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our local code enforcement officers and housing administrators remind you to call your landlord with any problems this holiday season.

Tompkins County’s homeless and housing task force had its bi-monthly meeting on Dec. 2, and the focus was on how renters can get repairs done in their abodes.

Viki McDonald is the housing director at the Ithaca Housing Authority (IHA), which administers over 900 Section 8 housing choice vouchers throughout Tompkins County.

“Our annual inspection is so crucial,” McDonald said. “We send our inspector out, and he’ll find stuff that’s not working.

He’ll find a burner not working and ask how long it’s been. They say, ‘It’s been a few months.’ We ask, ‘Have you called your landlord?’ ‘No, I don’t want to make her angry. We were lucky to make her take Section 8 to begin with.’ People are begging inspectors not to say anything.”

Gay Johnson, who has been in the rental business for 65 years, said stories like that remind her of a long time ago, when three generations of families might be on social services.

“You’d have this memory built in about the fear of the landlord,” Johnson said. “I’m sure people are still out there who are afraid to call the landlord. When signing a lease I try to make the point I’m here not just collecting rent. I’m here to serve you.”

Both parties involved in a rental agreement—landlord and tenant—should make sure a dwelling is in proper shape before move-in.

Mike Anderson, code inspector for the Village of Groton, said that his “biggest peeve” is getting a call from the Department of Social Services with someone reporting “There’s mold in this apartment, there’s cockroaches, there’s bedbugs. I go in three [apartments] and there’s no smoke detectors, no carbon monoxide detector.”

Gino Leonardi, who runs building codes enforcement for the City of Ithaca, said that in some cases when Section 8 is involved, neither landlords nor tenants realize his office also has to conduct an inspection.

“It’s not just smoke detectors—it’s door locks, window locks. We have a lot more detailed codes in order to approve continued on page 4

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oth city council and the county legislature passed resolutions in favor of raising the minimum wage at their December meetings.

On Dec. 1, the Tompkins County Legislature voted 13-1 in favor of a resolution supporting Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to gradually step up the statewide minimum wage for all employees public or private to $15 per hour by 2021. On Dec. 2, Common Council voted unanimously to support a resolution asking for a countywide living wage for all employees, based on the local wage calculation released biannually by Alternatives Federal Credit Union.

Neither of the two resolutions have any legislative power: the county is showing its support for the state to pass a higher minimum wage, and the city is asking the county to do the same thing. Legislator Dan Klein (D-Danby) said last week that he believes Tompkins County to be the first in the state to pass such a Pete Meyers, Aiden Cantell, Carlos Gutierrez, and Neil Oolie resolution. at Tompkins Work Center. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) If the legislature decides to vote for a living wage for is “building the groundswell” before all workers in Tompkins County, then bringing the proposal before the county state approval will need to be involved for legislature. In August the Town of Ithaca that local law to take effect. The county passed a resolution similar to that of the would have to ask the New York State city.

Legislature for a “home rule request.” The “We’re not going to pull the trigger most routine variety of these requests, until we know it’s going to pass,” Meyers according to county attorney Jonathan said. “Our intention is to go to other Wood, is that to set the county sales tax. towns to get their support. It’s great the According to Jordan Lesser, legal counsel for Assemblywoman Barbara continued on page Lifton’s (D-Ithaca) office, the home rule

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▶ Affordable housing funded, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York State Homes and Community Renewal has awarded nearly $11.3 million in funding for the construction of three affordable housing developments across New York. Together, these shovel-ready projects will create a total of 133 new apartments for low- to moderateincome households in Monroe, Tompkins and Westchester Counties.

Each of the three projects was funded via the Early Awards program, part of HCR’s Unified Funding Application, a single-source,

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request is no different than any other bill in that it needs introduction in both chambers of the legislature by a representative.

“Our office would be responsive to any request to make a local law,” Lesser said.

The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is leading the countywide living wage campaign and has certified over 100 employers as paying that to their workers right now. Alternatives’ living wage calculation is tied to a number of cost-of-living categories, and stands now at $14.34 per hour, if health care is not included; with health care, the current living wage is $13.77.

Pete Meyers, the Workers’ Center director, says that the focus right now

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t’s been three weeks since 15 dogs, four rabbits, eight cats, and one chinchilla were found living in a Newfield trailer in what the SPCA called “complete squalor” along with the bodies of three deceased animals. The good news: while some of the animals are still being held for medical treatment, most of them have been adopted.

The not-so-good news is that it turns out the couple responsible for the animals’ deplorable living conditions are the same people who created a similar, even larger animal hoarding situation in Brooktondale five years ago.

Kevin Pierce and Courtney Cotter had 98 animals on their Brooktondale property at 18 Creamery Rd. when they were arrested in 2010. Most of the charges were dismissed, and they were allowed to keep a limited number of pets for three years, said Jim Bouderau, executive director of the Tompkins County SPCA. They also had to keep the SPCA abreast of their current address for three years so they could be monitored, but they were no longer required to do so when they moved to their new home in Newfield.

Bouderau said the SPCA was lucky to catch the couple in the early hoarding stages; unlike with the 2010 case, the animals had not yet begun to reproduce.

In Newfield, neighbors had tipped the SPCA off to their suspicions of hoarding, but it wasn’t until one of the dogs strayed onto a nearby property that the neighbors brought it to the SPCA, and the organization had cause to search the home.

According to an SPCA press release, the residence was covered in urine and feces, and garbage and debris was strewn everywhere. “The SPCA humane investigators, along with veterinary support, had to wear respirators and protective gear to be able to enter the premises,” the release states.

The workers were able to remove the animals from the dwelling safely and collect evidence over the course of a few hours. The Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office was also on site for assistance.

The animals were taken to the SPCA for full medical evaluations and recovery.

Many of them were dehydrated, covered in feces, severely infested with fleas and ear mites, and most were not spayed or neutered. Some of the animals were as young as two or three months, leading Bouderau to believe that many of them were accumulated in a short amount of time.

Bouderau said that in many rescue scenarios like these the animals tend not to be sociable with people because they

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were born into the hoarding situation and haven’t experienced much interaction with humans. “Those animals tend to be shy and fearful,” he said.

Fortunately, most of the animals rescued from the Newfield residence appear to have had previous owners and were well socialized. “They were very gregarious and in many ways well suited for adoption,” Bouderau said.

15 of the rescued animals have been adopted, but two cats are still available.

Four rabbits and three cats are still receiving medical care. Charges against Pierce and Cotter have not yet been filed, but the investigation is still ongoing.

The case serves as a cautionary tale This year’s Downtown Ice Festival is Dec. 10-12. Ice sculptures, fire dancers, for people seeking chowder, cookies and dogs are promised. (Photo: provided) to re-home a pet. “We believe that most of and humane emergencies. “Having just these animals were acquired through the concluded one of our busiest times of Internet on sites such as Facebook and the year in ‘kitten season,’ and with our craigslist,” said Bouderau.

“People need to be incredibly cautious reserves already depleted, this large influx of animals in need severely impacts our when seeking to re-home their owned day-to-day operations at the shelter, as well pets through these sites,” he said. “As a as our financial resources,” Bouderau said. shelter, we are in some ways grateful that Donations can be made securely people try and solve their own problems at spcaonline.com, by calling 607-257if they can no longer take care of their pet.

1822 x232 or x247, or by emailing gifts@ However, there is a very real danger they spcaonline.com. Members of the public can end up in a hoarding situation like seeking more information on adoptions this if owners are not meticulous in the should email adoptions@spcaonline.com. screening process.”

If members of the public would like – Jaime Cone to help, the SPCA asks that donations southreporter@flcn.org be made to the Angel Fund for medical Landlordtenant contin u ed from page 3

that building.”

McDonald said that IHA does annual inspections but will do a special inspection if it’s requested—so long as the tenant has called the landlord first.

“If something goes wrong, you have a leaky faucet or don’t have any heat, the first step is not to call Section 8,” McDonald said. “Call your landlord or maintenance department and report there’s a problem.”

“Nine times out of 10” the problem is resolved by calling the landlord first, McDonald said. If the problem is ignored, then it’s time to call a caseworker. In urgent situations, like no heat in the winter, smoke, or no water, the problem needs to be resolved immediately. For his part, Anderson said he’s on call if it’s

a “life-threatening emergency,” and heat needs to be provided at least at 68 degrees through the cold months.

In most cases, the landlord gets 30 days to make a repair, McDonald said, but if they are “stubborn,” her authority can withhold funding until repairs are made.

Alicia Plotkin, a staff attorney for LawNY, said the takeaway was “Don’t let fear get in your way.” She handed out materials—also available at lawny. org—that emphasized if repairs do need to get done, the renter should show their receipts of what they’re keeping out of rent. If problems get really serious, rent withholding might be necessary—but, as Plotkin said, don’t spend the rent. Get a money order and put it aside.

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Ups&Downs

Benefit for Food

▶Peace Corp leaders, Peace Corps announced that Ithaca, N.Y. ranked No. 1 among metropolitan areas with the highest number of Peace Corps volunteers per capita for the third straight year. Eleven (11) volunteers from Tompkins County are currently serving worldwide, giving it a ratio of 10.5 per 100,000 residents, which is the highest in the nation. Along with Ithaca’s top rank, New York ranked No. 2 among states with the highest number of Peace Corps volunteers, with 416 volunteers currently serving worldwide.

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t’s not just about charity and giving away, but about building community and about sharing.

People bring in recipes to give to each other... People would bring in a few tomatoes or an extra squash, and take home a loaf of bread. In the summer people might just be walking by, and stop to talk to a person they knew,” said Amy May. May, director of the Lodi Library, explained how the library came to host the Lodi Food Pantry. The pantry got its start there on July 4, where it was held throughout the summer, but now that the cold weather has come, it’s moved to the Lodi Presbyterian Church. “The Presbyterian Church has been really generous in allowing the use of its kitchen facilities, space, and the heat.”

Said May, “I’m really proud to say the library was able to incubate it. It was Barb Smith’s brainchild; she reached out to some community members who had some interest. She approached the library, just soliciting ideas; she was looking for a space for it. She approached the pantries in Ovid and Interlaken- she connected with the Food Donations Network.”

Now, the food pantry takes place on Saturdays at the Lodi Presbyterian, 3-5 p.m., just south of the Fire Hall on Rt. 414.

It’s not quite as busy as it was when it was in the village, but the offerings of fresh produce grown on local farms continue to

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Activist Gets New Treatment; Needs $$

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riends and supporters of Ithaca community activist Cris McConkey are invited to the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca on Thursday, Dec. 17, for a Cuban-themed dinner and music party.

According to his father, Jim McConkey, Cris was resting at Cayuga Medical Center on Monday, Dec. 7, after a trip to Havana to receive the CimaVax EGF vaccine for his Stage IV lung cancer.

“This is a vaccine that stops the growth of the cancer and then there’s another that helps to shrink it,” Jim said, “but it will take time for it to work.”

The trip was arranged through Regenestem, which is “a Miami-based company that arranges clinic visits to Cuba and Mexico for non-FDA-approved treatments,” Cris wrote in a note shared by friends online. “My family will pay the fee,

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Heard&Seen Barb Smith of Meadowseet Farm has opened the Lodi Food Pantry at the Presbyterian Church in the village, but the organization needs funds. Ellen Grady has engaged Karan Casey to stage a benefit concert. (Photo: Glynis Hart)

make it special.

Barb Smith, who runs an organic dairy farm with her husband, explained: “It always bothered me that the organic farmers in this area grow all this great food, but weren’t able to share it with the community. Steve and I have only one kid at home (the others are grown) but we have this great system of food production.

We’re trying to be available to the needs of the community.”

“I visited the two pantries in Ovid and Interlaken and they said, people

would come from Lodi, but transportation is always a problem.” So, she started to ask around. “Amy at the Lodi Library was really excited. There was so much immediate enthusiasm!”

“We have a good, enthusiastic set of volunteers.” Fresh produce donations come mostly from Blue Heron and Six Circles farms, also Remembrance Farms.

Smith also picks up food in Ithaca at the Friendship Donations network, including

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most of which benefits further research Cris took with his parents in 2001, which in Cuba, but there are other recurrent Jim wrote up for Epoch magazine. expenses as well, such as Maitake MD“During the total trade embargo, fraction from Japan, about $200 per they were about connecting people to month to keep me supplied. people,” Jim Murphy, a It is powerful medicine, friend and event organizer from science, the result of said. “They’d take medical years of research.” supplies and things like Dinner on Dec. 17 will that with them, when the be provided by Mary Anne embargo was making it Grady Flores, owner of La difficult for the people of Cocina Latina Catering.

Cuba.”

Musicians scheduled to In recent years, Cris perform include singer/ has devoted his energies to songwriter Colleen Kattau, Shaleshock Media, which violinist Eric Aceto, singer/ began in 2009 when the guitarist Carlos Gutierrez, potential of hydraulic Cris McConkey (Photo provided) and Jonathan Kline, who fracturing for natural gas will be playing classic looked like it might become Cuban violin pieces. reality in New York State.

Donations are requested for dinner, Over 1,400 videos have been posted on which begins at 5:30 p.m., to help offset shaleshockmedia.org since 2009, many of McConkey’s medical costs. A GoFundMe them shot and edited by McConkey, who page for that purpose set up on Nov. 28 is a largely self-trained videographer. had already raised over $7,000 of a $12,500 “Shaleshock Media has been one of goal as of Monday. the major websites in educating the rest The McConkey connection with of us, including We Are Seneca Lake and Cuba goes way back, to the Cuba continued on page 4 Friendship Group of Greater Ithaca and an Indigenous Legacies of the Caribbean tour T

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3) Wishing for a Different Hunger Games 4) Burglary Arrest at Ithaca High School 5) Too Many Animals, Again For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Should the Cayuga power plant be repowered with natural gas ?

48 percent of respondents answered “yes” and 52 percent answered “no”

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The Long, Green Future A ny way you do it, producing electricity presents problems.

Fossil fuel combustion to make electricity produces waste and pollution.

But it produces a lot less pollution than it used to. Technological fixes have been invented—e.g. scrubbers that remove sulfur compounds from flue gasses— and imposed by law on power plants.

Modern scrubbers remove 95 percent of the sulfur dioxide from the flue gas. The “smoke” that rises from the stack of the Cayuga power plant is mostly steam.

The scrubber uses limestone (calcium carbonate) to remove the sulfur compounds from flue gas. A reaction in the scrubber produces calcium sulfate dihydrate, also known as gypsum. Power plants, including the Cayuga power plant, sell this “waste” to the wallboard and cement industries. They turn it into product.

But what about the mercury, wondered local activist John Dennis in an interview for last week’s cover story “The Trouble with Coal”? Coal is, of course, mostly carbon, but there are many impurities in it, including sulfur compounds and various metals, mercury among them. Mercury in flue gas from burned coal comes in three forms: particulate (HgP), oxidized (Hg2+), and elemental (Hg0). The particulate Hg is with the flyash and unburned carbon and sent to a landfill. The oxidized Hg is removed by the scrubbers and so apparently is sent to the wallboard and cement industries. (Research to improve removal of Hg0 from flue gas is ongoing.)

Do they remove from the gypsum before they incorporate it into product?

A 2012 Chinese study in the journal Fuel showed that as much as 50 percent of the mercury is removed by the manufacturing process … and reemitted … in China. They estimated 4.7 tons were released to the atmosphere in 2008.

What about the mercury still in the sheetrock? A 2014 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study showed that flue-gas derived (FGD) gypsum is safe; there is no difference in terms of environmental impact between wallboard made from FGD versus mined gypsum. Negligible amounts of mercury were found in indoor and outdoor air, well below the typical background levels. U.S. Gypsum says that 33 percent of their Sheetrock® is made from FGD gypsum. U.S. Gypsum has sheetrock manufacturing facilities in Canada and Mexico, but not China.

