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community. “The city residents at this time want to make sure parking is taken care of,” Myrick said. “They don’t want a huge influx of cars on their streets. They also want to make sure there is enough on-site parking.” “We are working through city zoning and planning processes to ensure the amount of parking we can provide,” said Joseph Bowes, INHS senior real estate developer. The site is bordered by Lake Street to the east, Hancock Street to the south, First Street to the west, Adams Street to the north, and is adjacent to a 28 unit Cascadilla Green rental townhouse development owned and managed by INHS. The Board of Public Works hopes it

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arolyn Matos and Joanne Joseph, two third-year law students from Cornell, approached the City Administration Committee at their Wednesday, Jan. 21 meeting to ask them to pass a resolution condemning domestic violence and to take steps as a government to do something about it. Matos and Joseph have already visited Tompkins County and the Town of Ithaca governing bodies. The city committee members had not received the resolution before the meeting and so had not yet read it. They declined to vote on it last Wednesday and promised to consider it at their February meeting. Matos told the committee that she and Joseph had drafted their resolution in the fall. She reminded them of the Thanksgiving murder of Shannon Jones. “Domestic violence affects everyone,” Matos said. “1.3 million women and 835,000 men experience domestic violence, and the real number is higher than what is reported.” “This is a societal problem that requires a societal solution,” said Joseph, “There is nationwide momentum to pass similar resolutions. Tompkins was the first rural county to pass one. Albany County has also passed one.” She noted that there were important educational components in the text of the resolution, including statistics. “It’s always good to reevaluate policies,” she said. “ We have done a lot of community outreach and have 400 signatures on petition in Ithaca … Safety is not a privilege; it is a right.” Tiffany Greco, the education director at the Advocacy Center, partnered with the students to look at “real-life” ways to address domestic violence. The Advocacy Center annually serves 800 clients who have experienced domestic violence. They had 200 new clients in 2013. “Our 24hour hotline rings nonstop,” said Greco. “We look at the many factors that affect domestic violence. A lot of our resources have been pulled away from preventing violence at the macro level. This resolution addresses societywide problem. Start of an ongoing conversation about how our city responds to this problem.” Committee chair Deb Mohlenhoff (D-5th) told Greco, Joseph, and Matos that “our community has to decide if we are comfortable with this.” “I would like to have time to read it and think about it,” said Alderperson continued on page 4

ity of Ithaca Board of Public Works reviewed Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services’ 210 Hancock Street development proposal Wednesday evening, touching on public concerns such as parking, traffic flow and accessibility. After INHS purchased former Neighborhood Pride grocery in Ithaca’s Northside neighborhood this August, it continues to shape plans in using the two-acre site at 210 Hancock and 423 First Street for rental and for-sale housing as well as educational and commercial services. “What I hear from people is they are excited there will be more affordable housing options when the cost of living in the city continues to rise,” Mayor Svante Myrick said. The two plans each include 50 Joseph Bowes of INHS (Photo: Avery Galek) units of rental housing, 13 units of for-sale gave INHS clarity on what it could do on housing, three commercial spaces and Lake Avenue and Adams Street, according accompanying parking and greenspace. to Myrick. This involves changing those Input from the public meetings helped streets so they are no longer through-way construct a preferred plan on how to streets, but instead small-scale local roads organize and utilize the block. Feedback from the community include or possibly closing them off to traffic completely, he added. “They know it’s working on solutions to minimize surface something the city is interested in and they parking and making the development’s can move forward with their plans,” he eastern border pedestrian oriented said. with low traffic, as well as low-scale development and making green and continued on page 7 public space more accessible to the wider

helpful Library and on-line resources. A table of cancer-related resources will also be on display in the Library throughout the month of February. Riter writes a regular column about cancer for the Ithaca Journal and is the author of a nationally distributed book, “When Your Life is Touched by Cancer: Practical Advice and Insights for Patients, Professionals and Those Who Care.” For more information, contact Riter at (607) 277-0960 or bob@crcfl.net.

▶ Drop-in Sessions, Tompkins County Public Library and the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes, in recognition of National Cancer Prevention Month, will partner In February for free, weekly informational drop-in sessions. Facilitated by Bob Riter, executive director of the Cancer Resource Center, these sessions will be held in the Library’s Youth Services Department’s small study room each Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. beginning February 5. Riter will answer questions about cancer and direct attendees toward

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he Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG) has taken action to begin a formal study of the possibility of municipal court consolidation. Over the past few months, TCCOG discussed the idea of studying court restructuring, but at their Thursday, Jan. 22 meeting, the council passed a resolution to create a citizens’ panel dedicated to studying various possibilities for court consolidation and restructuring. Before the council’s vote, County Administrator Joe Mareane provided some background for the discussion. TCCOG first began considering the topic of court consolidation as a cost-saving measure that would help the county meet the shared-services requirement that is part of the state tax freeze. For the 2016 tax year, municipalities must both stay under the tax cap and show a 1-percent savings through shared services in order for residents to qualify for rebates. Mareane explained that he did exploratory research on the topic in order to find possible savings. He said, “We spend a fair amount of money on the municipal courts.” Annually, town and village courts

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Donna Fleming (D-3rd). “We don’t want to move as a resolution this evening. We need to take it seriously.” “If we were to adopt this,” continued Fleming, “How might the city be held accountable for progress on these goals? What kind of follow up or guidance would we expect?” Greco assured Fleming that her organization would collaborate with the city and make sure that were a lot of people involved in the task force. She noted that the county officials also had insisted that the resolution “have teeth.” “We wouldn’t want anything in the resolution that merely expresses a sentiment,” said Fleming. • • • City Forester Jeanne Grace sought approval of an $11,780 grant from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for replacing street trees that had been made unsightly and unhealthy due to pruning by power companies. Grace said that the city wanted to replace the trees with low-growing species. Alderperson George McGonigal (D-1st), a landscaper by trade, asked Grace what species she had chosen. “We have haven’t picked them yet,” said Grace. “It depends on the site. We will plant some crabapples, some medium

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Much of that concern is related to the fact that town and village judges hear criminal cases that can result in jail time for defendants, but are not required to be attorneys and therefore do not have a common grounding in the law.” Some of the alternatives that interviewees suggested would remedy that by creating new structures that would require judges to be lawyers. Some of the suggestions include creating an arraignment County Administrator Joe Mareane (File photo) court and a district court, and merging existing town cost around $800,000, about 85 percent courts as is currently being done in Orleans of which is personnel costs. Although he County in western New York. outlined the numbers involved, Mareane Mareane recommended that the said that court consolidation would not be council create a citizens’ panel composed of likely to generate considerable savings. about 10 individuals with a solid working However, in the course of his knowledge of the criminal justice system exploratory study, Mareane found in Tompkins County. The panel would that the people he interviewed—all meet and investigate alternatives over the professionals deeply familiar with the next year and report back to TCCOG with county’s justice system—thought that recommendations. consolidating courts could work well to Representatives unanimously approved achieve more consistently administered a resolution charging the council’s Shared justice throughout the county. In a memo Services Committee with identifying to TCCOG, he wrote, “Among those potential panel members. interviewed, nearly all indicated some level of concern about the consistency of justice continued on page 7 in the current system of municipal courts. height trees where the lines are higher, like horsechestnut; dwarf honey locust, and taller crabapples.” She said there was also an Asian species of maple that was suitable. Fleming asked Grace where she purchased the trees. The forester named a nursery south of Buffalo that had a good selection, particularly of native species. McGonigal noted that in spite of this being a matching grant the city was going to receive only $5,450, which was less than half the $11,780 stated initially. Grace explained that the city was being reimbursed only for the cost of the trees. The state would not pay for all associated costs, but would accept the labor of city employees as a contribution toward the overall cost. The committee gave Grace permission to accept the grant. The forester explained that they work had already been done, but it had taken the DEC some time to process the grant application. • • • Traffic Engineer Tim Logue requested permission to appropriate $60,000 via serial bonds for a $355,000 project to build new “bump out” curbs at the corners of Plain and Corn streets where they cross Seneca and Green streets. Eighty percent of cost will be paid for from federal sources. Logue put the project out to bid late in the construction season last year and received only one high bid. This year it

was posted again and the city received four bids, which were lower but all over the engineer’s estimate. Logue decided that the estimate was high and accepted the lowest bid. McGonigal asked Logue if some money could be saved by installing less elaborate landscaping. Logue said he would talk to Trowbridge and Wolf, the landscape architects on the project, and admitted that landscaping could also be added later. Logue was given permission to go forward. • • • Bridge Engineer Addisu Gebre sought permission from the City Administration Committee to allocate funds to go ahead with the design phase of a project that includes repairing many components of the infrastructure of the Cascadilla Creek channel between Tioga and Cayuga streets. This includes the Sears Street pedestrian bridge, which was declared unsafe and is closed, the railings along Cascadilla Blvd., and the retaining walls next to the creek. After a lengthy procedural discussion about whether to approve allocation of the full amount of the project or the portion needed for the design phase, the committee approved the full amount. Final decisions in these matters are made by the full Common Council. • —Bill

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job at a law firm in Rochester, and I have been either a secretary or paralegal or law librarian for 60 years of my life. My dad always said I could go be a lawyer, but I don’t want to be a lawyer. Then in 1990 the then-county clerk retired and said she wasn’t going to run again. She said to me, “This is your job: you just know so much about the law.” I’d been doing practically the same thing on the other side of the counter all these years. It’s really fun. IT: What is your favorite thing about being clerk? AV: We hold three naturalization ceremonies every year. I’m sort of the M.C., producer, and director of welcoming these applicants for citizenship, and when I do I remind myself that my mother and father were naturalized in this very courthouse, therefore enabling me to be a first generation American. There’s more, I think, but if we have three ceremonies per year, and I process approximately 100 new citizens per year, so approximately 2,400 people become citizens of the U.S. in this courthouse. I’m really pleased that I could do that for my country—it’s something that won’t wash away over time. IT: What will you not miss at all when you leave? AV: I can’t think of anything I’m not going to miss. Maybe scraping off the car at 8:30 in morning, but knowing me I’ll be scraping off the car at 8:45. I really love everything I do. It’s hard to leave, but I can’t fathom, if I ran another term saying, “I’m 82 years old and county clerk.” IT: So what are your plans now? Are you going to retire and flee to Florida? AV: No! I have one son. He owns a restaurant in New York City, and I probably will spend more time in the city than I’ve been able to. I also have five nieces in and around Raleigh, North Carolina, each of whom seems to want my appearance. •

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urora Valenti was first sworn in as the Tompkins County Clerk in 1991. Now, 24 years later, she has finally retired at the age of 78. Born and raised in Tompkins County, Valenti is quite proud to be an Ithacan through and through. She’s also—quite justifiably—proud of some of her accomplishments as clerk. Others have recognized those accomplishments, too: in 2010 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York State Association of Clerks. Just before her departure at the end of December, the Ithaca Times sat down to interview the accomplished outgoing clerk. Ithaca Times: For our readers who aren’t into the details of municipal government, what all does a clerk do? Aurora Valenti: The county clerk actually is the clerk of the supreme and county courts. All legal actions are commenced here. You can’t sue anybody unless you start your action by filing it here in this office. We are the repository of all civil and criminal files. The county clerks in 51 of the 62 counties of New York State are directors of the Department of Motor Vehicles, so I’m Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, along with being county clerk. IT: And it’s worth mentioning that it’s an elected position—have you ever had opposition? Did you ever have to mount a serious campaign? AV: I was opposed the first time—in 1990—by a very popular woman who was a county legislator. IT: So you never had to defend against being called an extreme Ithaca liberal in a campaign? AV: Actually, I was registered as Republican when I ran for office, because a Republican was what they needed. It was a very close race. The majority was Republican when I came back to Ithaca in 1958, so that’s what I registered. IT: You’re still a Republican? AV: Yes. I was endorsed by both parties. IT: How much does party affiliations affect a clerk’s duties? AV: None. In fact, the county clerks in downstate are appointed for life, and it truly isn’t a political job at all. It’s about who’s the best for what goes on. IT: Why did you decide to become a clerk? Most little girls don’t say, “I want to be a county clerk when I grow up.” AV: I was very young when I graduated from high school—I was 16 when I graduated—and my dad wanted me to go to college, and I didn’t want to go. I got a

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Ups&Downs ▶ Lifton Calls for Silver Resignation, After gathering information and consulting with my colleagues, I have concluded that the Speaker can no longer continue in his position due to the appearance of serious ethical violations. I am therefore joining the call for him to resign as Speaker of the Assembly. The Speaker has claimed that he is innocent, but the ethical cloud he is under cannot interfere with the work of our conference as we begin to negotiate a state budget and other legislation. If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Quote of the Week,County Legislator Peter Stein (D-11th) after hearing County Administrator Joe Mareane explain the property tax circuit

breaker: “This is the screwiest things I ever heard of.” ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of January 21-27 include: 1) Cornell Employee Killed in Bus Accident 2) Sheriffs Report Motor Vehicle Accident Fatality 3) Dollar Store Considers Candor Site 4) Inherent Sloth: New Paul Thomas Anderson Film Goes Nowhere 5) Two Men Arrested for Heroin, Crack, Marijuana For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Also at the Jan. 22 meeting, TCCOG members looked at a resolution recognizing freedom from domestic violence as a human right. Irene Weiser, a member of the Caroline Town Council, said, “I don’t want this to be just a ‘feel good’ document … I want there to be a real plan in place.” After much discussion, the council passed the measure anyway, although Enfield Town Supervisor Ann Ryder said that the approval came “with the understanding that this is the beginning of a work in progress.” Just before adjourning, TCCOG approved council officers for 2015. Ryder will continue as co-chair, while Ithaca City Alderperson J.R. Clairborne will move up from vice chair to co-chair. Weiser was elected as the 2015 vice chair. •

