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he boathouse at Stewart Park will continue to be used by the Cascadilla Boat Club (CBC) to store its sculls.

Common Council approved a licensing agreement between the city and the CBC at its Wednesday, May 6 meeting that will charge the club $12,727 per year with the fee indexed for inflation, after nearly 40 years of the CBC paying $46.17 per annum for the space.

Council passed the agreement after a mild discussion and making a few minor amendments, the most notable of which was setting the limit for automatic renewals of the pact at 20 years, rather than in perpetuity.

Though several people did comment at the May 6 meeting both in favor and against the agreement, it seems the steam had gone out of the issue at its last discussion in the third-floor city hall meeting room.

Nine out of 10 council members and Mayor Svante Myrick attended the April 15 City Administration committee meeting, a meeting that usually only requires the committee’s five members.

Also in the city hall meeting room were a number of youths wearing green CBC apparel, along with many faces that have appeared at previous board and committee meetings since the discussion of the issue started in February.

That many people in the room were hearing the same questions and statements for the third or fourth time was apparent by the rather tense tenor of discussion on April 15 in what’s usually a room full of polite Ithacans.

CBC girls’ varsity rowing captain Carrie D’Aprix made her position known strongly during the public comment period. She slammed a few fists on the table as she made her points about her team’s dedication and the boat club’s role in getting people on Cayuga Lake.

Whether the boathouse could be used for more kinds of water recreation has been one point of contention.

“We’re willing to have 6 a.m. practice five days a week, and 8 a.m. one day a week. The dedication is unreal on this team,” D’Aprix said. “If the boathouse were to be repurposed, you would not find 50 people out on the water a day, maybe a handful of kayakers. You might find Marc Messing who loves to get on the water with his boat. You’ve heard from continued on page 4

speaking for 29.” All 29 are here now. As New Americans are another 30-some family members. The vast majority are already citizens, making Hla, the matriarch, one of the last in her family to be naturalized.

When speaking about the large extended family, the Bilderbacks sound more like proud parents than sponsors.

“They’ve learned English, gotten jobs, learned how to drive cars, and they’ve all ee Hla lived in Burma for the first become our friends,” said Don. 41 years of her life. As a member Another of the freshly naturalized of an ethnic minority known as citizens was 33-year-old Dennise the Karen, Hla’s family was persecuted by Belmaker, formerly of Israel. Belmaker the government. Their land was seized got a two-for-one and the family fled naturalization; to a refugee camp in she attended the Thailand. ceremony pregnant On Oct. 28, 2006, with her “second little Hla made it to the American.”

U.S. and yesterday, on Originally May 6, she became a born in Colombia, U.S. citizen.

Belmaker moved In a midday to Israel after high naturalization school, partially to ceremony—the first attend college and one since newly partially because elected County “Colombia’s violence Clerk Maureen situation got really Reynolds took office bad.” She got married in January—Hla and and came to America 42 other immigrants five years ago with became naturalized her husband, who is U.S. citizens. Judge American.

Robert Mulvey Belmaker said presided over that some aspects of the jam-packed, living in Israel were standing-room-only great, but she’s glad courtroom. to be away from the For the longviolence. She said, Forty-three people took the Oath of Allegiance last awaited ceremony, “It’s a more stressful Hla was pretty in Wednesday at the county courthouse. day-to-day life than pink, and came (Photo: Bill Chaisson) here.” flanked by supportive Hla, Belmaker, family members and their fellow new Americans all took and American sponsors. Don and Becky the Oath of Allegiance, renouncing fealty Bilderback, who sponsored her through to any other “foreign prince, potentate, the Bethel Grove Bible Church, moved state, or sovereignty” and vowing to cross country but came all the way back “support and defend the Constitution from Seattle for the ceremony. and laws of the United States of America Originally it was Hla’s son, Paw against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Pha who came forward with a request Former County Clerk Aurora Valenti to help bring the rest of his family over.

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▶ 101 Sun Salutations, Yoga practitioners will gather at Taughannnock Falls State Park on June 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to celebrate the summer solstice with the staging of a unique group ritual art event: “A Prayer for the Finger Lakes: 108 Sun Salutations on the Summer Solstice,” followed by a potluck picnic.

The event is also a fundraiser for “Gas Free Seneca,” one of the main local organizations mobilizing to halt Crestwood Corporation’s plan to turn Watkins Glen into a major industrial hub for the storage and transport of LPG and Methane. Organizers are looking for 108

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Yogis can challenge themselves to complete all 108 salutations or the number with which they feel comfortable. There are also other ways to participate, with a special call out to regional yoga teachers and practitioners.

Please go to www.yogafortheearth.org/108 for more information.

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What do you like most about the ithaca farmers market?

“ The atmosphere.”

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“The community of people among the vendors.”

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“The people.”

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tewart Park is a public space, and so is not intended only for privet use.

Removing lots of privet, an invasive species of shrub, from the Renwick Woods is the first focus of a revitalization project that kicked off on Saturday, May 9.

Volunteers spent a couple hours on a hot Saturday afternoon clipping and digging out privet before planting a few of the thousands of native plants they hope to get growing in the woods that occupy a wetland delta along Fall Creek just before it meets Cayuga Lake.

The 20 acres or so of woods, also known as the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary, should have lots of skunk cabbage, spicebush, native ferns, and poison ivy in its understory, according to Miguel Berrios, a local landscape planner and Friends of Stewart Park board member who’s heading up the revitalization effort.

“We want to restore the ecology of the forest mainly by getting rid of invasives that outcompete some of the native plants here. Now there’s an understory that’s controlled by these species,” Berrios said.

“A lot of these [invasive] plants were originally planted in home landscape settings, and then they spread to the forest.”

Besides privet, invasive honeysuckle and buckthorn are currently dominant in the Renwick Woods’ lower layers.

Before setting their 15 or so volunteers to removing privet, Berrios and his wife Sarah Kelsen made sure to tie little yellow ribbons to the native spicebush. The

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Messing and his wife Lori Sonken had both commented frequently at meetings about their concerns regarding CBC safety practices, concerns which, they say, led them to remove their son from the rowing team. On the morning of April 13, Sonken told the room, her husband was watching CBC practice from a Stewart Park bench “to see if CBC was again using an illegal boat to safeguard the kids” when two city police cars pulled up and the officers “told my husband that he wasn’t doing anything wrong but that his presence made the coaches feel uncomfortable.”

“If anybody here remembers all the hours I spent at regattas, serving food, cleaning up … if that made anyone uncomfortable I didn’t know,” Messing said during public comment. He asked the committee to change an article in the agreement because, he said, U.S. 1 3 -1 9 ,

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Volunteers clearing privet and other invasives from Renwick Woods at Stewart Park. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

spicebush and privet both have small, dark-colored seeds in this season and somewhat similar leaves, so the novice horticulturalist might have trouble telling them apart (though ripe spiceberries can be ground into an allspice substitute, Kelsen said, while privet seeds only serve to perpetuate their usurped dominance).

“They sort of both blend into the ecosystem, so it is hard to tell them apart,” said Ithaca High student Devante Harden, who was volunteering as part of his government class. “I’m having a blast chopping down these dirty little privets.”

Clearing out the privets is certainly important, but Berrios also wants volunteers to learn something about the forest.

“Teaching people what’s going on here, how to identify a privet or a spicebush, that’s just as important as removing 1,000 privets,” Berrios said.

Making the Fuertes sanctuary more accessible is also a long-term goal of the project. Trails through the area have been recently widened and mulched for spring by city workers, making them look more inviting. If one crosses the first suspension bridge over the pond and then steps down the stairs to the forest trail, a look left and right can show the difference between a Renwick Woods full of privet and one without. On the left, there are thickets of privet that stretch between tree trunks, blocking the pond shore. On the right, where the land is lower, wetter, and thus not as kind to privet, low-growing skunk cabbage and ferns abound with the occasional hedge plant springing up among the trees.

There is no clear-cut of privet planned. Especially now, during bird

Rowing “refuses to set mandatory (safety) standards.”

When Alderman J.R. Clairborne (D-2nd) later asked Lavine why there were no provisions in the agreement requiring safety procedures, Lavine said “the city does not have expertise in water safety,” and it was not advisable to be “endorsing safety standards we don’t actually know anything about.” Also, the city had learned during negotiations that the CBC had created new safety standards in consultation with Dan Robinson, head coach of men’s rowing at Ithaca College.

Alderwoman Cynthia Brock (D-1st) asked that the license not be automatically renewing. Lavine told her that automatic renewals are something he recommends “in most licenses the city agrees to,” especially considering the time burden put on staff and in meetings to hash out the details.

“I think this discussion is a case in point,” Alderwoman Ellen McCollister (D-3rd) said when asked for comment on the renewal issue. “I find this highly

disrespectful to city staff ’s time. I’m not on this committee, but if [the agreement] passes I plan to vote for it at council.”

Alderman Seph Murtagh (D-2nd) seconded McCollister’s point, and “I want to make sure we’re not micromanaging a perfectly respectable organization,” Alderwoman Donna Fleming (D-3rd) added later.

Now that the council has disposed of this issue, for now, the question remains what renovations can be made at the boathouse, which is in dire need of some care. The space is shared with the youth bureau; and inside there’s a basketball court that has likely seen more PF Flyers take its hardwood floor than Air Jordans.

Alderpersons who toured the facility during the course of this debate have reported that inside, there’s a goodly amount of vintage woodwork worthy of restoration, and one look at the outside shingling shows that exterior work is needed, too. •

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IT: What do you like about doing your radio show?

TP: I love doing the research, and I love bringing out the best in people.

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his spring Tish Pearlman saw both the 10-year anniversary of her radio program Out of Bounds on April 23 and in March the end of her two-year stint as Tompkins County Poet Laureate. A native Californian, Pearlman was brought up in Manhattan Beach and lived for many years near San Luis Obispo and in San Francisco. She was beginning to see her poetry published in her 20s, but stopped writing when she got involved with politics. She was one of the co-founders of the lesbian caucus that came together as Harvey Milk rose to prominence in San Francisco. Pearlman also worked on Nancy Pelosi’s first Congressional campaign.

She spent 17 years in the Bay Area, working in radio as a host/interviewer at KPFA-FM in Berkeley and also in television, before moving to Ithaca in 1999. Within four months she was hired at WHCU by Dan Higgins and became news director there. She decided that she would like to have her own radio interview program and cut a demo at Rep Studios in 2002. For two and a half years she sent it around to regional stations until Mike Black, then of WEOS-FM in Geneva agreed to try out Out of Bounds for six months. Four years later WSKGFM began carrying the program as well.

In 2011 Pearlman had surgery for a congenital heart problem and had life-threatening complications on the operating table. The experience caused her to start writing poetry again after a 30-year hiatus. She published The Fix is In in 2012 (Finishing Line Press) and issued Afterlife this past April (Foothills Publishing).

Ithaca Times: Why did you move to the Ithaca area?

Tish Pearlman: My partner was from this area, and we would come to visit.

The “dot.com revolution” made it hard to live in San Francisco. We were tired of apartments and the noise. I thought “Let’s live in the seasons.” I’d never done that.

So we packed everything into a truck and a car and bought walkie talkies—this is before we all had cell phones—and drove across in these tandem vehicles.

IT: This heart condition that led to the operation that got you writing again, did you always know about it?

TP: Oh yes. It’s a congenital narrowing of the aoritic valve. I saw it coming because I got regular echo cardiograms. It scared me when I was a kid. Then my mother died when I was 29 and, I don’t know, but I just said, “I’m not going to worry about this.”

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political ones. Mine is an interview show.

I work all the time, doing the research, reading the books, and booking the guests, but I guess it’s not like putting out a newspaper. I can air repeats to take some time off.

IT: Did you have projects or a theme during your time as poet laureate?

TP: I didn’t really have projects, but I wanted to reach out to underserved communities. We have reading every five minutes in this town, so I did things like attend a peace and justice dinner in Bath where there are all these old activists. I did a poetry workshop at GIAC for kids and elders, and I did readings at Elmira College’s “Arts Alive” event. Jan Kather, a painter over there, invited me.

I was thrilled by the kids’ writing poetry at GIAC. They are so uncensored.

I’m not stopping that. I have a friend at ICSD [Ithaca city schools] who can get me in to the schools.

IT: What is the public role of poetry?

TP: Poets need to reacquaint people with poetry. Everyone has a poem that they remember from childhood. We need to bring that into adulthood. I made this explicit in all the statements I sent out [while I was poet laureate]. I have a lot of poets on my radio show and I make them read about four poems on the show. Then we talk about their work.

I did theater when I was younger and I think it’s important for people to read aloud, to perform. I tell people to take acting classes.

I started to dare to read aloud and it was resonating, it’s when I knew I had a voice. I was writing political stuff when I was younger—although some of it was personal too. I wrote about issues that were important to me: how people treat the elderly, about the struggles of coming out of the closet and telling our parents, and about finding a place in the world.

Now I use poetry to open up a dialog with people and to share something as human beings.

IT: How do you write?

TP: I write longhand and then transfer it to the computer. This is the form as people will see it. I do my corrections on the computer and then I read them aloud to myself. I learned to do that when I was doing theater. The sonic quality is important.

IT: Do you write anything else other than poetry? Are you working on a memoir?

TP: Really not much, except the writing I do for the radio show. The poetry is sort of a memoir.

The first nine years of Out of Bounds are now archived and available for download at outofboundsradioshow.com.

Starting in July once a month Pearlman will be doing a program about health challenges. As WEOS did with Out of Bounds itself, she’s going to try it for six months and see how it goes. • —Bill T

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Ups&Downs ▶Copper theft, On April 13, 2015 IPD officers responded to Stewart Park regarding a larceny complaint. Upon opening the bathrooms for the season the Grounds Supervisor discovered that the copper piping had been removed from the plumbing units on seven of the bathroom toilets. The copper piping each has a value of approximately one hundred fifty dollars. After speaking to the Grounds Supervisor the officer located the copper piping plumbing units at a local steel redemption center.

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

Heard&Seen ▶New at CCE, Lisa Ellin Joins Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (CCE) as Prison & Reentry Educator.

Currently Lisa teaches job search skills, parenting, nonviolent communication skills, self-development, and other life skills courses inside several NY prisons including Five Points, a maximum facility, and Cayuga, a medium secure facility.

Lisa recently approached Civic Ensemble with an idea to combine her three passions: theatre, prison reentry and employment, and the result was the successful Reentry Theatre Program presented at the Hangar Theatre in April 2015 ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of May 6-12 include: 1) Park at Ithaca Falls Will Get a Makeover 2) One Dead in Newfield Crash 3) When Do You Admit That You’re a Felon?