According to the EPA, sulfur dioxide emissions have been reduced from 17.3 million tons in 1990 to 3.2 million tons in 2013. In fact, in New York State sulfur dioxide emissions for 2013 are so low that they barely register graphically on a state-by-state presentation. Two-thirds of SO2 emissions are produced through electricity generation.

Natural gas-fired power plants produce 0.2 percent as much SO2 as do coal-fired plants, according to a 2014 study by Joost de Gouw published by continued on page 7

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his all happened, I swear, last week at Coltivare, Ithaca’s seasonal restaurant, whose menu features fresh ingredients from the TC3 Farm and other local sources for a true “Farm to Bistro” experience. The occasion was the holiday get-together for the combined staffs of the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency (IDA), Ithaca city planners, and the Tompkins County Area Development Foundation (TCAD). The atmosphere was jovial, and not just because of the season.

Ithaca is going through a building boom, and business is good.

As the waitstaff floated through the crowd with trays of food and drinks, the farm-to-table credentials of the refreshments were under constant scrutiny.

This was a locavore crowd. An Ithaca city planner reached for a deviled egg.

“Are these eggs locally sourced?” she inquired of the waiter.

“The eggs are from free-range chickens located within Ithaca city limits, ma’am, and there are minced shallots from an organic farm in Candor, just down the road,” he explained.

The planner recoiled in horror, replacing the egg as if it were poison.

“Candor? That’s in Tioga County! I insist that all my food come from Tompkins County!”

Nearby, one of the directors of the TCAD sipped white wine from a stemmed glass. “Mmm. Delizioso! What is this?”

The waiter bowed slightly. “It’s a Chateau Lafayette Reneau Chardonnay.

It won best of its class in the 2010 International Eastern Wine Competition.”

The TCADF director did a violent spit take, dousing the waiter in award-winning chardonnay. “Seneca Lake?” he sputtered.

“Do you hate the local economy? Why not truck wine in from Peru?! Bring me a Tompkins County beverage, please, and be quick about it!” The waiter scurried off to comply.

Over at the buffet table, a minion of the IDA was subjecting a glass of craft beer to testing with a calibrated nutrient spectrometer. “The hops and water are local,” he announced, “but I can’t vouch for the yeast!” As one, several guests ostentatiously put their beers down.

It was then that Heather McDaniel, vice president of TCAD, took a spoon and tapped on her wine glass to get the guests’ attention. The crowd fell silent. “Welcome everyone,” she exclaimed. “What a festive occasion! Exciting times here in Ithaca!

We haven’t seen this much development in years! We have painters and electricians, Sheetrockers, framers, plumbers, and carpenters flocking from all over the northeast to our fair city. Yesterday, I met an electrical contractor from Rochester!

Imported contractors are so much more exotic, don’t you think?” The assembled throng erupted in applause.

When the cheers died down, a young man tentatively raised his hand. “Excuse me, your excellency,” he stammered.

“Kyle Cornstarch. I’m just an intern at city planning, but aren’t there plumbers and carpenters and electricians here in Tompkins County that the general contractors could use?”

City planner Jennifer Kusznir stepped forward. “I’m sorry, folks. Our interns are not empowered to make policy.” She stared at Cornstarch. “And we all know that nobody has any solid numbers on local labor. It would be some kind of wild … guess.”

Cornstarch swallowed. “But … but couldn’t we just make one or two phone calls and find out how many union contractors there are? Isn’t that information also readily available on the Department of Labor website? Or the Census Bureau?

Seems like we could find that out in about 20 minutes.”

The crowd stared in slack-jawed silence. Even the workers in the kitchen stood frozen in place. Then, from the back of the room, a locally-grown rutabaga arced through the air and bounced off Cornstarch’s head. Instant pandemonium ensued. The newly-unemployed intern, coated in farm-to-table comestibles, was lucky to make it to the exit.

Order was soon restored, of course, and the enjoyment of local seasonal foodstuffs resumed. Outside, the unemployed skilled workers of Ithaca pressed their faces to the restaurant window and hoped for a Christmas miracle.

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Plea for Lawful Protection of White Deer

Dear Governor Cuomo, Who will speak, who will act, on behalf of those without any voice? On behalf of those at our mercy? On behalf of those vulnerable to predation simply based 6

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take action immediately as the responsible steward of both its land and animals.

The Seneca white deer is New York’s Cecil the Lion—a preventable tragedy.

Lawful protection for these rare animals is the only fitting response. Other states lawfully protect their albino and white deer. Attaching serious consequences and hefty penalties to any violations are appropriate, including upon those taxidermists who process the illegal trophies. States that protect their animals and habitats report on the financial windfall they reap from eco-tourism gifted by nature’s hand.

Our white deer live within the Seneca Army Depot in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region. Isolated for decades, the number of white deer is unknown and serious questions put forth about their status have gone ignored. The whole situation is riddled with holes as big as the holes in the fence line that the IDA and Army smugly ignore. “Who guards the guards?”

Lawful protection for these rare animals is the only fitting response.

Predictably, local politicians have assumed their duck and cover stance (my condolences to ducks). The white deer are threatened by suspect agendas vying for ownership of the depot as we speak—all is not as it seems. The IDA needs to be removed from all involvement: a recent audit of the IDA raises more than a few eyebrows. Well-rehearsed talking points and lip service from the IDA regarding this sale should raise eyebrows as well. A simple FOIL request has been given the ultimate delay. A moratorium needs to be put on this sale ASAP. The depot is conservation-worthy on many levels: 7,000 acres of natural, cultural, recreational, and educational uses will make it a premier tourist destination for all seasons. The white deer are worthy of scientific study. Former munitions bunkers will make for a novel history and heritage museum, classrooms, study labs, shops, and rustic seasonal overnighting.

Unobtrusive wildlife watchtowers will draw visitors from around the globe.

New York State—along with the US Department of the Interior, Open Space Institute, Alliance for NYS Parks, National Heritage Trust, departments of natural resources, universities, student conservation associations, friends groups, partnerships, private foundations and donors—have an opportunity and responsibility to secure ownership of the depot for the country as a gift for all time: The Seneca Army Depot Wildlife Refuge and Education Center.

The goals of the aforementioned state and federal agencies are united in the overall premise of conserving, improving and protecting New York’s natural resources and environment, ensuring that our great wildlife heritage remains intact for future generations. It is time for them to live up to their mission. Before all else, and if nothing else, I implore you, Governor Cuomo, to issue immediate lawful protection for these rare animals – because it is the only fitting response. Now

that will make this a White Christmas.

– Diane Potter Churchville, NY

Blowing in the Wind

Watching the sunrise over Cayuga Lake should be a moment of awe for those of us lucky enough to live along its shores.

During the fall we even get bonuses: magnificent fall colors and the gatherings of ducks and geese on their annual migrations. Sometimes I try to convince myself that these wonders will be there for future generations in spite of the smoke pouring from the chimney stack of the Cayuga power plant. Of course this never works. Instead, Bob Dylan’s words fill my head: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” All I have to do is look out my window at the plume to know.

The toxic fumes blowing over Cayuga’s shores say a good deal about the way the winds are blowing in our community. They remind us that the temperature of this once pristine lake is rising and its ecology is shifting. They tell us that Cayuga Lake is an aquifer for human consumption and that this life-sustaining home for migrating birds, wildlife, fish and other aquatic species is being threatened.

Voters across New York have called for the retirement of the state’s remaining coal-fired power plants, adding their voices to the urgent wind blowing in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s direction.

He seems to be paying attention. In an Oct. 8 speech at Columbia University, the governor indicated that New York State is ready to phase out coal. As we approach the global climate negotiations in Paris, the time has come for him to put these words into action. A concrete step is at hand: rejecting the proposal for ratepayers to subsidize the Cayuga plant’s gas cofiring proposal, an issue currently before the Public Service Commission.

More broadly, Gov. Cuomo should commit to transitioning New York off coal entirely by 2020. Additionally, he should demonstrate real movement toward enacting Reforming the Energy Vision.

This policy framework laid out by the governor is intended to move us from large power plants—like Cayuga—to a more distributed electric grid. In order to make this a reality, NYSEG is proposing cost-effective transmission upgrades that would eliminate the need for the Cayuga Power Plant entirely, allowing renewable energy like wind and solar to expand across the region.

The Cayuga plant is one of four remaining coal plants in New York.

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county legislature passed [the resolution] in favor of Cuomo wanting to raise it to $15. We’re all supportive of that. But it takes lot of trust on our behalf to hope the governor can do that.”

Like Cuomo’s proposal, Meyers says that any new living wage requirement for Tompkins County employers would be phased in gradually. There’s no draft proposal yet—“We’re making this up as we go along,” Meyers said—but a fiveyear phase-in was the initial idea. It was a pleasant surprise to Meyers, he said, that when Mayor Svante Myrick presented the idea to the county Democratic Party meeting in September, party membership was nearly all in favor of a four-year phase-in.

At the Dec. 2 council meeting, about 15 people showed up to support the living wage resolution.

Hada Foreman said she’s not been a “loyal resident” of Ithaca since first coming here in 1997.

“I’ve left primarily in search of gainful employment,” Foreman said. “Thankfully I don’t have family depending on me. As an individual single person leaving and returning to Ithaca, it’s been a dismal picture. It crosses racial, economic lines.

There’s just not enough work with fair enough pay, and living expenses are off the charts.”

Linda Myers said in her first 10 years in Ithaca, after moving here in the ‘70s, she was a single parent raising two boys on food stamps.

“I’d put all my bills in a big box and pick out ones I had to pay,” Myers said.

“I had a cat who peed in the box and that wasn’t so good.”

Now she’s doing “okay,” Myers said, but in her work with the Friendship Donations Network she said that anyone visiting a food pantry in the area would be “surprised to discover how many people are food insecure. It doesn’t take much to push you into that area.”

Tom Sieling of the Midstate Central Labor Council said in his visits to trailer parks in outlying areas of Tompkins County he’s seen that need there is dire.

“If it was much worse they’d be freezing in a ditch,” Sieling said. “There are pretty rough situations all over. I know there’s going to be some repercussions, and [it will be] tough on small businesses.

But I think even if Donald Trump had to go door to door in those parts he would say these people need to get paid better.”

Meyers said he does think the proposal has “good support in rural areas.” He hopes organizing efforts in lower-income neighborhoods like mobile home parks will empower some people “who don’t otherwise feel like they have access to the political process.”

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“There’s a ripple effect to establishing a living wage of $15 an hour,” Bechley said. “For every hundred dollars in wages, Ithaca Ice needs to pay another $12 in worker’s comp.”

Jennifer Tavares of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce had 110 member-businesses respond to a survey on the issue last week. Of those, 62 proprietors were against Cuomo’s $15 per hour proposal and 27 were for the measure. A half-dozen respondents said an increase in the minimum wage would cause them to lay off staff, and five said they would have to close.

“You put the two choices on the scale, between the business owner and what happens to their roster, their expected returns, and you look at true horror of poverty on the other hand,” Myrick said at the council meeting. “I believe supporting a living wage is the moral thing to do.”

Meyers acknowledges there are still many details that need working out.

Home health and childcare positions do seem to be “problem areas,” since they’re traditionally paid less than $10 per hour, and other firms “rely on government funding which is inadequate.”

“We’re sympathetic, of course, to the businesses,” Meyers said. “But as a reason to not do this is unacceptable to me.

We’ve got to figure this out together as a society.”

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Gas Free Seneca, on hydraulic fracturing,” Murphy said. “Before that, [Cris] had his eye on the dairy industry. He reported on sewage, the proper storage of manure, how large local dairy farms impact were having an impact on our streams, especially those that fed into the water supply.”

Despite his illness, McConkey found time this past summer to appear at several meetings relating to the city’s new police body cameras policy, and filmed a rally in August at the Delaware Water Gap protesting the PennEast natural gas pipeline planned for that region.

“He’s the kind of guy who is just unrelenting, driven, and he can talk nonstop,” Murphy said. “He’s a wonderful soul that’s been this high energy asset to the community in terms of people understanding the environment and what’s going on around them.”

The benefit for Cris McConkey will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 17 at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, at the corner of Aurora and Buffalo streets. To donate to McConkey’s medical expenses fund online, visit www.gofundme. com/62cegthn.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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There are many people who don’t have time to make a list for Santa Claus. They’re too busy thinking about where their next meal is coming from, where they’re spending the night, or seeking support to help raise a family with insufficient resources. Those are the people who need the gifts the most.

This year’s organizations for the Ithaca Times 2015 Holiday Wish List all help those people address those needs. But they can’t do so without the generosity and support of the community. The Learning Web, Loaves and Fishes, Mental Health Association, Downtown Ithaca Children’s Center, Advocacy Center and Tompkins County Public Library are all asking for a few things from Santa, too.

The Learning Web

Nothing helps build the foundation and fabric of a community better than its youth. At The Learning Web, located at 515 W. Seneca St., that type of thinking is the backbone of its mission.

“The learning web is a youth development agency,” executive director Dale Schumacher said. “We deal with young people in two major programs. The first one is the Community and Career Exploration and Apprenticeship Program [CCEAP]. In that, we work with young people from 12 years old to 18 years old.

It’s sort of a career exploration program.

We meet them at school, because that’s where they are. We’ll take them on an exploratory tour with a local business to see if they’re interested. Then they learn the education needed, [and] what a day in the life in that career looks like. For young people really interested in learning more, we’ll set them up with an apprenticeship.

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outreach program deals with young people from 16 to 24 [years old] that are living independently, or are basically homeless.

They do a lot with life skills for that group.

We stabilize their housing in one way or another. Then we try to complete or

Photos: Michael Nocella, except Christina Culver by Josh Brokaw worked on this for two days, it wouldn’t cost any of us very much money.’ It would also be a donation to a non-profit, so they could include that in their taxes. Same goes for getting the building repainted.”

The best way to make a donation is to contact Schumacher at 607-275-0122 or through PayPal at www.learning-web.org.

The Mental Health Association

The Mental Health Association in Tompkins County is an affiliate if Mental Health America, the nation’s largest and oldest community-based network dedicated to helping all Americans achieve wellness by living mentally healthier lives.

Located at 301 South Geneva St, the Mental Health Association serves as a haven and education center for those in the community afflicted by mental health issues.

Da l e S c h u m ac h e r o f Th e L e a r n i n g We b extend their exercise or training to become employed.”

Schumacher said all of that rings up a tab more than $700,000. That includes nine employees. The monies come from United Way, county youth services department, federal grants, and community donations. Because much of their money can only be spent a certain way, some things normally taken for granted gone unfunded.

“I think that some of our biggest needs,” Schumacher said, “are infrastructure in the sense that grants are so earmarked for specific programs for youth that they don’t want to pay for heat or rent or repairs. Having said that, those are the things we need. Our driveway needs attention. Our building in the next couple of years needs to be painted. But that’s a hard thing to put on a wish list because people see that and think, ‘Hey, I need my driveway repaved and house repainted, too.’ And I understand that.

“In time,” he continued, “our blacktop has to be repaved. Right now, it’s a mud hole. It takes effort every year to keep groomed, if you will. It would be great if three excavation companies from the area came together and said, ‘You know what?

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Josephine Cohen of Th e M e n ta l H e a lt h A s s o c i at i o n “Our main programming is family support services,” executive director Josephine Cohen explained. “Family support services serves anyone who walks through the door, but for the most part families typically will have a child with a mental health issue, or a parent with mental health issue, and the services are for the family as a whole. We have trainings that we do with parents to support that family. We also have staff who will take the child out of the home, and do skill building with them, and fun activities like going to the Y, or going to the movies.

“We also have our adult services program,” she continued, “which focuses on peer-support services. That’s people that are in mental health treatment, or

have received mental health treatment, and are there to help other people who need it.”

With a budget of approximately $500,000, Mental Health Association is funded through the New York State Office of Mental Health, United Way, and private donations. There are two areas in particular that Cohen said current funding is unable to address.

