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The number of publiclyviewable comments that the United States Department of Education received over the course of two months after proposing changes to Title IX legislation has reached over 10,000; 10,696, to be exact.

The civil rights law, originally passed under the Education Amendments of 1972, states that no person can be excluded from or denied access to the benefits of education on the basis of sex. Over the years, this legislation has broadened its scope, now including policies on how reports of sexual assault and harassment are handled within educational institutions.

On Nov. 29, 2018, the Department of Education published a list of proposed changes to Title IX’s sexual assault policies, stating that, “The proposed regulations are intended to promote the

purpose of Title IX by requiring recipients to address sexual harassment, assisting and protecting victims of sexual harassment and ensuring that due process protections are in place for individuals accused of sexual harassment.” And yet, many of the actual policy changes have been interpreted as an effort to protect the accused and discourage those reporting.

One of the changes that received widespread backlash was editing the action schools are required to take once receiving a report of sexual harassment or assault. Right now, Title IX policy states that if school officials, teachers, or counselors are informed of sexual misconduct occurring within the student body, they are required to look into it. A suggested change would mean that only when the school’s Title IX coordinator is made aware of the misconduct is the

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Many institutions of higher education have voiced disapproval of the changes. A response statement published

by Ithaca College states, “This would be a huge step in the wrong direction. We strongly urge the Department to reconsider this new section and continue to provide higher education institutions with the flexibility to determine for themselves the best way to ensure that they have a prompt and equitable process that ensures due process for all.”

Initially, schools receiving reports of sexual misconduct happening off-campus or even during study abroad programs, would still take judicial action as if they had happened on school grounds. With these potential edits, the school would be all but exempt from needing to investigate these instances.

An additional proposed change states that higher institutions are required to hold live hearings on accusations of

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sexual misconduct where those accused can have any person of their choosing cross-examine the complainant. While this will likely mean an attorney in most cases, the indirectness of the language has caused concern in the public comments about potential intimidation tactics being used against survivors.

In a resolution submitted to the office of the university’s president, the Cornell University Student Assembly publicly denounced these proposed changes to Title IX. The school’s Title IX coordinators referred the Ithaca Times to that resolution. The resolution called upon other members of the student body to express their thoughts throughout the comment period. Their resolution reads, “Be it therefore resolved, the Student Assembly vehemently denounces the proposed changes made by the Department of Education; Be it therefore resolved, the Student Assembly actively encourages students to voice their opinions Vand to partake in the 60-day commenting period.”

The public comment period on Title IX changes ended on Jan. 28, 2019, and the Department of Education is required to read and adequately respond to all comments. Due to the high number of comments, it’s unclear exactly how long this might take. The comments were made not only by concerned citizens, but also on behalf of organizations such as the New York Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Oregon Women’s Equality Coalition, the Harvard South Asian Women’s Collective, the University of California, Stop Sexual Assault in Schools, just to name a few. ● -Brenna O’Donnell

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fter months of discussion over the use of natural gas in the upcoming North Campus Residential Expansion (NCRE) project, Cornell University’s commitment to going green has been called into question.

With goals to eliminate the use of greenhouse gases and other carbon-based fuels from campus by 2035, students want to know if the change is possible. During a panel discussion last week at the annual Collegetown Town Hall, part of which centered on Cornell’s 2035 environmental plan, students and members of the public gathered to hear about the plan’s potential future.

Speakers included: Pete Meyers, head of the Tompkins County Workers Center; Seph Murtagh, Common Council member and the head of the City of Ithaca’s Planning & Economic Development Committee (PEDC); and professor Bruce Monger of Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Monger began the discussion by addressing the skepticism of students and members of the public about Cornell being able to reach their climate goals. He said that while the campus is going to be eliminating their use of coal, there is also a greater chance for Cornell to increase the use of their methane emissions and to have higher greenhouse gas emissions as well.

Murtagh began by speaking about an issue that affects most residents of not just Ithaca but also Tompkins County: affordable housing. Since the average rental price of an apartment is about $980, according to Murtagh, this could be something of a challenge to ensure that there is enough housing being built for people of all incomes.

Murtagh also touched on how Ithaca’s zoning laws are quite conservative, so much so that, in his words, if Fall Creek burned down, the zoning laws

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to have a chance to go over the project. He stated that he was not happy about the decision for the project to not undergo a full environmental impact study. There was support for the project but the energy issue was the factor that dominated the most conversation surrounding the project.

Monger did mention that the NCRE project, which has continued to anger not just local environmental activists but members of the public who are from areas of Pennsylvania that were ravaged by fracking, became Prof. Bruce Monger from Cornell University controversial due to a series of addresses the yearly Collegetown town hall. (Photo by Casey Martin) miscommunications. According to Monger, the request for proposals was never specific regarding the type of energy wouldn’t allow it to be rebuilt required for the project. Cornell’s the way it was originally. Finally, Campus Sustainability Office Meyers touched on wage theft was not in sync with the other around Tompkins County, as offices who sent the request for well as Cornell’s relationship with proposals. local unions after the MapleOne question for Meyer wood project controversy came asked him to describe how he about. He has seen some cases of perceives Cornell as an employer. wage theft in Tompkins County, He said that like most businesses, although he is hoping none arise there are some complaints, but from the NCRE project. there are more coming from one During the question and downtown business, which he answer portion of the panel, a didn’t want to mention by name, query was raised about whether than from Cornell.

Cornell’s goal of being carbonfree is realistic and whether Additional questions asked they should divest from fossil dealt with how Ithaca has been fuel-based companies. Monger avoiding being gentrified. discussed the idea that for every Murtagh said the challenge with percent they reduce admissions, this is how Cornell and Ithaca they should also divest a percent coexist. Since Cornell is such a of their portfolio from compalarge part of Ithaca, it can be hard nies that are not as eco-friendly. for one to change without someHe also said that Cornell achievthing happening to the other. ing their 2035 goal hinges on a Murtagh, though, has found new project similar to their Lake that the renter community Source Cooling. has been a missing voice from The new project, called Earth politics. Since students and other Source Heating, is going to take water from Cayuga Lake, bring it young people are so focused on their own careers, it can be a about four kilometers down into challenge to find the time to go the earth, and then bring it back to public meetings. up to heat the campus. Over the The final question of the next few years, test drills will be discussion was directed to Pete sent into the earth to see if this Meyers and concerned how can be done safely. Should this the labor unions will be able to project succeed, the 2035 goals may remain on track. If not, then work with Cornell on the newest delays could push that goal back project. Meyers said that the several more years.

NCRE is going to be beneficial After this came a question for the building trade unions and regarding some of the questions Cornell. Despite many not agreethe PEDC had about the NCRE ing with the energy issue of the project’s initial proposal as well NCRE, this project could help as to how PEDC and the public to strengthen the relationship reacted. Murtagh said that even between the local building trade though they were not required unions and Cornell. ● to come before the PEDC, he wanted all of Common Council -Edwin J. Viera

Harassment Training

The new ways to stop sexual harassment

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ith workplace behavior and gender dynamics now under overdue scrutiny, government was bound to step in at some point to establish their own ways of stemming future sexual misconduct behaviors from occurring with such regularity in the workplace.

New York has been one of the first states to institute sweeping new employer requirements, first passed into law on Oct. 1, 2018. The requirements introduce several new workplace guidelines and restrictions, including new model complaint forms, a new sexual harassment policy template, and demanding an interactive, more engaging training session for employees.

The deadline for all employers in the state to train their employees is Oct. 1, 2019, and employees must complete the training once every year after that. New hires must also be trained within 30 days of their hiring.

While the advent of new training instructions and the #MeToo movement might not be directly related, it’s certainly a time of widespread re-evaluation of necessary boundaries in workplace conduct. The New York State political power structure was even rocked by its own scandal, when former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was accused of sexual and physical abuse by several former girlfriends in a May 2018 New Yorker article and subsequently resigned. Before the allegations became public knowledge, Schneiderman had emerged as a prominent voice against sexual misconduct.

Tina Bevilacqua, a retired lawyer and labor relations specialist based out of Elmira, has started a new human resources consultation business, Bevilacqua Consulting, that deals specifically with the new training. One of the first specialized continued on page 12

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Lime’s Scooters

Lime’s e-scooter pilot program stil under discussion

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here was no official decision on e-scooters at Wednesday night’s Planning and Economic Development Council (PEDC) meeting, but through a thorough presentation from members of the city’s Mobility, Accessibility and Transportation Commission (MATCOM) more light was shed on the city’s current thoughts about the Lime-proposed experiment.

The proposal first came late last year, when local Lime liaison Jeff Goodmark came before the PEDC to test their reception of an e-scooter program, for motorized scooters that run on electricity, coming to Ithaca, in addition to the bike-sharing program Lime already runs here. It did not go particularly well, but the PEDC did agree to wait until spring to make a final decision on whether or not to grant a pilot program. In the interim, they asked members of MATCOM to research the topic, and Sarah Barden and Megan Powers took up the task.

Barden and Powers presented their findings last week, a compilation of months of research assembled by talking to other municipalities who have started e-scooter programs, reading studies that have been conducted on the programs’ impacts, and consultation with established legal guidelines. The city had asked the MATCOM for a recommendation, and though the commission was unable to officially vote on the proposal, Barden and Powers submitted a recommendation that the city initiate a pilot program to allow for more specific data collection, and that a final decision about whether or not to permanently implement the program could be made after a certain amount of time. They came to that conclusion after months of research and input from both City of Ithaca staff and considering the experiences elsewhere.

“Given our research, we

believe e-scooters represent an exciting opportunity for the City of Ithaca and that it is in Ithaca’s best interest to establish a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for an e-scooter pilot program beginning in Spring 2019,” the report said. “Creating a pilot program for e-scooter sharing allows Ithaca to observe how e-scooter sharing impacts Ithaca and to collect ridership data without tying the city to a permanent decision.”

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tially, Barden said in an interview, s h e and Powers found that there was quite a bit of misinformation floating around about e-scooter programs—most of it negative—but that introducing the program on a brief, pilot basis with a definitive stopping point would give the city a chance to collect the most effective data possible.

“The recommendation that we’re going to put forward is that we do pursue an e-scooter pilot,” Barden said. “Not that we introduce e-scooters as a permanent fixture, but we basically don’t have enough information about e-scooters at this time to find out whether everyone’s worst fears and their greatest dreams are going to come true. There’s a high perception of risk around e-scooters, but there’s just not enough data to bear that out yet. There’s also a lot of promise that they might enable people to access jobs and provide another option in our transportation ecosystem that’s viable and beneficial; we also really don’t have enough data to know for sure that that’s how it’s going to be used in Ithaca.”

