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important because the estimated project cost is about $4 million. Cost estimates are rough right now, as drawings for the first phase of the project are just underway, but the numbers break down like this: Repairs to what’s called the “lowlevel outlet” will cost $1.5 million of the $4 million. According to Erik Whitney, the city’s assistant superintendent for water and sewer, that’s the equivalent of a drain plug for the dam, allowing it to be emptied, if need be, over the course of a couple days. (Another $1.5 million or so for the reservoir low-level outlet is included in the budget for the water treatment plant; see “New City Water Plant Ready in the Fall,” April 29 Ithaca Times). That work will also include

Protected Bike Lanes Reservoir Dam Gets Not in Near Future Some Reinforcing

thaca might yet build protected bike lanes, but a separate cycling path in the city will not appear first on North Cayuga Street this year. A petition on Change.org signed by 496 people as of Monday, June 8 had asked the city to consider installing “flexi-post protected bike lanes” when Cayuga Street is paved later this year, already budgeted as an approximately half-million dollar project. Painting the lines for bike lanes like those on State and Green streets, which flow with traffic, had already been approved by the city in March as part of the paving project. Adding the flexi-posts allow lanes “to fit in the exact same space that the proposed unprotected bike lanes would require but will be dramatically more effective and safer,” the petition reads. “While standard bike lanes are likely to result in a small increase in people riding bikes along Cayuga, they will also visually widen the road, which has been shown to increase vehicle speeds, and they will place cyclists in the “door zone”, the area where parked car doors swing open.” City engineers Tim Logue and Kent Johnson studied the possibility of adding protection to the lanes. The recommendation they made to the board of public works meeting on June 8 was that the project should go ahead as already planned. “The city doesn’t have much experience with flexi-sticks,” Logue said, but his understanding was that “you can count their lives in days or weeks. We can pretend they make it through a year, through winter, for fun.” Logue called a two-way cycle track on one side of the street “an interesting idea,” but thought that the narrowness of Cayuga Street between York and Cascadilla streets would prevent building protected lanes on one or both sides. Traffic engineers recommend a minimum of eight feet of width for a two-way bike lane, which would leave only a foot of separation between automotive and bicycle traffic. Another concern the engineers cited was crossing intersections—even if a bike lane is protected, left-hand turns mean cyclists must merge with cars unless traffic light timing is changed or other design features are added. “We’re just not prepared to deal with design issues, and don’t have the budget to make changes on this project,” Logue said. continued on page 7

he city will be spending several million dollars in the next two years to ensure the dam walls don’t come tumbling down. The “60-Foot Dam” holds in the reservoir from which the city’s drinking water is drawn on Six Mile Creek. (It’s sometimes called “Third Dam” and is about a mile upstream from the “30-Foot Dam,” also known as “Second Dam,” where no one ever swims because that is illegal). After new dam safety regulations passed in 2009 at the federal level, an engineering assessment completed in August 2012 found that another 544 tons of resistance against water pressure was needed for the dam to meet modern requirements, city Director of Public Works Mike Thorne told Common Ithaca Reservoir is in the lower right with Route 79 (Slaterville Road) above it. The 60Council on foot Dam is at the north end of the reservoir. (Google Maps) Wednesday, June 3. In short, the dam’s moving the intake for the water plant a “safety factor” isn’t high enough, Thorne bit further into the reservoir, and adding said, a number found by taking “What’s some pretreatment infrastructure, so water keeping the dam in place, divided by going down the 9,000-foot pipe into the what’s trying to push the dam over.” As a “Class C” dam, the 60-Foot Dam plant is a bit cleaner when it arrives. Those is considered a “high hazard dam” because projects are going to bid later this summer. Design and engineering costs are “there is probable loss of life should it fail,” estimated at $450,000, and $550,000 according to New York guidelines. is built into the estimated budget for The dam safety requirements are contingencies. The remaining $1.5 million a “nationwide effort and from what I understand is an unfunded mandate continued on page 7 everywhere,” Thorne told council. That’s

▶ Mental health first aid, Mental Health of Tompkins County is this course for the first time. This training teaches a 5-step action plan to offer initial help to youth with the signs and symptoms of a mental illness or in a crisis, and connect them with the appropriate professional, peer, social, or self help care. Scroll to the bottom for more information on this 8-hour course. DATE: June 24 & 25 or July 16 &17 (indicate which one) TIME: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. WHERE: Mental Health Association in

Tompkins County, Henry Saint John Building, 301 S. Geneva St., Suite 107, Ithaca, NY 14850 COST: $40 REGISTRATION: To register, please email the information below to Emily Nowels at enowels@mhaedu.org. If you do not have access to email, call 607-273-9250or mail the completed form below to: Mental Health Association in Tompkins County attn: Emily Nowels 301 S. Geneva St., Suite 109 Ithaca, NY 14850

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INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER By Br i an Ar nol d

What do Like most about summer in the finger lakes?

Cayuga Heights

A Century of Elegant Suburbia

“ Everything is green, and everyone is happy.” —Jes Ryer

“Hiking with my dogs, and spending time at the wineries.” —Kris Minster

“The Ithaca Farmer’s Market!” —Liz Cunningham

“Swimming in the lakes, and lunch at the Farmer’s Market.” —Rachel Ostlund

“The warmer weather and the fishing.” —Richard Sabol

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he village of Cayuga Heights, with its winding streets, spacious properties, and beautiful old homes, will be 100 years old in a few days, soon after its neighbor, Cornell University, with which it has always had very close ties, observed its sesquicentennial. To celebrate this anniversary, the village has been offering a series of talks and events, not only to explore this close town-gown relationship, but also to invite the entire community to participate in better understanding this unique place in our county, described as the quintessential American university suburb. A major undertaking to mark the centennial is a website called “The History Project,” which already has assembled considerable material about the village. An interactive map will be displayed to help people find out about the architectural history of any residence and the story of its past inhabitants. A self-guided tour will take you past homes of famous people who lived in Cayuga Heights and places that played a major role in the village’s development. The project is ongoing. Cayuga Heights became an incorporated village in the town of Ithaca on June 12, 1915, and next Saturday, June 13, is the day to celebrate. A self-guided walk or drive tour of selected interiors and gardens, planned by Historic Ithaca, will run from noon to 4 p.m. Registration starts at 11:30 in Marcham Hall, the village municipal building at Community Corners. In the courtroom are special exhibits, and refreshments will be served. A vintage automobile, a 1913 Overland, will be parked out in front. The beginnings of the village sound similar to other areas of the town and city. After the turn of the century, farmlands on the hills were purchased and developed for residential use. The Belle Sherman/ Bryant Park section of the City of Ithaca, for example, was becoming populated at about the same time as the areas we call Cornell Heights (today within the city limits) and Cayuga Heights (in the town). The Ithaca Street Railway (incorporated in 1884) extended its existing downtown routes up East Hill (the first run was made in 1893), and by 1895 there was a singletrack running on the Cornell campus to the present Day Hall. By 1900 both the bridges on Thurston Avenue by the Triphammer Falls and on Stewart Avenue had been built, accommodating streetcar tracks and carriages. The trolley was then extended to Upland Road. Automobiles were coming into vogue. So the area became accessible for development. Moreover, the typhoid fever epidemic in 1903 played a significant 1 0 -1 6 ,

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House going up in the 1920s in Cayuga Heights. (Photo: provided)

role, as many who lived down on the flats wanted to get away from the poor water supply and flooding issues to a place of safer and more spacious living. Cornell University was expanding as well, and with this came increasing personnel, especially faculty, who desired and could afford larger houses and more property. Not surprisingly, of the 17 village presidents/ mayors so far, 13 have been Cornell professors, eight from the ag school alone. After the completion of the bridges over Fall Creek, two men, Jared Newman and Charles Blood began to develop this area north of the Cornell campus. In 1901 they purchased some 650 acres of land from Franklin Cornell, son of the university’s founder, and began to lay out village streets and to sell lots for housing. The street network was laid out following the contours of the land, which might today be called a maze of winding roads. A landscape architect was hired. Newman and Blood established guidelines for architectural styles, and house plans had to get their approval before construction began. In the first zoning regulations, garages had to face the street, and there were to be no piggeries. Many residences featured beautiful and extensive gardens. Over the years the village grew. By 1953 it had almost quadrupled in population. Following World War II, this “garden park suburb” had taken on more land, adding smaller and more affordable housing including some Techbuilt homes, plus apartment buildings and one commercial center, the Community Corners. Development to the north crowded the Lansing line. In 1954 boundaries were extended to include newly developed areas to the northeast, and the village population voted against annexation by the city, drawing their own plans to build a sewer system.

Leading this move was Cornell history professor Frederick Marcham, who after the successful vote was promptly elected mayor. He was the “right person at the right time,” according to village historian Bea Szekely. He served until 1988, managing many difficult problems skillfully and diplomatically. The village hall, the former residence of Ezra Cornell’s granddaughter Dorothy, built in 1928, is named for him. Totally autonomous today, the village has its own fire and police departments, an elementary school, and, since 1995, a Kendal retirement community on the Savage Farm property once owned by the university. Through the years the village has had some outstanding residents—prominent Cornell professors such as dairy specialist William Stocking, who was also one of the first village presidents, and novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who lived in six different houses and taught literature courses; many Pulitzer prize and several Nobel prize winners; ten members of the World War II Manhattan Project; former Cornell president Deane Malott, to name a few. Szekely, appointed in April 2013 following five years as trustee—she has also been deputy mayor since 2010— started planning for the centennial two years ago. With the assistance of Carole Schiffman, who has developed The History Project website, and librarian and architectural preservationist Randi Kepecs, the centennial celebration program with the special house tour was planned. Talks in February were by historian Carol Sisler, who explained the village’s residential architecture over the past 100 years, and Fred Cowett, horticulturalist and chair of the village planning board, who spoke about the natural history and the environment. Postponed until this fall is Szekely’s talk about the evolution of the village’s government. On Sept. 12 at 10 a.m. at Marcham Hall, Christine O’Malley, director of preservation services at Historic Ithaca, will provide information on how to research your home, no matter where you live. All talks are open to the public. Pat Longoria, who has studied maps, deeds, and other village documents at Marcham Hall, recently joined The History Project. She plans to write a detailed history of the street names in the village. Saturday’s event will provide story maps of the eight homes on the tour. There will be docents at every house to answer questions. There is a special exhibit in the courtroom of Marcham Hall that includes photographed drawings by Jack Lambert and drawings of houses in the village by Sarah Lambert. And don’t fail to note the vintage wedding cake chandeliers, found in the attic and now restored and hanging above your head. • For more information consult www.cayugaheightshistory.weebly.com. — Jane

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Rik Daniels: Dancing and Looking Forward

or many Ithacans, Rik Daniels is a familiar face. He has worked at the Tompkins County Trust Company, and until January, was working part-time at Wegmans. Little did Daniels know, when he was dancing in the aisle during a Michael Franti concert, that two years later, he’d be flown to California to be in a music video. Franti and his band, Spearhead, were on tour, playing in Ithaca when they discovered Daniels. Franti likes to use a hand microphone and walk among the audience. Daniels was in the moment, doing his unique style of break dancing, and looked up to see Franti standing right in front of him. “Well,” says the 47-year-old Bronx native, “what else could I do but just keep on dancing? Then, he invited me up on stage.” The dancing made a lasting impression on Franti because Daniels has been in a wheelchair his entire life. Franti wrote in an email, “I first met Rik when he popped up on stage at our concert in Ithaca a few years a go. He started dancing on crutches which was impressive in itself, then he dropped them and got on his hands and started breakdancing, doing things I had never seen before. I let the song jam on while I watched with the audience, mesmerized.” “After the show I met him, and he seemed like a really cool person. I told my tour photographer later that night that someday I know we would do something together.” Franti hadn’t forgotten Daniels’ dance moves, but couldn’t remember which town he’d been performing in, or Daniels’ name. “I didn’t have his phone number so I had to dig for hours to find pictures of him then put a message on Facebook asking if anyone knew his name or how to contact him. When I finally found him he was about to get married, and I thought there’s no way he’ll make the shoot two days later, but his husband encouraged him to go,” wrote Franti. He continued, “My new song ‘Once A Day’ is about overcoming life’s challenges and showing gratitude each day. Rik’s entire life is an example to me of turning challenge into beauty. He was born with unique legs, so what does he do, wait for the world to come to him? No he becomes an All American gymnast. That’s fire.” “When I was born,” Daniels said, “the doctors told my mother that I’d never be able to sit up by myself, and that I should be institutionalized.” Daniels’ mother not only refused to institutionalize him, but she stood up to school officials who wanted to keep him in special education classes. She got him

enrolled in regular classes, and Daniels went on to earn a full scholarship at Long Island University because of his good grades and his achievements on the boy’s gymnastic team. He turned the scholarship down and went to Cortland State instead. “Even though I was the poster child for the March of Dimes for several years, my mother raised me to try everything. For instance, she bought me a 50cc Suzuki dirt bike when I was twelve, so I could keep up with the other kids who could ride bicycles.” Daniels’ favorite recess activity as a young boy was climbing the monkey-bars, which eventually led to him becoming a seven-time NCAA All-American Gymnastics Champion. He competed in the pommel horse, rings, and parallel bars. He was also featured in both Ripley’s

Daniels said, “The video was shot at the BottleRock Festival. There was a Pied Piper kind of parade, with Michael playing his guitar in front and me break dancing right after him. Michael and I share the same philosophy. We’ve both overcome addictions, and just want to embrace the world and celebrate living.” “The song in the video is one that hasn’t been released yet, but Michael sings it in concert. It’s called ‘Once A Day.’ The message is that everybody ought to hug someone once a day, and that really resonated with me.” “I’ve had times in my life when I’ve played the gimp card. When I wasn’t living up to my potential,” Daniels admitted. “I feel like I’ve come full circle now. I’m authentic. Part of that is sobriety. I’m not perfect. I’m not the best dancer, I’m human.