“I think we really need to update our technology,” she said. “We have a computer lab that people can come in and use. It’s a safe place to come use computers. Many don’t have Internet at home, or don’t feel comfortable out in public at a library, so they come and job search and check emails here. It’s really important. Unfortunately, right now, we have one computer that works. We got a grant to get another two, but we would love to have six computer work stations.

“One of our other needs,” she continued, “is our summer camp, which is totally funded by United Way right now.

We serve 30 children in the summer at the moment, but we would love to double that number. If someone wants to scholarship a child, that’s something we can set up.

It’s $900 for the whole summer. It’s such a unique program because it offers a family who is dealing with mental health issues a great experience and support outlet for the whole summer.”

The best way to make a donation is to call Cohen at 607-273-9250.

The Advocacy Center

If you don’t know where the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County is, that is by design.

The center serves as a shelter and home for those afflicted by domestic violence, sexual violence, and child abuse.

“We provide direct client services,” executive director Heather Campbell noted. “We have a 24-hour hotline, a confidential domestic violence shelter; we provide legal advocacy and social services advocacy, and really help support people through providing safety and healing.

“The other part of our work,” she continued, “is the prevention work that we do, which is sometimes less known. We are out in the community everyday providing

education. We’re out in the schools, college campuses, working with parents, and professionals about how to best prevent these things from happening.”

Of the Advocacy Center’s $980,000 budget, 85 percent of it comes from grants and contracts, Campbell said: “We really depend on the community to help us fill the gaps. A lot grant funding is really restrictive. We can only use it for very specific things, and that leaves a lot of things unfunded. So we really depend on the community. Many of our clients are struggling to meet basic needs. Our domestic violence clients often need to leave their homes very quickly with sometimes just a single bag of belongings.”

Included on the Advocacy Center’s holiday wish list is the following: An Ithaca car share membership, a new TV

a free meal and open doors. We’ve always welcomed all people. It’s pretty unusual that we’d ever ask for proof of eligibility or residency. You walk in the door, it’s beautiful: no questions asked.”

With a budget hovering around $290,000 (not including more than $50,000 valued in food donations a year), Loaves and Fishes provides a lot of free meals.

“We are experiencing growth pains,” Culver said. “We are serving 13 percent

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To make a donation call 607-277-3203 or email at info@theadvocacycenter.org, or make a monetary donation at www. theadvocacycenter.org.

Loaves and Fishes

Nothing says Happy Holidays like a warm, home-cooked meal. At Loaves and Fishes—housed in St. John’s Church at 210 N. Cayuga Street—that’s exactly what you, or anyone else who walks in, will find.

Free lunches are provided on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Free dinners are provided on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

“We are here for people,” executive director Rev. Christina Culver said, “who are feeling the ramifications from poverty, including hunger and loneliness.

Our mission starts with us wanting to offer a place for a free meal and companionship. Hospitality, advocacy and companionship—it was a pretty wise mission laid out 32 years ago because I don’t think people would want to add or delete anything to that. There was an appreciation right from the beginning that there is a need in the community for

more meals now then we did in 2010. We serve 3,000 meals per month. Clearly, we’re always going to welcome financial donations. We have a fairly urgent need for 100-cup coffee urn. We can always use tea bags. This time of year it would be great to have instant hot chocolate for the guests. Another big need in terms of food is we’re looking for a regular donor of eggs. We use a lot of eggs, and they’re getting very expensive. For over 20 years, a beloved volunteer named Charlotte Bruce use to donate eggs to us. It’s been a couple of years since that donation, though, so we’re missing that.

“Larger needs,” Culver continued, “would be a new desktop computer, a motion light for our shed, and we also have a need for more signage for our locations, whether it would be signs, banners or some kind of flag. We need to purchase a couple of those. It would be ideal to advertise on a billboard to, so if that could be donated, that would be beautiful.”

To make a donation, contact info@ loaves.org or call 607-272-5457.

Tompkins County Public Library

The Tompkins County Public Library’s (TCPL) “A 21st Century Library Campaign” has been a great success. It’s goal of raising $2.75 million for a new teen center and 21st century learning lab is

almost complete. With one last push from the community, its vision of becoming a modern-day library can be fulfilled.

“We are very close to the $2.75 million goal,” TCPL Foundation executive director Suzanne Smith Jablonski said. “We have an opportunity to go beyond that goal. We have a challenge grant that we received at the end of August. If we raise $200,000 by the end of February, it will be matched through this challenge grant.”

Both the teen center and learning lab will help the TCPL and its users adapt to a world that demands digital literacy, TCPL director Susan Currie explained.

“One of the most important things about public libraries,” Currie said, “is that they’re great equalizers. They are places where everyone can come to access information. In terms of technology, the digital world has transformed how people go about getting information. One of the best things libraries do, is they insure everyone has access to those technologies.

In a world where some people might have Internet access or a smartphone, the library is a place where they can come learn about those technologies. So having a 21st century lab would not only give us a teaching lab, but it would insure that everyone in our community would have access to the latest technology.

“The teen center,” she continued, “is something that’s long been identified as a need. I’ve been here six years. It’s the first

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I said, ‘Where do we have services for teens?’ We have a very small little niche area in the library for teens. We need to think about that next generation of library users. People growing up in a digital world will expect different things from what a library means to them. This teen center will help meet that vision.”

Both facilities would require some space finagling, in addition to utilizing newly acquired building space left behind by an organization that shared space with the library, but now no longer does. To help the library complete these movements, call 607-272-4557, or make a donation at www.tcpl.org.

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Tucked behind the Science Center, the Downtown Ithaca Children’s Center (DICC), located at 506 First St., tends to fly under the radar. That’s unfortunate, considering it plays such a large role in helping groom the community’s future.

“We provide child care,” program director Allison Vorhis said, “for six-week olds through school-aged children for after-school care. Each classroom has weekly lesson plans. We provide breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. Seventy percent of the families we serve at or below the poverty line.”

Added special projects coordinator Meryl Phipps: “One of the best ways to insure people lives healthy lives is to start with really strong early childhood education. Especially with kids who come from backgrounds where they need some additional support, being able to provide them with consistent curriculum until they’re school age has a really enormous impact.”

One of DICC’s biggest needs is a new playground, or arguably—a playground.

Currently, its “playground,” is a dirt hill surrounded by slides and toys that are likely decades old. A state-of-the-art playground would transform every child’s DICC experience.

“We have an ongoing playground campaign going on right now,” Phipps

M e ry l P h i p p s a n d A l l i s o n Vo r h i s o f D ow n t ow n C h i l d r e n ’s Center said. “That’s a big need. We’re hoping that breaks ground this spring, so we have a PayPal account set up on our website [www.dicc.org] where people can donate towards that cause. We’re at about $20,000.

We need $40,000 to $50,000.”

Added Vorhis: “Being able to get them outside every day on this new playground would be incredible. We’re hoping to have little cottages that are theme-based; one cottage might be a dentist office, another might be a restaurant. It will give them the opportunity to associate what they see every day into their creativity when they play.”•

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economically with cleaner sources of energy. So far the Cuomo administration’s policy has been to bail out these plants using hundreds of millions of dollars from the pockets of New York electricity customers. This has sent a message to the power plant owners that even if they can’t support themselves economically they can count on the state and electricity customers to bail them out while continuing to burn coal for the next decade. Local utility grid experts have said repeatedly that reliability issues could be solved by investing in grid efficiency upgrades at a fraction of the cost of continuing to support these older plants.

More evidence that New York needs to phase out coal includes the signatures of more than 70 elected state officials on a letter urging the governor to provide state assistance to help communities like Lansing move away from coal. These officials understand that instead of spending millions of dollars to bail out dirty power plants we can use a fraction of that money to ensure reliable power and target economic and workforce development to ensure that communities and workers are protected. Gov. Cuomo needs to commit resources to the Town of Lansing during its transition period. This can be done. New York State appropriated $19 million in June to ease the transition for affected workers and communities when a fossil fuel plant closes, and in the governor’s own Energy Highway Blueprint he proposed having the New York Power Authority fund and establish a fossil fuel plant contingency fund for these communities. Together we can fairly and responsibly move off of fossil fuels. Join with others in whatever ways you can. We need to create a wind storm that can’t be ignored in Albany; one that will move the 76749 Kendal Skiing Ad for Ithaca Times T: 10 x 5.5

governor to commit to transitioning the Empire State off of coal by the end of the decade. Together, we can change the way the wind blows.

How to contact Gov. Cuomo: Phone: 518-474-8390 office hours 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Mail: The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Capitol Building, Albany NY 12224 – Judy Kugelmass, Ph.D., Interlaken

Not Just NIMBY

Your recent article (Dryden Courier, Nov. 25 issue) on the proposed 15-rental unit development at 902 Dryden Road failed to convey the basis for many environmental objections voiced at recent Dryden town board meetings. This development proposes to fill (i.e. bury with excavated materials) portions of the 100year floodplain of Fall Creek. This loss of floodplain would put additional pressure on other portions of the floodplain outside of the project area and potentially negatively impact other sensitive resources downstream. Furthermore, the development is sited at the confluence of a tributary stream that drains over 330 acres surrounding the hamlet of Varna.

Plans call for extending a culvert pipe that carries this creek’s waters nearly 100 feet closer to Fall Creek and sensitive adjacent natural areas like Cornell Plantations Park Park Preserve, popular with hikers and picnickers. The project also proposes to locate their stormwater detention system in the flood plain, rendering it completely ineffective at filtering and retaining storm run-off during flood events. The creek waters here are ultimately the drinking water source for tens of thousands of Ithacans through water systems at Cornell and Bolton Point, so the loss of natural creek and flood storage capacity affects many outside of the immediate project

area.

Finally, as indicated in the 2014 National Climate Assessment, “The Northeast has experienced a greater recent increase in extreme precipitation than any other region in the U.S.; between 1958 and 2010, the Northeast saw more than a 70-percent increase in the amount of precipitation falling in very heavy events (defined as the heaviest 1 percent of all daily events).” Thus, as the negative impacts of a changing climate continue to manifest (and as a region we are predicted to become even wetter) we need to heighten the value and importance of protecting wetlands, riparian habitats, and flood plains from development.

Advocating for smart development that protects such natural stormwater storage and filtering is more pressing now than ever, and should not be diminished as simply a NIMBY (not in my back yard) reaction.

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the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). De Gouw et al. also found that for every kilowatt-hour of energy produced, coal produced 32 ounces of carbon dioxide and natural gas produced 19 ounces.

No one, not even the owners of the Cayuga power plant, wants to keep burning coal there. It costs too much to produce the electricity and no one wants to buy it. A decade ago, before the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) capped carbon releases in all northeast states (except New Jersey), the Cayuga power plant ran daily. It doesn’t anymore.

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Coal ash pile in the background behind this No Trespassing sign at the Cayuga coal plant. (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

many environmentalists—that we’re all going to hell in some kind of hand basket—is unwarranted when you look at the evidence. Environmental laws are in place and are continually being made stricter, and they are working. The United States is a much cleaner place than it was in the 1960s and early ‘70s. Per capita we consume far more than the rest of the world, but curiously we make less of mess doing it.

Cayuga Lake, the resource upon which the coal-burning power plant impinges, is getting cleaner. Its most recent biggest problem was a surplus nutrient load. Again, environmental regulations on agriculture reduced phosphorus inputs to most of the lake. The problem at the south end is due to unregulated inputs from impermeable surfaces. That is, it is caused by sprawl, not lake-source cooling.

Even activists admit that the Cayuga power plant “more or less” stays within its SPDES (state pollutant discharge elimination system) permit. It emits pollution, but it does so at levels that the state and federal government say are acceptable.

If your answer to this is, “Then shut down the plant and we’ll have no pollution.” Well, then, someone else will, because you have to produce power somewhere. If your answer to that is, “Just switch to renewable energy.” Then you have manufacture a lot of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines to replace them. You can’t have manufacturing without some pollution and waste. If, like the power plant, its fine with you if it is somewhere else, then it’s time to rethink your “environmentalism.” •

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cereal, bread, and other staples, and now she can share the overflow with Ovid’s food pantry, which happens on Mondays.

Smith said she got the idea when visiting with the Catholic Worker group in Ithaca; following the inspiration of founder Dorothy Day, members of the group look for ways to live out their faith by doing good in their own communities.

That connection will also be a boon to the Lodi Food Pantry, as Irish chanteuse Karan Casey and her band Lunasa, currently on tour, will stop in Ithaca to give a benefit concert for the pantry. The concert will be Wednesday, December 16

at 7:15 p.m. at the Community School of Music and Art in Ithaca.

Smith also confessed her wish list for the holidays: a freezer, for storing food, and “if someone donated a shed, we wouldn’t say no.” • Karan Casey and Lunasa Community School of Music and Arts, 330 E. Martin Luther King Jr.//State Street Tickets $25 Tickets available @ Homespun Boutique 314 E. Martin Luther King Jr./State St, Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone 277-0954 Angry Mom Records 115 E. Martin Luther King Jr./ State St, Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 319-4953; demottgrady6@gmail – Glynis Hart editor@flcn.org

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seven-goal performance a title he worked hard from co-captain Anders to earn. In fact, Emile Bjella to defeat the finished the season Western Mustangs 15with 30 assists, which is 11, capping off a 15-0 a single-season record season. for McGill.

The victory was I asked Emile particularly sweet for when he learned he the outgoing seniors, as would be a captain, Former Ithaca High Lacrosse Star at McGill it was their fourth and and how he found out. last trip to the final.

“We just had a team

By Ste ve L aw re nc e The team loses meeting a couple of s if the warm December weather University in Quebec, the lax season just twelve seniors, and days ago, and the coach wasn’t already disorienting enough, wrapped up. And oh, what a season it was Emile Sassone-Lawless (right) (Photo provided) the returning players told us,” Emile told me.

I invite you to read this week’s … are well aware that “It was voted on by my column about a local lacrosse player.

McGill plays in the Canadian they must all step up teammates, and it’s a Yes, lacrosse is usually known as a spring University Field Lacrosse Association (Box to reinvent themselves collectively. That is real honor that my peers thought enough of sport, but for 2013 Ithaca High grad Emile Lacrosse is also a big draw north of the why it is such an honor for Sassone-Lawless me to vote for me to be one of the captains.

Sassone-Lawless, who plays for McGill border), and the Redmen rode a monster to be named as a co-captain for next year, It’s also great that the other two captains are close friends.”

Emile (who is a third-year student with a double-major of environmental science HEART CARE AT ITS BEST and psychology) also said that in Canada, there are fewer coaches, and as a result the captains take on even more of a leadership role. In the U.S., a team might have several specialists on the staff—an offensive coach, a defensive coach, a goalie coach and a faceoff coach—but the schools in Canada have no such luxury.

I asked Sassone-Lawless how his career at Ithaca High—one of the premier high school lacrosse programs in the state for many years—helped him adjust to college, and he replied, “Well, for one thing, I was confident. We were used to winning, but I will say that it was a big adjustment not playing with the same kids I had played with for so many years.” He added, “Also, in high school, we lost in the championship game too many times, and here at McGill, we lost in the final two years in a row.”

Those two final game losses are the only two defeats Emile has experienced in college, and the finally get to the top of the mountain feels good. When asked how the Cayuga Heart Institute Canadian game differs from the U.S. Game, Emile offered, “There is a difference in Clinically linked with the Sands-Constellation tempo. The Canadian game is not as highHeart Institute at Rochester General Hospital, intensity, and while we definitely do have a Cleveland Clinic Heart Surgery Center athletes that could play at the D-1 level in the U.S., they did not really want that level of intensity. It’s not a full-time job here.”

