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n 2016, Tompkins County’s Housing Strategy was first released with lofty ambitions for the local housing stock: to build 200 new rental units and 380 for-sale units (including 80 condominiums) per year through the year 2025 in order to meet the demands of the market.

Several years into the plan, the mark for rentals seems to be accelerating, with Tompkins County building between 160 and 430 new rental units each year since the goals were instituted. However, the County Legislature’s Housing Committee chair Martha Robertson said, the for-sale unit creation appears to be lagging behind their annual goals.

Of the nearly 1,950 units of housing (or just under 4,000 beds) either under construction, site prepped or approved in Tompkins County, only a small number of developments – fewer than 10 in total – offer some degree of for-sale housing. Even if you expand the criteria to projects in the planning stage – a category that, thanks to projects like the Chainworks District, is expected to add an estimated 7,000 beds to the local housing stock – only about one quarter of the 40 housing developments in the pipeline across Tompkins County offer some sort of for-sale housing.

Robertson said there are several reasons why for-sale development has been lagging, particularly at price points working class families can afford: Developers locally have noted that most tax credit programs at the state and federal level favor rental housing development, and while other programs – like housing voucher programs or the Home Ownership Program – do exist, they can’t do enough to support home ownership in a market where for-sale home and condominium prices exceed the subsidies the state provides.

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Weird Science

This diagram explains the way Cornell’s earth source heating system would ideally operate. Water enters a pipe system at ground level, where it is sent to a cavern deep in the earth, heated up, and circulated through campus thousands of feet above.

Cornell Experts Present Ambitious Geothermal Proposal To Community

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eeking a carbon neutral solution to heat its campus, Cornell – a university with a storied history of digging giant holes – recently presented its proposal for what, by volume, is likely to be the largest hole dug in the university’s history; one, they say, could lay the groundwork for a revolution in district heating in the Northeastern United States.

At a session Thursday evening attended by dozens of members of the community and faculty, a group of Cornell researchers presented a preliminary outline of their proposal for a massive geothermal heating system they hope to build beneath Cornell’s campus. The ambitious project, first proposed as part of the campus’ climate action plan drafted

T ▶▶ Asparaganza The annual celebration of asparagus, one of nature’s most underrated vegetables, will kick off this Saturday, May 26, from 3 to 9 p.m. at the Finger Lakes Cider House. The festival, which coincides with the Cider House’s birthday, includes herb walks, mushroom jogs, asparagus races and assuredly other vegetable/exercise mashups.

Food trucks, cocktails and craft beer will all be present, with live

in 2009, aims to heat Cornell’s campus by digging a hole nearly three miles down, encasing it in concrete and pumping a solution of water and anti-corrosive deep into the earth, where it will be heated and recirculated 15,000 feet above through a system of pipes throughout the campus.

Inspired by systems already in use in countries like Iceland, where 90 percent of all homes are powered by earth source heating systems, the proposal is unprecedented in that it will be constructed in an area less conducive to effective, similarlyscaled geothermal systems around the world, potentially giving birth to a new industry in climate-conscious utility design while also serving as a “living

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At Thursday’s forum, the team heading the research and overseeing a process anticipated to take several years before digging begins were available to answer questions as well as give brief presentations on their individual areas of expertise around the project, each offering details on the project’s safety measures and research as well as explaining, once the system is operational, how it will work.

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STEVEN SPIELBERG IS CASTING FOR HIS SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER ABOUT ITHACA, NY. WHAT ACTOR OR CELEBRITY PLAYS YOU?

“Steve Buscemi.”

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“Can Lou The Hot Dog Guy play me? Better yet – Can we make a movie about Lou, and I play him?!”

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“Sarah Silverman.”

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new batch of smells has wafted through the Commons over the last several weeks, with a fresh group of food trucks joining the omnipresence of hot dog legend Lou Cassaniti.

One of those new food trucks is run by Galal Hassanein, an Egyptian immigrant who has recently moved from Brooklyn to start Adam’s Grill and Halal Foods. His cart serves food from 11 a.m. on, offering a mix of normal fast food fare like Philly cheesesteaks as well as more specialized Mediterranean food, like gyros. Halal is the Muslim method of food preparation which involves a complete avoidance of pork and the ethical treatment of animals in the meat preparation process.

Hassanein had been looking to move to Ithaca for about five years before finally packing up his life in Brooklyn. The move was made under less than ideal circumstances, though. Hassanein was running his own car service company, like many other New Yorkers, when transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft moved in and took over the market. The advent of those two companies has spelled harm for taxis and other car services alike, with the coveted NYC medallion, which serves as a verifier for taxis to operate legally in the city, losing 80 percent of its value between 2013 and late 2017. With his business struggling as a result, he actually spent time driving for Uber to make ends meet while simultaneously running his competing service.

He held around as long as he

could, trying to fight the oncom-

Galal Hassanein, proprietor of Adam’s Grill and Halal Foods on The Commons. (Photo: Casey Martin) ing wave, but plenty of small businesses including his were swallowed up in time. Eventually, he made the decision to move to Ithaca. He learned the ins and outs of running a food truck from his cousins, who run a similar operation in New York City, and has found Ithaca to be a comfortable landing spot from the faster-paced, more competitive environment in his former home.

“It’s not like New York City here, people over there are very rough,” Hassanein said. “People here are very polite [...] I feel more human here. It’s not like over there, when I’m like a machine.”

Cornell University

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ornell University violated the National Labor Relations Act during last spring’s union election among graduate student workers at the university, the union, Cornell Graduate Students United, said.

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Hassanein has nothing but positive things to say about Ithaca since starting his life here, fueled in part by how much his family has enjoyed their new home.

He was familiar with the area through his brother-in-law, Adil Griguihi, who owns Casablanca

attempt to bar a new election for the graduate employees for another 12 months, a release from the union’s backing organization, American Federation of Teachers, said.

However, the arbitrator dismissed two of the three complaints put forward by the union, a ruling a university official stated he was “pleased” by.

The ruling comes several months after the union filed ob-

Pizzeria and whose wife recently opened Commons Kitchen, and also has other relatives in the area.

Family is important to Hassanein, and he talks about them quite a bit. Their level of comfort with the move was essential to him being able to come west to Ithaca, and he thinks the schools here have been a much better fit for his children. The truck is named after his youngest son, Adam, who can occasionally be seen roaming the Commons and playing catch with his dad outside of the cart. He has an older daughter as well, currently enrolled at Ithaca High School as a freshman. His wife has also jections against the university and its conduct in the March 2017 election which a spokesman for the university, John Carberry, told the Cornell Daily Sun earlier this year was “free and fair.”

The issue dates to last March when, according to a news release, 856 votes were cast in favor of forming a union with 919 against. 65 additional ballots were challenged and a further 16 were unresolved. Members of the union note that before the vote, a majority of Cornell graduate employees signed a petition supporting the union and calling for an election, however when it came time to vote, of the more than 80 percent of 2,500 eligible Cornell graduate assistants who participated, the majority voted against

helped with the business in the early going, assisting with cleaning up the grill and handling money during peak hours.

He’s enjoying the simpler aspects of Ithaca compared to his 22 years in Brooklyn, like the ability to sleep through the night without the constant din of sirens and people outside his window.

He has a more consistent schedule here and he never has to fret about where he can park before the shift starts. He has future plans which center around hopefully opening up a brick-andmortar restaurant which could serve as the next evolution of his food business. Early returns say this could be a successful venture, as his truck is routinely crowded during lunch hours and the late night crowd after bars begin to wind down.

“People are very nice here, and they look for the new stuff,” Hassanein said. “We’re doing very good. It’s been four weeks now and everybody knows us and they come back because they like it.”

For now, though, the truck is enough to keep him busy while he and his family acclimate to the city. Hassanein said the city’s hospitality has even extended to the rowdy crowd of college kids who populate his stand in the wee hours of the morning. His son Adam’s even found a new way to pick up treats from area business owners delighted by his presence.

“It’s the same faces, you see the same people, they know you and you know them so you don’t worry about a lot of stuff,” he said. “So my little kid can hang out, all the stores know him, they offer him cookies.”

–M att Butler unionization. AFT alleged that on election eve, the administration distributed an email claiming a union would mean “reduced numbers of graduate students at Cornell” and that it would drastically cut healthcare costs during the 2017-18 school year, which AFT said was “intended to induce graduate students to vote against the union.” Though the ruling said that there was no suggestion of widespread and pervasive attempts to suppress a vote, there was an inferred purpose behind the email that it was intended to get prospective “no” voters to get out and vote against the union.

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N e w s l i n e Cayuga Power Plant, one of just two coalfired power plants still operating in New York State. (Photo: Nick Reynolds)

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How New York State’s Proposed Emissions Standards Will Impact Cayuga Power Plant

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nly two coal-fired power plants – one in Lansing and one in Somerset – exist in New York State. Both, on the directive of New York State, were told their futures were limited, unless they converted to natural gas or some other means of producing power. Both sites have submitted proposals to do just that, with Somerset’s Kintigh Power Plant looking to convert its land to solar power and the Lansing plant building up to plans to convert the property to an “energy park” while pushing to repower the plant with natural gas sometime in the future, a proposal that has been rejected numerous times by the state.

The pressure to see those ideas through may have been stepped up last week, as Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the start of hearings over new emissions regulations that, among other things, would end the burning of coal for power with a hard deadline of January 1, 2020 – a longtime goal of the governor’s first announced in his State of The State address in 2016.

“While Washington continues an open assault on our environment, New York is leading the charge with bold climate action to protect our future,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Coal is a relic of the past, and it’s time to

step up, take action, and put an end to our need for fossil fuels and focus on cleaner, more green energy solutions for the survival of our planet and future generations.”

The proposed regulations, according to a press release, will “tighten performance standards” for large-scale power plants, establishing new CO2 emission rate requirements the governor’s office said will ensure the state’s remaining coal fired power plants “transition to cleaner, alternative sources of energy or shut down by 2020.” The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is currently receiving written and oral comments on the proposed regulations until July 29, after which the new rules will be finalized.

The changes, the state has admitted, might have some negative consequences on the communities the power plants sit in should no viable solutions beyond coal come into play. According to a briefing memo from New York State on the new regulations, the state acknowledges that the communities surrounding the Cayuga and Somerset plants could “incur significant tax implications if the facilities cease operations beyond 2020.” Though the report notes both facilities have other compliance options under the proposed

rule changes, including repowering to a cleaner fuel or employing advanced CO2 abatement technologies, plant officials in Lansing are still considering what impacts these new rule changes will have on leadership’s plans for the facility, which has seen its taxable value reduced through a payment in lieu of taxes agreement some lawmakers have described as a “soft landing” for the area’s tax rolls, which are heavily reliant on the plant: according to estimates from the state, the Cayuga facility is currently the largest taxpayer in all three local tax bases, making up 1.3 percent of the county’s, town’s (6.9 percent) and school district’s (10.5 percent) tax bases.

“Cayuga and Somerset are important to upstate New York’s economy and energy grid because they represent fully interconnected energy capacity available to the State of New York,” a spokeswoman working on behalf of the Cayuga and Somerset Operating Companies wrote in an email. “New York is in the midst of an energy transition. We strongly believe that progress to a better energy future will occur at sites like these two.”

Though both facilities already have plans they hope to implement in time for that 2020 deadline, the spokeswoman stated both companies are reviewing the proposed air regulations though, they maintain, the significant option remaining for the plants stands at repowering with natural gas. According to the May 2016 register, an existing coal-fired plant’s CO2 emission rate can be improved by co-firing with natural gas (a proposal by Cayuga that was rejected by New York State in the past), converting to natural gas, repowering to natural gas-fired combustion turbines, or replacing the facility with a natural gas combined cycle plant.

The new emissions laws, if passed, are also projected to have a significant impact to the area’s economy, according to a jobs impact report around the proposal released by New York State.