Their recommendation enumerated specific points they felt should be included in any pilot program, based

off other dockless e-scooter sharing programs: access to the program through a smartphone app, in-app user agreement, education and safety notes, a municipality-determined daily curfew after which the scooters are cleared from city streets and recharged, and a minimum age of 18. Beyond that, Barden and Powers strongly encouraged the city to incorporate National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) guidelines, which have been helpful for other cities. Those guidelines include: inclusion of insurance and indemnification clauses, the establishment of a maximum e-scooter speed of 15 mph, and perhaps most crucially, the establishment of fees or payments made to Ithaca by the e-scooter provider. It also advised the city require Lime, if they’re selected as the e-scooter provider, to maintain a minimum number of bicycles for use so the company’s entire fleet isn’t shifted to scooters.

They listed some of the specific pros and cons of the program they had found, including that the parking footprint is smaller for scooters instead of bikes, and that the necessary skill is lower than bicycles as well.

However, in terms of cons, they also noted that many places had experienced problems with keeping riders off of sidewalks After hearing the presentation, PEDC members asked Barden and Powers to take the information back to MATCOM for discussion so that a more formal, commission-wide recommendation could be approved and passed along for further consideration. After thanking the two for their extensive efforts, they then commented on the e-scooter proposal itself. Like the meeting several months ago, their interest was tepid at best.

Both Laura Lewis and committee chair Seph Murtagh expressed concern over the potential safety risks. Murtagh said he was very concerned about the ability to safely host the program in Ithaca, partially due to people riding on sidewalks, but also the safety of people riding scooters in the street.

“I just don’t know if we have the infrastructure in the city to do this safely,” Murtagh said. “A small pilot where we can collect

data might be something I can support, but at this point I’m cautious about it.”

Lewis said the relative lack of available data was worrisome for her, and she didn’t feel like an educational component would be very effective at keeping people safe. Powers and Barden were sure to remind committee members that part of their fears might be assuaged by actually having the program in the city to test its results over a short time. While that may eventually appeal to city officials, it didn’t appear to Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, Common Council member Ducson Nguyen was more positive about the pilot program. An avowed proponent of alternative travel options, Nguyen went so far as to say the scooters had a chance to be “transformative.” According to Nguyen, every new transportation option that is integrated into the city is another step away from automobile domination of the roads.

Interestingly, there wasn’t any talk of the usage fees that had become a flashpoint of debate briefly at the same committee’s meeting in the fall, when Lime came forward to initially propose an e-scooter pilot.

Barden said in an interview that while their recommendation included advising the city that a fee be included if Lime were allowed to introduce e-scooters in Ithaca, no specific dollar amount was presented.

Following the meeting, it looks as if the next steps will be to go before MATCOM at a meeting later this month. After that, it would come back to PEDC in April, then potentially move to Common Council in May if it’s approved.

A final note: The presentation was important regardless of its findings and topic. It marks the first conclusion of a proper research effort by one of the city’s commissions, which were established at the beginning of 2018 in a city government structure reconfiguration. The overarching purpose of the commissions was purported to be handling the research legwork for higher city committees, and this was easily the strongest example of that system working that has been seen thus far. ●

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▶▶ Thumbs Up - The easy narrative these days is to quickly and completely dismiss police officers as jack-booted thugs. While some of those criticisms are certainly true and well-founded, the Ithaca Police Department deserves a good round of applause this week for saving a distraught woman who was on top of the Cayuga Street Garage and, apparently, suicidal. ▶▶ Thumbs Down - Seems like something that shouldn’t need to be said, but how about stop targeting bomb threats at Tompkins Financial’s headquarters on Seneca Street, please. Whatever the outcome of that story, assuming the police catch the perpetrator, it will be interesting to see what the motivation is to screw with a seemingly harmless local bank. ▶▶ Seen - Just to update an online story that broke as we put the print edition to bed last week: A shots-fired incident led to a hours-long standoff at a home on Dryden Road which shut down part of the road and locked down the neighborhood surrounding the house. Of course, the suspect wasn’t in the house at all, and surrendered the next day at Dryden Town Court. ▶▶ The most popular stories on Ithaca.com this week are…

1. Journalist to give lecture on Dryden killer 2. NFL Dreams 3. Ithaca Police officers save suicidal woman from fall 4. Updating: Suspect surrenders himself at Dryden Town Court 5. Lucky Hare Brewing will open in Press Bay Alley

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roads would cause harmful erosion over ’m opposed to plans to initially log 160 the years. Most marked ash trees I saw acres of forest lands Tompkins County were on a very steep slope far off-road holds and support letting these areas with an initial big hillside to climb to get grow as old as they are able. Regarding logging in order to foster old-growth forest, to the second. Ash trees were scattered, so machines would disturb much ground, Cornell field botanist Robert Wesley said causing erosion afterward from accessing to me recently, “Logging and old-growth and dragging trees out. At the forests is an oxymohillside’s base are hundreds of ron.” They don’t go feet of water-covered ground together.

“Let’s designate the that will get trashed. Looked My comments County’s hardwoods to me like springs are there. are based on: 1. areas ‘protected’ to Openings of disturbed soil Having walked all become old-growth are ideal for invasive plants, but two parcels in like garlic mustard (GM), to forest and allow red the logging plan enter and spread intensively. pine areas to change in January, and 2.

Logging equipment often thousands of local on their own.” brings in seeds of aggressive acres before and colonizers, like GM, swallowafter logging since wort (SW) and others. I’ve 1984. 3. As an enviwatched wooded areas previously free ronmental educator and herbalist who’s of GM become covered with it, towering taught about native, naturalized and invasive plants since 1986. 4. As one who’s over natives and secreting a chemical that inhibits natives’ growth. Acres of native visited many old-growth forest areas. wildflowers become monocultural stands Logging roads made for bringing of GM. This happened in Danby’s State heavy equipment into woods and numerous machine maneuvers to access marked Forest off Comfort Road. The red pine plantation logged for returning hardtrees make large ground gashes and upheavals. Many marked trees I saw are up very steep hills. Bulldozed logging continued on page 7

o much clickbait and so little time.

Last week, the Ithaca Times assigned me to preview thumbnail links for their webpage, requiring me to spend hours and hours scrolling through lists and advertisements to glean tiny tidbits of content.

I’m sharing these, at no extra charge to you, the reader. Each of the following has at least some worthwhile information: Can you solve this riddle? 98% of Ithaca City Planners gave the wrong answer. Here it is: “If you dramatically increase urban density in a small city with an anemic public transit system, will automobile traffic increase accordingly?”

The correct answer is “duh.”

Paul Manafort’s parents didn’t believe in vaccinations and now he’s going to prison. What happens next is hilarious. Well, probably not to Paul.

New plan to fill potholes with shredded tax dollars and peppermint vape oil could transform Ithaca’s economy. It’s what we do already, except for the vape oil.

How to get into an elite college with mediocre grades and test scores, using this one weird trick. I don’t want to give away the secret, but it involves writing a series of huge checks, and it seems pretty fool-proof.

Cayuga Inlet dredged for the first time in decades. The finds will blow your mind. 179 shopping carts, 16 bicycles and Ann Coulter’s 1981 Delta Gamma pledge pin.

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roads in Tompkins County. Curiously, they’re all on the Cornell campus.

Only people with a 160 IQ can solve these nine questions. Are you one of them? Apparently not. I was 0 for 9. On an unrelated note, I’m being bombarded by ads for improving my intelligence.

Extreme Ithaca Liberals try to not take themselves so seriously. You won’t believe what happens next. Something about other people in the 23rd Congressional District. I wasn’t really paying attention because what do they know.

Ivan Cornstarch started drinking two glasses of Roundup every day for seven days and the results are amazing.

Now he looks like Fester Addams and glows in the dark.

Fall Creek schoolgirl gave her lunch money to a homeless man. What he did next will leave you in tears. He bought himself lunch, but in a really compelling way.

What know-it-alls can teach us about everything. I work with some of these people and they really do seem to have a lot of information.

You won’t believe these 17 stars who ruined their faces with plastic surgery.

Not really newsworthy, but I just can’t resist. I showed my grandmother the pictures and she said “good heavens” 17 times.

8 things nobody knew about Svante Myrick. Number 5 will blow you away.

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YOUR LETTERS From members of Ending Abortion Stigma, a Tompkins Countybased volunteer organization

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e write with deep concern about recent changes to Title X—the federal family planning program for low income patients.

These changes increase funding to “crisis pregnancy counseling centers” while limiting financial support for medical clinics such as Planned Parenthood. Further, the revised rules impose onerous, expensive changes in facilities and staffing on the medical clinics.

What do these dramatic, disruptive changes mean to our community?

Title X providers may no longer refer patients for abortions, excepting in medical emergencies, thereby restricting safe, timely medical care to patients.

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and her family are now left to learn about their options on their own.

Title X, with its new expensive facility requirements, threatens that Planned Parenthood medical clinics across the nation could close, including ours in the Southern Tier.

The authors of these changes completely ignore that abortion fees and staff at Planned Parenthood are not paid for by Title X funds, but by fees, insurance coverage, and service-specific contributions.

Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes is the only abortion provider to six counties in the Southern Tier.

Losing these services will mean women, mainly married, rural, and low income, must now travel two to three hours from home to find safe medical services.

What can you do? Express your concerns immediately to your elected officials, especially at the national level. Thank those elected officials who continued on page 7

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but it did send a bit of a chill up my spine.

Try saying “mayor-for-life” out loud.

The Green New Deal will fail and it’s probably your fault. Good heavens.

Brace yourself. Shark Tank Star reveals brilliant mortgage payoff strategy. A lot of words about a steady job and making payments. Blah, blah, blah. Boringly similar to the credit card one. But I like Kevin O’Leary. He’s funny.

Try not to gasp when you find out what your real estate agent won’t tell you. INHS is putting up a mammoth 4-story, 50-unit low-income apartment building directly across the street from you and your house is now worth 30% less than it was.

They thought leaving would be easy.

Then this happened. It’s about Brexit, which I’m told is important.

30 cities with terrible reputations (Ithaca residents won’t be happy). Some

very interesting observations. The link, if you’re interested, is TomReed.com.

Why highly successful people are douchebags. Spoiler alert: they think they’re better.

How Bottomless Brewery’s website broke the internet. People thought it was porn.

25 rudest counties in Upstate New York (Tompkins is lower than you think). Apparently, manners mean nothing in Chemung County.

What are the odds? Check out the likelihood of unlikely events. According to a team from Cornell’s Graduate program in Complex Mathematical Analysis, the odds of Ithaca’s last taxi running into its last phone booth will soon dwindle to zero.

People are freaking out. You can buy a gently-used Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane for less than the cost of a Limebike. I researched this and it checks out.

