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Chicken Owning Remains a Crime

No Decision from City On Hancock Zoning

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on’t ask, don’t tell” was eliminated by the American military as its sexual orientation policy several years ago. Soon, Ithaca’s backyard chickens may be free to strut their stuff within city limits—so long as they don’t crow too loud about their newfound acceptance.

Chickens, along with a whole host of other animals, under city law may not to be kept, except for “educational purposes.” City policy has been to make enforcement of this code a low priority, so the issue is only raised when someone decides to squawk on their neighbor. Someone’s been telling in recent weeks, which means Ithaca’s finest have to respond to the complaints.

On Wednesday, July 8 recent reports brought the matter before the attention of the Planning and Economic Development Committee, which discussed the issue with a possible change to city code coming up for their vote next month.

Photo: Indulgy “I’m into being a little bit of a libertarian on the chicken issue,” Alderperson Seph Murtagh (D-2nd) said. “People are doing this right now in the city. The only reason this debate happens is an anonymous tipster is going and reporting chickens around the city.”

The proposed change under discussion was to allow up to four hens per household, which, according to planning director JoAnn Cornish was a recommendation made by a city staffer who’s an elected official in another municipality where chickens are allowed and that’s the limit there. Roosters are very unlikely to make their way to legality, though, unless council members start hearing from many passionate rooster advocates; communiques received by officials were mostly in favor of chickens, but roosters make a lot of noise and so should be kept away from resting city dwellers.

City resident and former alderman Dan Cogan showed up at the meeting to talk about the issue. He said a resolution had been written a few years back, but “died in committee.”

“Whatever evolves out of this … small chicken holdings I support,” Cogan said.

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evening included Paul Mazzarella, INHS director, noting that in addition to the usual considerations of health, safety, and welfare that zoning boards must consider, Ithaca’s may take under consideration whether a project does encourage more affordable housing and whether it promotes accessibility for all—both of which criteria, Mazzarella said, the 210 Hancock project clearly meets.

Those in favor of the project spoke first—only those with standing were allowed to speak, which requires someone to live or work within 200 feet of the site, be an elected official, or be a representative of a neighborhood association. Pastor Ronald Benson, of the Baptized Church of Jesus Christ that’s located across First

nother session of talk over the Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services project at 210 Hancock Street occurred at the July 7 Board of Zoning Appeals meeting.

Up before the board was a six-and-ahalf foot height variance for the 50-plus unit, four-story apartment building slated for the site, along with a decision whether 64 parking spaces was enough for the project.

After over three hours of conversation on the project, which included a public hearing, the board decided to table the issue while awaiting more information from INHS about the differences in construction requirements between buildings of different height, particularly Rendering of the Hancock Street project with four-story buildings on First Street. concerning (Image: INHS) piledriving for foundational support.

Street from the site, brought a petition The board has 62 days from July 7 with what he said were 285 signatures to make a decision; INHS is expected to in favor. Two other direct neighbors bring further information to its August 4 commented in favor, and Carl Feuer of meeting and a decision could be reached, Northside United read as a statement an then, within that time window. The opinion piece that is also in the July 8 62 days can also be extended with the Ithaca Times. Alderpersons Seph Murtagh mutual consent of the board and INHS, (D-2nd), Josephine Martell (D-5th), and according to Phyllis Radke of the building Deb Mohlenhoff (D-5th) also all spoke in department. INHS is aiming to apply for favor of the INHS project low-income housing tax credits this year, In opposition, there were 13 in a funding round that requires applicants to submit materials in October. continued on page 4 New arguments posed on the

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Legislature Divided About Library Future

O “ We are spending our money on prepping for a new baby. We hope to go for a day.”

—Aaron Vagari

“I’m actually a volunteer, Enfield stage crew.”

—Andrew Noyse

“I don’t know yet. It can be a lot of fun, but can also get a bit intense.”

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“Nope. It’s not my scene.

—Katie Austin

“Just for a day; I have to work.” ­—Sarah Schmidlin

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n Friday, July 10 legislators once again failed to c3ome to a consensus about the future of the Old Library parcel. This time, the matter came up in a meeting of the Old Library Committee and the vote was split 2-2.

At the June 16 legislature meeting, the vote was split 6-6, so the resolution got kicked back to committee. In order for the resolution to pass, it would have required eight votes.

At the start of the Friday committee meeting, Chair Mike Lane said, “We have a split legislature. We know that there has been movement and discussions with the two principal developers, additional changes to their proposals, discussions with Lifelong that we’ve been told about, and I need your advice as a committee on how you want to proceed.”

Although there were three responses to the Request For Proposal that was issued in the end of 2014, the legislature and committee discussions have focused on just two of them: the Travis Hyde project with 60 market-rate apartments for seniors and space for Lifelong; and the 22condominium Franklin Properties project that would reuse parts of the existing building’s structure.

Lane brought up the fact that the resolution will need to be changed to modify the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) classification, and he suggested that change as a possible starting point: “Today we could go forward and make a change to the SEQR, and we could pass a resolution to send this back to the legislature at the next meeting. We could also do things like bring in the developers again and ask them to further explain what their actual proposal is now. We could ask staff to help us … by putting together a grid with some of the elements of the major proposals. We could bring Cornerstone back. We could ask Lifelong to come back in.”

Legislator Mike Sigler (R-Lansing) succinctly summed up what he sees as the reason the legislature hasn’t settled on a preferred developer yet: “We need people to actually show up.” At the June 16 legislature meeting, both Legislators Peter Stein (D-Ithaca) and Kathy LuzHerrera (D-Ithaca) were absent. At Friday’s committee meeting, Luz-Herrera was absent.

Legislator Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-Ithaca) said, “I don’t think minds have changed. I would just as soon bring it back for a vote.” As County Attorney Jonathan Wood later explained, though, it’s too late for either of the legislators absent on June 16 to move for reconsideration at the

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next legislature meeting. Absent members can only call for reconsideration at the same meeting or the following meeting.

Since the legislature also met on July 7, it’s now too late for reconsideration. Wood said that, unless the committee brings forth a new or amended resolution, then the matter would have to come up as an individual member-filed resolution.

Sigler said that he did not want to return to the RFP process. He said, “If we can’t get eight votes, then we just list it on the open market.”

Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca), who is not on the Old Library Committee but attended the meeting, said, “I don’t want to see this go on the open market, I think that would be the absolute worst Hancockappeals contin u ed from page 3

neighbors—which did include a pair of couples who live on the same property.

Concerns expressed were the same as have been popping up at recent meetings, including the building being too big for the neighborhood; having lots of singles move into one-bedroom apartments changing the character of the neighborhood; and parking on the street becoming too difficult.

Chad Hoover, an architect who lives nearby, expressed his support for the project but called for a redesign that makes the entrances to commercial space at street level.

Concerns against the project included those of one neighbor who said she intentionally moved to Cascadilla Green rather than Breckenridge Place because she “didn’t want an urban feel.” She said she feels INHS might be overextended with all its recent expansion, and has concerns with maintenance on existing properties.

outcome.”

After a little more than an hour of discussion, the committee considered an amended resolution designating Travis Hyde as the preferred developer.

Legislators Dooley Kiefer (D-Cayuga Heights) and McBean-Clairborne supported an amendment to designate Franklin Properties, while Sigler and Lane supported designating Travis Hyde.

At this point, there is no clear path forward, although a county press release later noted that it is expected that individual member-filed resolutions will come before the full legislature on July 21. • —Keri

Blakinger

Dick Feldman said that with all the one-bedroom units, the “influx of singles” into Northside “would be a radical change.” He reiterated doubts that increased housing density in the city is a good idea.

“I think city boards and bodies are certainly aware of a densification plan in place for Ithaca,” Feldman said. “I don’t think it’s something the population of Ithaca, the residents of Ithaca have looked at, thought about and agreed with.”

Mazzarella later responded to the question of a singles influx by saying that as a comparison, people in Breckenridge’s one-bedrooms are yes, largely singles, and they are also largely over 50 years old.

“As a direct neighbor it’s frustrating to realize you’re going to have 200 more neighbors or 150 or whatever the number is,” Trevor MacDonald said. “Most of the people I’ve spoken with want to be supportive of those with low income, but this project feels it’s reaching a little too high. • —Josh

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Burbank Calls for Moratorium on Tax Abatements from the County IDA

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IDA chair and County Legislator Jim surprise item that was not on the Dennis (D-Ulysses) expressed surprise agenda of the Tompkins County that Burbank brought the motion to the Industrial Development Agency floor, saying he had spoken with Burbank (IDA) may be formally presented next earlier in the day. “I called Will earlier month, or it may disappear altogether. today and he assured me there wasn’t Tompkins County Legislator and IDA Tompkins County Legislator and IDA board member going to be a motion for a moratorium.” board member Will Burbank (D-Ithaca) Will Burbank. (Photo: Bill Chaisson) However, Burbank said he at least proposed that the IDA declare a moratorium on new project funding “until wanted to start a discussion. to stop doing business.”

Mayor Myrick said, “A moratorium we have a CIITAP policy in place,” which Attorney for the IDA Mariette doesn’t slow things would address public Geldenhuys said she is not aware of any down; it stops them. concerns about tax “We have done IDA declaring a moratorium. “When A moratorium abatements supporting municipalities declare a moratorium, it’s moratoriums. The should not be used developers who don’t usually a modification of zoning, and there unless you think use local labor at Collegetown one was are very strict requirements, with a lot the current policy is prevailing wage. of steps that have to be taken. I’d be very particularly devastating worse than no policy Although concerned about doing that without the at all. You don’t just a City of Ithaca with unintended level of formality [that is customary].” stop projects for six CIITAP (community Dennis, Tavares, and Myrick spoke consequences.” months; sometimes, investment incentive against a moratorium; Robertson and you stop them forever. Burbank supported one, as did Nate tax abatement —Svante Myrick, IDA Board Member Construction projects Shinagawa. Shinagawa qualified his program) policy and Mayor of Ithaca are dependent on is in place now, support: “I’m concerned with the degree timing that can be complaints from the it’s used; it ought to be limited to a short very delicate.” public and the unions period of time.” IDA board member Grace Myrick said he would not support a that the criteria for abatements are too Chiang was absent. moratorium, and not because he doesn’t generous have sent Ithaca Mayor Svante In the end Burbank withdrew his support a change in labor policy. “We Myrick back to the drawing board; a new motion and asked that it be put on committee was recently formed to address have done moratoriums. The one in the agenda for next month’s meeting. the policy. A city project proposed by local Collegetown was particularly devastating, However, he said to Geldenhuys, “I will with unintended consequences.” Inside developer Jason Fane was shot down in ask you for your help in defining this. the moratorium zone, buildings became December 2014 although it met the letter Perhaps another word than moratorium dilapidated, while across the street new of the current CIITAP criteria; public would be appropriate.” buildings went up: “In one case, you create criticism was that the project wasn’t green • • • borders,” said Myrick. enough, and some opponents said Fane In the regular business of the IDA, “You just don’t know what’s waiting had a poor record as a landlord.

Ithaca College requested a reduction in for you on the other side of a moratorium. the IDA’s administration fee on bonds Local electrician Alex Hyland Developers won’t addressed the Thursday, July 9 meeting of the college used to make that colossal bet, the IDA. After a five-year apprenticeship “I don’t know that we pay for construction based on a policy of in the electrician’s union, Hyland said he The college can say, we’re not going projects. the IDA, because they is hoping to make his future in Tompkins is refinancing the don’t know which way County, but he is having difficulty finding to do our job for six bonds. “The fee we we’re going to go,” he work. “It’s really hard for me to live would get would be months. I have to take finished. here and compete [with outside labor]. lower anyway,” said Robertson Taxpayer-subsidized businesses should be a step back when I hear Dennis after the responded, “We’re obligated to provide jobs for people who The motion we are just going to stop meeting. not stopping anybody live here and pay taxes here,” said Hyland. passed.

“Please don’t support a race to the bottom. from building Another motion doing business.” anything. We’re Please don’t make me sell my house and that passed was for a —Jennifer Tavares, IDA board member talking about the tax make me move to a community that has a request by Tompkins and President of the Ithaca/Tompklins abatements the IDA lower cost of living. I grew up here, I love Financial Group, County Chamber of Commerce has to offer. I don’t it here, I want to stay here.” which is planning think this is going to County Legislator and TCIDA board an expansion of be fatal to any project. member Martha Robertson (D-Dryden) its downtown We’ve been talking said Hyland’s not the first person to make plant, for a tax abatement. TC Trust Co. about this forever and developers know that case: “The public keeps making president Greg Hartz said the abatement that. It shouldn’t be a shock to anybody.” the same complaints, and nothing’s is appropriate because it will cost nearly IDA board member (and president of happened. This is public spending, and the four times as much over a 20-year period the Ithaca/Tompkins County Chamber of feeling is that we should ask more of the to have their offices downtown than it Commerce) Jennifer Tavares questioned developers.” would in a rural location. Construction whether a moratorium was an appropriate downtown is much more expensive, Burbank proposed the moratorium, action for the agency in the first place. “I he said, because “while we have good too. Hartz said two consultants, each don’t know that we can say, we’re not going efforts underway, the process has been very slow. I want to speed those committee to do our job for six months. I have to take continued on page 7 a step back when I hear we are just going efforts up.”