Prior to any revisions in the law, in 2015 the Cayuga Power Plant submitted a plan to the state that would see units 1 and 2 would be repowered to natural gas, with one of the units retaining the capability to fire coal as a back-up fuel, which would not be permitted under the proposed emissions rules. This proposal, they projected, would have resulted in 118 construction jobs and 30 permanent jobs (the en-

ergy park proposal was estimated to create 150 jobs), while also resulting in a loss of tax revenue at around 7.4 percent to the local budget. Also projected under that plan was an 11.7 percent decrease in the school district budget, “resulting in the elimination of 15 teacher positions, and cuts to educational programs and extracurricular activities,” according to a document from New York State.

Neither Cayuga nor Somerset has updated those estimates in light of the newly proposed regulations.

“We are currently reviewing the proposed air regulations, and continue to work with IBEW other local stakeholders on a path forward to repowering with natural gas,” Cayuga Power Plant’s spokeswoman said.

The state also projected homeowner’s tax bills to increase by about $600 per year under that proposal. The state did note, however, that the Cayuga Plant did have other compliance options under the proposed revisions, including “repowering to a cleaner fuel or employing CCS or another advanced CO2 abatement technology” at an as-yet unknown cost to New York State, according to a rural flexibility analysis from the DEC. However, the money to support a transition is already in place,, a spokesperson for the DEC said, bringing in funding from the Governor’s Clean Climate Careers initiative and the Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Fund, which was “created to‎ address the needs of the local communities affected by any closures.”

Even with some emissions controls in place, the plant still has no options ready to go to maintain its current operating capacity as a coal plant, and by law was required to step down its energy production through coal by the start of this summer. Currently, one unit at Cayuga Power Plant – as currently configured – cannot operate without additional NOx controls as of July 1, according to a spokesperson for the DEC, while a second unit at the facility has NOx controls and can continue to operate until this regulation is effective.

Written comments on the proposed rule may be submitted until 5 p.m. on July 29, 2018 and should be directed to: Laura Stevens, NYSDEC Division of Air Resources at 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12233-3250 or by email at air.regs@dec.ny.gov –Nick Reynolds

UPS&DOWNS ▶ A Thumbs-Up to the community, for rallying around the Dryden High School senior suspended for wearing a shirt that was “too revealing.” We don’t know what type of dress codes were violated or what-not, but we can guarantee giving a senior two extra days off in her final weeks of school was counterproductive to whatever point DHS was trying to prove. ▶ Thumbs-Down The Supreme Court, which delivered a profound blow to worker’s rights by ruling that employees may not band together to sue employers for labor law violations. We understand America hates its workers now, but making it so patently obvious seems like overkill.

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HEARD&SEEN ▶ Tim Paulson, Ithaca’s own competitive fitness guru and the owner of CrossFit Pallas, will once again compete in the CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin after finishing second in the East Regional this past weekend. ▶ The Top Stories On Ithaca.com This Week Are...

1) IthaCannabis seeks to provide those with aches an all natural remedy 2) Cornell takes first step for 2000-bed student housing expansion 3) Policy expert explains that yes, food can be racist 4) Cornell experts present ambitious geothermal proposal to community

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Tompkins County is facing a shortage of forsale housing. Can you actually afford to buy a home costing more than $190k?

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Cornell wants to build a geothermal system digging three miles deep into the earth. How do you feel?

54.5 percent of respondents answered “Excited.”

24.2 percent of respondents answered “Nervous.” and 21.2 percent answered “Indifferent.”

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originally intended when the law was passed.

Since 1787, when the Constitution came into effect, the US has participated in some 125 conflicts without declaring war. This pattern of undeclared war is clearly not what the framers of the Constitution intended. While I doubt they foresaw the type of imminent attacks al-Qaeda or ISIS launched on the US, they did see a need for collaboration between the Executive and Legislative branches in this critical decision. It is past time for our country to establish a clear, Congressionally mandated process for the special collaboration between the president and a committee of Congressio-

e-asserting Congressional control of the power to declare war was never more critical than right here, right now. Especially in this increasingly chaotic world, the United States needs a smart, dependable foreign policy. For this to happen, however, Congress is going to have to start doing its job.

On September 14th, 2001, as our nation reeled from the attacks of 9/11, Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Democratic Congresional (AUMF). The law gave our milicandidate Max Della tary the power to pursue those Pia (Photo: provided) responsible for the attacks, as well as any associated forces. At the time, it was the right thing to do. Now, it’s time to repeal the AUMF and nal leaders. reclaim Congressional control over the power When the framers drafted our Constituto declare war. tion, they gave Congress the power to declare The AUMF has allowed Congress to war, and to advise and consent on matters effectively absolve itself of any responsibility of national security. I believe this is one of for overseeing America’s armed forces. The Congress’s most sacred duties. Yet, multiple AUMF has been cited more than 35 times in undeclared wars have Americans on the connection with actions taken in 14 different ground, risking their lives: Afghanistan, where countries. This has gone well beyond the scope I last served for seven months, not to mention

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r

had a major, life-changing epiphany this morning: things always seem to even out. If something bad happens, pretty soon something good will happen to restore balance in the world.

It went like this: last Saturday night I found a $100 bill just lying on the ground in Collegetown. This morning I got a $100 parking ticket for parking in the handicap space in front of the State Street Gimme! and it hit me… seemingly opposite events are actually complementary.

A state of equilibrium will always return.

It happens all the time, if you pay attention. One moment you’re depressed because your doctor tells you to lose 25 pounds, but then you cheer up when you go home and find an unfinished bag of munchkins you’d forgotten about. Or maybe you drink a shot glass of hot sauce at a party on a double dare and it doesn’t seem that hot, but then a second later it seems very, very hot after all.

Weird coincidence, or the Universe maintaining homeostasis? Since last summer, taxi ridership in Ithaca has decreased by the exact same amount that Uber business has increased! Contraction, balanced by expansion. Unsettling, yet reassuring at the same time.

The CDC announces that teen smoking and teen pregnancies are at their lowest rates in 27 years, but JUUL-fueled Fortnite addictions are up six billion percent since September of last year. An enchanted royal wedding takes place in a palace; Donald and Melania sleep in separate bedrooms. Balance!

Evening-out h app e n s ju s t to o often to chalk up to coincidence. The coalfired AES power plant in Lansing is lurching toward retirement, eliminating a source of fine particle pollution, just as a 355 million dollar trash incinerator is being proposed across the lake in Romulus. There’s more… two weeks ago, I overheard that a work colleague was having a party, so I texted him and he said there was no party. Then when I texted using my sister’s phone, suddenly there was a party! I got chills!

The president says he didn’t know about the payment to Stormy Daniels; his lawyer says he did. The head of the EPA denies climate change exists, but New York State’s had more tornadoes than Kansas so far this month. 200 LimeBikes equals 200 fewer pedestrians and motorists clogging the roadways, right? Yet now there are precisely that number of unhelmeted bicyclists running down innocent people on the city’s sidewalks.

Or this: one day, you come to work with a bad cold. A few days later, your cold is gone, but everyone else has a cold.

Try this experiment with a group of friends: take any coin and flip it, over and over again, calling “heads” every time.

Half the people around you will walk away in disgust!

Still skeptical? OK, this really happened to me earlier this year: I’m on the Commons and this guy comes up to me, asking for ‘spare change’. I told him to buzz off. A few days later, I was on Facebook, and there was a picture of

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ew York’s Compassionate Care Act has helped thousands of patients gain access to the analgesic and other therapeutic qualities of cannabis. But patients in Ithaca are still more than an hour away from the nearest dispensary. And they are not the only ones.

As a member of Cannabis Doctors of New York, I’ve seen the life changing results of medical and legalized marijuana, and made it my mission to spread the good news. However our state’s medical marijuana policy has not lived up to its potential, and hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have been deprived of the care they are entitled to. All New Yorkers suffering from cancer, HIV infection or AIDS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s disease, 6 T

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It comes down to the numbers. And they are pathetic. There are only 22 dispensaries currently operating in New York. Florida is about the same size, and allows for 425 dispensaries. Patients suffering from severe conditions do not have enough access to the medicine they are legally entitled to. I am asking lawmakers to consider the unfairness of this situation and pass bill 8148S in the State Senate. This measure would allow for up to 250 more dispensaries in our very large states. There are currently only four dispensaries serving Western New York’s three million residents. What is the point of this medical program if all New Yorkers in need can’t access it?

A growing body of research proves that cannabis is an effective tool in

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Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Africa and elsewhere, often ‘black ops’ that have the potential to spark all-out conflict.

For years, Congress has been too worried about politics to take full responsibility for this duty. They are afraid, if they vote on a military engagement, the result may affect their chances for reelection. As a result, they have allowed the Executive branch unilateral power over our armed forces.

This is not a partisan problem. Both Democratic and Republican administrations have used the AUMF to engage in military conflict, and both Democratic and Republican-controlled Congresses have allowed them to do so.

This is, instead, a problem caused by a crisis of political courage. For too long, Washington has been controlled

by Members of Congress who are more concerned with protecting their own political careers than protecting our nation.

I served in the military for over three decades and retired as a Colonel in the

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the same guy. He had won a MacArthur Genius Grant for his work in neurobiology! He seemed a little heavier and had all his teeth, but I’m pretty sure it was him. So, my refusal to enable his cycle of poverty had been just the push he needed to become an award-winning neurobiologist.

Get this, though, and this is where it gets freaky – a week later I’m on the Commons again, and there he was, back panhandling for spare change again. Things evened out… as they always do.

I told my kids about the panhandling Commons neurobiologist, but they claimed it didn’t prove anything and was, in fact, ‘stupid.’ Then, they went back to arguing about Yanny vs. Laurel.

Millions of people post all manner of

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safely treating ailments that are now being treated with opioids and in fact, it is being shown to help wean patients off narcotics. As a doctor, I’ve seen these results. About 60 people overdosed on opioids in 2016 right here in Tompkins County, according to outpatient data from the New York State Health Department. It’s time to take a stand.

It’s time for New York to join the 21st century and expand the current medical cannabis law, increase patient access and allow our responsible MD’s to use their judgement in treating the many condi-

US Air Force, where I was responsible the wellbeing training and equipment of hundreds of men and women under my command. My son currently serves overseas in the Air Force. For their safety, and his, the decision to send anyone to war, unless the immediate security of our Nation is at demonstrable and immediate risk, should only be made with the full force of our Democratic process.

Now, more than ever, Congressional oversight is needed to preserve our safety and the safety of our service men and women. Every military action our country takes has a direct effect on the safety of everyday Americans. We need our Members of Congress to display leadership, and provide the necessary, Constitutionally-mandated oversight, to make sure any application of military force is undertaken with our best, national interests in mind.

Election 2018

Max Della Pia is a retired Air Force officer and a current Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 23rd District from Owego.

lysses resident and Enfield native Amanda Kirchgessner, a local waitress and advocate for working people, announced her candidacy for New York State Senate in District 58, according to a press release.

According to the release, Kirchgessner is the treasurer of the Jacksonville Community Association, the vice-chair of Tompkins Employees Federal Credit Union Board of Directors, and a member of the Ulysses and Tompkins County Democratic Committees.

Recently, the release states, she organized a People’s Caucus, uniting local community groups in collaboration with county legislators. A Democrat, she seeks to unseat current Senator Tom O’Mara, a Republican.

As of this writing, just one other candidate – Schuyler County Legislator Michael Laurel – has announced a bid to run on the Democratic ticket.

“Here in the 58th district,” Kirchgessner says, “the median household income is $11,000 lower than for the state as a whole.

At the diner, our prices go up, but wages stay the same.”

Kirchgessner is running as a “Sanders Democrat,” she said in a press release, because of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal in the years of America’s Great Depression, which she said turned her family blue. According to the release, Kirchgessner says New York State’s policies “ignore the working class, whose concerns are wages, housing, and food.”

New York’s 58th Senate District has been labeled a “battleground district” by Ballotopedia, described by the site as “a district where the incumbent won less than 55 percent of the vote in 2016.” O’Mara, seeking his fourth term, last defeated challenger Leslie Danks Burke, a Democrat and founder of campaign reform group Trailblazers PAC, by more than nine points in the 2016 elections.

