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A new space

items that you can’t get elsewhere PAGE 13

A Tribute to Adams

homage to that symphony of grays PAGE 19

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Finger Lakes People’s lives Field Work Cohen inhabits a whole building

Talking with local agricultural laborers

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lans to vivify the park area that serves as the entrance to the Ithaca Falls natural area are being questioned by Common Council members.

The Lake Street Park, or Lake Street Plaza, as it has been called through the design process, was designed by Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Architects, and passed planning board muster on April 28.

The plan for the park features a five-foot wide looping, accessible sidewalk that will lead to two new benches at overlooks of the Falls Gorge, a new guardrail that goes along the edge of the gorge, and a swinging gate in front of the entrance to the Falls area.

The reasons for adding the gate and sidewalk were points of confusion at the Planning & Economic Development Committee meeting on Wednesday, June 10.

“No one said you have to open it, close it, at this time or that time,” city bridge engineer Addisu Gebre told the committee about the gate, which was included in the design to provide the option of controlling access when the gorge is dangerous. Right now, the public works department blocks off the area with sawhorses at such times.

The discussion over the sidewalk was more confused, as Gebre responded at one point to Alderperson George McGonigal’s (D-1st) questioning about the need for the loop by saying that “with the loop we’re sending the message this is a park area only.”

McGonigal took that to mean the sidewalk was supposed to prevent people from entering the natural area.

“This boggles my mind,” McGonigal said. “People go there to go down to the creek. You can’t keep them out of there anymore than you can put a gate on the beach.”

Gebre clarified after his presentation that it was his understanding that building a sidewalk directly to the entrance would imply the natural area was part of the “project scope.” As the path down to Fall Creek is definitely not accessible to all, tying that into the project would bring a lot of new requirements. The looping sidewalk, as designed, meets Americans with Disabilities Act requirements and allows for access to the two viewing areas along the gorge.

Budgetary concerns about the project also seem to have council members nervous. When the project was authorized by the Board of Public Works last continued on page 7

Tompkins County

The third proposal was a 63-unit senior affordable housing option put forth

by Rochester’s Cornerstone Group. The units, which would rent for $887 to $975 per month for a one-bedroom, were to be open to seniors ages 55 and older.

A number of members of the public spoke in favor of the Franklin Properties proposal, some citing the need for condominiums in the downtown area, some citing the benefits of reusing the existing building, and some pointing to the 70 percent projected reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

After comparing the decision process to judging a dog show in which judges can’t always pick the crowd favorite, Lane, who chairs the committee, said, “Sometimes it’s not always possible to be

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he Tompkins County Legislature’s Old Library Committee has finally made a recommendation for the use of the Old Library property on the corner of North Cayuga and West Court streets. In a 3-2 vote, on Tuesday, June 9 the committee voted to recommend the Travis/Hyde proposal to the full legislature for consideration. While legislators Mike Lane (D-Dryden), Mike Sigler (R-Lansing), and Kathy LuzHerrera (D-Ithaca) voted in favor, legislators Dooley Kiefer (D-Cayuga Heights) and Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-Ithaca) opposed.

The Travis/ Hyde proposal is the only one of the three responses to the county’s Request for Proposal (RFP) that incorporates Lifelong. The project would entail demolishing the existing structure as Holt Architects’ design for Travis/Hyde developers. Intended for the old county library site. well as the adjacent (Illustration: Holt Architects) one-story Lifelong building and replacing them with space for Lifelong and both the judge and react totally to public opinion.”

60 senior apartments open to individuals Offering some background, Lane 50 years and older. The market-rate noted that he’d been on the Old Library apartments would likely go for around Committee during its previous incarnation $1,200 a month for a one-bedroom. in 1999, when the county was trying to A number of members of the sell the property. The county wasn’t able public spoke in favor of the Franklin to sell at the asking price and at one point, Properties project, which would include they had looked at whether moving the 22 condominiums in the $240,000 to legislature and all the county offices into $400,000 price range. The Franklin Properties project is the only one that continued on page 4 would plan to reuse the existing building.

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▶ Volunteering at the Permaculture Park, Volunteer gardening sessions will be held in the Permaculture Park in Ithaca’s Northside on Thursdays from 4-7 pm. The Permaculture Park is located in Conley Park on Alice Miller Way, between the Sciencenter and the former Neighborhood Pride grocery store on Hancock Street.

Neighborhood volunteers and staff from CCE Tompkins have been working together to plant edible species in the park for the last two years, and the park is starting to bear fruit this summer! Strawberries and Juneberries are ripe

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Volunteer for an hour or two to help support this project, or just take a walk through the park to see how edible plants can successfully be planted in a public setting in an urban environment! For more information contact Chrys Gardener at 272-2292 or email cab69@cornell.edu Thursdays from 4-7 p.m., starting on Thursday June 18 Tools, gloves and instruction provided.

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the old library would save money, but determined that it wouldn’t. Lane said that, despite the current discussions, ideally he’d like to have seen the county retain the property.

Regarding the three proposals before the committee, Lane said, “As far as the designs, I’m not thrilled by any of them.”

Although he conceded that it has “a dorky roof,” the Dryden legislator said that his preference was for the Travis Hyde proposal, which he understood that was not necessarily the most popular project.

Luz-Herrera said that any vote of hers would not be a “ringing endorsement” of any proposal and would only be intended

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here’s an old-fashioned barn raising in progress behind Carmen Guidi’s automotive body shop, on Route 13 in Newfield. Or, more accurately, there’s a cottage raising going on.

Three new 16-by-20 foot houses are going up at Second Wind Cottages, the community of small homes built by Guidi and other volunteers for formerly homeless men who want a place of their own. The project began in autumn 2013, and the first six cottages were completed for a move-in date of Jan. 24, 2014. On a recent Saturday dozens of volunteers spent a sunny day raising up the walls and roof trusses of the three new buildings, with occasional breaks for doughnuts and bagels at breakfast and a lunch of chicken barbecue and baked beans.

The current phase of Second Wind’s development should be complete “before the snow flies,” according to Chuck Newman, who is on the Second Wind board and a minister who focuses on planting house churches. By the end of the build day, the trusses were in place, and now volunteers are working on the roofs.

Without volunteers, Second Wind wouldn’t be happening. All the labor is provided of free will, and all the funds are donations. The faith community has been the nexus of support for the project, including the ecumenical non-profit Community Faith Partners. Each cottage costs about $15,000, Newman estimates, and he says that Second Wind is on the build-as-you-earn program. They’re not taking on any debt. That number doesn’t include infrastructure costs like installing a septic system and running water lines.

Costs are reduced partially by “getting good deals from everybody” on materials, Newman said. As evidence the venture has built good relationships with Ithaca’s

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Volunteers putting up the walls of new Second Wind cottages. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

handiest folks, a manager from one of the national home improvement stores on Route 13 was spending his day off helping put up cottage walls. Habitat for Humanity was also a help, Newman said. “[Habitat] contacted us and said, ‘We do this build day, and we were wondering if you had a project we could do?’ We said, ‘Why don’t you build us the trusses for these three cottages?’ And they paid for the lumber, which saved us about $1,400.”

Second Wind plans on a total of 18 cottages and a 80-by-100 foot community building, where Newman says they hope to have rooms for programming and counseling meetings and an industrialquality kitchen for the residents who want to improve their cooking skills or entertain family at holidays. More than 18 men living there would start running them into complications with the state, Newman said.

“We don’t envision more than 18 cottages unless we’re going whole hog into

a new idea. I guess the state doesn’t want a big home being run unsupervised, which they’re thinking of an apartment complex type thing, which is totally different than what we’re doing.”

After a morning of work at the build day, Dave Reed and some of the other Second Winders were relaxing under the picnic tent after lunch and admiring the million-dollar view behind the new cottages. Second Wind is perched right on the east lip of the ridge with a clear view down the valley to Ithaca. The tops of buildings at Cornell and Ithaca College can be seen poking up from the long swath of greenery. Reed currently lives in cottage No. 1, the closest to the highway.

He’ll be moving to No. 7, right at the corner of the complex at the hill’s rim.

“I’m going to have to take a picture of the sunrise every day when I get up in the morning,” Reed said. •

to help move the matter forward to the full legislature. She said, “I’m not happy with any of these projects.”

Sigler said that he didn’t like the age minimums on two of the proposals: “When I’m 80 I don’t want to live like that, I don’t want to live with just 80-yearolds.” Also, he criticized the price of the units offered in the Franklin Properties proposal.

Although some people have expressed concerns about adding that level of housing density in the downtown area, Sigler said, “If we can’t build density three blocks from The Commons, I don’t know where you would put density.”

Despite the age restriction on the Travis/Hyde project, Sigler said he favored that plan because “50 is the new 30, I guess.”

Kiefer said that she was interested in any project that would be willing to enter into a ground lease instead of outright purchasing the property. Although she liked the idea of preserving the existing building, she said that the impossibility of a ground lease for condominiums made the project not suitable in her mind.

McBean-Clairborne said that she wanted an affordable housing project, but that she wasn’t happy with any of the options on the table. She said, “I’m not going to support any one of these proposals.”

Now, the resolution supporting the Travis/Hyde proposal will go before the full legislature, although legislators are not obligated to select the committee’s recommendation. •

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n 1999 Art Weaver moved to Ithaca in order to work in the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory as a physicist.

He actually has both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Mayo Medical School and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. In 2003 he left Cornell and founded Renovus Energy, a company dedicated to installing renewable energy systems. Nine years later he left to found Weaver Wind Energy, which is focus on developing small-scale (5 kilowatt) wind turbines.

Ithaca Times: Why did you leave academia?

Art Weaver: The political situation was falling apart and I was 40 [years old] and decided to change the trajectory of my life. So I took the leap and founded Renovus. Originally it was not confined to solar, which is now very lucrative. My parting with Renovus was amicable. I’m not really a businessman/capitalist. I’m a scientist first. I’m concerned about the viability of the world. I was taught as a physicist to step back and examine the larger system. That can be your bench, the planet, or our cosmos.

I began to appreciate the planet and the finite nature of it. It was all becoming glaringly obvious to me based on statements made by other scientists.

Scientists are warning that humanity has a few decades left to make substantial critical changes in our relationship with the Earth or we’re in serious trouble. This warning was sort of lost; nobody knows about it, but I took it to heart. I left Cornell and did something more adventurous.

IT: So what have you been doing since leaving Renovus?

AW: I’m continuing with ‘small wind.’

The initial small turbines didn’t work, so we [Renovus] decided not to put up anymore. We needed something better.

That was seven years ago and it led to us looking at turbines from all over the world. Initially we were working with a firm in the Netherlands, but they went bankrupt. So we started on our own; we started from scratch five years ago. Now we are just days away from certification.

IT: What didn’t work on the small wind turbine?

AW: There were mechanical and electrical issues. They worked for a while and had ingenious designs, but they didn’t work well. The operational and maintenance costs were too high. On a small-scale turbine you can’t have those recurring costs. In a large wind farm that can be built into the budget, but small turbines have to be more robust and reliable.

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AW: It was a lot of brainstorming first. identical machine tomorrow. We don’t have the resources to sue.

We were familiar with a fleet of IT: You mentioned certification small turbine systems and before. How do you get that? we saw how they broke.

AW: Intertek is a testing lab They needed regular that certifies things like United maintenance and people Laboratories, UL, [a chemical just aren’t into that. testing laboratory] does. You give We asked, ‘What is them your machine and they put the fundamental feature?’ it on the highest hill in Cortland Well, it’s that the tail points County and collect data for months. the turbine into the wind.

Then they take it apart and The tail is the make you pay fees. In main thing the end you receive and it turns certification. We are just mechanically days away. [Editor’s note: to get the this interview took place turbine out on May 8.] of a high We’ve already begun wind. We sales. We can do ‘premade that certification sales’ for active, sales in larger markets because when we consent to with a elective inspections by motorized code officers. It’s a new tail you thing. It basically caused pivot and an extreme consolidation force needed of in the small turbine is much business. less. The The small thing wind itself happened in solar, but for is doing the a different reason. That has work for you. to do with the cost of the The idea was modules. It decreased from patentable, $10 per watt to less than $1 so we have a per watt. patent pending.

IT: What is the People market like for small wind think of these turbines? things and don’t AW: Small wind act. We did the exists next to solar. It can’t search and found really compete head to it hadn’t been head. Instead it works as patented. I’m not a complement because its really a believer windy in the winter without in patents. I think sun and sunny in the they’ll be stolen. summer without wind.

I believe it is the Basically [small wind] collective wisdom is a niche market, but it’s of humanity. I just global. We can sell a turbine care about producing in Romania; we have a a quality machine distributor. that will last 20 New York State has some years. If the Chinese of the best incentives. You produce an identical can get an outright grant from machine—and they NYSERDA, just like for solar. probably will—I There’s a program that looks don’t care. We’ll at estimated energy generation have introduced the at a site. If you can make idea. Elon Musk at 5,000 kilowatts per year, then Tesla [Motors] did NYSERDA can offer you $1.25 this: he released the per kilowatt-hour, for example. patent to the world, The same tax credits as exist for hoping others solar are also there for wind. would take it up.

Right now it’s a 30 percent It takes three tax credit. That’s ending years from filing December 31, 2016, but there to get a patent. will be a racket to renew it.

