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ompkins County is working to end the abuse of solitary confinement in New York State. On Wednesday, Feb. 25, Tompkins County’s Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Committee (WDIC) unanimously approved a resolution in support of Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Isolated Confinement (HALT), a statewide resolution to limit the use of punitive isolation in state and county correctional facilities.

WDIC Chair Leslyn McBeanClairborne said, “I was bringing this resolution to WDIC because I thought there was a certain degree of diversity issues in this.” The county resolution notes that certain already marginalized groups are held in solitary confinement at a disproportionate rate.

The county resolution also briefly describes the conditions of solitary confinement, which typically involve 22 to 24 hours per day spent in a small cell. Currently there are more than 4,000 inmates in solitary confinement in New York State prisons, a fact for which the resolution cites Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Also, the resolution references the studied psychological impact of prolonged solitary confinement and notes, “Five out of six sentences that result in solitary confinement in New York State prisons are for non-violent conduct.”

WDIC member and Tompkins County Personnel Commissioner Deb Prato asked McBean-Clairborne for confirmation that the local resolution only offers support for the state resolution and does not move forward any separate local measure. McBean-Clairborne said that this resolution is only in support of the state bill, but she did not rule out the possibility of a separate county resolution in the future.

McBean-Clairborne noted that the resolution supporting HALT was approved by the Budget, Capital, and Personnel Committee before coming before WDIC. Next month it will go before the Public Safety Committee and, if approved there, it will move on to the full legislature on Tuesday, March 17.

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Tammy Boudah has been a clinician with Burlington’s street outreach team for 11 years. When the team began as a one-man operation, she was a merchant downtown and watched Matt Young, the team’s first worker and now its supervisor, “zipping around, putting out fires.”

Burlington’s downtown walking street is four blocks long, Boudah said, and it’s “the hub for everything in the county: business, shopping, social services.

Sometimes they’re at cross-purposes.

“Often people who don’t have a lot of means or money spend their time there,” Boudah continued. “It’s free and everybody’s there, so why not?”

Boudah watched Young’s clientele, so to speak, grow from her shop: “Once people found out there was a social worker

thaca’s downtown should soon have another familiar face on its streets every day.

Common Council is expected to vote on funding its $20,000 portion of a “street outreach worker” for the downtown/ Commons area at its Wednesday, March 4 meeting—Tompkins County is expected to kick in its $20,000 piece in April, and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance will commit $10,000 to the new position.

Alderman Graham Kerslick (D-4th) told the Community Police Board on Feb. 25 that the new position is a“pilot program” that will be overseen by a steering committee, which he’s been serving on, and an advisory board.

“This is not an office position,” Kerslick said. “This person is going to be on the street Alderman Graham Kerslick (Photo Tim Gera) maybe 90 percent of the time.”

It’s hoped that with some resources and a little pull, the outreach worker can help take some people started circling around him. You of the load off the city police department don’t have to make an appointment, don’t by dealing with disturbance calls that are have to go to an office, don’t have to hop not necessarily of a criminal nature, and on a bus. It became apparent it wasn’t a helping people connect with services they one-person job.” might need.

After about 18 months of Young The idea for the outreach worker working solo, positions were added to position came from a trip city officials made to Burlington, Vermont, six or seven the outreach team with grant funding. In years ago, where the delegation observed a 2010, the police department added two downtown social worker program started continued on page 5 there in 2000.

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▶ Art in the Heart, The Downtown Ithaca Alliance in Ithaca, New York (www. downtownithaca.com) is pleased to invite applications for Art in the Heart 2015. Now in its sixteenth year, Art in the Heart is an outdoor sculpture and mural exhibition running from June through November. All participating artists will receive stipends of up to $500 and at least one work will be purchased for inclusion in Downtown Ithaca’s permanent public art collection. Deadline is April 24, 2015. For more information and application instructions, please visit tiny.cc/artheart.

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“We tell them how many are on the list [with frozen pipes] before them,” Whitney said, “and they decide if they want to wait or not.”

Someone with a frozen service pipe does have the option of contacting a private contractor to do the job. This year, the only option besides waiting on the backed-up public works crews is Sam Phillips, whom Whitney describes as “an

emperatures might be so kind as to nudge above freezing this first week of March, yet that’s no guarantee water will start flowing from pipes now frozen.

City public works crews expect they will be thawing pipes through the end of this week, and perhaps longer.

“People think just because it’s 30 (degrees) out, it’s going to thaw them out,” public works employee Nick Thomas said as he and partner Luke Haus worked on a frozen pipe serving a Commons business one recent afternoon. “Because it’s not.”

Public works crews are working 12-hour shifts to unfreeze pipes, with at least three all-nighters pulled Nick Thomas and Luke Haus thaw pipes. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

by Whitney’s crews during the last week of February.

The longest thaw job to date took 26 hours, at the Unitarian Church on old salt of a welder” who knows how to do Aurora Street. the job.

Between Feb. 15 and March 2, Either way, a public works crew first assistant superintendent for water and sewer Erik Whitney reports that 55 service inspects the basement of the property to make sure there’s “no possible stray pipes were called in frozen, and his crews current in places they don’t want it,” had thawed 28 of those back into use. In Whitney said. Then, the water meter and previous years, Whitney says the number service pipe are disconnected from the of pipes frozen in a winter could be interior plumbing system. One lead wire counted on one hand. is snaked down a hole in the street to the Service pipes, for those who nearest valve on the water main—often don’t often contemplate unseen city near a fire hydrant—and the other wire is infrastructure, are those three-quarter- or led inside and hooked up to the end of the one-inch pipes that run from the water disconnected service pipe. main into individual buildings. They’re supposed to be buried about four feet underground. This year’s harrowing cold Solitaryreform has pushed the frost line down close to contin u ed from page 3 their level, especially on streets that don’t get much sun, Whitney told the Board of Lisa Ellin, a board member with Public Works on Monday, Feb. 23.

Opportunities, Alternatives, and Most of the time the mains run underneath a street’s dividing yellow lines, Resources, came to give a presentation about a reentry program for formerly Thomas said, and if there’s an issue on the incarcerated persons. She said, “We have main that is when you see public works a huge problem in this country with mass crews “doing complete circles, getting incarceration, so we have a little program busy.” to help with reentry.” The program, A thaw job can be most easily put together in conjunction with Civic identified by the presence of an 8,000Ensemble, is called Employment Through watt generator, rumbling on a trailer the Arts ReEntry Theatre Program. outside the building with a freeze-up. The Ellin explained that the program generator powers an arc welder, which will pair trained actors with program supplies electricity to one point along the participants, who will work to write water main and another to the end of the their own stories and put together a service pipe inside the building. final performance that will debut on When Whitney’s office receives a call Wednesday, April 22. The pilot eight-week that a service pipe is frozen, the first step program begins on Sunday, March 1. is to shut off water from the main into the The committee also discussed the building at the “curb stop” valve, which is workplace climate survey, for which the

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Unfortunately, there’s no frying or broiling a pipe back into use; no amount of sparking with the welder will help unclog an ice pack that might be 20 or 30 feet into the street. Like good barbecue, frozen pipes need heat that’s low and slow.

“Right now this feels like it could go any second, but who knows what it feels like out by the sidewalk,” Thomas said as he felt a warmed pipe the welder had been heating for an hour or so. The crews open up the curb stop every 10 minutes or so to see if the water is flowing yet.

“It’s like watching paint dry,” Thomas said.

The public works department recently purchased a Magikist “triplex ceramic plunger pump” that is supposed to be a safer solution than the welder to the frozen pipes problem.

The pump pushes hot water into the pipe to thaw it, then takes back in the water, reheats it, and pushes it back up to the ice. On straight pipes the machine works fine, but pushing a heated hose up bending pipes has proved ineffective so far, and will need some modification for use next winter.

This year, Whitney recommends that people keep their water running “at least until April 1.” Hopefully his crews won’t be unfreezing pipes that long, because they’ve already put in a healthy chunk of overtime hours.

“We haven’t added it up, but it’s going to be a lot,” Whitney said. “We’ll tally at the end. We’re focusing on the doing now, not the summary.”

Citizens with a lively interest in how city infrastructure works can always stop into Board of Public Works meetings on the second and fourth Mondays of the month in the council chambers at city hall at 4:45 p.m. • —Josh

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The survey sought to address county employee work satisfaction, commitment to the organization, leadership effectiveness, inclusiveness, diversity, communication, and accountability.

Deputy County Administrator Paula Younger said that the response rate was “58 percent and counting.”

Once the responses are analyzed, WDIC will hear a full report on the survey results.

Also at the Feb. 25 meeting, WDIC approved a new committee member, Victor Jorrin. The committee also discussed the need for continued outreach in search of new membership, especially from the business community.

Also, the predominantly female board expressed the need for more male representation as well as the need for more labor representation. • —Keri

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ew York ‘fractivists’ saw their prayers answered in December when Governor Andrew Cuomo imposed a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas.

What to do next is the question now facing local environmental activists.

That was the theme at a “Beyond the Ban” event held at the Unitarian Church of Ithaca on Thursday, Feb. 26. Ithaca College scholar-in-residence Sandra Steingraber, and Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, co-authors of The Real Cost of Fracking, told an audience of over 100 there are plenty of fights left to wage.

“We banned fracking in New York State, right? … so what’s left?” Oswald said.

“We have sand mining with a possibility of that happening in the Adirondacks.

We’ll still see the trucking and drilling impoundments. There are pipelines, LPG and LNG terminals … We’re not out of the woods yet.”

Oswald, a pharmacologist at the Cornell vet school, made a medical analogy to concerns he has about emissions from the compressor stations that push gas along pipelines: “If you take an aspirin for a headache, it gets into your bloodstream, and the amount of aspirin in your bloodstream rises and falls. If you’re near a flaring operation, it’s a one-time deal and then it goes away. Maybe you’re not affected that much. If you’re next to a compressor station that’s putting out emissions continuously or cyclically during the day, it’s sort of like taking a drug every day.”

Bamberger, a veterinarian, cited instances of radioactive drilling waste

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“interventionists” with a similar function.

They can be dispatched to incidents that require their skills across the city. The interventionists and street outreach team cover days, nights, and weekends between their six total social workers.

“We’re all expected to be generalists on the street,” Boudah said. “Systems change and eligibilities change. We try to know how many beds are available in the shelter, the process for accessing emergency hotel stays. Where people can get what. We’re the instant answer; they can just walk up to us and say ‘How do we get this?’ We’re user-friendly in that regard.”

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spread over fields as fertilizer and her Midstream Partners, of Houston. concern that dairy cattle are eating that The political sophistication and dirt or living near compressors putting out connections should help in future fights dirty air. like Seneca Lake, Steingraber said. What “This is not really being tested for in will prove difficult is keeping like-minded our food,” Bamberger said. “We don’t know environmental activists fighting for a if this is getting absorbed.” common cause while picking different Oswald and Bamberger’s work focuses battles.

“One big difference on those food and we need to appreciate health risks. A further about the infrastructure concern that Oswald has with the proposed fight as compared to the fracking fight is there was Port Ambrose liquid something uniting about natural gas facility in fracking and a simplicity New York City’s harbor about the battle,” is that it will prevent Steingraber said. “We a proposed offshore wind farm from going enjoyed a moratorium in there. It also might while we were fighting, be a security issue, he and there was only one suggested: “Maybe decider, and we knew it this is a crazy idea, but was the governor.” there is some talk that The Seneca Lake terrorists might strike situation provides New York City as well. an example of new And this could be a complications. The serious issue if you’re Federal Energy Regulatory putting huge quantities Commission (FERC) of explosive material has already approved the Sandra Steingraber (Photo: Josh Brokaw) methane storage, while the in the New York City application to store LPG is harbor.” currently before a judge in Steingraber Horseheads from the state Department of expressed her hope that the New York Environmental Conservation. fracking resistance will continue to be “We can’t become experts in all of a resource for fellow travelers in other [the fights], but we also have to be careful locations. as we focus down on each one of them,” “We not only enjoy an unfractured Steingraber said. “We need to keep lifting New York, but we see our efforts taken our heads up and seeing what our brethren up by people all across the country and are doing. Otherwise we can horse trade in Europe and other places,” Steingraber one for the other, play us against each said. “We really helped to break spell that other. I think that’s a danger we didn’t fracking is inevitable.” necessarily face with fracking.”

Steingraber has been lending her help to the “We Are Seneca Lake” group The civil disobedience campaign to that’s been practicing a civil disobedience fight the already-made methane storage campaign since October in the town of decision at Seneca Lake has so far yielded 216 arrests, all of them summary offenses.

Reading. The group is resisting the storage of methane and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) in salt caverns there by Crestwood continued on page 7 merchants said they called the team for “concerns raised by witnessing behavior or activities” and 20 called for “assistance addressing safety or security concerns.”

“They are present, available and they have the tools, skills, and empathy to deal with the unique downtown population,” one merchant said in the survey. “Not to mention they already know everyone!”

One police officer surveyed said the team works at “connecting with people in a way that makes them feel like human beings, not like ‘crazies.’” Other officers called for more staff for the team. One person served by the team said, “They keep on keeping on, no matter how discouraging it may be for them—they care!” and another said they received a ride on a cold day to a warm spot.

The new Ithaca outreach worker will work out of Family & Children’s Service, where David Shapiro, president, said they will have an office and help recording their data “that proves what we’re doing is

effective.”

Alderman Seph Murtagh (D-2nd), who has served on the steering committee for this new position, said that the hope is to develop relationships, “a level of familiarity,” between the outreach worker and those who can use their help.

“Someone isn’t necessarily breaking a law, but if somebody feels a little uncomfortable, there are cases where it’d be nice to have somebody who could function as a peer and resolve them without having a police officer respond,” Murtagh said. “It’s not like this will be replacing community policing.”

