Ithaca Times – October 8, 2014

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Tax Rate Goes Down, Lost Grant Causes Tax Bill Goes Up Over-target Request

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ayor Svante Myrick is trying to give local residents—and media—a math lesson with his 2015 city budget proposal. Although the proposal asks the city to increase its tax levy by 3.89 percent, the average property owner will actually see a decrease in their tax rate by 28 cents per $1,000. For the owner of a single-family home at the city median assessed value of $190,000, that would represent $53 less in property taxes.

But according to the Tompkins County Director of Assessment Jay Franklin, “Even with the tax rate decreasing in the city, the vast majority of city of Ithaca residents will see a tax increase. The big chunk of the 6-percent increase [over 65 percent] was due to market changes—simply someone’s house is worth more. So the median value of a residential house is now worth $190,000 when last year it was worth $175,000.

The tax rate is proposed to decrease to $12.82 from $13.12, and last year a typical persons taxes were $13.12 * $175,000 [divided by 1000], equaling $2,296. With the typical person’s assessment increasing to $190,000, the estimated taxes are $12.82 * $190,000 [divided by 1000], equaling $2,436. So the typical person’s tax bill will be $140 higher, not lower.”

The city population as a whole will pay approximately $800,000 more in property taxes.

The budget proposal will ask for an overall increase from $64.6 million to $66.7 million. So how will that extra money be spent?

“Our goal,” Myrick explained, “was to see continuity [in city departments] everywhere and increases where we could afford it. But the end result is adding services while reducing what each taxpayer is contributing.”

The increases will, by and large, be seen in the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) and the Department of Public Works (DPW). Under Myrick’s proposal, IPD would increase its staff from 60 officers to 68, including two officers for a Community Action Team (CAT). The latter, Myrick admitted, as a somewhat last-minute addition during the aftermath of Aug. 9 police controversies events both locally and nationally. As for DPW’s new look, while their staff will remain the same, they will have the luxury of $200,000 in asphalt to “attack road work.”

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grow youth employment opportunities programming and a request for $16,000 of target funding to support the Municipal Youth Services System. The recommended budget does not fund the $10,000 request for the one-time use of rollover funding to support training. Regarding the cause for the relatively high number of OTRs from Hendrix’s agency, Mareane said, “It is simply the loss of a major grant that she is trying to get through.”

The Assigned Counsel Program requested only one OTR for $478, which would pay for postage to communicate with clients. During her budget presentation, Program Coordinator

n Tuesday, Sept. 30 at the fifth meeting of the Expanded Budget Committee, legislators heard budget presentations from Mental Health Department, the Youth Services Department, the Office of Human Rights, the Legislature Office, Solid Waste Management Division, Workforce Investment Board and Workforce One Stop Career Center, and the Assigned Counsel Program.

One of the major Over-Target Requests (OTRs) presented was for the Mental Health Department. Although the Department did not request it, County Administrator Joe Mareane recommended $25,500 in target funding to insure that the department is able to meet a living-wage standard in its contract with Suicide and Prevention Crisis Service.

Amie Hendrix, Director of Youth Services for Tompkins County.

Another substantial (Photo: K. Blakinger) OTR was for the Youth Services Department.

Julia Hughes noted that her office’s Director Amie Hendrix explained that workload is up quite a bit from last year. a major influence on this year’s Youth She said, “All you need to do is read the Services budget was the loss of grant newspaper—crime is up.” In Ithaca City funding that supported 1.5 full-time Court, she reported, this year has seen a equivalent (FTE) positions. Mareane’s 71-percent increase in the total number recommended budget supports funding of charges as compared to this time last one full-time Youth Services Planner year. She explained that did not necessarily position, half through one-time funding mean that there were significantly more and half through target funding. people were being arrested and that it The Youth Services recommended budget also fund a request for $30,000 continued on page 5 in one-time funding to maintain and

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Register now by emailing registration@ hsctc.org or call 607.273.8686. Mail a check made out to Human Services Coalition to 171 East Martin Luther King Jr./State St. #133, Ithaca, NY 14850 or bring it to the workshop.

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Experts say that coyotes are not increasing in numbers, but their attitude is changing.

Grieving with Grace . ............. 19

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“ Dogs. I have a strong dog phobia.”

—Arham Armeer

“The closet my brother locked me in when I was little and I was being a pest.”

—Dirk Wester

“People who park in my reserved parking space at my apartment complex” —Erin Moore

aturday morning, a small but dedicated group of students gathered at Ithaca College to wrap books in brown paper bags. It almost looked like the students were preparing for Christmas - and that’s exactly how it will feel to the inmates in New York State prisons who receive those books. Saturday’s gathering constituted the first packing session of the Ithaca College Books Thru Bars program, which works to send books to prisoners throughout the state.

“In its truest form this process is very simple, but the impact is massive,” said Don Austin, who is the group’s advisor.

Basically, the process was that each of the 20 or so participants opened letters from prisoners, looked for books in the requested genre, wrapped two or three relevant titles, included the necessary form in the package, and addressed it appropriately.

Part of the reason the process went so smoothly was that most of the group’s leaders had participated in a previous Books Thru Bars program. Housed at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center and run by Jurden Alexander, the Ithaca Books Thru Bars program existed until December of last year, at which point Alexander decided to step down and disband the group. Fortunately, there was a cadre of students willing to take over.

Rachel Cohen, the current group’s president, explained how IC students got involved: “Last year, I signed up for a service Saturday event, which is run by Don [Austin]. I signed up for the Books

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proposal raised the number of IPD officers from 60 to 66, but that the events on Aug. 9 convinced him that two more officers for the CAT will “create a safer city.”

“Now that we have more officers, they can do more community policing,” he added.

The added amount of asphalt, Myrick explained, is a response to last year’s severe winter.

“The Farmers’ Almanac called it the worst winter in 100 years,” Myrick said.

“Those super cold temperatures had our roads taking a worse beating than usual, and we couldn’t keep up. This year, we think we’re going to have so many hands and bodies on the street that [we’re going to be able to utilize $200,000 worth of asphalt].”

The “added hands and bodies” will not come from new employees, but rather different responsibilities. With sidewalk work now being done by an outside

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have the right to literacy. I enjoy reading.

I think everyone should have the right to do it.”

Spreading that right to read has been difficult and time-consuming work, according to Cohen. She said, “It’s nonstop because there’s always something to do—checking the email, sending out reminders, checking the mailbox, making sure we can get all the materials. It’s just a never-ending list of stuff to do.” She added, “It’s been a lot of work but it’s really rewarding.”

Fortunately, basic funding is one thing the group hasn’t had to worry about, as they were able to obtain money for postage through the college’s student government association. Austin said, “We are very blessed in terms of resource availability. We could use more human resources, more knowledge, more innovation.” Cohen said that non-student were welcome to participate in the group: “The more the merrier.”

(Anyone interested in participating can email booksthrubars@gmail.

Sorting through books for inmates. (Photo: K. Blakinger) com.)

Austin said that currently the group Although Walker dialed back his is looking to partner with a local involvement after last semester, the other organization for book storage and possibly founders stepped into leadership roles, so for combined mailings. He said, “We are Holek is the vice president and Perez is the actively looking for a partner, looking treasurer. Later, Elba Morales got involved for an organization that has space to and became the group’s secretary. store books.” The group is exploring the Holek summed up why she thinks possibility of a partnership with the New the program is important when she said, Roots Charter School, but nothing is “Our mission statement is that we don’t think incarcerated individuals should not continued on page 12 Thru Bars program in Ithaca, and so I participated in the program, and it was my first time doing it. They said it was going to be shut down, but I really enjoyed doing it, so I found a few other people who were really passionate about it.”

Along with fellow students Kevin Walker, Samantha Holek, and Irma Perez, Cohen set about figuring out how to found a Books Thru Bars program at Ithaca College. The students spent all of last semester collecting information from Alexander and organizing their fledgling group.

contractor, five DPW employees will go from working on sidewalks to working on city streets. The end result, Myrick said, will be that the city will able to “pave more streets than we have in a very, very long time.”

All taxpayers will get two new fees: a $75 sidewalk fee for the annual assessment of the newly formed sidewalk improvement districts (SIDs) and a $48 stormwater fee. However, Myrick said those fees will amount to improved services and that all residents will benefit from better maintained sidewalks and stormwater infrastructure.

The city will hold a public hearing regarding the 2015 budget proposal on Wednesday, Oct. 15. It plans to take a final vote on the budget on Thursday, Nov. 13.

2015 Town Budget Breaks Even for Taxpayers A day after Myrick presented his proposal for the city’s 2015 budget, Town of Ithaca Supervisor Herb Engman unveiled the town’s upcoming budget on

Thursday, Oct. 2 during a special meeting.

Engman’s tentative proposal includes a 7.3-percent increase in the budget from $22,640,518 to $24,296,077, but a 0.3 percent decrease in property tax rate (or $4.20 less per average homeowner per year).

But along with the decrease in property tax rate, water bills will increase on average $4.06, essentially meaning that most residents can expect their taxes to look just about the same in 2015 as they did in 2014.

“Pretty much,” Engman said, “the typical taxpayer will break even.”

Engman noted that the town has increased its budget between 7 and 8 percent for the last five to seven years and that such a trend was “very concerning,” and “unsustainable”. He added that much of the unsustainability stems from ongoing increases in town employee benefits.

The town will hold a public hearing for the budget proposal on Monday, Oct. 20. • – Michael Nocella

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Old Library: Who Does What, When?

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t its Tuesday, Sept. 30 meeting, the Tompkins County Legislature’s Old Library Committee drew a step closer to formulating a Request for Proposal (RFP). In March of this year the county received six responses to the Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI).

Since then, two developers—Integrated Acquisition and Development and Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services—have withdrawn their proposals, leaving four still vying for the redevelopment project.

DPI Consultants of Rochester proposes the development of 84 housing units—76 condominiums and eight apartments—in two new five-story buildings. A local consortium including STREAM Collaborative hopes to redevelop the existing building into 32 housing units along with commercial spaces. Cornerstone Group of Rochester and Cayuga Housing Development Corporation of Auburn submitted a response to the RFEI that outlined a plan to develop 70 to 80 apartments for seniors. Finally, Travis Hyde Properties and Holt Architects seek to build a fourstory mixed-use building including 48 apartments and space for Lifelong, a group that works to enhance the lives of seniors.

At its next meeting, the committee will discuss which proposals to recommend that the legislature move forward to the next step of the process.

The selected proposals will be allowed to respond to the formal RFP. At its September meeting, the committee discussed what should be included in the RFP. Based on the committee’s discussion, the Tompkins County Planning Department will draft an RFP that will be ready for committee review at the next scheduled meeting on Friday, Nov. 7.

Among the items that the committee agreed should be included in the RFP were the requirements that the developer submit a site plan and floor plan; that they certify their ability to close on the property by December 2015; that they provide major project milestones; and that they provide a signed agreement or memorandum of understanding with any parties who are committed to leasing or owning space in the building.

Also, the RFP responses will be asked to include proposed financing, notification of any anticipated requests for tax abatements, and detailed income and expense information including expected debt service, revenues, and anticipated rents or sale prices. The RFP responses will include the developers’ proposed price offers for purchase of the property or for ground lease payments.

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through the SEQR on its own, but if the they plan to address parking, how they SEQRs were done separately, the city could plan to reduce carbon footprint to help potentially have different findings. meet the county’s goal of reducing carbon During the meeting, six residents emissions 80 percent by 2050. The RFP addressed legislators about the will also require the inclusion of evidence project proposals. Many spoke about of meeting with the City of Ithaca environmental concerns. Susan Multer Landmark Preservation Commission. requested that conservation be stressed in On the county’s end the RFP will include the appraised value of the property the RFP, while Joan Brumberg reminded as well as a statement indicating that the county will not sell for less than market value. Also, the cost of asbestos abatement and the timeline for a final decision from the county will be included in the RFP. There was some discussion of whether County won’t sell old library for less than assessed value of $1.5 million, according to county the RFP legislators. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) should ask for information about plans for using local labor. Legislator legislators that more than one proposal is environmentally sound. Members of Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-1st) said, the newly formed DeWitt Park Civic “We aren’t mandating something, but we Association spoke about suggestions they want it addressed.” hoped to see included in the RFP, such The committee also discussed how as the completion of an Environmental to how to handle the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) process. Although Impact Assessment including information about drainage, the type of asbestos Legislator Dooley Kiefer (D-10th ) was treatment, and how greenhouse-gas in favor of having the county and city do emissions will be handled during the separate SEQRs, other members of the demolition phase. • committee preferred doing a joint review.

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could indicate that individuals have been receiving more charges per person or per arrest.

Hughes introduced to legislators the program’s new employee, Melissa HallSchwartz. Hall-Schwartz’s position, which includes grant and training coordination, is currently funded by a three-year grant from the state. On the topic of staffing matters, Hughes also informed legislators that, with the exception of Hall-Schwartz, “As of February 2015, everyone in the Assigned Counsel office is eligible for retirement.”

The Office of Human Rights (OHR) had one recommended OTR to cover travel and training expenses for national training opportunities. Although OHR requested $8,750 in funds for the OTR, the recommended budget supports $5,000 in

one-time funding.