4) Willard to Open for Tours 5) Man Burglarizes Candor EMS Building For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Please Graze Sustainably R ecently, in the parking lot of a local state park three people threw bunches of ramps or wild leeks (Allium tricoccum) in their car and drove off. This is what happens when the locavore trend gets out of hand. While these people may have thought, “I’m just taking a few. There are acres of these in those woods,” this is is not the case. This a classic case of everyone taking what they want without knowing what is … wait for it … sustainable.

Ramps are in trouble in New York State because of over-harvesting.

Ethnobotanist Lawrence DavisHollander, founder and former director of the Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, has estimated that in 2011 alone 2 million leeks were harvested from the wild. According to Tammi Sweet at the Heartstone Herbal School in Van Etten, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is developing a plan to monitor leek populations and develop guidelines for conservation. Because the populations are declining so rapidly the DEC has forbidden the harvesting of wild leeks.

Sweet cites “safe harvesting practices” but suggests that we, “Notice where they like to grow in the wild and plant seed or bulbs on your land in a similar environment.” She further recommends supplementing the use of ramps with several other wild species including garlic mustard (an invasive exotic), sheep sorrel, nettles, and lambsquarters. This advice is predicated on the assumption that people harvesting ramps know what these other species look like.

It is all well and good to be

interested in and excited about eating locally, but you can’t just treat the local plant communities as particularly muddy aisles of the grocery store. You are essentially re-experiencing why agriculture was invented in the first place. When populations got too large to sustain a hunter-gather way of life, Homo sapiens began growing food under controlled circumstances. The permaculture movement is seeking to reintegrate food-raising with the natural plant community, but it is really far from suggesting that we return to our huntergather ways.

Plenty of folks go hunting and fishing in the state parks, but they have licenses that they have purchased from the state.

The fees from those licenses go toward the budget for those state parks. They help pay the salaries of the rangers and park police who enforce the regulations that maintain the populations of the animals that are hunted and fished. The licenses are also a record of how many people are using a particular natural resource. Hunters and fishermen are given bag limits, by which they abide largely through an honor code.

The people in the state park parking lot with fistfuls of ramps were poaching.

They were harvesting part of a meal from public land without any system in place to monitor how much they took, how many more ramp harvesters there might be, or the manner in which they did their harvesting. In this case they dug up the entire plant, which is unnecessary and continued on page 7

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ews item: Earlier this month, Dean G. Skelos, leader of the New York State Senate, was arrested by federal authorities on extortion, fraud and bribe solicitation charges. The arrest came just months after federal bribery and kickback charges led Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to step down. Silver’s arrest came on the heels of the recent sexual harassment allegations that caused Vito Lopez, Dennis Gabryszak, and Micah Kellner to also leave the Assembly.

The list of recently-disgraced legislators is long: State Senators Pedro Espada, John Sampson, Shirley Huntley, Malcolm Smith, Carl Kruger Vincent Leibell and Tom Libous, and Assembly members Eric Stevenson, William Boyland and William Scarborough.

Since 2000, 28 New York State legislators have left office due to criminal or ethical issues, and five more have been indicted, according to Citizens Union, a watchdog group.

We find ourselves in the kitchen of the Timson family. For generations the Timson clan has supported itself by various sorts of petty malfeasance, mostly theft. Greatgrandfather Henry worked a long con on mobster Doyle Lonnegan in the 1930s, but since then the Timson capers, though numerous, have been strictly small-time affairs. Sitting at the table is matriarch Mabel Timson, her salad days as a grifter mostly behind her. Her kindly face is careworn, and she sniffles and twists a handkerchief, damp with tears.

Mrs. T. is startled by her son Will; he bursts into the kitchen through the outside door. He’s wearing an ankle monitor.

“I came as soon as I got your text,” he exclaimed. “It sounded urgent! What’s going on?”

“Oh, It’s urgent, Willie,” she said, patting the chair next to her. “You’d better have a seat.” Will sat, and she put a hand on his forearm, looking straight into his eyes. “I’ll just come right out and tell you. It’s your brother. His guidance counselor called me.”

She lets out a sob. “He wants to go into … state government!” Mrs. Timson buries her head in her hands and dissolves into

uncontrollable weeping.

“No!” cried Will, jumping up. “It can’t be! This is a catastrophe. Wait until I get my hands on him! What a scandal. What are we going to tell Pa? He gets out in nine to 12 months.”

At this point, young Ted Timson, the subject of discussion, tiptoed into the kitchen.

“You,” sneered Will, pointing. “Yeah, you’d better look sheepish. Do you have any idea the disgrace you will bring on the Timson family name if you go through with this … this scheme of yours?”

Ted went over to his mother. “Ma ...Will … don’t you get it? It’s pay to play in Albany!

We’ll be on easy street. Why, the kickbacks alone will pay off the mortgage on this place in a year.”

“It ain’t the money, Teddie boy,” said Mrs. Timson, momentarily regaining her composure. “It ain’t the money at all. We Timsons have a code of honor. There’s lines we never cross. I just can’t believe you’d tarnish the family legacy like this.” She lapsed into renewed tears.

Ted Timson folded his arms. “I don’t care. My mind is made up. I’m running for the New York State Senate, and that’s final.” Mrs. Timson howled at these words, and there was a long moment as the two brothers glare at each other. Will strode over and opened the door to the outside.

“If that’s your final word, then leave,” he said. “And if you do, you reject all that we stand for. You are a blight on the family tree.”

It was a dramatic and poignant moment. Ted Timson turned at the door with a last, pleading look to his mother, but she wouldn’t meet his eyes. He walked out, never to darken the Timson house towels again. • Next week: State Senator Ted Timson uses Moreland Commission subpoenas to paper the upstairs bathroom in his guesthouse.

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Cast your vote for school board candidate Jen Curley on May 19th. She has over 20 years of experience teaching in the public schools. Jen is a proponent for education - students, teachers, and parents. She would work to insure that reforms would benefit education and maintain a human touch.

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Having experienced teachers on the School board is crucial. I am supporting Jen Curley in this election because she has taught for 25 years and has been a strong advocate for students and education. She feels some recent reforms are misdirected.

She would bring new ideas and energy to the position.

– Rebecca Elgie, City of Ithaca Retired teacher

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physical sciences teacher for seven years.

“I was interested in informal science, started building exhibits and demonstrations, and eventually got a bus and put these things on the bus,” Herman said. “The hobby grew into something more than a hobby, and I founded a nonprofit with two friends.”

That nonprofit—the Physics Factory— became a full-time occupation for Herman before he took a job working with Xraise.

After about four years of doing science outreach and education, Herman decided, “The only thing missing was a bus” and launched a crowdfunding campaign during summer 2014.

That campaign raised both cash and a

he first-time visitor to Ithaca’s new Physics Bus might get the feeling of having fallen into a time warp that puts one into a bizarro Sears appliance department, circa 1985—or, perhaps, into an “in real life” version of Craigslist’s free stuff listings.

The aluminum-foil covered school bus was parked outside of Boynton Middle School on a recent Friday afternoon, where inside, there were tables topped with tube TVs, old microwaves, deconstructed stereo speakers, blenders and back massagers hooked up to slinkys, and all other manner of what might appear at first look to be electrical and electronic debris.

Watch students interact with the displays on the Physics Bus for a few minutes, Display creators (left to right) Wallace Alpern, Noah Bell, Ivan Ristow, Michael Davis, though, and one Roman Predmore astride the Physics Bus. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) learns that all of this apparent junk is gathered together in the name of science starter bus. The bus donated by a Cornell education, education that’s meant to be student who had a short, “party bus.” His fun.

Students were filling with smoke a tub mother told him about the campaign. That bus took several students to New York City with a hole in the bottom and punching last fall for the World Maker Faire and rings into the air; holding hands to form helped Herman and his colleagues raise circuits that give a little shock at the end; the funds for a full-length bus. Herman, and watching a LCD screen with “spy Fox, and Fall Creek Elementary teacher glasses”—remove the film from a screen Chris Bell flew out to Arizona in February and tape them on some cheap sunglasses, to pick up the rust-free, 2001 Physics Bus and only the glasses-wearer can see what’s and give it a bit of a conversion—tearing on the screen. Another project used out the seats, putting in shelving—before the screen from an overhead projector, driving it back across the country. converted into a helmet, giving the wearer “None of this was part of my job. It a sort of “beer goggles” effect. just caught fire,” Herman said. “Luckily my “We’re helping people find their supervisors and administrators at the lab inner scientist and maker,” said Claire realized the benefit it would have linking Fox of Ithaca Generator, where high the community to science, and physics in school students, mostly from Lehman particular.”

Alternatives Community School (LACS), The first Ithaca Physics Bus is now have been creating the projects that fill the in Gainesville, Fla., with another former Physics Bus. Physics Factory colleague. Herman “Our goal is that we show you hopes its adventures will lead to another something physical, something expansion of the program. So far as the phenomenal that you’ve never seen Ithaca model goes, further modifications before,” said Erik Herman of Xraise are expected, including a Rubens’ standing Cornell, the outreach program for wave flame tube and further additions the accelerator lab. “We’re making all of spaceship-like accoutrements to the these exhibits out of upcycled, recycled materials. Now you’re seeing a microwave, exterior that should further intrigue bypassers wondering what exactly is going a blow dryer, a mixer used in a way you’ve on inside that bus. • never seen before.”

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greeted the new citizens with a short speech.

“Oh, this is so much fun,” she began.

Valenti went on to recount how her parents, immigrants themselves, always celebrated the anniversary of their naturalizations—and she predicted that the 43 new citizens will always remember and celebrate May 6. She told the crowd, “It’s a wonderful time to live and work here,” adding, “We hope you will become involved with your community. Don’t forget to vote, run for office, tell them what you think, and enjoy the freedom and liberty granted.”

Here’s the full list of new citizens from the ceremony: Dennise Belmaker; Yves Rejean Boisclair; Lise Mare Helene Bouvet; Bingxing Cao; Shamibrata Chatterjee; Shivansh Chawla; Paul Ion Chereches; Mojgan Deyhim; Srisatish Devapatla; Carina Renata Ehrensberger; Urs Frei; Sabine Haenni; Neli Hari Karabelova; Sanwin Khun; Sarah Yunha Kim; Tanya Aguilar Kingsley; Tee Hla; Ameya Vinay Joshi; Arati Ameya Joshi; Jax Li; Han Li; Elisaveta Matovska; Aleksandar Matovski; Hamidreza Mohammadi Mian Mahaleh; Arash Memar; Arpita Mita; Michelle Mary Nair; Yiwei Ni; Alex Rotsmi Garcia Ortiz; Chris Chan Woong Park; Paw Paw; Manuel Bevia Perez; Gillian Alexandra Perkins; Abby Joanne Persoleo; Carl Bernard Poitras; Angie Katherin Estevez Prada; Jose Manuel Del Peso Sanchez; Yul Li Song; Meenu Thapalia; Sala Tulachanh; Carmen Patricia Walborn; Lei Sandy Ye; Charles Zhang The new citizens hail from 20 different countries, including Thailand, Iran, Bulgaria, Jamaica, Peru, Romania, South Africa, Canada, Macedonia, China, India, South Korea, Mexico, Burma, Spain, Israel, Colombia, and Nepal.

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mating season, they’re being careful to use only hand tools and avoiding “disturbing anything that looks like a nest,” Kelsen said.

Before the group knocked off for the day, they planted a few of the thousands of native plants they want to put in the ground in the Fuertes sanctuary this year, including more dogwood, butternut, elderberry, and viburnum.

Back near Cayuga Lake, over a plate of chicken cooked up by the Trumansburg Rotary for the kickoff event, Storn Cook of Ehrhart Energy said that his firm had decided to provide the plants as a sort of offset program for its new wood pellet heating program.

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winter,” Cook said, “and we said ‘Why don’t we plant a tree for every ton of pellets we sell?’”

Volunteers who want to plant some of those trees can show up on noon on June 11 for the next Renwick work session, with later sessions scheduled for July 16, Aug. 13, Sept. 10, and Oct. 15. • For more information, contact Berrios at miguel@landbeyondthesea.com editorial

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decreases the population at that location.

Even where ramps are actively cultivated it is recommended that only one-fifth of the plants be harvested each year. It takes two to three years for a plant to reach harvestable age after a bulb is planted, and much longer when they grow from seed.

Those who harvest wild leeks do not have ill intent; they don’t not care about nature or the limits of a natural resource.

They simply haven’t thought about it correctly, which is a classic instance of the “tragedy of the commons.” Human ecologist Garrett Hardin borrowed the phrase from a 19th century pamphlet to make the claim in 1968 that various components of the natural environment represent a “commons,” that is a shared resource. He asserted that it was possible for individuals to pursue their own selfinterest in a logical manner and still use the resource in an unsustainable fashion, therefore depleting or destroying it. A lot of social historians and academics on the left have claimed that he did not understand the commons concept. In hindsight, Hardin, who died in 2003, said he wished he’d called the paper, “the tragedy of the unregulated commons.”

It is important to view wild plants like Allium tricoccum as resources with limits rather than as just a cool thing to harvest and eat whenever you hear of a place they grow through word of mouth. Wild food items have ecologies and natural histories.

To know more about these plants is to feel more affection and respect for them as fellow travelers on this mortal coil. Wild leeks, mushrooms, and herbs are doing a job in their native habitats. We shouldn’t lose them just because they make a great pesto. •

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here are three full-term seats available on the Ithaca City School District’s school board and one seat that would finish the term of Seth Peacock who stepped down last year to be an interim city court judge.

Eight candidates have come forward to fill these vacancies. Two incumbents, Eldred Harris and Sean Eversley Bradwell, are running for re-election. Seth Peacock, who stepped down from the board last year to serve as an interim city judge, would like to return to the board.

Five new faces—Jen Curley, Moira Lang, Doug Long, Sheryl Mauricio, and Ann Reichlin—are rounding out the field.

While small rural school districts across upstate New York have been facing shrinking reserves and drastically slashed programming with some schools even predicting their own bankruptcy, the Ithaca city schools have had more moderate, but nonetheless real budget problems, including the loss of some pre-K classes.

We asked each candidate the same five questions. Because of the large number of candidates we have room in print for only three answers from each (with some abridgements), but the complete text of all the interviews is available to read at ithaca. com.

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Ithaca Times: What experience do you have working with education, and why do you want to be a member of the Ithaca City School District Board of Education?

