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thaca’s development boom has so far been mostly free of sustainability requirements, relying on the good will of developers – or the promise of tax abatements – to incorporate green goals into new construction.

But that may change soon as the city seems poised to introduce new construction rules that could dramatically impact sustainable development, potentially without driving up the price of economic development to unreachable levels. This Green Building Policy (GBP) will be formally introduced next month.

Two options were put forth last week to the Planning and Economic Development Committee to mull over, an “easy path” and the “whole building path.” The easy path is a pick-and-choose system, with a list of criteria that correspond to a certain number of points: once the project has reached a certain set amount of points, it can be approved. The points list has not yet been finalized, but as it was presented last week would include traits including building shape, home size, low-flow shower heads, high-efficiency lighting, etc.

The whole building path adheres closer to established national guidelines like LEED certifications or Home Energy Rating System (HERS) index scores. Developers can choose which path to take, though the easy path has been designed to ensure relatively achievable thresholds. The whole building path was established primarily for developers with design constraints that may force them off the easy path.

The team lists the policy’s anticipated results as a reduction of carbon emissions to levels 40-50 percent under the NYS Energy Code for new construction, 70 percent better than existing building stock, lower or similar construction costs and a flexible enough policy that it can be continually adjusted as carbon emissions goals change over time.

The presentation team named the four tenets of a successful GBP as affordability, impact, f lexibility and achievability. Some of these have been roadblocks in the past to continued on page 4

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ART S & E N T E RTAINME N T Adam Kirsch and Anton Gilgur

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A Change Could Be Coming To Renting

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little more than five years ago, Adam Kirsch and Anton Gilgur, then students at Cornell working out of a Collegetown business incubator, had an idea: to “create a housing platform that was a better alternative to the sketchy, outdated classifieds that many typically rely on in the housing market,” as a blog post for the website On Campus Market wrote in 2016.

“We started off dealing with just listings, it was because it was what we knew as students,” Kirsch was quoted as saying.

“We were renting, our friends were renting, it was easy to grasp that we needed really good way to find a place or post a sublet.”

After communicating with hundreds of renters and landlords, the pair discovered there might be potential for something more: what if, they thought, they could take the entire process of renting an apartment, from signing a lease to reporting damages, and consolidate everything under a single platform?

Within a few short years, Kirsch – now a graduated Cornell MBA – and Chief Tech-

nology Officer Gilgur built a network with thousands of users across its three total services: a listings platform for leases and sublets, property management software, and something called the Yorango Housing Network, which helped connect graduating students with what Yorango deemed as trusted brokers and landlords in new cities. And every stage of what it could do – from taking photos of damages as they happened to requesting service – could be done from your smartphone.

Sometime last year, Frank Barletta, the CEO of a New York City-based real estate company called UPTOP, began scouting for burgeoning markets in which to roll out its existing rental rental interface. After doing some research in the area, Barletta’s team happened upon Yorango and its already impressive presence in the city and, after reaching out and discussing the company’s potential, decided to make an offer to acquire the company’s client base.

“We felt that creating this type of relationship would allow

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us to be this type of spiritual successor, to pick up where they left off,” Barletta said. “Their goal was to improve apartment renting through technolog y, which pretty much aligns with our goals.”

In the coming months, Barletta said he expects UPTOP to become the default online rental portal for renters in the Ithaca area. He said so far, he and his team have been in communications both with campus leaders at Cornell and Ithaca College as well as the City of Ithaca, which he said could potentially integrate its operations with the app in order to better combine the worlds of code enforcement with the world of brokers and landlords. In doing so, he said he hopes the once murky world of apartment renting becomes a safer and much more transparent process.

“We want to be sure we’re setting a standard for how apartments will be rented here,” Barletta said. “We believe we can be the go-to market the city will approve of.”

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PHOTOGRAPHER New Roots School Seeks Expansion

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Burr –It’s too cold.

Let’s think about summer. Who do you want to see at Grassroots this summer?

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“Tedeschi Trucks Band .” ­—Dan Paolangeli

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t looks like New Roots Charter School is growing, once again.

A press release in late December announced an upcoming public hearing to elicit input from the community regarding New Roots Charter School’s plan to expand its academic services prior to the 2018-2019 school year.

In the document, the school proposed to add a middle school program that would include sixth through eighth grade classes, with 60 students. The hearing will take place Jan. 17, at 6 p.m. in the Board Room of the district’s offices at 400 Lake Street.

In a later release, the school clarified it will be seeking a new facility in downtown Ithaca to house t he 60-student midd le school program they intend to start if approved. The school will additionally be keeping its space at the Clinton House.

“Regarding a facility, we’re looking at several options in downtown Ithaca, all within a block of the Clinton House,” New Roots Director of Community Engagement Michael Mazza said when asked about specifics, including the nowvacant and nearby Immaculate Conception School building.

The proposal has been submitted to the school’s authorizer, the

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implementing GBPs in the city, but Nick Goldsmith, the Sustainability Coordinator for the Town and City of Ithaca, believes they’ve hit a healthy balance in this incarnation. The group responsible for the plan’s formulation was Goldsmith, local architect Noah Demarest of STREAM Collab, Ian Shapiro of Taitem Engineering and David West of Randall-West, who made up the consultation team, as well as a steering committee made up of officials from both the city and the town.

The construction costs aspect is one of the most important for policies like this, to ensure it does not exclude smaller developers who may not have the means to incur higher project costs. While there are certain criteria in the points system that would cost more to achieve, like some of the renewable

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State University of New York ’s Charter Schools Institute with a decision possibly coming as early as February, and the public hearing is still scheduled for Wednesday, January 17 at 6 p.m. at the Ithaca City School District’s Board Rom at 400 Lake Street.

Mazza said demand for entrance to the school created a motivation to expand, and that there have been requests for a middle school addition since the school was founded nine years ago. Tuition will still be free, and New Roots Charter School will pay all expenses.

Regarding former public opposition to the school’s existence, Mazza said he believes the school’s performance over the last several years has “opened the eyes of many” that New Roots can be an innovative education provider.

He said there may be some “slight

opposition from political figures,” though also noted ICSD Superintendent Luvelle Brown had been by recently for lunch, perhaps a sign of improved relations.

Oral comments from the meeting, and written comments submitted to the district, will be sent to SUNY-CSI for their consideration. Comments are due by January 19 at noon. They can be sent electronically to jennifer.hillman@ icsd.k12.ny.us, or sent manually to the district offices.

The release states the change is being directed by the school’s parent agency, the SUNY Charter Schools Institute. Oral comments from the meeting, and written comments submitted to the district, will be sent to SUNY-CSI for their consideration.

Comments are due by January 19 at noon. They can be sent electronically to jennifer.hillman@

icsd.k12.ny.us, or sent manually to the district offices.

energy aspects, there are others that can be reached which would have, as stated, lower or similar construction costs. These have to deal with simple building shape or wall-to-window ratio, both of which can lead to greener buildings but don’t come attached to a high cost.

“Part of the project was a big focus on equity considerations,” Goldsmith said. “This has to have a big impact on energy usage, that’s the whole point, but without having a harmful economic impact. [...] Not every path is going to be lower cost, but you can comply with lower costs.”

Another consideration for the GBP is its implementation: finding the perfect equilibrium between mandatory compliance and softer incentivization tactics. It appears the group has settled on a balance, acknowledging their goals can not be met simply be encouraging action with positive factors like tax

incentives or public recognition of successful projects. There must be some mandatory aspects, possibly in the form of code requirements or ordinances to strengthen the motivation for compliance.

As mentioned above, certain developers may not be able to make the concessions necessary for the easy path, and would then have to meet the whole building path standards. That path, he said, probably would lead to higher construction costs, though it might end up that larger entities are the only developers to use that path anyway, places like Cornell University which have plenty of money to spend on energy efficiency and also a specific aesthetic that may not yield itself to the easy path design.

While not necessary, Goldsmith said it is probably preferable to have one uniform policy between the city and the town, in order to make it easier for developers to understand and avoid

confusion. That goal comes with political challenges as the policy moves through both Common Council and the Town Board for approval, though.

There are still parts of the proposal to be ironed out, including the full points system list and the full scope of what the policy will impact. Goldsmith said it’s still unclear how the policy’s final form will address certain variations of new construction, such as renovations both residential and commercial.

“There’s a lot of opportunity when it comes to different types of renovation, like replacement of a heating system or a roof,” Goldsmith said. “It needs to be defined, what renovations will qualify, but some type of renovations will have some criteria around it.”

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Environmental

Activists Find Ally In Wine Industry

▶ Students Returning to Ithaca We missed you all …. Sort of. Mostly, we missed restaurants on the Commons staying open past 6 p.m.

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ou see their names all over press releases regularly d ispersed by reg iona l environmental groups. You hear word of letters that have been written to the governor. Leaning up against the wall at rallies in high school auditoriums, you see yard signs available for sale at $5 a pop for the fundraising appeals that have only recently begun.

Until only a few years ago, the only wine-related organizations out there were tourism-related.

But now, faced with what some have seen as a series of existential crises including the storage of natural gas in salt caverns under Seneca Lake and, most recently, a proposed trash incinerator in the Town of Romulus, wineries across the Finger Lakes are banding together into an organization marking a drastic departure from the tourism-centric groups of the past: an environmental activist group.

Leading the charge against the incinerator is a coalition of approximately 130 various wineries, bed and breakfast houses and small farms called the Finger Lakes Wine Business Coalition, formed in 2015 in the heat of the Seneca Gas Storage debate. The organization acts as a defense mechanism against a number of proposals many in the industry have seen as a threat not only to their business, but a way of life in the region that has resulted from years of intensive marketing and investment that has propelled the Finger Lakes wine region into the world’s elite centers of wine and agriculture.

Today’s wine industry is in a transformational stage as an economic force in the region. But the industry – which alone supports approximately 60,000 jobs and around $3 billion in economic activity each year, according to the 2017 Economic Report on Wine and the New York State Wine and Grape Foundation – has yet to gain the political clout to match its weight in New York State’s economy.

“Many of these wineries see the Finger Lakes as a brand we need to protect,” said Michael Warren Thomas, a Rochester radio host who has covered the region’s wine industry more than

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two decades. “A gas storage accident on Seneca Lake screws the whole region, the whole brand name that is the Finger Lakes.”

A Massive Industry To Defend For many, the reason to get into t he politica l rea lm was purely business-related: Tourism, explained Atwater Vineyards Winemaker Vinny Aliperti, is the center of the wine business.

With two massive trash dumps in Seneca and Ontario Counties already active, many fear that a trash incinerator would greatly impact their business’ reputations.

“There’s a lot at stake here,” said Aliperti. “I think a lot of us are starting to realize that.”

While it’s difficult to quantify the breadth of the impact the wine industry has had on local economies, the anecdotal evidence, vintners say, is significant. When Finger Lakes Wine Business Coalition President Scott Osborn first bought Penn Yan-based Fox Run Vineyards in 1994, he arrived at a time where Seneca County and Yates County – key wine-producing counties today – were among the worst counties in terms of unemployment in New York State. But as the wine industry grew from 25 wineries in the region to about 77, according to the New York State Liquor Authority’s most recent numbers, so has the local economy: Last year, Yates County and Seneca County boasted some of the lowest unemployment numbers in New York State, according to the New York State Department of Labor. Unemployment has become so low around Penn Yan – at 3.9 percent – Osborn

An activist signs a contact form at the donation table at a recent meeting on the proposed trash incinerator in Romulus.

said, that it was difficult for him to find people able to work.

And the benefits aren’t exclusive to the wine industry: because of the success and prestige of Finger Lakes wine and the traffic it generates, opportunities have been created for restaurants and hotels to open up, which in turn create opportunities for the farms that supply them.

“People don’t realize how many jobs that our industry contributes to the Finger Lakes alone,” said Erica Paolicelli, a Partner at 3 Brothers Winery and Treasurer for the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency. “Waterloo Container, for example, sells bottles to just about every winery in the region and provides 100 jobs here in little Seneca County.