It’s kind of There’s also a production tax absurd. I’m quite credit available. confident that IT: It’s well know that we’ll receive it. solar panels are more energy It does matter Art Weaver if someone (Photo: Brian Arnold) produces an continued on page 10 T

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Ups&Downs ▶ Hartwick Scholars, Sophomore Nobel Htoo, of Ithaca, daughter of Aye Soe, is the recipient of The Emerson International Internship Scholarship. The scholarship provides grants for students from any major to pursue their interests in an international setting. Htoo is majoring in nursing. Sophomore Sarajane Roenke, of Trumansburg, daughter of Susan and Richard Roenke, is the recipient of an Andrew B. Saxton Fellowship in Environmental Chemistry. Roenke is majoring in environmental chemistry and mathematics.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Quote of the Week, Dryden legislator Mike Sigler does not want to live in senior housing when he gets old. He voted for the Travis/ Hyde proposal for the old library site, saying of the Franklin Properties proposal: “When I’m 80 I don’t want to live like that, I don’t want to live with just 80-year-olds.” ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of June 10-16 include: 1) Melissa Cady Files Notice of Claim Against County 2) Mente Sues Newfield, Again 3) State of Emergency Update and Travel Advisory 4) Updated: State of Emergency in Danby, Newfield, Candor 5) Ithaca Falls Gate, ‘Loopy Sidewalk’ A Wash Out? For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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etween Memorial Day, when the last of college students clear out, and the last full week of June, when public school lets out and frees parents to put their kids in camp and take a vacation, we pretty much have Ithaca to ourselves. For those four or five weeks on the cusp of summer we have this city to enjoy as we see fit.

With the undergraduates mostly elsewhere, our population dwindles from over 30,000 to a little under 20,000. Bars and restaurants are less crowded. The roads are filled with drivers who mostly know where they are going and don’t regard turning signals as optional. The lines at the supermarkets are not slowed by groups of five women with three shopping carts full of diet soda, Lean Cuisines, plastic cups, beer with fruit in it, and snack food.

During this lovely caesura between its cash-cow seasons of being a college town and turning into a tourist town, Ithaca gets to be a nice upstate New York city on one of the Finger Lakes.

Along the lakeshore we have Stewart Park, where you can grill some burgers and watch the sailboats; a public golf course; the farmers market; the mouth of Cayuga Inlet, with its dockside dining and drinking; Cass Park, with its children’s garden; and a state park with a marina and an active osprey nest. You have to admit, it’s kind of nice.

Sure, the Commons is still a construction site, but you can see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel now. Bank Alley is essentially finished except for a big fenced-off pile of sand

behind the still-roofless pavilion and that weird bare patch littered with matériel where the construction guys like to sit and eat. The east arm of State Street is getting there too: you can already use the chessboards, if you want. The vaunted gateway (paid for by community donations) is up at that end, including the sign (for tourists and students) letting you know that this is “Ithaca Commons” (as opposed to, perhaps, a really fancy parking lot?).

The kerfuffle over the traffic light in front of the new sign is silly. Move the sign, people. The traffic light’s position is following all sorts of engineering rules laid down by the Department of Transportation; don’t go there. But hey, this is exactly the kind of goofy public discussion we can blow out of proportion right now because it’s our down time.

While we’re at it, let’s haggle about whether an ADA-compliant sidewalk should lead to a gate that opens into a natural area where there are no paved surfaces at all. A natural area that is furthermore subjected to violent flooding, which is actually where the federal money to pay for the new bridge came from: scour protection for the banks, which were at risk of eroding and undermining the Lake Street crossing.

This past Monday, when all the creeks went berserk and flooded out the state highways, the public works people probably put a sawhorse in the path down to Fall Creek at Lake Street. The continued on page 7

Run This Way

By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

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n our short, sweet summer, Ithacans are good at getting outside and celebrating collectively our passions and interests.

Ithaca Festival, the city’s celebration of itself, comes at the start of unofficial summer, after Memorial Day weekend, once the students have gone.

In July, thousands flock to Trumansburg for the GrassRoots Festival, a four-day concert with dozens of local bands, dozens more from around the world, and major musical stars.

In between, in June, is the DeMott Trot, a 5K race honoring the memory of Peter DeMott, a prominent anti-war activist who lived in Ithaca. It is held on Father’s Day. “Race” is not the exact right word for the event, or should not be the sole one. While many of the hundreds of participants run it competitively, many don’t. “All are welcome to run, trot, walk, stroll, roll, or crawl,” says the event’s website, peterdemottpeacetrot.org. Primarily, perhaps, it is a gathering to celebrate a noteworthy man of peace.

Peter DeMott was born in 1947. After high school, he joined a Jesuit seminary, but left it to enlist in the Marines, at the height of the Vietnam war. Subsequently, he served in the Army.

“He was a good boy from the midwest who bought the line about saving the world from communism,” says Peter’s widow, Ellen Grady. “He was young. ‘Young and stupid,’ he would say,” she laughs.

“He served in Vietnam,” Ellen says. “Not on the front lines. ‘In the rear with the beer and the gear,’ he used to say.” He also served on a base in Turkey, and went to Moscow.

“It was an interesting conversion process for him,” Ellen says. “In Vietnam he saw what war meant. He didn’t kill anybody directly, but he had embraced it and participated in it. He felt a lot of remorse about that. In Moscow he met people who were supposed to be the enemy, but were just ordinary people trying to live their lives.

He saw that war and preparation for war was destructive on every level and not in harmony with his faith.”

Returning home, Peter joined the Catholic Worker for a life of peace activism.

“He felt he needed to say something as a veteran,” Ellen says. He engaged in an action against nuclear weapons in Groton, Connecticut in the early 1980s, in the Catholic Worker mission to “beat swords into plowshares.” Over the years he was jailed “two or three dozen times,” he used to say. On March 17, 2003, at the onset of the “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq, he was arrested at an Ithaca recruitment station as part of the St. Patrick’s Four, which included Ellen’s sisters Clare and Teresa.

“He valued simplicity,” Ellen says. “He saw that life wouldn’t be so hard for so many people without all this money spent for war.”

Peter died in 2009 in an accident while working. His extensive peace community immediately spoke of creating a lasting event to honor him. Friends who knew of Peter’s love of running suggested a race. When Ellen was ready to discuss it, she agreed to it.

“Peter ran every day,” Ellen says. “It made him cheerful and elated. He wasn’t a competitive runner, except maybe competitive with himself. He wouldn’t care about all the timing equipment and things we have now for the competitive runners, which we rent every year.” The race is now in its sixth year. “But we want it to be good for them as well as the people who just want it to be, what? Crazy and chaotic? We can do that, too,” she laughs.

The event is an important fundraiser for the Ithaca Catholic Worker group, whose current work includes protests against drone warfare directed from Hancock Field in Syracuse. The group maintains a house for guests and meetings on South Plain Street in Ithaca which is named for Peter.

The summer celebration aspect of the event is augmented by its setting, Cornell’s Plantations.

The Father’s Day date is in tribute to Peter’s role as husband to Ellen and father to their four daughters.

Information and registration is available at peterdemottpeacetrot.org. •

YourOPINIONS

“Vil age” Should Not Impinge on Farm

Look at all those white middle age men (plus one token woman), falling for the high-priced out of town planner’s “charrette” trap again! Fellow tax-payers, did you approve NYSERDA spending $175,000 of your hard-earned money to “fund the code development process” that will, according to the Ithaca Times article, by years end deliver a new town/city plan and code? I didn’t, and I am confident that plan will not help me grow 6 T

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food nor represent the people and trees of Ithaca. I was busy mulching berry plants on my farm.

The last planning “charette,” years ago, garnered a town-approved zoning variance that resulted in Hilltop Quickstop with its 24/7 glaring lights obliterating nighttime stars on my family farm 7/10 mile up the road. Even Town of Ithaca admits that approval was a mistake, but now that it’s continued on page 7

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Town planners (who now seem to have joined forces with city planners into a mega-planning monstrosity) appear to be using it as the lynchpin of a new “village” on the corner of 96B/West King Road. They used the Hilltop planning mistake as a reason to approve Country Inn & Suites and its adjacent housing development. Now our farm roadside is littered with fast-food bags that draw harmful raccoons, and tractor tire-slashing bottles thrown from passing cars taking the scenic route west from Route 96B. Town planners love to publish farm photos and claim to be farm-friendly, but warned their heavies will arrest me if I put up a small seasonal “berries ripe” sign on the corner of Route 96B with an arrow pointing toward my farm. What happened to common sense?

I diligently attended countless Town Agriculture Committee meetings, to speak out against the town’s revised farm plan.

My comments were duly noted but ignored by town planners. I spoke at the public hearing, as did farmer George Sheldrake of Early Bird Farms. We were each politely ignored. I notice that Early Bird Farms opened this year in Town of Newfield, not in their long-standing Town of Ithaca location. Town planners seem to be too busy reading their “form based” text books to recognize how their actions harm farms.

“Ithaca is Gorges” was a catchy bumper sticker, but maybe it’s time for something new. How about “Ithaca: Harming Farming.”

There is no “village” corner of Route 96B and West King Road. There are apartments owned by a developer and rented by Ithaca College students, a few stores, including the glaring allnight Hilltop QuickStop (now owned by international gas gianty Mirabito), Country Inn & Suites (owned by international giant Radisson), Sam Peters, a pair of small eateries owned by a hard-working local family, Montessori school whose tuition is out of reach for most local families, and a few houses along the road.

Last year developers’ bulldozers killed dozens of giant spruces to make way for a new commercial development on the east side of Route 96B, which will probably be named something like “Country Corners Village Shops.” Now that Town of Ithaca is too busy courting the city to retain any rural common sense, that new strip mall will likely sell mainly health-killing fast foods, overpriced clothes, and maybe try to spread downtown Ithaca’s penchant for drug paraphernalia out beyond the city limits (if so they should expect vociferous boycotting). And, planners beware, there appear to be many endangered plant and animal species living where you want to build this commercial “village” including sensitive ferns, and northern long-eared bats (which were just added to the endangered list), and many others.

Ithaca College, this is an opportunity for professors in a range of fields to teach your students useful research and documentary skills while standing up for the land that

surrounds IC. Like the Lorax who opposed nonsense, this farm speaks for the trees.

What are you going to eat when California dries up, the West King/96B corner has been paved, Mirabito drops little Ithaca from its gas delivery route or doubles it prices, and the Planners have sacrificed Town of Ithaca’s farmland to the city of Ithaca?

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November it was for $200,000 total, with funds coming in from other sources and the city agreeing to fund up to $30,000.

According to meeting minutes, McGonigal voted against authorizing that $30,000 in November at the City Administration Committee meeting, then voted for the project in January, but asked then for a “bare bones” approach that would allow the city to choose pieces to build depending on bids.

Responding to that same monetary concern from McGonigal last week, Gebre said that the design “can’t take out the railings” and that “the plantings and some of the landscaping are what make the park the park.” (There is a new guardrail planned that is required by the state as part of the bridge reconstruction.)

The $1,464,250 bridge project has been kept separate from the park improvements, as the park is not eligible for Federal Highway Administration funding under the so-called “80-15-5 system,” where 80percent of the funds are coming from the federal government, 15-percent from the state, and 5-percent from local sources.

The other sources of money for the park pledged so far, in addition to the $30,000 from the city, are $97,500 from Empire State development monies; $30,000 from the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency; $20,000 in from Tompkins County tourism capital grants, which received final approval in May; and $11,000 in city sidewalk program funding, which is slated to pay for a sidewalk extension along Lake Street in front of the dirt area where people park above the Falls, and can’t be used to pay for the loop sidewalk.

Gebre said that he was under the impression the county could fund up to $65,000 for the park, which has left a gap between the $189,500 pledged so far and the estimated current total of $235,000 for the project. He hopes that, with the bridge itself going to bid in the next week or so, that the city will be able to bid out the work on the park, too, as an optional “add-on” project and see how the bids go in before going into cost engineering mode and taking elements out of the design.

“If we have the chance to have one contractor, that by itself can save a lot of money in staging costs,” Gebre said.

“If the numbers come higher, we can have that discussion [about removing improvements]. If it comes under, we don’t have to worry about funding the project from new sources.” • —Josh

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planned park includes a gate that they will lock during conditions like those we saw on Monday. In better weather, you will just push it open and walk down to the falls.

Heck, it might give you a feeling of having entered some other less mundane realm.

After all, your destination is a waterfall that is 150 feet high and 175 feet wide.

Which brings us back to enjoying ourselves in this peaceful interregnum— during which we only have our local government to irritate and amuse us—when we have a chance to explore our vaunted gorges without being worried about stumbling upon a group of under-age drinkers learning to swim in non-chlorinated water for the first time.

The Cascadilla gorge trails are now fully restored and the path well worth making into your commuting route if you live in Collegetown and work downtown (or vice versa). You never really feel away from civilization—some houses practically hang over the gorge—but that is what gives it its drama: you’re surrounded by water, plants, creatures, and stone, but you’re still in the city.

So, go out to eat at that restaurant that you haven’t been able to get into, don’t worry about finding something to read on your phone while you’re in line at the supermarket, and that car ahead of you that’s signaling before turning left, it probably will turn left. •

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The plan is a requirement for meeting the state tax freeze in the coming budget year.

Thus, municipalities must both stay within the tax cap and show a 1-percent savings in order for taxpayers to be eligible for rebates.

One of the major savings in the plan was through a dependent eligibility audit for the healthcare consortium. In 2017 alone—the first year in which the county has to demonstrate savings—the healthcare audit will yield a projected $516,000 in savings. For savings to count as an efficiency, they have to be sustained for three years, and so the county has projected savings for 2018 ($557,000) and 2019 ($602,000).

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or know.” Some of the common situations include divorced couples where the exspouse remained on the insurance plan or children who aged out of the plan but were still receiving coverage.

Although more than half a million dollars seems like an awful lot of money, Mareane said that percentage-wise it’s not unusual. “The industry benchmark,” he said, “is about 5 percent. The industry expectation is that you’ll find about 5 percent of the people receiving healthcare were not eligible for it. The experience so far has been a bit less than that—our consultants said it has been about 4 percent—but that only affects about 2 percent of the costs of cover because our costs are based on the claims.”

