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ST BOCES is currently pursuing a 25 percent stake from Tompkins County in order to hire on a school resource officer at its campus in the Town of Ithaca, near Lansing.

Discussed since last Fall, the program – a collaboration between the school and the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office – would be funded at annual cost of approximately $95,619 for a period of three years, 75 percent of which would be funded by TST BOCES with the rest coming from county coffers. The announcement, Superintendent Jeff Matteson said in an interview, is not reactive – particularly following a recent rash of school shootings across the country that prompted much of the dialogue around SROs – but rather, a proactive move, instituted as a means to help improve the learning environment for a unique student body encompassing everybody from students learning trades to those with special needs.

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ince the paving over of Detroit’s Woodward Avenue in 1913, the road as-built for automobiles has been something the American public has often taken for granted.

Through weather-worn holes in the pavement to shrinking infrastructure budgets and the blight of sprawl without tax support, the nation’s highway superintendents have been grappling with the challenges of transport and the public’s tolerance for the better part of the century. That’s not to say they don’t need help, which is why last week, more than 1,000 superintendents, highway workers and state DOT bigwigs made their way to Ithaca in a tradition going back more than 70 years.

Since 1938, Cornell University’s Local Roads Program – an early offshoot of the school’s Civil Engineering Department – has held its Highway School right here in Ithaca. A DOT-accredited academy on local infrastructure, the event is an annual gathering of the people who keep New York moving, offering a week full of events to inform the new superintendents while offering the

latest updates and innovations in the world of road maintenance for the highway departments of 932 towns, 62 counties and 56 cities across the state. The event features anything highway departments cash-strapped or not could benefit from, offering everything from crash courses on proper snow plow maintenance to installing storm-proof culverts and the use of drones in highway repair. The week of sessions even offers clinics on legal issues (the most popular panels of the week) and managing a staff, especially under complicated and exhausting conditions.Some of the issues grappled with are more technical, “clean hands” issues, which can impact some poorer communities more than others.

“Many departments here are obviously dealing with the tax cap issue and dealing with limitations in budgets, but there are also new innovations up the pike in terms of equipment,” said David Orr, Director of the Cornell Local Roads Program. “The computer is still not a universal tool. About 20 to 25 percent of the folks here don’t have access to a computer at work. So we have to deal with

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▶▶ Trumansburg Porchfest. T’burg’s version of the local favorite festival comes this weekend, running on Saturday from 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.

A wide range of artists will be featured at various locations, stretching from “danceable accordion” to “funeral dirges” (seriously), so there’s a little something for everybody. Food

Attendees at Cornell' annual Highway School get a look at some of the cutting edge equipment on display last week at the conference, held at Ithaca College.

that reality.”

Budgets are particularly challenging, particularly in states like New York where increased sprawl – requiring more money for maintenance – and population loss – meaning less tax revenue – have compounded together, making for an impasse between sustaining unsustainable infrastructure and balancing budgets to account for what is necessary.

This challenge, Orr said, is often the aim of the program: answering the question of meeting the demands of the public while, at the same time, balancing the constraints of the budget.

“The biggest challenge in the future, I would say, is how to innovate with limited budgets,” said Orr. “Turnover is another major issue. The average career for a highway supervisor in New York State is only about six to eight years, so you always have new people where you need to figure out how to transfer institutional knowledge.”

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'Alienation' Removed From Parks Plan

“My sneaky, secret spot at Treman”

A small oasis of green space in Collegetown. (Photo: Casey Martin)

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ending countless emails, talking with college students and community members, and speaking up for her community, Ann Sullivan is tireless in advocating for the spaces she cares about. Her involvement in town government recently peaked when she learned that parks and green spaces in the city of Ithaca were being considered for alienation under its new parks plan, meaning that some parks within the city of Ithaca could

potentially be sold, leased, or discontinued as a park.

She, along with fellow parks advocate Sandra Green, both spoke out on the issue at a recent Parks and Recreation Commission meeting at City Hall on the evening on June 11.

Sullivan played a major role in the efforts to spread the word about alienation, and urged the City government to vote against any measures promoting it. She focused on emailing Mayor of

Ithaca, Svante Myrick, as well as Common Council members to voice her opinion on alienation and to dissuade them from potential action.

The commission voted against the parks alienation last week, and Sullivan left the meeting feeling relieved that alienation was not approved.

“I think my neighbors were very, very glad that the alienation section was taken out because some city counselors and some people said, ‘you know, it’s just a plan, it might never happen,’” she said. “But words matter, and the words of the document said that these parks should be considered for alienation.”

The Parks and Recreation Master Plan spans the next 15 to 20 years of planning for the parks, according to City Planner, Megan Wilson. The plan details the current condition of Ithaca parks, as well as how they are organized. Steps to be taken in the process of renovation or repair of any amenities within the parks, as well as the financial details around maintaining them, are also spelled out in the document.

With alienation no longer a part of that strategy, advocates like Sullivan can breathe a little easier over their future.

“The staff are now really aware of how important those parks

are,” said Sullivan. “The residents of the neighborhoods are not going to stop advocating for them and attending meetings… They stepped up, they visited the parks, and I think it’s really incumbent on us now in our neighborhood to continue to pressure and let people know how important those parks are to us.”

“The budget is the mission statement of the city, and right now the budget as the mission statement is saying that our green spaces and parks aren't very important,” she added. “That has to change.”

Sullivan’s activism within the city of Ithaca comes at a time where there is a lot of national focus on green living, and amending the effects of climate change.

Sullivan referenced the Trump administration’s lack of concern for environmental issues, and that is part of why she has been so active within her own community.

“We are so upset about what’s going on on a national level, and it’s hard to change that, but we can make a real change and affect things at our local level,” she said. “I can’t change the horrendous policy of the EPA and the National Parks system but I can advocate for public and green spaces in my hometown.”

–K athleen McAleese

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LACS Finds New Leader “Second Dam!” -Nico Howe. Max Chang and Prachi Runia

“Asia Cuisine!”

- Yuko Jingu

“The Johnson Museum at night!”

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"My 28 years at LACS have been an incredible experience for me,” said Carruthers in an email to The Ithaca Times. “This is a school where students and adults can thrive, a place where we can learn who we are and discover our full potential. I am humbled and grateful that I had the opportunity these last five years to serve as principal. My goal was to guide the school back on its path of democratic alternative education.”

“We are a very strong community and we have a very talented and committed staff,” she added.

“I feel confident that the school is ready for a new leadership.”

In a press release issued last month, the Ithaca City School District named Deborah Ptak as the fourth principal in LACS’ 13–19 ,

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(formerly Alternative Community School) history, succeeding longtime founding principal Dave Lehman, Joe Greenberg, and Carruthers.

Ptak is currently the principal of Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins University Partnership School in Baltimore, Maryland.

Her career in education spans over 25 years, and has been dedicated to promoting collaboration between students, faculty, and administration. Prior to 2003, she worked as a social worker and eventually an interim assistant principal at Canton Middle School, an expeditionary learning institution in Baltimore.

This experience, she said, has given Ptak valuable insight into non-traditional education for her role at LACS. “I think that oftentimes, unlike traditional public schools, alternative schools spend time really getting grounded in mission envision,” said Ptak in a phone interview with The Ithaca Times.“And I find that schools

“I think that oftentimes, unlike traditional public schools, alternative schools spend time really getting grounded in mission envision...”

-Deborah Ptak

that have a strong mission, and have a strong vision for what learning looks like, that the creativity just flows from there and oftentimes public schools don’t necessarily have the time, capacity, or freedom to develop a strong mission or vision.”

In 2003, Ptak moved to the Madison Metropolitan

School District in Madison, Wisconsin, where she served as assistant principal of Sennett Middle School until 2008, and as principal of Whitehorse Middle School from 2008 to 2016. At Whitehorse, Ptak significantly continued on page 10

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Plans For Press Bay Court Come Together

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reviously slated to open in early summer, the Press Bay Court development is now expected to be finished by the end of summer 2018.

The brainchild of John Guttridge, Press Bay Court is the sister project of Press Bay Alley, the small strip of micro-retailers Southwest of the Commons on the 100 block of W. Green St. Guttridge is the president of Brightworks Computer Consulting and co-partner of Urban Core LLC along with David Kuckuk.

Since 2014, Press Bay Alley has seen success, attracting attention for its melding of novel businesses and architecturally unique spaces. A niche by nature, Press Bay Alley is an unexpected nook of commercial space in a billowing downtown landscape.

Amongst its businesses are an apothecary, a circus school and Amuse: Modern Cottage Industry, a gift shop offering made in America handcrafts, all of which cater to specific consumer needs.

However, it is a space which remains unknown to many who may not regularly frequent Ithaca’s downtown, or explore beyond the Commons. With the opening of Press Bay Court, Guttridge hopes a multiplier effect will come into play as additional visibility draws more people to Green St. In contrast with larger developments, the work of Urban Core LLC may not readily present itself as contributing to the growth of Ithaca’s downtown. As Guttridge sees it however, “a healthy and vibrant community has a mixture of adaptive reuse, maintaining beautiful old things and replacing things that are not as beautiful that aren’t really serving the community purpose with things that are much larger and bringing more density.”

Working within the constraints of a pre-existing site, Guttridge has manifested Press Bay Alley as an effort in adaptive reuse. Rehabilitating the inactive spaces which were once occupied by the Ithaca Journal, Guttridge provided the circus school present there with a large open space and replaced the garage doors of the storage bays with glass to create storefronts averaging 350 square feet.

By investing in buildings which are appropriate within the

context of downtown’s overall historical makeup, albeit initially dilapidated, Guttridge has been able to offer tenants with low rental costs. Unlike developers who are building from the ground up, Guttridge is not subject to balancing high construction costs through higher rent. As a result, he has been able to provide his tenants with the opportunity to take risks and be creative in their business ideas.

Press Bay Alley has acted as an incubator for people to try new things, and while Guttridge did not expect all of the businesses to succeed, and forecasted that some would outgrow their spaces, he has seen many of the original tenants wholeheartedly embrace the size of their spaces. What’s more, the business owners seem to be anchored to the alley by the powerful sense of teamwork and camaraderie which has been fostered.

Whether it is a pop-up food stand bringing new customers to the alley, the convergence of business owners as they grab their morning coffee in Press Café, or a troupe of circus school students unicycling after class, Press Bay Alley is home to a flurry of constant and unexpected activity.

“As we’ve been contemplating our future and looking at what else we can do, we’d like to expand the energy we’ve created [in Press Bay Alley],” Guttridge said, referencing the supportive community which has flourished as a microcosm of downtown.

The development of Press Bay Court aims to do just that, utilizing the ideals of adaptive reuse to rehabilitate the current site of DP Dough along with the building which most recently housed McNeil Music. These buildings occupy 108-114 W. Green St. Press Bay Court will combine micro-retail spaces like those of Press Bay Alley with a few larger storefronts to create 8-10 new spaces for businesses (two of the spaces will be dividable and the tenants may choose the smaller or larger option). The court will be a pedestrian area, transformed from the current parking lot of DP Dough, and re-envisioned as a space for small gatherings including concerts or pop-ups like those which have been occurring in the alley. An off-the-street walkway will connect the court

A look at the future home of Press Bay Court. (Photo: Casey Martin)

and the alley, a bridge to carry the sense of community between the two plazas.

Four of five Race for the Space II finalists will be Press Bay Court tenants. Race for the Space II, a competition sponsored by Urban Core LLC and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA), offered finalists a combination of free rent and cash prizes. The winner of the competition, Halal Meat and Groceries will receive a year of free rent in the former site of McNeil Music. The other finalists which will open shop in the court are One Ring Donuts, Gee June Bridal Shop and Hair • Color • Art. DP Dough will move onto Green St., into the space next to Halal Meat and Groceries.

According to Gary Ferguson, director of the DIA, the proposed business plans of competitors were evaluated in terms of sustainability and finalists were chosen based on the businesses’ expected ability to remain viable by providing a service lacking from the downtown.

