/18 Friday | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | Let’s come together - grassroots style. Make your own signs! Be peaceful & let love rule. #RockTheCommons 4D viewing of The Wizard of Oz | 2:00 PM-, 3/19 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca invites you to follow the yellow brick road to our interactive 4D viewing of The Wizard of Oz. Join us at 2pm for pre-movie games, music, food, crafts, face painting and a photo booth! Come in costume inspired by the Wizard of Oz and receive a free bag of popcorn! For more information, please call 607.277.7335, email admin@ eacmsi.org or visit our Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/ events/1004706789602610/. Maple Fest | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | 3/19 3/20, 9 am – 4 pm (breakfast 9 am – 2 pm). Join the Cayuga Nature Center for our annual celebration of all things maple at Maple Fest 2016! Fill up with a pancake breakfast and enjoy familyfriendly educational programs, a live animal presentation, vendors including Sapsquatch and Cayuga Creamery, and

Two Goats Brewing, Saturday, March 19, 9:00 p.m. This original Americana, alt-country, pop rock band from Lewisburg, PA, will be making its first trek to the Finger Lakes Region this weekend. The band’s name derives from the epic pile of lyrics cluttering songwriter and guitarist Paul Curcuruto’s coffee table. Paul writes melodic pop songs with country and Americana undertones shaped by Mark Tomeo’s pedal steel/dobro tones and the contralto vocals of Karen Nogle. The band will be joined by jam band scene stalwart and fiddler extraordinaire Jeff Wisor on this night.

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| 10:00 AM, 3/19 Saturday | Cortland Ramada, 2 River St., Cortland | Bring any kind of machine to work on a group project, get help, and learn from club members. Visit www.fingerlakesknitting.com/silver_needles_ knitting_club for details. Spring Craft Fair | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 3/19 Saturday | North Spencer Christian Academy, 721 Ithaca Road, Spencer | Lots of local vendors are participating and our concession stand will be available as well. Come join us! nsca@ htva.net / www.northspencer.org 5th Annual Pie-O-Rama | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/20 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Bake pie. Eat pie. Judge pie. Whichever one is your forte, the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (TCFA) can accommodate you at the Fifth Annual Pie-O-Rama. Following four successful years of Pie-O-Rama, TCFA is again calling for the area’s skilled bakers to bring in their best and vie for a fabulous trophy, custom-made by blacksmith Durand Van Doren. Once again this year, the winner will also claim a cash prize of $100. The trophy will be on display in the window of Tompkins Trust Co. in downtown Trumansburg. http://tburgconservatory. org/2016/02/09/the-5th-annual-pie-o-

Association, 3124 Route 206, Whitney Point | Vendors Tables & Parking are Free, Breakfast and Lunch served. Registration and Breakfast begins @ 8:00 a.m., Open Shoot @ 10:00 a.m. ContactGeorge @ (607) 692-4843 or cleopatches@frontiernet.net One Funny Ithaca Story | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, 3/20 Sunday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A comedic tribute to everythingIthaca stands (and sits) for! Emcee: Gary Stewart, CRC Board Vice President. Featuring: City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, Ithaca City School District Superintendent Luvelle Brown, and many, many more. The 2nd Annual Peace of Mind Yogathon | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, 3/20 Sunday | Family and Children’s Service of Ithaca, 127 West State Street, Ithaca | The Peace of Mind Yogathon offers an afternoon of various styles of yoga including classes for beginners and seasoned practitioners. All proceeds of the event benefit the mental health services provided at Family & Children’s Service. www.wheretoturnithaca.org Spotlighting Young Ornithology Researchers | 7:30 PM, 3/21 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Join us for this special Monday Night Seminar showcasing three outstanding young

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Rongovian Embassy, Saturday, March 19, 9:00 p.m. Doing the epically transcendent, colorful, and utterly progressive behemoths the Gratefu Dead justice when covering their songs is not an easy task: often simulated, but rarely with grace, the revolving collective Gratefully Yours, is an exception to the norm. Bringing honor, clarity, and enthusiasm to each performance, they forge the creativity the was the Dead’s ultimate trademark, with the bubbling energy their live performances created, often asking fans to pick their setlists. Heady stuff indeed!!

researchers and ornithologists. Connor Taff, a postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Lab, Ph.D. candidate Sahas Barve, and Cornell undergraduate Taylor Heaton Crisologo.