Vance’s Metal, which sells storage tanks throughout the country, supplies just about everyone here in the Finger Lakes. I don’t think people make that connection, even to the trucking and delivery jobs that come from our industry alone.”

But in building something like an incinerator, Paolicelli – whose business is located just five miles or so from the Seneca Army Depot, where the incinerator has been proposed to be constructed – said she sees something detrimental to any future development in an area where wine – not trash – has become the industry of the future.

Pushing Back

Though t he Finger La kes Wine Business Coalition was formed to offer its membership a means to organize in opposition of an issue, the nature of the win-

ery business, Osborn said, does not make activism easy. Many are small operations, with little time or money to put toward fighting massive projects, and for one reason or another, a full consensus of wineries across the lakes has been elusive as some have chosen to stay out of the debate. Through continued education, Aliperti said he hopes the organization can help sway public opinion in their favor.

In the coming weeks, the Finger Lakes Wine Business Coalition has said it will be looking toward orienting itself to fight the incinerator proposal and, early on, has appealed to its base across the Finger Lakes region to solicit donations to prepare for the fight ahead. But fundraising is difficult and the campaigns to fight large projects, expensive. Osborn said all told, the fight against the Seneca Lake gas storage project cost upwards of $60,000 in legal fees over the years before the group ran out of money, leaving the wineries to rely on grassroots support.

“All these wineries reinvest every penny they make,” Osborn said. “There’s not a lot left over… and with this incinerator fight, I’m not sure how much it’s going to cost to fight it unless someone comes along with millions of dollars to throw at it. If 150 people each put in $100, that’s only about $15,000. That’s enough to cover your first consultation with an attorney.”

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Jose is back! Thought to have been deported over the summer, Jose Guzman Lopez has returned back to Ithaca and made front page news doing it. Welcom back, dude!

Also, did you see what went down at GIAC’s MLK Breakfast on Monday? We’ll have something on that in next week’s issue. ▶ Top stories on Ithaca.com this week are...

1) UPDATE: Flooding reported in Ithaca 2) Mitrano: Focusing On Our Shared Values For A Better Future 3) Small ball, but huge passion 4) Romulus Trash Incinerator should be a regional issue 5) UPDATE: New Roots expansion plans include new location

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L ast Week ’s Q uestion : A re the benefits ( jobs , tax revenue) of a trash incinerator worth the ecological impacts?

77.8 percent of respondents answered “No” and 22.2 percent answered “Yes.”

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hen José Guzman-Lopez was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on May 2, 2017, it was w it hout fanfare or incident.

According to reports at the time, the only disruption was Guzman-Lopez asking a witness to call his boss at the Saigon Kitchen to tell

them what had happened.

What happened afterwards, though, was a call to attention and a rally, seemingly organized in a split-second, that attracted droves of people into the hundreds to the Bernie Milton Plaza. Tompkins County and city officials spoke defiantly against ICE’s presence in Ithaca and decried the loss of Guzman-Lopez.

Mayor Svante Myrick delivered an impromptu speech that included the declaration “We will not be bullied.”

When Sokiat Wandee and Tatithan Maiyodklang were taken into custody, it seems to have occurred much t he sa me way as Guzman-Lopez. Nothing that’s been reported contradicts that. On January 9, 2018, ICE agents walked down the Commons and right into Taste of Thai, plucking both workers out from the kitchen and moving right along without incident or fuss.

What’s happened afterwards has also been without incident or fuss. There have been no rallies. No declarations. A few quotes here and there. That’s been the extent of the reaction.

That rally felt like something impressive.

It’s one of the many times since I’ve came to Ithaca that I felt like Ithacans backed up all the talk about being the shining city they so often claim to be. Regardless of political

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Switching To An Electric Car

By K a r i m Be e r s

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ester Sowell, a manager at Maguire--the largest car dealer in the Ithaca area--had every possible car choice available to him. Lester cares about car design--and is a dapper fellow himself--and had his eye on a sports car as he got closer to retirement age. So, this summer, when he drove home a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, his family was surprised.

Lester shared how he reached this decision one recent winter afternoon, with snow gently falling on his dark grey Chevy Volt outside the Chevrolet Cadillac dealer in Lansing.

At the top of his list of motivations, was his sense of responsibility towards his family and future generations. Lester was born in Elmira and raised in Horseheads with his four siblings by hard working parents. He commented on the sacrifices his parents’ generation to “make it a more even playing field” and open up more opportunities for people of color. A father of three himself, and grandfather of seven, he’s intently concerned about the contribution he will make to the next generation, which Lester pointed out is the first to be doing less well off than their parents. “We’ve got to leave them something!”

Some years ago at another dealer, Lester worked on an alternative fuel vehicle project, and became more aware of the pollutants from tailpipe

emissions, including greenhouse gases and Volatile Organic Compounds, which “can really make people sick.”

Lester added, “I know this sounds nerdy, but I’m concerned about my carbon footprint.”

After that project he got a hybrid, which got him used to spending much less on gas. Another reason which weighed against the sports car.

He then saw a lease offer from General Motors, which was sweetened by a $1,700 NYSERDA rebate. “It was a nobrainer after that.” He’s paying $239 a month for 36 months, with 15,000 a year mileage limit. The looks of the car also helped. On a trip he had seen a grey-haired couple with a Volt, and he admired the design. Now that he drives one, he says, “I get some heads turning.”

What has the experience been like?

After getting the car, Lester said, “I went two months without putting any gas in it, and I was bragging about it.”

Lester, who lives in Ithaca, drives to most of the Maguire offices on most days, putting in 40-50 miles a day.

He chose not to get a special charger, instead just plugs in at home, which provides enough of a charge on most days for his driving needs. Since it is a hybrid, on days he doesn’t plug-in or drives further, the gas engine gets

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only with their customer service, but also with the company’s community service, both of which earned this locally owned, family-run enterprise the “Business of the Year” designation from the Trumansburg Area Chamber of Commerce. No complaints here.

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ith all this talk of prosecuting fuel companies for mistreating customers, I’d like to weigh in on our positive experience. On one of the coldest days this winter, we ran out of propane, a first for us. We called our provider, Ehrhart’s Energy, and they were there with a fuel refill in a little over an hour. The driver went down to our cellar to make sure our heating systems were working properly, and then was kind enough to light the pilot on our oven, which is difficult to access.

This is not the first time Ehrhart’s has gone above and beyond in service.

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appreciate your biography, and your desire for good representation for the 23th District. My problem with your piece is that you avoid any specific policy positions.

It is when you open up about your policy positions on specific issues that are before Congress at this time that we will be able to determine if your stance is liberal or conservative. It is certainly true that, across party lines, there is much that the left and right can agree on, but it is in the margins

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him there. He notes the car is roomy, and can fit six bags of leaves in the back with the seats down. “My needs were simple. I wanted an XM radio and I like the back-up camera.” Anything surprising about the car? “I was impressed by the amount of torque in EV [electric] mode; it is extremely snappy.”

Lester’s not the only one at Maguire with the Volt virus. Marcus Crandall, the General Manager of the Maguire Chevrolet Cadillac office, recently acquired eight of the plug-in cars to use as courtesy vehicles for customers. His dealership recently surpassed Chevy’s sales targets for Volts and allelectric Bolts, and he has seen a surge in sales of used hybrids and plug-ins.

Lester noted that the dealers recently went from a total of four Volt and Bolts at both Chevy dealers to over 20. “We don’t start loading up on a whim and a prayer; it’s based on past performance-we think we’re going to sell that car!”

However, the first one at the dealership to purchase a Volt was the dealer’s head mechanic, Chip Bell, who, a few years back, purchased a used 2012 model. Everyone was surprised that Chip, a stock car enthusiast and NASCAR fan, would even consider a plug-in hybrid. Taking a break from working on a car in the shop, Chip was succinct about his choice: “Basically I bought it because they don’t break YourLetters contin u ed from page 6

that we determine who wins elections.

And in those margins, the voters of the 23rd District have consistently agreed that Tom Reed best reflects our conservative values, and votes according to those values. For this reason those of us who have supported Tom Reed in the past are likely to continue to support him in the future. I will

much.” He explained that vehicles with electric motors (including plug-in hybrids like the Volt) have much fewer moving parts, which means fewer things that wear down and break. He added that the vehicles are also pretty easy to fix, mostly just requiring recalibrating systems and updating electronics. When asked about any battery issues he’s seen, Chip mentioned that of the roughly 200 hybrid and electric vehicles he’s worked on, only one has had a battery issue, adding “they come with a good warranty anyway.” As to savings, he said he’s put 21,000 miles on the car and burned just 30 gallons of gas. According to his estimates, a full charge to the battery costs him less than a dollar.

I asked Lester what he’d recommend for others who might be considering a plug-in electric vehicle. “For starters, get an idea of what kind of driving you’re going to be doing. If you live within an hour of where you’re going to be working, and can plug your car in, you’re going to be saving money [with an electric vehicle]. The car is going to get you there.” Lester did point out that these highly-efficient cars tend to be smaller and lighter, and are “not a tank in wintertime”, but noted that there are days when all cars will be slipping around.

Karim Beers is the Campaign Coordinator for Get Your GreenBack Tompkins certainly take a look at your policy positions on specific issues. As a Democrat, it is doubtful that you will espouse any positions on the most pressing issues of the day that will gain my support, or the support of the majority of voters in the District.

I wish you luck in your campaign, but don’t kid yourself. It is an uphill slog, on a mountain that you are unlikely to reach the summit.

–User ‘Dr Stevens,’ via Ithaca.com

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The Ithaca Times is always looking for freelancers.

We’re looking for a number of diverse voices to help us flesh out the story of everyday right here in Tompkins County. We’re seeking storytellers, community newshounds and people with a passion for connecting with other people to help us share the stories of our neighbors with the people who need to hear them most. Email Managing Editor Nick Reynolds at editor@ ithacatimes.com with writing samples and your areas

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affiliation or stance on immigration, that felt objectively extraordinary to witness. It was a moment Ithaca should be proud of for years to come. I remember thinking that, in one of life’s ultimate trying times, if GuzmanLopez’s family somehow saw the pictures from that day, it might have provided them an ounce of comfort.

So where are we now? The rally and the signs and the fury and the raised fists all seem like a foggy distant memory. The precedent has been set, the gauntlet thrown down. It’s certainly not necessary to hold a rally, but it wasn’t necessary to hold one on May 2. It was organized because the community cared about Josė Guzman-Lopez. I wouldn’t presume to know if the community cares about

“I don’t know what to call this. I’m not sure if it’s hypocrisy, or inconsistency, or fatigue, or negligence, or something else. Whatever it is, it seems like a rank disservice to the two men taken from this community just eight days ago.”

Sokiat Wandee and Tatithan Maiyodklang or not, but what’s inarguable is this: if Ithacans do care, they sure haven’t shown even a glimpse of proof.

One thing can’t be discounted, and I won’t.

This is undeniably Ithaca’s downtime, with the vast majority of college students still away from both Ithaca College and Cornell University. The uproar in May had the benefit of thousands of extra bodies in the vicinity. But that simply rings like a convenient excuse.

Valid, maybe, but awfully convenient. Students didn’t organize that rally, and nobody’s demanding something that would draw hundreds again. Just something.

And Ithacans don’t really want that label do they? That would seem a bitter pill to swallow for a community that prides itself on activism and speaking truth to power; to admit that “No, we don’t actually stand for any of that, we just do what the kids do.”

I don’t know what to call this. I’m not sure if it’s hypocrisy, or inconsistency, or fatigue, or negligence, or something else. Whatever it is, it seems like a rank disservice to the two men taken from this community just eight days ago.

K now ing a ll t his, and ack nowledging there’s still time to amend the situation or for more information to emerge, it’s hard to come to any conclusion besides that Ithaca has miserably failed Sokiat Wandee and Tatithan Maiyodklang and their families.

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By Vaughn Golden Barbara Lifton NY State Assembly Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton is back in Albany- continuing to serve on a multitude of Committees and Task Forces including Agriculture, Education, Election Law, Environmental Conservation, Higher Education, Rural Resources, Women’s Issues, and Election Day Operations and Voter Disenfranchisement. Lifton is currently sponsor to thirty assembly bills mostly dealing with election law, environmental policy and local state issues. One of Lifton’s most pressing legislative challenges is her attempt to close the LLC Loophole. Governor Cuomo mentioned the effort in his State of the State address, and the debate will ultimately continue throughout this year.