The budget for the legislature included two OTRs, both of which were supported by target funding in the recommended budget. One OTR was for $10,522 for New York State Association of Counties dues while the other was for $1,500 for routine computer replacement.

Solid Waste Management Division Manager Barbara Eckstrom reported that a decrease in total debt service costs will generate a $4 decrease in the solid waste fee. This year the fee was $56 per household, but in 2015 it will go down to $52 per household. She also noted that the disposal fee for haulers would increase by $5 this year, bringing the per-ton fee to $85.

The Workforce Investment Board and Workforce One Stop Career Center had no OTRs. •

Ups&Downs ▶ Tank pig, I hated the way my white propane gas tank looked in my yard so I called local artist, Mary Beth Ihnken, and asked her to come out and transform my ugly tank into an animal. – Leslie Howe If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Ithaca Radio, The authors of Ithaca Radio, Peter King Steinhaus and Rick Sommers Steinhaus, have several local book signings scheduled this weekend. Those interested will have multiple opportunities to purchase signed copies of the book and meet the authors – brothers and Ithaca radio legends. Thursday, Oct. 9 at Buffalo Street Books from 6 to 7 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 11 at the History Center from 1 to 2 p.m.; and then at Barnes & Noble at 4 p.m. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Oct. 1-7 include: 1) You Might Have Met A Real Ithacan If...

2) Three Young Men Die in Lansing ATV Crash 3) Think It, Play It: Three Cornell Grads May Have Developed the Next Big Thing in Music Creation 4) Best of Ithaca 2014: The Top Food and Drink Options in Ithaca 5) State Street Merchants Could Lose a Lot in Downtown Hampton Inn Build For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Have you ever seen a coyote in the greater Ithaca area?

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L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Do you oppose the use of weaponized drones as they are presently deployed ?

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his letter was presented to Common Council last Wednesday, Oct. 1 by Barbara Lynn, an owner of Now You’re Cookin’ on the Commons.

We must present a united effort to inform City Hall and BID [business improvement district] of the intolerable conditions on the Commons, which affect all of our properties, since individual complaints have been ignored or handled with excuses and outright lies.

We must demand action to immediately correct the damage caused by their lack of foresight, negligence and continued inaction.

Many of the unique, locally owned, service-oriented businesses are in serious jeopardy. You could be next.

We have all watched as businesses began to fail, one by one. This domino effect is about to get much worse.

With no end in sight for this unending construction, increasing numbers of businesses are at risk.

As each business fails, it seriously impacts the rest, including those who wrongly think that they can survive, since there will be few if any reasons left for anyone to come downtown to shop or to eat. If this incompetently handled job is ever finished, there will be no businesses left.

Business owners are notoriously closed mouth when it comes to disclosing to others—or even to each other—just how bad business really is. But in this instance, the “stiff upper lip, grin and bear it” approach is likely to be fatal to us all.

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government with regular salaries, respond to having little or no income for several years, while still being responsible for the costs of supporting families, paying mortgages, utilities, rent, taxes, employees’ salaries, and the costs of goods, as well as the cost of emergency repairs due solely to construction “mistakes”?

This project was mishandled from the beginning with no one seemingly in charge. Leaving the bidding process for the final phase until the first two phases were nearly completed, led to getting only one bid—millions of dollars over budget and without all of the features that were promised to be included, resulting in an obviously incompetent and negligent company getting the job.

Additionally, to sign a contract with no finish date specified and no penalty clause is something no competent businessperson (no ordinary homeowner) would do.

The construction process has caused numerous instances of water damage in our basements—with no previous histories of water damage—as well as water flooding into first floor businesses, since drainage has not yet been addressed.

The city and its sub-contractors, as well as BID, have responded to this ongoing damage by denying any responsibility, using lies and cover ups, and even blaming those harmed. Why has there been no activity on the main continued on page 7

Once-ler’s Tale

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r (No doubt about it, they just don’t write children’s books like they used to.)

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n the heart of downtown where the Grickle-grass grows and the wind smells like Cayuga Lake when it blows and no birds ever sing any more, except crows ... is a moonscape once called the Commons, they say.

And look deep enough you can still see, today, where the stores all once stood just as long as they could before customers drifted away.

What was the Commons?

And why was it there?

And why does it seem that nobody took care to nurture it down where the Grickle-grass grows?

The old Once-ler still lives there.

Ask him. He knows.

You won’t see the Once-ler.

Don’t knock at his door.

He stays in his lair up on top of his store.

On dank nights in October, he peeks out through his shutters and sometimes he speaks.

He tells of the places where the folks came and shopped and now they are gone, all activity’s stopped.

‘Twas once an attraction – a pedestrian mall!

With waffles and toy stores, a wonder to all!

Dating back forty years, to the Era of Nixon, by twenty-thirteen it had needed some fixin’.

So the trees and the playground, Bernie Milton’s pavilion, all had to go.

And the cost? Just eight million.

‘We’ll be done next July’, said the Cornish, JoAnn, When digging and blasting and grinding began.

So with vim they did dig and they blasted and ground, and it was loud—so loud nobody noticed the sound

of customers leaving, till none were around.

The Project it promised a Commons that’s new, but by year’s end that Project was clearly askew.

The lowest-bid out-of-town firms were recruited and Sasaki’s fancy designs were diluted.

Work went too slow, they wouldn’t go faster.

Some call it a bid-shopped-out, bungled disaster, a fumbling fiasco, a ship with no master.

And citizens … citizens didn’t think it was funny to watch what was done with their hard-earned tax money.

The poor, trusting retailers, nurturing hopes, those fine, hapless, price-slashing, debtridden mopes, were looking for Yesses and kept getting Nopes.

Eight million dollars had turned into ten, and paving was started and torn up again.

The sewer pipes? Oops, they forgot to remember …

We’ll have all done though, we swear,

by November.

Excuses? Of course, it was nobody’s fault, whenever the work it would grind to a halt.

There was NYSEG, the truck crash, all unforeseen, we’ll try now to be done by mid-twenty-fifteen.

The storeowners, bankrupt, their business defeated, their customers gone and their cash drawers depleted went to Common Council, and comments got heated.

That seems long, long ago.

But each day since that day I’ve sat here and worried and worried away.

Through the months, with the businesses falling apart, I’ve worried about it with all of my heart.

Unless somebody out there cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.

It’s not. •

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The series of events transpiring on West Hill at Indian Creek, about a mile down DuBois Road from my home, is the definition of a lose-lose-lose situation, not a “win” for wetlands, as a recent Ithaca Times editorial suggests. And, perhaps the biggest losers are the taxpayers, although

coming up with thousands of dollars to pay for lawyers has definitely made it a big loss for the neighbors, too. While I agree wholeheartedly with Karen Scott’s reply, “Nimby is Not A Four-letter Word,” I also know that it is entirely possible for continued on page 7

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Defending West Hill, As Is W hen it comes to West Hill and “nodal development” it seems that the opinion of some is that the cure for sprawl is to extend the city up Route 96. Just build more high-density residences, preferably housing people poor enough to have transportation issues, and some retailer will be found to exploit their plight. While you’re at it, have the few employers out here “encourage” their employees to live in the Village, as though where employees live is any of their business.

There are very good reasons that the villages that already exist have lost their grocery stores: a small-scale grocery can’t begin to compete with Wegman’s or Tops, especially in a 10-mile radius.

If you wanted to fight sprawl, trying to resurrect some of those established hubs might make more sense. The critical mass of people needed to justify anything more than a high-priced bodega would also far exceed the employment opportunities, i.e., sprawl. The once and future major employers in Ithaca are not and never will be on West Hill, so you will always be looking at a stream of traffic South in the morning and North in the evening no matter how much you build, when you build residences.

Hadn’t the Town of Ithaca decided to keep residential development below the hospital, not above because of the traffic situation? What happened to the plan to put in a large development behind the hospital extending down the hill, closer to the city and the Black Diamond trail?

Isn’t the intersection of Dubois and Route 96 hazardous enough already? Speaking as someone who has tried to live out here without a car, I can say that it isn’t really easy to use the bus, when it only runs once an hour and doesn’t run on weekend evenings at all. It is literally 5 to 10 degrees colder up here than it is in the city during the winter. Try waiting for the bus with a wind chill factor of -15 degree F before you propose someone else do it.

Indian Creek is an animal highway and anything built on the Biggs land is going to be frequented by deer and coyotes. Decreasing open space will increase deer damage for everyone in the neighborhood and would undermine the efforts to preserve agriculture in this neighborhood. Children and pets will be exposed to ticks; coyotes already kill cats up here. Rural living isn’t always the easiest thing.

Wasn’t the plan to build office buildings along Dates Dr.? The old Biggs building had a charming little office tower; buildings along those lines (without the sick building syndrome) could preserve open space and not impact the character of this neighborhood too much. An indoor space that draws traffic in the reverse of the normal flow and is empty in the evenings makes more sense for this area than any kind of suburb, which

is what this will be, i.e., a living space with no amenities or employment, which necessitates travel by vehicle.

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part of the Commons for the last several weeks?

With all of the thousands of taxpayers’ dollars spent on “studies,” this situation should never have happened.

The city entered into the project during a serious economic downturn— promising various finish dates—last summer, this October, then November, then December, and now, possibly the end of next summer! How did they expect any of us to survive? Do they care? This is our livelihood—not a monopoly game.

If this fiasco is ever finished, it will be devoid of business downtown. How will this affect our tax structure? We might better pave the Commons over as a street right now and restore some modicum of business, than to pour countless millions more of our tax dollars into this disaster— with no finish date in sight.

Downtown Ithaca, which was formerly the poster child for a downtown makeover, is now a pile of rubble where no one seems to be in charge—or responsible—for what is happening here. City Hall and BID continue to make excuses rather than getting the job done. They appear to be incapable of managing the project in a sound, reasonable and successful manner.

When the city goes broke—which is likely—and the tax burden falls on the public—as it will—who will be to blame?

The merchants whose livelihoods are gone?

The employees without jobs? The “good people who stand by and do nothing”?

Or, the city government and its elected leadership, who refuse to recognize the hugely costly consequences of their own incompetence.

All in all, a terrorist plot could not have been more effective in destroying our downtown economy.

What do we want? The same things that any well run city would have offered: 1. The job finished with no further excuses nor delays.

2. Full reimbursement for property damage caused by the construction process.

3. Free public parking during the construction.

4. No interest loans for the duration of the construction, plus six months.

5. Lowered taxes for buildings/business owners during construction –OR-6. Alternatively, we must hold the city accountable for its irresponsible actions with a lawsuit, or by seeking intervention by the NYS Attorney General’s office.

Please bring any and all salient

receipts for all damage caused by the construction and/or delays to buildings and businesses: e.g. costs of hiring clean up crews, engineers, lawyers, sump pumps needed to prevent further flooding, etc. to this meeting Thursday, Oct. 9 at 8:30 a.m. at city hall.

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have a SEQR (State Environmental Quality Review) law. It is far too easy for government on all levels (and newspaper editors, too) to substitute representations of places (maps, “Biggs parcel,” “unused property”) for the real thing. They then use these abstractions to plan, sometimes inappropriately, from offices and conference rooms downtown, in Albany or NYC, or in Washington. SEQR law requires us to methodically review, with public input, environmental conditions and any effects the proposed action would cause at the earliest stage of development.

It helps to protect us from out-of-touch over-planning of unworkable projects from centralized government locations, too.

To give our local county government some deserved credit, the process for developing ideas for the former library property has been much more thoughtful and inclusive. Perhaps the losses all around in the Indian Creek development scenario will ultimately at least teach our local officials to proceed in a more collaborative and open way with nearby residents, who can contribute important local knowledge that can stem the loss of governmental time and money.

government to effectively protect the environment and not leave defense of environmentally sensitive areas to the people who live nearby. We could, at the very least, take an important lesson for government operations in our county, and make future public process more cost-effective and less oppositional. The editorial’s sniping accusations of hypocrisy in Ithaca’s population is mean, and does not help, while disrespecting local citizens, sincere activists and regular folk alike.

The lawsuit brought forward against the county by the nearby neighbors argued that more thorough environmental review should have accompanied early decisionmaking contracting to sell the land under very detailed conditions by the county, but did not. The judge made that clear, and the county moved to nullify the very project-specific contract with NRP in order to comply.

The proposed development received extensive predevelopment work by county staff, Cayuga Green II rises between Cayuga garage and Six Mile Creek (Photo: Tm Gera) in part funded federally through a Indian Creek, and its woods and grant from, ironically, the EPA. Taxpayer wetlands, are, for now, still functioning money paid for the conceptual and early and providing ecological services… but, project planning, on a site that nobody for how long? The wetlands could, as yet, actually walked. Because, when you walk be losers: filled in. Your move, county. in a wetland, well, it kind of makes itself – Krys Cail, Town of Ithaca obvious. Note that NRP confirmed the “local knowledge” of the neighborhood about the extent of the wetlands in the driest time of year. Such a pity that it would Four years ago the Gulf of Mexico, take EPA, Tompkins County, and Town its ecosystem, its people and animals of Ithaca staff time, County legislators’ were devastated by British Petroleum and committee time, planning’s board’s time, the Halliburton Co. doing business their plus the time of neighbors trying to make way. In the same year Massey Energy their governments understand, plus the was responsible for the deaths of 29 time of lawyers hired by the neighbors miners because the mine owners wouldn’t and the county, plus the court system … implement basic safety measures. A few all just to save the literal ground-testing years earlier the U.S. and world economy of what your own two feet could tell you had been sent into deep recession, with is an inappropriate site for the planned many people’s financial lives ruined, by development. Only the neighbors walked the wetlands. continued on page 12 And that, my friends, is why we

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East King Road resident Freddy Villano theorized that coyotes are to blame for the disappearance of his cat just last month. He said that while his cat did roam his apartment complex’s premises, an evident increase in coyote activity in recent months on South Hill led him to believe they took is cat off of apartment grounds and killed it.