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▶ Deans List Out West, Pepperdine University student Melinda Casey, a native of Ithaca (14850), has been named to the Seaver College Dean’s List for the Spring 2015 semester. In order to earn Dean’s List honors, students must be in the upper 10 percent of their class and maintain a 3.5 or better grade point average. This year Casey is one of only 279 students to receive the honor. Seaver College, located in Malibu, California, is the undergraduate school for Pepperdine University, a Christian institution committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values 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 ▶ Rotarian of the Year, The Rotary Club of Ithaca is pleased to announce that long-time member Mary F. Berens has been named Rotarian of the Year for 2014-15. The award is given every June in honor of an active club member who exemplifies the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self.” ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of July 8-14 include: 1) Marriage equality ripples in Ithaca 2) A Home in Need of a Legal Status 3) Terminator Genisys is Schmorgas-Cyborg 4) Dryden Soccer Star Heads to St. Rose 5) After 35 Years, Blue Monday is Still Vital For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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What Can I Do to Help?

Talented Multi-taskers

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n economics textbook would never call an organization like Loaves and Fishes or GrassRoots classic examples of “horizontal integration.”

There’s no incentive for a community kitchen to expand across the nation to control all the free lunch spots like Rockefeller’s Standard Oil eating up all the refineries in the late 1800s.

There’s far too many artists in this country for one amorphous group of music-lovers based in an office in Trumansburg’s Masonic Lodge to watch all the shows on YouTube and book all the fairgrounds. No one group can monopolize feeding the hungry, whether the nutrition they serve is soup for the stomach or music for the soul.

Yet, those who do the work for these two local institutions are very “horizontally integrated.” Both organizations have only a handful of paid staffers and absolutely could not keep going and growing without volunteer workers that come from all walks of life. And neither Loaves nor GrassRoots hold it against those who keep showing up to feed themselves and don’t take a turn at the dishwashing sink or ticket booth.

“I think the philosophy for 31 years has been we’re all in this together,” Christina Culver of Loaves told me. “We purposely don’t want to be hierarchical and say ‘Oh, here’s these great volunteers helping you, who are the needy.’”

At Loaves, that philosophy shows through as people who come there at low points start asking how they can help, and end up serving people who come in uniform or shirt and tie. And who knows how many salaried daily suit-wearers will be enjoying music and food and yoga at GrassRoots this weekend, while there are broke students and fixed-income retirees working the gates and cleaning the latrines. Taking in all comers and operating generously and freely in one place for years, this is how a daily meal or a now quarterly festival starts getting called a “sweet community,” a “tribe,” a “family.”

There’s all sorts of need in this world, and sometimes it’s dire; organizations like the Red Cross have press agents who constantly remind us that people and resources are getting sent to places around the world to help when flood and famine happen.

Sending a few bucks their way via text or Facebook link is doing someone, somewhere, some good.

Every day, though, there is work to be done so that people in Tompkins County have something to eat, something to hear, something to do.

Not everyone can show up to cook five times a week, or spend two weeks in July setting up tents. Looking up from the daily grind, though, surely everyone can find a few minutes to look someone in the eye and say, “What can I do to help, here, today?” •

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he typical Ithacan is a talented multi-tasker, as long as the tasks are listening to music and talking. This accounts for the great success of the annual GrassRoots Festival.

For the population with these proclivities, GrassRoots provides scores of bands to listen to, and thousands of people to talk to, within a few acres, with nowhere else to go. Throw in all the eating and drinking that can, must, and will be done, and the event is practically the Olympics for the Ithaca multi-tasker.

The Olympics last longer, but come only every four years, while GrassRoots is every year, so a devoted training schedule is essential.

Ithaca Festival provides a warm-up, but not very taxing, as it ends at dark, while GrassRoots goes all day and night. Also, Ithaca Festival is held downtown, and some people are just passing through, or stopping for just a few minutes, while at GrassRoots people are ensconced, and not doing anything else, and in no hurry.

Ithaca Festival exists among buildings and car traffic and other human activity, while GrassRoots is on a private fairground in a town so small it has no traffic lights.

You won’t see newspapers there. Even for a community that prides itself, practically officially, as surrounded by reality and not necessarily part of it, this is a far remove; and a fertile ground for talking to people around you. There are a lot of them, and you’re all doing the same thing, with no outside distractions.

GreenStar Co-op is a good place to practice talking while doing something else. There is a lot of overlap between the GreenStar and GrassRoots communities and you will see people there every day bagging bulk items and gathering groceries while greeting friends and trading information

about what they did today and what they’re doing tomorrow at great detail and length.

It is generally possible, because of the small size and high energy of GreenStar, to have a shorter shopping trip there than at Wegman’s, but these multi-tasking skills are crucial. It is surprising how few people at GreenStar need to stop talking even when counting change.

I originally come from Brooklyn, where people also like to talk, but the protocols of parlance are a little stricter: Ithacans are more touchy-feely, Brookynites just touchy (or touchy-grouchy), and even though I have now lived longer here than there, I still have some city rules in my repertoire.

In greeting, don’t say “What’s happening?” to people. This puts the onus for a theme on them. Now they have to think of something that is happening. In Brooklyn, you don’t make people think of things. It is considered impolite, to say the least. Instead, you simply say “How are you?” which is a less involved question to answer.

Still, it requires—very importantly—the right answer. If asked, “How are you?” never say “Tired” or, worse, “Busy.” “Tired” sounds like you want sympathy. “Busy” means now we have to discuss your personal itinerary of chores and events.

Neither of these is considered a portal to engaging conversation. They might even be considered provocations: what, you’re tireder than me? You’re busier than me?

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Ugly Undercurrent in Northside

There is an ugly current in the objections to the INHS 210 Hancock project to be located in the Northside Triangle. People living nearby have expressed concerns that their property values will fall, that this will result in unhealthy living conditions; that the development will undermine the neighborhood quality-of-life. Many comments follow a familiar intro: “I love diversity and am all for affordable housing, but ….”

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beyond parking, density, green space, building height or blight. Those issues are discrimination, blind privilege, and racism.

That last sentence may outrage some of my white counterparts. So be it. The children, families, and working poor whose lives will be enriched by the project—as well as most other folks in town—understand the coded language of these oft-repeated NIMBY rationalizations.

All our children are entitled to be treated with respect and dignity, and to live in decent housing. All lives matter. We all have a lot to learn if our city and our society is going to evolve into something truly better.

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will often state an address, even if they’re not living there. “People who are staying in a playground will say they’re staying somewhere with an address, even if they’re not,” one social worker said.

James Hulse, coordinator for Binghamton’s Continuum of Care program, was presenting to the group his work with the Homeless Management Information System. New York is building a statewide database for people involved with social services, but the system is based entirely on a memorandum of understanding with the client. “They can decide what information they’re going to share or whether they’re not,” Hulse said.

In any case, the statewide database would be anonymous, Hulse said, as people’s names would be “washed” in the first server the data hits, and then people are assigned a number and a background.

Deana Bodnar, a program specialist with the Department of Social Services, said that Tompkins County is moving onto an “off-the-shelf ” system like the one that Hulse manages from its current

here’s an inherent contradiction in the day-to-day jobs of those tasked with helping the homeless.

The reporting of hard and fast data to government agencies is required to keep funds coming in for shelters and service providers. And those who are homeless or have a fluid living situation are not easy to track.

The frustrations and confusions that paradox creates come out quickly when one sits in on the Homeless and Housing Task Force meetings organized by the Tompkins County Human Services Coalition, held at the Mental Health building on Green Street.

One exchange held at the group’s last meeting on June 3 sums up the difficulties for the varied directors of shelters, social service workers, and other concerned parties who make up the 40 or so people who come for these bimonthly dialogues.

“This might be a stupid question,” one woman asked, “but does sofa surfing have to involve a sofa?”

Couchsurfing does include sleeping on the floor, she was told. But sleeping in a garage does not count as couchsurfing. People living in places that aren’t made for “human habitation” can’t check the couchsurfing box when they are asked to provide information. Whether people sleeping on a porch count as homeless or in transit Homeless man panhandling on Route 13. (Photo: Michael Nocella) is unclear.

These definitions are important because how people can be served is determined by proprietary software. HUD has “added their living situation. One only has to more and more requirements” for data look at the requirements that Housing reporting since the requirements began and Urban Development (HUD) has for in 2004, Bodnar said, and the HMIS is a its yearly point-in-time count to see the “full-blown case management system.” absurdities and complications—they ask As the room continued discussing the of social services a count for the “literally” challenges of counting the homeless, Kathy homeless, the “imminently” homeless, Schlather of the Human Services Coalition the “unstably housed” (see “Counting the noted that service providers “do have Homeless One Night of the Year,” April 8 statistics, but these are about people who Ithaca Times). are housed.”

Or take the words of Alexis Dengel, Sue Kittell, a community needs who works with the Public Assistance specialist with the Park Foundation, Comprehensive Education (PACE) clarified the distinction. On one hand, program at TC3.

Kittell said, there are the “episodic” “Unfortunately we’re discouraged homeless, who might have suffered a from telling people to game the system. big crash in their life and need help to If someone says they’re staying in a get settled again. Then there are the playground instead of staying in a friend’s “chronically” homeless, who usually house for a week, they have a better chance struggle with issues of addiction. of getting housing,” Dengel said at the June “It’s not like the wheels came off,” Kittell meeting. said. “There’s no wheels to be seen.” • It was then pointed out that people — J o s h B r o k aw looking to get services other than housing

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chicken holders moderating each other and perhaps taking care of each other’s chickens when someone leaves town; and it “could mean amnesty for current chicken holders.”

Letting hens be was the basic theme of responses that Alderperson George McGonigal (D-1st) received to an email he sent out to people on South Hill, West Hill, and Spencer Road listhosts on the morning of July 8. About 15 people responded in favor of people keeping hens for egg-laying, but no roosters: “Let the chickens bloom, but gag the roosters” was one respondent’s succinct take.

One South Hill resident said it was her understanding about the chicken snitch that “that person had an axe to grind and this was simply sour grapes. Those chickens were not bothering this person in any way.” (She would not make any statements as to the mysterious person’s identity or motivations for the official record.)

Another respondent said that based on his research, lots of cities do distinguish between hens and roosters in their ordinances, and that people should be aware that hens do not need roosters around to lay eggs.

One emailer did want to make sure that Ithaca doesn’t go far down the fresh and local path when it comes to getting chicken for the evening’s noodle soup or dumplings, and restrict butchering on one’s own property.

“It is rather disheartening to see headless chickens running around,” they wrote. “I have lived in a city next to chickens as a child and have seen that.”

What’s next for changes to Ithaca’s animal restrictions is anyone’s guess. Bees, poultry, turkeys, ducks, geese, reptiles, swine, horses, goats, cows, mules, sheep, goats, or “any other animals, except domesticated pets” are prohibited right now.

Guinea hens came up at a couple points at the July 8 meeting. On the one hand, they’re loud, but also eat Lyme disease carrying ticks. A couple of local Facebook commenters on the topic were making the case for ducks.

“I bet dollars to donuts,” said McGonigal, “the next thing will be meat rabbits.” • —Josh

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approaching the question differently, came up with the same numbers for the initial cost of the project: about $3 million more to build downtown than in the country.

“They estimated $30 more a square foot,” said Hartz.

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contractor] used prevailing wage or not,” said Hartz. “We haven’t commanded it.

We have requested it. We do buy local and encourage the use of local labor; I think people know this about us. But, there may be instances where a contractor has to use non-local labor to get the job done.”

Burbank also asked about the use of green energy sources for the project, but Hartz said they were nowhere near that stage of the project. “It’s important to remember that a developer spends hundreds of thousands of dollars before they even go forward with the building; it’s conceivable that we could decide to not even do the process.”

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you have managing your time. They are just trying to say hello, and invite some pleasantries. Make it involved, if you want, but not arduous.

Of course, life in Ithaca is more relaxed, and time at GrassRoots even more so. Still, both are creative environments, and we want talk to be creative, too, don’t we? The great pianist and composer Thelonious Monk felt this way, I think.

When people would ask him “What’s happening?” (a very common greeting in the jazz world of his time), he would say, “Everything—every googleplexth of a second.” It was a way of turning the table on the interlocutor—hey, nice try, but still your move—with a little pizzazz.