Eldred Harris: I’ve been working around and in public education for most of my adult life. For the past six years I’ve served as a board of education member for the Ithaca City School District. I am seeking a third term because I feel it is important to continue the good work that we’ve accomplished over the last six years, including: protecting the sanctity of the classroom; protecting our teachers from unnecessary state pressure; ensuring classes stay manageable; ensuring professional development continues to be the goal for every teacher; and lastly I’m returning to the board to ensure our children are provided with the best opportunities to be mindful, resilient and ready to learn.

Sheryl L. Mauricio: My commitment to education is rooted both in my personal and professional life. First, as a mother of two young children, I am inspired to be on the board to be a part of the decisionmaking process that creates and votes on policies and protocol that directly affect me and my children. Looking at the demographics of the current board, there are no members who have children under the age of 10. There is nothing that can replace experiential knowledge.

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F i v e o u t o f t h e e i g h t S c h o o l B o a r d C a n d i d at e s : (l e f t t o r i g h t) J e n C u r l e y, M o i r a L a n g , S e t h P e ac o c k , D o u g L o n g , a n d A n n R e i c h l i n (p h o t o : M i c h a e l N o c e l l a) Having a seat on the board will allow me to voice opinions and concerns that come directly from the observations that I see in schools and my first-hand experience as an elementary school parent.

Second, my professional degrees are in post-secondary administration. The drive to work hard for a Master of Education degree from the University of Southern California and finishing a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Michigan State University come from my love of education. Though I am not formally educated in primary and secondary education, the value of teaching and learning is engrained in who I am as an administrator and mother. The skills and knowledge that I have gained as a scholar will help to inform my decision making process as a leader who looks at issues very critically. I pride myself on ensuring objectivity and fairness in decisions that will be made to better the District.

Doug Long: First and foremost, I am the parent of two recent graduates of the ICSD school system, one from LACS and the other from IHS. The teachers and staff of ICSD played a significant role in our children’s lives. Second, I am the parent of both a neuro-typical child and a child with a disability and have been actively involved in their education, and the unique challenges presented by each. Third, I have

almost 20 years teaching experience in higher education. I would like to put this experience to work supporting teachers and students in the district.

Ann Reichlin: I am an educator, education advocate, and parent. As an educator, I have more than a decade of experience teaching sculpture and drawing full time at the college level, and many years teaching art on a freelance basis to young children, including a recent Community Arts Partnership Arts Education Grant at Caroline Elementary School. Having spent time in the classroom I am aware of its joys and its challenges. I am a founding member of SOS Election Boosters, a parent-based group focused on state policy issues that impact our schools. I have long been involved with my children’s education in Ithaca. My son graduated from Ithaca High School and is now in college, and my daughter is currently in ninth grade at IHS. I am running for school board because I would like to use my skills as an educator, education advocate and my perspective as a parent to help our district continue to evolve and remain strong for all children well into the future.

Seth Peacock: I have served on the school board for the past ten years.

During that time I’ve been involved with developing annual budgets, a $100 million

facilities bond, hiring a superintendent and offering guidance on day to day issues that arise in an organization with 1,200 employees serving tens of thousands students and families. I also had three children attend Ithaca schools.

Moira Lang: I spent 35 years as a secondary school English teacher, six at Horseheads Junior High West, 25 at Ithaca High School, and four at Robert College of Istanbul, Turkey. As a teacher, I served on numerous committees and was a participant in and leader of diverse projects, including co-chairing the ICSD Secondary Language Arts Curriculum Committee, the Ithaca Writing Project, and the IHS WISE Program and Sitebased Council. I’ve been a presenter at conferences on multi-cultural education and educational technology. I come from a family full of educators going back three generations, which includes my daughter who is in her fourth year teaching English at LACS. The health and effectiveness of our schools is vital to this community and to the communities our graduates will join elsewhere. Having retired from teaching in July 2014, I have time, energy and experience to devote to this most important mission. I hope to play a role in fostering better communication among all the stakeholders so that important decisions are based on a deep understanding of the issues and implications.

Jen Curley: I was a teacher for 25 years, and I was president of the last school district I worked in. I’ve worked in New York City, Tuscon, Arizona; I even taught in Mexico, so my experience is broad. I would like to be part of the Ithaca City School District because I believe some of the reality has been lost for what really happens in the classroom, and I would like to be a voice for what happens in the classroom and decision making.

Sean Eversley Bradwell: I have been involved with the education of young people in the Ithaca City School District for 20 years. In the fall of 1996, I took a position at the Lehman Alternative Community School (LACS). I spent six years at LACS, serving as a tenured social studies teacher and also as Assistant to the Principal for Multicultural Affairs. It was a tough decision to leave LACS, but I left to pursue a Ph.D. in policy analysis and management at Cornell University.

My dissertation research entitled, “Always Room at the Top: Black Students and Educational Policy in Ithaca, NY,” explored educational disparities and attempts to achieve both excellence and equity. I have served as a lecturer in Ithaca College’s Department of Education helping undergraduate students become teaching professionals. Currently, I am an assistant professor in Ithaca College’s Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity (CSCRE).

I am running for re-election because I remain committed to the success of young people in our community. Both my professional work and my community

making the choice to “opt-out” or not, the district will need to continue to find ways to make it better for all students. The district will need to advocate for a shift in state legislation that changes the current state of assessment—connecting tests to teacher evaluations.

DL: Clearly, parents are concerned about a number of things, the Common Core, state testing, and teacher assessment among them and opting out of state testing is one way to send a message. Fortunately, there is some hope that the politicians have heard what the people have had to say, so now is the time to use the political process to keep the pressure on the governor and the legislature to make some changes to their ill-conceived recent involvement work have all focused on creating more inclusive educational spaces.

• • • IT: The “Opt-Out” Movement and state testing is a hot topic at the moment.

What is your evaluation of the movement, and how should Ithaca City School District handle this dynamic moving forward?

EH: I think the opt-out movement is a dynamic expression of parents understanding of the stakes involved, of the issues at hand, and most importantly of their desire to protect their children and our the teachers from unnecessary intrusion by the state, in ways that are not helpful.

SM: As a parent who tries to convince a first grader that education is very important to him and that school is a place

S c h o o l B o a r d C a n d i d at e s : (t o p t o B o t t o m) S h e ry l M au r i c i o , S e a n E v e r s l e y B r a dw e l l , a n d E l d r e d H a r r i s (p h o t o s : P r ov i d e d) that will help him do better in life, I cannot help but think that I may be in a situation one day where I will be the parent making the choice to have my son “opt-out” of state testing because he may not be mentally, emotionally, or academically “ready” for the test. I get it. Regardless of the issues behind parents and students

actions. Again, I urge people to contact the politicians in Albany directly and let them know how you feel. The school board can do more to educate the public about these issues and their impact on the district.

AR: The opt-out movement has made a powerful statement about the current standardized tests and by association, the Common Core. I think it is important to untangle the issue of the tests from the intent of the Common Core. Although the Common Core attempts to improve education, the roll out by New York State has been sloppy and politicized.

Tying student test scores so significantly to teacher performance evaluations was a huge Albany mistake, since no standardized test can truly be an accurate measure of what goes on in the classroom.

SP: Families have the right to opt out. Much of the opt-out movement has grown from legislative policies that use state test results to evaluate educators.

These policies cannot work with the wellestablished faulty assessment tools. Proper assessments are and will always be useful tools to educate students. Having students take appropriate assessments and allow for ongoing improvements is something I’m in favor of if the data is used in ways that are appropriate. Ithaca City School District should honor families’ decisions and provide as much information as possible T

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ML: It is clear to parents and teachers that there are significant problems with the testing program and negative impacts for both students and teachers. The ICSD should be a leader in communicating to those at the state level what these problems are and advocating energetically for the necessary changes. In the meantime, the board and administration need to listen to parents’ concerns and support teachers in providing an authentic, quality education.

JC: I had a friend of mine call me, and she was very torn about opting her eighth grader out. She said she had a long discussion with the eighth grader and their response to whether she wanted to opt out or not was she wanted to opt out because she didn’t feel like one test was a good demonstration of her ability to learn and it wasn’t a fair judgment of her teacher.

I thought that was spot on. I think I go along with that philosophy.

SEB: According to Education Law §306 and the Regulations of the Commissioner, school board members and superintendents are legally mandated to ensure administration of state tests or face removal from office if the law is violated.

ICSD will continue to administer state tests in the foreseeable future.

Now, what we do with these exams and how they are used or not used, ICSD will have much more discretion over.

Personally, I am strongly against the use of state tests as 50 percent of tenure decisions. As a board of education, I see ICSD as continuing to have a significant impact at the state level through lobbying and legislative involvement. This is how I think ICSD can best handle the dynamic of the opt-out movement—to create local processes and be active making the state legislative changes that are best for our teachers and our students.

• • • IT: If elected, what is one goal or initiative you would like to see completed in your term on the school board?

EH: As I mentioned earlier, protecting the sanctity and the size of our classrooms will be key. Additionally, ensuring we continue to pressure the state to completely end the Gap Elimination Adjustment and provide us all the resources we are legally entitled to is critical. Despite the fiscal pressure we are under however, I intend to work more closely with some of the programs that are currently serving our kids, as well as working with our partners and staff to introduce several new ones to the elementary, middle and high schools, specifically to help our students focus on being more mindful, more joyous, and more prepared to learn during the school day.

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there is much frustration, anger, and hurt, among teachers and administrators across the state. Ithaca City School District is no different. Our teachers work extremely hard to help our students succeed in the classroom, and we know that tests do not determine the success of teacher performance. One goal that I have for my term on the school board is to create an alignment among union and education leaders in the movement against this legislation. We all know that educational leaders often do not agree with each other, especially when priorities and values differ.

This legislation is the one issue on the table

that everyone agrees on. It is timely to take advantage of this opportunity to create a stronger, more aligned, district that will model shared governance across the state and country. My hope is that the influence in numbers will create efforts that will instill teamwork, pride, and increased morale across administrators, staff, and students in our community. We need each other to make things work.

DL: I have been active in SEPTA, the Special Education PTA, serving as secretary this year. We have been promoting the concept of full inclusion as a means for improving the school experience for students with disabilities.

To me, full inclusion means creating a culture where every child belongs, where

every decision is made based on the principles of inclusion and opportunity, and where difference is an asset, not a problem. I have also served as one of the SEPTA representatives on the Advisory Committee on Special Education, which has been providing community input on revising the Special Education Continuous Improvement Plan. This committee has talked extensively about creating a culture of inclusion in the district. As a board member, I would like to follow through on these efforts and help make the ICSD fully inclusive.

AR: I would like to see ICSD continue to improve student and family engagement. I think it is important to look at the transition points when students are

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moving from one level of their education to the next and examine the potentials and the pitfalls. In particular, I would like to look at ways that family engagement and support for struggling students can be developed further at the middle school level when students make the transition from the more tightly knit elementary school communities to the middle schools.

One way ICSD might accomplish this is by continuing to develop partnerships with organizations within the community that support student success, such as the Village of Ithaca, IPEI, the Ithaca Youth Bureau and the School Success Transportation Coalition. Co-curricular activities such as band, theater, robotics and sports are also essential items in the student support toolbox.

SP: A couple of goals come to mind.

I would like to explore developing an entrepreneurial curriculum for our students. The current educational model seems geared towards preparing students to be good and competent employees.

Although that is important, I believe it is just as important that we open our student’s minds to the tremendous entrepreneurial opportunities available to them.

I would also like us to be public education leaders in online learning opportunities. There is an information revolution underway, yet for the most part we still put our kids on busses, drive them to buildings, and sit them at desks. Based on the available technology the form of learning interactions can and should advance and Ithaca City Schools should be part of that revolution.

ML: If elected, I hope that within the course of my term I will hear that teachers and staff feel that the administration and the board are listening to their expertise and concerns and are making decisions based on that input. What I am currently hearing is that faculty and staff do not feel this is the case.

JC: I would like for there to be more communication with the people on the ground. I would like for the board to be a little more open for discussion from people who are with the kids. Not necessarily taking orders from Albany and accepting policy coming from the state. I would like more input from the people in the district actually working with the kids.

SEB: If I am fortunate enough to be re-elected, I expect to finalize the overhaul of the ICSD Policy Manual. This is a process we started in 2012 and we have been thoroughly reviewing every word of every policy. We have contracted with the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) and in consultation with teachers, parents, students and community organizations. We are nearly halfway through the process. This is a daunting task given some policies have not been reviewed, amended or altered since the 1970’s. I have been honored to serve as chair of the policy committee and I hope to earn your vote as we continue this important work. •

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problematic as it will create a situation where a product can be legally purchased in one county but hold criminal liability one county over. Regarding the resolution, he added, “If we turn it down, I think it will come back to us.”

In addition to marking the legal demise of sparkling devices, the May 5 meeting marked the beginning of the 2016 budget season. The legislature unanimously passed a resolution to adopt a 2016 financial goal for the county, which would entail a 1.3 percent increase in the tax levy. This year, 1.3 percent—or about $600,000—is the state-mandated tax cap.

Dennis, who chairs the budget committee, said, “This will allow us to maintain current levels of department operation.” Highlighting some key points of the 2016 budget situation, he said, “The cost of some our mandated programs has gone down, which means that people are less dependent … on assistance.” Also, he said that sales tax collections have been strong and pension costs have declined.

Quoting County Administrator Joe Mareane, Dennis said, “The county is not

o sparklers for you, Tompkins County! At its May 5 meeting, the Tompkins County Legislature narrowly voted down the proposed sparkler law in a 6-7 vote. In November, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill that would legalize sparklers, but only in any counties whose governments passed a specific local law legalizing them.

When Tompkins County voted on its version of that local law, Legislators Glenn Morey (R-Groton), Martha Robertson (D-Dryden), Nate Shinagawa (D-Ithaca), Mike Sigler (R-Lansing), Peter Stein (D-Ithaca), Will Burbank (D-Ithaca), and Dan Klein (D-Danby) opposed the measure, while David McKenna (R-Newfield), Dooley Kiefer (D-Cayuga Heights), Mike Lane (D-Dryden), Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-Ithaca), Kathy Luz-Herrera (D-Ithaca), and Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses) voted in favor.

Dennis started the discussion, saying, “I recently walked in downtown Ithaca and purchased seven boxes of sparklers ... and they were purchased in the City of Ithaca, and I asked the owner of the store Tompkins County Administrator Joe Mareane (Photo: Tim Gera) how long he’d been selling them, and he said, ‘About 25 years.’” getting bigger, but we’re getting stronger.”

After noting that adults have safely used According to current estimates a 1.3 sparklers for years, he said that he would percent levy increase would translate to a vote in favor of the resolution.