Boudah says that her team does tend to blend in well on the street.

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Ups&Downs ▶ Food Bank board, The Food Bank of the Southern Tier welcomed four Ithacans to their board of directors. Mary Pat Dolan, retired Commissioner of Tompkins County Social Services, will serve a oneyear term as board secretary.

Stephen Hoyt is at the Tompkins Trust Company, most recently as Senior Commercial Loan Officer. Joe Thomas is professor of operations management and the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean Emeritus in the Samuel Curtis Johnson School at Cornell. Carol True-Palmer has spent her entire business life in the nonprofit world and has served the past 22 years as a Major Gifts Officer at Cornell University.

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

Heard&Seen ▶ Quote of the Week, Trumansburg school board member Gary Astles disputed a statement by the board president Frank Rossi. “I don’t think we’ve had any meaningful dialogue as a combined leadership effort … there’s been more secrecy over this (school budget) than the damn Manhattan Project. I don’t have a clue what we’re doing- we’re over here on the sidelines.” ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Feb. 25-March 3 include: 1) In 23 Words, Minecraft Explained to School Board Members 2) “Kingsman: The Secret Service” Review: Demented, Entertaining 3) Newfield Choir Plays Carnegie Hall 4) Crazy for X-Words: Annual Competition Coming Up 5) Is a Private Club OK in a Public Park?

For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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To reduce your property taxes, would you like to see the rich pay more in income taxes?

Please respond at ithaca.com.

L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Should downtown

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he cover article “Hindered Development” [Feb. 18] was a very full and detailed explanation of why the lawyer featured on the cover of the paper believed his client’s development efforts had been “hindered” by a public process that allows our local IDA (Industrial Development Agency) to make lawful decisions. Those lawful decisions are made by the IDA Board as to whether or not proposed developments meet the criteria for abatement from full taxation for some period of years. These abatements are not an entitlement to any developer with enough money to build a building. They are a way in which, through the legal process laid down by the State of New York and the policies determined locally, the IDA Board, with the help of professional staff and the input of the public at large, determines whether or not the public benefit of a project is enough to warrant granting the temporary break on taxes.

Heather Filiberto, a TCAD staffer acting as staff to the IDA for the project under consideration, is quoted in the article noting that the purpose of their downtown projects is community development. As an independent, nongovernmental community development professional, I can attest to the fact that any community development process that completely excludes or disregards the voices, input, and opinions of the residents would be operating contrary to best professional practices.

The apparent thrust of the article—that community engagement

is a “hindrance” to community development—is an odd one. Certainly, the voting down of a proposal by the IDA board is not a common occurrence; in fact, one of the IDA Board members told me that he had no memory of it ever having happened before. Development in Ithaca has been significant—Mayor Myrick, who is quoted in the article as inclined to vote down the project, along with the board majority, although he could not be present at the meeting to do so, often points to the development that has been accomplished under his leadership with pride.

In my opinion, there is ample evidence that the very best community development work is accomplished with the active and engaged participation of the public in informing their elected officials and appointed boards what community benefits they envision adding to their community. Lawyers, as well as financiers, architects, and entrepreneurs, are able to participate and contribute to building a vision of the future, but community development has gone badly awry if the idea becomes that only these professionals can contribute to place making. It is the people who live there who make it a community, after all.

I sincerely hope that the Ithaca Times will soon feature an article written from the perspective of the engaged people who take community development seriously as a responsibility of active and informed citizenship. The city is always continued on page 7

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was lucky enough to score some press credentials and bury myself in the crush of reporters outside the Common Council chambers on the 3rd floor of city hall recently. The occasion? A press conference to announce the revamped Section 157 of the Ithaca Municipal Code, allowing dogs to be brought on the Commons when it re-opens, some time in late 2018. The excitement was palpable. All the members of the Council lined up behind their presiding officer, Mayor Svante Myrick. At his elbow was City Attorney Ari Lavine. I was the guy transcribing every word on my laptop …

Myrick: Good evening, folks! It’s my great pleasure to announce that the Commons will no longer be off-limits to dogs, as long as they are accompanied by their owners, and subject to a few commonsense rules. We feel that this is a change that has been too long in coming, and we’ve spent some time putting together a set of guidelines. We’ve also added some lowcost design features to the Commons to accommodate dogs and their owners. For example, we’ll be maintaining a constant 24member squirrel population as an amenity for canine citizens. In addition, there will be a tennis ball dispenser at each end of the Commons and a butt-sniffing station adjacent to the new Bernie Milton Pavilion.

Reporter #1: Mr. Mayor, why dogs, and why now? The Commons has been dog-free for 40 years.

Myrick: I’m glad you asked that question. The studies all show that the United States has completely taken leave of its senses when it comes to dogs. We believe we have crafted a section of the Municipal Code that will allow the Commons to get federal pet-friendly certification, which is critical to the health of our downtown economy.

Reporter #2: Why only dogs, though?

Aren’t you throwing the city open to charges of species-ism? It’s Ithaca, after all. I know a family that has a pet pig, and they take him everywhere.

Myrick: We determined that allowable pets would not include animals that are routinely turned into delicious breakfast meat, or animals that would quickly eat their owners if their owners were suddenly shrunk to the size of a mouse. So, no cats, either.

Reporter #2: What about ferrets?

Myrick: The studies also all show that no sane person would own a ferret.

Reporter #4: Can you tell us how specific the restrictions will be regarding the dogs?

Myrick: Certainly. The rules specify that dog owners must pick up solid waste after their pets, can’t let them jump on or harass people or other animals, and could not leash dogs to trees, poles, bike racks or other structures. They also spell out dogrelated nuisance activities, such as howling or barking of more than three cumulative minutes in an hour, leg-humping of ninety cumulative seconds per hour, six or more incidents of human crotch-sniffing and persistent loin-licking for nine or more cumulative minutes in an hour.

Reporter #4: Sir, it’s my understanding that the Commons will be paved, and there are bound to be, er … fecal smears. Will this affect the five-second rule for dropped food on the Commons?

Myrick: (after consulting with Lavine) Yes. Yes, it will. Section 157 will include a repeal of the five-second rule on the Commons. I would point out that there is continued on page 7

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Defending Kyle As Hero

I would like to start off by saying I was born and raised in Ithaca and watched it’s growth over many years. I never felt it to be so necessary to express how bothered I am regarding the article published in the Ithaca Times regarding “No Real Heroes Here” by Bryan VanCampen. It is a fact that people can voice their options however, when it comes to writing and disgracing our men and women that serve for us to have that right each and every day is beyond disrespectful.

Mr. VanCampen writes how his brother served in the Navy and didn’t kill a soul. However, Chris Kyle did four tours to defend this county as a sniper which happens to be “The Best of the Best” when it comes to protecting people from being 6 T

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killed and saving the lives of our own and other countries innocent people. My grandfather was killed in WWII, and my father never got to meet him. I am very proud to say that his name is on the wall in DeWitt Park. I could not be more proud of the man I never met because he did his job and made it so I am able to write you this note today expressing my disgrace for what you allowed to be published in the newspaper you are the editor of.

You don’t know me, but I am still proud to be able to tell you just what I think of this hideous article. Also I am sending you this on behalf of the many people with whom I have shared this article and who find it disgraceful. So continued on page 7

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I don’t stand alone, especially when it comes to reading the Ithaca Times, because it publishes personal opinions not facts.

God Bless America – Lynn Dean, Ithaca

Bad Road Conditions

Concerning the broadcast email that was sent [by the Town of Ithaca on Feb. 20] regarding road salt status and the associated level of service for the remainder of the winter I have concerns.

In my opinion, as a resident in the Town of Ithaca, if any road cannot be maintained for safe travel, for whatever reason, they should be either closed or posted as seasonal use.

Town of Ithaca residents are not the only ones using these roads. People from outlying towns, out of town travelers, emergency vehicles, etc. all use the roads.

How are they to know that they are being told to “adjust to these new conditions, have winter snow tires, and provide extra driving time.”

If someone should get injured or killed because the road is open and in an unsafe condition and there was no closing of the road or posting of such conditions be ready for a lawsuit.

– Laurene Mongelli Gilbert, Ithaca

Defending the Sheriff’s Actions

I have lived in the Ithaca area for 45 years. Since Ken Lansing has become sheriff have I seen a remarkable change in the men and women who work for him. When the sheriff took over, the department was in need of real leadership. Sheriff Lansing straightened it out in a rather seamless manner.

He is a man of honor and integrity.

Without a doubt the incident in Danby was unfortunate. However, it is not easy to be contained in your response when you are fired upon. He was given information, whether it turned out to be true or not, that there were armaments in the house that could have penetrated his officers’ protective gear.

I believe that our sheriff exercised as much control as he possibly could have without putting personnel or the public at risk.

After reading his account of the incident in the newspaper, we should at least give him the benefit of the doubt. As Ithacans we owe him that much.

– Nicholas Pellegrino, Ithaca

Unfair Discipline

Safety of our children is first and foremost for all Ithaca city school bus drivers and staff. The recent treatment of drivers—who made mistakes that could have put children at risk—is serious and not to be taken lightly. It should be

pointed out, that in no case, has a child been injured or harmed. Discipline is an understandable and necessary response to failure to maintain safe standards of ones job as a school bus driver. The nature and extent of that discipline is what is at issue here in our current discussions with the school district and with the public. The lack of a progressive discipline policy and procedure and the response of the human resource department in exercising termination or six weeks of unpaid suspension is shortsighted and very costly in terms of loss of investment and equity in training and development of drivers with many years of experience.

A reasonable written policy of progressive discipline and consequences is lacking in the treatment of school bus drivers and aides. Suspension for six weeks is a harsh and an unreasonable punishment and presents a significant hardship to those affected and their families. Driver morale is at very a low point and the impact on our department and on the safe transport of students has been profound. A three- to five-day suspension for a first offense would have been a reasonable consequence. Such a reasonable consequence, followed by a progressive discipline policy leading to termination, certainly would have made the point and had a positive affect toward increased attention to safety for our children. It also would have contributed to retention of experienced drivers and a rapid return to providing the very best and safe transportation for our students.

The transportation department has been forced to cover their assigned routes with standby drivers, mechanics and office staff, including the transportation manager.

The burden on the department continues to be very costly both in terms of human capital and financial capital in over-time pay. Short staffing compromises our most important mission: keeping our students safe.

Several very experienced senior drivers who were close to retirement have chosen to leave earlier than they would have for fear of what might happen if they made a mistake. We encourage community dialog and input via letters to the editor and talking with your school board representatives to explore a reasonable practice intervention and education/training that helps drivers become better and safer rather than to terminate them or place them on suspension for an extended period of time.

Consequences that are significant, short of termination or six week suspension, provide an educative moment for improved safety awareness and positive change ... The need for a clear written, board approved, policy of progressive discipline is long over due.

– Mark Sammo, Ithaca Sammo is a bus driver for the Ithaca City School District.

Still Shaken in Danby

I am a Danby resident still shaken by the turn of events of the Danby incident.

What started out as a Class D felony warrant turned into a full blown siege with loss of life and property destruction to the extent that the three surviving family members are left with nothing but one another.

I fully understand and support the need for officers to use all caution to preserve their life and the safety of the public in the presence of an unstable continued on page 11

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already no five-second rule outside the Chanticleer on weekend evenings.

Reporter #1: Will there be any prohibition regarding people referring to their dogs as “their children”?

Lavine: I can answer that. The Supreme Court has ruled that even misguided and faintly creepy speech is protected by the First Amendment. By the same reasoning, there will be no restriction on ridiculous canine activities, such as carrying a dog in a baby-carrier. It’s a freedom of expression issue.

Reporter #3: Last summer at the dog park I saw a St. Bernard scarf up another dog’s turds and then proceed to sloppily lick his owner’s face while she repeatedly asked, “Who’s a good dog?” Will we now be subjected to these types of scenes on a regular basis on the Commons?

Myrick: There was no way to write a dignity requirement into the statute. We’re going to have to rely on good choices being made by dog owners …

At that point I had to get home and feed my dog, so I missed the rest. By the way, know where I can get a baby-carrier to fit a Great Dane? • Activismforward contin u ed from page 5

Trumansburg resident Dan Burgevin suggested to the audience during question time that arrests for fence-hopping might be needed.

“What I think what we should do is get arrested and have a criminal trial, which would require a criminal charge,” Burgevin said. “All of this we’re discussing and learning about can then be put on public record.”

Steingraber replied that the Seneca Lake group doesn’t discuss tactics, but has so far avoided any charges because the group includes those with professional licensing, like winemakers, nurses, and teachers, who can’t afford a criminal record.

“We’re not an elite team of civil disobedience activists just parachuting in somewhere,” Steingraber said. “We’re just everybody you can turn around and see.

The way we’re running things we all take a pledge we won’t escalate actions beyond what we have agreed on.” • —Josh

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contested space—where a Marriott and a Hilton hotel are built, other visions will not come to pass. But, it is through the comparison of needs that we determine how the community as a whole will benefit most.

Maybe Cornell University has needs for additional hotel space, due to more back-and-forth travel resulting from their expansion of the New York City campus.

OK. How is that to be balanced with other community development needs? Will that balance take place on the hotel site, or will there be additional development elsewhere to keep town and gown both engaged in visioning a future downtown meeting everyone’s needs? If the projects can’t manage to meet community development needs, OK, there is also an easy answer there: do the project without the public (IDA) community development assistance.

If a developer takes this route, it seems unhelpful for weekly newspapers to report on the lawful decision of the IDA as some type of “hindrance” of development. It is the process operating in a non-corrupt, publicly accountable manner. Thankfully.