I crib Monk’s answer, in my own life, although shortening it simply to “Everything.” Now you know, already, if you see me at GrassRoots, or GreenStar, but come say hello anyway. Be prepared, however: I will ask you how you are. • / J

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here’s this cool place to eat in Ithaca that you might not have heard about. It’s got no reviews on Yelp or TripAdvisor. They don’t take reservations. It’s all first-come, first-served. Lots of their food is locally sourced, fresh produce and meat, that whole bit. The menu is prix fixe—whatever they make that day is what you get, so you know this place is cool. And the price for eating from this menu is zero dollars, every day.

There aren’t many business school graduates who would pitch such a plan to investors, no matter how subversively hip the model sounds. And there aren’t many restaurateurs anywhere who have achieved the longevity of Loaves and Fishes, the community kitchen that has served free meals at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Cayuga Street since 1983.

The first-time diner at Loaves can come in a few minutes before meals are served and catch announcements of upcoming community events, hear the chef describe the dishes on the menu, and have a prayer before eating. Or come in sometime during the hour that meals are served and check the lovingly illustrated

board for the menu before getting in line.

Or just get in line—the volunteers will ask your preferences, dish by dish, as they fill your plate with hot food. Then back in the dining hall there’s a table full of bread, pastries, peanut butter, salad, and sauces.

Sometimes there are big chocolate chip cookies, gooey in the middle, sometimes a chocolate mousse pie, or trays full of little tarts and cupcakes and other unnamed sweets. Boutique berry-habañero hot sauces might be available in abundance for a week, and then Sriracha makes its return for those who like more heat in their vegan stir-fry or bacon mac ‘n cheese.

Take it easy on the coffee, because Gimme! delivers 15 pounds of their strong stuff per week, and it’s a cause for hopping by the time it percolates down the urn into your mug.

Take a seat, any unused seat, and eat. Some days, depending on your tablemates, the conversations are minimal: a nod, a hello, “please pass the salt,” a “have a nice day” when someone gets up to leave. Other days, a table might have more conversations going than any one person could follow at once.

Someone is singing the praises of the poetess Adrienne Rich. There is talk of an

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upcoming rally, a concert, progress on the Commons reconstruction. Tales are told of a hitchhiking expedition to L.A. made in the ‘70s, years spent in South America, happenings in Ithaca from days gone by.

Couples make plans for who’s picking up which kid today. A phone rings and its owner tells his friend, “Yeah, I’m at Loaves for lunch. Come by.” Sometimes you even hear people talking about a story printed in the newspaper. Lots of times, you’ll hear diners singing the praises of the meal.

“I’ve been to a lot of free meals in different places,” one young woman said, unprompted, one day at table. “And this one is definitely the best.”

“Ghetto Cooking 101”

In part, the tastiness quotient of meals at Loaves and Fishes derives from the quality ingredients they often have available from local farmers and food producers.

“Over 31 years you get a reputation that perpetuates via word of mouth,” says the Rev. Christina Culver, executive director at Loaves since 2010. “We’re the only community kitchen in Tompkins County that’s open five days a week.

People are generous and socially minded,

so if they have leftovers from a catered party, they figure this would be the place to call. Or Ithaca Hummus, for example, they’ll say ‘We’re tasting a new type of hummus and it’s not quite right.’ Now we have 50 pounds of really good hummus to serve.”

Sometimes those one-off donations turn into regular pick-ups, Culver said, when a business decides they want to give on a regular basis. The current regular pick-up schedule for Loaves includes buckets of tofu from Ithaca Soy, pastries and bread from Ithaca Bakery, Starbucks, and Panera, and meat from The Piggery.

Loaves and Fishes has a long-standing relationship with growers who sell at the Ithaca Farmers’ Market; Alice Napierski picked up extra produce at the market for 28 years every Saturday before retiring at age 75.

“By the time Alice retired she was filling 20 huge banana boxes with produce,” Culver said. “We started giving the Friendship Donations Network what we couldn’t use … it took two to four volunteers to fill her shoes.”

The Friendship Donations Network has now taken over farmers’ market collections as part of its mission of

diverting food from the trash into mouths that need the nutrition, and makes deliveries to Loaves’ cupboards along with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier. In-kind donations of food and other goods must be tracked and assigned a price—ranging from $50,000 to $75,000 in recent years—that isn’t included in the non-profit’s budget, which is $291,000 this year.

Typically, “from July to October I don’t order any produce from the food bank, except for onions and garlic,” said Jonah McKeough, who manages receiving at Loaves and directs the kitchen for dinner on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This wet growing year has dampened produce intake somewhat, but there were still veggies like rutabaga, chard, and kale making appearances on the menu in early July.

Suffice it to say, then, that the chefs creating Loaves and Fishes’ menu every day have to work with the material that is given. There’s no running out to buy a $10 gram of saffron to make the perfect paella when one is cooking a meal for 100 guests.

The new kitchen volunteer who arrives to cook for lunch on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays with manager Jen Reeves takes a class in what she calls “ghetto cooking 101.”

“I come from a big family,” Reeves

cart next to the serving line; without any sign-in sheet or requirements, Loaves can only keep track of how many meals are served by using a plate count. Over 36,000 meals were served in their last fiscal year, beginning in April 2014.

Guests, mostly regulars, start coming in around 11:30 to get a mug of coffee, check out the menu, and have a chat. One says, “Oh yes, tuna fish!” … another “Fish again?” Longtime volunteer Helena, the dining room manager, checks the cabinets and fridge for refills for shakers and salad dressings. At noon, after announcements and a prayer, the line starts moving and plates are filled.

“Would you like rice?” the first server asked. “Barbecue beef, or tuna fish salad?

Fish chowder? Vegetarian pasta? Carrots and greens?” Someone starts playing a tune on the piano, or if you’re lucky, the accordion or banjo.

Lunch is served at Loaves and Fishes, once again.

tomatoes into a spaghetti dish from Friday that then gets a fresh heaping of cheese on top and goes into the oven. Under food safety laws, dishes can be served twice.

It’s rare they don’t get some additional jazzing up before making it back to the serving line. Dozens of tuna fish cans are opened for a salad. Reeves wants to make sure there’s a sandwich alternative to Sloppy Joes, for which pounds of ground

G u e s t s a r e a s k e d w h at t h e y w o u l d l i k e t o e at. ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) said, “and I can ‘ghetto cook’ with anything. I won’t serve anything that I wouldn’t eat, though that doesn’t mean that I like it.”

On the first Monday of July, there is a fish chowder already simmering at 9 a.m. when Reeves opens the kitchen door to volunteers. One is tasked to mix more

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beef simmer on the stove with onions and peppers in a pan large enough to hold a napping Boston terrier. Jen is no beef fan, but dips tasting spoons into the mix several times as barbecue sauce, pepper, paprika, and cumin are added. Peeled garlic in a five-pound tub comes too late off the food bank truck to get into the pan,

but there are a few well-garlicked pounds of leftover beef that add their flavor into the mix.

The chowder is one of those bigfamily recipes that Reeves learned in the outdoors. Camping cooking is an influence on her style to this day.

“We’d go fishing, roast the fish over an open fire, and make a pot of chowder,” Reeves said. Fresh dill is chopped up to go into the soup, along with a pot full of potatoes. The Loaves’ kitchen newbie also gets an education from Reeves in edible medicines that she’s inherited from her native roots. The long, green onions going into the tuna salad are a “number one antibiotic,” she said.

By 10:30 in the morning, pans are in the oven, the soup is complete and at a low simmer, and the dish sink is empty with spatulas and strainers back in their proper places. A pan of rice, which is on the menu nearly every day, is ready to be served.

A volunteer recently nicknamed “Egghead” for his scrambling skills whips up a pan of fluffy yolks and whites, served with toasted pretzel buns and bagels for the volunteers’ breakfast. In the front of the house, kitchen assistant Tish Brown pours hot water into the coffee urn and vases of flowers from local farms are placed on the long dining tables.

There aren’t so many volunteers in July with school out; one can often find bright-eyed youths in Cornell or IC shirts serving or cleaning up at Loaves during the fall and spring semesters. Those that are cooking in July, “are the veterans,” McKeough says. “They can really bang it out.”

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When Rev. Kathy Eickwort first served three homeless people from a pot of soup she’d made for a new hospitality and advocacy committee meeting in March 1983, Loaves and Fishes was born.

The ministry’s mission was written like this 31 years ago: Loaves and Fishes is a “Christian ministry which provides a place for free meals, hospitality, companionship, and advocacy for those in need, regardless of their faith, beliefs, or circumstances.”

“The people who came up with that mission were incredibly wise—it encompassed everything,” Culver said.

“Thirty-one years later there’s nothing missing. We’ve never had to adjust the mission. We’ve been aware from Day One that if you’re needing and wanting a free meal, you probably have other unmet basic needs, and we want to do our best to help people meet those.”

In early days, Loaves had a cadre of reliable kitchen volunteers who might help someone by accompanying them to an appointment, directing them to different services or shelters, or helping somebody move. The organization has always had emergency funds for things like gas, bus passes, or doing laundry, and can usually round up a tent, or a blanket, or clothing, things a person in a life crisis might need.

In recent years, the advocacy mission has been formalized under a coordinator, currently J.R. Clairborne, who started out with Loaves as a grant-funded diversity outreach coordinator. Clairborne says Loaves works to bring in local social service agencies to staff a table on a regular basis “and connect agencies with people.” Some regular tablers include Cornell law professors; the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which provides referrals for veterans; Catholic Charities; and nurses from the county health department who provide screenings. When the new health care exchange was rolled out, health

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he Village of Lansing Planning Board recently gave the YMCA the green light for a special permit to construct an 800-square foot pavilion, basketball court, and other site improvements on its existing parcel of land at 20 Graham Road West, which located in a Commercial Low Traffic District.

Because the proposed construction will occur within 200’ of the centerline of a stream, included in the Drainageway Conservation Combining District, a special permit review was required.

YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County CEO Frank Towner said the village gave the Y its “full blessing” to go ahead and construct a 20-foot by 40-foot outdoor pavilion, which will be identical to the existing pavilion at the YMCA’s Y-Wilderness Camp at 1340 Mecklenberg Road, Towner noted.

“Summer 2015 is big for us,” Towner said, “because we’re able to serve more people in the community through a gym divider that we’ve been looking at for years – that was just installed. This pavilion was sponsored and paid for

by Tompkins Trust Company. It was something they chose to support this year. This pavilion will serve our camps when they come into register, it will serve our staff because they’ll have another place to take the kids, and it’ll also serve are membership as a whole, because members will be able to reserve it and use it for birthday parties, picnics and other get-togethers. Right now, on our main campus, we don’t have a place to do those things. So combined with last year’s playground build and the playground pavilion, we’ll be able to do a lot more.”

While building a 800-square foot pavilion might seem like a lot of work, Towner has been told it will rise from the ground almost instantaneously.

“My facilities manager told me once the holes are dug,” he said, “and the main posts are in, the whole build out will only take two days. That’s going to start [Tuesday, July 14], and it will be up by the end of the week. We have a children’s picnic slated for August 17, and all the children in our camps are going to have lunch with folks that have been able to help us throughout the last year.”

In addition to the pavilion, the YMCA hopes to add a basketball court, fencing, and other site improvements to complete its outdoor overhaul. While it seems like those two will get the blessing from the village, board members – during a July 6 board of trustees public meeting - noted that the YMCA will come before continued on page 11

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Fundraiser for the Racker Center attracts Talent

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or hockey fans who enjoy seeing players getting checked into the boards and the occasional glovedropping fisticuffs, Saturday night’s game at Lynah Rink was a big disappointment.

No checks, no fights, just some world-class talent showcased by some of the game’s finest players.

The Racker Rivals event draws current NHL players, former superstars, Big Red alumni and some townsfolk you’d never guess were so skilled on skates. Given that some of the players—like Dustin Brown of the L.A. Kings, Ben Scrivens of the Edmonton Oilers and Brian Gionta of the Buffalo Sabres – are still playing at the game’s highest level, make a few million dollars per season and hope to continue to do so for many more years, the contact component of the game is toned down, but the speed and finesse were on full display.

When the players were introduced, all were welcomed warmly, but when the Red Team’s Joe Nieuwendyk’s name was read, the Lynah faithful stood and cheered Cornell’s most successful and high - profile player ever to lace ‘em up. Joe played 20 seasons in the NHL, he was the league’s Calder Cup winner ( Rookie of the Year), the second player ever to score 50 goals as a rookie, a four-time All-Star, an Olympic Gold medalist, a three-time Stanley Cup winner and a Hall of Famer.

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came when Dustin Brown was introduced, and the only player ever to come up through Ithaca Youth Hockey and make to the NHL (as a 1st round draft pick) is at the peak of his considerable powers, having captained the Kings to a pair of Stanley Cup wins in the past four seasons. Dustin, like Joe, has brought Lord Stanley’s Cup to Ithaca more than once, and the two elite players are the pride and joy of a hockeycrazed community.