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Ithaca Company Contributes to Fusion Reactor ADC of Lansing is designing and manufacturing hardware that may help revolutionize energy production

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ansing’s high-science manufacturer ADC 9001—the letters stand for Advanced Design Consulting and the number for an international quality standard—is continuing to expand both its physical plant here in Tompkins County and its

work with ITER … an acronym which stands for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the $30 billion project in France that’s taking aim at making energy from nuclear fusion.

ADC president Alex Deyhim has a penchant for enthusiastic pronouncements about the international science community for which ADC makes precision equipment as he shows a visitor around the facility.

Science exists to “figure out why

you’re here, why I’m here, why we were created,” Deyhim said.

“If they solve this fusion, the human race is set for the next 10,000 years!”

Fission—where atoms are split, creating energy, the process used at

nuclear power plants now— creates a “small amount” of power compared to fusion. The scale of ITER is what’s thought to be necessary to make this project work, to create fusion, which gives off more energy than it needs to perpetuate its reaction. About a half trillion dollars have been invested so far, with 40 percent of that coming from

Europe, according to Eric Van Every, ADC’s director of operations. There are many countries involved, but Europeans are spending the most because they will receive the power produced by ITER. Right now, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is testing a pre-prototype of an ADC-made pellet selector for ITER. Frozen pellets of gas will be used to fuel and manage

Company Plays Role In Creating True Fusion Power,” Nov. 1, 2013 on ithaca. com), but once the “tweaked prototype” gets run with the real technology, that’s when hundreds will start getting ordered, Van Every said.

Another piece of ITER, which ADC has in the design phase now, are three different components for what are “essentially transmission lines,” according to engineer Brian Hoza. The 16-inch diameter “lines” connect the created energy with 45-ton ion cyclotron resonant heating antenna systems, which put power into the plasma through radio frequencies.

Keeping those lines cool is the primary engineering problem for Hoza.

“We’re constantly adjusting the size and shape of the cooling channels,” Hoza said. “There are a lot of components heating up on the inside of transmission line, and the question is how to get the water onto the components.

“Each one is carrying 1.5 megawatts of power, enough to power 1,500 homes,” Hoza continued.

the fusion plasma, and the selector herds them into funnels that lead into tubes, which lead to the plasma.

That project has been in the design stage for about two years (see “Lansing

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there was an affordability issue. We don’t really have that, at least by comparison.

Down there three or four Disney employees had to get together in order to afford a house.”

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Tompkins-Cortland Real Estate want to find you your next home

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hen it first opened for business Tompkins-Cortland Real Estate was located in Groton, about half way between the two cities in its name. Founder Kris Buchan had been selling real estate in Orlando and in 2003 decided to return to his native upstate New York. He opened a hobby shop in Groton—which is operated by his wife—and began selling real estate at a large agency.

“I didn’t like the way things were going at the large office,” Buchan said.

“There were a lot of part-time agents who had other jobs. I wanted to concentrate exclusively on real estate.” So in December 2009 he opened the doors of his own agency.

In October 2015 he was joined by Rosemary “Ro” Rukavena. Rukavena had been in the business for 14 years—six at Audrey Edelman and eight with Warren Real Estate—when she decided she wanted more responsibility. At TompkinsCortland Buchan is the principal broker and Rukavena is an associate broker, but

they are 50/50 partners. Realtors, even those who work at large agencies, are all independent contractors and they work entirely on commission.

Rukavena and Buchan met through the sale of a house. She was the agent for the sellers, and he was the agent for the buyers. They met in 2009, before Buchan opened his office. Rukavena and her husband got along well with Buchan and his wife, and they began talking about a partnership.

Why be a real estate agent? “I like people,” said Rukavena, “and I don’t like the same thing every day. In this job I see different people every day. You’re never bored; it keeps you on your toes. There’s always something to learn every day.”

“I like to see people’s dreams happen,” said Buchan, “especially when they are first-time home buyers.” Rukavena seconded that emotion.

Buchan is happy to have left the Florida market behind, and not just because it collapsed in 2007. “Things sold more quickly down there,” he said, “but

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To illustrate Rukavena’s point, Buchan noted that in most states a mortgage through the Veterans’ Administration, which moves 6 percent of the selling price into an escrow fund, is usually enough to pay initial taxes, but not in New York State.

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three full-time salespeople. “We want people to be focused on a career in real estate.” “The customers deserve that,” said Buchan.

After getting more education, more training, and 50 house sales, their salespeople can take an exam to become brokers. Until then they are under Rukavena and Buchan’s supervision. “We have a checklist,” said Buchan, “and we get them ready for situations that they haven’t encountered, like the VA loans and gift money [as a downpayment]. The bank will always want to see a money trail.”

“We’re active on the Internet,” said Buchan, “but 70 percent of our traffic is on our mobile site.

People like the virtual tours.”

Because of the multiple listing service (MLS) and IDX data exchange agreements, agencies are able to list most local properties on their sites, not just their own.

“It gives people a full picture of what’s available,” said Buchan. Having said all this, he admitted that print ads were effective with local customers.

What don’t people know about buying a house? “First-time buyers have visions of what they want,” said Rukavena, “but they don’t know the process.”

“They need to get pre-approved for a loan,” said Buchan. “They find out what they qualify for and that will determine how much they can spend.” §

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rom downtown Ithaca, a 15-minute drive—on rural back roads up into the hills of Enfield Glen—will transport you to the rarified demesne of The Treman Center at 95 Hines Road. A low roadside fieldstone wall runs along the front of the property serving as a proscenium for the open field staging of a three-story 6,000 square-foot former 1870s threshing barn with a woodland backdrop.

The shared vision of husband and wife team of Kevin Reilly (stonemason, artist and builder) and Leslie Reilly Carrere (artist, designer, curator), The Treman Center is an extraordinary gathering place and now available for a variety of functions: weddings, retreats, conferences, symposia, workshops, life celebrations, music, theatre & arts events.

Reilly bought the dilapidated barn, originally located in Newfield, and with a team of experts dismantled and labeled hundreds of individual parts and pieces of parts upon parts. Three semi-trucks transported the barn fragments to its current location adjacent to Robert Treman State Park’s 1,200 acres and the Finger Lakes Trail. It took six months to carefully reassemble the barn as a “bank barn” on a new 12-foot high fieldstone foundation, earning a preservation award from Historic Ithaca in 2009. Behind the barn, two outdoor Tuscan-style courtyards shaped by 12-foot high fieldstone walls—one with a reflecting pool stocked in season with exotic fish— accented with colorful lushly planted urns and potted tropical plants serve as outdoor extensions of the interior spaces during the summer months. Beyond the courtyards, a stone circle with a fire-pit makes for captivating star-lit gatherings. A woodland trail into Treman State Park is easily accessed for contemplative nature walks.

As the interior and exterior spaces took shape over a 10-year period, Reilly’s original intent to make the barn their private residence shifted to a publicly oriented focus. He and Carrere realized that their magnum opus ought to be shared as a creative collaborative gathering place where people can “... celebrate change, incubate innovation and embrace conscious leadership for a more sustainable planet.”

The barn was assembled with mortise-and-tenon, post-and-beam construction with “state of the art” green design infrastructure and is in the process of being brought up to building code compliance for large gatherings. The three interior levels—each featuring a massive

stone fireplace with a 3,000-pound hearthstone—have been individually designed and tastefully organized to flexibly accommodate a variety of functions ranging from large gatherings of 250 attendees to small intimate breakout groups for workshops on the third floor.

A bridal suite is available for the wedding couple while guest accommodations can be reserved with special rates at several B&Bs, hotels and lakeside vacation homes that sleep 8 to 24 people.

As steward of The Treman Center, Carrere is the events contact; she can provide access to whatever is needed for

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the desired outcome of any event. She has a regional network of professionals to design or assist your event planning from caterers and musicians to conference facilitators and tech support.

Several successful events have been held at The Treman Center, including Ithaca College’s “Text Image Symposium” that drew together playwrights, poets, photographers, bookmakers for two annual five-day workshops that has since been adapted into an established academic program at Ithaca College. Finger Lakes Acupuncture brought in the Master Zhao Institute to lead two Qi Gong workshops with meditation, chanting and yoga sessions; and several weddings for 100 or more attendees. The Treman Center is currently working with Ithaca’s Southside Community Center and GIAC to host the 2017 International Flamenco Festival that will bring in musicians, dancers and singers from Seville, Spain to teach master classes. The spaces are also especially well suited for academic “think-tank” retreats § For more information and to see an archive of photographs documenting this facility go to: www.TremanCenter.com; email: Events@tremancenter.com or phone: 607-351-8827.

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Downtown Marriott Rises Hotel is set to open its doors in August 2016

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arly in November, the Maryland firm Urgo Hotels named Cathy Hart as the general manager of the Marriott being built on the Commons.

Hart is currently finishing out her tenure as manager of the Residence Inn

by Marriott in West Orange, New Jersey, another location owned by Urgo. She will be visiting Ithaca next week and plans on moving here full-time in January.

Anyone can see that, with that big orange crane towering over the intersection of South Aurora and East State streets, the building for the Marriott

North elevation of new downtown Marriott. North Aurora St. is at left. Kathy Hart (right) will manage the hotel when it opens in August 2016.

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is getting a bit closer to completion every day. But what about the people who will work there? How does one go about staffing a hotel that hasn’t had its first towel stolen yet? That’s what we here at Ithaca Times wondered, so we asked Hart how she will go about finding those who will be the face of Ithaca’s Marriott hotel—the current target opening date is Aug. 23, 2016.

Business Times: What’s your timeline for hiring managers, with the hotel scheduled to open next summer?

Cathy Hart: Our director of sales actually started today (Dec. 4). We posted that job in September and hired her in early November. How many ‘keys’ a hotel room has – that’s industry for how many rooms it has – determines the number of managers. With 159 keys, we’ll have 11 managers. The director of sales you plan on coming nine months ahead of opening, so we’re right on schedule with her. The director of maintenance comes on four months before opening. You have to stay within the pre-opening budget … You don’t want to bring people on board and not have things for them to do. Depending on what kind of food and beverage the

hotel is going to have, the staffing model can get adjusted somewhat.

BT: What is your plan for the restaurant space there? What other sorts of amenities are going to be available in this hotel?

CH: We’ll have a full-service restaurant with three meals and room service. I’m spending all of next week on the concept and design of the restaurant.

I’m meeting with Professor [Stephani] Robson who does design and development for the Cornell hotel school to get some input from the local perspective on what will fit within the market. We’ll have a state-of-the-art fitness center and 2,600 square feet of meeting space.

BT: How are you planning to hire your staff? What’s that process going to look like?

CH: We’re hoping to hire almost everybody locally.

Hopefully I’ll be one of very few people not coming from the area.

The front of house folks—with so many tourists and visitors—it would be nice if most have a knowledge of the area, because everyone ends up acting as a concierge. There’s a challenge of very low unemployment in the area, I hear, when meeting with other hotels. Keeping staff, especially line employees who are hourly, certainly sounds like a challenge in Ithaca, at least from a hotel industry perspective. Traditionally there’s a marketing plan for filling the hotel and bringing customers in … I’ve suggested to our director of human resources we put a marketing plan together for associates, getting them to come in and a plan for retaining them. Urgo is typically on the higher end of the pay scale, with excellent benefits. Hopefully that combined with the plan we put together will help keep turnover minimal.

BT: Do you know if there’s any truth to the talk that Urgo is looking for conference center space in Ithaca?

CH: I would say that’s a very true rumor. [Urgo] did look at a space, which I can’t reveal. We’re in the process of doing a pro forma based on the needs of the market. There are trade shows Ithaca can’t do right now, without a traditional convention hall-type space. With more hotels coming in from a room perspective, in the near future, the next five to six years the market should be able to accommodate the demand for rooms a convention center would create. §

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big disaster.”

Deyhim laughs at this.

“We determine humanity’s future— this little company out of Ithaca!”

ADC’s part is a small one in the overall scope of the project, Van Every said—ITER will make use of “thousands and thousands of magnets” the size of a large room, but it’s an important part to the company. With components costing $50,000 and up per unit, if several hundred are ordered that will mean more expansion and more jobs at ADC. ADC is in the middle of a 5,000-square-foot expansion to its workshop, tacked right onto the end of its current large workroom. There will be a 16-by-16-foot door for easier access and egress, since quite a bit of dirty—but precise—work happens at the Lansing plant. The piped-in radio sound of the J. Geils Band’s “Centerfold” is bouncing around the high-ceilinged, concretefloored room, through the sound of electric engines and plinking tools, the workers filling in the new building’s frame outside.

“We’re not just design,” Deyhim said. “You don’t find many high-end manufacturers that are so hands-on.”

Van Every shows off another project, a rack-and-pinion track system ADC designed and built for NASA’s radar testing room in Virginia. The fine precisions of the modular rails, a switching turntable, and an “attachment” resembling an airplane wing will allow NASA engineers to check the radar footprint of different surfaces in a more efficient manner.

Deyhim marches back through the building, showing off more of ADC’s people and their products.

Ion chambers and precision slits made to help scientists take exact X-ray measurements are awaiting shipment to France, Germany, and China. Those are developed product lines, to some degree, though most things are tweaked for a specific customer.

In one room an employee of a dozen years is working on one of the first four “high pressure cryo-coolers for X-ray crystallography” ADC has built.

According to ADC literature, it comes complete with “superior x-ray diffraction patterns.” The Ithaca Times has minimal peer review capacity to check these claims, but the concept was patented by Cornell physics professor Sol Gruner and others.

It’s the first technology ADC has licensed from the university.

“Cornell gets a huge amount of funding from the [National Science Foundation],” Deyhim said. “Politicians ask ‘What happened to our money?’ We’re an example of technology transferring into the economy, right here in upstate New York, not Italy or Germany.”

Deyhim is cognizant of the economic benefits a manufacturer has for a local economy.

“We bring in hard, cold cash,” he said. “It’s not just money that’s circulating around.”

Yet ADC is not just about the money, Deyhim said.

“Our customers are really trying to figure out, doing fundamental research, to make the world a better place. It’s not like the corporate world, where it’s all about how do we make profit. There’s no barriers in this community to working together on how do we make world a better place for the human race.” §

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Ithaca is a smaller place, but as Tompkins Trust Company CEO Greg Hartz said, “There was a real sense that we had some great young professionals in this community. This is a special place, and it takes community leaders to make it that way.” And so the Fab 5 Awards were born.

Tompkins Trust is sponsoring the awards and the chamber is collecting nominations in five categories at their website (tompkinschamber.org/Fab5Awards).

Tompkins Connect, a local organization for young professionals, grew out of Ithaca Forward when the United Way and the Ithaca/Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce signed a memorandum of understanding that funded the group. Several members of this group fostered the idea of the awards and presented it to Tompkins Trust. “They made this possible,” said Ryan McCune, the membership services and program manager at the chamber of commerce.

Why have these awards? “It’s impossible,” said McCune, “for a company

Fab 5 organizing committee: (L to R) Evan Williams, Greg Acquavella, Laurie Linn, Jesse Tedora, Katie Shaw, Ryan McCune. (Photos provided)

to recognize an employee in a way that isn’t financially motivated, and the recognition that you’ve done a great job is basically between you and your supervisor.

We recognize companies aren’t the best at telling the story of how talented their employees are. We want to make sure they’re recognized.”

McCune added that this sort of public

validation also sends the message that Ithaca is “a viable place to make a life; it’s not all about living in the larger markets.”

While the Fab 5 Awards are not on the grand scale of “40under40” in other cities, the Ithaca recognition will be accorded for five specific categories, rather than plucking 40 folks at random from the business community. The categories are

best entrepreneur, best business leader, best not-for-profit leader, best volunteer, and rookie of the year.

“This is the first time it’s been done here,” said Greg Acquavella, a marketing officer at Tompkins Trust. “We’d like it to build into an annual event, so we wanted to make it sustainable. That’s why we want to pick just five people.”

Anyone is encouraged to make nominations. Anyone living or working in Tompkins County is eligible to be nominated. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 11, 2016.

