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Students, Admin Spar Over Health Fee

lans for an updated Lake Street Park were presented to the city Planning and Development Board at their Tuesday, April 28 meeting.

Peter Trowbridge of Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects presented the board with a few tweaks to plans for a spruced-up park that includes new benches, bike racks, and a semi-circular paved walkway. All of those will be inside an area that will be newly fenced, also in a semi-circular fashion. Though the park will still be open on the sidewalk side—only from dawn to dusk—the new fence will allow for controlled, gated access to the Ithaca Falls natural area. The improvements are part of an approximately $1.7 million project that also includes rehabilitating the Lake Street bridge that crosses Fall Creek.

“One significant change that’s happened in the last week or so is that [the state Department of Transportation] came back and said they wanted a guardrail to keep cars from going through the park and into the gorge,” Trowbridge said. “Initially they suggested the guardrail extension come off the bridge and extend across the front of the park.”

That last remark elicited a few derisive chuckles from board members at the DOT’s aesthetic instincts. Trowbridge told them that his firm designed the required guardrail so that it follows the pedestrian railing around the park.

Board chair Garrick Blalock asked Trowbridge if there were “natural places” in the design where signs might go if donated in the future.

“This is an iconic tourist site, probably the most visited spot in Ithaca,” Blalock said. “Maybe the county tourist bureau can challenge some of its members to donate a sign. I know [Cornell] Plantations is willing to customize one of their safety signs for this place.”

“I think once this park gets established, there are other improvements that could be grafted on,” Trowbridge said.

“There’s not just scenic beauty here, but all the historic artifacts that I don’t think people know are there.”

Board member John Schroeder added some details to Trowbridge’s allusion to historic interest around the falls.

“What people don’t know about is Ezra Cornell blasted a tunnel in the rock that was a tourist attraction. People could actually walk through it,” Schroeder said.

n the week before Cornell’s big Charter Day celebration on the weekend of April 24 through 27, several students active in “#FightTheFee” protests were called in to speak with administrators, or, in two cases, with Cornell Police Investigator Justin Baum. The student organizers, who had staged two protests

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Susan Murphy wrote students Wyatt Nelson and Michael Ferrer on April 19 in an email requesting a meeting, “and want to discuss with you what we expect to happen over the course of the weekend.”

What did end up happening over Charter Day weekend was an April 26 demonstration that announced the formation of the “Cornell Independent Students’ Union”—an entity organizers say is unrelated to #FightTheFee, though several people are involved in both. That gathering of about 60 students was held outdoors, where protests do not need approval under campus rules.

Where students and faculty say the administration and police crossed a line in the run-up to Charter Day was during Baum’s interview with Daniel Marshall, a class of 2015 undergraduate. It is the recording of that interview that has students and faculty crying “intimidation.”

Some faculty have said it is the most nervous they have seen the administration since the fight over chopping down Redbud Woods in 2005.

Health fee protest at Cornell on Charter Day Weekend. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

during spring 2015 against the university’s proposed $350 health care fee for those not enrolled in Cornell insurance, said the irony of these conversations is that they had nothing scheduled for Charter Day events at all.

“We’re not nearly as cool as they think we are,” said Alex Brown, a Ph.D. student in German studies, before Charter Day weekend.

“We anticipate that you will use [Charter Day] as an opportunity to continue your protests,” vice president

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“ Being engaged in making things.”

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“I value my freedom.”

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but that it is not an automatic bar to employment.

Although neither Tompkins County nor any of its included municipalities has banned the box yet, nearby Syracuse has. Alan Rosenthal, an attorney with the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse, helped see that law through.

However, the Syracuse law does not apply

here are around 70 million Americans with an arrest history or a criminal record. For that portion of the population—one in three adults, according to the National Employment Law Project—getting a job can be tough.

In some cases, private employers, such as Target, Home Depot, and Walmart, have chosen to make it a bit easier by not asking questions about criminal background on their applications. In some cases, cities, counties, and states have actually passed legislation prohibiting such questions.

The box in question is a standard item on job applications.

These so-called “Ban the Box” laws (Photo: Keri Blakinger) don’t mandate that employers must hire felons. They simply require that to all employers, but only to the city and its criminal background inquiries occur later contractors. He said, “As we’ve seen [Ban in the hiring process, typically after an inthe Box] implemented around the country person interview or conditional offer of there have been basically three versions. employment.

Among the county’s major employers, The first is the one that is the most narrow, the one in which the governmental Ithaca College, Borg Warner, and Cayuga entity—city, county, or state—bans the Medical Center all either declined to comment or failed to respond to questions box for government employees only.

The second is the one which applies to about their policies regarding the hire of government entities and any business that individuals with criminal backgrounds. contracts with government entities. Then Cornell University, Tompkins County, the third, the one that is the broadest and and the City of Ithaca all said that they gives the best of protections, takes the two do inquire about criminal background,

that I’ve already mentioned and adds to it any private business within the locality.”

Rosenthal said that those with criminal backgrounds are not the only ones to benefit from the passage of Ban the Box legislation: “The benefits that flow from that are that if a person [with a criminal background] gets a job they now are a taxpayer, so there’s a benefit to the municipal entity in which they live. Now they’re paying taxes, they’re no longer in need of public assistance. There is the additional benefit that employment reduces the recidivism rate.” He added, “The Koch brothers have banned the box.

Liberals shouldn’t be running away from this.”

Mayor Svante Myrick said that the city has talked about Ban the Box legislation in the past, but the matter never came to a vote. However, he voiced his support for the concept, saying, “If we deny people meaningful employment, we’re all but guaranteeing that they’ll go back to prison.”

One group of Cornell students, the Prison Reform and Education Project (PREP), has been actively raising awareness on the issue in recent months and one of the group’s leaders, Garrison Lovely, said that PREP has plans to address the Common Council about it during their regular May meeting. Lovely said, “We believe if you are sentenced and serve your time, you should not be punished repeatedly. It contributes to high recidivism.” continued on page 10

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“Being outside, cooking, and yoga.”

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“Dance.”

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“Reading.” ­—Maud Rith

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“And there was an island next to Ithaca Falls, made by an open channel blasted open for the mill.”

Cornell had initially blasted his tunnel in 1830 to create a mill race that took water down a sluice to power a water wheel at a mill owned by Joseph Beebe, whose name was given to Beebe Lake, further upstream on Fall Creek, where he had another mill.

• • • In another discussion, floor plans and sketches for the Texas Roadhouse restaurant planned for 719-725 Meadow Street were put before the board by Paula Hubert, a site development coordinator from Greenberg Farrow, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Parker Harrington, a real estate manager with Texas Roadhouse.

The plans show a standard-issue Texas Roadhouse facade complete with steeplypeaked towers over wooden siding and the U.S. and Texas flags flying high—though the chain was founded in Clarksville, Indiana, and is now headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. What the board took issue with was the fact the main entrance faces to the north, into the parking lot, rather than out onto the sidewalk.

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Meadow?” McKenzie Jones-Rounds asked. “People are going to see a wall that’s probably got a ramp to a door that says do not enter.”

“If you were walking down a street the doorway is around the corner,” JonesRounds continued. “Even for cars it doesn’t create an urban wall. What people see walking or driving down Route 13 are a bunch of sides and brick walls. That doesn’t fit in with the goals of the city— and we have this discussion with everyone, Wegman’s, every chain restaurant that comes in.”

“Typically our restaurants open up to the other side, but we swung it around to

this side, next to the sidewalk,” Harrington said.

“We’re bound to a tight footprint here,” Hubert added. “This is sited in such a way we meet the setback requirements, and also to utilize the existing parking.”

All three buildings on the site, including the Ollie’s and the two-business building that includes the Vitamin Shoppe, will be sharing parking on the lot, Hubert told the board.

“Give it your best shot and come back next month,” Blalock told the Texas Roadhouse representatives. • —Josh

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ecently, former Tompkins County Administrator Scott Heyman received an award for lifetime achievement. It’s a well-deserved honor, as he worked as the Tompkins County Administrator for 13 years before becoming the CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Now, he works as the Director of Education and Training at the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County (HSCTC) and was recently awarded the 2015 Nonprofit Award for Career Achievement presented by M&T Bank and produced by BizEvents.

Ithaca Times: So, for starters, what all have you been doing since you stopped working for the county?

Scott Heyman: From 1998 to 2008 I was the CEO at Planned Parenthood for this county, and while I was there we merged with the Planned Parenthood to the west and south of us. So I stayed there for 10 years, and about six months after I left there I invited [HSCTC executive director] Kathy Schlather out to lunch and said, “The coalition really ought to do a workshop series and make training more readily available.” She said, “Funny you should suggest that. We’ve been working on that for two years.” So I said to Kathy, “Cool, I’m retired now so I’ll volunteer to help you.” Then Lisa Horn [who previously held Heyman’s current job] said that she wanted to do different things with the agency, and Kathy asked if I wanted to take over her job and be the coordinator of the workshop series.

The job has grown since then. I do consults for local agencies, more so for their boards than their staff. Every now and then they want a more extensive consult, and we do charge for that. I worked with a few of the local finance officers in 2013 to organize a financial officers association. That still exists, and we meet monthly. We have 30 trainers in our workshop series. Then in 2014 I did the same thing for nonprofit executive directors.

I also do interim executive director stints. I’m on number four. I was the interim executive director at Suicide Prevention. In 2011, I was interim executive director at Lifelong. In 2012 I did the same thing for the T. Collin Campbell Foundation, and currently I’m the interim executive director at Challenge.

IT: You seem like you’re probably on a bunch of nonprofit boards. Are you?

SH: I’m on the Family and Children’s Services board.

IT: Oh, so you’ll be housing the new outreach worker position?

SH: Yep.

Scott Heyman (Photo: Brian Arnold)

IT: What do you think of the idea?

SH: I think it sounds very interesting, very constructive. It’s experimental, so we’ll see how it goes. I’m thrilled they picked Family and Children’s Services to house the position.

IT: What are some of the best parts of what you’re doing now?

SH: I really love it. I loved being head of Planned Parenthood and being county administrator. I wasn’t someone who looked to become a chief executive or an administrator in my life—it sort of fell into my lap. I was invited to apply. I like being in the role of working hard to support people who give direct services.

I love doing that, but nobody wants a permanent part-time chief executive [as is the case with the interim director positions]. So, like many people who are in

executive jobs, I teach other people to do some of the things that I learn. My own specialty is teaching boards how to organize themselves to be effective. I work really hard at that and I enjoy it.

IT: So you talked about how you became county administrator, but what did you do before becoming county administrator?

SH: I was deputy county administrator for 19 months and I was, for five years before, the county human rights director. Karen Baer is in that position now. I did that from 1978 to 1983. Before that I was in a couple of not very good jobs. Prior to that, in Syracuse, I had taught school for five years.

IT: Where are you from originally?

SH: Syracuse.

IT: I see a pattern. Do we always steal our county administrators from Syracuse?

SH: [Laughs] IT: Do you miss being county administrator?

SH: [Pause] Yeah, to some degree.

IT: Is there anything you look back on now and say, “Wow, that was a really great moment for the county” or “That was a really cool thing we did?”

SH: We did lots of cool things. We had eight major construction projects.

We fought the garbage wars that many counties had to fight and came up with a really excellent solid waste program … When I was there we had one of the lowest county tax rates in the state; it was like $5 per thousand or less. There are some bad reasons for that. If you look at it, this county exports a lot of its poverty. The result of that is that our public assistance and Medicaid caseloads are much, much lower per capita than the counties around.

IT: Do you miss three-hour legislature meetings?

SH: No! The ultimate was a budget session that went till 1 a.m.

IT: Did meetings still start at 5:30 p.m. at that point?

SH: Yes. At the other end of that spectrum in the late ‘80s there was a year when the legislature raised the property tax rate 20 percent and one person came to the budget hearing … It was very strange. Two years later we went until one in the morning with angry taxpayers.

IT: I heard you won an award recently.

What was that for?

SH: It’s for the nonprofit people in the greater Central New York region. It was very nice, Kelly White nominated me, and I got it. I don’t know whether they give an award to everyone who was nominated or whether there were 1,000 people nominated. I got a similar thing from Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services.

I’m at that point in life where people recognize longevity and it always feels very good. • —Keri

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Ups&Downs ▶ Honoring Ted and Barbara, Ted Sobel will be recognized as “Senior Citizen of the Year” for his many years of work with the Brooktondale Community Center, the Sciencenter, and most recently with the Caroline Food Pantry.

Barbara Barry will be given the “Outstanding Contribution by a Senior“ award for her years of work with Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources (OAR), the Alternatives to Violence Program and her long history of volunteering in the Lansing Community.