Stein said that initially he was in favor $15 county property tax increase for the owner of a median-valued $165,000 home. of the resolution, but that he had changed Although she initially opposed the his mind after hearing from Department budget goal, saying, “It’s not a target I of Emergency Response Coordinator support,” Kiefer later changed her vote and Lee Shurtleff and Ithaca Fire Chief Tom approved the measure. Likewise, Burbank Parsons. Kiefer said, “I would be very first voted against the resolution—citing surprised if firefighters did not speak general opposition to the tax freeze—but against this kind of thing, it’s part of their ultimately voted in favor. job.”

In addition to setting spending Robertson said that the only people goals, the legislature did quite a bit who spoke in favor of the resolution were of spending, approving more than $7 members of the fireworks industry who million in bond resolutions on May 5. are not from the county and that she The nine separate bond resolutions will would vote against the measure due to a authorize funding for projects including lack of in-county support. $1 million in road reconstruction and Lane noted that other flammable improvements, $200,000 in bridge repair items, such as incense, candles, gallons and replacement, $1.8 million in capital of gasoline, and small propane tanks are maintenance at the Recycling and Solid all legal. He said that he would vote in Waste Center, and $367,000 in leachate favor of the resolution, but noted that management improvements at the Caswell he thought that the state’s decision to Road landfill. • have county-by-county laws could be

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Wonderful, Adorable, Hysterical Animals

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Blodgett plugged the entrance hole at really have to say, they are some of the most enjoyable animals to rehabilitate,” night, as recommended, and discouraged the skunk’s return with a rag soaked in said Victoria Campbell, a wildlife ammonia. They thought the problem rehabilitator who runs Wild Things Sanctuary in Ithaca. Skunks are sweet, easy was solved until recently. “I went in on a Monday and the house had been to litter-train, and incredibly playful. She skunked,” said Blodgett. “That had never couldn’t wear flip flops or they’d play with happened before.” Something must have her toes. “I really miss rehabbing them— scared a skunk under the house, causing they’re so cute.” She has cared for more it to spray. The smell was than 50 skunks over the undetectable outside, years. “People always ask but overpowering in the about the spray thing,” kitchen. said Campbell, but that’s Jess Evett of never been an issue with Brooktondale was any of her charges. amazed by the power Skunks are on the of fresh skunk spray. move again after long One night last year, she periods of inactivity in and her family were winter dens. The New walking home from York State Department her parents’ house next of Conservation website door. Their dog took off calls populations of after something, which striped skunks, our only they assumed was just local species, abundant a squirrel or rabbit. and secure. But since “It really took us by skunks are active at surprise,” said Evett. “All night, people rarely of a sudden this odor notice them except after Skunk kitten (Photo provided) wafted over us.” a spraying or when there’s They didn’t let the road-kill. dog into the house, but After a late winter they made the mistake of opening the breeding season, typically six babies will door a crack while the dog was nearby. She be born in May and come out of the den said that was enough to skunk the house. with mama in July. Many of Campbell’s The dog spent a few nights in a barn before patients were orphaned litters, their being cleaned using a mix of hydrogen mothers killed by cars or other hazards. peroxide, baking soda, and liquid soap.

One year, four or five people brought The recipe can be found multiple places Campbell individual baby skunks from online and includes warnings that the Ithaca College, which turned out to be all mixture will explode in closed containers. from the same litter. They were so happy “We’ve gotten better this time of year and to see each other. “It was so cute reuniting in the fall,” said Evett, and now they leash them one by one,” said Campbell. the dog to go between the two houses at “There are probably more out there night to avoid a repeat. In the fall skunks than we realize,” Campbell said. She said are out searching for winter dens. that so many of the old homes in Ithaca, Off-leash dogs are sprayed far more for example, have spaces under the often than people. Campbell always made foundation where skunks can live. Skunks sure her skunks knew where she was do well in urban environments because of and she moved slowly so as not to startle their wide diet. They eat vegetative matter, worms, and insects, but also, as relatives of them. The same idea works for freeranging skunks. She suggested speaking weasels, mice and other small mammals. softly to let the skunk know you’re there, Even when the skunks themselves were moving slowly, and even gently clapping removed, another might take its place if to encourage it to go away. She pointed out there are still unsealed cracks or holes for that skunks don’t want to spray in most skunks to enter. situations and prefer to warn off threats by Sarah Blodgett and her husband own stamping their feet. Only when they feel a rental home in Fall Creek, where skunks threatened, such as by a dog in their face, appear to be abundant. She said there are do they let loose. always conversations on the homeowner Skunks can even be good neighbors, list serve on how to humanely get rid of by controlling rodents and eating ground them. Blodgett and her husband weren’t bee nests. “They are the most wonderful, aware of their own lodger until plumbers adorable, hysterical animals,” said ventured under the crawl space of the Campbell. • rental home to replace the heating system.

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s the spring sports season winds down and the various inner workings of the Cornell Athletic Department play out to prepare for the summer and fall season, the athletic complex will look a lot different as several longtime staffers will be moving along.

Doug Vorhis, Marlene Crockford, and Joe Lucia are retiring, and while Lucia is more visible, being a head coach, Doug and Marlene are very valued behind-thescenes “players.”

Doug is known as an “equipment guy,” but according to Head Athletic Trainer Bernie DePalma, that does not begin to describe what Doug means to the department. “I have worked with Doug for over 30 years,” Bernie said, “and his expertise on fitting helmets, especially now with all the new concussion-prevention technology, and ordering the right equipment is incredible. I really don’t know if he is replaceable.”

Marlene works in the Athletic Communications office, and I thought

about giving her a dollar for every time she has helped me out with a photo or a contact over the past 23 years. When I realized that such a gesture would cost me a few hundred dollars, I decided to just tell her in print how grateful I am for her kindness and professionalism. I will definitely miss her.

As for “Loosh,” if he gave me a dollar for every good joke I have told him, I would be the one retiring. Joe put in 28 years as the men’s swimming coach and 15 as the women’s coach. He is handing the reins over to longtime assistants Patrick Gallagher and Wes Newman, but Joe will stay on as a volunteer assistant. Rumor has it that he is doing so because if he does not have chlorine in his lungs, he is like the proverbial fish out of water, so he must keep breathing the sweet and sublime air of the natatorium if he is to survive.

• • • A follow-up to last week’s column about the Ithaca College baseball team

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me, “They played really well, and I’m pleased to win the Empire 8 championship. It really is something for us to build on going forward.”

• • • The Ithaca College softball team’s season ended a bit earlier, as they fell to the Alfred Saxons in the Empire 8 tournament. I must admit, I found myself in a curious position, given I have covered the Bombers for well over Equipment manager Doug Vorhis (Photo: Pat Shanahan) 20 years, and I have always held Deb Palozzi’s program in very high … the Bombers closed out their season regard.

There is a “however” here, as my by making it to the finals of the inaugural daughter is a member of the Saxons squad, Empire 8 tournament, and they made and despite the fact that she was injured the most of the opportunity, putting and missed the last part of the season, I a 12-4 hurting on Stevens to take the am still very proud that she fought back conference crown. All three local players I from two injuries last season, earned a featured last week—Benji Parkes, Cooper starting position, hit the hell out of the Belyea and Stephen Yanchus—made ball during Alfred’s spring trip to Arizona, contributions to the victory, and Bomber and proved that she could indeed play at senior Christian Brown was named the collegiate level. Alfred has had a stellar Tournament MVP. The icing on the cake season, winning the Empire 8 regular came in the form of a commemorative season title, the conference tournament crystal, presented by the Empire 8 crown, and the NCAA Regionals. They to Ithaca College head coach George will now advance to the Super Regionals, Valesente to celebrate his 1,000th head and hopefully, on to the College World coaching victory, a milestone reached Series. The Saxons are at a best-ever 38-4, earlier in the season. and they will travel to Ohio this weekend As for the Bombers finishing the to take on Heidelberg University. • season on a high note, Valesente told

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she had at Sarah’s Patisserie in downtown In a utilitarian age, of all times, it is a Americans and the Federal Government.

Ithaca, and she told me she was designing the matter of grave importance that Fairy Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz in middle sets for Oz. Tales should be respected. age between the spring of 1898 and the fall of And, on May 6, I visited Muhlback at her – Charles Dickens 1899. It was published in 1900. His life is often Stunt, dwarf, or destroy the imagination portrayed as a string of failures up to that point. home on Cliff Street in Ithaca to see the sets in progress. Muhlback’s house is like a magic of a child and you have taken away its This is nonsense. Before Oz, Baum had been workshop, charming, wooden, her paintings chances of success in life. Imagination an actor, a producer of plays, and a newspaper everywhere—even her furniture is painted with editor. He created an emporium called Baum’s transforms the commonplace into the her characters, and her mailbox is a sculpture of great and creates the new out of the old. Bazaar that was a sort of proto-amusement one of her emblematic cartoon birds. park, created and sold a magazine, and wrote a – L. Frank Baum Muhlback showed me her designs for the best-selling children’s book.

Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas any sets in her sketchbooks, and the sets themselves After The Wizard of Oz, he wrote 13 more. under construction. Almost everything is more Oz novels, scores of books under both – Dorothy Gale multiple use, the idea being that they can be his own name and several pen names, wrote have been writing a lot lately about what turned around with a different set or prop on several plays, became crazily wealthy from a crazy amount of theatre there is here in each side. the 1902 stage production of The Wizard of Ithaca for such a microscopic city. And, For instance there are giant corn stalks Oz, lost his wealth producing an astounding coming up this weekend, the Running to for the Scarecrow’s field that, turned around, multi-media play called Fairylogue and RadioPlaces Theatre Company is staging The Wizard become trees with alarming faces for the of Oz at the venerable State Theatre. Running to Plays, and, in the last act of his life, moved to sequence where Dorothy and company gather a nascent Hollywood and created the Oz Film Places (which goes by the acronym R2P) is “a apples. Professor Marvel’s traveling wagon Manufacturing Company. youth community theatre company that brings turns around and becomes the gates of Oz. And (About that 1902 Wizard of Oz play: It was together middle and high school students from Dorothy’s house is gray in Kansas, and, turned like a state of the art Steven Spielberg movie across the area”. around, goes to color in Oz. And … I have a special There were giant place in my heart for The lollipop trees with faces Wizard of Oz. Oz is the for Munchkinland, flying American electronic fairy monkey wings, and my tale. Growing up, once a year favorite … the giant Oz we would gather around the head. Unlike the great electric-campfire and watch spherical head of Oz the miraculous 1939 MGM burned into our brains by film version of the story. the MGM movie, Muhlback I love the story so much I went with a squared-off once wrote a spec screenplay rectangular head with reworking The Wizard of Oz a very generous nose. as a dystopian future science (Muhlback referenced Mr. fiction story.

Potato Head in the design.)

And the creator of Oz, The sets were large and L. Frank Baum, is one of my Muhlback said, “Luckily, heroes. Lyman Frank Baum the weather’s been good (1856 – 1919), who was because I had to do a from the Syracuse area, was lot outside … the bigger a dreamy, protean genius. In stuff like Oz’s head and his day he was as famous as Dorothy’s house and so on.

Mark Twain. (His wife, Maud, Kayla Markwardt as Scarecrow, Imri Leshed as Tinman, Kate Wyly as Toto, Maddi Carroll as Dorothy, There’s no way I could do it incidentally, was one of the and Emma Ellis as The Cowardly Lion (Photo provided) inside my studio. first women to graduate from “And you get a different Cornell University, and her perspective outside … it can mother, Matilda Gage, was a be seen from the distance … like on stage in a of the era. There were two parallel touring famous hyper-progressive 19th century prototheatre.” companies that traveled on two specially feminist.)

And Muhlback told me that the Ithaca designed trains that toured America and I have always wanted to write a biopic of Times photographer Brian Arnold, who came Canada for eight years.) the life of L. Frank Baum. It would be as much out to shoot photos of her, told her that, in a I first found out about the R2P production about America as Baum himself. His life was marvelous bit of serendipity, his great aunt is of Oz from my friend, the Ithaca artist Alice book-ended on one side by the American Civil Margaret Hamilton who played the indelible, Muhlback. I think of Muhlback—a cartoonist War, and on the other, by World War I. In the and painter—as the Picasso of Ithaca. center he lived in the Dakota Territories and continued on page 23 I was at an opening reception for a show witnessed the final wars between the Native

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fter a string of exceptional choral CD, featuring music of Mozart and concerts this season, classical Mendelssohn. The recording has received music lovers can now look forward glowing reviews, including high praise to Mayfest. Sponsored by Cornell’s for the excitement and elegance of their Department of Music and organized by playing and for their “unique” sound on artistic directors and faculty pianists Xak period instruments. They will be featured in the all-Mozart program on May 18.

Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, this festival Guest artist Yehonatan Berick of of world-class chamber music, now in its Israel is new to Mayfest. This violinist, eighth season, offers seven concerts over former member of the Los Angeles Piano six days, starting May 16.

Quartet, of which Bjerken is pianist, and The festival provides unusual now professor at the University of Ottawa, excitement this year as it features the will play in ensemble pieces by Brahms, American premiere of a spectacular Fauré, Kodály, and young string ensemble Stravinsky and in from London, the Program V plays Chiaroscuro Quartet, La ronde des lutins a group that performs (“The Elves’ Rondo”) routinely on period by 19th-century instruments. Special Italian composer guests are clarinetist Antonio Bazzini with Chen Halevi and cellist Yampolsky.

Clancy Newman, Returning both returning to performers are Mayfest, plus violinist Israeli clarinetist Yehonatan Berick, Chen Halevi, whose who comes down repertory ranges from from Canada. Also Chiascuro Quartet (Photo provided) the most complex participating are local contemporary music musicians, of whom to early work on many are well known period instruments, and American cellist to Ithaca audiences, as well as three local and composer Clancy Newman, winner ensembles that are new to the festival. of many prizes and “a gentle, lovely The concerts will take place in four different locations this year. In addition player.” Both played here in 2011. This to Barnes Hall, there are programs at year Halevi is bringing his period clarinet Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology and for Mozart with Chiaroscuro on Program Milstein Hall, plus the customary concert IV and Mendelssohn on Program VI, but in the Carriage House Café on Stewart also will play regular clarinet in other Avenue. The single afternoon concert, works. Cellist Newman will perform his at the Lab of O, starts at 2 p.m., all other own composition called From Method to concerts begin at 8 p.m.

Madness with Bjerken in Program V and “We are very excited to present the joins the Chiaroscuro Quartet along with Chiaroscuro Quartet to audiences here,” Berick in the only big piece of the festival Bjerken told me. Audiences will hear to be played on modern instruments, the them mostly in outstanding works from Brahms String Sextet in B-flat Major. the late 18th-century classical period.