The criteria for each category are different. While entrepreneurs are expected to have created things, leaders of not-for-profits are expected to “exhibited great passion.” You can make nominations for one category or all five.

The committee that put the awards together, including designing the nominating form includes McCune; Acquavella; Jesse Tedora, an assistant vice president at Tompkins Trust; Evan Williams, outreach coordinator at Downtown Ithaca Alliance; and from Communiqué Design and Marketing, its president Laurie Linn and marketing associate Katie Shaw.

“You will probably end up recognizing people for doing things that are a bit beyond their job [description],” said Hartz.

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ince 1981, the Ithaca Times has closed the year with the “Readers’ Writes” issue, featuring submissions from our most valuable commodity, you. Stories, poems, drawings and photographs are welcome. It’s a chance for you to have a voice in the paper other than the letters page.

This year’s theme is “Transitions”

That can be as loosely interpreted, as tradition here dictates. Of course, a wide range of submissions will be accepted. Send submissions to Attn: Readers’ Writes, the Ithaca Times, PO Box 27, Ithaca, New York 14850. Or, you can email submissions, with a subject line of “Readers’ Writes” to editor@ithacatimes.com.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS Subtle Name Change for Real Estate Firm

summer.

This year, the event featured a special halftime performance honoring former artistic director Robert Moss. Moss was artistic director at the Hangar from 1982 through 1996. The performance was cultivated by Hangar’s artistic director Jen Waldman and featured performances

by Bruce Warren, Shea Renne, Johnny Shea, and Sarah Dacey Charles. Robert Moss was in attendance at the event and was surrounded by friends old and new

On Monday Nov. 23, Audrey Edelman/RealtyUSA officially became RealtyUSA. Slowly you will notice changes in the signage both on the buildings at 710 Hancock Street and 2333 Triphammer Road, as well as in the yards and on the buildings of the customers they serve. This change has been ten years in the making, and the length of the change was deliberate.

Audrey Edelman has served the Ithaca Market since 1989. During that time they’ve participated in nearly 20,000 area real estate transactions.

Although the addition of the partnership with RealtyUSA meant further reach and a broader range of sales tools, it would be unwise to push a national brand into the marketplace over the top of the repuThe 2015 Pride of Ownership Award winners have been announced. See tation and service excellence ithaca.com for a list of the winners. (Illustration: John Barradas) Edelman’s name had come to represent. And so a ten year journey of learning and exploration began. including Hangar past and present board RealtyUSA brought their tools and their members as well as former executive own tried and true business systems, but director Lisa Bushlow. spent time learning from Audrey’s group The winning team in the charades about this particular market, it’s nuances, battle was the Hounds of Hangarville and their customer’s expectations. All of led by Hangar Trustee Jamie Wells who the same professionals, their services and worked with Liebe Meier Swain of Cayuga customer service focus remains, but now Medical Center, Deb Mohlenhoff of TC3, officially under the RealtyUSA name. and Bruce Warren, who played Watson “On this ten year anniversary of our in the Hangar’s The Hound of the Baskpartnership we have decided to officially ervilles this summer to win the title. In change the name allowing us to bring our close second in the charades battle, and Ithaca market into the statewide fold and taking first place for the most dollars leverage the tools and services we offer as a nationally ranked brand while maintaining the expertise and customer service of the local real estate professionals that have always been part of the Audrey Edelman name,” said Merle Whitehead, President & CEO of RealtyUSA.

fundraised, was the Captains of Carnage led by Hangar Trustee Steve Yale-Loehr and including Glynis Hart of Finger Lakes Community Newspapers, Stephanie Card the Hangar’s resident choreographer, and Sarah Dacey Charles, who was the Adult Female in Spring Awakening.

Tioga State Bank Delivers Over 500 Coats

Tioga State Bank is pleased to have delivered over 500 coats to local organizations for the 5th Annual TSB Coat Drive.

“There are many people in our area who may not have a winter coat and with temperatures bound to start dropping

quickly, they needed our help,” said Katie Lilley, community office manager of the Waverly TSB Office. “The coat drive is something our customers and employees look forward to each year. We are happy to help our communities this winter.”

Tioga State Bank offices in Spencer, Candor, Owego, Newfield, Waverly, and Van Etten collected over 500 coats during the month of November. The coats were then cleaned by Morton Cleaners of Waverly. Members of Tioga State Bank distributed the coats to local organizations in the area to then give them to men, women and children who need them this winter.

Hangar Charades a Fundraising Success

The Hangar’s Acting Out on the Hangar Stage, Community Charades Challenge took place on Sunday, October 25. With the support of the community— through donations to four teams of participants, the purchase of auction items, and ticket sales—the Hangar was able to raise $25,000 to help support the theatre’s artistic and education programs.

Jen Waldman took the stage as Master of Ceremonies, leading the four teams through four rounds of charades. More than 200 audience members watched as team members jumped, gestured, and wiggled their way through clues to earn points for their teams and to earn fundraising dollars for the Hangar.

Each team featured a Hangar trustee, a local notable, a sponsor representative, and a Hangar star returning to the stage after performing in a Mainstage show this T

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Sharp Knives Ithaca transplant flexes dynamics in new exhbit

Above: “Strawberry Frosted Afternoon” (Photo Provided)

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t’s always exciting when a talented new artist appears on Ithaca’s lively but sometimes insular scene. Such is the case with recent Brooklyn transplant Erin Deneuville. An accomplished realist working from direct observation, her oil on canvas paintings encompass the portrait, the nude, the still life, and the domestic interior.

“Sharp knives: An exhibition of paintings” is her first time showing work in the Ithaca area. On display this month at the Community Arts Partnership’s ArtSpace gallery in Center Ithaca, the exhibit is loosely organized around ideas about the domestic and the intimate.

As she writes in a statement for the show, “These portraits and kitchen scenes tell stories about generosity, vulnerability, and sharing.”

Vulnerability, however, is the dominant key,

with some pieces hinting at violence.

The show includes work from the last five years. In the interest of keeping a focus, Deneuville has omitted her work with the nude—a discipline that nevertheless informs her treatment of the human figure.

It’s striking that there are not more local painters that specialize in painted portraiture in a broadly realistic vein. (Exceptions that come to mind include William Benson and Terry Plater. Benson is well known for his commissioned portraits, but generally exhibits landscapes. Plater’s work and shows are eclectic, moving between careful observation and more imaginative modes, as well as various genres.)

Deneuville’s paintings bear an unexpected similarity to those of Dara Engler, an assistant

by A rt h u r Wh itm a n professor at Ithaca College. Engler makes herself the protagonist of much of her work.

She pushes the kind of visceral physicality you can see here in a more explicitly expressionistic direction while maintaining a plausible likeness of herself. And although Deneuville’s observational detachment and implied symbolism might seem far from Engler’s violent and heroic narratives, they hint at a similar disquiet.

Like many contemporary artists, Deneuville’s path to creative independence has been a self-made one. As an art and French major at SUNY Geneseo, she found herself in the studio whenever possible despite a lack of encouragement from her family. continued on page 27

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he sun sets, and its last bit of light representational; Hogan’s are abstract. illuminates the sky in a burst of The sunset image is Muller’s, as are a pink rays overtaken by purple, series of other harmonious photographs still lingering in the clouds. The skyline whose beauty is only enhanced by the below it, of trees and distant land, stands classical music played in the background defined in dark silhouette. Its bare of the patisserie. A fern presents itself, outstretch reflects into a lake that gleams bright green and fresh, the vividness of its with effortless clarity, intensifying the presence cut by a thick branch, dense with natural world’s grandeur through use juxtaposing darkness. In another, leaves of mirrored reflection. The world, then, actively model their autumnal colors, appears in double: the clouds extending in pressed into water or rich ground that all directions, never ending, all the more is pocked with the subtlest of indents or beautiful as they continue beyond sight. ripples.

The scene is only imaginable, as it has Laura Hogan’s work on the other hand, happened before, the universe creating a which inhabits a separate wall all its own, presence so breathtaking that neither words nor prints may ever do it the entire justice it deserves.

“Don’t fool yourself and call it sublimity,” art critic and writer Maggie Nelson once wrote of the color blue. “Admit that you have stood in front of a little pile of powdered ultramarine pigment in a glass cup at a museum and felt a stinging desire.” Desire, it seems, that extends beyond a museum’s walls, out into the actual experience and presence of the natural world. A purple that fills the sky, that can be captured through a camera but Laura Hogan’s Escarpment Especiale (Photo Provided) whose representation is not the thing itself represented, is not the actual experience of standing there is as rich with her vision as artist as are the before the lake and taking in the awenatural materials already provided through evoking vision that proves ineffable. their existence in the land. A close-up of Nature photography is a complex a poppy becomes a blurred, expressive subject matter, as it is constantly changing bombardment of red and orange, a defined yet repetitious, all at once. Like people, shape turned more ambiguous with focus every tree is different, even if one is the on changing tones. The crossed stems and same species as another. Still, there are bright pink petals used as starting point only so many ways one can photograph in Chappaquoit Hurrah transform into a tree without it appearing like another near-Abstract Expressionist slashes of color photograph one has seen before. A show of and mark. Two pieces, Ribbon Grass Totem nature photography, then, runs the risk of and Horton Palm reveal entirely separate being dry, forgettable. beginnings thanks to the inclusion of their A nature photographer’s purpose, referent, pre-editing photographs: one is a then, aside from being an adamant lover of bold purple palm leaf, another the close-up the natural world, is to make her viewers curves of grass. But after their interpretive really see the world again, perhaps not visual manipulations, the two seem paired anew but viewed with relit excitement and together, similar with their zigzagging enthusiasm that is sometimes forgotten. shapes and digital circles. Their initial This goal—to encourage people to forms are no longer the only way to see look and see, to re-instate this desire to them, and in their abstraction they begin explore the outdoors and experience to inhabit new breath in a totally different the breathless, appreciative wonder that visual spectrum. is oftentimes misplaced—is evident in Glimpses of Nature needn’t be taken “Glimpses of Nature,” an exhibition of solely as a show of nature photography, nature photography at Sarah’s Patisserie but one meant to bring light to a blindness downtown. The show’s two artists, Frank we sometimes self-impose. The show is a Muller and Laura Hogan, go about their porthole to revisiting nature again. work in surprisingly different ways, despite “Glimpses of Nature” is on display at their shared purpose of expressing color Sarah’s Patisserie, 130 E. Seneca Street, and light. Muller’s photographs are entirely through December. •

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A Contextual Prism of Colors The luminosity of two richly painted bands

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Mobile Deathcamp, Dec. 10, 7 p.m., The John Kadlecik Band, Dec. 12, 7 p.m., The Haunt

or; it is simply the working of a mirror-like illusion. The two actually emanate from the same substance.

For our purposes, on one side of this ontext is of particular importance contextual prism is Toledo, Ohio’s thrash when concerning being within metal aggressors Mobile Deathcamp, a artistic placement. A whole hillside band that breathes life with speed, violent of people could potentially be injured, both rhythm, and ‘80s nuclear war-themed visually and mentally, if stumbling upon a spirituality. It’s led by former Gwar bassist perplexingly hostile artistic context, which (he played Beefcake the Mighty) Todd is to say, a place they couldn’t possibly Evans. The other side of the contextual prism is occupied by the psychedelic-groove magicians The John Kadlecik Band, a group led by former Dark Star Orchestra guitarist and vocalist John Kadlecik. The two bands come together to make our representational prism; infinite attributes arrange themselves accordingly within this vortex, and in doing so, one can really appreciate then the astonishing colors that reflect back.

Baruch Spinoza, the 17thcentury Dutch philosopherlogician, believed that everything appearing in nature—which he defined as the whole of existence, i.e., the infinite Todd Evans of Mobile Deathcamp (Photo Provided) universe—is one Reality; and that all substance within this imagine being. This is unfortunate, because reality is governed by only one set of rules. human minds have a unique undetermined Attributes, which are the substance from destiny to embrace and welcome such this one nature, are infinite, and they varying context. What is heavy in one include the immaterial, i.e, thoughts. The thing is most certainly light in another, yet dream you had last night in which you the embedded difference between the two were stationed in a strange parking booth realities doesn’t necessarily negate either/ contraption in the middle of a lonely

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interstate, and there were large ugly brown birds, and they were pooping on you; this dream is made of the same exact substance as your favorite cereal spoon. Furthermore, the circular, swirling, Jerry Garcia-inspired guitar mechanics of John Kadlecik’s solos are of the same substance as Todd Evan’s violent, quick-thrashing riffs. To appreciate the two varying attributes equally is simply logical.

Thrash metal and psychedelic rock share the same physical birthplace: the sunny coast and breezy air of Southern California. If you concentrate intensely you can feel the warmth of that California sun between the notes in both forms of music.

The color within them is where the real meat of the substance lies. Not the visual color, but the immaterial color, which shines bright in both Mobile Deathcamp and the John Kadlecik Band. Yet visually, it wouldn’t be uncommon for one to dismiss the two as completely opposite. If you think about some Deadhead being teleported to the front row of a Testament show, you laugh, or perhaps you cringe in horror, depending on your placement of context.

Yet, the two placements are made of the same substance, and it is only in ideological and visual confusion that a viewer bears discountenance towards the other.

Mobile Deathcamp was formed in 2008 by Todd Evans. A thrash metal

band that practices in the art of violent headbanging and terrifyingly quick speed-metal, their trek to The Haunt this Thursday is pretty special, and one can expect a righteous show, complete with colorful attributes and existential solos.

The John Kadlecik Band was birthed in 2010 after Kadlecik’s 12-year stint as the front man and lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra.

DSO is unique, in that it plays and mimics Dead shows precisely—that is, exact set lists and adaptations of the way the Dead sounded at that particular time. With that serious attention to detail, Kadlecik has noticeably adopted Jerry Garcia’s sound and style hauntingly to a T. The band’s strength lies in improvisation, where the members often veer into progressive, unique, and out-worldly psychedelic tail-offs.

That sparkling, diamond-like, multicolored bulb hanging from your Christmas tree in the corner of your room shines with a most colorful luminosity. Its contents contain the attributes, the fragments, and the visions of two modern bands. Two bands formed under one sun, seemingly different on the outside, but under closer inspection, one’s findings reveal the lengths of attributes are not actually far apart at all.

The contextual prism is one. This week at The Haunt is a good one. •

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Northside Staff Tasters: Dave Pohl, ed., Jason Wentworth, Mark Britten, Jay Reed, and Ben Gentile

As Pinot Noir’s popularity has climbed over the past decade, so has demand for inexpensive examples. Unfortunately, finding good, inexpensive Pinot Noir is difficult. Pinot Noir grapes from the vineyards best suited to them are expensive, for starters.

Unlike, say, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir grapes have thin skins, which makes them susceptible to rot and pests. They must be “coddled.” They require a relatively cool climate with a long growing season. This precludes the growing of quality Pinot Noir in the hot climates that produce the ripe, plentiful harvests that make the production of inexpensive wine possible.

In her article The Quest for Reasonably Priced Domestic Pinot Noir (wsj.com, Aug. 27, 2015), Lettie Teague notes that many Pinots priced under $20 can taste “confected or overly ripe- more like soft, sweetish red wines than true Pinot Noirs.” As many consumers prefer

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31 Pinot Noirs priced under $20 per bottle were blind tasted. The samples hailed from California, Chile, Argentina, and New Zealand, the areas where good values were most likely to be found. Many of the bottles tasted were indeed “soft and sweetish,” lacking the delicate vibrancy of good Pinot Noir.

Some tasters noted that many of the wines tasted more like Syrah than Pinot Noir. Given the expense of good Pinot Noir grapes, one way to minimize costs is to blend in (legally) a percentage of a less expensive variety such as Syrah.

The problem is that the more forceful grape can rob Pinot Noir of its own character.