Ups&Downs ▶ Parking kiosks, The City of Ithaca has started installing the new parking kiosks on downtown streets. These electronic devices will not only replace the parking meters along the curbs, but they will take credit cards and you will be able to add money to them through your cell phone. 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 ▶ Independence Day Fireworks ... on July 1, Mark your calendars for Wednesday, July 1st, when the Ithaca Community Fireworks will once again be launched from the Newman Municipal Golf Course. Gather at Stewart Park for entertainment, concessions and a community picnic at 6pm, a welcoming from Mayor Myrick and the playing of the National Anthem at 9:30pm and the fireworks display at 9:45pm. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of June 3-9: Rik Daniels outside of Tompkins Trust Company. (Photo: Debbie Curtis)

Believe It Or Not, and a segment of Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt. One of the other segments of the show featured Steven Hawking. “But the title of my story was ‘Wheelchair Full of Fight’. Like I wasn’t even human. However, the chairman of Chemical Bank saw the show and gave me an Apple computer and a summer job at the bank. That was my start in banking, and now I’ve been at the Trust Company for over ten years. The bank was so supportive about helping me get to California to do the video. Everything was very last minute.” On Friday, May 22, Daniels and Tina Christina-Price were performing at the Roberson Museum in Binghamton. The two co-founded Aspire Dance Company, and had received a grant from the Broome County Council of the Arts to perform their unique style of dance at the Roberson and Broome Community College. On Wednesday, May 27, Daniels married his fiancé, Mark. On Friday, May 29, he flew to San Francisco to be in Franti’s music video.

But I participate, and look at what I can do. I don’t just dance. I’m a performance artist. I sing. I educate through speaking. I celebrate what I can do. The world has always been my stage, because people have always looked at me. When I was little, I’d ask my Mom why people were staring at me. She’d explain that they were curious. So, I’ve always been an ambassador, a source of education.” “Being born with different physical capabilities, Rik shows the world every day how being your authentic self is all anyone needs to be. He shines bright in my life and I’m grateful to know him! “ wrote Franti. When asked what’s next, Daniels says that he and Tina Christina-Price have been invited to dance at a festival in Scotland in April 2016. “I’d like to be on Ellen DeGeneres, and have an off-Broadway show. I believe God created me to inspire, and I was given this platform at birth for a reason.” • —Debbie T

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1) Lansing’s ‘Super Twins’ Off to Alfred State 2) Memories of D-Day 3) City Passes Resolution Opposing Seneca Lake Gas Storage 4) Candor Coffee House Adds Saturdays 5) Staying Downtown: Tompkins Financial Group Serves as Role Model For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Slouching Toward Bethlehem A significant amount of the built environment in the city of Ithaca is illegal under the current zoning code. Significantly it includes the parts of Ithaca that most people identify as what makes the city an appealing place to look at, walk around, and live in. It is illegal because it was built before 1975, when the current conventional zoning ordinance was voted in. The Common Council that made that law was in the grip of a zeitgeist that had most Americans convinced that we needed to modify our living space in order to accommodate automobiles. That means making room for driveways at single-family homes, sometimes even a two-car garage, and it means building parking lots for multi-unit homes and commercial buildings. What, for example, is on the site of the beautiful Cornell Public Library on East Seneca Street? A Chemung Canal Trust Company drive-through kiosk and parking spaces for adjacent office building. Our cover stories this week and last week document a reversal of this trend locally. Last week we reported the intention of the Tompkins Financial Group to build its new headquarters downtown instead of in “greenspace.” Their board of directors and executives polled the employees and found that most of them would rather move to a suburban location where they could park their cars in a big lot out front. This old-fashioned attitude is in line with the philosophy of the 1975 zoning code, which drove a lot of business out of the

city by making it difficult to live and work in the city. The Tompkins Financial top brass, showing a more progressive spirit than their employees decided to go with the “new urbanism” trend instead. We are still faced with a terrible housing shortage as a result of an absurd “urban” philosophy that favored going everywhere by private car, usually alone (unless you are a soccer mom, forced to tote your charges essentially everywhere, all the time). According to several of the planners at a series of workshops (charettes; see this week’s cover story) organized by Form Ithaca (formithaca.org), the city of Ithaca has been perceived as “completely built out” for many years. No one thought that you could fit more housing in the city. Then, after prodding from the Downtown Ithaca Alliance and other forwardlooking citizens, the city did modify its zoning code, increasing the height limits for buildings in several areas of the city. But this isn’t all about building tall buildings. Form Ithaca is making a concerted effort to introduce an entirely new zoning philosophy called “formbased” code that focuses on building spaces that are livable because the include a number of different uses in close proximity and allow for a variety of building forms to add texture to the landscape. Long-term residents of Ithaca may bemoan the evolution of Collegetown into a clot of ugly tall residential towers continued on page 7

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Fowl Play By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r

ews item: According to Ithaca Municipal Code Section 164-2— except for medical, educational, or research purposes—owning chickens is illegal within city limits. Though the chicken ban has been in place for a long time, it has not been vigorously enforced. Recently, though, someone in Ithaca has been going around anonymously reporting illegal chickenowners, putting Ithaca Police, and those with chickens, in a delicate situation. Ithaca Chief of Police John Barber says that enforcing the chicken ordinance is “very low on the priority list.” When police are called to a scene, however, they must comply with city law. “Officers will show up, and sure enough, it’s illegal on the books,” said Mayor Svante Myrick. This forces police to cite the chicken-owners. Last month, a local woman was anonymously reported for owning chickens and ticketed by IPD, but when she went to court, the prosecutor waived the fine. In the meantime, a Facebook page called City of Ithaca Backyard Chickens Now has garnered over 290 likes. (Ithaca Voice, June 2) With the end of the Patriot Act on June 1, the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program. has been at least temporarily shut down and the Hunt for Malfeasance has been turned over to local law enforcement. As a courtesy, last week the NSA turned over to the Ithaca Police Department its records regarding recent highly suspicious activities within the confines of our own city … Thursday, March 12, 3:45 p.m., Ithaca Grain & Pet Supply, 1011 West Seneca Street: One Brandon Cornstarch observed purchasing 15-lb. bag of Cheerful Chicken Organic Poultry Pellets. Suspect car (1999 White Subaru Outback, license CHKN4U) lost in traffic crossing Brindley Street onelane bridge. Information logged.

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ithaca com Too late, too late. Now that New York State is moving from moratorium to outright ban on fracking horizontal wells in NY State, the entire issue of energy development, with its high paying jobs, has been stopped in its tracks probably for a few decades. Even if NY changed its mind, with the current glut of production, the energy industry does not need NY and can leave the gas in the ground for future use. Meanwhile, NY’s efforts to attract good high

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Tuesday, March 31, Afternoon, Vicinity GIAC: Citizen reports suspicious pecking and scratching sounds near the corner of Court and Albany Streets. Audio analysis inconclusive. Sunday, April 5, 11:00-11:20 a.m., Dewitt Park: Intense activity in and around Dewitt Park. Numerous colored ovoid items were secreted and retrieved under bushes and behind benches. It must be assumed for security purposes that the individuals involved are harboring fertilized chicken eggs. Suspects were 8 years of age or younger, perhaps radicalized on the Facebook page City of Ithaca Backyards Chicken Now. Information logged. Further surveillance warranted. Monday, April 20, 8:10 a.m., NSA local headquarters: Suspicious feather logged into evidence and sent to NSA national crime lab for analysis. Wednesday, April 22, 11:33 a.m., The Home Depot, 410 Elmira Road: Upon investigation of citizen complaint, items of chicken–raising paraphernalia (wire mesh, lumber, straw) were discovered on the premises. Local law enforcement notified. Thursday, May 7, 10:21 a.m., Greenstar Natural Foods, 701 West Buffalo Street: Citizen report of “large coop” investigated. Discovered that the ‘coop’ in question was in fact a ‘co-op’, short for ‘co-operative’. Investigation terminated. Thursday, May 28, 6:16 p.m., Ithaca Commons: Suspect observed wearing denim overalls and a straw hat. Surveillance initiated but suspect lost after 15 minutes in Ithaca Festival crowd. Information logged. Wednesday, June 3, 6:37 p.m., Ithaca City Hall: Investigation of reported ‘clucking sound’. Preliminary audio analysis indicates that it was Alderperson Ellen McCollister complaining about the new Commons sign being obscured by a traffic light. • paying jobs will continue to flounder as the state refuses to address the real problems, very high taxes, too much regulation, and an antibusiness climate exemplified by legislators such as Martha Robertson who recently said that it is a myth that the private sector is more effective than the public sector. NY has turned its back on high paying energy development jobs. With a 22% poverty rate in Tompkins and one in six residents food insecure, bucolic rural poverty will now remain with us for a long time to come. The fracking issue is dead in NY, so are the jobs and the economic shot in the arm that was the only economic game changer in town. All the legislative committees in the world won’t change the error that has been made. But, the battle over fracking in NY is over and there is no point in beating a dead horse. The environmentalists have won and the prize is --continuing poverty and a low wage economy. Some victory. - Cicero (Henry Kramer)

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The engineers and the board all spoke favorably of the ideas brought by the petition, in general. Bill Goldsmith called it a “harbinger of the future” and the traffic engineer spoke to the change in emphasis in his profession over time. “When I was trained, roads were for cars and trucks, and if they run you over, sorry, but you can’t get in the way of progress,” Goldsmith said, “and that was the DOT [department of transportation] philosophy until very recently.” Reena Scroggins of Bike Walk Tompkins, which supported the petition along with the city’s bicycle and pedestrian advisory board, said that protected lanes can also include “something physical, like a concrete curb,” depending on effects of street layout and budget on design options. Scroggins said that studies show protected bike lanes, whether painted on the street or separated by curbs or parked cars, increase ridership by an average of 75 percent. Bike Walk Tompkins is advising the city on its project of making Tioga Street into a “bike boulevard,” which means increased signage and some speedreducing raised areas on the street to make the thoroughfare friendlier to bikers. That project, Scroggins said, is slated for later this summer. • —Josh

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is for the actual work of strengthening the dam, a project that’s slated for completion by the end of 2017. The calculations for how much the 60-Foot Dam needs strengthening factors in the planned dredging project in the reservoir, according to Whitney. Since silt weighs about twice what water does—H2O is 62.4 pounds per cubic foot— removing

that debris will increase the reservoir capacity and reduce some of the tension on the dam. “We’re planning on dredging next year with a combination of hydraulic and mechanical methods,” Whitney said. “There’s a number of trees there that will have to be lifted out with silt and sediment—hydraulic dredging doesn’t go well with that natural debris field of logs and branches.” Strengthening the dam itself doesn’t mean pouring new concrete. The modern method is drilling holes in the existing concrete and adding anchors into the bedrock underneath the dam. They’re called “post tension rock anchors,” Whitney said, and their bases will go about 30 feet into the underlying rock. A wire is fed down the hole and “the whole space around the wire is injected with high strength expanding grout,” Whitney said. “We let that set up and then we attach in a recessed pocket what is, so to speak, a large washer. You use a hydraulic pulling device, to give that cable a pull, give it tension.” The cables pull taut much like a zip tie, Whitney said, and with anywhere from six to a dozen of these on the crest of the dam and a few at the base, that’s enough tension to resist the “maximum overturning forces” that have state and federal regulators worried. The 60-Foot Dam was built in 1912, and except for some repairs to the concrete facing in the ‘90s, it hasn’t had much work done since, Whitney said. Though dam maintenance is expensive, Whitney finds it preferable to the alternative. “I’m glad I’m not in California. We’ve got lots of good water—we’ve just got to find a way to keep it there.” • —Josh

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and say to themselves, “If that is the new urbanism, then I’m against it.” Well, it isn’t. Several things are missing that would make Collegetown a complete neighborhood. It lacks many normal amenties, for example. There hasn’t been a grocery store there since John Gutenberger’s IGA shut down. That is about to be remedied by the installation of a new Greenstar Cooperative market in the ground floor of a residential building on Dryden Road. The old building was just torn down a couple of weeks ago after a prolonged argument about parking and building size between developer Josh Lower and the city planning board and department. Collegetown also just feels off. A lot of the lessons of form-based zoning and the new urbanism are about how city dwellers feel when they are in cityscape. It has been said that city are really collections of villages, with residents spending most of their lives in a relatively small area. This has been found to be an area with about a quarter-mile radius, called a “pedestrian

zone.” If most of the amenities in your life are within that radius, you feel as if you can get to them easily and in a reasonable amount of time. You can imagine what is in between you and where you are going and you can look forward to seeing and doing other things along the way. Downtown Ithaca is getting close to feeling this way. Somebody who lives near the corner of North Aurora and East Seneca streets of course has a number of restaurants at their disposal. But within a quarter-mile they also have a convenience store, a grocery, a pharmacy, a bakery, a florist, bookstores, hair cutters, and many of the other necessities of daily life. And the buildings that you live among are all different sizes, ages, and styles (and so are the people). The struggle for the soul of downtown is whether it should be this kind of place or a tourist joint. It could easily be both if the tourism boosters heeded the message of form-based code: people are attracted to places that make them feel comfortable and at home. They don’t just want to be sold to, pandered to, and generally badgered. You get enough of that online. Let’s make real life more pleasant. •

