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Ride-hailing services take the air out of local taxi industry’s tires

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ince Uber and Lyft have been on the scene, the taxicab industry has been fighting tooth and nail to ensure their own survival.

Whether it’s investing in new marketing ploys or creating apps to rival Uber and Lyft, cab companies across the country have been searching for a way to level the playing field.

In places like New York City, many taxi drivers pursuing a medallion, the once coveted token that allowed them to legally operate, have seen that prize’s value sharply diminish.

In Ithaca, though, cab drivers are feeling more than sure they will survive.

Paul H. Kriegstein, the owner of Collegetown Cab, has seen and felt the effects of ride-sharing services’ arrival in Ithaca, which took place in 2017. Other cities such as Buffalo saw near instantaneous changes in business. Both drivers and cab company owners saw Uber and Lyft becoming major powerhouses across the state, and within in a few short months, the taxi business in Buffalo was on the decline. Despite being the only taxi company in Ithaca to have an app, Kriegstein said that business is still on the decline, particularly from students.

“They’ve taken a substantial majority of our cash and credit card business,” Kriegstein said.

“It’s a little difficult to quantify exactly because of some operational changes we had last year but we’re talking 30 to 40 percent decline in cash and credit card business, last year in 2018 versus 2017. Our student business on the weekends is probably down by over 90 percent. It’s pretty obvious college students are obsessed with Uber and Lyft, the ones that continued on page 7

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The allegations against Martensen come on the heels of an allegation revealed by the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle against another local priest, Rev. Bernard A.L. Carges, who worked at Immaculate Conception Church in downtown Ithaca from 1975 to 1997. It is not yet clear if the abuse occurred while Carges was in Ithaca or prior in his career, but the D&C reports that a settlement of $125,000 was reached in the case.

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INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER

By C a se y Mar tin

SPRING IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ON THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY?

“Put on my overall shorts!”

-Hannah Starkey

“Bask in the sun.”

-Tenor Caso

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Prom Dresses

Gee June Bridal organizing Prom Dress Drive

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s prom season nears, there’s usually only one thing on the minds of high school upperclassmen who have made the conscious and justifiable decision to coast for the last several months of their high school career: prom.

While prom can be a fun, enriching event, the lead-up to it is almost always full of stress and anxiety, both socially and financially.

Enter Layne Dann of Gee June Bridal. Dann has organized a prom dress drive in which people with used prom dresses can donate them at a few different locations around town. Once they’re donated, Dann steams and cleans each one to make sure they are ready for use again, The first part of the prom dress drive is being held March 30 from 12-4 p.m. in Center Ithaca, and attendees will be able to examine and buy prom dresses, view a make-up tutorial, get dress alterations and much more that is still being planned. In advance of the event, dresses can be donated at Gee June Bridal in Press Bay

Court, the Inn at Taughannock and Indigo Rose on the Commons. Dresses will be a donation as little as $1, with a pay-what-you-want policy from Dann.

A former winner of the “Race for the Space” competition, Dann feels an obligation to give something back to the community considering the opportunity she was given by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA). Dann, along with four other businesses, were selected as the competition winners and received a year of free rent in downtown locations and $4500 for construction costs.

“I understand that I have a lot to be happy for,” Dann said. “‘Race for the Space’ was a project that was all about keeping that energy moving forward, so I see the prom dress drive as being a good way to simultaneously give back to the community in a way where I can stay in my lane. I’m in the dress business. It makes sense to me.”

Dann said that when she was younger, she used to hear her dad talk about the expens-

“What I do as a designer is take apart dresses and fabrics and make new creations out of them,” Dann said. “The prom dress drive is really an extension of what I’m already doing, just in a less crafted way.”

It doesn’t sound as if the event is a one-off for Dann, either, as she expressed an interest in seeing the drive grow larger, parLayne Dann of Gee June Bridal (Photo: Casey Martin) ticularly if she is approached by someone who wants to take over or is able es of having daughters, which to recruit others who can help was part of the inspiration for her. the prom dress drive. A 2015 “No questions asked, whatsurvey conducted by credit ever somebody can pay who is card company Visa concluded in need of a prom dress,” Dann that the average American said. “If they need multiple household will spend $919 prom dresses, this is what they when their child goes to prom. can do. I hope it will grow . .

The theme of the dress drive . it’s just something I feel is a fits into what Dann does with need in the community, for her shop anyway: reusing and people and families alike who recycling dresses or parts of will need it.” them in order to make something new and unique.

-M att Butler

Boxing camp

“Open all my windows – I’ve already been wearing shorts all winter anyway.”

The Sweet Science: Inside Black Irish Boxing’s Fight Camp

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“Go for a long hike with my dog Ernie!”

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“Start my 3 month trip around Europe!”

George Crouch coaching the Boxing Fight Camp class at the Black Irish Boxing gym on Cherry St. (Photo: Casey Martin)

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weat, punching bags and a lot of hard work is what you’re going to find when you walk into Black Irish Boxing’s Fight Camp. A crew of boxing-glove-clad people are seen sparring, punching and completing a variety of conditioning exercises while coach George Crouch walks around adjusting trainees’ form and offering words of encouragement. continued on page 7

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Affordable T’Burg

46 South Street gets further review by T’burg Planning Board

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bout 24 members of the public attended a meeting of the Trumansburg Village Planning Board on Feb. 28 at the Trumansburg Village Offices, where developers, architects and landscapers for the 46 South Street Project presented updated plans for the development.

Jessica Giles, Planning Board chair, opened the meeting by explaining that the review process has been extended with mutual consent by the Planning Board and

be an asset to the village.

Others believe the development does not fit in with Trumansburg’s rural character.

Residents who are against the plan have also suggested that the design would be inherently isolating to the inhabitants of 46 South Street, creating an economic divide between the development and the rest of Trumansburg.

The majority of the discussion centered around the changes that were made to the existing plans as a result of the developers meeting with the Trumansburg Village Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) Feb. 19.

At The latest available rendering for 46 South Street, the ZBA which has stoked controversy for well over a year meetamong Trumansburg residents. (Photo provided) ing, the developers the applicants. Currently, the were granted a variance for a board is still reviewing the 25-foot setback for the residenpreliminary plat. tial buildings and a special use “The review has been permit for a new 4,000 squareextended so we can have the foot nursery school building discussion we’ve been having, that would house Trumansburg where we make comments Community Nursery School, and they make changes; they which is currently located on suggest changes and we make East Main Street. comments,” Giles said. “It’s a The updated concept for the back and forth.” development was presented The controversial project is

by Ryan Kovac, landscape a partnership between Claudia architect with Trowbridge Wolf Brenner, a local architect and Michaels, a landscaping firm landowner, and Ithaca Neighwith offices located in Ithaca. borhood Housing Services, a Kovac said the anticipated 40-year-old affordable housing ebb and flow of the school not-for-profit based in Ithaca. would allow for drop-offs and Since the project was first pick-ups to occur at different proposed almost two years ago, times throughout the day. the Trumansburg community “There’s not going to be 20 has been divided on the subcars arriving all at the same ject; some residents believe the time,” Kovac said. “The stagmix of 17 market rate for-sale gered programming is very homes, 10 affordable for-sale deliberately schemed to not townhomes, six affordable have all the parents arriving at rental townhomes and 40 afthe same time.” fordable rental apartments will Kovac pointed out the

substantial fence included in the updated design, saying that it was added to encourage people to use the nearby crosswalk or the nearest sidewalk when walking to and from the school.

It was suggested by Victoria Romanoff, Planning Board member, that the large roofs of the school would be an ideal place to install solar panels.

The developers said they were agreeable to looking into the possibility.

According to the proposed plan, there would be trees planted about 40 feet apart along the entirety of the new roadway that would be constructed by the developers, with the exception of one section that dips to avoid an existing tree, Kovac said. He added that he expects the trees to reach a height of 35 to 40 feet within the first five years. The species of trees and whether they will be all one kind or a variety of species is yet to be determined.

At the conclusion of Kovac’s presentation, Adam Walters of Phillips Lytle, LLP, who is the attorney for the developers, told the board that the ZBA should be coming to a decision at their meeting March 12 regarding how many parking spaces are allotted for each resident of 46 South Street. The developers had suggested that 1.2 parking spaces per rental unit and two spaces per for sale unit was an adequate number, but the ZBA said it would like to see more information, including data from more rural areas, as opposed to a city like Ithaca.

Walters also said the developers had a meeting recently with Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) and that the bus service indicated it would be embarking shortly on the development of a master plan. Walters said the roadways where buses would likely enter and exit the development would be wide enough to accommodate the larger vehicles.

A closer look at the exteriors of the residential buildings was presented by Alena Fast, real estate developer with INHS. One of the most obvious changes to the original artist renderings was the design of the rental townhomes, which was altered because of feedback that the proposed A-frame style buildings looked

too “institutional.”

The shape of the roofs were changed, and wrap-around porches and bay windows were added. The porches will be five feet, six inches, by 13 feet. “I’m fairly confident there will be enough space for chairs and table,” Fast said.

There was some discussion about the porches for the affordable for-sale townhomes; though the new artist renderings replace vinyl siding and shingles with fiber cement and asphalt, Fast suggested that the porch railings would still be vinyl, to which two board members expressed their opposition.

Romanoff said vinyl can be “flammable and quite toxic.”

“Especially if you might have people sitting and smoking and drinking and having a good time—[the porch materials are] one thing where I would do a little dickering,” Romanoff said.

Giles agreed, adding that she is unsure if vinyl would foster the sought-after continuity of the rural feel of the rest of the village. Brenner agreed that wood porches may be a better choice and said wood would likely be a viable alternative material.

During the public comment portion of the meeting, one member of the public said she would like the Planning Board to respond to her proposal that the developers be required to take out a bond that would protect the neighbors of the development.

“I suggested at least a $10 million bond, the reason being that whenever there is big, heavy machinery and construction […] there are cracks in the foundation, windows go out of square […] I want to know what INHS is going to do about all that stuff,” the member of the public said.

“I’m glad you brought up the issue of the bond,” responded Giles.

“I’m unclear how that works, so I will look into that.”