The Kirchgessner campaign is at www. amandaserving.us, and at @amanda4ny on both Facebook and Twitter. A launch party has been scheduled for Sunday, June 3 from 5-7 p.m. at D’s Pierogi Place, 810 E. Church St., Elmira, NY.

nonsense on Facebook, a global online social media and social networking platform whose business model has always been to sell user data to other businesses.

Years later, those people discover to their horror that Facebook has been selling user data to other businesses. Now that I get it, the symmetry of the cosmos is beautiful to contemplate.

The United States unilaterally withdraws from the Paris Climate Accords and the Iran nuclear deal, while John Bolton, Jared Kushner, Mike Pompeo and Donald J. Trump are in charge of navigating the country’s way through the treacherous shoals of international relations.

Yeah, still waiting on this one…

Charley Githler is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, ‘Surrounded

By Reality,’ appears biweekly.

tions that could be helped by cannabis (and that were originally included in the Compassionate Care Act). It shouldn’t take a doctor to realize this would be could medical policy.

New York prides itself on leading the way, but on this issue it is way behind.

Before New York even considers recreational marijuana, lets get our medical program right. I urge Governor Cuomo and the legislature to consider the health of our state’s most needy residents. The compassionate thing to do is to enhance the Compassionate Care Act. –K en n eth R . Wei n berg, M .D. M a n h a t t a n , N e w Yo r k

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Assemblywoman Lifton sponsored the bill renewing the state’s compliance requirement under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act. The reupping of the rules allows the state to continue receiving funding for the federal program. Her bill passed the Assembly unanimously and is likely to pass in the Senate.

Lifton also voted against a bill that would expand the definition of hazing in an attempt to prevent cases of physical harm during “initiation or affiliation ceremonies” in Greek life. Lifton told the Ithaca Times that she didn’t have ample time to read and consider the bill ahead of time but would’ve voted in favor now that she’s reviewed the legislation in whole.

Tom O’Mara- N.Y. State Senate 58th District Senator O’Mara piloted a set of new measure to combat Lyme disease and other tickborne illnesses to pass the Senate. The bill, which was approved unanimously, focused on increasing the detail of post-mortem reporting after deaths related to the disease; established a pilot program to expand testing in at-risk populations; and directs the state Health Department to develop standard protocols for addressing cases of tick borne diseases.

Tom Reed- U.S. House of Representatives N.Y. 23rd Congressional District Rep. Reed voted in favor of the Farm Bill, which ultimately failed on the House floor after 30 Republicans demanded a vote on House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s immigration plan.

House leadership has since rescheduled the Farm Bill for another vote in late June. On Wednesday, fellow upstate Republican, Rep. John Katko, signed onto a discharge petition that would force DACA, immigration and border security plans onto the House floor.

Katko’s signing leaves Reed and central New York’s Rep. Claudia Tenney as the only upstate Republicans who have yet to sign.

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By M att Bu tler hen Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler developed the five stages of grief model in the former’s 1969 book, On Death and Dying, their focus was on the personal process of dealing with loss on an individual level.

They theorized that people dealing with the death of a loved one or the loss of a career would undergo a cycle of emotions over an indeterminate period of time before emerging on the other side: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance.

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of ample research, anger with the War on Drugs and its disproportionate impact on minorities. Bargaining with states’ efforts to walk back some of those same War on Drugs-era federal restrictions and the ongoing marijuana legalization effort. Depression has reigned over virtually every part of the fight with addiction during any era, most acutely on the part of those falling victim to it with only inadequate services available and their families.

Acceptance, the last step in this particular grief model, has been an elusive concept to find in the struggle against substance addiction, but that may be starting to change. The harm reduction philosophy, though in existence for decades, has become a treatment philosophy in vogue recently, the method shifting from merely getting someone’s urine clean for a test to reducing the severity of negative consequences from substance use and away.

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Needle exchange programs are designed to stem the spread of transmittable diseases, and safe-consumption sites have been shown, in a limited sample size, to significantly reduce overdose death rates. Ithaca has been trying to stay on the cutting edge of this movement of late, highlighted recently by Mayor Svante Myrick’s letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo appealing to be the site of the state’s fifth safe-consumption site.

The newest Ithaca-based indication of the growing influence of the harm reduction model is the opening of the Reach clinic (Respectful Equitable Access to Compassionate Health) helmed by local emergency medical specialist, Justine Waldman. The clinic aims to live out its name: provide healthcare for the populations stigmatized in society and the medical system, starting with those dealing with opioid addiction, with a low thresh-

old for entrance and to stay in the program.

The only requirement for remaining with the program is showing suboxone once a month in a urine test, regardless of whatever other substances, illicit or not, also appear on the test. Suboxone, a sublingual pill or film that lasts for a month, is used in replacement therapy to help those fighting opioid addiction by acting as a partial-agonist; that is, it occupies the brain’s receptors that normally absorb chemicals from opioids, so it reduces the effect the drugs have while helping alleviate some of the withdrawal and cravings a patient experiences. Suboxone is preferable in Reach’s case to the two other replacement medication options, since methadone is highly regulated in New York State (the only methadone clinics in the area are in Binghamton and Syracuse, costing Ithaca patients prohibitive trans-

portation costs) and naltrexone, popular in jails, is generally disliked by patients, according to Waldman, and can lead to relapse-related overdoses since its approach is aimed at abstinence. In addition to the replacement medication, therapy and counseling services are available in the upper floors of the building, though their use is encouraged but not required.

Reach began in February, out of Waldman’s realization that meeting the population’s demands would soon outgrow the bounds that the Southern Tier AIDS Program’s state-funded needle exchange program and health-hub could handle.

Waldman was contracted to work there, distributing suboxone and addressing cases of abscesses and the like, and credits them with inspiring her to dig deeper into harm reduction services. The new clinic, a non-profit funded primarily by grants and Medicaid billing, has quickly found success attracting patients and providers, and Waldman now counts nine doctors with around 160 regular patients.

To reduce Reach’s goals to a simple formula, it prioritizes keeping people alive rather than getting them clean, partially relying on the hope that patients do, at their cores, want to beat their addiction to drugs but recognizing their values as human beings regardless of whether they are winning the fight or losing at any given time.

Waldman’s practice isn’t reminiscent of other drug treatment facilities that may come to mind. The environment in the office, tucked inconspicuously into a two-floor former house on North Cayuga Street, doesn’t feel like a workplace trying to address a nationwide epidemic that killed almost 64,000 people in 2016. It’s convivial and bright, with staff chatting back and forth between appointments and a rather light environment, a stark departure from the staid, sterilized uniformity of a garden variety doctor’s office.

The office culture is part of the wider mission of Reach, Waldman said. It all goes to making patients feel safe, fostering a stable environment for people to come as Waldman believes a large amount of drug use comes from a person’s perpetual feelings of vulnerability in their normal environment. Here, she hopes, she and her staff, made up of Samantha Stevenson, Kaela Klapan, Amy Gecan, Kristen Wiest and Sareanda Lourdes, can cultivate an environment where patients aren’t scolded for their drug use. Waldman doesn’t view this kind of treatment as useful, likening it to when a dentist futilely chastises some-

one for not flossing.

While she’s a veteran of the traditional medical climate, having spent a large portion of her career as an emergency doctor

school.”

Perhaps the most significant, and arguably radical, worldwide example of the harm reduction mentality is Portugal,

Top: A look inside the office. Below: Justine Waldman.

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at Cayuga Medical Center, she’s become somewhat disillusioned with that model of medicine, which she said doesn’t offer a wide-enough breadth of services to satisfy the needs of people struggling with addiction. The “treat-and-street” method, as she calls it, just ends up feeding into the vicious cycle of addiction. Waldman was involved in starting the Ithaca Free Clinic in 2005, and she sees the Reach clinic as the logical next step in trying to provide more options for addiction recovery.

“I’m just always moved by systems and where we go wrong,” she said. “I think the medical system is relatively broken, and the way that people who use drugs are treated within the medical system isn’t really any one person’s fault, it’s more how we were taught in residency and med

which Waldman points to as an example of a place that has effectively shifted the mentality to viewing addiction and drug-related activities as disorders instead of criminal behavior, and it’s true that Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001 and has seen overdose numbers take a nose-dive in the wake of that decision. But with seemingly any initiative surrounding drugs, there will be visceral, emotional reactions that aren’t necessarily based on statistics.

There’s seldom a person anymore who hasn’t seen a relative or friend struggle mightily with an addiction of some variety, and it hits an emotional mark with those who believe Waldman’s methods are a mix of coddling and enable-ism. It’s a symptom of a history of anti-drug addict sentiment mixed with the country’s puritanical streak May

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left over from its founding days.

After years and years of abstinencebased treatments and the perpetuation of the idea that, as Waldman said it, total abstinence is the only path to restoring one’s value in the eyes of society, she knows her methods might not meet immediate popularity. Harm reduction faces an uphill battle in the court of public opinion. This was seen last week when news broke of Myrick’s letter for the safe-consumption site, a linchpin of Myrick’s drug control plan for the last several years. The letter was met with a rash of vitriol online (in fairness, nearly everything is), denouncing the mayor, the plan, and drug addicts alike.

But Waldman remains undeterred, and she has the backing of the city with her, at least in spirit but perhaps financially in the future. Myrick said he would be lobbying to allocate funding for Reach in the city’s 2019 budget, which will be determined in a series of public meetings in October. He also said he’d be interested in folding the Reach clinic into the city’s potential larger health center, should Ithaca be awarded a $5 million Bloomberg grant it’s currently competing for. The clinic’s mission and Myrick’s vision would seem to go hand in hand fairly seamlessly, both with the ultimate goal of keeping people alive by way of the harm reduction philosophy. Waldman knows the resentment toward drug users as leeches on social services who have chosen to destroy themselves is deepseated, but is confident the statistics are on her side and the compassion-based path is the one to success.

“The stigma is super deep, and I think that the sooner we start to recognize this as a chronic relapsing condition, the better we are going to do,” Waldman said. “I think it’s really lack of knowing and understanding that makes most people react poorly to the idea of [things like] a supervised consumption site.”

Further than frustration with traditional medicine’s approach, Waldman’s fueled by a few factors that have built up over time. She was driven into medicine by a desire to help people, like most other doctors. But that desire has manifested itself into an attention to a more specific population: people who routinely face disadvantages within the current medical system. She believes this starts with people facing addiction problems, and the threat to their existence is more urgent than most other groups. But it certainly does not end there. REACH is going to become a certified primary care facility soon (STAP has 2 0 1 8

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similar plans in store), with the arrival of full-time doctor Liz Ryan. Once Ryan is on board, Waldman will theoretically be able to expand the focus of the practice, welcoming people who come from all different demographics which face inequalities in the current medical system, focusing on everything from minorities to the obese.

Reach’s capacity is poised to vastly increase as well, if all goes according to Waldman’s plan. With nine providers in tow, the practice is currently limited to providing suboxone to 30 patients per provider. But once those doctors have been registered suboxone distributors for a year, their client lists can expand to 100 suboxone recipients per provider. That would allow REACH doctors to concurrently serve 900 patients at one time.

Waldman uses words like “fun” when describing the work, another aspect that sets her apart from the conventional understanding of drug treatment. She gleans that fun from the relationships she’s been able to build with patients. Of course, there can be a downside to that, as with anything for those practicing harm reduc-

tion care built on relationships, because it forces the carers closer to who they care for, which Waldman said can be frustrating when someone has an addiction that is beyond what Reach can effectively help with. But that’s just part of the deal, she said. Many of her patients are doing very well, while some are not. Her approach, and the one her staff executes as well, is to “meet patients where they are.” They want to build relationships with their patients, even if they begin missing appointments or if their addiction appears to be worsening. The environment is intentionally shame- and judgment-free, one of the only places where someone with an addiction disorder can feel welcome and safe unconditionally.