Tom O’Mara NY State Senate Senator Tom O’Mara is back in Albany again. He continues to serve as Chair of the Environmental Conservation Committee and Vice Chair of the Transportation Committee as well as a sitting member of the Banks, Judiciary, Insurance, Energy and Telecommunications, Investigations and Government Operations, Agriculture, Finance and Codes Committees. It was a big week for O’Mara in the Environmental Conservation Committee in particular. Two of O’Mara’s bills passed committee and will go for a vote on the Senate floor this week. His Paint Stewardship program would privatize the process for recycling old paint, placing the burden onto retailers.

The assembly hasn’t taken up the paint stewardship bill for the last three years. O’Mara urged democratic leaders to take action. O’Mara also introduced a new bill to combat tick borne illnesses, like Lyme Disease.

Tom Reed U.S. Congress Rep. Tom Reed returned to Washington on a high note following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Reed was reappointed to his seat on the House Ways and Means Committee for the remainder of the 115th congress. Reed will also reassume his co-chairmanship of the Congressional Problem Solvers Caucus- an evenly split group republicans and democrats attempting to support bipartisan cooperation on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, the caucus released a 16-page plan for infrastructure reformone of the top tier items on the legislative agenda for 2018.

Additionally, the problem solvers Caucus is one of several groups in the House attempting to gather support for a bipartisan immigration planon the commission. The House hosted a heated debate on the floor over the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Surveillance hawks, led by Republican Justin Amash, whose amendment to derail FISA was shot down on the floor, argue that the post-9/11 law violates the fourth amendment. Proponents say it’s a necessary implement for national security.

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The Class Of 2018 You voted them in. Here’s what the people you elected want to do this year.

T h e To m p k i n s C o u n ty l e g i s lat u r e ha s a b u sy y e a r ah e a d o f i t . To f i n d o u t w hat th ey p la n to d o , th e i tha c a t i m e s s e n t a l l 1 4 m e m b e r s a q u e s t i o n a i r e to s e e w hat i d e a s th ey ha d to m ak e th e c o u n ty b e tt e r . H e r e ’ s w h o a n s w e r e d . ( C o n d e n s e d f o r l e n gth a n d r e p e t i t i o n )

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District 2 - City Of Ithaca (Fall Creek & Cornell Heights) What Is The Biggest Issue You, As An Individual, Hope To Address On Legislature This Coming Term?

Besides the perennial and important issue of housing, a lack of sufficient childcare facilities and services is one of the biggest issues facing our community. We are currently short about 1600 spaces for toddlers and children up to 5 years old and about 6500 spaces short for children ages 5 to 10 years old. This is a social justice issue. If there is minimal childcare and the childcare that exists is not financially accessible for many families than adults with small children are forced out of the workforce, with all the related issues that come with income instability.

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

I would love to see the proposed criminal justice-focused initiatives and alternatives to incarceration realized including: a Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program running effectively with engagement from all relevant government departments, caseworkers, healthcare providers, and the community; a detox center and expansion of the CARS treatment facility; the addition of a 3rd district court judge; and sufficient program space and medical facility at the jail to name a few. Simultaneously there is so much regulatory, policy and fiscal change that we don’t know about yet that may be coming from the current federal administration. We will need to be nimble to react effectively and responsibly to these changes.

What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

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We have a lot of change taking place with 5 dedicated new legislators, an incoming new county administrator who comes to us with a solid reputation for great leadership, and two new deputy administrators to hire. We have an opportunity here with a lot of fresh ideas and perspectives and intentional skills and team building could truly realize the potential of our new group. Of course this is more an example of an opportunity for growth but one I think cannot be understated.

What Are The Biggest Needs For Your District Specifically?

A short supply of diverse types of housing (e.g. senior, affordable, owner-occupied) with concomitant increases in market values and property taxes continues to be this district’s, and the whole county’s, most important issue.

People are getting priced out of the area while a greater number of the district housing is being purchased for income purposes.

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District 3 - Belle Sherman, South Hill, Cornell North What Is The Biggest Issue You, As An Individual, Hope To Address On Legislature This Coming Term?

I hope to address the issue of a Living Wage.

I know this is a complex issue but hopefully as a community we can face all of these issues.

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

The goals for the legislature to accomplish would be to assIst with the airport expansion, the TCAT facility expansion and the protection of social services in the face of potential federal cuts.

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What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

I believe we can do a better job of communicating with the county. This is not based on a lack of communication but rather this is something we can always improve upon.

What Are The Biggest Needs For Your District Specifically?

The biggest needs are affordable housing and keeping property taxes as low as possible.

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District 4 - City Of Ithaca (Downtown Commons, East Hill, Collegetown, parts of Fall Creek and Cornell West) What Is The Biggest Issue You, As An Individual, Hope To Address On Legislature This Coming Term?

The Public Safety Committee will be overseeing County efforts to reduce the average Jail population. The agenda includes collaboration with the City of Ithaca to support the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program that is getting developed, increased use of our existing and new alternative to incarceration programs, and working with the local agencies that are opening a detox/stabilization facility and more long term substance abuse treatment beds. We are also looking at potential capital improvements to the Jail (not an expansion of beds) to upgrade some of the existing facilities (medical space and kitchen) and to add space for meeting rooms and offices.

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

See the response to the question above. I would also like to see the Legislature work on improving communication with Cortland County to support our shared Community College, TC3. Both Counties would benefit from better alignment on the vision for this

valuable institution.

What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

I believe we will need to be awake to the financial changes coming out of Washington D.C. that will have impacts on all of the programming where funding has been a partnership. Certainly, the social safety net will experience funding challenges, but all of the services where the Federal government has contributed, such as the airport, emergency management, and various infrastructure projects have risk. We will need to be open to new ideas to deliver essential services to the County.

What Are The Biggest Needs For Your District Specifically?

For the services that the County manages, the 4th District shares most of the same needs as the other Districts. While questions of land use are addressed by the City, it is worth noting that the amount of construction around the Commons and in the Collegetown area is bringing real change to these parts of the District. Making sure the change works to the benefit of the people who reside and visit Collegetown and the Commons is important.

Additionally, getting the Tompkins Center for History and Culture to open doors at the end of the year will be a real accomplishment for our Commons, the District, and the County as a whole.

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District 4 - Town of Ulysses, Portions of Ithaca/Enfield

What Is The Biggest Issue You, As An Individual, Hope To Address On Legislature This Coming Term?

Environmental issues are my number one priority. Due to out of control pollution and climate change, we need to do everything we can to reduce our

environmental impact. This includes new and existing housing and commercial properties, transportation, county facilities, and infrastructure.

on it and it will take constant adjustment. We need to see a reduction in people sitting in the jail, but this can’t come at the expense of the safety of any of those groups.

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

-As a 30 year environmental activist, I am ready to tackle environmental issues including pushing for no new gas infrastructure. At our home we have geothermal heating and cooling as well as solar panels and only use a small amount of propane for cooking. 2Jobs: Tompkins County needs to pass a living wage because people working full time shouldn’t have to live in poverty. I will work with unions to encourage and support local jobs. 3- I will be pushing for a huge increase in affordable and low income rental and for sale housing. With our high property taxes and escalating home prices, many people cannot afford to live close to where they work or sometimes even in this county. 4- I will be working to promote and enable tiny houses to be a viable option in more localities. This will create affordable housing, support local builders, and provide the freedom of movement that many people seek in this turbulent time.

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

I’m currently on the budget committee and I’m pleased to say we’ve seen the tax rate go down every year I’ve been on that committee. It took the efforts of 14 people to fashion a budget that keeps the taxpayer in the forefront of their minds while also understanding what cuts in services would mean to vulnerable groups. Joe Mareane understood the balance needed to achieve that with the 14 legislators and I’m confident our new County Administrator Jason Molino will be able to find that balance as well.

What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

We currently have perhaps the most diverse group of legislators ever, with 7 women (half of the legislature), 2 people of color, and 2 LGBTQ+ members. That is awesome, but we to take it further by increasing diversity on committees by including people who are affected or have experience the issues which are addressed. For instance, for the Public Safety Committee, we could appoint someone who has been incarcerated. I encourage Tompkins County citizens to talk to their legislator about how to apply to be on a committee / advisory board.

What Are The Biggest Needs For Your District Specifically?

1-Support for farmers and small and medium size local businesses. 2-Affordable, good quality housing including that for our growing aging population. 3- more living wage and higher jobs. 4-Improved bus service..

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What Is The Biggest Issue You, As An Individual, Hope To Address On Legislature This Coming Term?

Besides the salt mine, natural gas moratorium and power plant repowering, the jail is the number one issue facing the county. We’ve decided to embark on a new path instead of building a new jail. Will this new path lead somewhere or will it be a dead end. I’m betting on the former, but we need to keep close tabs

What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

I believe the county needs to speak with a voice that comes from the legislature and not from advisory committees and unelected folks who advise the county, but do not set policy or speak for the direction the county is going in. Our department heads are experts in their fields as are much of the staff. We listen to our staff intently and form policy based on their recommendations. Still, the legislature sets the policy because it’s endorsed to do so by the thousands of people who voted for these representatives. Sometimes I feel, minority views get too much weight and at others times too little and it’s a balance we need to tackle as elected representatives.

What Are The Biggest Needs For Your District Specifically?

I ran in part on keeping the salt mine open, getting that new shaft built for the safety of the miners. That looks like it will happen with almost all of the approvals necessary almost done.

I also ran on bringing new gas supply to Lansing to end the moratorium. It puts us at an economic disadvantage to the rest of the county and forces my constituents to pay more to heats their homes while many of the folks who are against extending gas service save thousands thanks to their existing natural gas hookups. The Public Service Commission recognizes that Lansing needs a greater gas supply to meet current demand and that to grow it will need even greater supplies of energy available. I’ve also committed to re-firing the power plant with natural gas so that it will stay open, providing locally produced electricity for our citizens, preserving jobs, and keep-

ing the plant on the tax rolls.

I’d like to see an improvement to our county roads; our team does an amazing job with what they have, but roads are expensive. I’ll also advance efforts to make our state highways safer. I’m also not happy about 6 to 10 foot deep ditches lining our major roads and the seeming lack of a state plan for storm water runoff as these main roads are developed.

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District 7 - Town of Danby/Caroline What Is The Biggest Issue You, As An Individual, Hope To Address On Legislature This Coming Term?

Finding ways to bolster the volunteer Emergency Medical Services system is the issue I hope to help provide some movement on in the legislature this year. Volunteer ambulance and fire protection in the rural areas of the County are part of a nationwide pattern of an unsustainable strain on these systems. The solutions are not obvious.

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

Reducing the jail population to the point where we don’t need to board out prisoners except in unusual circumstances, and making meaningful progress on treating the opioid epidemic are two goals I have for Tompkins County government.

What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

The legislature sometimes does not focus enough on our own 700 employees’ needs. I would like to see a little more emphasis on improving morale and working conditions to counter the feeling that some employees have of being overworked and operating under a constraining system of state regulations.

What Are The Biggest Needs For Your District Specifically?

I think the unsustainability of the volunteer Emergency Medical Services system may be a ticking time bomb that will affect my district in ways that most residents are not thinking about. The dissolution of the Slaterville Ambulance in 2016 was a wake-up call.

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I am going to focus on alternatives to incarceration in our area. With our jail variance being denied by the Department of Corrections, we find now more than ever, that we need to look towards other options for people that typically go through our court and jail system. I look forward to seeing the impact of LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Plan) in the City of Ithaca and would eventually like to see it being used on the County level. There are also other options that could have a positive impact and reduce the rate of recidivism such as mental health court and reentry programs. (OAR currently offers reentry services, education, and liason services in our area.)

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

We are going to have many conversations this year about affordable housing. Many people that work in Tompkins County can’t afford to live here and we all recognize that this is a real problem that needs our attention.