UPS&DOWNS

▶▶ Thumbs Up - Good on the city for strengthening, or at least trying to strengthen, the rules regarding negligent and noncompliant landlords who continue renting dilapidated properties to tenants.

A little recognized impact of the housing problems here is that tenants are so desperate that they’re willing to put up with far too much and receive far too little from the landlords making a tidy profit off of them. ▶▶ Thumbs Down - Hard to really know who to blame when it comes to the construction on the 200 block of Cayuga Street that will now last well into the warm weather season. Water main breaks happen, though the disturbing thing is the frequency with which they happened this year, and the severity of instances like Cayuga Street. It’s hard to see how that changes next year. ▶▶ Seen - Two local Ithaca student journalists are getting some extremely well-deserved shine, as Nick Bogel-Burroughs of Cornell and Danielle Allentuck of Ithaca College were both selected as New York Times Fellows for 2019-2020, starting after they both graduate in May. Bogel-Burroughs is serving as a national reporter, while Allentuck will be a sports reporter. Good luck to these young gods.

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Affordable T’Burg

46 South Street gets further review by T’burg Planning Board

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bout 24 members of the public attended a meeting of the Trumansburg Village Planning Board on Feb. 28 at the Trumansburg Village Offices, where developers, architects and landscapers for the 46 South Street Project presented updated plans for the development.

Jessica Giles, Planning Board chair, opened the meeting by explaining that the review process has been extended with mutual consent by the Planning Board and

be an asset to the village.

Others believe the development does not fit in with Trumansburg’s rural character.

Residents who are against the plan have also suggested that the design would be inherently isolating to the inhabitants of 46 South Street, creating an economic divide between the development and the rest of Trumansburg.

The majority of the discussion centered around the changes that were made to the existing plans as a result of the developers meeting with the Trumansburg Village Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) Feb. 19.

At The latest available rendering for 46 South Street, the ZBA which has stoked controversy for well over a year meetamong Trumansburg residents. (Photo provided) ing, the developers the applicants. Currently, the were granted a variance for a board is still reviewing the 25-foot setback for the residenpreliminary plat. tial buildings and a special use “The review has been permit for a new 4,000 squareextended so we can have the foot nursery school building discussion we’ve been having, that would house Trumansburg where we make comments Community Nursery School, and they make changes; they which is currently located on suggest changes and we make East Main Street. comments,” Giles said. “It’s a The updated concept for the back and forth.” development was presented The controversial project is

by Ryan Kovac, landscape a partnership between Claudia architect with Trowbridge Wolf Brenner, a local architect and Michaels, a landscaping firm landowner, and Ithaca Neighwith offices located in Ithaca. borhood Housing Services, a Kovac said the anticipated 40-year-old affordable housing ebb and flow of the school not-for-profit based in Ithaca. would allow for drop-offs and Since the project was first pick-ups to occur at different proposed almost two years ago, times throughout the day. the Trumansburg community “There’s not going to be 20 has been divided on the subcars arriving all at the same ject; some residents believe the time,” Kovac said. “The stagmix of 17 market rate for-sale gered programming is very homes, 10 affordable for-sale deliberately schemed to not townhomes, six affordable have all the parents arriving at rental townhomes and 40 afthe same time.” fordable rental apartments will Kovac pointed out the

substantial fence included in the updated design, saying that it was added to encourage people to use the nearby crosswalk or the nearest sidewalk when walking to and from the school.

It was suggested by Victoria Romanoff, Planning Board member, that the large roofs of the school would be an ideal place to install solar panels.

The developers said they were agreeable to looking into the possibility.

According to the proposed plan, there would be trees planted about 40 feet apart along the entirety of the new roadway that would be constructed by the developers, with the exception of one section that dips to avoid an existing tree, Kovac said. He added that he expects the trees to reach a height of 35 to 40 feet within the first five years. The species of trees and whether they will be all one kind or a variety of species is yet to be determined.

At the conclusion of Kovac’s presentation, Adam Walters of Phillips Lytle, LLP, who is the attorney for the developers, told the board that the ZBA should be coming to a decision at their meeting March 12 regarding how many parking spaces are allotted for each resident of 46 South Street. The developers had suggested that 1.2 parking spaces per rental unit and two spaces per for sale unit was an adequate number, but the ZBA said it would like to see more information, including data from more rural areas, as opposed to a city like Ithaca.

Walters also said the developers had a meeting recently with Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) and that the bus service indicated it would be embarking shortly on the development of a master plan. Walters said the roadways where buses would likely enter and exit the development would be wide enough to accommodate the larger vehicles.

A closer look at the exteriors of the residential buildings was presented by Alena Fast, real estate developer with INHS. One of the most obvious changes to the original artist renderings was the design of the rental townhomes, which was altered because of feedback that the proposed A-frame style buildings looked

too “institutional.”

The shape of the roofs were changed, and wrap-around porches and bay windows were added. The porches will be five feet, six inches, by 13 feet. “I’m fairly confident there will be enough space for chairs and table,” Fast said.

There was some discussion about the porches for the affordable for-sale townhomes; though the new artist renderings replace vinyl siding and shingles with fiber cement and asphalt, Fast suggested that the porch railings would still be vinyl, to which two board members expressed their opposition.

Romanoff said vinyl can be “flammable and quite toxic.”

“Especially if you might have people sitting and smoking and drinking and having a good time—[the porch materials are] one thing where I would do a little dickering,” Romanoff said.

Giles agreed, adding that she is unsure if vinyl would foster the sought-after continuity of the rural feel of the rest of the village. Brenner agreed that wood porches may be a better choice and said wood would likely be a viable alternative material.

During the public comment portion of the meeting, one member of the public said she would like the Planning Board to respond to her proposal that the developers be required to take out a bond that would protect the neighbors of the development.

“I suggested at least a $10 million bond, the reason being that whenever there is big, heavy machinery and construction […] there are cracks in the foundation, windows go out of square […] I want to know what INHS is going to do about all that stuff,” the member of the public said.

“I’m glad you brought up the issue of the bond,” responded Giles.

“I’m unclear how that works, so I will look into that.”

UPS&DOWNS

▶▶ Thumbs Up - Good on the city for strengthening, or at least trying to strengthen, the rules regarding negligent and noncompliant landlords who continue renting dilapidated properties to tenants.

A little recognized impact of the housing problems here is that tenants are so desperate that they’re willing to put up with far too much and receive far too little from the landlords making a tidy profit off of them. ▶▶ Thumbs Down - Hard to really know who to blame when it comes to the construction on the 200 block of Cayuga Street that will now last well into the warm weather season. Water main breaks happen, though the disturbing thing is the frequency with which they happened this year, and the severity of instances like Cayuga Street. It’s hard to see how that changes next year. ▶▶ Seen - Two local Ithaca student journalists are getting some extremely well-deserved shine, as Nick Bogel-Burroughs of Cornell and Danielle Allentuck of Ithaca College were both selected as New York Times Fellows for 2019-2020, starting after they both graduate in May. Bogel-Burroughs is serving as a national reporter, while Allentuck will be a sports reporter. Good luck to these young gods.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

By M a r s h a l l Ho p k i n s

Ithaca’s mascot should be: 20.0% A squirrel 21.7% A black dog 6.7% A buffalo 51.7% An indoor cat

N ext Week ’s Q uestion :

Rate your assessment of the E-sports craze.

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Responding to Guest Opinion of February 20

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eferring to your Guest Opinion of 2/20 (Omar #2) and her being bent out of shape over AIPAC (Israel’s pocket book), unfortunately unless and until pay to play is abolished, it’s the way of the world. So before you stomp Israel into the ground, do consider the following.

Israel is the only democracy in that part of the world. (There are Arabs in the Knesset, Israel’s legislative body).

Israel is a tiny country surrounded by hostile neighbors.

Saudi Arabia is an extremely repressive country, something Jared Kushner disregards as he embraces its crown prince.

Has the name Khashoggi already been forgotten? But the Saudis are big consumers of American weaponry.

It would be naive to think Israel’s opponents aren’t being funded by anonymous entities.

The contentious issue of Israel settlements is certainly debatable.

-Grace Clary

Calling for better water infrastructure During the Governor’s State of the State Budget Address in January, he announced a bold investment of an additional $2.5 billion for clean water projects.

However, after examining the Governor’s SFY 2019-2020 executive budget bills, Environmental Advocates discovered

that only $500 million in new funding is included. The Governor’s decision to include only part of his promised funding in the SFY 2019-2020 executive budget stands in contrast to the funding model of the Clean Water Infrastructure Act of 2017, which included a 5-year funding commitment of $2.5 billion in that year’s budget. Multi-year funding commitments provide certainty to communities undertaking planning for new projects, which can often take years to complete.

New York State’s water infrastructure is crumbling. With at least $80 billion needed over the next 20 years for drinking and wastewater infrastructure improvements and replacements, it is imperative that Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature earmark at least $1 billion annually to enable communities to fix their pipes.

-Environmental Advocates of New York

“Tompkins Financial evacuated, searched after bomb threat” UGG this is terrible. And I’m starting to realize how much PTSD many of us have around things like this ( or for some numbness?)with all the mass shootings that happen and other tragedies such as this. There are many many people I care about that work in this building and it is one of the worst feelings to have the bottom drop out on your stomach hearing news like this.

-Jenny Miller via Facebook

The Taxman Cometh

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r It’s hard not to feel the magic in the air this time of year. It’s Income Tax Season!

Those of us with incomes are filing our federal and state returns, but this year, of course, there’s a new and ugly twist: the Ithaca Individual Income Tax Return (form WD-40) It was only a matter of time.` Form

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are partying on the weekend’s especially, [and] are seemingly blindly loyal to them at this point.”

More often than not, cab companies are seeking plenty of ways to remain competitive with not just Uber and Lyft but with their other cab company competitors in the region. For Kriegstein, this entails looking into some new angles to hopefully recapture some of the student business, which Ithaca is in an abundance of. One thing that would aid him in this quest is surge pricing-or so he thought.

“What’s been interesting is that Uber, they’ll have surge pricing all the time, which frequently makes their fares more expensive than ours,: Kriegstein said. “I was expecting a pretty strong reflexive response from students who would start using us when their prices would surge.