Guttridge describes his philosophy for choosing tenants to be driven by a desire to curate a mix of things which are delightful. “I really value interesting and new and creative and different and that’s something that I’ve tried to curate in the tenant mix, I don’t want something that’s just going to be another boring this and that you might find anywhere else.”

He admits a propensity to just saying yes, which explains his openness to pop-up stands.

Over the Ithaca Festival weekend, One Ring Donuts successfully hosted their first pop-up in Press Bay Alley. In anticipation of the opening of their shop, likely by the end of September if construction stays on track, One Ring Donuts will be giving Ithaca a taste of their potatobased donut recipe every Sunday throughout the summer, from 11

A.M. until supplies last.

One Ring Donuts emerged from the friendship of Amy Cohen and Kiera Carman.

Cohen, the founder and director of Circus Culture will handle the business side of things, while Carman is the mastermind behind the donut.

The donut comes in both gluten-full and gluten-free form.

The potatoes and wheat. along with several other ingredients that Carman’s recipe uses, are sourced locally.

The businesses name, One Ring Donuts, is a clever play on the obvious nature of donuts and the significance of the ring within the circus. According their website, “One Ring is a reference to the small, familial, and cozy one ring circuses that bring communities together to sit around the ring and experience something both connective and magical.”

For Cohen and Carman, the community which is maintained within the circus ring extends to the community they have found in the alley.

Cohen opened Circus Culture three years ago out of its current location in Press Bay Alley. The group of hardworking women business owners, who make up over half of the alley and future court’s proprietors, have inspired Cohen, and she feels that Guttridge has truly encouraged a network and space wherein the experimentation of business owners is possible.

“I’m just a huge believer in everyone doing what they do best in collaboration to create a greater sense of purpose – that’s why I love circus, that is why I love [Press Bay Alley]. It’s that each person is bringing something they are uniquely passionate about and putting it a context where people can share in the whole thing,” Cohen said.

With Cohen and Carman actively acting as liaisons between the court and the alley, Guttridge hopes to cultivate a similar relationship amongst the business owners in the court, despite a bigger space which may not naturally encourage the amplification of interactions that is found in the alley. The adaptive reuse of the buildings is only half of what makes the developments of Urban Core LLC so engaging.

What speaks even louder is the community which has lent itself to creating a welcoming sense of place on the 100 block of W. Green St.

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▶▶ Thumbs Up: To all the dads out there for Father’s Day. We hope you enjoy the one day when nobody can mock you for making adequate jokes and expertly grilling meats while wearing 25 year-old T-shirts.

But, behalf of your children, sorry for getting you socks and a power tool again. ▶▶ Thumbs Down: The Ithaca Times wants to send its condolences out to the family of Dorothy Cotton, who passed away this week at the age of 88. Cotton, a long-time Ithacan, was one of the unheralded figures in the civil rights movement, working alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while serving as education director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for 12 years starting in the 1960s. ▶▶ Heard & Seen The Ithaca Dimes basketball team flashed brilliance briefly at Dryden Dairy Day last weekend before eventually falling in its first two games and being eliminated from the playoffs. Another timely reminder, which we all could use, that sports are hard and people who write probably shouldn’t do them.

IF YOU CARE TO RESPOND to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.” ▶▶ Top Stories On Ithaca.com This Week Are...

1. Department of Labor announces investigation into religious group with Ithaca ties 2. Legendary LAX coach Frank Welch retires 3. Myrick breaks deadlock again, rejecting historic designation of The Nines 4. LACS names new leader 5. VE Fire Dept. No Longer Responding to Calls

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hen we were kids, I would creep out from bed to the living room couches. I would lie on one, and my father, another early riser, would lie on the other couch. As he read the Washington Post, he would pass me the pages. I couldn’t read yet, but I could search for his name (and his picture), and I would find his column. When I did, he would tell me the story in the column. If he stopped passing me pages, I would squinch down to the bottom of my couch and wiggle my feet against his feet to be sure he was awake. Pretty soon we’d be rushing around and all of us kids piling into the car for Sam, our dad, to drop us off at nursery school.

After Dad dropped us off, he taught a class at the university for students who wanted to become newspaper reporters like him. Then he would rush back to our old car, drive downtown to the Washington Post, and work there till pretty late at night.

Sam and my mother Sylvia led an exciting life; something was always going on in our little house. Now that I’m a grown up, I realize what good luck for my brothers and me that we were born into such a lively family. Our two first-born American parents grew up in poverty, yet led vibrant lives, earned high level positions, while filling our home with adventures and fun.

Sam eventually turned in his Washington Post pass to become a chief of staff for a crusad-

ing U.S Senator (who was the first senator to challenge Joe McCarthy; and who pushed to desegregate D.C. with passage of the Civil Rights Act). When Sam hired the first African American staff member in the Senate, we had Senator Case’s annual office parties in our basement, instead of in a fancy, segregated Washington hotel.

After 10 years working with the senator Sam revered, he was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the National Labor Relations Board.

There, Sam wrote many decisions later sustained by the Earl Warren Supreme Court. Next came a Ford Foundation program to assist mayors all over the U.S. to negotiate peaceably with public unions. President Jimmy Carter appointed Sam to serve on the Consumer Product Safety Board.

Instead of retiring, Sam returned to the Washington Post (33 years after he had left) to serve as Ombudsman. When Sam’s term as Ombudsman at the Post was completed he and Sylvia, our mother, went around the world visiting ombudsman along the way. They returned a year later with the makings of a book on solving disputes without lawyers, The Ombudsman.

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here’s a lot to say about the life and death of Anthony Bourdain, and the media are covering his legacy pretty thoroughly.

Generally, mass and social media will give you as much as you can handle about celebrity deaths.

So there’s no need for that here, but there are a lot of members of Bourdain’s tribe – kitchen workers – in Ithaca (accurately or not, people claim that Ithaca has more restaurants per capita than any city its size), and there’s a lot to say about them, too.

Bourdain put forth a vision of kitchen workers as outliers, even outcasts. The portrayal was considered romantic, while actually it was simply real.

There’s an aspect of romance and luxury to restaurants, of course; it’s part of what they sell. Even simple places offer the indulgence of being waited on.

But behind whatever glamour and seeming ease of service, for workers every order is a deadline, with a duration of mere minutes, demanding perfection, or at least no mistakes.

Meeting such demands takes a lot of skill and endurance. It requires cunning and sometimes even trickery. This is the crux Bourdain described, which every restaurant worker knows: where legitimacy meets deviance.

Here’s a point of reference. I once got roped into playing a board game (I don’t like them) on vacation with two dear friends (thus my acquiescence), where

you’re asked a question and the other players guess your answer. The player with most correct guesses wins.

I was asked a question with a restaurant scenario. It said: You’re a waiter serving a party of four. The four meals are prepared and ready to serve. But one entree, a veal chop, slides off its plate and onto the floor. It will take ten minutes to prepare another. What do you do?

Do you go to the party of four with the three prepared meals, and explain what happened to the fourth, and apologize and assure them you’ll have the replacement in about ten minutes?

Or do you pick up the veal chop, rinse it off, microwave it hot again, and serve it, so the group can eat together?

I waited for my friends to write down their guesses. Then I answered: “Well, this is an easy one. You pick it up and serve it.”

“Oh, come on!” my friends yelled, throwing down their pads.

“If you don’t want to play, don’t play,” one said. “But don’t ruin the game by giving fake answers.”

I was utterly puzzled. “What do you mean?” I asked.

“There is no way you would ever do that scuzzy thing,” the other said.

I had known these two a long time. I knew their job histories. I quickly understood what was wrong.

“Hold on,” I said. “Here’s the thing.

I just realized, neither of you has ever continued on page 7

YOUR LETTERS Praise for Common Council and Mayor Myrick.

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nce Common Council reaches the point where they actually debate and vote on an issue, interested parties are no longer allowed to speak. So it's typical to fear that some important aspect of the issue at hand will have been missed or misunderstood by the Council members, and that there might be no chance for correction or amplification.

That was not the case on June 6.That night, Council debated landmark designation of the Nines restaurant in Collegetown for almost an hour in a debate that I found impressively well informed, highly articulate, and completely free of undue emotion or rancor. It was a real debate. Some Council members had come to a decision and argued in defense of their positions. Others had

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not come to a decision, but provided an equally informative argument as to why a decision had eluded them. And still others made it clear that the arguments being presented right there before us were going to be of the utmost importance in making up their minds.

The Mayor moderated the debate with neutrality and ease but towards the end provided his own opinion in a statement that summed things up in a way that was so nuanced that it really did not preclude either conclusion. Instead, it painted a picture of the effect he thought the vote would have on the 'story' of the Nines.

All agreed that this was not an easy question. Nothing was missed or misunderstood. By the end of Common Council's debate I sat in the audience with the satisfaction of knowing that I had no part to play in this. There was nothing more to say, and I honestly felt that no matter how the vote turned out continued on page 7

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worked in a restaurant.”

Now they were puzzled: “So what?”

“I have,” I said. Not for very long, but long enough to know some things.

“There is no restaurant in the world that would do that other thing,” I said.

“Those customers have to be served together or there’s no tip. Something fell on the floor, big deal. It’s not like it fell in a toilet.” I paused. “That might be a tossup.” (I didn’t really mean that last, but figured I’d get their attention.)

“If the idea of being served food that was dropped on the floor and washed off bothers you, believe me, you should never eat in a restaurant again,” I said.

“They do a lot worse than that.”

They looked like it would bother them. They saw I was completely sincere.

This is an example of deviance in the face of legitimacy. Restaurant customers want perfection, so that’s what the house presents, except it isn’t real.

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housing their home was frequently the way station for Danish friends from their Fulbright years. After Denmark Sam was nominated for a “temporary” position in a Florida university in the journalism department. And for the next seven years Sam served as a sabbatic replacement, while the university searched for the right candidate.

Heading next to North Carolina, to live near one of my brothers, Sam was offered a faculty position in Wake Forest’s Business-Law School. Surprising, since Sam was neither a lawyer nor a businessman. He created a class so college students and those already employed could learn mediation and arbitration skills. Lots of role playing led to a long waiting list! Sam was the longest practicing federal arbitrator in the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service until his mid-90’s, when he finally settled down and retired.

I could accept it comfortably. All of the parties involved had been well represented by Common Council.

The actual tie vote by the Council members was one of the most dramatic I have ever seen, the tiebreak by the Mayor was so swift as to be somewhat stunning, and with the debate that preceded it, it added up to one of the most exciting hours I've ever spent in an audience. It was democracy at work, and worthy of theater.

–Ken Vineberg

An Alternative Take

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ayor Svante Myrick is a man with a mission. He's in a race to rack up as many deals he can as mayor to propel his career forward out of Ithaca. I

of workers. But this is not palatable to the public, who wish only to be fawned upon and dazzled.

That’s their right, any restaurant worker will say. But sometimes you have to cut corners.

You can’t cheat the honest, only the crass. The honest know what’s going on, and the nature of the work, and understand. The crass don’t, and must be served, but in some way will be held off, if not up. Restaurant workers are imaginative, and do what they have to do.

No matter what they do, the work takes its toll. But it also makes bonds.

Food workers are different. In the days since Bourdain’s death I’ve been asking people I know whether they ever worked in a kitchen. Usually I can tell.

Kitchen workers k now from the dropped veal chop, guile in the face of disaster, laughter in a plane of pretense.

They know that everything’s performance, and ultimately everything is trayf.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Shortly after Sam died, one week short of his 99th birthday, we received a call that Sam was being honored for his lifetime of articles published in the Washington Post. No matter where Sam worked or travelled he continued to publish articles in the Washington Post. Our favorites were hilarious ones, although many other articles were visionary, describing solutions for societal problems we had not begun to even think about. Quite a few were about Ithaca!

This Father’s Day we’ll be standing in for Sam at his award acceptance speech and thinking what lucky kids we were to have parents who threw themselves into Life with such enthusiasm and energy, and always stuck up for the underdog.

We count our blessings to live in a community with fine newspapers, and community members who support families who come to America to make good lives.