The other savings claimed on the efficiency plan were also in the realm of healthcare savings. First, there’s the addition of a new platinum insurance plan, in which the employee pays 10 percent of healthcare Joe Mareane costs. For some of the county plans, employees were receiving a higher level of coverage than that, but now new employees will start on a platinum plan with 90 percent coverage. That’s already been negotiated with one union and Mareane said that he hopes to see it implemented with other unions and nonunion employees over time. In 2017, that will net a $257,000 savings, while in 2018 it will save $379,000, and by 2019 it will save $559,000.

Second, changes in the drug copay plan have yielded some substantial savings, including $675,000 in the first year. In 2018, the new prescription plan will yield $729,000 in savings, and in 2018 it will yield $787,000 in savings.

Although municipalities were allowed to submit efficiency plans individually, the county was able to show enough savings that it was could include the city, towns, and villages and still show a savings equal to 1 percent of the collective tax levy. The 1 percent target was around $880,000, but the savings totaled over $1.4 million for 2017.

While the dependent eligibility audit savings were consortium-wide savings, the savings from the addition of platinum plans and from changing drug plan copays were all realized just by the county.

However, because it was a countywide efficiency plan, all municipalities benefitted in terms of being able to show the requisite savings. Even the municipalities that don’t participate in the consortium—Town of Newfield, Village of Lansing, and Village of Freeville—were able to benefit from the savings by deciding to sign on to the countywide efficiency plan. •

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very day, there are Ithacans who go grocery shopping and pick up milk, yogurt, apples, wine and cheese, herbs and beans and salad greens that all come from fields in the Finger Lakes. Some of this food is sleekly packaged when it hits the shelves.

Some of it is advertised with ORGANIC FAIR TRADE NO MSG GLUTEN FREE buzzwords, and some of the produce is placed into a paper bag at the market by the hands of a farmer’s son or daughter.

However local food finds its way into the shopping bag, there’s one near sure thing even in our mechanized, digitized times: There were honest-to-goodness human hands that squeezed that milk from the cow or plucked that apple from the tree. Hands that increasingly over recent years have belonged to people who have come from other countries to upstate New York to do the hard work of farming.

Some of these immigrants stay here for good and some come to make more money than they could at home, then move back to pursue their dreams. Some are constant migrants, moving by ones or twos or in crews from farm to farm, and sometimes state to state, depending on the season, and some stay in one place all year round—particularly in the dairy industry.

Some live in the fear that, lacking the paperwork that gives them a legal status in the United States, they might be picked up by authorities and deported, leaving behind family, friends, even a child in the process.

Whoever you talk to about the work, it’s agreed it ain’t easy.

heavy or the crop won’t last,” Renteria says.

“With the ties you’re actually moving the vines up and down, depending on growth.”

“On a cold winter day when you see the 90 rows of vines you’ve got to cover, it’s hard repetitive work,” says Pete Saltonstall of King Ferry Winery, makers of Tréleaven wines.

Saltonstall’s vineyard brings in migrant work crews for “the big pushes” in vineyard management. The crews he hires are well regarded among vintners in the Finger Lakes.

“You can’t send a bunch of unskilled people out to do it—that’s just asking for trouble,” Saltonstall says. “You’re looking at vines, making a quick assessment of the health and status of the vine, and pruning it accordingly. You’re making instant decisions.”

Renteria acknowledges that she’s not the fastest worker, which matters since pruning and tying is usually paid perpiece—right now, the price is 20 cents per vine.

“I can tie off maybe 500 vines a day,” Renteria says. “My mom can tie off 800 or more a day, and there are people who can do a thousand-something a day.”

With two young children to get to daycare and a commute from Waterloo to whatever vineyard she might be working, Renteria also can’t keep the dawn to dusk hours that many workers pull.

Renteria started working at age 14 alongside her mother at the Red Jacket orchards near Geneva. Her mother was a nurse in Mexico and came to upstate New York when her sister turned her onto a gig in the orchards.

After leaving Red Jacket and a stint working in a packing plant, Renteria Susana Renteria is a migrant worker in and her mother began to work in the two senses: she began her life in the state vineyards, where the work season is of Michoacan, Mexico before moving with longer. Which vineyards they work her mother Maria to upstate New York depends on the crew leaders, who serve as at age 3. Now 23 years old, she now lives a “sort of middleman” between vintners in Dallas, but Renteria travels back to the and workers, Renteria says, by taking Finger Lakes in the summers to work in care of paperwork, cutting checks to the the vineyards on crews with her mother workers, and spending much of their days and others, tying and pruning vines and on the phone coordinating where workers harvesting the grapes. should go next.

Winter and spring are the time for Many agriculture workers are opting pruning, which means cutting the vines not to go into the vineyards at all right off then “getting rid of the excess vines now, Renteria said. that are starting to grow so they aren’t as “There’s a trend of wanting to work in R e u b e n Ag u i l e r a t r i m s t h e v i n e s at S h e l d r a k e P o i n t Vi n e ya r d s i n O v i d . ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d)

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a dairy farm more than wanting to be in the field,” Renteria said. “The crews aren’t as big as they have been in previous years.”

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National Public Radio program “This who would tie vines, prune, and trim, but This year, because of the lack of local American Life” reported a story on May 1 housewives don’t exist anymore. Everyone labor, Sheldrake Point will be using the has full-time jobs themselves that are more H-2A migrant visa program that allows for that included dairy farmworkers sleeping valuable work.” legal residents of the U.S. to work on other in tight conditions with shared beds.

“His bed is a wooden plank placed As the father of a high schooler, farms. over the tub,” the program said about one Weimann says he isn’t surprised his son “We have the requirement of putting farmworker, Jose. “There are a couple of wants to do other things with his summer several ads in several papers, and nobody pillows shoved over the faucet, so that the than work in the vineyards. shows up,” Weimann said. “It’s rather knobs don’t turn and flood the tub while “I can’t blame him for that, wanting to involved to get started with, a lot of do lifeguarding or playing basketball. A person has to come up with his own motivation. Kids are either looking to improve themselves and prepare for a career, or have some fun, and menial labor doesn’t seem like either of those.”

Saltonstall has had similar experiences with student workers.

“We put an ad in the local high school years ago and get kids coming out. As time passed, we got fewer and fewer, maybe two kids and one of them would quit after half a day.”

As someone who did all the vineyard work himself for the first seven years in business, Saltonstall is frustrated when he hears someone “making derogatory comments about M a ry J o D u d l e y o f C o r n e l l Fa r m w o r k e r s P r o g r a m ( P h o t o : J o s h B r o k aw)

Elmer moved to Cayuga County from Tennessee in 2008, when he was about 20 years old, because his brother had a job on a dairy in King Ferry. A native of Guatemala, Elmer had never worked on a farm of any kind before.

In Chattanooga, where he’d lived since emigrating to the U.S. around 2000, he had done landscaping and all sorts of other odd jobs—but had had nothing to do with cows.

“It was hard at first in New York,” Elmer says. “King Ferry is in the middle of nothing. The first week I was thinking about going back to Tennessee all the time.

My brother told me it’s OK; you want to stay here, learn, and get experience. You’ll learn to speak English, and in the future it’ll be easier for you.”

Elmer says he stayed in King Ferry for about five years, working from five in the afternoon to five in the morning six days a week. He shared a two-story house on the farm with six or seven other crew members who worked split shifts, everyone with their own bed and two to a room. Milking the cows and washing the walls were the entry-level jobs, Elmer says, with a wage of $7.15 an hour. He advanced to giving feed, moving equipment, and giving shots of medicine to the herd.

Elmer says his compensation topped process. We have to contact a out at $9 per hour. couple of different government On his weekly day off, Elmer came agencies, they inspect the down to Ithaca to shop, eat, and take housing and we contact people hour-long lessons in English at the in Mexico. They visit with the Cornell Farmworker program.

U.S. consulate to make sure they “I’d go to the Tractor Supply, the are who they say they are, and Chinese buffet, the Wal-Mart. And go we go through the process of to the Salvation Army—you can find an interview. They take a bus work pants and shirts for like eight from California to here at their dollars.” expense. And they’ll be here The end came at the King Ferry June through November.” farm, Elmer says, because he’d leave the There are many farm in his off-hours between shifts for farmworkers in upstate New ice cream with his girlfriend—and she’d York who, unlike Susana and sometimes show up there while he was Elmer, do not have their papers working to say hello. He’s now living in in order, and can’t do at all what the Maryland suburbs of Washington, they want to do.

D.C., working as a landscaper and “People merely going living within a few minutes of his two to town to get milk or brothers, including one he hadn’t seen something might result in a in over a decade. law enforcement detention “To be honest with you, I never and a return to immigration liked that job,” Elmer says, “I was doing that begins the process of it for the money. And it was in the middle of nothing. Here, there’s people Dav e We i m a n n , S h e l d r a k e P o i n t Vi n e ya r d deportation,” says Mary Jo Dudley of the Cornell around. When I’m not working I can M a n ag e r ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) Farmworker program. “So do whatever I want to do.” they try to leave the farms as little as possible. A child born in the U.S. goes to school regardless Elmer is not the only person who migrant crews.” of the immigration status of parents. The finds farm work an undesirable trade.

“These folks want to be out there, problem is parents may be afraid to go to “Students working a full-time doing the work, and working quickly. My a sporting event, a concert, a meeting with summer through on the farm doesn’t wife always prided herself, she was always teachers at school.” happen anymore,” says Dave Weimann, of a faster and better pruner than I was. The There are certainly stories from the Sheldrake Point Vineyards in Ovid, Seneca first time we had a migrant crew come region on conditions where farmworkers County. “I talk to other, older vineyard out, they blew past her. Her mouth just aren’t living in ideal conditions. The people, and we used to have housewives dropped open.”

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Tough conditions don’t mean people are going to stop taking jobs in the region.

“In the Finger Lakes, people want to establish a permanent residence here,” Renteria said. “My mom didn’t want to migrate state to state. It’s hard on the children … and, education-wise, there’s a lot of great programs for the children of farmworkers.”

It’s hard on the farmworkers, too.

“Unless you know English and can communicate with farm owners, the only thing to do to move up is be a crew leader,” Renteria said. “Unless you’re here yearround there’s no way to move up.”

Susana’s mother Maria has picked “pretty much every crop that’s in the Finger Lakes,” a career of bringing us grapes, apples, strawberries—fill in the list of your favorite crop yourself—at the bodily price of carpal tunnel developing in both hands from tying off vines.

Time is of essence, when picking by the piece to live. Also on the staying-alive checklist is staying hydrated. Time and the body don’t always agree in their demands, when, by design, modern plumbing is not installed every few hundred yards in fields of grapes.

“To them it’s not a big deal,” Renteria said of her elder comrades, “they say just go out in the field, it’s too far to go. I feel it’s an indignity: I’m not trying to go to bathroom when everybody else is here.

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intensive to make than wind turbines?

AW: We need all the solution on the table. If fossil fuels are killing the planet, we need all the solutions.

In defense of solar, there’s been an evolution to more ingenious ways to pack the modules. The aluminum frame is the energy-intensive part of the panel.

Producing the silicon ingots to make the cells is second. With wind you need a steel tower to get the turbine up to the smooth wind. Those are energy-intensive to make.

Electrical furnaces are efficient, if you can get the electricity. Aluminum is made entirely in an electrical furnace because you need to run a current through the smelter to separate the metal from the ore. Prior to the invention of that process aluminum was a precious metal.

IT: How does a turbine work?

AW: The alternator itself is just an electrical motor driven backwards by the rotors to generate instead of consume power. It’s got an aluminum housing and a laminated steel stator—the part of the motor that stays still. The metal is laminated to discourage internal loss of energy. It’s wound with copper wire to create a current. The rotor is not electromagnetic; its permanent magnets create a spinning magnetic field that induces a current on the stator … and you have wind power.

The typical house in New York uses about 7,000 kilowatt-hours annually. Our turbine can produce 30 to 70 percent of that at a typical site. It’s a 5-kilowatt turbine, which means it’s capable of producing 5,000 watts in a 25-mile-perhour wind.

On farms our turbine can be used to offset electric usage in the farmhouse or in some aspect of the business. Farmers generally need more than 10 kilowatts and less than 100 [kilowatts]. There are not a great number of turbines in that class. We just got an $800,000 grant to build a 15-kilowatt machine that scales the technology of the Weaver 5 to 15 kilowatts.

Fifteen kilowatts could take care of any larger upscale house that you can imagine, but it’s really intended for small farms and small businesses. We’re entering that market because very few businesses are in it. My idea of a better world is much more local and smaller [of everything], not big agribusiness farms, no so many big corporations bearing down on us.

IT: What does the future of wind look like?

AW: What is coming? Here we are in 2015. I predict by 2030 more than half of all energy will come from renewable energy. Because if you look at the trends, there been an increase in solar and number of electrical vehicles are increasing year by year and it’s a good fit to an exponential curve. If you extrapolate to 2026, you reach half; it’s doubling every year. • —Bill

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By stepping up big (and fast) at the state meet, Ithaca High’s Lauren Trumble not only capped off a great New York State career, she also qualified to go to Nationals this weekend in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Earlier this spring, Lauren knocked a whopping 11 seconds off the school record by running a 4:32 in the 1,500 meter run, and she went even faster at states, turning in a 4:29. It put her at #4 in NYS Division 1, and on Sunday, she will run in the National Championship Mile.

The fact that Lauren keeps running faster as she matures is great news for the University of Vermont track team, where Lauren will lace ‘em up this fall.

• • • An update on an athlete I featured here a few weeks ago: Jake Avery, a sophomore at Ithaca High, ran a 4:22:09 mile at the New York State High School Championsips last week. That put Avery in the top ten, and with two seasons left to compete, Jake will now try to maintain that balance between training hard enough but not too hard, eating enough but not too much and managing a growing and changing body.

• • • Congratulations to the athletes of Area 17 on their showing at the 2015 Special Olympics Summer Games. 26 Special Olympics athletes, and 15 coaches and volunteers from Tompkins and Cortland Counties attended in the New York State Summer Games for state competition at Brockport College.