“People who use drugs and people who face a disorder with drugs face the most stigma of any other disorder around,” Waldman said. “And there is allowable stigma so you are allowed to not give someone who uses drugs a job, you are allowed to not give someone who uses drugs housing. [...] Instead of looked at as a disorder, it’s looked at as a moral failure.”

Waldman objects to the differences between how society treats those with drug addiction compared to those struggling with changing their lifestyle after a dia-

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betes diagnosis. If someone with diabetes is found to still be struggling with blood sugar levels or the dietary restrictions such a diagnosis requires, they are not barred from their doctor’s office or faced with a loss of insulin; different methods of treating the disease are tested. Why then, Waldman asks, is someone undergoing drug treatment expected to meet a stern one-strike policy before having their replacement medication, such as methadone for one example, taken away?

By introducing the new clinic, Waldman’s goal is not to muscle out other drug rehabilitation treatment centers in the city, places like STAP, Cayuga Area Rehabilitation Services (CARS) and the Alcohol and Drug Council. She simply wants to provide another option, something outside of the statewide Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) umbrella, like STAP, and thus less beholden to the restrictions that entails. For some, more traditional routes like CARS may be the best course of action, but recovery shouldn’t be operated with a “one size fits all” expectation.

“I think it’s very important to have options, that’s my larger philosophy about everything,” said Michelle McElroy, Deputy Executive Director of STAP. “People

should have choice, choice is powerful for people. When people have the ability to make a choice of what fits them and a model that suits them, they’re more likely to be successful.”

Safety is the ultimate goal for Reach, and the staff view that as a conduit to helping their patients in the best way possible. Waldman is aiming for that elusive acceptance which maybe, just maybe, will end the grief cycle of America’s addiction problem. That acceptance should not be one of defeat where the problem is just ignored afterwards. It’s the acknowledgement that drug abuse is inevitable, but that those lives aren’t worth anything less than anyone else. She wants acceptance of reality.

“We have to get away from what we’re measuring, which is how many people we keep abstinent, to how do we keep people alive,” she said. “People use drugs, we’re not going to build a wall and get rid of drugs. What you want to do is help people be safe in what they’re doing instead of shutting your eyes and saying ‘Don’t do this.’ It really is about recognizing the activity happens and being okay with it internally, and going to the person and saying ‘Well how can I help you remain safe with what you’re doing?’”

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“Additionally, the offering plan also makes plans very rigid,” Bronfin writes. “Since an amendment is required for each change, developers are often very Construction takes place at Maplewood Apartments on Ithaca’s East Hill. Despite a wave deliberate in assemof new construction, Tompkins County’s housing market has seen few for-sale units bling the offering plan, drawing out entering the local housing stock. (Photo: Casey Martin) the process even further. Since a especially when it’s in such high demand? great deal of work — land acquisition, archiAccording to Bronfin’s research, less than tectural designs, engineering schemes, zoning one-fifth of a percent of Ithaca’s housing units (and 0.34 percent of Tompkins County’s hous- approval, and others — is required for the offering plan to be completed, condominium ing units) are condominiums, far below the national average of around 5 percent. The rea- developers often have significant upfront costs and larger carry costs than their multifamsons why, according to his report, are numerily counterparts, according to participants ous. Among the basics, developers said that interviewed.” locals don’t understand the financing behind Finally, there’s the abatement quespurchasing a condominium, or said the field tion, which – while often employed for the of condominium development is unknown development of rental housing in Tompkins to them or citing Ithaca’s “anti-development” County – cannot be used to develop condoreputation. Then there’s something called the miniums. This is especially troublesome for “Offering Plan” to deal with, which is a set of developers given upfront construction costs regulations from the New York State Attorney in an area where real estate is expensive, General’s Office that govern the offer and sale construction costs are high and legal costs – of interests in cooperatives and condominithanks to the Attorney General’s office – are

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Robertson said there are no programs currently in place to help landlords convert their rental properties into for-sale duplexes, and the County cannot give funds to individuals.

However, current and future market conditions – including a potential modification of local zoning that’s being investigated – might make that option more attractive to landlords.

“It’s much easier to convert an alreadyexisting building than to build a new one,” she said.

LEGISLATORS REVIEW THE “CONDOMINIUM QUESTION” IN TOMPKINS’ HOUSING MARKET Facing numerous issues on the legislative and pricing front, condominiums seem to be the most troublesome type of in-demand housing here in Tompkins County. As of this week, the members of the Tompkins County Legislature now have an exhaustive report telling them why.

On Monday, Adam Bronfin, a student in Cornell’s School of Architecture, Art and Planning, presented members of the legislature with his Urban and Regional Studies Honors Thesis titled ‘The Condominium Question: Evaluating the Lack of Condominiums in Ithaca, N.Y.’ The exhaustive report, written over several months, features interviews with 13 developers, 11 government officials, five real estate brokers, three lenders, two lawyers and a pair of consultants, seeking to learn one thing: what’s stalling condominium development in Tompkins County,

astronomical, the report explains.

“To build nice apartments in Ithaca, you pretty much need abatements,” one developer was quoted as saying.

TOMPKINS COUNTY READIES TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HOUSING STRATEGY Tompkins County’s Deputy Commissioner of Planning and Sustainability, Megan McDonald, was in the house on Monday to present her plan of attack to implement her department’s housing strategy over the coming years, The priorities slate, which addresses both near and long-term goals, includes implementing programming to encourage targeted development according to market demands as well as need, finding ways to get the community involved in planning and implementing projects and offering county-provided administrative assistance to landowners and municipalities. The plans also outline steps to improve practices within municipal planning offices around the county, reforming code enforcement and the county’s oversight over landlords’ compliance with the local fair housing law, and to “investigate potential incentives to encourage desired new development in appropriate locations,” which could involve the investigation of a new, local tax abatement to help fulfill certain targeted housing needs in Tompkins County, particularly for developments that include affordable housing.

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Remembering One Of The Area’s Foremost Culinary Minds

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ears filled my eyes Saturday morning when I read that Dano Hutnik, chef and co-owner of Dano’s Heuriger, had died. For 27 years he has given me and my family gustatory joy at his two restaurants, Dano’s on Cayuga here in Ithaca, and Dano’s Heuriger on Seneca Lake. I, and anyone who has been nourished by his cooking over the years, will miss him dearly.

Dano was certainly the best chef in the region and one of the most important. Many chefs prepare correct food, show shrewd marketing abilities and bring the conceptual concerns of culinary school to their menus.

That’s not Dano. To borrow from music, other chefs play the notes, but Dano made music. And in cooking, as in music, “it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.” Dano’s food had swing. It was rooted in the traditions of Central Europe, a cuisine ideally suited to the Finger Lakes, with its Riesling wines, craft beer, currants, apples, cheeses, meat, and abundant fresh vegetables. Before it was fashionable to do so, Dano made his own charcuterie and condiments. His experiments were improvisations on real food, the kind that lingers long in the memory.

I will never forget eating in the Ithaca restaurant. For years it was the place my wife and I would go to celebrate a birthday or anniversary or just to have a serious meal. Dano always came out of the kitchen to say hello to ask how we were doing, and about our children. Two dishes that I recall were transcendent, the roasted half duck (I believe with black currant sauce) and a ethereal yet earthy dish of stewed oxtail. There just wasn’t

another restaurant in town that served food as soulful and sophisticated as Dano’s on Cayuga.

Burnt out, he closed that restaurant and did a stint as a sorority chef.

I can only imagine how lucky those women were to eat his food every night! Then he opened Dano’s Heuriger on Seneca Lake. Heuriger dining is an Austrian tradition, country food served in a garden setting outside of the city. Here Dano’s true colors shone. The view was stunning. The terrace is magical, with lake breezes and the sun setting on the lake in summer, gardens in bloom, a mug of fresh local wine, the table laden with piquant spreads, pickles, smoked fish and fresh salads. It was here that my daughter got married in 2010, and where we celebrated our 50th birthdays.

Dano’s talents were broad but it was with pork that he was a master.

Smoked, stewed, braised, roasted: it was tender, sweet and full of flavor.

I often get the Farmer’s Plate, an extravagance of pork shank, sauerkraut, knockwurst and knoedel, a bread dumpling. This is deceptively simple food. Overeating is a risk I gladly take at his table.

Dano’s wife and partner, Karen Gilman, created in their restaurants an atmosphere of deep hospitality, of art (she is a painter), culture, food and the desserts that completed the meal. She brought the element of visual beauty and comfort that perfectly framed the extraordinary food made by Dano and his cooks. I want to extend my condolences to his family, and thanks for all they have done and, I hope, will continue to do. He will be missed.

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Goliath Had An Off-Day

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Ithaca College’s Abby Shields. (Photo: Ithaca College Athletics)

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wrote last week that the Ithaca College softball team would face a tall order in beating St. John Fisher in the best-ofthree in the Super Regionals, given Fisher had a formidable weapon in senior pitcher Lindsay Thayer. I have been watching Thayer mow down opponents since she first suited up for SJF, I saw her throw a perfect game against a good Alfred team last year, and she finished

her career as one of the most dominant pitchers in all of college softball.

The Bomber were up to the daunting challenge on Friday, as they tagged Thayer for four earned runs en route to a thrilling 4-3, 8-inning win. Ithaca knew they had to make the most of every inning – in fact, every at-bat – to hang in there against Fisher, and when Abby Shields hit a two-out, 2-run home

run in the top of the first, it breathed some life into the visitors’ dugout. Thayer ultimately gave up a very uncharacteristic eight hits in the outing, with Ithaca’s Vanessa Brown going 4-for-4 to lead the offense.

Thayer was back in the circle less than 24 hours later, and she returned to form, allowing but a single walk on her way to her fourth no-hitter of the season. The 4-0 Fisher win set up the winner-take-all showdown, and this time, the Bombers got their groove back against Thayer, who was pitching her third game in 2 days. I.C. got to Thayer again, coming away with a 7-4 win to advance to the NCAA’s.

I spoke with Deb Pallozzi, IC’s head coach, and she was very gracious in her assessment of Thayer’s workload. She said, “Lindsay’s had some pre-season injuries that carried over. Don’t get me wrong, she’s a great pitcher, after all, she no-hit us in the second game.”

Deb is very pleased to see her team peaking at such a good time, and she knows they will need any momentum they have generated, given they will be the 8 seed at the NCAA Championships in Oklahoma City, going up against the 1 seed, Virginia Wesleyan. “They have been the number one team all season,” Pallozzi said, “and I think it’s a good thing that we will be facing them first, when they’re still nervous like anyone else going into the tournament.” She added, “We plan to go in loose and happy, knowing the pressure is on them.” I asked Deb what she knows about the Bomber’s first-round opponent, and she said, “We just found out last night that we’re facing them, so we’re starting the process of scouting them.”

As the team approaches the NCAAs, IC’s

Abby Shields has been giving her coaches and teammates exactly what they want to see: A player coming up to bat in big moments in big games, producing big results. Her explosive stats earned Shields her second Most Outstanding Player award in two weeks. In Pallozzi’s words, “We have been waiting for her to do this. She has been coming up big for us, and it’s fun to see.” Given Abby is only a sophomore, her coach is very pleased to know that she will be bringing her big game experience with her as she evolves into a leadership role as an upperclassman (person).

The Bombers’ junior pitcher Haley Congdon was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Pitcher.

Heading into the NCAAs, Ithaca will be accustomed to playing in big moments, given they also needed extra innings to beat RPI to win the Liberty League tournament. The first pitch will be thrown in Oklahoma City on Thursday at 11 a.m.

••• The Bomber baseball team had an exciting weekend at the NCAA Mideast Regionals, coming up with two come-from-behind wins.

They beat Otterbein 5-4 in 12 innings, and clawed back from a 5-1, seventh inning deficit to beat Shenandoah. Ithaca scored three runs in the seventh, one run in the 8th and two more in the 9th to secure that win.

While the team’s season ended before they hoped it would, the program’s sustained excellence was once again on display in 2018.