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overnor Andrew Cuomo’s Tax Freeze program, which offers tax rebates to property owners if their taxes go up—if the taxing entity they live under has kept the rise in taxes under the 2-percent tax cap—and if the taxing entity (school district, county, village or what have you) implements shared services agreements that save at least 1 percent of the tax levy, under one of several types of agreements (regional, multi-school, multi-municipality, etc.), and if they did all those things after, but not before, 2012—has begun to seem like more trouble than it’s worth. As Mike Lane, chair of the Tompkins County Legislature, put it, the state’s push to keep property taxes down in this way, while increasing the burden of what property tax payers have to pay for, is “smoke and mirrors.” If Albany were sincere about reducing the burden on property tax payers, it would stop handing them the bill for Medicaid and other programs, and start finding other ways to pay for them. Like, income tax. While local school districts and municipalities continue to look at ways to reduce costs and become more efficient, the truth is they’re doing it because they think it’s a good idea and not because of this heavy-handed tax freeze plan. They’ve proven they think it’s a good idea already, because they’ve already implemented shared services agreements, such as the municipal health care consortium that keeps public

employees’ health care costs down. Some of the municipalities have had shared service agreements on a handshake basis for years; your snowplow is down, we’ll lend you ours. All the obvious and easy ways to cut costs have been tried. Some, like school consolidation, have been attempted and rejected by voters. Even if school consolidation did save money (and it’s not clear that, without incentive payments from the state, it would) people are not willing to pay the social cost of losing their community identity, or the time cost of bussing kids farther and farther away. The Tompkins County Council of Governments is now looking at consolidating the municipal courts. County Administrator Joe Mareane has indicated this may not save gobs of money. It may, however, allow for a more even application of justice. The justice courts, or rural courts, that operate in the towns and villages of New York State, rely on elected justices to settle misdemeanors and levy fines for traffic tickets and other infractions. To become a municipal judge, a person doesn’t have to have a law degree, and most don’t. However, they do get twelve hours of training: less than a manicurist. With that training, justices can imprison people for up to one year, evict people from their homes, set bail that can result in lengthy pre-trial incarceration continued on page 7

The Simple Life By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

orking at GreenStar Co-op, pretty much every day I spend some time ringing out customers at a register. It’s a hard job for those who do it all day, and I admire them, but (luckily) it can be intermittently fun, chatting with people and all. One rule, at least for me, is never to discuss the purchases. It’s just not creative, and maybe a bit gauche. You can break the rule, though, in one instance where it’s useful and fun: when the customer looks at the purchases and says, “I know I’m forgetting something.” Then you can have a conversation like this: “Bread?” “No.” “Water? Juice?” “No.” “Coffee?” “No.” “Beer?” “No.” “Toilet paper?” “No.” “Then forget about it.” There’s really not much else that, if you remembered once you got home, you’d need to turn around for. The question of need comes up a lot for me as a guy who lives pretty simply, by nature. I live in an apartment where nothing is more than sixty feet from anything else. It’s small, but it sure cuts down on cleaning time. There’s not much room to keep things, which can be inconvenient, but can encourage the guideline that when anything new comes into the house, something old has to go. I got two new books this week, so I’m giving two away. A few years ago a friend of mine was joining a group dedicated to “voluntary

simplicity” and asked if I wanted to go. I said thanks, but no, I would only embarrass them. You’ve seen my apartment, I said, I make Samuel Beckett look like Elton John. I have a big group of friends from Cornell undergrad days who still keep in close touch. We get together every summer for a week. Some are more interested in material things than others (one has a horse), but altogether we have similar minds about possessions and necessities, and the value of simplicity. One summer we were discussing a bestselling book that had just come out about the bare 100 things you need to live. We all agreed 100 was too high a bar. We decided to make a game of it: how low can you go? The challenge was this: take a minute, think in silence, and identify the fewest, barest things one needs to live—at least theoretically. The one with the most essential things (or the fewest essential things, I guess) would win. I figured I had an edge, with my lifestyle, and set to thinking. When I arrived at an answer—two: seeds, and a source of water—I was sure I would win. So I held back, thinking I’d chime in last. But it was a short contest. My friend John went first. John had things in life, including two houses, but also had great capacity for self-sufficiency (one of the houses he built himself, pretty much). He said, “Two. A piece of metal, and something to sharpen it with.” Okay, okay, we all yelled. Ruin the whole game, John. No one tried to top that. Me included. You know. Even Samuel Beckett needed paper and a pencil. He even had a bed and a card table. •

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Governor Cuomo is no friend of public education. In fact he’s a schoolyard bully. And like any bully he needs to belittle and attack others to feel empowered. His recent education proposals are a very real and terrifying threat to our students, teachers, schools and democracy. As a public school parent I am honestly offended by the way Mr. Cuomo speaks about my child’s teachers. Recently, while driving in the car, my six year old was exposed to Mr. Cuomo’s bullying tactics when he said, “But we have teachers that have been found guilty of sexually abusing students who we can’t get out of the classroom.” Immediately, my daughter wanted to know what it means to sexually abuse a student and why someone would do such a thing. 6 T

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Mr. Cuomo’s words are part of an ongoing effort to vilify and scapegoat our children’s teachers. His rhetoric is obscene and nauseating, as is his related proposal to have teachers, based on accusation alone, suspended immediately without pay. In essence: a guilty verdict without the fundamental right of due process. This is but one component of Mr. Cuomo’s anti-public schools agenda. Other weapons in his bullying arsenal include withholding school funding until all of his demands are met, like increasing the emphasis on mandatory state testing, narrowing the curriculum to teach to those tests, and further decreasing local control of our schools by our democratically elected continued on page 7

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for people awaiting their day in court, and impose substantial fines. They can also make severe mistakes, such as not knowing when people are entitled to counsel, incorrectly sending people to jail, or failing to follow legal procedure. The lawyers who appear before them are in the uncomfortable position of knowing more about the law than the judge, but risking a charge of contempt should they attempt to explain procedure, or follow the law rather than the justice’s extralegal ruling. There is redress from higher courts, but only if the defendant appeals, and many don’t. To be sure, local justices are doing their best with the knowledge that they have. It’s not a highly paid job. As with most public servants, town justices are motivated by a sincere desire to serve the communities they live in and try to dispense justice fairly. The problem is that there is little oversight of their courts and no standardized way to tell how well they’re doing. Lawyers and police officers can only attempt to vote with their feet by avoiding justices whose rulings have a high likelihood of being overturned by higher courts. Further, the personal relationships between townspeople and their justices can serve some people better than others. One local justice personally called one of two parties in a case appearing before the bench, and advised that party on how to proceed. You can bet the party receiving those helpful phone calls is not interested in complaining about the judge’s behavior. This mild example of the miscarriage of law is one of thousands of errors that are inevitable when those administering the law do not know it. According to the NYCLU, “The State Commission on Judicial Conduct is only charged with policing clear ethics violations and, by its own account, is not equipped to fully monitor the many Town and Village Courts throughout the state. The result is that there is no effective check on the operation of these courts and no accountability for their failures outside of the local community.” Whether or not it brings the county under the tax cap, consolidating the courts is a good idea. •

By S h e i l a Mc C u e , L MSW The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you. – Rita Mae Brown

s Director of the After Trauma Program at Ithaca’s Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service (SPCS), as well as a mental health practitioner in private practice, I spend a lot of my time engaged with the topic of mental health. Some of what I’ve come to understand about “the topic” is that our understanding is a work in progress. De-stigmatizing mental illness is a formidable campaign underfoot. My hope is that this column will participate in that dialog. Questions abound. What is mental illness? What are mental health issues? Who has it? How did they get it? Can they recover from it? Do I have it? Have I always had it? What’s the difference between a bad mood and a mood disorder? Feeling depressed and being clinically depressed? Creative or bi-polar? Angry or mad? Why are so many of our children being medicated? Why are so many of our citizens dying by suicide? These are questions that we are asking ourselves, our loved ones, our colleagues. Scientists, politicians, insurance companies, ministers, healers, and therapists are seeking the answers. Being alive is a big job. Doing it well is extraordinary. Acknowledging that something is wrong is courageous. Getting the help that you need could be a journey of a thousand forms with little return. Keep trying. If you think you could use some help, you probably could. When people approach my office, I ask that we meet for an initial conversation. That gives them, the consumer, a chance to meet me and see if I’m someone that they would be comfortable talking with. It gives me the opportunity to begin understanding what the pain and suffering is about and assess if I’m the best person to provide the counseling. It’s in the connection that client/counselor make that will determine the usefulness of the time spent together. I often use a scale with clients: “on a scale of 1 to 10, tell me whatever number pops into your head as I ask the question … A 10 is ‘I’m doing well, thanks for asking. I have no reason to be in your office.’ A 1 is ‘I could barely get myself here.’” It’s at that place of recognition that the work begins. Honestly, not many of us are walking around living a “10” all the time. But, I suggest that 7, 8, and 9 can be mentally healthy numbers to live within. One’s

mental health or unwellness lives within one’s overall health. Our overall health is determined by where we’ve come from, how it was while we were there, and, how we’re doing with where we are now. Our capacity to take care, fundamentally, is a good indication of our mental wellness. The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. – Carl Rogers, American psychologist Part of “living well” is embracing the belief that we can grow and change. To do so, we have to understand who and where we are, with eyes wide open. Too often shame, low self esteem, self hatred, sadness, despair, anger, rage, poverty, racism, classism, homophobia, sexism, and undiagnosed mental illnesses prevent us from engaging and taking up the task of living fully. Living well infers mental health. If life is not going well, mental health certainly is challenged. Having access to support is critical. The After Trauma program at SPCS offers up to eight free counseling sessions for anyone in Tompkins County coping with a past or current trauma. Our working definition for trauma is anything that has taken place that is interrupting the life you ought to be living. These sessions offer clients an opportunity to discuss challenges and develop a plan of care beyond the counseling sessions. We take a look at the seven foundation blocks for a healthy life: rest, nutrition, hydration, movement, connection, spirit, and responsibility. We ask together how solid or challenged the foundation is. In collaboration we create intentional planning for wellness. This column will explore these questions and contribute responses that will be of use. Our community is rich in resources. Guest writers will be invited to share philosophies, approaches, and content that will contribute to the conversation. If you have ideas and/or questions that you would like to have included in this column, please be in touch: 607-2721505. •

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Providing INHS with flexibility in how these two streets function can help them meet zoning requirements and build houses with clear addresses as well as maintaining a pedestrian connection along the creek that starts at the science center and continues on through Conley Park. INHS has held three community meetings with its last planned for February 11 on site at the former Neighborhood Pride Grocery Store from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. These meetings have included two site plans and were attended by over 160 residents of the Northside and Fall Creek neighborhood. The meetings are open-house style,

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allowing community members to come and go as they please. All meetings are hosted by INHS and facilitated by HOLT Architects and Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects. Information about the project and community meetings can be found at www.210hancock.org. In addition to discussing this development proposal, the board awarded a contract for the upgrade of 16 pedestrian signals in the city. This funding was awarded via the federal Highway Safety Improvement Program. Four of these intersections use pedestrian pushbuttons. Total project funding is $147,700. Preliminary design and detailed design is to occur in 2015 and 2016. Construction and inspection is to occur in 2016. “Pedestrian safety is extremely important to us,” Myrick said. “We want to make sure people walking through their neighborhood are safe with these signals.”• — Av e ry

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ithaca com In response to a story in the Jan. 21 issue of the Dryden Courier about the protests against the West Dryden natural gas pipeline to Lansing: With country land being sold off as WE true country folks grow older it has been unfortunate these properties are being bought by city folk and Ivy League indoctronated obstructionalist. Natural gas is one of this nations economic salvations. These obstructionalist are a threat to the prosperity of the town of Dryden and the United States. There seems to be a narrow minded veiw of us larger landowners gaining some wealth and are in someway a threat to those with all those degrees on their walls. Solar energy, just great if the global warming of the Al Gore obstructionalist could somehow find the NY sun in large amounts. Take a look at SUNY Cortland’s solar panels ( if you can find them under the snow) You West Dryden implants disscuss me right along with the Town of Drydens planning board and make up of the board AKA Ellis Hollow mouth pieces. This is in regards to the anti West Dryden gas pipe line. -drillbabydrill Mayor Svante Myrick set some goals for 2015 in our Jan. 14 issue: I am happy to hear that our mayor is consulting with The Drug Policy Alliance for strategies that might alleviate the problem of drug abuse in Ithaca. The Alliance promotes the idea that drug abuse can be more effectively addressed as a health problem rather than a criminal problem. They seek to reduce the harm of drug abuse and the harm of drug policies. Putting people in jail has not worked; why not try something else? -jcc 2 8 - Februar y 3 , 2 0 1 5 7

Designing Ithacans Co-workers at Think Topography (Photo: Tim Gera)

Graphic design professionals reaching a critical mass By Michael Nocella

odd Edmonds began Iron Design in 1993 in the back of an Ithacan home. What started as a packaging design company, mostly for the game industry, evolved significantly over the years. Today, Iron Design is a small agency tucked away in an upstairs office at 120 N. Aurora St. They have three designers and out-source work to a website firm. Edmonds and company handle more than 30 clients, 80 percent of whom are relatively local, Edmonds said. Edmonds has noticed the design community change over his time in Ithaca. When he began his business more than two decades ago, he noticed options were lacking. “When I started in 1993, there was very little design in Ithaca,” he recalled. “There was Garrity Communications, and a couple of typesetting businesses. When I got here, I did a local review of businesses and whom they were using for vendors, and it was really small—there wasn’t much happening. Then we got here, and Communiqué Design started around the same time.”

