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Financial Trouble for Ithaca’s Beloved Summer Event Drew Noden and others present plan to save Ithaca Festival

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BULLET CRASH Driver arrested And charged PAGE 3

HOLIDAY MUSIC MOLDY ROLL

T’BURG CRAFT SMOKE IF YOU

PREVIEW

TAKES ITS TOLL Petition starts Against IC Dining Halls

Get your Holiday gifts Local

County officials voice Support for Legal Weed

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Guide to the Sounds of The season

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local auctioneer and businessman has been arrested and charged with second degree grand larceny, adding credence to the growing number of people in Tompkins County and across the country who say they’ve been cheated by his business.

David Hall, 49, who runs National Book Auctions and Worth Auctions in Freeville, was taken into custody Monday and is scheduled to appear in the Town of Dryden Court.

District Attorney Matthew Van Houten confirmed last week that charges were forthcoming and that the New York State Police were compiling the crimes, though it appears that list has, so far, only grown to the single charge. Grand larceny in the second degree entails a theft above $50,000 but below $1 million. He was remanded to Tompkins County Jail after his arraignment and held on $100,000 cash bail or $200,000 property bond.

According to the New York State Police, the investigation into Hall began late last year when he was accused of selling an estate valued at over $200,000, but failed to pay what was owed to the original owner after the auction sale.

Eventually, he began to repay the money, but by the time he turned himself in on Nov. 19, he still owed around $200,000.

Public Information Officer Aga Dembinska said there’s currently no evidence available about how the money was spent.

Though this may be the only charge Hall will face, there are plenty of people around the county who will feel like it’s not continued on page 12

Cover: Drew Noden, President of Ithaca Festival

Scene of Big Red Bullet fatal bus crash on Rt. 380 (Photo: Courtesy of WBRE-WYOU)

Bus Crash

Big Red Bullet driver arrested for fatal crash

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ollowing the deadly bus crash in Pennsylvania last month, the driver, Charles Dwight Dixon has received 33 different charges against him. The two largest are 12 counts of recklessly endangering another person and another twelve counts of aggravated assault by vehicle.

Each of the 12 counts is for the surviving passengers.

Other charges include one count of disregarding traffic lanes, one count of careless driving, one count of reckless driving, one count of homicide by vehicle, one count of aggravated assault by vehicle while driving under the influence, one count of operation/

permitted operating of unsafe equipment, one count of driving under the influence, and one count of involuntary manslaughter. According to the DUI charge, cocaine was found in Dixon’s system. Charles Brundza, the general manager of Big Red Bullet declined to comment due to the advice of his lawyer.

The bus crashed during the night of Oct.14 on I-380 in Covington Township, Pennsylvania last month. At the time the crash occurred, Cornell University released a statement regarding the death of Rebecca Blanco, a 2017 graduate of Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

T a k e ▶▶ “Yes! In my back yard” The Ithaca Board of Realtors will host a panel conversation about workforce home ownership at The Space @ GreenStar on Thursday, Nov. 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. Moderated by Sean Eversley Bradwell, director of Ithaca College’s IDEAS and MLK Scholars program, the conversation will discuss the lack of affordable homes near work

Board of Directors (Photo: Casey Martin)

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“Cornell University has learned that one of our alumni, Rebecca Blanco, MBA ‘17, lost her life in the tragic Sunday night bus accident in Northern Pennsylvania. We extend our deepest sympathies to Rebecca’s family and friend,” the statement said. “Cornell University Police are in contact with area emergency responders, who report that other passengers on the private bus line also sustained injuries in the crash. We will be monitoring the situation closely as our thoughts and prayers remain with all of those involved.”

Pennsylvania State Troopers, the Covington Police Department and the Covington Fire Department were unable to be reached for comment as well.

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centers for community members of full-time employed households that receive decent wages.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and a presentation by the Corning Housing Partnership will precede the discussion. ▶▶ Trumansburg WinterFest 2018 Saturday, Dec. 1, Main Street in Trumansburg will be bustling with activity. There will be live entertainment, including

performances by Hilby and magician Mike Stanley, and holiday music from the Fall Creek Brass Band; food and beverages; vendors selling handmade goods; a tree lighting by Santa and Mrs. Claus, and an appearance by Buddy the Elf; a seasonal costume contest with judges and cash prizes; and more. The festival, now in its 23rd year, is presented

by The Trumansburg Area Chamber of Commerce.

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F r e e l a n c e r s : Barbara Adams, Rick Blaisell, Steve Burke, Deirdre Cunningham, Christie Citranglo, Jane Dieckmann, Amber Donofrio, Karen Gadiel, Charley Githler, Warren Greenwood, Isabella Grullon, Vaughn Golden, Ross Haarstad, Rich Heffron, Peggy Haine, Austin Lamb, Steve Lawrence, Amanda Livingston, Marjorie Olds, Cassandra Palmyra, Lori Sonken, Henry Stark, Jason Warshof, Elizabeth Williams and Bryan VanCampen.

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WHAT WAS THE BEST PART ABOUT YOUR THANKSGIVING?

“Unfortunately, I was a bit sick, but it was nice to just stay home and chill.”

-Ossman Tobar

Danby Gathery

A hopeful new tradition is born “Well, I dropped my phone on Venice Beach while attempting to ride a scooter. It was nice not having a phone – My brother and I reconnected and became allies again.”

-Beth Gordon

“Watching my family bicker all night. Don’t worry, everything worked out in the end.”

- Edwin Viera

“Seeing my cousins!”

-Mary Hopkins

“Somehow we dodged a bullet and politics wasn’t brought up at all!”

-Kate & Ryan Henry-Wilkinson

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full list of vendors is: Darling Cake, Ithaca No Grainer, Modern Punch, Clayful Pots, Cosmic Love Creations, Hector Handmade, Balance Aromatherapy, Sparks Designs, Hook Loop & Stone, Polka Dot Tails, Pretty World Products, Heya Design, Flyaway Bluejay, Flourish & Flow Yoga, Elaan Greenfield Designs, the Chili Cabin, A Squared Creations and Made in my Backyard.

The day will also include a 50/50 raffle drawing, and other raffle prizes featuring products donated by the vendors.

Williams opened the Gathery, a community classroom and event space, in June and said she chose to dedicate the fundraiser to the Backpack Program of Tompkins County in an effort to maintain the local theme and ensure the money raised by the event will stay in the area. Even though this is the event’s inaugural year, she said she’s been impressed by the number of people who are interested in participating as vendors, which has reached a point where she has to turn people away due to spacing issues.

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ith the holiday boasts a fairly wide variety of season upon us all, vendors, particularly for its one local event space first year: there are purveyors owner is trying to spark a new of handmade jewelry, grain yearly tradition that will bring free foods, locally-made pet several local vendors to Danby supplies and a list of of other for a holiday market event. craft and food businesses loTrisha Williams, owner and cated in Tompkins County. The operator of the Danby The Danby Gathery, led by Trisha Williams, will be hosting its first Giving at the Gathery event Gathery, has on Dec. 2 to benefit a local youth hunger prevention program. (Photo by Casey Martin) organized 18 businesses around the area to convene on Sunday, Dec. 2, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a holiday market called Giving at the Gathery.

The event is being held to benefit the Foodbank of Southern Tier’s Backpack Program of Tompkins County, which aims to help children at risk of hunger at home by providing food for them to take home over the weekend during the school year.

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year,” Williams said. “This year is obviously a little bit crazy because it’s my first time jumping into this pool, but I’m hoping this will get easier each following year. I was really happy because we got a very nice little group of vendors here, but I keep getting messages from people who want to be a part and we just don’t have the space for that many vendors.”

Though she’s not making much money on the venture, if any at all, Williams said this event is part of the reason she started the Gathery, which took over the building where the Danby Market was previously located before closing.

She can still sense the value the long-tenured store held to the locals. Her affection for Danby as a community, as well as an attraction to charitable work, were other motivating factors in her decision to found the event.

“For whatever reason, I work super hard when I’m making money for other people,” Williams said, laughing. “We charged a very small table fee because we are a first-time market. I don’t have a proven track record yet [...]

When opening this business, the whole point was to bring something to the community.

There’s not much going on in Danby, but what there is out here is a big community of really cool people who love to gather.”

There isn’t a financial threshold for the event, Williams said, though she admitted to a soft goal of $1,000, which she thinks will be achieved. Having grown up in Interlaken, a similarly small, somewhat empty town, Williams said she’s excited to be able to bring something that will hopefully add some vibrance to the Danby holidays.