But, to my surprise, it seems like they’re sticking with them, even when they jack up prices on a lot of trips. We have an app that functions just like Uber and Lyft’s apps, in terms of the customer experience is similar.”

In terms of recapturing student busi-

living. Drivers are getting paid the same if not more and I’ve been investing more in maintenance and branding. It’s pretty unfortunate. It’s a battle of attrition and Uber has been deflating their rates. The hope is that over time their rates will likely increase because they’ll have to retain drivers. At which point, our crisis will move in harmony. And then, over time we can make back some of the losses by normalizing our pricing.”

Since Ithaca and Cortland don’t use medallions, like New York City, they are not part of the many cab drivers who are seeing its value plummet. Once valued at over $1 million, the price of a medallion has dropped to less than $200,000 according to research done by CB Insights. The peak of the medallion’s value came around 2013, two years after Uber went live in NYC. Kriegstein has found that the playing field has only gotten rockier for cab companies. Uber and Lyft, he said, are somewhat like monopolies in terms of how they share their workforce with other cab companies.

“Their business model where they incur none of the insurance fees, they’re unregulated so they can charge what they want

An Uber/Lyft driver dropping of students at the State Theatre (Photo: Casey Martin)

ness, Kriegstein plans on running a special for Ithaca College students. Since, according to Kriegstein, their fares have been historically higher than those of Cornell students, he plans on setting prices at a similar rate. While students have realized a price savings with Uber and Lyft, this may come to include Collegetown Cab. He also said that the experience of using Uber, Lyft, or Collegetown Cab can be similar, with wait times a defining factor.

However, despite looking toward a hopeful future, Kriegstein acknowledged some cost-cutting measure have had to be made, while at the same time, he is banking on some changes for Uber.

“It’s all just coming out of the bottom line of the business,” Kriegstein said.

“Basically, the cost-cutting measure is my

so they don’t have to get cabs licensed and most importantly, someone like me, even though I have an app, I can’t hire an Uber or Lyft driver to do runs for me,” Kriegstein said. “Say we are super busy one day and we don’t have enough drivers. The same way an Uber driver can toggle between Uber and Lyft, they can’t start doing runs for Collegetown Cab, using our app unless we pay [a] $100,000 fee and then $60,000 every year after. Essentially, they set up a price monopoly. Little operators like me can’t even attempt to compete with their workforce. In a business where your workforce is arguably the most important thing, they set up a monopoly on this pool of drivers in the state.

-E dw i n J. Vi er a

FIGHT CAMP Contin u ed From Page 4

Fight Camp is a six-week program that meets every Tuesday and Thursday at the Black Irish gym on Cherry Street. This is their fifth time holding the camp, attracting a variety of wannabe-fighters from different age ranges and demographics. By combining some basic boxing drills with conditioning work, Fight Camp offers an introductory lesson to those who’ve always wanted to learn how to throw a good punch.

“You're going to get a great workout, but we're interested more in you learning the correct fundamental ways to throw a jab, right hand, uppercut,” Black Irish Boxing owner Patrick O’Connor said of the camp.

O’Connor has spent almost 30 years boxing and training other fighters.

He got his start in contact sports with wrestling as a kid, eventually moving to karate and then boxing. Black Irish Boxing is the second gym he’s owned in Ithaca, calling it an “extension” of his previous gym, Performance Fitness, which was open from 2004-2013.

Previously, O’Connor has trained twotime UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones and middleweight boxer Willie Monroe Jr. “I didn't have any experience with MMA fighters until I met Jon,” O’Connor said, noting that he met Jones when he was just 19. “I stayed in my own lane, I just do the boxing part. The hands—I didn't touch on any of the kicking or anything like that, because the fight always starts out on your feet.”

Crouch, 31, has been boxing ever since he was a kid. Currently an Ithaca College student in the Exercise and Sports Science master’s program, he teaches boxing classes at Ithaca College’s Wellness Clinic in addition to the work he does at Black Irish Boxing. He’s been training with O’Connor since moving to Ithaca from Australia in the fall of 2017.

“I started training with Pat pretty much the day I got here when I wasn't jet lagged,” Crouch said. “We hit it off, which is good because it's hard to mesh with a coach. I feel like it's a really unique role in that you really need to respect them but also everything kind of has to fit together.”

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private lessons O’Connor teaches during the day. Crouch said that they’ve seen all different ages, professions and skill levels come through their camp, with some of the biggest sessions hosting 18 students.

Nick Kowalczyk is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College and heard about the camp after taking boxing lessons at the Wellness Clinic with Crouch.

“I had a heavy bag when I was a teenager that I kept at my aunt's house that I would work out on,” Kowalczyk said. “But I thought George was an awesome teacher and just really great with instruction.”

He said after joining Fight Camp, he’s now boxing four times a week.

“It's the least intimidating way to learn about boxing,” he said.

Liam Cooper, a student at Ithaca High School, has been boxing for about two years now and said he joined the camp because it was more cost-effective than the lessons he was already taking with O’Connor.

“I've never really been a big fan of the school sports […] it wasn't really my thing,” Cooper said. “And when I heard about this, I thought it'd be really cool to try it, and I loved it.”

“There's a lot of variability between gyms and between coaching, so we don't try to mold anyone in a specific way,” Crouch said. “But we definitely practice like a few basic things […] so, if they do pursue it, they're going to be able to protect themselves a little bit.”

In addition to the personal training session with O’Connor, Black Irish Boxing also offers a summer boxing camp for kids. The Elevate Camp is geared toward ages 6 to 11, meeting twice a week starting in July. O’Connor said he’s had students of all ages come to learn with him, and he prides himself on his “old school” method of training.

“I start from scratch. I treat it like an art,” O’Connor said. “Once you get one good one, they all want to train with you. They figure you know a secret, but there is no secret. Everybody knows the same stuff—it's just a matter of getting to your fighter's heart […]

Talent is talent, no matter who trains them.”

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State legislators mulling new vaccination laws that would impact Ithaca more than most

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By M att Bu tler evon Buckley appeared, tearful and voice intermittently shaking, before the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) Board of Education (BOE) at its regular Tuesday meeting on Oct. 24, 2017. She addressed the assembled public for six minutes, along with the school board, appealing on behalf of her son and her beliefs.

“I think people don’t understand what my religion is, and that’s possibly why I’ve been judged how I’ve been judged,” Buckley said. “In my interpretation of my religion, there are several reasons that I can’t agree with our country’s current vaccina8 T

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tion schedule and the science behind it.

But mostly because it taints what I believe is our pure bodies and our pure bloods, which is the home for our spirits and our soul which are only incarnated as young children.”

It’s not uncommon for BOE meetings to include these types of emotional pleas, as there aren’t many topics more emotionally charged for a parent than their child, and there weren’t many times more emotional than the first few months of the 2017-2018 school year. That was the first year after ICSD implemented its new policies regarding religious exemption application reviews.

Buckley’s son, Thane, who is unvaccinated, had been rejected and removed

from Boynton Middle School as part of ICSD’s tightening scrutiny of religious exemptions. Yet many other students, likely close to 200, between ICSD schools and area private schools retain religious exemptions. Buckley has previously shared her story with Tompkins Weekly and Politico.

Buckley’s oldest son was vaccinated when he was younger, but her views on the matter subsequently changed and she has thus far resisted vaccinating either of her younger children. They both now attend Ithaca Waldorf School, which is technically not part of ICSD. Waldorf is a private school that costs $10,950 per year, and while Director Emily Butler said that distributing financial aid is a priority, Buckley said it’s still difficult to sustain on her work-from-home salary. After her exemption application was rejected, Buckley then made her plea at the aforementioned meeting, but was told that her views (Buckley ascribes to spiritual science, a religion that preaches emphasis on the present and the science-religion combination) were “philosophical and moral in nature,” as opposed to religious.

Buckley said she felt alienated and vilified. In her mind, it forced her to choose what she truly feels is best for her child, regardless of the consensus of society, the medical community and more, and keeping Thane in school but at a burdensome cost.

“It felt like straight-up discrimination,” Buckley said. “I feel like I would have to carry guilt for allowing something to happen to him that would hurt him, when my belief system is outside of that. It’s like going against my beliefs to do what society thinks is right and not what I think is right.”

Buckley was one of several parents who spoke that night and over the coming months at various BOE meetings, some of them with children directly impacted and some not, about their claim to religious freedom to not vaccinate their children. Unmoved, the school district has remained steadfast in trying to reduce the number of unvaccinated kids in their schools, arguing (with the scientific and medical community providing vocal and frequent evidence) that the safety of other children, primarily those who are medically unable to be vaccinated, outweighs the myriad concerns that the anti-vaccination community holds.

But now, New York State could take its most drastic step on the issue to date, as its legislative bodies mull a bill that would

L o c a l At t o r n e y S u j ata G i b s o n end religious exemptions in all New York of the state Senate and assembly, with State schools, public or private. Such a law some dubious of its ability to pass and the would force students whose parents don’t overall appetite for a full religious exempbelieve in vaccinations to either forsake tion repeal. Versions of the same law were their formal schooling in favor of homepreviously introduced in 2015 and 2017 schooling or move out of state to seek as well, and were defeated by the theneducation.

Republican-controlled government both The bill is concise, and seeks to achieve times. only one thing: repealing Subdivision 9 ICSD and nearby districts aren’t entireof Section 2164 of the public health law, ly unfamiliar with vaccine-preventable dis“relating to exemption from vaccination eases, as at least four reported cases of perdue to religious beliefs,” otherwise known tussis, better known as whooping cough, as the religious exemption, the mechanism were discovered in students in Cayuga by which families can obtain a waiver to Heights Elementary School, LACS, Ithaca bypass vaccinations for their child that are otherwise mandatory, unless the child has a medical condition that results in an exemption. It’s also not without precedent, as California repealed the religious exemption in 2015.

The legislative process is just beginning, as the bill was introduced one month ago and is currently under consideration at the E l l e n M a ry Wo o d s o f It h ac a i s I m m u n i z e d committee level

High School and Newfield Central School in November 2017 (three of those four schools do qualify for “herd immunity,” or 95 percent immunization rate or higher).