Coyotes look similar in appearance to German Shepherd dogs, but are typically smaller in stature at 4 to 5 feet in length and weighing up to 50 pounds.

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about it as far as I know. Coyotes are becoming more and more brazen and often appear in and around the complex during daylight hours. They are big, about the size of a German shepherd. My wife and I have seen three this summer and have tried to scare it away by banging pots and pans. However, it did not seem in the least bit intimidated by our behavior because it reappeared a few minutes after we attempted to drive it off.”

Villano is not the only South Hill resident concerned about coyote sightings and behavior. Suzi Cook confirmed that a group of residents in the area are aware of the local coyotes and are searching for answers. She fears that “something tragic” will need to happen before local municipalities consider it something important enough to take action on.

“I know that what we have up on South Hill,” she said, “is a large pack, at least one. You can hear them howling at night. Some seasons they’re busy, some seasons they aren’t. What we have had is, one of the streets in the development, a family with a fairly small dog—the coyote grabbed it last year, but the invisible fence zapped him while he was trying to run e r

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away with the dog. The dog required a lot of care at the vet college. That’s when we realized the coyotes were really starting to make their way into the neighborhood pretty badly. Shortly after that, some kids saw a coyote walking up the street. That’s pretty damn scary when they get that unafraid.

“The last straw,” she continued, “was this year, a couple months ago. We believe it’s the same coyote. People who have seen saw he’s huge. He grabbed the same dog that he grabbed last year. This year, the family had a German shepherd dog that defended the smaller dog, and the coyote ran off. The coyotes seem to lie and wait.

They seem to prey on small pets. We’ve had five cats and at least two or three dogs killed up around Saunders Road and Hospicare.”

Cook and Villano shared a story about South Hill resident that was recently walking her golden retriever up around the Hospicare pond off leash until five coyotes came out of the woods and surrounded it. Cook noted the resident started screaming and yelling until the coyotes ran away.

East King Road resident Joe Smellow

echoed reports of a large coyote haunting the premises of Hospicare grounds on a regular basis. If nothing else, it is clear coyotes have become part of local wildlife.

It is easy to understand why they stir up a different emotion than a deer sighting.

Despite experts’ conclusions that coyote population in the area has not seen a noticeable increase, many residents seem unconvinced.

“I don’t agree [that the population isn’t increasing],” Cook said, “because when you start seeing them in places you didn’t see them before, I think that’s more than just them migrating to the area. What I do know for sure is that they’re not afraid of humans like they should be.”

“They Are Here To Stay” According to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) website (www. dec.ny.gov), the eastern coyote “reached New York and the Northeast in the early 1930s and 1940s, with the coyote range expansion first reaching the state by passing north of the Great Lakes and into northern New York.” The site adds that, “regardless of how they arrived in the

farmlands of upstate New York.” state, coyotes have been present in New It is also not uncommon for coyote York since the 1930s, and have been firmly sightings or incidents to become more established throughout the state since the apparent during the fall, Batcheller said.

1970s. They are here to stay.”

“In late summer and early fall,” he Cornell University Wildlife Specialist said, “coyotes do become more noticeable Paul Curtis noted that is a change in because the young-of-the-year [pups coyote behavior rather than an increase are born in March and April] have been in their population that is making their weaned and have struck out on their own, presence more noticeable. with some residual parental assistance A recent study conducted by [in the form of prey gathering]. They do researchers at the SUNY College of remain as loose family units all the way Environmental Science and Forestry through the winter and the start of the estimated that there are about 14,500 next breeding cycle [they mate in mid-late breeding pairs of coyotes in New York winter]. Reports of coyotes at this time of during the summer. Researchers from the year are largely related to the fact that Cornell University found coyote pairs right now, the coyote population is at its inhabited suburban natural areas at a highest due to the fact that young have density of about 4.5 breeding pairs per 10 joined the adult population, and therefore square miles. Home ranges in suburban people tend to see more coyotes right habitats averaged 2.2 square miles now.” (ranging from 0.5 square miles up to 5.4 Batcheller explained that any coyote square miles), and were located primarily seen in Ithaca is an eastern coyote, and in natural, forested habitats. they have been in this neck of the woods “Coyotes are essentially statewide for quite sometime. at this point,” Curtis said. “Every county “There is only one type of coyote,” except for some areas in Long Island has Batcheller said, “in New York State—the them. Otherwise, they’ve been statewide eastern coyote, Canis latrans. They are a for decades. We don’t have really good true species [not a hybrid], though there data [on coyote population in New York is solid evidence that they have interbred State], but what we’re seeing—not only with wolves [in Canada] over the decades in Ithaca, but other [coyote] hot spots, as they moved eastward to occupy the is coyotes being more comfortable in Northeast. They have probably been in the suburbia, and starting to get closer to Tompkins County area for about 40 or so people and homes, and especially more years at this point.” interactions with pets—what’s definitely So if coyotes have been here for four what’s happening here. decades, why—all of the sudden—all the “We don’t even know if the fuss? population is rising—that’s the point,” he “Generally, they don’t cause continued. “What I think it is not so much problems,” Batcheller said. “However, that the population is rising, it’s that the because they are relatively new and novel animals are becoming more comfortable around suburbia. It’s a change in behavior. and are a large animal, and can be quite So the perception [from the public], is ‘Oh vocal at times, they do generate many questions about their life history and gosh, we’re seeing coyotes, we’ve never behavior. Residents should enjoy coyotes seen them before.’ Well the coyotes have from a distance. Never feed one or attempt been there; they’ve been in these woods to get close to one. If a coyote appears for years. But now we’re seeing a trend unusually ‘tame’ or unafraid of people, it where some of them, particularly the doesn’t hurt younger ones, are getting to yell and more bold and coming throw sticks into people’s yards.” or stones at DEC Chief for the animal. the Bureau of Wildlife They are Gordon Batcheller certainly added that the coyote capable of population in New York killing small has been unchanged dogs, and in recent years, but cats, and in that their place in the some parts of local environment has the country, certainly become well they have established if you look hurt people.” back more than 10 years.

“In the last 10 Coyotes in years, [the population] Suburbia has been essentially Just stable,” he said.

C oy o t e w i t h G e e s e because “However, coyote ( P h o t o p r ov i d e d) coyotes population in the have been last 30 years has in the area for more than 40 years, it expanded greatly, especially in central doesn’t mean they have been in your and western New York. They are habitat neighborhood for 40 years. Unfortunately, generalists and can live in virtually any habitat condition. This helps to explain the it seems coyotes, unlike old dogs, can learn new tricks. fact that they live in all parts of the U.S. DEC’s website alludes to a recent from remote wilderness to arid deserts study conducted by researchers at Cornell of the Southwest. In New York, they have University that studied coyote behavior done very well in the mixed woods and

“People Will Have To Learn to Co-Exist and ecology in a suburban landscape, With Coyotes” and examined the types of humanNo number of wildlife experts coyote interactions across the state. telling Ithacans that coyotes have been According to that study, in the suburban landscape, “coyotes primarily selected and here for many years—and will be here for the foreseeable future—is likely to inhabited natural areas and avoided dense quiet concerns. When beloved cats or residential and commercial lands” and dogs are injured or lost “ate diverse natural to a predator, it is only diets composed natural for residents to of white-tailed seek change. That change, deer, rabbits, however, might have to be small mammals, by their own hands. Local birds, insects, and government will not play grass, fruits, and a role in eliminating local berries.” It adds coyote. that, “despite the “Like with much close proximity other wildlife,” Town of to people, coyotes Ithaca Supervisor Herb seldom consumed Engman said, “people will human sources have to learn to co-exist of food such as with coyotes. They are bird seed, garbage, well established, meaning and outdoor pets. that even if eliminated Living a natural from one area, they will life, coyotes are refill that ecological able to exist niche in a short period of within highly time. Probably the only human-dominated ‘permanent’ reduction in landscapes but the numbers of coyotes still avoid frequent would be through the reinteractions and establishment of wolves, conflicts with which would likely create people.” even more concern in That C o r n e l l Wi l d l i f e S p e c i a l i s t the community. however, Pau l C u r t i s “Although the doesn’t mean ( P h o t o : M i c h a e l N o c e l l a) presence of coyotes,” confrontations he continued, “has with domestic been known for many years, they seem animals, or even people are impossible. to be more prevalent now in people’s Assistant professor for the Department backyards. This seems to indicate they of Environmental Studies and Sciences are overcoming their shyness around at Siena College and Cornell alum Dan people. Education is the most important Bogan did a dissertation on coyotes step. Residents should not deliberately while studying at Cornell in 2007, and feed coyotes or leave cat and dog food concluded that such interactions, while outdoors. Cats and small dogs should rare, cannot be taken lightly. be kept indoors except on leash in the “I studied human-coyote interactions presence of their owners. The town through a few different ways,” he recalled. intends to include a fact sheet about “I investigated the types of reports filed coyotes in its next newsletter which will be to the DEC, when a person had some out soon.” kind of incident with a coyote [sighting, For now, South Hill residents will close encounter, pet interactions (from continue to search for answers or take no contact to coyotes allegedly killing cats matters into their own hands. and dogs)], to humans feeling threatened Cook noted that October is the or reporting being approached by beginning of hunting season, and that aggressive coyotes. Most encounters with killing coyotes might ultimately be coyotes typically involved pets—primarily justified—and necessary. (Coyotes may be dogs, and then cats. I suspect coyotes hunted from Oct. 1 to Mar. 29 without bag view domestic dogs as trespassers and limit.) then act aggressively towards the dogs “Let the chips fall where they may. they can push around or injure. In fact, The season is open and people are going to I found dogs about 20 pounds or less are start taking action. I actually hope action most often reported as being killed by is taken, because I think something bad coyotes. Owners of small dogs should is going to happen. I’m afraid it’s going to take precautions.

“I also studied,” he continued, “coyote take a tragedy [for the town or someone else to do something].” home range and habitat use, and diet.

Bogan cautioned that co-existence All in all, most coyotes live primarily between coyotes and humans does not in natural areas and eat natural foods, have to be one of violence. even in residential landscapes. They’re “Seeing a coyote,” he said, “is not predators, so they eat deer, rabbits, necessarily a bad thing. In natural squirrels, mice and voles, but they also settings, people may enjoy watching eat a lot of fruits and plant materials, too. wildlife, such as eastern coyotes. However, My diet studies seldom found any human if a coyote is close to people and or pets, sources of foods, so they don’t seem to then it is best to enjoy the moment, but be the dumpster divers that people make encourage the coyote to move along or them out to be.” run away.” • T

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here is still a debate about whether or in a crate longer than they can hold their bladder. Other people have seen, maybe not to crate your dog.

“The pros of crate training,” said when they visit friends or family, dogs in crates who have not been trained to love Casey Lomonaco, the Director of Behavior their crates.” & Training at Tompkins County Society Lomonaco said dog owners must be for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals diligent in crafting their pet’s association (SPCA), “are that it’s a great way to potty with a crate. If you only put a dog into train either puppies or even newly adopted the crate when you leave or when it does adult dogs, and it can prevent your dog something bad, from getting then crate training into trouble does become and hurting something that themselves by Lomonaco would chewing on not condone. It power cords and is important, she things like that. said, to make the Also, even for crate a positive adult dogs, it’s place for your a nice place to canine. relax. When you “The best travel, it’s like way to avoid being able to take having problems your bed with with the crate,” you, which is she said, “is to not really fun for the just crate your dogs.

Parker, a crate-trained Boxer in Lansing. dog when you’re “Crating,” away from home, says PETA’s because then the website, “is dog will associate with ‘everyone is going a popular ‘convenience practice’ that is to leave me.’ With puppies, the best thing often used on adult dogs. It deprives dogs to do is put the crate near where you work of the opportunity to fulfill some of their and hang out. You can even do movie night, most basic needs, such as the freedom to where you put the puppy in their crate walk around, the opportunity to relieve while you relax next to them. You can have themselves, and the ability to stretch out a bowl of popcorn for you, and maybe even and relax. It also prevents them from a smaller one for them. Making a crate interacting with their environment and learning how to behave in a human setting.” a part of your life when you’re at home with your dog makes it harder for them to PETA (People for the Ethical predict separation.