“I’m not sure I need to make a certain amount to do it each year,” she said. “I’ve always really had a high interest in doing something in a small community, bringing something to a small town, just because I see the excitement and interest that makes for the local people.”

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▶▶ Thumbs Up : For everyone participating in Giving Tuesday, even if it’s to our bitter rivals the Ithaca Voice. After binging on turkey last week, then consumerism on Friday and Monday, it’s good to give back to people who work with populations that might not be able to do either of the previous three. Hopefully you don’t stop giving to organizations that do good work but need money to do it.

The longtime bus station on West State Street could be historically landmarked after sitting empty for several months. (Photo by Casey Martin)

Bus Station

Former Bus Station up for historic landmark status

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fter being closed for two months, the former bus station located on West State Street is up for designation as a local landmark.

After a unanimous vote by the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC), the building is now facing the process of becoming another of the many historic landmarks in Ithaca.

The station’s owners shuttered the West End this summer, forcing the city to move inter-city bus operations to Green Street after decades of operating at West State Street, following its previous life as a train station. No redevelopment plans have been announced, somewhat uncommon for unused property in the City of Ithaca, especially in the increasingly popular West End. Tompkins Trust Company owns the building, but according to Chief Executive Officer Gregory Hartz, there aren’t any current plans to make the building home to another business. That could save the city from another public battle like the last two historic designation attempts, Chacona Block and the No. 9 Fire Station property, two Collegetown locations which had historic designation attempts defeated

by Mayor Svante Myrick after deadlocked Common Council votes.

▶▶ Thumbs Down: Ithacans seem to have a thing for magic, as evidenced by the long tenure of the Magic Man on the Commons. But long before him, magician Ricky Jay cut his teeth in the city while in and out of class at Cornell University, and went on to become quite famous off his sleight of hand skills. Unfortunately, Jay died this week at the age of 72, and The Ithaca Times wants to wish condolences to his family.

There is a certain set of criteria that the building has to meet before it can be considered by the commission for landmark status: if the building holds historic or aesthetic value to the area’s history; if it’s related to historically significant people or events; if the building “embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style;” if it’s the work of a particularly influential designer; and if it represents an “established and familiar visual feature of the community” because of its location or physical characteristics.

Bryan McCracken, the city’s Historic Preservation Planner, explained just what features of the building checked off three of the five criteria.

“For this building, they looked at its connection to transportation history, specifically the railroad and passenger trains on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad line,” McCracken said.

“They looked at its architect. It was designed by Frank Nies, a regionally well-known architect that worked specifically for the railroad company and designed numerous stations for them, many of them have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The third item is its architecture. It is a

prairie-style train station; the prairie-style is a rare architectural form in Ithaca.”

McCracken said City Historian Mary Tomlan had also noted that it is the best example of that prairie style in Ithaca, a short-lived architectural design that gained popularity in the early 20th century before falling out of favor with the onset of the Great Depression. A good portion of the building’s historic value rests on the prairie-style exterior and overall design. The prairie-style design concept was the “brainchild” of Frank Lloyd Wright and did spread throughout the certain parts of the country to some extent, but its brief popularity also means it isn’t very common, and lends to the building’s uniqueness.

However, it will be a while before the building is officially designated as a landmark.

McCracken said that now the building will be brought before the city Planning Board, who will review the proposed designation. Their responsibility is to examine several different questions relating to the building’s designation, such as how the proposed designation will impact the future plan for the area, if there are any plans for redevelopment and if it’s compatible with the city’s Comprehensive Plan.

If the Planning Board approves the building, it then continues on to the Planning and Economic Development Committee, followed by Com-

mon Council in January, if the current schedule holds. McCracken described how train stations have been adapted for multiple uses, as he’s hoping that the building will find a new future.

“It can remain in its current condition until somebody purchases it,” McCracken said.

“Ideally, what would happen is the building would be rehabbed. Train stations make excellent adaptive reuse buildings. [...] The hope is that if the building does get designated, a potential developer would see the value of the site and rehab the building and find a new use for it that allows it to remain productive for another hundred years.”

After the building is designated by the ILPC, this ensures that the building’s exterior cannot be changed. But the interior can still be remodeled to accommodate any new business that should move into the building. McCracken said one common re-usage of train station structures is banks, pointing to the Chemung Trust Company building in the same area.

“A business could move in there,” McCracken said. “The ILPC only regulates exterior alterations, so if the interior needed to be changed to meet the business use, that’s a possibility. [...] A designation wouldn’t inhibit a change of use for the land.”

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▶▶ Heard: There’ll be new development coming to the West End soon, even if it doesn’t come to the old Bus Station. Vecino Group, the same people responsible for the Asteri Ithaca project currently competing for the Green Street Garage redevelopment rights, are proposing some sort of residential housing project at 130 Cherry Street. Keep an eye on the Ithaca.com for the story on what’s going to be a packed Planning Board meeting on Tuesday. ▶▶ The most popular stories on Ithaca.com this week are….

1. Local auctioneer arrested amid millions of dollars of financial complaints 2. Life in the Pit 3. District reaction to Mitrano re-entering Congressional race 4. Third swastika found on Cornell’s campus 5. Thompson and Bleecker: A refreshing new approach to pizza on the Commons

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Alley Cats in Ithaca

Dearest Santa

By M a rjor i e O l d s

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r It’s not just Amazon that’s keeping the U.S. Postal Service afloat.

Every year, between Black Friday and Christmas Eve, a certain demographic floods post offices across the land with first class mail: kids. Likely the only old-school letters they’ll ever write, an instinctive distrust of texting and Snapchat leads them to put writing utensil to paper and affix stamp to envelope when sending their petitions to the North Pole. What follows is a page from the script for a Hallmark Holiday Special, due for broadcast later this month.

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t took Kristin O’Scammon a long time to find her way to Ithaca, New York.

Growing up in Western Montana, O’Scammon’s community revolved around where the deer and the antelope played, so she happily spent a lot of time with all kinds of animals. As far back as she can remember

she worried about animals suffering without shelter and food.

As a young adult she visited a friend at Ithaca College one summer and was charmed by the lovely, warm days on Cayuga Lake. But after college, O’Scammon followed her quest to save abandoned and feral cats and took a job as a veterinarian technician in the Raleigh, North Carolina area.

Just as O’Scammon was growing restless in her North Carolina life, her Ithaca friend urged her to come put down some roots in Ithaca. And so she did.

O’Scammon could feel she was getting ready to really settle down and put her animal rescue plan in place. But to be sure, she decided to have one last adventure. Then she would know for sure if Ithaca was the right place to get it together.

Taking a job with Warhorse Productions, starting at the renowned Sterling Renaissance Fair she went on the road, with the cast visiting sites all over New York State, Minnesota, New Orleans, as well as destinations throughout Florida and Texas. But those college loan reminders led her back to Ithaca, this time to buckle down and pay her bills.

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SCENE: Dec. 6. The mail room at the North Pole Christmas compound. SANTA CLAUS is leaning way back in an office chair, Christmassocked feet on a desk, with a folded damp washcloth over his forehead and eyes. He has a headache. Behind him is TINSEL, the Christmas elf charged with wading through the 100,000 or so daily letters received at The Pole. It’s a morning ritual that consumes an inordinate amount of time during the busiest season of the year.

TINSEL: Here’s one from Cindy Lou Cornstarch in Ithaca, New York. Surprise, surprise, it’s another request for a Trump voodoo doll with extra pins.

Definitely the hot toy this year.

SANTA: You don’t have to tell me. I have 70 elves working on those things 24-7 in the annex. She’s been a good girl. Put her down for one. Next?

TINSEL: (opening letter) Barron in Washington, D.C. wants a Saudi prince action figure with real henchmen.

SANTA: (sighing) Fine. Whatever.

TINSEL: Mr. C., I know it’s a pain, but we have a lot of letters here. I’ll continued on page 7

YOUR LETTERS Open Letter to the Lansing Rod & Gun Club

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would like to make you aware that your continued activity of shooting lead bullets into Salmon Creek negatively impacts the real-estate value and resale of property owners in Ludlowville.

Recently a property owner almost had a sale when the buyer backed out. They found out about your plan to expand your club across Salmon Creek and your insistence on contaminating a new area with lead shot.

We are the unfortunate property owners right next door to where you plan to relocate you trap shooting ranges. The shooting box will be located 500 feet from our house.