Bombers reached the 30-win plateau for the 13th time in program history, producing the program’s 77th consecutive winning season.•

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Poet Jack Hopper His Fourth Book Of Poems Presents A More “Honest” Insight Into The Artist’s Mind

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It wasn’t the ideal arc for an interview, but his answer to my first quesJack Hopper with his new book (Photo: Casey Martin) tion – “how did you finally decide to organize all these thoughts of yours?” – “Jack Hopper is alive and, well, in should have gave me an indication of what Ithaca…” to expect: ack Hopper – the well-travelled, one“Structure,” he said when asked how he time two-term poet laureate of Tompdescribes his books, “is bullshit.” kins County – and I had set up plans Hopper will admit there is something to meet Monday afternoon, but for a few different about his latest work, which the hours that morning, this writer was left author said found him at the top of his unsure it was going to happen. Like “slidform. While his last book – ‘Doubles’ ing into second base” (until reality struck, – represented a seven year period of he joked) Hopper had taken a spill on the life-spanning reflections ending in 2012, sidewalk over the weekend and on Sunday ‘Rafting The Medusa,’ he said, approaches afternoon, he informed me he was to meet the world with a more honest eye, willing to with his orthopedist right before the meetembrace topics that, for his entire life, has ing in order to get a full cast on. been kept at bay by an arm’s length, always “Let me know when you could sit down touched on but never fully explored to their with me and I’ll get right back to you,” he greatest meaning. All of which is presented wrote. “Well, left to you: it’s my good right in language that is relatable, personable and arm, dammit!” most importantly, human.

But reliably, Hopper, now in his eighties, “There’s too many poets in the world, came through – albeit a half-hour late. and too few people who listen to it,” he said.

I’d had a copy of his latest book, “Rafting “They just talk to each other. They write The Medusa” sitting on my desk the past these poems and make all these magazines week and, thumbing through a few pages, for each other. But what about the audiwas struck by the imagery of the prose inence? The people driven away by some of side; language that whisked you away to the my heroes, like Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliot? shores of Monterey in ‘Dream Harvesters’ They made it so exclusive. That’s something one moment, the streets of Paris the next, I’ve tried to break, even with my own atand alone in one’s room speaking hushed traction to it. That hermetic feeling about and rushed into the receiver in an episode poetry – that it’s our stuff.” from one chapter in the book simply titled In ‘Rafting The Medusa,’ Hopper is ‘Sex and Fantasy.’ I wanted to know more of much more deliberate in where the words the construction of this latest collection and fall – intentional both in his narrative’s deswhat he was trying to get across these past tination and the punchiness of his prose. He five years of work it highlights. effortlessly alternates between reflections of We talked for the better part of an hour, lives past and present, efficiently painting largely off-topic – bouncing between the the complete spectrum of his decades on wishiwashiness of the New York Times’ earth – a story of love, lust, contradiction, opinion pages, the infuriating compendium confusion and contemplation shared by so that is Mark Z. Danielewski’s masterpiece, many of us stumbling through the human ‘House of Leaves,’ the fragility of life and experience. He relayed a story how, once, time. But what stuck out most was not what an editor told him in a rejection letter that he was saying, but his seamless ability to his writing was “too opaque,” something he switch phase from topic to topic and how confesses stuck with him particularly close easy he made it to keep up. Despite his when writing this book. When he began arm being held up in a cast, Hopper was writing it in 2013, he realized he’d come to as animated as ever, gesturing about with a new chapter, this one without inhibitions the rising of his voice and, at the end of our and where Hopper, still, found himself with interview, reflex got the best of him, and he plenty left to say. forgot to reach out with the “good hand” to “All of the sudden in my life, I feel much

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more open about myself and the world,” Hopper said. “My mother’s dead, my wife is dead, and somehow all these things we never realize as restrictions at the time, like society, were gone. I’m still very much a member of society; I might not be marching all the time or tearing up the cobbles and throwing them, but I’m a lot more sympathetic to causes. Especially in this city. You’ve got to be. But this time… There was nobody holding me back from saying what I really wanted to say.”

And in his book, he travels the depth of his memory as deep as it can go, taking a scouring look into every dark corner of his brain both for the moments of levity and anxiety left untapped. There are poems about close friends living and dead. There are poems about family, and parched trips wandering lost down the Appalachian Trail.

Another poem is just about those moments spent in the Wegmans parking lot, passing a few more seconds alone in one’s car with the radio on as the world rustles on around you. He talks about the past a lot too – life on the Lower East Side when “things were cheap” and sketches of his life in Paris, where he worked a while – but also the highlights of the places others may find mundane, like the scenes of an all nightdiner and the ruminations of a mind left at a desk and to wander on its own devices.

“That’s what I love about poems… it might just be the brain house cleaning itself,” he said. “I think the junk that gets out is a part of you – it’s the dreamer being thrown away. You just have to grab it before it hits the sidewalk.”

The title of the book itself is not without significance in telling his story.

The Medusa was a French ship that went down with a few hundred people off the East African coastline in 1818, the demise of which was famously recorded in a painting by Théodore Géricault, from which Hopper borrows the book’s name. The painter, in dark and heavy tones, depicts the emaciated few among the survivors who had managed to pull together a makeshift raft, where they floated for weeks without food or water, attempting to catch the attention of a passing ship in the darkness – a dire situation he contrasts with an innocent, early memory from his youth.

“When I was a kid – about five or six – my parents had a farm on the Shamonee Creek and when my father was away, my mother and her brother would take the door off the barn and put it into the creek,” he remembers. “He couldn’t swim, and I was too young, but we would take the raft down the creek as far as we could, until the current got too strong. And my mother, she would pull the raft back up the creek. That raft is this sort of metaphor. We’re all Rafting the Medusa; pulling our way through life.”

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Painting America And Beyond

By Ambe r D onof r io

Paintings by Fred Zappia on display at Benjamin Peters Upstairs Gallery

here is something familiar about Fred Zappia’s work, which lines the walls of the upstairs gallery space at Benjamin Peters this month. His paintings, which stem in subject mat-

ter from sports to American and Italian themes, embodies a sort of formalism, drawing back to the basics of figures within a scene. His works seem an obsession

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with studying cultures and the symbolism behind them, as well as a distinct attachment to figuration.

At the very least, seeing his work is a nice break from the nuanced abstractions of most of the shows I tend to review— which are wonderful in their own right (my favorites to delve into), but it’s also nice to note the variety of work that comes from this town, including ones that are more straightforward and concrete. Which is not to say that Zappia’s work is boring, because it certainly is not. Instead, it explores certain day-to-day moments: a Gondolier in Italy sitting on a dock waiting for customers to arrive, or the artist and his partner standing together on a blue-tinted beach in Florida, or a transgender socialite (as the painting’s title describes) standing alongside a waiter dressed in a white suit jacket and black bowtie. Other works too dissect cultural symbols, as will later be described.

According to his biography, Zappia discovered his love of visual art while studying Engineering in college at Lehigh University, a small liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, before having to take a 42-year hiatus to run his father’s sporting goods shop. Now retired, he’s returned to painting, having produced most of the works in this show since Fall 2016.

Some paintings stand out more than others. One favorite is entitled The Fish Market, in which a man in a brown jacket and hat examines a piece of white fish on the counter, overseen by a glasses-clad fisherman in a thick jacket and bright yellow apron. The scene takes place in Italy; boats are in the background against the dock, along with a scattering of other customers. The use of shadow to help define the figures is beautifully done, as well as the almost watery mixing of colors, which seems fitting given the ocean setting.

Emperor’s Servants stands out in a surprising way, because its incompleteness works. Another piece in the Italy

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series, four women model nude against a gold background. Three drape a sheet of fabric over themselves in various fashions.

Another woman sleepily rests her head against a block. Their bodies are painted in, but the pencil lines remain with their hair and the fabric left blank, unpainted.

Rather than detracting from the work, the white untouched parts of the paper stick out, adding interest to the scene.

One section of the show is dedicated entirely to an America series, and this is where things get interesting, at least in a nationalistic sense. Zappia’s most recent series, the America paintings take on a collage-like approach in an accumulation of various icons, often combined to make one point or another. One painting combines depictions of the likes of Jackson Pollock (as he crouches over one of his paintings, a cigarette dangling from his mouth), woman suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (with fingers laced together), the Statue of Liberty in the background, and a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers running past. In another, Zappia alludes to the Olympics with its iconic symbol of interlocked rings, Mount Rushmore, the Woman Suffrage (again) with a women holding a “Votes for Women” sign, and the Great Depression as business men sadly search for jobs. One painting explores the Vietnam War with JFK and LBJ in the mix; another questions the future as it references Wall Street, IBM, and Apple computers.

These works are a bit scattered, but they bring into question what components make up this country and its more recent history, and what may come of the future.

There’s a lot here in Frank Zappia’s show. It’s not always the most cohesive as he exhibits multiple collections at once, but as a whole the show functions as comfort in a changing world, presenting simpler scenes and subject matter in exploration of what makes up the world in which we live.•

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he human body is perhaps visual art’s most perennial theme, its unique fascination grounding endless exploration. Working directly from the live figure, particularly the nude, has a special place in the European tradition, with its naturalistic and humanistic roots. And drawing the model—as the basis for painting or sculpture or as its own pursuit—has a primacy that attracts artists of many stripes. Neither modernist abstraction nor postmodernist pastiche and appropriation holds lasting threat to the difficult joy of using your hands and materials to reimagine another human being.

“Some Body,” on view at Petrune on the Commons through June 1, attests to the social as well as the personal value of working from the figure. Arranged

by Petrune co-owner Domenica Brockman, along with Marina Delaney and Ben Marlan, this rich exhibit invites artists from the Cayuga Arts Collective and the Ithaca Drawing Group. (Both are housed in the historically sited Trumansburg Conservatory for the Arts and “Body” brings together artists from both Ithaca and Tburg.) The drawing group, which hosts weekly figure sessions, is the source of much of the imagery here.

Paintings and drawings, mostly, fill the modest two-floor upstairs space, previously home to the much-missed Eye Gallery.

Brockman, known for her moody, vital landscapes, has recently returned to abstraction. Working with printmaking and with acrylic and textured encaustic (wax) paint on plywood panels, Brockman’s latest combine broad shapes with endearing roughness. Using conjoined panels, her

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two pieces here are compelling outliers.

A crouching female figure, recalling Matisse’s cut-outs, nearly fills the overscaled “Lady Stardust.” Like Brockman’s strict abstractions, the piece plays with ambiguities of “figure” and background— her body a silhouette of smooth but raw wood against palpably thick black encaustic. “Love is Lighter Than Air,” adds areas of white wax as well as watercolorlike acrylic in luminous pink-purple, aqua-blue, and yellow. Curvaceous forms suggest the body while remaining abstract—echoing the Matissean minimalism of Ellsworth Kelly. Both benefit from irregularity between panels where the contours do not quite line up.

Traditionally naturalistic work, varying in skill and ambition, forms the bread and butter of “Body.” There are lots of nude women, which comes with the territory. Marina Delaney is the only artist to explore full male nudity. (There are also no obviously non-white bodies here—make of that what you will). Delaney is showing a pair of “Arrangements”: groups of tiny, mostly sketchy, pencil and ink drawings on paper and vellum in what appear to be found frames.

One arrangement features a pair of heavy-set women, seen from the back, one bent-over and the other seated. The other three pieces show male torsos and crotches, standing. The largest of these is also the most elaborated and interesting, colored in peachy “flesh” tone with a cool gray backdrop—which also shadows his genitals. He appears oddly feminized, smooth and hairless.

Julie Rosa works in the tradition of so-called Classical Realism, an Old

Master-besotted contemporary school that combines aspirations to virtuosity with a sometimes-cloying polish. Her red chalk and wash “Transparent” and oil on linen “Looking Through to Blue” render seated female nudes with an impressive combination of definition and painterliness.

Catherine Montgomery and Ben “Notch” Roswell attempt insouciant fusions of expressionism and Pop. Montgomery has two side-by-side pieces: the towering acrylic on canvas “Intent Softened” and the small oil on cloth “Settled Arrangement”: both female nudes incorporating found or stenciled patterning. The latter piece is cruder but more compelling. It shows a woman rendered in a vivid patchwork of short strokes—yellow ochre, varied pinks, teal—seated amidst a backdrop of paint smudged against a printed pattern of navy blue zig-zags.