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ndependent grocers around the country might soon be seeing a whole lot of business from Rosie soon, if an Ithaca software start-up can usher in an era of “click, relax, receive, enjoy” online shopping with their new app.

Rosie (rosieapp.com) allows shoppers to put in orders with their local grocers via iPhone Android, or plain old Internet-connected computer for pick-up or delivery. The service business was founded by Nick Nickitas and Jon Ambrose, MBA graduates from Johnson School of Management at Cornell, along with chief technology officer Mike Ryzewic.

Rosie, named after the cartoon Jetsons’ robotic maidservant, was conceived by Nickitas when he first arrived in Ithaca as a busy grad student who kept returning to his apartment and finding an empty cupboard.

“He was new in town, and he doesn’t know where the grocery stores are, and when he goes to the grocery stores he doesn’t know what’s in the aisles,” Ambrose said. “It’s a pain in the butt.”

The company, now housed at rev (yes, the name is all lower case), Ithaca’s startup works, was founded in September 2012 and first launched Rosie at the P&C Fresh on East Hill on July 7, 2013. The P&C is now filling hundreds of orders per month.

Before Rosie launched, the founders “talked to every grocery store in a five-hour radius” to get a handle on the food business, Ambrose said. R o s i e “Enough people are doing it successfully, the talk of the industry is not is ‘online grocery going to be a big thing?’ but ‘How should I go about doing it, what’s the right time to start?’”

Ambrose and his co-founders believe now is the right time to put grocery shopping online, after the visible failures of the dotcom bubble and years of recessioncaused caution. With 23 stores in nine states using Rosie now and 150 more expected to pick the app up this year, growth is expected.

“There are still more stores not doing it than are doing it,” Ambrose said.

The Ithaca Times visited the Trumansburg Shur-Save, which started using Rosie in July 2014, to see how Rosie works from the shopper’s first click online until the order is complete.

First, You Must Click Go to rosieapp.com and you are first instructed to “Select a Store.” Though the software might be transferable between stores anywhere, what’s delivered to your doorstep must still come from local inventory.

“That’s what’s cool about this,” said T-burg Shur-save owner Bret Seafuse as he raced around the store to collect items for an order. “You’re able to get our produce, our 8

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This means when Rosie tells you ‘I can recommend items I think you’ll enjoy’ on the very first site visit, that might not be an accurate representation of what’s available at the local store—though red Solo cups, CocaCola Classic, milk, and eggs are probably fair assumptions anywhere in America.

One’s first shopping “trip” with Rosie begins, then, by plugging a product into the search bar. Let’s try “eggs.”

Up on the screen pop rows of thumbnail pictures: Grade A eggs, brown eggs, generic eggs, organic eggs.

Scroll down and there are egg noodles, egg beaters, egg rolls, bacon-and-egg sandwiches. Click on any one of these pictures and a larger picture comes up, with a plus-minus box to add an item to the cart. One can also click on a red “track” button for each item, and there is an option to pick “best substitute” or “no substitute.”

Add a dozen eggs to your order by clicking the “plus” button, and a menu slides out from the right of the screen, showing what’s in your cart and the order total so far.

Easy enough. Now, what to make for dinner … let’s do tacos.

Sour cream, yes; let’s add the brand on sale. Whole wheat tortillas. Tomatoes and jalapeno peppers … which 2015

we must select one at a time. Rosie said the peppers are 20 cents a piece, which seems a bit strange. Any shopper knows produce is typically priced by weight. There is a little number in parenthesis below the picture telling me they’re $4.09/pound, but we can’t type in how much we want by weight.

Anyway, let’s add some steak to give our tacos some guts. Selecting a half-pound of bottom round is simple enough. And how about some sausage: Here’s the namebrand grilling links, and the smoked gift box stuff. No good. But here is “fresh chorizo sausage.” The picture shows casings stuffed with sausage floating in a white background, selectable by the pound. We’ll try it.

Fill up the cart with a few more staples to reach the $30 minimum order, and top it off the most important staple, Häagen-Dazs Salted Caramel Truffle ice cream, on sale this week. Now we’re off to Trumansburg to see how the order goes into our real life shopping cart.

No Relaxation For The Store Shopper While Rosie is named after a robot, a human must still do the shopping at the store.

Ambrose said that, along with Rosie’s satisfaction guarantee, having a store employee select a consumer’s

items from shelves she may have stocked ensures quality compared to personal shopping services that send out one of their people to fetch your food.

“The issue is: ‘who is that person’?,” Ambrose said. “How do they know what’s a fresh steak? What are fresh melons and cantaloupes and avocados? A store employee who lives and works in the store, they know the food better than you do, than I do, than everyone does.

They’re picking out the products.”

When an order comes in, red and blue fire-police lights go off in the Shur-save customer service booth.

Seafuse and manager Meggan Conklin are the only ones trained so far to handle receiving H e a d o f B u s i n e s s D e v e l o p m e n t M i c h a e l C r e l i n a n d C h i e f Te c h n i c a l o f f i c e r Rosie orders from the ( P h o t o : J o s h B r o k aw) computer, which they print out. Rosie arranges heavy. If say, a package of chicken orders by section: refrigerated, freezer, dry thighs is a few ounces light, the goods, and alcohol, which T-burg hopes difference will be reflected in the to offer soon for pick-up only; liquor final order price when the store laws make sending beer out with a Rosierings it all up. Rosie handles this, contracted deliveryman problematic.

Seafuse said, by authorizing a The store gets a four-hour lead time shopper’s credit card to a number to fill an order. In addition to Seafuse and higher than the order cost.

Conklin, about six store employees are It must be noted, though, trained to shop for orders, and if there’s a that the Rosie shopper does pay big meat or produce order, they send it to a premium beyond the delivery the appropriate department head. or pick-up fee, which at local Meat and produce are the stores starts at $3.99 and $1.99, departments that raise the most questions respectively. The store gets their for the online shopping maiden. Surely price, of course; the price paid on the grocery cannot expect to always have Rosie is about 10 percent higher produce or cuts available that weigh in at (a cup of yogurt, for example, is exact intervals? $1.50 in the store and $1.65 on “Rosie has been asking us to put Rosie). Items in the weekly store in average weights for an item,” Seafuse ad can be bought at sale price explained as he put peppers in the cart. from Rosie.

“We’ve been estimating how much is a bell “All that stuff online doesn’t pepper. We’ve got it as three-quarters of a get maintained for free,” Seafuse pound. This one’s a little less.” said. “You know darn well people Weights for produce will average are going to ask.” out over time, Seafuse thinks, as Rosie T-burg Shur-save put in continues collecting data. Standardizing work to advertise Rosie in the weights for meat cuts, though, will prove last quarter of last year, with a difficult, since the company plans on billboard and bag stuffers among working with independent stores. other promotional tools. Things “They were thinking they’d get a were slow.

Tb u r g S h u r - s av e’s B r e t S e a f u s e database for meat,” Seafuse said. “They “It’s the most rural store ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) asked for an average weight of how we they’ve done,” Seafuse said. “It’s package it, which takes a bunch of effort. and rulers, Conklin said. One first-time hard to say if something is going It’ll never happen, to get an average for customer put in an order around $100, to fly out here or not.” every single item (across different stores). then turned around the next week and After the first of this year, when the Everyone cuts it differently, and every spent $603. billboard went down, online orders and independent prides itself on its meat “Most people who are trying it are first-time customers started going up for department.” doing relatively small baskets because T-burg. Customers were even picking The Rosie shopper doesn’t pay or gain out oddities like “sink trap thingies” they want to see if it shows up on time, the difference if an item comes out light or

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is it actually fresh,” Ambrose said. “If those things happen they say, ‘Wow, I did save a lot of time, that was convenient, the driver smiled. They say, ‘Terrific, I’m going to do it again.’ And they start routing more and more of their total grocery budget to that option.”

Receive Feedback, Make Improvements Rosie has become a more useful system in its short time in T-burg, Seafuse said, as grocers and developers learn about the others’ business.

“There’s a lot of behind the scenes work to make this thing fly. It’s been a pretty big learning curve on everyone’s part. We’re learning about e-commerce.

[Rosie] is still finding M i k e R y z e w i c out there’s a lot of exceptions to every rule in the grocery business. They came in thinking you’re going to find a way to do something the same way every time and solve everything.”

Ambrose readily admitted that Rosie wasn’t founded by grocery guys.

“We didn’t start the company because we’re passionate about groceries,” Ambrose said. “We started the company because we’re passionate about how we can provide a very powerful service to people.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could have two hours back every week?”

The coming addition of a tablet connected to a scan gun will give some time back to store employees, Seafuse hopes. Entering in each item to Rosie from the print checklist after the order is selected is time-consuming.

Not everything in the store is yet available on Rosie. An icebox full of locally-made sausage, for example, wasn’t available while this customer was shopping for taco ingredients.

That’s because the manufacturer doesn’t provide a unique universal product code (UPC), which the store could provide itself, now that it has the ability to make changes to item descriptions and pictures.

Rosie now updates its pricing nightly, from the store’s data file.

“Pricing was a battle to start with,” Seafuse said. “We need to keep adding pictures. It’s not that hard, but you just need to keep doing it.”

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it’s the Shur-save’s house-made sausage, loose and ready to fry.)

Along with continually making their own products more visible online, Seafuse hopes soon to add hot food, like subs and pizza, to his customers’ options. T-burg recently added print publications to Rosie, so the National Enquirer can be bagged with your bread, along with fresh flowers and plants.

Another marked improvement to Rosie is the new ability for the customer to add notes to any item in the cart, which has helped simplify the complications of selecting someone’s meat and produce.

“You can say ‘I’d like greener bananas, riper bananas, three ripe, three greener,’” Seafuse said. “Or if you say want a Delmonico steak, you can say ‘I want it thick-cut.’ It helps the person get what they want.”

Items ordered but unavailable in-store at the moment show why Rosie offers the option for substitutions. Lead time to pick orders and the option now to call the customer helps, too, Seafuse said. That bottom-round steak isn’t available in the case—“Well, I can cut one,” said Doug the butcher, elbows-deep in a rack of ribs.

The steak would be there when the order’s ready for pick up.

And over in the freezer section, that salted caramel Häagen-Dazs on

sale is nowhere to be found. A crew of freezer guys is there, and none recall seeing the item. This is strange, because nonperishables are supposed to drop off the Rosie list in four weeks if they’re not stocked, and perishable goods come off in a fortnight.

“Sometimes there are trials and tribulations. The cool thing is we can call people. That’s relatively new.” Seafuse said, after he exchanged pleasantries with a regular customer about Joey Logano’s “hot rodded” Daytona-winning ride. In this case, Chris, one of the freezer guys, has an emphatic recommendation for the Ben and Jerry’s salted-caramel-core ice cream. “There’s an inch and a half ribbon of caramel in the middle,” he said, and he

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was right.

Enjoy The Future Once a shopper has ordered multiple times on Rosie, they will start to get recommendations à la Netflix or Amazon.

This ease of use will lead shoppers to spend more at grocers using Rosie, Ambrose and his colleagues hope.

Ambrose does admit that the grocery business has seen its share of technologies claimed as a panacea, including loyalty cards, scan guns, and a variety of point-ofsale systems.

“Each time that happened the provider of those systems said ‘This is the Holy Grail, it’s going to do all these things, you gotta do it,’” Ambrose said. “It’s all about how you use the data, not just having the program.”

Ambrose continued: “(Grocers) say ‘I have a Facebook page. What do I post and when do I post it? How can I be successful?’ We say use your analytics.

If this is a target customer of yours and they’re shopping midday, why don’t you put on your Facebook every day at 11 a.m. a product from this list. Say it just arrived fresh, daily, shop online now. That sounds like a pretty impactful post geared towards your target audience with something they’re actually interested in.”

That’s the true power of Rosie, in its founders’ minds: the ability to better analyze shopping habits.

“Retailers recognize online shopping is going to be popular in the future, but the more fundamental interest they have is growing their business,” Ambrose said.

“How do they provide a better service to more consumers? Stores can use this overall to really grow their business.”

Rosie’s business has so far grown without any outside funding, other than $160,000 won in a start-up competition.

Whether outside money is coming or not is an open question. The founders recently traveled to Las Vegas to participate in a “Shark Tank Camp” of sorts, where venture capitalists from the television show critiqued start-up pitches. Nickitas said that they were in front of an audience of 25,000 people.

Seafuse and Conklin are hopeful, with the recent uptick in orders, that Rosie can be something their customers find useful on a regular basis.

“The data that went into this is mindboggling,” Conklin said. “That’s what these guys are really good at.”

Seafuse relates the story of one man sent a confirmation code via text by his wife with no other explanation than “Go to the Shur-save and pick them up.”

“He comes up to us and says ‘I guess I’m here to pick up some groceries’ and we bring him out a cart,” Seafuse said. “The look on his face …

“Rosie’s model is independent grocers,” Seafuse said, “and a lot of us couldn’t do this without a company like them.

“Is it the future? We’ll see.” •

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person with weapons. However, I want to fill in some of the unacceptable points of the Danby incident that were not part of the police report in the main article in the IT of Feb. 11, and raise my concerns about the over-the-top deployment of force. I want to request that a task force be established to see how we can learn from this tragedy and to prevent an unneeded level of escalation in the future. The many telling and valid questions of the citizens following the incident can be used in this regard. Some are included here.

I feel like ‘Harry’ who wrote in the Feb. 18 Ithaca Times : “If he didn’t come out, keep an eye on him until he does.

Then arrest him. Pretty simple.” But it quickly became adversarial and out of proportion: -An official at the scene reported that the noise and the light were “enough to drive a man crazy.”

-The officers knew early on that Mr. Cady was suicidal. That doesn’t condone Mr. Cady’s behavior, especially after he fired the shot, but points out to the need to evaluate how a severely anxious and hopeless person can be approached without resorting to tactics likely to drive him to suicide.