Cases like these, and incidents like the ongoing measles outbreak in New York State, fuel the arguments of pro-vaccination activists like Ellen Mary Woods, who co-runs the Ithaca is Immunized community group. Her primary goal, she said, is to protect Tompkins County from measles.

She, like most of the country according to a 2017 Pew Research Center study, said vaccinations, at least the common MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine, should be a requirement for school entry as long as the child is not medically unfit to handle them.

“We have several schools that are not able to offer students safety from this disease, which is surging globally,” Woods said. “We have to ask ‘How can we make Ithaca schools safe?’”

There are certainly schools with immunization rates that stick out from the rest in Ithaca, even if they don’t technically fall under the umbrella of ICSD, which has an overall immunization rate above 95 percent. Judging by publicly available immunization rates for the 2017-2018 school year, Ithaca Waldorf School (61.9% completely immunized, 30.2% religious exemptions), New Roots Charter School (79.9%, 18.1%), the Lehman Alternative Community School (85%, 13.6%) and Fall Creek Elementary (93%, 6.61%) all have immunization rates that fall below 95 percent, which is considered the threshold for “herd immunization.” Students with religious exemptions could suddenly find themselves faced with the prospect of either leaving school early or, presumably if their parents are willing, foregoing their family’s beliefs and accepting the mandatory vaccinations.

There could also be movement from the federal government on the issue. In late February, the recently resigned Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, condemned states for their “lax laws” around vaccinations, and went so far as to say that it may “force the hand of the federal health agencies” if certain states do not begin handling vaccinations differently and indicated that he thinks states allow too many exemptions.

Gottlieb did not specify further.

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NFL Dreams

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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t was with a considerable measure of pride that Jeff Grover wore his Cleveland Browns jacket to our brunch with Bill Bryant on Sunday. After all, it was 40 years ago in January when Bryant showed up as a young gym and driver’s ed teacher at Spencer-Van Etten (S-VE), and Grover, a 12 year-old junior high school waterboy for the Panthers’ football team, knew the young coach was something special. But he didn’t yet know the overall impact Bryant would have on the rest of his life.

At the brunch meet-up, I reminded Jeff that my own admiration for Bryant went back not 50 years. I was in junior high in Owego in the late 1960s and early 70’s, when the Channel 12 evening sports highlights featured the Bryant brothers on a regular basis. Tom Bryant gave opposing defenses nightmares, and the running back was good enough to play on the Penn State freshman team with the likes of Franco Harris and Lydell Mitchell before transferring to Ithaca College. Bill would join Tom at IC, where he would be an All-American wide receiver and ultimately sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bill and I worked together at the Tioga County Boys Club while he was chasing his NFL dream, and I would throw him passes during lunch breaks. I was a high school pitcher, and I could put some heat on the ball, but no matter how off-target I was or how far I threw it, Bryant would get to the ball and Hoover it up. Hell, he ran a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash at Washington’s NFL training camp, so there was little chance of me throwing the ball where he could not get to it.

After his football days were finished, and he had put in a few years as S-VE’s athletic director and football coach, Bill went on to be the athletic director for the Ithaca City School District for 22 years. He was a treasure trove of information for me as a sports journalist, and any time I spoke with Grover, who knew I was friends with Bryant, Jeff would ask how his former coach was doing.

After high school, Jeff gave college a shot, but it wasn’t the right fit for him. He worked at local businesses like Vergason Technologies and Spencer Paving, and it was at the latter that his boss, Barney Smith, lit Grover’s entrepreneurial fire, suggesting he buy the seal-coating portion of the business. Jeff also went on to own and operate Southern Tier Commercial Cleaning, and he and his wife Kim would grow the business to employ two dozen full-time and a dozen seasonal employees.

They worked hard to offer the best possible quality of life for their kids, and when it was apparent that their youngest son, Hayden, was a very skilled long-snapper, they poured money into camps and clinics, traveled tirelessly, resulting in Hayden going to the University of Akron and being a part of the Zips’ football program.

Given Hayden (and several other family members) were living in Ohio, Jeff took a shot at a job that would bring him closer to his dream of being in the NFL. While he never made it as a player, he is now the general manager in charge of facilities at FirstEnergy Stadium, home of the Cleveland Browns. The facility additionally hosts all manner of events, totaling about

complacent,” Grover stated. “We didn’t know how to win. He called us out. He tore into us when we needed it, he put everything into it, and we started to realize that we could too.

He was one of the most intense and competitive motivators I have ever known, and playing football for him changed my life.”

Bryant squirmed in his chair when hearing that statement. He said, “I appreciate that, but Jeff is where he is because he took the Bill Bryant and Jeff Grover, two old friends who’ve core values from pushed each other for 40 years. (Photo provided) football—work ethic, dedication, determination, 200 days per year. team work—and he I asked Grover to share some thoughts took those high standards into his career. on his journey from living in a doubleAs a player, he wore every game on wide in North Spencer, working as a his sleeve. He took it personally, like I did, substitute teacher to make ends meet, to and as a coach, you hope you can deliver being in charge of 200-plus people at an those values to your players.”

NFL game and he said, “Well, I’m still just As for taking his professional game to a kid from Van-Etten, and I owe a lot to that next level, Jeff (who is entering his Coach Bryant. He and my dad were the fourth year) said, “I was hired for three two biggest influences in my life.” reasons: I understand the science of cleanIt wasn’t until his sophomore year in ing, I can manage a profit-and-loss sheet high school that a neighbor prodded Jeff and I can motivate people.” to play football.

Jeff added that he’s been told his pas“I was a water boy,” Jeff said. “And Jerry sion is what got him the job.

Eddy said, ‘You’re a big kid. You should Kim Grover (who works at Cleveland’s play football.’”

University Hospital) added, “This has been Grover started hitting the weight room, a great experience for us. It’s nice to see and he saw that Bryant was at least as and learn about and relate to so many difhungry as his players to take the program ferent people and cultures, but it’s also nice to the next level. to come home.” • “We were a bunch of guys who were

Personal Health

Runners should be lifting heavy weights

By Ja son Tu or i

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unning is one of the oldest and most widely-practiced sports in the world for unsurprising reasons: we don’t need teammates, a facility, or rules. It’s debatable whether someone even needs equipment. Yet each year, as many as 70 percent of runners may suffer an injury.

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Given the sport’s popularity and propensity for injury (ask any runner about their aches and settle in for a while), it’s shocking how little people have utilized science to optimize our performance and stay healthy. The amount of pseudoscience and “this worked for me so it must work for everyone” mindset that has infiltrated the sport is downright silly. As a physical therapist, I rely on evidence-based practice to help determine what’s most effective in optimizing health. For runners, that would be adding heavy strength training to their regular routine.

As of 2018, hundreds of studies have been conducted on the effects of strength training in runners of all abilities. As the body of evidence grows, it’s become increasingly clear that strength training does at least two things very effectively: it improves the efficiency of running and increases the body’s tolerance to loading muscles.

In order to understand why this is important, consider the basic biomechanics of running. Each stride is a hop from limb to limb assisted by forward momentum, which requires speed, control, and muscle strength to absorb impact and generate energy. If we lack any of these components, we sacrifice efficiency, or “running economy,” the energy cost of running at a given speed. To put the significance of running economy in perspective, let’s say the average male distance runner has a stride length of 74 inches. That means in just one mile, this runner will take 1,712 steps. Given that the 5k (3.1 miles) is the most common race distance worldwide, an inefficient stride may be repeated over 5,000 times. That’s a lot of energy left on the table. Even a tiny improvement in running efficiency goes a long way.

The amount of force that the muscles, joints, and other soft tissue structures in the lower body absorb during running is significant, especially in the knee, ankle, and foot. This force can be separated into three categories during running; cumulative load, peak load, and rate of loading.

Basically, how long, how much, and how fast we load our tissues all matters in different ways. We can achieve similar levels of overall load from a high frequency-low intensity stimulus and a low frequencyhigh intensity stimulus (jogging for an hour versus playing basketball for 20 minutes, for example). Ultimately, if we load our tissues adequately and progressively, we adapt in a positive way. If we do too much too soon (looking at you, weekend warriors), our body doesn’t have the chance to adapt, and we risk overtraining injuries. At its fundamentals, running is a matter of tissue load capacity.

So what does all of this physics stuff have to do with strength training? Well, most running-related injuries go back to the principle of tissue capacity. If the load on our body exceeds its capacity, we get injured. After injury, our load capacity decreases; the 3.1-mile run that used to be easy causes pain (whether or not we even have true tissue “damage”).

We now have two courses of action.

Number one: we can modify our training to accommodate our new load capacity.

This means either running less or not running at all. This is the least fun course of action. Number two: we can improve our load capacity. Even if a runner dislikes strength training, it’s worth it to allow them to continue their regular running.

If staying healthy isn’t a good enough reason for a runner to lift weights, the benefits extend to enhanced performance.

In a 2018 review of the highest quality strength training studies, runners saw improvements in race times, sprint speed, and running economy. While the mechanism isn’t fully understood yet, it’s likely that strength training improves our neural drive (brain-to-muscle connection), leading to improved running economy. As we train, each stride in the gait cycle costs less energy, letting us run faster, for longer.

Where does a runner begin when they want to start strength training? We know based on research that experienced runners can benefit from heavy strength training, specifically in the lower body. If someone has never lifted a weight before, heavy lifting is not recommended as the first step. Before we can develop moving heavy loads quickly, we have to do it slowly. Before we can move heavy loads slowly, we have to establish a baseline of good control, which means starting with a slightly higher repetition range and focusing on movement quality with less weight.

Each individual will be starting at a different point based on a number of factors, but the end goal should be the same for all: heavy resistance training to improve load capacity.

The single most common misconception about heavy strength training in endurance athletes is that they will gain mass and lose efficiency. Luckily, nearly every research study on the topic measures body mass index (BMI) changes pre- to post-study. To date, there’s overwhelming evidence that body composition doesn’t change following several months of strength training with regular running.