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woods became populated by GM. GM spread downhill into mature wildflowered forest that had been GM-free. Invasives can also arrive in disturbed ground from animals’ and humans’ feet carrying seeds.

Each GM seed is viable for at least ten years. As someone who’s removed thousands of garlic mustards for years and finally gave up, I say that “managing” invasive plants is mostly a pipe-dream even if done for years. Wind-borne swallowwort seeds, now speedily taking over woodlands, including Taughannock Park, spreads far, and SW isn’t removable because of its particular root system. Invasive seeds would spread down Chaffee Creek, going through adjoining beautiful Newfield State Forest.

The hill with most marked ash contains other multi-aged tree species. As dead ashes fall, other trees will receive more sunlight or sprout, and forest will keep growing with whatever limits climate change and pests bring. Native plants won’t be overcome by sudden influxes of post-logging invasive plants.

When I walked through these areas, I didn’t see signs of invasives, like seed stalks. Nor did I see invasive shrubs (multi-flora rose, barberry, non-native honeysuckle, olive). This and other hardwood areas proposed to be logged could become lovely protected old forest.

If we leave pine plantations as is, they’ll continue falling down, making openings for existing small and larger young hardwoods to grow better. In one plantation grow beeches plus maples and shad. In another, maples, birch, beech and aspen.

In a third: adult hardwoods are scattered through part of it.

If the County isn’t legally required to by the State, I say don’t log. If legal requirements have no time limit, then

don’t log with such enormous climactic and biological changes. Why risk such negative impacts on remaining forest? If logging’s required, stick to that flat pine plantation on the north side of Chaffee Creek Rd (CCR) by Van Kirk and the dense stand of good-sized invasive Norway spruces (NS) across from it.

Machines would stay close to the road without making inroads into hardwoods.

The latter is the only place I saw where no hardwoods are present. There are younger NS in the pines across CCR where walkers with loppers and chain saw could down them. Herbaceous plants and native trees don’t grow under Norway spruce stands.

NS reproduce well and spread. I live by them and observed them and their effects elsewhere over years.

Let’s designate the County’s hardwoods areas “protected” to become oldgrowth forest and allow red pine areas to change on their own. This would allow old forest to develop while the current oldest forests will eventually die from old age much earlier. Eastern hardwoods don’t live much longer than 350 to 400 years. Cornell’s Fischer Preserve and the Finger Lakes Land Trust’s Stevenson Preserve’s oldest trees are well on their way to dying. Newly protected forests keep old-growth developing. Research shows that old-growth contains more native biodiversity than younger forests.

I think County and residents would be better served by leaving forest areas as is (except for Norway spruces). From all I’ve observed walking forests here for 34 years, I can’t believe that this logging plan will protect native biodiversity of trees, herbaceous plants and other woodland residents better than not logging. I believe that logging would have many more negative impacts than positives.

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support legislation that protects the most vulnerable . Support the services of our Planned Parenthood.

Signed - Joan Adler, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Caroline Cox, Linda Hoffmann, Carol Kammen, Rosalind Kenworthy, Anne Killian-Russo, Nancy L. Miller, Sue Perlgut, Taf Squires

In response to “A Closer Look at Common Council’s Tenant Rights Reforms”

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egarding the new legislation aimed at prosecuting landlords who do not keep up with their certifications, I wanted to ask if the Mayor would consider doing a little better when it comes to rewarding those landlords who do keep up with all the inspections and who do maintain nice apartments. For example, why does the Building Department in collaboration with Cornell University post all of my apartments on their “Safety” website as Not Meeting Minimum Requirements WITH A BIG RED X when I have current Certificates of Compliance and have furnished them with all the required documents/certifications? It seems only right that landlords who do take care of their properties should get at least some consideration for their efforts. Thank you.

Via the Ithaca Times’ website, username: TTerpening

On the possibility of an e-scooter program in Ithaca

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hope your politicians handle the scooter situation better than the politicians have here in San Diego. I think we have more than 25,000 dockless scooters in our fair city, and they just keep coming. It is a nightmare, ESPECIALLY for pedestrians and the disabled.

FYI, a San Diego law firm, Neil Dymott Frank McCabe & Hudson, along with Disability Rights California, filed a class action lawsuit in January against the city of San Diego and three E-Scooter companies due to their inability to maintain sidewalk accessibility for the disabled. Author and prominent San Diego citizen Alex Montoya is the lead plaintiff.

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In response to “Zoning Board denies Gun Club neighbors’ appeal”

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his is one of the most stupid, destructive, hubristic, and unneighborly decisions ever made by a local town board. I’m horrified for the Ruzicka and Farrell and other neighbor families, who have to endure a “legacy” of pollution and health-imperiling contamination for the sake of a bunch of selfish gun owners. Lead contamination Ma r ch

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is potentially deadly; this town board is behaving criminally. Shame on all those who voted for this decision. And further shame on them for their pathetic addinginsult-to-injury resolution calling for the “Town Board review and consider the actions the town can take to address lead contamination in Salmon Creek and the adjacent wetlands, which clearly means absolutely nothing. This is a sickening display of arrogance and lack of concern for their own neighbors. My heart goes out to those neighbors and fellow community members, who should get to work quickly identifying people with hearts and smarts to replace current legislators who clearly do not give a hoot about their health, wellbeing, and quality of life.

Via the Ithaca Times’ website, username: mstephens

In response to last week’s Guest Opinion, “Time for a New Vision”

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avid Marchan’s “Time for a New Vision” Guest Opinion hit the nail on the head. While Svante Myrick has represented many of the values that most Ithacans hold dear, it is time for teeth behind those values. We need more than platitudes about inclusivity, equality, support for shopkeepers, and our belief in a peaceful and healthy quality of life for everyone. We need to see actions that make these values possible. Currently, it seems that developers are running the city.

How many more botched Commons projects do we need before shopkeepers pack up their wares and head out of town, leaving empty storefronts. Is anybody overseeing these projects? At a recent meeting involving Harold Square developers and Commons business owners it seemed that the shopkeepers were left on their own to combat the lies and poor management that has plagued the project—and their livelihoods.

East State Street “If you are is turning rich in this into a tractor trailer highway, city you will diminishing do fine.” quality of life for all those who live there. How much higher do rents and property taxes go before we follow in the footsteps of Manhattan and San Francisco, and lay claim to being among the most antagonistic places for poor and working class people? And in spite of the high cost of living, our streets are nearly impassable due to neglect. We are surrounded by a wonderful lake and streams and yet the public cannot swim in them unless they buy a boat or lakeside property (how many more people can we cram onto East Shore for a furtive swim?). If you are rich in this city, you will do fine. Rich people always do fine. But is that what Ithaca is all about?

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An Evergreen Mission

Finger Lakes Land Trust celebrates 30 years​​​

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thaca is gorges for a reason, and not just geologically. It has taken both physical labor and legislative pushes, to maintain the area’s aesthetically pleasing wealth of natural wonders.

The Finger Lakes Land Trust (FLLT) is celebrating their 30th anniversary being at the forefront of conservation efforts in the region as they work tirelessly to protect the habitats of local wildlife. Additionally, FLLT has preserved the land for hiking and other outdoor activities.

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director of FLLT, Andrew Zepp, created the organization as part of his graduating project. Since then, it has managed to preserve over 21,000 acres of land, distributed among 35 different preserves that the trust has established. At the time Zepp stumbled upon conservation, it was becoming more en vogue, with conservation efforts just starting to evolve from humble beginnings. But he saw plenty of potential in the goals of conservation.

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cruited and trained the board of directors, secured an attorney to help him with incorporation and filed for non-profit status. He then returned to work at The Nature Conservancy. Then, around 16 years ago, Zepp moved back to Ithaca to continue working with the organization. With several ongoing projects, the Land Trust’s mission remains as evergreen as some of the trees they preserve.

The term “land trust” can seem confusing, but it’s actually not very complex. Through a mix of donations, easements that limit development and land purchases, FLLT

has amassed an impressive amount of land throughout the Finger Lakes region. Announcements come often: just in recent memory, they’ve absorbed hundreds of acres on West Hill, over a half-mile of Cayuga Lake shoreline and dozens of acres in Newfield, among other acquisitions.

Spread across 12 different counties from Syracuse to Rochester, FLLT covers an expansive area. They are responsible for some of the most iconic natural reserves in the immediate area, like the Salmon Creek Bird Sanctuary, the Ellis Hollow Natural Preserve and the Sweedler and Thayer Preserves. In a press release last week, it was announced that FLLT had received a $5,000 grant from Dominion Energy that was to help fund future work on the Black Diamond Trail, one of the more popular stretches of natural area around.

“This year’s grant will be used to help protect forested hillsides above Cayuga Lake, secure popular stretches of the Finger Lakes Trail and Black Diamond Trail and create new opportunities for outdoor exploration in Tompkins County,” it read.

Currently, the nonprofit has two ongoing conservation efforts in the Ithaca area: One, called the Emerald Necklace, has been in progress since the organization’s inception, and will continue to be a perennial project.

“Here in the Ithaca area, the first project we ever initiated was to protect Lick Brook Gorge, which is located between Buttermilk [Falls] State Park and Robert Treman [State Park],” Zepp said. “That is an area we continue to work, 30 years later. We protected the gorge, but this year we’ll actually have a fairly significant project to stabilize the Finger Lakes Trail that goes through the preserve on some rather steep slopes, as the area is becoming more popular to ensure that the trails in there are resilient and more sustainable.”

That project, Zepp said, has led to a larger project called the Emerald Necklace.

Its aim is to create a “greenbelt” in the hills around Ithaca which would link 50,000 acres of existing public conservation land that includes state forests and the Finger Lakes National Forest.

While FLLT has been making progress on this project, a new issue has arisen which they have been dealing with for some time: the city’s drinking water. Zepp considers this an important issue to tackle as the warnings of harmful algal blooms continue to grow.

“The organization started working there from the beginning on the Six Mile Creek Watershed, and over the years we have ac-

tricky balancing act. Many of those same residents hold onto a vision of what Ithaca used to be, with green spaces aplenty and an extra emphasis on the wildlife that abounds in places like the gorges and elsewhere.

“Times flies,” Zepp said. “I was involved as a graduate student, 30 years ago, getting it started. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been 30 years first of all. On one hand, I’m pleased with what we’ve accomplished, but [I’m] also looking to the future for even bigger projects and accomplishments in the future.”