We will also work as a county on issues of infrastucture, the opioid crisis, and alternatives to incarceration. Unfortunately, we might also have to focus much of our attention to the state and federal cuts that we foresee in the near future.

What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

I’m excited to work with the nine veteran legislators and the new “Fab 5” as we’ve coined ourselves. The energy in the group is one of respect and nurture. The one thing that legislators can do is continue to be transparent and communicate with constituents about the decisions that impact their district.

What Are The Biggest Needs For Your District Specifically?

People in my district value safe neighborhoods, good schools, and a clean environment.

I believe that as a county we do a very good job of providing these three things. However, we also need to work hard to create more affordable housing. In my district specifically, we could see growth over the next few years that will add housing options both for worker and senior housing.

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county legislature, we’re bringing on a new county administrator, two new deputy administrators, and five new legislators all within a few months. It’s a great opportunity to reflect on the needs of the county and our staff and think creatively about new systems and structures. However, there is no doubt that these transitions will require special attention and time, while we work to make progress on our ongoing initiatives at the same time.

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

The first goal might be termed “defensive.”

We are anxiously watching developments at the state and federal level, because their decisions about budgets, regulations, and other policies affect county government in fundamental ways. For example, although New York State has capped the growth in local Medicaid spending, approximately 24 percent of our property tax levy goes directly to pay for that one unfunded mandate. The percentage is much larger in many counties. If the federal government cuts Medicaid, we’re likely to see even more of the program’s costs passed on to us.

Energy issues will always be top priority, and this year will be pivotal in working with NYSEG and the PSC on the development of non-pipeline alternatives to our energy needs.

This initiative could be transformative if it proceeds with a full commitment to providing energy for our growing community while reducing our greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.

We’re excited about a stronger relationship with Ithaca College, with our longterm Deputy County Administrator Paula Younger’s move “up the hill.” We also hope to strengthen the support for TC3 that we jointly provide with Cortland County, and continue our strong working relationship with Cornell University.

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What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

The diversity of the County’s workforce has been a concern for many years and progress has been too slow. We need to make that a priority this year. A welcoming and inclusive workplace will help us recruit and retain quality talent that represents our entire community, and better serve all our residents.

What Are The Biggest Needs For Your District Specifically?

Transportation issues are big in District 13, with congestion on the roads leading to and from major employers, a significant bridge project in the works on Freese Road, and continued interest in DOT addressing Rt. 366 in Varna in particular. Energy issues are important, as we work to support NYSEG’s nonpipeline alternatives project, and as Dryden’s solar installations come online. The Town of Dryden has received grant funding to study housing needs in the town, and I look forward to working closely with the town to improve and increase our housing supply.

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District 14 - Town ofDryden/Village of Freeville What Is The Biggest Issue You, As An Individual, Hope To Address On Legislature This Coming Term?

I want to work on the need for jobs for county residents as well as economic development issues for the County. We need tohave good paying jobs and a strong tax base in order to provide the financial resources for necessary services. When it comes to spending, there is always more will than wallet. We always have to be cognizant that it is the taxpayers’ money that we must budget. Homeowners and businesses already pay heavy real property taxes to schools, towns, villages and the city.

County taxes, although far from the highest of these, are yet another layer that adds to a difficult burden. Homeowners, especially the elderly and others on a fixed incomes, struggle

to be able to keep their homes. Young families struggle to find homes they can afford where their ever-growing tax escrow payments often exceed their mortgage payments for principal and interest.

What Are Your Goals For The Legislature to Accomplish In The Next Two Years?

We need to take a serious look at our transportation systems, including highways, our airport services, mass transit and our trail system. As more people than ever commute into the county for jobs because they cannot find the kind or affordable homes here that they want, we have to encourage a change to vehicles that use alternate fuels such as electric cars. That will positively impact our efforts to reduce carbon emissions. We need to look at areas of our state highways for improvement and to discourage trucks and other heavy vehicles from using the steep State/ Martin Luther King.

Jr. Street for access to downtown. Our airport terminal needs to be upgraded to serve people from around the world doing business in Tompkins County and with Global Cornell University. Multi-model traffic in our trail system must be encouraged.

Bus services for the rural areas of the county should have equal focus with those servicing the urban core.

What Do You Think Legislature Can Improve On This Coming Year?

For one, we need to improve on our hiring processes to continue to encourage a diverse and inclusive workforce. We have to be innovative and not rely on standard recruitment efforts. It is very hard to recruit and keep a diverse workforce in a rural upstate county, for sure. Recognizing that, we must constantly ask the questions: How do we make new hires feel an important part of the team, and how do we help them understand that there are ca-

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According to the Tompkins County Office for the Aging, the population is aging rapidly in each municipality and, according to OFA Director Lisa Holmes, government services for the elderly could soon reach a critical point of being spread too thin. One would assume this would lead to stellar economic times for seniorfocused businesses but, according to some local service providers, that has not yet been the case, with some more worried about the future than optimistic about

their financial opportunities.

One of the largest names in senior housing in Ithaca is Ithacare Longview, a nonprofit organization perched on South Hill near Ithaca College offering a breadth of elderly living options, from senior-focused apartments or patio housing to assisted living and monitoring. Long view Executive Director Mark Macera’s evaluation of the future of senior housing or nursing home facilities is a bit grim. Without significant financial reform nationwide, he said young people will have to bear more and more tax burden to keep fueling programs like Social Security, which is supported by individuals currently in the workforce. As pensions near extinction due to more people leaving the workforce than entering it, more older people will need more money to help cover the costs of benefits in their retirement, which is a troubling prospect.

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result of a larger, country-wide trend. As medical technology has improved, it’s brought with it much longer life-spans for humans (an average of 80 years, as of a 2017 estimate) than previous generations had seen. That in turn means the average human spends more time alive postretirement and has more years to live in a community like Longview.

“How ma ny centena r ia ns do you know?” Macera said. “I bet growing up you didn’t know any. I certainly didn’t.

Now, without sounding flip, they’re a dime a dozen.”

One trend that has arisen just recently, Macera said, is people who have moved out of the area returning after the death of their spouses. It’s certainly impacted Longview’s residents, and it could be one of the causes for the elderly population increases.

After moving to somewhere like Florida or Arizona to enjoy the golden years of retirement, some people’s age catches

up with them and they’re unable to even participate in the lifestyles they set out to enjoy. Then, once one passes away, the other spouse moves away from their retirement location to be closer to family to wherever other family members have settled, normally children, either out of necessity or desire. Macera estimates around 20 percent of Longview’s residents are not from the Tompkins County area at all, having relocated there to be close to family.

As all people age, they generally become more expensive to care for, whether it’s requiring more medicines, more intensive care or a more individualized medical experience. So, for Longview, the challenges come with the financial side of housing people for a longer amount of time, not actually the rise in the older population. In order to ensure the company’s safe survival, Macera said Longview contin u ed on page 16

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The two local stalwarts of technological services joined forces late last year, when the Computing Center announced it had acquired Sherpa’s client list. Computing Center was already capable of a variety of software and hardware services, including hands-on and advisory IT work and remote monitoring of a company’s technological infrastructure and even technical or physical maintenance, and the Sherpa acquisition has afforded them a larger workforce and client-base with which to operate.

The transaction officially took effect on September 7. There was no true sale price in the conventional sense, as the deal was structured to pay former Sherpa owner Brian Oursler related to the retention and growth of accounts that had been with Sherpa and moved to Computing Center.

That type of deal is emblematic not only of a larger industry trend against the more hostile takeovers of yesteryear, but also of the cordial competitive working relationship Sherpa and the Computing Center shared for nearly three decades before the deal took place.

“It was a good synergy because we’ve competed for 27 years,” Stazi said. “And we compete the same way. We conduct business the same way, very ethical and moral, he never talked bad about us, we never talked bad about him.”

According to Stazi, the merger has gone fairly seamlessly. Of Sherpa’s six employees, all were hired at the Computing Center, which brings their current employee total to 22. There were benefits and drawbacks to bringing Sherpa’s employees into the mix, Stazi said, though the drawbacks mostly boiled down to “growing pains” that have since subsided.

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With the two companies having competed for so long, it took some time to build trust and learn that things like sharing new information and techniques among coworkers wasn’t negative anymore, but Stazi said now that a few months have passed, the competitive aspects have faded, in part because of the aforementioned similarities between the companies.

Beyond the employment aspect, Stazi said the Computing Center has been able to add a fairly sizable number of clients as a result of the acquisition, and since Sherpa was more heavily involved in hardware as opposed to software dealing with new technologies, like the Cloud, those clients have been able to naturally upgrade their services without turning their backs on Sherpa.

Buying Sherpa actually interrupted, and eventually cancelled, plans the Computing Center had to move their location to a nearby spot, also located on Warren Road. The new property had already been purchased, and Stazi said a relocation may still be in the plans at some point but not for several years. The new building, as it had been planned, would have been too small for the company to accommodate the new influx of employees anyway.

“Right now, my mode is to expand the business and expand what we do in the community,” she said.

The acquisition comes at an important time for the company as well. Recently, tech companies from outside of Ithaca have begun calling around to the Center’s clients in an attempt to poach them at what may seem like a vulnerable time, Stazi said, though she claims these tactics have been unsuccessful so far.

The partnerships, both professionally within the industry and in the community, that have been built during the Computing Center’s time in business have been one of the main factors in helping the company withstand these efforts. It’s one of the oddly local aspects of arguably the most global industry in the world.

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“The challenge for us is financial, if we can’t continue to provide services to a mixture of people with means and those without, we’re in trouble,” Macera said, comparing the sliding fees to Robin Hood’s motto of “Steal from the rich, give to the poor.” There’s no quota, per se, but Macera has to constantly monitor that there are enough people who can afford to pay a bit extra living at the Longview in order to support other people who also live there, but whose income and assets are severely limited.

New York is unique in that, in most states, the state government would cover half of Medicaid expenses with the federal government covering the other half; in New York, the state only covers about one

third of the expenses, with the federal government covering half and the rest left up to counties to fund. That can put strain on businesses like Macera’s, and it motivates them to use the sliding fees.

The future is difficult to predict, but for now non-housing services are not experiencing an influx of demand either.

Lifelong Director Lucia Sacco, whose organization provides education and activities to individuals over 50, said they haven’t seen any significant change in usage of their services, though if one were to come in the next few years they may be well-suited to handle it. The adjacent Old Library property will soon be transformed into senior-focused housing which will include a 2,000 square foot space for Lifelong use on the ground floor.

Sacco said senior housing is going to end up being one of the more significant issues in Tompkins County’s future, and that she hopes to see more of it develop downtown. Currently, she said, seniors who live outside of the main parts of the

city are sometimes reluctant to come downtown to places like Lifelong, wanting to avoid the hassle of a drive and (especially) finding parking and understanding the payment process.

Occupancy in nursing homes around Tompkins County was just over 92 percent as of 2015, Macera said, showing the elderly population hasn’t quite reached overf low yet and perhaps, explaining why the interest hasn’t yet skyrocketed in senior-focused development. He said the same can be said for assisted living facilities, including Longview: a symptom of the aging-in-place trend that keeps people in their homes for longer but also means they are in need of more care when they do finally decide to make the switch to a retirement community. Even with a significant amount of senior housing options currently, the aging population over the next 10-15 years will force more to be built.

“That’s going to change, and it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when,” Macera

said. “They’re going to overwhelm us, if the capacity remains. We’re all wrestling with it.”

Macera said Longview is constantly trying to balance their mission of providing elderly people with an indepent living experience, all the while knowing that the population who lives there is only going to become more and more dependent in time as they move along the care continuum in the facility. But without national change in the way people are supported during their later years, Macera worries about the future value that will be given to the elderly.

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he holiday season can be make-or-break for many retailers. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that jewelry stores do almost 29 percent of their business during the holidays. Department stores and electronics sellers are heavily invested in the season as well. Lawn and garden stores… not so much.