Thus, when Colgan approached Rausch with the idea for Project RISE, it was a natural fit. Colgan said, “Project RISE is geared toward anyone whose parents are involved in the justice system in any way.” Kids with parents on probation, drug court, or behind bars will qualify for full camp scholarships. Over the past few months, Colgan has done the leg-work in terms of securing funding to make sure those scholarships are a reality. Before moving to the Ithaca area in 2011, Colgan worked at Project AVARY (Alternative Ventures for At-Risk Youth), a camp for kids of incarcerated parents. Colgan was there for two summers and found the program inspiring, so when she moved out the area she decided she wanted to recreate it somewhere else. Although Project AVARY included year-round activities, Colgan said that

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magine you are six years old and your dad is in jail. You’re probably confused. You may not understand where he is or why he’s not there. You probably aren’t sure why you have to see him through plexiglass every week or why there are guards in room who won’t let you sit in his lap. You might even feel like you’re singled out, like you’re the only kid this has ever happened to. What do you do? If you live in Tompkins County you can attend a summercamp program called Project RISE, and it’s dedicated to helping kids of incarcerated and criminal justiceinvolved parents get to experience a safe, understanding camp environment for free. The project, spearheaded by Aislyn Colgan, is starting as a part of the existing Village Camp, founded and run by Camp Earth Connections owner Susan Rausch. Rausch has owned the Freeville campground, located in Hammond Hill State Park, since 2002, when she took it over from Cayuga Nature Center. Before taking ownership of the campground, Rausch founded Village Camp back in 1999 as a community camp. With help from Greater Ithaca Activities Center, Rausch began something that she said “is very different from other camps.” It’s a very outdoor-focused program and kids aren’t broken up into age groups. Instead she said, “We come together as a community and then we offer choices to the kids.” She added, “The Village Camp doesn’t really have a focus other than supporting kids who are disenfranchised in one way or another.” T

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she hopes to build up to that point so that eventually there can be day trips or weekend getaways during the off-season. “This is meant to be a focal point for parents and families dealing with incarceration to mobilize and help each other out and be more resilient,” she said. “Project RISE means ‘Resilience in Spite of Everything.’ So it’s meant to be a base for people to work together and build resilience among themselves and work against this system of mass incarceration.” She added, “It’s not like, ‘Let’s help these poor kids who are through no fault of their own are a victim of their parents’ behavior.’ This is like, ‘The system is targeting these kids.’ And this is to resist that.” This year, the camp will be one week long, running from Aug. 17 to 21. Kids will be picked up at GIAC at 8:30 a.m. and dropped back off at 5 p.m. To enroll or get more information, contact Colgan directly at projectrise15@gmail.com. • —Keri / J

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Re-thinking Ithaca Form-based code: what do you want the city to look like? ByBill Chaisson

hen you are walking around in Ithaca, what makes you say to yourself, “This is a nice place”? That was the starting point of a regional planning experiment that began with a pilot study over a year ago and culminated with a series of public sessions called a “charette” between June 3 and 6. And it isn’t over yet. By the end of the year a group of planners—called Form Ithaca— will be presenting a new zoning code to the Town and City of Ithaca, a set of regulations that will suggest reinstating as the norm the walkable landscape that both Ithacans and visitors alike admire and are drawn to. “This is a compact region,” said Rob Steuteville of Better! Town & Cities, the non-profit organization to which NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) awarded the $175,000 grant to fund the code development process. “We can look specifically at the city, but also at the wider region. We can even bring farmland preservation into the discussion. We have sprawl here, but it doesn’t go on and on. The commutes are short, and within the city there is a lot of walkability.” According to Steuteville and other local planners—including members of the STREAM Collaborative and Randall+West—many of the characteristics that make Ithaca appealing to its residents—small setbacks from

the street, amenities that you can walk to—would actually be illegal or difficult to build under the present conventional zoning code. In fact, a significant percentage of the built environment in the city does not conform to the existing code. The current zoning ordinance for the city of Ithaca was adopted in 1975. Zoning codes began being introduced in the early 20th century (Ithaca’s first code became law in 1924), but became more widespread and comprehensive after World War II. “After the 1940s it became an era of specialists,” said Seth Harry of Seth Harry and Associates of Woodbine, Maryland. “You had transportation engineers designing for the automobile.” According to Harry, engineers tend to design spaces based on abstract principles. “Everything we do is based on empirical data,” he said. “Engineers say, ‘You can’t do that,’ and we’ll show them an example of where it’s working.” Harry, one of several planners and architects brought in to help with the recent charette, is an architect and urban designer who has worked on over 150 community development plans around the country, said, “We don’t talk in the abstract. We’re constantly drawing, and we show the public what they will get.” At the end of the charette process the designers will process all the input they got from the general public and produced plans and renderings that Harry promised would show the public how it will actually feel to be in the proposed designed spaces.

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M e m b e r s o f t h e p u b l i c p r ov i d e i n p u t t o c o n c e p t ua l r e - d e s i g n o f K i n g R o a d / R o u t e 9 6 B i n t e r s e c t i o n . ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) A goal central to Form Ithaca’s mission is to produce the basis for a “form-based” zoning ordinance for both the city and the town. While conventional zoning focuses on segregating uses into different areas, the new approach, according to the FormBased Codes Institute (fbci.org), addresses “the relationship between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks.” • • • Approximately a year ago, STREAM Collaborative and Randall+West received a small grant from Tompkins County government to do a pilot study that would provide the data necessary to submit a proposal to NYSERDA to fund the larger project. In January 2015 Form Ithaca held a workshop at the downtown public library and used a series of interactive tools to get the members of the public in attendance to visualize and respond to how the community is changing. The Form Ithaca consultant team had already identified eight “focus areas” in the city and town as possible test sites for implementation of form-based code ideas. At the January workshop members of the public expressed interest in concentrating on two of the focus areas during the planned June charette. One area is in the city and the other is in the town. The city focus is the waterfront

between Newman Golf Course, the mouth of the flood control channel, and south to Route 13, which was identified as a barrier, preventing city residents from reaching the lake and stalling further development in the area beyond it. On June 4, the second day of the charette Barry Mahaffey of BSB Design and Rob Morache of STREAM Collaborative summed up what members of the public had said about the area the day before. “Connectivity across Route 13 needs to be improved,” said Mahaffey, “by creating new connections. One already exists at Third Street, but we’d like to add one at Fifth Street.” People also wished to see a pedestrian bridge added across the Cayuga Inlet and an automobile bridge across the mouth of Cascadilla Creek. A form-based code would allow the construction of a mixture of residential, retail, and lightindustrial buildings to create entirely new neighborhoods. The proportions of these new blocks and the relationships of building to the streets would be derived from measuring existing blocks in the adjacent Northside and Fall Creek neighborhoods. The triangular area bounded by Cascadilla Creek, Newman Golf Course, and Route 13 could see the development of housing, retail and “maker shops.” A more formal yacht club was proposed at

the site of the existing boat storage yard. work of Form Ithaca is timed to help demand,” he said, “because of job growth, TCAT, another large tenant of the area, has both the town and the city carry out but it has been a question of where to reportedly outgrown its space and would the goals of their respective plans. The put [newcomers]. In the city is the better like to relocate to a larger facility with town has announced that they intend option.” room to store more buses. The city and the to revise their entire zoning ordinance West also hoped that the new focus state Department of Transporation are also using “SmartCode,” a type of form-based on form-based code would bring town using several acres simply for materials code. City government officials have and city regulations into sync. At present storage. said that form-based zoning ideas will the least dense residential zone in the city It was also suggested that much of the be implemented both downtown and is denser than the most dense residential parking immediately around the farmers zone in the town. He further noted market be moved into garages proposed that land-use terms such as an “inn” by the charette, allowing that thriving are defined differently, and the two institution to expand. ordinances do not even agree on the Morache and Chris Parker of definition of a parking space. This STREAM summarized the design makes development that takes place ideas that came out of discussion of the along the city/town boundary— intersection between King Road and notably the proposed ChainWorks Route 96B in the town of Ithaca. “There neighborhood on South Hill—overly are two ways of looking at form-based complicated. code to tranform the area,” said Parker. “Neither the city nor the “You can construct a village square or a town have called for changes in rural village.” In either model the existing neighborhood fabric,” said West. roads would be inter-connected with new “[Form Ithaca is] focusing on places ones. The measurements of the streets and where changes have been called for.” Dav i d We s t the buildings with respect to the streets The NYSERDA grant period runs ( P h o t o : B i l l C h a i s s o n) would correspond to those found in areas through the end of 2015. Form Ithaca deemed walkable elsewhere in the city and will present an outline for a formtown. in Collegetown the two most densely based code to both municipalities before Development would be shifted away developed areas of the city, but is not then. “What we produce will then be from Route 96B for the sake of safety. presently promising to revise its entire adjusted by the political process,” In the core of the proposed “village” the 1975 code. West said. “The city will pull pieces density would be greatest, consisting of “We retarded growth [in the city] for particular neighborhoods and one- and two-story townhouses with short with regulations,” said David West of for over-lay zones.” The latter has setbacks from the streets. These blocks Randall+West. “We forced it to happen been proposed for the ChainWorks would have suitable retail at traditional outside the city. People want to live near project. locations like the corners of central or in the city, but they can’t.” West, who “Ithaca is small enough so that intersections. graduated from the Department of City people [in the planning profession] Another plan proposed building and Regional Planning at Cornell and know each other,” said Steuteville a connecting of Better! Towns commercial road & Cities. “We run between the College into each other at Circle apartments Wegmans and at and East King festivals, and there Road. This would is a consensus form an axis around forming about which higher this [form-based] density residential approach.” development could Steuteville said that be built. In both he has not seen any approaches about major pushback from one-quarter of the Ithaca public during a mile from the the workshop or the center of the new charette. Furthermore the village you would form-based approach is a see a transition national trend, taking hold to lower density in more likely places like housing in the form Burlington, Vermont and of small-lot singleCharlotte, North Carolina, family homes. but also in less likely This new village locations like Oklahoma would include City and Denver. t h e Wat e r f r o n t a r e a c o n s i d e r e d b y t h e C h a r e t t e parks on the scale “Ithaca has such (G o o g l e M a p s) of Dewitt Park in possibilities,” he said, downtown Ithaca at “because this is where young, intervals throughout the areas of mixed now teaches there, did a study in 2009 educated Millennials and retirees want to residential and retail development. The while still in school. He found that onelive. And this doesn’t skip Generation X quarter-mile radius cited here has been third of Cornell employees wanted to live either; they want this too.” found to be a standard size for a walkable closer to where they worked, but were One thing an attendee at the charette “pedestrian shed.” unable to. He noted that the population will notice about the suggested designs • • • of Tompkins County had doubled since that have emerged for both the water The Town of Ithaca approved a new 1960, but the population of the city of front and the King Road/Route 96B comprehensive plan in fall 2014 and the Ithaca has increased only slightly. The intersection: they add a lot of housing, 300 City of Ithaca is presently circulating a lion’s share of the growth has been in the to 330 units at the town of Ithaca location completed draft of their new plan. The form of suburban sprawl. “There has been and more than that in the city. “Other

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people who are smarter than we are have projected population growth for this area,” said Noah Demarest of STREAM Collaborative. “And if the population does grow, then [these conceptual plans] create options we don’t have about where and how those people can live. “We tend to live, work, and play in a quarter-mile radius,” he said of urban dwellers. “This approach creates a collection of quarter-mile zones, and that leads to nesting.” These collections of “pedestrian zones” are greater than the sum of their parts. “Inside the city there has been limited development with low-density growth,” said Demarest, a city native, who is trained as both a planner and an architect. “The city has been perceived as completely built out.” He applauded the Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services proposed project at Hancock Street in Northside for its intention to add density through building some four-story buildings and mixing in retail and smaller-scale townhouses. Demarest was pleased with the way the charette went. He felt that it had helped calibrate the form-based approach for

Rob Steuteville ( P h o t o : B i l l C h a i s s o n) Ithaca and had also allowed the staffs of the town and city planning departments to see the new code’s principles at work. “The charette demonstrated that the form-based approach is more about having what you want,” he said, “while the conventional approach is more about excluding uses.” The next step, said Demarest, will be for Form Ithaca to make the rounds at town and city committees and staff meetings to present the code as it was deployed for the waterfront and King Road intersection, which together include a broad spectrum of form-based use combinations. It is up the staff planners after that. Traditionally, he said, governments hire a consultant to further develop a zoning ordinance, but the city has a history of doing it themselves. This process will include a number of information sessions and hearings that will be further opportunities for the public to weigh in. In addition, Demarest urged anyone interested to visit formithaca.com and send in comments via the site. •