A b ov e : S w e e d l e r P r e s e rv e at L i c k B r o o k ( P h o t o : B r i a n M a l e y) L e f t, E l l i s H o l l ow N at u r e P r e s e rv e ( P h o t o : R i c k L i g h t b o dy) R i g h t, R oy H . Pa r k P r e s e rv e ( P h o t o : B i l l H e c h t) quired several dozen conservation easement agreements,” Zepp said,explaining that those agreements limit future development in favor of their mission of conservation. “Just last year, we received some funding from the state and some additional support from the City of Ithaca and the County to do more work out there. That’s an area where we’ve done a lot of projects and work is still in progress but now, we have a lot more resources to bring to the table.”

Along with FLLT’s two current projects, Zepp sees a bright future ahead for the nonprofit. One upcoming project the organization will be working on is called the West Hill Wildway trail. According to Zepp, this would be a part of the Emerald Necklace and create a greenbelt trail along the west side of the Town of Ithaca. It would extend from Robert Treman State Park, up to Cayuga Medical Center, with a potential link to the Black Diamond Trail.

For now, the Land Trust plans to work with the town to ensure that the land is conserved. They will be starting with land on Culver Road, according to Zepp, with other areas becoming part of the Land Trust later on. Along with having staff members, the Land Trust still has a deep roster of volunteers, who sign up for a variety of reasons.

“The organization started initially with solely volunteers,” Zepp said. “As we’ve added staff, we’ve maintained and expanded our volunteer program. So, every year we estimate more than 200 volunteers are helping in carrying out the work of the Land Trust. That includes everything from photographers, and writers who help put

out our newsletters, and other informational materials, to a considerable number of volunteers who are out on our nature preserves maintaining trails and helping to maintain habitats. That is something that’s actually grown over the years and has been quite a substantial effort.”

Those interested can visit the Finger Lakes Land Trust’s website to look at the range of volunteer positions open. Positions range from single field day volunteers to ongoing roles. The Land Trust also offers educational field trips for no cost. Another way to get involved is to attend FLLT meetings, which are open to the public with conversations being held by different presenters discussing a different issue. Lately, Zepp said, the focus at the meetings has been around water quality, with topics relating to FLLT increasing its efforts to save land that is helpful to Cayuga Lake, as well as eliminating toxic algal blooms that have come under further scrutiny in the last few years particularly, especially in the summer of 2017.

Looking back, Zepp is proud of FLLT’s accomplishments and he knows that the work must continue to ensure a better future for the wildlife in the region. FLLT exists in an intriguing time for Ithaca; while the city government, with the support of a decent amount of the area residents, has chosen density development as its panacea for soaring housing prices, they face a Ma r ch

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As a part of the celebration, FLLT is organizing a series of hikes that stretch over 30 miles of land that the organization has conserved. Although the schedule is not final as of yet, the hikes are set to run from spring through late fall.

“We’re going to be offering a guided hike series to these areas, calling it our “30 for 30 Hike Series,” over the course of the spring through the fall,” Zepp said. “Also, [we’ll be] sharing information if people want to go on their own and to see some of the variety of the places we have conserved over the 30 years. All that information will be available on our website. We’ll have this hike series where we’ll take people out to introduce this area and show off what we’ve done in the past 30 years.”

While he knows the journey ahead could be rough and may not be as picturesque as some of the views FLLT has to offer, Zepp knows one place that will always remain beautiful: Lick Brook Gorge, the land trust’s initial project.

“Not only is it this stunning wild gorge but it’s a beautiful place,” he said. “It’s a wild place and it’s also only minutes away from downtown Ithaca. It’s a very special place and it’s also accessible without a big journey to get there.” ●

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Michael Bryant, the new head coach of the Ithaca High School boys tennis team, with the team for their annual photo. (Photo

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Closing the Gap

By Steve Lawrence

If me mor y se r ve s , it wa s ne arly 20 ye ars ago th at I f irs t me t Mich a e l Br yant an d got a se n se of how mu ch he l ove s the game of te nni s .

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ryant, now the new head coach of the Ithaca High School (IHS) varsity boys tennis team, put in nine years as the coach at Lansing High (in addition to offering private lessons, camps and clinics nine months out of the year), and he told me, “I have been training a lot of these players for about a decade, and many of them and their parents advocated for me to get this job.” He added, “I didn’t really pursue it, but it was a logical segue and it opened up for me.”

The IHS team started practice a couple of weeks ago, and if they can’t practice outside they head up to the Reis Tennis Center at Cornell, where there are enough courts to accommodate the entire group. If they have to go to the Eastlake Recreation Club, they split the practice into two sessions, given that there is but a single court there.

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Two of the seniors, Felix Shi and Aiden Campbell, have experience playing in the state tournament, and they have seen some success.

“One of the main things that drove the coaching change is that we want to offer a rigorous, disciplined, and competitive environment that will enable the kids to get to the [state tournaments] and succeed,” Bryant said. “We are working to change the culture, intensify practices and play more teams out of our area, like in Syracuse and Rochester.”

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things happen, like allowing us to travel.”

He also pointed out that the rest of the staff (Rodrigo Viteri and Helen Evans are assistants and Shane Taylor coaches the modified program) is “committed to a real team effort.”

“There is a lot of excitement,” Bryant said. “We have 25 varsity players and 24 on the modified. That’s a really big number for a scholastic team. We’re all working to give this a try, to up the fitness level, get them eating better foods, creating opportunities to play more competitive teams and make our own program competitive beyond Section IV. We want to close the gap.”

••• Farewell Findley: Although it has been many years since Findley Meislahn was the head coach of Cornell’s men’s heavyweight crew team, many in the Big Red community were saddened by Fin’s passing last week at the age of 78.

He was well known in the rowing community, and one story stands out. Cornell and Penn were fierce rivals heading into the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Finals in 1977, and Penn’s coach, Ted Nash,

was cracking the whip, having his players run stadium steps in preparation for the grueling race. A reporter asked Meislahn if he would insist on a similar regimen, and the 35 year-old first-year coach (and a rowing legend at Princeton) replied, “Nah, my guys would never do that.” The incredulous journalist pressed him further, and Findley said, “I’m not Ted Nash, and this isn’t Penn. These guys are highly independent. I don’t think they need me for very much.” He was right, as the Big Red won (the first of three IRA championships under Meislahn’s guidance).

It wasn’t the elite-level wins that defined Findley to those of us who knew him. I recall that in 1988, he was on the water in his launch (boat), coaching his rowers, and he had a massively debilitating stroke. It changed the way his body would respond to the things he asked of it, but he fought hard to come back to the greatest extent possible. It was a little more challenging to understand Fin when conversing with him, but we all knew that it was worth the effort. He was a warm, witty and engaging man, and he made everyone feel that he was sincerely interested in what they had to say. Following the stroke, Findley’s wife, Nancy, was incredible, and I can honestly remember wondering if I could ever step up to such a lofty level. I doubted I could. I have a feeling that if I shared those thoughts with Findley, he would have grinned and told me that was why he married Nancy and not me. ●

Climate Change

IHS Green Team organizes climate change march and rally

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n the first real spring day to hit Ithaca on March 15, students and other community activists gathered to ensure there are many more just like it. The Ithaca High School (IHS) Green Team organized a march from Ithaca High School to the Bernie Milton Pavilion on The Commons and a subsequent climate change rally. This was just one of many walkouts and rallies held on March 15 by hundreds of thousands of students in over 130 different cities across the country.

The rally began with chants and cheers from the gathered mass of students from Ithaca High School, Lehman Alternative Community School (LACS), and other schools in the community.. One major group at the rally was the Sunrise Movement, which is mostly for young people who are looking to support some kind of green new deal. Another community organization that joined the movement was Mothers Out Front, led by Ithaca High School’s art teacher Gina Cacioppo.

Although many of the speakers discussed global climate efforts, Cacioppo spoke about one in Tompkins County’s backyard: the use of fracked gas at the Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing. A highly

controversial issue, Cacioppo spoke about how the plant isn’t in regular use because it’s a peaker plant, meaning it is primarily used when more power is used by residents throughout the county.

On Dec. 1, 2018 the Tompkins County Legislature voted 12 to 2 on a resolution urging New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation to reject Cayuga Operating Company’s proposal looking to repower one of the energy generators with natural gas from coal. Many Tompkins County residents and others from Pennsylvania came to advocate against the natural gas repowering, arguing cleaner fuel should be used to repower the generator.

Some of the other speakers included Ithaca High School seniors Tilden Chao

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and Abigail Glickman, who received a grant from Sustainable Tompkins last year to conduct research into reducing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), which are commonly used as the cooling agent in refrigerators.

Their efforts have led to the creation of the website keepitcooltompkins. org, which lays out the work the two students have done so far, including the fact that hydrofluorocarbons have been found to be almost 4,000 times more lethal than carbon dioxide emissions. Utilizing the grant, not only have Chao and Glickman been working on outreach to the community, but they’re also developing alternatives to using HFCs. They are looking to get more people involved in this movement and to find more alternatives to HFCs in the future. For now, though, they are looking to keep their work going with other funding.

Another set of students from Cornell University spoke about efforts they have

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Two messages he wanted people to leave with were that climate solutions work at any level, and that drastic and rapid change may sound scary, but it’s needed to look toward a greener future.

From young to old, the rally was attended by people of all ages. Two fourthgraders took their turn at the microphone, speaking about how they want to know they have a future ahead of them.

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n March 14 at about 6:24 p.m.

Ithaca Police Department officers were dispatched to the Cayuga Street parking garage for a report of a female hanging over the railing of the top level, according to the police department.

Officer Carl Hubbell and Officer Julian Byrd were first on scene. Hubbell and Byrd sprinted to the top via the stairs and made contact with the female. The female was hanging backwards, head first, and looked to be struggling to hang on. The officers rushed over to her and pulled her

back up over the railing. It was determined that the female was distraught over a family issue and was emotionally unstable as a result.

Officers arranged for the female to be transported to a nearby hospital under section 9.41 of the Mental Hygiene Law. Regarding this incident, IPD Chief Tyler stated “I commend Officer Hubbell and Officer Byrd for their heroic efforts. Both officers demonstrated quick thinking, courage, and teamwork in a very stressful and dangerous situation, ultimately saving

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trainers in central New York, she’s been all over the region to conduct sessions with companies small and large, and said the attention being paid to workplace behavior now is deserved and necessary but long past due.

“It’s a very serious issue,” Bevilacqua said. “It’s not intended to just be a perfunctory quick post or a video. All employers

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do need to take the topic very seriously.”

Perhaps the most significant change the new requirements bring about is a widening of scope: In Bevilacqua’s words, it’s not just a method of handling with the obvious, stark examples of workplace sexual harassment, like an untoward comment or inappropriate touching. While the requirements are designed to address and clarify the methods employees can use to report those situations, there’s a much larger focus on the subtler things that are likely accepted as normal despite doing similar damage, like gender stereotyping in the workplace. That training tweak is what people like Bevilacqua, and New York State officials, hope will foster one change in particular: preventing sexual harassment instead of having to react when it happens.