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Flash forward to 2015, and it is hard to keep track of all the design companies calling Ithaca home, not to mention the scope of design work available to customers looking to bring a vision to life. Iron Design is joined by CObP Design, Zanzinato Web & Graphic Design, Standard Art Supply & Souvenir, Gorges, Inc., Singlebrook Technology, Rev Ithaca, Ancient Wisdom Productions, Flourish Design Studio, CoLab Coop, Think Topography, STREAM Collaborative, and Studio West, among others. All of the aforementioned companies fall into the design industry, at least in some capacity. So has Ithaca become a destination for designers? It depends on whom you ask. Several designers suggested that in 2015, the majority of design work, thanks in large part to technology and the Internet, can now be a remote activity. With so much emphasis on the Internet, designers are finding a majority of their work is to design company websites. “Website design is such a huge part of the game today,” Edmonds said. “We probably get more website projects than print projects because that’s what clients need.” However, it also seems that many 2 8 -F

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have gravitated to Ithaca to do that remote work. “Now, designers can work without any external resources,” Edmonds explained. “If you have a decent camera, you can shoot your own photography. If you can write, you can do that on your own. But you don’t need to be in the same area to share those skills with companies anymore. Why are there so many designers in Ithaca now? It’s the culture. It helps to have clients here, but I don’t think the designers in town are really restricted to local clients.” That said there does not seem to be a shortage of available work at the local level. Whether something is sent down the hill from Cornell, a local farm needs a logo, or a startup company is searching for an identity, designers can find clients in Tompkins County—and the Finger Lakes region—to keep them busy. As an example, Iron Design is currently in the midst of updating the Corning Museum of Glass’s logo in preparation for the museum’s upcoming expansion this spring. “It’s an oasis of art,” Edmonds said, “that trickles down from the institutions

that help propagate that. Community theatre is big here. There are a lot of cultural resources here. It’s kind of a hip town, you know?” And for those looking to get something designed? They can have a lot of companies to browse through, depending on just what exactly they need to be accomplished. “The breadth of designers in town is extremely impressive,” said Edmonds. “There are a lot of one- or two-person shops in town, which is great. There’s good value in resources in town. I would wish that more outside companies would look to Ithaca as a hotbed of creativity. That’s something we’re trying to do, and encourage other designers in town to bring people to Ithaca. There are a lot of collaborative possibilities in town.”

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Not everyone—let alone a struggling, or even successful, artist—has the resources available to rent out an office space in downtown Ithaca. While most of the aforementioned companies do have their own studio, options such as STREAM Collaborative and Studio West

(a minimum of 20 hours a week) costs as freelance, a the best way to share creative space both are co-working approximately $200, while full-time costs literally and figuratively. Like Edmonds, company, or spaces serving as $350 to $400. Demarest, born and raised around even a loose headquarters for While Demarest said it was too early Ithaca, started his landscape architecture, combination freelancers and small on in the game for any specific project architecture, and graphic design business of referrals. businesses lacking the to be born directly from the co-working out the back of his house. Like others, he I’ve been financial or physical space, he was confident in its potential found himself with a desire “to move out through all of needs for a full office. going forward. Others using the space those models. of his house into downtown.” Knowing Co-working said the environment alone has made it there were others with the same ambition, I’ve been a is a trending style successful, and that networking with peers he said it made a lot of sense to team standalone of work that uses consultant. a shared working I used to environment, with work for “employees” from all Gorges on the different companies Commons. in a common space. I’ve started While it isn’t a good a couple fit for all walks of different life, it seems to be companies especially attractive to along the creative professionals, way. And I like writers, artists, think people and designers, among in Ithaca just others. Studio West want to do opened in February what they 2013 at 516 West love, make MLK/State St., a living, and while STREAM be able to Collaborative opened To d d E d m o n d s o f I r o n D e s i g n maximize just last year at the ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) their skills for corner of South customers looking for a certain approach.” Cayuga and East Green streets. Pugh noted that co-working lets Studio West began as a financial people be their own boss—an aspect of supplement for Think Topography, which life that seems to be attractive to not only identifies itself as “the intersection of designers, but also to Ithacans in general. branding and design, web technology and N o a h D e m a r e s t o f S T R E A M C o l l a b o r at i v e “I think Ithaca is full of people who strategy. The company’s biggest project has ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) are trying to do something creative,” been unifying all 54 Cornell Cooperative she said, “and a lot of people want to Extension branches in New York State going forward will happen naturally. up with people who were in the same make their own schedule. I think design under one web information platform, and “I don’t need there to be an official situation. to give each branch the same look and feel. definitely lends itself to that kind of project underway or a project for this to Demarest calls himself, Scott schedule. I think there’s that Ithaca Chief Executive Officer Greg Kops be a success,” Hopkins said. “It’s already and Creative Director Megan a success because it’s a place I can come, Pugh said turning their home it’s mine, and it’s an official business into a home for others had space. Part of what makes [co-working] both financial and creative so enticing is just working around other benefits. people, having someone to go to the water “Studio West was really cooler with.” started as a cost recovery For Scarlet Duba of Duba Design, [measure],” Kops said. becoming a member of STREAM “We had this space, and it’s Collaborative has been a positive more than we need, and it’s experience. For the last 10 years, the expensive. So how do we majority of her work has leaned on a few maximize the use of this clients outside of Ithaca, and she worked space so that we can stay from her home studio. Now she will split here, and run a business, her work hours between her home studio and keep that same kind of and the co-working lab. creative atmosphere that we “I’m really excited,” she said. “I’ve strive for? So in February worked from home for a while now, but 2012 we opened up the space my son just started kindergarten, so I have as a co-working space.” some more time. To work in a community For $175 a month, environment and be around people who members of Studio West get you can talk to about what you do, what a key to the door and can you want to do—it’s really great. Part of pop in and out whenever my motive to come work downtown is to they want. The two-floor make connections here and get more work studio has an office, a locally.” conference room, and an upstairs equipped with tables K a l e b H u n k e l e o f S ta n d a r d A r t S u p p ly ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) and counters for ample “A Bustling Design Community” workspace. Kops has noticed It’s probably safe to say places like Whitham of Whitham Planning and mentality of I don’t want a boss, I want to a “very interesting ebb and flow,” in terms New York City, San Francisco, and Austin Design, local graphic designer Tyson be my own boss. That’s really the target of who is using Studio West and when. are still the juggernauts of the design Law, and local illustrator and cartoonist market for Studio West: people who are He added that people’s work tendencies world. But that does not mean Ithaca Marshall Hopkins the “core members” of freelancing or trying to be around other and preferences have a way or working can’t leave its own mark on the industry. STREAM Collaborative, but that the copeople who are all doing their own thing.” together well. With the number of options currently working space is up to about half-dozen At STREAM Collaborative, located at “There’s a community of people doing 123 S. Cayuga St., founder Noah Demarest businesses and a dozen people sharing this kind of work,” Kops said, “and we’re continued on page 10 the space. To be a part-time member and his coworkers are still figuring out all figuring out how to do it—whether it’s The I thaca Times / Januar y 2 8 - Februar y 3 , 2 0 1 5 9

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available, and co-working labs churning out new ideas—and possibly even more partnerships and companies, Ithaca’s design landscape is on the rise. Joe LaMarre has been part of the design community in Ithaca since 2004, when he partnered with Jason C. Otero to launch Art & Anthropology Inc. Recently, Otero took the Art & Anthropology name with him to Hawaii, and LaMarre has since launched Uncommonplace. The two are still great friends, and are even collaborating together for the City of Ithaca’s comprehensive plan logo and design. The duo has also worked on

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“place-making” design projects such as their branding of the re-opening of State Theatre and Wharton Studio Museum (formerly known as the Ithaca Motion Picture Project). Before coming to Ithaca, Otero and LaMarre launched Art & Anthropology in Denver. LaMarre can’t help but notice Ithaca’s potential as a rising design destination. “To me, Ithaca is like an early 90s Boulder, Colorado—it’s an ‘up and coming’ town that is going through puberty. Basically, its voice is changing, and it’s expected to do great things. The hippies from long ago have all grown up and left a semi-permanent ‘granola vibe’ that appreciates quality food and open,

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Tompkins County

Screwiest Thing They’ve Heard Of

t the second 2015 meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature, Chair Mike Lane spoke out the “unjustifiable travesty” of unfunded state mandates. “For the third year,” Lane said, “New York State unfairly saddles counties with its smoke and mirrors gimmick of real property tax legislation, each year tightening the screws even harder.” He continued, “For years, governors and state legislators from both parties have wrung their hands over statemandated programs like Medicaid. They require them to be paid not from the state’s broad-based Mike Lane income taxes but from the county’s real property taxes. It’s alarming. Seventy-four percent of Tompkins County’s real property tax goes directly to pay those mandates that we do not control. Meanwhile roads, bridges, law enforcement services, youth, elderly, health, library, and mental health programs—to name a few—all suffer from lack of proper funding. It’s time for state legislators to put their votes where their wringing hands are.” Lane called on state legislators to take action, saying, “It’s time for them to vote against budgets that contain unreasonable, unfunded mandates.” Speaking about economic concerns, Lane said that the county’s relatively low unemployment figure “paints too rosy a picture for the shrunken middle class and for the underemployed stuck in entry-level part-time jobs.” He said, “We need more good-paying jobs.” Regarding the legislature itself, Lane said, “Fourteen-strong and backed by highly capable administrators, department heads, and hard-working employees, Tompkins County legislators are poised to continue the people’s work.” To that end, Lane announced committee appointments for 2015. As in 2014, Legislator Jim Dennis will be chairing the Budget, Capital, and Personnel Committee and Legislator Peter Stein Health and Human Services. In new appointments for this year, Dan Klein will assume the chairmanship of Government Operations Committee, while former Government Operations Committee chair Nate Shinagawa will be now be chairing the Public Safety Committee. David McKenna will become chair of the Facilities and Infrastructure Committee, Martha Robertson will become the chair of

Economic Development, and Dooley Kiefer will become the chair of Planning, Energy, and Environmental Quality. As far as subcommittees and special committees, McKenna will continue to chair the Broadband Subcommittee, Lane will continue to chair Old Library Committee and Charter Review Committee, and Legislator Leslyn McBean-Clairborne will continue to chair the Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Committee. In his report to the legislature, County Administrator Joe Mareane spoke about the tax credit plan that Governor Andrew Cuomo announced during a Jan. 14 speech. Mareane explained that the plan, called a “circuit breaker,” is a $1.7 billion proposal that would provide rebates to those taxpayers who live in municipalities that

stay within the tax cap and whose property tax bills represent more than 6 percent of their annual income. Mareane explained, based on his initial calculations, how that tax credit might play out for Tompkins County residents: “If your assessed value is more than twice your household income, you may be in line for a credit.” He added, “It looks like renters may be in line for a credit if their rent exceeds 45 percent of their income or so. It’s a pretty high bar. At the same time, look at students, who have very low incomes but still are paying rent.” Mareane said that based on his initial reading of the measure, in order to be considered a tax cap compliant, all taxing entities would have to stay within the tax cap. Thus, school district, county, and city,

village, and/or town budgets would all have to stay within the tax cap and also show a 1 percent savings through shared services in order for residents to qualify for the rebate. “As far as who benefits the most, it certainly skews toward downstate,” said Mareane. The average circuit breaker refund is expected to be around $1,100 for downstate residents and $300 to $400 lower than that for upstate residents. Offering his own opinion on the matter, Mareane said that he believed the money would be better used to pay for unfunded state mandates. Peter Stein offered his commentary on the circuit breaker as well: “This is the screwiest thing I ever heard of.” • —Keri

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Our Sports Editor’s Meeting with Ernie Banks

ASK THE ALLERGIST Julie D.K. McNairn, M.D.

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later learn that he twice beat out the likes n 1992, three weeks after taking over of Willie Mays and Hank Aaron for the as the sports guy at the Ithaca Times, I MVP award, despite playing on a losing stood near the batting cage at the Sky team. I knew that his enthusiasm and love Dome in Toronto, the proverbial small fish for the great game was his trademarks, and in a very big pond. It was an hour before that his “It’s a great day for baseball… let’s the first pitch would be thrown in the very first World Series game ever played outside play two!” was among baseball’s hallowed quotes. the U.S., and I was rubbing elbows with Banks was at the World Series as an some heavy hitters in the sporting world. “ambassador” for Major League Baseball, One guy’s press pass said, “Senior and when our 10-second handshake Writer – Sports Illustrated,” another said, ended I already felt better. If Ernie Banks “Editor – New York Times,” and another would step up and treat me like I was one said “The Sporting News.” CBS Radio of those Sports Illustrated or ESPN guys, was there, ESPN… all the big dogs were well, I guess I was mingling with one somebody after all. another, grabbing Ernie must interview tidbits have seen my starhere and there. struck expression, I watched in and he pulled awe as Joe Carter, me back into the Dave Winfield, conversation. Deion Sanders, “So where are David Justice, and you from?” I two- dozen other said, “Well, Mr. players launched Banks…” he held ball after ball over up his hand and the fence, and I said “Call me can still hear the Ernie,” and I said crack of those “Okay Ernie, I am wooden bats. from Ithaca, New Those guys had York, and if you such incredible come and visit power and bat me, I’ll show you speed that the where a visiting “crack of the bat” player from sounded like a Columbia hit a rifle shot, and legendary 525-foot some screaming home run against line drives looked Cornell in 1923. like they might Local lore has it burn a hole in Ernie Banks (Provided) that the ball went the artificial turf. into the gorge It was clear why —600 feet away— these guys made on one hop, never to be seen again.” Ernie’s the Big Show and I did not. eyes bugged out and he said, “What? A This being my first assignment player from Columbia hit a 525-footer?” covering a Major League game—a World I let the suspense build for a moment Series game, mind you—I was a bit and said, “True story Ernie! In fact, maybe unsure as to how to engage. I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye, and you’ve heard of that Columbia player. His name was Lou Gehrig.” Ernie threw back I turned to see a man standing next to me, his head and laughed long and loud. “Oh, extending his hand. I may have gulped a man, you’ve got to be kidding! Lou Gehrig bit, but I’m not sure. “Hello, young man,” the guy said as I shook his hand. “I’m Ernie played against Cornell? I’m comin’ to see you, son! I gotta get up to Cornell and see Banks.” I replied, “Yes, Mr. Banks, I know that! ” who you are, and it’s a pleasure to meet I assured him that he would be welcome you.” He looked at my press pass and said, anytime, but he never made it here. Ernie “I see your name is Steve, and where is the Banks died a few days ago at age 83, a few Ithaca, New York Times?” months after receiving the Presidential Being a New York kid and having Medal of Freedom from President Obama. idolized the Yankees, I had never been He was among the nicest and classiest men a fan of the Chicago Cubs. I did know, I have ever met, and maybe now he can however, that Banks was among the finest ask Lou Gehrig if that guy from Ithaca was players never to have played in a posttelling the truth. • season game, and that he was a Hall of Famer with over 500 home runs. I would