In most cases, holiday sales are considered to be any retail sale occurring in November or December. Staunch traditionalists consider the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas to be the holiday season, but it is hard to find figures for this circumscribed period. Surveys show anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of households begin holiday shopping before Thanksgiv-

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A Little Off The Top H&M Salon seeks to give an ‘at home’ experience ing. Regardless of how the holiday season is defined, retailers are jazzed about 2017 because this holiday season has an extra day between Thanksgiving and Christmas and that day falls on a weekend.

The National Retail Federation is forecasting about $680 billion in holiday sales, an increase of almost 4 percent over last year. That figure excludes gasoline, automobiles, and restaurant sales. But it includes online sales which are projected to be about $100 billion. So about 15 percent of holiday sales are online. Online sales are rising faster than overall holiday sales. Cyber Monday is a big deal and easily ranks as the highest volume day for online sales every year. While overall holiday sales are expected to rise 4 percent, online sales are projected to soar anywhere from 14 to 17 percent depending on the forecaster.

Deloitte has an interesting take-away from one of its surveys: 85 percent of shoppers planned to make in-store purchases over Thanksgiving weekend, while 91 percent planned to buy something online.

Apparently, most people do a little of both these days.

The Department of Economics at Ithaca Col lege is forecasting $321 mi l lion in holiday sales for Tompkins County, an increase of 3.5 percent over last year. Like the National Retail Federation, that figure considers the holiday season to be November and December and includes online sales generated in the area. Unlike the National

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“You can walk in, ven after just the front of the store, while first few steps into kick your shoes off, the back half is the salon t h e n e w H & M go in the refrigerator portion of the business Beauty Salon and Baroperated by Manuel ’s bershop, it’s obvious the and grab something w i fe , k now n a rou nd to drink and wait business’ name doesn’t the shop respectfully as quite convey all that the your turn. [...] Not a “The Queen,” a charming owners want the fledgling dorm, but more of a woman who often spends store to be. her time between beautihouse.”

It’s brightly lit with cian appointments reada large, high-definition ing from a small Bible. television screen hanging from the center Millard and McKnight were both barbers pillar. There’s long lounge seating to wait at the shop next door to H&M (a situation for a barber’s chair to open up, and even a they called only “a little weird”), before refrigerator and microwave to grab a snack Millard and his wife decided to venture out and keep it there if the line gets long. It’s on their own. lively, with a mix of the television, music In a few ways, it’s already a family busiand conversation filling the room even on a ness. The couple’s children sometimes help cold December night near closing time. out around the store, while McKnight The barbers, led by Dario “Manuel” said he followed Millard to the new store Millard and Joey McKnight, operate in the because “These are my people, my family.”

Retail Federation, gasoline, automobile, and restaurant sales are included.

The forecast for Ithaca is based on local retail sales for the first ten months of the year. Those are up just over 3 percent compared to last year. The extra shopping day and relatively high consumer confidence boost the projection to 3.5 percent.

Ac c ord i ng to a su r ve y by P ro s p er Insights & Analytics, the average consumer plans to spend about $1,000 this holiday shopping season. This is an interesting statistic in several respects. The first thing to notice is that this is the amount consumers themselves say they plan to spend. What actually occurs could be far different. But J a n u a r y

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McKnight serves as the de facto translator for the couple when they need it, having spent the majority of their lives in Puerto Rico where they met and for a time, both cut hair professionally before coming to America and landing in Ithaca.

The decor isn’t the only thing unconventional about H&M. They opened in October, directly next to another barbershop in what could easily be coined downtown’s “haircut district.” There are at least four places to get a haircut within about a block and a half of the Cayuga Street-State Street intersection. This can lead to the store getting missed in the crowd by passers-by who might not have already heard about the new option available for their follicle needs.

“It’s definitely confusing, because we have people who come in here and say “Man, you guys changed things around,’” McKnight said. “Then we have to say, ‘No, we just moved next door.’ That happens often.”

But H&M wants to set itself apart from those places, using its versatility and atmosphere as a start. The laid-back environment and amenities are meant to make the place more attractive as a casual destination instead of a quick business-like stopover, and the owners are hoping the breadth of their services – cutting men’s and women’s hair all in the same spot – will help them rise above their very nearby competition.

“We want customers to feel comfortable, we want them to feel like they’re at home,” McKnight said. “You can walk in, kick your shoes off, go in the refrigerator and grab something to drink and wait your turn. [...] Not a dorm, but more of a house.”

McKnight and Millard have both used client connections they built next door to carry over and help them get on their feet during the store’s infancy. So far, the extent of their advertising has been mostly word-of-mouth as well as spreading word on social media sites, particularly on Instagram where sharing pictures of new haircuts is fairly common.

Both know building a customer base in Ithaca can be a slow process, particularly as a new business and with such a wealth of other options. But both have experienced the process before, and are confident the experience they’re providing will be enough. (Matched with the quality cuts of course.)

“It’s normal but it’s tough, because with so many of them around people see things,” he said. “They look up ‘barbershop,’ and go to whichever one comes up first, and we’re just not out there like that. [...] But we’re here, and we want to be busy.”

more importantly, the world can be divided into two sorts of people: those who are pleased with themselves for spending less than the average and those who are pleased with themselves for spending more•

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making the community safer.”

For more information about Pledge 4 Ithaca, please contact Ariana Blossom at (607) 351-2277 or visit Pledge4Ithaca.org.

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cal sponsorship with United Way of Tompkins County (UWTC).

United Way of Tompkins County President James Brown stated: “Pledge 4 Ithaca becoming a United Way program represents a significant step for our community, the front-line organizations currently providing critical services and UWTC.” Pledge 4 Ithaca’s mission is to protect grade school-aged children from sexual violence by working in collaboration with the Tompkins County community, educational professionals and other related agencies that work to protect children from sexual violence through education, awareness, and increased support from law enforcement.

The goals of the organization are to provide support to victims of sexual assault in the community, implement effective and comprehensive sexual assault prevention programs, and raise local, regional and national awareness about rape and sexual violence in secondary schools.

“We are fortunate to have a strong continuum of care provided by the Advocacy Center, Cayuga Medical Center, school districts, campuses, law enforcement and others. It is a strong, effective system that is in need of additional resources and attention,” said Brown, “UWTC’s leadership believes that Pledge 4 Ithaca can bring value to this network and make our community safer and healthier for all.”

The fiscal partnership with United Way of Tompkins County will enable Pledge 4 Ithaca to further pursue its goal of raising funds to distribute age-appropriate content to medical professionals to support dialog with families, children, and caregivers to educate and inform patients about all aspects of prevention, consent, and sexual harassment, in a safe and trusting environment.

Pledge 4 Ithaca is also working with Ithaca High School’s SWIS Club: Strong Women Impacting Society, to engage in an advocacy campaign regarding consent.

Pledge 4 Ithaca’s spokeswoman is Ithaca-based Ariana Blossom who has been involved with the organization since September of 2017. Blossom has eight years of experience as a Business and Life coach.

Her many initiatives include organizing the first-ever Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference at Cornell University.

Blossom shared her excitement of being involved with the organization by stating: “I’m honored to be supporting PLEDGE 4 Ithaca as we work to protect children in K-12 schools from sexual violence. We’re grateful to the United Way of Tompkins County for becoming our fiscal sponsor, which helps make our work possible. Sexual violence against children is happening in Tompkins County. Our children benefit when capable and caring adults dedicate their time and resources to

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ompkins Financial Advisors has expanded its capabilities for specialized portfolio management and investment strateTamer N. Elshourbagy gies in Central New York with the hiring of Tamer N. Elshourbagy as the company’s Portfolio Manager.

Elshourbagy will be a key member of the Tompkins Financial Advisors Investment Committee. He will be responsible for developing and implementing investment strategies for individuals and institutional investors. Elshourbagy will also serve as an investment advisor supporting the Tompkins Financial Advisors business development team and will assist in directing the investment strategy across the Tompkins portfolio offerings.

“Our clients will benefit from Tamer’s experience as a research analyst, and his ability to develop customized investment strategies,” said Kara Pass, Tompkins Financial Advisors Managing Director for Central New York. “Like every member of our team, Tamer will be focused on understanding our clients’ complete financial picture so we can provide the wealth management strategies that make a meaningful difference in their lives.”

Elshourbagy has nearly twenty years of investment research, client management and portfolio management experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Pennsylvania State University. Tamer most recently held a position with John G. Ullman & Associates as Portfolio Manager and Lead Equity Analyst.

Elshourbagy lives in Horseheads, NY with his wife Stephanie.

Youth and Philanthropy Awards $25,000 for Local Services

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he Youth and Philanthropy Program 2017 came to a close last month with the YAP Grant Award Ceremony held at the Community School of Music and Arts.

Winners included Advocacy Center of Tompkins County ($1,700), Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga ($5,000), Challenge Workforce Solutions ($1,935), Finger Lakes Toy Library Inc. ($1,000), Foodnet Meals on Wheels ($3,200), Golden Opportunity (GO) ($1,165), Ithaca Health Alliance ($3,000), Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc. ($3,000), The Discovery Trail ($2,000), Tompkins County Workers Center Inc. ($3,000)

Henry Rollins comes to the State Theatre

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enry Rollins had a nice, cushy job managing an ice cream store. He had his own apartment, and his own stereo. And then he chucked it all for the ’80s equivalent of running off with the circus: he became the lead singer for an L.A. punk band called Black Flag. Rollins has proven that a moving target is hardest to hit. In addition to his music career with Black Flag and The Rollins Band, he has recorded and released albums of spoken word stories, published a number of books through his own publishing company, and done TV, film and voiceover work that cuts a surprisingly wide swath.

Rollins returns to the State Theatre on Jan. 23 for an evening subtitled “Slideshow.”

This is the second time I’ve interviewed Rollins, but I’ve never seen his spoken word shows or his concerts with Black Flag and The Rollins Band. Truth be told, I connected with Rollins more as an actor in movies than as a rock star; I’d seen him on the big screen in Heat, Johnny Mnemonic and I’ve always had a soft spot for his turn as an overzealous cop in the Charlie Sheen-Kristy Swanson comedy The Chase. (not to be confused with Arthur Penn’s 1965 film The Chase.)

When we spoke for the first time in January 2004, I asked him to describe his solo stage shows. He told me, “I think thou shalt not bore, so I try and stay away from stuff that’s too incredibly indulgent. Any part of history is interesting to me. Any government is interesting to me. Any animal, any cool documentary is interesting to me. But there’s not any dark secrets or anything I’m too embarrassed about. I reckon any of my errors are completely human and fairly generic.

Black Flag rocks out at a concert.

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Embarrassing moments with chicks, I’ve got a million of ‘em. Talked about most of it, without compromising the woman, always making fun of myself. But all those mistakes or gaffes are completely human, and at the end of the day, I tend not to hold back.”

At the time, Rollins was spending a lot of time overseas visiting American troops. I asked him then if he had been asked to go back in the Black Flag-Reagan era, would he have gone? He told me, “Probably not, not being able to see the bigger picture. I wholeheartedly disagree with what we did in Iraq. I’m one of those people who prefers the inspection to over 500 American war dead.

But these soldiers are not really asked about their opinions, they’re assigned, and they go where they’re told. That’s the job: you’re deployed, you go to Baghdad, Pakistan, wherever it is, you go.

Got a problem with it? Who cares?

“So my beef is not with them, and I see that.

That’s why I went. I’m not a fan of our president, but I’m a fan of these people out there in the field.

As a younger person, I don’t know whether I could have seen that, you know what I mean? I don’t know whether that would have been as clear to me as it is now.”

With Rollins’ return to the State Theatre this week, we picked up where we left off for the following conversation.

Ithaca Times: Your show at the State Theater is subtitled “Slide Show” – a much more romantic term than “Power Point”. Without giving it all away, can you talk about what you’ll be showing us?

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Henry Rollins: Indeed, the title is quite utilitarian but we thought that was pretty cool.

The show is me with a clicker moving through photos I’ve taken all over the world and telling stories off the images. So far, it’s been going really well night to night.

IT: Back in 2004, we talked about you meeting the troops in Afghanistan. 13 years later, where do you see us as a military presence?