“It’s a completely new way of handling this,” she said. “People have always had [Division of Human Rights] or [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] that they could fall back on. But I think the best way to deal with this type of thing is at the local level. If you can have an avenue within your workplace [...] that’s best for everybody.”

Whether or not the type of employer mandate can catch on in other states is questionable at best; Bevilacqua said that while she thinks it might be beneficial, there could certainly be states with less liberal state “there’s a much governlarger focus on the ments subtler things that who could are likely accepted think of as normal despite this as a doing similar governdamage, like ment gender stereotyping overreach in the workplace.” and - Bevilacqua burdensome on small businesses, even though the total training only takes 90 minutes.

During the training sessions she has conducted so far, Bevilacqua said there has been some of the expected eye-rolling that normally accompanies these type of trainings. But, to her surprise, there have been an ample number of participants who have endorsed the importance of the sessions to her, particularly from smaller, local businesses who may have been otherwise unaware of the statewide requirements. A recent session on Cornell’s campus contained so many questions that it stretched the training time from 90 minutes to two hours.

“New York State is really on the leading edge of getting out there and having that information provided, and giving employees a mechanism to deal with things that are happening to them or that they may see,” Bevilacqua said. “Employees should be able to go to their workplace and be comfortable. They may not love their jobs, but they should be able to work in a comfortable environment and not go to work with a knot in the pit of their stomach.”. ● -M att Butler

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Ithaca’s Annual Comic Book Convention Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of The Twilight Zone

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B y Wa r r e n G r e e n w o o d omics are a deep love of mine, my favorite art form, which led to my becoming a professional cartoonist.

Thus, writing about the Ithacon, Ithaca’s annual

comic book convention, is a natural for me.

It is an odd miracle that a city as small as Ithaca has an annual comic book convention, even more so that it’s been running each year since 1976 (back when Gerald Ford was president, and dinosaurs ruled the Earth). It is put on by the Comic Book Club of Ithaca, the oldest continuously-running comic book club in America, and Ithaca College. This year’s event is held at Emerson Suites on Ithaca College’s campus (953 Danby Road) on March 23 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and March 24 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with free admission.

Over the decades, the Ithacon has had several homes in Ithaca, including the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, the Masonic Temple,

Boynton Middle School and the Women’s Community Building. The partnership with Ithaca College began in 2014 with Ithacon 39.

Dr. Katharine Kittredge, professor of English at Ithaca College, chairs IC/Ithacon. She’s the co-creator of the “From Pippi to Ripley” conferences at IC. These are seminars on the role of women (and girls) in the science fiction and fantasy genres. This year’s Ithacon 44 has a “Twilight Zone” theme, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the series.

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beacon throughout his work. We can even claim Serling as an Ithacan, as he and his family lived in a cottage on Cayuga Lake during the warmer months of the year. He also taught at Ithaca College.

Ithacon 44 will feature a number of “Twilight Zone” programs, artifacts and events. My favorite is the “Twilight Zone” Crossover, where four student groups from IC have taken a minor character from the Zone and made a four-to-six minute film. (They’ll show the episode as well.) Another new thing about Ithacon 44 is that it will be helmed by a class of students at IC. Professor Kittredge and professor Ed Catto are teaching a class at IC called Planning Conventions & Trade Shows. I dropped in on a class, composed of 13 students. Darlynne Overbaugh, who directs Ithaca’s annual Wizarding Weekend (which has nothing to do with Harry Potter, I’m told), was on hand to help organize the young people.

It occurred to me that this was a sort of “Comicons: The Next Generation” in development.

And now we should cover some of the guests that will be attending this year’s Ithacon. There is going to be a ton of guests. If we covered them all it would be mind-numbing, so I’ll sketch through the biggest names.

Walt Simonson is both a comics writer and artist. He has done a lifetime of work for both Marvel and DC. I personally adore his work on the Fantastic Four and Thor, and his graphic novel “Starslammers.”

Comics writer Louise Simonson has written many titles for Marvel and DC, including “X-Factor, Superman: the Man of Steel,” and a comic I remember fondly, “The New Mutants.” She created “Powerpack” in 1984, which Dr. Kittredge called “the first children’s graphic novel.”

Tamora Pierce is the best-selling author of 32 fantasy novels. She revolutionized the fantasy genre, pioneering feminist Young Adult fantasy. Louise Simonson and Pierce are going to do a program together on women breaking into comics.

There will also be a featured publisher at Ithacon 44. AHOY Comics is a new publishing operation located in Syracuse, N.Y. AHOY Comics editor Tom Peyer was a founding editor at DC/Vertigo, where he worked on books like “Doom Patrol” and “Sandman,”and went on to write stories for nearly every major comics character.

His forte is wit. Peyer currently writes “The Wrong Earth” and “High Heaven” for AHOY Comics.

AHOY’s chief creative officer, Frank Cammuso, will also be on hand. Cammuso is a political cartoonist, and the creator of the “Max Hamm: Fairy Tale Detective” series, and the Scholastic published “Knights of the Lunch Table.”

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ment in comic art in 2011.

No convention would be complete without the “Star Trek” guests…and we got ‘em.

Actor and writer J.G. Hertzler has spent a lifetime in film and television and on the stage. Those of us who love science fiction and fantasy know him best as the Klingon General Martok on “Deep Space Nine.”

“Star Trek” actor Tim McCormack is a veteran “Star Trek” player, appearing in 51 episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

Science fiction writer David Gerrold is the author of over 50 books. He won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for the autobiographical tale of his son’s adoption, “The Martian Child.” And he is perhaps best known for a “Star Trek” episode he wrote when he was very young: the charming and funny “The Trouble with Tribbles.”

It’s worth mentioning that there will be all kinds of events and programs for kids. These include (but are not limited to): The Harry Potter Room, a zombie maze, a life-sized Candyland game, fantasy crafts, Quidditch, comic drawing with comic book artists Steve Ellis and Ten Van Winkle, clay crafting, crafting pendants & charms, girls computing, lightsabermaking and a cosplay contest.

More adult programs include: Behind the Cape, a “Superman” creator panel; Hidden Entrepreneurs: The Unknown History of the Business of the Comics; and Comic Cons of the Past 50 Years, a celebration and exploration of past comic cons in the U.S. The comic book conventions of my youth were a cult world of “fans.” These “fans” had a reputation of being a bit socially dysfunctional. (Older readers will probably remember that hilarious “Saturday Night Live” skit where William Shatner was set upon by a horde of obtuse “Star Trek” fans.)

Now, here in the dystopian future world of 2019, “comics” have morphed into “graphic novels,” which are reviewed in important smarty-pants publications, and appear on best novel lists. Libraries and bookstores have comics and graphic novel sections, and every town of any size has a comic book store or two. All this would have been unimaginable in my youth.

Comic book conventions here in the 21st century seem be attended by attractive young people and families as opposed to “fans.”

Being a Marvel reader (a “Marvelite,” as we called it in those days) in the 1960s was like being in a secret club or lodge. Now, both the Marvel and DC characters appear in insanely expensive, weirdly hallucinatory, blockbuster movies with planetary distribution.

Superheroes have become a new 21st century human mythology. People from all over planet Earth know and love these characters.

These characters belong to all of us now, and a comic book convention like the Ithacon is for everybody. ●

nual Animation Show of Shows this weekend. The principle is the same: in less than two hours, you’ll get to see 15 animated shorts from the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, France and Germany. Space prohibits reviewing all 15 films, so here are some highlights as I saw them.

Call me a middle-aged softie, but two of the shorts actually brought tears to my eyes. In just a few minutes, “The Green Bird” (France) moves from absurdism to the pangs of parenthood. A neurotic squawking fowl discovers its first egg and loses it, going through a heartbreaking and hilarious Sisyphean struggle to protect its only offspring. The imaginative and sweet “One Small Step” (U.S.) shows us a plucky girl who grows up obsessed with the space program and becoming an astronaut, thanks to her supportive shoe-maker father.

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he 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows, at Cornell Cinema 3/21 at 9:30, 3/22 at 9:35 & 3/23 at 7:00. $9 When I first started reviewing films in 1987, one of my favorite genres was the animated anthology. You had the annual animation tournees, “Animation Celebration” and then later, ‘toon curators like

Don Hertzfeldt distributed animation collections. You could see many short subjects made from artists around the world; the first “Animation Celebration” I reviewed in 1987 made my top 10 list and served as my introduction to the delightfully cracked Bill Plympton (“Your Face”) and Pixar honcho John Lasseter.

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At about 10 minutes, Alan Biet’s “Grand Canons” is a relative epic and the most abstract: The film starts in live action with shots of an artist’s hands drawing and refining a detailed drawing of a pencil. Suddenly the screen explodes with flurrying cascades of moving pencils in animated collage, and then a barrage of almost every conceivable object and appliance, moving rows of VCRs and kitchen implements and eyeglasses spilling and flying everywhere.

Anchi Chen’s “Barry” (U.S.) made me howl. It’s the story of the title character, a hard-working individual who just wants a chance to show the world that he could be the greatest surgeon in the world. Problem is, he’s a sheep. I can’t really describe Guy Charnaux’s “Business Meeting” (Brazil) nor would I want to spoil it. Perhaps inspired by “Milton” and “Office Space” from Mike Judge, “Business Meeting” takes the corporate-speak conference room culture to new heights of deadpan matter-of-fact insanity.

There are two short entries—and at less than two minutes apiece, I do mean short—“Super Girl” and “Bullets” are shorts animated and set to stories created by children, a charming program called Preschool Poets. At just over a minute, “Super Girl” illustrates the wishes of a child who wants to be a superhero. To me, it embodies the spirit of the medium, flowing from image to image with the streamof-conscious flow of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python-era work. ●

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Successful follow-up for House of Ithaqua

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Detectives Tupolski (Jack Sherman) and Ariel (Mike Chen) in “The Pillowman,” House of Ithaqua’s latest venture into psychological theater. (Photo: Wade McSurely-Bradshaw)

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he Pillowman by Martin McDonagh; at Risley Theatre through March 23 Film writer-director Martin McDonagh rocketed to fame as a playwright of violence and grotesque satire.

His first plays mined Irish rural comedy; in 2003, he switched the environment to an unnamed totalitarian state, writing the haunting psychological teaser “The Pillowman.”

House of Ithaqua tackles this slippery script with confident direction and adroit acting, casting a chilly spell which helps sustain a fairly long production. Final performances are this Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. at Risley Theatre.

Lights go up, and we see a man with a pillowcase over his head sitting at a utilitarian table against a black mottled background (set design by Christopher Teitelbaum.) In walk two men in white shirts and ties. It’s an interrogation.