Treatment of Animals) added that crating “Leaving puppies something to play dogs began as a misguided way for people with,” she added, “in the crate is also a great to housetrain puppies, with the theory idea. Maybe not a stuffed toy—that would being that a dog in a small cage will be too easy to destroy, but I really like Kong “hold it” rather than eliminating. This, toys, the rubber toys. You can even leave the organization claims, evolved into dog them in the freezer before you give them to trainers recommending crating adult dogs the puppy, because they’re teething and that who had any type of behavior problem as feels good on their gums. You also want to a way of stopping bad behavior and that do the best you can with putting the crate “forcing dogs to spend extended periods in a place that’s shielded from outside noise of time confined and isolated simply to such as traffic or construction outside.” accommodate their guardians’ schedules is In addition to helping your dog unacceptable, and it exacerbates behavior become house broken and giving it a safe problems, leading to even more crating.” space to relax when you’re not with them, With PETA on one end of the crating spectrum, most dog lovers and experts find teaching them to appreciate and love their crate is something that will once again themselves on the other end. Pick up any puppy book or talk to your local dog trainer come in handy at some point in their lives.

“Even if you don’t need a crate for and you will find that, when properly training puppies,” Lomonaco said, “at some done, crating a dog can become a win-win point in their lives, probably every dog is situation for both the dog and its owner. going to need to be crated. Whether it’s for SPCA’s Lomonaco is a big fan of crate a veterinary procedure after a surgery, or training, for both new puppies and newly anything like that, the dog will heal much adopted adult dogs. better if they know how to be in a crate and “A lot of people have concerns,” said relax inside of it.”• Lomonaco, “because crates can be abused.

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why are football rosters so thin these days?

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nearly as invested and are more likely to t seems that almost every week, I read encourage their sons to engage in other that another high school football team activities. has folded the tent and canceled the DePalma said, “I understand parents’ rest of the season. Roster numbers are way concerns, and I will say that the biggest down, and to gain some insight as to why, concern is not—in my opinion—the I called my friend Bernie DePalma. concussions, it is how Bernie is a great they are treated.” resource for such a There are story, as he has been considerable advances the Head Athletic in the treatment of Trainer at Cornell for concussions, and over 30 years. He is the monitoring of also a football dad, athletes that have as his son Turner is a sustained them, and sophomore suiting up if coaches and parents for the Little Red of and sports medicine Ithaca High. The Little personnel team up to Red are taking their assure that protocols lumps this year, and are followed, the risk I asked Bernie how it is minimized. was going from where To be honest, he was sitting, so to while risks may be speak. minimized, they will “Well, the never be eliminated, numbers are down and that hold true for sure,” DePalma for almost any sport. offered. “There is Members of the Ithaca High School junior varsity I have shuddered a mandate that a football team. (photo provided) when I read reports team needs at least of young baseball 16 players, and we’re players being struck in the chest with somewhere between 25 and 28, but that’s fatal consequences, soccer players have still low.” suffered head injuries from the repeated Bernie’s position was clarified when he described a recent football game against “heading” of the ball, and local lacrosse fans will never forget the on-field death Corning. He stated, “Corning had 50 kids of George Boiardi. That said, I think that on their roster, and there were 25 to 30 we as “sports parents” can ask the right seniors. We had one senior on the field.” questions, make sure all coaches are up to Such imbalances are frustrating (as well as date on injury prevention and we can sleep dangerous), and DePalma added, “When well knowing we are doing what we can. you have 15 and 16 year-olds competing Ultimately, it comes down to a statement against 17, 18 or even 19 year-olds, it’s just made by a Drunken Philosopher friend of a mismatch—not just in terms of on-field mine: “Kids … you can steer ‘em, but you experience, but also in terms of physical can’t park ‘em.” maturation.”

• • • Low roster numbers also translate to I encountered another buddy of mine, increased risk, as when players must play both ways (offense and defense), and when the Hockey-Crazed Jay Sciarabba, and he players consequently have little time to rest told me “after a two-decade absence, the and replenish, there is an inevitable fatigue Ithaca area once again has a recreational house-league hockey program for boys factor. Add to the mix what Bernie calls and girls ages 4 through 14.” The games “an increase in the exposure level,” and it will be held at The Rink on East Shore becomes clearer why many parents make Drive, and Jay—who grew up playing an effort to steer their kids away from hockey and spending countless hours in football. cars and in hotels —was enthusiastic in The ongoing conversation about pointing out “there is no travel, ever!” He concussions is also a real contributing said, “The cost is affordable, there will factor, and ESPN commentator Colin be 48 home games, it is a ‘no-contact’ Cowherd has stated his opinion that as program, and all abilities are welcome.” mothers gain more equality in family The program is already underway, and decision-making dynamics, more kids are will run until March, but it is still a great discouraged from playing. Mothers, after time to get started. Jay encourages those all, did not play football, and as a result interested should visit www.therink.info, have far less loyalty to the game. A lot of or call 277-7465. • dads did play, and they want their sons to carry the torch, but moms are often not

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A crowded Common Council chamber included many store owners during a Wednesday, Oct. 1 council meeting. Those who spoke voiced overwhelming distress over the fact that the reconstruction of the Commons will spill into spring 2015—well past its original planned finish date of July 2014.

Commons Project Manager Michael Kuo and city engineer Tom West delivered a “state of the project” report to the council, the first update Common Council has had since February. Mayor Svante Myrick noted at the end of their report that Kuo and West were polite about the role of NYSEG in making the project deadlines fall apart, but Myrick did not hesitate to put the blame on the utility.

Kuo told the council that all the other utilities—sewer, water mains, and telecommunications lines—were replaced

by May of this year. NYSEG needed to install an entirely new gas main on State Street (the Commons) and “Bank Alley” (the last block of Tioga Street) and then hook up service to individual buildings from their main. They went entirely up one side and down the other side of the streets.

They were working their way toward the end of their loop when the June 20 truck accident at Simeon’s interrupted their work. “The NYSEG crews were traumatized by the accident,” said Kuo, “and went and worked elsewhere for a while.” The old gas mains were not retired until Sept. 8 because the connection between the old and new pipes is near Simeon’s, and that building has to be stabilized before NYSEG could go back in

Pouring the concrete base for paving in Bank Alley on Monday, Oct. 6. Paving in Bank Alley should be complete by the end of October. (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

there.

Because of the delay in finishing State Street, Vacri construction crews started on Bank Alley instead. “It was the first area available,” said Kuo, “but it was more timeconsuming and expensive work.” They have started pouring the concrete sidewalk underpinnings and bases for light poles.

The latter must be 11 feet deep and two feet across. It has been difficult, Kuo said, to find room for the pole holes amid all the utilities. He predicted that the paving in Bank Alley would be complete by the end of the October and that the “200 block” of State Street (from Bank Alley to Aurora Street) would be completed in November.

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“NYSEG wasn’t working fast enough,” said Myrick, “and they were not dedicating enough crews to the project.”

“We don’t have a contract with NYSEG,” said City Attorney Ari Levine, “and we don’t have the same leverage as we do with the contractors.”

Myrick noted that in the middle of the Commons project, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) pulled all the NYSEG workers off the job and forced them to be retrained in a new continued on page 15

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There are 280 students in each class at the Johnson School. Forty-five students applied for fellowships this year and 20 were selected.

According to Prof. Risa Mish, the program has been growing in popularity since she inaugurated it eight years ago.

“Initially I approached Joanne Florino, who was then at the Triad Foundation,” said Mish. “I looked to her for insights as to which organizations we could work with. Since then it has evolved a bit from those original partner organizations. Most of the original group is still with us, but the number has grown some.”

Mish selected her partners in order to have a broad range of missions for students to select from. “I also wanted strong executive directors,” she said, “so that [the fellows] can learn about leading and to see that there are a variety of leadership styles.”

Mish selected the fellows herself the first year, but since then it has been done by a student team with input from the partner non-profits.

“We look for people who have a passion for learning more, who have experience with Kayla Baker, a second year grad student at the Johnson School and the the non-profit world, community and public relations person for the Fellows executive team. and the students should (Photo: Bill Chaisson) be mature so they represent Cornell well in town.” these organizations. The benefit to the orMish had been aware of similar proganization takes the form of a project that grams at other business schools. “It was each fellow is required to undertake. The my personal wish to see MBAs on volunproject can be as quantitative as having teer boards,” she said. a business graduate student analyze your For now the program will likely stay systems and operations or as qualitative the same size in order to maintain the as simply serving as a fresh pair of eyes as quality of the fellows. But Mish does due board deliberate various issues.

Pairing fellow with organization is the diligence reviews of the present partners and other organizations in order to be work of the executive team. This six-perready to bring a new non-profit in should son group is also selected by their peers. one bow out.

The pairing is based on the expertise of “We want non-profits that will work the fellow—they may have worked with a with students,” said Baker, “not just give similar non-profit before—or simply their them a task and walk away. But they also passion for the work done by a particular have to understand that these are full-time organization. students.” They are older than you might “Students rank their choices when think. The average age at the Johnson is 26 they apply,” said Kayla Baker, a member years old. § of the executive team. “Many of them are here is a resource for not-for-profit organizations in Ithaca that perhaps more people should know about: the Johnson Board Fellows at Cornell’s Graduate School of Management. Twenty second-year students at the business school are selected by their peers to serve for one year on the board of 10 different not-for profits in town.

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welding technique. Furthermore, he said, pushing paperwork through NYSEG takes an enormous amount of time, apparently because it is owned by Iberdrola, a multinational company based in Spain.

Kuo was told that NYSEG had many other projects in their coverage area, including other work right in Ithaca like Clinton Street and Coltivare, the new TC3 downtown culinary campus. “I spoke with Bob Pass of NYSEG about the urgency of our project,” said Kuo, “and through him we got a second crew in here.”

“What can we do between now and Thanksgiving?” asked Alderperson Ellen McCollister (D-3rd). Kuo said it was worth “throwing on the table” the idea of working on Saturdays. West suggested having the contractors—Vacri and Brookings—put more men on the job.

• • • Though owners seemed to grit their teeth in relative silence over the latest promise of the project being partially finished before the 2014 holiday season, the news that that already delayed date will also not be met resulted in statements of desperation.

Now You’re Cooking owner Jerry Martins called the current state of the Commons a “nightmare and fiasco from day one” and that “lots of businesses are on the edge [of going out of business].” His suggestion to build some momentum for the holiday season amid the unattractive construction was to add Christmas lighting, regular lighting, and more cutthroughs throughout the Commons so shoppers can at least see and get where they’re going ... and shopping.

Martins said he had spoken with 45 merchants and that every one was hurting, either through damage to their buildings, flooding of their basements, or reduced sales. “Small businesses,” he said, “are on the edge. We do not make a lot; we make a living.”

Matt Peterson of Titus Gallery, which shares a wall with Simeon’s, said that the business he runs with Susan Titus would not recoup the losses they had incurred for 15 years. “And that doesn’t include the damage from the [Simeon’s truck] accident,” he said. “The city has done nothing to mitigate the losses, not even offer free parking.”

“I’ve never seen anything like this in 50 years in Ithaca,” said Barbara Lynn, an owner of Now You’re Cooking. “We’ve gotten no help at all from the city, and their no finish date and no penalty clause in the contract. No business would do that.

“If you want to work seven days a week,” she said, “that’s fine because there’s no business anyway.”

Petrune owner Domenica Brockman, along with several other Commons’ owners, echoed Martins’ message.

“It is a hostile environment,” Brockman said. “Tourists come and are horrified.

Ithacans don’t come to the Commons.

“We are hanging on by the skin of our teeth,” she said. [Petrune] has lost $50,000

in sales this year. I feel like I’m getting robbed every day.” Brockman was angry with the city for raising the price of parking tickets in the middle of the project. “How could you do that to us?” she asked.

Other businesses such as Bloom and Casablanca pizzeria also openly admitted their financial struggles. Casablanca owner Adil Griguihi said he was $80,000 in debt because of the project and was on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. Body Gear owner Sylvia Allinger and Griguihi both told of construction crews opening up holes in front of their businesses at inopportune times.

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Commons merchants at Common Council meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 1. (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

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Council members offered their condolences and promised that all options to help businesses through this difficult time, along with options of how to speed up the process, will be discussed in a meeting with Project Manager Michael Kuo and his team on Thursday, Oct. 9.

They also agreed that suggestions from owners alluding to more lighting, more pathways, and even temporary free parking could all be possible solutions.

Myrick responded directly to Lynn’s comments. “You’ve never seen something like this in 40 or 50 years because there hasn’t been anything like this,” he said.

“The utilities were not replaced when

Alderperson Seph Murtagh (D-2nd), in whose ward the project is, said, “I’ve been aware of the frustrations because I’ve had individual conversations, but the collective voice is very distressing. Speaking as a longtime resident, I don’t want to lose these businesses.”

“It’s important that we respond in the short term,” said Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D-4th). “I had a 45-minute wait to get into a restaurant on Ken Jupiter of 15 Steps. (Photo: Bill Chaisson) Aurora Street, but people are not going around the corner to the the Commons was built [in the early Commons.”

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owners to sit on the council. (McCollister is a planning consultant, most of the rest of the council are employed by nonprofits.) “I feel like we should have had an update before now; it’s been a long time since last February. We should help these businesses any way we can and do it now.”

McGonigal’s remarks received the warmest applause from the audience • • • David Abdulky of Mansour Jewelers, which has been in business on the Commons since 1979, said there were two kind of businesses downtown: destinations and businesses that drew from traffic going by them.

Because of the length of Mansour’s tenure and the nature of the business, it is a destination for its customers.