I sat behind the Red Team’s bench, and my daughter and I got an up-close look at the profound skill level on the ice. On one play, Nieuwendyk—now 48 and skating like a man 20 years younger—took the puck around two defenders and snapped a pass across the center of the ice to … nobody … or so it seemed. A teammate came across in front of the crease at blinding speed, got his stick on the crisp pass and buried it. It was a reminder that one of Nieuwendyk’s gifts is that he sees the ice as well as anyone, and that he is still a step ahead of the defense.

As the Red Team built a lead, Dustin Brown decided to do something about it, and I wanted so badly to see a replay as he brought the puck down the ice at an incredible rate of speed, juked around three defenders, executed a mind-boggling spin move, maintained control of the puck throughout the 360, and then got off a shot.

The shot was outside the pipe by 6 inches,

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and Finance Committee approved the 2 percent increase, the first time it came before the full legislature, it failed. At a June meeting of the Cortland County Legislature, eight representatives voted in favor of the budget and seven opposed – but because Cortland uses a weighted voting system and because absences are counted as no votes, the budget still failed.

Then, on July 7, Tompkins County unanimously voted to approve the TC3 budget. However, if Cortland County did not subsequently pass the budget, the school would have been in a bind. Because New York State education law mandates that the sponsor share be based on the counties’ enrollment numbers, Tompkins County could not offer a funding increase if Cortland did not as well. (However, County Administrator Joe Mareane said that if both counties could only agree to a flat budget with no increase, Tompkins still would have had the option to offer a donation to the school on top of the budgeted sponsor share.)

Fortunately for the school, on July 9 the Cortland County Legislature reconsidered the matter and passed the budget with 11 votes in favor, one opposing, and five absences.

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TC3 President Carl Haynes explained that the school’s original proposal back in June entailed a 4-percent increase in the sponsor share. Although Tompkins County expressed willingness to offer that level of support, Cortland County did not. Thus, TC3 offered a compromise budget that included a 2 percent increase in sponsor share along with permission to draw an amount equivalent to the other 2 percent— $91,183—from the school’s $1.4 million fund balance. In total, the sponsor share contribution makes up 12 percent of the college’s budget.

Although Cortland County’s Budget

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but the move was an almost unbelievable convergence of skill sets, including speed, power, balance and confidence. My daughter and I looked at one another and said, “Did we really just see that?”

In addition to watching the Big Guns, it was a lot of fun for the crowd to see Ithaca High coaches Paul Zarach and Emily Grippen putting on a show for their players, Ithaca College soccer coach Pat Ouckama suiting up as an IYHA alum, T.C. Trust Company C.E.O. Greg Hartz finding the back of the net and the two spouse pairings. Indeed, Nicole Brown (Dustin’s wife) put one in the net, and Jenny Scrivens (who played goalie as a Big Red student) outcome, said, “We’re very pleased with that. I think it’s a wonderful. Even though it’s been difficult there was, in the end, a compromise of the two counties.”

In total, the two counties are providing $4.65 million in funding, 63 percent ($2.9 million) of which comes from Tompkins County and 37 percent ($1.7 million) of which comes from Cortland County. The sponsor share contributions are divided based on the number of students from each county, as averaged over a three-year period. For Tompkins County, that 2 percent increase translates to $57,445 more than last year’s number.

The total spending increase in the budget is just .5 percent and reflects a $100 increase in state aid per full-time equivalent student, which is still $68 less than five years ago.

The budget includes a $150 increase in full-time student tuition and projects a 164-student decrease in enrollment.

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The event was hosted very capably by the great staff at the Franziska Racker Center, and Honorary Coach Gina Fumia was all smiles as she took the ice for postgame photos. The Racker Center provides a wide array of supports for our community members who are living with disabilities, and at the VIP Event after the game, CEO Dan Brown was clearly proud of his staff and all the hard work they put forth. It really was a wonderful offering, and I am grateful for the invitation to be a part of it.

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the planning board again after the pavilion is up and completed to discuss next steps.

“The big picture,” Towner explained, “is that the YMCA was built on that location in 1980. And we had the main facility, 2000 we added a gym, 2009 we added a health and wellness center.

But what we never had was an outdoor recreation area. So we decided we should have a full-scale plan to make that happen. That plan included the playgrounds, the pavilion and a basketball court all in a fenced in area.”

“The most exciting thing,” Towner continued, “is that it will serve our camp and membership in a way that we haven’t been able to do before. People go outside and love to do things outside. They want that shelter, that shade to complement that. Now they have that place. It’s a safe comfortable environment now, and I’m excited to see our kids and staff get to use it.” • —Michael

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care navigators who made themselves available during mealtimes signed up about 20 people.

According to Culver, the fact that Loaves always needs volunteers allows them to serve people who need a place to work and something to do. Volunteers through the Learning Web and people in recovery often find themselves cooking at Loaves as a way of getting back into the workforce swing. And people from Challenge Industries, the Racker Center, and Unity House all serve as staffers.

Clairborne also oversees a volunteer advocates program that started in 2014.

There are now 17 advocates, who above all exist to listen.

“They provide a compassionate listener and nonjudgmental support,” Clairborne said. “Sometimes people just need to process their day. They might have a problem that has them confused, and talking with someone helps them find their own answers.”

Lyndsey Lyman went through the advocacy training last year with the idea of taking lessons from the program she could share with other clients of her employer, the Food Bank of the Southern Tier.

“One of the things we talked about a lot [during training] was just being with somebody is just as important,” Lyman said. “I thought at first, okay, I’ll just listen really well. Within the first month I was talking to two gentlemen, one of whom was talkative and the other quiet … the talkative one left, and I’m sitting there thinking ‘Should I say something?’ and feeling like I needed to fill the silence.

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“A lot of our guests have few opportunities during the day to make a choice for themselves,” Clairborne said.

“Here they can say ‘I want that for lunch, and not this.’ And they can say ‘I need help with this,’ and we’re here to empower them.”

More important than perhaps anything else, Culver says, is that Loaves and Fishes provides a place where people can have a conversation, where they can really be heard by others.

“So many of us take for granted that we have family, even extended family, or close friends that can help during a time of crisis. Many of our guests don’t have that for various reasons,” Culver said.

“People might come in the door first for the meal, but fairly quickly they start to appreciate they’re also part of a sweet community. It ends up filling a huge void and an emptiness in so many.”

Culver marvels at St. John’s providing a rent-free space for 31 years—“It’s so rare to see a collaboration go on so long.” She has stories—that she could tell for days but can’t be printed—about people hitting bottom and starting their climb out of the hole when they find a meal at Loaves and Fishes. They find help getting an apartment, a job, a phone, or something as simple as a haircut. And Culver knows that she can’t account for the generosity of those who give their food, their money, their time to keep this communal kitchen going. She’s the only full-time employee, along with six part-timers who are paid— and then the whole host of volunteers, who help for a day, or a year, or a decade or two.

“Every time we serve a meal, it’s a miracle,” Culver said. “Every day.” •

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tudent entrepreneurs are people on a mission. They don’t always have the time or inclination to set up formal titles for the operational units that are producing a product. As a result it can be a little confusing to figure out who is working under what umbrella. It is really more about the who than the what.

Entrepreneurships at Cornell is the biggest umbrella. If you go to the webpage at the Cornell site they have 397 listed (and growing). Some of these date back to 1996 and the students that started them graduated from colleges from across the university spectrum.

The Pop Shop was formed four years ago. The first location was on Dryden Road, but two years ago it moved to its present and larger location at 325 College Avenue.

Life Changing Labs (LCL) is program run out of The Pop Shop.

Unlike some of the other goings-on at The Pop Shop, LCL is a yearround endeavor.

Michael Rapuzzi, a rising fifthyear student in the architecture program, oversees LCL on a day-to-day basis, but the program was begun by alum Peter Cortle. The public relations are handled by Peter Yeng.

This year Rapuzzi and alum Haroun Ismail are shepherding six student and alumni start-up companies through the beginning stages of managing a business.

Lab managers Michael Rapuzzi and Peter Yeng go over goal setting. (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

They have pitch practices, bring in guest speakers, and work on setting and reaching goals.

In addition, they are working with nine “Lifechangers,” summer interns from high schools around the world. These

teenagers are all aspiring entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of product development. They went through an application process to get into the program.

Finally, Rapuzzi and the other mentors are working with two Cornell Ph.D.

students are in the process of developing an injectable treatment for arthritis.

“LCL will help them get this to market,” said Rapuzzi.

“We are showing them how to set up meetings with legal and financial professionals.”

All of these people, according to Rapuzzi, are being primed to move on from this student incubator to a professional incubator like Rev in downtown Ithaca or any of the increasingly common sites across the country (or around the world).

Belle Apps is one of the six companies in LCL this summer. “They came in to recruit a team,” Rapuzzi said. “They just released the alpha of their product. They want to develop the infrastructure to connect the customer to grocery stores and restaurants.” This application, which operates on both a cell phone and a computer, allows people to get food delivered to their home.

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Haroun Ismail (in Cornell sweatshirt) in meeting at the Pop Shop. (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

business with technical fields is common in entrepreneurial circles, said Rapuzzi.

Both Rapuzzi and Yeng are students in the architecture program where, as Yeng said, “startup is a foreign language.” Entrepreneurialism is much more encouraged, they said, in the hotel school, ILR, and in the MBA programs.

Rapuzzi said he is being taught design concepts in his architecture program, but he has always been fascinated by business and managing startup companies is just “a different idea of design.”

Not all the startups at 325 College Avenue are making computer applications.

The Pop Shop has three-dimensional printers and some entrepreneurs are using those to create prototype products. FiberSpark, a company profiled in the March 18 Ithaca Times, is in the process of setting up a fiberoptic network in Collegetown.

Some other students are setting up a grocery store on campus. “This is our first not-for-profit,” said Rapuzzi. “They are getting support from the Center for Transformational Action. They didn’t quite get funding, so they are doing more this summer and we’re helping them out.”

Funding for these startup projects often comes from connections to alumni, according to Rapuzzi. Others sources include connections to companies (not run

by Cornell alumni) that students make during undergraduate interships. Finally, money occasionally comes in from local foundations and investors.

The eLab at Cornell is yet another of the aforementioned “umbrellas,” but under this one students can receive academic credit for product development (instead of paying for those credits). eLab is a collaboration with Entrepreneurships at Cornell.

“We hope,” said Rapuzzi, “to eventually have our own funds. They will be built up through gifts from investors. That is a long-term goal of ours.”

Haroun Ismail graduated from the College of Human Ecology in 2013 with a degree in Human Biology, Health and Society. He was initially pre-med. “But I wanted to help people ‘at scale,’” he said. “I could see that you could leverage technol-

ogy to reach more people.” His first stab at entrepreneurialism in his sophomore year was a failure. “In my senior year I got a lot more serious. I was one of the first guys in Rosie [an application for online shopping for groceries] and then I got funded for a medical device startup. It’s a smartphone case that measures things in your blood.”

Ismail had to choose between accepting a Fulbright Scholarship or carrying on with the development of his startup. He chose the startup.

“It can measure other things, but we started with blood sugar,” he said. “Now there is no more need to carry glucose testing equipment. And people see to understand what is going on better [when they use our device]. And the doctors can track what is going on online.”

Ismail moved to Kansas City and was working full-time for Oracle while he was building his own company. “I didn’t get much sleep,” he grinned. Once he had an arrangement with Sprint in place Ismail hired a CEO to run the company, and decided it was time to start giving back. He moved back to Ithaca in the spring.

He has had experience in three different incubators and is trying to bring the best of what he learned there to LCL at The Pop Shop.

“I met Peter Cortle and he told me about the incubator,” said Ismail. “So now I’m running the incubator as a partner, helping the students refine their ideas, and helping to run the programming. I help them do market research and to run a productive meeting.

“You always learn through teaching,” Ismail said when asked what he was getting out of his time at LCL. “I wanted to learn about different types of startups, and intead of doing it yourself one at a time, you can help others go through it.

“If I want to become a venture capitalist,” he continued, “this is my way of learning quickly. It helps me stay on my toes.” § Life Changing Labs will be hosting “Life Changing Talks”. These are two public teleconference speaker events in the Popshop (325 College Ave, Ithaca NY): Monday, July 27 at 4 p.m.: Wayne Chang, founder of Crashlytics, which was acquired for $100 million in 2013.

Dancing in the Moonlight June Seany sets up downtown studio for Middle Eastern dance

By Michael Nocella If you have ever called the Ithaca Times, or have walked into its offices, you have likely been greeted with the charismatic, upbeat energy of its receptionist, June Seaney.

So how does Seaney always manage to give off such a pleasant energy? Well, she just happens to moonlight as the owner of Moonlight Dancer, where she transforms into Ithaca’s most experienced belly-dance teacher. Seaney first began teaching dance classes for BOCES nearly two decades ago before her own teacher offered to pass on the belly dance business to Seaney.

It was a dream a long time in the making.

“Ever since I was a little girl,” Seaney recalled, “I’ve wanted to dance like the gypsies. Really it was [flamenco dancing] that I wanted to learn, but there are no flamenco lessons around here. So it wasn’t until I was an adult that I got into belly dancing. But I tried it, and fell in love with it. That’s how I got started.