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have been chosen for the position, and I’m so excited to get started.” Her first day on the job is Monday, June 22. • • • Also at the June 2 meeting, the legislature reconsidered a resolution in support of the New York Health Act, a piece of proposed legislation at the state level that would create a single-payer healthcare system in New York. At the last legislature meeting, the resolution did not pass, even though seven legislators voted in favor of it and four against. Even if there are absences, any measure must receive 8 votes to pass. This time around, Will Burbank (D-Ithaca), who was absent at the last meeting, moved to reconsider the measure. Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses), who had to leave the last meeting before the matter came to a vote, said that he would support the resolution but cautioned, “It’s almost sort of a dream to believe that New York State government is going to pick up the cost of this.” He added, “We’ve supported these kinds of resolutions before to the state, and they’ve stuck their finger in our eye.” The resolution passed by a 9-3 vote, with Legislators Mike Sigler (R-Lansing), Dave McKenna (R-Newfield), and Glenn Morey (R-Groton) opposing. Legislators Nate Shinagawa (D-Ithaca) and Peter Stein (D-Ithaca) were excused. • • • Although 2015 is only half-way over, Tompkins County is already at work on the 2016 budget. At the June 2 meeting, legislators approved 2016 budget guidelines for departments and agencies. The fiscal target for county departments will be no increase over last year’s target funding, although it will allow for negotiated wage growth and fringe benefit changes. Not-for-profit agencies will have a 2-percent increase as the fiscal goal. Both agencies and departments can submit over-target requests to ask for additional funding. The legislature also approved setting a public hearing for a local law to override the tax cap. Currently, the budget goal is a 1.3-percent levy increase, which would stay within the state-mandated tax cap. However, by passing a tax cap override law, the county will be protected if it accidentally exceeds the cap due to an error. The legislature has passed a tax cap override law every year since the inception of the tax freeze. The hearing will be at the next legislature meeting, on June 16. • • • The legislature also scheduled a July 7 public hearing regarding the proposed update to the Tompkins County Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan. Monika Roth of the Cornell Cooperative Extension gave a presentation about the plan, in which she explained that the plan’s initiatives are based on a long list of suggestions compiled from local farmers. Among the economic development priorities are linking farmers with business and marketing information, building agritourism capacity, and linking farmers to resources for funding. • —Keri

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lice the Coon came to us through kneading, but unlike a kitten, her claws an unfortunate misunderstanding never sank in too far. It was amusing to between our dog and her mother, walk into the store in Enfield with an who was foraging in daylight. The infant raccoon sticking to my shoulder, combined ball of spitting, raging raccoon especially since a fair amount of people and determined dog broke apart just long immediately began regaling me with their enough for my then-husband, fearing own pet raccoon tales. rabies, to dispatch I can’t say the raccoon with I liked how the a shotgun. We stories usually felt bad about it, ended. When they especially when get too big — boar we learned that coons are especially the dead raccoon fierce, and can get had been perfectly over 50 pounds healthy. — domesticity is a A day or two problem. A humanlater the same dog raised adult coon raised a ruckus in goes to the source it the same spot, only knows when it gets this time, instead of hungry. Some people a 35-pound adult turned their beloved coon, his challenger coons into pets who was a seven-ounce walked on a leash; scrap of grey fur, others tried to “free” standing weakly them when they got on its hind legs, too big to be safe. Alice the Coon at 9 weeks. (Photo: provided) spitting defiance. Our friend told us The mother coon of someone with an must have been estate who took in foraging, or looking for a new, safe home domesticated coons, putting food out for for her kit. them every night and keeping them far That left us the orphan. We looked from people who would interpret their high and low for more kits, but this one oddly friendly behavior as aggression. seemed to be the survivor. From the clinging phase, Alice moved Once captured, she curled up in the to trundling after us as we walked in the dog crate and refused to eat for three woods. She would hustle busily along, with days. A friend of ours who specialized in a kind of washer-woman’s waddle, but if mammals put her age at about seven weeks anything startled her she would whirl in and recommended puppy milk replacer, place and assume a fight pose. Dog, cat, but the kit wouldn’t take a bottle. After fallen branch or strange human — Alice various efforts I found she would only reared up and bared her tiny teeth, waving drink the milk replacer by sucking it from her little haymakers in the air. my warm hand. Feeding her was a sloppy, Eventually we let her go in the Hector sticky business, but once she got the Land Use Area, where no hunting is method down, Alice the Coon thrived. allowed. Whatever grounds for superiority New York law now states that owning humans have to stand on, opposable such a wild animal is a crime, and I don’t thumbs are probably not it. Her tiny disagree; if you find an orphan coon, the little black-glove hands patted down and only one who should take it in is a certified explored everything; as many a frustrated wildlife rehabilitator. homeowner has found, coons can open I will say, however, that raising Alice a garbage can lid with ease. Wild coons made me see coons. A dead raccoon also eat a lot of crayfish, so if you’ve ever in the road is no longer a rank heap struggled with a lobster, you’ve got a good of flattened fur. Size and shape and idea of the level of skill required. character announce themselves: this one Within a few weeks Alice’s diet had is an adolescent male, wandering in the expanded to dog food, canned peaches, Autumn to find its own territory; another scrambled eggs, apples, raisins, sardines — is an older female... I have slowed down in fact, once her teeth came in, Alice was for a boar coon in my headlights standing happy to share in all the pleasures of the on its hind feet, ready to fight the front grocery store. end of my car... and I have stopped. And She stuck to my clothes like a burr, sat, and watched him, until he dropped to happiest when she was clinging to my all fours and walked away, out of range of sweater, her head buried under my hair. the headlights. • Like a kitten, she comforted herself by

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Cornell’s Chris Rogers to try for National Team By Ste ve L aw re nc e

Rowing practice goes on in all sorts of weather. (Photo: Tim McKinney)

n the world of intercollegiate rowing, the Cornell Lightweights are anything but. For the second season in a row, they went undefeated through their dual season, and went on to sweep the championship races, and their victory at the IRAs secured their second consecutive national championship. In fact, the Big Red won three in a row from 2006-2008, and this year’s title was the program’s fifth in the last ten seasons. The roster features athletes from Poland, Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, Washington, Oregon, Michigan, Texas, Connecticut, and several cities in New York, including Ithaca. Chris Rogers is one of the team’s cocaptains, and when I saw his name and hometown, I assumed he was a product of the Cascadilla Boat Club, the local rowing club that has produced many collegiate rowers. I was surprised when Chris said, “No, I was a walk-on, and I learned to row here (at Cornell).” The fact that an athlete can pick up a sport in college and become an elite rower serves as a testament to good coaching, a tireless work ethic, and solid time management skills. Rowing differs from some sports—let’s face it, it’s unlikely that a baseball player walks on as a freshman and is hitting a 90-mph fastball two years later—and in Rogers’ words, “you learn the technique and you put in the work.” That work is paying off, and it’s amusing that one of the rewards is food. “During the season, lightweights need to weigh in,” Chris offered, “but when we row at the Henley Regatta (in England) this month, we can eat! We’re excited to grill out!” (The Henley is one of the sport’s most prestigious events, and the Big Red hopes to win it this year after making it to the semifinals last year.) While most college athletes have

been on vacation for a few weeks, the lightweights are still grinding it out, weeks after graduation. Rogers just graduated, but he has yet to throw his hat into the ring of job fairs and interviews. “I’ll never be a 165-pound rower again,” he said, “so I might as well go for it now.” He added, “I can always start interviewing next year.” Chris’s more immediate plan is to try out for the national team, and the World Cup and Olympics are a possibility if he is to be among those selected. Chris knows that taking his skills to the next level will be challenging from the standpoint of the demanding training regimen, but he knows another challenges will arise from the change in personnel. “The hardest part will be going from being with a team I have worked with for so long, working together, building trust. It will be different, trying out for a team and doing it for myself, because I am a product of the guys around me.” (Congratulations to the rest of the team, Katie Falb (coxswain), Erik Johnson, Danny O’Neill , Jack Ruske, Will Oprea, Andrew Hooker, Pete Harris and Paul Clauss.) When Rogers decides to enter the job market, I can imagine an interviewer saying, “I see you graduated some time ago but you have not been working. What have you been doing?” A reply like, “I have been carrying an Ivy League academic workload, rowing 20 to 30 hours a week at all hours in all kinds of weather, and as a co-captain I helped lead my crew to two undefeated seasons and two national championships” just might suffice to convey that this kid has some brains, discipline, and time management skills. Those skills, I am sure, will translate well to the workplace. Eating 6,000 calories per day might not … Congratulations, Chris, and all the best.

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Teaching drawing, bookbinding, sewing, knitting ... By Karen Gadiel

hree months into starting Craftstitute, so relaxing. That was really freeing.” Zentangle Lisa Richards and Robin Tilling, who participants left with a hand-made card they’d term themselves the co-ringleaders of the created. enterprise, can call it a success. They liked the Most classes have a “make and take” community feel of knitting circles—Tilling at format, offering participants a chance to try a the former Knitting, Etc. store—and missed it skill, leave with something they’ve made, and after the store closed earlier this year, Richards think about whether they’d like to pursue more said. “We liked the community idea, bringing depth in another class. together people of similar interests. And we Shanna Moore has taken two classes so found we both had this dream of opening a handcraft school.” A lot of brainstorming later, they found a perfect a space to rent nearby on Slaterville Road (a.k.a. State Route 79) in the hamlet of Slaterville, at the former Livery. “It’s beautiful, just what we needed,” Richards said enthusiastically. “It has big windows, it’s a visible location, easy to find, good parking, and it’s next door to the Copper Horse Coffee Company. So we decided to do it.” They put a lot of thought into the name, too, which was finally suggested by a friend. The made-up word “Craftstitute” embodies their idea of an unlimited spectrum of hands-on classes, a principle already present in their line-up of teachers and classes. Tilling, who makes bags and sells them on Etsy, began scanning the online marketplace of hand-made products for local crafters who were making intriguing and original things, and Lisa Richards and Robin Tilling creators of Crafstitute (Photo Brian Arnold) invited them to teach. Soon participants began suggesting classes and chance meetings helped them find far—an introduction to bookbinding and other teachers. dyeing textiles with natural dyes. “Both were Richards and Tilling began offering classes things I wanted to learn for quite a long time, in March, advertising mostly by word of mouth and I was pretty excited about the experience and social media, and the response astonished happening locally and affordably,” she said. them. They began with not only knitting and “The classes exceeded my expectations, because sewing classes, which both Tilling and Richards I walked away with real, practical knowledge, felt comfortable teaching themselves, but also able to do both those things because they [the Zentangle drawing classes, bookbinding, caketeachers] took a lot of the mystery out of the decorating, jewelry-making, natural dyeing and process. I’m really busy with a young child, so it coffee-brewing, among other skills. can be difficult for me to schedule multiple class “While I suspected people are hungry for times. It allows you to have the experience and this sort of thing, I’ve been happily surprised only have to find that one slot of time.” by how quickly it took off,” Tilling said. “I took Moore said she was also impressed with a bookbinding class which I loved, and I also the generosity of the teachers. “They didn’t just took the first Zentangle class. I consider myself bring the basic supplies for class. The woman bad at drawing and I was pleasantly surprised who taught the bookbinding class brought extra that when you take the pressure off, it can be hand-made papers; and the one who taught

plant-dyeing brought an extra dye that wasn’t on the class description just because she thought it would be fun to try.” The classes were also enriched, Moore said, by the varied participants, who freely exchanged information, enlivening the atmosphere with a sense of enthusiasm. With a resurgence of interest in crafts, she added, people want to try their hands at more skills. “I’m grateful to have this resource, and it’s so well done and so affordable. One class was $40, the other was $60. And you don’t have to bring any supplies with you—you just show up! If you show up and say yes, that was nice but I’m not going to do it again, you’re not stuck with extra supplies.” And having just seen information about a pasta-making class, she already knows what she’d like to try next. That one will be taught by a chef at the Statler Hotel who’s also a neighbor of Craftstitute, with a bicycle-building business nearby, Tilling said. While the space has very limited kitchen facilities, he’s figured out how to make it work. “And at the end, after you’ve made the pasta, he’s going to cook a dinner and people will eat together.” she promised. Tilling and Richards sponsored a pre-Mother’s Day gift-making class for kids that also raised funds for survivors of the Nepal earthquake. Julie McNairn, who had previously attended a much-enjoyed basic sewing class with her 13-year-old daughter, brought her 9-year-old son to the gift-making class. “My son really got a kick out of picking out beads to put into a bracelet, and actually he kept it for himself,” McNairn said. “He also made a picture frame and gave it to his grandmother and enjoyed that too.” Classes planned for the immediate future include soapmaking, beading, acid dyeing in a mason jar and more. “That is so thrilling because things that never crossed our mind for a class are coming our way,” Tilling said. “The beauty of it is that we don’t know where it’s going to take people! People come in with ideas and the synergy that comes out of that in a class, and what they want to do with the skills they learn is just magical.” For more information, look for Craftstitute on Facebook or on the web at craftstitute.com. • T