That said, he did not wish to say how his business was doing, but described David Abdulky of Mansour Jewelers those who (Photo: Bill Chaisson) depend on traffic as “definitely hurting.”

Abdulky is already worried about the problems that will exist after the construction is finished. He has already had flooding in his basement because he believes after having three engineers look at the problem, his downspouts were not reconnected to the storm drains. He is concerned that similar situations exist in other buildings along the Commons.

“Every year here has been a pleasure,” said Abdulky. “We thrive on our community.” He welcomed the new Commons project, saying that “any improvement is good,” but he will not compare the new design with the old one until he sees the new one.

Ken Jupiter of 15 Steps agreed with Abdulky’s categorization of Commons businesses. His store has been in business at three different locations for 32 years, since 1990 at its current storefront in Center Ithaca. “There was a study done when Woolworth’s was still here [in the early 1990s],” recalled Jupiter. “We were one of the top three destinations in downtown, along with Woolworth’s and the Trust Company.”

He has not seen his business suffer through the Commons construction.

“I haven’t talked with a lot of the other retailers,” Jupiter said. “Some are doing OK. Wednesday was the first I had heard that so many were doing poorly. You have to manage your own business. You do what you can do.” Jupiter feels that downtown is particularly difficult to market because each business has a different seasonal cycle.

“We’re doing OK,” he said. “I wish others were saying the same thing. There is a lot of fatigue on the part of the locals. Is this the worse thing in the world? Nah, but it’s exhausting.” §

The Overbuild

Carey Building to get additional four stories

By Bi l l Ch a i s s o n that will be added. Even if the overbuild had not gone forward, said Travis, Cornell had insisted that the lift be installed.

“We’re currently compliant,” he said, “because we haven’t changed the use. But when we start building over we have to bring the whole building to present-day code.”

A Hampton Inn is scheduled to be constructed next door, but Travis said that project will be slightly out of phase with his own. “They won’t start until later next spring,” he said. “They will use the staging area after we’ve fnished with it.”

The staging area will be what is soon to be a former city parking lot between the Carey Building and the Community School for Music and Arts.

Travis said he has spoken with the merchants in the Carey Building and has promised to work with them to mitigate the effects of construction. “But I was frank with them,” he said. “This is going to be a dirty, noisy project.”

Because the building is in Zones CBD60 and CBD-100 there are no parking requirements for the address.

The elevation for the “overbuild” atop the Carey Building on East State Street. The developer of the project is Travis Hyde Properties and the architect is John Snyder of Ithaca. (Illustration courtesy of John Snyder)

“This was an innovative building for Ithaca,” said Snyder of the Carey Building.

“It was all concrete, reinforced with rebar.

“We will be using a lot of the same color palette,” he said, “and we’ll be using materials that are smaller in scale in order to keep the scale of Carey Building.”

The third floor will be stepped back from the street to keep the building from looming over the sidewalk. A terrace will be built in the setback.

Snyder has not settled on final choices for the exterior materials. He is looking at an unconventional brick system that will reduce the weight of the building and “metal products” for the façade.

The final “overbuild” phase will begin toward the end of the year and Snyder hopes the building will be complete by July 2015.

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The availability of the 618 Elmira space also played into the decision to begin his own business. While currently leasing, it is his plan to one day own the building, and even add on to it.

“This location [was the choice] because it’s a good location,” he said.

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We have the right to first refusal. It’s a five-year Jason Dzikiewicz has opened Ithaca Auto Service in the former Resnick’s Mat- lease, but the goal is to own it, and in time, add tress Outlet. They have been open since August. (Photo: Michael Nocella) on to it. The ultimate goal is to expand.”

As for what kind of work Ithaca Auto “We needed to change everything,” he Service does, Dzikiewicz said they would said. “Basically everything you see inside handle all the kind of work you can expect here, it was just an open warehouse—so any trustworthy auto service shop to do. everything was renovated. The garage “We do all foreign and domestic space, we had to put in [the car lifts]. We cars,” he said. “We don’t really have any started this process in January. Between specialties—we do everything. We don’t zoning and stuff like that, it took a long time. We were ready for operation in mid- do bodywork, but basically we do all general maintenance and auto repair.

June, but then we had some paperwork Alignments, tires—it’s key to offer great details to finish up.” service at a great price, since we are in a It seems it was worth the wait. very competitive environment.”

Dzikiewicz said his first months of “We’re coming up [on the busiest business have been “very good, very busy” season for car repairs],” he said. “Winter and that the jumpstart most likely stems is coming up. Right now is the quotefrom his loyal customer base he cultivated throughout two decades at Monro Muffler on-quote slow time. We’re busy, but the summer is generally slower. With our following him to his new business. That roads, in the winter, we see a lot of brake is not surprising, considering the mission problems, lot of front end maintenance of Ithaca Auto Service is “Pay Less and Expect Better Service.” Dzikiewicz stressed needed, alignments. Normal problems, but Ithaca is pretty unique with its hills and that point when asked how he plans to everything. Our roads aren’t the greatest distinguish himself from the other auto either, so maintenance is key.” § repair businesses in town. fter nearly 20 years working at Monro Muffler at 338 Elmira Road, Jason Dzikiewicz (pronounced juhKEV-uh-witz) decided it was time to take his expertise—and many of his clients—a half mile down the road and open up his own auto service business: Ithaca Auto Service Business.

Located at 618 Elmira Road, Ithaca Auto Service certainly embodies Dzikiewicz’s fresh start. The last several months were used to transform the former home Resnick Mattress space from an empty warehouse into an auto service lobby and repair garage. Now, you only need to take one step inside before getting a whiff of that new-tire smell. Dzikiewicz said that although his business opened in August, it was ready to go a little bit before then.

Grace

Following the death of her husband, local author leans in and finds healing

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laine Mansfield can still become a little weepy recalling her beloved husband Vic’s illness and death, the core of her just-published book, Leaning Into Love, A Spiritual Journey Through Grief, (Larson Publications, $14.95). Not to worry.

“Tears signal to people who don’t know me that I’m falling apart and need to be saved,” she wrote. “In fact, I am a strong woman with open feelings and wet eyes.” In her book she also writes of finding her strength and creating a new life as a widow, letting a window of light into a potentially dark subject. “You allow grief in and get to keep the love,” she said.

When Vic Mansfield came down with flu in early 2006, he was a healthy, active physics professor, and they both expected the ailment to pass with a few days of rest and care. But symptoms lingered into spring and summer, Elaine Mansfield is the author of Leaning Into Love, a story “in a way that made us nervous,” Mansfield about handling the loss of her husband, Vic, who passed remembered. He was diagnosed with a rare away in 2008. Above, Mansfield in her home garden. (photo lymphoma later that year.

by Sarah Ousley; book cover provided) “I kept journals all the time,” Elaine said. Factual medical details, prayers, anger,

grief, impatience, observations of where she was—all got written down to help her cope with the challenges and help her be present with the situation at hand. “I needed to absorb and understand what was going on with Vic and what was going on with me in response,” she said.

In her book, she speaks unflinchingly of the harrowing uncertainties of a serious illness, the “Is this it?” moments when a life hangs in the balance and the breath catches while waiting to see which way the scales will tip. There’s rejoicing when treatments seem to work, and life resumes with an added layer of tenderness and gratitude.

“Love and grief are a package deal, which we don’t think of when we’re falling in love,” she said. So there was both release and sadness when death arrives as an inevitable conclusion to the suffering of long illness. “When Vic finally died, there was no other way out. It was not a horrible thing,” she said.

There is also joy in the family’s connection continued on page 24

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haven’t read the Gillian Flynn novel that is the basis for David Fincher’s brilliant, operatic, cringe-inducing police procedural Gone Girl, but since Flynn wrote the screenplay, at least she was involved in any changes from page to screen. I love the way Patton Oswalt uses the phrase “David Fincher-esque” in describing a bad cookie commercial in one of his bits; anyone who has spent time taking in all the happygo-lucky entries in the Fincher catalog, immaculate yet disturbing cocktails like Seven, Fight Club, and The Game, knows that Fincher doesn’t do happy-go-lucky.

He’ll probably never make anything that would ever be described as a romp.

Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike basically play the perfect couple as Fincher and Flynn poke holes and reveal lies that were right in front of us from the beginning. Pike disappears on the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, and it turns out that Affleck hates her and is happy to see her go, so much so that he can’t help smiling in front of a wanted poster of his wife, captured on film during a press conference. That lunkhead grin is one of several cracks that appear in Affleck’s male-model façade as the plot thickens.

Let’s just say that large and basic questions begin to emerge regarding Affleck’s alibi. Just like Jon Favreau’s terrific foodie comedy Chef, everything about the case of Affleck’s missing wife is suddenly all over social media. Fincher and Flynn also make some astute and disturbing observations about the ways in which people form prejudices all too quickly; Fincher is always clear about where we are in the narrative, and as detective Kim Dickens begins questioning Affleck, her partner Patrick Fugit has already decided there’s something about Affleck he doesn’t

trust.

Once Affleck hires the best lawyer he can find (a very good performance by Tyler Perry) and the media locks onto the case, Fincher’s unblinking cynicism takes us through the legal system, and how easy it is to swing public favor. One minute, the world hates Affleck, and the next, they “like” him, just like on Facebook. Sound familiar?

When Affleck first emerged on the scene, he was lauded with praise and awards, then he went through the whole “Bennifer” thing, and now he’s “good” and a talented film director to boot. How times change with every Tweet. (Missi Pyle embodies “the media” here, representing every sanctimonious cable news anchor we’ve ever seen.)

This is good, adult, disturbing stuff, featuring not one but two unreliable narrators. Fincher, a director who admits to making things precious, finds his best match in some seriously dark material; it may be the first film he’s made that has no cutting-edge visual effects problem to be solved. It makes The War of the Roses look like a spitball skirmish. I’m not familiar with Dickens, but here she plays the best, most empathetic detective since Marge Gunderson in Fargo; ditto Carrie Coon as Affleck’s sister, and Neil Patrick Harris as an ex-boyfriend of Pike.

I’ve been an Affleck fan since his breakout performance in Chasing Amy. At his core best, in films like Dogma, Boiler Room, Changing Lanes and in films he’s directed, particularly The Town, he, like Michael Douglas, embodies the conflicted, ambiguous American male. Fincher must have seen that too, and aside from making one of the most twisted, complex thrillers I’ve ever seen, he used the Affleck we know from Pearl Harbor and Gigli and fused him with the film’s callow protagonist. •

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Clarissa Plank, installing her work at CAP’s Art Space. (photo by Tim Gera) Her October show at the Community Arts Partnership’s ArtSpace silkscreen in two larger, upright pieces. brings a welcome concision and focus into Fall Webworms plays with the look of a a venue that commonly presents (typically mis-registered print: critters and spaces artist-arranged) shows of a more scattered that don’t quite line up. Cool gray larvae— and overflowing sensibility. The work, detailed in black—wriggle over a beige all of it from the past few years, portrays ground and the dull brown silhouette of a common insects in a familiar but deftly bare tree trunk. Based on a dream of the handled woodcut expressionist style. artist’s, the near-monochrome Infestation: As a gallery statement explains, these A Pest Control Nightmare is similarly “investigate the fear and fascination abstract. The piece shows an infestation of we feel when faced with the natural fleas—large and small, lit and shadowed— environment.” Insects, we are told, crawling around a shadowy recumbent “epitomize this complicated relationship figure. Both pieces have an uncertain, because of their duality; they can induce experimental quality. nightmares, and function as fashionable, Silkscreen, combined with monotype, pleasing designs at the same time.” is Plank’s medium of choice in a second, Most of the prints are 15 by 15 inches concurrent show. It hangs on the second square and together with the spacious, floor of Waffle Frolic, also on the even hanging, this gives the show a spare, Commons. (Shows there are coordinated orderly feeling. This is a good fit with the

by ARTe, the work of local art promoter character of the work: bold but subtly Allison DeDominick.) balanced with just a few colors in each Based on personal photographs of piece and a quality of mark that captures commonplace house-fronts—mostly the raw feel of gouged wood. (These are in Utica, with one from Ithaca—these color reduction woodcuts, with color moody, subtly colored prints enliven their areas successively carved away before each quotidiana with evocative painterly effects. inking.)

According to the artist, these facades act as All of the work is good but a few metaphors for what the sociologist Erving pieces stand out as particularly striking.

Goffman once called “the presentation Emerald Ash Borer Dance features of self in everyday life”: that familiar a striking palette of emerald and olive interplay of showing and masking that greens with dash-like highlights in pale marks our social lives. yellow and yellow green. A diagonally Again, one gets the feeling of covering staggered row of stiffly upright creatures well-trodden ground with a screenprintconnects the top left and bottom as-painting style that dates back to the right corners. In the foreground, two early ‘60s innovations of Rauschenberg companions seem to be breaking free from and Warhol. But Plank handles it with skill this order as they tilt to the left. and with an expressive focus that seems Interlaced in angled curves of black, to be reaching towards something more a multitude of bulbous insects crowd the personal. surface in the earthy- toned Potato Beetles.