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

Heard&Seen ▶ Better Overlook, A $1.9 million project that will transform the popular Overlook area at Taughannock Falls State Park broke ground on Monday, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced. The multifaceted project, funded by Governor Cuomo’s New York Parks 2020 plan and the Environmental Facility Corporation’s Green Innovation Grant Program, will include new picnic areas, a three-season comfort station, native plant gardens and a redesigned parking area featuring permeable pavement that will better protect the surrounding environment. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of April 29-May 7 include: 1) Two Charged in Separate Assaults in Spencer 2) Cockburn to Visit the Hangar 3) Open Containers Okay in Tburg; Hours Not Yet Decided 4) First Look At Proposed Trebloc Building 5) Rebecca Barry’s “Memoir in Stories” For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Rethinking College Y ou spend four years and a boatload of money on a college degree. It’s probably worth asking: Is your education useful? And if it is, why? Is it valuable because it’s the phenomenal product of you being in an academic environment for four long years devoting yourself to the pursuit of higher knowledge, or is it merely a signal to potential employers that you’re willing to play society’s game and pick up that little rolled up piece of paper when you graduate? This is the question that motivated my research. If it’s the former case, then education seems to be, in and of itself, useful and valuable. However, if it’s the latter, it seems unfortunate that our huge investment of time and money is nothing more than a signal of effort.

That has got to be the most inefficient way to relay such a simple message, and, if that really is the case, change needs to happen.

Through a partnership with the Cornell University Survey Research Institute, I was able to ask my question in a nationally representative public opinion poll conducted just a few weeks ago. The question that I put in the survey was the following: If you have attended college, would you say that the undergraduate education you received has been directly applicable to your current job? The result was that 37.5 percent of individuals (who attended college and have a job) answered “no” and found their undergraduate education to be inapplicable to their

current jobs.

This is a tragically high rate of educational irrelevance. After all, we as a society pretty much uniformly promote the idea that college is a necessity to succeed in life. In a survey conducted by Gallup in 2014, 95 percent of respondents said that college is important for a person to succeed in life. It’s odd that almost everyone believes college is essential to one’s career despite the fact that four out of every 10 individuals living in America don’t find their education to be applicable to their careers. Nearly 40 percent of college graduates didn’t find college to be a particularly useful investment, and they could have saved a lot of money and done a lot of other career-oriented activities in the time that they were in college. It’s unfortunate that society places such an overwhelming pressure on students to make the burdensome investment of going to college when college is clearly not for everyone.

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, student loan debt in America is now greater than $1.2 trillion, and, according to the Institute for College Access and Success, the average student debtor graduates with a debt of $28,400. These are obviously staggering sums, and they are currently crippling the lives of many alumni. This is why it’s important that continued on page 7

The Perfect Blend

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n May 8, 1977, the Grateful Dead played a show at Cornell’s Barton Hall, which its historical-minded fans, who take such designations seriously, consider legendary, if not the absolute best in the band’s career.

Among countless thousands of Dead shows, spanning decades, what made this one stand out? It might not have been the band so much as the crowd.

One special thing that night was the large number of people who got in to the show without tickets. It wasn’t that large a number, relative to the total attendance, but it was a large percentage of the people without tickets: like, 100 percent.

It wasn’t an insurrection. It wasn’t official. But it happened. I know, because I helped let them in.

I was 19, a sophomore at Cornell, and along with some friends of mine, in charge of security for the Cornell Concert Commission, even though I had hair past my shoulders, weighed 133 pounds (pneumonia that winter), and was a little loose.

The show was a sell-out. Knowing the Dead’s crowd, we knew a lot of people would show up without tickets. We weren’t worried about it, but the president of the commission was. The CCC was a big deal in those days, a springboard for getting big jobs in the music industry, so the officers tended to be serious and business-like.

Before the show, the president came to address the ticket takers, ushers, and security. He said there would be a lot of people trying to get in free, and scam and cajole us, and we had to be resolute, and defend the barriers, or something.

We listened solemnly, and he thanked us and wished us well in fulfillment of our duty.

When he left, we told the crew what

we would really like them to do, which was let everybody in, if possible—with some important conditions.

Anyone who didn’t have a ticket would be asked to come back after everyone with tickets got in. We thought it only fair to take care of the paying customers first—plus then we could see what we were dealing with, numerically.

Then, people without tickets could gain entry, not for nothing, but not for money.

It wouldn’t have been right for us to take money, and we didn’t.

Instead, we’d require anyone without a ticket to contribute something to the event: again, not money, and not alcohol or drugs, but some act or artifact.

If they had a ticket to another event, we would honor that. If they got a ticket driving to the show, we’d honor that. If they had a coupon to Arby’s, or a guitar pick, or a lucky charm, or a pencil, or a cooking utensil they were willing to give, we’d honor that.

One guy got in with a peanut butter sandwich. We didn’t eat it, of course, but he said he had made it in Tennessee, which we thought was pretty good. We had never seen a sandwich from Tennessee before.

The next guy didn’t have anything, so we asked him to spell “Tennessee.” He did, or at least he tried, so he got in.

The majority of people got in that way: by answering a question, telling a story, doing chin-ups (conveniently, there was a metal bar in the doorway), doing a dance, or singing a song. (We heard “Happy Birthday” a lot that night.)

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I would like to warn people thinking of having their homes insulated with foam insulation through the NYSERDA program.

My experience has been nightmarish. The plumbing and heating company paid by NYSERDA to do the job left me with a great mess.

They pressured me to replace my hot water tank, claiming it was not safe since it was not made for a mobile home. I didn’t want it but was feeling tired and didn’t stand up to them. They installed it in what could only be described as a “cob job.”

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I called another plumber who said it was done all wrong and how it ought to be done.

I contacted the director of NYSERDA, who said something would be done to fix my problem and it would be paid for by them.

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she was the fastest seamstress in the group. esislava Furber was born in Many other kids also sewed.

Tompkins County 10 years ago.

“You,” she continued, “can use these Parents Diana Dimatrova and bags for so many things: You can tuck David Furber moved here in 1999 so them in your lunchbox, and you can bring that Diana could serve as Director of your snack in them. One of our proudest International Students at Ithaca College. moments was when a kindergartner David found college teaching positions showed us her Snack Sack. Fifth grader until he was lured away to computer Anna recognized it as one she had made.” design work.

Carolyn Belle-Abbott, Dessi’s teacher, Environmental activists, who lauded Sew Green, which designed the want to do something to protect their sacks and donated the materials. “Fortyworld, surround Carolyn Belle-Abbott, seven of 50 students got to use the sewing Dessi’s fifth-grade teacher at South Hill machines to have a part in the sewing!”

Elementary School. This Fall Dessi said Belle-Abbott. “Andy Biehn and reports her class-studied waste, including Patrick Jasinski wrote an article about microbeads of plastic, found in our microplastics in the school newspaper.” waterways and in our soil, and they In March of this year fifth graders, decided to take action: their teachers, and Principal Samantha “Plastic in our water is harmful to Little took the next step, announcing us,” said Dessi. “It doesn’t decompose.

“Litterless Lunch” every Wednesday for Eventually the plastic breaks down into a month. To meet the challenge students micro balls, like tiny beads. Birds and fish mistake the micro plastic for seeds and eat the plastic.

When I hear about what is going on in the environment, my instinct is to want to make things change. Many other fifth graders feel the same way.”

After many lively discussions about protecting the environment the fifth grade teachers and students decided to focus on one thing everyone in the school could do.

Dessi (left) at the Earth Day fair. (Photo: provided) When kids and parents flocked to the school for of all ages bring their lunch in non“Great Escape Night,” they found more disposable bags and try to clean up with than just a really cool obstacle course only banana peels or orange skins that go (with alien spaceships landing among into compost—nothing that requires a the participants). They found pizza and trash can. Dessi said: “We are inspired to snacks in the cafeteria. Nestled among keep trash and plastic out of our water, out the inviting snacks was also a table of fifth of the waste stream. It’s harmful. We don’t graders advertising cloth called “Snack even know what the plastic was used for Sacks.” Every class at school has a snack before it got tossed into the water. Plastic time during the day, and kids bring their bags never decompose.” snacks to school in all sorts of bags, Belle-Abbott added, “Our ‘Wasteincluding those non-biodegradable plastic free Wednesday’ project has been bags.

All evening the Snack Sackers showed supported by the Principal Samantha Little; our custodian, Julie Travella; the off their samples, and by the end of the cafeteria staff led by Deb Beyer; and the evening they had orders for 65 fabric paraprofessionals who supervise students Snack Sacks. at lunch. We couldn’t do this without Dessi remembers one afternoon a them.” bunch of students stayed after school and Waste-free Wednesdays have been so filled those orders. “Some of the teachers successful throughout the entire school, cut out the fabric and ribbon,” she said. that it has become a weekly custom ... Very “Sydney and Aria, among others, pinned few plastic bags come to school. Kids are the pieces of fabric and ribbon—for tying up the bag—and flipped the bags right side nudging kids. Kids are nudging parents.

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society places an appropriate amount of emphasis on the importance of college, not an excessive amount, as it is currently doing. The cost of college is very real, but the benefits of college are not quite as real as we’re sometimes led to believe.

Public discourse on checking the importance of college is necessary to counter this prevailing narrative that college is necessary for success. Higherlevel education is very popular and for good reason. I don’t mean to say that higher-level education is, in and of itself, a bad thing. What I do have a problem with is the idea that people can’t be successful without moving on to higherlevel education. This shouldn’t be the case at all, especially given the survey data that almost 40 percent of college graduates don’t use their college education in their work anyway.

However, the idea that college is necessary has created a societal selffulfilling prophecy that now actually makes it difficult for people who don’t go to college to find success. It has created a stigma in the job marketplace against those who don’t have college degrees.

People who might not have had any interest or need to go to college now feel forced to saddle themselves with debt and go because they can’t successfully compete for jobs with those that have the coveted degrees. We need to change the paradigm in how we currently view higher education as this absolute good, and instead need to put effort in creating societal structures and norms that allow individuals to more effectively use their resources (of time and money) and succeed without having to go to a costly, sometimes ineffective institution.

– Inbum Lee, Cornell University, Class of 2017

We got this comment to a story about the Cortland Red Cross (“Red Cross Honors Local Heroes”; April 25): Congratulations to all who were recognized. But, please communities, remember those who saved the 25 year old woman were doing what they get paid to do. Are you telling the communities that emergency medical volunteers who do this for FREE and received no recognition do not deserve the recognition? How many people did the very few, volunteer Slaterville emergency medical technicians save with ZERO assistance from anyone paid? As the final, remaining , volunteer ambulance squad in Tompkins County, THEY deserve the recognition. It is amazing that the Ithaca and Bangs crews saved her but come on, they are paid. It is their job. Volunteers will be gone from emergency medical services in Tompkins County soon. Ask Dryden and Trumansburg how many, active, volunteer emergency medical technicians they have remaining. There may be some in their departments but they are nearly gone.

- Anonymous1234 When the Potter’s Room announced they were closing in May, another apparent casualty of the public dislike of entering the construction site that is the Commons, we got this sympathetic comment: This is such shame for ithaca to dry up of its cultural resources. I hope the city, Cornell University, Ithaca College or alumni step up and help Potter’s room stay in business because it has created an experience for children, teenagers adults and elderly, all benefitting from classes and activities working with their hands-on, exploring their creativity and building something. I have met a an elderly who goes to the shop to work with his hands to reduce arthritis pain, and school children who go there to learn something. Potter’s room can never be replaced if it leaves ithaca.

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one more. We figured we’d see. We were inquisitive students.

Cornell didn’t need the money and wouldn’t take these people’s money anyhow, so we were in agreement there.

From a security standpoint, we thought, “How secure is it to have all these disappointed people milling around outside? Mightn’t they try to figure out some other way—some destructive or desperate way—to get in, if there’s no way to get a ticket, and their sandwiches and singing won’t work?” Of course they might.

All those unhappy, shut out people would have made us feel insecure. And we were in charge of security. So we acted.

Over the years, the Dead played a lot of sold-out shows, and a certain number of free ones, but maybe never one that blended the two like this. The performance is called “exceptional.” For a lot of people there, it was a special night before a note was played. Maybe some blending occurred there, too. • T

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Has the foam made a difference in my heating bill? I really can’t say to be honest.

But at this point, I am very sorry I got involved.

I was not advised beforehand that my plumbing pipes would be covered by foam, making them largely inaccessible, which incidentally is highly toxic.

The state program is supposedly to help the poor and elderly who cannot afford to insulate. Yet I have suffered abuse and horrendous aggravation and have been made to think the work would be corrected in a reasonable amount of time.

Now it looks as if I will be washing my dishes in the bathtub until the cows come home unless I pay myself to get it fixed.

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ammi Herath had a job women who are single mothers and offer in Washington, D.C. thereby cut the poverty cycle, what is It was 1986, and she had going to happen to the next generation? just completed her Ph.D. We need to give these women all the in Adult Education at chances they deserve.”

Cornell. Before heading for a career in the In Tompkins County, single mothers nation’s capital, she accepted a temporary are at the head of over 30 percent of position at the Women’s Opportunity families under the poverty level. That Center for the summer. translates to 31,000 single mothers in our On her first day at the center, arriving area who are making less than they and early in the morning, she found a woman their children need to survive. According and her sons, aged 6 and 4, hiding under to the Women’s Opportunity Center, the stairs. The woman, fleeing domestic a majority of those women have been abuse, had nowhere else to go. subject to either physical or emotional Herath never took up the position abuse in the home. Nationally, single in D.C. Herath has been Women’s mothers run 35 percent of households.