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hen when you drive across the Inlet Island, you might notice some changes. The former Lehigh Valley House Restaurant, located at 801 W. Buffalo Street, is currently being transformed into six condominiums and a satellite office for Ithaca Police Department (IPD). Its neighbor, the former site of the Unfinished Furniture Store, at 206 Taughannock Blvd, is being reconstructed into seven apartments and office space. Both projects belong to Ithaca household names. Timothy Ciaschi is completing the Lehigh Valley House, while the project next door is being undertaken by Mark Zaharis. In addition to being neighbors, both owners pointed to their friendly business relationship, which plays a crucial role in the progress of both developments. In fact, Ciaschi said he would not have been able to go forward if he hadn’t purchased Pete’s Grocery, located behind both locations, from Zaharis. “Kudos to Mark,” Ciaschi said, “because without the acquisition of Pete’s, this wouldn’t have been possible. That gave

Robin [his wife] and me access to the back of the house for the construction team’s vehicles and workspace. It also gave us the ability to reconfigure the parking lot, which has been under utilized. The city was also fantastic throughout the entire planning process.” The lot next to the grocery store and behind the Valley House will be tenant parking. New development in the West End of Ithaca has been sporadic for many years due to zoning restrictions and the waterfront’s industrial past. In the 1960s Tim Ciaschi’s father opened the Station Restaurant in the old train depot. Over a decade ago the Boat Yard Grill went up, followed by Island Health & Fitness (a project of Terry Ciaschi, Tim’s brother). More recently the Station Restaurant became the Chemung Canal Trust Company. Recent rezoning does not require parking spaces for all tenants, allows buildings to be up to five stories, and also allows residential development, in addition to commercial and industrial uses. T

Local attorney and developer Steve Flash (who was one of the developers of the Boat Yard Grill), with the help of architect Noah Demarest of STREAM Collaborative, is in the midst of building a 17-unit apartment building at 323 Taughannock Blvd (now the site of a parking lot and a vacant tavern). Now Ciaschi and Zaharis will add to what could ultimately be a development boom in the West End. “I’m hoping it will help spur development down here,” Zaharis said. “We’ve been talking about growing and expanding down here in the West End for 30 or 40 years, and not a whole lot has been done prior to the changes we’ve seen in the last 10 years or so. The fitness center has created a lot of growth down here, along with the new Pete’s Grocery. Putting some places to live in this area will just help the area grow more. There’s a lot to offer down here. There’s the park real close, the fitness center, the bus station across the street, GreenStar is across the street, and obviously access to the inlet. It’s actually a great end of town, people have h e

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“I’ve been in the construction business here in Ithaca for 30 to 35 years,” Smith said. “This is one of the larger residential projects that we’ve been involved in. We just finished three apartments on the Commons last year, so it’s in that same vein that we’re doing this project, just a bit bigger. “The old building definitely lends to some quirkiness,” he continued, “and the settling of the building has added a lot of complications in the flooring and leveling the floors and the ceiling, but the construction of the building is coming together quite soundly. Tim did a great job of getting it ready for us.” Zaharis said he began thinking of repurposing the Unfinished Furniture Store about a year-anda-half ago. After 33 years of successful business, he said it was simply time to switch things up. He added that he has long believed the area was well suited for residential development: “I think it’s had that potential for a long time. Twenty years ago I sat on the Citizen’s Advisory Committee, and they were looking at the whole Adrienne and Mark Zaharis (Photo: Tim Gera) Cherry Street development, and they asked me as a small-business owner in the area to help plan things out. I told his project, and said it is a much-needed them then that they were missing the boat. addition into the West End community. I told them they should not be developing It is also part of Mayor Svante Myrick’s that area as commercial-industrial. They eight-point plan to reform IPD—a plan should develop housing on both sides of laid out this summer in the midst of a the inlet all the way down.” strained relationship between police and Zaharis said he’s already received residents. interest in three of the seven apartments, “I think for the longest time,” he and that he is excited about the changes said, “police have been based out there both he and Ciaschi are making. on the east side, and everyone has been “It was nice having retail here,” he wanting more presence here on the west said. “We were a family business, and we side because there’s a lot of action over here. So Chief John Barber, Mayor Myrick, always did well. But I think this will be a different way to help the West End grow. and I sat down and came up with a pretty I think 10 years from now, once these good plan to get an office here and help projects finish up and some other projects everyone out.” go through, I think you’ll start to see other As for construction of the project, small things start to fill in the gaps. The Scott Smith of Latipac Builders is idea of growth is everything does well managing the work being done on by it, and that’s what you want. You want the 136-year old Italianate Victorian everything to work harmoniously.” commercial building, which he admitted Ciaschi agreed: “I think the sky is the was not a simple task. limit.” § “I think Joe Perry, who is very interested in two of the condos,” he recalled, “was one of the big catalysts in this. He had this idea for condos in this space. That helped, having the guy with the idea also wanting to jump in and invest in the project right away. So we just kind of went with it. Joe believed there was a niche for people, including himself, who didn’t want to live in big houses anymore, but [wanted something larger than an apartment]. Some people who might need a nice spot to live for just part of the year.” Ciaschi, who is donating the space for the IPD satellite office to the city, was enthusiastic about having that be part of

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They’re charging you for the entire system. hen ASI Energy President You’re essentially paying for that waste. Herbert Dwyer, Vice President People don’t understand where their Anthony Guarneri, and attorney electricity is coming from. They see their Dave Parks began planning Energize bill, they see their lights go on—it’s magic. Ithaca in 2010, their vision was to create an They don’t see the wasteful system it takes initiative that, in time, would replace the “inefficient energy infrastructure” currently to create what they’re paying for.” Energize Ithaca’s mission is create a used to power Ithaca with an “innovative, new micro-grid for downtown Ithaca and highly-efficient, low-emissions district its surrounding area that would make that energy system” that would supply the area’s process 85 to 90 percent efficient using heating, cooling, and electric needs. a variety of resources and technology Five years later the trio is making including CHPs, solar and wind farms, steady progress in bringing their vision solar-charged batteries. The South Hill to fruition via combined heat and power Business Campus’s CHP unit was the first (CHP; also called “cogeneration”), a system step. In the coming that recycles years, 15 more otherwise wasted units throughout heat for energy. the Ithaca area Those efficiencies will be deployed, would help with a CHP plant decrease both the for Center Ithaca carbon footprint becoming the and the cost of “backbone of energy for urban the micro-grid,” businesses and Dwyer said. residents alike. The hope “The three of is to have the us,” Guarneri said, micro-grid up “created Energize and running by Ithaca with the 2018 with the goal of creating help of more an energy district than $20 million downtown. The in private and essence of it is: public funding. if you can create Three weeks efficiencies, Dave Parks, Anthony Guarneri, and Herb Dwyer ago, Governor you can have (Photo: Michael Nocella) Andrew Cuomo’s a competitive office invited advantage. There are countries, and cities in the United States Dwyer to present Energize Ithaca’s plans with New York State Energy Research that use heating districts. It’s just more and Development Authority (NYSERDA) efficient. If you think of it in its most basic CEO John Rhodes and NY Prize Executive terms, it’s more efficient to have one big Director Micah Kotch. NY Prize is a “firstboiler than a hundred small boilers. What in-the nation $40 million competition to we’ve been trying to do, and what we’ve help communities create micro-grids,” started, is if you combine a normal heating according to the NYSERDA site. The district with a combined heat and power initiative was born in the aftermath of unit, you can be [even more efficient].” Hurricane Sandy, when micro-grids were Energize Ithaca is currently the last energy resource standing. demonstrating how effective CHP can be “Energize Ithaca,” Dwyer said, “is by using one to power the entire South actually being looked at as the model in Hill Business Campus—a 288,000 squareNew York State. It’s a big deal. We’ve been foot building which houses dozens of doing this since 2010. We’re ahead of other businesses, ASI Energy among them. communities. They want to see us create Dwyer explained that currently, local something that’s scalable and replicable, businesses and residents are paying for so other communities can do on the same an energy system that is only 34 percent thing.” efficient. Two-thirds of the energy is According to Energize Ithaca’s lost in heat and operation, he added. Executive Summary, the next critical step However, New York State Electric and Gas for the project—phase 2—will be completed Corporation (NYSEG), is still charging for in 2015. Phase 2 will include an in-depth the entire process. study of the project’s technical, engineering, “When you get your NYSEG bill,” Dwyer explained, “what do you think they’re charging you for? The 30 units continued on page 16 you’re actually getting, or all 100 units? T

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sensitive issues in our community: affordable housing. Distinguished Business of the Year will be awarded to Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3). TC3 has continually grown in Tompkins County, and the County is growing with it. Their recent solar energy project, educational farm, and farm to table restaurant Coltivare have all been great additions to our community. TC3, under the leadership of President Carl Haynes, continually demonstrates its ability to think progressively about education and how to better integrate those opportunities into the Tompkins County community. The Key Person of the Year Award will be presented to Dave Hall from National Book Auctions. Hall was instrumental in guiding the Chamber during the recent leadership transition-investing countless hours in Chairing the Search Committeeand generously provides his auctioneer services annually to the Chamber auction. Mr. Hall’s continued commitment to growing his businesses, the Chamber and Tompkins County make him a key contributor to the community. Each of the individuals and companies above has shown extraordinary dedication to Tompkins County. Join the Chamber to celebrate their accomplishments on January 29th at Ithaca College’s Emerson suites from 5:30-9 p.m. during our Annual Dinner and Awards. Please register online at TompkinsChamber.org or call the Chamber at 607-273-7080. powering ithaca contin u ed from page 15

economic, financing, regulatory issues, and the approaches for addressing them, as well as assessing the potential benefits of the project’s implementation. The study will be used to confirm private sector financing for implementation, guide the project, and to support other district projects envisioned in Ithaca. The biggest obstacles for Energize Ithaca following through with its plan are working within the state regulations for all things utility. Luckily, Dwyer said, Energize Ithaca has the support and interest of NYSEG. While that may come as a surprise to some, Dwyer explained the utility company wants to be part of the energy evolution, and to not get left behind. He used the analogy of Bell Telephone Company, which once had a monopoly on the telephone industry. Now its descendant, AT&T, is simply part of the larger cell phone industry. “We need to play within the rules of regulators,” Dwyer said. “Part of that is playing within the rules of NY Prize. Once that happens, we’ll roll out this plan. We want to have this system up and running by 2018. It depends on how quickly we can move. The bottleneck is really regulations. Utility is very heavy regulated. But what’s great is that NYSEG and their parent company have shown an extreme amount of interest in this. They are the [Ma Bell of energy], but they get that the world is changing and that they need to be part of the cellular development. They want to see how they can participate in this and have it make sense for their business.” §