One wine shone more brightly than others in the tasting. The Mount Riley 2014 Pinot Noir from Marlborough, New Zealand ($15.99 per bottle) is a truly fine value. Its herb-tinged cherry aroma jumps from the glass. On the palate it is full of juicy red fruit flavors that linger in the wine’s long finish.

The Mount Riley is a surprisingly elegant wine for the price, and it truly tastes of Pinot Noir. Try it with roasted chicken, salmon, meaty pastas, or dishes containing mushrooms. This one’s a real find!

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s the holiday show of their 25th season, Kitchen Theatre brings back Rachel Lampert’s signature piece, The Soup Comes Last. What a glorious way to celebrate the season.

Lampert’s one-woman show is the memoir of her 1997 adventure staging the first ever production of West Side Story in the People’s Republic of China.

Part backstage “Let’s put on a show” drama and part “innocents abroad,” the play is rich in the comedy of flamboyant egos, exploded expectations, mishaps in translations, and the humor attendant to being a stranger in a strange land.

But at heart Soup remains a love story: that of the accidental families created in a theatrical project, of teacher and students, of souls connecting across a cultural divide. As such it is bittersweet, for this family is destined to be torn apart at the end by oceans and time.

Prologue: Rachel remembers trips with her Jewish Brooklyn family to Mott Avenue in Chinatown, where the owner would choose their dishes, and she felt special (and exotic) for being known as the girl who “likes lychee nuts.” This warm-hearted intro establishes both the specific ethnic world which informs Rachel’s understandings of China and the tropes of memory, family, and crossing cultures.

Act One: Pop into the present (1997) as in a flurry of phone calls, Rachel is swept into a six-week journey in China, courtesy of Joanne, a white Jewish South African Brit who channels the great dames of theatre with flamboyant excess (“Dahling, it will be an adventure!).

Hooked up through a mutual colleague, this odd couple is director (Joanne) and choreographer (Rachel) for a brand-new private academy of musical theatre being launched in Beijing.

What follows is a cavalcade of dashed expectations as the pair is hurried past downtown Beijing with its western Hiltons to an undisclosed location in the rural outskirts. Their lodgings are the Shooting Hotel (home to a famed skeet-shooting range), where everyone rushes to their rooms to enjoy the last 15 minutes of hot water. Soon they are rehearsing in a high school, trying to negotiate terms (through two unreliable interpreters) with their host and employer, the imperious Mme. Ding— who keeps insisting they should stay six months, coping with an ever-absent rehearsal pianist and trying to get Tony and Maria to stop giggling whenever they start a love scene.

Help finally arrives in Act 2 with a new interpreter, the impetuous and highly confident Emma (her chosen English

name from the Jane Austen novel) who becomes their co-conspirator. The show will go on, in an onrush of triumph, hope, and, yes, love.

Coming back to this piece as a viewer so many years after it first appeared, I was first astonished at how strong the writing and structure are, how well the story holds up, how layered and complex it is despite the acknowledged naïveté

Rachel Lampert in action (Photo: George Cannon)

of its writer-narrator. The performance itself has deepened. The older Rachel is no longer pushing the jokes or overarticulating the many characterizations.

Nearing two decades on, she is putting on a familiar set of clothes and abandoning herself to the memories they evoke. She simply steps into each character, each moment, allowing the relationships and the revelations to come at their own pace.

It’s an easeful, generous, fully inhabited performance with just a mark of rue at time passed.

Dan Meeker’s beautiful setting returns, enhanced by the extra depth of the “new” Kitchen stage (the three wonderful stools of the 1998 outing under director Wendy Dann remain at center). Lesley Greene provides sound and projections, Mer Boel atmospheric musical bridges, and Lisa Boquist her always adroit costuming. New to the show is the burnished, romantic, evocative lighting of Tyler M. Perry. Director Emily Jackson, assisted by Melyssa Hall, has restaged the play with clarity and brio.

Soup remains a treasure, yours to unlock through this Sunday. •

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The Flavors of Tradition

Restaurant brings the tastes of Southeast Asia

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aming a Lao restaurant “Sticky Rice” is apparently equivalent to calling a southern Italian restaurant “Pasta.” Sticky rice is the basis of Lao cuisine and is served in either milled (white) or unmilled (purple) form.

The latter still has the bran of the grain surrounding the kernel and consequently has an earthier or nuttier flavor. You are always asked which type you’d like when you order any rice dish.

Sticky Rice is hard to find; it’s tucked around the corner of the Gateway building, behind the new barbecue place. Visibility is not particularly important, as Sticky Rice is largely a take-out restaurant and has a user-friendly website that allows you to load your “cart” with the items that you order.

Lao cuisine will look familiar to anyone who has been to a Thai restaurant.

Apparently there are more ethnic Lao in the Isan area of Thailand than there are in all of Laos. This is a consequence of the Lao historical migration southward from southern China into Southeast Asia.

Apparently many parts of “Thai” cuisine are originally Lao. For example, tom yum soup is a standby in Thai restaurants and is present here.

Sticky Rice’s version of this is heavily spiced with lemongrass, so much so that it smells something like Pledge. Happily it tastes nothing like furniture polish, but rather very strongly of citrus, a mixture of lime and lemon. There is a freshness about the flavor that may be due to galangal, a relative of ginger, that is often added to tom yum soup. In any event the broth is quite spicy, although not enough to mask other flavors. My bowl did not have a lot of vegetables in it, but was dominated by onions.

Some representative sticky rice dishes: try the fish and eggplant plate. Everything in this entrée is very roughly chopped.

In many cuisines this is an indication that the cooks are either from the rural provinces or they are adopting a sort of rustic approach. It is effective here because it makes everything easy to identify, which is convenient when you are making your way through a new culinary experience.

The Thai eggplants are cut lengthwise into wedges and cooked very lightly; they are quite tender without being mushy.

The fish is catfish, which seems appropriate, as Laos is a land-locked country crossed by many large rivers.

Catfish is a finely and densely textured white fish, and it absorbs flavors better than many ocean-run white fishes. You are given large chunks in this dish, and it is not over-cooked (which would make it tough).

The sauce is flavored with Kaffir limes,

lemongrass, scallions and what appears to be shredded basil. The grape tomatoes seem to have been added largely for their color; their own flavor disappears in the sauce.

While we had the previous dish with white rice, we tried the Cassia leaf sauce with the purple rice. Cassia leaves come from a tree in the legume family called Senna siamea. It is called ki lek in Thailand (or Asian groceries). The leaves, pods and seeds are edible, but have to be boiled first. This dish looks like a mash of leaves that has given rise to a cream sauce, but the creaminess is from coconut milk, and the overall taste is a combination of the fattiness of the coconut and the slight

bitterness of the Cassia leaves.

Of course, the ever-present lemongrass and Kaffir lime give their characteristic bite as well. This sauce is also sprinkled liberally with onions, and we had pork with it. (You have your choice of chicken, pork, beef, or vegetables.)

It’s not all sticky rice Left to Right: Sonephet Manivone, Bey Sisouphone, Maxwell Sisouphone, Sisay Sisouphone, though. There Lamphie Hongsiri , Alex Hongsiri (Photo: Rye Bennett) are a number of flat noodle of it. It wasn’t going to win any prizes for dishes as well tenderness or flavor, but it wasn’t tough or (including the ubiquitous pad thai). We stringy either. • tried something called pad see eaw, which proved to be based in a soy and onion Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are sauce with vegetables stirred into it. The based on unannounced, anonymous vegetables included onions, broccoli raab, visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca. and fennel bulbs. We asked for this with com/ dining beef (same choices as above) and got a lot

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Well, that and me thinking, I like There are those who prefer the lean, James Bond as much as the next guy born less goofy Bond adventures, and others in the early ‘60s, but maybe 23 of these like the sillier ones overflowing with girls, things are enough. Then Spectre kicked guns, and gadgets. I myself lean towards off with that Bond gun barrel iris shot— the earlier, more outrageous entries in the Mendes didn’t use it in Skyfall—and right series. When Samuel Jackson asked Colin away we get this amazing real time shot Firth about his taste in spy movies in that starts on the Day of the Dead parade Kingsman: The Secret Service, Firth said: making its way through Mexico City, “Nowadays, they’re all a little too picks up Bond and his prey, moves them serious for my taste. But the old ones through a lavish hotel into a suite and … marvelous. Give me a far-fetched then onto the roof … and my objections theatrical plot any day.” to the notion of yet another of these Bond Skyfall was pretty good, but the films crumbled like a blown-up Mexican second time out, Mendes gets the epic hotel. nature and the tone of the great Bonds Make no mistake: Spectre is the just about right. Seydoux is a striking best, most entertaining Bond film since and resilient partner in espionage, but Goldeneye. If this is indeed Daniel Craig’s she’s refreshingly real and not as goddesslast outing as Ian Fleming’s gentleman like as what they used to call Bond girls spy, at least he’s going out with one of but probably can’t anymore because of the better films in the series, as opposed political correctness. Somehow, in its to, say, Quantum of Solace. The result sixth decade, the Bond movie series seems of decades of show biz wrangling and poised for even more thrilling escapades. legal battles, SPECTRE and other •

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But according to the artist, her more intermittent schooling at the Arts Students League in New York City has been of the greater importance. Dating back to 1875, the League—which is based in mid-town Manhattan—is one of America’s most storied art schools. With flexible scheduling and no degrees, the League provides a vital alternative to the domination of contemporary higher education in art by academia and its values.

The artist cites the influence of Mary Beth McKenzie’s course at the League, for which she worked as an assistant.

It’s not difficult to see a parallel between McKenzie’s expressive, nuanced realism and her own.

Deneuville is also an experienced instructor with a master’s degree in art education. In August, she re-established her small business, Bristle & Turp in downtown Ithaca. She offers lessons to children, teenagers, and adults. (See bristleandturp. com for more information.) (“Bristle” refers to the animal hairs used in artists’ brushes; “Turp” to turpentine, a common solvent used with oil paints. The artist was unable to use toxic pigments and solvents during her recent pregnancy—with the result that several of the recent canvases here were made without a means of thinning the paint.)

“Sharp knives” is a strikingly arranged

exhibit. Hung together on the one-room gallery’s long wall, are eight identically sized upright canvases. (These are 18 x 36 inches, a size the artist favors for portraying the figure). A pair of moody self-portraits flank the sequence on the left and right. Three paintings on the left depict sitters from the League shown in profile—a point-of-view the artist attributes to a favored spot in the studio there. A canvas in the center shows an empty chair, while two recent paintings to the right show friends.

Smaller walls hold still life and interior images that evoke human presence in a more indirect manner. These pieces vary considerably in size.

Deneuville’s symbolism is fairly straightforward, even guileless.

Chipped pottery and empty chairs suggest the human form—and though damaged or incomplete, they retain a certain wholeness and

useful capacity.

It is a commonplace among artists working from the figure that the artist herself makes the best model—always available. Not surprisingly, Deneuville’s two smaller self-portraits are among the most striking pieces in the show.

Sharp Knives (2015), on the left, is a portrait of the artist in black turtleneck and pale blue trousers (perhaps jeans.) We see her body frontally, oriented towards us, but she contorts her neck—facing right, as if something else holds her attention. Her brown hair is tied up in a bun, her face ruddy and tense.

She holds knives in her hands, one of them serrated. Her feet, which echo the contortion of her upper body, are bare. As with her other figure paintings here, the background is basically abstract.

The space behind her is an indefinite, foggy blue-gray while the floor—angled in an awkward indication

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of perspective—is a black-and-white checkerboard.

Self Portrait with Chair (2013) is more compelling still, showing the artist in a loose-fitting collared shirt and dark trousers. The color is dominated by a rich variety of grays—punctuated only by the warm hue of her skin and the dark red of her shoes. Like her shoe-covered feet elsewhere, these seem oddly formless, lumpy. The artist holds the chair in front of her, as if shielding herself. Her face and upper body seem to recede, as if she is leaning back. All in all it is an image of self-withdrawal—a marked contrast to the implied aggression of Knives.

Three paintings date from Deneuville’s years at the Art Students League. Andrea (2012) portrays a hipster-ish young woman sitting on a stool: black hair in a bun, thick-framed glasses, blurred arm tattoo, bag-like white dress with black dots, shadowy legs in black stockings. Her outfit aside, the picture is also striking for the range of paint textures, which range from an area in background where the stainlike underpainting shows through to the vigorously worked impasto of her dress.

Speedo Blues (2011) is the closest thing here to a nude. It shows a tousle-haired young man seated on a stool, his legs folded back. The lack of a ground plane emphasizes the sense of stoic isolation conveyed by his posture and expression.

The red sweatshirt-clad woman of Hoodie (2012) sits on a box-shaped seat—the sort of thing you would have lying around an

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Although central in both its hanging and its relevance to the erstwhile theme of the show, Cane Chair (2015) is not one of the stronger pieces here. The butterflyshaped chair lacks the care of rendering and variety of incident that Deneuville brings to her figures. Again, the perspective seems forced.

Katie and Amanda (both 2015) show friends of the artists rather than professional models. Seen frontally, they appear possessed with the greater intimacy and warmth that one would expect, although the difference takes a bit of

(A cleaner, less-painterly style might be more suitable here.) Panoramic in scope, Kitchen Counter (Our Last Year in Flatbush) (2014) is more awkwardly composed and yet more interesting. The piece is made up of two conjoined canvases, framed together.

The right-hand canvas echoes Routine with its collection of miscellany. But it is invigorated by contrast with the sparser scene to the left.

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A large, square canvas, Strawberry Frosted Afternoon (2015) is the show’s intended centerpiece. Indeed, it commands the room with it’s pervasive light, nearsymmetry and compelling abstraction.

Painted in her Ithaca studio, it centers on a wooden table laden with chipped vessels, a pair of spoons in counterpoint, and a plate—also damaged—bearing a pair of pink doughnuts.

A tall window behind reveals nothing of what’s outside. Rather, it is a nearmonolithic block of stark white, tinted pink-purple towards the top. In contrast to the intricate forms and delicate light and shadow of the tabletop and the twin chairs that flank it, the background room space is similarly stark in its geometric abstraction, dominated by vertical bands of gray and blue that fall down like a curtain around the more perspectival space suggested by the floor and windowsill.

The square-shaped Routine (Ridgewood Kitchen) (2012) is the less-interesting of these, homing in on an overstocked shelf.

square inch pulses with vitality, one-person shows where nothing seems redundant.

Deneuville work isn’t quite on that level—at least not on the evidence here.

Most of the canvases have areas that seem a bit awkward or perfunctory. The artist is a keen observer of the human form and many of her still-life objects appear endowed with a similar depth and fullness. An area that could be developed more is the backgrounds. These are often sparsely suggestive and abstract, which is fine. But there’s a distinction between evocative simplicity and lack of weight or completeness.

Still, this is ambitious and skillful painting—not quite the norm for oneperson shows of Ithaca artists. And while other painters here are doubtless working in realist portraiture, hardly anybody that I can think of has shown a sustained history of it downtown in recent memory.

“Sharp knives,” imperfect though it is, is an interesting show that introduces a promising artist to town. We look forward to seeing more. •

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Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

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Jazz Vocal Ensemble | 7:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Douglas Avery, director Mobile Deathcamp, Carnivora, Ire Clad, Thirteen South | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Groove Metal, Heavy Metal.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB. Hoodoo Crossing | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues.

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12/09 Wednesday Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band featuring members of: Mosaic Foundation, Big Mean Sound Machine, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown’s Body and More!

Jazz Lab Band | 8:15 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Bill Tiberio, conductor Lora Pendleton and Pat Burke | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Old Time, Folk.

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

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Bobby Henrie & Guest : Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Rockabilly, Old-Time.

12/11 Friday Donna the Buffalo, The Falconers | 8:00 PM | Ranson Steele Tavern, 552 Main Street, Apalachin | Night 1 of 2 night series. | Cajun, Zydeco, Rock, Folk, Reggae, Country.