Opportunity Center’s executive director The most common barriers to full-time, and has been the program’s guiding force well-paid employment, the center says, are and den mother for the past 27 years. lack of childcare, transportation, and any This year, the center celebrates its 35th work experience. anniversary. There will be a celebration During three and-a-half decades since on June 19 held at Coltivare on South its founding in 1978, the center has helped Cayuga Street, with 400 Ithacans expected 15,000 women return to the workforce. to attend.

Herath and her team of six staff provide Linda Johanson—board chair of the career guidance in the form of mock WOC, and a part of the program since interviews, résumé writing and computer 1993—said the night will “celebrate the training. Single mothers from poor women of the WOC, their courage and backgrounds who have found employment their persistence in finding employment through the WOC have seen their children and becoming economically selfgrow up and go to college, something they sufficient.” had once believed unthinkable.

Mayor Svante Myrick is going to Many women who come to the center declare June 19 “Women’s Opportunity arrive in desperate straits. Some don’t have Day.” Local businesses will be able to enough money to buy groceries. Others donate a portion of their profits for that do not own underwear or the most basic day to the WOC. of sanitary items. In some cases, they have “I love the women who come to the to leave all their possessions and change center,” says Herath. “If we don’t help their identity in order to escape a violent 8 The I thaca Times / M ay 6 -1 2 , 2015

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The WOC mission is to lead “low income women to the pathway out of poverty by providing them individualized career counseling, training and removing barriers to become job ready and find employment.” But what the Center offers women is so much more.

Over the years, the staff at the center has helped displaced women find accommodations. The clients helped by the center form their own informal support network. Others have been guided and supported through legal proceedings.

The encouragement and confidence building that grows from the center is immeasurable. While 500 women walk through the door every year, looking for assistance, it is almost impossible to put a number on the impact the center’s staff and volunteers have had on those women’s children, extended families, and on the community at large.

In 1995 the center was able to raise the funds to buy its current building on North Tioga Street. There, the staff has their offices, but upstairs there are two computer labs (desktops are donated by local businesses), where computer-training classes are regularly run. There are interview rooms and a playroom, stocked with donated movies, books and toys, so the children are occupied while their mothers receives help writing a résumé, or updating their computer skills. The fridge

is filled with frozen meals for women who cannot afford lunch. On the front desk in the entrance hall are baskets full of the most basic essentials: soap, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant.

The center offers a “non-traditional scholarship grant” to women who have been offered their first job. It is a stipend that allows them to afford the barest of necessities before they get their first pay check: a bus pass, underwear, money for a taxi cab, if they are working the “graveyard shift” and need to get home in the middle of the night.

In the basement is the center’s Dressing Room, chock full of donated clothing. Women of limited means can find clothes, purses, shoes and even undergarments to wear to an interview and keep. The Dressing Room provides clothing for 200 people a year. One woman once told Herath, “I am the single mother of three young boys. I can’t afford to buy bras.”

For women who have no previous work experience to put on their résumé, the center offers employment in their Mary Durham Boutique.

• • • One such woman is Jessica Peterson, 28, who was one of the first to go through the center’s retail training internship program, part of the “on the job training” that is key to the success stories that bloom from the center. Peterson came

to the WOC in summer 2014, following a separation from her husband. She is the single mother of a 6-year-old boy. She describes her situation at the time as dire: no job, no work experience, and no opportunities. She had moved into her mother’s trailer in the Ithaca area in January 2014 and felt hopeless. She had very little prior work experience.

“I had to start all over again.

I had nothing,” she said. “The women at the WOC provide so much opportunity to women who have little to no work experience and no idea what they are capable of.”

Herath had Peterson and others begin with acquiring basic job skills: working in an office setting at the center and learning how to carry out widely applicable tasks: using the fax machine, copier, and computer and answering the phones.

Peterson was then placed in a paid internship position in the Mary Durham clothing boutique (in a building donated by the Durham family in 2002) “Dammi told us: ‘You are testing the waters.

You are the ones who are going to mold this program.’ It was a huge opportunity and a great experience: we had meetings where we could all contribute our ideas for the store. I learned how to interact with customers, stock-take, dress mannequins, help balance the books, price, manage inventory.” Before long Peterson was assistant manager at the boutique. “I loved it there,” she said.

Peterson’s case manager, Ryan Harriott, who is the WOC’s outreach coordinator/employment counselor, next helped her find an opening for a six-month paid internship at Significant Elements, a non-profit architectural salvage warehouse, administered by Historic Ithaca. They were looking for someone who had just completed the WOC retail-training program.

At that point Peterson’s résumé was healthy: she had reception experience, assistant experience, project-manager experience, and robust computer skills. “I went in for an interview and a couple of hours later they called me back and offered me the position. I was ecstatic.”

Now Peterson is able to pay her bills, and doesn’t worry constantly about her financial future. She is starting to feel comfortable, at last. “I can go out and do things with my son. I am able to show my son that I can do it and now we are both moving forward together. It’s a huge relief.”

Recently she moved into her own home on the same street as her brother and her mother, who have both been a huge support to her and her son, she said.

Leaving the WOC in February for her new career was bittersweet, she said. “I cried when I left. It was a great place to be.

The women are phenomenal there. They are so empowering. I would listen to them talk and think, ‘Why am I like this? I need to start being more like them.’”

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work.”

The goal—and Herath has many for the future of the WOC—is to acquire a bus that can transport women in from the rural areas surrounding Ithaca. Herath plans to call it the “JumpAbout bus,” and she is willing to drive it herself.

Herath would also like to run a mobile classroom again to help women who cannot reach the center on Tioga Street. Ultimately, she would like to have an endowment or foundation, which would secure the funding of the WOC for future generations. Currently the center relies on government and state grants in addition to individual donations of money and time (and in the case of the Mary Durham Boutique, property). There are 15-20 volunteers working at the center every month, advising on things like personal finance, business writing and interpersonal skills.

Local food pantries keep the center’s kitchen well stocked.

Every dollar the WOC receives becomes $16 that is funneled back into the community. The figure, calculated by the Department of Labor, is derived from the savings accrued by taking a family out of the welfare system, combined with additions to local taxes, and money put back into the economy from earnings made and then spent.

No one likes to talk about welfare, Herath said. “There is so much stigma attached to having to rely on welfare. But it is a cycle that is difficult to beat.

“Temporarily we can feed a child, but we can change things permanently,” she said. Recently one of the WOC women who had found employment with their help and built a lasting career, celebrated the graduations of her two sons from college. “When you see that, you know what we are doing is working.”

Herath doesn’t regret for one second giving up that job in D.C. “My father was right,” she said. “He said, ‘You must help one person every day. If you miss a day, help two tomorrow.

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It’s an opportunity she never thought she would have. “I would not be where I am right now if it wasn’t for the WOC. There was a whole world I did not know anything about. Any jobs I had had before had been farm work or at a gas station.

The women at the WOC helped me come out of my shell. I would love to see the center expand: every town should have one.”

• • • The Women’s Opportunity Center originated in 1979 from a group formed in a local woman’s kitchen. They set out to help displaced homemakers enter the workforce after divorce, separation, or widowhood. Since then, the WOC has been part of the statewide Displaced Homemakers Program which now includes 14 centers across the state (before cut backs in state funding last year, there were 25 centers). The center partners with the Tompkins County Workforce and is a member of the United Way of America, non-profit that helps pool fundraising efforts.

“One of the reasons that I decided to join the board, is that they help women who have been victims of domestic abuse begin a new life. I lost my niece to domestic violence 10 years ago. I feel this is something I can do to honor her,” said Nancy Pedersen, who has been involved with the WOC for the last two years.

“If this helps women with children like my grand-niece,” she said, “if we can do something to help them, it would be a wonderful thing.”

The work of the WOC has not gone unnoticed by our regional and state community leaders. State Senator James L. Seward said, “The Women’s Opportunity Center, under the steady and compassionate guidance of Dammi Herath, is in the business of transforming lives for the better. By helping women find employment, the WOC elevates those they work with by giving them a true lifeline and a renewed sense of purpose. Families and the community as a whole are greatly enriched thanks to the Women’s Opportunity Center and its vital programs, and I am proud to support its T

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In the front cover photograph: Alexander L. Moeller, Johnson Board Fellow, 2014-15; Nancy Oltz, Secretary/Treasurer; Linda Johanson, Chair; Susan Barnett; Penny Romantic, Dammi Herath, Ph.D., Executive Director; Jennifer Carton-Cooper; Elizabeth Watkins Price; Marya Besharov, Vice Chair; Nasiya Acklen, Johnson Board Fellow, 2014-15; Nancy Pedersen T

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Legislator Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-Ithaca) said that, like the city, the county has briefly talked about Ban the Box legislation, but she did not recall where the conversation ended.

Legislator Dan Klein (D-Danby) said, “I think we should give serious consideration to this idea. The number of people in prison, and how they integrate back into society when they are out, is an issue that affects everyone. Ban the Box legislation could help with this problem without causing any difficulties for employers or restricting their rights.”

On the other side of the aisle,

Legislator Dave McKenna (R-Newfield) said, “I’m not totally in favor of it, but I don’t know enough yet.”

The state legislature in Ohio is one of several states considering “ban the box” legislation. Writing at cleveland.com, Sean Chichelli, the Director of Labor and Human Resources Policy for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, opposed the legislation.

“Businesses ask candidates about their criminal histories on job applications in order to reduce liability and costs,” argued Chichelli. “Preventing them from doing so at the point of application only delays the necessary information they need right away. Indeed, states that “ban the box” have really just shifted the question until later in the application process.” Chichelli

further noted that banning the box from job applications simply shifts the burden to job seekers, who must then decide when they are going to tell their employers about their past.

“Someone with a history of financial theft would be ill-suited to work at a bank,” Chichelli suggested. “Someone who has previous drug convictions would be a questionable candidate for employment at a facility that prescribes or distributes narcotics. Someone with multiple DUI’s would be a high-risk truck driver.”

The chamber of commerce representative was concerned that deleting mention of a criminal record during the application process simply postponed the inevitable. This, he said, was a waste of everyone’s time, both the business onwers

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Chichelli supported a more incremental approach, noting that in 2012 Ohio had broadened the number of offenses that could be expunged from a persons criminal record.

Paula Ioanide, an Ithaca College professor who has been active regarding issues of incarceration and race, urged action on the issue. She said, “I keep wanting to hold Tompkins County accountable to their supposed promise to be at the forefront of alternatives to incarceration, and I think this county’s openness to reentry into formal labor markets would be a huge gesture in that direction. Less talk, more action.” •

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had a buddy who was driving me crazy,” said Joe De Sena. That was what prompted the former Ithacan to found the world-renowned Spartan Race series.

“He had begged me to start a militarystyle obstacle race, and I thought it was a ridiculous idea. He’d been saying it for about a decade.”

Despite his initial reluctance, in 2009 De Sena took hold of the idea and founded the Spartan series, which debuted in Vermont in 2010. Spartan Races are threeto twelve-mile races featuring an array of obstacles, including tasks like crawling under barbed wire, carrying a sandbag, climbing over walls, and going across monkey bars.

Now, he’s bringing Spartan to Ithaca.

On Sept. 5, Cornell University—De Sena’s alma mater—will host a Spartan Race. Proceeds will go to Cornell and to the United Way of Tompkins County. The Ithaca race will be a 3-mile event with at least 15 obstacles. Although some of the races include jumping over a line of fire as an obstacle, De Sena said that will not be part of the Cornell event: “I could not live with myself if I burned downed Cornell University.” Pausing, he added, “Maybe we’ll do hot coals or something.”

One of De Sena’s goals for the series is to make it into an Olympic sport, although he’s not quite sure about the details of that.

“Everything I’ve done in my life, I have no idea how I’m going to do it,” he said. In this case, though, it appears that he does have some idea.

Boston, De Sena explained, has been selected as one of the potential sites for the 2024 Olympics. Each host city is allowed to bring in a new sport, and De Sena’s hoping that Beantown’s selection could be Spartan racing. In order for that to work, though, Spartan will have to expand into more countries over the next few years. De Sena said that sports have to be practiced continued on page 12

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(Later that day, protesters welcoming Cornell’s trustees followed them inside Statler Hall, where they made a ruckus outside the closed-door meeting.)

After Marshall declined to answer questions about what he knew of the picture and some butcher paper that was allegedly hung on the walls, Baum changed his tone.

He told Marshall he had “subpoenaed” information from Facebook about page organizers and had the “ability to charge you with a D-felony and two misdemeanors right now.

“I don’t want to charge you with burglary. I don’t want to ruin your life,” Baum said. “Your cooperation is going to produce that. If you cooperate with me you will not be charged with a burglary. If you don’t cooperate with me, I’m going to charge you with a burglary and probably come into one of your classes the next few days and walk you out in handcuffs.”

Once students posted an online “communique” about the incident, faculty got wind and over 100 had signed their names to a brief letter written by associate professor of history Ray Craib that reads in part: “Flat-footed, heavy-handed, offensive: that sums up the actions of the administration and its police force. Is the central administration that insecure?”

Organizing from the Top Down “The administration is our best organizer, and now maybe the CUPD is there,” Marshall said. “Over last two years I’d say our numbers have quadrupled or quintupled.”