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house. As if the increased decibel level of relentless, explosive gunfire were not enough to discourage resale, the potential exposure to lead dust and contaminated water will certainly seal the “No Deal!”

Our house isn’t just a resale asset, a piece of property. It is our home. We live here.

We ask you to reconsider and stay where you are. We want a more responsible plan. The EPA gun range practices that you have been told to follow, stipulate putting up a shot curtain, or (even better) shooting nontoxic ammunition. Doing this would demonstrate your commitment to environmental responsibility and consideration for our community and future generations. The Gun Club talks about being environmental stewards in its mission plan. This is better than leaving a toxic legacy.

Lisa Ruzicka

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say he’s a ‘yes.’ Sheesh, here’s another one from Finland…it’s Eero from Jyvaskyla…jeepers, this kid wants a rake, too.

SANTA: What the hell’s going on down there? Well, he’s been nice, so give him a rake if that’s what he wants. Keep going. My head is pounding.

TINSEL: This one’s kind of weird. Couple months ago we got a letter from Ivanka in New York City asking for her own email server. Today we get a letter from her that just says “nevermind.”

SANTA: Weird? Yes. Does it matter? No. She’s on the ALLEY CATS Contin u ed From Page 6

her longtime partner joined her in town, they felt they had explored the world enough and were ready to start a family.

Her daughter Mackenzie is now two-and-a-half years old and loves her life in Ithaca. Her mother found the idea of working six days a week just to pay for someone else to raise her child problematic; daycare was too expensive to continue working outside the home, so the idea of Alley Cat Café came together. O’Scammon envisioned a child-friendly café where moms and dads and kids could drink delectable coffee, while visiting with little and big feline friends.

And while they were all hanging out, there would be room for some of O’Scammon’s rescued cats to play comfortably too, while waiting for their forever families to show up.

“I’ve always linked up with the underdogs of the underdogs—cats abandoned, cats born in the wild,” O’Scammon said. “In 2009 I created the Brown Coat Cat Rescue and have been surrounded by homeless cats and loving foster cat families ever since.”

So Kristin took over the lovely café space at the very bottom of East Seneca Street (where Phoebe Aceto’s The Shop Café and Tattoo Parlor thrived for many years).

naughty list, so put it in the ‘coal’ pile.

TINSEL: Aye, aye, sir. Ooh, here’s a letter on official Ithaca Police Department stationary. It’s from ‘Pete T.’ Says he’s been good all year and wants two real live officers for his department.

SANTA: You sure that’s addressed right? He should be asking Svante Claus, not me. Oh, all right, give them to him. He’s been pretty good. We’ll need a bigger sleigh this year, I guess. Now leave me alone for a while.

Santa needs a nap.

OK, it’s a little unpolished, and might even have been from a first draft, but it’s nice to know that the Postal Service won’t go the way of retail stores in this holiday season.

With the support of a loving partner and many welcoming friends, homeless cats are rescued. Foster families help the once wild, often sick and terrified cats grow healthy and family-friendly. A few cats at a time vacation at the Alley Cat Café, while O’Scammon and Mackenzie serve coffee and socialize for long hours.

Their cat buddies are there too, in their peaceful, healthy setting. Mackenzie and her two-legged buddies have their Kids’ Corner, and everyone seems to enjoy their time.

Parents report their children had their best day ever while playing and interacting with people of all ages and cats.

Juggling a cafe, an active child, and an adoption center can be stressful, but Mackenzie reports that some days she stays at home for her Daddy Days, which she also loves.

O’Scammon said she would create a café (with aromatic coffee and exotic teas) that would generate income, be flexible enough for her daughter to accompany her, and provide a showcase for her homeless cats. And so she did.

Now that we know a bit of O’Scammon’s story it’s up to us to pitch in: Stop by for your cup of coffee, visit the cats, and ask Mackenzie how her day is going. She will warmly welcome you as she bustles about living her dream amongst us.

Cornell’s Commitment to Ithaca

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n October of 2007, former Cornell University President David Skorton announced that Cornell would commit $20 million to Tompkins County in addition to the small annual payments it makes in lieu of taxes. Several months later, Cornell had already backtracked a bit on their offer by stating the purpose of the $20 million was to aid the Cornell community who lived off campus, not the general community. Still, the plan was to spend $2 million per year for the following 10 years; around half the money would go towards affordable housing and around half would go towards transportation.

Cornell has not carried out its commitment to affordable housing.

It has contributed a bit to the Community Housing Development Fund which was developed in 2009 as a joint venture between the City of Ithaca, Cornell University and Tompkins County. The fund gives grants to housing developments so that they can create affordable housing.

So far this housing fund has awarded $3.7 million total over 8 years, with Cornell only paying about $1.5 million. To be clear, this is $1 million+ in total over 8 years, not the $1 million per year they committed to. Cornell’s contributions toward transportation have been more impressive. It has upped its contributions to TCAT, mostly in the form of subsidized bus passes for Cornell community members, and it offers subsidized Ithaca Carshare memberships to Cornell community members. Perhaps a logical next step would be contributing to the local roads Cornell community members drive on.

In 2014, Cornell’s excuse for not contributing enough to this $20 million was the financial crisis. In 2018, is that still their excuse? Or are they waiting for the next financial crisis in order to have a new excuse?

Cornell has only been able to amass its wealth because it is largely tax exempt.

Wealthy people contribute money and property to the school and write these donations off of their taxes, essentially pulling money away from where it may be more needed.

Cornell’s current endowment is higher than it has ever been at $6.8 billion dollars (Sept 2017) and it does not have to pay taxes on the profit it makes from that endowment.

The value of Cornell’s endowment is small

compared to the value of its real estate in New York, the United States, and around the world. Cornell does not have to pay property taxes on the majority of its property. If it had to pay taxes based on its local untaxed property value, it would be paying around $70 million annually (combined city, county, and school district taxes) instead of the $2+ million in voluntary contributions it does pay. I am not arguing Cornell should pay $70 million annually; it is a public good, and it takes care of itself to some degree. But it should pay considerably more than it does.

On at least one list, Ithaca was ranked one of the most expensive places to live in the country. This is unfortunate, to put it mildly, for the people in the area who wdo not have high incomes (and there are many people working for Cornell at very low hourly rates who fall into this category). Cornell contributes to this high cost of living in at least three ways: It does not contribute enough to the tax base; property owners are forced to pay higher taxes and these expenses are pushed onto renters. It creates supply and demand issues when the student population does not match with available housing supply. Cornell’s student population has been rapidly expanding over the past 10 years.

It artificially inflates the costs of its own student housing, which influences the rental market. (Ithaca College, of course, similarly contributes toward the high cost of living, but it is a fraction of Cornell’s size) In a time of increasing homelessness and even rising death from homelessness during our harsh Ithaca winters, I find it unacceptable Cornell has not honored its agreement to contribute more to affordable housing in some way. In 2007, Cornell chose to make this $20 million contribution instead of simply increasing the small annual payments it was making in lieu of taxes. Cornell refuses to pay this small unallocated fee increase because it does not feel this is a good enough PR move for the University. Cornell’s annual operating budget is 2.3 billion (2017-2018), which is over 30 times the size of the City of Ithaca’s budget. Cornell, of course, never has to do anything, and does not like to be told how to spend its money. But it can be held accountable for its economic impact in the area, both the good and the bad.

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In 2014, Cornell’s excuse for not contributing enough to this $20 million was the financial crisis. In 2018, is that still their excuse? Or are they waiting for the next financial crisis in order to have a new excuse?

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Vendors line the Commons, West State Street, and North and South Cayuga Streets, with nearly constant musical performances and artistic displays. The highlight, of course, is the Ithaca Parade, held the first night of the festival and featuring nearly 3,000 participants and plenty of attendees as well. It’s one of the bellwether events Ithaca residents have been able to look forward to every year since 1977, yet the beloved festival has been struck by financial woes for the last several years.

With its worst showing coming in 2018, when the event actually lost thousands of dollars, the annual celebration’s fiscal stability seems to be reaching a breaking point.

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organization of the financial situation they find themselves in, and letting them know about their near-term plans. Those plans include a fairly intense fundraising effort that needs to start soon and pick up momentum quickly in order for Noden to feel comfortable continuing.

“The goal that I have told the Board we have to reach is $30,000 by the first of the year,” Noden said. “This is an entirely different situation. If we don’t have the money to pay [Executive Director Josh Dolan], who should be writing grant proposals to get this launched, then we don’t do it.”