Marjorie Olds is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. don't have any reason to believe he's pocketed a single cent from all the big deals he's midwifed as mayor, but it's a score sheet he can take with him after the town is transformed beyond recognition. Although he talks the progressive talk, he walks the real estate developer’s walk. Little of the construction clogging our streets and ruining the character of beloved neighborhoods translates to anything of value to ordinary residents.

To learn he "broke" the vote to destroy the historic "Nines" building beloved of so many generations of Cornellians is not the worst of his offenses, but it is in character with his blind adulation of developers who demolish and build for a profit. What's the art behind all this deal-making?

Maybe Trump isn't the only public official who needs to be impeached.

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–PJ Lee

Backing Della Pia

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ike a lot of Democrats, after the November 2016 elections I was having a hard time figuring out what I could do. My first “action” was attending a demonstration at Tom Reed’s Ithaca office. There were a bunch of people who looked like me and two older gentlemen who looked different—they were holding a Trump sign.

Demonstrators were frantically trying to convince the older gentlemen of the wrongness of their thinking. The gentlemen were egging the demonstrators on. They were from rural communities and one was a town supervisor. They had been friends with Tom Reed for years.

Several “actions” later, I attended a Tom Reed town hall. After Reed finished talking, Max Della Pia announced he was running as a Democrat for Tom Reed’s seat. I decided to volunteer for Max Della Pia for one reason. It’s because of those two Reed supporters—older gentlemen who live between here and the other end of our Congressional district way over in Chautauqua County.

On June 26, we will elect a Democrat to run against Tom Reed. Whoever wins the June 26 primary will need to flip voters who supported Reed and Trump in 2016. When Max knocks on doors in the Republican parts of our district—or stops by diners to talk with local folks—he introduces himself: “I’m Max Della Pia and I’m a Democrat running for Congress.”

Often the response is someone turning their back or saying they won’t talk to a Democrat.

Max’s response: “Hey, I served our country for thirty years in the Air Force and you owe it to me to listen.” This starts a conversation—and in some cases flips a vote.

Although it is crucial that every Democrat come out in November, we will not win the NY23 House election with only Democratic votes. Simply put, Max Della Pia has the background and personality that opens doors to starting a conversation with the rural gentlemen who came out to show their support for Tom Reed. Max may not flip Reed’s long-time friends, but some independents and conservatives will consider a candidate like Max Della Pia. Similar to the other Democratic primary candidates, Max is for single-payer health care, investment in renewable energy, and other Democratic policies. But Max is unique not only in his military service, but also in the fact that he was a staff member on the Hill. Most unique about Max is his humble demeanor, integrity, and commitment to service before self---and most important to winning back the House--his ability to relate to all constituents in our largely rural district.

Please join me in voting for Max Della Pia in the June 26 primary, the most qualified candidate and the one with the best chance of beating Tom Reed. If you are going to be out of town, you can still get an absentee ballot before June 19. http://www.elections.ny.gov/VotingDeadlines.html www.VoteMaxDellaPia.com

-Marianne Krasny is an Ithaca resident volunteering for the Max Della Pia campaign.

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The state Assembly swept through over 100 pieces of legislation this week.

That included a bill to add opioid addiction to the list of conditions able to be treated under the state medical marijuana program. Assemblywoman Lifton was a cosponsor on the bill.

Tom O’Mara- N.Y. State Senate 58th District The real drama in the New York statehouse was in the Senate this week where Democrats attempted to mount a usurping of the Republican controlled floor by having Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul preside over an evenly split, 31-31, chamber. Monday, prior to Hochul’s arrival saw over 100 bipartisan bills fly through the chamber, but Tuesday became a much more complicated gambit. Hochul took charge of the Senate dais as Republicans maintained control over the floor and ultimately forced through an override of the Governor’s veto for full-day kindergarten funding. Later on Democrats attempted to call up two “hostile amendments”unlikely to receive Republican support- on abortion rights and contraceptives. But instead of Republicans voted for the amendments in order to maintain control over the process as they proceeded to cancel all planned Senate votes for Wednesday.

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday passed a bill by Cattaraugus County Senator Catharine Young as the Republicans’ answer to the controversial Child Victims Act, which extends statutes of limitations on child sex abuse and similar crimes. Young’s bill creates a financial restitution fund for child sex abuse survivors.

Tom Reed- U.S. House of Representatives N.Y. 23rd Congressional District Congress returned to the House this week still without an immigration plan. Republicans met Thursday morning for a two-hour meeting to discuss the way forward after moderates in their party launched a rare discharge petition to effectively force a procedure to vote on a set of immigration proposals. Rep. Reed, alongside Democrat and Problem Solvers Caucus cochairman Josh Gottenheimer, signed onto the petition prior to leaving for Memorial Day. As of Monday, the discharge petition was still three signatures short of the 218 needed to initiate the immigration vote before June 25th. Republicans Jeff Denham and Carlos Curbelo who wrote the petition have indicated that they will likely get to 218 and force the procedure to take place at the next possible opportunity, according to House rules, on July 23rd Kirsten Gillibrand & Charles SchumerU.S. Senate The Senate continues to trudge through nominations and routine business as the Washington begins to enter its hot and humid summer. Political posturing is beginning over the August recess which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced has been cancelled as of last week. Senator Schumer seemed to agree with McConnell that the Senate should remain in session to continue passing nominations and appropriations plans instead of returning home to campaign ahead of midterm elections. Despite the statements on both sides, little evidence has come forward that the Senate actually plans to remain in full session over the break, meaning the moves are likely a game of optics.

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A Fired Teacher, Serious Allegations And A Peculiar Timeline The Allegations Behind The Firing Of A Popular New Roots Music Teacher

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Ferreira was initially placed on administrative leave on March 30 after allegations that he groped a student emerged and the Ithaca Police Department initiated an investigation into his conduct. The student, who is a minor but no longer attends New Roots, denied the incident to the police and in a subsequent interview with the Ithaca Times, and her denials were corroborated by her parents. The incident seemed over, though Ferreira remained on leave.

The actual lawsuit Ferreira filed, an Article 78 petition asking for an immediate end to his suspension followed by his reinstatement, deals with whether or not New Roots followed proper procedure in putting him on administrative leave and subsequently terminating him after it received a report that he had touched a student inappropriately. Ferreira’s team calls the firing a “bad faith” move fueled by an “arbitrary and capricious” investigation; New Roots, on the other hand, says the investigation and the actions that followed were a responsible reaction to troubling accusations against Ferreira. But a trove of documents attached as evidence to each side’s filings provide a window into how Ferreira’s situation devolved so quickly from popular teacher leading a proud music program to jobless and accused of sexual misconduct.

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pornographic images, to a former student, offering alcohol to a former student who was underage, engaging in non-consensual inappropriate physical contact with a former student, lying on his resume and lying about making disciplinary referrals. Ferreira denies each allegation separately.

The latter two charges levied against Ferreira by the school carry significantly less weight than the previous three; there seems to be some confusion about whether Ferreira actually finished music school or not and on what dates. But the disciplinary referrals charge actually signals the beginning of the current saga: in mid-March Ferreira claimed he had reported harassment incidents between two students but was angry when nothing was done, leading him to confront school staff members over the inaction (the school claims Ferreira never made the reports).

Ferreira and his lawyer say tension over that incident led to the investigation into his background, even after an initial allegation of misconduct was denied by Ferreira and the alleged victim.

“It is apparent that the resulting investigation was motivated by retaliatory animus and served no legitimate purpose [other] that to harm Mr. Ferreira and his reputation,” Ferreira’s petition reads.

In the wake of the IPD investigation into the original harassment situation between the two students, and without any specific explanation, Nilsen-Hodges said IPD turned its attention to Ferreira. They advised her that Ferreira had exhibited signs of “grooming behavior,” and that the school should conduct their own investigation into his behavior with students.

On March 30, the same day he was placed on leave, Nilsen-Hodges said she took the rather atypical step of reaching out to Ithaca lawyer Aaron Pichel to conduct an investigation into Ferreira’s background and the misconduct allegations, after the advice from IPD and the reports of violations. She said she hired Pichel 13–19 ,

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due to Ferreira’s “history of attacking my credibility and Dean [Jhakeem] Haltom’s, and his claims that we were inexplicably persecuting him.” The five justifications for termination are mostly based on discoveries Pichel claims he made during his investigation.

Before being placed on leave, Ferreira was still allowed to lead a March 24 New Roots Rock Band performance at the Finger Lakes Thaw Festival, despite the report of misconduct that had been made to the school on March 19, and NilsenHodges’ report of “alleged sexual touching” regarding Ferreira to the New York Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment on March 23. NilsenHodges said she personally supervised the event “to ensure student safety and verify parental involvement.” He was not placed on leave until March 30, the last day of the school’s spring break; Nilsen-Hodges said the delay was to minimize disruption for students to whom Ferreira was close (and that he was not teaching over spring break), and she contracted Pichel the same day to initiate the investigation.

Pichel gave Nilsen-Hodges his final report on April 28 and two days later, Ferreira was fired.

While police are also involved and an investigation has been initiated, IPD has remained largely mum on the case since that time and continue to do so. They did not respond to a request for comment, yet Ferreira’s attorney has said they have not yet attempted to interview Ferreira at all in relation to the case. Meanwhile, the original allegation of groping is not mentioned as a termination justification, replaced by a different incident involving inappropriate contact with a former student and a roommate, indicating the school found the report to be not credible. The investigation into Ferreira, it seems, has pivoted elsewhere.

Responding to a Freedom of Information Law request from the Ithaca Times

for a police report regarding the investigation, IPD stated the record was part of an ongoing investigation and could not be released. After that decision was appealed to Mayor Svante Myrick, he responded with the following on May 16: “Ithaca Police Department staff have informed me that the record responsive to this request is related to a broader criminal investigation, and for that reason, the City continues to withhold as its disclosure would interfere with the ongoing investigations.”

Additionally, District Attorney Matthew Van Houten also responded that so far, his office was not considering taking any action, though did not rule it out completely.

“To this point the investigation did not reveal evidence of any violations of the law by Mr. Ferreira,” Van Houten said in a statement.

The “broader criminal investigation” referenced by the Mayor and IPD appears to stem from an incident possibly involving Ferreira that occurred over Facebook chat with a former student on March 27, when he had not yet been placed on leave. In addition to the following account, Nilsen-Hodges’ affidavit states that since Ferreira was fired, “The school has received at least one more report regarding related conduct. We are in the process of investigating these allegations to ensure optimal support for the young people impacted.”

Raven Goyette, a former New Roots student, received a message from Ferreira’s profile that appeared innocuous enough.

The conversation continues for a bit, with the two exchanging fairly typical messages between two people catching up, though perhaps unconventional for a teacher and former student. After a while, though, the conversation takes a turn, beginning with a message from Ferreira’s account. Screenshots of the exchange were obtained during Pichel’s investigation, and have been

As Goyette and Ferreira's conversation continues, it quickly turns from catching up to inappropriate mentions of dating and then explicit photos of an anime character.

Ferreira would later claim he had no knowledge of these messages

Later, Goyette's boyfriend confronts Ferreira, but the initial response indicates Ferreira's not typing on the other end. The next morning, messages from Ferreira's account claim he was hacked.

provided to the Ithaca Times.

“We should talk more often~ if I wasn’t so old and it wasn’t so creepy I would date you in a heartbeat!! Well...if you weren’t a Minor lol [smiley emoji],” the message said. “You’ve always acted a lot more mature [than] your age.”

Goyette, who was not actually a minor when she received the messages, shrugs off the comment, and the conversation moves to discussing anime cosplay characters, before taking a more severe turn. A set of four pictures of what appears to be animestyled pornography (a Japanese style of animation) is sent from Ferreira’s account to Goyette, accompanied with a message that “Although you’d probably get [kicked] out if you showed up naked [three smiley emojis].”

Goyette responds by saying the pictures make her “pretty uncomfortable.” That’s followed by Ferreira apologizing, to which Goyette does not respond. Goyette’s boyfriend confronted Ferreira later that night, also via Facebook, with screenshots of the conversation and asking if it’s actually Ferreira who sent the messages.

“It’s not~but I’m going to make you guess who [three smiley emojis],” the account responds.