Scopes Monkey Trial, Pollen, and Seoul Delhi | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | 9:00 PM | Funk, Rock, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Alternative Rock, Fusion.

Kevin Kinsella and the Analogue Sons with DJ Cappel | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Soul.

The East West Blues Band | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | The East West Blues Band formed in early 2015 to celebrate the legacy of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Chicago Blues, Blues, Covers.

Tryin’ Joe and The Mad Scientist | 9:00 PM | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Experimental, Ambient, World, Electronic.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone

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C’est Bon Cajun Dance Band | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Hard-Rockin, Foot-Stompin, Girl-Powered Cajun Dancehall.

West Hillbillies | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Old-Time Fiddle Music.

Ironwood | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Country, Roots Blues, Modern Folk.

The John Kadlecik Band | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Psychedelic Rock, Roots Rock, Jam.

12/13 Sunday Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

Buffalo Zydeco | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Zydeco.

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

MSZM (Mike Stark & Zaun Marshburn) | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz, Free Jazz, Ambient, Avant-Garde.

The Meandering Yardvarks | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Neo-Obscura, 50’s through the 80’s.

DeRuyter & George | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Guitar, Vocals and Mandolin.

Pelotones | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewery, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | Swing, Jazz, Blues, R&B. Holiday Music Series: Alyce Daubenspeck and Amy-Brinkman-Davis | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Two classically trained divas deliver music from the soul, from opera, to classical, to Christmas.

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

Brunch with Bittersweet | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19

12/15 Tuesday Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

Bob & Dee: Viva Rongovia | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Old-Time, Folk, Classic Covers. concerts

12/10 Thursday Brass Choir | 7:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Keith Kaiser, conductor

12/11 Friday Burns Sisters: Home for the Holidays Concert | 8:00 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Sisters Annie and Marie Burns return to the Hangar for their Annual Home for the Holidays concert. The band will be performing original songs and

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The Sweats | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Original Blues, Rock, Country.

Nate Marshall and Travis Knapp | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Swing, Blues, Americana, Jazz, Singer Songwriter.

13 Degrees Jazz Trio | 7:30 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Nick Weiser (piano), Nicholas Walker (bass), and Greg Evans (drums). Jazz.

WonderMonday | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Westy, 516 W. State St., Ithaca | Art Rock, Pop Rock, Rock.

Bad Alibi | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Classic Rock.

Bob & Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Folk, Rock, Country, Americana.

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Folk, Pop. The Ithaca Concert Band Annual Holiday Concert | 7:00 PM | Whelan Center, Ithaca College Campus, Ithaca | Conductor Arthur Carichner has chosen a wide variety of holiday music to please the audience at this time of year.

A special treat for those in attendance will be “Concertino Cecile Chaminade” featuring flute soloist Rowan CusackMiller. For further information, contact ICB President Dave Wohlhueter, 273-5891.

12/12 Saturday The Ageless Jazz Band: Swing Dance Benefit for CSMA | 7:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Swing Dance Benefit, Jazz, Swing, Dancing. www. ithacaswing.org or call 277-4513.

The World of American Music | 3:00 PM | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Featuring the harmonies of special guest artist Elisa Sciscioli and Honey Child Soul Quintet. For tickets visit voicesofamerica.brownpapertickets.com. For more information, visit www.ithacacommunitychoruses.org/ groups/voices/join/

12/13 Sunday The FUNX Concert: Running to Places Fundraiser | 7:30 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A cappella sensation, The Funx, will take the Hangar Stage in concert to benefit the Running to Places Theatre Company scholarship fund. The Funx are a soulful supergroup dedicated to bringing more original music to the a cappella world. There will be a bonus pre-show performance by the cast of R2P’s Crazy for You. The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes | 4:00 PM | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | With mezzo soprano Ivy Walz, soprano Amanda Kohl, and the Chorus of the Southern Finger Lakes, performing mixed Holiday favorites.

The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers | 3:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Soul, Gospel, World, A-Cappella, Spiritual.

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Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco | Run Free is a movie about Micah True (Caballo Blanco, or the White Horse), an American ultra runner who helped the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico preserve their traditional running culture by creating a 50-mile ultra marathon which combines aspects of traditional Tarahumara running with the ideology of modern ultra running. | 92 mins NR | Brooklyn | An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a new romance. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries

and the lives that exist within. | 111 mins PG-13 |

Chi-Raq | A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago. | 118 mins R | Macbeth | Macbeth, a Thane of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. | 113 mins R | Spotlight | The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. | 128 mins R| Trumbo | In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood’s top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. | 124 min R | Unbranded | Sixteen mustangs, four men, one dream: to ride border to border, Mexico to Canada, up the spine of the American West. The documentary tracks four fresh-outof-college buddies as they take on wild mustangs to be their trusted mounts, and set out on the adventure

of a lifetime. Their wildness of spirit, in both man and horse, is quickly dwarfed by the wilderness they must navigate: a 3000-mile gauntlet that is equally indescribable and unforgiving. | 106 min PG-13 | cornell cinema

Wednesday 12/09 to Tuesday 12/15 | Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Black Mass | The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. | 122 mins R | Mad Max:Fury Road | A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in post apocalyptic Australia in search for her homeland with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max. | 120 mins R | Mission Impossible:Rogue Nation | Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. | 131 mins PG-13 | Shaun The Sheep Movie | When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix

wordpress.com/get-involved/. For photos or more information, contact organizer Lily Gershon at freeskoolithaca@gmail.com. Visit the Ithaca Freeskool website at www.ithacafreeskool.org Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 12/11 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December.

Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Local seasonal produce, honey, flowers, baked goods, meats, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, glass, fiber arts and the Owl’s Head Fish Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking.

Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/13 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage.

Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages.

The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-, 12/15 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.

Newfield Woodlawn Cemetery: Annual Meeting | 6:00 PM, 12/15 Tuesday | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St. , Newfield | Local residents are encouraged to attend.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 12/15 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it’s up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home. | 85 mins PG |

Stage Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM, 12/09 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs.

The Soup Comes Last | Runs through December 13 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | Rachel Lampert’s memoir of her 1997 trip to China to stage the first-ever production of West Side Story in the People’s Republic returns for an encore production.

Miscommunications, awkward translations, and cultural missteps beg the question, “Will the show go on?” A one-woman play, with a dozen characters, about clashing and collaborating. Tickets and info at www. kitchentheatre.org Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM, 12/10 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Ballet Presents: The Nutcracker | 7:30 PM, 12/11 Friday with Orchestra, 3:00 PM, Saturday 12/12 and 3:00 PM Sunday 12/13, without Orhcestra | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca |

Learning Holiday Cookie Decorating Class | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 12/09 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join GreenStar Pastry Chef Jillian Brazel for this fun decorating class and leave with a few cookies.

Cookies and frosting provided. This class is free and open to the public, and is held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Writing Through The Rough Spots | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 12/09 Wednesday | Various Locations, , | Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots classes begin

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The Commons, December 10 through December 12

The State Theatre, Friday, December 11, 7:30 p.m.

Speed is the name of the game when concerning Ithaca’s legendary Ice Festival. The nation’s finest ice carvers will be at their sharpest - competing for over $9,000 in prizes during three rounds of intense, dynamic, and clear-as-glass technique. The fabulous event will feature an outdoor Ice Bar - serving stiff drinks, cold beer, wine, and hot cocoa.

They’ll also be a Chowder-Cook-off, fire dancers, and much, much more. Bring your goggles and come on down!

The big whopper, as it were, of ballet productions, generally raising nearly 40 percent of companie’s annual ticket sales from performances, this two-act ballet originally premiered December 18, 1892. It’s been an enormous success and cultural behemoth ever since. Tchaikovsky’s score is legendary, and the ballet acts as a rite of Christmas passing every year for millions of adoring fans.

Choreographed by Lavinia Reid, the ballet truly serves as an Ithaca tradition like no other. Runs Saturday and Sunday as well.

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Christmas Nativity Display and Donations for Meals On Wheels | 9:00 AM, 12/09 Wednesday | Now You’re Cooking, 116 The Commons, Ithaca | Over 150 different nativity scenes from around the world on display until New Years. Accepting donations for Meals on Wheels of Tompkins County. Come out for some Holiday Festivities and make a donation to people in need.

Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life.

An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com.

Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 12/10 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

Teach for Ithaca Freeskool | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 12/10 Thursday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Ithaca Freeskool is looking for passionate people who want to share their skills and knowledge in the upcoming session, Feb 1 to April 30, 2015. Class proposals are due on Jan 3rd and should be submitted at http://ithacafreeskool.

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WritingRoomWorkshops.com Creating a Wellness Plan for the Holidays | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 12/10 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Stay healthy, happy, and fit this holiday season!

Taught by Cheryl Horihan, Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Free and open to the public, and held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. ​Developing Your Ally Identity with Cornell Woodson | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/10 Thursday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This workshop is designed to engage participants of all social identities in the process of developing their role as an effective ally to persons of other social identities.

What You Should Know About Nutrition and Heart Disease | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/11 Friday | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Guest lecturer is Krista Mugford, MS, RDN, CDN, registered dietitian at Cayuga Center for Healthy Living. Free and open to all. Light refreshments, plenty of free parking.

ASLCI: American Sign Language Learning Group | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 12/15 Tuesday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | ASLCI is a casual group for Ithacans of all signing abilities. We welcome everyone, Deaf or hearing, to learn more about Deaf culture and practice ASL. Our group meets every Tuesday at Barnes & Noble (614 S. Meadow St.) from 5-7pm, in the study area behind Starbucks.

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

jazz by the Molly MacMillan Trio. 8 PM PROGRAM, Master of Ceremonies -Marcia Fort, Remarks by Special Guest Dr. Clayborne Carson, Inspiring music

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Holigay Celebration: A Night Out: An LGBTQ Movie and Social Event Series | 7:00 AM-, 12/09 Wednesday | Plannes Parenthood, 620 West Seneca Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca | Join us for our very first Holigay Celebration!

Go head-to-head in Queer Trivia and Scattergories, or bring your own games to share! Yummy refreshments and beverages will be available. This is a free event and open to the public.

Individuals with questions should contact: devon.ritz@ppsfl.org or 607-216-0021.

Ithaca Sociable Singles Group | 6:00 AM-, 12/09 Wednesday | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Meet someone special, socialize, and have an all-around excellent evening.

RSVP Map10@cornell.edu A Community Summit on Youth | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/10 Thursday | Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St, Ithaca | This free and open event will allow community members to discuss how to support youth in their achievement of success. For more information please contact Jasmin J Cubero at jcubero@tompkins-co. org or Runjini Raman at RRaman@ cityofithaca.org.

Moosewood Authors Holiday Cookbook Signings | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 12/10 Thursday | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Moosewood authors will be hosting holiday cookbook signings at Moosewood Restaurant in the Dewitt Mall, noon to 4 pm SaturdaysDecember 12th and 19th. Signed cookbooks make great gifts!

Ithaca Ice Festival | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | December 10, 11, and 12. Witness the nation’s finest ice carvers as they compete for $9,000 in prizes during 3 rounds of breathtaking competition in Downtown Ithaca. The festival features impressive display sculptures, fire demonstrations, the ever-popular Ice Bar: an outdoor bar made entirely of ice, serving beer, wine, and hot cocoa, and a tasty Chowder Cook-off. Ithaca Ice Festival ice carving competition is a National Ice Carving Association sanctioned event. For a full schedule visit www. downtownithaca.com Tinsel ‘N Lights Festival | 5:30 PM, 12/11 Friday | Muldoon Park, Pennsylvania Ave., Waverly | A variety

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Dorothy Cotton Institute Gala and Dinner | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 12/09 Wednesday | Carrier Grand Ballroom Statler Hotel, Cornell University, Ithaca | In celebration of International Human Rights Day with Special Guest, Dr. Clayborne Carson. 6 PM Reception with hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and R&B with the Fe Nunn Trio. 7 PM Dinner with

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New York State’s own C’est Bon Cajun Dance Band, bring hard-rockin, foot-stompin, girl-powered Cajun dancehall music. They play the Rongovian Embassy, Saturday 12/12 at 9:00 p.m. Grab your dancing boots! (Photo Provided) of Holiday entertainment including Santa, horse and wagon rides, ice sculpting, live reindeer, free food, music and more. Broad Street will be open from 5-8:30 pm with Santa’s workshop, Artwalk storefront mural contest and more!

Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins/ Cortland Counties 4th Annual Cookie Walk | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 12/12 Saturday | Center Ithaca, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | Cookies for sale by the pound, over 70 different flavors.

The Little Red Wagon Artisan Market | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 12/12 Saturday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This juried holiday shopping opportunity will feature approximately 40 fine artists and artisans, and showcase a wide variety of beautiful handmade local products, from wine and artisanal food to pottery, clothing, jewelry, art, wood and house- wares, body care and more.

The Little Red Wagon will be from 10 AM – 6 PM on both Saturday and Sunday. More information can be found at www.littleredwagonartisans.com.

Clay for the Healing Heart | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 12/13 Sunday | Clay

School, South Hill Business Park. 950 Danby Road, Suite 28 | This workshop offers children age 6-12 who are grieving the loss of a loved one an opportunity to process their grief through the art of hand building and wheel throwing. The children will receive their creations at a later date after they are glazed and fired.

Registration deadline is December 7, 2015. Please contact Laura Ward at (607) 272-0212 or lward@hospicare. org for more information or to register your child.

Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 12/13 Sunday | Crow’s Nest Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Got any pirate songs? Stop on by.

After Paris: A Call for Bold Climate Leadership in Tompkins County | 5:00 PM-, 12/15 Tuesday | Dewitt Park Farmers’ Market, Dewitt Park, Ithaca | Join Fossil Free Tompkins for a Rally to Protect the Planet and then follow us upstairs to the County Legislature meeting to call for bold climate leadership in Tompkins County. Speak out and tell our county legislators that you want them to make greenhouse gas reduction, climate protection and

The Burns Sisters,

Hangar Theatre, Friday, December 11, 8:00 p.m.

The Burns Sisters live comfortably in a land once past. A time when the sun rose above the barn - and the leaves whistled through the sky across the prairie, well, at least their sound brings these montages to mind. Merging country-folk and pop melodies with a traditional story telling nature, the Burns Sisters, originally from Binghamton, got their start right here in Ithaca, and have since traveled the open road with Arlo Guthrie, the David Kent Band, and many more.

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Meetings Shade Tree Advisory Committee (STAC) | 4:00 PM, 12/09 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | STAC consults with the City Forester and the Board of Public Works regarding the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 306 of the City of Ithaca Municipal Code (“Trees and Shrubs”).

IURA Neighborhood Investment Committee (NIC) | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 12/11 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | NIC meetings are ordinarily held on the 2nd Friday of every month at 8:30 a.m. in Third Floor Conference Room, Third Floor, City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca.

City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 12/14 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 12/15 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Public Works Committee | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/15 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

Books Coloring: Stress Relief | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 12/09 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | GM Asha introduces you to the stress relief that is coloring. Yes, coloring. All the rage these days, but many have known for years how taking a colored pencil to a page can ease the mind. We will have colored pencils and pages to color, or you can bring your own book. Free and open to the public Interactive yoga story time with Diane Hamilton | 10:00 AM, 12/09 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | For kids ages 3-10 Gordon Bonnet | 5:30 PM, 12/10 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Local Author Gordon Bonnet discusses his new book, Lock

Tryin’ Joe and the Mad Sceintist, Schwartz Center, Friday, December 11, 9:00 p.m.

A brave band that lives in-between the common - and the passing over, Tryin’ Joe and The Mad Scientist mix experimental world fusion and improvised electronic scores, with melodic and ordered songwriting. The mix is refreshing, both breezy, and avant-gardy.

Sound clips overlap with flamingo guitar flourishes - touching ambient sleep, then divingly gently into deep pop melodies.