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In track Cassie Taber of Ithaca won gold in the 200-meter dash, and Annie Ellsworth and David Andrews from Ithaca, and Kinsey Henry from Groton, all won gold in their events. Amy Cusano of Newfield tied for first place in softball throw.

• • • Over the course of the college baseball season, I read ongoing updates from Peter Voorhees, the Sports Information guy at Tompkins Cortland Community College. I kept seeing the monster offensive numbers being put up by sophomore Malik Fogg, and every week I said, “This guy has to cool off soon. There is no way he can keep this up all season.” Well, I was wrong …

Fogg stayed hot throughout the season, and as a result, for the first time in the history of its baseball program, TC3 has an All-American. Fogg has been named to the NJCAA Division III AllAmerican First Team.

The All American recognition wraps up an amazing season for Fogg. He made school history by doubling the previous single season home run record (he hit 11 home runs) while batting .477 with a slugging percentage of .908. He finished his TC3 career owning or sharing 11 college records, including most home runs in a season and career, most hits in a game, most doubles in a game, highest batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage in a season and career, and most RBI in a career. He also finished in the top three for six other records. •

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igh-quality backpacks, messenger and travel bags, jeans, jackets, shirts, sunglasses and grooming accessories, and … a haircut. If you’re looking for any of these things, you’d do yourself a favor by stopping in the newly opened Narrative Space, a “lifestyle store” store located at the bottom of East Hill at 213 N. Aurora St. According to the store’s website, it specializes “in future hand-me-downs, eventual heirlooms, and making you look like a million bucks.” Owner and commander-in-chief Mark Zaharis runs the store with his girlfriend Elizabeth Thompson, who is the store’s official ambassador. Zaharis’ sister, Alexis, a well-known barber in Ithaca, has her old-fashioned barber shop chair at back of the store and lets Narrative Space moonlight as a barbershop. Everything from Narrative’s Space exterior (a onetime home), to its selection of products, to its store mascot—a massive 10-year old Akita named Osiris—makes Narrative Space one of the more unique businesses in downtown Ithaca.

That, explained Zaharis, was the plan.

“We have a bunch of bags from companies like Filson and Topo Designs,” said the owner. “We also have American denim from companies like Left Field. A lot of the products we’re bringing in here, we’re focusing on high quality, Americanmade products. Right now, it’s mostly geared towards men, but we’re working on developing a women’s section that

Mark Zaharis and Elizabeth Thompson, owners of Narrative Space on North Aurora Street. (Photo Michael Nocella)

complements that stuff, like high-end work wear and fashionable items. We also have a small section of art books, mostly because that’s my history, and something

I wanted to have in here because I know I can’t find ones [in Ithaca] that I’m looking for. So that’s something I’d like to expand on.”

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properties, has spent the better part of the last 12 years in New York City at the International Center of Photography, both as a student, and more recently, an assistant.

“I’m interested in fashion as a line of photography,” Zaharis noted. “I think a lot of aspects of fashion, I enjoy a lot, the creativity aspect to it. So the items in the store are things I appreciate and enjoy a lot that I found in New York that you can’t find back here in Ithaca.”

While Thompson admitted the store and business idea was Zaharis’ “brainchild,” she also took credit in its creative creation, and rolling out the vision. Thompson, who also runs a boutique jewelry business in Brooklyn, has helped build relationships with brand reps, and to form Narrative Space’s overall mission.

“I’d say it’s exceeded my expectations,” she said. “We had a great team doing the build-out. We had some friends come up to help get the space put together they way we wanted it to be, including a carpenter from New York.”

“A lot of the reps for the companies we’re working with,” Zaharis said, “have been really excited about the space up here. Pretty much all of them that I’ve dealt with have had some kind of relationship with Ithaca. They’ve either hiked here in the area, went to school here, or know someone who did, or at the very least have heard about it. So it

wasn’t difficult to sell anybody on Ithaca or this store. Being a college town, there’s a natural demographic for these items and a natural draw, so they’ve been very receptive to the idea.”

And as for adding the barbershop element to the business model?

“My sister is a barber,” Zaharis said, “and she’s working at a couple different barbershops in town. We had this beautiful chair—she uses it, but it’s been in the back of her house. So we decided to bring it in here and make it part of the store. It kind of goes along with the vibe of store. Freeman’s in New York used to have a barbershop in their store, and I always loved that space.”

With the unique combination of high-quality goods and a barbershop, it is only fitting Zaharis came up with an equally unique name. After all, Narrative Space would be perfectly fitting for a bookstore. But for a store selling largely clothing and accessories?

It leaves something to the customers’ imaginations.

“The narrative space in literature,” Zaharis explained, “or even in any kind of art form that you can think of defines the area in which a story unfolds—where things take place. So that was kind of the idea behind the store: where things take place, or at least items you’ll use for where things take place.”

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wo years ago, Upstate ShreddingWeitsman Recycling bought Reamer Recycling, including its 122 Cherry St. location. The scrap yard is conveniently located directly across from Weitsman Recycling’s new steel distribution center at 132 Cherry St. That kind of expansion has allowed Weitsman Recycling to become a leader in its industry. On Tuesday, June 9 the company received the top industry award in North America by leading trade media group, American Metal Market (AMM). The award for “Scrap Company of the Year” was announced at the annual AMM awards dinner at the Edison Ballroom in New York City.

Weitsman was nominated for the award in the large company category (over $100 million in annual revenue) along with three other scrap metal recycling firms; Sims Metal Management of New York City, Commercial Metals Company of Irving, Texas, and Scrap Metal Services of Burnham, Illinois.

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fter nearly two decades as a physical therapist for the Cayuga Medical Center and, more recently, McCune & Murphy Physical Therapy, Christine Trumble (P.T., OCS) has found her niche: the pelvis.

Trumble, along with Jillian Erickson

(P.T., DPT), took that niche demographic of physical therapy and ran with it when they opened Trumble Physical Therapy two months ago. The office, which specializes in pelvic and maternal health, is located in Cayuga Heights at 840 Hanshaw Rd. While about 90

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percent of Trumble’s patients are women, she will accept as a patient anyone with pelvic-centric issues, including pelvic pain, painful intercourse, incontinence, rehab after abdominal surgery, urinary frequency, muscle/spine pain with pregnancy, rehabilitation of the abdominal wall or pelvic floor, care after a C-section or prostatectomy, constipation or fecal urgency, rectal spasm, and coccyx pain, among others.

“I separated because this is a specialty that I do now,” Trumble said. “This is mostly just a women’s health clinic: pelvic health, maternal health. Very few places like this exist in the country, let alone Ithaca or Tompkins County.”

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they can be caused by almost an endless amount of causes. Many of those causes can be traced back to giving birth, or to other vaginal, prostate or rectal surgeries or procedures, she added.

“We specialize in anything that can happen to the lumbar spine, the pelvis or hips,” Trumble explained. “What that means is, a lot of those issues can lead to people having incontinence. Pelvic pain can be tailbone pain. It can be all sorts of things. We do rehab for men after they have prostate surgeries. We do maternal health for women following the birth— abdominal wall strengthening.

“So basically,” she continued, “anything from [the chest] to [the pelvis region] we do. The reason this is a specialty is physical therapy is known more for working on someone’s limbs or joints, things like that. [The pelvic region] is just an area where the cause for a lot of the issues are muscles, nerves and ligaments, but very few places treat it directly. They tend to be more embarrassing issues that people don’t feel comfortable going to the doctor and talking about.”

If you’re thinking these types of issues are too rare or specific to be the foundation of an entire business in the greater Ithaca area, guess again. Just two months after opening its doors, Trumble said she is getting approximately 250 visits a month, and figures she only has the time and staff to handle 300 visits a month.

So, yes, business is booming.

“I knew, once we got the word out about what we did,” Trumble said, “there would be a big enough demographic [to run a specialty clinic]. I was doing this exclusively at my previous clinic for about four years. So I knew it was out there.

The reason I decided to go off on my own was because for so much of what we do, we have to educate people that it can be treated. And so having a different platform allows us to make that clear. Now patients can say ‘Yeah I saw these women at Trumble Physical Therapy, and they dealt with this, this and this.’ Now everyone is continued on page 18

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shrubbucket.com helps indie plant sellers compete with the big boxes

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hrubbucket.com has two basic functions. First, it is there to help plant enthusiasts find what they want at local nurseries. Second, it is there to help local nurseries compete with corporate budgets that fill the shelves with plants at big box stores.

In 2004 Ulysses “Rick” Hedrick sold The Plantsman on Peruville Road in Groton and signed a “no compete” clause with the new owner. Hedrick went back to his first career as a garden designer working out of a Manhattan office.

“I did similar work before The Plantsman,” said Hedrick. “I’m trained as an architect and a landscape architect. I went to RISD [Rhode Island School of Design].

I was the first in four generations not to go to Cornell.” Hedrick’s great-grandfather is well known in horticulture circles for having written the canonical Grapes of New York and A History of Agriculture in New York State.

In keeping with his heritage, Hedrick also intends for shrubbucket.com to be a place to find out about plants, not just buy them.

From designer to nurseryman to designer to ... the head of a cooperative, Hedrick started shrubbucket.com last fall when his no-compete clause expired and he was tired after 10 years of international projects in garden design.

“I wanted to avoid the red tape of a real cooperative,” he said. “Everyone’s business has a slightly different focus, so giving everyone a share like a regular cooperative would have been complicated. So it’s better for one person to be making the decisions.”

A visitor to shrubbucket.com will find nine members there now, but Hedrick said that new members are joining now. He intentionally started with a smaller group to “work out the kinks.” This is, after all, a completely new business model.

Plant shoppers make their purchases on line. Everything at the site is discounted compared to the prices at the bricks and mortar stores. Every two weeks each of the merchants gets a check and Hedrick has already taken a commission of the top of each sale.

“If you’re looking for, say, Shasta daisies,” said Hedrick, “you’d have to drive around or get on the phone. Now you can just go on line and see who has them and what size they have.”

The “back of the house” advantage of being a cooperative member is that a group of independent plant sellers can have the buying power of a large box store. All of the members of the cooperative place an order for products that they all need—for example, four-inch pots—and get them in bulk at a reduced price.

Hedrick said that half the local plant

sales are made at large box stores and that the regional market is losing small nursery businesses. He is determined to promote local nurseries over the chain stores.

“This coming winter we will be starting ‘peer to peer’ selling,” said Hedrick.

“This will be using the same database as the online store, but the merchants will have access to the wholesale prices.”

One of the kinks that Hedrick had to work out each merchant’s contribution to the use of social media. “It’s important to get information to people,” he said, “so everyone had to pitch their customer list into one pot.” But it turned out that some local merchants didn’t have customer email lists so Hedrick’s initial “seed list” was not as big as he hoped it would be.

“But,” he said, “word spread rapidly through social media and it turned out not to be a problem.”

His members quickly caught the online wave and began to push scrubbucket. com on their Facebook pages. Customers have responded strongly.

Hedrick plans to grow his list of merchants by expanding geographically, reaching up toward Syracuse and out to Buffalo.

“I knew I didn’t want to open another nursery,” he said. “So I used my experience to take it up a notch. Ithaca is a world class horticulture and gardening community.

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scene at the site by increasing its hours of operation, said Stephen Donnelly, president of Dynamic Innovation Group, which handles Weitsman Recycling’s public relations.

“Since acquiring the yard,” Donnelly said, “we’ve increased the volume significantly. One of the things that makes this company successful is that we’re open seven days a week. We’re a more customercentric recycling company. Anything we do in the yard, from early morning to late at night, is with our customers in mind.

We have a lot of flexible hours, just to make it easier for our customers to get in. We deal with everyone from grandma cleaning out her attic to industrial customers, to municipal customers. We have a lot of different kinds of folk that come in here.”

So what makes a recycling company a great recycling company? Donnelly said Weitsman Recycling prides itself on being extremely friendly to two specific parties: its customers and the environment.

“One of the big things we focus on,” he said, “is making sure we’re extremely friendly with the customers. That’s why we extend the days and hours we’re open.

We realize people have their own jobs and can’t get here during the day. We treat everybody with the utmost respect.

We find that makes the whole process of recycling more enjoyable for everyone involved. Paying the top prices is obviously very important too. We pay top prices for scrap medal, and like to make sure we’re a leader in that regard too. We also offer same-day cash, which not everyone around here does.

“The core benefit of having a recycling yard like this,” he continued, “close to where you live is you can take materials you’re not going to use and have them turned into something that’s going to get reused, so it doesn’t end up in a landfill or anything else like that. We want to make sure we’re recycling as much as the product that we can. Secondly, we do things a lot different here that people might have come to expect from a recycling yard. We make sure we have the reclamation units, we make sure we’re being DEC-compliant, and probably even more so than we need to be. We really try to do everything we can to not contaminate the environment.”

Donnelly stressed that Weitsman Recycling’s process does everything it can to keep the naturally environmentally friendly concept of recycling, well, just that. Residents concerned about drainage, and other materials involved with metal products need not be concerned, he added.

“Any time you’re taking a product and reusing it for other purposes, from our perspective, we look at that as a great thing. It’s keeping them out of landfills.

We’re very environmentally proactive. At all of our locations—which this [Ithaca] location will also undergo—we do a lot of paving for stormwater treatment and environmental mediation work just to

make sure we’re being good community neighbors and being environmentally aware. For instance, we drain cars of their fluids before we crush them because we don’t want to contaminate the ground with those fluids.”

Like any company dealing with expansion, Weitsman Recycling faces the challenge of keeping and bringing the quality of its reputation to each new location. So far, it seems to have been successful. It all starts with the man up top, Donnelly said.

“Adam [Weitsman] is very hands on, so he has a presence at every single yard,” said Donnelly. “He comes to each one and makes sure everyone knows and understands what makes the company successful and to really follow that formula. So when we acquire a new location, we make sure everyone working their understands how to give the quality of service we’ve become known for.” § Trumbletherapy contin u ed from page 16

like ‘Really? This is something you can stay busy enough treating only this?’ Right now we’re doing 250 visits a month, so the answer is ‘yes.’”