Plank’s strategy of having two Crawling every-which-way against the concurrent shows in two different spaces gouge-marked backdrop, they create a is one that more area artists might try. It space that is suitably vertiginous. brings an engaging focus as well to these Plank combines woodcut and two strands of her eclectic oeuvre. •

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Cornell undergraduate who picked up Bruce Dancis’s Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War might be fascinated to read about the student-incited events on the Cornell campus between 1965 and 1969. Dancis hit the ground running as an activist in college; after being at school for two months he joined the Cornell chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the War Resisters League (of which his father had also been a member). His freshman year ended with his participation in the occupation of the university president’s office in Day Hall. Dancis wrote the first draft of the demonstrators’ demands.

We are sitting in the Administration Building: 1) to protest the War in Vietnam, demanding immediate withdrawal of American military personnel; 2) to assert that Cornell University is deeply involved in this war as is the whole society, and 3) to demand that the University refuse to administer the Selective Service College Qualification Test” Because Resister is an insider’s onthe-ground perspective, the book provides details about what it was like to be in college during the Vietnam War that may be too pedestrian for inclusion in more sweeping accounts of the era. The SDS opposition to the Selective Service College Qualification Test is an example. We all know that there was a student deferment from military service, but it is less well known that if you failed to do well enough on this test, you would lose your deferment in spite of being in school.

On December 14, 1966 Dancis tore up his draft card in front of an audience of students and media, put it in an envelope and mailed it to the Selective Service. He renounced his student deferment and promptly dropped out of college anyway, becoming a full-time activist.

The bulk of the book recounts the political organizing he did between committing the above felony and going to federal prison in May 1969. Dancis was an earnest young man and presents himself as working fairly constantly for “the movement.” He wrote press releases,

ran meetings, did research, organized demonstrations, put out a newspaper called First Issue, gave speeches, and met with fellow activists like Daniel Berrigan. Berrigan was the associate director of the Cornell University Religious Works from 1967 until he went underground after being convicted for destroying draft records in a Baltimore Selective Service office.

If you are looking for time-honored ‘60s tales of drugs and excess of various kinds, this is not the book for you.

Dancis admits to regular extra-legal drug use, and he was the lead singer in a local band for a while, but he very much seems to stay on task.

The elderly Dancis looks back and soberly admits that the unequal treatment of women by the activists of his generation was a lost opportunity. On race relations they did a little better; SDS proved to be a useful ally to the Afro-American Society (AAS) who seized Willard Straight on April 19, 1969.

His first-hand account of the latter event is fascinating, as it includes the early attempt by Delta Upsilon frat brothers to dislodge the AAS students, which—along with a rumored gathering of hundreds of sheriffs deputies in Ithaca—led the occupying contingent to arm itself in selfdefense. The subsequent “seizure” of Barton Hall was, from Dancis’s point of view, the beginning of the fragmentation of the student movement at Cornell.

Dancis served 19 months at a medium-security federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky. His description of his experiences there is dispassionate and without drama, a foreshadowing of the journalist he would eventually become.

The book is written in clear, transparent prose that you’d expect from a retired journalist. At intervals he brings you up short with bald admissions and frank declarations.

I’ve always been proud to have been a draft resister during the Vietnam War. Having gone to prison for refusing to fight in a war I viewed as unjust and resisting a draft system that was unfair and coercive remains a badge of honor. •

“modulates about ten times.” Over this rhythm, Lemos sings differing sets of virtuosic runs, all with lyrics about love. A second Merula piece also has a repeated bass line, this time a rocking two-note motive. In sharp contrast, it is a haunting kind of lullaby where Mary looks at the sleeping baby Jesus and reflects on the horrors in his future.

The piece by Strozzi, a lyrical cantata with big emotional contrasts and some added orchestration, is about secret lovers.

Fox described the title work “Io vidi in terra”—a sonnet by Petrarch set by Marco da Gagliano—as a small, very pensive song, reflective of the poetry and music of the period. “It’s not the most virtuosic, but goes very deep.”

NYS Baroque’s second concert, on Friday, Nov. 7, called “Pepys’ Pajamas,” presents composers the famous diarist mentioned or could have known, with soprano Laura Heimes and harpist Christa Patton. On Friday, Dec. 5 Jory Vinikour returns to perform Bach’s Goldberg Variations (part of the 330th anniversary international celebrations), while Concert IV on Feb. 21 called “On the Road,” with music from several countries, features a string band led by Julie Andrijeski, and includes works for two viole d’amore (one played by Cornell’s Paul Miller) and two theorbos.

The final concert will be a special event, the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, conducted by Paul O’Dette, with exceptional singers and instruments including a cornetto played by Bruce Dickey. One of the great masterworks of western music, it will be performed in the First Presbyterian Church on April 18. •

sets of vocal pieces by such composers as Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, and Barbara Strozzi. They are joined together by instrumental works—some solos and other include varying instrumental combinations—which provide a lot of contrasting sounds. And although the

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ow would you like a chance to hear an amazing trio of musicians playing glorious 17th-century Italian music? New York State Baroque opens its season here on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Unitarian Church, with just the concert.

Starting at 7:30 p.m., it is called “Io Vidi in Terra” and features countertenor José Lemos, harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, and NYS Baroque artistic director Deborah Fox (who will play on her own trio of instruments: lute, theorbo, and baroque guitar). The musicians will give an informal pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m.

These three early-music specialists have been on tour with this program of Italian works for the virtuoso singer, adapted from a recording on the Sono Luminus label they made last year. “This is music we all love to play,” Fox said. They love performing together too, and “We all listen to each other, it is much more fun that way.”

Fox has known Lemos for many years, and while he had worked with Vinikour a lot, she had never met the harpsichordist.

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Countertenor José Lemos, originally from Brazil, has studied in the United States. He has “a very beautiful voice,” Fox said. “It’s very flexible with an incredible range and virtuosity” and, moreover, “He’s a really charismatic performer.”

Members of NYS Baroque (photo via nysbaroque.com) Born in Chicago, Jory Vinikour went to France program emphasizes the 17th-century on a Fulbright grant. After living there for canzonetta (a dance-like flowing solo song), 25 years, where he appeared with major the underlying mode is the ciaccona (theme European orchestras and in the finest opera and variations over a repeated instrumental houses and festivals, he has now returned bass line) typical of the 17th century. to States. Fox labels him as “an incredible “Composers are inventive in what they do virtuoso.” The same could be said of her, over this bass line,” said Fox. as she is sought after to perform with The program opens with a good the major early music ensembles from example, “Su la cetra amorosa” by Tarquinio Newfoundland to Australia. She surely needs Merula, described by Fox as “a wild and no introduction to NYS Baroque audiences. crazy piece” based on a jazzy baroque This special program consists of bass line that repeats and repeats—and

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with their land, a bond, which Elaine frequently refers to as sacred. The 70-acre farm has a conservation easement, and the family continues to maintain it with love and care. Vic’s ashes are buried in a cairn built by his sons at a favorite oak tree. It’s a place Elaine visits frequently, bringing flowers, prayers, and poems.

She writes and talks often about the importance of personal ritual. “A Tibetan monk gave us a simple healing meditation based on getting help from the healing forces of nature,” she said. “We did that many times a day for nearly two years. We did it during chemotherapy, to help Vic

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accept it as healing. We didn’t count on it to heal him physically, but it helped us heal the heart, to surrender and accept it.”

Before becoming ill, Vic Mansfield, a professor of astrophysics at Colgate University, was already the author of two acclaimed books whose themes touch on the intersection of Western science and Eastern spirituality; he was in the midst of a third book, written at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and managed to finish it and present it to the Dalai Lama during brief respites from his illness; though just a few weeks later, Vic entered the hospital for the last time.

Just as the Dalai Lama often states, “My true religion is kindness,” Vic made a practice of kindness through his illness.

“He was amazingly kind in every medical situation, kept putting out positive energy,” Elaine recalled, still clearly awed and inspired by her husband’s attitude.

“Life is going to be loss,” Elaine said, “but there’s so much beauty, too. Things happen that you can’t control. But no matter what—you can still find a way to be kind.” So the big garden she’d planted to nourish herself and Vic became the source of gifts to others and a way she could comfort herself.

She writes about the nurse who came with warm blankets and a smile, the sight of someone reaching down to speak with a wheelchair-seated patient, a ray of light coming through a window, the steadfastness of friends who stayed with her, let her cry, listened to her when she needed to talk and sat quietly with her when she needed silence as teachable moments. People need to tell their stories and be heard, she learned. To help another person through the grieving process, “The number one thing is to show up,” she said. “And don’t say, ‘Call me if you need something. The person who’s grieving isn’t going to. Be specific—do you want soup?

Want to come to dinner next Thursday?’ and allow people to tell their stories and be interested in their experience. That’s the greatest gift of all.”

In the six years since her husband’s death, Elaine’s bumpy navigation through loss and healing has led her to volunteer at Hospicare, to lead bereavement groups, to affirm others’ journeys down a similar path, to broaden her love of the land into working with ecological groups in their efforts to ban hydrofracking in the Finger Lakes. Despite increasing deafness, an invisible disability she combats with hearing aids and lip-reading, she gives workshops in creating personal ritual, and is giving a Tedx talk in Corning in November on that topic. She continues to write every day, and she’s looking for the thread of her next book, excited by the intellectual chase and the adventure that will unfold as she finds it. • Mansfield will be reading from Leaning into Love and signing books at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12 at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca. A portion of the proceeds from book sales will go to Hospicare, where Elaine Mansfield continues to volunteer, including leading bereavement groups.

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BoomBox | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Metasequoia’s Final Show | 9:00 PM- | Pete’s Bar, 116 S Cayuga St, Ithaca

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Diana Leigh & her Merry Pranksters | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | live jazz Cat’s Elbow | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | happy hour Go Gone | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | happy hour The Yardvarks | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | MADS and Jacyln Loberg | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 Rt. 414, Burdett | This talented duo combines intricately woven melodies with a new-age flair.

Brandon Lusk | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Crooked Rooster Brewpub, 223 Franklin Street, Watkins Glen | Big Leg Emma and Second Dam | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Mike Delledera Band | 9:30 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Sally Ramirez Trio | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Latin, Swing Jazz and Musical Theatre Carbon Tiger / State Meets Floral / Actes Drive | 10:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave., Ithaca | -

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Blues Plate Special | 1:00 PM- | Nickel’s Pit BBQ, 205-207 Franklin Street, Watkins Glen | Twilight Café: The Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | Dancing blues, rock-nroll, swing.

Cappadonna | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Chris Bell | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Crooked Rooster Brewpub, 223 Franklin Street,

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Watkins Glen | Dreamt w/Amanda Davids | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Richman & the Poorboys | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Rockin’ Blues, Jazz, Americana Newman Bros / Mr. Boneless / Bike Thief | 10:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave., Ithaca | Milking Diamonds with Cerulean 3 and Atomic Forces | 10:00 PM- | Chapter House, Ithaca |

10/12 Sunday

Art Bakert and Tiffany Lu | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Jazz, Flamenco, and Classical Music The Tarps | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Zydeco Trail Riders | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Spottiswoode and His Enemies | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | New York-based septet.

Kites in Space / Pleistocene / King Sized Pegasus / Pobaribanon | 8:00 PM- | Just Be Cause Center (former Ithaca Paint), 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Bob & Dee | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Crooked Rooster Brewpub, 223 Franklin Street, Watkins Glen | Christopher Bell | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Nickel’s Pit BBQ, 205-207 Franklin Street, Watkins Glen | Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park

10/13 Monday

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

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Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Poangelli and Friends | 5:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Toivo | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | Papadosio | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca |

10/11 Saturday

Vitamin L 25th Birthday Celebration | 11:00 AM-, 1:00 PM- | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | The Vitamin L Project is a unique, innovative, music based character education project for young people. The purpose of the Vitamin L project is to encourage positive character development through music, by inspiring young people with messages that are meaningful in their daily lives. See hangartheatre.org for show times.

DeeDee Arrison Concert for the Animals | 12:00 PM-1:10 PM | Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, James Law Auditorium, Schurman Hall, Ithaca | NYS Baroque: Io Vidi in Terra | 7:30 PM- | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Choral Collage | 8:15 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Choir, Women’s Chorale, Madrigal Singers, and Chorus, conducted by Janet Galvan and Derrick Fox

10/15 Wednesday

Joe’s Open Mic | 7:00 PM- | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Hosted by The Grey Wolf Band. Sign-ups at 7 p.m. PA, amps, drums all available.

Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | Jams rescheduled to Mondays for the summer. The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Artemisha Goldfeder & Lee Brooks / Ahmed Ozsever / Latterhalves / Neeraja D / Sunken Cheek | 8:00 PM- | Just Be Cause Center (former Ithaca Paint), 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | video, sound and performance Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | -

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Symphony Orchestra | 4:00 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Jeffery Meyer, conductor | David Herztberg: Spectre of the Spheres (2013) Santana | 7:00 PM- | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | at the Event Center

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cinemapolis Movie descriptions via rottentomatoes. com Boyhood | Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. | 165 mins R | Fri Thu: 8:45 PM Cantinflas | Cantinflas is the untold story of Mexico’s greatest and most beloved comedy film star of all time. From his humble origins on the small stage to the bright lights of Hollywood, Cantinflas became famous around the world - one joke at a time. Relive the laughter that has charmed generations. | 96 mins PG | Tue: 7:00 PM. Kill the Messenger |Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Bourne Legacy”) leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb.