Among the Cornell artists—aside Formed in 2005, the group specializes in from Bjerken and Yampolsky who, a historically informed approach to music as expected, are playing in several especially of this era, an approach close to programs—are two young performers.

Cornell’s traditional program in historical Cellist and Ph.D. candidate in musicology performance practice. The group has Elizabeth Lyon plays Shostakovich with become very successful in Europe. Russian Yampolsky and Daniel Anastasio, a 2011 graduate and now a doctoral candidate at first violinist Irina Ibragimova has been SUNY Stony Brook, has the primo part in soloing with all the “big orchestras” in the piano four-hand version of Stravinsky’s the U.K. and Europe—“everyone’s raving Rite of Spring. about her,” Bjerken said.

Percussionist Michael Compitello Joining Ibragimova is Spanish performs a contemporary piece called violinist Pablo Hernan Benedí, Swedish “Le Corps à Corps” by Greek composer violist and orchestra player Emilie Georges Aperghis. World-renowned Hörnlund, and French cellist and baroque fortepianist Malcolm Bilson will be right specialist Claire Thirion. From Ithaca in his element performing a Mozart they go to concerts in the U.K., Paris, and concerto (K. 414 in A major); he recorded Vienna with renowned South African fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout. The continued on page 19 quartet has just come out with a third

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all the concertos with the English Baroque Players under John Eliot Gardiner in the 1980s. This time he performs with the quartet. He told me he has played these works with string quartet before, and no arrangement is necessary as there are very few wind parts, and they can be read off the orchestral score. He will use the McNulty replica of an Anton Walter fortepiano similar to one Mozart would have known, and double bass Nicholas Walker from Ithaca College will join the ensemble to fill out the sound. Clarinetist Halevi asked Bilson to play again with him—the two created a magical accompaniment for Schubert’s “Shepherd on the Rock” in 2011—and chose Mendelssohn’s Sonata in E-flat Major, written in 1824, when the composer was 15 years old. Bilson admitted he has never played it before, but feels it is a welldeveloped piece—“The second movement is especially beautiful.” He will play on a replica of a Graf piano (c.1825) built by Rodney Regier.

Tonia Ko, Sage Fellow and candidate for a DMA in Composition, has written two works for this year’s Mayfest. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Hawaii, with a B.M. from Eastman and M.M. from Indiana, she has already received more than two dozen honors and awards. Just recently she was chosen as the 2015–2017 Young Concert Artists Composer-inResidence. Her work called Gone Flying,

scored for clarinet, viola, boys including cello, and double bass, will one piece by be premiered in Concert VI, Nathaniel while a second piece Before called “Oooh Color written for a youth Aaah Blues.” chorus will have its premiere The in the final concert. jazz trio i3° The festival always is made up includes musician friends of IC music from across the hill. Coming professors i3 (Photo provided) from Ithaca College this featuring year are Walker and violist Walker, double David Quiggle, as well as bassoonist Lee bass; Greg Evans, drums; and Nick Weiser, Goodhew, trombone player Hal Reynolds, piano. They play in schools, retirement and director of orchestras Jeffery Meyer, centers, and myriads of other community who will conduct the ensemble’s finale. places and have two regular gigs in Ithaca.

Mayfest introduces three local groups They all believe, Walker says, that “music this year—the Shuhan Family Players and a elevates the human condition.” In the trio called “i3°” (“thirteen degrees”)—both Carriage House program they will offer related to IC—plus the Ithaca Children’s their take—jazzy, “social music” lasting Choir. Many of us have seen at least one about 20 minutes—on Stravinsky’s Rite of Shuhan family member on the concert Spring. stage, as father Alexander, associate Part of the Ithaca Children’s Choir, professor of horn at IC, was principal the Chorale, which performs in the closing horn of the CCO for many years, while concert, is made up of older girls, mostly mother Elizabeth, IC lecturer and teacher teenagers, and is trained by ICC’s director, of flute, also plays often in local ensembles. Janet Galván. They will sing several The oldest son, Sam, a double bass player, selections including the new work written is graduating from Ithaca College this for them by Ko. month, and already has performed in The repertory for this year’s Mayfest many concerts here. He was part of a small is somewhat different from past festivals. ensemble in the recent Environs Messiaen It is built like a sandwich. Two works by festival at Cornell. All three are performing Stravinsky form the neo-classical outside in Program VI. Two younger sons, Max parts (and little filling). The Rite of Spring and Nathaniel (age 7), are pianists and (1913), ballet music that caused a riot at composers. At the Carriage House concert its first performance will be presented the family will play music by Piazzola and in Program I in two adaptations; and compositions by Alexander and the two L’histoire du soldat (1918) closes the festival

in Program VII. Bjerken wanted to present something theatrical for the last concert, which will be in Milstein Hall. He obtained the rights to project 23 paintings from the Johnson Museum to illustrate this story.

Well known local actress Kristin Sad is the narrator. And Jeffery Meyer, who knows Stravinsky well—his IC Symphony Orchestra has a brilliant recording of the Rite—will conduct the seven-part ensemble of strings, winds, and percussion.

The generous filling for this sandwich is a rich collection of chamber works, many from the high classical period, by Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert, plus an entire evening of Mozart in Program IV on May 18 in Barnes. There will be a pre-concert talk by Mozart specialist Neal Zaslaw at 7:15 p.m. Also we will hear a solo violin Bach sonata—the “one in C major, and the most difficult,” Bjerken tells me—to be played by Ibragimova, whose performances of this master have been widely acclaimed. And there are works by Brahms and Fauré, dances by Kodály, some new compositions, and some surprises, as usual.

The Sunday afternoon program at the Lab of O—“it was so beautiful to play Messiaen there,” Bjerken said—will offer treats by Blue Wave Pastry and Copper Horse Coffee. Come to Mayfest this year.

Where else would you have the chance to hear Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet on period instruments?

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James Marsden and Jack Black in “D Train.” (Provided)

Hot Pursuit, directed by Anne Fletcher; The D Train, written and directed by Andrew Mogel & Jarrad Paul, both playing at Ithaca Stadium 14; Welcome to Me, directed by Shira Piven, playing at Cinemapolis.

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have seen Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara in Hot Pursuit, so you don’t have to. I’m always up for feminizing dumb genres like the chase movie and the buddy picture: Witherspoon plays a by-the-book cop protecting Vergara, a cartel boss’s trophy wife in the Witness Protection Program.

The whole thing feels like a Goldie HawnCharo vehicle abandoned in 1974.

I’m not crazy about Witherspoon in broad comedy mode, and she’s about 20 years too old for the cop part, which requires a spring chicken. As for Vergara, her Latina Lucille Ball shtick stopped making me laugh after a few seasons of Modern Family, and I was never a big Lucy fan, anyway. If they won’t make new Speedy Gonzalez cartoons, and Vergara gets work, there’s something wrong somewhere. As it is, Hot Pursuit is no Thelma & Louise. It’s not even as good as Shelley Long and Bette Midler in Outrageous Fortune.

• • • I’ve known guys like Dan Landsman, the guy Jack Black plays in The D Train.

If I were more honest, I’d say I was a guy like Dan, a guy who failed Patton Oswalt’s “Test of the Small Town”: He graduated from high school, went to college down the street, married his high school sweetheart and now lives a life of strangled misery. And so he obsesses about his gig heading up his high school reunion, and when he sees the most popular guy in his class (James Marsden) in a commercial, he decides to fly to Los Angeles and convince him to come home for the reunion.

Black and Marsden have always been fine actors, but the script by Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul presents them with

two of the most interesting and offbeat roles they have ever had to play. Black’s work here is subtle stuff, reminiscent of his work in Richard Linklater’s Bernie.

Marsden is the real surprise. He’s been playing stiffs like Cyclops in the X-Men movies, and for a guy considered to be one of the funniest actors in Hollywood, he’s only really been able to cut loose recently in Anchorman 2. Here he plays a hedonist with no awareness of the damage he leaves in his wake, sweeping Black into circumstances he doesn’t even understand until the party is almost over.

For a film that’s being marketed as a one-joke comedy, The D Train offers many more twists and turns than you may see coming. It might just be the ultimate bromantic comedy.

• • • James Marsden turns up in the kind of smart supporting roles we’re used to seeing him doing in Shira Piven’s surreal dramedy Welcome to Me, starring Kristin Wiig. Since leaving Saturday Night Live, Wiig’s proven that she’s fearless, vanityfree and interested in pushing past the cartoon barrier of some of her more “out there” characters.” Here, she plays a depressive shut-in who is addicted to her Oprah VHS tapes and has just gone off her meds.

Then she wins the lottery: $86 million.

After moving into a casino hotel suite, with her best friend (Linda Cardellini), she decides she wants her own talk show.

Actually, what she wants is to talk about her life, her regrets and everything else about her while cameras are watching. The lesson? If a nut bag walks into a TV studio and starts writing big checks, they can have whatever they want.

The film’s big satirical point is in watching Marsden, Wes Bentley, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Joan Cusack do Wiig’s bidding as if she were any temperamental media superstar. Wiig commits to finding the rock-bottom sadness in her character.•

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Corey Field puts Hedonism on the Page

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detail. Hedonism, after all, is the pursuit harcoal is a beautiful medium. of pleasure, an act of self-indulgence and It demands total involvement sensuality. It is an act in which all artists as you sculpt an image from the partake, with differing levels of intimacy. chalky residue, coating your fingers as From personal experience I can attest that you work. In the swipe of a finger or art making is often a cathartic event, rich the careful maneuvering of an eraser, with compulsion. Sitting down to work gradients and tones form, either soft and becoming absorbed in a project or or sharp depending on the action. An in studying an object or reference can entire ocean of shades exists between be both meditative and invigorating in a white and black, some more discernable rush of excitement, calculation, and, well, than others. It’s the visual equivalent of hedonistic vigor. listening to sound frequencies, closing “Everyday scenarios and images your eyes to test which pitches you are capable of perceiving. The tones blend into possess their own simple allure,” said Field. “One needn’t employ flamboyant or one another and the image unifies into a profound drivel to embellish it.” whole. Such is the basis of art making: the He is a fan of depicting real life, difference between drawing a “thing” and focusing instead on the depths, colors, and allowing the subject’s face or pose to constitute the lines within. composition, free In this way, “The from embellishments Comedy Quotidian,” or abstraction. an exhibition of work His aesthetic is by artist Corey Field representational and currently up at Crow’s straightforward. His Nest Cafe, seems more execution touches about process than the upon photo-realism. images themselves.

I agree that The show is composed the everyday of a collection of is exciting and figure drawings, some fulfilling—enough aquatints while most material to produce are made from charcoal a lifetime’s worth of with hints of pastel. work—but perhaps Two men embrace each with modernism and other in With Time, the postmodernism to muscles in their arms blame, I question and one’s back carefully the sustainability of shaded. Another man work focused only on stares to the side in a “Fulaing” by Corey Field human figures and portrait entitled Azure. their expressions.

The small lines and Each piece is shapes in his lips are amazingly articulate and aesthetically meticulously rendered and his eye gleams pleasing in its demonstration of skill, and a subtle but striking blue. perhaps one needn’t employ “drivel.” In “When you witness something that fact, perhaps the focus on figures isn’t the benevolently captures your attention,” problem at all, but how the figures are Field wrote in his statement, “it can often employed. It would be interesting to see brighten your mood and cultivate joy.

Field revisit each of these characters, to My own work tends to serve a similarly produce more works involving them or to hedonistic function—nothing more, exhibit them in a way that encourages the nothing less.” works to further interact. After all, one of But from examining the artworks the most compelling instances in the show themselves, one witnesses neither is the placement of Number Five: Wrath benevolence nor joy. Number Five: Wrath next to Agoge, which depicts an infant is an obvious example of this. A man held between two hands, its legs crossed faces the viewer straight on, his hands and hands pressed to its head as it curls pressed against the top of his head and in a ball, asleep. The baby’s innocence eyes squeezed small in extreme anger. His is palpable in relation to Number Five’s mouth is open in a scream of frustration rage. The two images are detached from and annoyance and the wrinkles on his one another, not at all related, but their forehead stand out, prominent. intersection is alarming in its dissonance. • It may thus be surmised that the joy mentioned above comes not from the “The Comedy Quotidian” is on display subjects themselves, but from the act at Crow’s Nest Cafe, 115 The Commons, of drawing them, as well as the viewers’ through May. admiration of Field’s acute attention to

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Trina Bruno Evokes the Real with the Abstract

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here is yet another wonderful art exhibition at Decorum-too (the Oriental rug store and gallery in the Dewitt Mall). This one is by a woman named Trina Bruno. I first saw Trina Bruno’s work on one of those fabulous First Friday Gallery Nights, and fell in love with it.

The odd thing, for me, is it is abstract expressionist in nature. I’m usually drawn toward the representational. I find abstract expressionism comparatively hard to write about. I think it functions somewhat like music. It bypasses the verbal part of the brain and goes directly to the emotional.

(It’s helpful if you think of it as a kind of jazz.)

“Meadow” by Trina Bruno

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Fortunately, I think I can do it with Trina Bruno’s work, as it invokes imagery from the natural world. Bruno herself referred to her work as “wood quilts” when I spoke to her on Gallery Night at her opening reception. Which seems as apt a description as any.

The works are all mixed media, composed of mounted panels of wood, sculpted and painted in a kind of basrelief.

Meadow: This is a large, long horizontal work … with four horizontal bands running across it. The top band and the bottom two bands are green and patterned. The central band has twigs attached to it … looking like a copse of trees in colors of gold and green and brown.

There are green-and-brown blocks that look, to me, like stylized waterfalls.

And there are white-gold rocky patterns that remind me of the walls of the gorges here in the Finger Lakes region.

Taken altogether … it is an abstract work that evokes the peaceful feeling … the “rightness” of being out in nature.

Woven Earth and Earth & Sky are two tall vertical works, mounted side by side like the Twin Towers, constructed of horizontal and vertical bands of texture.

Woven Earth indeed has woven patterns … looking like a basket weave.

Vertical twigs evoke a stand of bamboo.

There are bands of green-gold and shimmering green-and-brown evoking new growth forests, and the thick, tall grass of prairie meadows. And there are wavering horizontal patterns of green, and flashes of tan-and-orange, that evoke water flowing through forest creeks.

Earth & Sky features panels that look like rock and stone, but with patterns carved in them that could be schools of fish … or patterns of leaves. There are horizontal patterns looking like the flow of a great distant river, patterns like fallen fall foliage, and a horizontal band of diagonal patterns in blue that evokes the sky at night.

I find Blue Midnight especially compelling.

It has a panel mounted in the center of the work composed of nine smaller patternedand-painted panels, all variations on blueand-gold. They are mounted on a dark blue background spattered with a galaxy of stars, and intersected by wavering bands of iridescent gold that look like nocturnal clouds.