As for how Trumble and her staff address these problems, she noted there are two different approaches depending on the patient, and the likely cause—or impending cause.

“We’re trying to go at this a couple of different ways,” Trumble said. “We’re want to do both prevention and rehabilitation.

So women can come in while they’re pregnant to get them started on stuff that, we know once they have the baby, is going to be a problem. So coming at it from that direction and having them come in after they have the baby to get their pelvic floor muscles rehabbed. That part is to get the pelvic muscle back to where it needs to be to stop problems happening two, five and 10 years down the road. Seeing those problems happen to patients is how I got into this niche of PT in the first place. When you see women have back or abdominal pain, you can trace everything back [to giving birth].”

Trumble explained that her experience has prepared her for her new chapter of running her own practice. She added that her expertise and passion for her work stems from being able to identify causes and solutions for certain patient problems that maybe other physical therapists or doctors fail to see.

“I think, selfishly, it’s a little bit of a rush because you are helping people that have been miserable for years,” she said.

“And you can help them in three or four visits,” she continued. “So as far as ego boosting, that’s pretty cool, right?

These people have issues where they’re not having sex with their husband anymore or they’re not having sex with their wife anymore because they have issues. It’s personal, very emotional issues. They’re not leaving their house because of fear of leaking urine. It’s way beyond they want to run a marathon but when they get to 12 miles their foot hurts.” §

Following the trail of an American legend

By Amber Donofrio

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here are few photographers whose names carry as much weight and attribution as Ansel Adams. His work, whether it is of the depth and stark edges of the Grand Canyon or the effortless reflection of mountains into a mirrored lake, has made such an impact on the photography and our perception of the natural world that they can be identified as his photos even without knowledge of most other artists in the field.

There’s distinctness to his work, in the photographs’ sharp and painstakingly perfected focus and the vast expansiveness of the subjects (the environments and natural landscapes) they capture.

Adams was one of the first photographers to be accepted into the art world, and in witnessing his defined style and rigid attention to the detailed nuances of capturing and developing an ideal print, it’s not difficult to see why.

In August 2011 local photographer Devan Johnson went on a trip with her family to explore the West.

Naturally, she said, at the prospect of going to Yosemite and other national parks, she immediately thought of Adams and his work. What came out of these travels was a collection of photographs in homage to Adams, a collection with select prints currently on display at Moving Box Studios this month.

“His work was groundbreaking,” Johnson said. “And being in the same places that he was shooting and shooting the same things … it gave me so much more of an appreciation for the amount of work he did.

“And it’s one thing,” she continued, “to look at the photos, but there in the presence of these great behemoth structures …” It was an entirely different and riveting experience.

The American West: A Tribute to Ansel Adams includes photographs from Yosemite, Zion, and Grand Canyon national parks, and references to Adams are clearly visible in her use of contrast and compositional choices. In a photo taken through the car’s back windshield

just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, the moon hangs high in the sky, small but so clear that the smudge of its presence is wordlessly captivating. The moon is waxing, not quite full but still identifiable in the muted and vast sky that fills the print with a stretch of comforting white space.

Closer to the ground is mountain terrain, ranging in shades from light to near black.

black that night, dark against the moon’s glow, and the contrast of the sky against the greater New Mexico landscape is breathtakingly resolute as your eyes transition down through the clouds and onto the miniature houses and plants below. With that reference in mind, it becomes apparent how Johnson’s piece borrowed compositional elements from Adams but focused on light more than dark. She kept

HalfDome by Devan Johnson (Photo Provided)

Each ridge is beautifully captured, the darkest of shadows drawing you into the crevices that appear so tangible, so real and present, as if you could reach out and touch the mountains’ surfaces through the print and feel the hard rock breathe against your palms.

Interestingly, however, the sky and moon dwarf the mountains as the focal point of the image.

While usually mountains are depicted as large and unyielding, here the sky can dominate them.

Johnson’s photograph seems a direct reference to one of Adams’ most famous pieces, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, which he captured at twilight in 1941. The sky was

him and his work in mind for inspiration and guidance, but took things into her own hands as well while undertaking her subject matter.

Johnson’s photograph stands out in the show, and I may even go as far as to prefer her piece to Adams’ in this instance, in love with the clean simplicity of the image’s space.

“Actually in preparation for this collection,” Johnson said, “I did a lot of research before I went on the trip, looking at all the different types of photos he made. You can see there are not only landscape images, his famous work, but there are a couple of detailed ones [flowers, pine needles]. When I was first putting together the show I showed some people the collection continued on page 24

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ringer for the film’s villain.

The miscasting is all the more obvious in the face of Paul Dano’s work here. 30 pounds heavier and sporting some seriously cool Buffalo Springfield mutton chops, Paul Dano gives one of the best film performances of the year.

Too bad the film he’s in isn’t as good as he is. Pohlad, a producer making his directorial debut from a screenplay

by Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner, really nails the mid-‘60s vibe of Los Angeles studio city; the crew shot all the studio sequences in the same studios that Wilson ran his Beach Boys sessions.

side from several low-rent TV movies and miniseries, Bill Pohlad’s Love & Mercy is the first film to really capture the majesty and cracked genius of Beach Boys figurehead Brian Wilson. To that end, it examines two different Brian Wilsons: Paul Dano plays the young, troubled prodigy in 1965 trying to convince the Beach Boys toward pop experimentation with the Pet Sounds album, and John Cusack as the older Brian Wilson, under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti).

Elizabeth Banks plays Wilson’s wife, Melinda Ledbetter, a car salesperson that fell in love with Wilson in the mid‘80s and managed to separate Landy from Wilson and arrange better care for him.

The film flips between Dano and Cusack, attempting to create a true schizophrenia Paul Dano as Brian Past in Love & Mercy. (Photo provided) within Wilson.

Unfortunately, the dual structure reinforces the fact Where the elder Wilson-Landy that the studio drama around the young scenes feel dumbed-down and TVWilson could have been its own movie— obvious scenes, the sections depicting albeit a depressing one—about Wilson the Beach Boys in the prime of creativity capturing some of the greatest pop reveal some fascinating information moments of the ‘60s. Despite a terrific about the pop process of the time and and fiercely felt performance by Banks, show Wilson’s childlike enthusiasm for the Cusack era stuff plays like all those improvising, trying new methods and lesser television versions of Wilson’s life. making great music. Even the most Like Nicolas Cage, John Cusack passionate fans of the Beach Boys might has made a career of being miscast, but not know that Wilson retired from the only Cage has risen to the challenge and road, recorded backing tracks with the transcended the casting issue. Cusack has legendary Wrecking Crew, and then had been wandering from icky Cronenberg the band record their vocals later.

(Maps to the Stars) to C-grade action So it’s kind of great that studio pros (Drive Hard) and even prestige Oscar like bassist Carol Kaye (Teresa Cowles) bait like Lee Daniels’ The Butler with and Van Dyke Parks (Max Schneider) no make-up, no new inflection, and no are now characters in a movie. At one attempt to play any character other than John Cusack. (You know who would have point, Kaye points out that Wilson had written parts in the key of D and A, and made a perfect older Brian Wilson? Beau they fit together perfectly. For more on Bridges, circa The Fabulous Baker Boys. the Wrecking Crew, see Denny Tedesco’s Bridges also talks from his right side, as fine new documentary, which is currently Wilson did after his father ruined his available at On Demand, and read Kent hearing.)

Hartman’s fine book on the subject. The Giamatti is also miscast; I Googled film strikes a cool, sonically ambitious pictures of Eugene Landy, and character actor John Glover would have been a dead tone for half the ride, at least. •

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with sketches, measurements and descriptions, Daisy describes how Beatrix n local author Jeanne Mackin’s newly unexpectedly stumbled upon her first published historical romance novel, passionate romance in a remote garden A Lady of Good Family, she cleverly corner of Villa Borghese outside Rome. invents a love story—several intertwined In the essay “On Histories and love stories—based on the lives of realStories” A. S. Byatt—author of the life historical figures and world events historical fiction novel Possession—wrote while repurposing fictional characters that the omniscience of a nineteenth from the same time period. It is narrated century fictive narrator “can creep by novelist Henry James’ fictive Daisy closer to the feelings and inner life of from Daisy Miller. However, in Mackin’s characters—as well as providing Greek iteration Daisy survives “Roman fever,” chorus—than any first person mimicry lives on to marry, raise a family of six, ... always to heighten the reader’s and meet budding American landscape imaginative entry into the architect Beatrix Jones world of the text.” Fictive Farrand (1872 – 1959) narrator Daisy Winter serves who is novelist Edith this purpose in A Lady Jones Wharton’s niece. of Good Family by telling Daisy tells us the story Beatrix’s story 25 years after of 23-year-old Beatrix’s she was both Beatrix’s and passionate romance as Minnie’s close confidant and we follow her on the sometime travel companion six-month study tour during this 1895 trip, then of European gardens following Beatrix’s “heart and landscapes she history” path until they retook in 1895 with her meet in a new garden she was mother Mary (Minnie) designing for the Blisses in Cadwalader Jones.

Washington, D.C. A Lady of Good Daisy chronicles her Family takes place Jeanne Mackin (Photo Provided) memories of Beatrix’s during the second unfolding travel romance half of the Gilded by thematically weaving in Age also known Europe-inspired literature, German folk in landscape history circles as the lore, ghost stories, Baroque Renaissance “American Country Place Era” (1894 – religious paintings; making passionate 1940). This was a period of great wealth “pagan” connections to designed gardens for many industrialists in the United and forest landscapes using personal States. All across the country, landscape architects and building architects worked letters and recalled conversations. In alternating chapters Daisy discloses her together to design large country estates own marriage travails after her husband for owners such as the Vanderbilt and saved her social standing among the Rockefeller families. These landscapes American community traveling among often featured an eclectic mix of formal the same European watering places.

Italian and French as well as naturalistic Daisy opens a window onto late 19thEnglish styles of design. These same wealthy American families also sent their early 20th century societal confines with regard to the role of women, including marriageable daughters on the European Beatrix’s mother and her aunt Edith Grand Tour circuit in what often became Wharton and their real-life struggles an exhaustive search for an eligible with the difficult men they married bachelor, preferably with a title. and divorced, thus causing them to Beatrix—born into the wealthy pursue work to support themselves; the old New York Jones family—went to Suffragist’s struggle for the right to vote; Europe with her mother Minnie not “Old World” Europeans’ low opinion of to “husband hunt” but to study formal “New World” new money Americans and gardens and natural landscapes as part more. of her professional training. Mackin A Lady of Good Family is an incorporates some of Beatrix’s real-life imaginatively sensuous portrait of an advisors: Charles Sprague Sargent and American woman of privilege who Frederick Law Olmsted, who send her off with lists of gardens to visit, including pursues her passions, serving as an excellent role model for today’s young those of British garden designers women. Two stellar examples of Beatrix Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson.

Farrand’s designed landscapes open to However, Mackin has something else in the public are Abby Aldrich Rockefeller store for the young woman who was to Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine and become America’s first female and one Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.r of the country’s top landscape architects. choice and its local repercussions. • While innocently filling her notebooks

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By Ros s Ha ars ta d God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton; Hangar Theatre, through June 20

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or its season opener the Hangar has chosen Yasmina Reza’s enormously popular comedy of bad manners, God of Carnage. Think of it as the upper middleclass version of a Judd Apatow men-arejust big-adolescents-with-tummies-fest, or a species of later Mamet or Neil LaBute glazed with a touch of elegance and fortified with smart women. It has been called Albee-light, but even if it does involve the disastrous meeting of two married couples, that’s a stretch.

The set-up: Alan and Annette (parents of Benjamin, age 8) have been invited for a chat with Michael and Veronica (parents of Henry, same age), because Benjamin knocked out two of Henry’s incisors with a stick.

Other than giving actors a chance to chew the scenery, I’ve never understood the popularity of this play (winner of a Tony for Best Play). Its structure is extraordinarily mechanistic and its message banal:

underneath our civilized exteriors, we are savages. Épater la bourgeoisie (“shock the middle class”) was the cry of the French decadents and the early avant-garde; the current style seems to have the bourgeoisie stick it to itself, in an orgy of self-lacerating semi-satire. Liberals are stripped of their platitudes and shown to be no more altruistic than brutal (typically male) realists.

The presence of African art knickknacks on Ken Goldstein’s elegant set telegraph a skewering of white liberalism.

As the gloves come off, Alan, an international corporate lawyer, sets his teeth to eviscerating Veronica, author of a book on Darfur, claiming she is only trying to “save herself ” with her concern.

He gleefully calls his own child a savage and proclaims his belief in the god of carnage who “has ruled, uninterruptedly, since the dawn of time,” choosing as his example 8 year-old Congolese boys who learn to murder. Michael, perversely states that Veronica’s “infatuation for a bunch of Sudanese coons is bleeding into everything

now.” temper tantrum late in the play. Michael This no-holds-barred bigotry is all is drawn as blunter and with less social the rage nowadays, under a pretense of status in the play (somewhat lost in this “exposing hypocrisy” writers (and comics) Americanization), and William Langan has say the crap that lies beneath a supposedly a great handle on his growing antagonism overly P.C. culture. Well B.S. to that. Reza to the women in the room and on his simply employs casual racism to give her phone (his mother). play extra shock value.

The women are the more fascinating Artistic Director Jen Waldman characters, much better drawn. As partly programmed this play because she wanted to include a woman playwright in this season (Less than 12 percent of the 201 plays in the Hangar’s 40 years have had women writers.) Yet Reza is so uninteresting compared to the extraordinary flourishing of women playwrights in the U.S. and Britain in the past decade. Her sexual politics are no further than Neil Simon’s (John Wayne, Spartacus and Jane Fonda are her reference points for the gender conflicts.)