HR: A presence. I don’t know what has changed or what progress has been made. Perhaps America’s presence helps keep terrorist forces from consolidating? I have no idea if that’s the plan or that’s being done. I’m not sure at this point what the mission is. After this many years of being there, I don’t understand what’s being done, what progress has been made or what. I never see anything about Afghanistan specifically in the news. It seems that American forces will never leave.

IT: Ian MacKaye while at Cornell last year, mentioned that he still stands by all of the messages in his lyrics from over his lifetime. Do you?

Or do you look back at some of yours from Black Flag and the Rollins Band and chalk them up to youthful sentiment and naiveté?

HR: I think a lot of lyrics I wrote when I was young were imbued with a lot of emotion. So, I reckon the youthful sentiment would tag would fit many of them. It’s not that I don’t still stand behind them but they wouldn’t be on my mind now. I can only speak for myself but when I was young, I thought a lot differently about things.

As an older person, I don’t register things with a fraction of the emotion I did as a younger person.

I am still okay with them but I wouldn’t want to go out and sing them tonight.

IT: What is the state of punk rock now as you see it?

HR: I have no idea as how to ask that question.

There’s still bands calling themselves Punk Rock and people calling themselves punk, so I guess it’s still around. I never think about it.

IT: When we spoke before, you talked about your respect for Tom Petty, the way he concentrated on his music. Any thoughts on him now that he’s gone?

HR: He was the real thing. He was a great songwriter and performer. I have a lot of his records and it’s too bad we no longer have his voice. It’s always hard when a long time musician goes. They mean a lot to a lot of people. Tom Petty was one of the big ones.

IT: I miss your IFC show because you were always advocating cool culture in film and music.

Have you seen/heard anything cool lately?

HR: There were a lot of great records last year.

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Remembering a Legend A tribute to Dell Grover

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The 1947 Championship Newfield Football Team (Photo provided)

When I heard that Dell Grover passed on just before the new year, I knew I’d miss seeing him at Island Health & Fitness, but I also knew that Dell’s quality of life had declined measurably over the past couple of years and he was not a guy to languish.

He would – at 87 years of age – pull into IHF’s parking lot, climb out of his pickup truck (which had a mounted snowplow Dell used often), and take about 15 minutes to make his way from the parking lot to the locker room. It took another 10 minutes to get into his bathing suit, another 5 minutes to walk out to the warm water pool, and after some exercise and commiserating, Dell would reverse the process.

It was an hour’s worth of effort for a few minutes of what felt like his old life, but Dell would not be denied the opportunity

to give it a shot.

When I see people struggling like that to squeeze what they can out of the time they have left, I wonder what their “old life” was like. How does a person acquire that “never give up” attitude?

In Dell’s case, it likely had a lot to do with growing up on a farm (in Trumansburg) during the Depression. Like most of his generation, you worked for what you got or you didn’t get it, and he was a threesport star at T-Burg, graduating in 1949.

Smaller schools often fielded 6-man teams, and Dell earned the nickname “Rabbit” by scampering for five TD’s in one game.

He went on to college at Cobleskill, where he played basketball and baseball and was named All-Region as a catcher.

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nesses. He lost his first wife (the mother of his children) in an auto accident, but Dell remarried and he and his wife, Emma, ran Emma’s Deli and Bishop’s Restaurant, and Dell got out in front of the technology boom, operating Dell’s Typewriter Shop in Collegetown. He also sold real estate, invested in Cayuga Vista Condo Development and he and Emma ran A-Arrow Exterminating for 40 years. Their tagline was, “When In A Dilemma, Call Dell And Emma!”

Raising kids and building businesses never dimmed Dell’s love for sports, and he found ways to be, as retired Cornell professor Bob Chase called him, “A Super Participant.”

I sat in Dell’s dining room with his son, Billy Grover, a few days after Dell passed.

The volumes of yellowed newspapers and grainy black and white photos told stories of a guy who was a highly respected and heavily-utilized three-sport referee in addit ion to a f i ne a du lt at h le t e .

Dell played on some excellent baseball teams, he won several club championships at area golf courses, and if anyone got in his face, they might learn – the hard way - that Dell did some boxing in the Army.

Dell started officiating right out of college, and many area athletes – now in their 50’s and 60’s – remember Dell’s unique style. Local restaurateur Mark Campagnolo told Billy, “When they made Dell, they broke the mold… well, actually, Emma hit him over the head with it!”

Billy shared this story… “One local schoolteacher – now in his fifties – recalled the time he, as a high school player, took two called strikes with Dell behind the plate. Dell and the young player’s father were close friends and had played a lot of baseball together, and Dell called time out and broomed off the plate. As the youngster stood near the batter’s box, he heard a near-whisper through the umpire’s mask… ‘Matt… you know better… get the goddamn bat off your shoulder!’ Matt got a base hit on the next pitch.”

Another story was told about the time Dell didn’t like what he was hearing from

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Chip Wood, so he tossed him out of the game. Slow on the uptake, Terry Ciacshi mouthed off too, and he was gone. Mike Broadhead expressed his displeasure with a call by hurling his bat over the fence.

Dell told him to go and retrieve it, then gave him the proverbial boot.

Dell’s own kids were good athletes as well. Billy was the tournament MVP at some of the CYO Tri-State basketball tournaments Dell organized, and he was a three-sport athlete at Ithaca High (class of ’76). Billy followed his dad to Cobleskill, played lacrosse there, and has also been among the counties best golfers at times.

Becky Grover was a pro bowler, and in the words of her brother, “One of the best bowlers ever around here.”

Bob Chase officiated with Dell (and other guys, like Dave Banfield, Jack Russell, Dave Feldman and Bill Egan) for many years, and he remembered this story: “We were officiating a football game in Dryden, and there was a fumble a nd a huge pileup in t he mad scramble for the ball. We kept waiting to hear the whistle, but it never blew, so the pi le got bigger a nd more chaotic. We finally pu l led about a dozen players off the pile, and there was Dell, at the very bottom.

I asked him why he never blew the whistle, and he said he had about three guys lying on his arm and he couldn’t get the whistle in his mouth!”

Bob also said, “I taught finance and accounting at the Hotel School, and when I interacted with foreign businessmen and students and they asked me to describe the quintessential entrepreneur, I would reference Dell Grover. Given all the things he did, he was a super participant.”

Again, I’ll miss seeing Dell at the gym, and I loved the story Billy told me that summed up his father’s attitude. He said, “A few weeks ago, my dad told me to be sure to remember to sign us up for the golf tournament at Hillendale (where Dell was the club champ in ’62).” He could barely walk, but he had gone out into the back yard to hit a few wiffle balls to get ready for his next golf outing. The guy never gave up.” •

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Ithaca Won’t Give Up

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esistance rap mixes with folky, moxy rock in “I Won’t Give Up,” a Planned Pa rent hood f undra iser project between Ithaca musicians The Blind Spots and Gunpoets. Every dollar spent on the song is donated to Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, which serves patients in 10 New York counties, including Tompkins.

After taking about a year to write and record — between touring across the country and working on other projects — the song was released on Bandcamp in January.

“I Won’t Give Up” is priced at $3, but anyone purchasing the song can customize the dollar amount donated.

Maddy Walsh, lead vocalist and songstress of The Blind Spots, began conceptualizing the idea of the song the day after the 2016 presidential election. Unsure of the future of the United States and unsure how she could resist, she turned to songwriting — something she said she always does in difficult times. Her and her husband Mike Suave, the guitarist of The Blind Spots, began drafting music.

The decision to work with Gunpoets came shortly after. The two groups discussed working together in the past; they’ve

released one song called “Make You Happy,” but “I Won’t Give Up” is the first joint effort that features vocals from both groups.

With the chaos from the presidential election, Walsh contacted frontman Dan Lisbe of Gunpoets on the collaboration, saying “I think it’s really time to make this happen.”

“When thinking about the way to release it, to make the biggest impact, we hoped to release something that would feel uplifting to people that were experiencing similar emotions after the election,” Walsh said.

“Making a more concrete impact seemed like a better option than just releasing the song so that people can feel things.”

As The Blind Spots and Gunpoets meditated on the best means to release the song, Planned Parenthood surfaced at the top of their list. Walsh said both bands collectively support the organization, and with several attacks and threats of defunding from the presidential administration, Planned Parenthood was an easy choice.

At the Southern Finger Lakes branch of Planned Parenthood, more than 18,000 patients visited in 2016 alone, and the organization saw just under 10,000 patients that year, according to data collected by Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Revered Talent at SOAG

SOAG begins 2018 with showcase of its artists

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ith a new year comes a new Members’ Show at State of the Art Gallery, the first in the two part series on display until Jan. 28 with Part II going up thereafter and all the way through February. For those unfamiliar with SOAG, this is a good time to get a taste of works by each of the artists in the cooperative. For those, presumably most of us, who are well aware of the various artists who make up the gallery, the Members’ shows are still a wonderful opportunity to stop in and view new works by the members, seeing what each has been up to and starting off the year right by taking a leisurely stroll and witnessing some art.

Without question, the works in Part I, created by 14 of the gallery members, are an eclectic mixture of media, viewpoints and aesthetics, each artist distinct from the next in finding colorful and creative means of producing work.

The show begins with Eva Capobianco’s poignant sculptural works, combining found pieces of stone, wood and

grapevine roots to imbue the objects with emotive qualities. Entwined Couple, one of my favorites in the show, displays two pieces of grapevine root. One is thick and solid, standing upright; the other has various small roots that stick out sideways reaching toward the other piece, entangling it as if pulling it closer or asking for connection. At the title’s suggestion, the roots become lovers, at the very least a pair, aware of one another’s presence.

Diana Ozolins presents acrylic paintings that explore color and shapes, while James Spitznagel’s digital abstractions fragment the otherwise concrete (such as what looks like an eyeball in Portrait, whose image is then dissected and multiplied) with a rather modernistic edge.

Nancy V. Ridenour chose a series of bird photographs printed on canvas, each unique and sharply focused, while Jan Kather took to analyzing the differentiation between art photography and digital media with the series The More Things Stay the Same, Lackawanna Bike Trail (One Year), which presents handfuls of

Following the presidential election, Director of Public Affairs at Planned Parenthood Ashleigh McGuire said Planned Parenthood gained more than a million supporters. Supports are defined as individuals who are donating for the first time, attending their first Planned Parenthood rally, taken action online or created some form of art in protest for the organization.

Many of Planned Parenthood’s patients are women — a total of 88 percent at the local branch. Many of the services offered

Maddy Walsh (center left) with Planned Parenthood staff. (Photo: Christie Citranglo)

at Planned Parenthood are also targeted toward LGBT, transgender, gender nonconforming and people of color as well, which are minority groups that have faced direct criticism from the presidential administration. Medical Assistants at Planned Parent-

photographs of the trail curated together, taken for Instagram and Snapfish with different filters and at various times throughout the year. The series explores both context and the passing of time.

Jane Dennis’ sculptural pieces, most of which are mixed media, are quirky and playful with a bit of political critique.

Corrupt Money Laughing at Mother Earth displays a large one-cent coin juxtaposing nature with a jester and an eerie smiling mouth. Climate Controlled, meanwhile, is certainly memorable: a topographical aerial view of the Earth in the shape of an ironing board. It overlooks various

Work from a featured artist. (Art: Diana Ozolins)

roads and houses, including an island in the sea, and includes a three-dimensional iron whose indent is pressed into the earth.

Sheryl Sinkow has on display her usual travel photography, this time focused on a trip to Tanzania with a selection that J a n u a r y

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hood of the Southern Finger Lakes Rachael Behling and Emma Miller said the day following the 2016 election was a frustrating and emotional day at work. The fear of being defunded was beginning to set in.

“I remember very clearly the day after, and just sort of this whole time really like unpacking the reasons why we’re being so attacked,” Behling said. “The main reason I come up with, is that it’s really hard for the administration to accept that women or gender non-binary folks or transgender folks or people of color have agency and take charge over their own sexuality.”

“The community absolutely showed up in amazing ways. I felt very empowered doing the work we do because of that,” Miller added. “Just seeing community support like this and seeing people put themselves out there, saying ‘this matters, and we’re going to directly support you’ — that’s amazing.”