McDonagh borrows from Pinter and

Kafka in this framing scene. It flirts with being political: the totalitarian state against the writer, before moving into questions about child murders which have striking coincidences with Katurian’s short stories.

We hear several of these stories. In the second and fourth scenes, Katurian narrates as additional actors play a mother, a father and a little girl. The final scene returns to the interrogation room.

McDonagh’s highly-symmetrical script pivots on a scene in a cell between Katurian and his brain-damaged brother, Michal, that brilliantly weaves high comedy with dawning horror, innocence with dark deeds.

Teitelbaum, who also serves as director, keeps the storyline clear, while generally striking an effective emotional temperature. The cold and dream-like nature of the play is greatly enhanced by the atmospheric light design of Lea Davis. Between scenes, original music plays by CHRMSM,

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may also lie in the direction, as the first scene especially has Katurian running too hot and frantic from the top, and Tupolski too cool—the screws not really constantly tightening.

As ‘bad cop/torturer’ Ariel, Mike Chen has a low, grating tone of menace and a sharp sense of a frustrated hound. He comes alive in the final scene as the tables begin to turn between the two cops.

Adara Alston, Ben Stevens and Marcella Walsh are all quite watchable, particularly Walsh as a girl who believes she is Jesus.

The play lives or dies by its Katurian in the end. McSurely-Bradshaw is a live wire, blazing through the proceedings like a man on the edge of burning alive. He proves a compelling storyteller, with great variety and specificity in his voicing of the text, strongly focused on other realms. His presence haunts the theatre and lingers in the play’s aftermath.stage. •

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Kitchen’s “Royale” is a winner

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he Royale by Marco Ramirez; Kitchen Theatre through March 31 Now and then an evening at the theatre catches you from the first breath, sound or image and catapults you into another world for its entire span, lingering well past the curtain call. Such is the experience with Pirronne Yousefzadeh’s blistering production of Marco Ramirez’s “The Royale,” now playing at the Kitchen Theatre.

Inspired by the life of the great Jack Johnson, the first black man to win the title of heavyweight champion of the world, Ramirez has renamed his protagonist Jay ‘The Sport’ Johnson and streamlined Johnson’s journey to that title, conflating the two white boxers the actual Johnson defeated (Tommy Burns and James Jeffries) into one, Bernard Bixby, who Jay eventually meets in “the fight of the century.”

Scaling the Johnson epic down into the intimacy of blood, race and family, Ramirez serves up just five characters: Johnson, in his prime; his trainer, Wynton, an elder; a scrappy young boxer named “Fish” who becomes his sparring partner; Nina, his big sister; and Max, the fight promoter. Doubling as referee and the press, Max is the only white character.

The play is set at the turn of the century (1905–1910) in the thick of Jim Crow.

The playwright pares down to the lyric essentials—the boxing is stance, percussive claps, breath, thoughts. We are left to imagine the blows, the clinches, the falls, the blood, the sweat, the crammed arenas of spectators.

Ramirez’s interest lies in the flip-side of DuBois’ call for a “Talented Tenth” of Negro liberation through “exceptional men.”

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This production scores most strongly in the brothers’ scene: hilarious, touching, emotionally harrowing. Abel McSurelyBradshaw as Katurian and Daniel J. Kiely as Michal are fully in sync, breathing almost simultaneously, their moods shifting like the long-suffering duo they are.

Kiely is all childish id, a large man whose mind is arrested at pre-adolescence.

He coos, whines, sulks, placates and cajoles Katurian. Yet his acting also reveals glimpses of an undercurrent of rage and deep, deep fear. Kiely’s comic timing is adroit but held at a natural, un-showy level.

As the self-declared ‘good cop’ Tupolski, Jack Sherman comes on like a cardshark facing a particularly succulent mark.

He tosses off witticism and non sequiturs with hardly concealed glee and employs a range of facial expressions. The work is very assured and lands the humor; less certain is Tupolski’s drive and hunger. This

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Jamal James (left) and Dazmann Still in the Kitchen Theatre’s production of “The Royale.” (Picture by Teresa Mogil)

story, but back then it was naked dynamite. How dare an “uppity Negro” upset white supremacy? So-called race riots erupted across the nation—that is, white mobs attacking black citizens—and up to a dozen or more black men died.

This is the core of the play’s conflict: keep your head down and live or become all you can dream and put your race (and family) in danger. Where (and why) should Johnson draw the line?

Percussion propels Yousefzadeh’s vision: to the embodied sounds called for in the script she has welded an intense score full of furious rhythms and blasts of brass by sound designer Chris Lane. Scenic and lighting designer Seth Reiser has put the entire action on a floor and back-board of wood planks, still smelling of sawdust, backlit with harsh-white light that seeps through the open slats. One large punching bag, plus later a bench, suffice for furnishings. Period boxing shorts, suits and a commanding dress are provided by costume designer Sarafina Bush.

Movement director Rocio Mendez helps shape the actors’ impressive physicality, while Yousefzadeh keeps the action tight and supple.

Taunting and light-footed, Jamal James as Johnson comes across at first like a young Muhammad Ali. He is cocky and inclined to show off. Yet he falls into a grace of motion and focus when the fight becomes real. Alternately cajoled and cocooned by both his trainer and pro-

moter, he undergoes a fierce baptism, first of benign betrayal, then of a confrontation with the darkness his sister insists he will unleash. It’s a commanding performance

by James, in which the emotionality runs deep.

Wry wit, hard-won and weary is the preferred method of Alexander Thomas’s Wynton. Thomas plays him with a smile, but a wary focus in the eyes, a feeling of force held in reserve. His monologue about his time in “The Royale,” a vicious white-run game in which Black boys are bet on in blood-sports, cuts deep. Rhythm and authority mark his acting throughout.

As Max, Sean Meehan is a fount of bluster and blarney, snapping off grand elocutions, providing the show-biz dazzle of the ring.

Alternately hard-headed and heart-onsleeve, Dazmann Still is a beguiling Fish, not yet beaten-down, but curious and fresh.

As Nina, Lisa Tharps enters with a fury so tightly contained it is unnerving.

It breaks upon her brother in alternating flows of love and anger that are breathtaking. While keeping her grounded in dirtand-blood reality, Nina is also an avatar of tragedy, unleashed brutally in a compelling late coup de theatre that brought gasps from the audience.

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Surf Renegades | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

3/20 Wednesday The Dennis Winge Trio | 6:00 PM, | Monks on the Commons, Ithaca Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca

3/21 Thursday Thaw Kickoff Party ft. Lucas Ashby’s Braintrust & Anguid | 9:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca

3/22 Friday Under Construction | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Sundown Sally | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville The Small Kings | 6:15 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca Pete Panek & The Blue Cats | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca Chris Bethmann | 7:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Matthew Byrne | 7:30 PM, | 6 On The Square, Oxford Sticky C Key Presents: Finger Lakes Thaw | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20-$30

Songs without Words | 8:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words): violinist Noyuri Hazama, baroque cellist and violist da gamba musician Eva Lymenstull, and keyboardist Shin Hwang explore the more singable works of Schubert and Beethoven centered around the composer’s inspiration from the Lied (Germanic songs).

Festival Chamber Orchestra | 8:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | James Spinazzola, conductor. Features orchestral works by Cornell graduate composers Barry Sharp, Daniel Sabzghabaei, and Piyawat Louilarpprasert performed by an ensemble of fourteen professional players.

Lynn Wiles and Angie Beeler Duo | 1:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays | 2:00 PM, | Cortland Country Music Park, Cortland

Loudon Wainwright III | 8:00 PM, 3/22 Friday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | | $35-$40

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

Pat Metheny - Side Eye Tour | 8:00 PM, 3/22 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer |

3/24 Sunday

The Inner Crazy | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Robert Earl Keen | 8:00 PM, 3/22 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

The Auroras | 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Mike Stark | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

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3/25 Monday Blues Jam with Bill Gregg | 7:00 PM, | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Trumansburg David Archuleta | 7:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Music and Writing at the Grayhaven | 8:00 PM, | Grayhaven Motel, Ithaca

Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca Jukebox the Ghost & The Mowgli’s | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20 - $23 Open Mic Night | 8:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg

The Don’t Know Whys | 8:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg

3/26 Tuesday

Common Railers | 9:00 PM, | Atlas Bowl, Trumansburg

Professor Tuesdays Jazz Quartet | 6:30 PM, | ZaZa’s Cucina, Ithaca

Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

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Stereopticon | 7:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

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David Kim, piano | 8:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | A program of Schumann and Schubert.

We Banjo 3 | 8:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Midday Music in Lincoln: Andrew Zhou and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough | 12:30 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Steven Stucky: Allegretto quasi Andantino (Schubert Dream). Walter Zimmermann: As a Wife Has a Cow: A

Choral Composition Festival | 7:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | At this yearly choral music composition contest, the top six entries are performed by selected high school choirs. The IC Choir performs its annual commissioned work, as well.

Pure Oldies Presents: A Tribute To The King! | 7:30 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Voted Best Elvis Tribute Show In America! | $15 Symphoria Pops Series: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial In Concert | 7:30 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Don’t miss Steven Spielberg’s cinematic masterpiece E.T. The Extra Terrestrial with John Williams’ Academy Award winning score performed live to picture, and experience the

Memories of Patsy - The Patsy Cline Tribute Show | 8:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | The legendary Patsy Cline comes to life once again in the national touring show. | Reserved seating $29-$39 Cornell Jazz Ensemble with Ingrid Jensen | 3:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Paul Merrill, director, and the Bissett Jazz Sextet; Peter Chwazik, coach, with guest artist Ingrid Jensen, trumpet. Music of modern women composers.

Guest Recital: Yuri Didenko, piano | 4:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Didenko is Associate Professor of Piano at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia.

A$AP Ferg | 7:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Barton Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Beethoven’s Archduke Trio | 8:00 PM, 3/26 Tuesday | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | John Haines-Eitzen, cello; Aaron Berofsky, violin; and Matthew Bengtson, piano perform Beethoven’s Archduke Trio, plus a selection by Haydn.

Stage Pride and Prejudice | 7:30 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Runs March 20 - April 7. In the age of The Crown and Victoria, we go back to the Anglophile source with Kate Hamill’s playful adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic romance.| $20-$39

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Hangar AIRS: Meet Brooke Berman | 6:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Argos Warehouse Lounge & Event Space, 408 E. State St., Ithaca | Brooke Berman is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and memoirist whose work has been produced and published across the US and abroad. Her new play QUEER THEORY traces the history of a twenty year friendship between a straight woman and her queer best friend, a successful filmmaker.