Amy Tribbey and William Langan star in ‘God of Carnage.’ (Photo Provided) But, is it funny?

Often, yes, though not uproarious. The best bits are the increasing physical comedy as Veronica, Amy Tribbey is all the dothe evening becomes drunken and semigooder, perfect mom who drives herself violent (but never enough to actually break to near-paralysis as her carefully scripted anything.) Director Steve Pacek stages the evening is blown to smithereens. But it’s action fluidly with a generally tight pace.

Hillary Parker’s Annette, who takes the (He does allow some lulls where the action cake. Elegantly, even severely coiffed and in the text flags.) dressed (smart costumes by Becki Leigh), Brendan Powers as Alan is all smoothshe vomits early on, and later scenes of her talking, and blithely obnoxious when pale yet determined to hold her own in the not boorishly oblivious; he has a fun drinking contests are priceless. •

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from Trinidad. Somehow we see the big difference in height. They will fix the plumbing “one-two-three.” In the lobby, Raymond’s wife Chloe cuts hair in her “So you’re the new tenants …” salon, boisterous and gossipy and yearning n the early ‘80s a newly wed Alice Eve to return to Trinidad.

Cohen moved into a “century-old Marie, the local crazy, presents herself New York City residential hotel, once to Alice’s husband, “Mr. Maestro” (who is elegant, now run down.” The walls were a musician: “Oh, that’s why you go out in a thin, making it easy to eavesdrop on the tux on the weekends.” She demands singing neighbors. lessons, though she can’t pay (she will when Thin Walls is a story of this building she becomes a famous through that singer). Oh, also, tumultuous decade she’s tone-deaf. Marie and of a dozen of travels the hallways its residents. Hopes, like a ghost. There are sorrows, petty many ghosts. problems, conflicts, Meanwhile, the living and dying. It is “Maestros” adopt also a story about the a baby girl, argue, stories told, about the separate. residents of the past, Upstairs live of Rudy Vallee playing Arnold and Janet, old on the once elegant hippies who landed rooftop patio and of here after Woodstock. the circus performers, He’s now a banker, the Fat Lady and the go figure. They offer Dwarf, who once lived their son Tom for in Room 303. babysitting chores.

Cohen inhabits This diffident teenager each character in this is one of Cohen’s solo play with a twist: most endearing although Cohen exists impersonations, a in this story, she has slight turning away of removed herself as the eyes, a shy shuffle. commentator; there Issues of home is no first-person and safety keep narration. It reminds cutting through me of Isherwood’s the daily life that phrase in Berlin Stories, Alice Eve Cohen in Thin Walls (Photo Provided) accumulates on the “I am a camera with its almost bare stage. shutter open …” The Drug transactions, abuse, the crack effect is akin to a short novel made up of interlocking short stories. We become Alice epidemic, the city’s plans to move the homeless into the hotel. Danger visits, as the characters address themselves to her. horrifically, then leaves. Life continues.

Joe and wife Mady come at us first; The play is a haunting, thrilling act of he has a wide, almost belligerent stance, witness. Cohen has a mastery of inflection, even though he turns out to be more of a cadence and physicality, with an eye for pussycat. Cohen, who remains in the same searing detail that rivals that of Anna costume throughout, delineates him with Deveare Smith, plus a nose for offbeat a forward thrust, a thumbing gesture, and humor that would delight Lily Tomlin. a New Yawker accent. After a moment we Director Rachel Lampert shapes it realize he is shirtless and sweating, as he lovingly for the Kitchen space, which Tyler invites the newlyweds to admire the scars Perry has given a magical background. from his two open-heart surgeries.

Wife Mady, an inveterate eavesdropper Behind an apartment door, a black scrim reveals little pieces of each residents’ and smoker, complains of their airless, homespace, as well as a lobby and an windowless apartment next door. She elevator. It’s all gathered together on a berates her granddaughter for being half giant knick-knack shelf, like one of Joseph black. Later she berates Jane, her “lesbo Cornell’s assemblages. Perry adds evocative daughter.” Opinionated, a touch bitter, lighting, and the building breathes through Mady recurs through the years, and Cohen the soundscape provided by Daniel Levy gently finds her heart. (augmented by Lesley Greene).

The handymen are Tadeucz, a short The play shimmers in memory like a Polish immigrant learning English, hot New York City summer night. • and Raymond, a tall deliberate man

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and asked them which ones they thought I should print. With the detail ones they were like, ‘These are very beautiful but they’re not very Ansel Adams-y.’ And it’s ironic because those ones are actually most closely based on actual images he took. I really intentionally looked through all of his work and had specific images in mind when I was making all of these.”

One detailed image Johnson is referring to is of a flower she saw in Zion National Park in Utah. The flower is straightforward and simple. It has four light petals, crinkling inward at their edges, and its stem is covered with small, weed-like leaves. Behind the flower is a backdrop of rock, little speckles, lines, and cracks of texture visible on its surface.

Below the flower, slightly blurred, are dark rocks or specks of dirt or moss, grounding the photograph and making it compositionally whole.

In another close up, this one taken in Yosemite National Park in California, pine needles gleam in the sunlight. Surrounded by little star-shaped bursts of light, the plant seems almost unreal, as if when you back away from the scene it will no longer exist.

As it turns out, Ansel Adams was as much a fan of close up nature images as he was of photographing the larger expanse.

He made numerous detail photographs of flowers, pinecones, and leaves, perhaps in as much an investigation of their form

and details as in an appreciation of their natural beauty. The most famous of these is Rose and Driftwood, closely focusing on a rose whose soft curves are juxtaposed against the curving lines and rings of the wood. A photo in Johnson’s The American West collection, one available for viewing on her website but not currently hung in the show, seems a most direct reference to Adams’ flower photos: the flower, with its petals twisting around one another in a spiral shape, is sharply captured so that it is the only object you see clearly in the frame. Behind it, its leaves blur into a misty haze.

But a significant fact about Adams is that his work is revered not only for its artistic prowess, but also for its connection to his impact on environmentalism and nature preservation and conservation.

Adams was a social and political advocate, working for (and taking these photographs for) the Sierra Club, lobbying to create national parks and protect the environment from development projects that would destroy it.

“He used his photography to promote environmental awareness and protection of the land,” Johnson explained, “which is something I always wanted to do with my work. I got into photography because I was passionate about the environment, wildlife, protection of natural life, and environmental causes, so that’s why he’s always been an idol, an icon really, to me.”

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Northern California, as well as numerous other areas of preservation in the West.

And after all of these years, after increased technologies and numerous new artists and photographers who now take their place in the world, it is Adams, it seems, who brought the majestic sublimity of the western landscape to light, a subject matter that photographers and artists alike have continued to explore. Observing Johnson’s photographs, your eyes look upward and inward, following the lines of the mountain ridges encompassing the space, defining it, making it their own.

Animals cluster to graze in one image; in another, Yosemite pine trees take the focal point as a mountain sits obscured and faded in the background, viewed through a sheet of fog or distance. These places and topics have been addressed in the past, but their extreme presence and beauty proves timeless, as none of these images feel old or overused. They exist within the present space and time of the viewing, uncovering sensations of wanderlust and an utter yearning for exploration.

“The western landscape is the opposite of the East,” observed local artist Rob Licht, whose work also addresses the West and whose fascination with it was first sparked during a family camping trip during his childhood. “Here, we have a history of human control written on every corner of the landscape and life is measured by interactions with other humans in man-made environments.

In the West, the landscape is raw; the

natural features dominate and distances are incredibly isolating. It controls us. The openness of the land and sky overwhelms to the point where an existential crisis sets in: the Romantic’s version of God that you might be seeking in nature does not care if you exist or perish. It is a place where one can still vanish without a trace and where nature is self-serving. The wilderness preservation movement that Adams’ work helped to inspire is based on this idea of wilderness existing only for its own sake. Standing in the middle of such a wild expanse is the only way to fully comprehend the beauty and meaning of the West.”

Johnson agrees that the West is appealing due to its massive scale and grandeur. “Upstate New York is beautiful,” she said. “We’ve got rolling hills, the waterfalls, the gorges where we live.

It’s gorgeous. And then you go out to Yosemite or the Grand Canyon and you have these huge mountains that are just absolutely breathtaking. Everything is on such a huge scale out there. It just makes you feel so small.” • The American West: A Tribute to Ansel Adams will be up at Moving Box Studios, on the 2nd floor of the CSMA Building at 330 MLK/E. State Street, through June.

Additional photographs in the collection can be viewed on Devan Johnson’s website at devanjohnsonphotography.com.

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David and Valerie Mayfield | 10:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Bluegrass.

DJ Gourd | 10:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, Afro-Beat, Electronic, House.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures. Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-273-8678; on Fridays, 607-3424110.

Jessica Pratt | 8:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Singer Songwriter, Psych, Classic Rock.

Pink Talking Fish | 8:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, and Phish Covers. Psychedelic, Post Punk, Progressive, Dark, New Wave, Setlists!!

Pelotones | 8:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Swing, Dance, Old-Time.

Passive Aggressives Anonymous, Red Sled Choir, Lucia Roberts, Anna O’Connell | 8:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Avant-Old Time, Crooner Blues, Experimental, Ambient, Singer Songwriter. Ithaca Underground Presents.

Dar Williams | 7:30 PM, 6/19 Friday | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Folk, Pop, Alternate Country, Singer Songwriter.

Cats Elbow | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Alternative, Classic Rock, Old-Time, Neo-Country | Broke On Sunday | 5:30 PM, 6/19 Friday | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Folk, Americana, Roots Rock, Melodic Old Time.

Liz Enwright | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk, Traveler Music, Singer Songwriter.

6/20 Saturday

1980’s Underground | 10:30 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | New Romantic, Witch House, Proto Punk, New wave, Dark Wave, Punk.

DJ Jel | 10:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Soul, Deep House, Electronic.

The Common Railers | 9:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Country Alt-Rock, Rockabilly, Surf, Americana, Roots.

Glengarry Bhoys | 8:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Celtic fusion, Traditional Scottish and Irish, Modern Celtic, and contemporary sounds.

Opus Ithaca School of Music Faculty Recital/Scholarship Fundraiser

| 7:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Great music played by the wonderful musicians at Opus Ithaca!

Chamber music and jazz.

The Jeff Love Band | 6:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | R&B, Soul, Funk, Rock.

DJ Gourd | 1:00 AM, 6/20 Saturday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, Afro-Beat, Electronic, House.

Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM, 6/22 Monday | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats.

Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM, 6/22 Monday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

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Open Mic | 9:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | DJ Freeze: Tipsy Tuesdays | 9:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Level B Bar Lounge & Dancing, 410 Eddy St, Ithaca | Deep House, Grooves, Electronic.

I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted

by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Hosted

by Traonach Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM, 6/21 Sunday | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

Bound for Glory: Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Annabel Taylor Cafe, Cornell, Ithaca | A remarkable bluegrass band.

Info at amygallatin.com Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters (Live WVBR Broadcast) | 8:00 PM-, 6/21 Sunday | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Indie.

Live show for WVBR’s Bound For Glory, North America’s longest running live folk concert broadcast.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

Jim Adkins | 7:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Guitarist and Vocalist of Jimmy Eat World. Singer Songwriter, Rock, Emo, Indie.

Contra Dance with some squares | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Tioga Trails Café, Lake and Main Streets, Owego | Beginners welcome, all dances are taught and prompted, come with or

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW W/ STURGILL SIMPSON DECEMBERISTS W/ LUCIUS PRIMUS W/ DINOSAUR JR + GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER BONNIE RAITT W/ RICHARD JULIAN BRAND NEW W/ THE FRONT BOTTOMS + KEVIN DEVINE AND THE GODDAMN BAND BRAND NEW W/ MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA + KEVIN DEVINE AND THE GODDAMN BAND TICKETS: DANSMALLSPRESENTS.COM, THE BREWERY OMMENGANG STORE, THE GREEN TOAD (ONEONTA), & THE STATE THEATRE BOX OFFICE (ITHACA)

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The Purple Valley | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Phillip Robinson | 12:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Classical & Middle Eastern Guitar DJ Jel | 1:00 AM, 6/21 Sunday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Soul, Deep House, Electronic.

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Rob Zombie | 8:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Summer Stage at Tag’s, 3037 St. Rte 352, Big Flat’s | Nu-Metal, Industrial, Groove, Horror. Drop Clutch opens.

Geneva Music Festival: Romantic Passion, Brahms and more! | 7:30 PM, 6/19 Friday | The Geneva Room, Warren Hunting Smith Library, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva | Brahms String Sextet in B-flat major highlights this passionate performance of two centuries of chamber music masterpieces.

6/20 Saturday

Geneva Music Festival: Thomas Bergeron Jazz Ensemble | 7:30 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Led by the exquisite beauty of Thomas’ trumpet playing, the result is a mesmerizing journey for all music lovers.

Old Time Fiddlers Gathering | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Lakewood Vineyards, 4024 State Route 14, Watkins Glen |

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Geneva Music Festival Fiddler’s Bluegrass | 1:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Ravines Wine Cellars, 400 Barracks Rd, Geneva | High-octane fiddling and

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Geneva Music Festival: Organ Recital, Zahari Metchkov | 7:30 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | United Church of Canandaigua, 11 East Gibson Street, Canandaigua |

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Hoobastank | 2:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Pines Pavilion & Events Center, 1660 Union Center Hwy., Endicott | Post-Grunge, Hard Rock, Alternative Metal, Pop, Nu-Metal.

Old Time Fiddlers Gathering | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Lakewood Vineyards, 4024 State Route 14, Watkins Glen |

Film Lucy | 6:00 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Science-fiction thriller full of pulse-racing action. Starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, the film follows Johansson as she adjusts to a drug-induced hyper awareness. Free screening. cinemapolis

Friday, 6/19 to Thursday, 6/25.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Far from the Maddening Crowd | Headstrong Victorian Beauty has choice of three different suitors.