The next morning, Ferreira’s account re-messages the boyfriend, saying his account was “compromised” and that the incident was horrible. He apologizes profusely, and said similar messages were sent to other people. Ferreira updated his Facebook the same day with a similar sentiment, saying he had changed his password and apologizing for “any odd messages from my account.” Goyette, in an interview, said that she believes Ferreira’s excuse, and has said so to police and Pichel, though Pichel’s notes do not reflect this.

She did, though, describe the incident to her therapist, who then contacted New Roots on April 5, triggering IPD’s involvement.

That incident seems to be the crux of the school’s argument for termination, despite Ferreira’s insistence that the messages were not sent by him and Goyette’s acceptance of that explanation.

Another batch of the allegations resulted from Ferreira’s admittedly ill-advised decision to invite two students who were graduating from New Roots to live with him, Carolynne Dietz and Katherine Honness, who Pichel also interviewed.

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that while the first few days of the living arrangement went well, he soon became verbally abusive, instituted a rule that the women had to shower with the door open, and that he insisted on walking around the apartment nude. Additionally, Honness said she was sexually harassed by Ferreira while living there, in the form of grabbing or slapping her buttocks on several occasions.

Dietz and Honness, who are both younger than 21, also said Ferreira offered them beer and marijuana (therein lies the school’s charge of offering alcohol to an underage former student). Many of Ferreira’s defenses against all of the different charges in this case come with an air of incredulity, and his response to these is no different: Ferreira claims he rarely drinks and never smokes weed, while essentially calling the rest of the claims outright lies, defenses that are all corroborated by his current roommate, also a woman.

Ferreira, other than the counterarguments already mentioned, insists the school accessed his computer or his iCloud account, enabling them to monitor his text messages Ferreira exchanged with parents and students as he reacted to his dismissal (the school vehemently denies this). Ferreira hints that whoever sent the messages to Goyette was also looking to smear him by establishing a pattern along with the initial, false allegation of groping a student, though he does not seem to accuse anyone specifically. One inconsistency, though, is that Ferreira did not appear to be on school property the day he says he was hacked, so someone would have had to access his profile, not just his computer. He also notes it is “curious” Jhakeem Haltom has not submitted an affidavit in the case despite his apparently key involvement.

Even considering the severity of the allegations against him, certain parts of the New Roots community have rallied to Ferreira’s defense, the vast majority of which are connected to the music program in which he was integral. Parents and former students have sent over a dozen emails to the Ithaca Times in support of Ferreira since word of his leave first spread, and a small sit-in and accompanying protest was held inside and out front of the school.

A GoFundMe page has been established to assist with his legal fees as well. There is no timeline for his petition to navigate the courts, even as New Roots contests its original validity since Ferreira was not a full-time employee.

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ment and police services to the school, making appropriate referrals to juvenile authorities and other government agencies, preventing juvenile delinquency through “close contact and positive relationships with students,” and maintaining close relationships with school administration and the community, occasionally assisting school administration in emergency crisis planning and regular security planning, even potentially assisting with curriculum and instruction for the BOCES Criminal Justice program.

The SRO would count as an additional position for the sheriff ’s office and, when not being utilized as the SRO for TST BOCES, will be retained for regular Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office duties.

The announcement, Undersheriff Brian Robeson said last week, ties in with a growing effort by the New York State Police and the New York State Sheriff ’s Association to revive funding for school resource officer programs within school districts which, post-recession, saw substantial drops in funding. BOCES, in particular, is an ideal lab for a local program, especially give the campus has accounted for roughly 160 calls to police over the past 1.5 years – nearly one call for law enforcement every two school days. While the campus currently has a number of teacher’s aides in place to assist with some of the needs and challenges presented by certain students, Matteson said oftentimes extra assistance on-campus is needed.

“We have a different kind of student up here on campus – some challenging students who can be flight risks, students who may be disruptive,” said Matteson. “We have a program in place up here and though we put a lot of supports around that program, there are still times situations go beyond what we can handle, whether with some sort of legal offense or an investigation that needs doing, even just dealing with flat-out disruptions that require us to call for assistance.”

But the program, Matteson said, could also have some benefits within BOCES as a learning environment. Relying on numerous police services to answer calls, Matteson said the face of law enforcement within the school – which should be a therapeutic environment – is often inconsistent, potentially creating negative dissonance between law enforcement and the kids they’re trying to help.

“With our plan, the person would be here on campus and would be able to respond

immediately,” Matteson said. “We really want to see the relationship build with the students.

We could see them being able to de-escalate a situation quicker when it’s with someone they’re familiar with. It’s like with our administrators – the best gift you can give a district is longevity – and that’s what we’re looking for: for someone to build a relationship with students and respond to issues outside the educational realm.”

This is a model that has been successful in partner school districts like South Seneca, the only one of TST BOCES’ partner districts with an SRO on campus, that has supported a program in conjunction with the Interlaken Police Department for the past three years.

Stephen Zielinski, superintendent there for the past five years, has said the SRO there is responsible for everything from spending time in each of the district’s two buildings and is even expected to have a presence at things like school sporting events, where they can better interact with the greater school community. He said they’re careful to de-emphasize their officers as “police in-residence,” instead focusing on bettering sensitive situations in schools before they compound into problems requiring outside police presence.

“The emphasis is on education and relationship building,” Zielinski said. “The officers (they have two working on a rotating basis) get to know our kids and guest speak in classes, they answer questions from students.

But it’s mostly about presence, being around in the hallway and getting to know students and establishing positive relationships with local law enforcement, building a level of comfort where we’re not anxious or fearful around the police.”

Though all the partner districts have agreed to authorize their 75 percent share of the funding, Tompkins County was reluctant to provide a rubber stamp right away. A representative from BOCES will be at the next meeting of the county’s Public Safety Committee and, if approved there, the funding request will move on to the full legislature for a vote. Some discussions remain – County Legislator Shawna Black suggested the possibility of looking into adding social workers instead of police officers to address disciplinary issues – and, if funding is secured, an applicant likely coming from within the sheriff ’s office and will be given specific SRO training before starting.

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improved the school’s academic performance, unity, and learning atmosphere.

Ptak applied for LACS’ principal opening when her wife, La Jerne Terry Cornish, received and later accepted an offer to become Ithaca College’s new provost for academic affairs.

Ptak was attracted to the school because of its emphasis on students having control over their own education. “[W]hat really stands out to me about the Lehman Alternative Community School is the focus on student agency, and on integrated units and collaboration and consultation,” she said. “There’s just so much power in giving students the freedom to determine how they want to learn and what they want to learn, and having teachers embrace the concept of being facilitators and facilitated leaders in the classroom side-by-side with kids.”

Ptak, who also has training in professional development facilitation and systems improvement, says her background as a social worker provides her with an empathetic ear and strong facilitation skills for her work as a principal.

“I don’t shy away from conflict, or difference, or strife—I see all of those as an opportunity for growth,” she said.

These skills will be put to use not only in everyday occurrences at LACS, but in more complex issues. A concern in recent years among LACS students and community that Ptak will face is a lack of racial diversity and inclusion. To deal with this, she has a two-step approach.

“I think you really start as a new leader by listening with an empathetic and non-judgemental ear,” said Ptak, adding that she plans to conference with those that feel excluded and identify the root of the concern.

Ptak says her next step would be to identify and then strengthen areas of growth within the organizational system, as well as structure safe spaces for critical and deep dialogue for those that feel disenfranchised.

“It’s all about trust, and creating an environment where everyone is assuming positive intentions, but not apprehensive to roll up their sleeves and stumble a bit,” she said.

“It’s a delicate balance to create courageous conversation—especially around diversity and inclusion—because to really have those honest conversations you have be willing to embrace fear and feel fear, and push past it and push through it. But you can’t do that unless you have created a trusting and safe environment.”

Ptak recognizes the limits of her familiarity with LACS, and is conscious of the fact that she is an outsider to the community. Thus, she has not formed an agenda to implement upon her arrival, and instead plans to build on upon the school’s pre-existing strengths. “I would want to hear if there are already areas identified that they want to enhance, or want to tweak,” she said.

However, Ptak does hope to encourage community involvement in the student body. “One thing I would really like to do is see some really active and strong meaningful partnerships between the school and the opportunities that students have to engage in meaningful projects that give back to the community in some way,” she said.

In the months leading up to her arrival at LACS, Ptak is looking forward to engaging in the educational atmosphere that members of the school exhibited during her interview process. “[I]t was just so clear that there’s such a strong passion not only for kids, but for creative learning, and embracing the power of democracy…” she said. “I’m really excited to be part of a learning community like that.”

Carruthers shares this optimism for her successor. “Deborah Ptak will bring the skills and experiences in her leadership that will guide this community in its next era of growth,” she said.

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Lance Salisbury, the author of the local resolution who serves as Supervising Attorney of the County’s Assigned Counsel Office and teaches as an adjunct professor of law at Cornell University, said the assigned counsel office currently operates with approximately According to New York State County Law, 50 attorneys ready to receive cases paid for by attorneys funded by the state are aid accordNew York State – a roster he says has endured ing to a fee schedule dictating an hourly substantial turnover. rate of pay for attorneys around felonies and The program, Salisbury said, has lost misdemeanor cases, as well as work perseveral experienced attorneys in recent years, formed outside of court. Since 2004, lawyers either to to larger firms with benefits or into the public sector, and, despite creating no discernible hold-ups in the efficiency of the local court system, Salisbury said the lack of experience in the office can be detrimental in more subtle ways.

“It’s an ongoing problem,” said Salisbury. “The assigned counsel rates are an increasing problem for our program.

Most of the attorneys are -Lance Salisbury either solo practitioners or in small firms, and it gets increasingly difficult for them to sustain their practices while taking on these assignments.”

If left unaddressed, Salisbury said, the fiscal issue for attorneys can make the prospect of assigned to represent the unrepresented in accepting assigned counsel-serviced cases court have been paid the same wage: $60 an unfeasible for most attorneys. Newer attorhour for misdemeanors and $75 per hour for neys, he said, can find it hard to sustain a new felonies, with a cap in any one case of $2,000 for misdemeanors and $4,400 for felonies – all funded by New York State. If cases go over that, more commonly in the case of felonies that go to trial, judges can waive that cap based on arguments from the attorneys.

However, the bar association argues this rate of pay – the first and only raise the rates have seen since 2000 – are not enough to stock the justice system with quality attorneys.

Legislators Back Pay Raise For Public Defenders

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ithout much objection last Tuesday, the County Legislature’s Public Safety Committee gave its support for a draft piece of legislation to seal a higher, more competitive rate of pay for publiclyfunded attorneys statewide.

The resolution supports a recently released, four-piece set of recommendations from the New York State Bar Association outlining numerous issues with New York State law around compensation for publicly provided legal representation.

According to the bar association, lagging pay for these attorneys has led to a lack of interest among quality lawyers for taking on assignments as public defenders and, in some areas of the state, have been tied to a lack of expediency in the justice system. The recommendations include: Enacting legislation to increase assigned counsel rates of pay.

Raising the rates of compensation to be comparable to the percentage increase of judicial and elected district attorney salaries, which are often measured by the rate of inflation.

Ensuring the legislation enacted provides for an annual review and adjustment of wages as-needed under a formula similar to that used by the Federal Criminal Justice Act. Guaranteeing the increase in rates be a state expense, not resulting in another unfunded mandate from the state.

“You can’t sustain mandated representation at these levels...”

practice taking on this work, especially when most attorneys charge hourly rates between $200 and $300 an hour – significantly higher than the rates outlined by the state. For cases like DWI defenses – which can net a law firm $3,500 to $5,000 – accepting a case capped at $2,000 is very clearly leaving money on the table while still demanding the same amount of work from a law firm’s associates, which can make sustaining a practice a difficult exercise.

Salisbury said this clear lack of incentive could, eventually, lead to more and more attorneys refusing to take on assignments, leading to increased costs for counties from jails overcrowded with people awaiting trial or on remaining on programs from the Department of Social Services for a longer duration while legal disputes are settled.

“It’s coming down the pike,” Salisbury said.