Many of those active in the #FightTheFee protests this spring got their start in efforts to save freshman bus passes in spring 2014. While the administration maintains that protests should not be disruptive, and some students critique actions like the sit-in at Day Hall on Feb. 10, Marshall said that was how the bus pass effort was won.

“They kept saying, ‘We don’t have the money, and then suddenly one day the money appeared,” Marshall said. “We had about 50 people outside of Day Hall ready to do a sit-in when Skorton came out with Joel Malina and an entire media crew and said the passes were staying.”

Marshall doesn’t think his job as an activist is “to get people riled up.”

“Our role is to connect the dots on how their policies are affecting people,” Marshall said. “There’s this kind of insistence that ‘You’re here to study, we’re here to administrate.’ This isn’t your role.

That might be what a lot of students want to do, but policies they’ve been enacting like budget cuts in the arts college, tuition increases that equal about $4,000 over past two years … There’s a growing list of things that are threatening students’ abilities to be here.”

Brown also sees the role of campus organizers as being connectors of dots.

“We’ve been careful from the beginning to not make [the health care fee] an issue in isolation from everything else,” Brown said.

“It’s connected to low-income students who

get promised no-loan financial aid, then are forced to take out loans when their workstudy and summer job won’t cut it as part of their expected student contribution.”

Faculty Response “Overkill is the first word that comes to mind,” Craib said of his feeling when he first learned of the investigation. “The students are asking good questions, the same ones faculty have been asking about the deficits.

Maybe the jumpiness is coming from the willingness of the students to do their homework on the trustees.”

Eric Cheyfitz, a professor in English, thinks the investigation “violates both the spirit and the letter of what it means to be a part of the community at Cornell.”

“I think it’s a bad mistake, the administration isn’t getting good advice,” Cheyfitz said. “They’re upping the ante

in a battle where they can only become more and more alienated from their constituencies.”

There has been speculation that recent budget cuts have something to do with overbuilding, Cheyfitz said, though no one knows for sure. Arts college faculty sent a letter to the administration on April 23 that protested the cuts.

“This whole budget crisis has suddenly materialized out of nowhere,” Cheyfitz said. “That means belt tightening across the board. There’s supposed to be consultation with the faculty senate on these matters and that has not been the case.”

Whatever the motivations behind the investigation, there have been calls for a fuller explanation from the administration than the statement released by Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner that stated CUPD “was asked to conduct a criminal

investigation into alleged felonious behavior” that was not related to the protests on Feb. 10 or March 26.

“The whole community deserves a full explanation from the Cornell police and Cornell administration of what they did and why they did it,” said Risa Lieberwitz, a professor at the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. “If it turns out when we hear all the information that it was an overly aggressive action, then there should be consequences.”

On Monday, May 4, Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina issued a statement. It included a quote from Marshall, in which the senior said he did not commit any criminal acts but now accepted responsibility for a violation of the campus code. • —Josh

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Born in New York City, De Sena and his family moved to Ithaca when he was young, and later the future race tycoon went on to attend Cornell University. Of his time at Cornell, he said, “The whole experience changed my life forever. For one, I guess the early days of climbing stairs started there. I used to live downtown and hike up Gun Hill Road every day.”

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In her second trimester, after “the “A lot of people baby was a little more don’t know a lot about established,” Rakovich the different types had surgery to remove of ovarian cancer,” an ovary and Fallopian Rakovich said. “Some tube around the tumor people think they don’t on Jan. 22. have family history, “Lucky me. It was so they don’t have to a very slow-growing, worry.” slow to metastasize “I asked doctors, type of ovarian cancer,” ‘Why aren’t we Rakovich said. “As I screening for early learned more about it, detection? Why isn’t I found you don’t need that a typical checkto have any kind of risk up?’” she continued. factors to get it—with “I’ve been told ‘It’s in no family history at all, the works.’ They’re just having ovaries is doing studies on it, but enough.” they haven’t found that In a way, having a it’s effective enough, “mistake” pregnancy because things can was a blessing for still be missed. What Celeste and her family, would be effective which already includes Celeste Rakovich (Photo: Josh Brokaw) enough? Why wait three children. until, ‘Oops,’ an “A huge concern unplanned pregnancy about ovarian cancer is that saves your life? Otherwise you’re it’s typically caught late because there’s no looking at radiation, chemo, surgery, and early screening,” Rakovich said. “By the crossing your fingers.” time you’re aware of it, you’re having pain Rakovich said she’s “not the event or GI symptoms, and it’s pretty progressed. planner,” but she would “love to be “I could have been looking at a much instrumental in getting more people different scenario,” Rakovich continued. screened.”

“I could’ve been dealing with radiation “They have those little breast cancer and chemo, fighting for my life rather than vans that go around, and if they ever find a welcoming this new baby to our family.” way to transport ovarian cancer screenings Rakovich was diagnosed with a I’d hop on that van,” Rakovich said. “I’d mucinous, borderline tumor, which originates in the epithelial tissue like about love to help educate on the different types of ovarian cancer and what to look for, and 80 percent of ovarian cancer cases. (Other kinds can originate in germ cells or the sex absolutely would speak at events. Maybe every year there can be a special day set cord stroma.) Borderline tumors are less apart to come in, talk about it, and get a dangerous than the invasive type, and so test.” they typically are treated conservatively Rakovich knows she was fortunate in to preserve fertility. However, they are the how everything has worked out so far. hardest to diagnose.

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‘unseen’ things a catcher does.” As for hen the Ithaca College baseball Yanchus, Valesente told me, “Stephen team enters the Empire 8 tournament this week, they will is a big, strong kid who hurt his arm be looking to some local players to put up a while back, but he has been our DH ([designated hitter)], and he has done a the results need to move onto the NCAA great job.”

Regionals: Stephen Yanchus of Owego— The Empire 8 tournament gets who has been delivering some clutch underway this week in Utica, and as hits of late, Cooper Belyea of Ithaca, and always, the conference champ get an Lansing native Benji Parkes.

I knew that Parkes had initially taken automatic bid to the NCAAs. A trip to the NCAAs would be Valesente’s 30th in his 37 his athletic skills to Oneonta to play soccer, but a less than fulfilling experience years at the helm of the Bombers. on the soccer pitch • • • led to the decision I am not one who takes pleasure to, well, pitch. “I in anyone’s “real” played baseball problems, but at Oneonta in I have to admit the spring of my that the incessant freshman year, bitching about and soccer had not the Mayweather/ gone that well, so I Pacquiao fight is made the decision amusing. I talked to transfer,” to friends who Parkes told me. “I shelled out the $99 talked to Coach pay-per-view fee, Valesente, and I saw countless being familiar interviews with with the program, people who flew I was very happy to Vegas and spent to come here.” tens of thousands Parkes is familiar with the of dollars to see program because “the fight of the Lansing has a century,” and now great youth sports they are whining program, and about how boring the coaches often a fight it was. I steer the kids am not by any toward baseball measure a boxing camps. “We had expert, but I pay a great bunch of attention to many coaches when sporting events— I was growing especially those Benji Parkes (Provided) up,” Parkes said. that take place “Mike Herzog, on such a grand Tom Ford, Joe scale—and I heard Hopkins, Jeff Boles … they were all very no fewer than a dozen experts say, “This is helpful and knowledgeable.” what will happen: Mayweather’s expertise Parkes remembers standing on lies in his ability to avoid being hit, so he Freeman Field as a youngster, taking in will spend twelve rounds covering up, the view, the facilities, and he said, “I dancing away and playing defense.” To a remember standing in the dugout, looking bloodthirsty populace now accustomed to out on the field and thinking how great it the brutality of MMA—elbows to the face, must be to play here.” dislocated joints, choke holds and bouts Now, there is no more speculation, ending in unconsciousness—such a fight as Parkes is the Bombers’ No. 2 starter in would be boring indeed. And yet, the PPV the pitching rotation. The junior is a 6’3”, take was far north of $300 million, the 200-pound lefty and has, in the words of serial woman-beater Floyd Mayweather Valesente, “had outstanding outings in his Jr. added to his fortune by more than $200 last three starts.” million, despite a fight that was somewhat Valesente looks for good things from akin to a wet firecracker on the 5th of July.

Belyea and Yanchus at the E8 tournament Had that debacle been held in Barton as well. Of Belyea, he says, “Cooper has Hall, and had someone given me $100 to worked hard to be our main catcher, and make the 20-minute drive and watch it, I he handles the pitchers very well, calls might have watched it. Nobody did, so I a great game, and does a lot of those did not. •

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don’t need to hear sounds and music all of the time. I like a lot of quiet and can often do without all of the stimulation,” Tenzin Chopak, who performs under the moniker Rockwood Ferry, said late one spring afternoon in his kitchen at Fall Creek.

Chopak was gearing up for a release party for Mask Maker, a new record that is by turns expansive and intimate, venturing into new sonic territory for the composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. Songs touch upon progressive rock as well as oldtime and folk, and swirling themes emerge as if driven by a force of nature.

While not noisy, the songs don’t shy away from noise, which seems unexpected coming from the soft-spoken man sitting in his self-proclaimed “morning room” surrounded by decorative teapots.

Lead track “Helena” drives with a pulsing groove—Chopak calls it “rude”—and it is densely blocked.

Even the quieter songs aren’t subdued, which is a marked departure from prior Rockwood Ferry records Stay Close to Me (2012), and the self-titled sophomore outing (2013).

Friday, May 8, he will premiere Mask Maker at the Hangar Theatre, where he will be joined by—in addition to his band—the great cellist Hank Roberts. (Rockwood Ferry alums have included Richie Stearns, Harry Aceto, Rosie Newton, and many other well-known names in the upstate old-time community. But he lacked the anxiousness incumbent on promoting one’s own music, and looked relaxed.

Flanked by a “very old, very deaf ” dog vying for attention, and a flat-faced cat in search of hugs, Chopak spoke with presence and focus of that felt both deliberate and at ease. A bird’s nest rested gently in the center of the table, and the calls of neighborhood birds wafted through the open windows.

“Silence means a lot to me,” Chopak said.

“And space. I do get really wrapped up in making music, and I haven’t been as wrapped up in doing the rest of the stuff.” Later, when he explained a period during which he took a long break from playing music while studying Buddhism, Chopak explained: “It’s not [that]

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music is frowned upon at all, but simplicity and a quiet approach to life are definitely smiled upon in the particular discipline I was learning.”

• • • It took some time for the front man of Rockwood Ferry to find his voice. Though he has a natural presence as a performer, and has been hailed as one of the most potent male vocalists living locally in the area, offstage he presents almost as a graduate student. In his late thirties, he is slender to the point of being slight, and doesn’t come off as someone seeking attention or the spotlight.. “For me, music is a very difficult thing to figure out,” Chopak said. “It all just happens, and it is a gut response to life.”

Chopak has only performed as Rockwood Ferry for a little over three years, but he has deep roots in music. “I come from a musician family,” he explained. “My father played French horn and is a trained singer, my mother is a visual artist, played violin and sang, and my brother and I are both musicians.

“I started voice in choir at five, piano lessons at seven, cello at nine or so, guitar at eleven.

I never was a serious cello player though. My

focus was on guitar and writing songs.

“I was pretty much a self-taught guitar player with some key help from my brother. Recently I started playing cello again. I was performing in recitals and at church as a child, but performed my first original piece of music on piano at a music conference talent show for hundreds of kids when I was ten or eleven—very embarrassing stuff! By high school I was performing in some venues. After that I got much more serious about it and performed much more. I was also involved in some musical theater and dance.

All along I also created visual art.”

In 1999, after some years of a burgeoning devotion to the study of Tibetan language and religion, Chopak traveled to northern India. It was during his eight-month stay there that he was given the name “Tenzin Chopak.” “When I started to study Tibetan Buddhism at 19, I gradually became immersed in it over a few years,” Chopak said.

“I traveled to India in 1999 and then came back to the United States and lived in a retreat center, [and] music was far less a part of my life then, because I was using my energy to study these other things that I enjoy so much, including Tibetan language and philosophy.” For those twelve years, Chopak kept music a quiet if not hidden part of his life.

In late 2011 he began to write and perform publicly again. Teaming up with Richie Stearns, Rosie Newton, Eric and Harry Aceto, and Ethan Jodziewicz, he formed Rockwood Ferry as a vehicle for his music.

“Our first show was in December of 2011.

I remember getting together to play, and the first record [Stay Close to Me] was originally meant as an EP. We recorded it over the course of two days.” The record continues the legacy of Tompkins County’s “crooked” iteration of continued on page 22

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The best part of the Avengers films is their ensemble nature. It’s neat watching hen I was reading Avengers them learn to combine their powers to comics as a kid, even then I create collateral damage, and characters thought the character called that I’m not crazy about in their own films “The Vision” would be almost impossible work better when they’re just one spice in a to capture on film. Then again, this was about three years before the first Superman big stew. (Yes, I’m looking at you, Thor.)

• • • movie, which made a believer out of me.

I haven’t been keeping up with Arnold Having seen Avengers: Age of Ultron, I can Schwarzenegger’s post-gubernatorial say that the introduction of Vision, played career. Aside from Schwarzenegger’s

by Paul Bettany, was the coolest part of a cameos in the Expendables series, the last films I saw were Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and a blink-andmiss cameo in The Rundown, both back in 2003.