Data provided by Noden shows that finances have been rocky for the last several years, particularly starting in 2010.

Revenues and expenses have generally followed the same annual trend, bouncing up and down as conditions changed. But since expenses and revenue both peaked in 2015, making a small amount of money in the process (just under $165,000 in revenue against about $162,000 in expenses), revenue has fallen precipitously, faster and steeper than the festival has been able to cut spending to keep pace. Each year has grown worse, building on the unfortunate pattern: revenues dropped about $25,000 in 2016, then another $20,000 in

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2017. This past year’s event portrayed the bleakest future yet: the festival made under $120,000, while spending $140,000.

“Sales of T-shirts and buttons that once were a major source of income have fallen by 80 percent, while costs for many services such as insurance and emergency responders have risen, some by 300 percent,” the letter states. “This year festival revenues were $18,000 less than our expenses for essential service providers. This deficit must be eliminated, and we additionally need the resources necessary for our Executive Director to begin planning the 2019 festival.”

In the letter, signed by Noden, he asks for donations of any size to help fund the festival for another year, noting that the event does not receive any direct financial support from the city (except for some discounted work from IPD and IFD). It urges support for “Ithaca’s largest and most diverse community celebration of ‘the artist in everyone.’”

“Whether you can afford $5 or $25 or $100 or some amount even more generous, your donation will ensure the future of the Ithaca Festival and Parade,” the letter continues.

The festival itself has made some moves

to help dig itself out of the hole. It ended its additional Stewart Park location in 2013, which greatly reduced costs, as well as shrinking its performance capacity from five stages down to four, then down again to three, saving between $6,000-$10,000 in the process. But the steep downturn in merchandise sales paired with rising insurance and performance expenses have spelled trouble. Buttons and shirts used to drive quite a bit of revenue, but that has not held true recently. Though attendance and enthusiasm hasn’t generally waned (minus the years where rain hampers turnout, which has happened recently), those that do show up aren’t spending money like they once did. Additionally, feedback from food vendors has shown Noden that the festival should avoid raising vendor fees any further, stifling another potential source of revenue.

“I like the music, I love to see big crowds, but not a damn one of them ever buys a button,” Noden said. “So we really are going to restructure it to try to get sustained sponsors.”

During early conversations with potential sponsors, Noden said a couple have indicated they’d be willing to donate early in hopes of getting the Festival to the $30,000

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ence in the mix. And next year come festival time, we need all the Ithaca newbies to get onboard, buy their festival button and come enjoy the best festival in Ithaca and maybe anywhere.”

Dolan said one silver lining to the financial issues is that it’s reinvigorated the Board of Directors, which he and Noden both say had become somewhat complacent during the 2000s when a string of experienced executive directors allowed them to manage hands-off. That strategy eventually got them into trouble, but since Dolan began in January of 2018, he said turnover on the board has introduced several new faces who are eager to help, and take a more pivotal role in Ithaca Festival’s success.

Part of the issue is the desire for those involved in the festival’s production to put on a great show for the people who do come out to support the event. Despite the necessary belt-tightening, skimping on the art and music presented to the audience is not something an event like Ithaca Festival can do carelessly, when those two elements are basically the life-blood of the event.

Dolan admitted that his desire to entertain and satisfy those who came to the performances may have blinded him a bit, but again, that’s what so many people come out to attend and it’s how Ithaca Festival became such a prestigious city celebration in the first place.

“As someone told me before I got started, running the Ithaca Festival is like juggling eggs and some are gonna break, and it’s true, I definitely broke some eggs,” Dolan said. “I spent more than I should have on musical performances, but no one’s complaining about that right? There’s a bunch of little things we can do to cut costs and all of those options are on the table next year, but the unfortunate reality is we have to get there first.”

Dolan said he knows the Ithaca Festival has had ups and downs in previous years anyway, and though he understands the severity of the situation, he’s hoping that a new approach will be able to cure the ills that have plagued the event’s bottom line.

Noden agrees. Now it’s just a matter of determining whether or not the community cares or not.

“The biggest reason people don’t give is they’re not asked personally, so that’s what I can do,” Noden said. “If we get a little support from the community and a few sponsors, and we can reach our goal of $30,000 [...] and I think we can. It’s really not much for a lot of people if they think it’s worth it.”

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threshold Noden has set forth. Otherwise, he said another option would be working with Mayor Svante Myrick and Downtown Ithaca Alliance Executive Director Gary Ferguson to figure out a “Plan B.” It wouldn’t be the first time Noden’s gone to the mayor to discuss the festival.

Noden said he’s asked for institutional assistance in the form of some supportive funding from the city three times over the last 10 years, but has yet to receive any backing. The festival’s former director, Vicki Taylor Brous, who ran the event in the mid-2000s, explained that Tompkins County tourism grants are also restricted to events that appeal to people far outside the county, thus bringing them in and likely garnering the area some hotel room tax money. But Ithaca Festival’s main audience does not stretch that far, attracting mostly locals who can drive home after the festivities. That reduces the amount of possible grant money the Festival can attain, and makes it even more reliant on merchandising.

Brous, who runs an event planning business, said she teaches and utilizes some of the same methodology the festival wants to use now when she is planning events.

“You want to try to get as much of your revenue in before the actual event, because then it’s weather-safe,” Brous said. “The Festival has relied on sales of buttons and T-shirts for a lot of years, and that’s a lot of buttons and T-shirts to sell to make the festival happen, and you’re doing that while the festival is going on.”

Things that are less weather-dependent, or not at all, are the more effective and sustainable funding sources. That can be anything from ticket sales (which does not sound likely) to sponsorships; the main goal is to decrease the event’s vulnerability to uncontrollable factors like the weather.

Despite the seemingly dire financial straits, Noden and Dolan are unflinchingly optimistic, at least in interviews, that the Ithaca Festival will live on. Both are confident the community will rally around the event, and while that occurs they’ll be able to cultivate enough long-term sponsorships and partnerships so that community donations won’t be a necessary crutch in the future.

“What we really want people to do is to put Ithaca Festival on their holiday shopping list,” Dolan said. “Give us some love. [...] Our board has a lot of heart, but many if not all of them are new to non-profit board service. We could really benefit from having some expertise and experi-

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undreds of people have signed a petition calling for reviews and reforms to Ithaca College’s oncampus food services after a disgusting picture emerged of a dinner offering in one of the school’s cafeterias.

The petition started on Nov. 11 and has received 511 signatures so far. It alleges that an Ithaca College student was served a moldy hamburger bun on Nov. 9 in the Terraces Dining Hall, shown in the above picture, along with a raw chicken thigh, curdled milk “and the list goes on,” according to the petition (though no pictures of anything besides the hamburger were provided). These incidents, along with general displeasure with the dining services at the school, sparked the anonymously authored petition.

“Over the past few years, there have been numerous complaints by our students attending Ithaca College regarding the quality and safety of the food served at on-campus dining halls,” the petition reads. “Issues ranging from moldy bread to spoiled milk to contaminated meat continue to be raised. We hear these complaints from our children via text and texted photos.”

The petition also calls for the school to look into processes used at other colleges in the northeast and which companies provide their dining services, as well as suggesting Ithaca College look into a potential partnership with the Cornell University student food studies program.

Comments left on the petition touch on everything from requesting the school divest from Sodexo, who is its dining services provider, to expressing disappointment in the school’s administration for a perceived lack of attention to nutrition.

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fered on the meal plan at Ithaca College,” one petition commenter wrote, joining a chorus of others, including on other social media outlets aside from the petition.

“Ithaca Dining’s slogan is ‘Fresh, Inspired, Local.’ Unfortunately, it’s none of those things in actuality,” said another.

Ithaca College spokesperson Dave Maley confirmed the incident with the moldy hamburger bun occurred, but said the situation was quickly investigated and resolved by Sodexo.

“As soon as we became aware of this incident, the college’s dining services provider, Sodexo, responded quickly to examine its entire stock of bread products and found no other issues,” Maley wrote in an email statement. “Managers reviewed proper quality control training and procedures with all dining hall staff, including student workers.”

He said the school takes concerns about the on-campus food service seriously and that student health is the highest priority, and noted that one of the things parents were calling for in the dining hall, a review of its food preparation standards, was already taking place before the petition was conceived.

“This past summer the college hired a new Vice President for Finance and Administration, Bill Guerrero, who brings over 20 years of experience in managing food service contracts,” Maley wrote.