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Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats

Alternative Energy with Suzanne McMannis | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | “Empowered: Power from the People” is a documentary that talks about how Tompkins County residents have taken part in using solar power for energy. Registration Required.

CINE con CULTURA | 7:00 PM- | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | CINE con CULTURA, a film festival featuring Latin American films, celebrates Latino Heritage Month from September 16 - October 14. The Cine con CULTURA festival features nine films made entirely in Latin America by Latin American production companies. The films are from a variety of countries and vary greatly in subject matter from civil unrest to immigration of children into United States to homosexuality to zombies:Thu. 10/9 Pelo Malo (2013, Venezuela); Tue. 10/14 Special Film TBA Anime Film Club | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | “Darker than Black” Season 1. Ages 13+ refreshments provided.

Sponsored by the Delavan Foundation.

Call for more info: (607) 869-3031.

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Midday Music for Organ: Matthew Hall | 12:30 PM- | Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features J. S. Bach’s “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue and selections from the “Leipzig” Chorales Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge | 7:30 PM- | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | The guitar duo of Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge.

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Love Is Strange | After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and - victims of the relentless New York City real estate market - temporarily live apart. | 98 mins R | Fri: 4:50, 6:50; Sat & Sun: 2:40, 4:50, 6:50; Mon - Wed: 4:50, 6:50 ;Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:40, 4:50, 6:50.

My Old Lady | Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he’s shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. | 107 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:45, 7:00, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15; Mon: 4:45, 7:00, 9:15; Tue: 4:45, 7:00; Wed: 4:45, 7:00, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 The Skeleton Twins | CWhen estranged twins Maggie (Kristen Wiig) and Milo (Bill Hader) feel they’re at the end of their ropes, an unexpected reunion forces them to confront why their lives went so wrong. | 93 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Sat & Sun: 2:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Mon: 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Tue: 4:30, 9:10; Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:20, 4:30, 9:10.

Tracks | The remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson (Wasikowska), a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. | 110 mins NR | Fri: 4:40, 7:00, 9:20; Sat & Sun: 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20; Mon - Wed: 4:40, 7:00, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20. cornell cinema

Stage Church Basement Ladies The Last Potluck Supper | 7:30 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 10/09 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 10/10 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 10/11 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 10/13 Monday; 7:30 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday; 7:30 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Merry-go-round Playhouse, 6861 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike | 7:30 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 10/09 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 10/10 Friday; 3:00 PM-, 8:00 PM-10/11 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 10/12 Sunday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | The Good Person of Setzuan | 8:00 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday; 8:00 PM-, 10/09 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 10/10 Friday; 2:00 PM-, 8:00 PM-, 10/11 Saturday | Clark Theatre, Ithaca College, Danby Road (Rt. 96B), Ithaca | By Bertolt Brecht, Adapted

by Tony Kushner, Directed by Norm Johnson. Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM-, 10/09 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 126 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Mr. Hart & Mr. Brown | 7:30 PM-, 10/09 Thursday; 7:30 PM-, 10/10 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 10/11 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 10/12 Sunday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Highway 12, Greene | Into the Woods | 7:30 PM-, 10/09 Thursday; 7:30 PM-, 10/10 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 10/11 Saturday; 7:30 PM-, 10/12 Sunday | Cider Mill Playhouse, 2 Nanticoke Ave, Endicott | Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM-, 10/10 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Comedy Hypnotist Joe DeVito | 2:00 PM-, 8:00 PM- 10/11 Saturday | Auburn Public Theatre, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | Lonely Planet | 7:30 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | The Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | By Steven Dietz. At the height of the AIDS epidemic, with countless friends falling around them,

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Rocks In My Pockets | An animated retelling of the director’s, and her family’s, brushes with madness and depression. | Wed 10/08 7:15 PM; Fri 10/10 7:30 PM. w/ filmmaker and animator Signe Baumane in person on 10/08.

Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case| This latest in a seeming flurry of documentaries about the ever-fascinating provocateur details the yearlong probation following his

infamous 81 days of solitary confinement in the spring of 2011. | Thu 10/09 7:00 PM; Introdcued by Ellen Avril, curator of Asian Art at the Johnson Museum Vinylmania | With a global resurgence of the interest in analog, Paolo Campana’s film—subtitled When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute—follows the most diehard of vinylmaniacs to try and discover just what it is about records that draws us in. | Thu 10/09 9:15 PM; Fri 10/10 9:30 PM.

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

Volunteers Needed for Migration Celebration at Lab of O | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | To sign up online and learn more visit www.birds.cornell.edu/birdday or contact Anne Rosenberg at baj3@cornell. edu or (607) 254-2109.

Cayuga Chimes Women’s Chorus | 6:45 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday | Music Room, Boynton Middle School, Ithaca | The Cayuga Chimes Women’s Chorus warmly invites women to join the Christmas Chorus for the season. Refreshments provided. No audition required--all are welcome. Have fun singing with the “Official Voices of Ithaca”. For more info check out cayugachimes.org or call 273-2324.

Meetings Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday | Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill And Bar, 2300 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | 607-342-3453 or bonbobroff@yahoo.com Ithaca City Planning and Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | Rehearse short, interrelated monologues in which dead citizens speak about their past lives. Free and open to all adults. No experience necessary; most are beginners.

Just show up, or email Dennis Dore for more info.

The Tompkins County Legislature Community Budget Forum | 7:00 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 E Green Street, Ithaca | County residents are invited to attend the public information meeting to learn about the 2015 recommended County budget presented

by County Administrator Joe Mareane and to discuss their opinions with legislators.

Tompkins County Public Safety Committee | 3:30 PM-, 10/13 Monday | County Of Tompkins, 320 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Health and Human Services Committee | 3:30 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Tompkins County Expanded Budget | 5:30 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | expanded budget committee, crafting the 2015 budget Ithaca City School District Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | Amnesty International Group 73 | 7:30 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday | Cornell University - Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | For information please contact Gwyn Singer at 277-1762.

Tompkins County Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee | 12:30 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Ithaca Beer Company, Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca | mavashgaldjie@ yahoo.com Ithaca City Administration Committee | 6:00 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca | -

Learning Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Breast Wellness Awareness | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This class is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Classrooms@ GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

What is Qi? Understanding Your Body’s Natural Vitality | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 10/09 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This class is free and open to the public and will be held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo Street. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

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Lincoln on the Civil War | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/09 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, Main Street, Newfield | For more information, call 607.564.3594 or visit www.newfieldpubliclibrary.org Basic Microsoft Excel Course | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/09 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | To sign up, please stop by the circulation desk, call 607-387-5623, or email director@trumansburglibrary.org.

Finding Friends on Facebook | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/09 Thursday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Email account required. Registration required.

Afro-Caribbean Percussion | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This class is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Cuban Rueda de Casino Dance Workshop | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Free and open to the public, and held in the SPACE, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Build Your Own Cider Press and Cider-Making Workshop | 8:00 AM-5:00 PM, 10/12 Sunday | Hammerstone School, 3285 Jacksonville Road, Trumansburg | In conjunction with Finger Lakes Cider Week. Requires pre-registration.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 10/12 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested.

Dinner with the Doctor: Micronutrients & Supplements | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 10/13 Monday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Open to the public, and held at the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Windows 8.1 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/14 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Space limited, registration required.

Laptops provided or bring your own.

Astrology Learning Group | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 10/14 Tuesday | Crow’s Nest, Above Autumn Leaves, on the Commons, Ithaca | Open discussions appropriate for beginners to experts. Contact Tim at turecekt@gmail.com.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/14 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Know Your Lands Resources Workshop Series | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/14 Tuesday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins County. Forest Resources on 10/14; Land Ownership Logistics and Opportunities on 10/21. Sign up for all sessions or just come to the one that interests you most; $5 per session. Call 607-272-2292 or email mjc72@cornell.edu

Lectures University Lecture: David Roman | 4:30 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday; 4:30 PM-, 10/09 Thursday | The A.D. White House, 27 East Ave., Ithaca | Professor in the Department of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, presenting Relevance, or the Case of Clifford Odets Post-Uprising Justice Administration: Transitional Justice and Hybrid Regimes in Turkey and the Middle East | 12:00 PM-4:30 PM, 10/10 Friday | Cornell Law School, Myron Taylor Hall Room 184, Ithaca | 2-day program. 10/10 event held in Moot Court Room. 10/11 held in room 184.

Nature & Science Free Permaculture Tour at Cornell Paw-Paw Orchard | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Cornell Paw-Paw Orchard, Sweazey Road, Lansing | Visit the largest area paw paw orchard in NYS for a tasting tour with orchard manager Erick Schatt and a presentation on growing paw paws by Josh Dolan. To reserve a seat on the van, call 272-2292 or email sapsquatch7@gmail.com.

Finger Lakes Native Plant Society: The O.D. von Engeln Preserve: Personal Reflections on Natural History and Conservation at Malloryville Bog | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | A slide show & talk by Bob Beck, Author & Naturalist.

Cayuga Trails Club: Skyline/ Onondaga Trail | 7:45 AM-, 10/11 Saturday | East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Join the Cayuga Trails Club for a rugged 6 to 10-mile hike on the Skyline/Onondaga Trail. Meet at 7:45 a.m., East Hill Plaza

Scratching the Surface Friday, October 10 – 5:30 p.m.

Enjoy a mid-month art opening at Corners Gallery this Friday. Jane Sangerman presents “Scratching the Surface”, a collection of mixed media images inspired

by New York City’s aging grid systems and crumbling infrastructure. (photo via cornersgallery.com)

near Ellis Hollow Entrance. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Primitive Pursuits Adult Weekend Workshop | 8:00 AM-6:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday; 8:00 AM-4:00 PM, 10/12 Sunday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Cayuga Trails Club: Jenksville State Forest | 8:15 AM-, 10/12 Sunday | East Hill Plaza, Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Join the Cayuga Trails Club for a 6-mile, moderate hike in the Jenksville State Forest. Meet at 8:15 a.m., East Hill Plaza near Ellis Hollow Entrance. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Mineral ID Day | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 10/12 Sunday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Have you or your kids found a funny rock? Bring them to the Museum of the Earth as The Finger Lakes Mineral Club will be on hand with special equipment and experts to identify rocks and minerals for Museum visitors.

The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, 10/13 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Cayuga Bird Club Meeting & Presentation w/ Julie Zickefoose, writer/ artist/.

Cayuga Trails Club: Bock-Harvey Preserve | 4:00 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday | Ithaca EMS Parking Lot, 722 S. Meadow St., Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 5-mile, moderate hike in the Bock-Harvey Preserve. Meet at 4:00 pm, Ithaca EMS parking lot, 722 S. Meadow St. For more information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

Special Events Community Fire Ceremony | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/09 Thursday | Foundation of Light, 399 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | Sit, dance, sing around a sacred fire. For more information, contact Shamanic Services

by Susan at 607-229-5161.

Cider Party for the Library’s 40th | 8:00 PM-, 10/09 Thursday | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, , Ithaca | In conjunction of Finger Lakes Cider Week.

Held in Durland Alternatives Library.

Taste of Tioga | 5:30 PM-, 10/10 Friday | Owego Treadway Inn, 1100 Route 17C, Owego | Chefs from a dozen restaurants and eateries will showcase signature dishes laced with a few locally produced ingrediets to help support the diversity of

the area’s farming community.

Cider Stomp | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 10/10 Friday | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | In conjunction of Finger Lakes Cider Week. Music by the Square Peg Rounders Ithaca Glows 5K: Light up the Night | 10/11 Saturday | Stewart Park, Ithaca | 3K Family Fun Run/5K Fun Run. See www. ithacaglows.com.

Candor Annual Fall Festival | 10/11 Saturday, 10/12 Sunday | Village of Candor, Candor | Businesses and organizations throughout Candor will sponsor a woodworking show, quilt show, farm tours, business open houses, yard sales, baked goods, special dinners, kids’ activites, a 5K run, a scarecrow contest and more.

Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library Fall Book Sale | 8:00 AM-8:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday; 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, 10/12 Sunday and 10/13 Monday | Friends of the Library Book Sale, 509 Esty Street, Ithaca | Over 250,000 items (including books, records, CDs, DVDs, puzzles, games, and more), all easy to find in over 70 subject areas.

Our already low prices decrease daily.

For more information, find us at www. booksale.org, call us at 607-272-2223 or email us at info@booksale.org.Finger Lakes Cheese Trail Open House | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | Various Locations around the Finger Lakes, , | Find addresses and directions at ccetompkins.org/cheesetrail or visit Finger Lakes Cheese Trail on Facebook.

Cortland Holistic Living Expo and Psychic Fair | 10:00 AM-7:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | Ramada Inn, 2 River Street, Cortland | Expo supporting ideas on healthy living by bringing local holistic vendors and alternative healthcare practitioners together in one place to share their offerings with the public. w/ vendors and workshops Energy & Waste Reduction Expo | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | The Shops at Ithaca Mall, 40 Catherwood Road, Ithaca | Approximately 10 businesses and agencies who’ll provide visitors with information about how they can reduce their utility bill and carbon footprint in their homes, businesses, and farms.

Orchard and Cidery Tours | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | Black Diamond Farm, , Trumansburg | In conjunction with Finger Lakes Cider Week.