There’s a comic element to everything Schwarzenegger has ever done; he doesn’t fit in, no one talks about it, and that’s the joke. He finds his inner art film in the new movie Maggie, and while the plot description is pure Ah-nuld in its TV Captain America and Thor in “Age of Ultron”. (Photo provided) Guide simplicity—a father tries to protect his daughter from becoming a zombie—there’s a sadness that movie with a lot of cool parts. isn’t comic-book.

I’d also be lying if I didn’t admit that I Nor does Maggie look or feel anything found Ultron somewhat overstuffed with like the Terminator movies or Total characters, and that the action sequences Recall. It looks like a Jeff Nichols or David were a little overwhelming at times. This Gordon Green film, shot on a tight budget is the latest chapter in a huge connective somewhere in the middle of the country, mythology. Aside from the five founding far from Hollywood. It probably cost less members of the Avengers, there are a lot than the catering budget from a week on of supporting characters from previous films, and Joss Whedon breaks a real sweat one of Arnold’s bigger pictures.

Maggie’s not scary, but it has a trying to tell his story and service the melancholy sense of futility about it; it’s not ever-growing Marvel Cinematic Universe. a question of whether a father’s daughter I actually wanted a little less apocalyptic action and a little more comic book banter. (Abigail Breslin) will turn zombie, but when. It’s more like David Cronenberg’s This time around, Tony Stark version of The Fly, the sense of time (Robert Downey Jr.; still the series’ comic slipping by as a loved one gets sick and quarterback) tries to jumpstart a dormant dies. peacekeeping program, but what he ends In the end, what makes Maggie stand up with is Ultron (James Spader), a very out as a vehicle for Schwarzenegger is that bad version of Stark’s dark side, but still when other townspeople and police put loving what he does as a villain, i.e. killing a lot of people. Ultron looks like a towering pressure on him to kill his own child, for once he has nothing to say. There’s no cute, gold version of Iron Man, and Spader’s catchy quip to put a button on the scene. metallic sneer is so delicious to hear that By tapping whatever misery he has inside I half expected Ultron to put on a white him, Arnold Schwarzenegger has become jacket, smoke cigarettes and diss Molly one of us. • Ringwald in the school parking lot. (Yes, Avengers: Age of Ultron, written and directed by Joss Whedon, playing at Ithaca Stadium 14; Maggie, directed by Henry Hobson, opening Friday at Cinemapolis.

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n July 2013, I went to Cortland Repertory Theatre to see a young actor-musician I’d never seen before play Buddy Holly in BUDDY - The Buddy Holly Story, one of those jukebox biomusicals. The actor’s name was Todd Meredith, and this is what I wrote in part when I got home: “As you would expect, BUDDY - The Buddy Holly Story packs in all the hits, from ‘Peggy Sue’ and ‘Oh Boy!’ to ‘Rave On!’ and ‘That’ll Be The Day.’ Kudos for making room for some of my favorite lesser-known Holly tunes like Sonny Curtis’ ‘Rock Around With Ollie Vee.’ “Meredith has played Holly in 11 previous productions, and even though he comes across as scrawny at first, he clearly knows what he’s doing, and when it comes to the guitar parts, he’s got them all down, even using a capo the way Buddy did. Meredith knows all the riffs, licks and fills, and when he straps on his brown sunburst Stratocaster, Meredith is a great ball of fire.”

Now that CRT’s new downtown performance space is finally finished after five years of planning and construction, Meredith is bringing his Buddy Holly cover combo The Rave Ons to play two benefit concerts there on Friday and Saturday night. He’s also become known for doing similar double duty playing Johnny Cash in the bio-musical stage show Ring of Fire. Back in 2006 Meredith was just a performing intern at CRT. How did he find his way to Holly and Cash?

“I did it for the first time in 2007,” Meredith recalled. “I did it in a small theater in upstate New York called the Glove Theater. I didn’t really know too much about Buddy at that time.” The producer knew that Meredith played the guitar and liked Holly and took a chance on him. “I had an absolute blast,” he said, “and really fell in love with Buddy’s music and the story. I’ve been doing it at a bunch of other theaters since.

“As soon as I got the role,” he continued. “I just delved into as much research as I could. I got my hands on all the biographies and watched all the videos of him performing and listened to all the recordings.” Casual fans might not know—and they won’t learn from the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story—that Holly played most of his signature licks using a capo on the fourth or fifth fret;

Around the Corner this allowed him to play licks in the key of E in other keys.

“A and E were the two keys he used,” confirmed Meredith. “He’d just move the capo around to accommodate that. As you say, the movie wasn’t that accurate, so we tried to be more accurate. I really like the movie and [Gary Busey] was great in the movie, but they didn’t even get [Holly’s band] the Crickets’ names right, and the instruments are all wrong.” Indeed, Holly is synonymous with the Stratocaster, and yet Busey is seen strumming a Telecaster.

In fact, the film got so much wrong that the Crickets put out a book called The Real Buddy Holly Story.

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Time Capsule: 2015 Senior Student Show, a juried exhibit of works by Julia Dubin, Jihad Ford, Carolyn Hoffman, and Natalie Lazo, all graduating bachelor of fine arts degree candidates in the Department of Art and the Department of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies; Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center. Gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.; Thursday, 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon–5:00 p.m.

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In Theories, an exhibition of works by students in the Theories of Art Practice seminar, featuring work from artists across a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, video, drawing, and sculpture; Creative Space Gallery, 215 The Commons. The gallery is open Saturday and Sunday, noon–5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY MAY 15 Music

“Symbiosis: The Love between Words and Music,” the annual Commencement Eve Concert open dress rehearsal, featuring performances by the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, Choir, Jazz Ensemble, and Marimba Band; 8:30 p.m., Glazer Arena, Athletics and Events Center.

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production of BUDDY in Reno, Nevada in 2011. They play two shows, one more centered on Buddy Holly, and one that features all the greats from that first wave of 50’s rock n’ roll: Elvis, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, and the rest. In Cortland, “We’ll be doing a throwback to the kind of shows that CRT has done: Buddy Holly, the Elvis musical All Shook Up, some Johnny Cash, and some music from a show they have coming up called SUDS, which is more of a ‘60s music show.

A little Eddie Cochran. It’ll be a good mixture of things.” •

This is just a sampling of May events on campus; to view more visit events.ithaca.edu.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should call 607-274-3011 as much in advance of the event as possible. Unless otherwise noted, all listed events are free of charge.

For tickets, call 607-756-2627 or stop by 24 Port Watson St. in Downtown Cortland, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The new theater is at the site of the box office on Port Watson Street.

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eter Shaffer—the man who brought a at Fustian House, a gloomy sixteenthboy who blinded horses to stage with century building in London, she theatrically Equus (and gave Daniel Radcliffe the embellishes its historical past, ultimately chance to undress on stage in its Broadway coming up on the radar of Lotte Schoen, an revival), and played games with Mozart inspector from the Preservation Trust.” and the man who claimed to poison him in “Our emphasis in our third full season Amadeus—hugely theatrical constructions, has been on gender parity and characters has also at times tipped his hand to comedy. of substantial age, in plays that deliver the Specifically, he tailor-made Lettice and laughter,” she continued. “Lettice and Lovage Lovage as a vehicle for fits this paradigm like a the inimitable Maggie glove, and we couldn’t be Smith, giving her another more excited about the dazzling British eccentric, top-notch cast and crew which in its Broadway we’ve assembled for this run brought Dame show.”

Maggie a Best Actress Sad is familiar Tony back in 1990. from her turns as “One of the sharpest, the title character in wittiest, most passionate Arthur Bicknell’s Dotty and elegant plays of the last summer, and as Lettice & Lovage cast year” was the verdict Martha in Who’s Afraid of the London Sunday of Virginia Woolf? the Express on the original production. previous summer. She has portrayed Mrs. The Homecoming Players serve it up in Gibbs in Theatre Incognita’s Our Town, a deliciously cast staged reading this coming acted for Wolf ’s Mouth and for Actors Monday and Tuesday, May 11 and 12 at Workshop of Ithaca, and has a sideline 7:30 p.m. at the Kitchen Theatre. Kristin Sad narrating concert pieces. stars as the whimisical Lettice, and Robin Booth played one of the daughters in Booth takes on the role of her nemesis, the Homecoming’s production of In the Car highly practical Lotte. Also in the cast are with Blossom and Len. She is a regular Gavin Keaty and Katie Wallace. Mike Davie performer of long standing with the Cornell narrates, while George Sapio directs.

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“Lettice Douffet, an expert on Katie Wallace is making her debut with Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, Homecoming Players, but has been seen in is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of Julius Caesar (Mark Antony), Richard II and history and the theatre,” explained Artistic Much Ado About Nothing with the Ithaca Director Rachel Hockett. “As a tour guide Shakespeare Company, and in Incognita’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Keaty is making his Ithaca debut.

George Sapio is a playwright, director and actor, founder of both Wolf ’s Mouth Theatre Company and the Ithaca Fringe Festival.

According to Sapio, he’s delighted with the “copious opportunities to mine for comedic content; the play positively brims with moments of sheer comedy” as well as charting the journey of two near opposite, “single mature women … making it through life in a day by day fashion when their paths cross, and they discover not just their own unsuspected reserves of fortitude, but a way help each other grow exponentially” Homecoming Players will continue this summer with Quartet, starring Susannah Berryman, Arthur Bicknell, Greg Bostwick, and Judy Levitt at the Kitchen Theatre the weekend of July 24–26. This October they will reprise Dotty with the original cast on the Hangar stage.

“And we’re delighted that the Kitchen has renewed the invitation to be part of their Kitchen Sink Series for our fourth season.

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Barb feels she has too much stuff, There is an exhausting cuteness to this having read of Buddhist monks who only own eight things entirely. Her husband Bob production.

With that caveat, the laughs are likes stuff. Nick can’t commit to a man past plentiful, the characters sharply limned, a first date, which usually ends up in bed. and the relationships largely believable.

Then there is a shark, a glorious Karl Gregory returns to the role of shortfin mako that swims in the aquarium Nick, his comic chops are even sharper where Donna conducts tours. When we twelve years later, and first encounter the his physical grace shark it is traversing greatly honed. The the proscenium playful hesitations and background chanting winning vulnerability “Swim. Swim. Swim.” in his flirtatious dance Occasionally it turns with the Shark are this and bumps up to production’s special “Glass.” delight. Peterson For Nick it’s love Townsend shimmers a first sight, and he with sexy sizzle in pushes Donna for an Boquist’s shiny grey invite. ensemble, small fin Some will on the back, his sharp remember Adam Bock’s focus conveying just a whimsical Swimming touch of menace. in the Shallows from its Lena Kaminsky 2003 production at the gives Donna a Kitchen when it was grounded quality that at the Clinton House. plays nicely against Rachel Lampert has her increasingly revived the production, frantic attempts this time with an allLesbians in baseball caps with veils. (Photo: Dave to stop smoking.

Equity, multicultural Burbank) Kaminsky mines the cast on a gorgeous frustrations also of blue-green set by a woman with a nesting instinct chasing David L. Arsenault, which he lights airily after her more mercurial partner. to suggest the many locales, including a Karina Arroyave, who turned in a smart shift between an interior aquarium memorably scorching performance in and an exterior beach. Two rows of beach The Motherf**ker with the Hat, lends to dune fencing undulate across the upstage, Barb a naïve, searching quality. Noticeably benches like three sploshes become chairs, younger than Dean Robinson (who tables and various resting spots. reprises his 2003 role as Bob), it shifts the Sounds of doors, people, the shore, center of gravity of Barb. When played etc. are provided by Scott O’Brien who sharply by Krista Scott, Barb was a woman also provides little musical tags that link who has hit a middle-aged snag in a the quick succession of scenes. Meanwhile middle-aged relationship. Here Barb’s Lisa Boquist has costumed the sextet in sudden need to divest herself of goods (and a variety of light, colorful clothes that eventually Bob) seems more a whim of the suggest summer and flight. moment than a terrifying shift in her life Lampert stages it at a bright, brisk course. Arroyave is, however, graceful and clip and the actors leap into the lines, winning, especially in her by-play with exchanging quips like swats at tennis Gurule. balls. The style suggests a cartoon, where Dean Robinson is luckless Bob. In of course sharks go on dates to the beach, the script, it’s the least developed role; dreams include diving through beach toys, he is stuck in his ways, unable to swim and lesbians rush around on wedding preparations in white T-shirts and baseball these modern currents. Robinson lurches through the role with a shell-shocked caps with a streaming veil. gusto. Here the production lets the It works, and had the opening night audience in stitches. But I wish the Kitchen character down, I feel, as Bob’s overplayed neediness precludes us from really would sometimes relax the pace in their comedies, find the countervailing rhythms, sympathizing with his plight.