“One of his early priorities this fall was to initiate a complete review of the college’s dining program from both an operational and pricing perspective. That review is ongoing. In the meantime, we want our students to let us know when we fall short of expectations, and how we can continue to improve our services to them.”

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County votes against natural gas at Cayuga Power Plant

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fter two hours of public comment and two hours of deliberation, the Tompkins County Legislature voted 12 to 2 to urge the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to reject Cayuga Operating Systems’ proposal seeking to repower one of its energy generators with natural gas from coal.

People from all across Tompkins County and several from Pennsylvania came to advocate against the natural gas repowering, arguing cleaner fuel should be used to repower the generator.

In addition to referencing the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which stated that the impacts of climate change could reach crisis level as soon as 2040 if changes aren’t made to the global economy and energy usage, people also spoke from their hearts. Those who lived in Pennsylvania expressed how gut-wrenching it is to see

the devastation fracking has caused to the state. Tompkins County residents spoke about the research showing how the plant is mostly unnecessary since it is only a peaker plant, meaning the plant is primarily used when extra power is needed; such as on days when temperatures can be either extremely hot or extremely cold.

The company’s proposal does also include plans to build solar energy storage capacity.

Other concerns brought to the attention of the Legislature were about what kind of future people would be leaving the next generations. Many in attendance felt that they had a moral obligation to advocate for the Legislature to pass the resolution against the use of fracked gas.

Aside from this, people’s primary concern was what could happen if one of the trucks filled with natural gas should overturn and explode, though this isn’t common.

Most of the routes that these trucks would be traveling along are lined with residential neighborhoods and schools, the activists said. People were also pointing out how many hills Ithaca and Lansing are comprised of, and the possibility of brake failure was one of the many “what ifs” people wanted the Legislature to consider.

Since appearing before the Planning, Development and Environmental Quality Committee, the resolution was amended to cover several other aspects of what would happen to the workers as well as the town of Lansing should the plant close.

Along with this, the amended resolution asks that the DEC conduct a full Environmental Impact Study with a full public scoping process to hear feedback from all the communities affected by this. This amendment was a primary part of the secondary resolution at the PDEQ’s initial meeting about the whether to reject the proposal or have the county do a full EIS. Deliberations took some time as many legislators had doubts about how this could have potentially negative future consequences for being able to get more power when the county might need it.

During the discussion, legislator Rich John moved that resolution be sent back to committee due to some of the struggles that he had with the resolution, though he was not the only one. Legislator Leslyn McBean-Clairborne also said the resolution could be re-drafted to send a clearer message, but their colleagues challenged them that it was important to get the measure before the DEC prior to a decision.

The proposal eventually failed.

Legislator Michael Lane felt unconvinced of the arguments that the plant is no longer needed, and expressed concerns about the people who work in Tompkins County as well as at the Cayuga Power Plant, though he does understand the concerns about the dangers of trucked CNG, and supported the resolution.

Fellow legislator Michael Sigler, who was opposed to the resolution when it was in committee as well as at the meeting, voiced his concerns about the project and the proposed resolution. Throughout this process, he has felt that those speaking out should reallocate their efforts to changing zoning in their local towns and villages, while also stating that he believes not repowering could cost residents additional power that will be needed on those days when the plant will be needed the most.

He felt that rejecting the proposal could have many negative ramifications for both Lansing, its workers in particular.

The other member of the Legislature who opposed the resolution was Glenn Morey, whose reservations about the resolution were an amalgamation of things discussed by the Legislature.

Now that the resolution has passed, it will be up to the DEC to decide whether or not to conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement on the implications of the power plant repowering with natural gas, or whether the plan will be approved without a full review.

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enough. Dembinska said all other financial complaints that were reported to the state police have been resolved, though she also said other incidents may have been reported to other agencies. Four people who spoke to the Ithaca Times allege theft

by Hall in the range between $3,000 to $20,000, and say they believe there are several more who have been wronged. The Yelp page for Worth Auctions and National Book Auction is also littered with negative reviews alleging financial impropriety

by Hall, and the Better Business Bureau lists 25 complaints against National Book Auctions over the last three years, with 16 of those coming over the last 12 months.

Wayne Storey, Michael Jacobs and Steven Williams, all from New York, each said they had lost thousands of dollars in dealings with Worth Auctions and National Book Auctions, both through Hall. They all were connected by leaving negative reviews on Yelp.

Storey’s first experience with Hall came in April, when he delivered a box of antique books from his late mother to National Book Auctions. Following several weeks without a payment despite see-

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ing the books sell, Storey, from Buffalo, reached out to Hall, but after a few phone calls, he was no longer able to get in touch with the auctioneer. Storey reported the incident to the Better Business Bureau, who also did not receive a response from Hall. He then filed a fraud report with the New York State Attorney General’s office.

They all have relatively similar stories.

Jacobs said he got involved with Hall before seeing some of the comments on the Better Business Bureau, which he checked after having trouble receiving his money (the contract he signed with Hall stipulated that there would be payment to Jacobs within 30 days of the property sale).

Jacobs said he considered taking the issue to small claims court, but was advised that many others had tried to do so with Hall before him, only to remain unpaid.

Storey said, as far as he knew, National Book Auctions under Hall had a “decent reputation” up until around the start of 2017, when things seemed to take a turn for the worse.

“He always seemed fair to me,” Storey said, referring to his own participation in the antique book auctions before the problems began. “I felt sad. I’d done a lot of business with David Hall, and it just seems like a sad outcome to all of this.”

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records: he has two judgments against Worth Auctions in Tompkins County Court, including a federal tax lien filed in September by the IRS for over $33,000, as well as a judgment against him for over $3,000 by the state Department of Labor.

He’s also currently the subject of two larger lawsuits amounting to over a million dollars.

Williams, of Vestal, gave Hall over 20 antique guns he had collected to be sold in May of this year. Over the following months, he asked and confronted Hall several times to compensate him for the ensuing sales of the guns (he said Hall made over $5,000 off of the commission from the sales) but did not receive his money.

“Worth Auctions website states that it is a family business,” Williams wrote in an email. “If this is a family business, I sure as hell would be leery of doing business with anyone in this family.”

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third swastika has been found on Cornell University’s campus, according to reports and a letter sent out by the school to its student body addressing the incidents.

Ryan Lombardi, the school’s Vice President for Student and Campus Life sent out an email Tuesday Nov. 20 to the entire school community regarding the incident, though he did not specify how many different racist markings the school was aware of, just that it was more than one over the last several days.

The Cornell Daily Sun reported last week that this is the third anti-Semitic incident in just over a week at the school, all of them involving swastika markings in different locations around campus. The latest swastika, according to the paper, was large and found drawn into the snow on North Campus.

Lombardi notes his “revulsion” at the swastikas, probably the most recognizable anti-Semitic symbol in modern culture. The rash of markings comes just a few weeks after a targeted attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh left 11 people dead.

“I vehemently denounce such acts, which are clearly intended to intimidate members of our community,” the email stated. “The swastika has historically been – and continues to be – used as a symbol of intolerance, terror and repression against vulnerable communities.”

He also reiterated support for the school’s Jewish community.

“I specifically want to acknowledge and affirm our support for the Jewish members of our community who have faced the impact of anti-Semitism nationally and, unfortunately, now locally as well,” Lombardi wrote in the statement. “It is our shared responsibility to denounce such cowardly acts.”

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marijuana. She voiced her thoughts on how marijuana has gone from being thought of as a drug to being used to treat serious medical illness. Dawson also opined that marijuana is not a vice or an addictive drug.

While the public’s view has certainly softened on marijuana in the last several decades, there are still some reservations, however faint, among certain governmental bodies. The CDC calls the likelihood of fatally overdosing on marijuana “unlikely,” but continues that “doesn’t mean marijuana is harmless,” citing symptoms of overuse as anxiety, paranoia, nausea or vomiting and similar impacts which can also endanger the user through things like motor vehicle crashes or a physical fall.

There has also been concern about the proliferation of synthetic marijuana, as well as widespread hesitation to legalize the drug due to its framing as a gateway drug, causing the fear that it would lead to more serious drug usage. Synthetic cannabinoids, according to the CDC are plants sprayed with unknown chemicals which can be dangerous and unpredictable.

Synthetic cannabinoids are not marijuana, but like marijuana’s active ingredient THC, they react with the same cannabinoid receptors in the brain and other organs.The CDC has shown that cannabinoids can be more powerful than natural marijuana.