-Do we know the safe human range of tear gas? What attempts were made during the standoff at casting Mr. Cady as a human suffering intensely from 70+ cans of tear gas, possibly suffering irreparable physical damage, or even not surviving? The remaining Cady family members have lost every single possession to the presence of tear gas everywhere.

To name the effect of tear gas as minimal because of dropped ceilings is profoundly disconcerting.

-Mutual aid was called because “some of my officers were starting to feel hypothermia after half an hour,” said Jake Young, IPD Commander. Seven hours into the ordeal, all the windows of the house were broken to throw in the tear gas. Mr. Cady must likewise have suffered from extreme cold over the following 50+ hours of the standoff. What steps were taken to assess and take into consideration Mr. Cady’s wellbeing if the desired outcome was his safe delivery?

-From the first autopsy report, Mr. Cady’s wife Melissa said that a body the size of Mr. Cady’s would have taken 24 hours to freeze in that weather. That means that Mr. Cady died at least 12 hours before the beginning of the destruction of property. When does the sheriff think that Mr. Cady committed suicide?

-The destruction of property happened 40 hours after Mr. Cady had his last direct contact with the police and showed no response at all. What, in that situation of no response, justified escalation? What was the urgency?

Perhaps the police officers were so focused on what they perceived as a threat to their lives that they couldn’t see other options; that in this cold they could just wait him out, and not using escalation tactics was a better way to encourage him

to surrender.

County Legislature Chair Mike Lane states in the IT article that the full autopsy results may not be included in the full report and that some things in the report may not be public record. Apart from privacy information, why would any piece of the report or of the autopsy be kept from the public?

As is being revealed during these months of national unrest about police brutality, our legal system doesn’t have provisions for fallibility and accountability when there is overuse of police force. Who was responsible for the escalation? Where was the reasonable, cool-headed leadership? Why was the Danby emergency response disregarded

and no attempt to contact the Town of Danby supervisor made? What is the County’s emergency response protocol for information sharing and chain of command during crisis? A task force could answer all these questions and improve structural accountability, structural police leadership, and respect of local response protocol to prevent escalation and over use of force in the future.

It would be vastly preferable if there was public acknowledgement by the police of undue force, a motion to improve and respect the local emergency protocol, the establishment of a system of ongoing police reassessment to balance the reality of a suspect’s life against the need for

escalation tactics, and restitution to both the surviving family and the owner of the destroyed house.

If all citizens in possession of weapons while psychologically or emotionally unstable were pursued with this amount of force, our landscape would be pockmarked with tornado-like random touchdowns. In such a climate, none of us are secure.

- Camille Doucet, Danby Send Letters to the Editor to editor@ithacatimes.com. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number. We do not publish unsigned letters.

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Getting Octagonal at the Y New Work-out Equipment is a “Game Changer”

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BorgWarner Morse TEC. Ithaca Y Fitness Coordinator Keri Johnson said the arrival of the Octagon was “fast and furious.” She called the new equipment and workout space a game-changer.

“The great thing about this piece of equipment,” she said, “is it can fit up to 16 different people, at their own unique fitness level, at the same time.

As a trainer, that allows me to not only use it for oneon-one sessions, but smallto-large groups of people of different ages and experience.

“The feedback has been amazing,” Johnson continued. “The weight lifting room can be a little bit intimidating. Before this piece of equipment, this room had a pretty specific clientele— people who use bars and heavy weights.

Since this has opened up, we’ve seen younger children to women to older adults all come into this room. Our numbers in this room are just skyrocketing to where we were before getting this.”

Frank Towner and Keri Johnson of the Ithaca YMCA with the Octagon, “I just love the versatility a new piece of exercise equipment. (Photo: Michael Nocella) of it all,” she said. “I’ve been a big yoga, Pilates person with some strength training. Now I’m more of a strength trainer with some by a European based company called yoga and Pilates. It makes it fun. I’ve been “Escape,” is an exercise system shaped to doing this for 15 years and this is just fun. its name that embraces a concept known There’s so many different things you can as “functional training equipment,” which do.” is geared toward youth, those with special “This thing sells itself; it’s amazing,” needs, seniors and women who might Johnson continued. “Starting March 16, otherwise feel out of place in a weight we are going to start offering 14 different room setting. classes a week in here. So it’ll be small to The multi-use Octagon is described larger groups, and they’ll be working with by the YMCA as a “high quality, cross one of our trainers. It’ll be kind of a cross training framework that has options fit, functional training session. There is no for exercising in groups or individual demographic for the Octagon, and that’s workouts, including endless ropes for what’s amazing. There’s just such a vast resistance exercise, monkey bars, battle multitude of exercises it offers.” ropes, bar catches for Olympic training, a Towner said he is excited to continue heavy bag, and much more.” to watch what kind of impact the Octagon The Ithaca YMCA is the first in the will have on the Ithaca Y and its members. nation to house the Octagon. It opened Specifically, he is eager to make the weight the functional training equipment to room a place that all family members can its patrons just last month, which was attend simultaneously. just one month after construction and “When this was first presented to us,” installation took place. According to the Towner recalled, “it was presented for Y, functional training “is a classification youth, seniors and women who wouldn’t of exercise which involves training the body for activities performed in daily life,” otherwise come into a weight room. This room can be intimidating, and from our such as getting out of a chair or picking standpoint, we’re a family organization. up groceries. Training for such activities What’s a family? Family is whatever your include squatting, lunging, pushing, makeup is. We want this to be universally pulling, twisting, and locomotion. used by youth, women, seniors, and team Ithaca Y CEO Frank Towner said trainings. Anybody can do this, and it’s the project cost nearly $50,000 in total, fun.” • and was an extremely generous gift from he Ithaca YMCA—located in the village of Lansing—recently unveiled a new 1,400-square foot gym addition to its weight room.

However, it is what’s inside the new expansion that current and potential YMCA members figure to be drawn to: “The Octagon.” The Octagon, made

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he storyline was not that dramatic, really. The game between Harvard and Cornell would not be a winnertake-all affair that would see the winner move on to the Big Dance and the loser limp off into oblivion. There was, however, a “story within the story” that I find extremely compelling, and worthy of the telling.

When Shonn Miller arrived at Cornell as a freshman, it was a big deal. The kid was 6’ 7”, long, lean and smooth, and he had quite a résumé. He was an All-District player at St. Ignatius in Ohio, played in the Greater Cleveland All-Star game, and was an Academic All-Star. Perhaps most impressively, he was also a member of the King James Shooting Stars, an elite AAU team sponsored by King (LeBron) James himself.

Miller did not disappoint, as he was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year as a freshman, and followed that up with a First Team All-Ivy season as a sophomore. He was a big part of head coach Bill Courtney’s effort to bring the Big Red back into contention for the Ivy crown, poised to make a run at challenging Harvard, the present cream of the Ivy crop. Then, everything changed.

Prior to Miller’s junior season, it was announced that off-season shoulder surgery would sideline him for the season. Another key player left for academic reasons, and the Big Red stumbled to a very frustrating and dismal season.

Prior to this year—Miller’s senior season—it was predicted that Cornell would finish last in the league. Big Bad Harvard would come to Ithaca for a lateFebruary game that would be nationally televised, and when that game arrived there were whispers that what had thus far been a better-than-predicted season would take a downward turn when the Crimson put a televised hurting on the hosts.

Well… not so fast…

With the cameras rolling, Cornell got a superb balanced defensive effort from the entire team (that held the visitors to a 25 percent shooting effort), but make no mistake, it was Miller Time. The senior dominated the game, and went for 24 points, 15 rebounds, and 3 blocks. He became the 25th player in Cornell history to score over 1,000 points in his career, and the Big Red won 57-49 to drop the Crimson from their perch atop the Ivies (they are now tied for first).

The Big Red would falter on Saturday, dropping a game to Dartmouth, but they are far from being the last-place team in

the conference. Bill Courtney knew that such a prediction was off base—he said so, and the team backed him up. They will finish out the season this weekend, and while they will not be Dancing this year, they served notice that the program is on the rise. Best wishes to Miller, and to fellow seniors Devin Cherry, Galal Cancer, Dave LaMore, Nenad Tomic, and Deion Giddens as they move on.

• • • Congratulations to the Ithaca College wrestling team on their first place team finish at the Northeast Regionals, and to the five Bombers that qualified for the NCAA’s.

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Finally, Nick Velez—the Bombers’ 165pound entry, will also be competing at Nationals for the first time.

Prior to the Regionals, I talked to Dave Auble, the Bombers’ assistant coach who won two NCAA Division I titles while wrestling for Cornell. Dave was preparing to climb aboard the team bus and make yet another long and grueling trip, and for about the tenth time, Dave told me he was thinking about hanging it up after this season. However, I think he’s just getting started, and actually has a number of years left in his coaching career. After all, it was a few years ago that Dave—a National Wrestling Hall of Famer—won those national titles. The first one came in 1959, the second in 1960. •

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• • • During the privilege of the floor at the start of the four-and-a-half hour meeting, an East Hill neighbor of the planned Hilton Canopy hotel on Seneca Ways expressed reservations about traffic associated with valet parking.

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he Griffin Block building on the corner of East State and North Aurora streets is going to be completely rebuilt. A tractor-trailer truck slammed into the ground floor of the structure last June, killing an employee and injuring several other people. After the truck was extracted from the building the front 15 or 20 feet facing East State Street was judged to be structurally unsound and that portion of the block was completely removed.

Building manager Jerry Dietz of CSP Management and architect Jason Demarest appeared in front of the City of Ithaca planning board on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to show them potential restorations and alterations of the historic building.

Demarest said that some of the pieces of the cast-iron facade were salvaged and will be incorporated into the rebuilt edifice. The architect has done research at the Tompkins County History Center and showed a number of old photographs that included the Griffin Block. The angled bay windows on the front were a later addition.

“We might widen the angled bays,” said Demarest, “especially if Simeon’s decides to expand to the second floor.” He said that the restaurant, which occupied the ground floor and had recently expanded northward along North Aurora, intended to add an elevator and build another dining area on the second floor.

Demarest also showed renderings of the rebuilt block that included large second-floor balconies on both the East State and North Aurora sides. He said that he was applying to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for tax credits for the project. If those are forthcoming, then he might not be able to alter the building with balconies and would have to restore it as it was before the accident.

The reaction of planning board members was mixed. John Schroeder was happy to hear that the iconic building would be restored. Jack Elliott expressed

Jason Demarest rendering of restored Griffin Block and property manager Jerry Dietz (right ) (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

reservations about the addition of the balconies and made some suggestions as to how to make them fit with the existing ornamentation and scale of the Griffin Block.

• • • Construction has already started at the downtown Marriott site, but last week the developers showed the planning board smaller signs that the board requested for the top of the building. Matt Jalazo of Urgo Hotels, which is building the Marriott, said that the hotel chain would not agree to a sign that was not lit from within, but they had agreed to the reduced square footage. The east-facing sign is 45 percent smaller than the original and the westfacing sign is 31 percent smaller.

Schroeder also selected a brass Marriott logo for the street-level signs, but was told by the Urgo architect that brass was no longer fashionable and would be hard to get. Elliott asked what kind of finish the window frames had. Because they were aluminum, he suggested that

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be using the Seneca parking garage for guests and neighbors are concerned that valets will cut through residential areas.

Rich John, who lives on East Seneca Street, noted that there is a lot of traffic on Schuyler Place already because restaurant delivery trucks use it to get downtown.

Planning board chair Garick Blalock assured John that planned routes were part of the approval process for the project, but John was dubious about enforcement.

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At the public hearing for the project later in the meeting Laura Day and Joe Gaylord, both members of the Community School for Music and Arts (CSMA), both expressed concern about access to their building during the hotel construction and after it is up and the former public parking lot next to CSMA becomes the hotel entrance.

Mark Eisner, a retired operations research lecturer at Cornell whose wife takes classes at CSMA, questioned the traffic analyses that had been done by the hotel developers.

“CSMA has a different schlepping problem from a hotel,” said Eisner.

“Arrivals for events are more concentrated than hotel arrivals. The space you have won’t accommodate CSMA drop-offs.” He didn’t think that the proposed traffic flow, which includes a turnaround, would work either, and suggested a throughflow from Seneca Way to East State Street.

Robin Tropper-Herbel, the director of CSMA, said that she had had informal conversations with developer Neil Patel through liaison Scott Whitham, but nothing formal. She requested that an “unbiased study” of parking and drop-off logistics be done, perhaps by the City of Ithaca.

Schuyler Place resident Neil Schill echoed the earlier comments of Rich John regarding traffic in the residential areas. Blalock reiterated the fact that approved routes would not pass through neighborhoods and added that hotel staff would also be required to park in the garage.

In response to the comments, Whitham defended the existing traffic flow design, but Elliott suggested that a solution to the wrong problem had been found and that the problem should be redefined. Whitham also defended the proposed parking spaces to be used for drop-offs and loading in for events, saying that prior arrangements with the hotel staff would avoid any problems.

Schroeder, however, suggested that the planning board add as a condition of approving the project that CSMA work with the city and the hotel to come to agreement about. The hotel must still get an easement from CSMA to bring buried utility lines across the CSMA lot to Seneca Way. •

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The Potter’s Room offers classes and workspace on the Ithaca Commons

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he Potter’s Room is a new ceramics studio on the Ithaca Commons.

I discovered it on a Gallery Night when I wrote an article about the artwork of a brilliant young Ithaca artist named Aylin Erkan who had a display of her art in the little gallery area in the atrium of the Potter’s Room.

I was enchanted with the place.

Several, clay-spattered young students were working with electric pottery wheels, clay rising up in their hands like volcanoes from the spinning wheels. And everyone looked so… happy… so enthusiastic about the whole process.