Time is another barrier that often stands between runners and weights, but lifting doesn’t need to be a big commitment. Large effects are seen with a twiceper-week program, with improvements starting as early as six weeks. It doesn’t have to be three hours in the gym; hit the key running muscle groups (quadriceps and calves if nothing else), and you’ll set yourself up for success. Every runner, from recreational to competitive, can benefit from strength training. It is the single most effective running-adjunct activity to improve efficiency and reduce the risk of injury. Even if you don’t race or care about your time, injury risk management should be considered important, as it keeps you participating fully. You don’t have to like it, but if you love to run, pick up the heavy weights.

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Laurent’s work and publications and family life, St. Laurent somehow manages to be one of the mainstays at the VCA. Over the years, St. Laurent has enjoyed watching food bring neighbors together. The Thanksgiving meal depends heavily on former neighbor Dawn Potter and family. Two hundred and eighty people attended the sumptuous meal at no charge, thanks to generous donors and hard-working volunteers. (Dawn also makes divine vegetarian lasagna, which VCA sells frozen after community dinners.)

Matt Perry created and continues to offer his sell-out ribs dinners. As head cook at the monthly pancake breakfasts, he specializes in homemade whipped creams and other special touches to thrill the breakfasters. Jan Morgan puts out a colorful VCA Newsletter, which highlights the monthly pancake breakfasts.

The next pancake breakfast will be held March 10, beginning at 8 a.m.

The kitchen that makes this possible will be upgraded soon, thanks to a Women’s Building arts cover Community grant from the City Federation of Women's Organizations.

The VCA more subtly serves as a center where community grievances and concerns can be discussed and, potentially, addressed.

Laurie Snyder, also deeply involved with VCA, is leading the charge to keep Varna’s historic made-in-Groton-one-lane bridge on Freese VCA serves many roles under Simon St. Laurent Road. Keeping a neighborhood’s character

By Mar jor ie O l d s intact while people just want to quickly drive through is a challenge. Having a community rowing up in Corning, New York, (2012-present). center facilitates networking and strength in Simon St. Laurent’s parents porSince then, his days have been even more numbers on key issues facing neighbors. trayed how important it is to serve colorful, helter-skelter, productive and fun: “Varna also faces a challenge that could the community. His mother served on the With home-schooling of the kids (including roughly double its population: Trinitas’ 550school board while his father assisted an arts Primitive Pursuits attendance every week), St. bed project is designed for student housing,” council, in addition to careers and famSt. Laurent said. “Longtime community ily life. members appreciate their proximity to St. Laurent sampled life after Cornell and TC3, but if there is more congraduating from Swarthmore College, struction approved, they want it to provide working his way (computer consulting affordable housing so more people can put jobs and publishing) through New York down roots in Varna.”

City, Connecticut and North Carolina Popular after-school care for 30 kids before arriving in Ithaca in 1992. Along transforms the center with lively kids, colthe way, St. Laurent began creating orful educational programs and toys. Any books about computer topics (Dynamic time you come to any activity at VCA you HTML, Elixir, Rails, XML), and his will find kids very much at home lounging many subsequent publications remain in their special places reading books and available on Amazon. playing games.

St. Laurent’s talent has enabled him In 2017, the VCA started GeoWhiz. to work from his home since 1998, Local teams of all ages and backgrounds when he bought a house in Varna, compete to answer geography and geology where he lives with his wife Angelika questions about the region, the state, and and their two children (Sungiva, 10, the world. St. Laurent, Morgan, Jim Skaley and Konrad, 8), one dog and four cats and Snyder make it happen. Everyone (all from the SPCA, except the kids). wins, and the money raised goes to the Living down the road from the VCA. vibrant and folksy Varna Community Pancakes, French toast, waffles (with Association (VCA), St. Laurent was Perry’s homemade whipped cream and first pressed into service as a member butter, syrup), scrambled eggs (Dave of the VCA Nominating Committee to Weinstein), fresh fruit, bacon, sausage help find community members to serve and ham, coffee, tea, milk will be served on the VCA Board. Since he was alat the March 10 breakfast, as they are ready volunteering then as chair of the every month. Sisters Sue and Kim SimDryden Democratic Committee (which mons follow in their beloved mother’s he left eventually to join the Green tradition of organizing and pitching in at Party, in which he serves as treasurer), every breakfast, as well as most other VCA plus serving as trustee with the Dryden events. Adults pay $8, with discounts for TOP: IC students’ MLK Day of Service photos by Amy Albright; Historical Society, he knew he was too seniors and kids under 12. Children under MIDDLE: GeoWhiz (geography quiz) winners Nov. 2018 - team busy to serve on the VCA Board. But five dine for free. Art Berkey, well-known name ‘Map Hobos’ photo by Laurie Snyder; BOTTOM: VASP somehow, when the VCA Nominatand well-loved community member, will (Varna After School Program) activities photos by Amy Albright ing Committee convened in 2012, St. punch your VCA frequent-flyer club Laurent emerged not only as a VCA card; and every fifth punch means a free Board member, but also as treasurer breakfast.

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Bowl & Dine at Atlas

By He nr y Stark

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hen my editor, who has a healthy sense of humor, asked if I would review Atlas Bowl, a bowling alley restaurant in Trumansburg, my initial thought was that he was joking. Yeah, right, I’ll be happy to check out their selection of craft beers.

Boy, was I wrong.

I discovered that Atlas Bowl, right in the center of town, is a multi-unit complex including a seven-lane bowling alley, large bar and an adjacent dining area.

The range of menu selections is more than adequate, and frankly, I was quite surprised how good the food is. And I mean all the food.

On a recent visit, I shared a small plate of “totchos” with two friends. The tater tots were covered with green onions, mild jalapenos, bacon bits and a cheddar cheese and sour cream sauce. There were plenty of tots to go around and we all enjoyed the slightly crunchy exterior covering the tasty mix of potatoes and herbs as well as the copious portion of green onions, which covered the top of the dish.

I like to try a burger, if available, at all the restaurants I review because I

know they’re popular with readers and it also gives me a clue how the rest of the meals are prepared. The Atlas Burger was ordered rare and received rare. It was covered with lettuce, two small tomato slices (it’s winter after all), cheddar cheese and some tasty fried onions. I would have enjoyed it more had the roll been toasted or grilled, but I really did enjoy the dish and wouldn’t hesitate to order it again.

Another tasty large plate is the pan roasted salmon. It arrived with potato wedges, shaved Brussels sprouts and a lemon-caper butter sauce. With lemon and capers, the sauce could have been overpowering, but the ingredients were in perfect proportion and the dish was wonderful.

The grilled shrimp included six small shrimp on two skewers, which were served over parmesan polenta mixed with pureed beans and greens. Again, the sauce included ingredients that were well-matched and tasty without overpowering each other.

One evening, I ordered dessert and loved the berry oat crumble, which was a combination of blueberries and raspberries mixed with oats and a generous scoop

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of Purity vanilla ice cream.

I wouldn’t recommend Atlas Bowl for wine, but I don’t associate bowling with wine anyway. They only have two red wines by the bottle and a half dozen whites. The beer selection, however, is fine.

There are draft beers, craft beers and the usual assortment of bottled beers.

The epitome of a family restaurant, Atlas’ prices are quite reasonable. Small plates range from $7-12, large plates cost between $14-22, and there are four salads, two of which are offered in small or large portions, that are $6-15.

Tidbits: Table 21 is the most quiet, however you can still hear the thundering of bowling

balls rolling down the wood lanes and the subsequent scattering of the pins. And, often, you’ll hear the excited screams and squeals of young bowlers who, presumably, have just delivered a strike or a spare.

Parking is easy and plentiful in their own, dedicated lot.

So, now I’m thinking: maybe my editor doesn’t have such a great sense of humor after all. Turns out he assigned me a most respectable dining location. Would I drive from Ithaca just to eat there? I wouldn’t, and that is only because of the noise and my old age. Would I frequent Atlas Bowl for dinner if I already lived in the neighborhood? Yes, indeed!

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Past the Surface

Uniit Carruyo’s latest exhibit deserves a long look

By Ar thur W hit m an

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hough little heralded as such, the Kitchen Theatre’s lobby space (formally the Judith Holliday Lobby Gallery) is among Ithaca’s most inviting public settings for seeing paintings. Stylish, open, and well-lit, it generally features forceful, exuberant abstraction.

Past shows have featured notable local practitioners of the genre as Amy Cheatle, John Lyon Paul, Barbara Mink, Michael Sampson and Lynne Taetzsch. It represents a welcome cross-pollination in a town where arts audiences can appear unduly segregated.

Through March, the Kitchen will be showing three large acrylic and mixedmedia canvases by the multi-talented Uniit Carruyo. A singer-songwriter known for her work with Ithaca’s popular Sim Redmond Band, Carruyo is also a seasoned early childhood educator. She began painting in 2011 at the Parsons School of Design in New York City while studying for an arts education degree. She has taken up the art with increasing seriousness in the last few years, notably with an exhibit

Uniit Carruyo’s piece, “Heartbeats,” is part of an exhibit showing in the Kitchen Theatre lobby. (Photo online)

of “Harmonic Seascapes” held a year ago at the CAP ArtSpace.

There’s a lot to see in Carruyo’s “scapes” here: rich, sonorous colors and fluid forms cut with material grit. Echoing the Abstract Expressionist painters of the

mid-20th century, her bold and enclouded acrylic and watercolor hues are given texture and additional weight by such foreign matter as glass powder, molding paste, and asphalt.

Her portrait-format piece “Plink” is aptly synesthetic in intention, conjuring an immersive soundscape one could almost hear and feel. The background is filled with a rich magenta dusted in pale orange with small patches of red, yellow-brown and luminous purple. Arrayed left-ofcenter in a roughly triangular grouping, four cyan and purple-blue color loops punctuate the morass in crisply resounding echoes.

Carruyo’s canvases here all feature the same size and scale; her remaining two invert the orientation of “Plink” (48” x 60”) for a more landscape-like format.

“Heartbeats” has a composition related to the first piece. Indeed, it’s almost as if we’re zooming in on two of the loops— here transmogrified into solid, lumpy circles in salmon pink haloed in thin magenta and yellow-orange. They seem to tumble down from the upper left, with the first just down from the corner and the second presently occupying the center.