“It started out as a hobby,” she continued. “But my teacher wanted to get back into nursing, so she passed the torch to me. Even at that point, I didn’t think it was going to happen, but it did, and it became my full-time profession.”

For several years, Seaney rented out different spaces in Ithaca to teach lessons, at times even doing so from her own home. Her longest stint—and the place Moonlight Dancer has become most known for geographically speaking—was a studio out in the West End of Ithaca, Seaney said. However after “rent got out of control,” Seaney had no choice but to move again.

Just this spring, Seaney relocated her business to the third floor of 123 S. Cayuga St., above Sunny Days and STREAM Collaborative. She hopes this latest relocation sticks for good.

“I finally found a great space,” she said. “It’s on the third floor, and it’s a corner—it’s beautiful. It’s downtown. I love being downtown. It’s centrally located.

It just feels good—the space has great energy.”

Those who check out the new studio can expect to learn Middle Eastern dance, which Seaney noted gets inaccurately dubbed as “belly dance” in America.

Seaney teaches a variety of Middle Eastern dance including Turkish Oriental, Romani (“gypsy”) dance, Egyptian Oriental, Folkloric, and Lebanese. Romani dance is a way of dancing from Russia, Spain, and the Balkans, but lets Seaney capitalize on her childhood dream because she “finally gets to dance like a gypsy.”

“I teach what Americans call belly dancing, but it’s technically Middle Eastern dance,” Seaney explained. “Belly dancing is actually a misnomer. It came to America

in 1893, and they called it ‘belly dance’ and it kind of stuck. But it’s really called “raqs shaabi.” It’s a movement where you don’t need a dance partner. It’s something you can do yourself. We use Middle Eastern music. You don’t have to go out and perform it to enjoy it.”

“I teach the styles from Turkey and Egypt. There’s an American style, and other styles, but I teach traditional. I try to keep the tradition of those countries’ dances alive without diluting it too much.

“I offer a beginner class,” she continued, “a level two class, and an

students about the cultures they come from, along with making sure her classes amount to a well-balanced workout. Like yoga, or any kind of exercise, Seaney said the physical nature of the dances she teaches lend to a vast range of benefits, both for the mind and body.

“It works out the whole body. It really boils down to posture—good posture.

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“Ken has also been a big advocate for energy conservation,” Shapiro continued.

“The extension had a big program to promote woodstoves because they are carbon neutral.”

Taitem is a for-profit company, but it is a “B corporation,” which means that it is privately owned but with a public mission (the ‘B’ stands for ‘benefit’). They are responsible to their shareholders, but they also have a mandate to benefit other parties, including their clients. “[The extension] wanted a pilot program,” Shapiro said, “something to promote energy conservation to other companies through a website. It would encourage them to get an audit and them implement the suggestions that came out of the audit.”

Taitem, on the other hand, wanted to gather together a group in a workshop that would meet over a period of time. It compared to the first-time homebuyer’s class offered by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. “This,” he said, “would be a first-time energy-saver class.” He wanted it to take place over a long period of time so that the participants could arrange and audit and then start to implement the changes that came back in their audit

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The program that has emerged from this collaboration is a year-long program that has meetings approximately every two months. The chamber of commerce is supplying the space for the class, and Ian Shapiro of Taitem said that chamber president Jennifer Tavares was important to kickstarting the sessions and attends most of them, as does Karim Beers of Get Your Green Back.

But the true genesis of the program grew out of a relationship between Taitem and Cooperative Extension. “Ken Schlather is very interested in energy conservation,” said Shapiro. “He had an audit [of the Willow Avenue extension building] done about 10 years ago, which really brought energy use down.

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“So we merged the two ideas,” the engineer said, “and we got a big break getting the chamber on board. They promoted this and allowed us to hold the classes there.”

In fall 2014 the State Theatre, two bed and breakfasts, two libraries, the Coddington Road Community Center, an office building in Cortland, and five churches signed up for the inaugural Tompkins County Commercial Energy Efficiency Collaborative (TC-CEEC), and classes began in January. There is no charge for the class and it includes a free energy audit; the cost of the audit is covered by NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority). The state authority’s program is primarily aimed at small (under 20,000 square feet) companies, rather than larger companies (e.g. hospitals) or residences.

Shapiro is teaching the classes along with Sara Culotta, a sustainability consultant at Taitem.

“We are teaching energy literacy,” said Culotta, “telling them how to pay for improvements, explaining incentive rebates and tax credits, and describing how to conduct capital campaigns.”

One of their tasks is to go through the details of the NYSERDA rebate program by go through the the audit in depth, explaining the technical terms, presenting a case study, and telling the participants some common recommendations that they can expect to get.

“Then they will start the work,” said Culotta, “and we will go through working with contractors, setting goals for their organizations, and how to communicate with their stakeholders.”

They invited NYSEG (New York State Electric and Gas) in to explain their conservation program, which is primarily about updating lighting technology. “It’s a pretty good deal, really,” said Shapiro.

“They pay for 75 percent of the cost of installation.”

• • • In the first class in January, Shapiro and Culotta explained the audit and that it was free through New York State. They then gave the participants two months to schedule their own audits. While they told the class members that Taitem did audits, they were not required to hire them.

At the March session everyone was told to set goals. How much did they want to save on their energy bills? 5 percent? 50 percent?

“It has been found,” said Shapiro and Culotta, “that if you set a goal for your organization you are likely to exceed it. Whereas if you don’t, you’ll save less than10 percent.”

Classes in May and July were spent going over the results of the audits, which come in the form of a report that needs some interpretation.

At the end of the summer Shapiro and Culotta will be telling their students how to find contractors and then how to manage them. In October, by which time many of the alterations will have been done, they will go over quality control of the construction work.

By December everyone will be ready to view their results and will have gotten some utility bills that will reveal how much their conservation efforts have saved them. At that point they can begin to calculate the payback period for the expenditures.

• • • “This class was a dream of Ian’s,” said Culotta. “I love education, so after I joined Taitem I put it in motion.

“It fits in,” she continued, “with the movement led by Tompkins County, Ithaca, and other municipalities to reduce production of greenhouse gasses.”

She said she would like to see more programs like TC-CEEC that don’t just look at the building itself and the financial incentives, but also talk about the values that induce people to pursue energy conservation.

The name of the Shapiro’s company, which he founded in 1989 after leaving a job at Carrier in Syracuse, is an acronym for “technology as if the Earth mattered.”

He moved the company to Ithaca in 1993 and now employs nearly 50 people.

Both instructors would like to repeat the class. Culotta suggested doing it in Elmira and Corning, but they would need a funder for those programs.

Shapiro is ready to offer the course to more small commercial building owners again locally, but said he would have to poll the other partners to see if they are ready to go ahead again.

Shapiro is presently writing about a book about energy in all types of commercial buildings. Teaching the class gives him new data and new perspectives from building owners.

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here are few unfamiliar with the festival scene in 2015. The hip coastal kids stream to the California desert for Coachella and hear all their rock radio stars at Bonnaroo in Tennessee. Thousands scream along to speakers blasting from the Coors Light Silver Bullet stage and hope their bedazzled boots and jeans get photographed for the glossy magazines.

The headbands, sundresses, and tie-dyes have made their way onto the department store racks once again. VIP tickets for the bigname weekends that include air-conditioned bathrooms and artist meet-and-greets run into the four figures. There’s money in the festival bandstand these days.

The promoter who gets into the festival game to make an easy buck, though, is making a mistake.

“You definitely don’t start one because you think you’re going to get rich,” says Tara Nevins of GrassRoots founding band Donna the Buffalo.

“The first few years, forget about it. So many of our festivals have been rained out, and we’ve lost so much money.”

Of course, maintaining a hefty profit margin has never been the raison d’etre for the advertising-free, nonprofit GrassRoots Festival of Music and Arts, celebrating its 25th year from July 16 to 19. Nevins guesses that to some degree, the rise in festivals since GrassRoots began on May 12, 1990 as a one-night, threeband AIDS fundraising concert at The State Theatre is attributable to the number of people it takes to put one on.

“In the village of Trumansburg, it brings the community together in a major way,” Nevins said. “People like being involved in purposeful things. A good festival is very much like community promoting. It’s a breeding ground for a socially positive movement. If we want to be all corny, it’s using music as a positive force.”

The GrassRoots community has expanded in numbers and geography to the point where one can go to a GrassRoots each season—in spring and fall at Shakori Hills in North Carolina since 2003, and since 2012 in the winter at Virginia Key in South Florida.

“You’re now seeing these networking things happen, where artists are creating their own adventure out of seeds planted at the festivals,” said GrassRoots organizer Hilary Davis. One local example is Big Mean Sound Machine, which used an appearance at the Virginia Key festival as an anchor stop for their largest East Coast tour to date this spring.

On the Miami end of things, Ryan Cacolici of Nag Champayons says that GrassRoots has

been a blessing to his local music scene.

“We’re such an electronic DJ-dominated culture down here, that there’s a lot left to be desired on the local scene,” Cacolici said. “I love that they don’t just come in with the festival, make some money and get the hell out. They sponsor local shows, do fundraisers and act like a community organization—they take our little oasis of freaks and artists really seriously. They’re

GrassRoots this year is Locust Honey, which entered the orbit through the Shakori Hills festivals in North Carolina. Chloe Edmonstone, a north Georgia native, grew up going to oldtime festivals and has played string instruments since she was 13. Meredith Watson is from Boston, where she also grew up performing, in theater among other things, before she found playing old-time was what she had to do.

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our tribe.”

Defining a “Miami sound” for the tribe that’s coming to Trumansburg this year isn’t easy; “Afrogalactic tropidelic mayhem” is the descriptor Nag Champayons uses for a “world garage” sound that started at their first practice with an electric sitar run through a Marshall amplifier stack, bass, and drums. The Miami scene does share lots of musicians; one MC will be beatboxing and singing both with Nag Champayons and Nativos Jammin’ Orchestra, and another also raps in Telekinetic Walrus.

Along with Lanzallamas, the four Miami groups will play eight shows this weekend, and though all the groups do far more than turn on a laptop, expect plenty of bass.

“All of our bands have this electronic element. It’s a residue that you kind of can’t wash off,” Cacolici said. “Miami works well for us outside of Miami—people come up to us and say ‘I’ve never heard anything like that … and we come back to Miami and people say ‘You have a band? That’s just stupid.’”

Another debut act at the Finger Lakes

“People have asked me so many times how did some girl from Boston end up in old-time music,” Watson said. “It’s weird how people have to find some reason—my mom said your roots are French-Canadian, maybe that’s where your fiddling blood came from. Maybe I just heard a song and couldn’t unhear it.”

Living in Appalachia, with a homebase in Asheville, has helped Watson steep herself in the old-time music. Edmonstone talks about the value of “learning the music from someone who learned it from someone who really played it in the 1930s in Appalachia. I think that music is best shared through people.”

From what the Locust Honey ladies have seen of GrassRoots so far in North Carolina, they’ve found that the mix of people playing different musics comes across as something that “feels very family.” They told this story of one night at Shakori Hills over the phone while driving through Knoxville on I-40: “It was pouring rain, and we were playing just a straight old-time set. All these cars were moving very slowly toward the artists’ camping continued on page 24

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Jazz Vet Still Reigns

Local Musician has long history with city

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here were years—decades, really— when Johnny Russo was at just about every Ithaca musical event you could imagine. There were 30+ hours in a week devoted solely to music. He’s never had a day job. Johnny Russo has made it this long on sheer talent and drive.

These days, Johnny Russo sightings are rarer, but still happening. “I’m playing a lot less than I used to play,” Russo told me recently. You can see him play this Saturday, July 18; Johnny Russo and the East Hill Classic Jazz Band will perform at 7 p.m. at Taughannock Falls State Park. Russo said this will be his 15th

performance there.

The band includes Russo’s longtime musical foil, guitarist Doug Robinson.

Russo calls Robinson “the most indemand guitarist in Ithaca. He plays an average of 30 to 40 gigs a month.”

Brian Earle will also sit in on clarinet; Earle and Robinson have been sharing the recording and production of Russo’s latest album with the EHCJB, a tribute to the songs of musical theatre and the Great White Way, entitled Broadway 1985-2015; the CD will be on sale at the Saturday Concert.

Steve Brown, who created the jazz program at Ithaca College, will sit in on bass; Robinson will play rhythm guitar for the show, while London McDaniel will play “jazz lead.” Another longtime

London McDaniel and Johnny Russo. (Brian Arnold Photo)

band member, virtuoso banjo player Drew Freck, rounds out the combo. I’ve seen Freck with Russo at Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, among other venues, and he is a powerhouse on his instrument.