Most of the patterns are somewhat naturalistic, though there is also a charming use of very stylized geometric patterns like big white zappers.

The main thing (to me) is that, even though it is an abstract piece … it very much evokes the deep, ineffable emotion felt when viewing a star-filled night sky.

Rock Paper Scissors: I like this one a lot … a very appealing abstract work composed of horizontal bands and blocks of deep purple and gold and stone colors.

The thing I find fascinating about this one is, taken altogether, it evokes the layers and striations in the rocks … the Tao pattern of the Universe in stone. But if one examines it closer—one sees fields, windswept plains, distant mountains, waves on the sea, patterns in the air, bubbles in a pond, and ancient cave paintings in the rocks.

Well, there’s lot’s more to see, but I am out of room here. I would enthusiastically recommend the Art-Loving Reader drop

by Decorum-too and catch this show before it vanishes. • Trina Bruno’s exhibition Nature-Framed will be on display at Decorum-too, 215 N. Cayuga St. (in the Dewitt Mall) through May. Call (607) 319-0944 or visit www.

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with the theme …

“And Dorothy is really nice…” contin u ed from page 17 Then we went indoors to a big, mirrored dance studio, and the cast ran green-hued Wicked Witch of the West in through the entire performance, music the MGM movie. provided by a big sci-fi boom box.

How cool is that?!

The performance was astoundingly I walked from Alice Muhlback’s house good. The acting. The singing. The down a little trail running along Cayuga choreography.

Lake to the Just Because Center to meet All the principals were terrific— with Joey Steinhagen, the Artistic Director Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, of R2P, and watch a rehearsal of the play. the Cowardly Lion, Glinda the Good, the We sat out back … a beautiful place Wicked Witch of the West, Oz and on and with picnic tables and a big semi-circular on. seating bench under an awning and green The chorus of Munchkins was lawns that roll under a spring-blossoming tremendous, and Kate Wyly as Toto was tree to Cayuga Inlet. adorable.

I asked Steinhagen, “What’s the most It is worth mentioning that this important thing you want to tell the theatrical version is clearly spun off the Reader?” classic 1939 MGM film version. This gives And he said, “One of the most it a natural advantage in that we know this important facets for us is universal story. It is part of our DNA as Americans. accessibility. And so, as of this season, Another tremendous advantage is that we’ve eliminated all tuition, all financial it features the songs composed by Harold barriers to entry. It’s completely free for Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. Which are among any kid to participate. the greatest composed for any musical.

“We felt it was the right thing to do, to shift the burden off the shoulders of our “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is up there with Beethoven’s kids, and rely on this “Ode to Joy”. wonderful community And the to support us.” choreography for Speaking of the performance the young people, was wonderful.

Steinhagen said, (Kelly Jackson, who “Adolescents are deserves major kudos, constantly bombarded choreographed it.) by messages from every And watching facet of society telling Joey Steinhagen work, them, ‘You should be I thought he had a like this,’ ‘Don’t be like marvelous rapport with this’, ‘Fit in.’ I would say young people. (Like that, in theatre, ‘I dare director Chris Columbus you to be the weirdest who directed the first kid in the room’. two Harry Potter films.)

“And we really take Eventually, after two pride in cultivating acts and an intermission, an atmosphere of the play was done and acceptance and Alice Muhlback with artwork for Steinhagen told the cast welcoming and “Wizard” sets (Photo: Brian Arnold) and crew, “The progress affirmation, where you has been massive,” and can come and be whoever that they’d get their notes you are … and you can use that space and via email. that safety to figure out who you are.”

As I said goodbye, I chatted briefly And this really impressed me… with Steinhagen. I mentioned his rapport “We’re completely inclusive,” with the young people and he said, Steinhagen said. “We don’t cut anyone who auditions. So we’re always looking for “Honestly, I invented my dream job. I can’t think of anything I could possibly enjoy shows with lots of opportunities.” doing more. And I do this in part because Then Steinhagen led a group of 29 I genuinely like them. young people through theatrical exercises “I love working with this age group. on the rolling green lawns … physical, I love being some part of the process by verbal, sensory and meditative exercises which they are turning into the people … as light sparkled like diamonds on the who they are going to be for the rest of inlet, and scullers rowed by. their lives … and I think they are going And I also met the cast member Kate to be nice and interesting people as Wyly, who had just turned 13 years old individuals … so I love spending as much and plays Toto. time as I do with them.”

She told me, “I’ve been in two And you can spend time with them previous shows with R2P, including A too, Dear Reader. At the State Theatre this Christmas Carol, and they were really fun. weekend. • I love R2P … and I especially love Joey.”

The Running to Places Theatre Company I asked, “So how is it playing Toto?” will perform The Wizard of Oz Friday And Wyly said, “It’s really fun. It’s and Saturday May 15 & 16 at 7 p.m., awesome because I don’t have to really and Sunday May 17 at 2 p.m. Tickets are remember any choreography, and I don’t available at the State Theatre Box Office. have any lines and I don’t sing—not that I Visit: 105 West State/MLK Street. Click: don’t love singing and dancing—but I get www.stateofithaca.com. Call: (607) 277to be really energetic and enthusiastic, but 8283. basically do whatever I want having to do

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5/13 Wednesday

Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Cory Wilcox | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Reggae Night w. The I-Town Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

5/14 Thursday

Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM- | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Acoustic music. Visit http:// www.sixmilecreek.com/ for more info.

Fundraiser for Maria Mallon | 6:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Featuring Samite, Ritchie Stearns, & Charlie Shew.

Lynn Wiles & Ted Robinette | 7:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

5/15 Friday

The Common Railers | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Alt-country

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West Hill Billies | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Old-time happy hour music.

Paul Kempkes “Dr. K” | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Solo guitar and vocals with attitude.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM- | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner.

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Black Castle | 8:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | W/ The Superpowers.

Second Dam Album Release Show | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | W/ Pale Blue Dot. Tru Bleu | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

5/16 Saturday

Cielle and All Sounds On | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Ruddy Well Band | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | W/ Nate and Kate.

Cat’s Elbow | 9:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | CD release party.

5/17 Sunday

Ithaca Folk Song Swap | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Crow’s Nest Cafe (above Autumn Leaves Books), 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Traditional ballads, chanteys, & songs, as well as contemporary songs with traditional roots.

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Radio London | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | An authentic slice of AM 60s radio.

The Bombadils | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Lively “cinematic folk” International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

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

5/18 Monday

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

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

5/19 Tuesday

Tuesday Bluesday | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With Danny P and Friends Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans

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Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | concerts

C Major, BWV 1005 (Ibragimova); Brahms: String Sextet in B-flat Major, op. 18 (Chiaroscuro Quartet, Berick, Newman).

Mayfest (Barnes Hall) | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Program 3: Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Major (“Ghost”) (Bjerken, Hernan, Thirion); Brahms: Clarinet Trio (Halevi, Newman, Yampolsky); Schubert: Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 (“Death and the Maiden”) (Chiaroscuro Quartet).

5/18 Monday

Celebrating Percy Browning | 8:00 PM- | Carriage House Hayloft, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Performances by Xak Bjerken, Miri Yampolsky, Malcolm Bilson, Roger Moseley, Robert Issacs, and friends, as well as members of the Glee Club and Chorus.

Mayfest (Barnes Hall) | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Program 4: All Mozart, with a pre-concert talk by Neal Zaslaw at 7:15 pm: Divertimento in B-flat Major, K. 138 (Chiaroscuro Quartet); Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 414 (Bilson, Chiaroscuro Quartet); Duo for Violin and Viola in G Major, K. 423 (Ibragimova, Quiggle); Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (Halevi, Chiaroscuro Quartet).

5/14 Thursday

5/19 Tuesday

5/13 Wednesday

Answer the Muse | 8:00 PM- | Carriage House Hayloft, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | A brand-new set of music.

With special guest Ryan Vanderhoof.

5/16 Saturday

BJM’s Got Talent 2015 Concert/ Performance Benefit | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School | Sim Redmond and Nate Richardson, The Dr. Nia Nunn-Makepeace Family Dancers, Darell “Money Mars” Tate, and many more performers. Visit gvgb.co/ BJMGotTalent for tickets and info.

Mayfest (Barnes Hall) | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Program 1: Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Hob. III/34 and Mendelssohn: Quartet in A Minor, op. 13 (Chiaroscuro Quartet); Shostakovich: Cello Sonata (Lyon, Yampolsky); Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring for four-hand piano (Anastasio, Bjerken, Yampolsky).

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Mayfest (Lab of Ornithology) | 2:00 PM- | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Program 2: Bach: Violin Sonata in

Mayfest (Carriage House) | 8:00 PM- | Carriage House Cafe Hayloft, 305 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | Program 5: Clancy Newman: From Method to Madness (Newman, Bjerken); the Shuhan Family; Bazzini: La ronde des lutins (Berick, Yampolsky); i3° plays Stravinsky’s Rite.

Film cinemapolis

Friday, 5/15 to Thursday, 5/21.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Clouds of Sils Maria | Juliette Binoche faces a reflection of herself (Kristen Stewart) in a revival of the play that launched her career. | 124 mins R | National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem | Tom Stoppard play directed

by Nicholas Hytner. | 100 mins NR | Felix and Meira (Felix et Meira) | An unusual romance blossoms between lost souls who inhabit the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds. | 105 mins R |

Meet Me in St. Louis | Classic Judy Garland film. | 113 mins NR | Moog | Documenatary about Bob Moog, creator of some of the most inspiring electronic instruments ever created. | 72 mins NR | Occupy the Farm | Documentary about a community’s fight to save public land for urban farming. | 90 mins NR | On the Side of the Road | Documentary about Israelis’ collective amnesia of the fate of Palestinian refugees after the events of 1948. | 82 mins NR | Shrew’s Nest (Musarañas) | Horror thriller about two sisters’ creepy bond shattered by an unexpected visitor. | 95 mins NR | The Salt of the Earth (Le Sel de la terre) | Documentary follows photographer Sebastião Salgado, who for 40 years has shot an ever-changing humanity. | 110 mins, PG-13 | Welcome to Me |Kristen Wiig wins the lottery, quits her psychiatric meds, and buys her own talk show. | 105 mins R | While We’re Young | A middle-aged couple’s career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives. | 97 mins R | Woman in Gold | Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. | 110 mins PG-13 | cornell cinema

Playing throughout May. Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Big Hero 6 | A robot and a young prodigy form a band of high-tech heroes. | 102 mins PG | Birdman | The Oscar-winning hit with Michael Keaton. | 119 mins R | The Cut | In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses everything. | 138 mins NR | Kingsman: The Secret Service | A spy org recruits a promising street kid.

Action & laughs ensue. | 129 mins R | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | The legendary troupes’ classic, quotable comedy. | 91 mins PG |

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Pelican Dreams | Follow a wayward pelican from the Golden Gate Bridge to a rehab facility. | 80 mins G | Trainwreck | Amy Schumer starrer from Judd Apatow. | 122 mins R | What We Do in the Shadows | Horror/comedy about modern-day vampires. | 86 mins NR | Hospicare Film Series: “Death: A Love Story” | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Hospicare, 172 E King Rd, Ithaca | Documentary portrays the rite of passage we all must face. Hospicare volunteers will facilitate discussions after the film.

Seating limited; to register, write Mark Costa at 607-272-0212 or mcosta@ hospicare.org.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 7:00 PM-, 05/15 Friday | Groton Public Library, , | Cult-classic musical film, refreshments. Free for Adults over 18.

Stage Swimming in the Shallows | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | By Adam Bock.

A brilliant comedy for five humans and one shark. Wednesdays to Sundays, May 12-17. Visit http://www.kitchentheatre.org for showtimes & prices.

Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 05/13

Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs.

Running To Places: The Wizard of Oz | 7:00 PM, 05/15 Friday; 7:00 PM, 05/16 Saturday; 2:00 PM, 05/17 Sunday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 West State Street, Ithaca | Running to Places (R2P) is a youth community theatre company that brings together middle & high school students from across the area.

Pinocchio | 11:00 AM, 05/16 Saturday; 2:00 PM, 05/16 Saturday | Goodwill Theatre, 67 Broad St, Johnson City | Lively one act opera teaches the value of telling the truth and asking for help, while reminding students it’s important to stay in school. Performances at 11 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. For more info call (607) 772-2404, ext. 301, or visit www. goodwilltheatre.net Guys and Dolls | 7:30 PM-, 05/19 Tuesday | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | This five-time Tony Award-winner celebrates Broadway’s golden era with one of the greatest scores ever written by the legendary Frank Loesser.

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact

Locally focused. A world of possibilities.

in a young person’s life. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student. mentor@yahoo.com.

Register for Lifelong Annual Luncheon & Meeting | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Share Lifelong’s new direction and opportunities for the future May 21 at Ramada Inn, N. Triphammer Rd. Lunch included. RSVP no later than May 13 at Lifelong, by calling 273-1511, or at frontdesk@tclifelong.org.

Coffee with the Mayor and Chief | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 05/13 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | Throughout May, Mayor Myrick and Chief of Police John R. Barber visit local coffeeshops to meet the Ithaca community and discuss police issues or concerns. No reservation required. Free coffee.

May 13, 20, 27: Gimme! Coffee 506 W State St. Food Truck Roundup | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Ithaca Children’s Garden, Cass Park, Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | On the 1st Wednesday of each month, from May-September.

Annual Rummage Sale | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 05/15 Friday | The Salvation Army, 150 North Albany

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

Street, Ithaca | Friday, May 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, May 16 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Landlords Association of Tompkins County meeting | 4:30 PM-, 05/18 Monday | Ramada Inn, N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Meets monthly at the Ramada Inn through May, normally the 4th Monday of the month. For more info email LATC@LandlordsAssociation. com or call 607-257-2382.

Downtown Ithaca Children’s Center Annual Meeting | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 05/18 Monday | Downtown Ithaca Children’s Center, 506 First St., Ithaca | Meet other parents, board members.

All welcome. RSVP at the Center or call 607-272-7117.

Learning Art Classes for Adults | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Instruction in dance, music, visual arts, and performance. Call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org. www. csma-ithaca.org.

Plots and free gardening classes | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Floral Avenue Community Garden, Floral Avenue (Rt. 13A), next to the inlet, Ithaca | All are welcome. For more info call Chrys Gardener at 272-2292, ext. 241 or email cab69@cornell.edu

The Co-Op Opportunity: Everybody’s Business | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | An intro to various forms of cooperative businesses and the economic and social benefits they provide. Includes dinner, register at http://bit.ly/1GTnkSv or call (607) 229-3540.