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Natural Celestial

Dreamscapes and the Science of Art By War re n Gre e nwood

his is a wonderful show. I was first he created the galaxies, digitally painting attracted to it when I saw it through in the stars. He could have fooled me. I the window of the State of the Art would have guessed that they were photos Gallery. of real galaxies.) Daniel McPheeters is both an engineer Lunar Cloudscape is like a lake at and an artist. And the influence of science night—reflecting both a pine forest and shows up in his work. silver noctilucent mountains of clouds. McPheeters has four distinct styles in And, in the night sky, we see a line of the show. The four thirteen silver moons categories are: going through a complete 1. A collection of cycle from crescent to full art where he’s taken to crescent again. photos of forests and Fibonacci’s Dream is processed them into an appealing architecture near silhouette and of mathematical patterns, added in beautiful enclosing galaxies and geometric patterns nebulas in colors of redin the sky, as well as violet and bursting yellows star-fields, galaxies, and deep blues. processed moon Of the particle-style images and so on. paintings, I have a special 2. A wall fondness for … where he’s started Golden Skyburst, in with the image of which the two foreground trees—evergreens, pine trees are composed cedars, leafless of big blue multicolored masses of tangled circular particles, branches—and and there is a burst of processed everything golden particles in the into exploding, sky—evoking the lively, fizzing circles and exploding, energetic bubbles … in both particles making up the the sky and the universe … foliage itself. It seems … And Mangrove like he’s showing the Sunset, which looks viewer the structure like a tangle of leafless Celestial Precession by Daniel McPheeters of the universe: the vegetation with a (Photo Provided) atoms, the subatomic November sunset particles, the shining through it. But quantum foam itself. everything—both flora and light—is 3. Works of complete abstraction. composed of bubbling sub-atomic Like Quasar Turbulence—a long vertical particles. energy crackle of circular particles … And I might mention Approaching and Bubblescape, a grouping of five round the Event Horizon. This one stands alone paintings of subtly colored, popping, stylistically. It mixes Surrealism with bubble-like forms that (to me) evoke mathematical art. the “Bubbles” theory—that the structure We see a broad flat silvery reflective of the Multiverse is composed of a plain (with the silhouette of a tiny human lot of universes packed together in an figure on it) and lines radiating from the architecture like a mass of bubbles. horizon. In the sky we see a big, round 4. McPheeters’ sculptures. There are mass of subtly multicolored, glowing, two of them: Precarious Cairn, an eightbursting circle-bubbles wrapped in Peter foot collection of what look like oval and Max clouds, and radiating lines and spherical rocks piled up in a tall, thin bubbles shooting off into the sky. And all tower, and Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia, these considerable goings-on in the sky which looks like three skyscraper are reflected on the plain as if it had a light apartment buildings for ants. layer of rainwater upon it. The works I find most compelling and To wrap up here … this is such subtle beautiful are the ones with the forests and and beautiful and compelling work that mathematical patterns … there’s no way I can convey it to the ArtSearching for Higgs is a pine forest Loving Reader in my inadequate words. with a geometric starburst in the night sky The best thing to do is to see this exhibit shooting out firework-like strands, and a yourself. I believe you will find it an cluster of translucent mini-moons. enriching and rewarding experience. • Distant Nova is a vision of a coniferous Daniel McPheeters exhibition forest with a magnificent galaxy and Dreamscapes: Landscapes and Skyscapes geometric spider web patterns in the night Reimagined will be at the State of the Art sky. Gallery, 120 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca, N.Y. (In talking to McPheeters at the through the month of June. Call (607) 277opening on Gallery Night, he told me that 1626 or visit www.soag.org.

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Picturesque Perspective

Wisconsin artist experiences the finger lakes By Ar thur W hitm an

n unfashionable, unpretentious realism characterizes the style and subject matter of Trumansburg painter Kathy Armstrong, a recent transplant from Wisconsin who has been popping up in local group exhibits over the last year or so. For her June solo show at the CAP ArtSpace, she is showing a generous range of work: acrylic canvases and watercolors exploring a range of techniques and motifs. The show is divided, roughly half-andhalf, between paintings that suggest the work of a talented student and ones that demonstrate a greater reserve of skill and vision. Among those in the former category are several plein air studies of local settings: gorges as well as city and rural scenes. They are not bad paintings and the discipline of making them is doubtless rewarding—but the eye wanders on to other things here. The Cupolas of Trumansburg is made up of nine small square canvases, hung in a three by three grid. There’s a kind of match up between these quaint—one might say

picturesque—historical specimens and the basic technique. (Like all of the unframed pieces here, the compositions visibly wrap around the edged of the stretched canvases.) Armstrong’s acrylics here are most compelling when they combine crisply edged forms with looser brushwork. Aside from the sheer play of contrast, the effect is analogous to our everyday visual experience of the world, wherein things come in and out of focus and attention. Three paintings of grape plants, hung together as a triptych, exemplify this approach. (The titles are Vineyard Blues, Vineyard Rainbow, and Green Light in the Vineyard.) The grapes themselves, suspended in bunches, have been rendered sharply—as if they were made of glass—often seeming to glow from within. They pop out; they have weight, as if they were portrait subjects. The branches and outlined leaves surrounding them have a crispness too but fading, interrupted by the vegetal shadows. Hung on either side of this triptych,

two small rural landscapes show a quieter their myriad colors and patterns. Barn approach. The edges and angles of her Cat emphasizes a more impressionistic White Barn at Dusk and Red Barn at Dusk technique, the haystack behind the paware suffused with the softness of shadows licker a modest echo of Monet’s famous and warm twilight. series. Lazy Summer Day, unmistakably a The level of work on display at CAP portrait, shows the head and shoulders of a from month-to-month is decidedly hit or white goat, up close and personal against a miss. Armstrong’s show is readily the most verdant landscape of grass, purple flowers compelling since February. It’s also worth and distant trees. Again, the sky is twilit: briefly noting and recalling here the two here in delicately superb shows that pale blue, pink, opened the year. and yellow. January The creature brought us “Keep is beautifully it Dark,” a show detailed in of five pieces by translucent local cartoonist layers of white and muralist Jim and thin brown, Garmhausen. the hairs of her Painted on brush detailing large canvas the hairs of dropcloths, they the animal. ably, if sometimes The painting’s awkwardly, palpable translated his atmosphere, comic macabre Machinery Row by Kathy Armstrong (Photo Provided) its density, is imagery onto in marked to a larger-thancontrast with human scale. the flat, simplistic realism of Hens on a In February, the painter Jessica Baron Gate, which hangs to its left. Warner—also of Ithaca—offered us Armstrong is also a skilled “Land Marks,” a collection of large oil-onwatercolorist and her technique of building canvas pieces and smaller color drawings, up forms using drawn outlines and thin Her work is intensely observed still-life washes is paralleled in her best acrylics. transmuted through the language of The crisp technique of Aprons for Sale gestural abstraction. • gives clarity to the hanging fabrics in

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Ithaca College students exhibit new work By Ambe r D onof r io

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xcitement brims in the air of the that it’s hard to look away from the vivid Creative Space Gallery, a new art illumination. Stanislav Mehne’s work is space downtown run by Ithaca transfixing thanks to its use of contrast as College’s art department. They launched well: a black, dramatically-shaped chair their inaugural show in May. Steel and with a lighted form stretching up over the paper sculptures, illuminated from within, seated person in a white shape reminiscent fill the space with light that’s mellow but of a calla lily or snake. There’s elegant enticing in its mesmerizing glow. complexity to the sculpture, the sense of Tyler Hampton’s crystalline sculpture odd effortlessness and grounded surreality. extends its form out in multiple directions Along with the Illuminated Sculpture at the entryway, inviting you in with its show, Creative Space is also housing reach. Hanna Lee’s umbrella-like lights Summer Scholars, a program where hang from the ceiling in their various sizes, students help run the gallery while also their wire twisting around exposed pipes using it as a studio space. Thus, the that erect from the building’s walls. There’s back corners of the gallery have been a gothic appeal to the lights, the handtransformed into a studio—with its easels, touched, fragile cups of pens and look of the rice brushes, and paper outside emerging works of met with the art—where student hard edge and artists will paint and industrialism of work alongside the the sculpture’s show. This summer’s metal skeleton. scholars are Andrea Ali Bernstein’s Aguirre and Tatiana piece is another Malkin, who are matter, and one both working on of subtleties. new collections A sea blue of work based pyramid, simple on their shared in form, its fascination with intrigue emerges Sculpture at the Creative Space Gallery. (Photo: Brian Arnold) bioluminescence, from the slight work that will be whisperings of a exhibited during a checkered pattern present underneath the public show set to open in September. In layers, its shadow visible but seeming to the meantime the Creative Space Gallery disappear into the pyramid as if following a will have two more student shows this perspective point unknown to the viewer. summer with many more planned for The show’s title is “Illuminated times to come. Sculpture,” and it came about as the result Opened thanks to the donation of of IC students’ first experience with gas and an art major alumnus, the Creative Space electric welding during an intermediateGallery is multi-purposed. Its mission, level project about structure and skin. As according to Hastings, is to incorporate sculpture professor and faculty liaison of creation, exhibition and education, and the Creative Space Gallery Bill Hastings to do so in a way that reaches out and described, “The concept begins with linear interacts with not only the Ithaca College dimensional drawing with steel rod and community, but also the greater Ithaca transitions to express planer surfaces community as well. “We anticipate drawing with a skin of rice paper.” What comes events where the public is welcome,” out of this process are sculptures that Hastings said, “classes drawing on the seem like three-dimensional versions of Commons and critiquing in the space, art drawings: Katrina Killebrew’s glowing ed students teaching Saturday morning metal dress exhibited on its hanger with workshops to kids, visiting artists and sharply defined curves and Teresa Clark’s alumni exhibitions and more to be bluish black ocean waves, splashing dreamed up for the future.” outward in carefully rendered movement The art department hopes to host a frozen in time. Lena Forman’s sculpture show or event every month, and from presents two angular rock-like forms, the the look of it they’re off to a great start rice paper interestingly stressed on their in creating a space that is interactive, surfaces and their outsides dyed blackish engaging, and inspiring overall. • brown except for two surfaces, facing one another in the piece’s center, left white. The Illuminated Sculpture will be on display sculpture looks like a geode, only instead at the Creative Space Gallery, 215 E. State of crystal, the inside reward is light. In St., through the end of June. The gallery is fact the brightness of the sculpture’s center open Thursdays through Sundays, noon to is in such contrast to its dark exterior 5 p.m.

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out like the endings of all those Julia Roberts movies. Monette’s marrying her Always a Bridesmaid, by Jessie Jones, restaurant Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten; directed third hubby, and aside from Libby Ruth, Simply Red BiStRo by Bert Bernardi; scenic design by Ola the others are having their struggles. Kraszpulska; costume design by Jimmy The performances are broad but WRITTEN signature & PERFORMEDdish BY Johansmeyer; sound design by Seth Asa endearing. Evans and Wright-Mathews goat and cuRRy Sengel; at Cortland Repertory Theatre are particularly gifted at breaking the through June 13. fourth wall and including the audience t this point, I guess I’m a career in their impertinent remarks. Bagger has celebrity cheF you’d love to cook wit bachelor, but Always a Bridesmaid, an Eeyore drawl, a swirl of hopeless red moRimoto DIRECTED BY RACHEL LAMPERT the opening comedy of CRT’s hair and a touch of Laraine Newman’s 44th season, is equal measures as sweet comic tempo from Saturday Night Live. building. 3 thingsOne you always have and sentimental as the nicest nuptials Fleece is the vinegar in the sugar here, A city in upheaval. in your reFrigerator and as fall-down fun as the best wedding and I especially liked her line about how cheeSe, ABacon, and mayo one-woman receptions. The script was written by three politicians and diapers should be changed veterans of television’s The Golden Girls play about regularly, “and for the same reason.” years cooking and Designing Women. Its twelve lives four scenes divided into 12 colliding. two acts feels like the best kind of connected sitcom Favorite hobby JUNE 10 - 28 continuity. 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One by one, we meet four Southern iF you had a cookbook, Bayes’ take on the ditzy Libby Ruth just Stephen Landon women who made a pact to be makes her the most endearing lady on what would you Feature bridesmaids in each others’ weddings, the planet; you want to run onstage and boatyardgrill.com monday nightS SoutheRn food no matter what. There’s daffy but sweet hug her. She has a neat bit of business Favorite childhood Food memory & Rice that myThe Boatyard Grill Restaurant Name: Libby Ruth (Barbara Bayes), awkward trying to keep someone from getting out Beef Stew most overrated ingredient gRandma uSed to make tree-hugger Charlie (Wendy Bagger), of a changing room that’s a mini-class in Hometown: Darien, CT extRa viRgin olive oil sarcastic D.C. judge Deedra (Fleece) physical comedy. Favorite Food as a child Signature dish: Seared Mongchong with mango salsa and cilantro foam and goofy, zaftig Monette (Lisa WrightAlways a Bridesmaid doesn’t just Bologna & chutney SandwicheS Reason for participating in Taste of the Nation: There are just best “trick oF too themany trade” secret Mathews), flashy, trashy and proud of it. poke at the expectations and foibles of the Food tried that others might Find “gross” a loud timeR Ruling the roost is Sedalia Ellicott (Debra ladies, but also the strange customs and people that need our support and must be helped. I Have been a big supoporter maRmite Thais Evans), the owner and proprietor of fashions that rule weddings. The scenarios for years and have been asked to do lots of tv time helping the cause even more. Laurelton Oaks. Brassy, sassy and an old allow scenic designer Ola Kraszpulska Favorite cookbook most healthFul, kid Friendly Fast breakFast 3 things you always have in your fridge: Cheese, eggs, and fresh produce. hand at pulling off successful weddings, yoguRt Smoothie (in her CRT debut) and costume designer anything julia child even if she has to break out the odd Most healthful, kid friendly, fast breakfast: Cheerios, fresh fruit and yogurt Jimmy Johansmeyer to ply their trade breakFast on a day oFF implement of destruction. with lots of wit. The ladies wear all kindsFavorite Celebrity you would like to cook with: Since I’veJune already 14, worked with eggS Benedict and lotSchef of hollandaiSe 2011 It takes about ten minutes to get of wedding gear, from tasteful purples and Jacques Pepin and Paul Prudhomme, it would have to be Thomas Keller. to know the ladies, and once we’ve mauves to a French-themed weddingmost that unusual thing you’ve ever eaten emerson suites ithaca college absorbed their yin-yang personalities, Most unusual thing you have eaten: Squirrel cRocodile BaRBeque goes way over the top. the playwrights start stacking up gags, Kudos to Kraszpulska for replicating Favorite spice or spice blend: Duck rub blend and cayennetickets: pepper one-liners and clever callbacks that keep the chain-hotel look of a company like least Favorite Food as a child butFavorite love as an adult cookbook: Bradley Ogdens (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) www.tasteofnation.org/ithac the audience chuckling right to the end. 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he Glimmerglass Festival, Both Colaneri and director Anne celebrating its 40th anniversary Bogart—each with a list of credits a mile this year, seems grander than ever long—look forward to working together, before. Artistic and general director and especially with bass-baritone Eric Francesca Zambello has put together a Owens, this year’s Artist in Residence, remarkable season of events and activities, who sings the title role. Along with running July 10–August 23. The opening soprano Melody Moore, who was Senta and closing performances will be of last year in The Flying Dutchman, as Lady Mozart’s familiar and beloved masterpiece, Macbeth, Colaneri feels he has very special The Magic Flute. Other mainstage cast. Bogart, SITI’s artistic director, has productions are Verdi’s dark tragedy considerable experience with the play, but Macbeth and an amazing unknown opera has never done the opera. She decided to by Antonio Vivaldi, Cato in Utica. present a beautiful setting, where despite The traditional American musical the world seeming civilized, violence theater offering is Leonard happens. Bernstein’s witty and Joseph Colaneri will clever take on Voltaire’s also conduct Candide, classic, Candide. another work by a great The Glimmerglass author. Not only was “campus” will have a Voltaire a highly intelligent three-part modern and witty writer, his landscape installation for Enlightenment ideas and sharing stories and quiet principles profoundly person reflection, as this influenced the course season’s theme is about the of French history. The beauty and variety of our story of Candide (1756) surroundings. debunks the philosophy The Magic Flute will of optimism, yet the have a new production, characters cheerfully one that takes inspiration prevail over unbelievable Cunegonde’s costume in “Candide” from North American adversity with life(provided) tribal folklore and the affirming determination. magical qualities of an Bernstein’s score is unspoiled natural landscape. Madeline exuberant, bubbly, and as clever as the text. Sayet from New York’s Mad and Merry The musical opened in New York in 1956, Theatre Company and whose heritage is followed by countless revisions. We will tribal North American, will direct. Carolyn see the “Glimmerglass version,” Colanari Kuan, music director of the Hartford said, a “new” and “creative” distillation that Symphony Orchestra, makes her debut as tells the story clearly. It has an 18th-century conductor. look, a handsome open set and costumes In the role of Tamino is tenor Sean clearly reflecting the period. Panikkar, seen in the 2012 production Zambello is directing and envisages of Lost in the Stars and a recent finalist a production that deals with wars waged on television’s America’s Got Talent. between nations and classes. Tenor Soprano Jacqueline Echols, who sang Andrew Stenson, a former Young Artist, Echo in last year’s Ariadne in Naxos, will sings the title role, with soprano Kathryn be Pamina. The English adaptation is by Lewek—making her Met début as Queen Kelly O’Rourke, well known for providing of the Night in The Magic Flute last numerous opera supertitles in the past. Set season—as Cunégonde. Marietta Simpson, designer is Troy Hourie, who also created from Tri-Cities Opera and more recently the campus landscape installation. with Houston Grand Opera, will play The Macbeth, in two acts and sung Old Lady/Baroness. in Italian, opens July 11 and will be The company’s traditional baroque conducted by music director Joseph opera is Vivaldi’s Cato in Utica (1737), Colaneri. He told me that although this which will have its American premiere opera is early, Verdi created a greatly at Glimmerglass. The story, set in North revised version for the Paris Opera in Africa, is about Roman senator Cato’s 1865, a version this production uses, with battle against the corrupt Julius Caesar. one exception—the death aria of Macbeth, Ryan Brown, founder and artistic director which Verdi dropped, has been restored. of the baroque company Opera Lafayette, “It gives a better sense of conclusion,” said will conduct, while Tazewell Thompson, Colaneri. He feels Macbeth is a “visionary” known for outstanding Glimmerglass opera, the first where Verdi, who revered productions, is director. He said the opera Shakespeare, provided special directions has “political drama, and the music is for singers to perform the text. absolutely scintillating.” •