Books Reflections on reaching a Certain Age…Where Are My GLASSES?! | 6:30 PM-, 3/16 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickok Road, Interlaken | Nora Ephron, screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally, Silkwood, Sleepless in Seattle and Julie & Julia, entertains us with her book I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. For more information contact Encore Players at encoreplayers. ct@gmail.com or 607-387-3953, encoreplayers.org The Jane Austen Book Club: Author Karen Joy Fowler | 6:30 PM, 3/16 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Author of The Jane Austen Book Club, which spent 13 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List in 2004, Fowler has written six novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, won the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award, the California Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. She is the Cornell University Department of English’s 2016 Distinguished Visiting Writer. For more information about Fowler’s library presentation, contact Carrie WheelerCarmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 248. The Other Racism Book Club | 5:30 PM-, 3/16 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Reading the definition of Anti-Semitism by Kenneth Marcus. Marcus is former director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and is the founder and president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. For more information, see the ICUC-ME Facebook page at https://www. facebook.com/IthacaCoalition. The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Reading with Gjertrud Schnackenberg | 4:30 PM-, 3/17 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series presents. Gertrude Schnackenberg’s poems have appeared in many publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and

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Weekly Picks and Pairings by Christopher J. Harrington

f you’re dead set to hit up a show every day this week (and I know you are, because this is your week to let it rip)—I’ve got some choice picks for you. I’ll also include some pairings as well, because what’s a show without a little drink (or a lot of drink). But you know what?—weeks aren’t really seven days long, nay; they’re not even close to that: a week is officially Friday through Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday are fabrications—projections; mere shadows of those long true days, i.e. Friday through Tuesday. So let’s get to it. I have somewhat of a soft-spot for Southern Rock. The Allman Brothers are like top ten of all-time—easy. Like death metal, there’s just something about the tone that reminds me of the good ol’ days: e.g., playing in a power trio with my two brothers in Burlington, VT, burning happily into the horizons of freedom. Whenever I hear a Steve Ray Vaughn lick I want a drink and a smile, pronto. Finger Lakes southern rock road-dogs Iron Horse play The Haunt Friday night. Even though it’s supposed to rain and snow Friday, you should pretend it’s 80 degrees and sunny out, drink some Budweiser and Whiskey, and bang your head to classics like ZZ Top, Stevie Ray, and those bewildering progressive Allmans; all the while toasting that eternal divide. I went to college for a few years (and actually graduated) from a school way up in the vast mountainous desolation known as northeastern Vermont. Johnson State to be precise. And while I entered a

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Art Artist’s Talk: Rirkrit Tiravanija | 5:15 PM, 3/17 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will discuss his work, on view in the exhibition The fire is gone but we have the light. The Museum is open tonight until 8PM. Free. 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu In the Spotlight | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 3/18 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Six artists on the rise featuring Bruce Baxter, Bath, NY, Anne Bialke, Trumansburg, NY, Jennifer Fais, Cameron Mills, NY, Marc Rubin,

definite Grateful Dead fan, I left absolutely sickened by the mere thought of anything related to the band. Those trustafarians and faux hippies—without even a decent shred of good taste—absolutely spoiled the specialness of the Dead’s music. It took years for me to recover, but I did; and can still listen with awe to those mecurial west-coast psychedelic masters. I haven’t seen a Dead cover band since those dreaded Johnson days, but Saturday night I might have to break that spell. Graetfully Yours, one such band, is choked full of progressive and jam behemoths (Russ Lawton, Rick Nelson, Ed Grasmeyer), and creates shows inspired by fan picks, bringing charm, grace, and honor to the dynamic versatility of the Dead. They play the mighty Rongovian Embassy at 9:00 p.m. I’d start the night off with a China Girl (traditional Rongo cocktail), and hazily even the night out with a steady stream of Sammy Smith Nut Brown and Miller High Lite. Like the old Johnson trustafarians liked to say, “heady bro, heady.” Yup—heady. Sunday night is all about the extraterrestrial, dimensionally sub-tonic, intergalactic noise: harsh, ambient, dense, glycemic, and overwrought. Sacred

Elmira, NY, Judy Soprano, Rochester, NY, and Willsea O’Brien Glass, Naples, NY. Working in a variety of mediums - oil, acrylic, watercolor and glass. ongoing CAP Art Space | 171 The Commons, Ithaca | March 2 to 27, 2016. Leo Kang. The project ‘Another Day’ is a series of multimedia project where painting, essay, installation, technology are intermixed to describe a fluxing story. Tompkins County Trust Co. Main Office Lobby | 110 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno - Nature: Framed. Using varied textures and materials, Bruno’s focus is to connect the visual and emotional contrast of