Bel Canto Farm Fall Festival | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | Bel Canto Farm, 341 Buck Hill Road North,

Trumansburg | Enjoy personal time with the Alpacas and adorable, friendly Kunekune pigs and shop for luxurious alpaca clothing and home products. w/ artisans selling their beautiful hand-made creations, local food producers, and entertaining musicians.

Veterans Day Parade Fundraiser | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | VFW Post 961, State Street, Ithaca | Hosted by the Tompkins County Veterans Committee, the fundraiser will feature raffles, food, a cake wheel and silent auctions.

IC Football: Buffalo State at Ithaca | 1:00 PM-, 10/11 Saturday | Butterfield Stadium, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Gifts of the Apple Family Went | 3:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | Good Life Farm, 4017 Hickok Road, Interlaken | In conjunction with Finger Lakes Cider Week Lasagna Dinner | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | Reynoldsville Community Club, 5155 State Route 227, Burdett | Dinner includes lasagna (vegetarian available), toss salad, bread, dessert, and beverage. Carryouts available.

Fall Festival Boiled Dinner | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Eat in – Carry Out – Local Delivery (659-7479 day of) Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/12 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Cortland Holistic Living Expo and Psychic Fair | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 10/12 Sunday | Ramada Inn, 2 River Street, Cortland | Expo supporting ideas on healthy living by bringing local holistic vendors and alternative healthcare practitioners together in one place to share their offerings with the public. w/ vendors and workshops 8th annual Honoring the Spirit of the Wolf Festival | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, 10/12 Sunday | The Wolf Mountain Nature Center, 562 Hopkins Crandall Road, Smyrna | Downtown Farmers’ Market | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/14 Tuesday | Dewitt Park, North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | ongoing East Hill Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | East Hill Plaza, Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Trumansburg Farmers Market | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Trumansburg Farmers Market, Corner of Routes 96 and 227, Trumansburg | Live music from local acts from 5 to 7 p.m.

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AM-2:00 PM, 10/14 Tuesday | Dewitt Park, North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Enfield Grange Farmers’ and Craft Market | 3:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/09 Thursday | Enfield Center, Enfield Main Road, | Held every Thursday through October.

Wisner Market | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/09 Thursday | Wisner Park, N Main Street, Elmira | Over 30 vendors offer a variety of products for sale, including fresh produce, cut flowers, candles, art, and crafts. Lunch is served throughout the park during the Market.

Ithaca Farmer’s Market | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 10/11 Saturday | Steamboat Landing, Ithaca |

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Nutritional Wellness Center Fall Health Workshop | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Nutritional Wellness Center, 520 West Green Street, Ithaca | Curb Your Cravings.

FREE and Open to the public.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 10/09 Thursday at First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 10/11 Saturday at Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/13 Monday at the Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www. oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/09 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 10/13 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | First come, first served (no appointments).

Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 10/10 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | The group will provide a casual and comfortable place for participants to talk, share experiences, and offer support to one another. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 10/10 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 10/12 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 10/14 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505 La Leche League | 10:00 AM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Community Room, Ithaca | Breastfeeding Information and Support for pregnant and nursing mothers.

Health Alcoholics Anonymous | Multiple Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations.

For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/PDF/ IthacaMeetings.pdf Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St., Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 607-2722433.

DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome. For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance.

CALL (607) 274-5345 with any questions.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 10/08 Wednesday | Multiple Locations |For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink. com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/08 Wednesday; 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/12 Monday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary.

Books Peter King Steinhaus and and Rick Sommers Steinhaus Reading | 6:00 PM-, 10/09 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Authors Peter King Steinhaus and and Rick Sommers Steinhaus who will be discussing their new book, Ithaca Radio, about the rich history of radio here in Ithaca.

Lou Rera Reading | 2:00 PM-, 10/11 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author Lou Rera discusses his latest novel, the supernatural thriller SIGN. Elaine Mansfield Reading | 3:00 PM-, 10/12 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author Elaine Mansfield discusses her latest book Leaning into Love: A Spiritual Journey Through Grief. 10% of the days sales will be donated to hospice care.

Jaime Warburton | 6:00 PM-, 10/14 Tuesday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Department of Writing Readings.

Teen Reads Group at TCPL | 4:45 PM-5:45 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Hosted by the Tompkins County Public Library every third Wednesday in the Thaler/Howell Programming Room. Currently Reading: “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@ tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

Elliott DeLine Reading | 6:00 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Elliott DeLine, a transgender writer and activist from Syracuse discusses his latest book Show Trans, as well as his previous works.

Arts Instant Artist Paint & Sip | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/08 Wednesday | Rogue’s Harbor Inn, 2079 East Shore Drive, Lansing | At each event, a local artist will teach participants how to paint the featured painting. A fun night of socializing with friends having a relaxing, creative time.

The featured painting is a fiery fall tree landscape. More information at www. theinstantartist.com or 607-345-7628.

Wednesdays Botanical Illustration & Watercolor | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Learn & practice techniques with Laurel O’Brien to create detailed illustrations in pencil and then watercolor. Explore negative space, light

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This youth singing group has been promoting positivity through music for a quarter of a century. This weekend, Vitamin L celebrates its birthday with a two-show bill at Hangar Theatre. (photo provided)

Cappadonna, who came up with the Wu Tang Clan in the mid 90s, is in Ithaca this weekend for a show at The Haunt.

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and dark and learn a few new tricks to create realistic and unique artwork. All materials provided for in-class work. openings Opening: Scratching the Surface. | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, 10/10 Friday | Corners Gallery & Frame Shop, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Opening for the celebration or a new exhibit by Jane Sangerman. ongoing

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Chris Nolan, who released Konaté’s recent record Addoh, told me that he is “world music in the same way Michael Jackson is”—in other words appealing to an international audience. “The radio station in Chapel Hill, North Carolina WXYC has had Oumar on the top chart, and for many weeks this summer, it was put in the hard rock category, and I was like, ‘Right 0n!’ He doesn’t play one type of thing, there are definite colorations, from an acoustic format to flat out shredding.”

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opening 10/03 | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too.com Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | Celebrate People’s History – a visual journey through social movements past and present, opening 10/03 | newrootsschool.org Finger Lakes School of Massage | 1251 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | FuLang: Let Go, paintings, opening 10/03.

The Frame Shop | 414 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM | Oil paintings by Neil Berger, opening 10/03 | www.theframeshop.com Gimme! Coffee | 506 West State Street, Ithaca | Buildings in our Midst: Their Souls and Stories, photography Exhibit by Michael Duttweiler, opening 10/01 through October | www. gimmecoffee.com Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | New Work from Ryan B. Curtist, includes wood prints, opening 10/03 | www.gimmecoffee.com/ The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to

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Lost. And Rescued., oil paintings by Judy Keil, opening 10/03 | www. buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | Overrun, woodcut prints by Clarissa Plank, opening 10/03 | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | 12:00 PM-8:00 PM Monday through Thursday; 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM, Friday; 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM Saturday; noon to 6:00 PM, Sunday | Michael Sampson, oil paintings, opening 10/03 | www.thecellardor.com Chemung Canal Trust | The Commons | photo series by Nancy Ridenour, up through 10/08; Finger Lake Landscapes,

by John Whiting, opening 10/08 through 12/31 Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | New Latin@ Art (Nuevo Arte Latino), work from 13 local artists, opening 10/03 | www.csma-ithaca.org Damiani Wine Cellars | 4704 Rt. 414, Burdett | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM TuesdaySunday | Work by Pamela Drix, opening 10/17 | www.damianiwinecellars.com Dance/Memory Gallery | 108 W. State/MLK Jr. St. (second floor), Ithaca. | 09:00 AM-5:00 PM Mon-Fri | Platinum/Palladium and Ziatypes, recent photographs from Jari Poulin, opening 10/03 | www.jaripoulin.com Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Helena Cooper: Forms Interconnected, paintings,

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Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | In and Out of Sculptural Books, presented

by Kumi Korf, up through October | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Kitchen Theatre Company | 417 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Branching Out: Paintings by Kent Goetz, opening 10/03 | 272-0403 or www.kitchentheatre.org Leidenfrost Vineyards | Route 414, Hector | Monday-Sunday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | William Deats, paintings up through October | www.leidenfrostwine.com PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Landscapes by Michelle Kiefer, up through October | 607-351-7145 | www.padmacenter.com Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Charismatic Megafauna: paintings by Christi Sobel, opening 10/03 | www. sarahspatisserie.com/ SewGreen | 112 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Paintings by Elizabeth McMahon, opening 10/03 | www.sewgreen.org | Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM-1:00 AM | New photos by Justin Zoll, opening 10/03 | www.

silkyjoneslounge.com Solá Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | Paintings by Patrizia Levi, opening 10/03 | www.solagallery.com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | WednesdayFriday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Greater Ithaca Art Trail Preview Exhibition, opening 10/03 through 11/02 For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Stella’s | 403 College Avenue, Ithaca | paintings by Jen Ospina, up through October | 607.277.1490 Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Fairy Fun, mixed media by Erick Clasen, opening 10/03 | 319-5260 Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30 AM-6:30 PM; Friday- Saturday, 10:30 AM-8:30 PM; Sunday, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM | Celebrating Our Lakes, paintings by Brian Keeler, ongoing. | www.titusgallery.com Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | MondayThursday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Friday and Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5:00 PM | Lincoln: The

A Trip to Bear Country Sunday, October 12 – 2 p.m.

Ithaca’s State Theatre hosts Berenstain Bears Live: Family Matters the Musical. This off-Broadway song and dance show is perfect for kids.

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language barrier (he sings in French) and a potentially balkanizing genre (“world music”) by creating a sound that appeals to listeners from a variety of background and familiarity. “He has been playing the Chicago World Music Festival, and has played Lincoln Center, but he is at his best in smaller clubs and venues.”

• • • Speaking of guitar virtuosos, Wednesday, Oct. 8, Jon Spencer will hit the Haunt for a performance with Matt Verta-Ray, in a duo called Heavy Trash.

The rockabilly act celebrates a decade this next year, but they are far from winding down. “Playing with Matt still feels new and exciting, we keep true to ourselves, and explore the stranger sounds,” Spencer said by phone last month. With acts such as Pussy Galore and the eponymous Blues Explosion, the post-hard-core shredder was never up for nostalgia trips. “Rockabilly has always held a strong sway for me, but I try not to be tied down by tradition.” Spencer encouraged audiences to arrive early to catch Bloodshot Bill. “He’s one of the greatest living rockabillies—he’s from Canada but we’re lucky he’s on the road with us.” He continued: “I certainly will be watching him.”

Catch Cerulean 3 at the Chapter House Saturday, October 11, where they will perform a triple bill with Atomic Forces and Syracuse’s Milking Diamonds. •

Constitution and the Civil War, up through 10/31 | www.tcpl.org Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts | Congress at McLallen St., Trumansburg | Hours vary. Check http://tburgconservatory.org/ | Pas de Deux: Three Couples Making Artwork, fall invitational art show, opening 10/18 | Uncorked Creations |102 N. Tioga Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca| New Fall Art Work and Open Paint Night, opening 10/03 | www.uncorkedithaca.com or 222-6005 Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Prints by Clarissa Plank, up through October | www.wafflefrolicking.com

Kids Art Classes for Kids | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca.org Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 10/08 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden |

Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 10/09 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Each week will feature a fun theme such as pirates, the circus, fairy tales, music, and more.

Awana Clubs | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM, 10/09 Thursday | Dryden Baptist Church, Dryden | Every Thursday night for kids ages 3 to 8th grade. Any questions please call 607-898-4087.

Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 10/10 Friday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM-10/11 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | The Berenstain Bears Live! | 2:00 PM-, 10/12 Sunday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Primitive Pursuits: HunterGatherer School Break Day | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM, 10/13 Monday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Fall is the season of the harvest & of the hunter. Join us in celebrating this bountiful season with this exciting outdoor “Hunter-Gatherer” themed day. Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Journey on the Lonely Planet

Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 15 – 7:30 p.m.

Mark your calendars: next week, Kitchen Theatre presents Lonely Planet, the Steven Dietz-penned story of friendship during the AIDs crisis in the 1980s. The show runs through November 2.

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Given that it is an Italianate Victorian exterior, it is a charming surprise to find the spare European contemporary interior.

With a construction date of 1850 this is an early Italianate structure with less vertically attenuated lines and some evidence of the proportions of its Federalist antecedents.

The renovation emphasizes this earlier influence with wide groups of multi-paned windows across the front façade on both floors.

The building has been divided into upstairs and downstairs apartments, both of them with two bedrooms.

You enter the downstairs living room and immediately notice the refinished vintage hardwood floors. Although old these would not be original, as hardwood flooring came in at the turn of the 20th century.

A bank of four large windows opens nearly all of the front wall to sunlight. Another window opens to the north and a glass-block installation lets some light in from the front foyer.

The modern kitchen has counters covered with green 12-inch ceramic tiles, a double basin steel sink, and an electric stove.

The cabinetry is very Scandinavian Modern with a blonde finish and brushed-steel pulls.

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has a double size shower stall with ceramic tile and a decorative row of inlaid stones.

The upstairs apartment is larger and a great deal more grand, with the large living room separated from the kitchen by a countertop.

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