Russo hails from Geneva, New York, and he attended the Eastman School of Music, graduating in the early-to-mid ‘60s. His mentor, Walter Hendl, had been the associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic, replaced by Leonard Bernstein. Hendl became friends with Igor Stravinsky, and during Hendl’s tenure at Eastman, Stravinsky visited and heard a recital performance of “The Firebird Suite,” with Russo as part of the Eastman Philharmonia.

“I liked Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra,” he remembers. “I liked those guys.” continued on page 21

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Photographing hands and the lives they live

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emories are fickle entities, at times encased safely in the amber of our minds and at others fading quickly with each footstep and blink, faltering upon synapses and dissolving into the overwhelming mass of our individual histories. Infanthood in particular is a hazy blur, familiar only through muffled voices captured in home videos and the woozy comfort of childhood objects: the blanket that hung from the side of your crib or your favorite toy that stuck around as you aged, that perhaps still exists today. But even if specific memories become unreachable, there remains, at least for those who deem their childhoods as “good,” certain sensations and comforts that bring us back to that time, when feeling safe was all we knew. Oblivious to the potential harms present in the world, we existed within the warmth of our parents’ arms, and it was there we first encountered what it was like to love and be loved in return.

This month, Ithaca photographer Monroe Payne has taken it upon himself to display instances of love through his recent collection, Loving Hands, currently exhibited at the Moosewood Restaurant.

As the collection’s title implies, the subject of each photograph is individuals’ hands, but the emotional value these hands express is much more palpable than expected. As the artist himself wrote, “Hands display love in many ways,” and it’s these several ways that are rendered throughout the show in black and white, anything from romantic love to friendship to unhindered dedication.

Two boys hold hands. They walk in step, backs turned to the camera and striped shirts tucked into their jeans, the sleeves rolled up and crinkling at their elbows. Their other hands hang at their

sides, and the bright light of late afternoon casts shadows on the ground around them.

They’re photographed from the arms down, simply their forms walking in step.

Their hands appear caring and gentle, their exact relationship to one another undefined and inconsequential.

In another photograph, a married couple stacks their hands, one on top of the other, on the kitchen table. They are much older than the boys, their hands wrinkled and spotted with age. The scene seems ordinary and everyday in its gesture of loyalty. A partially full glass of tea sits on the table with them, and one person of the two, a woman, wears a watch and two rings.

A third photograph: two babies, fast asleep with their faces pressed against the blanket below them, or perhaps the sweater on their caretaker’s chest. The babies face one another, eyes closed but hands pressed against one another in trust.

One sucks on a pacifier, the other’s cheeks puff out in youth.

This all sounds a bit sentimental, and without question it is. But Payne managed, for the most part, to present his own take on what could otherwise be seen as images of cliché. An older couple clinks glasses at the dinner table, a blurry onlooker and flower bouquet in the background.

They are celebrating something, an anniversary or birthday. Or, perhaps they

are celebrating another day out, more time spent in each other’s company without need for formal holiday. The details in each image tell the story and express moods of celebration or adoration or trust that needn’t be staged. In one of the few instances where an individual’s face is shown, a young girl stands on the beach grinning wildly, her palms open for the camera to see. Her hands are caked in wet sand, dirty from playing. They are hands in use, hands expressing the carelessness and enthusiasm of childhood.

Childhood passes. One day leads into the next, and before we know it we are older, even before we entirely register the change.

Monroe Payne with his Photographs. (Photo Brian Arnold) We are no longer infants, no longer living under our parents’ careful supervision. Time goes “College Ave. Strut”—to go along with on. But the feelings remain, that same and his interpretations of standards from the constant desire for comfort, protection, American Song Book. love in whatever form may fit us. Loving The Vietnam War was in full swing Hands is a yearning for the past, but also when Russo graduated in 1966, so he one for the still possible future yet to joined the U.S. Air Force Band and spent arrive. • years traveling to concerts all over the “Loving Hands” will be on display at country, and some shows overseas. When Moosewood, located at 215 North Cayuga he decided to settle down, he picked Street, through the end of July Ithaca, a city he’d liked since visiting as a kid in the ‘50s.

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“Eastman gave me the tools to write He mentions the Fab Four, Johnny Cash, songs, but I never knew I was gonna and Billy Joel. “They have clear harmony, write songs.” Only many years later, clear chords and clear rhythm. They play after he’d established a beachhead as a linear melodies. They don’t play vertical talented and reliable musician in Ithaca like a modern bebop band. They’re not did he begin making albums and writing playing ‘Hey, look how good I am on the songs—tunes like “Ithaca Our Home” and trombone.’ It’s horizontal.” •

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he actors are on break, but an issue has arisen.

“I think it’s forty-seveneleven.” (That’s the director, Rachel Hockett, to Judy Levitt, who’s playing Jean, the group’s diva, a soprano) “Not four-seven-eleven.”

The reference is to a cologne, produced in Germany since 1799 and referenced in the script of Quartet, the season-ender for the Homecoming Players, to be presented at the Kitchen Theatre July 24 through 26, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Susannah Berryman, playing Cissy, is one for finding things out quickly and has jumped to her smartphone. She remarks that it has uses as a mosquito repellent. For some reason that gets Arthur Bicknell, playing Wilf, on to tsetse flies. He wonders if he is pronouncing that correctly. Yes, says Greg Bostwick, playing Reg, the final member of the quartet. He elegantly pronounces both the t and the s, “They’re a rather effeminate species of fly,” he adds.

Post-break, they solve that problem, and quickly dive into playwright Ronald Harwood’s delicious words, spoken by a group of once important artists who have landed at a retirement home in Kent for retired opera singers.

Harwood, an Oscar-winning screenwriter as well (for Roman Polanski’s 2003 film, The Pianist) was inspired to write this 1999 bittersweet comedy by the film Tosca’s Kiss about the residents of Milan’s Casa di Riposo per Musicisti, which Verdi established in 1896 for “elderly singers who have not

been favoured by fortune, or who, when they were young, did not have the virtue of saving their money. Poor and dear companions of my life!” (Harwood also wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film, directed by Dustin Hoffman and starring Maggie Smith.)

The Independent called the play’s original production “an unashamed—no, shameless—vehicle for four feisty old troupers whose task is to make us laugh a little, sigh a little and cry a little as they take us into the bittersweet world of facing up to age and mortality.”

Berryman, Bostwick, and Levitt all teach acting in Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts, while Bicknell is an alumnus, and their easy camaraderie makes the rehearsal skip along. There is a special resonance in this group of tight knit actors tackling the roles of singers, where issues of aging, the ability to perform and some regrets collide. To give credence to their roles, the actors have also been coached by Patrice Pastore of IC’s music faculty in Italian dialect and the musical score.

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ince this is a review of The Addams Family musical playing at CRT, here’s a truly gruesome tale. When I was a kid watching re-runs on WPIX out of New York City, I was more of a Munsters kid than an Addams Family kid. It might have been different if I had known about Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons, because I loved cartoons.

But I couldn’t relate to the campy Addams, and I can only assume that the stock underlying family sitcom format made the Munsters more relatable.

By the way, we had a black-and-white TV set until the mid-‘70s, and when we finally got a color set, all I wanted was to see The Munsters in color, and was dismayed when I saw that they had always been in black and The Addams Family. (Photo Provided) white. Now I think it’s cool; the black-and-white links them to the classic Universal monster movies and affectionate him agent, so he grabs a particular potion from Grandmama’s (Rebecca McGraw) parodies like Young Frankenstein. stash.

It was the early-‘90s Addams Family I’m not familiar with Andrew Lippa, movies directed by Barry Sonnenfeld that who wrote the serviceable songs, but made me an Addams fan. Even though the book was co-written by Marshall the first film has a subplot instead of a Brickman, a comedy guru who co-wrote plot, its sequel is much stronger storymost of Woody Allen’s best ‘70s films and wise, and wherever he could, Sonnenfeld went on to make movies like Simon and staged shots that were clever recreations Lovesick. At one point, the normal boy of Addams’ one-panel strips. It’s the says, “I can be impetuous; I just need time Sonnenfeld films, more than the ‘60s to think about it first.” A perfect Woody sitcom, that drive this 2010 musical. This line, wouldn’t you say? version is the touring version, meaning The entire cast is perfect, right down that some songs and business from the Broadway version have been cut or altered, to the Cousin Itt cameo and the hand chosen to play Thing. Special screamand some new songs and business were outs to Johansmeyer, who really finds his written. (If you have a copy of the original own way to Gomez’s lunatic Latino ways; cast recording, it’s not this version.)

So how is this iteration of the Addams Nicholas Carroll as Lurch, milking every halting step and groan to maximum effect; Family? It’s a ghoulish gas, it’s a cool and Uncle Fester (a very engaging Lionel minimalist scare show that shows what Ruland) making a few wise cracks that can be done with lights, strobes and a fog give his character an intriguing possibility machine to create a fun, creepy vibe, and it’s also a sly comment on the eternal battle in the rainbow coalition area. • The Addams Family runs through July between hipsters and squares. Beneath all the corny Crypt Keeper puns, the message 25. Details available at (607) 756-2627, (800) 427-6160 FREE, or online at www. is “épater le bourgeois” (verb: to shock cortlandrep.org. the common denominator; to shock the middle class). It’s really a monster mash-

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area, and there’s this big, long extended van packed to the gills with African drums, pulling into rainy North Carolina alongside our square dance, and there’s family-style dinners cooking 10 feet away.”

“It feels like an extension of what we would be doing anyway,” Watson said.

“We thought ‘This is so great that this festival has so many different people from all over the world,’” Edmonstone added. “A lot of the old-time festivals we play aren’t like that.”

Old-time, fiddle-heavy festivals were where Donna The Buffalo got started, when Nevins met Jeb and Jordan Puryear as they kept showing up to the same events.

A road trip to Louisiana during Mardi Gras “very early on in the evolution of Donna The Buffalo” made connections for the GrassRoots founders with Cajun and zydeco musicians that have lasted all these 25 years.

Dirk Powell had the idea to make a trip, Nevins said, and she, Powell, Jim Miller, Joe Meade, and Ward Puryear hopped in a van and drove to southwest Louisiana. There they were hosted by Ann and Mark Savoy. The Savoys were supposed to accompany them to a roadhouse in Soileau to hear the Preston Frank family.

“Right as we were about to leave town they said ‘We can’t go—here’s how you get there,’ and we found our way by hook or crook to this roadhouse that was a tiny little building in the middle of nowhere. And we’re a bunch of white people from the

North walking into this really cool Creole scene. Lo and behold, there was the Frank family—we didn’t know anything on the planet about them before, and it was the most amazing thing.”

It was truly just Preston Frank and his family playing—drummer Brad was maybe

Preston Frank (Photo Bill Chassion)

9 years old at the time, Nevin remembers, bassist Jennifer was 12 or 13, and Keith was about 16.

Soon after returning to New York, the idea of starting a festival started to take shape around Trumansburg. Miller, Nevins said, had the thought, “‘I wonder if that band would come up here.’ In our minds they had never left that little room. And they said, yes, we’ll come.”

Since then, the GrassRoots family has

made many trips down to Mardi Gras, and the Frank family along with lots of other acts from Cajun and Creole country like Walter Mouton & the Scott Playboys have made the trip to Trumansburg.

“We’d have big jams with all the local musicians when we were down there, which started a very cool kind of migration relationship between us,” Nevins said. “I fell so in love with [zydeco] that when we got back from that Mardi Gras trip I bought two accordions, came home, and started playing them.”

That organic expansion of the GrassRoots universe has accompanied more traditional “talent scouting,” between musicians talking about who they’ve seen on the road and an amorphous group of volunteers who have listened to submitted cassettes, and then CDs, and now check out emailed press kits and YouTube for concert footage.

“With the Internet, we can really stay in touch with who brings an dynamic live act,” Davis said. “We don’t look at artists and say ‘They’re going to sell a ticket.’ We want very substantive, talented, interesting acts, and you see the festival choosing artists that are socially conscious and that bring a real substance to their entertainment that can be rich and revitalizing.”

Beyond the music, for 20 years now GrassRoots attendees have been able to heal body and soul with classes on the healing arts, directed by JoAnn Kingsley for all of those two decades. There will be an “Express Your Talents” birthday party on Thursday evening in the workshop tent, along with nightly celebrations for the festival’s 25th anniversary. On Thursday night, there’s a fashion show; on Friday, a GrassRoots storytelling hour; fireworks on Saturday; and a “silver anniversary” happiness parade on Sunday.

“The idea is that we don’t need to leave a four-day festival feeling depleted,” Davis said. “You can go to movement and healing dance classes everyday, learn some steel drumming, eat some amazing Cambodian food and go see a headliner at night. This is a really interactive and engaged experience; it’s not performers over here and attendees over here.”

For organizers and attendees alike, the true festival is one that is made by everyone as the moment comes; not bought as a premade package of “experience” designed to be shown off to one’s 500 closest friends online. “ People who go to festivals are rejuvenated for the rest of the year,” Nevins said. “It’s a very creative experience to put on a festival—you’re creating this beautiful, wonderful, delicious vibe, picking all this music that you love. All these people are going to come and everyone will have a great time and everyone loves each other.