Root Kava Lounge is host (From Left) Jerry Garcia, Steve Peck of Iron Horse, Weston to the second noise superCzerkies of Sunken Cheek (Photos from Facebook) spectacular gathering in as many weeks. With artists Merzbow, a bit of Slipknot, a sprinkling of from Portland, OR (Flysch), Ithaca (Sunken Gentle Giant, and maybe even some Go To Cheek, Fa, Kjostad), and Providence, RI Heaven when you’re really getting there. (VSinclair), this aural Sabbath promises If you finish the bottle drink some water, to be menacing, uplifting, and pure noise chances are you’re working in the morning. geek-ecstasy. For a place as remote as Tuesday night is reserved for punkers Ithaca, it seems lately like this place is Titus Andronicus. They blow up The noise central: the avant-garde haven Haunt after opener Craig Finn, who plays for such underground pilgrimage. You around 8:00 p.m. Titus is a real bundle owe it to yourself to check this show out. of a band; equal parts Husker Du and Get a round of shots at the Chanticleer Bruce Springsteen, they’re like the darkest (Jagermeister, if you know what’s good contemporary indie-rock can get; recalling for you), and then head over to the Sacred the days when the form actually had some Root to drink some ceremonial Kava thump, e.g. Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, elixir and be swirled away to Neptune’s Dinosaur Jr. What to drink? Well, I’d change frigid extremism by-way of portals of it up all night. A shot of Maker’s Mark, a dimensional pandemonium. Guinness, a Saranac, a Coors Light, a shot Monday night. Stay in. I know I said of Petron; you know how to do it. we’d hit up all these shows, but you know Well then you wake up and it’s what Monday night’s really good for: a Wednesday—not even a real day. It’s bottle of Chianti and sitting in front of pretty much Friday, and you’re planning your record player and dreaming. Play you assault for the next round of bands. some Sam Rivers, some Brutal Truth, a little Cheers! •

observing nature through the window of her childhood, with the calm and richness of being surrounded by the natural environment in the present. EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | The Otherworld of Jim Garmhausen. Jim is no stranger to Ithaca, as his murals adorn the walls of many eateries and public buildings. His is a world unto itself with colossal-headed men and a fiery sense of fun. He has done some cracking new work for the show and it’s sure to excite. Call 342.4414 or visit eyeithaca.com Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | OPENING EXHIBIT - Revealed:

WPA Murals from Roosevelt Island - January 30-May 29 | The fire is gone but we have the light: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Korakrit Arunanondchai - January 23-May 29 | Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in East Asian Art January 23-June 12 | Works from the Johnson’s collection explore how Chinese cultural images and artistic styles were adopted and adapted in Korea and Japan. | www.museu cornell.edu Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca |Project for a Re-volution in New York features installations by 22 local, national and international artists. Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@tcpl.org or visit http://

tcpl.org | www.tcpl.org Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | LOST TREASURES FROM THE TITUS GALLERY COLLECTION. Original art and limited edition silkscreens by well known artists including Leonard Baskin, Mercada and Daphne Sola, to name a few. Call 277-2649 or visit http://www. titusgallery.com

Got Submissions? Send your events items – band gigs, benefits, meet-ups, whatever – to arts@ithacatimes.com.

Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Sunday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.

Ford Hall, Ithaca College Sunday, March 20, 4:00 p.m.

Bake pie. Eat pie. Judge pie. Whichever one is your forte, the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (TCFA) can accommodate you at the Fifth Annual Pie-O-Rama. Following four successful years of Pie-O-Rama, TCFA is again calling for the area’s skilled bakers to bring in their best and vie for a fabulous trophy, custom-made by blacksmith Durand Van Doren. Once again this year, the winner will also claim a cash prize of $100. The trophy will be on display in the window of Tompkins Trust Co. in downtown Trumansburg.

The Ithaca Concert Band will march right out of March when it presents its winter concert Sunday night at Ford Hall on the Ithaca College campus. “Mad About Marches” features a great diversity and variety in the march idiom. Conductor Rick Eleck has selected a program that features Czech, English, American and Russian composers. You’ll hear light, pompous, traditional and not so traditional styles during the one-hour program. Selections will include “Star Wars”, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Sea Songs.”