“You can’t sustain mandated representation at these levels… it’ll throw mud in the system, and create other costs for counties.”

The resolution, passed unanimously by the committee, will now go on to the full legislature, after which it will back the efforts of draft legislation expected to be approved by the bar association introduced into the state legislature sometime in the future. It is unclear whether or not the bar association has secured early sponsors for the bill, nor is it clear what the statewide cost for the increase would be.

“If this passes the bar, they can help set the parameters for the discussion,” Salisbury said.

“If it’s a stateborne cost and not an unfunded mandate, that’s going to be huge.”

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eryone knew that he would go on to do great things after graduation. His father, Jerome “Brud” Holland, was the first African-American to suit up for the Cornell football team, and later, the first African-American to sit on the board of the American Stock Exchange.

One of thirteen children, he went on to a very distinguished career as a university president and a diplomat, serving as president at Delaware State College and at the Hampton Institute. He was also appointed by President

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lthough I cannot lay claim to the title of “alumnus,” I always enjoy reunion weekend at Cornell. Having spent a decade as an employee of Cornell Athletics, and having written about Big Red teams for so many years, I enjoy catching up with alums.

I was pleased to see Joe Holland at this year’s reunion, as he stopped by the bookstore to see his longtime friend, Richie Moran. Joe was at Cornell for his 40-year reunion, and he said he was honored to be the keynote speaker for the Cornell Black Alumni Association’s gathering.

Joe laughed when I suggested that he looks like he could step out onto the football field and break a long run. I told him that maybe he couldn’t carry the ball for four quarters, like he did in his playing days, but he’s clearly in shape. He said, “There’s not an insurance company in the world that would be on board with that.”

Holland was an elite running back at Cornell, and in fact, his 1,396 yards in 1977 were second only to Heisman Trophy winner Billy Sims of Oklahoma. Joe also scored 16 touchdowns that year, also second only to Sims. He ran for 1,213 yard in the seven Ivy League Games, making him only the second Ivy Leaguer to go over 1,000 yards. He was selected by the AP as a third-team All-American.

Holland was also a sprinter on the Big Red track team, and his relay team finished third at the Heptagonal meet. His prowess in the classroom also made him a two-time Academic All American.

Joe was destined to be an athlete, but ev-

Joe Holland with his father, back during his playing days at Cornell.

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Joe Holland, who went on to Harvard Law School after graduating from Cornell, is described by Wikipedia as “an American businessman, real estate developer, attorney, public servant, author, and civic leader.” Those are all very apt descriptions, and Holland’s efforts to engage underserved communities in his entrepreneurial efforts are well known.

After moving to Harlem in 1982; Holland opened a law office and also opened and ran a 15-bed homeless shelter in a church basement. He went on to open a drug rehabilitation program, and he also opened the first Ben & Jerry's store and a soul food restaurant.

Both businesses were operated in Harlem and he staffed both with residents from local homeless shelters.

He has also “run the ball” in the political arena, as Gov. Pataki appointed Holland Commissioner of the New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal in 1994, and he has entered the races for Attorney General and Governor.

Joe – who has added Minister and Motivational Speaker to his resume - spent plenty of time bring Richie (and me) up to speed on his kids (who have followed him to Cornell) and his plans for the future. When he played football at Cornell, he was agile, quick and tireless. Some things never change. *** Some people like drama. Like Kris Boyes , the last Tompkins Cortland Community College golfer to win a NJCAA Division III national championship. A decade ago, Boyes charged back from from 8th place on the tournament’s final day to force a playoff, then won it in dramatic fashion.

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accomplish on this next record. And then we’re all buddies. That’s how it works with Steve.

IT: What was your writing process like for this record? Such as the love song “The Way We Are” and the moving tribute to O.V. Wright’s version of “You Must Believe in Yourself?”

RC: Well, with “The Way We Are,” I wrote that song with Hi Rhythm in mind, because it has that feel. I had this story and I put the music to it, but I left it loose for their own interpretation to it of how to play it. Because you just can’t tell those guys what to do. You just kinda of throw an idea out there and just let it jell. And that’s basically how we did the whole record. This record was done not as just as Robert Cray and Hi Rhythm, but it’s a band. We kept it like that. And on several lucky occasions we do get the opportunity, as this band to go out. And I’m really happy to be part of two bands. And they are completely different and separate. And we are together it’s the band. It’s really a great feeling.

By G.M. Burns

reating and playing blues music for Robert Cray began in his teenage years and steadily grew while listening to the warm sounds of American roots music.

In just over 40 years, Cray and his band have released more than 20 records, 15 of which have been on the Billboard charts. Cray has played bars, concert halls, festivals and arenas around the world. In this interview, he talks about his musical roots and his upcoming tour. Cray and the Hi Rhythm band will perform at the Smith Opera House on June 15th.

Ithaca Times: In the beginning of your music career and touring, can you say what helped you to achieve the rhythms of R & B, Soul, and blues, and did any one artist help build in a way on your playing? What was that early process like for you?

Robert Cray: Well, I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. Growing up my parents had a lot of rhythm and blues – Ray Charles, some jazz - Sarah Vaughan. Blues – John Lee Hooker, B.B. King. And then in the early 1960’s my mom was listening to Bobby Blue Bland, Jackie Wilson, and on and on.

And then by the time I started to playing guitar, I had listened to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix had come out, Staxx music out of Memphis was coming out. So all of those things played a big part in what I learned about music. And how to go about in doing what I wanted to do.

IT: The artist O.V. Wright was known for his Southern soul and blues playing. But what was it about his music that still impacts you in your own music?

RC: The depth. His deep soul. You know I think he really gets – he really has a way, or he had a way of telling his story. And I think he brought you into the story and I think there are people who can do it, but personally I think for me, nobody does it like him. It’s frightening. It’s like going to church, you know, and he starts off particularly in a ballad – if he were to do a ballad – starts off nice and easy, and tells a story to you, and explains a story to you, and be the time the song has ended, or ending – he’s got you on his side. And you’re pulling your hair out.

[Cray laughs].

IT: Which new artists have you enjoyed recently and what made their music and playing fresh for you?

RC: It’s kinda hard to say. They are not that new but Susan Tedeschi and Daryl Trucks. I think they have a fantastic organization, and they put everything into it, and I really admire that.

IT: Your recent release, Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm Record, was nominated for best Soul Blues Album at the 39th annual Blues Music Awards this past May in Memphis, Tennessee.

Talk about that recording process for this record with your producer Steve Jordan. How was it different than you’re past work?

RC: Well the thing is we just like mentioned O.V. Wright and other people like Ann Peebles, Otis Clay, Al Green -- on and on – recorded at Willie Mitchell’s Royal Studios in Memphis, and backed by Hi Rhythm. So Steve had worked at Royal Studios and he produced a couple of albums there with Boz Scaggs and also Keith Richards – did some work there.

And I had an opportunity to do one track when I worked with Steve before when I worked with one record we recorded out of Nashville. But I get an email from Steven and he goes ‘I Got it,’ for our next project, ‘Robert Cray and Hi Rhythm’ And I say okay, let’s do that. That sounds fantastic. So when we all got together – the process starts with Steve, and this is so we can introduce ourselves to one another other. The process starts with Steve going to the drums and just starts to play. And everybody falls in – we don’t know what we’re doing – we just start playing. And after about 15, 20 minutes of steady playing that’s our introduction to one another. There is a groove going on, and we then we say ‘hi’, and we talk about what we want to

IT: As a musician, what is the most difficult thing that you are confronted with at this point?

RC: I don’t know. I don’t know that there is anything so difficult as not know what’s going to happen on stage. [Cray laughs] I think that’s the thing – you don’t know until you get up there.

IT: Who would you like to work with, but have not yet?

RC: I don’t think on those terms. I’ve been very fortunately and the fact that there has been a lot of what I deem as cool opportunities happen, you know, and since those weren’t planned I’ll just leave it like that.

IT: What do you want people to know and feel about your music?

RC: Well, you know, when someone gets to watch our performance on stage that it’s different every time. It’s not what we did last night – even it happens to be the same song – which in most cases it’s not going to be. We change up the set list every night with a few favorites. And even those are different. I think that’s what people need to know. It’s not going to sound like the record.

IT: Would you like to say anything about your upcoming show at the Smith Opera House?

RC: We are looking forward to it – it’s been a long time – since we’ve been to that part of the state. And also, like I mentioned, it’s not going to send like the record. And we are having a lot of fun too. Richard Cousins is playing bass/guitar with us and Dover Weinberg is on the organ and piano.

And Terence Clark is playing drums – Terence has been with us just over a year and a half now, he’s the young one of the group, and he’s kicking our butts.

He’s from Memphis – he grew up in all that stuff. So we’re having a ball.

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How Touchdown The Bear Came To Be

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Other than that, this is the kind of journalism every community needs. Excellent job.”

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Coverage of Health, Health Care & Science

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hile many know the Cornell Bear, the costumed mascot cheering on Big Red athletics, not many know the story behind how Touchdown the Bear came to be a part of the university’s history. Touchdown was not always a student suited up in the stuffed bear costume; at one time, the mascot was a living, breathing, honey-loving, trouble-making bear cub.

The original bear cub first came to the Cornell campus in 1915, the football team’s first undefeated season. Three more live bears, over the course of two decades, made their mark at Cornell. Touchdown II, III, and IV were brought to university in subsequent years including 1916, 1919, and 1939. The bears traveled to games on the team train, lodged in hotels, broke into candy stores, partied at night clubs, were kidnapped by opposing fans, escaped into the Atlantic Ocean, spent time in the clink, and entertained and inspired the crowds and the Cornell football team during their years on campus.

Touchdown appears on the logo for Cornell Athletics and is commemorated across the campus in concrete and wooden carvings and represented in a statue erected outside Teagle Hall in 2015 – a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the original Touchdown and Cornell’s first undefeated football season.

The names of the 1915 team players, coaches, and managers are inscribed around the plaza wall surrounding the piece commemorating Cornell’s original bear.

The story behind these "real" Cornell bears, and the tradition they inspired, is chronicled in John Foote’s Touchdown: The Story of the Cornell Bear, which describes how the four bears came to Ithaca and the people involved. The story is not a new one, but Foote wanted to record and document as real and factual an account of the history of Touchdown, the original Cornell bear, as he could. Foote was a 1974 Cornell graduate, is an active alum member, and Executive Director of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Policy Analysis and Management (CPIP).

“Much has been said about these founding bears… the bears’ history has become muddled. It is time that the true tale of these bears is recorded so that their tradition- our tradition- is based on facts (as we know them),” said Foote. He did admit though that while he did do his research and stayed as true to the facts as he could, he “never let the facts get in the way of a good story. I had to make my best guess on some elements.”

Foote first self-published the book in 2008 and then published a second edition in 2017 after the Cornell University Press.

During his time at Cornell as a bit of a lark

senior year, Foote became a cheerleader. On the beautiful fall day of the 1973 Cornell vs.

Colgate game, halftime came and suddenly a battle cry from the Colgate student section of “Get the bear!” rang out as they streamed onto the field.

“We didn’t know what the Colgate students had in mind so we [the cheering squad including Foote] told the Bear to run, but he was seeing impaired in that costume and ran straight into the end zone goal post and knocked himself out cold. We thought he was dead, and upon removing his stuffed bear head, we all realized it was Bill Quain, a friend of ours since freshman year of college,” laughed Foote.

After this incident, a lifelong friendship with Quain, and his continued involvement in the Cornell and Ithaca communities, Foote found himself with a particular interest in the story of the Cornell bear.

“Quain remains an unforgettable character and a good friend, and is probably the reason why the topic of this book is of particular interest to me,” said Foote.

Foote includes anecdotes and stories that were never even circulated as rumors before the book came to be. Particularly hilarious were the letter in the Cornell Daily Sun on behalf of Touchdown. He does a great job of giving us facts and well-researched story, thorough and detailed, while keeping us engaged and entertained. And the author is just as interesting and charming in person as is his writing style and voice. The book also includes some great images from the years Touchdown was on the Cornell campus and serving as a living, breathing mascot for the football team. There are copies of programs from games featuring the bear as well even those from other universities.