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he Tompkins County Legislature has been wrestling with quite a few hot topics and figuring out whether or not they would officially support New York State’s decision to support marijuana legalization has been at the forefront most recently.

In a vote of 13 to 1, with Legislator Mike Lane opposed, they voted to approve a resolution letting New York State officials in Albany know that Tompkins County supports legislation currently being debated at the state level which would legalize marijuana statewide. However, this resolution didn’t pass without some deliberation.

Many of the problems that Lane had were not with the resolution but how marijuana is a vice just like alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. He also had a problem with marijuana becoming a corporation driven product like tobacco. Lane’s other concerns stemmed from just how this can result in an increase of people driving under the influence of marijuana.

Legislator Leslyn McBean-Clairborne wanted to know more about what happens to people who have been arrested and incarcerated for possession charges.

According to a fact sheet about the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, the legislation now being debated by the NYS Senate, people who have been convicted of low-level possession (including possession in public view) and low-level sale will have that conviction vacated from their record. Other offenses related to possession, whether it was a misdemeanor or a felony, will be reclassified or sealed. For those who are currently incarcerated on these offenses, they would be released or the offense would be reclassified with the sentence appropriately reduced according to the new statute.

Shawna Black, the chairperson of the Health and Human Services committee, said the reasons for passing the resolution outweigh any of the potential cons. She

spoke about how there has been a wave of support for marijuana legalization since it can provide states with a great influx of capital. Black also spoke about how smoking marijuana will happen with or without the MRTA there to regulate it.

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Anyone who h a s s pe nt time aroun d youth s por t s knows th at it ’s ve r y common to se e pare nt s on the s id e line s or in the dugout , coa ching the ir ow n kid s .

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t is also common knowledge that when a young athlete moves on, the parent often does as well.

Not so for the Stone family. John Stone coached his son, Brian, in basketball at Ithaca High School, then stayed on for many more years. Brian is now the basketball head coach at his alma mater. He mentored his son, Andrew, who is now a sophomore in college.

“I’ll do it as long as it’s fun,” Stone said, who now has a decade of experience as the Little Red’s head coach, along with well over 20 in all. “We have a great group of kids, and I love basketball.”

I caught up with Brian to talk about the Little Red’s upcoming season, and my first question was how could he plan to fill the hole left by the departure of Jordanny Cuevas Marte after graduation.

“We have a good mix,” Brian said. “We lost all of our starters, but we have six seniors, four juniors and four sophomores, and some of those kids saw considerable

playing time. They are all fairly equal from a talent perspective, so there will be a lot of competition for playing time [...] They know the system. They have come up through the program and they know it’s their time.”

The team will feature three senior co-captains, and Stone called one of them,Brett Avery, “a great kid, on and off the court.” Of Mamadou Bah, he said, “That kid is taking charge.” And when talking about Ismail Abdur-Razzaaq, he said, “He lit it up at Sectionals last year. He embraced his opportunity.”

He said that some of the players from last year set a good example as well.

“I’ll tell you this,” Stone said. “Taking a charge is not fun, and when these players saw Jordanny, the program’s all-time leading scorer, stand in there and take a charge, that tells you something [...] It says it’s about winning.”

Further addressing the transition from junior varsity to varsity, Stone said “We

and there was no pressure. The kids got a lot better.”

Stone will continue to cultivate depth, as the team needed it last year when Cuevas Marte was unexpectedly sidelined. Stone recalled, “Jordanny went down with the flu for a couple of weeks, so we had to learn to spread the wealth.

Ithaca High School’s head coach Brian Stone said he We’ll need to do that believes in his team’s depth and experience, with 10 again this year. It’s upperclassmen on the roster. (Photo provided) unlikely we’ll be able to look to one guy to get us 22 points – like run the same offense at the JV level, so we could last year – but we want to be able they’re already familiar with it.” He added, to look to a few guys to get us 10.”

“Mike Membhard is the JV coach, he’s The Little Red will open the season on in his second year, and he works with Nov. 30 in Whitesboro, two-and-a-half the kids in the summer, so that gives hours away. “We want to start as far away him some credibility.” Brian laughed and as we can,” Stone said, grinning. “That way, added, “Plus, Mike is 6-foot-8, so that gets no one can scout us.” him some attention too.”

I asked Stone to update me on Cuevas It is no secret that the days of picking Marte’s journey, and he savored the opporup a basketball (or a softball, or a lacrosse tunity to do so. “Jordanny is the leading stick, or a soccer ball, etc.) at the beginscorer at Mohawk Valley Community Colning of the season and putting it away at lege, and he just went for 27 and 25 points the end rarely suffices these days. To that on his way to a tournament MVP award,” end, Coach Stone arranged for the players to take part in an eight-game fall season in Stone said. The coach made no effort to conceal his pride when he added, “What’s Syracuse. even more impressive is that he’s carrying “It’s very good competition and a great a 3.5 GPA.” time to teach,” Stone said. “We had two practices per week; we played on Sundays

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By Jane Dieck mann

he holiday season is already upon us: a time for reverence and awe, evergreens and candles, gifts and family gatherings, and the chance to enjoy special musical events, both sacred and secular. Highlights of seasonal events and services are listed below chronologically.

December 2 The Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, Ithaca’s long established and familiar group of 20 professionally trained singers led by its music director Carl Johengen, presents “This Shining Night,” an atmospheric selection of carols plus sacred and secular pieces at 4 p.m. in St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church.

December 2 and 3 On both dates, the annual candlelit Sage Chapel Vespers service starts at 7:30 p.m. and offers Lessons and Carols from the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club under the direction of Robert Isaacs and accompanied by organist Michael Plagerman. Choral pieces including works by Thomas Tallis, Orlande de Lassus, J. S. Bach, and Cornell grad Joseph Gregorio are interspersed with favorite audience hymns and traditional readings by members of the Cornell community.

December 5 The Ithaca Concert Band, our city’s community band since 1976, performs holiday favorites and seasonal songs with the Ithaca College Brass Ensemble at 7 p.m. in Ford Hall.

December 8 The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, and four soloists, led by visiting conductor Grant Cooper, perform selections from Handel’s eternally popular Messiah in St. Paul’s Methodist Church at 7:30 p.m. The soloists—all experienced in opera and oratorio—are soprano Elena Galván (who has previously sung here in Messiah), IC faculty member mezzo soprano Dawn Pierce, tenor Robert Allen from the SUNY Oswego faculty, and bass baritone David Neal, chair

of the Performing Arts Department at SUNY Cortland.

December 9 During the Music Sunday service starting at 10 a.m., the First Congregational Church choir will perform three festive motets by Mozart— the “Dixit Dominus” and “Magnificat” from the Confessor Vespers in C major, K. 339, and “Te Deum Laudamus” from Vespers in C major, K. 141—accompanied by strings, trumpets including IC trumpeter Frank Campos, and timpani, all led by music director William Cowdery.

December 9 The choir at St. Luke Lutheran Church, under the direction of Erik Kibelsbeck, presents special choral selections for the Advent Lessons and Carols service at 10:30 a.m.

December 14, 15, 16 A holiday tradition for Ithacan residents, the Ithaca Ballet presents their production of Tchaikovsky’s famous “The Nutcracker,” choreographed by Lavinia Reed, daughter of this company’s founder and guide, Alice Reed. This treat for the whole family, held annually at the State Theatre, includes such familiar music as the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and “The Waltz of the Flowers.” The Dec. 14 performance at 7:30 p.m. includes the Finger Lakes Orchestra, and matinees are at 3 p.m. on Dec. 15 and 16. Admission is charged.

December 16 The First Congregational Church service at 10 a.m. features a carol sing with festive brass quintet, including trumpeter Frank Campos.

December 16 The First Presbyterian Church choir provides music for the Lessons and Carols service at 10 a.m. Directed by Stephen Spinelli and with organist Ian Woods, the choir sings John Rutter’s arrangement of the Wexford Carol, “A Spotless Rose” by Herbert Howells, and “In dulci jubilo.”

December 16 St. John’s Episcopal Church offers a special service of Advent Lessons and Carols at 10:30 No ve m b e r

a.m., with the choir directed by organist Karen Hindenlang performing anthems by Palestrina, Handel, and Vaughn Williams among others, and music for organ by Bach, Pachelbel, and Samuel Scheidt. The congregation will join in beloved hymns and traditional service settings.