Painted in oil on a beige A&P shopping cart tag, Roswell’s “Arriver & Partir” shows an unabashedly sexy girl—from the back, in her underwear—rendered in a similarly expressionistic yet carefully observed style. She is juxtaposed, rather arbitrarily, against the nostalgic red and yellow “sunrise” logo.

“Body” mixes sensuality and craft in a way that feels fresh against other local artist group shows. As well, it incorporates artists rarely if ever seen in Ithaca—making it rather necessary.

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Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing

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5/29 Tuesday I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Bars/Bands/Clubs

5/23 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Group Therapy | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector

Concerts/Recitals

Open Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale

5/26 Saturday

Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

5/24 Thursday

A FINE LINE

Cielle | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

will bring their originals and covers to Hopshire Farm and Brewery for the Friday Night Music series on 5/25 from 6-8. (Photo provided)

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Whistlin’ Dyl | 6:00 PM, | Two Goats

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Arts Of Homer, Homer Brewing, Burdett

Nick Kody & the Creek Road Band | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

5/25 Friday

St. Vith | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

A Fine Line | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire

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Iron Horse & Erin and the Backwoods Blues Project | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Ithaca Common Railers | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

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5/26 Saturday After Funk | 6:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus Amongst the Monks and Pebble | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

5/27 Sunday

City Limits! | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca Heavily Brewing Co. Closing Party | 3:00 PM, | Heavily Brewing Co., Montour Falls

Music & Mimosas | 1:00 PM, | Hosmer Winery, Ovid

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

Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | The Nines, Ithaca

Johnny Dowd | 8:30 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg

Rapid River Boys | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Laila Belle | 7:00 PM, | Finger Lakes Cider House, Interlaken

Stratcat Willie & the Strays | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Cornell Chorus and Glee Club Commencement Concert | 8:00 PM, 5/26 Saturday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornellís internationally renowned choirs present musical highlights from this year. Tickets may be purchased at Baileytickets.com† | $5-student, $15 adult Cornell University Wind Symphony Commencement Concert | 3:00 PM, 5/26 Saturday | Cornell Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca | Commencement concert features a fun mix of international and American music, as well as Cornell songs. As per recent tradition, an audience member will be invited to conduct the band!

Post Malone w/ 21 Savage | 8:00 PM, 5/26 Saturday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center |

5/27 Sunday The Peter Chwazik Quart | 2:00 PM, 5/27 Sunday | Grace and Holy Spirit Church, 13 Court Street, Cortland | Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with a stellar group of jazz musicians.

Donations are appreciated.† Meet the

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afford their own home. artists over refreshments after the concert.

5/28 Monday

DJ/Dance/Trivia

Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 9:00 PM, 5/28 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca |

5/23 Wednesday QuizBowl Trivia Showdown | 7:30 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Think you’re the sharpest knife in the drawer or the brightest light in the harbor? We’ll see about that. Join us every Wednesday for T-burg’s trivia throwdown.

Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Includes free dance lesson from 10-10:30 | $5

5/26 Saturday DJ BOB | 10:00 PM, 5/26 Saturday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca |

5/27 Sunday Trivia Night | 9:00 PM, 5/27 Sunday | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca |

Tango Night | 8:00 PM, 5/28 Monday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Tango Milonga, featuring local dancers and DJs! Come out and join the dance floor, new dancers welcome!

Trivia Night w/ Herman Nugent | 7:00 PM, 5/28 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca |

Film

Disobedience | A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. | 114 mins R The Mask You Live In | Explores how our culture’s narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men and society at large. | 97 mins NR Isle of Dogs | Set in Japan, the story follows a boy’s odyssey in search of his dog. | 101 mins PG-13 Let the Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur) | Isabelle, Parisian artist divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last. | 94 mins Regal Ithaca

Cinemapolis Friday, 5/25 through Thursday, 5/31.

Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes.

Tully (R) | A mother of three hires a night nanny to help with her newborn. | 95 mins R RBG | A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. | 98 mins PG Pope Francis: A Man of His Word | Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope. | 96 mins PG

Wednesday, 5/23 through Tuesday, 5/29. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes.

Deadpool 2| Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (AKA Deadpool) brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities. | 119 mins R Book Club| Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club. | 104 mins PG-13 Breaking In| A woman fights to protect her family during a home

dark criminal underworld. | 135 mins PG-13 Black Panther | T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. | 134 mins PG-13

invasion. | 88 mins PG-13 Life of the Party | After her husband abruptly asks for a divorce, a middleaged mother returns to college in order to complete her degree. | 105 mins PG-13 Avengers: Infinity War | The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. | 149 mins PG-13 Overboard | A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee. | 112 mins PG-13 A Quiet Place | A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. | 90 mins PG-13 Show Dogs | A macho Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover in a prestigious dog show along with his human partner. | 92 mins PG I Feel Pretty | A woman struggling with insecurity wakes up from a fall believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. | 110 mins PG-13 Solo: A Star Wars Story | Young Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian during an adventure into a

Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | MATT & BEN BY MINDY KALING AND BRENDA WITHERS | 4:00 PM, 5/27 Sunday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | A comedy about friendship, fame, and two well known public figures. Performances through June 10. Pay what you can performances on 5/27 & 5/29. | $15-$45

Art Beautiful Botanicals painting class | 6:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | An introduction to painting the flora of our gardens.

Explore black and white, color pencil, pen and ink, and go into greater depth with watercolor. Pre-registration is required. | $200 June Szabo: Earth Stories | All Day 5/24 Thursday | Leidenfrost Vineyards, 5677 State Route 414, Hector | Wood and Wire Sculpture DE - CONSTRUCT / RE- CONSTRUCT | All Day 5/25 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Installation by Werner Sun, paintings by Rosalyn Richards, prints and paintings

by Rebecca Aloisio. Three artists work with reassembling images, patterns and information through visual means.

In Search Of (ISO) | All Day 5/25 Friday | The Studio, 171 East State St, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Featuring

Roots: Real and Remembered | All Day 5/25 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | A show of sculpture and cross-stitched work

by Eva M. Capobianco. Real roots were acquired from walks in nature; Remembered roots are memories from her past.

The World Bewitchíd: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | All Day 5/25 Friday | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features rare and unique books and documents and examines themes such as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands.

Urban Arts Crawl | All Day 5/25 Friday | Downtown Corning, Corning | The Urban Arts Crawl celebrates the burgeoning, unique art scene in historic Downtown Corning, each month presenting distinct artists, exhibitions and cultural experiences.

A self-guided, art-centric trail held on the final Friday of each month, The Crawl includes stops at internationally acclaimed museums, community art centers and independent galleries alike.

Who Is Me? | All Day 5/25 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Curated by x rance, Who Is Me? caresses the tongue of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) to tackle the biggest existential question of all: Who am I? This April through June , x rance curates their first exhibition.

“Memories of Ithaca” | All Day 5/26 Saturday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | An artistic celebration of the natural beauty and rich townscapes of Ithaca and the area.† Brian Keeler captures the evocative tones of the region and its people in this exhibition. Exhibit continues for the month of May on weekends or by appointment.

FIFE & DRUM NEW MEMBER OPEN HOUSE! ITHACA VFW

ST. PAUL’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

5/24 Thursday | 7:00 PM Youíll learn to play the fife or drum and have fun with other young people, ages 8-18. No experience necessary. Weekly lessons provided by superb instructors. Itís fun and unique!

5/24 Thursday | 7:00 PM Ian will present updates from former Vice President Al Goreís organization The Climate Reality Project.

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Special Events Civil Service Workshop | 1:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Learn how to look up exam and vacancy information for various forms of government.

Perspectives on Guns: A Conversation | 7:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Please join us for a conversation about guns and our community. Inspired by the film†ìMaking a killing: guns, greed and the NRAî, the forum will feature four speakers.

Science Cabaret Presents: Editing Our Evolution: Rewriting the Human Genome | 7:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | This special edition of Science Cabaret will be an opportunity to chat with several scientists on the topic of human genome editing. In this rapidly advancing field, there are many questions about the techniques of genome editing and their potential applications.

7th Annual Asparaganza | 3:00 PM, 5/26 Saturday | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickock Road, Interlaken | Free Entry, Free Games, and Free Music! Everyone welcome, free activities for adults and kids alike, all day. Make a mushroom log, asparagus races, nature skills with Primitive Pursuits, herb walks, asparagus pickles, crafts and silkscreening with Good Life Farm, horse wagon rides and more!

Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 5/26 Saturday | Various locations, Ithaca | Enjoy local cuisine on a guided walking tour of Ithaca’s unique restaurants. During a three-hour culinary adventure, satisfy your appetite for inventive and delicious food while getting a taste for our town’s history, culture, and architecture. Call†607272-4830. | $57

Books

Is There Life Out There?

“Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.”

–Neil Degrasse Tyson

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ince the first leak of the famed Alien Autopsy video to stories from Roswell, New Mexico and abroad, the human race has long grappled with the idea that we on earth might not be alone in the universe.

The presence of alien lifeforms in our wedge of the galaxy has a long history in the planetary myth, at times erroneously tied to the rise of the Maya, the Ancient Egyptians, even the Druids, with its place in the American canon taking hold from this continent’s first UFO sighting by a Massachusetts Puritan, John Winthrop, in 1639. Discussions on whether the legends are true or not have been hotly contested by academics and laymen the world over, yet – with much of the evidence of alien lifeforms touching ground on earth resting largely in the anecdotal – members of the public have had little backing their own beliefs in

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aliens beyond the arguments of those who most believe in visitations from another planet.

Fortunately for us, we have actual scientists working on getting some real answers.

On Thursday evening, Cornell Astronomy Senior Research Associate Shami Chatterjee will present a talk at the Tompkins County Public Library considering the question of whether or not we are alone in the universe.

For an hour, starting at 6 p.m., Chatterjee will discuss ideas about the origin of the universe, the formation of stars and planets, the evolution of life on Earth, and the search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond.

The event is free and open to the public.

Chatterjee is uniquely suited to give this talk: Currently a Senior Research Associate at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science as well as the Carl Sagan Institute, his research specialty is in Radio and Radar Astronomy and, over the years, has kept his ear to the stars in search of some indication

shops. Classes offered at various times and locations.

Kids

Tim Gallagher | 5:30 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | New book is BORN TO FISH: How an Obsessed Angler Became the Worldís Greatest Striped Bass Fisherman. BORN TO FISH tells the story of a man who led a harrowing, sometimes dissolute life until he turned himself around, thanks to his rod and reel.

Magic Tree House Adventures | 3:30 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | Reading adventures with Jack and Annie from the popular childrenís book series. †Weekly after school club with††crafts and activities based on several books in the series along with their non-fiction ìfact finderî companion guides. For independent readers. Call (607) 844-4782 for more information.

Sciencenter Science Together | All Day 5/23 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Join us with your little ones (2 thru 5 years old) for hands-on science discovery! T/Th at 10:30 am and Wed/Fri at 3PM. Fife & Drum New Member Open House! | 7:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday

Drag Story Hour | 12:00 PM, 5/27 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Our special guests from the house of Merlot this month are Athena Merlot, Noah Phence, and Veruka Dagger. Bring your kids, yourselves, and your friends!

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Writing Through the Rough Spots | 10:00 AM, 5/23 Wednesday | Various locations, Ithaca | Writing can help to create clarity about challenging situations. Registration for spring classes/ more info: www.WritingRoomWork-

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| Ithaca VFW, 423 W. State Street, Ithaca | Youíll learn to play the fife or drum and have fun with other young people, ages 8-18. No experience necessary. Weekly lessons provided by superb instructors. Itís fun and unique!

Forensic Club | 4:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Who done it?? Use science and forensics to solve the mystery at the library!

Recommended kids ages 7-12. Enrollment required!