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ost people associate basil with what accompanies the tender slabs of Italian cooking, but there are duck meat, which is barely spiced at all. many cultivars of “Ocimum The ginger duck, for example, is served basilicum” or sweet basil, and several of with mushrooms, onions, scallions and a them have distinctly different flavors from black bean sauce with the ginger giving the Mediterranean type. “Thai basil” is it all a nice kick, but not enough to also called anise or licorice basil for selfoverwhelm the rest of the flavors. explanatory reasons. Thai Basil at 113 E. The salads (which are very much Seneca St. succeeds its entreés) are delicious but erratic sometimes only predecessor, Bangkok vaguely like their Café, briefly at the Western namesakes. same address. The duck, shrimp and We sampled seafood salads include their Thai dumpling, little in the way of which resembles its leafy vegetables. Chinese cousin in that But the vegetarian it consists of spiced somtum (or papaya) ground meat (mostly salad is a fun hybrid of pork, but with seafood Western and Eastern added) enveloped in ideas. The green a paper-thin shao mai papaya itself has been wrapper. The most sent through a grater easily detected spice to create long, strips, is ginger, along with almost like a thick coriander (otherwise spaghetti. Although known as cilantro). the dish is not marked They’re cooked in a as spicy on the menu, very hot frying pan it is delightfully so. before a bit of water It includes sour lime, is added and the pan salty fish sauce, palm is covered to steam The owner Suchart Ammard Tho (Photo Brian Arnold) sugar, and the spice them. They come is supplied by chile four to a serving, with peppers. The papayas a dipping sauce that is used are unripe, so made from fish sauce spiced with ginger they are not sweet, but instead are tangy and coriander. and crisp. The soups introduce you to a All Thai restaurants serve noodle pervasive ingredient in Thai cooking: dishes, including the ubiquitous pad Thai. lemongrass. This spice, which really does Thai basil is no exception. Its drunken derive from a grass Cymbopogon and noodle dish includes sliced bell peppers kaffir lime leaves are the distinctive tastes and broccoli with the wide flat rice of tom yum soup. Thai Basil’s tom yum noodles. It is spiced with garlic, chile pulls its punches. It is a hot and sour peppers, soy sauce and … Thai basil. soup, but the hot isn’t very spicy. One While the som tum and tom yum come has the feeling that we might be getting a to Thailand from Laos, this noodle dish toned down version of the actual cuisine is ultimately from Chinese cuisine. Thai wherein they go easy on the chile peppers. Basil prepares their version well in that There is, however, no denying that we the noodles are not reduced to a gooey finished the bowl. mess, but instead retain their integrity The entreés are presented in sections and have a nice chewiness. The drunken devoted to a particular ingredient or noodle dish presents more as Chinese approach. Thai Basil’s kitchen is more in texture but as Thai with regard to the devoted to duck then most other Thai spicing. restaurants, mustering five different Thai curries are made with coconut recipes. Some people stay away from duck milk and are distinct from Indian curries because of its strong flavor, but that is not because of the addition of fresh herbs and an issue here. The meat is tender with spices. Thai Basil’s red curry (the mildest white bands of fat marbling through it. It in the spectrum) was the right balance has been coated with a batter and deepbetween the rough edge of the curry and fried, locking in moisture and apparently the sweetness of the coconut milk. We driving off any of the gaminess that you tried it with chicken, which had been might associate with this bird. cooked in a peanut sauce, another Thai Each recipe differs from another by stand-by. •

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Jimmy Eat World Front Man visits The Haunt By G.M . Bur n s

im Adkins is the energetic singer and guitarist for the rock band Jimmy Eat World. The group has been playing together for more than two decades and has seven albums to their credit. In a recent phone interview Adkins spoke to the Ithaca Times about the band and his hopes of his summer tour. He will perform on June 21 at the Haunt. Ithaca Times: You are striking out right now with your first solo tour. What is driving you to perform by yourself? Jim Adkins: Well, you know around the Phoenix area, since maybe like ’99 or 2000 I’ve been asked to perform solo outside of the band with different configurations of musicians. Primarily it’s for benefit shows or charity events, and it’s always a fun thing when I’ve done it. And this last record cycle, when we were on tour in Europe, I decided to stay behind for a minute and locate a solo show. And it was fun. So I guess you know it was a combination of it just being something that has always shown itself to be a challenging and rewarding experience

mixed with the fact that the band has been going pretty hard for a long time now, and it just seemed like the right time to seize the opportunity and try it. IT: There are differences when an artist performs with a group and then goes out to do their own music separately. What are some of the things that are different for you with this solo tour? JA: It has a completely different set of parameters that you work with. You know when you are performing with a group, there’s a lot to hide behind. Even though you are on stage and people are looking at you, it’s sort of like you know musically there is a lot to hide behind. Not all, 100 percent of the pressure is not on you when you have a very loud p.a. system, and lights, and three other people or four other people that contribute to the sound. So when I do it with a guitar, you know, there’s nothing to hide behind, at all. And there’s pros and cons to that. What’s kind of cool is that when you are starting with absolutely nothing, musically, it doesn’t take a whole lot to get a—gosh—when there is less happening

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musically, it takes less to get a dynamic to make them different. I try to represent reaction. So you can scale back and paste them in a way that fans are not familiar things in a much more nuanced way, with or ever heard before, and try to and it’s kind of more intimate. And the make it fun by kind of reimaging it a bit fear/fun factor is in constant juggling, in a different context, which won’t be too and if you can balance that it makes it hard. rewarding. IT: Would you like to add anything IT: The music of Jimmy Eat World seems to have strong vocal melodies that drive the band and reach out to your fans. What will the songs be like on your upcoming shows? And will your shows be acoustic or more electric? JA: The shows are me with a guitar. I don’t play with any backing tracks, and I don’t play with any moving things. Jim Adkins rocking hard. (Photo Provided) There is a possibility that whoever I might be sharing the show with me might be putting in a song or else to what you have already said? two, but that’s really like up in the air. But About your music or your hopes or your yeah, it’s just me. So like within that, you projects? know it is going to be different. I can’t do JA: I’m just excited to get out and by myself what we do with the band, so I play the new solo material and hopefully don’t even try. the fans of the band will think what In some cases I think things different I’m doing is cool and hopefully have an to fit the context, you know, like I do awesome time. • some Jimmy Eat World songs, and I try

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Bring Your Own Vinyl Night | 10:00 PM-1:00 AM, 6/10 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Bring your own vinyl and dance, trance, and bounce your night away. Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM, 6/10 Wednesday | 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! Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org. Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz. Insect Ark, OBody | 6:00 PM-, 6/10 Wednesday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Experimental, Doom, Noise, Alt-Country, Avant-Garde. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM-, 6/10 Wednesday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

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Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Free Jazz, Sound Design, Avant-Garde, Noise. Ithaca High School Jazz Ensemble | 7:00 PM-, 6/11 Thursday | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Music by Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson and originals by Ithaca High School students. The Pelotones | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 6/11 Thursday | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | A mix of jazz, blues and classic country. Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 6/11 Thursday | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB. Hoodoo Crossing: Blues, Brews and BBQ | 6:00 PM-, 6/11 Thursday | Blues. Rock. Ribs.

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Citi Cat | 10:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Singer Songwriter, Jazz, Blues, R&B. Also plays Sat, June 13, 12 a.m. same place. Thank You Mr. Poobah: A Tribute to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band | 9:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | A tribute to the classic blues rock band. Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | 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. Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-273-8678; on Fridays, 607-3424110. Old Time Square Dance | 8:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Live music by Tess Clancy, Michelle Delco, David Jones & Jason Zorn, Nancy

Spero calling squares New Directions Cello Festival Day 1 | 7:30 PM-, 6/12 Friday | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Trevor Exter, singer songwriter/ cellist. Max Lilja, Finnish cellist: rock and beyond. Jacob Szekely Trio, Jazz Trio from LA. Answer The Muse | 7:30 PM-, 6/12 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Unique fusion of theatrical, spiritual, and transformational performance art with original music. Shipley Hollow, Department, My Son The Crystal Healer, ANANSI | 7:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Post hardcore, Post Rock, Indie, Math, Chillwave, Dream Pop. Ithaca Underground presents. GoGone | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/12 Friday | Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | -H40H40 Pete Panek and the Blue Cats | 6:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rhythm and Blues. Bendher | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/12 Friday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Classic Rock. Matthew Roth | 6:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Classical piano. GoGone | 6:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | Americana Vineyards 4367 East Covert Rd, Interlaken, 4367 East Covert Rd, Interlaken | Roots, Rock & Blues. Mac Benford and UpSouth | 5:30 PM-, 6/12 Friday | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Acoustic roots and old-time music, with traditional dance tunes, mountain ballads, and more Liz Enwright | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/12 Friday | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S

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DJ Silenze, DJ Rayne | 10:00 PM-, 6/13 Saturday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | DJ Silenze (downstairs) DJ Rayne (upstairs). Nu Skool, diso, dance, funk, electronic. The Better Barn Burning Bureau | 10:00 PM-, 6/13 Saturday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Blue Grass, Boogie, Old Time. Thousands of One | 9:00 PM-, 6/13 Saturday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Soul, Funk, Dub, Reggae, Hip Hop. The Slim Kings | 9:00 PM-, 6/13 Saturday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Raw Blues and Rock from Brooklyn featuring Liberty DeVitto. Canopy | 9:00 PM-, 6/13 Saturday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Vermont band grounded in Rock, Funk, and Blues, with an affinity for pushing boundaries. New Directions Cello Festival Day 2 | 7:30 PM-, 6/13 Saturday | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Lizzy Simkin and Nicholas Walker, contemporary compositions with improv. Stephen Katz, Angels in the Engine Room. Natalie Haas & Alasdair Fraser, Contemporary Scottish American fiddling. Burns & Kristy | 7:30 PM-, 6/13 Saturday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Indie, Folk, Pop. Benefit for Fox Rescue: Turkish-style Belly Dance | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | For Fox Wood Animal Rescue in Concord, N.Y. near Buffalo. East Forest, Solar Geometry, Wolf Council| 10:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday |

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415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Lucinda Williams | 7:30 PM-, 6/16 Tuesday | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer and songwriter. This is a general admission show. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/16 Tuesday | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 6/16 Tuesday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages. Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/16 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

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Far from the Maddening Crowd | Headstrong Victorian Beauty has choice of three different suitors. Adaption of Thomas Hardy novel. | PG-13 119 mins | Ex Machina | Science Fiction thriller about a young programmer’s experience with artificial intelligience in the form of a breathtaking female. A.I. | 108 mins R | The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Dynamite expert Allan Karlsson’s life, and the unlikely events following his escape from the old folk’s home on his 100th birthday. | 114 mins R | 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 broken and confused man under the watch of his therapist. | 120 mins PG-13 | Saint Laurent | Yves Saint Laurent’s life from 1967 to 1976, during which time the famed fashion designer was at the peak of his career. | 150 mins R |

Geneva Music Festival: New Morse Code | 7:00 PM-, 6/14 Sunday | Billsboro Winery, 4760 State Route 14A, Geneva | Hannah Collins and Michael Compitello activate the unexpected range and unique sonic world of cello and percussion.