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Internet: www.ithaca.com Mail: Ithaca Times Classified Dept PO Box 27 Ithaca NY 14850 In Person: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm 109 North Cayuga Street

community

automotive Donate your car to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-A-Wish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call:315-400-0797 Today! (NYSCAN)

VENDORS & ARTISTS WANTED

for Buffalo’s largest Comic Con. Star Studded guest list. Buffalo Niagara Convention Center on 8/13 & 8/14. Low booth & ticket prices. Email: vendors@ nickelcitycon.com

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piano & bench. Good conditions. Must go. Make offer. 607-272-4065

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SAWMILLS from only $4397.00 - MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmillcut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info /DVD: www. NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800-578-1363 Ext. 300N (NYSCAN)

2009 Ford Focus

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Silver, Manual Transmission, One Owner, Excellent Condition, 83,082 miles. $4,150. Call 607-532-4891

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NEW YEAR, NEW AIRLINE CAREERS. Get trained as FAA Certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information 866-2967093. (NYSCAN)

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antiques • vintage • unusual objects

Jays Books

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Looking for Chidren

A son named Travis age 28, originally from Cortland and a Daughter whom I have never met and is from the area. Please contact with any info (call or text) Earland Perfetti (Butch) 607-339-6842 or on Facebook

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Open every day 10-6, except Tues.

employment 430/General Clark Brothers Orchards, LLC

Ashfield, MA needs 3 temporary workers 3/21/2016 to 12/31/2016, 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 505 of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at, Franklin/ Hampshire Career Center, One Arch Place, Greenfield, MA 01301, 413-7744361 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #6807587. Tasks related to the planting, cultivation, harvesting and processing of fruit. Harvest apples using a ladder & picking bucket. Worker will be required to lift up to 50 lbs while ascending & descending a ladder on a sustained basis. Perform general farm labor. Packing fruit grown by Clark Brothers Orchards LLC for wholesale distribution and winter pruning after harvest. May operate farm equipment that relates to the cited task, hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw & hoe. Work is performed out of doors sometimes under conditions of heat, cold and rain. One month apple experience in duties listed required.

Commercial Cleaners

& Team Leaders wanted to join our growing company! Positions are mostly evenings. Cleaners start at $10.00 and Team Leaders at $11.00. Apply at www. cleantec.us or call 607-589-7828

Construction Job Fair

March 15, 10:00 to 12:00. Come meet Hayner Hoyt and other contractors to learn more about construction jobs available for upcomi64ng projects. Location: Henry St. John building, corner of Geneva and Clinton Streets, Ithaca. (607)277-4500

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employment Dick’s Market Garden

Lunenburg, MA needs 6 temporary workers 3/13/2016 to 12/21/2016, 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 #6762402. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of fruit and vegetables crops including, but not limited to driving, oerating, adjusts and maintains farm machines, preparing soil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying irrigating, mowing, harvesting, grading, packing. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. Also greenhouse activities during the early part of employment. 1 months experience in work listed required. NEW YEAR, NEW AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 A Week Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity. No Experience Required. Start Immediately! www. ThelncomeHub.com (AAN CAN)

Shemin Nurseries, Inc.

Hudson, MA needs 4 temporary workers 3/30/2016 to 11/6/2016, 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 Employment and Training Resources, 201 Boston Post Road West, Suite 200, Marlborough, MA 01752, 617-626-6800 or apply for the job a the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #6839625. Work may include but not limited to: tasks related to the general care on Nursery Plant material. Including but not limited to loading and unloading of plant material, plant care, watering, pruning, weeding, spraying, driving, operating farm machines, and reburlaping. 1 month experience required in work listed.

Spencer Van Etten

Central School District has the following positions open for the 2016-2017 school year: LOTE Teacher- Dual Certification in French and Spanish. Technology Teacher, Elementary Education Teacher, School Counselor - High School, School Nurse - NYS Licensed RN, Substitute Bus Driver - Will Train. * Certification Required for all Teaching and Counselor Positions. Persons interested in consideration for a position should send a letter of interest, application, resume, copy of certification and all transcripts, and credentials file or three (3) written references to: Dr. Joseph Morgan, Superintendent, Spencer-Van Etten Central School District, 16 Dartts Crossroad, Spencer, NY 14883. Applications available at the District Office of online at www.svecsd.org. Deadline for applications is March 22, 2016

employment Standard Orchards

DBA Eric Ferjulian, Hudson, MA needs 2 temporary workers 4/3/2016 to 12/8/2016, 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 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the state workforce agency. Job order #6853512. Workers are expected to perform the following duties after the employer has provided training. be able to perform work within the scope of normal farm related duties. Use a machete. Remove rocks for fields. Hoe, thin and weed by hand. Install irrigation equipment. Perform harvesting related tasks that require bending and lifting. work outside in all types of weather except when conditions may be hazardous. Prune and train fruit trees using an 18 ft ladder. Thirty days experience required in work listed. Install ground cover. Transplant and water various plants. Other general farm tasks.