Adaption of Thomas Hardy novel. | PG-13 119 mins | Ex Machina | Science Fiction

thriller about a young programmer’s experience with artificial intelligience in the form of a breathtaking female.

A.I. | 108 mins R | Aloft | A struggling mother encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier. Jennifer Connelly stars. | 112 mins R | Love & Mercy | In the 1960’s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson loses his grip on reality as he attemps to create his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980’s he is a broken and confused man under the watch of his therapist. | 120 mins PG-13 | I’ll See You in My Dreams | A widow and former songstress discover that life can begin anew at any age. | 92 mins PG-13 | When Marnie Was There | Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s animated film about a young girl’s journey to a new land and the friendship she finds there. | 103 mins PG | (NTL) Man and Superman | Bernard Shaw’s classic captured live from the National Theatre. Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma star. | 220 mins NR | Thursday, June 18, 6:30 PM, Saturday, June 20, 1:30 PM regal theater

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Contact Regal Theater Ithaca for Showtimes Insidious: Chapter 3 | Psychological Horror that ventures into the neurouniverse of a troubled teenager’s mind. | 98 mins PG-13 | Spy | CIA Analyst Susan Cooper is forced into her first real field work and trys to save and revenge her fellow agents. | 115 mins R | Jurrasic World (3D) | Visitors at the famed theme park run wild when the genetically engineered Indominus Rex and other dinosaurs go on a rampage. | 124 mins PG-13 | Aloha| Military employees fall in love while navigating through past romances. | 125 mins PG-13 | San Andreas (3D) | The legendary Fault finally gives and the story of an estranged family ensues. | 114 mins PG-13 | Poltergeist 2015 (3D) | Master filmaker Sam Rami directs the classic tale about a family whose surburban home is haunted by ghosts. | 93 mins PG-13 | Tomorrowland | Disney’s riveting mystery adventure about a jadded scientist and an optimistic teen and their story of unearthing an unknown place in space and time. | 130 mins PG | Mad Max: Fury Road (3D) | After the

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Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

Notices Yoga Farm Grand Opening | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM, 6/19 Friday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Music, food, tours of the farm, and a showcase of summer classes and workshops in the new center.

Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December.

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

Chicken BBQ | 12:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Fund raiser BBQ. Lunch includes Chicken, Potato Salad, Baked Beans, Molly’s famous Carrot Salad, Roll and Cake.

ServSafe Alcohol Training | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 6/22 Monday | TC3 Liberman Extension Center, 118 North Tioga St., Ithaca | TC3 Biz and Tompkins Workforce NY are offering a FREE ServSafe Alcohol Training! Great for prospective Bartenders, Bouncers, and other Entertainment Industry positions.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Learning Sculpt with Clay | 2:30 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Learn how to sculpt with self-drying clay at this special drop-in workshop. No registration is required, but space is limited to first-come, first-served.

Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Ithaca

The Common Railers,

Rongovian Embassy, Saturday, June 20, 9:00 p.m.

This Ithaca based band combines Country, Alt-Rock, Rockabilly, Surf, and varying shades of Americana to bring a unique take on Modern Roots music. Make sure to bring all your friends this weekend and check them out!

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collapse of civilization the five wives of a despot join an alliance with a loner and try and escape. | 121 mins R | Pitch Perfect 2 | The Barden Bellas are back in the follow-up to 2012’s smash hit. Elizabeth Banks stars and pens. | 115 mins PG-13 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | When Tony Stark jumpstarts a dormat peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heros are put to the ultimate test. | 150 min PG-13| Ex Machina | Science Fiction thriller about a young programmer’s experience with artificial intelligience in the form of a breathtaking female A.I. | 108 mins R | Inside Out| Disney Pixar’s new film about a Midwestern girl whose life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. | 102 mins PG |

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God of Carnage | 7:30 PM, 6/17 Wednesday, runs through 06/20 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Two sets of parents try and talk in a civilized manner about their children’s actions.

Mayhem ensues. www.hangartheatre. org for showtimes & prices.

Thin Walls | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | Alice Eve Cohen’s tale of big-city life and cultures colliding. A cast of characters all living in a once-elegant, now run-down NYC residential hotel are wonderfully brought to life with all their triumphs and flaws. Wednesdays to Sundays, June 10-14, 17-21, 14-28. Visit http:// www.kitchentheatre.org for showtimes & prices.

The Old Cookie Shop | 7:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | Old Havana Courthouse Theater, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | 5th Anniversary revival of our first show The Old Cookie Shop.

Shrek Jr. The Musical | 7:00 PM, 6/19 Friday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Based on The Dreamworks Animation Motion Picture and the Book by William Steig.

Growing Up At the Movies | 8:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Margaret Wakeley and Denice Karamardian with Molly MacMillan In the Cabaret: Growing Up at the Movies.

Dancing With the Stars Live | 7:30 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, 1 Stuart St Ste 4, Binghamton | Hosted by Dancing with the Stars All-Stars champion Melissa Rycroft.

Princess Ida | 7:30 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | To celebrate Cornell’s sesquicentennial, the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions is kicking off its 2015 free summer events series with performances of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Princess Ida on Tuesday, June 23, and Wednesday, June 24.

Performed by the Cornell Savoyards, this adaptation investigates the social and political milieu of Cornell’s founding, reproduces the campus culture of several regional colleges, and honors the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention.

Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed.

No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

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

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 6/19 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Come meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College.

Canning Jar Swap | 9:00 AM-4:30 PM, 6/20 Saturday, 06/21 Sunday, 06/22 Monday, 06/23 Tusday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Do you have canning jars you no longer need or use? Could you use more canning jars to preserve food this year?

Paint Nite Ithaca | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/22 Monday | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A master artist will guide you through creation of a 16x20 acrylic masterpiece in about two hours, while you enjoy delicious food and drink. Tickets available at www. paintnite.com.

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Karaoke with Elephant Sound | 8:00 PM-1:00 AM, 6/17 Wednesday, 6/18 Thursday, 8:00 PM-1:00 AM, 6/23 Tuesday | Kilpatrick’s Publick House, 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Multiple locations: Tues., Ruloffs, 10pm; Wednesdays, Scale House Brew Pub, 8pm; Thursdays, Kilpatrick’s Publick House, 10pm; 1st Sunday of the month, The Rhine House, 9pm.

Karaoke Night w. DJ Dale | 8:00 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Twilight 5K Run | 7:00 AM-8:00 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Ithaca High School to Stewart Park and back. Open to all.

PRIDE Night Dance Party | 10:00 PM, 6/18 Thursday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | 18 Trivia Night at Agava | 10:00 PM, 6/18 Thursday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Trivia night. Come and have fun.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz | 8:00 PM, 6/18 Thursday | Rhine House, 632 W Seneca St., Ithaca | Trivia covering pop culture, history, current events, and

random knowledge. Free to play with random prizes throughout the night and gift certificates for the winners..

Ovid Strawberry Festival | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 6/19 Friday, 7:00 AM 2:00 PM, 06/20 Saturday | Village Park, Brown Street, Ovid | Ovid Idol to be held at the Pavilion. Block Dance with (TBA) providing music for dancing in the pavilion. Come and bring your lawn chair, and enjoy the evening. The group Car Pride will also have some antique cars on display. Refreshments will be sold by the Ovid Fire Department, and ice cream from the Creamery Comedy FLOP’s | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/19 Friday, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | FREE and fun weekly event featuring improv comedy (think Who’s Line is it, Anyway?) performed by a gang of local performers.

Owego Strawberry Festival | 5:30 PM-, 6/19 Friday | Downtown Owego, Owego | 10 pm - Fireworks in Draper Park on Friday Syracuse Polish Festival | 4:00 PM-10:15 PM, 6/19 Friday, 12:00 PM-10:15 PM, 6/20 Saturday, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Clinton Square, Syracuse | Several bands will perform. See www.polishscholarship. org for more information.

Watkins Glen Waterfront Festival and Boat Regatta | All Day Event, 6/19 Friday, 6/20 Saturday | Watkins Glen Harborfront, , Watkins Glen | The FOUND FLEA - Antique & Vintage Flea Market | 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | FOUND in Ithaca, 227 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Features fifty of the region’s best antique & vintage dealers who set up for the day in the parking lot at FOUND in Ithaca (a year round Antique & Vintage Marketplace).

Karaoke with DJ Dale | 9:00 PM, 6/22 Monday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Every Monday Night!

Thousands of Songs to choose from!

Movie Night Mondays | 7:30 PM, 6/22 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Industry Day | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 6/22 Monday | Agava , 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | 20% off entire check.

This special is available all day (lunch, dinner, late night) to anyone in the hotel/bar/restaurant industry who brings in a recent pay stub and photo ID. Trivia Night with Geeks Who Drink | 7:30 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | “Geeks Who Drink lead the pub trivia nerd pack!”

Park, Corner of Cayuga St. and Cascadilla Creek, Ithaca | Self-guided tour highlights 10 gardens in the Fall Creek neighborhood of Ithaca.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM, 6/21 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

Health & Wellness Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New or returning skaters of any level are welcome. Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers.

Open to men and women 18+. For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/ wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

DamodarDas.com.

Zumba Gold Classes | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | With instructor Nicole Bostwick. Starting June 3, 2015-December 31, 2015. Every Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous | 6/17 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/ meetings/PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Third Thursday Reiki Share | 6:30 PM, 6/18 Thursday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Come and experience Reiki, practice Reiki, or just come to observe and ask questions.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/18 Thursday, | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 6/22 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services,

Ithaca based band Maple Hill have a Record Release Party at 7:00 p.m. this Thursday 6/18, at The Dock. (Photo Provided) Party Time!!

Industry Night | 4:00 PM-2:00 AM, 6/23 Tuesday | K-House Karaoke Lounge and Suite, 15 Catherwood Rd, Ithaca | Every Tuesday is K-HOUSE’s Industry Night especially dedicated to local hospitality workers offering food & drink specials all night long.

Meetings Rental Housing Advisory Commission (RHAC) | 5:15 PM, 6/17 Wednesday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | RHAC recommends to Common Council new steps to be taken to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of rental housing in the City of Ithaca.

City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 6/22 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 6/22 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Invite Friends. People of the community encouraged to participate.

Planning and Development Board | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The Board reviews Site Plan Review applications, proposed Subdivision applications, proposed City ordinance revisions,

zoning appeals, and other matters it is charged with reviewing.

Nature & Science Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 6/19 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Nature Walk | 10:00 AM, 6/20 Saturday | Lime Hollow Nature Center, 338 McLean Road, Mclean | Typically last an hour and a half. Don’t forget binoculars, field guides, small snack and a water bottle.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM, 6/20 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

Fall Creek Garden Tour | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Thompson

Jeanne Mackin,

(NTL) Man And Superman,

Buffalo Street Books, Saturday, June 20, 2:00 p.m.

Cinemapolis, Saturday, June 20, 1:30 p.m.

Come join this local novelist and journalist as she reads and discuses her new novel A Lady of Good Family, a story about Gilded Age historical figure Beatrix Farrand, one of the first female landscape designers.

Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Southern Tier Parkinson’s Disease Support Group | 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, 6/18 Thursday | Schuyler County Human Services Complex, 323 Owego St, Montour Falls | Meetings are in the Silver Spoons Café; please try to arrive early.

The Listening Workshop | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Ithaca Community Childcare Center, 579 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Please register by emailing your name and phone number to the listeningworkshop@ gmail.com. You will walk away from Saturday’s workshop with a life altering skill that if practiced and applied, will shorten the time between conflict and resolution, build strong bonds of connection and intimacy and enhance performance and productivity in all areas of your life.

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 6/21 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 6/21 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public.

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees.

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

Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM, 6/23 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-272-1505.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 6/23 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further

Ralph Fiennes blazes in the role of Jack Tanner in this modern remake of Bernard Shaw’s classic tale about man and the meaning of life. This is a special screening of a live performance from the National Theatre.

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Kids Art Classes for Kids | Open Enrollment | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Classes and private instruction for children and teens in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org.

Registration For Music in Motion “Angie’s Music Camp” | Open Enrollment | Angie’s Music Camp – Songwriting and Audio Production for Budding Musicians” is a coed music day camp, ages 5-12 (no experience required). August 10-14 and August 24-28. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., held at Acting Out NY studio in Center Ithaca (before and after care available for extra charge.) Children are encouraged but not required to sign up for both sessions. We will experiment and jump into the art of song creation, writing, arranging, and improvisation! Kids will see and be involved in the basics of audio production and walk home with a compilation of their very own musical creations! Register online at www. mumotion.com/summercamp-register.

Early bird discount deadline May 15, general deadline Aug. 1. Fees: $250 early bird, $200 siblings; $265 general registration, $230 siblings. Contact Miss Angie directly for questions about scholarships and other infromation at angie@mumotion.com.

Little Voices Music and Motion / Registration for Songs of Summer | Open Registration through Tuedsay, July 6 | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Rd (Rt 34B), Lansing, Jillian’s Drawers, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Begins the week of July 13th. Please register by July 6th.

Go to www.LittleVoicesMusic.com for class schedule and registration.

Hangar Theatre 2015 Kidstuff: The Emperor’s New Clothes | 10:00 AM, 6/19 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Marcus the Third has just been crowned the new Emperor, but how can he possibly run an empire when he’s only 14 years old?!

Dressing the part might do the trick!

This musical version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale reminds us to be true to ourselves. Shows at 10 am and noon.

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astel landscapist Carol Abitabilo Ast is something of an old master of local art, a popular teacher and a long time presence at the State of the Art Gallery downtown. Although natural landscape done from direct observation is a venerable tradition in Ithaca and immensely popular, Ast’s tight but expressive realism is nearly one-of-a-kind amidst a common preference for a more impressionistic approach.