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | A fun weekly event combining literacy and a fun lego project! Older children read for younger children, modeling success for their peers. Build a fun project out of one of our 1,000-piece kits while you have a snack.

for life in the universe.

Though the discussion promises to be fascinating, we wouldn’t hold our breath if we were you: in 2016, another Cornell researcher, Yervant Terzian, predicted in an unpublished paper he co-authored (and presented at a national conference in San Diego by co-author and Class of 2019 member Evan Solomonides) that it might be 1,500 years or so before extraterrestrials actually make contact with us here on earth. •

Dinosaur Invasion: 101 Days of Dinosaurs | 10:00 AM, 5/25 Friday | Rosamond Gifford Zoo, 1 Conservation Place, Syracuse | Through September 3, 2018. The Friends of the Zoo worked with Texas-based Billings Productions, a leader in the design and production of lifelike, animatronic dinosaurs, to turn zoo grounds into a dinosaur theme park for the summer.

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 5/26 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more.

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 5/28 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and

a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school.

Comic Book Club | 4:00 PM, 5/29 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Kids ages 7-12 come make your very own comic book! All the supplies are provided, just bring your creativity!

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 5/29 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Health “Look Good Feel Better” | 1:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Cancer Resource Center Of The Finger Lakes, 612 W State St, Ithaca | A program sponsored

MEMORIES OF ITHACA

7TH ANNUAL ASPARAGANZA

5/26 Saturday | 12:00 AM An artistic celebration of the natural beauty and rich townscapes of Ithaca and the area.† Brian Keeler captures the evocative tones of the region and its people in this exhibition.

Exhibit continues for the month of May on weekends or by appointment.

5/26 Saturday | 3:00 PM Free Entry, Free Games, and Free Music! Everyone welcome, free activities for adults and kids alike, all day. Make a mushroom log, asparagus races, nature skills with Primitive Pursuits, herb walks, asparagus pickles, crafts and silkscreening with Good Life Farm, horse wagon rides and more!

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that there might be something out there worth finding. Chatterjee has been a central part of research into the origins of strange radio signals emanating from the furthest reaches of the Milky Way and beyond, chasing their origins down in an attempt to triangulate their natural causes.

While his research is largely technical, he does have one interesting highlight on his curriculum vitae relevant to Thursday’s discussion: he teaches a class in the astronomy department specifically surrounding the search

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by the American Cancer Society designed for women dealing with skin changes from chemotherapy and radiation. Contact Monica Vakiner 277-0960 and check out our Facebook page!

24 Forms Tai Chi (Yang style) | All Day 5/23 Wednesday | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | Contact 607-659-3022 or sueheaven@gmail.com. Meets Mondays and Wednesdays.

Chair Yoga | All Day 5/23 Wednesday | Various locations, Ithaca | Using breathing techniques, basic yoga postures, relaxation, and focus, you will become more in tune with your body, and improve your breath awareness and control. Classes held in Ithaca and T-burg. Contact Lifelong for times and locations.

S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | All Day 5/23 Wednesday | Various locations, Ithaca | Classes focus on stretching, flexibility, balance, low-impact aerobics, strength training, and deep breathing exercises. Personal progress is measured through comparison of level of achievement in three simple exercises over time. Classes held in T-burg, Brooktondale and Ithaca. Contact Lifelong for days and times.

Tai Chi | All Day 5/23 Wednesday | Varying Locations, | Using precise, fluid movement, dissolve tension, increase your strength, cardiovascular fitness, and overall sense of wholeness. Classes held in Brooktondale and Lansing. Contact Lifelong for days and times.

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 5/24 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Local fitness instructor Stephanie Wright leads this exercise class for seniors.

Increase fitness and strength while having fun. Meets weekly on Tu/Th. Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Yoga Farm presents BLISS NIGHT: A Community Healing Event | 7:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | As householders, often we are in a state of service. We tend to endlessly give our time and energy to others. Bliss Night is an invitation for you finally gift yourself the opportunity to nourish yourself, cherish yourself, and love yourself in

this relaxing and enriching environment. | Donation Accepted Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM, 5/26 Saturday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Start your weekend off with our intermediate vinyasa flow yoga class.

Taoist Tai Chi | 11:30 AM, 5/26 Saturday | Taoist Tai Chi Society, Fall Creek Studios, Ithaca | Visit our† studio, try a few moves, speak with certified instructors about the ways Tai Chi could help you to improve balance, overall strength, and muscle coordination.

Spring Open House events continue Tuesday May 29 5:30 - 7 pm.

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 5/27 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. 20 minutes of silent meditation, reading and discussion, then 20 minutes of silent or guided meditation. Beginners are welcome and instruction in basic meditation will be provided.

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 5/27 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | All are Welcome. Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest Humanity. Pray.

Move. Sit. Connect.

Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 5/28 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858. No matter what your problem with food ó compulsive overeating, under-eating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or overexercising ó we have a solution. No dues, fees, weigh-ins.

Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM, 5/29 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Join us for our popular chair yoga class on Tuesdays before the library opens. No experience necessary!

Civic Meetings Spencer-Van Etten Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Spencer-Van Etten Middle School, 1 Center St., Spencer | Meeting held in library.

City Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 5/28 Monday | Common Council

used to fund sight, hearing and youth projects including the pre-school children Vision Screening program. | $10 adult, $7 children Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 5/27 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Sunday Night Alive | 6:00 PM, 5/27 Sunday | McGrawville Church, McGraw | Come sing with the SNA praise band and hear an encouraging word. More details on Facebook. Bring a friend to this upbeat, rockin’ service that honors Christ.

Candor Memorial Day Parade | 10:00 AM, 5/28 Monday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Ave, Candor |

THE CANDOR MEMORIAL DAY PARADE will start at the Legion building on Spencer Road at 10 AM and march down Main Street where there will be a ceremony honoring Navy personnel who died in service to our country. The parade will continue to march to Maple Grove Cemetery where there will a ceremony honoring all of the men and women who have died in military service for the United States.

Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Dryden Schools Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 5/28 Monday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | Meets in the Middle School Library.

Ithaca Town Council | 4:30 PM, 5/28 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Work session; no voting by council.

Spencer Town Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 5/28 Monday | Spencer Municipal Building, 79 E. Tioga St., Spencer | †

Notices Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s

website for more information: https:// ithacawomensbasketball.wordpress. com/† What’s up with smart meters?

Taking a closer look at our energy use | 6:00 PM, 5/23 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Learn how your family can lower your energy bill at our FREE workshop on†at Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County. Bring your questions, ideas, and†your electric bill†to this facilitated community conversation.

Adult Game Night | 6:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | The Lost Kingdom Brewery, Main St, Ovid | Join library staffers for games and drinks. Registration appreciated.

Do science and the Bible disagree? | 7:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Groton High School Cafeteria, 400 Peru Road, Groton | Come investigate this discussion with us along with a viewing of the video: The Death of Darwinism by G. Charles Jackson, PhD. This 45 minute video will certainly stimulate discussion on this fascinating topic.

Faith, Hope and Action: The Climate Reality Project with Ian Shapiro | 7:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | Ian will present updates from former Vice

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5/26 Saturday | 8:00 PM A modern Japanese band who draw inspiration from 70’s punk’s DIY spirit, 80’s new wave, power pop and 90’s unchained indies guitar rock.

SILVER LINE TAP ROOM 5/26 Saturday | 8:30 PM

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What are scientists learning from Lansingís birds? | 7:00 PM, 5/29 Tuesday | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Rd (Rt 34B), Lansing | Wildlife biologist and Lansing resident Robyn Bailey will present some of her research on birds that has been carried out in Lansing and the surrounding areas.†

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President Al Goreís organization The Climate Reality Project.

The Search for Life in the Solar System and Beyond | 6:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Cornell Astronomy Senior Research Associate Shami Chatterjee will present a talk focused on the question of whether we are alone in the universe.

Tioga County Rabies Clinic | 6:00 PM, 5/24 Thursday | Newark Valley Fire Station, Rte. 38, Newark Valley | For puppies & dogs, kittens & cats, and† ferrets. For more information: (607)687-8565. Pre-registration sign ñ up is required. NO ANIMAL WILL BE TURNED AWAY DUE TO INABILITY TO PAY. | $10 “Check it Out” Thrift Store | 9:00 AM, 5/25 Friday | Mecklenburg United Methodist Church, 6063 Turnpike Rd, Mecklenburg | Opening for the season Fridays and Saturdays.

Drawing and Painting | 4:00 PM, 5/25 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Ages 16 and up are invited to a drop-in session of drawing and painting in the library’s new Makerspace.

Ithaca Lions Chicken BBQ Fundraiser | 11:00 AM, 5/27 Sunday | Cass Park, 701 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | All proceeds from the event will be

Halsey Valley Fire Department Chicken BBQ | 12:00 PM, 5/28 Monday | Halsey Valley Fire Dept, 506 Hamilton Valley Rd, Spencer | Until gone! | $10, $7

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The Bolton Point Municipal Water System

in accordance with US EPA regulations and NYS Public Health Law have prepared their Annual Water Quality Report for the year 2018. The report is available at www. boltonpoint.org Comments or questions regarding this notice, the Annual Water Quality Report, or to request a paper copy, please contact Glen Ratajczak, Production Manager at 277-0660

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LIVE PUBLIC AUCTION

Cayuga County, City of Auburn. 40+ Properties Available! Wednesday, June 6, 2018; Registration: 12PM; Auction Start: 2:00PM. Emerson Park Pavilion, 6914 E. Lake Road (RTE 38A), Auburn, NY 13021. Call 800-5361401, Ext. 110. Visit www.auctionsinternational.com (NYSCAN)

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DEERFIELD, MA needs 3 temporary workers 6/1/2018 to 12/31/2018, 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. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants apply at Franklin/ Hampshire Career Center. One Arch Place,Greenfield, MA 011301 413-7744361 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #10383376. 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. Raises and/or bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker employed pursuant to this job order, at the company’s sole discretion, based on individual factors including work performance, skill and tenure.

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HAMDEN, CT needs 2 temporary workers 6/1/2018 to 10/25/2018, 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. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order # 135575. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting cultivating, and processing of apples, pears, peaches, prunes plums, plums and vegetables including, but not limited to: driving, operating, thinning, spraying, irrigating, mowing, harvesting, grading and packing. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. 1 months experience in duties listed required.

Regional Work | Earn up to $0.51 cents per mile Performance pay up to $0.06 per mile more No New York City | 99% no touch freight

Apply: schneiderjobs.com Call: 800-44-PRIDE

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SHARON, MA needs 2 temporary workers 6/1/2018 to 10/31/2018, 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. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants apply at Employment & Training Resources, 275 Prospect St., Norwood, MA, 781-769-4120 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #10386580. Work may be include, but not limited to: Plant, cultivate and harvest various crops such as, vegetables, fruits, horticultural specialties and field crops. Use hand tools, such as, shovels, hoes, pruning shears, knives, and ladders, tilling the soil, applying fertilizer, transplanting, weeding, thinning, pruning, applying pesticides, picking, cutting, cleaning sorting,packing, processing, and handling harvested products. May set up operate and repair farm machinery, repair fences and farm buildings,also may participate in irrigation activities. Work is usually performed outdoors, sometimes under hot or cold and/or wet conditions. Work requires workers to bend stoop,lift and carry up to 50 lbs. on a frequent basis. Working off the ground at heights up to 20 ft using ladders or climbing. Requires 30 days experience in fruit and vegetable duties listed.

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F/T Energy Management HVAC Specialist position available with T-S-T BOCES Facilities division as of 07/02/18. Detailed posting on the BOCES website: www.tstboces. org Apply online by 5/29/18 at: www. tompkinscountyny.gov/personnel TST BOCES,555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, (607)257-1551, Fax: (607)6978273, Email: hr@tstboces.org

Part-Time Graphic Arts Position

The Ithaca Times has an immediate opening for an experienced graphic artist to work Friday, Monday, and Tuesdays at our offices in downtown Ithaca. Must be proficient with InDesign and Photoshop. Responsibilities include ad design,page layout, use of templates, and working in a deadline driven environment. Email resume and examples of work to jbilinski@ithacatimes.com

SPANISH TEACHER

OCM BOCES has a need for a Spanish Teacher for 9th-12th graders at the Cortland Alternative School, Cortland.