Sketchy lines of black ink or paint and accidental looking black patches elsewhere give the piece the look of a blown up drawing. Lemon yellow suffuses the entire background with light gray overpainting covering up the bottom and the right. It’s a messier, more dynamic work than “Plink,” which seems crystalline in comparison.

“Seascape VII,” which was exhibited

previously at CAP, exchanges some of the grittiness of the other two pieces for an unabashed sweetness and light. It’s a measure of Carruyo’s talent that she pulls this off so well and without lapsing into mere prettiness.

There’s a greater infusion here of “figure” and “ground.” Outlined in olive green and faint magenta, a DNA-like form projects outward from the left edge. (Sandy texture further emphasizes these borders.)

The central, leaf-like shape is filled in with a bold Indian yellow but fades out further right, bursting its borders and dissolving its colors into surrounding sea. A large red patch dominates the middle of the right edge. Elsewhere the waters are dominated by a hazy pale purple accented softly in a veritable rainbow of color patches.

Intentionally or not, Carruyo’s paintings echo such painterly precedents as the luminous color fields of Mark Rothko, the agitated graffiti of Cy Twombly, the abstract “impressionism” of middle period Philip Guston—even a daytime alter ego to James Whistler’s tonalist “Nocturnes” from an earlier era. Given the artist’s talents and her acknowledged evocations of synesthesia and bodily sensation, it would also be interesting to see her painting in the context of music or abstract sound.

Her three canvases here are (literally and figuratively) weighty and reward ample observation. Still, it would have been beneficial to fill out the space here with a few additional pieces, perhaps smaller ones such as her monoprints. Nonetheless, this is a wonderful little showing.

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Gibson has become the primary legal resource for parents looking to navigate the religious exemption panels in ICSD. She’s attended five of the hearings, and listened to more on tape, and said at times they can seem like hostile cross-interrogations instead of the normal education system-parent dynamic. As she

mentions, there appear to be two counter efforts moving simultaneously in the United States: while states like New York are mulling tightening exemption criteria, states like Arizona are making it easier to receive an exemption.

Prior to 2017, religious exemption applications would be written and submitted, and would routinely (though not always) be accepted. But in 2017, things changed, with the district deciding to establish a new procedure for assessing religious exemption applications that included a three-person panel for review; if that panel rejects an application, the

decision must be appealed with the state’s commissioner of education. ICSD did not respond to questions in time for the publication of this article, including how many religious exemption applications they receive and what the rate of acceptance is.

While Gibson, who calls the exemption review panels “heretic tribunals,” said this method boils down to school officials interrogating parents on their personal beliefs and exists on flimsy legal ground.

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She likens it to sitting with a person who follows kosher dietary rules and asking them to explain why they follow that and how it makes sense. “‘Why? What’s the reason?’ And if you can’t justify the reason and explain it so that they understand it, they’ll say that you’re insincere. And that’s not appropriate, obviously.”

ICSD BOE President Rob Ainslie said the district felt they didn’t have much choice, particularly after some of the low immunization rates in the district’s schools began attracting attention from the state. Though parents may throw vitriol the board’s way, he said the onus is on those parents to make sure their child isn’t a danger to other children in school.

“We received notice from the state that we had several school populations that were well below the vaccination percentage necessary to maintain herd immunity,” Ainslie wrote in an email. “State law is pretty clear that we need to be at 95 percent and if not corrective action must be taken. We were put on notice by the State of NY that 77 percent doesn’t cut it. Rubber stamping exceptions is a clear path to outbreaks and putting other kids at risk.”

Currently, the state’s religious exemption statute maintains that immunization requirements “shall not apply to children whose parent [...] hold genuine and sincere beliefs which are contrary to the practices herein required, [...] no certificate shall be required as a prerequisite to such children being admitted or received into school or attending school.”

Of course, repealing the exemption has its proponents, and the bill can count the school district’s BOE as one of them.

The relative vagueness of the law, which doesn’t define or lay out criteria for “sincere and genuine beliefs,” puts the school district in the unenviable and arguably inappropriate position of having to judge whether people believe what they say they believe or not. As a result, the parents likely feel violated by the process, even if their exemption request is accepted and invalidated if it isn’t. Worst of all, the child is inevitably stuck in limbo between the two.

“We dealt with this quite a bit over the last couple of years, and it puts the district in a difficult position,” Ainslie said. “We have an obligation to ensure that we have over 95 percent of the kids immunized.

Herd immunization is critical [...] We are more than happy to have the state of New York follow California and just eliminate the religious exemption.”

But if the school district has so little interest in deciding which beliefs are “sincere and genuine” and which ones aren’t, why not just wash their hands of the decision and accept all, within reason? This is the position of vaccination skeptics like Buckley or statewide activist Rita Palma.

The district, they say, should be more willing to accept the word of parents of unvaccinated children instead of unnecessarily prying into their personal beliefs by way of the “heretic tribunals.” Anything beyond that is invasive, Palma said, using more colorful language. But Ainslie reiterated the “difficult position” in which the district finds itself, particularly when he said maintaining herd immunity is a priority, both of the district and the state.

Emily Butler, Ithaca Waldorf School’s director (and of no relation to this reporter), said the school of 92 students currently sits at just above 75 percent for the 2018-19 school year. Butler said that although the school is private and follows the Waldorf methodology, it is required to meet the same criteria as other schools in New York State.

Waldorf does have a policy in place to help mitigate risk in the event of an outbreak, something parents are required to sign if their child is unvaccinated. Butler said it mandates that if a student is unvaccinated for a disease and an outbreak is found in the district, they are required to stay home for the “entire incubation period.” (For instance, the incubation period for measles is 21 days and restarts with each new detected case).

But even Butler, the leader of the school with the lowest immunization rate in the area, said she’s skeptical of the effectiveness and appropriateness of state intervention in the issue in such a broad, sweeping manner.

“It’s tricky, I really think it’s a very delicate situation for a school to get into a position to determine someone’s sincerity, and the genuineness of someone’s religious beliefs,” Butler said. “And then to take that entirely away and say that Albany knows better? That’s even trickier.”

Justine Gibbs, a nurse who splits her time between Belle Sherman and Ithaca Waldorf, said the examples of lower immunization rates throughout the district is understandable considering the Ithaca community as a whole.

“It’s a topic in all of the schools district-wide,” Gibbs said, adding that she and the Waldorf administration provide all the information they can about the school and immunizations to potential

and current parents of students. “Ithaca as a general rule has its own community feel, and its own sense of self-governing holistic care, which you can see in the kinds of doctors we have here and the fact that we have high homeopathic practitioner rate here. When those are family values, that’s going to be reflected in our students.”

It seems inevitable that if the exemption is indeed repealed, it would set the stage for a lengthy fight that would have lasting impacts for places like Ithaca, regardless of whether vaccination-skeptic parents choose to fight or relent. Leaving medical exemptions as the only path

around immunization if parents want their child educated in the school system, it seems inevitable that ICSD would lose students, either to home-schooling or families with the resources to move and looking to relocate, which Gibson said she’s already heard. Some schools could stand to lose a significant amount of their population, like Ithaca Waldorf, New Roots and Lehman Alternative Community School, specifically.

Plus, as Gibson notes, this could disproportionately impact families with less resources, who might not be able to move and, particularly if it’s a single-parent

household, would struggle to homeschool while simultaneously holding down a job.

She, along with Buckley, maintain that class divisions already exist in the process now, and more regulations would likely make them worse, or lead to an influx of possibly questionable medical exemptions.

“I would think that some people would relent, particularly people with less resources,” Gibson said. “People who have privilege and power would be able to move or find a doctor that would give them their exemption.”

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The Red Hot Chilli Pipers | 8:00 PM, 3/7 Thursday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Bagpipes with attitude. Drums with a Scottish accent. A nine-piece ensemble consisting of pipers, guitarists, keyboards, and drummers.

Symphony Orchestra | 8:15 PM, 3/7 Thursday | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony Op.110a,Octavio Mas-Arocas, conductor, Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-fat Major, Op. 73, Emperor, first movement, High School Piano Competition Winner Celena Ho, Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 From the New World, Kin Szeto, graduate conductor Donna The Buffalo | 8:00 PM, 3/8 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer |

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John Scofield’s Combo 66 | 8:00 PM, 3/8 Friday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Scofield teams up with pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Bill Stewart in Combo 66, a new band that builds upon Scofield’s long legacy of masterful improvisation and stylistic diversity. | $19-$36 Cornell Symphony Orchestra | 3:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Adrian Slywotzky, conductor.

The Fourth Annual Young Personís Concert features Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Cornell Concerto Competition winner, Aditya Deshpande í22, plus Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Instrument Petting Zoo begins at 2pm with a pre-concert talk onstage at 2:30pm.

Granville Automatic | 7:30 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Described as a modern-day Linda Ronstadt. | GA $20 Symphoria Masterworks VI: Schumann’s Rhenish | 7:30 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Principal flautist Xue Su is featured in Lowell Liebermann’s extraordinarily virtuosic Flute Concerto. Strauss’ popular depiction of musical trickster

Till Eulenspiegel begins the program, with Schumann’s powerful Third Symphony featured after intermission. | $88-$20. College $5. 18 & under $0 Christophe Mantoux, organ | 4:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | St. Luke Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Avenue, Ithaca | Christophe Mantoux, organ, performs works by Mendelssohn, BoÎly, Vierne, and Franck. In collaboration with Music at St. Luke.

Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble - All Beethoven | 4:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | Ithaca Unitarian Church, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Featuring Variations in E-flat for Cello and Piano, String Trio in D, and Piano Trio in B-flat “Archduke”. Janet Sung, violin, Roberta Crawford, viola, Stefan Reuss, cello, Michael Salmirs, piano. | 25 general;20 seniors, free all students Joshua Sadinsky, piano recital | 8:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Featuring Debussy’s prelude Les collines d’Anacapri, selections from Ravel’s Miroirs, and composition for the Cornell Chimes. Showcases original field recorded work done within the College Scholar Program.