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

Open Jam with Featured Songwriters | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Join hosts David Graybeard and Mitch Wiedemann. We are looking for local songwriters, poets and authors to showcase their work.

Each week we will spotlight an artist for an hour, from about 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM, to perform (mostly) original compositions Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Singer Songwriter Circle | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Up to 6 Singer/ Songwriters come together to play and record their songs in an informal setting! Given enough demand, compiled song material will be played on WRFI radio.

Pete Panek and The Blue Cats | 6:30 PM | Dryden Veterans Memorial Home, 2272 Dryden Road, Dryden | Town of Dryden Music Series. Blues, Rock.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

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| 6:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Home on the Grange | Old-Time, Bluegrass, Americana.

Sophistafunk, DJ Ha-meen | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | CFCU Summer Concert Series in Downtown Ithaca.

Analog, Soul, Electronic, Funk, Hip-Hop, Rock, House, Reggae, Disco. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser The Fly Rods, Glacial Erotics, Rebecca and the Soul Shakers, The East West Blues Band, Cozmic | 3:30 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Kevin Black presents the precursor extravaganza to Grassroots Festival. Rock, Americana, Alternative, Post-Rock, Folk, Funk, Punk, Garage Rock, Soul, Alt-Country.

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Ithaca Comedy Flops | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Performing regularly since June 2011, ComedyFLOPs has become the most recognizable name in comedy in Ithaca.

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

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Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner.

Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

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Julia Felice and the Whiskey Crisis | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | R&B, Soul, Alternative, Rock.

Joe Crookston | 7:00 PM | Cornell Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca | Singer Songwriter, Folk, Country.

The Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues, Swing, Rock-n-Roll, Country.

Radio Yardvarks | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Neo-Obscuro tunes from the 50’s - 80’s, Rock, Rockabilly, Bop, Pop, Swing.

Zack Knewstub Jazz Trio | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz trio. Piano, Bass, Drums.

7/18 Saturday

Mathew Roth: Black Swan Event | 11:55 PM-2:00 AM | Mystic Water Kava Bar | Original solo piano pieces, with occasional strings accompaniment.

Classical, Ambient.

Dreamt w/Porkey’s Groove Machine | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Funk, Nerd Funk, Rock, Electronic.

Rabid Panda, Fox 45, Rabid, Bloodsnot, Undead Messangers | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Last Exit for the Lost Presents the Annual Anti Grassroots Show. Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Hardcore.

Paul Kempkes | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Solo Pop Guitar with Attitude! Songs by Steely Dan, Springsteen, Supertramp, John Mayer, and more!

7/19 Sunday

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

Nate Marshall: WVBR’s Bound for Glory | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Singer Songwriter, Folk, Americana.

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

Al Hartland Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz trio. Drums, Piano, Bass.

Odd Man Out | 6:00 PM | The Boat Yard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Punk, Alternative, Pop, Psychedelic. Covers.

Contra Dance with some squares | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Tioga Trails Café, Lake and Main Streets, Owego | Beginners welcome, all dances are taught and prompted, come with or without a partner. The band and caller will be announced.

Ben Miller | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Jazz piano.

Uncle Joe and the Rosebud Ramblers | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Folk, Americana, Contra-Dance, Old-Time.

7/20 Monday

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

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

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Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Klez Project | 7:30 PM- | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Jewish folk music of eastern Europe.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Callin’ all fiddlerswhistlers-pipers-mandos-bodhran’sflute players- you know who you are!

All Ages & Stages, Intermediate level the goal, Traditional Session style. Bring a tune to share, learn a tune or two!

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

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Craig Marshall, Rock, Folk, Singer Songwriter Jeff Love Band | 6:00 PM | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Ellis Hollow Summer Concert Series. Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock.

S.E. Kelton | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Folk, Avant-Garde, Americana, Experimental, World. concerts

7/15 Wednesday

Dryden Music Series | 6:30 PM | Dryden VFW, Rt. 13, Dryden | Wednesday Wing Nights at the VFM with live music. Frank Raponi / Small Kings.

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Taughannock Falls Summer Concert Series: Johnny Russo and the East Hill Classic Jazz Band | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Taughannock Falls State Park, Bath house stage, Trumansburg | Groundhog Comedy Presents: C*O*M*E*D*I*A*N*S | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Comedy, Laughs.

Into Another, Fairweather, Gates | 7:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Post-Hardcore, Heavy Metal, Punk, Emo.

7/19 Sunday

Crobot, Wilson, Mothership | 6:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Stoner Metal, Blues, Punk.

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The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, Thy Art is Murder, Turn The Tide | 6:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Metalcore, Death Meal, Deathcore, Heavy Metal.

Three Chord Monty | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk. Classic hits from The Beatles to Woody Guthrie.

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Diana Krall | 8:00 PM | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East,

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Klez Project | 7:30 PM- | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Experience the high-spirited Jewish folk music of eastern Europe with the Klez Project, a traditional klezmer band featuring clarinetist Allen Lutins and violinist Rima Grunes.

Frank Raponi/Small Kings | 6:30 PM- | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Road, Ithaca |

Film The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel. cinemapolis

Friday, 7/17 to Thursday, 7/23.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Amy | A documentary on the late Singer-Songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011. | 128 mins R | Dope | Life changed for Malcom, a

geek who’s surviving life in a tough neigborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure. | 103 mins R | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | A teenage filmmaker befriends a classmate with cancer and his life is forever changed. | 104 mins PG-13 | Love & Mercy | In the 1960’s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson loses his grip on reality as he attemps to create his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980’s he is a confused man under the watch of his therapist. | 120 mins PG-13 | Mr. Holmes | An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. Ian McKellen stars. | 104 mins PG | Testament of Youth | A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - A story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times. | 129 mins PG-13 | regal theater

Wednesday 7/15 to Tuesday 7/23 Contact Regal Theater Ithaca for Showtimes Magic Mike XXL | It’s been 3 years

Locally focused. A world of possibilities.

since Mike Lane’s retirement from stripping. When his old friends and co-workers arrive in town he can’t resist the temptation of his old career. | 115 mins R | Spy | CIA Analyst Susan Cooper is forced into her first real field work and trys to save and revenge her fellow agents. | 115 mins R | Jurassic World (3D) | Visitors at the famed theme park run wild when the genetically engineered Indominus Rex and other dinosaurs go on a rampage. | 124 mins PG-13 | Ted 2 | Buddies John (Wahlberg) and Ted (MacFarlane) encounter trouble when the law decides Ted to be a piece of property and not a person. They promptly seek justice with the help from a legendary Civil Rights attorney. | 115 mins R | Terminator Genisys (3D) | When John Conor sends Kyle Reese back to the year 1984 to protect his mother, an unexpected turn of events creates an altered timeline.

Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as a Terminator guardian. | 122 mins PG-13 | Self/Less | A dying real estate mogul transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body, but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem. | 116 mins PG-13 |

Trumansburg Fairgrounds, Thursday, July 16 through Sunday, July 19 Started in 1991, this festival of music and dance features over a hundred bands in the roots, african, zydeco, dub, rock, bluegrass, reggae, cajun, and old-time genres. Always a blast, it’s a special part of the appeal of the region and has a unique charm. Donna The Buffalo, John Brown’s Body, A Tribe Called Red, Johnny Dowd, and Steve Earle are just a few of the artists on the bill. Don’t miss out!

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Stage The Addams Family | 7:30 PM, 7/15 Wednesday through 7/18 Saturday, 7/21 Tuesday, 2:00 PM, 7/17 Friday, 7/19 Sunday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Gomez and Morticia Addams are just your everyday, normal parents who love their children as every

to investigate the mysterious case of the Baskerville family. One by one the male heirs are dropping dead. But why? For tickets and showtimes www. hangartheatre.org Jungle Book | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | In this popular story, Mowgli is a jungle boy raised by wolves. He lives in the jungle with his good friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python. His mortal enemy, Shere Khan, a man-eating tiger, wants to rule the jungle and it’s up to Mowgli to stop him. For tickets and showtimes www.cortlandrep.org

Notices Rehearsals for the Dryden Area Intergenerational Band | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Dryden United Methodist Church, 2 North St, Dryden | Rehearsals for Band. Concert will be Sunday, August 9, 3 p.m.

Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 7/17 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Sit, drum and sing around a sacred fire outdoors.

Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 7/17 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December.

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

Rehearsals for the Dryden Area Intergenerational Chorus | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Monday | Dryden United Methodist Church, 2 North St, Dryden | Rehearsals for Chorus group.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM-, 7/21 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Learning Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

CRAVE Invitational Art Exhibit, Corners Gallery, Friday, July 17, 5:30 p.m.

A food themed invitational art exhibit featuring local and regional artists, this showcase is sure to make one’s stomach grumble (in a good, hungry way). The work is diverse, abstract, and also realistic. Steve Carver, Tim Merrick, Ruth Sproul, Minna Resnick, and Melissa Zarem are a few of the artists featured. Make sure to check it out.

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Max | A dog that helped U.S. Marines in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler’s family after suffering a traumatic experience. | 111 mins PG | Inside Out | Disney Pixar’s new film about a Midwestern girl whose life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. | 102 mins PG | Minions (3D) | Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.| 91 mins PG | The Gallows | 20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone. | 81 mins R |

parent does. But teenage daughter Wednesday is about to rock their world.

She’s fallen in love with a “normal” boy and he and his parents are coming to dinner!

Late Night Catechism | Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | Catechism is an uproariously funny play that takes the audience back to their Catholic school youth. Call it Loretta Young meets Carol Burnett. For showtimes and dates www.auburnpublictheater.org Woody Guthrie’s American Song | 7:30 PM, 7/16 Thursday through 7/21 Tuesday, 2:00 PM, 7/19 Sunday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | 13: The Musical | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | A powerhouse musical about the nightmare known as middle school – being the new kid, finding love, and learning what friendship means. July 9-12 & July 15-18 @ Kitchen Theatre. Weds, Thu, Fri, Sat @ 7pm Sat & Sun @ 2pm. Tickets on sale at runningtoplaces.org The Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Rd, Ithaca | Henry IV, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. July 9-26, 2015 at Cornell Plantations. Tickets on sale now! Henry IV: Banish All The World, July 9, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25 at 6 pm. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, July 10, 12, 16, 18, 24, 26 at 6 pm. Tickets and Information http://ithacashakespeare.org Princess Ida | 8:00 PM, 7/18 Saturday | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | First performed as part of Cornell’s Sesquicentennial celebration in June, this special adaptation by Ithaca College professor Anthony Di Renzo is set in Upstate New York in 1865.

This original adaption by Ithaca College celebrates Cornell’s founding, dramatizes the campus culture of such 19th century women’s colleges as Wells and Vassar, and honors the Seneca Falls Convention.

Dear Friend Amelia | 7:00 PM, 7/18 Saturday | Newark Valley Historical Society’s Depot Museum, Depot Street, Newark Valley | A play by Mary Jordan. Refreshments available. For information www.nvhistory.org Hound of the Baskervilles | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,adapted

by Steven Canny and John Nicholson.

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson journey to the English countryside

classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 7/17 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed.

No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 7/17 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Come meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College.

Sewing Machine Exhibit | 2:00 PM-, 7/18 Saturday | SewGreen/The Art and Found, 112 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | Vintage sewing machines from 1880 to 1980 will be on display all summer in the gallery space. Featuring a century’s worth of unusual, odd, and beautiful sewing machines -- plus some hands-on demonstrations. On Saturday July 18, at 2 PM, SewGreen’s director and founder Wendy Skinner will give an illustrated talk at The History Center in Tompkins County on the influences of the sewing machine in the home, on women’s lives, and on workers around the world.

Paint Nite Ithaca | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Monday | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A master artist will guide you through creation of a 16x20 acrylic masterpiece in about two hours, while you enjoy delicious food and drink. Tickets available at www. paintnite.com.

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Seneca County Fair | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/15 Wednesday through 7/18 Saturday| Seneca County Fairgrounds, Swift St. at North Rd, Waterloo | 4-H exhibits and shows, demolition derby, garden tractor pull, harness racing, bingo, fireworks, and more.

Holiday in Homer | 9:00 AM, 7/18 Saturday | Homer Congregational Church, Dowtown Homer, Homer | The festival includes over 125 artisans and crafters, lots of great food, live music

and entertainment for all ages, horse drawn wagon rides, quilt show, library book sale, live radio broadcasts, and much more Syracuse Nationals | 8:00 AM-6:00 PM, 7/17 Friday, 7/18 Saturday, 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM , 7/19 Sunday| New York State Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse | More info at rightcoastcars. com Bike MS: Finger Lakes Challenge 2015 | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/18 Saturday | Keuka College , Lightner Library , Keuka Park | Registration opens at 6 a.m. Contact Information: Kerrie Merz, 585-271-0805; Kerrie.