Touchdown offers great insight into the strong history of spirit, rich culture, and traditions of Cornell University through a story of four bears and how the Big Read Bear came to be. It is an entertaining, engaging read offering laugh out loud moments and igniting interest in learning more about the history behind the original Cornell bears. It is perfect for any Cornell-affiliated reader but also those in the Ithaca community, a true collegetown heavily influenced by this century old university.

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Rough Crossing A Shaky Offering

By Br yan VanC ampe n

Rough Crossing, by Tom Stoppard, freely adapted from the original play Play at the Castle by Ferenc Molnar; directed by Trey Compton; scenic design by Shelley Barish; costume design by Jimmy Johansmeyer; music direction by Jacob Carll; lighting design by Eric Behnke; prop design by Andrew Carney. At CRT through June 16.

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t's a funny thing: I was a huge Tom Stoppard fan in high school just from reading his plays, and even wrote an English paper on Stoppard in my junior year, but I've never actually seen a Stoppard play until last week, when CRT opened its 47th season with Stoppard's Rough Crossing.

Rough Crossing is a 1984 piece, "freely adapted" from the original play Play at the Castle

by Ferenc Molnar. The action takes place on board the SS Italian Castle, sailing between Southampton and New York.

Our characters are would-be playwrights Turai (James Taylor Odom) and Gal (Tanner Efinger), and composer Adam (Sam Balzac).

The three are hard at work fixing their play, which seems to need a great deal of fixing.

Also on board are Natasha (Briana Gantsweg) and Ivor (Nathaniel Kent), the show's two stars, and a bellman named Dvornichek (Jason M. Shipman).

Sad to say, Rough Crossing is a pretty leaky vessel, poorly constructed and bloated with comedy "business" that's beside the point. There seems to be a lot of intrigue – Adam loves Natasha but worries that she still has feelings for Ivor – but no real story, both on the ship and in the play-within-a-play.

Stoppard never really lays out what the actual story is that the three men are working on, so later, when a character has helpful advice for fixing the play, it's not clear what was there before that needed fixing. There's a lot

of gags going on, but they're not tethered to a story that makes sense or even accumulates.

The first act ends in almost a shrug, and the second act seems to be more about making fun of bad, pre-Brando presentational "acting". It would mean a lot more if Stoppard had provided a road map.

And so the characters are set up with traits that don't relate to the story. Turai can't seem to get a drink of cognac, Adam has a goofy speech impediment, Gal is always eating, and the actors have their odd theatrical quirks, among the most particularly noticeable being Gantsweg's elaborate foreign accent that one can't quite pinpoint.

I've seen most of these actors at CRT in much sturdier vehicles, and I can attest that Odom, Kent, and Shipman are experienced, gifted farceurs.

Odom and Shipman were hilarious in last season's The 39 Steps, and Kent was effective in the recent Appointment With Death.

Here, since the structure and plot are so thin, what we're seeing here is actors vamping to cover up the lack of structure and plot. There's a slightly sweaty, desperate quality to the proceedings.

There are compensations here, mainly Shipman's deft physical comedy as the nosey bellman; when seas are calm, he's the only one compensating as if the seas were stormy.

There's also a nifty bit in act two where the seas do get rough, and as the overhead chandelier swings back and forth, so the actors slide back and forth across the stage (the piano has wheels and gets into the action as well.). But overall, these are cosmetic details to conceal the problems inherent in Stoppard's piece.

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uburn’s Merry-Go-Round Playhouse fittingly opens its celebratory 60th season with the blockbuster Mamma Mia! Based on the catchy pop songs of ’70s Swedish group ABBA, this 1999 show had a 14-year Broadway run (the ninth-longest of any musical), has been performed worldwide, from Madrid to Moscow to Seoul, and translated into 22 languages. And given the popularity of the 2008 movie with Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, et al., it’s surprising if today’s audiences aren’t singing along with every number.

Based on Judy Cramer’s original concept, Brit playwright Catherine Johnson wrote the narrative, repurposing the songs of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus to create the ultimate feel-good musical. Her story affirms the bonds among women as well as their independence, both economically and sexually.

Single mom Donna, an American expat running a tavern/guesthouse on a Greek island, has raised her daughter Sophie progressively –– but regrets she’s chosen to marry at only 20. For her part, Sophie wants a traditional wedding and, most of all, a father to walk her down the aisle.

Discovering her mom’s travel diary from the wild ’70s, Sophie learns that her dad might be any of three men, and so secretly writes them all in advance, inviting them to her wedding –– but signing her mother’s name. Their youthful escapades not forgotten, all the men show up, eager to see what’s become of the fascinating Donna. Comic 13–19 ,

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complications ensue, and ultimately madcap matches are made, a new family is born, and Sophie not only gains three dads but claims her own path.

The storyline’s upbeat and affirming, but it’s the music that buoys us, one hit after another in this joyous “jukebox musical.”

Besides the title song, there’s the rousing “Dancing Queen” and “Voulez-Vous,” as well as the quieter ballads like “Thank You for the Music.” Director and choreographer Brett Smock has assembled a large, talented ensemble –– strong vocalists and dynamic dancers well supported by Jeff Cox’s unseen orchestra and Miles Polaski’s sound design.

Michael Schweikardt’s Greek isle setting, washed in tropical hues by lighting designer Jose Santiago, is all curving stone walls, with a blue double-sail drop that descends to divide the scenic space –– evoking patio, bedrooms, and beach. Tiffany Howard creates a carnival with costumes, from the raspberry-andorange sherbet attire of the wedding guests to the bell-bottomed frippery of the infamous outfits worn by “Donna and the Dynamos” reprising their youth.

Last Wednesday’s opening night got off to a tentative, somewhat self-conscious start but gathered steam throughout the first act; the second act knocked the socks off the audience. MGR newcomer Emily Kristen Morris has splendid presence as Sophie; her appealing personality and energy anchored the production. As her mother, Sally Wilfert sang wonderfully ( “Our Last Summer,” “The Winner Takes It All”), but as an actor didn’t

convey Donna’s irresistible, unforgettable character. (An overly blonde wig and lack of lipstick didn’t help.)

Donna’s gal pals and former bandmates are in fine comic form (and especially well defined by their costumes). As Tanya, thrice-divorced and oft cosmetically assisted, Nicolette Hart has great fun using her natural endowments for humorous effect. As the far less stylish writer Rosie, Jodi Kimura is hilarious, so genuine and naturally funny I couldn’t take my eyes off her. (Alas, she was unsubtly over-directed in her big number, “Take a Chance on Me,” in clichéd pursuit of a reluctant man.)

Each of the three unwitting candidates for Sophie’s paternity is engaging in his own way. Joe Gately sketches Aussie adventurer Bill in broad strokes; Geoffrey Allen Murphy’s conformist gay banker Harry (the former guitar-playing Headbanger) is more complicated and particularly likeable. As Sam, the lover Donna believes abandoned her all those years ago, Gary Milner provides both charm and stabilizing authenticity.

Michael Williams is winning in his toobrief role as Sky, Sophie’s fiancé. And then there’s the entire spirited troupe of their young friends, seen to best advantage in the bachelor and bachelorette parties they stage for the couple. The men lead Sky astray offisland, and in the show’s most outrageous number, wear wetsuits and flippers…while dancing, yes, even tapping. Irresistible.

Director Smock finds a wealth of amusing moments in his creative staging, in choices both small and large. And that jaunty, silly, deliciously cheerful ear-worm music –– from “Super Trouper” to the outrageous triple-song curtain call –– well, now that’s entertainment!

Mamma Mia! Book by Catherine Johnson; music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Directed and choreographed by Brett Smock. The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival at the Merry-GoRound Playhouse, Auburn, N.Y. Through June 27. Tickets online or at 800-457-8897.

Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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n the eve of previews for Fortune" the opening play of the Hangar Theatre's 44th season, Hangar Artistic Director Michael Barakiva talked with the Ithaca Times about the theater’s summer fare.

Ithaca Times: It feels like each season is a reaction to the last season. Let's backtrack to where you were at the end of last summer.

Michael Barakiva: I inherited the 2016 season from [former Artistic Director] Jen Waldman. This is only the second season that

IT: Your Chicago choreographer worked with the show's original director, Bob Fosse.

MB: Yes, our choreographer for Chicago is Mimi Quillin, who also choreographed our production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" last summer, and performed her one-women show called Call Bob Fosse at the Minskoff at the Hangar in the spring. And she assisted Bob Fosse in the revival of Sweet Charity on Broadway. A lot of the choreography will be original, and it will be in the Fosse style. Our production of

I've programmed, and it'll be so fascinating to watch how it all plays out, you know? One of the things that's absolutely important to me about this season was that, especially given everything that is happening in the country right now, I wanted to choose a bunch of plays that had dynamic female protagonists. Every single one of the plays this season has that; [they] are women-driven stories. Theater's one of those industries [where] the audience is 60-70% women. And often the staffs of theaters are majority women, and so much of theater happens because of women on every possible level. It felt like every theater has the responsibility of telling their stories. This year I'm directing Chicago and A Doll's House Part 2.

IT: The season opens with Fortune.

MB: The thing that's so special about Fortune is that Deborah Zoe Laufer, the woman who wrote it, is someone I met when we were in graduate school at Julliard together. She has come to Ithaca to direct the play, so we're very fortunate to have the world's foremost expert on the play directing it. I directed this play for my final thesis at Julliard. I chose it [for the Hangar] because I wanted to direct it, but the schedule didn't work out that way. She's the only one who knows this play and loves it as much as I do.

Pride & Prejudice was written by Kate Hamill, who went to Ithaca College before going on to having a national career as an actress and playwright. She's an incredible woman who has adapted Jane Austen novels and all kinds of material for the stage. We are, I believe, the first regional theater to present Pride & Prejudice as well as the first theater to be presenting A Doll's House 2 since its Broadway run.

IT: That's a fairly audacious notion.

MB: The thing that really drew me to that play when I saw it on Broadway was that it was both hilarious and heartbreaking and really centers on the story of this woman who has her independence but is still struggling against the constraints of society to employ it. That one has [Ithaca College Professors and local actors] Greg Bostwick and Susannah Berryman in it, two of my favorite actors.

IT: And the season closes with Xanadu, which is based on a 1980 Olivia Newton John movie musical and set to the songs of Electric Light Orchestra.

MB: It really leans into the camp. It embraces the camp of the original. It's a celebration of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. All of us who remember it in whatever form, it's really designed as a nostalgic journey for us.