2018 also marks the 50th anniversary of Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, McGuire said. This song then celebrates half a century of helping women receive medical coverage in addition to protesting against the administration.

“This is a song for everyone, and this is the time we need to get together and stand up — together,” Walsh said. “This is the time to be in the fight against the forces of oppression.” • Download “I won’t give Up” at https://ithacamusicians.bandcamp.com/releases. For this project, Bandcamp has lowered the percentage it would normally take on hosting this song in order for more funds to get directly donated to Planned Parenthood.

includes anything from portraits to rooftop close-ups that beautifully examine the texture and composition of shapes in relation to contrasts and repetition of form. Connie Zehr’s prints on aluminum are abstract and bright, making them intriguing with the content behind pieces such as Swarm, a sun-like circle of movement, difficult to fully distinguish (in a positive way). Ileen Kaplan and Ethel Vrana’s paintings, respectively full of overlapping color and expressive markmaking, are certainly identifiable as their own, as are Carol Ast’s more pictorial pastel works. Michael Sampson too provides paintings in his distinctly recognizable style, abstracting figuration in works such as Sylvie, Seated Pose that bring the idea of gesture drawing to a whole new level, pointing toward the movement and pose of the subject but injecting them each with a jazz-like inflection.

As a fan of watercolor, I am inevitably biased toward Margaret Nelson’s work, which includes simplistic yet calming paintings. Winter on Eel Pond alludes to the pond with a central bluish shape that invites you forward and Perfect Day, which is primarily a yellow rectangle of landscape cut against a bluish-gray rectangle of sky, evokes sensations of peaceful wholeness.

Lastly, we have Patricia Brown’s layered acrylic works from her American Eclipse series, detailing the stages of a total eclipse from bright spectrals of light to resulting darkness. Certainly timely. •

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Kerrigan, Harding’s competition.

But what makes the film so extraordinary and so funny is that the film is in a constant state of arguing with itself. No one, not even Harding’s hateful mother (Allison Janney with no vanity in sight, a truly ugly but compelling performance)

‘I, Tonya’ showcases talented actors and filmmakers

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ex t mont h ma rk s 31 yea rs i n the reviewing business, and the great thing is, it’s never too late to appreciate a genre that didn’t make much impression on me in the past. I can’t say that I have a long list of favorite ice skating movies — sorry, Lynn-Holly Johnson and Robby Benson — but as of now, I, Tonya is my favorite ice skating movie.

When it comes to fame, and the need for it and the whole white trash American experience, I, Tonya tells you everything you need to know, even if you don’t trust the people telling you. That push-mepull-you aspect of the film is what makes it hilarious, heartbreaking and relevant.

Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya is a riotous Rashomon of contradicting stories, film and video stocks and perhaps the defining Unreliable Narrators of our life and

times. It’s also a harsh reminder of the American need to build someone up just so that they can be sullied later. If Andy Warhol was right about everyone getting 15 minutes of fame, this movie pretty much serves up Tonya Harding’s time in the spotlight, from wannabe to David Letterman one-liner.

Based on what seems to be a ver y knowing and well-researched screenplay

by Steven Rogers (Hope Floats, Kate & Leopold) — I’m not a sports buff by any means, but I remember the Letterman gags — I, Tonya is the next evolutionary step in the mockumentary genre. Yes, we get the story of young Tonya Harding, and how her chain-smoking, nasty mother pushed and drove her to obnoxious excellence. We meet the boyfriend who coddled and beat her, and the boyfriend’s dimwit friend who became Tonya’s “bodyguard.”

We meet her coaches and the thugs that were hired by someone to kneecap Nancy

Not Your Average Burger

Red’s Place brings fresh variety to pub-style dining

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hen Red’s Place first opened on Aurora Street where Sushi O Sake had served Japanese food for several years, I was interested to have a look at their menu.

There was not then, and there is not now, a dearth of downtown dining establishments where one can order a burger and a beer. Yet, after a quick glance at the restaurant’s offerings, that seemed to be exactly what Red’s Place was featuring.

However, upon closer examination of the menu, it occurred to me that the owner was intent on offering a unique approach to dining. He obviously was trying to achieve originality in the variety of the combinations of the burger offerings, the exaggerated “cuteness” of their names and the interesting components included in the other menu suggestions.

Specifically, Red’s features a most interesting variety of burgers. In addition to traditional beef patties there are crab meat, pork sausage, lamb, mushroom, turkey and peanut butter and jelly. No, I wasn’t on my third beer when I wrote that last item — Red’s Place really does offer a “pb & jealousy” burger which is made with bacon, 22 T

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peanut butter, and grape jelly. I’m sorry I can’t offer my opinion on this version of a burger, as on each of my multiple visits I opted for more traditional fare like “go out on a lamb” with ground lamb, which was far juicier than one can expect from what low-fat lamb typically is. Once I ordered “the angry pig” which is a spicy, but not too spicy, pork sausage. The “Crabby Patty” was a pleasant change of pace with a Panko crumb crusted crab meat.

With every order of a burger or sandwich, a cup of homemade soup is included as a “side” option. The soups are unfailingly well made and exceptionally tasty. A recent serving of a “pork and veggie” soup was more like a stew than a soup, as there was so much shredded pork and vegetables there was hardly room for the pleasantly spicy broth. On another day’s visit, a portion of a creamy broccoli and bacon soup was pureed just to the point where bits of broccoli and bacon were left intact. The texture and flavor were perfect.

Once when I ordered a sandwich of blended mushroom slices and caramelized onions with herbed goat cheese, the soup of the day was cream of mushroom.

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Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding.

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sees themselves as the bad guys in this story. Eyewitnesses contradict each other.

At least twice during her “interview,” Harding (Margot Robbie) interrupts herself to make defensive comments about Kerrigan. Huh. Wonder why she’s so

I didn’t want to overdo the mushrooms, so I tried the mixed vegetable side instead.

It included a combination of broccoli, red peppers, onions, carrots and zucchini; an interesting variety, however I wish the veggies had spent less time in the saucepan.

If you are not a fan of a burger on a bun you could always choose the well-prepared macaroni and cheese, which comes with a bit of chicken, or one of the flatbread selec-

Kathy McGruder pours a beer at Red’s Place (Photo: Matt Butler)

tions. They also feature “greens,” which are about a half-dozen entrée sized salads which include plenty of familiar as well as unusual components. Chicken, Portobello mushroom slices or mahi mahi can be added for a small charge.

Naturally, while you munch away on those burgers or flatbreads, one will find themselves compelled to imbibe a crisp beer, matched perfectly to your meal. Red’s has the answer for that — a darn good answer. I have no doubt that diners would

defensive? Characters do things and turn to camera and deny what they just did; there’s as much fourth-wall breakage as you’d see in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Deadpool.

Margot Robbie has accomplished some very deft and varied characters and it’s a cliché, but it’s true: Robbie is a chameleon. Her bullish yet fragile turn as Tonya Harding owes nothing to her roles in Suicide Squad and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, to say nothing of her hilarious cameo in The Big Short. Robbie also co-produced I, Tonya.

A lot of actors, given this opportunity, would be too insecure or vain to get and deliver the jokes that the movie needs them to make. It’s pretty rare that actors like Robbie, Janney and Sebastian Stan (best known to world-wide audiences as Bucky Barnes, AKA The Winter Soldier in the Marvel franchise) would want to be seen as stupid, selfish, bone-stick mean and venal. Janney is such an unholy terror here; I say, just give her the Oscar. Aside from Janney, the other scene stealer is an actor named Paul Walter Hauser, playing Harding’s “bodyguard” Shawn Eckhardt, an oddball American original goof ball; check out Eckhardt’s transcribed interviews, and you’ll see that Hauser had comedy gold to work with here.

Recommended: The Toys That Made Us on Netflix. •

be happy with the choice of close to a dozen beers on draught and 30 more in bottles.

When I ordered a glass of Allagash White from Maine, it was served in an Allagash imprinted glass with a hefty slice of fresh orange on the rim. I’ve also enjoyed Ithaca Beer’s hoppy selection, The Creeker, on more than one occasion.

It’s obvious, when you peruse the short — and rather ordinary — wine menu, that management has put its emphasis on beer which, in my opinion, is the right choice to accompany burgers and comfort food.

Some restaurants claim to be vegetarian friendly because they offer a meatless soup or two and a few salads. It’s obvious they don’t make a special effort to please vegetarians. Red’s, however, has more than a few vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes that feature creative ingredients prepared in a thoughtful fashion.

Red’s is smaller, and a bit more intimate, than some of the other restaurants on Aurora Street. The interior is intriguing featuring a wall constructed with reclaimed wood beams from a barn, lamps and water glasses using Ball mason jars and interesting striated copper table tops.

Red’s is open seven days each week and the lunch and dinner menus are identical.

The service is quick, attentive, and efficient.

I recommend Red’s for a casual meal with a creative menu featuring well-prepared, comfort-type food. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits.

Style Wars | 7:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | A Public Theater of Auburn Live event.

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Music

9:00 PM-, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae)

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Varying Locations, , | Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule.

Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz and Gospel Music) The Electrozone January 2.0 | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Electric) Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | (Local bands, Soloists) The Crucial Reggae Social Club |

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Wayne Gottlieb at Ithaca Bakery | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | CTB, 329 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | (Swing, Blues, Jazz) Dino Losito, Brian Murphy, Terry Light | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | (Jazz) Flobots, Tropidelic | 8:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Rap, Hip-hop, Activist)

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Bob and Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken Dr. K Paul Kepkes | 6:30 PM-9:30 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Creekside Tavern, , Willseyville | (Acoustic) Tyler Smilo | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Acoustic, Folk) Rachel Beverly | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Cortland Beer Company, 16 Court Street, Cortland | Tennis, Overcoats | 8:00 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | The Ilium Works: Angela Marion | 8:00 PM-, Friday, January 19, 18 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | The Beauchesnes (Ted Walsh and Robert Hunter) | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Agava Restuarant, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | (Blues, Americana) Pale Green Stars, Dracula Jones |

9:00 PM-, Friday, January 19, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Hard rock, punk, alternative) Dead Night at The Dock | 9:00 PM-, Friday, January 19, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Grateful Dead covers)

1/20 Saturday

Better Than Bowling | 4:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Labrador Mountain, 6935 Rt 91, Truxton | Off the Rails | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken Chris Charlier | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | (Acoustic) The Smoking Loons | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Acoustic, Rock) Bigfoot Back | 7:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | BRU 64, 64 Main Street, Cortland | (Acoustic) 185668232 | 8:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Eclectic, Acoustic) Josh Jacobson, Xamalian | 8:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Pop, Singer-songwriter) Box of Rain: Essential Grateful Dead 68-74 | 8:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Grateful Dead covers) Common Railers | 9:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Indie rock) Wingnut | 9:00 PM-, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Double Tiger (feat. Jay Spaker of

John Brown’s Body) | 10:00 PM-1:00 AM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca, NY, ithaca | (Reggae)

1/21 Sunday

Purple Valley | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted

by Dennis Winge Trio.

Sunday Live Music | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday January 21, 18 | Sixmile Creek Winery, Ithaca | (Local bands, Soloists)

Blade Runner: The Final Cut | 7:15 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Ridley Scott’s definitive, final-cut of his seminal sci-fi film, based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is rarely screened due to rights restrictions, so see it on the big screen while you can, and in conjunction with Denis Villeneuve.

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polyamorous relationship with his twin muses, his wife and their lover.

The Florida Project | 7:15 PM, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Â Tangerine director Sean Baker returns with an equally tender and despondent story about childlike wonder and adult desperation. Young Moonee explores her home, the Magic Castle motel, while her mother Halley tries, and often fails, to make ends meet.