Medicinal Mushrooms | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Health benefits of popular ‘shrooms. Sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

FINZ Meeting: Finance Managers of Tompkins County | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, 05/14 Thursday | Franziska Racker Center, Wilkins Rd, Ithaca | Compensating Employees with Shari Constantino and Kim Swartwout.

Program provides the basics of professional compensation management.

Free, no need to register.

Human Services Coalition Series: Leading with Impact - Your Ripple Effect | 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, 05/14 Thursday | Highland Lodge Center, 5176 Indian Fort Road, Trumansburg | With Roxi Bahar Hewertson, a one-day workshop for senior leaders in non-profit and governmental organizations. Visit www.hsctc.org/workshops for details.

Tompkins Workforce: Sector Series Info Sessions | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 05/14 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Learn about the retail, accommodation, & food service sectors of the local labor market. Free and open to the public.

Tenant-Landlord Rights & Responsibilities | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/14 Thursday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Assistant Attorney General Mike Danaher discusses tenant-landlord issues. Free and open to the public, advance registration not necessary. For more info call 272-2292 weekdays between 11 AM and 3 PM. The Longest Loss: Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 05/14 Thursday | Island Health & Fitness, 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Educational program hosted by Hospicare. In the Thomas Ficorelli Conference Room.

Building Community Through Shared Stories Workshop | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 05/14 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W

Special Events Trees: Rooted in History and Place | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Community based discussion on historical trees. Bring a lunch and a story, drawing or photo to share your favorite tree in Tompkins County.

Office for the Aging’s Advisory Committee’s Annual Luncheon | 12:00 PM-, 05/14 Thursday | Hotel Ithaca, 222 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Keynote speaker Dr. Nathan Spreng, Director of The Laboratory of Brain and

Carriage House Hayloft, Tuesday, May 14, 8:00 p.m.

Cornell Campus, Saturday, May 16 to Thursday, May 21

A unique fusion of theatrical, spiritually inspired, transformational performance art.

Clarinetist Chen Halevi returns to perform in Cornell’s eighth annual international chamber music festival.

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Buffalo St, Ithaca | With Celeste Licorish. Registration encouraged but not required.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/15 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 05/15 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College.

Outdoor Skills Day | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 05/16 Saturday | YMCA, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Classes for all ages & abilities, including rope making, tracking, plant identification. Held at Outdoor Education Center, 1349 Mecklenburg Road. For more info, contact Ryan Allen at rallen@ ithacaymca.com, or call 607-257-0101.

HSC Workshop Series: Successful Fundraising from A to Z | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 05/18 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Introduction to strategies to help you raise money, with Mary Beth Bunge and Scott Heyman. In the Borg-Warner Room. Register by emailing registration@hsctc.org or call 607.273.8686.

Tompkins Workforce Workshop: Conquering the Interview | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 05/19 Tuesday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | How to research and prepare for interviews and how to avoid common problems. Pre-register at 272-7570.

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Bike To Work Day | All day, 05/15 Friday | Anywhere, , Ithaca | Find out why commuting by bike is fun, energizing, and affordable! See https:// www.facebook.com/tccommuterchallenge for more info.

Ithaca College 120th Commencement Weekend | All day, 05/15 Friday-05/17 Sunday | Ithaca College | Congratulations, IC grads!

Cornell Game Design Initiative Showcase | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 05/15 Friday | Carpenter Hall, Cornell Campus, Ithaca | Showcase open to the public featuring PC and mobile games created over the past year at Cornell. Play the games and vote for your favorite. Held in ACCEL Labs, 242 Carpenter Hall.

Spring Garden Fair & Plant Sale | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 05/16 Saturday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | More than 40 area growers and 12 garden groups offer a huge variety of plants. For more info visit http:// ccetompkins.org/plantsale or call (607) 272-2292.

Bob Moog Birthday Bash | 11:00 AM-, 05/16 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Celebrating the Life of Bob Moog through performances, discussions and presentations

by Moog experts.

Silent & Live Auction | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/17 Sunday | Congregation Tikkun v’Or, 2550 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Auction items include art, antiques, weekend vacation homes, b&b nights, and more.

Community Foundation Annual Meeting: Creating Community Connections | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 05/18 Monday | Loaves & Fishes, 210 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Celebrate 15 years of philanthropic achievement thanks to the amazing generosity of the people of Tompkins County. All welcome. Register at http://conta. cc/1JTU6cb

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Nature & Science CU Plantations: Birds & Blossoms-Guided Spring Walks | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | Mult. Locations | Rain or shine, registration not required. Friday bird walks at 8:00 a.m. at Cornell Plantations; meet by the Sculpture Garden, in the F.R. Newman Arboretum off Caldwell Road. Sunday wildflower walks at 1:00 p.m. at Sapsucker Woods; Meet at the Lab of Ornithology visitor center.

Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 05/15 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM-, 05/16 Saturday; 7:30 AM-, 05/17 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Targeted at beginners, but appropriate for all.

Binoculars available for loan. Meet at front of the building. For info, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

The Cayuga Trails Club: Treman State Park | 5:00 PM-, 05/19 Tuesday | Ithaca | A 5-mile hike in Treman State Park. Meet at 5:00 pm, Lower Lick Brook Preserve parking area on Routes 13/34/96. For more info, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

Health & Wellness Alcoholics Anonymous | All day | Multiple Locations | For more info, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St,

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Village at Ithaca ICSD Board of Education Candidates Forum | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A forum for school board candidates, held in the library. Will focus on equity questions in the ICSD. Refreshments & childcare provided.

Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/18 Monday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Public Works Committee | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/19 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 05/19 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

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Zumba Gold Classes | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | With instructor Nicole Bostwick. Starting June 3, 2015-December 31, 2015 Every Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | The Consciousness Club invites you to experience a deep guided meditation in their weekly meetings every Wednesday on the 5th Floor Lounge. All are welcome.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 05/13 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | A free group providing info and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. For info, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink. com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | NY | Meets multiple places and days. For more info, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org.

Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | Skaters of any level are welcome. Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers. Open to men and women 18+. For info and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every week. No experience necessary. More at www.

DamodarDas.com.

Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting.

Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 05/14 Thursday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | A worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more info or call 607-379-3835.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM,

Happy Birthday Bob The History Center, Saturday, May 16, 11 a.m.

The Moog exhibit has been up for a year, but the special events just keep coming. Moog’s birthday will be marked with discussions, presentations and, of course, music.

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05/14 Thursday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Yoga School Classes | 4:30 PM-, 05/15 Friday | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Prenatal Yoga, 4:30pm Friday 5/29.

The Listening Workshop | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 05/16 Saturday | Ithaca Community Childcare Center, 579 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Register by emailing listeningworkshop@gmail. com. Workshop can shorten the time between conflict and resolution, build bonds of connection and intimacy, and enhance all areas of your life.

Writing Practice as Self-Inquiry | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 05/16 Saturday | 108 S Albany St, 108 S Albany St, Ithaca | The goal of the group is self-discovery first, and good writing second. Friendly group discussions will be facilitated. No experience necessary. For more info see http://www.spiritualself-inquiry.com or call 607-754-1303.

Overeaters Anonymous | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 05/16 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Visit www.oa.org for more info or call 607-379-3835.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 05/17 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 05/17 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 05/17 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more info and reserve your place as space is limited.

Walk-in Clinic | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 05/18 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/18 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Visit www.oa.org for more info or call 607-379-3835.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 05/19 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department,

55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Call for an appointment or get further info (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 05/19 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-272-1505.

Remembering our Parents: Honoring Their Lives and Legacies | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/19 Tuesday | Hospicare, 172 E King Rd, Ithaca | An opportunity to share memories & create a photo keepsake.

Pre-registration by May 15 required.

Call Sarah Harty at 607-272-0212 or email sharty@hospicare.org.

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 05/19 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | No dues or fees.

Books Book Talk w/ Alison Weir | 5:00 PM-, 05/13 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Weir will discuss her new book, Against Our Better Judgment: How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel.

No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms discussion | 5:00 PM-, 05/15 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Panel includes editors Craib and Maxwell plus Sasha Lilley, Ramsey Kanaan, and Silvia Federici.

Poetry Reading | 2:00 PM-, 05/16 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | By Margot Farrington and Naomi Guttman.

Author Discussion: Lisa Lieberman | 2:00 PM-, 05/17 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Discusses her new novel All The Wrong Places, a historical noir about blacklisted Hollywood people.

Arts ongoing Benji Slatoff-Burke exhibit | All day | Silky Jones, 214 The Commons, Ithaca | Interpretations of Rodin show runs through May 31.

Annie Eller exhibit | All day | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca, | Intricate and illuminated drawings. Runs May 1 to June 30.

Jen Fisher & Laura Sinclaire exhibit | All day | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Exciting works in ink, watercolor, and oil. Runs May 1 to June 30.

Naomi Edmark exhibit | All day | Stella’s Cafe, 403 College Ave Ste B, Ithaca | Series of photos on display from May 11 to June 30.

Seneca Falls Art Walk 2015 | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/15 Friday; 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 05/16 Saturday | Downtown Seneca Falls, , Seneca Falls | Receptions and music though the downtown business district as artists show their work in downtown businesses.

Museums Museum of the Earth at PRI | 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Ongoing: The Animals of the Nature Center, Glacier Exhibit, Right Whale #2030, Rock of Ages/Sands of Time, Coral Reef Aquaria, A Journey Through Time, Discovery Labs, Hype Park Mastodon. For more info visit www.museumoftheearth.org Rockwell Museum: Two New Exhibits | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | Rockwell Museum Of Western Art, 111 Cedar St, Corning | Nine contemporary glass pieces of the Pacific Northwest on view through Memorial Day. Also on display is “The Photography of John Doddato: In Pursuit of the American Landscape.”

Exhibit: “A Floral Love Affair” Acrylics by Marcia Eames-Sheavly | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | Runs through June 30. For info call 607-255-2400.

Captains, Commerce, and Community: The Impact of the Erie Canal on Tompkins County | The History Center, 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Visit www. historicithaca.org or www.thehistorycenter.net for more details. Runs through June 30.

Switched-On: The Birth of the Moog Synthesizer | The History Center, 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Visit www.historicithaca.org or www.thehistorycenter. net for more details. Runs to May 30.

Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War | Central NY Living History

H. Peter Khan Retrospective The Ink Shop, Runs until May 30.

A rare look at the breadth and depth of the repertoire of this beloved teacher, artist, and cultural icon.

Center, 4386 US-11, Cortland | A national traveling exhibition focused on Lincoln’s struggle to meet the constitutional challenges of the Civil War. Runs until June 19. Visit www. cortlandhistory.com for more info.

Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist, through 6/07 | Staged, Performed, Manipulated, through 6/07 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy, through 7/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos,

by Leo Villareal, ongoing. www. museum.cornell.edu Quirks of Nature: Comics by Rosemary Mosco | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | The wonderfully strange world of wild plants and animals. Runs through Jun 8. For info visit www. museumoftheearth.org Susquehanna River Archaeological Center | 345 Broad Street, Waverly | Tuesday-Friday, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Native American artifacts, ongoing | www. sracenter.org

Lectures Costly Performance Mistakes Managers Make | 8:00 AM-10:30 AM, 05/14 Thursday | Moakley House, Cornell University, 243 Warren Rd., Ithaca | Ross Blake details 10 mistakes which decrease employee cooperation. RSVP at http://shrmtc. shrm.org/ events page.

Bronfenbrenner Center Talks at Twelve: Using Tablet-Based Technology to Understand Healthy Eating and Active Living | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 05/14 Thursday | Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Rd, Ithaca | With Dr. Rebecca Seguin, assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Beebe Hall conference room, Plantations. Open to all; lunch served.

See www.bctr.cornell.edu for info.

Lead Like It Matters – Because it Does | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/15 Friday | Racker Centers, 3226 Wilkins Rd., Ithaca | Roxi Bahar Hewertson

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backed up Johnny Dowd, and is one-half of Tzar with Mike Stark.

With Black Castle, as with many “side projects,” there is an obvious exuberance, evidently created by cracking the business-as-usual mold of the artists’ main gigs. The result might sound like the London underground, or modern day Jamaica, or an American garage—but the source of Black Castle’s musical river is distinctly Ithacan.

Check the lyrics: “You can’t shake my faith in unity,” “Remove the doubt you made,” and “When dark clouds make rain you’ll turn the water into wine”; even if the music could give you a concussion, live Black Castle is a dream.

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e surely shine,” sings Elliot Martin on a propulsive new track by Black Castle, an act that’s ostensibly a side project of John Brown’s Body, but remains one of the most reliably captivating bands in the area. The song, released ahead of a rare show this Friday, May 15, at the Dock, throttles out of the gate sounding like a great otherworldly machine. It would be fair to call it an aural assault, but for the fact that Martin’s vocals are so entrancing.

The five years since the band’s last official release have seen the act grow larger and denser—Martin fronts two percussionists, Brian Wilson as well as Matt Saccuccimorano, Nate Silas Richardson on guitar, Brian Dozoretz on bass, and Jon Petronzio on keyboards. And in live performances they’ve harnessed the power of Big Mean Sound Machine’s horns (who themselves have a show at the Stonecat Café Saturday for that restaurant’s opening for the season). That

discusses leadership. Register at: http:// www.rackercenters.org/index.cfm/ page/event_registration.htm Lecture: Falls, What Can I Do? | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 05/15 Friday | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | By Dr. Fnu Seemant, Cayuga Sports Medicine physician. Free and open to all. For more info, call 607.274.4498.

Kids Art Classes for Kids | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For children and teens in dance, music, visual arts, and performance. Call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Abovoagogo Summer Art Camp Registration | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | Abovoagogo Art Studio, 409 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Seven weeks of local adventures and visiting artists.

Registration and details at www. abovoagogo.com/summer.

Hangar Theatre Summer Kids Workshops Registration | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | Theatre classes

The SufferJets, doing what they do best (photo by Walter Romero) said, the brilliant machine that digests electronic dance music, dub step, soul, and everything else it can absorb in an act of original creation feels like the tightest unit to grace a stage.

Formed as an creative outlet for vocalist Martin 15 years ago at a time the front man was emerging as a songwriting force in the hard-touring and criticallyacclaimed American roots reggae band JBB, Black Castle has always been forwardlooking—never a side-project in a literal or lateral sense.

available for third grade and up at multiple experience levels. For details, fees, and sign-up visit http://www. hangartheatre.org/next-generationschool-of-theatre.html Registration For Music in Motion “Angie’s Music Camp” | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | A coed music day camp, ages 5-12 (no experience required).

August 10-14 and August 24-28. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., held at Acting Out NY studio in Center Ithaca (before and after care available for extra charge.)