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Tom Chapin | 7:00 PM, 3/12 Tuesday | SUNY Cortland | Sharing ballads, family music, folk song and some of the musical stories that made Harry Chapin one of the most popular musicians of his time. Chapin accompanies himself on guitar, banjo and autoharp.

In Old Main Brown Auditorium. | $3-$10 GA Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra - Classical Mystery Tour | 7:30 PM, 3/13 Wednesday | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | A tribute to The Beatles. | $20.00 - $45.00 Midday Music for Organ | 12:30 PM, 3/13 Wednesday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Anna Steppler - The English Organ Part II: Elgar’s organ sonata Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Family Concert | 4:00 PM, 3/14 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Locally Grown Dance | 7:30 PM, 3/7 Thursday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Through March 9, 2019. Three dance pieces, unique in concept and execution, explore intersecting themes of love, loss, and found community.

Comedian Bengt Washburn | 7:30 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | Born in Salt Lake City, Bengt presents the world through the eyes of a small town Mormon man gone slightly awry! From growing up in a family of 7 children, to his Mormon Missionary days to marrying an officer in the US Airforce, to living in Germany for 3 years, his musings are clever, philosophical, sophomoric and hilarious!

Rated PG. | $20/$25

Soprano Tony Arnold and pianist G·bor Csalog | 8:00 PM, 3/15 Friday | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Performing The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza, Op. 7, plus songs of American composers Ives, Carter, Copland, and Barber.

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The Town Pants | 8:00 PM, 3/15 Friday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | A Vancouver BC-based band combining aspects of Irish traditional, folk, rock and roots Americana, fusing their signature dual lead vocals from brothers Duane and Dave Keogh to create a unique form of high energy ìWest Coast Celticî that remains in the heart and head long after the music stops. | $20

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

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Punch Brothers | 8:00 PM, 3/14 Thursday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | w/s/g Gabriel Kahane | $30 and up

Lansing High School Musical Theater Club - “Mamma Mia!” | 6:30 PM, 3/6 Wednesday & 3/7 Thursday; 7:00 3/8 Friday & 3/9 Saturday| Lansing Middle School Auditorium, Ridge Road, Lansing |

An Evening with George Winston | 8:00 PM, 3/15 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

Drowning the Stream | 7:30 PM, 3/7 Thursday thru 3/9 Saturday| Cayuga Community College, 197 Franklin St.,

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

Lost Anatomies--an Evening with Paleo-artist John Gurche | 6:30 PM, 3/8 Friday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Included in the evening will be art activities, refreshments, and a book signing. Copies of the new book will be available for sale. | Members: $12, Non-Members: $18óAdvance registration required

Film Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache | 3/6, 7:00 PM | Ithaca Premiere. Pamela B. Green’s energetic film about the pioneer filmmaker is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.

Prototype (in 3D) | 3/7 & 3/8, 7:00 PM| Ithaca Premiere. As the deadliest natural disaster in US history strikes Galveston, Texas, taking between 6,000 and 12,000 lives, a mysterious televisual device projects images of unknown origin.

Working Woman | 3/7, 8:30 PM; 3/10, 7:00 PM | Ithaca Premiere. Life at work becomes unbearable for Orna.

Her boss appreciates and promotes her, while making inappropriate advances. Her husband struggles to keep his new restaurant afloat, and Orna becomes the main breadwinner for their three children.

Shoplifters | 3/8, 8:30PM; 3/9, 9:30 | A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.

Mary Poppins Returns | 3/9, 2:00 PM & 6:45 PM; 3/10, 4:15 PM | Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael’s children through a difficult time in their lives.

Inquiring Nuns | 3/12, 7:00PM | Ithaca Premiere & Digital Restoration.

Two young nuns explore Chicago-from a supermarket to the Art Institute and in front of churches on Sunday--confronting people with the crucial question, “Are you happy?”

LACS KATRINA RELIEF PRESENTS 2ND ANNUAL GREAT GATSBY GALA

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 AT 6:30 PM

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 AT 7:00 P.M.

Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd., Ithaca | Gurche is PRI’s artist-in-residence and a low-key superstar living in our community, having created work used in the blockbuster film Jurassic Park.

Additionally, his illustrations and art have appeared on four National Geographic covers and a US postage stamp and can also be seen in museums across the globe. His latest book, subtitled “The Evolution of the Human Form,” features over 200 drawings and paintings. (photo: provided)

La Tourelle, 1150 Danby Rd., Ithaca | For the past 12 years, LACS has sent a group of students to New Orleans to help rebuild people’s lives and the community after the events of Hurricane Katrina. This event was such a success and so much fun last year that they are throwing this 1920’s themed gala event again! Proceeds go toward the students’ trip. (photo: provided)

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LOST ANATOMIES- - AN EVENING WITH PALEO-ARTIST JOHN GURCHE

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

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

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Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first*.

Birds of Passage (Pįjaros de verano)* | During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture. | 125 mins Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben)* | Laura returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister’s wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open. | 133 mins R Apollo 11* | A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.| 93 mins G They Shall Not Grow Old | A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war. | 99 mins R Greta | A young woman befriends a lonely widow who’s harboring a dark and deadly agenda towards her. |98 mins R The Favourite| In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. |119 mins R The Invisibles (Die Unsichtbaren - Wir wollen leben) (NR) | While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight. |110 mins NR Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 3/6 through Tuesday, 3/12. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first. *

A Madea Family Funeral| A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unsavory family secrets. |109 mins PG-13 Fighting with My Family| A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment. |108 mins PG-13 Cold Pursuit | A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. | 118 mins R Alita: Battle Angel | A deactivated female cyborg is revived, but cannot remember anything of her past life and goes on a quest to find out who she is. | 122 mins PG-13 Isn’t It Romantic | A young woman disenchanted with love mysteriously finds herself trapped inside a romantic comedy. |88 mins PG-13 Happy Death Day 2U | Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. |100 mins PG-13 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | The citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. |106 mins PG What Men Want | A woman is boxed out by the male sports agents in her profession, but gains an unexpected edge over them when she develops the ability to hear men’s thoughts. | 117 mins R The Prodigy | A mother concerned about her young son’s disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him. | R How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn’t the only Night Fury, he must seek “The Hidden World”, a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired

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Bohemian Rhapsody| 134 mins PG-13

Write Now Writer’s Group | 10:00 AM, 3/6 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | For more information on membership or visiting the group, contact author Carol Henry at carolhenry@frontiernet. netor 607-659-7661.

Glass| 129 mins PG-13 The Upside | 125 mins PG-13 A Star Is Born| 136 mins R Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse | 117 mins PG Green Book | 130 mins PG-13

Special Events LACS Katrina Relief Presents 2nd Annual Great Gatsby Gala | 7:00 PM, 3/8 Friday | La Tourelle Resort & Spa, 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Ready to swing? LACS Katrina Relief is throwing their 2nd annual Great Gatsby Gala.

Live jazz, great local snacks, and marvelous company.| $10-$15 No Way to Treat a Child: Living Behind the Wall in Palestine. | 3:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Sociologist Julia Ganson will speak from her experience in the occupied West Bank, 2017-18.

Harlem Globetrotters | 7:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday & 2:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday| The Oncenter, 800 South State St., Syracuse | Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and their Behavior | 7:00 PM, 3/12 Tuesday | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | In this presentation, Marie Read, acclaimed bird photographer, will share stories behind some of her most compelling images of birds going about their lives and a wealth of tips on obtaining your own shots of these elusive creatures.

Maple Fest! | 9:00 AM, 3/17 Sunday| Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Breakfast served until 1PM. Live music and presentations. | $7-$35

You’ve Always Been There for Me: Understanding the Lives of Grandchildren Raised by Grandparents | 4:00 PM, 3/7 Thursday | 160 Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | In a Chats in the Stacks book talk, Rachel E. Dunifon, the interim dean of the College of Human Ecology and a professor of policy analysis and management, will present her new book.

Barry Strauss - Ten Caesars | 5:30 PM, 3/7 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Strauss is a professor of History and Classics at Cornell University, and has authored numerous popular books on history.

Writing Workshop with Zee Zahava, | 2:00 PM, 3/8 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In celebration of International Women’s Day will encourage women and men to write and share stories about the special women in their lives: friends, family members, historical and cultural figuresóeven literary characters.

Book Launch: Ottoman Dress and Design in the West | 1:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A reading with illustrations, followed by Q&A.

Kids Baby Yoga | 10:00 AM, 3/6 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | For children ages 0-2 w/ a parent or grandparent Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 3/6 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Toddler Yoga | 10:45 AM, 3/6 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | For children ages 2-5.

JOHN SCOFIELD’S COMBO 66

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 AT 8:00 PM

Bailey Hall, Cornell | Scofield teams up with pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Bill Stewart in Combo 66, a new band that builds upon Scofield’s long legacy of masterful improvisation and stylistic diversity. (photo: provided)

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Sciencenter Science Together | Sciencenter, 601 1st St. , Ithaca | Tue/ Th @ 10:30AM and Wed/Fri @ 3:00PM. | General admission fees apply Teen Writing Workshops | 4:30 PM, 3/7 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Thursdays through May 2. These workshops are appropriate for people in grades 6-12.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 3/8 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 3/8 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Additional session at 3:30 to 4:00 pm. Caregivers and babies up to 24 months.

Cornell Society of Women Engineers Presents: CUrself as an Engineer! | 9:00 AM, 3/9 Saturday | Cornell University College of Engineering, 343 Campus Road, Ithaca | Come join us for a one-day immersive engineering experience where your students will be able to speak with current undergraduate engineers, participate in hands on engineering activities, tour Cornell engineering labs, and hear from engineering professors. RSVP required. If you have any questions, please email hs695@ cornell.edu.

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 3/9 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills. We meet each Saturday for stories, songs and family fun.

Families Learning Science Together: Simple Circuits | 1:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | An intergenerational, hands-on science program, where families will learn how to make a simple circuit. They will also test materials to determine whether they are electrical conductors or insulators. They will then create their own paper circuit.

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St,

Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more. | General admission fees apply LEGO Building Program | 3:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The Library provides building bricks, and all creations are displayed at the Library for one week.

Cornell Society of Women Engineers present Hands-On STEAM Programs | 2:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | During these fun-filled, informal, drop-in sessions, families can explore games and tools that teach children about robotics, circuitry, engineering, and more.