December 16 A Holiday Concert by the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers will take place at 3 p.m. at Ford Hall. This vocal group, with a mission to perform the Negro spiritual to help promote social justice and racial healing, will present special music for the season.

On Christmas Eve, December 24 At St. John’s Episcopal Church a family Service of Communion and Carols with handbells and organ begins at 4 p.m. At 10:30 p.m. is a musical prelude, offering a song cycle for soprano and violin by Gustav Holst, a solo partita for violin by J. S. Bach, and Baroque organ works. The worship service begins at 11 p.m. with choral anthems by Bach, Vaughan Williams, and area composer Crawford R. Thoburn, plus favorite hymns and descants.

The First Congregational Church holds a youth service at 5 p.m. with pageant, junior choir, handbells, and young musicians. At 7:30 p.m. is the candlelit Christmas Lessons and Carols service, with the Senior Choir and a homily

by Senior Pastor David Kaden.

The First Presbyterian Church’s Candlelight Service, with carols and readings from Scripture, begins at 7 p.m.

At Sage Chapel, the Unitarian Church choir, under the leadership of Stephanie Ortolano, will provide two candlelit services at 5:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. The later service features music by the Shuhan Family Players—Alexander Shuhan, professor of Performance Studies at IC and French horn player; his wife and flutist Liz Shuhan, lecturer in flute at both IC and Cornell and instructor at Opus Ithaca; and their gifted sons. These services are exceedingly popular, and early arrival is recommended.

Good wishes to all for peaceful and blessed holidays filled with beautiful music.

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he Machine (Joe Pascarell, guitar, lead vocals; Tahrah Cohen, drums; Ryan Ball, bass, lap steel guitar, effects, vocals; Scott Chasolen, keyboard, vocals) is one of the oldest U.S. Pink Floyd tribute bands. In the nearly three decades since their formation, they have played Floyd shows around the world. Last year, The Machine played a show at the State Theatre with the centerpiece being a live performance of The Dark Side of the Moon.

Guitarist and lead vocalist Joe Pascarell spoke to the Ithaca Times about the band’s ambitious plans for their 30th anniversary show at the State Theatre on December 1.

Ithaca Times: The last time you played at the State, you played Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon live, from top to bottom. What are you going to be doing for the Machine’s 30th anniversary?

Joe Pascarell: For the 30th anniversary, we’re playing all of Wish You Were Here, all of Animals and all of Dark Side of the Moon. That’s the way we’ll be playing it, in order. Wish You Were Here is such a good one to start with.

IT: What’s the process of deciding the order of a show?

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JP: We knew we wanted to do the three albums. And I initially thought we’d just do it in chronological order. But then I thought, “You know what? Dark Side is so iconic. And it’s the album that – obviously, a Pink Floyd fan’s gonna know intimately all three of those records. But the peripheral fan’s gonna know Dark Side the best.

That’s the smash hit of the three.� So why not put that last? It ends really with a bang, with “Eclipse.� And the way Wish You Were here starts is just perfect to begin a show. And Animals is the most difficult

one to play. So put that in the middle.

IT: Wish You Were Here is so dreamy and ethereal.

JP: Yeah, it’s a perfect opener. It’s a song we open with, anyway. We’ll play a record, take a 10-15 minute break, play Animals, which is technically the most difficult music to play.

IT: True. “Dogs� has an acoustic guitar tuned down a whole step and then all those triple guitar lines. How do you comp all that as a four-piece band?

JP: That’s right. It has six different guitars on it. So I’ve some up with a way to play it on one guitar. [laughs] It’s tricky.

That’s probably one of the toughest songs to play.

IT: With Dark Side, even casual fans have heard the hits like “Money� and “Time.� Is there a lesser-known section that’s especially fun to play?

JP: It’s funny you say that, it’s a great question, because the only time we play “On the Run� [an instrumental piece performed on an EMS synthesizer] is when we play the album. We would never put that in a regular set. So that’s always fun to do. It’s like, we start to play the album and five minutes later, it’s over. It’s amazing how quick it goes when you’re playing it.

I mean, I know the album is 45 minutes long, but it feels like you just played a song. It just zips like a ball rolling down a hill when it gets going. And of course we have a female singer to sing “Great Gig In The Sky�, and a saxophone player to play all the [Dick Parry] parts on “Us and Them� and “Money.� People usually clap, and if they do that, we’ll come out and play “Comfortably Numb.�

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By Ar thur W hit m an XXIV” in bland emptiness. (The latter piece would perhaps be more charitably seen as a kind of minimalist abstraction.)

Coming from another related series, “Night Sky #9” is one of the show’s most striking pieces. Looking up at an angle, through an intricate curtain of silhouette-black clouds. Towards the upper left, we focus upon a tiny butter yellow moon, haloed in salmon pink and casting light over a pale blue-purple sky that fades to near black around the painting’s edges.

We feel caught as if between day and night – with familiar ground not even vaguely felt Local painter Celia Bowers’ “Aurora” series is showing at much less seen directly. the Ulysses Philomathic Library currently, featuring several For better and for worse, vivid paintings of different sky stages. (Photo provided) Bowers’ approach to other genres and subjects is more scattershot. A pair of floral still-life’s seems awkward and n her signature “Aurora” series, uninspired in their workmanship. With begun in 2010, Ithaca painter its acidic color and aggressive brushCelia Bowers evokes the physical work (revealing bits of raw canvas in the sensation of looking upwards at the early foreground), “Ithaca Fall” is far more morning sky – evoking a sense of awe engaging. As one of the smaller works, one and unfamiliarity, even transcendence. wishes it were not such an anomaly here.

Smooth, ethereal gradients of color fill Although unusual in style, “42nd St, open expanses: saturated reds, oranges, NYC” evokes the vertigo of the urban yellows, and blues balanced against canyon with rare assuredness. Bathed in paler, murkier shades of pink, blue, and purple-gray fog, the nocturnal Manhatgray. Weight and physicality come in the tan scene is punctuated with planes and choppy texture of clouds and especially in spots of hazy light: purple-pink, pale the encrusted paint often bearing the sun’s yellow, white, cold blue, eerie green. Black light. At their best, these pieces rework silhouette scaffolding adds structure and similar colors and motifs into something perspective: more compressed towards novel and striking – something constantly the right edge, stretched out into a broad new and strange. convex arc to the left. The central street As she writes in a statement: “In these and cars are spotlit black as well – ghostly paintings I try to capture that clarity, not blurred and trembling with inebriated photographically, but by abstracting the energy. essence of the sky’s light in the short peScumbled, chalky textures and unexriod of time before the sun rises over the pectedly pale colors give the painting a horizon.” sketchy, drawing-like feel. Curiously, her On display this month and next at the approach here recalls the abstract nocUlysses Philomathic Library in Trumansturnes of Ethel Vrana, who exhibited her burg, “Paintings by Celia Bowers“ features work at the library a few months ago. twelve oils on canvas, many of them Like many Ithaca artists, Bowers comes quite large. Stretching out to embrace less to art via a roundabout path. A student familiar territory, the exhibit also includes of art as a youth in her native Scotland, still-lifes as well as explorations of city and she worked as a local dealer of art and countryside. antiques for many years. She was intro“Dawn XI” is the most memorable duced to oil about twelve years ago while of several small and mid-size “Aurora” studying at the Community School of paintings, its zigzag composition and Music and Art, working with well-known plangent color suggesting – at some portrait and landscape painter Bill Benson distance – a latter day disciple of Brit– a background she shares with several ish Romantic landscapist J.M.W. Turner. now-established painters in the commuBowers’ smaller Dawn/Aurora paintings nity. (An exhibit of distinguished former here have generally less pull while smooth students would make an interesting curacolor gradations smother the larger “Dawn torial project.)

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BY LISA KRON A plethora of handmade goods from more than 60 vendors line the rows of tables at last year’s Annual Trumansburg Craft Sale. (Photo: Provided)

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t’s an outlet where I can sell my crafts, and I love working with wood and sharing the talent that I’ve been honing for the last 50 years.” Like many area crafters eager to share their creativity, Ed Dawson, local woodworker, is looking forward to the 49th Annual Trumansburg Craft Sale at Trumansburg Elementary School. The event takes place Dec. 1 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Dec. 2 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Dawson, a member of the craft sale’s three-person committee, is ready for a busy two days.

With more than 60 vendors, the sale provides shoppers with plenty of variety.