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He began reaching out to Recession, but said that “We’re all building new things,” said and-learn events,” said Demarest, “on other landscape architects and graphic she has seen no change B y Bil l Ch a is s on designers who were working at home to see technical topics, on zoning or other areas of Whitham. “You can’t do that without in occupancy rates and confronting the green question and when specialized knowledge, or to do a critique if they wanted to work in an office instead. she has raised her rates here are 1,996 guest rooms in travelers staying in bed and breakfasts at the conversations are over, you know which of each other’s work.” They moved into the Landscape architect Scott Whitham was each year. “Initially had Tompkins County, according to least once in a year has risen from 9 to 14 office—formerly occupied by Congressman side of it we’re going to come down on.” an early, interested party. He and Demarest more older people, in Bruce Stoff, the executive director of Maurice percent, according Demarest is involved an effort to Hinchey andto hisbedandbreakfast. staff—on October already had a working relationship; their 50s and 60s,” she the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention com, but that is still a distinct minority. combine the zoning of the city and the 1 and held an opening reception that Whitham was a subcontractor to a said. “Now there are and Visitors Bureau. This includes all Most American travelers, Blake said, are town using Smart Code,inaGothic form-based residential development project in the town coincided with First Friday gallery night Rose Hilbert Eves’s spa (Photo: Tim Gera) younger couples in their the hotels and the legally registered bed looking for the best deal. zoning approach that encourages mixedof Ithaca. Both are currently involved in the on November 1. At present there are six 20s and 30s coming. and breakfasts. In coming months the Gothic Eves Bed and Breakfast of useBed projects and densely populated “companies”—most of them single-person construction of Harold’s Square, soon to be and Breakfast in Newfield is “nodes” retiring “One person said the downtown Marriott Trumansburg is competing with hotels by of activity. “We are calibrating the Smart entities—in the Stream, but they have room oneconstruction of the tallestofbuildings in downtown and has put her business, which is high to me ‘The Ramada is charging $175 and Hotel will add another 160 rooms, the offering more luxurious accommodations Code to the city and town, he said. “We’re for 10 or 11 because many members are Ithaca. on Connecticut Hill, on”the market. She so are you. So I’d rather stay with you.’ And Hilton will be 126 more, and a that any franchise hotel could muster. a third party bridge gap between the part-time. “We’veCanopy been really fortunate, ” said bought thetohouse inthe 1998. they get a nice breakfast here.” planned“partly hotel on ElmiraofRoad that doesn’t wasout myonbest ” said general“We public and the developers. • said. The“Last officeyear looks theyear, intersection Whitham, because the energy enjoyed great success,”” she “There’s no doubt we can use more even have a franchise yet will add another owner Rose Hilbert, “since 2007 it’s been on of Cayuga and Green streets. The here.” “It’s a great location and we accepted rooms on weekends from April through 70. the upswing. If you offer service that isn’t conference room has enormous windows “I launched my business at the right families and pets. We also did weddings October,” said Stoff of the CVB, “that’s why David Blake, who recently purchased onin competition, those sitesordon’t affect your two sides; anyone sitting standing time,” said Demarest. A few years after here. We’ve had people contra dancing developers are pursing these projects. The the Halsey House in Trumansburg, is business. ” there feels that they are in the fabric of the the economic crash of 2008, the architect from the pond to the road.” Although her question is what happens during the other the president of the Bed and Breakfast Last year was also a milepost, as Gothic city. City hall is next door, a convenient and landscape architect found a pent-up home is equipped with WiFi, there are no times. That’s why people are concerned. Association of Greater Ithaca (BBGI). Eves marked twenty years in business. proximity given the number of meetings demand for work on projects both large televisions in the guest rooms. “Everyone More rooms and more high quality rooms “There is certain concern [among the BBGI Hilbert also added an in-house spa: “The and hearings Stream Collaborative and small. should feel comfortable here,” said Murphy. will put pressure on older, less competitive members], ” he “Hotels tendfor to the be inn, since 2006, has offered massage to its professionals are likely to attend. Whitham, onesaid. of the planners “We are all about hospitality; you should properties.” relatedstage to each other, so they offer ‘awards’ guests only, butcollaborative it didn’t haveoffice a dedicated Unlike other original of the EcoVillage, saw in come as a guest and leave as a friend.” “We feel that the elected and for cheaper rooms. ” He noted that the space for it. ” Hilbert began fixing up the spaces—like Studio West or the Commons the co-working model an analog to coA few years ago she renovated all of her government officials should support us over Hampton and Hilton chains have the same basement, putting tiles down and laminated Spot—the Stream Collaborative will not housing with its shared common spaces guest rooms. “The industry is changing,” these chains,” said Blake of BBGI. “The tax owner, Hilton Worldwide. “We will have to flooring, “It’s been luxurized by thick, she said. “We compete more with hotels incentives encourage hotels. We can’t beat respond with discount packages with the awesome rugs and soft lighting, beautiful now, but there’s a niche for us because it’s a them; we’ll have to join them.” wineries and restaurants.” lamps, and all of a sudden, I realized I totally different experience, and it’s not for Taking off his BBGI hat and speaking He noted that the ever-increasing had a spa … and I thought I should offer everyone.” as a small business owner, Blake said: number of hotel rooms would cause them it up to people in the town. People in the Donna Miller recently purchased “Because they get more tax revenue from to lower their rates in order to compete community could come in and have a the Federal House Bed and Breakfast in hotels than from us, there probably is a with each other. “This is tough on B&Bs,” luxury spa treatment. It made sense to me, Ludlowville, renovated it and reopened quiet bias.” § Blake said, “because we are small, local and I did it.” it two years ago. 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Finger Lakes Reuse, Inc. Finger Lakes ReUse, Inc. (FLR) is developing a Community ReUse Center with Sustainable Tompkins and the Sustainability Center in Ithaca. Development and construction of two additional buildings is included. By constructing two additional buildings, FLR will more fully realize the potential of this highly visible property; showcase the possibilities that can be achieved through sustainable design; and maximize opportunities for collaboration, waste diversion, job skills training, revenue generation, and job creation, $1,898,831. Village of Groton Village will conduct a downtown planning study, $20,000.

Village of Groton The Village of Groton will establish the Groton Microenterprise Assistance Program to provide grant funds to new and existing microenterprises, $200,000. Ithaca Tompkins County Convention Visitors Bureau The Ithaca Tompkins County Convention Visitors Bureau will start Phase I of a multiphase project that will undertake research, prototyping and deliver a cost effective system that allows real-time digital communications with travelers via their smartphones. The system will support text, video, data, gaps mapping, chat and voice to provide personalized visitor information to travelers regardless of the traveler’s device or physical location, $30,000.

Ithaca Tompkins County Transportation Council Tompkins County will conduct an Electric Vehicle Feasibility Analysis to create a plan for how best to install charging stations for electric vehicles in the County. This plan is the first step of a larger goal to stimulate a market shift from gasoline powered vehicles to electric vehicles in the County to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and shift to a more sustainable future for transportation, $91,000. City of Ithaca The City of Ithaca will use the grant funds to implement safety improvements and aesthetic enhancements (viewing plaza, ornamental fencing, scenic overlooks, etc.) to the Lake Street Bridge Plaza, which serves as the only public entry point to the popular Ithaca Falls Natural Area, $97,500. Paleontological Research Institution The Cayuga Nature Center, a public educational venue of the Paleontological Research Institution in Tompkins County, will use the funds to continue its renovation, focused on the development and installation of new educational exhibits and renovations to the main lodge building and other infrastructure. It will also install new educational exhibits, $1,246,987. Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York will construct a parking garage to support two major downtown employers, $2,000,000.

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Cornell Cinema: classics & new releases

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f you didn’t know Cornell Cinema started the winter semester on Jan. 21, you’ve already missed Boyhood, Big Hero 6, Gone Girl, and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. We spoke with Cornell Cinema’s Mary Fessenden about some of CC’s upcoming films and events. Ithaca Times: You’re presenting The Films of Amie Siegel, and a series of films selected by her, including Jean-Luc Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil (1968), which I haven’t seen since Cornell Cinema screened it when I was in high school. Tell me about Siegel’s work and a few of her “selects”. MF: Every two to three years we have access to donor funding that enables us to bring an accomplished American artist to Cornell Cinema under the umbrella of The Atkinson Forum in American Studies, and this spring that artist is Amie Siegel. Siegel is not a filmmaker in the traditional sense, but an artist who makes films primarily in the context of gallery and museum installations. Her most recent work, Provenance, was just on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The film artfully explores mid-century modernist furniture designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret as part of their utopian conception for the Indian city of Chandigarh, and raises really interesting questions about cultural heritage, commodity fetishism, and the art market. She’ll be presenting Provenance and three other programs of earlier work during her visit on Feb. 26–27, and most of the events will

be offered free of charge thanks to the Atkinson funding. She’s a great speaker, so having her here will add a lot to the experience of the work, which is remarkably astute. In advance of her visit, we’ll be presenting a series of films she curated: classic films by European and North American filmmakers and artists with whom her work resonates. It’s a fantastic line-up including Robert Bresson’s L’Argent, Chantal Akerman’s The Rendezvous of Anna, and Jean-Luc Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil, which will be shown in a new digital restoration on Feb. 11. IT: Local songwriter Mary Lorson has created shows for Cornell Cinema before, and she returns on Feb. 20. What can you tell us about her new show, “Signals: A Performance Memoir?” MF: As you probably know, Mary is not just a songwriter, but also a writer and dramatist, and this project is about her family, primarily her father, I believe, when she was growing up in the ‘60s and ‘70s in Westchester County. She’ll both narrate and sing songs she’s written about her family’s brand of dysfunction, all of which will be set to music performed by an eightpiece jazz/rock band. There will also be a visual backdrop on screen; so all in all, a multimedia event that I have no doubt will be fantastic, as everything Mary has ever done at Cornell Cinema has been amazing. IT: Of course we have to ask about the eleventh annual Elegant Winter Party. MF: This year is going to be somewhat The I th

different than previous years as it will be held in the magnificent Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room instead of our theatre, and it will be more an out-and-out party to help us celebrate our 45th anniversary. The theme is a Black and White Ball in honor of all the great black and white films we’ve shown during our history, and we’ll have clips from lots of black and white films showing all over the Memorial Room as well as lots of cool black and white decorations and movie memorabilia. As always, there will be fabulous hors d’oeuvres and desserts from Ithaca’s finest catering and dining establishments, a cash bar, a complimentary glass of champagne courtesy of Sparrow’s Wine Legend, and an array of great door prizes. Live music will include a unique performance by two members of Cornell’s music department, Annie Lewandowski and David Yearsley, and some other surprises. It’ll be a great night and to get the best deal, tickets should be purchased in advance at our website. IT: I always forget that Catherine Deneuve had a sister, Françoise Dorléac, and now you have a series, “The Dorléac Sisters series.” I’ve always wanted to see François Truffaut’s The Soft Skin (1964). MF: This is a wonderful classic film series not only because of the great line-up of directors, including Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Demy, François Truffaut and Luis Buñuel, in addition to the two great actresses, but because all of the films will be shown in recently restored a c a

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The King and the Mockingbird By Br yan VanC ampe n The King and the Mockingbird, directed by Paul Grimault, playing at Cornell Cinema 1/31 & 2/1.

with a bit of the abstract UPA style. The movie looks like some weird arty feature that Bob Clampett or Tex Avery decided to render in French. Other times, it looks like some obscure cartoon you’d see on The Pee Wee Herman Show. Grimault really likes the anything goes surreal energy that Clampett and Avery had: The evil king has quite an amazing castle, equipped with a rocketshaped elevator that allows Grimault to throw in classic WB gags like “First floor, ladies garments, second floor, crypts and dungeons.” One floor might be the

he experience of seeing a movie like The King and the Mockingbird encapsulates everything I love about seeing films. It’s not about being the new hot thing on the block: the film got a limited release in 1980, so it’s 2-D hand-drawn animation, not sexy 3D CGI. It’s also French with a French soundtrack, an animated feature with subtitles. So what is it about the experience that I love? It’s a reminder that some strange film made years ago can find you and completely captivate you. In a way, seeing an old movie is as close as I get to archaeology, since my mom, brother and I used to pan for trilobites at the Lansing salt mines. Seeing something like The King and the Mockingbird is like unearthing some fascinating, The King and the Mockingbird (Image provided) bizarre artifact. You sit there wondering, “Where did this come from? Why didn’t I art gallery where the shepherdess and the chimney sweep escape from their know this existed until now?” paintings, while another might be a stark The King and the Mockingbird is an modernist outdoor patio with waterways animated adaptation of Hans Christian and boats. When the police force arrive, Andersen’s “The Shepherdess and the they can leap from tall buildings and Chimney Sweep” (note to self: Don’t their capes serve as parachutes. just watch a movie about HCA starring The version that I saw was the Danny Kaye, read more stories.). French subtitled version in the original French. animator Paul Grimault made it; he began work on it in 1948, but production As part of the Ithakid Film Festival, Cornell Cinema will show the English shut down and Grimault kept working away at the project. As mentioned earlier, dub for one showing, and the French version for the other. it got a meager, belated release in 1980. On that note, let me say one more As you might guess, the movie is thing. Cornell Cinema has been a huge about a king, but he’s not very nice; He part of my life and career in film history is very spoiled, clumsy and selfish. He and education. Cornell Cinema is where loves to hunt, but he’s not even good at that. One night as the king lies dreaming, I did my studies on everything from Kurosawa to Ford to Welles. It’s where I a stewardess and a chimney sweep in saw some of the greatest cinema I’ve ever separate paintings in the king’s gallery seen. It’s a great place to see movies, it’s lock eyes across the room, climb out of still one of the best college film series in their respective paintings and run off the country, and it needs people—not together. They are helped along the way just people reading about it and saying, by the mockingbird—dressed in classic hipster threads right out of Dumbo—and “That’s nice.” So when you hear about Cornell Cinema’s new calendar, don’t just the chase is on. peruse it, use it. Go to Cornell Cinema. Grimault is clearly influenced by Go to the movies. • early Warner Bros. 30’s-era animation

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TC3’s New Farm-to-Bistro Experiment is Working By Peg g y Haine

e’ve been to a marvelous party—a night out on the town at the latest star in Ithaca’s culinary firmament, Coltivare! The reception staff suggested arriving early on a Saturday night—they take reservations only for tables of eight or more—so though we got there in time for senior citizens’ dinner hour, there was still a bit of a wait. Nevertheless, sounds from the Winter Village Bluegrass Festival drifted into the waiting area, adding to the cheer. We ran into a lot of people we knew and quite a few that we didn’t; the time zipped along. The crowd tended to be grown-up, seated for drinks and dinner at the bar, grouped around the glowing brick-oven hearth, gathered around a tall eight-top, or parked at standard-height four-tops which constituted the majority of the seating . Exiting diners issued kudos for the salmon with celeriac puree, crispy leeks, and Pinot Noir sauce, and the sliced potato and Gruyere brick-oven flatbread. But our gullets demanded meat. Red meat. Or at

least pink meat. The charcuterie plate appetizer would have made an adequate lunch, offering several kinds of Piggery-produced sausage, along with olives, pickled turnip and beet, cornichons, frisée, and toasted bread. Our second appetizer, also sourced from the Piggery, was smoked pork cheek—really a kind of thick, curvy bacon—served over polenta, with a 60-minute sousvide-cooked egg, a modernist’s take on country bacon, eggs, and grits breakfasts. Both starters were delights to eye and tastebuds. For a main course, tender baked cannelloni encased in a Bolognese sauce, all topped with creamy béchamel and melted Fontina cheese—comfort food at its most soothing. A pan-roasted duck breast was perfectly cooked a breath past bloody, served with a roasted slaw of carrots and zucchini and a dollop of sweet carrot purée. No complaints. And then there’s dessert. In several visits to Coltivare, we’ve enjoyed their maple financier (warm almond cake with crispy edges, maple gelato, almond praline), richest-ever coffee gelato,