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Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing

6/19 Tuesday I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Irish Session with members of

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3rd Annual Blues, Brews & BBQ | 6:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

FABI World Music & RIchie Stearns | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Bars/Bands/Clubs

Bob & Dee | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

6/13 Wednesday

Diana Leigh & the Shorty Georges | 6:00 PM, | Ithaca Bakery Triphammer, Ithaca | $5

Geneva Music Festival: “Ettore Causa and Friends: Chamber Music Finale” | 7:30 PM, | Gearan Center for Performing Arts, Geneva | 25

Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Geneva Music Festival: “Organ Recital featuring Raymond Nagem” | 7:30 PM, | Presbyterian Church in Geneva, Geneva | 25 Notorious Stringbusters | 6:00 PM, | Mill Park, Newfield Open Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

Dr. K | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Garden Concert Series | 6:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry Geneva Music Festival: “Ettore Causa and Friends: Chamber Music Finale” | 7:30 PM, | First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles, Skaneateles | 25 Julia Felice and the Whiskey Crisis | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville Long John and the Tights | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector Lynn Wells Trio | 6:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg

Sean Dillman | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector

Modern Instincts | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Synth Night | 8:00 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca

Mutron Warriors & Dapper Dan | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $8-$10

The Steve Brown/Miles Brown Jazz Duo | 6:00 PM, | Monk’s on The Commons/Marriott Hotel, Ithaca

Pub Sing | 7:00 PM, | Colonial Inn, Watkins Glen

6/14 Thursday Geneva Music Festival: “Organ Recital featuring Raymond Nagem” | 7:30 PM, | United Church of Canandaigua, Canandaigua | 25

The Smoking Loons | 7:00 PM, | Grist Iron Brewing, Burdett Third Story | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Michael Charles | 6:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus Off the Rails Blues | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Rob Ervin | 3:00 PM, | Lake Street Filling Station Winery, Geneva Small Tattoo: Pre-Porchfest party | 10:00 AM, | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, Trumansburg

Kevin Morby with Bedouine | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15-$18

The Backtalk Band | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Madd Daddy CD Release w/ guests | 5:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

The Kraken Quartet, The Oxtet, Brian!, Smaxkult | 7:30 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $8

Marc Ryan | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

Trumansburg Porchfest | 12:00 PM,

Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | The Nines, Ithaca

6/17 Sunday

Rob Ervin | 1:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry

Alex Creamer | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Spirit of Johnny Cash Tribute | 2:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus | $5

Blue Skies | 12:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

The Yardvarks | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

6/16 Saturday

Heather Boob & Friends | 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

6/15 Friday

Delta Mike Shaw Band | 9:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg

Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

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Taksim, Dara Anissi & Don Baragiano: Belly Dance & Live Mid-East Music | 7:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

Geneva Music Festival: “Bluegrass at Ravines Winery” | 1:00 PM, | Ravines Winery, Geneva | 25

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West Hill Billies | 6:00 PM, | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, Trumansburg

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From La Esmerelda to Beijing Opera: Bridging the East and the West | 7:00 PM, 6/17 Sunday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Experience the beauty of the La Esmeralda ballet and classic Chinese dance, stunning costumes, and authentic Chinese food to benefit the Center for the Arts. | $5-$10

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The Hilltoppers | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

6/18 Monday Monday Night Blues w/ Brett Beardslee | 5:00 PM, | Rasta Ranch Vineyards, Valois

Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca The Cool Club & The Lipker Sisters | 6:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca | $7 Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Concerts/Recitals Poison | 7:30 PM, 6/13 Wednesday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | w/ Special Guests Cheap Trick Robert Cray Band | 8:00 PM, 6/15 Friday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Grammy awardwinning blues, soul and R&B | $39-$49 Sturgill Simpson | 7:30 PM, 6/16 Saturday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | | $25-$65

Sunday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Famed singer/ songwriter with 50 years of hits! | $40-$80 Ithaca Concert Band | 1:00 PM, 6/17 Sunday | First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Road, Ithaca | Father’s Day Concert Paramore | 7:00 PM, 6/17 Sunday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | w/ Foster the People | 30-89.50 Dead & Company | 7:00 PM, 6/19 Tuesday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | Foreigner | 7:00 PM, 6/19 Tuesday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Classic Rock w/ Special Guests Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening

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family and a secret outsider. | 107 mins R First Reformed | A priest of a small congregation in upstate NY grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns, and a tormented past. | 113 mins R On Chesil Beach | In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night. | 110 mins R Summer 1993 (Verano 1993) | After her mother’s death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle’s family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life. | 97 mins NR The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)| When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard’s absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerilla army. | 102 mins PG Regal Ithaca

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6/13 Wednesday

Trivia Night | 9:00 PM, | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca |

QuizBowl Trivia Showdown | 7:30 PM, | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Think you’re the sharpest knife in the drawer or the brightest light in the harbor? We’ll see about that. Join us every Wednesday for T-burg’s trivia throwdown.

6/18 Monday

Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Includes free dance lesson from 10-10:30 | $5

6/14 Thursday The Vinyl Showcase | 7:00 PM, | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Each week a new local DJ, collector or vinyl enthusiast spins an array fresh of of vinyl cuts. Plus, half-priced bowling all night long!

6/15 Friday DJ Ha Meen | 10:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca |

Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Tango Night | 8:00 PM, | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Tango Milonga, featuring local dancers and DJs! Come out and join the dance floor, new dancers welcome!

Trivia Night w/ Herman Nugent | 7:00 PM, | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca |

Stage Mamma Mia | All Day 6/13 Wednesday | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Daily shows.

Contact Merry-Go_Round Playhouse for times.

Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, 6/13 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Rough Crossing | 2:00 PM, 6/13 Wednesday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion,

Preble | A comedy by Tom Stoppard.

All is not smooth sailing in this hilarious shipboard farce!

Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, 6/14 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show.

Fortune | 7:00 PM, 6/14 Thursday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Unlike every other fortuneteller in Brooklyn, Maude can actually predict the future. Seriously.

And she never, ever lies. Until Jeremy, that is. But really, who could bring themselves to tell that nebbishy accountant he's going to die alone.

Her one little fib, however, leads to a series of unpredictable repercussions and shenanigans that forever change both their lives and shows Maude how even destiny can be re-written.

607 Comedy Night Fundraiser! | 7:00 PM, 6/15 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Featuring comedians from Comedy Central, Netflix, Last Comic Standing, and more! 100% of the proceeds will go towards the HTA Scholarship F?und and the Jenn Perine scholarship fund.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a canned good or dry good to donate to local pantries. | $20-$25

The Ballet Center of Ithaca Student Recital 2018 | 7:30 PM, 6/16 Saturday | Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The annual recital is comprised of 5 short ballets and runs under one hour.

Pre-Ballet all the way up to Ithaca Ballet company dancers in original and classical choreography.

Film Cinemapolis Friday, 6/15 through Thursday, 6/21.

Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes.

The Seagull | In the early 20th century, an aging actress and her lover visit the estate of her elderly brother. | 98 mins PG-13 The Rider | After suffering a nearfatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. | 104 mins R RBG | A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. | 98 mins PG Beast | A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her

Newfield Library Friday Night Movies at the Library | 6:30 PM, 6/15 Friday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | A Wrinkle in Time - rated PG. Snacks are provided.

Art Beautiful Botanicals painting class | 6:00 PM, 6/13 Wednesday | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | An introduction to painting the flora of our gardens.

Explore black and white, color pencil, pen and ink, and go into greater depth with watercolor. Pre-registration is required. | $200

TRUMANSBURG PORCHFEST

LOT 10 BAR AND LOUNGE

VILLAGE OF TRUMANSBURG

Sat, 6/16 7-9pm | Taksim is an Ithaca-based music group that specializes in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music from a wide array of cultures in the region. They emphasize the use of traditional instruments and collaborations with dance professionals.

This promises to be a tremendous evening of fun and entertainment sonically as well as visually. (photo provided)

Sat, 6/16, noon-5pm | Celebrate local talent by welcoming bands on neighborhood porches. 40 bands including Laila Belle (pictured), Janet Batch, Toivo, the Darts, the Mary Ott Band, and the Trumansburg Afterschool Program kids. Enjoy all the village has to offer while the community’s plethora of talent entertains you. Rain or shine. (photo provided)

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Wednesday, 6/13 through Tuesday, 6/19. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes.

Deadpool 2| Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (AKA Deadpool) brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities. | 119 mins R Book Club| Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club. | 104 mins PG-13 Upgrade| Set in the near future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem. | 100 mins R Show Dogs | A macho Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover in a prestigious dog show along with his human partner. | 92 mins PG Avengers: Infinity War | The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. | 149 mins PG-13 Adrift | Based on a true story, a young couple’s chance encounter leads them first to love and then on the adventure

of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in history. | PG-13 Action Point | A daredevil designs and operates his own theme park with his friends. | 85 mins R Solo: A Star Wars Story | Young Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian during an adventure into a dark criminal underworld. | 135 mins PG-13 Life of the Party | After her husband abruptly asks for a divorce, a middleaged mother returns to college in order to complete her degree. | 105 mins PG-13 Ocean’s 8 | Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at NYC’s annual Met Gala. | 110 mins PG-13 Hereditary | When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter’s family begins to discover cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. | 127 mins R Hotel Artemis | In riot-torn, nearfuture Los Angeles, the Nurse runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals. | 93 mins R Incredibles 2 | Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for Jack-Jack while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world. | 118 mins PG Tag | A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country. | 100 mins R

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rumansburg has a remarkable visual arts community for a town of its size. Living here, it’s sometimes hard not to walk down Main Street without seeing new art or running into a painter or a potter.

Known for performances and classes, the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts — an 1851 Greek Revival church in operation as an arts center since 1982 — also displays considerable local and regional talent in the plastic arts.

Founded last year, the membership-driven Cayuga Arts Collective is spearheading a renaissance, taking over with exhibitions and art lessons while organizing needed upgrades to the facility.

The CayAC’s current exhibit “Art in Flux” aims to gather work that embodies “dynamic expression: motion, rhythm, pattern, gesture, and all things action-related.” It includes one or more pieces from fifty artists. (Each member was invited to submit and most did.) The range is satisfyingly diverse, with work in painting, drawing, photography, wood, ceramics, mixedmedia, and more. It’s a testament to the selecting and arrangement skills

of curators Domenica Brockman and Marina Delaney that all this stuff looks as good in this space as it does.

A big, inclusive, pluralistic show like this works best when you seek connections beyond medium and genre. Painter Ian Connerty and photographer Justin Hjortshøj are both showing monochrome work that builds physiological impact out of orchestrations of tone. Connerty’s large, blue-tinged oil on canvas “Indigo #2” suspends the viewer midair: hovering between the roiling storm clouds above and the placid lake below.

Hjortshøj’s “Prague,” a black-andwhite shot dating back to 1991, does something that “painterly” photography usually fails to do—hitting the viewer with the force of a Munch or a Van Gogh. The panoramic city scene balances the feel of recession and distance offered by the river and a descending staircase to the left with the discomforting bulge of a building corner to the right. The whole view is seen as if underwater.

The inclusion of toys and toy-like sculptures represents the area’s crafts roots while hearkening back to a time a century ago when radical

artists sought to bridge high art and popular entertainment. Trained as an architect, local artist Don Ellis is well-known for his painted wood mobiles. He’s showing two outdoorscaled hanging pieces here. “Crossing Seneca” features three hollow, tubelike shapes — they suggest vertebrae — bearing an elaborate profusion of little windows and attachments. They are suspended from coat-hanger-like structures. “Birthday Mobile” is more Calder-esque, with smaller airplanelike shapes hung together. The simple blue-green-yellow-red color scheme is my only issue: fine for toys (even grown-up ones) but not fully satisfying in a formal gallery sculpture.

Denise Kooperman’s “Whirling Dervish” also spins. Like her wallmounted “Jellyfish Dance,” the piece consists of exuberantly multi-colored strands of silk and felted paper hung from a rusty metal armature. A pair of mechanical wooden dinosaurs by Gunther Keil also find affinity with Ellis’s mobiles. “Pull Toy” and “Push Toy,” are as witty and ingeniously conceived as one might wish.

There’s a lot of memorable work here. June Szabo’s eloquent carved and stained butternut wood “Erie In-between – Lyons to Clyde” shows

her signature blend of biomorphic abstraction and topography. Jakob Graham’s oil on birch “Gun Factory” memorializes Ithaca’s industrial past in a kind of airy, gray-tinged impressionism. Selima Guirey’s small “Figure,” an ink female nude, moves from plausible observation to wild use of pen and brush. Anna Pausch’s “Tamarack Lean-to,” while not her best work, is an notable technical feat: the overscaled woodblock print comes from last year’s BIG INK, which brought a giant mobile printing press to Ithaca.

A pair of large pieces hung sideby-side both show two artists’ recent turns to abstraction. Brockman’s encaustic on wood “Sound and Vision” and Ileen Kaplan towering mixed media acrylic “Untitled Pink” both make compelling use of restrained two-tone color and large silhouettes.

It’s not easy to put together a group show like this and give the “theme” any real force, while highlighting attractive work. Given the constraints of size, display space, and inclusiveness, the curators have put together an memorable presentation.

The TCFA has limited gallery hours. They will be open June 16th from noon-5 p.m. (during Trumansburg’s Porchfest) and on June 17th from 1-5 p.m. There will be a closing party on June 22nd from 5-7 p.m.

O Susquehanna O Finger Lakes Exhibition | All Day 6/13 Wednesday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | An Artistic Homage

by Brian Keeler to the Susquehanna Region and The Finger Lakes.

screen romance and 12 million cinema tickets. Professor Deborah Starr, Associate Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film in the Department of Near Eastern Studies will join us for a talk back.