And I was enchanted that this place was on the Ithaca Commons.

It seemed a perfect addition to the whole sweet, loopy, green, progressive, Most Enlightened Town etc., etc., aspect of Ithaca.

I met the young owner of the studio, Tomas Black, who was an upbeat engaging sort of guy. And I suggested that I write an article on the Potter’s Room as a marvelous addition to the vigorous Ithaca arts scene.

And here we are …

• • • Sometime later, after getting a go-ahead to do the piece, I dropped by the Potter’s Room to chat with Tomas Black about the studio … how the Potter’s Room came into existence, its mission statement, what it has to offer the community and so on.

The studio’s info card tells us that the Potter’s Room features the fine art gallery, a teaching studio, classes in ceramics, pottery and sculpture for ages seven and up, shelf space rentals, and “custom wares for the home, garden and business.”

And it is a charming little studio, a cheerful light lemon color, shelves full of pottery and sculptures (little creatures, dragons, miniature cityscapes), displays of different shapes of ceramics and various glazes for the students, tasteful rock-and-roll music in the air, and students of all ages working at the pottery wheels and kilns.

Tomas Black gave me an hour of his time, and I posed a few questions to find out a bit more about the place …

“To start with,” I said, “why don’t you tell me about the Potter’s Room mission statement?”

Black said, “My mission with the Potter’s

a space where they feel comfortable, where they can be creative. Where they can explore in a safe manner, where they can test and study their own ideas of what they are interested in making and doing.”

I asked, “What does the Potter’s Room have to offer?” And continued, “Ostensibly,

Throwing pots in public at the Potter’s Room. (Photo: Tim Gera)

Room is I wanted to create a space that would ultimately be used as a creative space for the people of Ithaca and the surrounding areas.

And the real idea behind it is we want to use the studio for art making and creativity to help change, alter, and develop the world around us.

“The idea is that we are using, in this particular space, ceramics as the conduit or vessel that incorporates or unifies everyone in their artistic vision … but what we’re really trying to do is give each individual—adult, child, whatever—the opportunity to come into

you’ve got a pottery studio … on the Ithaca Commons … and it’s open to everyone in the community… and you’re offering classes in ceramics …”

And Black said, “Yeah. Basically the idea of locating downtown on the Commons was I wanted to be in the center of the community…

“And really, what we’re doing is educational stuff… two and four week long classes. We do one time classes, too, so you can make an continued on page 21

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How Good Wine Gets Old

Thomas Pellechia’s History of the Taylor Wine Co.

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he prolific Thomas Pellechia has just issued a book on the rise and fall of the Taylor Wine Company. This is a fascinating book for those of us who grew up with a jug of Lake Country Red sitting in the pantry and were accustomed to using the same wine to season the marinara sauce and to pour into glasses to go with a meat entrée. In the days before varietal wine became the norm, products like Lake Country Red, which relied on heavy doses of antique varieties (“field hybrids”) with strong North American genes like Concord and Niagara, set a standard that was slightly sweet and … uncomplicated.

In the 1970s before the surge in the popularity of California wine that rivaled European vinifera-based varietals (dramatized in the film Bottle Shock) American tastes were determined by the likes of Gallo out west and the Taylors in the East. Pellechia dives into the historical records of the late 19th and early 20th century to show how the Taylor Wine Company rose to prominence in spite of

Prohibition. Without so much as a wink he shows that they did it in part by refusing to doctor their wine with low quality California wine that arrived by railroad tank car in the first couple of decades of the 20th century.

Most people with any familiarity with the cast of characters in the Finger Lakes wine industry know something about Walter Taylor and Bully Hill. Pellechia tells the origin story in some detail here and places it in the context of the longer family history. He tries to, but does not quite succeed in, figuring out the nature of the relationship between Greyton Taylor and his erstwhile son, “Walter S.” (He is referred to throughout in this way to distinguish him from his grandfather, the founder of the company.)

The Bully Hill founder was famous for being colorful and eccentric and when you read about some of his early antics, it is hard not to root for him. It is the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and he is shown to be speaking truth to power in the wine industry.

Walter S. had grown up surrounded by the family business, but had not apprenticed at either wine making or grape growing. He was, however, aware of the classic family business cycle of the first generation founding, the second generation capitalizing, and the third generation losing a company. By the time Walter S. came of age and had been installed as an executive at Taylor/ Great Western, his father had retired and others were making decisions that ignored the Taylor spirit.

To wit, they were blending California tank car wine with New York grapes.

In 1970 Walter S. took a trip to California to learn more about the wine industry. There he found that adding water and sugar to wines—two practices that were common at Taylor/Great Western—were “officially taboo” on the West Coast. The younger Taylor began to publicly disparage the practices of the company that his grandfather had founded.

To the press he was a maverick, a man going against the winery that bore his family name, and a leader of clean winemaking and transparent business

practices. To the Taylor board of directors, he was both a thorn and an illinformed nutcase.

The later chapters of the book describe the purchase of the Taylor/Great Western company by the Coca Cola Corporation in 1976. Initially not interested, Taylor changed its mind when they got word that Pepsi had decided to launch a hostile takeover.

Both beverage giants had decided that in the crowded “low end” of the wine market, where one product was not really distinguishable from the other, whomever had the best distribution system would win out. Beverages were beverages, in other words. Coca-Cola executive Harry E. Teasley was frank with Taylor; Coke would focus on selling the California wines that were now sold under the Taylor label. New York grapes were of little interest to them. By 1995 the Taylor Wine Company was finished. But Pellechia leaves you with a new dawn rising: in 2012 Gregory F. Taylor, son of Walter S., began working as an apprentice at Bully Hill Vineyards. •

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reading—a writer working off a printed he Richard Cleaveland Memorial page—can be memorable, if it’s funny or Reading this year will feature J. Robert Lennon and Valzhyna Mort, sad or otherwise emotionally engaged.

Carl Phillips, Alice Fulton, George both of the Creative Writing Program in Saunders, and Rachel Kushner fall into the Cornell English department. Lennon this category.” is a writer of short stories and novels, “This weekend I drove back to Ithaca while Mort is a poet. Both authors think from a reading at Hamilton College,” said of a reading as a performance, so if you Mort, “a two-hour drive through fields of have read their work, this is a chance for snow and half-dead villages, and you to hear the on the radio Alice Fulton was intonation and reading from Barely Composed: feeling that they her bodiless voice contained in themselves think a warm car rushing through the is on the page. cold bare landscape. I was very “I think a moved. good reading can “Or,” she continued, add something to “in November at a poetry a piece of writing,” festival in Mexico City, I said Lennon. “On attended a reading that was the other hand, it happening in the central can make a good square simultaneously with a piece of writing demonstration demanding the seem dull. If a truth about the missing students. reading isn’t a The rhythmical shouts of the performance, then protest, that now coincided, then there’s no point to contradicted it, really—most the rhythm of literary works poetry on the are considered to be canonical on stage, moved the page. So, I usually try to read everybody to something funny and ham it up a tears.” little.” For her part Mort likened a Most reading to a musician performing academic writers her own composition. eventually have Writers don’t necessarily read to try their hand their latest work. Like musicians, at organizing a in addition to new pieces they reading series. may bring out “fan favorites” and Lennon is one older chestnuts that they like of the organizers themselves. of the Barbara & “I’ll choose something that fits David Zalaznick the time allotted me, the venue, Reading Series, and the crowd,” said Lennon. “At of which the Cornell, or when I read in front Cleaveland is of students at other colleges, J. Robert Lennon (above provided) and part.

I like reading something new, Valzhyna Mort (Photo: SDSU) “You just often something unpublished; on write to writers book tours I just read from the and offer them some money and dates,” book, which I think is what most people he said. “I ran a more informal series are expecting. I’ll read a new story at the in graduate school in Montana, as well, Cleaveland.” which was hard work but great fun. The “I think about the poems and their key is to pair interesting combinations of order as if I were organizing a small writers and to persuade them it will be an book,” said Mort. “I think of forte and interesting experience. It usually is.” piano, crescendo and diminuendo, Mort has apparently not undertaken adagio and presto. Also, I hope to pick a series yet, but has a pretty good idea poems that won’t make me despise myself of how she would go about it: “I would immediately as I read them.”

Some authors, like T.C. Boyle, are well pay poets a lot of money without any obligation to do a reading.” • known for their onstage histrionics. Who do Lennon and Mort look to as influences?

“I’m always impressed by readers like The Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading Sherman Alexie and Luis Urrea, who go will be held Thursday, March 12 at 4:30 off-text and put on a real show,” Lennon p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell said. “And sometimes a more traditional campus.

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Hockett Chamber Music Concert Series performance by the KahaneSwensenBrey Trio—pianist Jeffrey Kahane, violinist Joseph Swensen, and cellist Carter Brey—playing works by Mozart, Schumann, Ravel, and Schoenfield; 8:15 p.m., Ford Hall, Whalen Center.

WEDNESDAY MAR. 18 Reading

Distinguished Visiting Writers series reading by poet Li-Young Lee, winner of the American Book Award for The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, a memoir of his family’s flight from China—where his father was Mao’s personal physician—to political persecution in Indonesia, and eventually to the United States; 7:30 p.m., Klingenstein Lounge, Egbert Hall.

WEDNESDAY MAR. 18 Screening

Gerontology Institute and Center for LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services showing of the documentary Gen Silent, which follows the lives of six LGBT seniors who must choose if they will hide their sexuality in order to survive in the long-term health care system; 7:00 p.m., 102 Textor Hall.

TUESDAY MAR. 24 Lecture

“‘The Professor’ Across Technology: Extending Conversations on Race,” a Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Discussion Series presentation by Bruce Hoskins, spoken word/ hip-hop artist and professor of sociology at MiraCosta Community College; 7:00 p.m., Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall.

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By By ran VanC ampe n Maps to the Stars (2014), directed by David Cronenberg, playing at Cinemapolis.

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I see it, you either get Cronenberg or you don’t, and you’ll know how you feel after the very first viewing. Look at the films: Scanners, The Fly, eXistenZ, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch. Like Terry Gilliam, Cronenberg’s images and concerns have a half-life; you might be doing some mundane task and the memory of a scene

triggers an epiphany—or an anxiety attack.

I can tell you that a lot of people won’t like Cronenberg’s latest, Maps to the Stars. It’s his version of a sleazy Hollywood exposé from a script by Bruce Wagner. You could switch it with other Wagner titles like Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills and have the same trip. I saw it with three other people, and it polarized the group right down the middle: the guys liked it, and the women hated hated hated it.

A seemingly loose and shaggy dog ensemble of sleazes, pervs, and people suffocating for stardom à la Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, Maps to the Stars brings them all together via epic dysfunction and ghosts of showbiz

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past. (Not only is this Cronenberg’s first L.A. movie, it’s also his first brush with anything resembling the paranormal.)

Julianne Moore, an actress with zero vanity, plays an actress who will stop at nothing to play her dead mother in a remake of mother’s best film.

There’s also a young woman with burn scars fresh off the bus from Florida (Mia Wasikowska, also free from vanity), a limo driver who acts but also wants to write (Robert Pattinson), a spoiled child star weeks out of rehab (Evan Bird) and his mom and dad (Olivia Williams and John Cusack), whose bond is closer than it seems.

As the characters bobble around Los Angeles lying and debasing themselves for fame and fortune, you wonder how these disparate desperate types could possibly intersect. If you’re a Cronenberg fan, you’re already anticipated the finger at the back of the throat, and you know it can’t possibly end well.

• • • For anyone curious as to why John Cusack chose not to reprise his role in Hot Tub Time Machine 2, I submit the sequel as Exhibit A. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 gives a bad name to hot tubs, time machines, and the numerical system that organizes the order of unfunny cash-grab reruns.

Those who know me know my pathetic vulnerability to any tale of time travel, but at least the first HTTM felt like it had a reason to exist; its four protagonists had real needs to change the past for a better future. Part Duh is largely “comic” set-ups rooted in homosexual panic. Aside from a throwaway gag involving a dog and a hoverboard, I laughed maybe three times.

I wish I had a hot tub time machine of my own so that I could get my 93 minutes back. • Read Bryan’s reviews of Big Hero 6 and others at ithaca.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanvancampen.

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and a proto-punk statement of intent that paved the way for the smart acts like the Clash, Talking Heads (which included Jerry Harrison, a member of the Modern Lovers), and Elvis Costello.

Richman began performing at age 15 in the mid-1960s. By 1969 he had moved to New York and was famously sleeping on the couch in the office of the Velvet Underground’s management. To make his first album Richman teamed up with VU’s violist John Cale to piece together a record (The Modern Lovers) for a band that would be defunct by its release in 1976. Then as ever, he wore his heart on his sleeve and his awkwardness like a nametag. His music was as innocent and honest as anything any folkie crooned.

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The first time I saw him was in a dim sum restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown (Richman’s from there; I was at school) where he played one Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. The first time I spoke with him was while a DJ at my college radio station; he dropped by unannounced on a weeknight to record a promo spot. On Wednesday, March 11 he’ll return to conventional venue, the refurbished Haunt, for an 8 p.m. show.

If you recognize Richman at all, it’s likely for his role as the in-house musician in There’s Something About Mary. He sings the theme song to the Farrelly brothers’ film, and spends much of the movie wandering around in the background. But The Modern Lovers’ punky 1976 self-titled debut offers a taste of rock and roll that is anything but background music. Richman yelps pleas like “I don’t want just a girl to fool around with / What I want is a girl that I care about!” or “I’ll go insane if you don’t sleep with me,” and when he’s not bearing his soul he’s namechecking artists like Cezanne and Pablo Picasso and wandering by Boston architectural landmarks.