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hazelnut meringue with lemon olive oil gelato, and warm freeform apple tart, all beautifully conceived and presented. New Year’s resolutions be damned. Wines by the glass are drawn solely from the best of the Finger Lakes wineries, and a Heart and Hands Pinot Noir was the perfect accompaniment Coltivare in the sunshine. (Photo: Tim Gera) to all of the nook, its surface inscribed to evoke tractor above. The bytire skid marks. It all focuses on the farm the-bottle list is more eclectic, offering vernacular—19th century barn collides New York State wines as well as a good selection of wines from California, France, with steel-and-glass milking parlor. And despite all its massed glass, brick, and Italy, South Africa, and others. The prices other equally hard surfaces, designers have seem reasonable, but if you want to go arranged to have the sound absorbed, and whole hog, order the Dom Perignon Brut it is possible to enjoy conversation, even ’04 at $325 a crack. Or you could opt for when the place is packed. And although reasonably priced local beers and ciders, it’s walking distance to everything many on tap. downtown, there’s parking right above in The place is drop-dead gorgeous—a stunningly choreographed conglomeration the Cayuga Street ramp. We’ve had great service on all four of exquisite brickwork (graceful arches, of our visits, from a professional staff curved walls, and receding molding of waiters. One told us he’d come out of courses), recycled barn wood, sections of retirement from Cornell’s Banfi’s because antiqued metal ceiling tile, and a curved he loved the idea of working in a facility whose heart was education. Home style dining As much as possible, the offerings any time of day! are locally sourced, farm-to-table, and nose-to-tale, and it’s worth your visit for lunch, dinner, brunch, or just to stop by for a drink or dessert and marvel at the architecture and design. And even though it’s freshly out of the paddock, and despite a few snarky Tripadvisor comments (for Crissakes, give ‘em a month to work out the kinks, Memorable Meals folks) it works. What a good idea. Lucky 7 Days a Week students. Lucky us. • Breakfast- Lunch- Dinner

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essica Williams, a young comedian and flagship production; and since then she has appeared regularly on the show. actress best known for her work on Williams isn’t the first Daily Show The Daily Show, will stop by Cornell correspondent to perform at Cornell: Ed University for a stand-up performance on Helms spoke at last year’s convocation; Friday, Jan. 30, at the Statler Auditorium. John Oliver visited in 2012; host Jon The event is open to the general public, Stewart stopped by three times — in and though it was officially sold-out at press time, a handful of tickets will be released at door just before the 7:30 p.m. show time. The last three years have seen Williams’ popularity skyrocket: she is featured on the cover of this month’s Wired magazine, her twitter following at @msjwilly is at 85,000 and trending, and the actress appeared on last year’s season of Girls. Williams was the youngest correspondent in Daily Show history when she was hired in 2012, and since then she has become its most reliable. A warm, relatable comic, her pieces are both razor-sharp satire and full of joy. Recent Jessica Williams at the Statler on Friday, Jan. 30 (Photo: provided) clips include a stinging critique of catcalling on the streets of New York 2001, 2005, and most recently for Parents’ City where Williams parades through the Weekend in 2011, and Stephen Colbert streets singing, “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” famously sold-out Barton Hall for a twoand a clever short mocking those who night run in 2007. mock Kwanzaa. She has done stop and This isn’t the first time Williams will frisk; she has mastered political humor, visit Cornell for a public appearance. Back pop culture, and broad-based joking in a in 2013, she interviewed Cornell professor way that positions herself as a celebrity as Christopher Barrett for a Daily Show versatile as she is tall. Back in December, segment on Food Aid. Barrett, a professor in a piece on Jay-Z and Fox News’ talking of applied economics and management, heads, Williams jostled host Jon Stewart so adeptly with playful dismissals (“Stay in told the Cornell Daily Sun, “[s]he was able your lane old man!”) that it was speculated to say outrageous things with a straight face,” and called the comedian “extremely that she might be the next sought-after sharp,” “gracious and kind,” and “extremely host. funny.” Williams got her start on the Williams embraces a bit of the rapid television network Nickelodeon before rise to stardom in the “Kwanzaa is a Joke” going back to school, and then joined clip, where she laughs heartily at the the Upright Citizens Brigade, a comedy notion that she was ever “an emerging troupe that has produced many other comedian waiting for her big break.” popular comedians. In 2012, she left Turning to the camera, she confidently California State University, Long Beach explains “Hi! I’m Jessica Williams, and I’m to decamp for Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a celebrity.” • and joined up with Comedy Central’s T

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The Myth of Mental Illness David Schwartz Takes Therapy off the Couch By War re n Gre e nwo od Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. –Sigmund Freud You’ve got to suffer if you want to sing the blues. – David Bromberg

r. David Schwartz is a therapist who practices here in Ithaca. He has written a new book called The Sidewalk Psychotherapist. This is a thin book, a mere 137 pages. But Schwartz packs a remarkable amount of insight, and, I believe, wisdom in these pages. And, here, if I may be permitted a personal aside, I would mention that I am a great believer in psychotherapy. I was in therapy in my 20s, and again in my 40s, and both times it saved my life. And, again, on a personal note, in reading The Sidewalk Psychotherapist, I twice had an epiphany … came upon passages where Schwartz seemed to be describing my own life script/mental state … and in both cases it was a revelation. Schwartz covers a lot of ground in his book. He is deep, wide-ranging, humane and creative thinker. I’ll attempt to sketch

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in a few of the high points. Schwartz starts with what Thomas Szasz in his 1960 book The Myth of Mental Illness called, well, “the myth of mental illness.” What Schwartz calls “the current delusion that mental suffering is a medical/technical problem.” He adds, “Psychotherapy is not a technical procedure. Psychotherapy is applied philosophy.” And tells us “the Greeks held that the goal of philosophy was eudaimonia, or ‘human flourishing.’” In a chapter called “Big Pharma and Psychiatry’s Delusional Condition” he asserts that psychotropic drugs, like antibiotics, are over-prescribed and overused. The reason for this is profit making. He writes:

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In a chapter called “How does True Psychotherapy Work?” Schwartz discusses a book called A General Theory of Love by Drs. Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, who theorize that “mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance—a symphony of mutual exchange and internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other’s inner states.” Schwartz speculates that the psychotherapy patient-therapist relationship is a modern medical updating of a very old human practice where human beings listen to each other, council each other, and ease one another’s suffering. In a chapter called “Learning the Territory of Mental Suffering: The Importance of Being Present”,

Schwartz writes of the importance of being fully present in helping to ease of fellow human’s psychic suffering. (And discusses some of the techniques he uses to be fully present.) In another chapter, he speculates how a psychotherapist’s own suffering can help a client. In a chapter called “Psychotherapy, Healing, and the Dark Wood of Dante’s Inferno, he references Dante’s 14th century epic poem, in the way Dante, guided by Virgil, must descend to the absolute depths of Hell before being able to ascend to the light of God, as a metaphor for the need to confront the worst in one’s life experience (“the most intolerable psychic pain”), before being able to heal, to become well. That “the ‘way out’ of suffering is not out but down through it”. In a chapter called “How Consciousness Shifts: There Are No Right Stops on the Wrong Train”, Schwartz writes about how, when he was a twenty-year-old student at New College, he stayed up all night on the Gulf Coast of Florida reading The Divided Self by the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, and how this passage from Laing became a mission statement for continued on page 29

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35mm film prints or in new digital restorations. I plan on attending all of screenings and am particularly excited to see a film I just recently became aware due to its restoration: That Man From Rio, which stars Françoise Dorléac and JeanPaul Belmondo in what sounds like an incredibly fun film. IT: “The Artful Non-Fiction” series sounds intriguing. MF: This series is an outgrowth of our Amie Siegel series, in particular, her very unusual documentary DDR/DDR, which is one of the featured films in a new book by Scott MacDonald, who is a prolific writer about independent and experimental film. His latest book is Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and AvantGarde Cinema, and MacDonald will be here on Feb. 26 to lead a discussion with Siegel following a screening of DDR/ DDR. Artful Non-Fiction: Documentary Intersections with Art & Performance is the full name of our series and it includes a number of great examples of how the documentary form has just exploded over the past dozen years or so and continues to do so. Documentary filmmakers no longer adhere to dry reportage to tell their stories, but instead, make use of a full range of cinematic techniques, including elements of performance, to engage audiences. These days, I’d have to say, some of the most exciting work being produced is in the documentary genre, both by documentarians and by artists expanding into the field. The first official program in the series is a good example. On Wednesday, March 4, we’ll be showing a trilogy of films by an Italian artist, Yuri Ancarani, whose work is currently on display at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The trilogy is

called La malattia del ferro: The Disease of Iron and it’s about three highly specialized occupations, each one artfully portrayed. The series also includes one of 2014’s most critically acclaimed documentaries, Robert Greene’s Actress, a portrait of actress Brandy Burre, best known for her work on the television show The Wire and J.P. Sniadecki’s The Iron Ministry, about China’s immense railroad system and how it mirrors the transformations taking place in 21st century China. Sniadecki teaches filmmaking at Cornell and studied under the umbrella of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, the output of which has made for some of the most fascinating documentaries in recent years. IT: I just had the pleasure of seeing Paul Grimault’s The King and the Mockingbird, which plays as an IthaKid selection this weekend (see film review). It’s part of your Studio Ghibli series. How does his work fit with a Ghibli artist like Hayao Miyazaki? MF: The King and the Mockingbird was made in France in 1980, but for a variety of reasons, is just now receiving a theatrical release in the U.S. Grimault’s animation anticipated the Japanese animation that came after it, and apparently, had a profound influence on Hayao Miyazaki in particular. We’ll be screening the new digital restoration, showing the English-dubbed version as part of the IthaKid Film Festival on Saturday, and then repeating the film on Sunday in its original French language. The film is both a great adventure story for kids and a smart political satire for adults. Glad to hear you liked it! I can’t resist mentioning that two of the other animated features we’ll be showing as part of this season’s IthaKid Film Festival, The Boxtrolls (Feb. 7) and Song of the Sea (Feb. 28 and March 1), have been nominated for Best Animated Feature Oscar. •

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Freud was a hero. He descended into the “Underworld” and there met stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa’s head, which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see if we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defense.

And, to skip to the final chapters, Schwartz presents his most radical idea … his notion of what he calls “The Sidewalk Psychotherapist.” (Inspired, incidentally, by my two favorite writers, Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut—specifically by Bradbury’s short story “The Man in the Rorschach Shirt” and Vonnegut’s novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.) The idea being to take therapy out of its formal office setting, outside of its traditional boundaries and parameters, and into the world (becoming in the medieval term “a fool for God”) as part of a larger life practice of helping other human beings. Schwartz writes: “Wasn’t it possible to respect therapeutic boundaries and yet carefully stretch them? That was what R.D. Laing had enjoined, to descend into the unconscious without our Medusa’s head of theory to turn what we encountered to stone. If you are going to bend the rules, you have to know what the rules are and why you are departing from them. It’s risky, but it is the only way to discover new ways.” And, in the final chapter, Schwartz speculates that psychotherapy can become a spiritual path. He writes: “I have come to think that analytic psychotherapy understood and practiced in a certain way can also be considered a spiritual

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Long John and Friends | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM, 1/30 Friday | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Happy hour old time music with John Hoffman, Randi Beckmann, and special friends including banjo player Steve Arkin. The Pelotones | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 1/30 Friday | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Mike Stark’s Galactic Organ Grinder | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/30 Friday | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | A new solo endeavor, diving deeper into the boundless sound of the classic Hammond Organ. Joined by a vintage Ace Tone Rhythm Ace drum machine and some colors added. Cooking a sound from scratch… interstellar soul jazz, dub hop recipe.

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The Justice League performs Rush | 8:00 PM-, 1/31 Saturday | Auburn Public Theatre, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | The Justice League is a group of Oneonta musicians who perform classic albums in their entirety, striving to reproduce the music faithfully and bring the experience of the album to their audience. With a revolving team of musicians The Justice League has reproduced albums by the Who (Tommy), the Beatles (Sgt. Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road and more), Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks and more) and Genesis (Seconds Out). For “Rush: Exit... Stage Left” the Justice League is comprised of Darcy Gibson, Emmett Rozelle, MW Degan and Matt Gibson. Samantha Fish | 8:00 PM-, 1/31 Saturday | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer | Kansas City-based Samantha Fish has been on a major roll ever since she teamed up with Cassie Taylor and Dani Wilde on Ruf Records 2011 release, ‘Girls with Guitars’, and fueled by the trio’s Blues Caravan tour of Europe and the U.S., created an international buzz in the blues world. Senior Recital: Eric Tan, piano |

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8:00 PM-, 1/31 Saturday | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Winner of the 2011 Cornell Concerto Competition performs piano sonatas by Beethoven (op. 111) and Chopin (op. 58) and Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs.