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1/23 Tuesday

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | (Irish, Traditional) G. Love and Special Sauce, The Ries Brothers | 8:00 PM-, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Alternative, Hip-hop) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz)Â I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz jams, improv)

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Wayne Gottlieb will perform from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, at Ithaca Bakery. (Photo provided)

Women | 7:15 PM, Monday, January 22, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | While Harvard psychologist Dr. William Marston’s feminist superhero Wonder Woman was criticized by censors for her sexual perversity, he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him: a

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mins R Phantom Thread | Set in 1950’s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover. | 130 mins R The Shape of Water | In a 1960s research facility, Elisa, a mute janitor, forms a relationship with a mysterious aquatic creature. | 123 mins R Lady Bird | In the early 2000s, an artistically-inclined seventeen year-old comes of age in Sacramento, California. | 94 mins R I, Tonya | Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes. | 120 mins R Darkest Hour | During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds. | 125 mins PG-13 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit. | 115 mins R Regal Ithaca

Wednesday, 1/17 , to Tuesday, 1/23. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes The Post | A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a

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hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government. | 116 mins PG-13 Proud Mary | Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad. | 89 mins R The Commuter | A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home. | 105 mins PG-13 Paddington 2 | Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. | 103 mins PG All the Money in the World| The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom. | 132 mins R Pitch Perfect 3| Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices. | 93 mins PG-13 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game. | 119 mins PG-13 The Greatest Showman and Singalong| Inspired by the

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imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. | 105 mins PG Ferdinand | After Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home.

Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure. | 108 mins PG Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers.

Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order. | 152 mins PG-13 The Disaster Artist | When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. | 104 mins R Coco | Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his greatgreat-grandfather, a legendary singer. | 105 mins PG Molly’s Game | The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. | 140 mins R Insidious: The Last Key | Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet - in her own family home. | 103 mins PG-13

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Stage Freedom Train | 3:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | Freedom Train tells the story of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people, in a series of highly theatrical scenes that use dance, dialogue, and music of the period.

ComedyFLOPs Presents: All You Can Eat Improv | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Each month we support a different community based charity. Since January is a short month we are going to use donations to help pay our rehearsal space rent at Community School of Music and Arts.

Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The bi-weekly drag show with The House of Merlot.

Therapy As Performance | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | It’s performance artist Leeny Sack’s new interdisciplinary performance experiment. Live therapy.

Unscripted. Live video. No Fourth Wall.

Symphoria Spark Series: Cirqovation | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | New York State Fair, 581 State Fair Boulevard, Syracuse | Aerial artists, jugglers, acrobats, comedians, and other performers from CirqOvation join with Symphoria for this family friendly performance at the New York State Fairgrounds.

Henry Rollins:Travel Slideshow | 8:00 PM, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St,

Men’s Group | 6:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | The LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Men’s Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m.

Friends and Members Meet-up Dryden Historical Society | 6:30 PM-, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Southworth Homestead, 14 North Street, Dryden | Nothing formal: just tell or listen to stories about skating, ice fishing, ice making, ice surfing, winter storms. Whatever means winter to you.

This could be the beginning of a regular monthly evening of sharing history.

Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:30 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Horigan’s, 365 Davis Street, Elmira | Host: Dave P, RSVP: dpreisendanz@ verizon.net Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball.wordpress.com/ Trivia Night | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Test your knowledge on sports, movies, literature, pop culture and much more.

Ladies AUX and the Sons of the American Legion Pot Roast Dinner | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | The American Legion, 4431 Seneca Rd, Trumansburg | A buffet-style pot roast dinner, sponsored by the Ladies AUX and the Sons of the American Legion.

Game Night | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Enfield Valley Grange, 178 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca | Join us for an evening of board games, card games, charades, fun and familyfriendly DYI games of all sorts. Bring your favorite games and a snack to share if you can, otherwise just come.

Open Mike Night | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Dryden Community Center Cafe, 1 W Main St, Dryden | Come share your songs, stories, poems and enjoy your favorite coffee or tea and delicious homemade baked goods. Contact Arron Bound by telephone at (607) 844-1500 or by email at manager@1westmain@ gmail.com.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Cornell Lab

of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Indoor Garage Sale | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Finger Lakes Mall, 1579 Clark Street Road, Auburn | A garage sale, in the middle of winter.

McLean Community Church Lasagna Dinner | 4:30 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | McLean Community Church, 50 Church St, McLean | Meat Lasagna, tossed salad, Italian bread, brownie sundae, and beverage. Take outs available; sponsored by Women’s Fellowship.

CNS Playground Fundraiser | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | This event will feature live music performed

by Oak and Aspen, featuring Miss Danny, then dinner and drinks at Agava.

Enfield Community Conversation & Dish to Pass | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Enfield Valley Grange, 178 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca | The Grange invites all Enfield residents to come together Jan. 21 for our first monthly Town Potluck. Please bring a dish to pass and your own tableware, if you are able.

Table top Game Night | 6:30 PM-10:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Come play some games (or possibly even play test some). Bring your own games or play some that Sacred Root supplies.

Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 AM, Monday, January 22, 18 | VFW, Route 13, Dryden | The Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch will meet on Monday, January 22, 2018 at the V.F.W. on Route 13 just outside of the Dryden Village toward Ithaca. Lunch is served at 12:15 p.m. with announcements starting at 11:45 a.m. Table service will be provided.

Teen-Only Gaming Sessions | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, January 22, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Middle and high school-aged students (and homeschooled equivalents) are invited to participate in after school gaming sessions. Use our space to play your favorite board games, tabletop RPGs and collectible card games.

Special Events Pint and Paint Night | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, January 18, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | Paint-by-number painting activity for groups, along with a pairing of a pint. Grist Iron is partnering with Wine and Design for this event.

Womens March in Seneca Falls 2018 March and Rally | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18

| Seneca Falls, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | A women’s march rally to protest the current presidential administration.

This also marks the first anniversary of the Women’s March.

Winter Chill 5K Series | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Winter Chill 5K series is an excuse to get out of the house every Sunday in January and run with fellow FLRC members in weather that can range from downright balmy to wonderfully wintry.

Learning Homebuyer U | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Ithaca NHS, 115 W. Clinton St., Ithaca | Join us to learn more about how much money you need to buy a home, your credit score and how it affects you, how much house you can afford, what a realtor can do for you, how to get a mortgage, strategies for choosing the right home and more.

Solar Power for Everyone | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Come hear about community solar options available in NYS. Whether purchasing panels at a local solar farm or simply subscribing to purchase electricity from it, homeowners, renters and nonprofits can participate.

Soulful Living: Altered Books Workshop | 9:30 AM-12:30 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St, Ithaca | Valentine’s Day is coming.

Altered books are ideal for creating a piece to keep or give to show your love toward another or toward some part of your own experience you would like to capture in a unique way.

Embroidered Valentine Hearts Workshop | 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Art Works Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Instructor Joanne Mitchell will instruct you how to do some easy embroidery stitches. One kit will be provided to work on during the workshop. You will have four kits to choose from. There will be extra kits available to purchase for $5 if you wish to take one home.

Collecting Family Histories | 1:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St. , Newfield | Newfield Town Historian, Alan Chaffee, will present a program about collecting family histories. The program will be held directly following the Finger Lakes Finns luncheon and brief meeting. The public is invited to the pass-a-dish luncheon and program. Please bring a dish to share and your own table service.

Food in the Foyer: Carrot Nut Mini-Muffins | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to bake carotene-rich, vegan, gluten-free muffins that are

Heads Up Music in Town

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ach week into the new year, local music venues continue to deliver jammable tunes of a variety of genres. From hip-hop to folk, bars and theaters around Ithaca are featuring spectacular local and national artists — right here, just a few steps down the road.

The Ithaca Times has put together the top-three highlights for this week’s local music scene.

The Electrozone: The Electrozone will perform form 8-11 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, at Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar. During this show, The Electrozone will be honoring the miracle of the “Modern Age” of electro-music. Unlike the traditional general admissions music experience, audience members are invited to dance and play along with The Electrozone — becoming part of the music themselves. This performance is a part of a bi-monthly series at Sacred Root, so if you can’t make it this week, you still have a chance in the near future.

perfect to start your day or as a healthy, satisfying snack or dessert. Theresa Joseph, macrobiotic and vegan cook, local farmer will show you how. Recipe and samples provided.

Books All the Light We Cannot See Reading | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites young adults in grades 6 through 12 to read and discuss Anthony Doerr’s book, All the Light We Cannot See. Free copies of the book are available for participants from the Teen Services Librarian, Regina DeMauro.

All the Single Ladies at TCPL | 11:00 AM, Saturday, January 20, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library and the Ithaca branch of the American Association of University Women will co-sponsor a panel discussion of Rebecca Traister’s book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.

Health Introductory Qigong | 7:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | T-Fit, , Trumansburg | The Dragon’s Way 6 week stress & weight Qigong program.

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404

Tennis, Overcoats: Groups Tennis and Overcoats will be performing at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at The Haunt.

Tennis is currently on tour promoting the release of its newest album, Yours Conditionally. Although the group is based in Denver, this indie-pop band recorded the entire album during a five-month sailing journey through the Sea of Cortez. Overcoats will join them during the show. A New-York based female duo, Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell write and record songs with elements of folk, electronic, indie and pop. The duo’s most recent album, YOUNG, was released in April of 2017.

Pale Green Stars, Dracula Jones: Pale Green Stars and Dracula Jones both hail from Syracuse, and they’ll be performing at 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at The Range. Pale Green Stars merges different influences and genres into its music, giving listeners a taste of country, punk and alternative. Pale Green Stars is a group of three musicians, and the group will be playing songs from its album The Honkytonk Years. Dracula Jones will join Pale Green Stars — and the group will be celebrating 26 years of creating music in Central New York. Dracula Jones redefines hard rock, bringing a fresh but also seasoned perspective to the music scene. •

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Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. It begins with 20 minutes of silent meditation, after which we read and discuss related texts.

Incorporating Herbal Medicine in Winter Cooking and Baking | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Ten Forward Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Join Herbalist Briel Driscoll soup creator of Ten Forward forward cafe for an interactive class on how to incorporate botanicals into your winter baking and cooking in delicious, easy and creative ways. Focus will be on immune supportive and nourishing foods. Students will be able to taste and smell herbs.

Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, January 22, 18 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858. No matter what your problem with food: compulsive overeating, under-eating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or overexercising — we have a solution. No dues, fees, weigh-ins.

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AM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig! We’ll work together to tell this funny take on a famous story. We’ll present this funny tale to family and friends on the final day of class!

Third to Sixth Grade Acting Lessons | 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Cinderella Bigfoot: Cinderella is special in so many ways. We’ll work on actor training through games and scenework, and we will use music to tell our story. With added songs, this musical theatre experience will be presented to family and friends on the final day of class!

7th to 12th Grade Acting Lessons | 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | We will work on acting through song. Through musical duets and scenes, we will explore just how great characterizations on musical theatre can be. No vocal training needed! We will present the numbers on the final day of class!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months old are invited to Baby Storytime. Join us for books, music, movement and rhyming, along with early literacy tips for babies and their caregivers.

Discovery Sundays | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Sunday, January 21, 18 | Cayuga J a n u a r y

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Sit! Stay! Read! | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday, January 23, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children are invited to practice their reading skills by sharing a story with a truly non-judgmental listener — a dog! Attend six sessions and earn a free book of your choice. The program is co-sponsored by Cornell Companions.

Art Tompkins County Public Library Art Exhibitions | Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Various exhibitions from local artists. On exhibition through Feb. 14.

Snow Sculpted Paintings and Portraiture | Wednesday, January 17, 18 | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | This exhibition will showcase some of the works of local artist Brian Keeler. The fifty plus paintings in this exhibit present Keeler’s passion for landscapes and particularly the sculptures created by wind on snow as well as his interest in the representation of nature in human subjects.

John Lyon Paul Gallery Talk | 4:00 PM, Wednesday, January 17, 18 | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | John Lyon Paul gives a gallery tour at the art exhibition, which will be on display through Feb. 28.

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Members’s Show, Part I | Friday, January 19, 18 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Works of art by half of the gallery members. On exhibition will be paintings, works in pastel, sculpture, photography and more.

June Silberman | Friday, January 19, 18 | ZaZa’s Cucina, 622 Cascadilla Street, Ithaca | Local artist exhibition featuring the work of June Silberman.

Harmonic Temple | 9:30 PM, Friday, January 19, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Monthly gathering of sound, vision, art, music and movement.

Something to hold on to | Monday, January 22, 18 | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Featuring submitted work from local artists.

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