When Richman entreats listeners to “share the modern world” he unmasks the ridiculousness of Led Zeppelin or progressive rock’s obsession with elfin mythology and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Some more facts about Richman: he sings in Spanish, French and Hebrew. One of his most loved songs is about dancing at a lesbian bars. He’s vegan.

Around the time of the Chinatown show, I had attempted to interview Richman for my college newspaper. When I phoned him, this was the message left on his answering machine: “If I’m unable to reach you before your deadline, it’s a rock and roll show with a drummer that I bring with me. We never use a set list. The show’s supposed to be fun. I’ll talk to you later.”

Years later, his shows are still like this.

“I’m not understood that well by the press,” Richman once told MTV, “because I think they try and complicate it too much.

All you gotta do with this stuff, folks, is like it or not like it.” Evasive? Perhaps. But when he sings about making “secretaries feel better / when they put those stamps on the letters,” it’s hard not to feel that his aim, though modest, is true. • / M

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cinnamon, and it is welcome, as it balances the fattiness of the cream. The chicken itself is tender and slides off the bone.

Another noteworthy dish was labeled “aloo palak” at the buffet, which translates from Hindi as “potatoes and spinach.”

While palak is the name for the greens themselves, a dish made with them is often called sag. On the regular menu at Sangam these dishes are indeed called sagwala and are served with chicken, lamb, goat, and even beef. At dinner one night we tried the lamb sagwala and found it delicious.

The meat dishes are flavored with slightly more fenugreek than the vegetarian “aloo palak.” (Be aware that the spelling of Indian Sangam Restaurant, Eddy Street (Photo: Tim Gera) words varies, e.g. aloo is often spelled alu, and sag can be saag.) certain je nais se quoi about the food here In addition to the fenugreek, the that sets it apart from the other Indian sagwala dishes are seasoned with cumin, restaurants in town, which is saying chili, turmeric, cloves, garlic and ginger. something, as they are all very good.

The spinach is chopped and seems so Sangam is open for both lunch and smooth that it could have been puréed dinner on Eddy Street, and Monday (although the creaminess could be from through Friday they have a satellite lunch the literal addition of a little cream). In operation with a limited menu in Center the aloo palak the potatoes seem to be Ithaca. The full lunch buffet is a treasure standing in for the meat. The lamb that we trove in a couple of different ways. First, tried was the last word in tender. the variety is impressive; they present One dish that we make a habit of approximately eight different entrées each trying in every Indian (or Pakistani) day. Second, according to the wait staff, restaurant that we visit is the bengan occasionally some of the entrées available bharta (again, there are variant spellings). in the buffet are not on the regular menu.

Baingan is the Hindi word for eggplant The ancillary dishes at Sangam— and bhartha means “minced vegetables.” appetizers, chutneys, and breads—are The eggplant is smoked (as in baba worthy. The vegetable samosas that we ganoosh) and usually mashed. At Sangam tried were slightly greasy, but it didn’t there are still recognizable pieces of smother the flavor of the peas. The eggplant in the dish. It is flavored with vegetable pakoras at the buffet didn’t coriander leaves (i.e. cilantro), mustard have the crispy outer coating of the best oil, chili peppers, and onion. This versions of this appetizer, which is coated dish is prepared all across the Indian in chickpea batter and deep-fried. Their subcontinent, so the regional differences poori (puff bread) is delicious, but not the are fascinating to explore from venue lightest we have found. to venue. Sangam’s was a worthy entry, but it did retain the slightest trace of the The Sangam lunch buffet is typically bitterness of the aubergine skin. heavy on vegetarian dishes, but there are always meat dishes available. On the Some Indian restaurants stumble day of our visit they were serving “butter when it comes to tandoori dishes. These chicken” (which is on the menu by its entrées, cooked in traditional clay ovens, other name “chicken makhani”). This is can often get over-cooked and the meat a North Indian dish that can be prepared dried out. This is not a problem at Sangam, with a number of different spices, but the even at the buffet, where the time in determining ingredients are garam masala, the warming pan dry tandoori further. garlic, ginger, tomatoes, chiles, cream Tikka dishes—the Sangam menu includes (and/or yogurt), and, of course, butter. several—are cooked on skewers in a There is a slight pungency to Sangam’s tandoori oven. • version that may be due to the presence of he Sangam Indian Restaurant takes its name from a “triveni sangams” in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh at the confluence (sangama) of the Ganges, the Jamuna, and the Saraswati rivers. The last is actually a mythical, invisible river, and that is a suitable symbol for the food at this Collegetown restaurant. There is a

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And he discovered a love of teaching ceramics. He said, “The teaching became a huge thing.”

He returned to Leverett and opened his first independent ceramics studio, which he operated for fourand-a-half years. Upon moving to Ithaca, he opened the Potter’s Room on the Ithaca Commons in October of 2013.

Of Ithaca, he said, “Ithaca was the first place I could find that seemed like it would respond well to a studio like this… and also didn’t already have a working ceramic shop in it.”

To sum up, Black said, “We continue to organize and streamline and re-develop and re-invent the ways that a ceramic shop should be run and look and be designed and laid out.

The benefit the students get is a better, more rounded, more interesting, more diverse experience in a place to come and play and work.” •

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appointment and come in for an hour… or two hours … whatever number of hours … if you don’t want to get stuck into a consecutive set of classes …

“We also do birthday parties and office visits, and bring groups down from Cornell and IC, or resident life groups, or different clubs, and give them a chance to experience ceramic making and doing something different from their day-to-day lives—a little bit of de-stressing from their academic careers …

“And we also offer shelf-space. Shelfspace was created to allow people with pre-existing ceramic knowledge and experience—or have come through a class situation—access to the studio on their own accord …

“So the people who are in shelfspace come two or three times a week on average, and they are coming to the studio in and during time that works best for their own schedule, and they are coming in and sort of self-motivating and playing and exploring and experimenting …

“And the Potter’s Room really has become a welcoming and inviting space for anyone to come in and do art and be creative.”

I asked Black where he grew up, and when he first fell in love with ceramics, and he told me his life story, which I found fascinating.

His parents are academics and scientists; he was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and lived there for the first three years of his life. And then, from Kenya, his family moved to Columbus, Ohio, and then to Leverett, Massachusetts, a little village of 1,600 people in western Massachusetts.

He joked that “it’s a lot of self-directed entertainment” growing up in a small town in the country. He said he “got the

• The organization of the Potter’s Room is still being streamlined and re-developed. (Photo: Tim Gera)

ceramics bug” at age 11. He took a single class and got hooked on it and thought, “This may be the thing I do with my life.”

And then, just before he turned twelve, like Harry Potter going off to Hogwarts, he started an apprenticeship with a potter named Frank Edge who had a ceramics studio in Leverett. Edge was a northern Irish potter who moved to America after studying ceramics in Japan, and had his production studio in Leverett.

Tomas Black was Frank Edge’s apprentice for four years, in what Black referred to as “a traditional apprentice system.” From there, Black had his own side studio by the time he was sixteen.

They also had a ceramics studio at his high school. So as Black put it, “During the school day, I’d be doing ceramics, and after school I’d go to Frank’s studio and do ceramics, and after Frank’s, I’d go to my studio and do more ceramics.”

He laughed and said, “It started to get to this almost obsessive point.”

Eventually, Black attended Alfred University in Alfred, New York, where he further studied ceramics (as well as oil painting, welding, and glass-blowing).

He said of his college years, “By the time I graduated from Alfred I had developed a couple of unique styles in working in clay that no one had ever done

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3/04 Wednesday i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | Live Jazz.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Open Jam | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Each week features a local songwriter, poet or author. Info at http://ithacamusic.net/varnajam; artists should contact 607-227-7351.

Posture & The Grizzly + Brightside, Shore Acres Drive, Imperials | 8:00 PM- | Just Be Cause, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

3/05 Thursday

Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Cabinet | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | PA’s Foremost Purveyor Of Appalachian-BluegrassAmericana.

3/06 Friday

Blue Skies | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | The Eclectics | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Live Jazz.

Notorious String Busters | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Jukebox The Ghost with Little Daylight and Secret Someones | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Ironwood | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | The Small Kings | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Route 414, Burdett | Kevin Kinsella / The Analogue Sons | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Tru Blu | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Acoustic Rock/ Americana.

3/07 Saturday

The Purple Valley | 7:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Terrapin Station | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Cats | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Monkey Wrench Revolt | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca |

3/08 Sunday

Pokeweed | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Fiddle-banjo driven old-time music with stellar harmonies.

Sally Ramirez Trio | 12:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Gary & Leeann Reynolds | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Jomo & Johnnycake | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing Llc, 5027 State Route 414, Burdett | Jug Band music.

3/09 Monday

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

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

3/10 Tuesday

Ed Clute | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca Tuesday Bluesday w/ Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca.

Jorge Cuevas & the Caribe Jazz All-Stars | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | The Small Kings | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Chapter House Brew

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3/05 Thursday Midday Music at Lincoln: Zoe Weiss and Nathaniel Cox | 12:30 PM- | Lincoln Hall, Cornell University - B20, Ithaca | Music by Marin Marais and Robert de Visee.

Environs Messiaen: Concert “Immeasurable Space” | 8:00 PM- | Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Guest performers Geneviève Grenier and Marilyn Nonken and CU graduate students Matthew Hall and Jonathan Schakel perform works for organ and ondes Martenot by Messiaen and André Jolivet, and John Luther Adams.

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Environs Messiaen: Concert Catalogue d’oiseaux | 2:00 PM- | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Pianists Xak Bjerken, David Friend, Mari Kawamura, Ryan MacEvoy McCullough,

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Cayuga Vocal Ensemble: Isn’t It Romantic? | 4:00 PM- | First Presbyterian Church, Corner of Court and Cayuga Sts, Ithaca | A program of songs composed over four centuries on the subject of love, and featuring Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes.

Environs Messiaen: Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Tamara Stefanovich | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Torks by Boulez and Messiaen. Tickets at https://westfield. org/conferences/environsmessiaen/ schedule.html

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Environs Messiaen: Concert Ensemble X | 8:00 PM- | Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Cornell’s Ensemble X performs music by composers influenced by Messiaen, including Claude Vivier and Gerard Grisey.

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3/08 Sunday

The Throwaways, March 5 | Local filmmaker Ira McKinley’s provocative and increasingly timely look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black males in America. Ira will be on hand for a post show discussion.

Continuing: Schedule starts Friday, March 6.

Visit www.cinemapolis.org for showtimes.

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an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | The Imitation Game | In the winter of 1952, British cryptanalyst, war hero, and pioneer of modern-day computing Alan Turing was arrested for “gross indecency,” for the criminal offense of homosexuality - an event that would destroy his life. | 114 mins PG-13 | Maps to the Stars | A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. | 111 mins R | Mr. Turner | An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner’s life. | 150 mins R | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | A hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny, and it’s making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina. | 122 mins PG | Still Alice | Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested. | 101 mins PG-13 | Shakespeare’s Globe Live Twelfth Night | An all-male Globe ‘Original Practices’ production that aims to replicate as closely as possible the music, costumes, dance, and scenery of Shakespeare’s time. Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry star, directed by Tim Carroll. | 2:00 PM 3/8 Sunday, 7:00 PM 3/11 Wednesday. cornell cinema Visit cinema.cornell.edu for showtimes.

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Gravity | Documentary on Elizabeth Streb and her troupe, who for 40 years have pushed the boundaries of human possibility, combining dance, acrobatics, and performance art into acts of flight. | 3/5 Thursday.

Our Daily Bread | The world of mass-produced food: images speak for themselves in this refreshing departure from tongue-in-cheek food industry film predecessors, leading the viewer to ponder the process that enables the first-world standard of living. | 3/10 Tuesday.

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Stone Cold Miracle | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Venissa Santi with Guest Meg Clifton North | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

Bound for Glory: Andy Revkin | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Bound for Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca |

and Andrew Zhou perform Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux, 13 imaginative works built on bird songs with introductions by Cornell Professor Ronald R. Hoy. Seating is limited.

6th Annual Joni Mitchell Tribute Concert | 7:00 PM- | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | In Martha Hamblin Hall, CSMA’s 3rd Floor Performance Space.

Doors open at 6:30; all proceeds benefit CSMA’s programs.

Cornell Folk Song Society: Nerissa and Katryna Nields | 8:00 PM- | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave., Ithaca | Traditional songs refashioned with love, close harmonies, high energy. Tickets at Ithaca Guitar Works, Autumn Leaves, Greenstar Market, Bound for Glory, online at www. cornellfolksong.org, and at the door.

Info: web or 607-351-1845.

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Top Five | A former-comic-turned-artiste is with a reporter, walking the walk and talking the talk in New York as he thinks about life in terms of comedy, in what is surely one of the best midlife crises/ celebrity satire films since Alvy Singer met Annie Hall. | 3/5 - 3/7, Friday - Sunday.

Tristana | Luis Buñuel’s somber, disturbing drama of willful perversity in which a young Spanish woman (Catherine Deneuve) outlives the guardian who seduced her. | 3/6 Friday.

Winter Sleep | Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in the otherworldly landscape of the Cappadocia region of central Anatolia, Turkey, with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla. In winter the hotel turns into an inescapable place that fuels their animosities. | 3/7 - 3/8 Saturday, Sunday.

Stage A Body of Water | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | By Lee Blessing. Avis and Moss, a middle-aged couple, awake every morning in a beautiful house surrounded by water, not knowing who or where they are.

A mystery about memory and family.

Wednesdays to Sundays, Feb. 18-22, 25-March 1, March 4-8. Visit www. kitchentheatre.org for showtimes & prices.

An Evening with Lily Tomlin | 8:00 PM-, 3/05 Thursday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | One of America’s foremost comediennes continues to venture across an ever-widening range of media, starring in television, theater, motion pictures, animation and video.