Register at www.mumotion.com/ summercamp-register.

Call for entries in BirdSleuth Youth Writing & Art Contest | All day, 05/13 Wednesday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Ages 5 through 18. Entries accepted through August 14, 2015. To register and for more info, visit http://www. birdsleuth.org/contests/ Sciencenter Winter/Spring Exhibition: “TreeHouses” | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Explore an indoor tree house while you look, listen, and smell for signs of animal tree dwellers at the Sciencenter’s new featured exhibition.

The line-up originally included producer and percussionist Saccuccimorano, who then enlisted Dozoretz. As a drum and bass team they have backed the likes of Johnny Dowd, Jennie Stearns, Uniit, and Mary Lorson. Then they brought in multiinstrumentalist Richardson on guitar (Sim Redmond Band, JBB, 10-ft. Ganja Plant), and a few years ago the keyboard chair was filled by Petronzio (Revision, JBB).

Their last addition was Brian Wilson in 2013, who has toured with Jamie Lidell,

Open Tuesday-Sunday.

Sciencenter: Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 05/13 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Kids 4 & under explore hands-on activities, stories, and songs. Every Wednesday and Saturday. Sciencenter educators also share research-based parenting tips in a fun environment. www. sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: After School at Belle Sherman Elementary (grades 2-5) | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Belle Sherman Elementary School, 501 Mitchell St, Ithaca | Join Primitive Pursuits each week, and learn the tools of survival right in the forests around your school. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits. com.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: East Hill Homeschool Program (ages 6 - 10) | 9:00 AM-1:30 PM, 05/14 Thursday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | Explore bow-making, walnut dyeing, cob oven construction & more. Sliding scale fee.

Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

PM-7:00 PM, 05/17 Sunday | Stewart Park, , ithaca | Activities including cultural music and dance performances, fine arts exhibitions, cultural cuisine, family activity zones, community resource booths.

Sunday Science Demonstrations | 2:00 PM-, 05/17 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate awe-inspiring science with colorful chemical reactions, fun with physics, and more! Visit www.sciencenter.org/ calendar.html for programs and dates.

Sciencenter: Chemsations! | 2:00 PM-, 05/17 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate chemical reactions with color changes, bubbles, and light.

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Send your events items – band gigs, benefits, meet-ups, whatever – to arts@ithacatimes.com.

State of the Art Member Show

Buffalo Street Books, Saturday, May 16, 2:00 p.m.

State of the Art Gallery, Runs until May 31.

Poets Margot Farrington (pictured here) and Naomi Guttman will read from their latest collections.

Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years and their parent/caregiver every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Go to IYBrec.com or call 273-8364 for info.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: West Hill After School Program (ages 6 - 10) | 2:30 PM-5:00 PM, 05/15 Friday | Y Adventureland, 1350 Mecklenburg Rd (Rt 79), Ithaca | Join us each week to discover mysteries and bring home tales of adventure!

Transportation available from Fall Creek Elementary. Sliding scale fee. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 05/16 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Sciencenter Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 05/17 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Third Annual International Youth Arts and Culture (IYAC) Fest | 1:00

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• • • Roller derby—a high octane mash-up of sport, spectacle and performance—is gaining traction in hip communities across the country thanks to teams like the SufferJets and the Ithaca League of Women Rollers. Much like almost everything else in Tompkins County, though, the league is associated with other New York roller derby teams and a larger roller national derby revival, the way our girls roll is distinctly Ithacan.

Now in its eighth season, Saturday marked the first bout this year for Ithaca Roller Derby, which will continue through September. The next bout will be a league expo on Saturday, May 30 at the rink at Cass Park. •

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CAROLINE Yard Sale

The Annual Sale will be held on Saturday, May 16. Free maps of participating homes in Brooktondale, Slaterville & Speedsville will be available at the Brooktondale Community Center, 526 Valley Rd. in Brooktondale, from 8:00 to 2:00. Visit www.brooktondalecc.org for more details.

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Organically Grown Blueberries $1.60 lb. Open 7 days a week. Dawn-toDusk. Easy to pick high bush berries.

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Contemporary Trend Furniture, TV, PS3, Precor treadmill, bike, books, Treeform bookshelves, and many others! 11 am to 5 pm.

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For Sale! Female Puppy, 6 weeks old, shots, health guaranteed, good with children and AKC Registered. Cost: $600.

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Cornell Summer Debate Camp

register now for the International High School Summer Debate Camp at Cornell University from August 2-9, 2015. Join students from all over the world in learning the basics of argumentation and debate, as well as advanced debating and public speaking skills. Ages 13-18, no experiencerequired. http://summerdebatecamp.cornell.edu or email lb542@cornell.edu

320/Bulletin Board Notification of Distribution The Bolton Point Municipal Water System (BP-MWS), the City of Ithaca Water System (CIWS) and the Cornell University Water System (CUWS) in accordance with US EPA regulations and NYS Public Health Law have prepared a joint Annual Water Quality Report for the year 20134 The report is available on the Internet at www.boltonpoint.org. A paper copy will be mailed upon request. Comments or questions regarding this notice or the Annual Water Quality Report can be directed to BP-MWS Production Manager Joan Foote at 277-0660, CIWS Chief Operator Charles Baker at 2734680 and CUWS Plant Manager Chris Bordlemay at 255-3381

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Please contact Earland (Butch) Perfetti @ 339-6842. earlandperfetti@aol.com.

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Software Engineer

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Design, develop, and modify computer applications software or specialized programs. Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency. analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Use scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design. Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new requirements. or to improve its performance. Develop and direct software testing and validation procedures programming, and documentation. Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan computer specifications and layouts. Requirements: MS in Computer Science with a minimum of 1 year of experience, or BS/BA in Computer Science with a minimum of 3 years of experience Advanced software development skills in C/C++ or Java. Proficiency with Scheme or Python. Knowledge of software security. Send CV to Gramma Tech, Inc. 531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850

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Clinic Coordinator

for Ithaca Free Clinic. Responsible, selfdirected, solid administrative experience.

Communicate respectfully, effectively w/diverse clients, volunteers, medical/ holistic providers. Recruit, schedule, train volunteers to serve clinic patients, oversee afternoon/evening clinic sessions w/volunteer health/admin team.

Resume cover letter to executivedirector@ithacahealth.org or Ithaca Health Alliance, PO Box 362, Ithaca, NY 14851.

Living Wage. EOE DELIVERY PART-TIME Route Driver needed for delivery of newspapers every Wednesday. Must be available 9am-1pm, have reliable transportation, and a good driving record.

Call 277-7000

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Spring Garden Fair & Plant Sale SATURDAY, MAY 16 9:00am - 2:00pm at

ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL

Gideon Porth dba Atlas Farm

DEERFIELD, MA needs 3 temporary workers 5/25/2015 to 12/31/2015, 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. $11.26 per hr. Applicants apply at, Franklin Hampshire Career Center, (413) 774-4361 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5466108. Growing vegetables crops including planting, weeding, harvesting and packing. Applicants must be able to lift 50 lb. boxes for extended periods of time and work while crouching or kneeling on the ground for extended periods of time. One month experience required in duties listed.

MAKE $1000 Weekly!! Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No Experience Required. Start Immediately. www.the workingcorner.com (AAN CAN)

Mediation Coordinator

Cortland County Position. Responsibilities include: Case Management and Mediation services for wide range of disputes; Emphasis on helping families with custodial and parenting arrangements for Family Court. Flexible work schedule required. Home office a must. Computer, printer and phone provided. Reliable transportation. BA degree and 2 years Human Service experience minimum requirement. Twenty hours per week part-time position. Send a cover letter and resume to: John W. McCullough, Executive Director New Justice Services, Inc. 1153 W. Fayette St. Suite 301, Syracuse, NY 13204. No calls accepted. New Justice is an AA/EOE employer

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Since 1984 802 W. Seneca St. Ithaca 607-272-1711 fax: 607-272-3102 www.fingerlakeselectric.com

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Central New York *Free Vehicle/Boat Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *100% Tax Deductible

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BLACK CAT ANTIQUES “We stock the unusual” 774 Peru Road, Rte. 38 • Groton, NY 13073 Spring hours: 10 to 5 Friday & Saturday or by Chance or Appointment BlackCatAntiques@CentralNY.twcbc.com 607.898.2048

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PT (22.5 hours/week) Responsible for coordinating & providing social work services to residents in an 80 bed skilled nursing facility under the direct supervision of the Director of Social Work.

Job tasks include identifying & meeting the psychosocial needs of residents to enhance quality of life: serves as resident rights advocate & discharge planner; serves as liaison between residents, family members, & facility; participates in special projects to benefit residents; maintains all necessary information & records as requited. Qualifications: Degree in Social Work, Human Services, or related field preferred; work experience in social work, geriatrics, human services or related field preferred. Excellent interpersonal skills, incl. the ability to interact effectively w/ diverse groups of people; sensitivity & caring in dealing w/ individuals w/ illness or disability. Good written, organizational & communication skills, incl. basic computer skills; ability to handle & maintain confidential information; ability to openly receive direction & to work independently w/ minimal supervision. Send resume w/ cover letter incl. salary expectations to Human Resources, GCHCC, Inc. 120 Sykes St., Groton, NY 13073 EOE

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BOAT DOCKING (ITHACA) BOAT DOCK Next to KELLY’S DOCKSIDE CAFE. $600 for SEASON. Please Call Tom 607-342-0626

SALES

Are you a self starter, smart on your feet, Competitive, Outgoing, Personable and possess a strong work ethic? We may have the job you’ve been looking for! The Ithaca times/Ithaca.com seeks a full time sales representative. Our Reps identify needs and sell marketing solutions that include newspapers online and niche products. Base, plus commission, Full benefits. Send resume and cover letter to Jbilinski@ithacatimes.com

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510/Adoption Services PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. (AAN CAN)

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RN LPN

Pregnant: Considering Adoption Childless, married couple are ready to open our hearts and home. Promise love, security & opportunity. Financial help for your pregnancy. Nick & Gloria 855-385-5549 (NYSCAN)

MA, PHLEBOTOMIST, AEMT to perform Mobile Insurance Exams in the Ithaca/ Cortland Area. Must have 1 full year Phlebotomy Experience. Email Resume to Apps70@appsdom.com or call Heidi at 716-632-0400

ABSOLUTE REAL ESTATE, VEHICLES, MUSICAL & ANTIQUES AUCTION! 130 Christopher Circle, Ithaca NY 14850 Sun. MAY 17 @ 11 AM • Preview @ 10 AM • Estate of Nora C. Harris Arquit 1,032 SQFT 2- story Ranch Home w/ (3) car gar, (4) BR’s; (1)bath; Kit; LR; DR; laundry, Hrdwd flrs. (.7 Acre) corner lot.

Sells at ABSOLUTE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER REGARDLESS OF PRICE! VEHICLES: 04’ Cadillac Deville w/ 46k(Nice); 1981F Mustang w/ V-8.

MUSICALS: old instruments; SELLING HUNDREDS OF ANTIQUES/ JEWELRY/OLD TOYS/BOOKS/POTTERY/EPHERMA/FURNITURE & YARD ITEMS! VISIT: SDZauctions.com

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2 Bedroom Apt

2 miles north Hospital - 2 bedroom, Unfurnished - Available May 15, Private, Bright and Airy, Large Living Room, Kitchen, Bath, No Smoking, No Pets, References $750 plus utilities - 12 month lease 607-272-5511

the place that’s right for you with Conifer.

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Near Ithaca Commons, $625 includes.

Available June 1st. No Smoking or pets.

607.279.8742

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT WANTED I am looking for a responsible Administrative Assistant. Position is flexible, so students and others can apply.

Computer literacy is a plus.

Send resume to:

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800/Services FREE Home Energy Audit

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

FOUND antiques • vintage • unusual objects

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

Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!

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

Trip Pack n Ship

Packing & Shipping around the World.

Save $5 with Community Cash Coupon.

Trip Pack n Ship in the Triphammer Market Place 607-379-6210

Open every day 10-6, except Tues.

HANDYMAN

Carpentry, Stone Walls, Horticulture, References. (607)793-3230, 30 Years Experience.

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

House Cleaning

Carpet Cleaning, Window Cleaning.

Honest, Reliable, references. 16 years experience. Pam 227-4732

825/Financial Are you in trouble with the IRS? Owe 10k or more in taxes? Call US Tax Shield 800-507-0674 (AAN CAN) FREE BANKRUPTCY CONSULTATION Real Estate, Uncontested Divorces. Child Custody. Law Office of Jeff Coleman and Anna J. Smith (607)277-1916

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AUTO INSURANCE STARTING AT $25/ MONTH! Call 855-977-9537 (AAN CAN) DISH TV Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 mos.) SAVE! Regular Price $34.99 Call Today and Ask About FREE SAME DAY Installation! CALL Now! 888-992-1957 (AAN CAN)

Pelican BBQ LLC

Pelican BBQ, LLC. Articles of Organization filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/21/2015. Office in Tompkins Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 252 Harford Road, Brooktondale, NY 14817. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Writers Ithaca Times is interested in hearing from freelance movie, music, restaurant and visual & performing arts reviewers with strong opinions and fresh views.

Please send clips to: editor@ithacatimes.com

NEWSPAPER DELIVERY PERSON

WANTED www.hudsonberkshirewinefestival.com “238’ on Lake Como!”

WATERFRONT REAL ESTATE AUCTION! (3) PARCELS On site @ 1307 East Lake Rd. Cortland, NY 13045 Lake Como Inn Country Pub • Waterfront Building Lot • 3 BR Ranch Home on 1.3 Acres

To deliver newspapers in ITHACA Must be dependable and have a reliable vehicle.

SAT. June 6 @ 11 AM

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1: LAKE COMO INN: w/ 188’ of PRIME WATERFRONT Turnkey 5,500 SQFT Country Pub w/ Boat Launch Sells Lock-Stock & Barrel! COULD BE CONVERTED TO RESIDENTIAL! Gross over $300K. Profitable. Only Country Pub Around.

2: IMMACULATE 3 BR 2 BATH 1536 SQFT RANCH on 1.3 Acres 3 car gar., new roof, updatedw/ deeded lake access.

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The addition that extends south and east from the original portion of the house looks as if it were built later in the 19th century. The dining room in that part of the house is still floored with the original “yellow pine.”

The floors and walls in most of the house were replaced with modern materials several decades ago when the house was restored after standing empty for four decades. Many of the rooms now have wall-to-wall carpeting, and the walls are smooth rather than vintage plaster. Modern replacement windows make this old house tight and energy efficient, as does the soy-based foam insulation sprayed on the inside of the foundation in the basement.

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