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Schultz (Tatum), who sees a way out from the shadow of his more celebrated wrestling brother Dave (Ruffalo) and a life of poverty when he is summoned by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont (Carell) to move onto his estate and train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. | 130 mins R | Fri: 6:50, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 6:50, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 6:50, 9:30; Thu: 11:00 AM, 1:30, 6:50, 9:30. The Imitation Game | During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ‘gross indecency’, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. | 114 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Mon - Wed: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. Inherent Vice | “Inherent Vice,” is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. | 148 mins R | Fri : 9:30; Sat & Sun: 9:30; Mon - Thu: 9:30. The Theory of Everything | The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. | 123 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:20 PM; Sat & Sun: 1:50, 4:20; Mon - Wed: 4:20 PM; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:50, 4:20. Wild | With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. | 115 mins R | Fri: 4:25, 6:50; Sat: 2:00, 4:25, 6:50; Sun: 2:00, 4:25; Mon - Wed: 4:25, 6:50; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50. cornell cinema

L’Argent | Robert Bresson’s final film is one of his most powerful, a hair-raising sermon preached in detail shots, elliptical edits, and offscreen sounds. Based on a short story by Tolstoy, it

details the consequences of the passing of a counterfeit 500-franc note, which sets in motion a chain reaction that destroys the life of an innocent truckdriver and leads to a mysterious and terrifying climax. | Wed 2/4 7:00 PM. Bladerunner - The Final Cut | 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?, has never been screened at Cornell Cinema due to rights restrictions, so we’re thrilled to present the recent digital restoration of this cinematic touchstone as part of our 45th anniversary celebrations! | Wed 1/28: 7:00 PM; Sat 1/31: 9:30 PM; Sun 2/1: 7:00 PM . Dirty Pretty Things | Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as a former Nigerian doctor who has fled to London under grim circumstances and now works at the hotel where Tautou, playing an undocumented Turkish émigré, is working as a maid. This dark, twisty tale, which begins with the discovery of a human heart in a toilet bowl, plays like a post-diaspora Grand Hotel, working as both a suspense thriller and a snapshot of marginalized lives in a modern city. | Mon 2/2 7:00 PM. The 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival | The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, founded in 1963, and still going strong. This program features nine films. | Tue 2/3 7:00 PM. Un flic |The scene is St.-Jean-de-Monts, a French seaside town in the deserted dead of winter. An enormous American car, four hard men in soft hats inside, rolls down an empty street and stops near the only bright light in sight — a branch of the BNP (Bank Nationale de Paris). The skies open up, the rain pours down, the car’s red taillights look spectacular against the blue haze, and the men head toward the bank, robbery on their mind. | Thu 1/29: 7:00 PM; Sat 1/31: 9:30 PM; Sun 2/1: 7:00 PM. Force Majeure | A picturesque family vacation in the French Alps. Shining sun, glistening slopes, smiling faces. But then, an avalanche! People scatter; a wife calls out for her husband; he runs away. The avalanche never comes, and one family deals with the aftermath of cowardice in the face of disaster. | Fri 1/30 7:00 PM; Sat 1/31 7:00 PM.

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The King and the Mockingbird | This animated adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep” ... is “at once a delightful adventure story for children, a devilish political satire for adults, and a handcrafted work of tremendous beauty for all.” (New York Film Festival, 2014) The dubbed in English version will be shown on Saturday; the subtitled, original French language version, on Sunday. Recommended for ages 7+. | Sat 1/31 2:00 PM; Sun 2/1 4:30 PM. The Theory of Everything | The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. | Wed 1/28: 7:00 PM; Sat 1/31: 9:30 PM; Sun 2/1: 7:00 PM.

Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs. Love and Taxes From the Golden Age of Radio | 7:30 PM- 1/30 Friday; 2:00 PM- 1/31 Saturday; 2:00 PM2/1 Sunday; zzz | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center See Clemens Center, , Elmira | Join us as we dial back the clock to the days when families enjoyed the “theater of the mind”. Elmira Little Theatre will recreate old time radio shows, highlighting the theme of Love and Taxes from the Golden Age of Radio. Featured this year are episodes from “Burns and Allen”, “The Great Gildersleeve” and a Lux Radio Theatre production of Bogart and Bergman’s classic, “Casablanca.” Physics Fair | 1:00 PM- 1/31 Saturday | The Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | by Rachel Lampert and Lesley Greene. Kitchen Theatre Company presents two performances only of the original musical Physics Fair. Mr. Mundani’s 6th graders learn that “Physics makes the world go ‘round” when they organize the school’s first ever Physics Fair. Featuring Elisheva Glaser, Christian Henry, Erin Hilgartner, Imri Leshed, Caitlin Mallory, Kayla Markwardt, and Lucian Mead-VanCort as Mildweather Middle School’s 6th graders, with Joey Steinhagen as Mr. Mundani and Lesley Greene as Principal Standard. The Engine That Could Earns Her Whistle | 10:00 AM, 7:00 PM- 2/3 Tuesday | Smith Opera House For the Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | ArtSmart presents a musical for grades K – 2. Little Blue Engine dreams of someday leaving the train yard to pull the big cars on the main line track. But can she convince Big Silver that she is worthy of being a main line engine? Back to reprise its sold-out premiere season, ArtsPower’s dynamic, song-filled adventure portrays Watty Piper’s timeless tale about hard work, determination, and the meaning of true friendship. Cornell Concert Series presents Nrityagram Dance Ensemble | 8:00 PM- 2/4 Wednesday | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Nrityagram: Songs of Love & Devotion; Nrityagram blends Odissi, a classical Indian dance, with contemporary concepts to transport viewers to enchanted worlds. In Songs of Love and Longing, two dancers explore the Gita Govinda, a romantic ballad about the immortal love of Radha and Krishna. It is a song of love and longing that reflects the Vaishnava belief that all humankind is feminine energy (Radha)

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Stage Count Me In | 7:30 PM- 1/28 Wednesday; 2:00 PM, 7:30 PM- 1/29 Thursday; 8:00 PM- 1/30 Friday; 8:00 PM- 1/31 Saturday; 4:00 PM- 2/1 Sunday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | What happens when forever friends begin forever again? A musical romp headed toward infinity by Kitchen Theatre Artistic Director Rachel Lampert, author of Tony and the Soprano, Bed No Breakfast, In the Company of Dancers, and many other music- and dance-filled pieces. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play | 7:30 PM- 1/28 Wednesday; 7:30 PM- 1/29 Thursday; 8:00 PM1/30 Friday; 3:00 PM, 8:00 PM- 1/31 Saturday; 2:00 PM- 2/1 Sunday; 2:00 PM, 7:30 PM- 2/4 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | Fresh and funny new play about love, sex and marriage in the 19th century. It’s the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating “hysteria.” The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety. Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM- 1/28

Gloria Ann Barnell Peter Playwright Competition | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Playwrights are invited to submit original scripts. Submissions due by 3/2. Refer to www.morganoperahouse. org for clarifications. Direct inquiries to Ann Mathieson (annscott2268@gmail. com) or 315-364-7325. IPEI Annual Adult Spelling Bee | Ithaca High School Gymnasium, 1401 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held in the Ithaca High School Wellness Center Gym Spellers and Sponsors Needed for March 1. Registration Open! http://ipei. peaksmaker.com/.

Learning Art Classes for Adults | 1/28 Wednesday; 2/04 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org. www. csma-ithaca.org. Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots | 1/28 Wednesday, 2/04 Wednesday | See website for location and meeting dates | www. WritingRoomWorkshops.com Curb Your Cravings | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 1/28 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join Tara Lambert of Nutritional Wellness Center, to learn why you have cravings, the effects that sugar has on the body, and ways to combat those cravings for good. Free and open to the public, and held at the Classrooms@ GreenStar. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Windows 8.1 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/29 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Learn how to navigate the new Windows operating system. This 3-part class will move beyond the basics and allow job seekers to add Windows 8.1 to resumes as a marketable skill. Space limited, registration required. Laptops provided. Sponsored by the FLLS Outreach Mini-Grant. Learn to Play Bridge or Practice Play | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/30 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, Clinton Street Plaza, Ithaca | Location: 609 W Clinton St. (park on east side (furthest from Route 13) of the shopping plaza, close to Ohm Electronics. Enter through door to the right of Ohm’s storefront. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall. International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 2/01 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners

Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 1 | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@yahoo.com. Rehearsals for Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St, Ithaca | For more information or to register on-line visit: http://www. ithacacommunitychoruses.org.

Meetings Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM- 1/28 Wednesday | Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill And Bar, 2300 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | sam221@ peoplepc.com Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM 1/28 Wednesday; 7:00-9:00 PM 2/04 Wednesday | TBD | Community Theater Group is now forming for a Spring 2015 production of the acclaimed “Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters. Rehearse short, interrelated monologues in which dead citizens speak about their past lives. Free and open to all adults. No experience necessary; most are beginners. | Email Dennis Dore at ddore@zoom-dsl.com for more info. South Seneca School Board | 7:30 PM- 1/28 Wednesday | South Seneca High School, Ovid | Held at the Ovid campus. The League of Women Voters: Annual Winter Brunch | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM 1/31 Saturday | The Central Restaurant, 104 Village Square, Painted Post | Non-members are

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MIKE STARK’s GALACTIC ORGAN GRINDER

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welcome to attend. Membership is open to men as well. There will be a brief business meeting concerning future programming at the end of the brunch. The guest speaker will be Ms. Georgia Verdier. An activist in her church and community, she is the President of the local branch of the NAACP and a member of its State Board of Directors. Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM2/04 Wednesday | Coltivare, South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | RSVP m.friess@ yahoo.com

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needed. $5 donation suggested. Watercolor painting | 10:00 AM-, 2/02 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Intermediate Spanish | 1:00 PM-, 2/02 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Knit & Chat | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 2/02 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Beginning Spanish | 2:00 PM-, 2/02 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Valentine Workshop with Kathy Friedrich | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 2/03 Tuesday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Corner of Congress and McLallen Streets, Trumansburg | Designed to accommodate adult-child (ages 10-13*) pairs as well as individuals 14 and up. All materials included. Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 2/03 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail. com or visit: www.facebook.com/ groups/JesusiansOfIthaca. Multi-Media Art for Youngsters | 2/04 Wednesday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | Registration details and more info is at the TCFA web site. Call 387-5939 or e-mail <skl.tcfa@gmail.com>. Awaken Your Heart and Mind with Buddhist Meditation | 6:30 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Held in the Classrooms@ GreenStar. Registration is required sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

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ongoing Game Club | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, 1/29 Thursday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | All ages and skill levels welcome to play chess, Munchkin Quest, and Ticket to Ride. SpinKnitters | 1:30 PM-, 1/29 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Open knitting group. Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 1/28 and 2/04 Wednesday | McKendree United Methodist Church, 224 Owego St., Candor | Every Wednesday. Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Soup and or Chili Nights | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 2/03 Tuesday | St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With dessert and drink. Free Will Donation.

Nature & Science Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 01/31 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 2/01 Sunday | Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information. Primitive Pursuits Free Monthly Primitive Skills Meet Up | 1/28 Wednesday; 2/04 Wednesday | TBD | Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com to join the club.

Health Alcoholics Anonymous | 1/28 Wednesday,2/04 Wednesday | Multiple Locations, | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/PDF/ IthacaMeetings.pdf Chair Yoga | 10:00 AM-, 1/28 Wednesday, 2/04 Wednesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 1/28 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St.,

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Chicken & Biscuit Dinner | 4:30 PM-, 1/31 Saturday | McLean Community Church Hall, 50 Church St., McLean | Chicken, Biscuits, Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetable, Cole Slaw, Cranberry Sauce, Homemade Desserts. Proceeds to benefit Women’s Fellowship mission projects. All You Can Eat Breakfast | 8:00 AM-11:00 AM, 2/01 Sunday | The Loyal Order Of Moose, 2096 State Route 14, Montour Falls | Enjoy pancakes, eggs, home fries, bacon, sausage gravy with biscuits, fruit, coffee and juice. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. TAG: Teen Advisory Group | 3:00 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | Ulysses

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Books Lake Country Book Club | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 1/28 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Enjoy a lively conversation about “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain. Book copies available at the library. Tiphanie Yanique | 4:30 PM-, 1/29 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave., Ithaca | Caribbean fiction writer will read from her works. Yanique, who grew up in the Virgin Islands, is the author of the short story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony, the novel Land of Love and Drowning, and the picture book I Am the Virgin Islands. She has received recognition by BookPage as one of the 14 women to watch out for in 2014, by the National Book Foundation as one of the “5 Under 35,” and the BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Fiction in 2011. Local Poet Jay Leeming | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/29 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Leeming is the first writer in the series of Fireside Talks, which continue each month through May. Jay Leeming has published 2 books of poems Dynamite on a China Plate and Miracle). His poems have appeared in magazines including Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry East and Pleiades. Graphic Novel and Manga Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 2/02 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner, 101 E Green Street, Ithaca | For teen readers. The club meets every other Monday in the library’s Tompkins Trust Company Study Room. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@ tcpl.org.

mentors, and it gives the campus community and region the chance to contemplate artwork in a wide range of media being produced within the Department. Featured artists include Martine Barnaby, Jeremiah Donovan, Lori Ellis, Charles Heasley, Kevin Mayer, Jenn McNamara, Paul Parks, Jaroslava Prihodova, Vaughn Randall and Bryan Valentine Thomas. Participants teach courses in art history, ceramics, design, drawing, fibers, painting, photography, printmaking, new media and sculpture. The exhibition will be on view from January 26-February 20, 2015. ongoing Tour: Seven Words That Matter – A Visual Translation | 6:00 PM-, 1/29 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | led by the Ithaca College Native American Student Association. Abovoagogo Art Studio Open House | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 2/01 Sunday | Abovoagogo Art Studio, 409 West Seneca St., Ithaca | This is a day of art for everyone. You are all invited! Step in to the studio with your friends and family and MAKE ART! ……all day. We will have all the supplies ready for action. If you have ever been curious about the studio with the funny name, or if you are an old hat and haven’t been back in a while, this is your chance to check it out. An artists’ talk featuring Jeremiah Donovan, Charles Heasley, Kevin Mayer, Jenn McNamara and Bryan Valentine Thomas | 5:00 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 106, corner of Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace, Cortland | -