Standard Orchards

DBA Eric Ferjulian, Hudson, MA needs 4 temporary workers 3/20/2016 to 11/4/2016, 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 a 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 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the State Workforce Agency. Job order #6789748. Workers are expected to perform the following duties after the employer has provided training. Be able to perform work within the scope of normal farm related duties. Use a machete. Remove rocks from fields. Hoe, thin and weed by hand. Install irrigation equipment. Perform harvesting related tasks that require bending and lifting. Work outside in all types of weather except when conditions may be hazardous. Prune and train fruit trees using an ft ladder. Thirty days experience required in work listed. Install ground cover. Transplant and water various plants. Other general farm tasks.

The City of Ithaca

is accepting applications for the following positions: Assistant City Attorney: Currently, there is one vacancy in the Attorney’s Office. Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca website. Salary: $81,872-$98,246. Residency: Applicants must be residents of Tompkins County within one year of appointment. Application Deadline: April 1, 2016. Natural Area Ranger: Part-time, June-September position. Minimum quals & Spec Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca website. Salary: $14/hour. Application Deadline: March 23, 2016. Seasonal Laborer - Forestry Division: Minimum Quals: None. Salary Starting: $10-11/hr. Application Deadline: March 23, 2016. Urban Forestry Laborer: Seasonal position from April thru November. Minimum Quals: None. Preferred Quals Sought: visit the City of Ithaca website. Salary: $15/hour. Application Deadline: March 23, 2016. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850, (607)274-6539, www.cityofithaca.org. The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

435/Health Care Phlebotomist

Nurse or Medical Office Asst wanted to do insurance exams in Ithaca. Must have 1yr exp drawing blood. Call Jill at 716-632-0400

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the place that’s right for you with Conifer. Linderman Creek 269-1000, Cayuga View 269-1000, The Meadows 2571861, Poets Landing 288-4165

Happy Loving Couple

wishes to raise your newborn with care, warmth, love. Liz, Dominick 1-877-2744824 text 1-740-552-4384. PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. (AAN CAN)

610/Apartments 2-Bedroom Apartment

Downtown, Available August 1. Ideal for grad or working professional(s). Downstairs apartment with full bath, living room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms and yard. Washer and dryer on premises. Quiet residential downtown area on Cascadilla St., right near bus stop. Available Aug 1 with 1 year lease. No undergrads, no smokers, no pets. References required. $900/mo. plus all utilities. 280-4024 or email apartments@twcny.rr.com

720/Rooms Wanted ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates .com! (AAN CAN)

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Two (2) Positions Full-time 12 month opening located at OCM BOCES, Regional Information Center, Syracuse. Successful candidate will be an instructional leader assisting districts in using data to meet state reporting requirements and improve student outcomes. District locations may range from Ithaca to Syracuse and surrounding areas. Job duties include: coordination of state reporting; district data management; custom reporting and analysis; supporting school leaders in data interpretation and facilitation; assisting districts in implementation of effective RTI processes. NYS administrative certification required. Experience with data analysis and/or data facilitation preferred. $70,000-74,000. Applications accepted online only. Register and apply by 3/21/16 at: www.olasjobs.org/central. Visit our website at www.ocmboces.org for more information. EOE

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A Mouse in the House Kennel

offers individualized care & daily companionship in clean, comfortable, and spacious accommodations for dogs of all sizes, including private and social fenced-in outdoor spaces on the beautiful Wixom Farm in Mecklenburg, NY.

Guidance Counselor OCM BOCES has the need for a Guidance Counselor located at Seven Valleys New Tech Academy, Cortland NY. Provide ongoing career planning for students in grades 9-12. Maintain open communication with home school districts; oversee enrollments and academic progress; schedule student visitations and tours; create and maintain student schedules; provide academic and personal counseling; assist in facilitating job shadowing and internship opportunities; and provide support to students and families as they navigate college exploration. New York State School Counselor certification required. Applications accepted online only. Register and apply by 03/23/16 at: www.olasjobs. org/central. For more information, visit our website at: www.ocmboces.org EOE

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850/Mind Body & Spirit There’s no time like your time Hypnotherapy with Peter Fortunato, (607) 2736637; www.peterfortunato.wordpress. com

855/Misc.

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patios, retaining walls, + walkways landscape design + installation

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Spring Offer: Peaceful Spirit Tai Chi Pay for one month($50) and the second month is free Tuesday evenings, 7:30 to 8:30 Sunrise Yoga in downtown Ithaca 607-272-0114

The Yoga School Ashtanga * Vinyasa *Semester Pass $300 *YA registered school * 200 hr TT *Yoga Philosophy * Ayurveda *Cooking & Tea Classes *Gentle Vinyasa *Over 15 years experience www.yogaschoolithaca.com

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