They’ll be joined by Cornell University’s Light and Sound collective, making for a colorful and abstract affair.

& Key. Edith B. Ford Memorial Library in Ovid Fundraiser | 10:00 AM-7:00 PM, 12/12 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Stop

by Buffalo Street Books on Saturday December 12th and 10% of your purchases will go to the Edith B. Ford Memorial Library in Ovid. Folks from the library will be here offering gift wrapping and kids activities from 10-7pm.

Art Michelle E. Wright: Isolation in Indra’s Net | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 12/12 Saturday | 2nd Floor Gallery, 15 Main Street, Trumansburg | Photography Show. ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Wynn Yarrow Landsapes.

Wynn Yarrow will feature new landscape works created specifically for this magical show. Runs through December.

CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Sharp Knives, Erin Deueuville. This exhibition of oil paintings combines work from the past five years. Collectively, these portraits and kitchen scenes tell stories about generosity, vulnerability, and sharing a meal. | www.artspartner.org Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Annual Open Show. Works by 70 regional artists in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, fiber art, and mixed media assemblage will be on view from December through January at the Community School of Music and Arts’ much anticipated Annual Open Show.

Curated this year by Terry Plater, a painter based in Ithaca, this exciting exhibition showcases a wide array of artistic talent and interests. Visit more than once to appreciate everything this show has to offer!| www.csma-ithaca. org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | This Is How It Starts: Elise Nicol and Melissa Zarem / Exhibition of new works on paper.

Runs through December 23. | www. cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Sarah Thomson – As a 30

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aruch Whitehead, the director of the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers, thinks that attending a concert of Negro spirituals might be just what everyone needs to make their way toward the Christmas spirit. There have been racial tensions on the Ithaca College campus, where Whitehead is a professor of music education, and the country has seen more than its share of racial upheaval in the last year.

Their next show is on Sunday, Dec. 13 at 3 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall on the Ithaca College campus. The show is free. The group is named in honor of civil rights pioneer Dorothy Cotton, an Ithaca resident who worked in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s inner circle as education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1960s.

The Jubilee Singers are an integrated group in several senses. Not only does the group include people of more than one race, but it also includes members of several ethnicities, varying ages (ages 18 through 78), and a mixture of people from the college communities and the town.

“If we weren’t in this group,” said Whitehead, “we wouldn’t be having the conversations that we’re having. I hope that comes through in our performances.”

Whitehead said that students in the group often tell him that they never

year Tompkins County resident I have learned that one need not travel far to observe incredible wildlife, landscapes and events. I have been playing with cameras since I got my first Brownie as a kid. A camera became almost another appendage for me and a way to document events and places visually that I might otherwise forget.

Photography provides an opportunity to get intimate with a subject and I am always surprised by what I learn. I consider this time a real luxury. | (646) 306-0972 State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | State of the Art hosts artists from the Ithaca area and beyond in its 2015 “Juried Show” during December. All media except photography will be shown in the exhibition–paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, collage and mixed media. For

The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers (Photo Provided) would have gotten to know anyone outside the campus community if they hadn’t joined the Jubilee Singers. “I’m amazed,” he said, “at how few students leave either hill.” Being in the group, he said, helps them to learn to deal with people from all walks of life.

The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers rehearse for two hours once a week throughout the school year. Unlike many campus ensembles, which build up to one semester-ending appearance, the Jubilee Singers do five or six performances per semester. In addition to singing locally, they have also recently journeyed down to St. Andrew’s Church in Harlem (“Across the street from Langston Hughes’ house,” said Whitehead) and to the Johnson City high school.

Negro spirituals are sung a cappella, and it is the richness of the harmonies that give them a dense sound that makes you entirely forget that there is no instrumental accompaniment. This

information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@ soag.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca |Figure in Landscape. This past September six artist drew, and painted from the model outside at The Newman Overlook on the Cornell Plantations.

Model Gretchen Ernst, is an acrobatic hand balancer who’s dynamic poses serve as the focus for “Figure in Landscape.” Featuring works by Gabe Carraher, Carol Goodlin, Robert Grant, Bob Ivers, Robin Parkins, and Michael Sampson. | www.thecellardor.com Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | France for Art’s Sake 2015. A special aesthetic treat awaits those who visit the store and gallery in December: artists who took part in this summer’s painting excursion to France will display work: oils, pastels, drawings, and photos,

Sunday Whitehead said that he would be adding some Christmas songs to the usual repertoire. These include “Sweet Little Jesus Boy,” “Rise Up Shepherd and Follow,” and “Mary Had a Baby.”

A lot of popular Christmas carols are secular. Think of “Jingle Bells,” “Silver Bells,” “Deck the Halls,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and even “White Christmas.” In contrast, like all Negro spirituals, the Christmas songs from that tradition are deeply religious, focused on the birth and life of Jesus. On a tour of youtube.com you will find Mahalia Jackson and Gladys Night singing “Sweet Little Jesus Boy,” but you’ll find Anne Murray and Trisha Yearwood singing it too.

Whitehead noted that slaves were not allowed to learn to read, so what they knew of the Bible, they transmitted orally and through song. The stories in the songs about Jesus’ birth are understandably mixed with the stories of their own lives. “Sweet Little Jesus

done in and around Paris. Come enjoy the work and learn about plans for the 2016 trip! | 319-0944 or visit www. decorum-too.com EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | The Lustrous World of Giselle Potter.

Artist Giselle Potter is like no other.

Her colors are plucked from nature: her imagery, insanely appealing. She can take an everyday and make it extraordinary. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker, Potter has illustrated over 25 books for kids of all ages and has shown at the Society of Illustrators in NYC and the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst. | www. eyegallery.com Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art | Cornell University, Central Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Imprint / In Print, August 8 to December 20. So it goes:

Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut August 22 to December 20. Huang Hsin-chien: The Inheritance, September 5 to December 20, CUTS: Video Works

by Gordon Matta-Clark, September 5 to December 20. www.museum. cornell.edu The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | The Ink Shop is celebrating artists who have a connection with both states. Pamela Drix, Jenny Pope and Kathleen Friedrich moved to Ithaca from Michigan.

Ladislav Hanka, Mary Brodbeck, and Katie Platte all live in Michigan making prints. Katie is also sharing a collection of broadsides from the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. | 607-277-3884 | www ink-shop.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | A combined photo and print show of works by Naomi Edmark

and Kevin Cruz. The show will run through December 31. | www.wafflefrolicking.com Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | Streetscapes, a new exhibit that brings street art inside the Library. Curated by Jay Potter, Streetscapes will feature a collection of work that draws on creativity and inspiration from our urban surroundings. | www.tcpl.org Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | THE SPIRIT OF LAKE LIGHT. Recent paintings of the Finger Lakes by Brian Keeler, as well as landscapes of New England and Italy.

This award winning artist’s paintings will be on display until December 31st.

This is our last guest artist show as the Titus Gallery will close when we retire in Spring 2016.. | www.titusgallery. com

MSZM,

The Haunt, Saturday, December 12, 7:00 p.m.

Maxie’s Supper Club and Oyster Bar, Sunday, December 13, 6:00 p.m.

Drawing from both abstract electronica and free jazz, the duo that is MSZM (Micheal Stark and Zaun Marshburn) brings to mind the band Triosk, whose out-wordly realms rely heavily on dreamy patters.

There’s also a bit of Bad Plus and Medeski Martin and Wood in these guys, as they bend and twirl together in unison reminding me of the aforementioned band’s telepathy and connections. Here’s hoping MSZM puts out a record soon, and in the meantime, make sure to check them out live - like on this night!

As a member of the intricate and tour heavy Dark Star Orchestra, John Kadlecik mastered the art of playing the part of Jerry Garcia. DSO are a unique Grateful Dead tribute band, in that they play actual Dead shows, setlist by setlist, staying true to the period style. All that adaptation has created a very Jerry-like being, on the guitar as well through the vocal chords. Kadlecik’s touring with his own band now, whose real strengths lie in their abstract, swirling, psychedelic, and progressive improvisations, yes, much like the Dead.

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Boy” includes the lines, “The world treats you mean and cruel / That’s how things are down here.” Bad things happen to Jesus, the song tells us, because his contemporaries “don’t know who you are.” People treated Jesus badly because they didn’t know he was God. Slave owners treat slaves badly, the song implies, because they don’t know they are people.

“In these particularly difficult times, in light of the Black Lives Matter movement and the social unrest at Ithaca College and elsewhere, we believe that this music has an uncanny power to bring people together to help promote racial healing,” Whitehead said.

“The music, as the voice of a uniquely American experience, also conveys the perseverance and indomitable spirit of an oppressed people, who had this incomparable ability to sing through their anguish and embrace hope through their steadfast faith to a God above.” •

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Old Hundred Craft Sale

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704 Five Mile Dr. 6 Vendors, handmade items 12/12, 11-2

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A son named Travis age 28, originally from Cortland and a Daughter whom I have never met and is from the area.

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cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info /DVD: www.

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is accepting applications for the following positions until 12/23/15: Transportation Engineer: Currently, there is one vacancy in the Department of Public Works.

Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca website for further info.

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Residency: Applicants must be Tompkins County. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St.,Ithaca, NY 14850, (607)2746539 www.cityofithaca.org. The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce

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Loving Indian-American couple to adopt a newborn. Expenses paid. Excited to help plan a happy life for your child, www.isaacandpiaadopt.com. 888-5053696. (NYSCAN).

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)

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Salary and benefits are commensurate with experience. Group Health Insurance is available. Submit letter of interest with resume and references to Shaw & Murphy, PLLC, Attention: Bonnie Cady, Office Manager, 109 E. Seneca Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607-273-2900); or email: bmc.shawlaw@verizon.net

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Business Ads: $16.50 for first 12 words (minimum), 30 cents each additional word. If you charge for a service or goods you are a business. Inquire about contract rates. $24.00 Auto Guaranteed Ad - Ad runs 3 weeks or until sold. 12 words $24.00, each additional word 60¢. You must notify us to continue running ad. Non-commercial advertisers only 25% Discount - Run your non-commercial ad for 4 consecutive weeks, you only pay for 3 (Adoption, Merchandise or Housemates) Employment / Real Estate / Adoption: $38.00 first 15 words (minimum), 30 cents each additional word. Ads run weeks.

Box Numbers: Times Box Numbers are $2.50 per week of publication. Write “Times Box______” at end of your ad. Readers address box replies to Times Box______, c/o Ithaca Times, P.O. Box 27, Ithaca, NY 14851.

Headlines: 9-point headlines (use up to 16 characters) $2.00 per line. If bold type, centered or unusually spaced type, borders in ad, or logos in ads are requested, the ad will be charged at the display classified advertising rate. Call 277-7000 for rate information.

Free Ads: Lost and Found and free items run at no charge for up to 3 weeks. Merchandise for Sale, private party only. Price must be under $50 and stated in ad Website/Email Links: On Line Links to a Web Site or Email Address $5.00 per insertion.

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ELIMINATE CELLULITE and Inches in weeks! All natural. Odor free. Works for men or woman. Free month supply on select packages. Order now! 844-2447149 (M-F 9am-8pm central) (AAN CAN) Four Seasons Landscaping Inc. 607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage.

Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!

FREE Lifeline Service

FREE Home Energy Audit

Available for Income-Eligible Residents

Renewable Energy Assessment serving Ithaca since 1984. HalcoEnergy.com 800-533-3367

If you participate in public assistance programs or meet monthly income level guidelines, you may qualify for a free phone* + 250 Minutes & Unlimited Texts.

To apply visit www.enroll.accesswireless.com

Trip Pack n Ship

Packing & Shipping around the World.

Save $5 with Community Cash Coupon.

Trip Pack n Ship in the Triphammer Market Place 607-379-6210

Free phone is provided by Access Wireless. Access Wireless is a service provider for the government-funded Lifeline Assistance program. Lifeline assistance is provided by i-wireless LLC, d/b/a Access Wireless, an eligible telecommunications carrier. Lifeline service is non-transferable. Lifeline benefits are limited to one per household.

A household is defined, for the purposes of the Lifeline program, as any individual or group of individuals, who live together at the same address and share income and expenses. Violation of the one-per-household rule constitutes violation of FCC rules and will result in the customer’s de-enrollment from Lifeline. Only eligible customers may enroll in the program. Consumers who willfully make false statements in order to obtain a Lifeline benefit can be punished by fine, imprisonment, or can be barred from the program. Customers must present proper documentation proving eligibility for the Lifeline program. Your information will be validated against public records and any discrepancies could result in delays or denial of service.

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

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Are you in BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-7531317 (AAN CAN)

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

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Struggling with DRUGS or ALCOHOL? Addicted to PILLS? Talk to someone who cares. Call The Addiction Hope & Help Line for a free assessment. 800-9786674 (AAN CAN)

Certified Consultant

in Clinical Hypnosis Dr. M. Djafari, MC, FAAP, 1420 Hanshaw Rd., Ithaca, NY. Neurobiofeedback/Hypnosis. For Migraine Headaches and Irritibal Bowel Syndrome. (Pregnant women welcome) By appointment only: 607-753-3051

Cleaner

Honest, intelligent & hardworking house cleaner available. Excellent local references. $20/hour. Call 280-5439 or email gardenhelp74@gmail.com

hometown electrical distributor Your one Stop Shop

Hunting

Our hunters will pay Top $$$ to hunt your land. Call for a Free Base Camp Leasing info packet & Quote. 1-866-309-1507. www.BaseCampLeasing.com (NYSCAN)

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DONATE YOUR CAR

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NOW Under NEW Management Specializing in Acrylics, Gels, Pedicures (with massage chairs/foot soak), Manicures, Eyebrows 10% off all services 15% off parties of 3 or more till Dec. 31, 2015 Buttermilk Falls Plaza 273-5885 M-F 9:30-7 Sat 9:30-6

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* BUYING RECORDS *

2 Weeks of UNLIMITED Yoga for $20!

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4 Seasons Landscaping Inc.

Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows Free Estimates South Seneca Vinyl

607-272-1504

315-585-6050, 866-585-6050

lawn maintenance spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning

Great Deals on the

patios, retaining walls, + walkways

Latest and Greatest Electronics!

landscape design + installation

Grace Internet Radios

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Save 10% with Greenback Coupon

Peaceful Spirit TAI CHI classes at Sunrise Yoga Classical Yang style long form Tuesdays 7:30-8:30 pm Anthony Fazio, LAc.,C.A, www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com

607-272-0114

Graco Headphones

snow removal

Sony 4K Ultra-HD TVs

dumpster rentals Find us on Facebook!

Women’s Business Enterprise FREE Quotes

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Klipsch Home Theatre Speakers

Honor a Life like no other with ceremonies like no other.

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Ithaca Weekend Planner

Monitor Home Audio Speakers and more!

Macintosh Consulting

7102 Elmira Road 272-2644

Stellar Stereo

Pellegrino’s Service & Sales No need to leave town to resolve CHECK ENGINE lights 40 Yrs Experience Keys, Tires, Full Service 607-272-8259

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL ABC Clean Community Cash Deals

Janitorial Service * Floor/Carpet

Huge Discounts each month!

High Dusting * Windows/Awnings

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download your monthly coupon!

607-227-3025 or 607-220-8739

Buy, Sell & Consign Previously-enjoyed

Love dogs?

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Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care!

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

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AAM ALL ABOUT MACS (607) 280-4729

From Business Cards, to Window Lettering

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Signorama of Ithaca Your Full Service Sign Center

Signed Moosewood Cookbooks

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

Make Great Gifts!

Moosewood authors will be hosting Saturday holiday signings at the restaurant noon to 4 pm December 5th, 12th, and 19th

www.yogaschoolithaca.com We Buy, Sell, & Trade Black Cat Antiques

607-898-2048

New at GreenStar

Looking to stretch your grocery budget? So are we!

That’s why we’re pleased to introduce our new Co+op Basics program.

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