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Arts opening Opening: Faculty Biennial 2015 | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 1/29 Thursday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 106, corner of Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace, Cortland | Opening Reception. The Dowd Gallery is pleased to present Faculty Biennial 2015, which highlights recent work by ten members of the Art and Art History Department at SUNY Cortland. The exhibition offers students the opportunity to view work by their

exhibits Cornell Plantations | Nevins Welcome Center, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Tuesday-Saturday | Plant Portraits Through the Season, digital prints by Margaret Corbitt, ongoing | Ögwe ö:weh Consciousness as Peace, in collaboration with Cornell’s American Indian Program, ongoing | The Seasons of Cornell Plantations, photographs by Rene Corinne, through October | Victus Acernis, by Jack Elliot and Cornell Students | Gourds Galore!, vessels, utensils and more made from gourds |

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AM-8:00 AM, 1/29 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835. Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/29 Thursday, 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 2/02 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 1/30 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | Ithaca College is hosting an aphasia support group. We are looking for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder). The group will provide a casual and comfortable place for participants to talk, share experiences, and offer support to one another. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 1/30 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 2/01 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Road, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@gmail.com or call 607.319.4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited. Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 2/03 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Winter Qigong | 5:15 PM-, 2/03 Tuesday | Office of Suicide Prevention, 124 East Court Street, Ithaca | Meditative movement practices to enhance circulation, vitality, health and mood. Join Will Fudeman, L Ac, LCSW. Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 2/03 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any

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www.cornellplantations.org Corning Museum of Glass | 1 Museum Way, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM every day | René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass, through 01/04 | Designing for a New Century: Works on Paper by Lalique and his Contemporaries, through 01/04 | Never in Your Wildest Dreams: Connections Through Imagination, junior curators, through 12/31 | www.cmog.org Curtiss Glenn H Museum Of Local History | RR 54, Hammondsport | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM; Open Sundays, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Warehouse 53, original props and costumes from some of the most iconic adventure films and television shows, through 09/01 | www.curtisshglennmuseum.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | JIE (Boundaries): Contemporary Art Taiwan, through 12/21 | Surrealism and Magic, inspired by the library of Kurt Seligmann, through 12/21 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 06/21 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing | www.museum.cornell.edu The History Center | 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Switched On: The Birth of the Moog Synthesizer, opening 05/02 and ongoing | www.historicithaca. org or www.thehistorycenter.net. Museum of the Earth at PRI | 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Ongoing: The Animals of the Nature Center, Glacier Exhibit, Right Whale #2030, Rock of Ages/Sands of Time, Coral Reef Aquaria, A Journey Through Time, Discovery Labs, Hype Park Mastodon www.museumoftheearth.org Rockwell Museum of Western Art | 111 Cedar St, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | On Fire: The Nancy and Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern Pottery, through 04/2016 | Untouched by Chaos: Karl Bodmer and the American Wilderness, up through 03/2015 | Lock, Stock & Barrel, historic firearms, up through 01/2015 | www.rockwellmuseum.org Sciencenter | 601 First Street, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; open noon Sunday. Closed Monday | New: Ithaca’s Watershed Journey; Mars Rover exhibit | www.sciencenter.org Susquehanna River Archaeological

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If you haven’t yet caught the Whiskey Tango Sideshow, you’ll have another chance Saturday, Jan. 31, when the local burlesque and cabaret group will stop by the Hangar Theatre for an 8 p.m. performance. “Gypsy Rose mixed with Madonna,” is how Susan “the Bullet” Allen described her group, which has been strutting their stuff for almost seven years now, and they’ve far from lost their ability to titillate. Original members include Janna “Deadly” Edelman, Danielle “Danger” Kearns, Erin “the Axe” Griffeth, and Liz “the Bombshell” Leidenfrost, and Saturday will see the sad departure of Elizabeth Pax, an M.C., and the debut of Eric Kincaid, the first male performer to join WTS. The group’s history happens to coincide with the rise of “neo-burlesque” in New York City and across the country, but Allen and her cohorts prefer the term “Cabaret Nouveau.” This is in opposition to burlesque in general, which Allen

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explained, “is all about sashaying and taking your clothes off. We are more into singing, dancing, and comedy.” WTS got its start in Edelman’s living room. She knew Allen from dancing and wanted to explore an art form Ithaca seemed to be without. They have held Wine and Circus events for many years during the summer, which are orgiastic performances that include many newcomers and run for more than two hours. “We run auditions, and [in addition to the five of us] we see what they have to offer and then say yea or nay,” Allen explained on how the group puts together a show, adding, “occasionally we have costume or choreographic suggestions.” The troupe also has its own studio in Debra Winger in Ridley Scott’s “Bladerunner” (Images provided) Trumansburg, where it hones its craft. “If anything our acts have grown spicier,” Allen said. as time goes on we have become more Kearns added: “When we started out, we comfortable with nudity, and some of were a little more conservative, testing the

csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca.org Baby/Toddler Storytime | 9:30 AM-10:30 AM, 1/28 Wednesday | Presbyterian Chapel, 69 E Main St, Trumansburg | Jackie Puleo will lead participants through books, songs, and activities. Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 1/28 Wednesday, 2/04 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Songs and stories with Ms. Diane for babies and toddlers. Stay after for play time. Caregivers are required to stay with their child(ren). Science Together | 10:30 AM-, 1/28 Wednesday, 1/31 Saturday, 2/04 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Parents with their little ones (2 – 4 years old) explore science through hands-on activities, reading and songs. Sciencenter’s early explorer educator, Victoria Fiordalis, shares researchbased parenting tips in an interactive, fun environment. Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 1/29 Thursday, 1/31 Saturday, 2/02 Monday, 2/03 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/ caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more

information or call 273.8364. Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 1/29 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Each week will feature a fun theme such as pirates, the circus, fairy tales, music, and more. Ksana Dragovich will read stories and Barbara Nowogrodzki will lead art projects. Wii & Playstation | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 1/29 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Enjoy the library’s game systems with friends. Awana Clubs | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM, 1/29 Thursday | Dryden Baptist Church, , | Every Thursday night for kids ages 3 to 8th grade. Any questions please call 607-898-4087. Primitive Pursuits: Fire & Ice School Break Day | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM, 1/30 Friday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Join us for some epic winter fun as we practice the skills of winter wilderness living and true survival with our forest home as our classroom, playground and sanctuary. Build a shelter, start a fire...make the most of your day. Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com. Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM,

1/30 Friday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Children and infants will enjoy stories, songs and crafts. Parents can bring a snack or lunch and stay afterwards for play time. Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity: Mouse Paint | 10:30 AM-, 1/30 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story by Ellen Stoll Walsh and then make dot paintings. Babies and Books | 10:00 AM-, 1/31 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | StoryDance | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 1/31 Saturday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | StoryDance for ages 3-7 with Zajal the Sugarplum Fairy. Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 1/31 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Sciencenter Showtime! Handson Energy | 2:00 PM-, 1/31 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Play recycling games, make pinwheels and observe chemical reactions while exploring energy, pollution and sustainability with Cornell’s Engineers for a Sustainable World.

Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 2/01 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. Lightapalooza! | 2:00 PM-, 2/01 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate optical illusions, bend light, and make sound waves visible. Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity | 10:30 AM-, 2/03 Tuesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story “Moon Glowing” by Elizabeth Partridge and then create a drawing that glows in the dark. Primitive Pursuits: Winter Camp | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM, 2/04 Wednesday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Join us for some epic winter fun as we practice the skills of winter wilderness living and true survival with our forest home as our classroom, playground and sanctuary. Build a shelter, start a fire...make the most of your week. Ages 6-14. Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

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water, but with the support of the Ithaca community we have been able to explore more daring things.” For those who might dismiss the group as too risqué, or as an associate of mine asked, “from a feminist perspective,” Allen is confidently cogent as if to anticipate the potential complaint even before I asked. “This is not about stripping. We tease you and give you something you weren’t expecting — you might expect to have something revealed to be a naked woman, but it is a dog instead. There is a comic reveal.” Kincaid is thrilled to be joining and will perform a solo piece Saturday. “I have been to a couple of rehearsals and it’s a lot of fun,” Kincaid said by phone, adding that there would be additional guests. “Performance hasn’t been a priority for a few years, but I’m hoping to get back into the swing of things.” Speaking of his performance, Kincaid explained: “It seemed that every situation can become a theatrical moment with a burlesque spin on it. I do a character skit, with a reveal of the character underneath — if you know what I mean.” •

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Stock #11077E 2010 Honda Accord Coupe EX, Auto, Black, 33,001 miles $16,997 Certified Stock #11033 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid CVT, Silver, 26,565 miles, $17,997 CerADOPTION: Unplanned Pregnancy? tified Licensed adoption agency Caring Stock #11171E 2010 Honda Insight provides financial and emotional support. EX, CVT, white, 35,224 miles, $14,997 Choose Certifiedfrom loving pre-approved families. Call#11124E Joy toll free 1-866-922-3678 or Stock 2010 Mazda 3 Wagon confidential email:Adopt@ForeverFamili6-speed, Blue, 44,329 miles, $14,997 Stock #11168E 2012 Mazda 2 esThroughAdoption.org (NYSCAN) Hatchback Auto, Red, 32,427 miles #12,997 PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPHonda of Ithaca TION? Talk with caring agency special315 Elmira Road izing in matching Birthmothers Ithaca, NY 14850 with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES www.hondaofithaca.com PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. (AAN CAN)

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ROOMMATE WANTED

to share house with 2 Cornell Grad women. downtown off S. Albany St. Available Jan 11. Large bedroom, Wood floors, spacious closet, and double bed included. Two other bedrooms are occupied by 2 PhD students in Plant Breeding and Crop & soil Science at Cornell. Attic for storage, large basement with washer and dryer, large kitchen with new stove, back porch, and large living/dining room. Man floor has living room, dining room and kitchen bedrooms and bath upstairs. Hardwood floors throughout. Email Leilah to arrange a time to meet roomies and see the place. Irk73@cornell.edu

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

Four Seasons Landscaping Inc. 607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage. Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!

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Across from Island Health & Fitness. 3000 Square Foot Building ON THE WATERFRONT & Taughannock Blvd. Convenient to Routes 89,13,79,96 Downtown Ithaca & Cayuga Lake. PARKING DECK DOCK 2 BATHROOMS. 3 Phase Electric. Please Call Tom 607-342-0626

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HOLISTIC Art Lessons Private and small group. Registration on going. Learn art processes and how to be more creative. Give the gift of art lessons to yourself or someone else who loves art. For information e-mail lessonsandthings@gmail.com or call 564-7387

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DISH TV Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 mos.) SAVE! Regular Price $34.99. Ask About FREE SAME DAY Installation! CALL Now! 888-992-1957 (AAN CAN) HAS YOUR BUILDING SHIFTED OR SETTLED? Contact Woodford Brothers Inc., for straightening, leveling, foundation and wood frame repairs at 1-800-OLD-BARN. www.woodfordbros. com. (NYSCAN) Start saving $$$ with DIRECTV. $19.99 mo. 130 channels. FREE HDDVR-4 ROOM install. High Speed InternetPhone Bundle available. CALL TODAY 877-829-0681 (AAN CAN) Struggling with DRUGS or ALCOHOL? Addicted to PILLS? Talk to someone who cares. Call The Addiction Hope & Help Line for a free assessment. 800-9786674 (AAN CAN)

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865/Personal Services Counseling

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Opening Winter 2015!

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100 Wings 2 Liter Soda $49.99

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YOGA FUNDAMENTALS

3-Class Workshop Series

Sunrise Yoga

MIGHTY YOGA

Classical Yang style long form

Sundays, Feb 1-Feb 15 1:30-3pm Sign up today! $40 for all 3 classes Visit www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682

Thursday’s 7:30-8:30 pm Anthony Fazio, LAc.,C.A, www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com

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4 Seasons

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Vinyl Replacement Windows

607-272-1504

We Manufacture & install

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lawn maintenance

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spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning

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South Seneca Vinyl

landscape design + installation

315-585-6050, Toll Free at 866-585-6050

drainage

Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

snow removal

Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care!

Find out about Ithaca’s

dumpster rentals

www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue

Saturday, February 7, 1 pm

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Historic Ithaca

ALL ABOUT MACS

212 Center St, 273-6633

for over 20 years Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

Macintosh Consulting Free in Home Estimates

(607) 280-4729

Replacement Window Specialist Guaranteed Lowest Pricing

Second Hand Furniture & Home Decor

Visit our Showroom

Mimi’s Attic

607-797-3234

Same Day Service Available

John’s Tailor Shop

Window World

Buy/Sell

Middle Eastern (Belly Dance)

Professional Oriental Dancer

Angry Mom Records

High Dusting*Carpets*Building Maintenance

Instructor & Choreographer

(Autumn Leaves Basement)

24/7 EMERGENCY CLEANING Services

607-351-0640, june@twcny.rr.com

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Black Cat Antiques

607-898-2048 You Never Know What You’ll Find

Found Antiques * Unusual Objects 227 Cherry St. 607-319-5078 foundinithaca.com

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877-679-1753

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For professional and amateur woodworkers

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL

Paradise Energy Solutions

102 The Commons

Independence Cleaners Corp

PUNK REGGAE ETC

THINKING SOLAR?

John Serferlis - Tailor

& Romani Dances (Gypsy)

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES

Call Carl @ 607-793-8977 Limited to Town of Ithaca

607-273-6633

430 W. State Street

* BUYING RECORDS *

$6.50 per week

Call us for a free solar assessment

Men’s and Women’s Alterations

http://www.allaboutmacs.com

RECORD FAIR SAT FEB7

www.cayugadogrescue.org

Historic Districts

Find us on Facebook!

Peaceful Spirit TAI CHI classes

2015

273-9392 273-8210

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