The Glass Menagerie | Schwartz Center, Cornell University, Ithaca | The play that established Tennessee Williams as one of the country’s most beloved playwrights. Feb. 26-28 and March 6-7, with additional matinee March 7.

Golden Dragon Acrobats: Cirque Ziva | 3:00 PM-, 3/07 Saturday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | The Golden Dragon Acrobats, from Cangzhou, China, combine awardwinning acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, and ancient & contemporary music.

Sizwe Banzi is Dead | 8:00 PM-, 3/04 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | In this intensely funny and poignant drama, a black man in apartheid-era South Africa tries to overcome oppressive work regulations to support his family. Feb. 25 through

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Meetings Town of Ithaca Conservation Board | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 3/05 Thursday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Newfield Schools | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 3/05 Thursday | Newfield Central Schools, 247 Main St, Newfield | City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 3/09 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Town Council | 5:30 PM-, 3/09 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca City School District Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 3/10 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca |

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | all day, 3/04 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meets regularly one-on-one with a middle school student to read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 3/04 Wednesday | McKendree United Methodist Church, 224 Owego St., Candor | Every Wednesday. Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you.

Fracking Discussion: “Post-Ban Stream Monitoring--What’s In Your Watershed?” | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/04 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | First event in the 2015 “What’s In Your Watershed?” series, presented by the Community Science Institute and the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network. In the Borg-Warner Room. Call 607-257-6606 or email becky@communityscience. org for more information.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 3/04 Wednesday | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | RSVP 607-273-4013 or lpd4@cornell.edu.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Information Session | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 3/06 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | A Cornell human resources representative will discuss job search tips, the application process, and overall information about working at Cornell University.

Ellis Hollow Nursery School Open House | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 3/07 Saturday | Ellis Hollow Seeing the Sky Community Center, 111 Prisoner Express is holding its 7th annual prisoner art Genung Rd, Ithaca | exhibition at the Big Red Barn at Cornell from March 11 Varna Pancake Breakfast to April 11. Opening is March 11, 7 to 9 p.m. For more | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/08 information email alt-lib@cornell.edu.

Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Tompkins Learning Partners Pancakes, French Toast or Waffles, New Tutor Orientation | all day, Bacon or Ham or Sausage, Scrambled 3/05 Thursday | Tompkins Learning Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Sausage Partners seeks volunteer literacy Gravy & Biscuits, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast tutors to meet on a weekly basis with Breads & Beverages. adults needing help improving basic Ithaca Sociable Singles - Brunch reading, writing, and math skills, and | 10:30 AM-, 3/08 Sunday | Mahogany immigrants needing help learning Grill, 114 N Aurora St, Ithaca | English and preparing for the U.S. RSVP 607-347-4398 or pjsmall1@ Citizenship Exam. Orientations for new yahoo.com tutors will be held in March and April.

Please contact for dates; pre-regisCayuga Bird Cub Monthly Meeting tration is required as space is limited. & Presentation | 7:30 PM-, 3/09 Email Shannon Alvord TLPShannonA@ Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, gmail.com, or call 607-277-6442.

159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | This month’s speaker will be Suan Yong, Tompkins Workforce: Professional presenting “Vacation In Antarctica.” Free Opportunity Developers Group and open to the public, and anyone | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/05 Thursday | interested in birds is invited to attend.

Tompkins Workforce New York Career For information, call 607-257-9459, Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Network email fishoak@gmail.com or visit with people who previously held http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/. executive or highly technical positions.

Soup and/or Chili Nights | 5:00 SpinKnitters | 1:30 PM-, 3/05 PM-7:00 PM, 3/10 Tuesday | Saint Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Open Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With knitting group. dessert and drink. Free Will Donation.

SAGE Upstate Cortland Potluck | 5:00 PM-, 3/05 Thursday | Grace and Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, 73 Court St, Cortland | Join SAGE and the Cortland LGBT Center for our March Art Classes for Adults | all day, 3/04 Potluck. Please bring a dish to pass, Wednesday | Community School Of if you can. We will be meeting at our Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca new location, Grace and Holy Spirit | Adult classes and private instruction Episcopal Church. in dance, music, visual arts, language Full Moon Fire Ceremony arts, and performance downtown at | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, 3/05 Thursday | the Community School of Music and Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Arts. For more information, call (607) Ithaca | Sit, drum and sing by a sacred 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. fire outdoors. www.connecting2spirit. org. www.csma-ithaca.org. com for more information.

Multi-Media Art for Youngsters | all day, 3/04 Wednesday | Trumansburg

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Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St | Cartooning with Noelle Dembrosky, six-week session, will begin Saturday, 2/21, 10am-noon; ages 6-10. Learn to Paint in Watercolor with Marcia Eames-Sheavly, a four-week session, will begin Tuesday, 3/31, 6-8:30pm. Registration details and more info is at the TCFA web site. Call 387-5939 or e-mail <skl.tcfa@gmail. com>.

Spring Writing Through The Rough Spots | all day, 3/04 Wednesday | 10-week series; class times are Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. or Thursdays 10 a.m. - noon or 7-9 p.m. See website or email schmidt.ellen@gmail.com for more information.

Gerontology Workshop Series: Aging in Community: Research and Emerging Models | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 3/05 Thursday | Country Inn & Suites, Danby Rd, Ithaca | First of 3 workshops; discount available if you register for all three. Presenters: Mary Ann Erickson, Associate Professor, Ithaca College; Betsy Schermerhorn, Admissions Director, Kendal at Ithaca; Jim Quest, founding member, Love Living at Home in Ithaca. For more information, https://www.ithaca.edu/ agingworkshops/descriptions/.

Pegasys TV Studios Orientation and Course Sign-Ups | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 3/05 Thursday | Pegasys Studios, 612 W. Green St., Ithaca | You can produce your own television program for public access channel 13. Training, studio and field equipment access, and a cable channel open to the public for free expression. All that’s missing is you. Courses include Basic Studio Video Production, basic portable production, and Adobe Premiere editing.

Learn to Play Bridge or Practice Play | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/06 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, Clinton Street Plaza, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. This is the same group that used to meet at Lifelong.

Primitive Pursuits Adult Weekend Workshop: Friction Fire Intensive | 8:00 AM-6:00 PM, 3/07 Saturday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | Spend a weekend making fire with nothing but what the landscape provides! This workshop will give you all the basics for success at friction fire making and give you the tools to explore it on your own so you take it as far as you want to push it. Saturday 8a-6p, Sun. 8a-4p. Sliding scale fee. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

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Primitive Pursuits Free Monthly Primitive Skills Meet Up | 8:00 AM-9:00 AM, 3/07 Saturday | TBD | Join Primitive Pursuits instructors and members of the community as we work on primitive skills, strive to inspire, share stories, and help each along a journey toward deeper connection & awareness. This is a no-cost program meeting one Saturday each month at various designated locations to work on anything and everything primitive. Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com to join the club.

Seminar: The Legal Process of Separation and Divorce | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/07 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | With Charles Guttman, Esq. This seminar for women will provide an overview of the different paths to divorce.

Presented by The Finger Lakes Women in Transition. Free, no pre-registration required. 607-275-3675 or http:// fingerlakeswit.com/.

Ballroom Dancing with Bess Koval | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 3/08 Sunday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Learn ballroom dancing: Feb. 22, Swing; Mar. 8, Cha Cha; Mar. 22: Tango. Call 607-753-8413 for info and to register.

Sketching in the Greenhouse | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/08 Sunday | Cornell Plantations Plant Production Facility, 397 Forest Home Dr, Ithaca | Learn to observe and perceive more completely as you discover an amazing variety of native and tropical plants. All ability levels, and children ages 12 and older, are welcome. Please bring a good quality sketchbook, erasers, and a few favorite pencils. Pre-registration required.

Wayfinding for Mission-Driven People | 1:00 PM-2:50 PM, 3/08 Sunday | Anabel Taylor Hall - Room 314, Cornell University, Ithaca | Join a Freeskool class to discuss Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World to explore how we’re all connected to each other and the universe, how we can each find our callings — and how we can team up to heal the world.

RSVP to adrienne.masler@gmail.com.

Beginning Spanish | 2:00 PM-, 3/09 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Intermediate Spanish | 1:00 PM-, 3/09 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Knit & Chat | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 3/09 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid

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Watercolor Painting | 10:00 AM-, 3/09 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 3/10 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Open to adults of all ages, orientations, and religions (or lack thereof).

Not affiliated with any church or religious institution. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Special Events

Nature & Science Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 9:00 AM-, Saturdays & Sundays | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information.

Outdoor Adventure Club: Night Hike | 3/05 - 3/06 Thursday and Friday | Meet in Ithaca For Carpooling | Late winter full-moon hike up Algonquin mountain. Call Chris at 533-3553 for more information.

Mineral ID Day | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 3/08 Sunday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Have you or your kids found a funny rock?

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United Way Benefit Wine & Dine Radiothon on WHCU | 6:00 AM-6:00 PM, 3/06 Friday | WHCU Radio, , | The inaugural News Talk WHCU Wine & Dine Radiothon will take place to benefit United Way of Tompkins County. WHCU Morning Newswatch host Lee Rayburn will be on 870 AM and 95.9 FM all day taking bids from community members for 13 Wine & Dine packages.

Wintersquabee IV: We Are Seneca Lake Fundraiser | 6:00 PM-12:00 AM, 3/06 Friday | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Come support your neighbors and enjoy wonderful music the entire weekend of March 6-8. There will be 50/50 Raffles and a few other fund-raising items. See Heebasquabee@Facebook.com for more details.

Pancake Breakfast | 7:30 AM-10:30 AM, 3/07 Saturday | Enfield Valley Grange Hall, Enfield Main Road, | All you can eat pancakes, waffles, French toast, country sausage, fresh eggs, hashbrowns, applesauce, coffee, tea, juice Feline Follies! | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, 3/07 Saturday | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, , Ithaca | Free event open to the entire community; will feature a raffle, bake sale, children’s games, educational lectures, cat adoptions, and a cat show. Bring your cat to compete in categories such as Most Toes, Longest Tail and Best Costume, and new this year: Best Trick!

Submit a video of your cat performing its trick to cornellvetfelineclub@gmail. com. All proceeds from Feline Follies will go towards animal charities.

Alternative Community School: Latin American Dinner/Dance Fundraiser | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM,

3/07 Saturday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Students at Lehman Alternative Community School (LACS) are hosting a Latin American Dinner & Dance to raise funds for their upcoming service learning trip to Guatemala. Dinner menu includes various Latin American specialties. D.J.’ed latin dance party in the school’s Black Box Theatre starting at 7 p.m.

Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/08 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage. Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages.

Chicken Barbecue | 11:00 AM-, 3/08 Sunday | Enfield Fire Station, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | Adult meals are $9 Chicken Halves $6. The Ladies Auxiliary holds a Bake Sale at each BBQ. Lenten Study of Incarceration | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 3/08 Sunday | St John’s Episcopal Church, 210 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Five-part series including book study of “Locked Down, Locked Out” by Maya Schenwar. Held in the Chapman Room.

Schuyler Hospital Auxiliary Spaghetti Dinner | 4:30 PM-7:00 PM, 3/09 Monday | Montour Moose Lodge, State Route 14, Montour Falls | Proceeds help fund the Schuyler Hospital Auxiliary Health Care Scholarships and other projects at the Hospital and Seneca View. Hosted by the Watkins Montour Lions Club and the Montour Moose Lodge.

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Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Hike Series | 4:00 PM-, 3/10 Tuesday | Multiple Locations, , Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 2 to 3 hour hike every Tuesday in varying locations. For location details, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Health Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Alcoholics Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Rd, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday, 9-11:30 a.m.

Appointments available Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30- 3:30 pm. Call 274-6604 to schedule an appointment or ask for further information.

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

DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome.

For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance. Call 274-5345 with any questions.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | This group meets several times per week at various locations. | For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org.

Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location | We are looking for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder). For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, Wednesday | Multiple Locations | Meets monthly at homes of group members.

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Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall, 5th floor lounge, Cornell University, Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. | A worldwide 12-Step program. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835.

Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 272-2433.

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

Walk-in Clinic | This group meets several times per week. | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

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

Yoga School Classes | This group meets several times per week at various locations--pre-registration required. | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Creative Self-Care for Caregivers | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 3/05 Thursday | Tompkins County Office for the Aging, 214 W State St, Ithaca | A free workshop presented by Emily Millen, LCAT, to family caregivers of older adults.

Free Buddhist Meditation and Dharma Talk | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 3/07 Saturday | PADMA Center, 114 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and lively discussions exploring our innate goodness qualities. All are welcome. 607-865-8068 or www.

padmasambhava.org for more information.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 3/08 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers: Pre-Registration Notice | all day, 3/04 Wednesday | Tompkins County Office for the Aging, 214 W State St, Ithaca | A free, six-week educational program designed to help family caregivers. Runs Mondays, March 30-May 4, 5-6:30pm at the Tompkins County Office for the Aging.

Registration required; class size is limited. Call David Stoyell at the Office for the Aging, 607-274-5492, to discuss the program or to register.

Lectures Reppy Institute Seminar: “Territorial Conflict in the Digital Age: Mapping Technologies and Negotiation” | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 3/05 Thursday | Uris Hall, Cornell University, Uris Hall, Ithaca | Brown bag luncheon. Speaker: Jordan N. Branch, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University. http://pacs.einaudi. cornell.edu/Brake_seminar for more information.

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by Robert Fallon | 4:30 PM-, 3/05 Thursday | Rm. 124 Lincoln Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Carnegie Mellon School of Music professor Robert Fallon will give a lecture on “‘Des Provinces de France’: Interpreting Habitat and Landscape in Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux” as part of the Environs Messiaen festival.

The Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture | 4:30 PM-, 3/05 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave., Ithaca | Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia Univ.): “We Do Language:” History, Meaning & Language in the Novels of Toni Morrison.” Preceded by a seminar with the speaker, 12:00-2:00pm, in the English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith.

Gallery Talk: Cocurator Alana Ryder | 5:15 PM-, 3/05 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | Cocurator Alana Ryder will be joined by Cornell faculty and graduate students to share stories of teaching with the Johnson’s collection.

New York State Archaeological Assoc. Lecture, IC | 6:30 PM-, 3/05 Thursday | Center for Natural Sciences,

Room 208, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Jeffrey R. Zorn (Cornell) will present on “Standing on Hole-y Ground: Storage Pits at Tell en-Naşbeh and the Role of the State.”

Environs Messiaen: Lab of Ornithology - Lectures/Panel Discussion | 10:00 AM-, 3/07 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Christopher Dingle (Birmingham Conservatoire, UK) and David Gable (Clark Atlanta University) give talks on Messiaen and Boulez before a panel discussion on music and nature in the avant-garde. Part of the Environs Messiaen festival.

Lecture: International Law, Israel, & the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction Movement | 11:00 AM-, 3/08 Sunday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Coalition for Unity and Cooperation in the Middle East (ICUC-ME) has invited renowned legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich to speak at The Space at Greenstar. Free and open to the public.

Rx for Gardening Withdrawal -- Garden Travel Slide Shows | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 3/08 Sunday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Cooperative Extension’s Horticulture Program has planned weekend afternoon travel talks featuring gardens, followed by refreshments and socializing. Free and open to the public, but donations help support the Horticulture Program.

This Sunday join Pat Curran for a slide show, “Botanical Garden Tour from NC through the South to Ohio,” featuring several botanical gardens--a colorful tonic to Ithaca’s gray or white winter!

Arts Cortland First Fridays | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/06 Friday | Multiple Locations, Downtown Cortland, Cortland | First Fridays celebrate the art and culture of the local community on the first Friday of each month.

Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland: Artist Talk | 5:30 PM-, 3/10 Tuesday | Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland , Cortland | Talk by Ithaca artist Lindsey Glover as part of the Topographies exhibition. The Dowd Gallery is SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center Rm. 106, corner of Graham Ave. and Prospect Terr.

Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland: Exhibition Opening | 4:30 PM-6:30 PM, 3/05 Thursday | Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland , Cortland |

JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW Scate of the Art Gallery, Reception, March 6

Photographs that represent numerous ways photographers are currently working. Submissions come from central New York and beyond. Up to $600 in prizes will be awarded at the reception March 6, 5-8pm. Show runs through March 29.

Opening reception for Topographies, featuring works by Ithaca artist Lindsey Glover and NYC-based artist Claudia Sbrissa. Exhibition on view from March 2-April 10, 2015. The Dowd Gallery is SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center Rm. 106, corner of Graham Ave. and Prospect Terr.

Environs Messiaen: Sound Installation “Veils” | 8:00 PM-, 3/08 Sunday | Johnson Museum of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Composer John Luther Adams’s electronic soundscapes Veils (2005) will run continuously at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art from March 5-10 as part of the Environs Messiaen festival.

Exhibit: Tree + Landscape | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 3/10 Tuesday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Paintings and works on paper by Stan Taft. Tuesdays - Saturdays; http:// www.cornersgallery.com/ for more information.

Exhibition Opening: In the Spotlight | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 3/06 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Opening reception for an exhibit featuring six Central NY six artists working in a variety of mediums oil, watercolor, mixed media, and glass.

Exhibit runs March 6 - April 24. More information at www.westendgallery. net.

Ink Shop Gallery Opening: Selected Prints and Artist Books | 12:00 PM-, 3/07 Saturday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Original prints and artist books by students and faculty at Ithaca College Exhibit runs through March 28.

Opening at Titus Gallery: The Stone Within | 5:00 PM-8:30 PM, 3/06 Friday | Titus Gallery Art & Antiques, 222 E State St, Ithaca | Opening gallery Night for “The Stone Within”: Gemstone photography by Sarah Oros. Exhibit runs through March 29.

Opening: Last Call | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 3/04 Wednesday | Found In Ithaca, 227 Cherry St, Ithaca | Jackie Dickinson is our artist in the Gallery for the month of March. Show runs March 4 - 29.

Seward House Museum: AlaskaThemed Exhibit during March | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 3/06 Friday | The Seward House Museum, 33 South St, Auburn | The Seward House Museum features an Alaska themed exhibit in the gallery-gift shop space for the month of March, and rare Alaskan artifacts given to William H. Seward by the people of Alaska. Opening reception March 6,

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he Sixth Annual Joni Mitchell Tribute Night will return to the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) Saturday, March 7, and as always it promises to respectfully pay tribute to North America’s iconic singer and songwriter.

Organized by CSMA board member Joseph Gaylord, the concert—which is set to begin at 7 p.m., benefits the scholarship program of the school.

When asked, “Why Joni Mitchell?” Gaylord responded: “For me the best part is that Joni Mitchell is the multi-artist. She’s a painter and a photographer and a dancer and a singer/songwriter and a poet. That’s the big part, because that’s all that CSMA offers: dance and music and art and poetry, I thought that was a good fit.”

All artists evoke some emotional reaction, but Joni’s fans feel especially 5pm-7pm. For details on prices, events, and hours call 315-252-1283 or visit www.sewardhouse.org.

State of the Art Gallery Opening: 26th Annual Juried Photography Show | 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, 3/04 Wednesday | State Of The Art Gallery, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Photographs that represent numerous ways photographers are currently working. Submissions come from central New York and beyond. Up to $600 in prizes will be awarded at the reception March 6, 5-8pm. Show dates: March 4-29.

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Storytelling Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 3/04 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join the folks from Ithaca Freeskool for a workshop that will provide a safe space to practice fine-tuning our “gift of gab” through games & exercises, idea sharing, performance practice and feedback.

A Novel Idea - Book Club | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 3/04 Wednesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca

Joni Mitchell Open Mic in 2004: “It was so successful, we had to turn people away.” No one knows exactly how many there have been since— McNamara suggests eight, Gaylord has organized four, but there is no question they are popular with other artists and fans.

Artists to appear include Joe Crookston, Joannalyn Delacruz, Kara Eaton, Ephemera, Christine Evans and Eric Miller, Five 2, Colleen Kattau & Mike Brandt, Molly MacMillan, Rachel Ozols, Laura J. Peters and Sergio Pedro, Sally Ramirez, Alice Saltonstall, Sue Terwilliger, Patti Witten, Sera Smolen, and the organizers.

“We’ve had a whole spectrum of her music—she’s had like 35 albums, and they run the gamut from folk to jazz, so we’ve covered a lot of ground,” McNamara said.

The fan site McNamara Joni Mitchell self-portrait (Photo: provided) participated in is so popular Mitchell’s record label used it fervent. Sue Tierney McNamara, as an official site for a spell. “She another organizer of the concert, has approves of the site for what she sees,” transcribed the tunings to countless McNamara told me, before making songs and maintained a database on clear that there is no connection jonimitchell.com. She recalled the first between Mitchell and the site.

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There are about 50 different tunings.

When I started jonimitchell.com—I wanted to keep the songs the way that she plays them. So we have a database on jonimitchell.com where you can download the songs as she plays them.”

Asked why he organizes the concert, Gaylord attributed it to “what she has done for music.” He continued: “It is not only her songwriting it is how she plays the instrument. She had hands that didn’t work like regular hands when she was learning to play the guitar. She had to invent tunings so that she would play more easily. But as she got stronger, and the years went by and she got better, the tunings got more complex and that’s a big part of the fun and the challenge of playing Joni Mitchell music.”

Both Gaylord and McNamara point to “Joni” moments during past concerts — points at which “where everything juxtaposes and you can actually close your eyes and see and feel Joni Mitchell singing the piece.”

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Garage/Yard Sale at 6056 West Seneca Rd. Trumansburg; follow detour.

Household goods, furniture, misc. No clothes. Sat. August 4th from 9:00-2:00.

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510/Adoption Services

Stock #11077E 2010 Honda Accord Coupe EX, Auto, Black, 33,001 miles $16,997 Certified Stock #11033 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid CVT, Silver, 26,565 miles, $17,997 Certified Stock #11171E 2010 Honda Insight EX, CVT, white, 35,224 miles, $14,997 Certified Stock #11124E 2010 Mazda 3 Wagon 6-speed, Blue, 44,329 miles, $14,997 Stock #11168E 2012 Mazda 2 Hatchback Auto, Red, 32,427 miles #12,997 Honda of Ithaca 315 Elmira Road Ithaca, NY 14850 www.hondaofithaca.com ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roomate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates .com! (AAN CAN)

sides grand concert size, ebony bridge and fingerboard with ivroid inlaid “heritage” fretboard markers with 12 frets clear of the body, slot peghead with w/HSC, list: $3378, Yours: $2549 IGW 272-2602

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Love dogs?

Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

4 Seasons Landscaping Inc.

Half OFF NYS Auto Inspection

607-272-1504 lawn maintenance spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning patios, retaining walls, + walkways landscape design + installation drainage snow removal dumpster rentals Find us on Facebook!

with Greenback Coupon at Monro Muffler/Brake

***ICE***ICE***ICE*** Professional Insured Removal Call Greg at Solutions 607-793-8664

Independence Cleaners Corp

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Housekeeping*Windows*Awnings*Floors High Dusting*Carpets*Building Maintenance 24/7 EMERGENCY CLEANING Services 607-227-3025 or 607-220-8739

Full range of effective care for a full range of human ailments

Ithaca Community Childcare Center (IC3) annual silent auction will be Saturday, March 14 6-10pm at Emerson Suites, Ithaca College.

100% of the proceeds will benefit the IC3 scholarship fund.

Live music by Paul Merrill Jazz Trio cocktails, an array of food, and hundred of items to bid on.

Call 607-257-0200 or email office@icthree.org for more information

Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture

ITHACA DISPATCH, INC.

AAM ALL ABOUT MACS Macintosh Consulting http://www.allaboutmacs.com (607) 280-4729

Affordable Acupuncture

Anthony Fazio, L.Ac., C.A. www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com

607-272-0114

* BUYING RECORDS * LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES PUNK REGGAE ETC Angry Mom Records (Autumn Leaves Basement) 319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows Free Estimates South Seneca Vinyl 315-585-6050, 866-585-6050

Ithaca’s largest and best paying Taxi Co. has Driver positions available!

We want to put drivers on the road IMMEDIATELY! Up to $13/hr earnings potential when starting with us.

We also offer benefits as well!

Call Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm

(607)277-2842 www.ithacataxi.biz

Ithaca’s Friendly local Game Store Board Games, Geek Collectibles, Educational games for Kids

The Enchanted Badger 335 Elmira Rd. Ithaca

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

Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care! www.cayugadogrescue.org www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue

MARMOT SAMPLE SALE! UP TO 60% OFF Outerwear Sportswear Kids Old Goat Gear Exchange 320 E. State St., Downtown Ithaca

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Cuisineand and Coffee!

We are so pleased to announce that

Being served indoors at the Farmer’s Market, The Space @ GreenStar @ THE SPACE @GREEN STAR COOP Natural Foods Market 700 W BUFFALO ST,ITHACA,NY Saturdays, 11 AM - 2 PM through March 28th!

Ethiopian food will be served indoors

SATURDAY , 11 AM-2 PM JANUARY 24TH -MARCH 28TH FOR MORE INFORMATION ,CONTACT HILINA @607-220-7581/279-7386

For more info, contact Hilina Please come over for a unique flavor!

(607) 220-7581 or @atg38@cornell.edu

Spring on wellness!

YOGA FUNDAMENTALS

John Serferlis - Tailor 102 The Commons 273-3192

Sundays, March 15-29 1:30-3pm Sign up today! $40 for all 3 classes Vsit www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682

Middle Eastern (Belly Dance) & Romani Dances (Gypsy) Beginner Classes Starting Wed. March 11th with

SUNDAY FUNDAY with Hilby the Skinny German Juggle Boy Sunday, March 29 @2 pm Immaculate Conception School Gym (Plain St) $5 per person @ the door Spnsored by hoopla buttons.com

John’s Tailor Shop

JUNE

Professional Oriental Dancer Call or E-Mail to Register 607-351-0640, june@twcny.rr.com www.moonlightdancer.com

MOBIL COMPLETE OIL CHANGE

only $24.99 with Greenback Coupon Mobil 1 Lube Express 348 Elmira Road 607-273-2937

Protect Your Home

with a Camera Surveillance System Les @ 607-272-9175

SERVING ITHACA YOGA

FRESH & HOT FOR 12 YRS UNLIMITED BIKRAMS YOGA THRU 5/31 $350 SUCH A DEAL! INTRO 10 DAYS IN A ROW $20 www.bikramithaca.com 607-COW-YOGA 269-9642

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Ethiopian Enat Ethiopian

Come over for a Unique Flavor!

Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

Same Day Service Available

We were LOCAL before it was cool.

701 W. Buffalo St. 273-9392 DeWitt Mall 273-8210

NEW

3-Class Workshop Series

MIGHTY YOGA

Talk & Tour

DeWitt Park Historic District Sat., March 7, 2:30

historicithaca.org THINKING SOLAR?

Call us for a free solar assessment

Paradise Energy Solutions 100 Grange Place, Cortland, NY 877-679-1753 We Buy, Sell, & Trade Black Cat Antiques

607-898-2048 Your Planned Parenthood Has Moved!

We are pleased to welcome you to our new Ithaca Health Center at

620 West Seneca Street!

607-273-1513 PPSFL.ORG