ComedyFLOPS | 7:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | | $5 Suggested Donation The Pillowman | 7:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday thru 3/23 Saturday| Risley Theatre, Risley Hall, Ithaca | by Martin McDonagh. Presented by House of Ithaqua.

I’m Not Rappaport | 7:30 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Redhouse Arts Center, 400 S. Salina Street, Syracuse | Focuses on the unlikely friendship between Nat Moyer, a feisty Jew with leftist leanings and Midge Carter, a cantankerous, half-blind building superintendent. Thru March 24.

The Royale | 7:30 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca

| Runs thru Mar 31, 2019. Contact theater for additional showtimes. See this issue for review.

Purim Drag Show | 8:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center, IC, Ithaca | Drag queens, drag kings, Hamantaschen, and one fun-filled evening! Join Hillel for a Purim spiel you won’t forget.

Featuring talent from both Ithaca College students and members of the larger Ithaca community!

Shrek the Musical | 8:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Endicott Performing Arts Center, 102 Washington Ave, Endicott | March 21st - 24th. Thurs, Fri and Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm. | $20 - Adults $18 Seniors and Children Heermans-McCalmon Competition Reading & Screening | 4:30 PM, 3/22 Friday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | A staged reading of the winning plays and a screening of the winning screenplay will be presented by undergraduate students.

A Spoonful of Poison - Mystery Dinner Theater | 6:30 PM, 3/22 Friday & 3/23 Saturday| Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | Murder? How terribly impo-

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Les Miserables | 7:30 PM, 3/26 Tuesday | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse |

Thalassa: A Dive into the Deep - A contemporary Circus Show | 7:00 PM, 3/22 Friday; 2:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Circus Culture, 116 W Green Street, Ithaca | Created by Circus Culture. A full-length production based in an underwater world featuring aerial arts, clowning, contortion, and acrobatics. | $10/$15

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses | 8:00 PM, 3/22 Friday | The Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd. E., B201 , Syracuse | Runs through March 23. | $20-22 The Wrong Place | 1:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | A new international play about the Rohingya genocide making its debut reading in the Film Forum.

They Called Her Vivaldi | 3:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday; 10:00 AM, 3/25 Monday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Ireland’s Theatre Lovett presents this enchanting play about a girl with peculiar talents and a very special hat.

25th Annual Little Gems - Art Exhibit | Ongoing | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | A beautiful collection of small artwork.

3/23, 7:00 PM | *Ithaca Premiere Fifteen thought-provoking films representing artists from six countries, including six student films.

30th Annual Juried Photography Show | Ongoing | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W. Martin Luther King, Jr./ State Street, Ithaca | Digital, experimental and traditional photographs will be shown. Photographers from the Finger Lakes region and beyond are represented.

Birds of Passage | 3/22, 7:00 PM; 3/24, 4:30 PM | During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

I See You (IC/CU) 2019 | Ongoing | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | A joint show of prints by students of two strong printmaking programs at Ithaca College and Cornell University. Thru 3/29.

Online/On Land: Experimental Shorts | 3/26, 7:00PM | Six recent experimental shorts, observing the dissonance generated between landscapes and the humans who physically or virtually inhabit them.

Atlantic Arias: Paintings of Coastal Ireland and Maine | Ongoing | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Thru 3/31. Keeler brings his rich textured treatment of light, sky, and water to the beauty of these two coastal regions.

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The Protest Banner Lending Library | 10:00 AM, 3/21 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Opening Reception 3/21, 5-7PM. World Picture: Travel Imagery Before and After Photography | 4:30 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, 161 Ho Plaza, Cornell University, Ithaca | This exhibition examines how published travel imagery created and transmitted geographical knowledge during the nineteenth century, a period of rapid and extraordinary change in how people travelled, represented, and understood the world.

Opening reception Thursday, March 21, 4:30pm-6:30pm.

Colette | 3/20, 7:00 PM | w/ producer Christine Vachon in person. Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

A Conversation w/ David Greenbaum ‘98 | 3/21, 5:15 PM| *Free.

Greenbaum is co-head of production at Fox Searchlight Pictures. He will be skyping in for a conversation with former CU lecturer Lynda Bogel about his career and the making of The Favourite.

The Favourite | 3/21, 7:00 PM; 3/23, 9:15 PM; 3/24 7:15 PM| | In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.

The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows | 3/21, 9:30PM; 3/22, 9:35;

Ruben Brandt, Collector* | Four expert thieves attempt to steal every famous artwork that is haunting their mutual psychotherapist. A detective attempts to find out who the “Collector” is. | 96 mins R Transit* | When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. He meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband - the very man he’s impersonating. | 101 mins Regal Ithaca Wednesday 3/20 through Tuesday, 3/26. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first. * Captive State* | Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents. |109 mins PG-13

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Various Venues | Bigger and better than year one? You decide! Featuring musical acts both local and national, including breakout sibling duo Lawrence (pictured), the fledgling winter festival has something for all musical tastes. See your favorites and discover some new ones all around town this weekend. (photo: Facebook)

Emerson Suites, Ithaca College | Ithaca hosts the second-longest continuously running comic book show in the country – how cool is that? Head up to South Hill for comics, cosplay, guests, panels and activities for kids all weekend! See Ithacon.org for full schedule of speakers and activities. (poster design: Jim Coon)

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Gloria Bell* | A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs. | 102 mins R Out of Blue* |A detective is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, who is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend. | 109 mins NR

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Get Real: Seeking Authenticity in African Art | 10:00 AM, 3/21 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, IC, Ithaca | Opening Reception: 3/21 5-7PM.

Week of Friday, March 22, 2019 through Thursday, March 28. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed*.

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Us*| A family’s serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begins to terrorize them. |116 mins R Wonder Park | The story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive. | 85 mins PG Five Feet Apart | A pair of teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love. | PG-13 Captain Marvel| 124 mins PG-13 A Madea Family Funeral| 109 mins PG-13 Alita: Battle Angel | 122 mins PG-13 Isn’t It Romantic| 88 mins PG-13 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | 106 mins PG How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | 104 mins PG A Star Is Born| 136 mins R Green Book | 130 mins PG-13

Special Events Finger Lakes Thaw 2019 | 6:00 PM, 3/22 Friday & 3/23 Saturday| A $30 ticket gives you access to 35+ bands, 20+ DJs, 1 FREE shuttle bus, and 4 different venues in Ithaca.

27th Annual Ithaca Fishing and Conservation Day | 9:00 AM, 3/23 Saturday | Boynton Middle School, 1601 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | donation Ithacon 44 | 10:00 AM, 3/23 Saturday; 11:00 AM, 3/25 Sunday | Emerson Suites, Ithaca College, Ithaca | A variety of guests from both the comic book industry and the wider pop culture world will be joining the fun, Follow the Facebook page, ITHACON 44 (2019), for updates The 2019 Lake Ontario Fisheries Symposium | 10:00 AM, 3/23 Saturday | Finger Lakes Mall, 1579 Clark St, Auburn | Theme - fish movement.

People of all ages can attend to learn about fishing on Lake Ontario and its tributaries from professional anglers, fisheries managers, and scientists.

6th Annual Foodnet Mac ‘n Cheese Bowl | 11:30 AM, 3/23 Saturday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St,

Ithaca | Benefit for†Foodnet Meals on Wheels. Featuring 20 local restaurants and vendors . Come for the tastings, live music, raffles and more!

Spring Fairy Fest | 1:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | Dress in your fairy finery and enjoy some free samples, magical crafts and special activities at participating businesses: Alphabet Soup, Cat’s Pajamas, Handwork, F. Oliver’s, Home Green Home, Gee June Bridal, Sunny Days, Indigo Rose and Mockingbird Paperie.

Dancing for Life Fundraiser with The Ageless Jazz Band | 7:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Hotel Ithaca, 222 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Fundraiser for The Crisisline. With refreshments, cash bar and a fabulous silent auction.

2019 Finger Lakes Craft Beverage Conference | 8:00 AM, 3/26 Tuesday | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo | Registration is required. Participants can expect to hear from a wide variety of expert speakers providing current information on the state of the craft beverage industry. | $100 and includes materials, continental breakfast, lunch, post-conference social hour and a 2019 FLCBC glass.

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Achieving Beulah Land - A History of Suffrage Activities in Tompkins County | 4:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Cornell Library Archivist Emerita Elaine Engst and Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen will share the story of the suffrage movement as it unfolded in New York State, in Tompkins County and at Cornell University.

Sciencenter Science Together | Sciencenter, 601 1st St. , Ithaca | Tue/ Th @ 10:30AM and Wed/Fri @ 3:00PM. | General admission fees apply Teen Writing Workshops | 4:30 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Thursdays through May 2. Each week will offer something different, and attendance every week is not required.

These one-hour workshops will be led

by Writopia-trained students from IC. Appropriate for people in grades 6-12.

Dr. Aysha Akhtar - Neurologist and Animal Ethics Expert | All Day 3/25 Monday | Cornell U, North Campus, Ithaca | Dr. Akhtar, a passionate, intelligent doctor and activist, will be giving a talk in advance of her upcoming book, Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 3/22 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

Buffalo Street Books Book Club | 5:00 PM, 3/26 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | March - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Local Author and Ithaca College Writing Professor Jack Wang | 7:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | Wang will share the story behind the making of his felted book series ‘Cozy Classics’ and ‘Star Wars: Epic Yarns.’

Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 3/20 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

Newfield Public Library Used Book Sale | 9:00 AM, 3/23 Saturday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | A fundraiser for the library.

Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At this hands-on tutorial, teens will learn to craft a boffer (a padded mock weapon) that can be used for cosplay (costume play) and LARP (Live Action Role-Playing games). Participants will learn how to cut and mold PVC, balance a hilt and blade, and install a foam blade and cross-guard. Each participant will make and take home a foam bladed sword. For ages 12 to 17.

Registration is required.

Author Dr. Bettina Love | 5:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Dr. Love’s book,We Want to Do More Than Survive, introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

Petty Theft - Poems by Nicholas Friedman | 6:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Nicholas Friedman is the author of Petty Theft, which won the 2018 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, Poetry, Yale Review, and other publications. Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, he currently works as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford.

Kids Baby Yoga | 10:00 AM, 3/20 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | For children ages 0-2 w/ a parent or grandparent

Toddler Yoga | 10:45 AM, 3/20 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | For children ages 2-5.

Families learn gentle stretches and yoga basics while enjoying stories.

Teen Workshop - Craft Your Own Foam Blade Sword | 4:30 PM, 3/20

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 3/22 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Additional session at 3:30 to 4:00 pm.