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Three Chord Monty | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM, 6/15 Monday | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk.

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Film In The Hollow | 4:00 PM-, 6/14 Sunday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Austin Bunn directs this short documentary “In the Hollow”, about a notorious shooting that took place on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania

Friday, 6/12 to Thursday, 6/18. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes

Insidious: Chapter 3 | Psychological Horror that ventures into the neurouniverse of a troubled teenager’s mind. | 98 mins PG-13 | 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 | Jurrasic 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 | Aloha| Military employees fall in love while navigating through past romances. | 125 mins PG-13 | San Andreas (3D) | The legendary Fault finally gives and the story of an estranged family ensues. | 114 mins PG-13 | Poltergeist 2015 (3D) | Master filmaker Sam Rami directs the classic tale about a family whose surburban home is haunted by ghosts. | 93 mins PG-13 | Tomorrowland | Disney’s riveting mystery adventure about a jadded scientist and an optimistic teen and their story of unearthing an unknown

New Directions Cello Festival Day 1, Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College Friday, June 12, 9:00 p.m. Headlining the Festival on Day 1 is this L.A. based electric groove jazz trio. The group’s dynamic interplay has been likened to Yo Yo Ma, Chick Corea, and Shostakovich.

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Stage Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 6/10 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs. Always a Bridesmaid | 7:30 PM-, 6/10 Wednesday, 6/11 Thursday, 6/12 Friday, 6/13 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | A comedy about four high school girlfriends made a

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Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com. Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/11 Thursday | Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays. Each contestant will be given 3 minutes to share their story and enter for a chance to be crowned the first ever Trampoline Story Champ. UVANY Venture Forum: Ithaca | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/11 Thursday | Coltivare Culinary Center, 235 S Cayuga St., Ithaca | Ithaca Mayor Svante L. Myrick & Chelsea Rao, VP, Digital & New Media Development, ESD, speak about Ithaca’s leadership position in the Upstate innovation economy. Job Talk: Tompkins County Workforce New York | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 6/11 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Hear from local business representatives in the Educational Services field. Volunteers needed for Gorges Ithaca Half Marathon | 10:00 AM-, 6/12 Friday | Island Health & Fitness, 310 Taughannock Blvd Ste 1, Ithaca | Free thank-you dinner/race orientation held the Friday before the race (June 12th) at Island Health and Fitness. You will also get a free volunteer T Shirt, and admission into our after party. Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/12 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

ithaca celtic festival, Stewart Park, Saturday, June 13, 8:30 a.m.

Celebrating its 8th annual festival, this event is a great chance for families and friends to experience one of Ithaca’s premiere events. Competitions in Bagpiping, Drumming, and Scottish Heavy Athletics, plus a full day of Music, Sheep-Shearing, Wool Spinning, Food, Kilt Making, and much more is sure to keep the crowds busy and entertained.

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place in space and time. | 130 mins PG | Mad Max: Fury Road (3D) | After the collapse of civilization the five wives of a despot join an alliance with a loner and try and escape. | 121 mins R | Pitch Perfect 2 | The Barden Bellas are back in the follow-up to 2012’s smash hit. Elizabeth Banks stars and pens. | 115 mins PG-13 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | When Tony Stark jumpstarts a dormat peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heros are put to the ultimate test. | 150 min PG-13| Ex Machina | Science Fiction thriller about a young programmer’s experience with artificial intelligience in the form of a breathtaking female A.I. | 108 mins R |

vow to be in each other’s weddings… no matter what. More than thirty years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making “the long walk” for each other. The Velocity of Autumn | 7:30 PM-, 6/10 Wednesday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Highway 12, Greene | A humorous and touching look at the often fiery nature of family relations and the fragility of love. The play asks: When is the right time to intervene if an elderly parent no longer appears competent to live alone? How do you deal with it when mother threatens to blow up her building if the police even knock on her door? Performances May 22 – June 14, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., plus Sunday matinees at 2 p.m Thin Walls | 7:30 PM-, 6/10 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 West State / MLK, Jr. St., Ithaca | Alice Eve Cohen’s solo play about a New York City residential hotel, its recent arrivals, and its ghosts. Rachel Lampert directs. Wednesdays, Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 4:00 p.m. Visit http:// www.kitchentheatre.org for showtimes & prices. God of Carnage | 7:30 PM-, 6/11 Thursday, 8:00 PM, 6/12 Friday, 3:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday, 2:00 PM, 7:30 Sunday, 7:30 PM 06/15 Monday, 06/16 Tuesday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | By Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton. The story of the aftermath of a fight between two 11-year-old boys on the playground. Their parents meet over cocktails to resolve the situation with civility and reason. But manners are quickly forgotten, and all hell breaks loose as the evening devolves into a laugh-out-loud train wreck. Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM-, 6/11 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Roar Of The Greasepaint-The Smell Of The Crowd | 8:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday, 6/13 Saturday, 2:00 PM 06/14 Sunday | TiAhwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | The allegorical plot examines the maintenance of the status quo between the upper and lower classes of British Society in the 1960’s. Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM-, 6/12 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca |

Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking. Summerpalooza | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday | King Ferry Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | The Delta Mike Shaw Band 11AM – 12PM. Radio London 2PM – 6PM. Skillet & Embers Catering Company will be serving food with Southern Flair starting at noon. Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/14 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage. Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages. CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM-, 6/16 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

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Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult 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. World War I Reading, Film, & Discussion Series | 7:00 PM-, 6/11 Thursday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Pre-registration required. Series of 5 Thursdays. June 11 program: Trying to Make Sense of the Senseless. Contact Diane Pamel, Library Director, at 607-844-4782 or email southworthlibrary@gmail.com for info. Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/12 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. ServSafe Food Handler Class | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 6/12 Friday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | This course covers the basics of food safety for people who work or volunteer in food service settings.

Special Events

building. For more information, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

Karaoke with Elephant Sound | 8:00 PM-1:00 AM, 6/10 Wednesday | Kilpatrick’s Publick House, 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Multiple locations: Tues., Ruloffs, 10pm; Wednesdays, Scale House Brew Pub, 8pm; Thursdays, Kilpatrick’s Publick House, 10pm; 1st Sunday of the month, The Rhine House, 9pm. Trivia Night at Agava | 10:00 PM-, 6/11 Thursday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Trivia night. Come and have fun. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz | 8:00 PM-, 6/11 Thursday | Rhine House, 632 W Seneca St., Ithaca | Trivia covering pop culture, history, current events, and random knowledge. Free to play with random prizes throughout the night and gift certificates for the winners. Weekly 8-Ball Pool Tournament | 7:00 PM-12:00 AM, 6/11 Thursday | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Pool players of all ages welcome. Roller Derby Night | 6:00 PM-, 6/13 Saturday | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Ithaca SufferJets vs Suburban Brawl REMATCH. Dryden Dairy Day | 9:30 AM-3:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday | Montgomery Park, , Dryden | The fun filled day starts off with the parade down Main Street, live entertainment at the gazebo, stories and kid’s shows in the Kids’ Tent, a hay ride, bale toss, petting zoo, and tractors- old and new will all be at the park. Plus much more. Ithaca Celtic Festival | 8:00 AM-8:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday | Stewart Park, Large Pavilion, Ithaca | Music, heavy athletics, pipe band competitions and more. See schedule at www.ithacacelticfestival.com Karaoke with DJ Dale | 9:00 PM-, 6/15 Monday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Every Monday Night! Thousands of Songs to choose from! Industry Day | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/15 Monday | Agava , 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | 20% off entire check. This special is available all day (lunch, dinner, late night) to anyone in the hotel/bar/restaurant industry who brings in a recent pay stub and photo ID. Industry Night | 4:00 PM-2:00 AM, 6/16 Tuesday | K-House Karaoke Lounge and Suite, 15 Catherwood Rd, Ithaca

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Ithaca based Noise musician Sunken Cheek plays The Tompkins County Workers Center, Thursday 6/11, at 8:30, with Italy’s Free Jazz pioneers JookLo Duo and Ithaca’s Nick Hennies. (Photo Provided) Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 6/16 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Public Works Committee | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/16 Tuesday | 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca

| Every Tuesday is K-HOUSE’s Industry Night especially dedicated to local hospitality workers offering food & drink specials all night long.

Meetings

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Planning & Economic Development Committee Meeting | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Invite Friends. Shade Tree Advisory Committee (STAC) | 4:00 PM-, 6/10 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | STAC consults with the City Forester and the Board of Public Works regarding the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 306 of the City of Ithaca Municipal Code (“Trees and Shrubs”). IURA Neighborhood Investment Committee (NIC) | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 6/12 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | NIC meetings are ordinarily held on the 2nd Friday of every month at 8:30 a.m. in Third Floor Conference Room, Third Floor, City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca. Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/15 Monday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 6/12 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. Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Bring your mystery fossils in to the Museum of the Earth and get them identified. Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM-, 6/13 Saturday, 6/14 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

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Rongovian Embassy, Saturday, June 13, 9:00 p.m.

Kitchen Theatre Company, Saturday, June 13, 8:00 p.m.

On this night this hometown band celebrates its 10th anniversary together. Their sound incorporates everything from Soul and Gospel, Ska and Rock, to Hip Hop and Rap. Their core members’ first gig was at a maximum security prison, and throughout the years they’ve kept commited to changing society through music. Don’t miss out!

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Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 6/10 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, 6/10 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, 6/10 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, 6/10 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. Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/10 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, 6/10 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | With instructor Nicole Bostwick. Starting June 3, 2015-December 31, 2015 Every Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Facilitated by Liz Constable and Finger Lakes Independence Center Peer

Counselor Amy Scott, and supported by Finger Lakes Independence Center Peer Counselor Emily Papperman. Call Amy or Emily at 607-272-2433. Alcoholics Anonymous | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/10 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, 6/11 Thursday, 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/15 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). Writing Practice as Self-Inquiry | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 6/13 Saturday | 108 S Albany St, 108 S Albany St, Ithaca | Leslie Ihde is forming an ongoing group to run alternate Saturdays. Members will learn to write poetry and short prose inspired by their own perceptions. The goal of the group will be to encourage self-discovery first, and good writing second. Friendly group discussions will be facilitated. No experience necessary. Beginning and experienced writers are welcome. For more information see http:// www.spiritualself-inquiry.com or call 607-754-1303. Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 6/14 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. Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 6/16 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-, 6/16 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, 6/16 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

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3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Priscilla Timberlake : Plant Based Picnics | 6:30 AM-, 6/16 Tuesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn to make a delicious vegan summer meal that you can eat inside or out. Presenter is a whole foods cook, educator and mother of four.