All in all, although the play is the moments of stillness or inwardness the beginning to feel a little dated (especially playwright has sculpted. Instead, it goes in its riffs on differences in queer mating RAT-A-TAT-TAT. It’s the house style. habits), it still provides a boisterous romp. • But whimsy, especially as lightly

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The question becomes particularly acute in what America has taken to calling a “service” economy, where more people are making their living from directly fulfilling the needs of others rather than working in a factory to make widgets or pistons that eventually go into some consumer good. When so many of the people one interacts with on a daily basis are Associate Team Members who are pledged to offer you, the customer, the highest quality of service, questions are raised in the course of social interaction that quickly confuse.

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The protagonist of Patrick Robbins’ first novel, To Make Others Happy, is a paradigm of this social conundrum. Chase Becker is a “joy facilitator,” known in slang as a “warmer”; he exists to light up others’ lives at social gatherings. Our narrator, Ned Alderman, first meets Chase on his first day of an internship at Peppercorn Publishing, when Chase is called in to make Ned and his fellow intern Maylene comfortable. When Ned soon sees Chase at a party put on by a friend of his second cousin Nadine, with whom he’s crashing for the summer, he finds out Becker’s career and makes it his mission to find Chase’s core feelings, behind the peppiness and waves of positive energy.

This doesn’t prove to be the easiest of tasks, even as Ned makes himself an apprentice joy facilitator, by radiating positivity, taking notes, and reading up on making friends and influencing people, per Chase’s tutelage. Ned has much to learn. Here’s Chase’s response after Ned asks him if he’s “the happiest guy in the world.”

“I provide happiness for others, Ned,” he said. “I’m not selfish enough to waste it on myself … I’m a carrier. I give. I don’t hoard.”

Chase’s assertion that he can’t feel happiness becomes the central tension of the novel once he meets Nadine, who is in a long-term relationship with a stockbroker named Tedd, a prickly sort of proper guy.

Here’s how Robbins describes the meeting of Chase and Nadine: “There’s the snap when two jigsaw puzzle pieces fit together. There’s the clunk of two railroad cars coupling, the crack when a baseball hits the bat right at the sweet spot, the rip when a basketball hits nothing but net. There’s the chunk when you plug a Gibson guitar into a Marshall amp, the smack of a perfect high five.”

The rest of To Make Others Happy concerns the falling-out from this meeting, as Chase, Nadine, and Ned, along with a small cast of supporting characters, work out what it means to be happy over the remainder of the summer. Should one give it all away, or keep some happiness for one’s self? Perhaps that old question is only a result of the zero-sum game we moderns play.

Patrick Robbins will read from To Make Others Happy on May 9 at 3 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books.

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Formed in 2008, Not From Wisconsin released their self-titled first album in 2010. Yantorno said that he had written most of the songs for that collection before the band existed. He introduced them to the rest of the band members, and they wrote their parts, but Yantorno had already created the melody Not from Wisconsin. (Photo: Brian Arnold) and the basic arrangement.

“Now I know the band,” he said. “I don’t write for folk associates like Rockwood Ferry and them, but we do have a sound and style.”

Mary Lorson, is a listening experience.

That sound and style has been “There’s a couple songs you could produced by the core three members—the dance to, if you wanted to,” said Yantorno, Yantornos and drummer Brett Powell— but even the ‘up’ stuff is more tense. There contributing quite different influences. may be an electric guitar driving it, but it “Angela grew up on classic rock and won’t be upbeat. It just has this tension.” classical,” Yantorno said of the band’s “I’m very attached to the songs I violinist. “Brett’s strengths are rock and write,” he continued, “as if each one is a jazz.” child. I put time and effort into them to Although Yantorno grew up in make a statement with each piece. And southwestern Connecticut, his father’s when we play, we don’t waste notes.” obsession with cars made him feel like he Yantorno takes a role in recording his was growing in the South and gave him band’s music and what you hear on the an outsized affection for outlaw country records is different from the live sound. music by the likes of Waylon Jennings While putting together a song in the studio and Willie Nelson. He doesn’t turn aside comparisons of his rowdier songs to Uncle is like making a film, playing it live is like theatre; the story may be the same, but the Tupelo, but suggested it was due to he, Jeff approach to telling it is quite different.

Tweedy, and Jay Farrar having the same “When we’re recording I try to find tastes in forebears, rather than his being the best things for that particular song,” influenced by his older peers.

Yantorno said, “but live there are more “My growth area is in classical,” said limitations. It’s like a play; it’s about who the self-taught musician, “learning more walks on when. One of us will start or about harmonics and the structure of we’ll all start together and there will be composition.” By the same token his jazzschooled drummer is working on stripping orchestrated entrances and exits, which creates a dramatic space. • back his playing to a simple, open beat for some songs. All these various influences Read longer article at ithaca.com and learning curves make NFW a stronger

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vision of nature, nurture, and forces that shape our personality. Crows, thrushes, and other birds make appearances as they speak to the narrator, in “Spider,” and “Coyote,” and on the penultimate track “Belladonna” uses his vocals as an additional instrument, staccato and forceful, almost as a reprise of “Helena.”

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old-time. Steeped in the tradition of the Horseflies, from whom he drew a founding member for his original incarnation of Rockwood Ferry, Chopak blended the pulsing breakdowns familiar to fans of GrassRoots with traditionals like “Billy in the Low Ground.”

Referring to Stearns, Newton, and many others with whom he’s played, Chopak said: “I used to jokingly refer to it as the Rockwood Ferry labor pool. And to me it is a really beautiful thing to work with so many. Now it has been the same people for a little while now.”

Chopak next teamed up with bass player and Ithaca College student Ethan Jodziewicz, and compositions on the sophomore self-titled release broadened Rockwood Ferry’s musical palette. When Jodziewicz went away to graduate school for music, Chopak re-constituted the act.

Rockwood Ferry rocking. (Photo: provided) The band’s current lineup includes Eric Aceto on violin, Rich DePaolo on bass, Peter Dodge on piano and flugelhorn, and commission by the Corning Museum of Bill King on drums. Cellist Hank Roberts Glass, which was performed at the opening will join Rockwood Ferry for their record of the new wing. “We played for a private release show at the Hangar, as will vocalists gala in a balcony above a glass performance Jen Cork and Stephanie Agukis. space—it was wild.”

“Everybody’s good with knowing The relationship between silence and where space is good,” Chopak said. “The guys I’ve been working with—I hesitate to say that it has to do with the fact that they’re a bit older. It’s not like we never freak out—there are plenty of notes. But shortly after that it will clear out and there will be space and those guys are really good at that. Maybe when everybody was 25, they were all playing a lot of notes. Now we tend to err on the side of space.”

• • • After the two well-crafted, deeply felt collections that drew from old-time string band music while gently pushing at the genre’s boundaries, Chopak takes a swing at the moon with Mask Maker, a work that revolves around fraught relationships with civilization and nature but veers into something deeper and open ended.

The opening track “Helena” is a drastic departure from Chopak’s earlier compositions, invoking mid-‘70s art or progressive rock as much as any other strand. The rhythm section sounds straight out of Us-era Peter Gabriel, with Rich DePaolo’s bass line borrowing cleverly from “Love to be Loved,” while Chopak’s vocals channel equally from Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson and Geddy Lee. With double-tracked vocals that go in and out of sync, Chopak’s lyrics also would sound at place with that era’s imagery: “Carmen by streetlight stealing roses from the old stone wall … The moaning gate swings wide upon the cemetery lane / Come sweet Helena to the honeysuckle and the summer rain.”

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noise, nature and humanity, is nowhere more present than on the title track of Mask Maker; Chopak almost sounds autobiographical, though not in a way burdened by the confessional form. After invoking the spirit of the past, the narrator vividly paints a picture of a mother and son, then pivoting, again toward nature: “And the lake was still as glass / And the sparks flew ever upwards / There is the milky way / There is the North Star.”

Peter Dodge, a local legend known from his place in the Horseflies, offers a plaintive trumpet. In the kitchen, Chopak described his restraint: “Dodge is excellent at [knowing where space is good]. If he is playing the cornet, say, he will be waiting, waiting, and listening.” Chopak lowered his head holding his hands together as if holding an instrument. “Then he’ll raise his cornet, and he won’t even play. And then once he does, it will be ten perfect notes.” He paused. “I have such amazing teachers.”

• • • A sense of place is strongly present on Mask Maker, an album that sounds like a mature reflection of a musician working with everincreasing range.

“The name Rockwood Ferry comes from a road in east Tennessee that leads down to Watts Bar Lake, which is a dammed section of the Tennessee River, to the old landing,” Chopak said. “There is a place down there that has importance for me down at the end of that road that I used

to go to when I was growing up. It’s about a 40-minute drive from my hometown of Oak Ridge. So that place is owned by the Presbyterian church for retreats, and my dad is a minister, so I went there many times and became very bonded to that area.

Everybody has places like that I guess.”

Mask Maker is imbued with these signifiers. Chopak explained that the thunderclaps that serve as the preamble to “Helena,” and the record, refer to a return trip Karen and he took from Nepal while she was working training midwives in Rwanda. They returned to a site of immense massacre with peace vases blessed by a Buddhist teacher, buried for peace aspirations.

“We put this vase in a metal canister, and then out of nowhere this storm starts to blow in. So we paddle out there, we say some prayers, and we sink the vase. But with the storm gathering, it is starting to rumble.” The sound of thunder felt present in Chopak’s kitchen. “So we go back to our room, and I turn on the recorder, and that’s the noise you hear.” He paused. “And it didn’t even rain, it went away and cleared back up.”

He continued. “And it was long ago now, but it still feels very fresh.” • The Friday, May 8 show at 8 p.m. at the Hangar will feature Tenzin Chopak on vocals, guitar, piano, cello, banjo; Eric Aceto on violin; Rich DePaolo on bass and vocals; Bill King on drums; Peter Dodge on piano, flugelhorn; Hank Roberts on cello; Jen Cork on vocals; and Stephanie Agurkis on vocals.

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

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

Reggae Night w. The I-Town Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

5/7 Thursday

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

Jim Hull | 6:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Dryden singer songwriter performs Originals, Oldies, Country, Rock ‘n’ Roll.

5/8 Friday

Finger Lakes Cider House Grand Opening | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Good Life Farm, 4017 Hickok Rd, Interlaken | Music by Steve Selin and Friends.

Don Slatoff & Nick Weiser | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz duo.

Christopher Gerard Band | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Canaan Institute - Jack Williams | 7:00 PM- | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | Singersongwriter & winner of “Best of Bound for Glory.” More info at http://canaaninstitute.org/mn/musicnt.htm.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM- | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. For directions/info, call 607-273-8678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110.

Samuel Lupowitz and the Ego Band Record Release | 8:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | W/ The Rumble Scene and a slew of special guests.

Bittersweet | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Acoustic trio Bittersweet will be bringing you songs from country, old-time, blues, to folk and rock.

Mr. Boneless | 9:00 PM- | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Fierce steam/punk/folk. With Misses Bitches.

Gunpoets | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | w/Stone Cold Miracle and Sammus.

5/9 Saturday

Bleak and more... | 7:00 PM- | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | With The Anderson Tapes, Doubt, Sunken Cheek, and Eating Scabs For Protein.

Richard Shindell | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | One of today’s finest narrative songwriters.

Mothers Day Music for Peace: The Libyans | 8:00 PM- | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca |

The Burns Sisters | 8:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Featuring Kevin Maul, Tony Markellis, Doug Robinson, and Eric Aceto. For more info call 607-387-3334 or visit rongovianembassy.com/ Caroline Rose | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rockabilly, vintage country, and blues.

The Amazing Sugar Lumps Speakeasy Show | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Revival of the music from old-fashioned speakeasy culture.

Starry Mountain Sweetheart | 9:30 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With Why+The+Wires.

5/10 Sunday

Mother’s Day for Peace | 2:00 PM-7:30 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Featuring Singsong w/ Amy Puryear, Bronwen Exter, Toivo, Five2, Laila Belle, and Madd Daddy.

The Falconers | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

The Falconers | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Uplifting indie-rock from Binghamton.

Bound for Glory: Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys (rescheduled) | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Annabel Taylor Cafe, Cornell, Ithaca | A really fine songwriter, with a twisted good humor.

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

Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes Mother’s Day Eve Concert | 7:30 PM- | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | Final concert of the 2014-15 season.

Music by Drew Hemenger, Brahms (Clare Semes, violin), and concluding with Saint Säen’s “Organ Symphony” (David Peckham, organ).

Mostly Motown | 8:00 PM- | First Unitarian Church of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | Presenting Mostly Motown’s big Spring show.

Songs by Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, Wilson Pickett, The Delfonics and more.

5/11 Monday

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

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

5/10 Sunday

Ithaca Concert Band Mother’s Day Concert | 4:00 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble Mother’s Day Chamber Concert | 4:00 PM- | Unitarian Church, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Dana Wilson’s A Thousand Whirling Dreams, and Brahms’s Piano Quartet in A. Call (607) 272-4839 or visit www.

FingerLakesChamberEnsemble.org for more info.

Harpsichordist Concert | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | With Matthew Hall & Benjamin Katz. Works

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

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca |

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Maíre Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman | 7:30 PM- | Carriage House Hayloft, 305 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca | Celtic harp and guitar duo.

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Rockwood Ferry | 8:00 PM- | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Album release concert. Visit www. hangartheatre.org/ for more info.