MakerSpace Event | 3:30 PM, 3/22 Friday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | Have you ever wondered just how many things you can make with duct tape? Come find out with us! All materials provided at this free vent, we will be designing fun items and accessories using different colors of tape. This event is designed for kids in grades 6-12.

Teen Writing Workshop (Fridays) | 4:30 PM, 3/22 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The Friday workshop will run through April 26.

Paw Patrol Live! | 10:00 AM, 3/23 Saturday & 3/24 Sunday| Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | Second show at 2:00PM. Using their unique skills and teamwork, the pups show that ìno job is too big, no pup is too small, and share lessons for all ages about citizenship, social skills and problem-solving.

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Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St. | Benefit for Foodnet Meals on Wheels. 20 local restaurants and vendors will be whipping up their version of everyone’s favorite comfort food. Who makes the best mac & cheese in town? You decide and vote for your favorites.

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Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 3/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills. We meet each Saturday for stories, songs and family fun.

Nate & Kate Kids Show! | 11:30 AM, 3/23 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Come see the incredible talents of Nate & Kate, as they sing, play and enthrall the kids.

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more. | General admission fees apply LEGO Building Program | 3:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | .

Persephone: Queen of the Underworld Storytelling by Jay Leeming | 2:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | This full cinema of the imagination will include forbidden fruit, pirates, a blizzard, a wrestling with the wintry consequences of desire unleashed-- and of course much laughter and song. Come one, come all! With music by the Calliope Chorus. | $5-$20 sliding scale, children free Maker Mondays for Teens | 4:00 PM, 3/25 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tutorials will be provided for the Makerbot 3D Printer, Epilogue Helix Laser Cutter, and Cricut.

Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 3/26 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 3/26 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 3/26 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca|

Notices Tips for Job Hunters Over 50 | 10:00 AM, 3/20 Wednesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Johanna Anderson, Executive Director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services on The Need for Affordable Housing in Tompkins County | $15 Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Dinner: Stella’s Barn. Host: Hans F., RSVP: hansfleischmann83@gmail.com Transracial Adoption Support and Discussion; Ithaca | 6:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A place for parents who have adopted transracially to engage in lively discussion around the intersections of race and adoption.

Sprouting Made Simple! | 7:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Classrooms@ Greenstar, 702 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to successfully grow a variety of sprouts and how to use them in delicious sprout salads.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information.

Workforce Forum: Why Should I Hire You? | 2:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Come and join in a discussion with local area job seekers, your professional peers, and DOL Staff to discuss new trends impacting your job search, barriers to employment, and related topics.

THE PROTEST BANNER LENDING LIBRARY – OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 5-7 P.M.

Handwerker Gallery, Caroline Werner Gannett Center, Ithaca College | Chicago-based artist Aram Han Sifuentes uses needle and thread as tools to examine immigration, citizenship, race, and craft. His touring show will transform the gallery into a space for visitors to learn skills needed to make their own banners, a public sewing space, and a place where people can check out handmade banners to use in protests outside of gallery walls. (photo: eedhahm)

Civil Service Workshop | 2:30 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Learn how to look up exam and vacancy information for various forms of government jobs.

Community Game Night | 6:30 PM, 3/21 Thursday | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Enter through the green door on Court St, or the door by Dewitt Park. We are downstairs in Dodds Hall.

Community Conversation on Future Landmarks in the City of Ithaca | 6:45 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green Street, Ithaca | Join Historic Ithaca and City of Ithaca Historic Preservation Planner Bryan McCracken for a community conversation about the local landmark and historic districts designation process.

Shore Connection: Video Conference with Artist-at-Sea Gideon Gerlt aboard the Falkor in the Library’s Digital Lab.

Landmarks and villages in Tompkins County. Anyone 55 or older in the area is most welcome. | $7/$8

Considering Our Artifacts: Keeping Their Stories Alive | 3:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca | An Interactive Seminar presented by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ithaca Descendants of Holocaust Survivors.

Understanding Your Online Presence | 2:00 PM, 3/25 Monday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | This workshop covers some topics relating to understanding your online presence and the potential negative and positive impacts it may have on your job search.

Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Landlords Association of Tompkins County Monthly Meeting | 4:30 PM, 3/25 Monday | Hotel Ithaca, 222 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | This month

7:00 PM, 3/26 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A portion of the film will be shown each evening, followed by guided discussions and writing responses.

Health S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | Classes held at Juniper Manor, Lifelong, & Brooktondale Fire Station. Contact Lifelong for specific days and times.

Yoga for Beginners | 9:00 AM, 3/20 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Donations appreci-

Tai Chi Spring Classes | 2:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | Class focuses on the Yang style 24 forms, and includes Qi Gong and yoga stretches.To register, contact Sue at 607-659-3022 or email sueheaven@ gmail.com. | $1-$3/class Men’s Group | 6:00 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | The LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Men’s Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m.

Video Conference with Artist-atSea Gideon Gerlt | 2:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Ship to

Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Essential Oils for Natural Healing | 7:00 PM, 3/21 Thursday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Monthly class about using essential oils for natural health and home care.

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 3/24 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | Dance Church Ithaca | 11:30 AM, 3/24 Sunday | Fine Spirit Studio, 201 Dey Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca | A free-movement and conscious dance experience for all ages held weekly. | $5 suggested donation

Cayuga Bird Club Field Trip | 7:30 AM, 3/23 Saturday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Meet† at the EAST END OF STEWART PARK TO CAR POOL. Dress warmly, bring lunch, drinks and a scope. All field trips are open to the public, both experienced birders and beginners.

Great Greens Giveaway! | 1:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Sweet Land Farm CSA, 9732 State Route 96, Trumansburg | If you’ve signed up already or sign up at this event you can head into one of the greenhouses and harvest a bag.

If greens aren’t your style, you can fill part or all of your bag with winter roots (carrots, potatoes, onions, beets, rutabagas, celeriac, turnips, etc). We will also have produce for sale.

Tai Chi | Classes held at Lansing Library, Titus Towers, Brooktondale Community Center, and Lifelong.

Contact Lifelong for specific days and times.

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 3/24 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing |

Advanced English as a Second Language Classes | 1:00 PM, 3/22 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Students will develop skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. To register, please contact Lifelong Learning at (607) 273-1511.

Cheese and Thank You | 12:00 PM, 3/23 Saturday | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, 1771 Dryden Road, Freeville | Cheese tasting and sale by 4 local creameries.

required email kbrown19@ithaca.edu or call 60-7274-1607.

Butoh dance class series | 3:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Butoh is a modern Japanese dance form focusing on slow, expressive movements. No registration is required.

Participants should wear comfortable clothing.

PURE OLDIES PRESENTS: A TRIBUTE TO THE KING! Saturday, March 23, 7:30 PM | The Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | A little less conversation, a little more Elvis might be just what you need this weekend. Terry Buchwald has earned a reputation as one of the country’s most talented Elvis Presley tribute performers. No need to head to Vegas, just south to Ithaca to see his show. (photo: Facebook)

Sunday Night Alive! | 6:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | McGrawville Church, McGraw | Sing with the SNA praise band and hear an encouraging word. More details on Facebook.

Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 12:15 PM, 3/25 Monday | Dryden VFW, 2272 Dryden Rd, Dryden | The meal will be chicken and biscuits, tossed salad, squash, and carrot cake.

Our speaker will be Michael Lane, Esquire of Dryden. He will talk about

speakers will be Sponsor Midstate Basement Authorities on mold remediation; Ace Security describing their new technology; and Attorneys Russ Maines and Michael Perehenic on Companion vs Service animals.

7th Annual Inter-generational Prom | 5:00 PM, 3/25 Monday | Emerson Suites, Ithaca College, Ithaca | by Project Generation.

American Creed - PBS Documentary Community Conversations |

ated. Registration required.

Midday Group Sing | 12:10 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Drop ins welcome.

Mid-Day Mindfulness Meditation | 12:15 PM, 3/20 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Shift out of “automatic pilot” mode and observe the workings of the mind, body, and emotions.

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 3/21 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Communicating Effectively with Your Healthcare Provider | 9:15 AM, 3/21 Thursday | Longview, An Ithacare Community, 1 Bella Vista Drive, Ithaca | Are you over 55 ? This is a free workshop designed to help make the most of your visits with your healthcare team. Registration is

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous | 4:00 PM, 3/24 Sunday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | FA is a free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating, or bulimia. foodaddicts. org Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 3/25 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 3/26 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield |

DANCING FOR LIFE FUNDRAISER WITH THE AGELESS JAZZ BAND

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Boynton Middle School, 1601 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | A day of family-friendly activities, exhibits, and education focusing on fishing and environmental conservation. Proceeds raised benefit youth environmental education activities and the Trout in the Classroom program, currently operating in 19 schools within nine local school districts. (photo: provided)

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 AT 7:00 PM

Hotel Ithaca, 222 S. Cayuga St.| Help restore 24hour service to Suicide Prevention’s Crisisline with a really fun evening out. Enjoy performances, social dancing, and a fabulous silent auction. (photo: provided)

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LUNENBURG, MA needs 4 temporary workers 3/7/2019 to 12/5/2019, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract.

Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. Hours offered each week may be more or less than stated in item 11 depending upon weather and crop conditions. Workers may be required to work extra hours offered, $13.25 per hr, or applicable piece rate. Applicants apply at: North Central Career Center, Erdman Way, Leominster, MA 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #11589444. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of fruit and vegetables crops including, but not limited to driving, operating, adjusts and maintains farm machines, preparing soil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying, irrigating mowing, harvesting, grading and packing. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning, saw and hoe. Also greenhouse activities during the early part of employment. 1 months experience in work listed required.

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Hours offered each week my be more or less than stated in item 11 depending on weather and crop conditions. Workers not required to work extra hours offered. $13.25 per hr, or applicable piece rate.

Applicants apply at North Central Career Center 978-534-1481 or apply at the nearest local office of the state workforce agency. Job order #11630598. Workers are expected to perform the following duties after the employer has provided training. Be able to perform work within the scope of normal farm related duties.

Use a machete, Remove rocks from fields. Hoe thin and weed by hand.

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Hours offered each week may be more or less than stated in item 11 depending on weather and crop conditions. Workers not required to work extra hours offered. $13.25 per hr, or applicable piece rate.

Applicants apply at Mass Hire Career Center, 100 Erdman Way, Leominster MA 01453 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #11657667. Workers may perform any combination of tasks related to planting, cultivating, maintenance and harvesting of fruit trees. Preparing soil, planting, pruning, pulling brush, picking rocks, weeding, thinning and spraying pesticides under supervision of certified applicator, irrigating, harvesting, grading and loading of fruit. May use hand tools such as shovels and rakes, hoes pruning saws and shears, hammers, ladders and picking buckets. May use saws and other powered equipment to repair bulk boxes.

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