Duties: Provide instruction to alternative and special education students within the framework of the N.Y.S. LOTE Learning Standards and the N.Y.S. Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards. Create and maintain a student centered classroom that supports the principles of project-based learning and technology integration. Be flexible, resourceful and innovative while using data, feedback and reflective practice to drive instruction and facilitate student learning. NYS certification in Spanish 7-12 required. Experience with projectbased learning is recommended and strong technology skills are a must. Applications accepted online only. Register and apply by 06/01/18 at www.olasjobs. org/central. for more information. EOE

EMPLOYMENT VOLANTE FARMS INC.,

NEEDHAM MAneeds 1 temporary workers 6/1/2018 to 11/30/2018, 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. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants apply at Employment and training Resources 449 Newtonvillle Ave Newton, MA or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #10401709. Workers will need 1 months experience in all aspects of vegetable production. Duties include, but may not be limited to, the following: Attach, adjust, drive, operate, and maintain farm implements and tractors. Drive tractors to the field to prepare the soil, plant, cultivate, maintain, prune and harvest both fruits and vegetables. Drive farm trucks and equipment over public roads to maintain and harvest Crops. Wash and pack both fruits and vegetables. Maintain and harvest crops using hands and hand held equipment. Setup irrigation systems and know when to irrigate crops using methods appropriate for the crop and location. Identify crops, pests and weds to determine the most appropriate Selection and application method of pesticides and fertilizers. May mix spray solutions, spray crops and apply fertilizers. Transplant, move, and space plants to and from greenhouse floors, benches and trucks.

May clean and bread down greenhouse, barns, farm stand.

TEACHER-WELDING

OCM BOCES has the need for an hourly adult education instructor at the OCM BOCES Cortlandville Campus, 1710 NYS Route 13, Cortland, NY 13045.

Knowledge and skilled in the instruction of Welding, basics of electricity, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, and FCAW welding, 5+ years prior experience preferred. To apply, please forward letter of interest and resume to: Matt Tarolli, OCM BOCES, PO Box 4754, Syracuse, NY 13221 or email: mtarolli@ocmboces.org For more information, visit our website at: www. ocmboces.org EOE

I BUY Antiques and Collectibles! ~OLD TOYS~COMICS~COINS~ OLD SIGNS~FURNITURE~ JEWELRY~BASEBALL CARDS~OIL PAINTINGS~ POTTERY~PHOTOGRAPHS~CLOTHING~GOLD~ OLD CHRISTMAS AND HALLOWEEN~ OLD CARS AND MOTORCYCLES~ ATTIC~BASEMENT~HOUSE~BARN~ESTATE~CLEANOUT

I will pay top $$$ Call or text Todd Crawford 607-379-1644 email at eyeofithaca@yahoo.com

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The City of Ithaca

is accepting applications for the following: College Discovery Program - Recreation Attendant: Currently one vacancy in the Youth Bureau. Salary: Varied.

Minimum Qualifications: none. Applications accepted until position is filled. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)274-6539 www. cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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EASY, ONE DAY updates! We specialize in safe bathing. Grab bars, no-slip flooring & seated showers. Call for a free in-home consultation: 888-657-9488. (NYSCAN)

Affordable Collegetown Apartment

2 Bedroom with short walk to Cornell Campus. Recently Renovated Large Rooms, Living Room, Galley Kitchen. Heat included.

Call Tracy 379-2776

630/Commercial / Offices Joins Cornell Botanic Garden, F.H. Unfurnished - 1400 sq. ft. - Parking.

Rent, utilities, details negotiable. To apply: submit information to: MAO Savage Farm Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850

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I’m on my way back home!!!! Needing to rent a 2-3 bedroom home in Trumansburg school district. Is there one available ?? A porch along with a yard large enough for a swing would be perfect! References can be provided.

Please call: 937.344.7671

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(Ages 50-80). No medical exam. Affordable premiums never increase. Benefits never decrease. Policy will only be canceled for non-payment. 855-686-5879. (NYSCAN)

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS.

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Call MG Hammer at 607319-0766

Single Ch 7 Bankruptcy $800.00 (+ff ) NDNY. Auto Accidents 73%-27% Split. Ch. 12 & 13 Divorce Real Estate Estates Mark Gugino 144 Bald Hill Road, Ithaca. Attorney Advertising Debt Relief.

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Work to Repair Your Credit Report With The Trusted Leader in Credit Repair. Call Lexington Law for a FREE credit report summary & credit repair consultation. 855-620-9426.

John C. Heath, Attorney at Law, PLLC, dba Lexington Law Firm. (AAN CAN)

Four Seasons Landscaping Inc.

Handy Man

Stone Walls, Walks, Repointing, Gardens, Weeds, Carpentry, George: 319-6200 - Save Number!

Lung Cancer?

And Age 60+? You and Your Family May Be Entitled To Significant Cash Award. Call 866-951-9073 for Information. No Risk. No Money Out of Pocket. (NYSCAN)

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A Medicare Supplemental Plan can help cover costs that Medicare does not. Get a free quote today by calling now. Hours: 24/7. 1-800-730-9940. (NYSCAN)

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REAL ESTATE SCHOHARIE COUNTY LAND FOR SALE

High on a hill 40 Acres, Awesome Views: $114K; 9.5 Acres, Great Views: $44K; 4.2 Acres: $24K, Owner Financing. www. helderbergrealty.com 518-861-6541 or 518256-6344 (NYSCAN)

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Vocalist/Musician

I am looking to join or start a band. I am an experienced singer in mostly Country and Rock & Roll! I live in Ithaca. Please contact me at 607-262-1818 or even text me. Butch Perfetti

LAND LIQUIDATION SALE!

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June 2nd & 3rd. 21 Parcels from $19,900!

Were you an INDUSTRIAL TRADESMAN?

Cooperstown Lake Region. Terms avail!

Go to ithaca.com/classified

888-905-8847 to register. NewYorkLandandLakes.com (NYSCAN)

(machinist, boilermaker, pipefitter etc) and recently diagnosed with LUNG CANCER? You may be entitled to a SIGNIFICANT CASH AWARD. Risk free consultation! 855-4076931. (NYSCAN)

OXYGEN

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PIANOS

VALOR COURAGE SOUL

• Rebuilt • Reconditioned • Bought• Sold • Moved • Tuned • Rented

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!

THIS IS A RAIN OR SHINE EVENT

Special Weekend Events Include Wine, Beer & Cider Seminars, Food Pairings & More!

SAVE $5 On Admission Order Tickets Online Now!

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AWARD-WINNING WINERIES, DISTILLERIES AND CIDERIES FROM NY AND MA Information & tickets available on-line at:

www.hudsonberkshirewinefestival.com

Sat. June 2nd at 11 am

Ithaca Piano Rebuilders

272-2602

Columbia Co. Fairgrounds, Chatham, NY

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Complete rebuilding services.

No job too big or too small.

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We Remember

DeWitt Mall 215 N. Cayuga St

MAY 26TH & 27 TH

944 Salmon Creek Rd., Lansing, N.Y. 3 Bedroom Home on 4.75 Acres

(607) 272-6547 950 Danby Rd., Suite 26

South Hill Business Campus, Ithaca, NY

Ithaca’s only

1,056 Sq. Ft. * 4.75 Acres * Built 1989 * 3 Bedrooms 2 Full Baths * Appliances * Detached Garage * Needs repairs *

hometown electrical distributor

Sells to Highest Bidder Regardless of Price!!

Your one Stop Shop

Open for Inspection 1 Hour prior to auction or by appointment.

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

Tax Map #: 4-1-20.4 & 20.32

David W. Mapes 607-754-9193

Lot Size: 4.75 Acres

www.benjaminauctions.com

Assessment $91,000.00

Alan J. Benjamin 607-343-5300

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4 Seasons Landscaping Inc.

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES PUNK REGGAE ETC Angry Mom Records 115 The Commons Basement 319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com

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!

“CLEAR IT OUT” Basements, Barns, Garages & etc.

Reliable and Affordable Richard F. Vogt Call 387-4190 water1945@live.com

AAM ALL ABOUT MACS

EACH DAY WE GET TO BEGIN AGAIN!

http://www.allaboutmacs.com (607) 280-4729

Start with 30 Days of UNLIMITED Yoga for $30!

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Macintosh Consulting

MIGHTY YOGA

Affordable Collegetown Apartment 2 Bedroom with short walk to Cornell Campus.

Recently Renovated Large Rooms Living Room, Galley Kitchen, Heat Included Call Tracy 379-2776

Voted Best of Ithaca Visit www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682 FOREVER YOUNG Botox * Dysport * Facial Fillers Microdermabrasion * Microneedling Jean Trujillo NP 401 E. State St. G1 Ithaca, NY 348-3892

Agway True Value

Gateway BBQ Kitchen

Community CashCoupon Save $1.00 to $5.00 213 Fulton St. or 2309 N.Triphammer Rd.

Smoked BBQ meats, Burgers, Wines Eat-In, Pick-up, Delivery, Catering Use Community Cash Coupon and Save 15% 401 E. State St.,Gateway Center

Buffalo Street Books Save 20% with your Community Cash Coupon DeWitt Mall, 273-8246

Guitar Lessons Ithaca

Buy, Sell & Consign Previously-enjoyed

FURNITURE & DECOR MIMI’S ATTIC

430 W. State St. (607)882-9038 Open Every Day!

a whole new level of play readers of this ad get a free gift by going to: GuitarLessonsIthaca.com/TimesAd 607-222-3166

Love dogs?

Handwork

is celebrating 42 years as Ithaca’s Artisan Cooperative.

Take 20% off everything in-store June 1st and 2nd at our Thank You Sale during Ithaca Festival Enter for a chance to win a free gift from our Featured Artist for June.

Sale Hours: Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 1am-6pm.

Handwork is located at 102 West State Street Downtown Ithaca.

I BUY

Antiques and Collectibles!

Old Toys - Comics - Coins Old Signs - Furniture - Jewelry Baseball Cards - Oil Paintings Pottery - Photographs - Clothing Gold - Old Christmas and Halloween Old Cars and Motorcycles Attic-Basement-House-Barn Estate-Clean out

I will pay top $$$ Call or text Todd Crawford 607-379-1644 email at eyeofithaca@yahoo-com

Independence Cleaners Corp RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Janitorial Service * Floor/Carpet High Dusting * Windows/Awnings 24/7 CLEANING Services 607-227-3025

It’s Audition Season for the Vitamin L Singing Group!

For youth currently in 5th-11th grade who like to sing, perform, and make a positive difference in this world.

For audition info go to http://vitaminl.org/auditions/ or call Vitamin L’s director, Janice Nigro at 273-4175

Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

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

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

Same Day Service Available

John’s Tailor Shop John Serferlis - Tailor 102 The Commons 273-3192

Part-Time Graphic Arts Position The Ithaca Times has an immediate opening for an experienced graphic artist to work Friday, Monday and Tuesdays at our offices in downtown Ithaca Must be proficient with InDesign and Photoshop Responsibilities include ad design, page layout, use of templates, and working in a deadline driven environment.

Email resume and examples of work to jbilinski@ithacatimes.com

Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture

Anthony Fazio, L,Ac, DAOM (c) www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com 607-272-0114 PSA is pleased to welcome to our offices: Jed Michael, L Ac SimpleStressRelief.com Sports and Orthopedic Acupuncture 802-585-1959

Experience and Affordability Spring Savings at Ithaca Ace Hardware $5.00 OFF any purchase $25 or more with Community Cash Coupon Triphammer Market Place 607-319-4002

Ithaca’s Turkish Kitchen

Istanbul

Free Baklava & Turkish Tea with entree purchase and Community Cash Coupon 311. 3rd St., near DMV Istanbulithaca.com 345-3333

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