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Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Clouds of Sils Maria | Juliette Binoche faces a reflection of herself (Kristen Stewart) in a revival of the play that launched her career. | 124 mins R | Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Julius Caesar | See this world-class

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

Action & laughs ensue. | 129 mins R | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | The legendary troupes’ classic, quotable comedy. | 91 mins PG | Pelican Dreams | Follow a wayward pelican from the Golden Gate Bridge to a rehab facility. | 80 mins G | Trainwreck | Amy Schumer starrer from Judd Apatow. | 122 mins R | What We Do in the Shadows | Horror/comedy about modern-day vampires. | 86 mins NR |

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The Celluloid Closet | 5:00 PM-, 05/07 Thursday | Grace and Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, 73 Court St, Cortland | Documentary chronicles dazzling 100-year history of LGBT people on the silver screen. For more info,please contact Kim at: kdill@sageupstate.org or 315-478-1923.

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Street, Ithaca | With a dragon who’s lost his poof, a neurotic gypsy woman, and a magical cast of characters, this hilarious twist on the classic fairy tale will delight princes and princesses of all ages.

Trust | 4:00 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | Clark Theatre, Ithaca College, Danby Road (Rt. 96B), Ithaca | Performing Arts for Social Change presents a theatre piece exploring the relationship between police and civilians. Contact pa4sc. ithaca@gmail.com to reserve seats.

Kenny Zimlinghaus & Taylor Strecker Comedy Show | 8:00 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Co-hosts of the Sirius XM morning show Wake up with Taylor. Visit www.hangartheatre. org/ for more info.

Lettice and Lovage | 7:30 PM-, 05/11 Monday, 05/12 Tuesday | Kitchen Theatre Co., 417 W State St, Ithaca | Award-winning hit by the author of Equus and Amadeus. Lettice Douffet is an enthusiast of history and the theatre who runs afoul of Lotte Schoen, a stoic inspector from the Preservation Trust, in a battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown.

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Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance. For info, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session--Express Professionals | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 05/06 Wednesday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | This local employment agency will present info on currently available job opportunities.

Energize and Detox with a Spring Greens Meal | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 05/07 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Vegan cooking class. Sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

5th Annual Women Build Weekend | All day, 05/08 Friday, 05/09 Saturday | Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland Counties, 14 W Main Street, Dryden | May 8-9. To learn more and register: register: http://gvgb.co/ WomenBuildWeekend2015 Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/08 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner

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By Adam Bock. A brilliant romantic comedy for five humans and one shark.

Wednesdays to Sundays, May 6-10, May 12-17. Visit http://www.kitchentheatre.org for showtimes & prices.

Johnson Follies | 7:00 PM-, 05/06 Wednesday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | More info as it becomes available. Check http:// stateofithaca.com/johnson-follies Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM-, 05/08 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | The Aspire Dance Company | 7:30 PM-, 05/08 Friday | Clark Theatre, Ithaca College, Danby Road (Rt. 96B), Ithaca | Dedicated to changing the perception of dance and disability.

Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale | 2:00 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 West State

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Community Fire Ceremony & Munay-Ki Rites | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 05/08 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Sing and drum around a sacred fire outdoors. Info at www.connecting2spirit.com Do-It-Yourself Synthesizer Workshop | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Build a simple analog synthesizer. Led by Trevor Pinch and Jordan Aceto. First come, first served.

Hammerstone Carpentry School for Women Mother’s Day Open House | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Hammerstone School, 3285 Jacksonville Road, Trumansburg | For more info visit http://www.hammerstoneschool.com/ or Email: maria@ hammerstoneschool.com.

From Micro-Aggressions to Equity | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/11 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | With Paula Ioanide in the Borg-Warner Room. Register by emailing registration@hsctc.org or call 607.273.8686 Red Cross Training | 5:00 PM-10:00 PM, 05/12 Tuesday | American Red Cross, 2 Ascot Pl, Ithaca | 5-7pm Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/ AED. 7:30-10pm CPR/AED For the Professional Rescuer. Registration

Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | All day, 05/06 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student. mentor@yahoo.com.

Flag Raising Ceremony | 9:00 AM-, 05/06 Wednesday | Lakeview Cemetery, , Ithaca | Held by the Tompkins County Sesquicentennial Commission. The Commission has installed a marker and flag pole at the grave of Sophronia Bucklin, a Civil War Nurse.

Food Truck Roundup | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | Ithaca Children’s Garden, Cass Park, Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | On the 1st Wednesday of each month, from May-September.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 05/06 Wednesday | The Glenwood Pines, 1213 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | RSVP nlem1155@gmail.com Tompkins County Letter Carriers Food Drive | All day, 05/09 Saturday | United Way of Tompkins County, 313 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | Community members are encouraged to place non-perishable canned food and personal care items (no glass please) in a bag near their mailbox for pick up by their letter carrier on May 9th. Items can also be dropped off in advance at 757 Warren Road or 213 N. Tioga Street U.S. Post Offices in Ithaca, NY. Renwick Wildwood & Fuertes Bird Sanctuary Volunteer cleanup | 3:30 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Chicken BBQ

at 5:00. For more info contact Miguel Berrios at miguel@landbeyondthesea. com or visit https://www.facebook. com/RevitalizingStewartPark Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage.

Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages.

Special Events Ways We Care | 7:00 PM-, 05/07 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | In celebration of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, a night of improvisational performance art.

Family & Children’s Services Annual Celebration | 8:00 PM-9:30 PM, 05/07 Thursday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join F&CS as we report on the past year and honor our mission of helping children, adults and families in our community. For more info or tickets, visit: www.wheretoturnithaca. org. RSVP to Stephanie Bailey at sbailey@fcsith.org Greek Festival | 3:30 PM-8:00 PM, 05/08 Friday; 11:00 AM-8:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday | St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church, 120 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | For more info visit www.stcatherine. ny.goarch.org/ or call 607-273-2767 or email stcatherinegoc@gmail.com.

New Roots Charter School Spring Auction | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 05/08 Friday | New Roots Charter School, 116 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Taughannock Garden Club Plant Sale | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday | First Presbyterian Church of Ulysses, 69 East Main Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 | Tables of a variety of healthy, low priced perennials for all types of sites. Also available are geraniums.

Roller Derby Bout | 8:00 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | Cass Park Rink, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | SufferJets vs. Roc Stars. For more info visit www. ithacarollerderby.com

Meetings City of Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM-, 05/06 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard

Exploring Cayuga Lake

Mostly Motown

Divers Michael DeGroat and Craig Bates will show their film exploring the depths of Cayuga Lake.

Classic songs by Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, Wilson Pickett, The Delfonics, and more.

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Required, contact 1-800-733-2767 (Option 3) or visit https://www. redcross.org/take-a-class Native Plants for Shade | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 05/12 Tuesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | With Dan Segal of The Plantsmen Nursery. Register at ccetompkins.org/ events or call (607) 272-2292 for info.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 05/12 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Open to adults of all ages, orientations, and religions (or lack thereof). For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

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City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 05/11 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission | 5:30 PM-, 05/12 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca City Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 05/12 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca |

Nature & Science CU Plantations: Birds & Blossoms-Guided Spring Walks | All day, 05/06 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | Friday morning bird walks and Sunday wildflower walks throughout May. Rain or shine. Pre-registration not required.

Friday bird walks will occur at 8:00 a.m. at Cornell Plantations; meet by the Sculpture Garden, in the F.R. Newman Arboretum off Caldwell Road. Sunday wildflower walks will be held at 1:00 p.m. at Sapsucker Woods; Meet at the Lab of Ornithology visitor center.

Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 05/08 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | Stargazing every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Community Day, MotE & Cayuga Nature Center | All day, 05/09 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Free admission to explore the Museum and Nature Center. Volunteers will be stationed at Discovery Labs to assist visitors in hands-on exploration of fossils, dinosaurs, more! Public tours offered every hour.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM-, 05/09 Saturday; 05/10 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more info, visit http:// www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar.

Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Bring your mystery fossils in to the Museum of the Earth and get them identified.

Cayuga Trails Club: Taughannock State Park | 11:00 AM-, 05/09 Saturday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4.5-mile hike through Taughannock State Park. Meet at Cass Park Children’s Garden parking lot, Route 89. For more info, call 315-406-7090 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Trees Alive! | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Learn about “the science of appearance” in a series of walks on the Nature Center’s Tree Phenology Trail. Participants will become “citizen scientists” and will record observations that will be sent to the USA National Phenology Network!

Mineral ID Day | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Found a funny rock? Curious about a crystal?

Bring them to the Museum of the Earth to identify rocks and minerals for Museum visitors.

Cayuga Bird Cub Monthly Meeting | 7:30 PM-, 05/11 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Free and open to the public; anyone interested in birds is invited to attend. Bird walks arranged at multiple times of the month, usually meeting at the Lab parking lot; to confirm walks, go to http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

The Cayuga Trails Club: Lower Buttermilk State Park | 5:00 PM-, 05/12 Tuesday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-mile hike in Lower Buttermilk State Park. Meet at 5:00 pm, Buttermilk parking area, South Meadow Street. For more info, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

Health & Wellness Alcoholics Anonymous | All day, 05/06 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | Group meets several times per week. For more info, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/PDF/ IthacaMeetings.pdf Zumba Gold Classes | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | With instructor Nicole Bostwick. Starting June 3, 2015-December 31, 2015 Every Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 05/06 Wednesday

| Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | The Consciousness Club invites everyone to experience a guided meditation in our weekly meetings on the 5th Floor Lounge. All are welcome.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 05/06 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | A free group providing info and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. For info, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink. com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | NY | Meets multiple places and days. For more info, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org.

Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New or returning skaters of any level are welcome. Open to men and women 18+. For more info and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/ wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free. An uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting.

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

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 05/07 Thursday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | A worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more info or call 607-379-3835.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/07 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 05/11 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served.

Yoga School Classes | 8:00 PM-, 05/08 Friday | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Raja Yoga.

Overeaters Anonymous | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 05/09 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca |

Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more info or call 607-379-3835.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Free community meditation class for the public.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 05/10 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more info and reserve your place as space is limited.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 05/11 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Visit www.oa.org for more info or call 607-379-3835.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 05/12 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-ins available every Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Appointments available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call to schedule an appointment or for further info (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 05/12 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-272-1505.

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 05/12 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine.

Contactbookartscenter@wells.edu for more info. http://wellsbookartscenter. org Book Talk w/ Kyle Robertson | 1:00 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Robertson discusses his book, The Showstopper!

2015 Cornell MFA Graduation Reading | 3:00 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave., Ithaca | Book Talk w/ Patrick Robbins | 3:00 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Robbins discusses his novel, To Make Others Happy.

Book Talk w/ Nina Miller | 3:00 PM-, 05/10 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Miller will discuss her new novel, The Mother of Invention.

Arts ongoing Earlville Galleries Call for 2016 Season Artists | For more info, see bit. ly/1MkDk4P or call 315-691-3550.

Exhibition by Wendy Skinner | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 4/29 Wednesday | The Art and Found, 112 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Annie Eller exhibit | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Intricate and illuminated drawings. Runs May 1 to June 30.

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

Jen Fisher & Laura Sinclaire exhibit | Waffle Frolic, The Commons, Ithaca | Exciting works in ink, watercolor, and oil. Runs May 1 to June 30.

Museums Museum of the Earth at PRI | 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Ongoing: The Animals of the Nature Center, Glacier Exhibit, Right Whale #2030, Rock of Ages/Sands of Time, Coral Reef Aquaria, A Journey Through Time, Discovery Labs, Hype Park Mastodon. For more info visit www.museumoftheearth.org Rockwell Museum: Two New Exhibits | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | Rockwell Museum Of Western Art, 111 Cedar St, Corning | Nine contemporary glass

Books A Novel Idea - Book Club | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Hosted by Buffalo Street Books’ Asha Sanakar.

Upstate NY Spring Wayzgoose 2015 | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday | Sommer Center & Morgan Hall, Wells College, Aurora | A celebration of printing, paper and book arts. Free and open to the public; all ages. Food and drink available; vendor tables available.

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Sacred Root Kava Lounge, May 9, 8:00 p.m.

Cass Park Rink, May 9, 8:00 p.m.

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

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

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

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

by Leo Villareal, ongoing. www. museum.cornell.edu Quirks of Nature: Comics by Rosemary Mosco | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Explores the wonderfully strange yet relatable world of wild plants and animals. Runs through Jun 8. For more info visit www. museumoftheearth.org Susquehanna River Archaeological Center | 345 Broad Street, Waverly | Tuesday-Friday, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Native American artifacts, ongoing | www. sracenter.org Ulysses Historical Society | 39 South Street, Trumansburg | Friday-Saturday 2:00 PM-4:00 PM; Monday 9:00 AM-11:00 AM | Civil War shawls, 1909

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Brush car, Hoffmire Farm exhibit, Abner Treman exhibit, Ag exhibit, all ongoing.

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Lectures Exploring Cayuga Lake | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/07 Thursday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Scuba divers Michael DeGroat and Craig Bates answer questions and show their film exploring the depths of Cayuga Lake.