Maker Mondays for Teens | 4:00 PM, 3/11 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tutorials will be provided for the Makerbot 3D Printer, Epilogue Helix Laser Cutter, and Cricut.

Playtime at Southside Community Center With Finger Lakes Toy Library | 10:00 AM, 3/12 Tuesday | Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St, Ithaca | Parents are welcome to bring their children to play with others and enjoy the toys brought by the Toy Library.

Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 3/12 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 3/12 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 3/12 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children ages 24 months to 4 years, along with their caregivers, meet for early literacy-based stories, songs, finger plays, and much more.

After storytime, there is an hour of play and social time.

CORNELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SATURDAY, MARCH 9 AT 3:00 PM

Bailey Hall, Cornell | This is the 4th Annual Young Person’s Concert with 15th Cornell Concerto competition Student winner, Aditya Deshpande. This is a family-friendly event that will feature a free “Instrument Petting Zoo” sponsored by Hickey’s at 2pm. (photo: provided)

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he Cornell Concert Series presents John Scofield’s Combo 66 Iconic GRAMMY Awardwinning guitarist John Scofield teams up with pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Bill Stewart in Combo 66, a new band that builds upon Scofield’s long legacy of masterful improvisation and stylistic diversity. Scofield has been a major influence on jazz since the 1970’s, continuously finding new and exciting avenues to reinvent

Moms All Striving Together | 9:30 AM, 3/7 Thursday | Candor Congregational Church Parsonage, 134 Main St, Candor | A group for all moms for fellowship and encouragement.

Child Care is provided. Contact Mary Wheeler at wheeler8386@yahoo.com or 659-5067.

Craft Night at the Library | 6:00 PM, 3/7 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | Learn how to make homemade soap, the easy way - using a microwave! Sign up is required so we can ensure enough supplies, event is free! himself as an artist. Scofield won consecutive Best Jazz Album GRAMMY Awards for Past Present (2016) and Country For Old Men (2017)– for which he also won Best Instrumental Solo. Now, joined by three formidable artists in their own rights, Scofield’s Combo 66 showcases an intricate exploration of jazz’s limitless direction.

John Scofield’s Combo 66 performs on Friday, March 8 at 8:00pm in Bailey Hall as a part of the Cornell Concert Series.

John Scofield’s Combo 66: FRI, March 8, 2019 • 8:00pm, Bailey Hall, Tickets: $29-36, Students $19

Notices Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 3/6 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | 3/6 - Elise Steele, Executive Director of Community Faith Partners on Homelessness in the Ithaca Area| $15 Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 3/6 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 3/6 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information.

Workforce Forum: Should You Accept a Position Below Your Skill Level? | 9:00 AM, 3/7 Thursday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Come and join in a discussion with local area job seekers, your professional peers, and DOL Staff to discuss new trends

Community Game Night | 6:30 PM, 3/7 Thursday | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Enter through the green door on Court St, or the door by Dewitt Park. We are downstairs in Dodds Hall.

Advanced English as a Second Language Classes | 1:00 PM, 3/8 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Students will develop skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. To register, please contact Lifelong Learning at (607) 273-1511.

Job Fairs and Open Interviews | 1:30 PM, 3/8 Friday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Attending this workshop will assist you in: preparing all your materials and dress, focusing on target companies, strategically planning your schedule, optimizing your face time, and following up.

Harmony’s Helping Hands Food Pantry | 3:30 PM, 3/8 Friday | Harmony UMC, 726 Route 221, Harford | Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM, 3/8 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Munay-Ki ‘Wisdom Keeper’ Rites. At this New Moon fire we will be gifting the Wisdom Keeper Rites of the Munay-Ki. These are energetic transmissions that connect us with the powerful mountains from around the world, and with the divine masculine in us all. This helps us to protect our medicine and bring it out to the world as needed.

Cayuga Bird Club field trip | 8:00 AM, 3/9 Saturday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, Ithaca | A morning trip up the

West side of Cayuga Lake, to look for waterfowl and late-winter field birds.

Meet in the parking lot bu Gaia (the turtle). Open to the public.

Annual Jerry Smith Memorial Wild Game and Fish Dinner | 5:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Interlaken Sportsman Club, Tunison Rd, Interlaken | Featuring a wide variety of healthy and delicious dishes like alligator, bison, boar, duck, frog legs, rabbit, squirrel,,turkey, venison. and fish.

Kathy Irwin 607-582-7411 or Chris Brewer 607-319-6909 | $12/$15 Newfield Lioness St. Patty’s Dinner | 5:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Newfield Fire Company, 77 Main Street, Newfield | Serving:† Corned beef, ham, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, rolls, desserts & beverages | Adults: $11.00, Seniors: $10.00, Kids 10 & under $6.00 “Down and Derby” | 7:00 PM, 3/9 Saturday | Village Chapel, 28 Main St., Candor | The Candor Pinewood Derby is showing this free movie.†The Derby will be part of the annual Candor 4th of July Celebration. Information on the Derby will be available.† Enfield Volunteer Fire Company Chicken Barbecue | 11:00 AM, 3/10 Sunday | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | Ladies Auxiliary holds a Bake Sale at each BBQ | Adult meals $9 Chicken halves $6 Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Sunday Night Alive! | 6:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | McGrawville Church, McGraw | Sing with the SNA praise band and hear an encouraging word. More details on Facebook.

Harmony UMC Monthly Music Night | 7:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | Harmony UMC, 726 Route 221, Harford | Come share your talent and enjoy an evening of music. Everyone is welcome.

Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | A great way for folks to visit with friends and neighbors while enjoying a delicious meal. While pancake breakfasts raise some funds for the VCA, the VCA Board of Direc-

Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 12:15 PM, 3/11 Monday | Dryden VFW, 2272 Dryden Rd, Dryden | Table service will be provided. Our entertainment will be Greg Jenkins who will sing heart touching song. Anyone 55 or older in the area is most welcome. | $7/$8 Tablet Talk | 2:00 PM, 3/11 Monday | Van Etten Library, 83 Main Street, Van Etten | Have questions? Get answers!

Cayuga Bird Club Monthly Meeting | 7:30 PM, 3/11 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Featuring Susan Danskin, Diane Morton and Ken Kemphues, presenting ‘Borneo: a Birding Tour of Sabah, Malaysia’. Anyone interested in birds is invited to attend.

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Tai Chi | 2:30 PM, 3/7 Thursday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd, Lansing | Classes held at Lansing Library, Titus Towers, Brooktondale Community Center, and Lifelong.

Contact Lifelong for specific days and times.

Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 3/7 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 3/10 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | All are Welcome. Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest Humanity. Pray.

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

Yoga for Beginners | 9:00 AM, 3/6 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Donations appreciated. Registration required.

Butoh dance class series | 3:00 PM, 3/10 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Butoh is a modern Japanese dance form focusing on slow, expressive movements. No registration is required.

Participants should wear comfortable clothing.

Midday Group Sing | 12:10 PM, 3/6 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Drop ins welcome.

Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 3/11 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca |

Mid-Day Mindfulness Meditation | 12:15 PM, 3/6 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Shift out of “automatic pilot” mode and observe the workings of the mind, body, and emotions.

Midday Movement | 12:15 PM, 3/12 Tuesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Reinvigorate your workday through movement and dance. Drop ins welcome. | $10/$14

Tai Chi Spring Classes | 2:00 PM, 3/6 Wednesday | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | Class focuses on the Yang style 24 forms, and includes Qi Gong and yoga stretches.To register, contact Sue at 607-659-3022 or email sueheaven@ gmail.com. | $1-$3/class

Ithaca Bipolar Support Group Meeting | 7:00 PM, 3/12 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 West Court St., Ithaca | The group is peer-run without supervision by any medical expert. We share knowledge and experience in an attempt to help each other deal with the issues of bipolar disorder including medications, life management, therapy and anything else that might help us to live more successfully.

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Community School of Music and Arts, 330 E. State St., Ithaca| Who loves Joni Mitchell’s music? We all do! And fortunately, so do a lot of super-talented local musicians who come out each year to celebrate this Canadian songwriting goddess and raise funds for CSMA, a wonderful arts-education community resource. (photo: provided)

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

Applicants apply at, Franklin/Hampshire Career Center, One Arch Place, Greenfield, MA 01301, 413-774-4361 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #11647338. Plant, cultivate and harvest fruit and plants of raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, asparagus, horseradish, currants and blueberries. Workers will till soil, plant stock, set plant runners, cut plant divisions, prune canes and bushes; remove suckers, runners, weeds, blossoms and fruit from plants and dig plants using tools such as shovels, hoes, tampers, spading forks, pruning hooks, shears, loppers, knives, transplanter and plant digger. Apply and remove straw mulch and plastic mulch or sheeting on crops and soil. Install and remove trellis and netting for shade, crop support and bird control. Fertilize plants, spray plants and soil. Applying general use pesticides under the supervision of licensed applicator.

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WETHERSFIELD, CT needs 2 temporary workers 4/1/2019 to 12/20/2019, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract.

Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. hours offered each week may be more or less than stated in item 11 depending on weather and crops conditions. Workers not required to work extra hours offered. $13.25 per hr.or applicable piece rate Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #211635. One months experience and working knowledge of the following areas and work unsupervised after direction. Operate truck with flatbed trailer and forklift. Identify and report problems with equipment, paper work or other related issues, verbally and in writing to dispatch and/or shop. Fill out documentation accurately and in a timely manner. Must have valid corresponding commercial drivers license. Must be able to read maps.

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WETHERSFIELD, CT needs 3 temporary workers 4/1/2019 to 12/202019, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days ot 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period.

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

Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #211545.

One months experience and working knowledge in the following areas and work unsupervised after direction Perform maintenance on diesel trucks, trailers, farm tractors and work vehicles.

Diagnose electrical problems. Check, repair or replace lights, fluids, tire, belts, hoses and hydraulic systems. Drivers License Required.

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WETHERSFIELD, CT needs 5 temporary workers 4/1/2019 to 12/20/2019 work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period.

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One months experience and working knowledge of the following areas and work unsupervised after directions.

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