Made of pure pigment with a small amount of binding material, pastel is an interesting medium, poised between drawing and painting. It allows for the immediacy of the former while rivaling the latter in its rich color and the ability to blend and layer. Ast’s work has qualities of both, an admixture of sketch-like liveliness and nuanced solidity.

Up through June and July is a small, informal exhibit of her pieces at Decorum Too in the DeWitt Mall. Shows at the rug shop are modest affairs, with a small number of pieces—this time eleven— scattered amid the merchandise on easels and on the occasional small section of wall.

Striped Hills along Rt. 84, a scene from New Mexico, shows red earth hills, wrinkled like cloth, and draped in black shadows and spotted in bands of ghostly pale blue-gray mist. Their dramatic forms are played against the flat off-white of the sky above and the only slightly less

PM, 6/20 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Weekly, free-build Lego program. Legos at the Library encourages children to use their imaginations or Lego books from the TCPL collection to create their own Lego art! All materials provided.

Nature Journaling For Kids At Six Mile Creek | 1:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Mullholland Wildflower Preserve, Giles St., Ithaca | For kids ages 7-12 accompanied by a parent. Come learn about Land Snails and Slugs with Marla Coppolino. Journals will be provided or bring your own.

impassive ground below, mottled pale greenish and red-brownish seemingly absorbing the hills, muffling them. The piece is both ingeniously conceived and oddly disquieting Water, land, and sky form the subject for three pieces here, with the water filling the foreground. Port Clyde Morning is suffused in cool gray clouds and mist: boats scattered in the water and what appears as an island, covered in evergreens.

Day Breaking over Kepez is grander, with the pale yellow orange of the sun emerging dramatically through the clouds – the glow wanly reflected in the water below. In Heading Out, a dark turquoise boat at middle distance points its tail towards us, trailing white foam. It also drags two yellow ropes; what they are pulling is unclear but the diagonals call attention to the bottom edge of the paper and the lower left corner.

Freight Door nods wittily in the direction of geometric abstraction with its pronounced page-filling grid of pencil lines recalling the graphite on canvas paintings of Agnes Martin. (The color and materials also evoke the work of local abstractionist Syau-Cheng Lai, a fellow SOAG member.) The lines form narrow bands—planks—with the central square door marked by verticals rather the

N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses her new memoir, The Year My Mother Came Back.

Jeanne Mackin | 2:00 PM, 6/20 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses her new novel, A Lady of Good Family, a richly imagined, beautifully written novel about Gilded Age historical figure Beatrix Farrand.

Art Dreamtime: Surreal Fantastic Art | 6:00 PM-, 6/19 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Curated by artist members of State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca. Frances Fawcett and Margaret Nelson will feature works in many different media

Books Alice Eve Cohen | 5:00 PM, 6/18 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215

Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Saturday, June 20, 10:30 p.m.

Grab your spandex, your leather jacket, spike your hair, throw on massive amounts of eyeliner, and head on down to this throwback night dedicated to the 80’s Underground. Expect to hear everything from Proto-Punk, New Wave, Dark Wave, The Misfits, Clan of Xymox, to Bauhaus and The English Beat. Don’t miss out!

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predominant horizontals. The color and texture are similarly austere: gritty pale gray rubbed over and resting besides blended areas of red and darker gray.

A series of striking renderings (one a “giclée” digital reproduction of a sold piece) hang besides Decorum proprietor Alan Nemcek’s office table. Close ups of oyster shells, crisply outlined against clean black paper, they echo painter Georgia O’Keefe and photographer Edward Weston in presenting recognizable things in ways that make them seem strange. Ast has compared them, aptly, to portraits for their central, up-front presentation and seeming uniqueness. But so too has she

from artists throughout New York State and Northern Pennsylvania. ongoing Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca || An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy, through 7/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos,

by Leo Villareal, ongoing. www. museum.cornell.edu Yvonne Fisher | 7:00 AM- 8:00PM | Gimmee Coffee, 430 N Cayuga St, Ithca | Grand Doodles, exhibit of bold and vibrant drawings. Runs June 1 to

compared them to landscapes, and it’s easy to see why with their pale bands, their intricate ridges and crests.

As usual at Decorum Too, Ast’s exhibit will run for two months. July at the State of the Art will also bring us a two-person show featuring members Leslie Brill and Diane Newton. And while both are fine artists, it is worth highlighting Newton.

The Ithaca and Boston-based pastel artist is, like Ast, a meticulous landscape realist—but her man-made and urban subjects set her apart as do her unusual perspectives and compositions. Those inclined to make artistic comparisons will want to see both shows. •

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Annie Eller exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca, | Intricate and illuminated drawings. Runs May 1 to June 30.

Jen Fisher & Laura Sinclaire exhibit | 9:00 AM-8:00 PM | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Exciting works in ink, watercolor, and oil. Runs May 1 to June 30.

Daniel McPheeters | Wednesday through Friday, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W State St. #2, Ithaca | Dreamscape: Landscape and Skyscapes Reimagined.

Naomi Edmark exhibit | 7:00 AM-1:00 AM | Stella’s Cafe, 403 College Ave Ste B, Ithaca | Naomi will be showing her series of photos from May

11 to June 30.

Tim Merrick |10:00AM - 5:00 PM | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Road #3, Ithaca | Disposito / Solo Exhibition of recent work from the proific artist.

Kathy Armstrong | Monday through Saturday 10:00 AM-6:00PM, Sunday 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | CAP Art Space, 171 E. State/MLK Jr. Street, Ithaca | Getting to Know You: One Artist’s first year Impression of the Finger Lakes Region.

Runs June 5 to June 31.

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Fall Creek Garden Tour, Thompson Park, Sunday, June 21, 11:00 a.m.

This self-guided tour highlights 10 amazing gardens in the spectacular Fall Creek neighborhood of Ithaca. Meet at the corner of Cayuga St. and Cascadilla Creek in Thompson Park.

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ments. Salary: $19.26/hour. Application Deadline: July 1,2015. City of Ithaca HR

OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND. Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800638-2102. Online reservations: www. holidayoc.com (NYSCAN)

Department, 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850. (607)274-6539 www. cityofithaca.org:. The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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FREE BANKRUPTCY CONSULTATION Real Estate, Uncontested Divorces. Child Custody. Law Office of Jeff Coleman and Anna J. Smith (607)277-1916

DOWNTOWN ITHACA WATERFRONT Across from Island Health & Fitness.

3000 Square Foot + Deck & Dock. Parking Plus Garage Entry. Please Call Tom 607-342-0626

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If Bassett, St. Joe’s, Crouse, Lourdes, United, Good Sam, or collectors Burr & Reid, Menter Rudin, Overton Russell, Robert Rothman or Swartz Law are calling you, call us.

Anthony J. Pietrafesa, Esq.— A Consumer Lawyer FREE Home Energy Audit

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Renewable Energy Assessment serving Ithaca since 1984. HalcoEnergy.com 800-533-3367

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See us at www.avvo.com • 120 E Washington St., Syracuse, NY 13202 Fighting: Lawsuits • Judgments • Garnishment • Repos • Med bills** Serving: Binghamton • Cortland • Syracuse • Oswego • Utica • Watertown Past results no guarantee of a particular outcome. Attorney advertising.

HAS YOUR BUILDING SHIFTED OR SETTLED? Contact Woodford Brothers Inc., for straightening, leveling, foundation and wood frame repairs at 1-800-OLD BARN, www.woodfordbros. com (NYSCAN)

TOMPKINS COUNTY REAL PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURES Auction - Monday, June 22 at 7:00 PM

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Hired Hands is a licensed and insured Professional moving Service Local & Long Distance. 409 College Ave. 607272-2000. www.hiredhandsmoving. com

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Packing & Shipping around the World.

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AUTO INSURANCE STARTING AT $25/ MONTH! Call 855-977-9537 (AAN CAN)

Bankruptcy

Individual Chapter 7 $999.00. Call Mark Gugino, Esq., 144 Bald Hill Road, Spencer (Danby), NY. Call (607)3190766 or foam@twcny.it.com Attorney Advertising and Deb Relief Agency.

Four Seasons Landscaping Inc. 607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage.

Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!

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Info. Session - Tuesday, June 15 at 7:00 PM

AUCTION NEW Location: The Space @ Greenstar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca, NY. Ordered by the Tompkins County Board of Representatives to sell at Public Auction, several parcels of real property. Single FAmily ReSidenCeS & mOBile HOmeS: 105 Pleasant St, 37 E Cortland St & 443 Pleasant Valley Rd, Groton; 62 Woodcrest Avenue, 40608 Madison St, 515 Plain St S, Ithaca; 585 Lansingville Rd, Lansing; 196 Buffalo Rd, Brooktondale; inCOme PROPeRTieS: 201 Elm St & 133 Cayuga St, Groton; VACAnT lAnd / BUilding lOTS: Yellow Barn Rd, Freeville & Yaple Rd, Brooktondale(10 acres); 380 Seventy Six Rd & Middaugh Rd, Brooktondale; 1673 Peruville Rd & Neimi Rd, Freeville; 301 Pleasant Valley Rd, Groton; Etna Rd & Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca; Vacant Land in Commercial Area North St, Dryden.

Property list subject to redemption! Specific Property information, photos & tax maps at www.reynoldsauction.com. BRieF TeRmS: cash or honorable NYS drawn check with acceptable identification.

for Sale or RTO 1993 14 x 66 Liberty mobile home for sale or rent-to-own in clean, well-run mobile home park in Dryden. $20,000 to buy; $700 per month to rent-to-own. Good condition.

Call (917)575-6469 or email sales@ pleasantviewmobilehomepark.com for more info.

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Overlooking the Pond

Ranch style House on 8 acres in Caroline

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more than 100 years of mortgage experience in the Tompkins County region.

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his Ranch style house is deceptive looking. Because it is built into the side of a hill, which falls away to a small pond, it appears from the road to be of modest size. In fact it has two floors and five bedrooms because the “basement” is actually a fully fledged level with sliding glass doors that open onto a sitting area where you can listen to the frog chorus.

In true suburban style there is no walk to the front door, so it is rarely used.

Instead you enter at the door next to the garage and find yourself in a hallway that leads straight ahead downstairs to the lower level or you take a left and enter the kitchen.

An L-shaped counter separates the working space of the kitchen from a substantial eating area. The counter ends with a butcher block surface that is closest to the counter-top electric range and the in-wall oven.

The cabinets are nicely finished pine with familiar 1960s-era copper-finished pulls that have a classic faux-beaten surface. There is tile behind the counters at the stove and Formica elsewhere.

Wall-to-wall carpeting has been removed to reveal hardwood floors in the halls and living room. The latter is a very large room with sliding doors that open out onto a small deck with a view of the pond.

Of the three bedrooms on the main level, two have hardwood floors and one has wall-to-wall carpeting. The ostensible master bedroom in the front of the house has a full bathroom attached that includes a shower stall.

The other two bedrooms are smaller, but again have a nice view over the pond to the rest of this nearly 8-acre property, most of which is covered with mature

hardwood forest.

There are many 1960s touches here, including the closets with sliding doors and the casement style windows on the front of the house that crank open. (The windows on the rest of the house are the one-over-one sash style.)

The other two bedrooms on this level are served by a full bathroom off the hall.

This one has a tub/shower in it.

When you descend the stairs to the lower level you find yourself in a recreation room that is nearly the size of the living room above it. The floor is covered with linoleum tile but with an area rug that fills nearly the whole room. A wood stove has been added here.

The remaining two bedrooms are served by yet another full bathroom with a shower stall.

Behind the living space on this level is a large utility room that includes the laundry machines and the oil furnace. The house has forced air heat and central air conditioning. •

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At A Glance Price: $275,000 Location: 15 Ogden Road, Caroline School District: Ithaca City Schools Caroline Elementary MLS#: 301312 Contact: Margaret Hobbie, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, RealtyUSA; mhobbie@ verizon.net Phone: (607) 220-5334 Website: www.aedelman.com

room Apartments 3 Bedroom Townhomes and 3 Bedad in downtown Ithaca.* for rent at 400 Spencer Ro

*Income restrictions apply

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Half OFF NYS Auto Inspection with Community Cash Coupon at Monro Muffler/Brake

Independence Cleaners Corp RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Housekeeping*Windows*Awnings*Floors

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Macintosh Consulting

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Computer Hardware & Software Repair 222 Elmira Rd * 607-288-2266

Affordable Acupuncture Full range of effective care for a full

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Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture Anthony Fazio, L.Ac., C.A.

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lawn maintenance

607-272-0114

spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning patios, retaining walls, + walkways

Beginner Classes in Middle Eastern (Belly Dance) & Romani Dances (Gypsy) with

landscape design + installation drainage snow removal dumpster rentals

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High Dusting*Carpets*Building Maintenance 24/7 EMERGENCY CLEANING Services 607-227-3025 or 607-220-8739

LIGHTLINK HOTSPOTS http://www.lightlink.com/hotspots hotspots@lighlink.com

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In the Triphammer Market Place 607-379-6210

Men’s and Women’s Alterations for over 20 years Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

Same Day Service Available

Protect Your Home with a Camera Surveillance System Les @ 607-272-9175

John’s Tailor Shop John Serferlis - Tailor 102 The Commons

Real Life Ceremonies

273-3192

Honor a Life like no other with ceremonies like no other.

MIGHTY FLOW +*LIVE* MUSIC

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With Guest Singer/Songwriter Kevin Paris!

2 Classes Monday, June 22: 6pm & 7:30pm Class Pass Rates + $5 Cash Cover

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Angry Mom Records

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(Autumn Leaves Basement)

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Sent to your email in box every Thursday

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Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows

House parts, furniture, hardware

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A program of Historic Ithaca

607-898-2048

LOCATED

8.2 miles

from GREENSTAR

We Buy, Sell, & Trade

This week at GreenStar we have 3, 796 local products...

like yogurt from Black Pearl Creamery www.greenstar.coop We define local as products or services that are produced or owned within 100 miles of Ithaca.

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