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he Cornell Gamelan Ensemble was founded in the 1970s by Marty Hatch, now a professor emeritus, and came by its instruments in an unusual way. “They are on a very long term loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” said Chris Miller, the ensemble’s director and a lecturer in the music department. “They were originally brought to New York for the World’s Fair in 1964. They were then purchased by an instrument rental company, which didn’t get much business out of them, and he donated them to the Met for tax purposes. Some Cornell Indonesianists arranged to bring them here.”

Gamel means “to strike” in Javanese and the music is highly percussive. Many of the instruments are made of bronze and include gongs, gong-chimes, and metallophones. In addition there are bowed and plucked string instruments, bamboo flute and a xylophone (xylo means “wooden,” as in the xylem cells of a tree).

science through activities, stories, and songs. Every Wednesday and Saturday.

Sciencenter educators will also share research-based parenting tips in an interactive, fun environment.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: After School at Belle Sherman Elementary (grades 2-5) | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | Belle Sherman Elementary School, 501 Mitchell St, Ithaca | Join Primitive Pursuits each week and learn the tools of survival in the forests around your school. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Gardening with Kids class | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 05/06 Wednesday | Ithaca Children’s Garden, Cass Park, Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Set your littlest green thumbs up for success by choosing kid-pleasing varieties, planning a garden for continuous bloom, and conducting experiments. Register by calling 607-272-2292 during business hours or email ymf5@cornell.edu.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: East Hill Homeschool Program (ages 6 - 10) | 9:00 AM-1:30 PM, 05/07 Thursday | 4-H Acres, 418

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Art Classes for Kids | All day, 05/06 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Classes and private instruction for children and teens in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance. For more info, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Abovoagogo Summer Art Camp Registration | All day | Abovoagogo Art Studio, 409 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Summer camp programs at the studio, with 7 weeks of great choices. Register & details at www.abovoagogo.com/ summer.

Hangar Theatre Summer Kids Workshops Registration | All day | A variety of summer theatre classes available for students entering third grade and up, at multiple experience levels, and taught by professionals.

For details, fees, and sign-up visit http://www.hangartheatre.org/ next-generation-school-of-theatre. html Registration For Music in Motion | All day, 05/06 Wednesday | A coed music day camp, ages 5-12 (no experience required). August 10-14 and August 24-28. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., held at Acting Out NY studio in Center Ithaca (before and after care available for extra charge.) Register online at www.mumotion.com/summercampregister. Contact angie@mumotion.com for more info.

Sciencenter Winter/Spring Exhibition: “TreeHouses” | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Spend time hanging out in the trees at the Sciencenter’s new featured exhibition. Open Tuesday-Sunday.

Sciencenter: Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 05/06 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Parents with kids 4 & under explore

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Members of the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble (Photo provided) “The tuning is not completely standardized,” said Miller, “which is why the instruments are made as sets and meant to be played together.” He agreed that it was bit like a chess set; other instruments from other sets can mixed in, but it can lead to complications.

Gamelan has two different tuning systems, a five- and a seven-tone scale (sléndro and pélog) with the latter enabling one to shift between to pentatonic systems. Miller likened the five-tone

Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | Explore bow-making, walnut dyeing, cob oven construction, & more. Sliding scale fee.

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

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: West Hill After School Program (ages 6 - 10) | 2:30 PM-5:00 PM, 05/08 Friday | Y Adventureland, 1350 Mecklenburg Rd (Rt 79), Ithaca | Join us each week to discover mysteries, help tend the fire for our tea kettle, and bring home tales of adventure!

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

Community Day, MotE & Cayuga Nature Center | All day, 05/09 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Free admission to the Museum and

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scale to the sound of the black keys on a piano, except that the intervals between notes were all the same size. In addition, the tonal range of Indonesian intervals different from those in a Western scale. All in all, when you listen to gamelan, you are listening to something exotic.

“It can be both listening and dance music,” Miller said, “but performance dance, not participatory. It is often used to accompany the shadow puppet theatre.

Typically [the music is] is not presented in

Nature Center. Volunteers will assist in hands-on exploration of Discovery Labs. Public tours of the Museum will be offered every hour.

Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Bring your mystery fossils in to the Museum of the Earth and get them identified.

Just KIDding! | 10:30 AM-5:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday; 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Lively Run Goat Dairy, 8978 County Road 142, Interlaken | Celebrate the birth of goat kids Mother’s Day Weekend. More info at http://livelyrun.com/events/#sthash.

MOOky7cF.dpuf Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM, 2:00 PM, 05/09 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | The Story of Coqui Frog | 11:30 AM-, 05/09 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Spanish/English storytelling for ages 5 and up.

LilySilly Puppet Show: Yes Around the World | 4:00 PM-, 05/09 Saturday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Ages 3-8.

many formal concerts.”

Miller encountered gamelan as an undergraduate in Vancouver and “got hooked.” He said there are few places in North America where Indonesian immigrants from Java and Bali play it, but most communities are “affinity groups.” At Cornell, he said, Indonesian students are part of the group, but the ensemble was founded by nonIndonesians.

In Java and Bali gamelan crosses the line between folk and classical traditions. It is played in court, but it is also taken up by the general population.

Styles vary among linguistic and ethnic groups, so there are many approaches.

The Cornell ensemble plays in the central Javanese style.

While recent innovations include mixing Western and gamelan instruments, particularly synthesizers, the Cornell group sticks to the classical repertoire. Its numbers fluctuate, but this Saturday’s concert will feature 15 to 20 players. Miller said the acoustics in Barnes Hall work well with gamelan.

There is also a vocal component to gamelan, and Miller has worked out arrangement of the children’s song “Miss Mary Mack” for the ensemble. “It’s an example,” he said, “of incorporating the folk idiom into the music.” • The free concert is on Saturday, May 9 at 2 p.m. in Barnes Hall on the Cornell campus

Sciencenter Member Mornings | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Just for members! On every 2nd Sunday through June, Sciencenter members get the museum to themselves from 10 am-noon.

Mother’s Day Hike | 1:00 PM-, 05/10 Sunday | Smith Woods, , Ithaca | Looking for a great way to spend Mother’s day with your Mom or your kids? Celebrate Mother’s Day outdoors with Mother Nature at Smith Woods!

Mineral ID Day | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Found a funny rock? Curious about a crystal?

Bring them to the Museum of the Earth to identify rocks and minerals for Museum visitors.

Sciencenter Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 05/10 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Sciencenter: Lightapalooza! | 2:00

PM-, 05/10 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate optical illusions, bending light, and making sound waves visible.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: West Hill Homeschool Program (ages 6 - 14) | 9:00 AM-1:30 PM, 05/12 Tuesday | Y Adventureland, 1350 Mecklenburg Rd (Rt 79), Ithaca | Explore bow-making, walnut dyeing, cob oven construction, & more as we build our forest community. Sliding scale fee. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC BUDGET HEARING, PERSONAL REGISTRATION AND ANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION OF THE ITHACA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Public Budget Hearing of the Ithaca City School District (the “District”) for the discussion of the expenditures and budgeting of funds for the 2015-2016 school

year will be held at the District Administration Building, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca, New York, in the Board Room on May 5, 2015, commencing at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (E.D.S.T.).

NOTICE is also given that voting on: (I) the 2015-2016 annual District budget, which will appear on the ballot as Proposition No. 1; (II) the appropriation and expenditure of funds from the District’s “2013 Capital Reserve Fund” to purchase school buses, as set forth in Proposition No. 2; (III) the election of members of the District’s Board of Education; and (IV) the transaction of such other business as is authorized by law, will take place at the Annual District Meeting and Election on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, at the District’s designated polling places, in Election Districts numbered 1-12, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 9 p.m., E.D.S.T., and that voting shall be conducted by voting machine.

NOTICE is also given that a copy of a statement prepared by the Board of Education of the estimated expenses and the amount of money that will be required for school purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, together with the appendages required by Education Law §1716, may be obtained at each school in the District; at the District Office, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca, New York, on and after May 5, 2015, during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., each weekday except Saturday, Sunday or holiday; at the Tompkins County Public Library; and on the District’s internet website at: http://www.ithacacityschools.org.

NOTICE is also given, in accordance with §495 of the N.Y. Real Property Tax Law, that the District shall prepare a Real Property Tax “Exemption Report” which will show how much of the assessed value on the final assessment roll (utilized for the school tax levy) is exempt from taxation by the District. The exemption report will list every type of exemption granted and will show: (1) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption; (2) the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTS), or other payments, from recipients of each type of exemption; (3) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. The Exemption Report will be posted on the District’s website and on District bulletin boards utilized for posting public notices. The Exemption Report will be annexed to any preliminary District budget, and will become part of the final budget.

NOTICE is also given, that in addition to the proposed District budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal year and school year, which will appear on the ballot as Proposition No. 1, the following proposition will be submitted to the voters: Proposition No. 2 Shall the Board of Education of the Ithaca City School District (“School District”) be authorized to appropriate funds from the School District’s 2013 Capital Reserve Fund in the maximum amount of $890,000 and to expend these funds for the purchase of five (5) 63-passenger school buses, one (1) 63-passenger school bus with a wheelchair lift, one (1) 30-passenger school bus and one (1) 30-passenger school bus with a wheelchair lift?

NOTICE is also given that four members of the Board of Education will be elected. The three Board candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be elected to three-year terms commencing on July 1, 2015. The fourth highest vote getter will win election to the balance of the unexpired term of office of Seth Peacock, ending June 30, 2017, which became vacant due to his resignation from the Board. Pursuant to the provisions of the Education Law, candidates for the office of Member of the Board of Education shall be nominated by petition. A separate petition shall be required to nominate each candidate. Each petition shall be signed by at least 100 qualified voters of the District, and shall state the name and residence of the candidate and each signer. Each petition shall be filed with the Clerk of the District between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. E.D.S.T., but no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Forms of petition may be obtained from the Clerk of the District.

NOTICE is given that the District has established personal registration of voters and has divided the School District into 12 election districts. Accordingly, the only persons entitled to vote on May 19, 2015 are those who are “qualified voters” and who are “registered” to vote as set forth herein. To be a “qualified voter” a person must be a citizen of the United States, at least 18 years of age, and a legal resident of the District for a period of 30 days immediately preceding May 19, 2015. If a “qualified voter” has previously registered with the District or with the County Board of Elections and has voted within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at the May 19, 2015 Annual District Meeting and Election without re-registering. All other persons who wish to vote at the Annual District Meeting and Election must either pre-register with the District’s Board of Registration as set forth below, or be registered with the Tompkins County Elections Board to vote in general elections, pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 of the Election Law, on the date of the District’s Annual District Meeting and Election.

NOTICE is given that, for those “qualified voters” who are not yet “registered” to vote, the District’s Board of Registration will meet in the Office of the Clerk of the School District, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca, New York, on May 7, 2015, between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. for the purpose of preparing a Register for each school election district, at which time any qualified voter who appears personally before the Board of Registration will be entitled to have his or her name placed on the District’s Register, provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration, he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such Annual District Meeting and Election for which the Register is prepared.

NOTICE is also given that the election Register prepared pursuant to law shall be on file in the Office of the District Clerk, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca, New York, and shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District from May 14, 2015 through May 19, 2015, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., on any day that the office is open for business.

NOTICE is also given that the place in each election district where the vote and election will occur is as follows: Lehman Alternative Community School. 111 Chestnut Street, Ithaca, New York Beverly J. Martin School. 302 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca, New York, Belle Sherman Annex. 75 Cornell Street, Ithaca, New York Caroline School. 2439 Slaterville Road, Ithaca, New York Cayuga Heights School. 110 East Upland Road, Ithaca, New York Danby Fire Hall. 1780 Danby Road, Ithaca, New York Enfield School. 20 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca, New York Fall Creek School. 202 King Street. Ithaca, New York Franziska Racker Centers, Inc. 3226 Wilkins Road. Ithaca, New York Northeast School. 425 Winthrop Drive, Ithaca, New York SOUTH HILL SCHOOL. 520 Hudson Street, Ithaca, New York Varna Community Center. 943 Dryden Road, Ithaca, New York Information regarding the legal boundaries of each election district and directions to the designated voter registration and polling places may be obtained from the Office of the District Clerk during normal business hours.

NOTICE is also given that qualified voters of the District may obtain applications for an absentee ballot at the District Office. Completed applications must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 12, 2015 if the absentee ballot is to be mailed to the voter. If a completed application is received after 5:00 p.m. on May 12, 2015, the absentee ballot will not be mailed, but instead must be delivered personally to the voter. A listing of all persons to whom an absentee ballot is issued will be available for inspection by any qualified voter in the Office of the District Clerk between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. from May 12 through May 18, 2015, other than on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday. Absentee ballots that do not reach the office of the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 will not be canvassed.

Dated:

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Ithaca, New York

By Order of the Board of Education Ithaca City School District By: Danielle DeSilva, District Clerk

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Inside the house all the original yellow pine floors are intact, as are the original moldings. Most of them are painted, as would have been traditional in the 19th century. On the other hand, a picture window has been added to the front of the house, replacing the two windows present historically.

When you enter the front door you see the front stairs to your right. The mahogany rail and spindles are in beautiful condition and wind around the opening in the second floor hall. Light shines into the upstairs hall from both a window at the front of the house and up from below through the stairwell.

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