Pen and Ink Drawing Workshop | 10:00 AM, 6/19 Tuesday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | | $40

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Temple Beth El Jewish Film Festival - June Screening | 6:30 PM, 6/13 Wednesday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema - a documentary about kosher papadams, over the top costumes, religious co-existence, the odd elephant, big

Teaching Ithaca Wellness - The Movie | 7:30 PM, 6/19 Tuesday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Meet a small collection of Ithaca wellness experts who are leading the movement from suffering to shining.

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Elvis! | 11:00 AM, 6/14 Thursday | Southern Tier Stables, 2068 Dumplin Hill Rd. , Moravia | Tom Gilbo (as Elvis) and his group the Blue Suedes will entertain you from start to finish as you shake, rattle and roll the afternoon away. Tom has all the moves and grooves and a voice to match. Includes Wagon Ride to Petticoat Junction; hors d’oeuvres, dinner & dessert. For reservationsCall Donna at (315)2249085. | $35 Recite The Pledge World Record Attempt! | 6:00 PM, 6/14 Thursday

| Waterloo High School, 96 Stark St., Waterloo | A world record attempt for the largest ensemble of people to say the Pledge of Allegiance.The Waterloo High School Band will be on hand to play patriotic tunes as the crowd gathers.

34th Annual Strawberry Festival | 6:00 PM, 6/15 Friday | Ovid Village Park, Brown St., Ovid | Festivities kick off with “Ovid Idol” Talent Show, Children’s 1-mile Fun Run, and Block Dance with Mario and the Alrights providing music for dancing in the pavilion. The group Car Pride will also have some antique cars on display.

Moths of the Night | 9:00 PM, 6/15 Friday | Palmer Woods Natural Area,

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STEVENSON FOREST PRESERVE, 94 TRUMBULL’S CORNERS ROAD, ITHACA

Sun, 6/17 @ 10am | Vernal pools, also called vernal ponds or ephemeral pools, are temporary pools of water that provide habitat for distinctive plants and animals.

Join the FL Land Trust for an exploration of the pools in search of creatures, such as frogs and salamanders, that inhabit the pools for a short time each spring. (photo provided)

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Cornell Botanic Gardens, Cornell University, North Campus, Ithaca | As the sun sets we will have a brief introduction to moths and then fire up a bright mercury vapor light and two ultraviolet lights to attract the moths.

Learn how to identify the myriad forms of moths that arrive through the night. Bring a flashlight or headlamp.

City Sizzlin' Summer Kick-Off | 6:00 PM, 6/16 Saturday | Exchange Street Plaza, Auburn | Featuring two live band performances, Cruise Control and Raibred, fine artist displays & food vendors serving up your summer favorites, plus beer, wine & cider sales.

Rockin’ Rodeo | 6:00 PM, 6/16 Saturday | Southern Tier Stables, 2068

Dumplin Hill Rd. , Moravia | Rodeo and music by Jason Wicks Band | $12-$15; under 5 free Summer Solstice Party | 12:00 PM, 6/16 Saturday | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Live jazz from John Lou, food, craft vendors, beer & wine, and lawn games.

Trains, Trucks and Tractors, Oh My! | 9:00 AM, 6/16 Saturday | CNY Living History Center, 4386 US-11, Cortland | Check out extensive collections of model trains, railroad memorabilia, Brockway trucks and tractors & farming history. This will be a great multigenerational event with additional model trains that kids of all ages can operate, living historians, temporary displays and activities. Continues on Sunday from 1-5. | $5-$10 West End Waterfront Celebration | 11:00 AM, 6/16 Saturday | The Jewelbox, 301 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Food, wine tasting, beer garden pop-up, festive face painting. The IFD will be giving tours of the truck and handing out free fire hats for kids until 2pm.All are welcome! This is a familyfriendly event.

Arboretum Tours- Cornell Botanic Gardens | 1:00 PM, 6/17 Sunday | Meet at the Sculpture Garden in the central arboretum area, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Enjoy a guided tour of the F.R Newman Arboretum and discover its diverse woody plant collections, ornamental garden beds, and idyllic landscapes. EWalks will last approximately 90 minutes and may include some moderate slopes. | $5 suggested donation Historic Ithaca’s That Old House Tour of South Hill | 12:00 PM, 6/16 Saturday | South Hill Elementary School, 520 Hudson Street, Ithaca | Get an exclusive look inside beautiful homes & sites with this self-guided walking/driving/biking tour of selected interiors in Ithaca's South Hill! | $15 general admission; $12 for Friends of Historic Ithaca, seniors, and students; $10 per person for groups of 4 or more; free for children under 12 Greening Your Home | 6:00 PM, 6/18 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A 3-part series. Participants will learn how to improve their home’s energy footprint, be environmentally friendly, and save money. Topics will be Energy and Water Conservation, Green Cleaning, and Recycling and Composting.

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Sat, 6/16, 6-9pm | Celebrate a favorite local bookstore, Buffalo St. Books, and their inaugural year of the Ithaca Is Books initiative. Find out the first round of ambassadors who will reveal their choices for the books that have inspired them. The evening will also include readings by: Bob Proehl, Eleanor Henderson, Aaron Sachs, Helena Viramontes, & Jack Wang. There will be live jazz, light appetizers and wine served. Dress is creative semi-formal.

brary, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills.

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 6/16 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more.

Stories in the Park | 10:30 AM, 6/19 Tuesday | DeWitt Park, Cayuga St., | Children and families meet at Dewitt Park for stories, music and family fun.

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The adult summer reading program at the Southworth Library in Dryden will be based on PBS’s Great American Read. On Thursday, June 14, they will hold a special viewing of the PBS “Great American Read” series kickoff. Pick up the list of 100 books selected for the show. Check one out of the library, grab a review form and share your opinion of it. Each submitted review will be entered in a drawing for prizes. Which book will be selected? Vote for your choice!

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Camp NaNoWriMo | 6:00 PM, 6/14 Thursday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Camp NaNoWriMo is a fun way for kids to work on their writing skills. Participants in grades 3 and older (adults can join too!) will complete a writing project over the course of a month.

Join us to learn more!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 6/15 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months embrace early literacy through books, music, movement and rhyming. This storytime is followed by an hour-long ìBaby & Toddler Playtimeî at 11:00 AM.

Ithaca is Books Gala | 6:00 PM, 6/16 Saturday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Celebrate Buffalo St. Books’ inaugural year of our Ithaca Is Books initiative. The evening will also include readings, live jazz, wine and appetizers. | $75/one or $125/pair

Comic Creation Workshop Series for Teens | 4:15 PM, 6/15 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teens will learn to use the skills they already have to tell stories with art. Attendance at all classes is not required, but each week participants will learn new techniques to build upon.

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 6/16 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Li-

Chair Yoga | All Day 6/13 Wednesday | Various locations, Ithaca | Using breathing techniques, basic yoga postures, relaxation, and focus, you will become more in tune with your body, and improve your breath awareness and control. Classes held in Ithaca and T-burg. Contact Lifelong for times and locations.

S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | All Day 6/13 Wednesday | Various locations, Ithaca | Classes focus on stretching, flexibility, balance, low-impact aerobics, strength training, and deep breathing exercises. Personal progress is measured through comparison of level of achievement in three simple exercises over time. Classes held in T-burg, Brooktondale and Ithaca. Contact Lifelong for days and times.

Tai Chi | All Day 6/13 Wednesday | Varying Locations, | Using precise, fluid movement, dissolve tension, increase your strength, cardiovascular fitness, and overall sense of wholeness. Classes held in Brooktondale and Lansing. Contact Lifelong for days and times.

Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 6/14 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Yoga Farm presents BLISS NIGHT: A Community Healing Event | 7:00 PM, 6/14 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Bliss Night is an invitation for you finally gift yourself the opportunity to nourish yourself, cherish yourself, and love yourself in this relaxing and enriching environment. | Donation Accepted

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 6/17 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. 20 minutes of silent meditation, reading and discussion, then 20 minutes of silent or guided meditation. Beginners are welcome and instruction in basic meditation will be provided.

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 6/17 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | All are Welcome. Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest Humanity. Pray.

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Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 6/18 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858. No matter what your problem with food ó compulsive overeating, under-eating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or overexercising ó we have a solution. No dues, fees, weigh-ins.

Keeping Your Mouth Healthy with the dirty ‘C’ | 5:30 PM, 6/19 Tuesday | Cancer Resource Center Of The Finger Lakes Helpline, 612 W State St, Ithaca | CRC/CMC Living Well with Cancer Workshops Meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 5:30-7pm at CRC. This month: Lorrie Fitzgibbons presents “Keeping Your Mouth Healthy with the dirty ‘C’”.

Universal Design: Housing for the Lifespan | 12:00 PM, 6/19 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A universally designed structure or environment is one that can be accessed and used by people across the lifespan, regardless of age, size, ability or disability. Join us for a panel discussion with multiple perspectives on universal design from theory to implementation.

City Planning & Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM, 6/13 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 6/13 Wednesday | Horigan’s Tavern, 365 Davis St., Elmira | Host: David P., RSVP: dpreisendanz@verizon.net

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 6/13 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information.

Home Buyer Education Class | 6:30 PM, 6/14 Thursday | Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS), 115 W Clinton St., Ithaca | Learn the steps to buying a home. Participants get a free copy of their credit report and will meet housing professionals including lenders, attorneys, real estate agents and home inspectors. INHS offers down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time buyers in Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga, and Tompkins Counties!

Solar Energy Open Hours | 6:00 PM, 6/14 Thursday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | During this hour and a half, we will hold office hours with a CCE Energy Educator to answer all your questions about going solar.

Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM, 6/15 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | The topic of this New Moon fire Ceremony is Love. Join us as we celebrate together the love that always is there, in song, drumming and activities by the fire.

Chicken BBQ | 12:00 PM, 6/16 Saturday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | | $6-$10 Dean Goble Band at the The Country Dinner | 4:00 PM, 6/17 Sunday | The Country Diner, 45 East Tioga St., Spencer | Bring your lawn chairs and umbrellas! | Donations Carrier Oils & Butters Class | 9:50 AM, 6/17 Sunday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 215 E State Street, Suite 203, Ithaca | Prerequisites: No previous experience is required. The class is for beginners and for those seeking to improve their body butters blending techniques. Tuition includes all materials/supplies for the class, manual and refreshments. | $150.00

Civil Service Workshop | 1:00 PM, 6/18 Monday | Tompkins County Career Center, Center Ithaca - Suite 241, Ithaca | Learn how to look up exam and vacancy information for various forms of government. We'll look at the application process and provide an understanding of navigating the process.

D&D Adventure | 4:30 PM, 6/18 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Join Luke for an adventure of epic proportions. Registration appreciated. All ages welcome.

Meet at the library.

Parents of Young Children Educational/Support Group: Ithaca | 5:30 PM, 6/18 Monday | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | For adoptive, foster or kinship parents of children aged 1 to 9. Please join us for this educational and supportive group for parents of adopted school age kids. Connect, share stories, and learn together!

Childcare will be provided.

Be Broke Better! | 6:00 PM, 6/19 Tuesday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St, Groton | This class will cover steps for setting financial goals, how to track daily spending habits, making a spending plan and finding ways to cut your spending and increase income.

Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 6/19 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 522 Valley Road, Brooktondale | Flowering baskets, flowers and veggie starts and lots offruits and veggies as the season progresses. Local cheese, beef, micro greens, fresh baked breads and pastries, eggs, mushrooms, honey, maple syrup, fresh pasta, olives, olive oil, vinegars,olive oil soap,herbal medicinals, andnature photography.

Summer Musical Theatre Workshop REGISTRATION | All Day 6/19 Tuesday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | June 25-29: Week-long immersion into musical theatre. Students will experience a coached audition and then rehearse a musical theatre revue culminating in a performance the final afternoon of the workshop. For students 12-18.

Registration forms at: or ksp3@ cornell.edu or at our Facebook event page. | $200

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