Merz@nmss.org Sterling Renaissance Festival | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/18 Saturday, 7/19 Sunday | Sterling Renaissance Festival, Fraden Rd, Sterling | Ale Fest Weekend 33rd Wine Country Classic Antique Boat Show | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/18 Saturday, 7/19 Sunday | Depot Park, Water Street, Hammondsport | The event features a display of antique and classic boats on beautiful Keuka Lake.

The FOUND FLEA - Antique & Vintage Flea Market | 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, 7/19 Sunday | FOUND in Ithaca, 227 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Features fifty of the region’s best antique & vintage dealers who set up for the day in the parking lot at FOUND in Ithaca (a year round Antique & Vintage Marketplace).

Broome County Fair | 5:00 PM-, 7/21 Tuesday | Broome County Fairgrounds, 51 Grand Stand Blvd, Whitney Point | Call (607) 692-4149 or see www. broomecountyfairny.com

Meetings Rental Housing Advisory Commission (RHAC) | 5:15 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | RHAC recommends to Common Council new steps to be taken to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of rental housing in the City of Ithaca.

Workforce Diversity Advisory Committee | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 7/16 Thursday | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Diversity and the county’s workplace.

Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Monday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Community members encouraged to participate.

Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Council

(BPAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/20 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | BPAC members regularly review ongoing and upcoming city projects and advise the Board of Public Works, Common Council, the Planning & Development Board, the Parks Commission, and other appropriate City bodies on bicycle and pedestrian issues, including issues faced by people with disabilities, to ensure all city projects accommodate and encourage safe and legal travel by bicycles, pedestrians and people with disabilities Town of Ithaca Public Works Committee | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 7/21 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

Nature & Science Made in the Shade | 7:00 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Rd, Ithaca | Join Plantations gardener Francine Urda for an evening tour of two very different gardens: the Shady Groundcover Collection and the Heasley Rock Garden. Learn about plants adapted to shade that can help limit weed growth and retain soil moisture, as well as sun-loving plants that can fill in and enhance a dry, rocky, sun-drenched space.

Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 7/17 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Nature Walk | 10:00 AM, 7/18 Saturday | Lime Hollow Nature Center, 338 McLean Road, Mclean | Typically last an hour and a half. Don’t forget binoculars, field guides, small snack and a water bottle.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM, 7/18 Saturday, 7/19 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

The metal band Fox 45. They play Saturday 7/18 at The Haunt with 4 other bands. (Photo Provided)

Health & Wellness Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | NY, , | Meets multiple places and days. For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www.foodaddicts.org.

Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New or returning skaters of any level are welcome. Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers.

Open to men and women 18+. For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/ wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

DamodarDas.com.

Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting.

Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their

care givers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | The Consciousness Club, Cornell would like to invite everyone in the Cornell community (and beyond!) to experience a deep guided meditation in our weekly meetings every Wednesday on the 5th Floor Lounge. All are welcome.

Zumba Gold Classes | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 7/15 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | With instructor Nicole Bostwick. Starting June 3, 2015-December 31, 2015, Every Wednesday12:00-1:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/15 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 Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/16 Thursday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W 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).

Southern Tier Parkinson’s Disease Support Group | 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, 7/16 Thursday | Schuyler County Human Services Complex, 323 Owego St, Montour Falls | Meetings are in the Silver Spoons Café; please try to arrive

Sewing Machine Exhibit,

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The History Center, Saturday, July 18, 2:00 p.m.

The Dock, Saturday, July 18, 9:00 p.m.

Sew/Green director and founder Wendy Skinner gives an illustrated talk about the history of the sewing machine and all its varied forms. Her gallery and workspace Sew/Green has vintage sewing machines from 1880 to 1980 on display all summer. It features a century’s worth of strange, uncanny, remarkable, and just plain weird sewing machines.

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The Listening Workshop | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/18 Saturday | Ithaca Community Childcare Center, 579 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Please register by emailing your name and phone number to the listeningworkshop@ gmail.com. You will walk away from Saturday’s workshop with a life altering skill that if practiced and applied, will shorten the time between conflict and resolution, build strong bonds of connection and intimacy and enhance performance and productivity in all areas of your life.

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 7/19 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, 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.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 7/19 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. A great way to meet people and have some real fun. Free.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 7/19 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/20 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835.

Walk-in Clinic | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM,

This self-proclaimed “Nerd-Funk” band from Appleton, Wisconsin, brings a potent brew of new-wave zydeco, lounge, and funk, with heavy horns, hard funk guitar, and urban smarts. Guitar solos and brass madness ensues! Make sure to check these guys out.

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7/20 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W 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).

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/21 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees.

The only requirement for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine.

Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM, 7/21 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-272-1505.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 7/21 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

Books Wells Book Arts Summer Institute | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/20 Monday | Wells College, 170 Main St, Aurora | The Institute presents the 10th annual program of week-long intensive workshops presented by some of the most notable names in their fields. Participants may choose from 11 different courses over 3 weeks.

Learn more at wellsbookartscenter. org/summer-institute-courses.

Accommodation and catering on campus; admission by reservation only--no free public component.

Art CRAVE, A Food Themed Invitational Art Exhibit | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/17 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Steve Carver, Elizabeth McMahon, Tim Merrick, Suzanne Onodera, Minna Resnick, Ruth Sproul, Melissa Zarem. Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media. July 7 - Aug 29 Love Motel for Insects | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 7/19 Sunday | Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Rd, Ithaca

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ince I could not play at the Plantations in Henry IV because of rain, and since Mother Nature took away my opening night— thanks for nothing, Mom—I decided to treat myself to a 3-D screening of Minions. While I have yet to see a truly classic live-action 3-D film, I think it’s done wonders for animation.

Technical jargon aside, Minions is so adult-hilarious that I’m not sure it’s for kids as much as their parents.

You know, because kids love gags about The Dating Game, Nixon and Abbey Road. The 3-D is also good because it’s so 3-D. Inside Out is still the best overall animated film, but Minions is all about the funny. And before I forget, make sure to say to the end for a delightful, 3-D-ful coda.

All this time, we thought that Minions were created by Gru as established in the Despicable Me flicks. (For reasons best left unspoiled, Minions really is Despicable 3.) Turns out these little guys, which look like the lovechild of a lemon Mike N’ Ike and a yellow M&M, are their own unique organism, which plays out in a delightful Yellow Submarineinspired opening. They exist to | Join artist Brandon Ballengee in building and touring a Love Motel for Insects, an ongoing series of outdoor installations intended to construct sculpted canvases to attract insects and create opportunity to interact with nocturnal arthropods. On Sunday, Ballengee invites the public to help him build the Love Motel. On Monday, join Ballengee for a tour of the installation (7-8 p.m.) and for bug watching (8-10 p.m.) Location: F. R. Newman Arboretum Ponds En Plein Air | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 7/19 Sunday | Downtown Owego, Owego | The area’s finest independent artists transform the gardens of Owego into outdoor art galleries. A great way to see local and regional taleneted artists work with nature.

serve super villains, and after conducting Beta tests with dinosaurs, humans and Abominable Snowmen, three Minions named Kevin, Stuart, and Bob (all voiced by the film’s codirector, Pierre Coffin) set out to find the greatest super villain to serve under.

This takes our wee cutesy antiheroes on a crazy roundworld journey circa 1968, which explains the homage to Hair and all those songs in the background by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Doors. Michael Keaton and Allison Janney, who was born to do inspired voice work, play the patriarch and matriarch of a clean-cut yet evil family who give the Minions a ride to Florida for the annual Villain-Con, where they meet their match in Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock). There’s also a great visual joke depicting what Orlando, Florida looked like before Disney came to stay. (Minions is a Universal Picture.)

One of my pet peeves when

ongoing QUALIA / The Essence of Transitional Light | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/24 Wednesday | Creek Side Cafe, 4 West Main St., Trumansburg | Nicholas Down showcases his Oil Paintings.

Wednesday through Saturday 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Sunday 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Runs through July 31.

Corners Gallery | 903 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 AM5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Tim Merrick, Dispositio, Solo Exhibit of Recent Work | www. cornersgallery.com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | WednesdayFriday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Engaging The Edges, Leslie K. Brill, Diane W. Newton,

Agava, Sunday, July 19, 12:00 p.m.

This band offers amazing music in the vein of up-tempo New England fiddle songs, unique pre-civil war tunes, traditional folk, and energetic old-time bluegrass. Not uncommon at a show is to see a square dance take place. Be sure to grab your dance shoes, a partner, and head on down!

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Extra congratulations and cocktails all around are in order for

Paintings and Illustrations | Runs July 1 through August 2 | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM1:00 AM | Page Satchwell, Abstract Paintings, July 1 through July 31. | www.silkyjoneslounge.com Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Eric Draper and Peter Thompson, Abstract Paintings and Black and White Photography. July 1 through end of August| www. wafflefrolicking.com Stella’s | 403 College Avenue, Ithaca | Lea Freni, Mixed Media, Fashion Design.

July 1-August 31 | 607.277.1490 CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | In Flight,

Jon Hamm’s superior voice work as Scarlet Overkill’s pop dandy husband, Herb. Visually, Herb is decked out in a sleek striped Savile Row suit with bat-wing shoulders that also look like the horns on a Gibson SG. Verbally, Hamm actually does what Mel Blanc used to do: use his voice and energy and imagination to create a vivid, amusing character.

Steve Coogan does some nutty stuff in various roles, Jennifer Saunders is droll perfection as the Queen, and Geoffrey Rush narrates the whole silly saga. •

Mary Roberts, ceramic installations and mixed media drawings and forms.

Runs through July | www.artspartner. org Gallery at FOUND | 227 Cherry Street, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, closed Tuesdays | Makers Gonna Make, Highlighting the creativity of FOUND’s dealers. July 1 through July 26 | www. foundinithaca.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Joyce Stillman-Myers, RealSuper-Real-Real Inspired, new work on display through July 31 | www. csma-ithaca.org Damiani Wine Cellars | 4704 Rt. 414, Burdett | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM TuesdaySunday | “A Closer Look: Independent Visions of the Natural World” Robin Botie, Dan Finlay, Ray Helmke, Elizabeth Hedrick, David LaParco, Susan

Larkin, Connie Thomas, Allie deBrigard, Jane Walker, and Nancy RidenourOn display: Now – July 12th | www. damianiwinecellars.com The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | Animal Kin and Standing People, Leslie Peebles July 3 - August 1, 2015 | Floridian Leslie Peebles prints celebrate the landscape and all the life forms it nourishes. | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org

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WVBR’s Bound For Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Sunday, July 19, 8:30 p.m.

This Ithaca-based singer songwriter and member of the folk duo Nate and Kate, brings a unique take on the folk music tradition of storytelling. His humor, wit, and genre balancing style, is sure to put a smile on anyone listening. Sunday he plays North America’s longest running live-folk concert broadcast, hosted by Phil Shapiro. Expect some swing, blues, Americana, and jazz.

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

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Sunday, 8/2/15. the Cayuga Lake Triathlon will take place at Taughannock Falls State Park on Sunday, 8/2/15, Cyclists will be on NY89 from Taughannock Falls State Park to Co. Rd. 139 in Sheldrake. There will be a temporary detour on NY89 between Gorge Road and Savercool Road from 7am to approximately 12pm while the triathlon is in progress. Please consider choosing alternate routes. Spectators are always welcome to come enjoy the triathlon or register to volunteer! for more details on the Cayuga Lake Triathlon, visit: http:// cayugalaketriathlon.org

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Must be certified and currently registered by the NYS Education Department as Teacher of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped, must have CCCs. Clinical Fellowship Year available.

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Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.26 per hr. Applicants apply at North Central 2008 SuzukiAWD hatchback.

Loaded Career Center 978-534-1481 or applyVery with extras including cruise control. good for thecondition. job at the$10,100. nearest local office of the SWA. Job 607-229-9037 order #5692892. Work may include but not2010 be limited plant, Stock #11077E Hondato: Accord Coupe EX, Auto, Black,crops 33,001 cultivate, harvest various suchmiles as $16,997 Certified apples, pumpkins and blueberries. Use #11033 Honda Civic handStock tools such as 2012 shovels, hoes, rakes, Hybrid pruning shears, sawsmiles, and ladders.

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is accepting applications for the following positions: Electrical Inspector: Minimum Quals: visit website for full requirements. Salary: $53,610. Exam: A civil Service exam will be given at a later date. Residency: Applicants must be residents of Tompkins County. Application deadline: July 22, 2015. Lifeguard: Vacancies with Cass Park. Minimum Quals & Special Requirement: visit website for full requirements. Salary: $9.-11/hour.

Applications accepted until positions are filled. School Crossing Guard: Several Vacancies with the Ithaca Police Department. Duration: September-June.

Salary: $12/hour. Applications accepted until positions are filled. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 148590. (607)274-6539 www. cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is comGarage/Yard Sale at 6056 West Senemitted diversifying its workforce. ca Rd.toTrumansburg; follow detour.

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