Kids Art Classes for Kids | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Classes and private instruction for children and teens 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. Hangar Theatre Summer Kids Workshops Registration | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/10 Wednesday | A variety of summer theatre classes available for students entering third grade and up, at multiple experience levels, and taught by professional artists who work nationally and teach the most current techniques in their disciplines. For details, fees, and sign-up visit http://www. hangartheatre.org/next-generationschool-of-theatre.html Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 6/11 Thursday through 6/16 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273-8364. Little Voices Music & Motion: Registration for Songs of Summer | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/11 Thursday | Jillian’s Drawers, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | SONGS of SUMMER, the five week summer session of Little Voices Music & Motion, begins the week of July 13th. Registration ends July 6. Locations include the Lansing Town Hall and Jillian’s Drawers on the Ithaca Commons. Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: West Hill After School Program (ages 6 - 10) | 2:30 PM-5:00 PM, 6/12 Friday | Y Adventureland, 1350 Mecklenburg Rd (Rt 79), Ithaca | We’ll find our home in the forest, looking for stories in the tracks and playing games

HeadsUp Summer Cinema

by Bryan VanCampen

ummer means many things to many people, but around my house, it’s all about which four flicks Cornell Cinema will be screening outdoors on the Willard Straight Terrace. I need dates and titles, people! The movies are chosen by CC’s customers via balloting, so it’s always interesting to look at the overall mix. I’ve seen all four of the films scheduled for CC’s outdoor series. I first saw John Huston’s The African Queen (June 17) in Stuart Appelbaum’s student film club when I was a sophomore at IHS. At the time, I was about to play Humphrey Bogart in a school production of Play It Again, Sam and in those preVHS days, you had to see movies when they were playing in theaters or on television. Before Raiders of the Lost Ark and Romancing the Stone, The African Queen was the great romantic adventure picture. Bogart and Katherine Hepburn are terrific in it. The Grand Budapest Hotel (June 24) is both typical and atypical Wes Anderson. There’s the music, the symmetrical staging and the talented ensemble. But here’s Anderson playing with multiple narrators, music scoring out of his pop comfort zone and some delightful stop-motion animation. I also love Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 spy thriller Notorious (July 8), starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an

among the trees. Join us each week to discover mysteries, help tend the fire for our tea kettle, and bring home tales of adventure! Transportation available from Fall Creek Elementary. Sliding scale fee. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com. Legos at the Library | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 6/13 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Weekly, free-build Lego program. Legos at the Library encourages children to use their imaginations or Lego books from the TCPL collection to create their own Lego art! All materials provided. Ithaca’s Children Garden Party | 11:00 AM-, 6/13 Saturday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, , Ithaca | Enjoy delicious tapas, festive spirits, live music by Djug Django Quintet, and a playful, garden-inspired evening for

Ralph Fiennes and Tony Revolori in The Grand Budapest Hotel . (Photo provided) espionage operation. Caddyshack (July 22) wraps up the season. The directorial debut of the late, great Harold Ramis, Caddyshack is best described as “Animal House on the golf course.” At times as anarchic as the best Marx Brothers comedies, the film stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight and Bill Murray, as the always quotable assistant groundskeeper Carl Spackler. Murray fans who love his performance might not know that there was no written role in the script, and that Murray’s entire performance was improvised. I spoke with CC’s Mary Fessenden about the movies and the polling. Ithaca Times: I know the movies are selected by balloting, and sometimes

you and your friends. P Sciencenter: Lightapalooza! | 2:00 PM-, 6/14 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Watch local high school students demonstrate optical illusions, bending light, and making sound waves visible. Sciencenter Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 6/14 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Books Nina Miller | 6:00 PM-, 6/10 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Nina

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Ithaca || An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy, through 7/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing. www. museum.cornell.edu Yvonne Fisher | 7:00 AM- 8:00PM | Gimmee Coffee, 430 N Cayuga St, Ithca | Grand Doodles, exhibit of bold and vibrant drawings. Runs June 1 to June 30. Annie Eller exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca, | Intricate and illuminated drawings. Runs May 1 to June 30. Jen Fisher & Laura Sinclaire exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Exciting works

in ink, watercolor, and oil. Runs May 1 to June 30. Daniel McPheeters | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W State St. #2, Ithaca | Dreamscape: Landscape and Skyscapes Reimagined. Naomi Edmark exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Stella’s Cafe, 403 College Ave Ste B, Ithaca | Naomi will be showing her series of photos from May 11 to June 30. Tim Merrick |10:00AM - 5:00 PM | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Road #3, Ithaca | Disposito / Solo Exhibition of recent work from the proific artist. Kathy Armstrong | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | 171 E. State/MLK Jr. Street, Ithaca | Getting to Know You: One Artist’s first year Impression of the Finger Lakes Region. Runs June 5 to June 31.

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Cinemapolis, Sunday, June 14, 4:00 p.m.

Austin Bunn directs this short documentary about a notorious shooting that took place on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania in 1988. The lone survivor, Claudia Brenner, returns to the trail for the first time since the murder.

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Miller reading/signing from her novel The Mother of Invention. Ida Wolff | 2:00 PM-, 6/14 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses her book The Woman Who Forgot to Fall Aleep. TJ Turner | 5:00 PM-, 6/16 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his new novel Lincoln’s Bodyguard, which takes a look at a dystopian version of American history.

next year. Notorious received 82 votes and The African Queen, 81, so they became our second and third choices. The race for the fourth slot was neck-andneck among Badlands, Double Indemnity, and Caddyshack, with the latter edging out the other two by just one vote. IT: I always like it when I’ve seen all four movies. Do you have a particular favorite in this year’s quartet of films? MF: Oh, that’s a tough question. Notorious is one of my favorite Hitchcock films, so I’m partial to that one, but I love Bogart and Hepburn in The African Queen, and was a big fan of The Grand Budapest Hotel. I must admit, I’m not that familiar with Caddyshack, but I think it’ll be fun to see the young Bill Murray in such a classic ‘80s comedy. •

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you’re not able to get a particular title and there is some juggling. What were some of the titles that didn’t make the cut this summer? Mary Fessenden: We compiled a list of thirteen titles for patrons to vote on and seven of the titles received 70 votes or more from the 230 votes that were cast. The six that received fewer than 70 votes were Rope (44), King Kong (46), Shall We Dance (51), Moonstruck (53), Sunset Boulevard (63), and Top Hat (64). The two Wes Anderson titles polled really well: The Grand Budapest Hotel received the most votes with 87, and Moonrise Kingdom came in third with 80 votes, but we decided for the sake of variety to only show The Grand Budapest Hotel this summer and save Moonrise Kingdom for

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register now for the International High School Summer Debate Camp at Cornell U-Pick University from August 2-9, 2015. Join Organically Grown students from all over the world in learnBlueberries $1.60 Open days a week. Dawn-toing the lb. basics of 7argumentation and Dusk. Easy to pick high bush berries. debate, as well as advanced debating Tons of quality fruit! 3455 Chubb Hollow and public speaking skills. Ages 13-18, road Pen n Yan. no experiencerequired. http://sum607-368-7151 merdebatecamp.cornell.edu or email lb542@cornell.edu

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GARAGE SALES/245 Garage/Yard Sale at 6056 West Seneca Rd. Trumansburg; follow detour. Household goods, furniture, misc. No clothes. Sat. August 4th from 9:00-2:00. LARGE DOWNSIZING SALE. Something for Everyone. August 2 and August 3 8am-5pm, 2 Eagleshead Road, Ellis Hollow, Ithaca, NY 14850

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BARREL TABLE Four Swivel Chairs in RARE OPPORTUNITY Green leather. Vet nice condition. $275.00 Ithaca NY, Pepperidge Farm Cookie 564-3662 Route. $330,600. Financing available. Estimated HLT-15 35K down. Currently Homelite Classic weedGrossing whacker, new never used.Net $60.$83,460. Same $452,400 in sales. 216-2314 owner for 27 years. Serious inquiries RED MAX WEED WHACKER used very only. Brokers Protected Call 592-2969 little. $50.00 387-9327

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Friday, August 2, 2013 Now Hiring The Town of Lodi accepting applicaThe LogisCabin tions for the8811 position ofSt. Lodi Summer Main Recreation Director 7 Leaders. The Campbell, NY Recreation Director will be responsible 9:00pm - 1:00am for planning, organizing, a d directing all recreation activities such as arts and crafts, sports, entertainment, group jeffhowell.org games, Cool and field trips. Recreation LeadTunes Records ers will assist with supervision thorough active involvement with the children. The program plans to run from July 6, 2015 thru August 7, 2015 from 9am-Noon, Monday - Friday. Residents interested in one of the positions are encouraged LOST LOST Prescription to submit a letter of Sunglasses interest to Nancy Jones,7/22. Lodi Fossil Town Clerk, PObrown Box 403, around Frames, lens8440 Main Street, Lodi, NY 1460 es. Probably lost between Trumansburg

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and Ithaca. Mark Pine Hill Orchards, Colrain, MA. Need 2 temporary(607)227.9132 workers 6/15/2015 to 2/28/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period $11.26 pr hr. Applicants apply at Franklin/Hampshire Career Center One Arch Place. Greenfield, MA. 01301 1-413-774-4361 or apply for the job at $$$HELP WANTED$$$ the nearest local office of the SWA. Job Extra CD and cases orderIncome@ #5560826.Assembling Plant, cultivate harvest various crops. Use hand tools, from Home! as, but not limited to Call shovels, hoes, Nosuch Experience Necessary! our LIve pruning shears, saws, knives and ladOperators Now! ders. Duties mat include, but not limited 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 to tiling soil, apply fertilizer, thinning, http://www.easywork-greatpay.com pruning, apply pesticides, picking, cutting, cleaning,(AANCAN) sorting, processing, packing, and handling harvested products. May operate machinery andhere do repair AIRLINE CAREERS begin - Get work. Pressing Aviation cider on the farm. Work is FAA approved Maintenance usually performed outdoors, sometimes Technician training. Financial aid for under hot and cold conditions. workers qualified students - Housing are required to bend, lift, and available. carry up to Job assistance. Callrequire AIM off 50placement lbs regularly. Duties may ground heights up to 20 ft. using ladders. 866-296-7093 One month experience (NYSCAN)is required in work listed.

VIOLINS FORapplications SALE: European, old18, and is accepting until June new, reasonable prices, 607-277-1516. 2015 for the following positions: Light equipment Operator: Two positions Highway and Sanitation. Minimum Quals: Visit website for full requirements. Salary: For Sale $17.27/hour. Recreation Facility MainBOXER PUPPIES tenance Worker: Vacancy in the Ithaca Registered, Vet checked, 1st shots and Youth Bureau. Quals & Special wormed. Need Minimum loving home, very beautiful. Parents onVisit property. $450/obo. Requirement: website for full 607-657-8144 requirements. Salary: $16.28/hour. City of Ithaca Human Resources Department, 108 East Green Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 274-6538, www. cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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Route Driver needed for delivery of Cayuga Lake newspapers every Wednesday. Must be available Triathlon 9am-1pm, have reliable Sunday transportation, and 8/4/2013 a good driving record. The Cayuga Lake Triathlon will take Call 277-7000 place at Taughannock Falls State Park on Sunday, 8/4/13. Cyclists will be on NY89 Falls EARNfrom $500 Taughannock A DAY As Airbrush Art-State Park to Co. Rd. 139 in Sheldrake. There ist For: TV. Film. Fashion. HD. bewill be aAds. temporary detour on NY89 DigitalGorge 35% OFF - One Week tween RoadTUITION and Savercool Road form 7am to approximately 12pm Course Taught by top makeup artistwhile & the triathlon is in progress. Please conphotographer & Build Portfolio. alternate routes. Specsider choosingTrain tators areProvided. always welcome to A+ come enModels Accredited. Rated. joy the triathlon or register (818) to volunteer! AwardMakeupSchool.com For more details on the Cayuga980Lake 2119 (AAN CAN) visit: Triathlon. http:// www.ithacatriathlonclub.org/cltrace/.

Andre and Ulrika Groszyk Farm Scott Farm, Dummerston, VT needs Enfield. CT 3 temporary workers 6/15/2015 to

needs 3 temporary workers 8/5/13 to 12/ 11/30/2015. Worksupplies tools, supplies and 1/13, work tools, equipment provided without cost towithout worker.cost Housing equipment provided to will be available without cost to workers worker. Housing will be return available who cannot reasonably to without their permanent residence the end of the cost to workers whoat cannot reasonably work day. Transportation reimbursement return to their permanent at and subsistence is providedresidence upon completion of 15 days ro day. 50%Transportaof the work the end of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of reimbursement and subsistence is thetion workdays during the contract period. $10.91 per upon hr. Applicants to ofapply conprovided completion 15 days tact Ct Department of Labor at 860-263or 50% of the contract. Worklocal is 6020 or apply forwork the job at nearest office of the SWA. Job #4559149. guaranteed for 3/4 of order the workdays durMust be able to perform and have prior ing the contract period. $11.26 per culhour. experience i following duties: Plant, tivate and harvest tobacco. Applicants to applybroadleaf contact The BrattleUse hand tools such as but not limited to boro Resource Center at 802-254-4555. shovels, hoes, knives, hatchets and ladders. may but nearest are not local limOr Duties apply for theinclude job at the ited to applying fertilizer, transplanting, office of the SWA. Job order #294753 weeding, topping tobacco plants, applyingMay sucker control, cutting, hooking, perform any combination of tasks stripping, packing and handling harrelated to the planting, cultivating vested tobacco. May participate inand irrigation activities, repair farm buildings. processing of fruit crops including, but Must be able to climb and work at not limited to, driving, operating, adjusts heights up to 20 ft. in the tobacco barn forand the maintains purpose of farm machines, preparing hanging tobacco lath weighing up to 50lbs. 2 months experisoil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, ence required in duties listed. spraying, mowing, harvesting, grading

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physically demanding, requiring workers CHURCH CHOIR DIRECTOR FOR CHILDREN--The First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca is seeking a director for its Children’s (K--5th grade) Choirs. He or she will prepare students to sing in worship on a regular basis. Submit a resume of qualifications and experience and a list of three references electronically at office@firstpresithaca.org or by mail to Children’s Choir Director Search, First Presbyterian Church Ithaca, 315 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850

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AUCTION CAYUGA COUNTY & CITY OF AUBURN TAX FORECLOSED PROPERTIES Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 1:00 PM Registration at 11:30 AM

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living room by a pair of pocket doors. They and all the trim are made of chestnut that has been stained rather dark. Not enough to conceal its beautiful grain, but enough to make it better match the oak of the floors. The kitchen is set up efficiently with a counter that extends out from a wall with a pass-through opening. The counter includes the gas range and some work space. The cabinetry is oak with brass-finished botanical motif pulls. There is a built-in wine rack over one cabinet. There are four bedrooms on the second floor and the third floor is finished into one large room. There are two full baths, one on first and second floors and a beautiful screened porch. • There will be an open house on Saturday June 13 from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

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Black Cat Antiques

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273-3192

607-898-2048

LOCATED

4.7 miles

from GREENSTAR

This week at GreenStar we have 3, 772 local products...

like body care from Avital’s Apiaries www.greenstar.coop We deﬁne local as products or services that are produced or owned within 100 miles of Ithaca.

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