Goods available for purchase include quilted and knit items, sewn items, tie dyed garments, a plethora of Christmas decorations and ornaments, framed and unframed photography, notepads, jewelry, body care, soaps, pottery, wood vases and other wooden items, dried floral arrangements, gift baskets and more.

The experience is much more eclectic than one might get from the more common type of craft sale where all the vendors have separate booths. Rather than each craftsperson selling only their own wares on one part of the sales floor, all the the items are mixed together gallery-style and sold by volunteers, many of whom are also sellers.

The huge amount of festive crafts all in one place creates quite a sight.

“The cafeteria is packed full, and there are Christmas trees displaying ornaments for sale,” Dawson said.

Each item is tagged so it can be linked back to the craftsperson who made it. The only exceptions are the jewelry vendors, who set up their booths in the gymnasium and are in charge of their own items, since they are so tiny and often valuable.

Once buyers select their items for purchase, they bring them to a table where

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receipts are drawn up. They then go to the final table, where the goods are wrapped and paid for.

It’s a lot of extra work, said Dawson, and he should know. He’s the lucky individual who gets to sort through all the receipts, make sure they are correct and tally up the totals before sending each vendor a check about a week after the sale. Edith Johnston, one of the founding organizers of the craft sale, double-checks his work.

Johnston and Ann Pavia, one of the other oldest volunteers, have worked hard to build up the craft show and carry on the tradition since it began in its current form (in December at the school versus a different time of year or location) in 1971.

“Next year will be our 50th anniversary,” Dawson pointed out.

He said he is grateful to have an outlet where he can sell his handcrafted, latheturned wooden bowls and pens.

Dawson said the event would not be possible without the help of many volunteers, who not only make sales but set up and tear down the sale as well.

They help create an experience that has become an annual holiday must for many Trumansburg residents. Craft enthusiasts from out of town and tourists who happen to be in the area also appreciate the show, Dawson said.

Making the day complete, a variety of food is offered to fortify shoppers as they make their rounds. “You can shop, eat, and go back and shop some more,” Dawson said.

It’s an event that encourages a leisurely stroll up and down the isles, inviting buyers to take their time and pursue all the items.

“People tend to appreciate something that’s made local—something that’s high quality,” Dawson said, before adding, “and reasonably priced.”

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Tyler Hubbard | 7:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM, | Tompkins County Workers’ Center,

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Bars/Bands/Clubs

Shwayze | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15-$18

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Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

The Darts | 8:00 PM, | Silverline Taproom, Trumansburg

El Caminos | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

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11/28 Wednesday Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale Ray McNamara’s WednesRay Monk’s Raysidency | 7:00 PM, | Monk’s on the Commons, Ithaca Reggae Night with Rayvon feat.

Sugar Bear | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5 The Crucials Wednesday Night Residency | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca | $5

Under Construction Band | 8:00 PM, | Upper Deck Grill, Watkins Glen

Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00

Wingnut + Venissa Santi Quintet | 8:30 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca

Jen Cork & Friends | 4:00 PM, | Two

Mike Powell & The Black River | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Bound For Glory: Cosy Sheridan |

PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

The TARPS | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Charly Bliss | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $13-$15

The Analogue Sons | 7:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Taksim: Live Mid-East Music & Belly Dance | 8:00 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca

Ageless Jazz Band Swing Dance | 8:00 PM, | Community School Of Music And Arts, Ithaca | $12/$15

11/30 Friday

Backtalk Band | 8:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

The Purple Valley | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville West Hill Billies | 6:00 PM, | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, Trumansburg Sam and Mandy (from Noon Fifteen) | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

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Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca

Mostly Motown Winter Concert w/s/g Mabel Welch | 7:30 PM, 12/1 Saturday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | $12

Midnight Hour CD Release Party | 9:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca Vee Da Bee | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

12/2 Sunday Wiles & Wyatte | 12:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Bert Salmirs - Jazz Piano | 1:00 PM, | Red Newt Cellars Inc, Hector

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Cornell Chorale: Handel’s Messiah Part I | 8:00 PM, 11/30 Friday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | A standby line for those without tickets will be on the north entrance near the Olin Library side. The standby line will gain entry as capacity allows starting at 7:45 pm.

Candor Holiday Concert “Peaceful Night” | 7:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday | Candor High School, Academy St, Candor | The program celebrates the holidays.

Desert Stones | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca | $5

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Piano studio recital: Students of Theodora Serbanescu-Martin | 8:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca |

Ithaca Community Orchestra Concert: Beethoven and his Influences | 4:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday | Lansing Central School, 6 Ludlowville Rd, Lansing | at Lansing Middle School Auditorium | $7/children free

Ithaca Underground - Big Day In | 12:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10 Big J Blues | 2:00 PM, | Ryan William Vineyard, Hector

Surf Renegades | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

8:00 PM, | Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 6:30 PM, | ZaZa’s Cucina, Ithaca

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Big J Blues Trio | 6:00 PM, | 1800 House Wine & Beer Collective, Burdett

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Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Cornell Student Chamber Music Recital | 8:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday & 3:00PM, 12/1, Saturday| Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca |

HOLIDAY WORKSHOP AND HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS Saturday, December 1, 10AM-1PM (Holiday Workshop) and other events throughout the day | Southworth House, 14 North St., Dryden and throughout the village | The Historical Society is offering a workshop where you can make a unique holiday ornament at the Southworth House. Additionally, there will be Open Houses at many village businesses, craft fairs, the Reindeer 5K, a living nativity play, carols performed by the high school band and the arrival of the big man in red himself, Santa! (photo: provided)

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The MasterWorks Chorale Chamber Singers | 2:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | Willard Memorial Chapel, 17 Nelson Street, Auburn | The Chamber Singers will offer a cappella choral music from the Renaissance through the 20th century, including Christmas Carols, accompanied by the music director, Kip Coerper, ChM. on the historic Willard Chapel organ.

Cornell Percussion Ensemble | 3:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Michael Sparhuber, director.

Handel’s MESSIAH | 3:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | 19 Church St., Cortland| Featuring the SUNY Cortland Choral Union, professional orchestra and soloists.

Cayuga Vocal Ensemble Holiday Concert | 4:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | St. Catherine of Siena Church, 309 Siena Drive, Ithaca | This Shining Night: Selections of carols and secular pieces exploring themes of winter, darkness, and light. | Free admission on a “paywhat-you-wish” basis.

Music for Unity Concert: A benefit for Southside Community Center’s Youth Music Program | 4:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | This fundraising concert features performances by The Honey Child Soul Quintet, Travis Knapp, SingTrece from Stone Cold Miracle and Southside Youth Performers. | $5 - $20 sliding scale admission Cornell Lessons and Carols | 7:30 PM, 12/2 Sunday & 12/3 Monday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell University Lessons and Carols sung by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, interspersed with audience carols and traditional readings by members of the Cornell community. Note: doors will not open until 6:45 PM, and there is no indoor waiting area. Entry to the event is first-come, first-served.

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Windham Hill: A Winter Solstice Concert w/ Liz Story, Sean Harkness and Samite | 8:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Master musicians who made their names on the Windham Hill label have created a special show in celebration of Winter Solstice. | $35-$50 Cornell Violin Studio Recital | 5:00 PM, 12/3 Monday | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Students of Ariana Kim

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Sound/Stage | 8:00 PM, 12/4 Tuesday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | International Contemporary Ensemble Residency: a concert of music showcasing the performative aspect of sound.

Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | The MLGD concert will run for three nights in the Class of ‘56 Dance Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by Jumay Chu & Byron Suber. | $5

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Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show.

The Sound of Music | 7:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | $32-$67 Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | 2.5 Minute Ride | 7:30 PM, 11/29 Thursday; Contact theater for additional showtimes. | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | The play switches back and forth between playwright Lisa Kron’s Michigan family’s annual pilgrimage to a Sandusky, Ohio, amusement park; her journey to Auschwitz with her father, a Holocaust survivor; and her brother’s marriage to an Internet bride.

Mini Locally Grown Dance | 7:30 PM, 11/29 Thursday thru 12/1

Koshare Dance Collective | 7:00 PM, 11/30 Friday& 12/1 Saturday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Join us as the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges take the stage for two nights here at The Smith! This concert showcases a wide variety of dance genres. | $10 Trumansburg HS Drama Club Presents: Clue | 7:00 PM, 11/30 Friday & 2:00PM, 12/2 Sunday | Trumansburg High School Auditorium, 100 Whig St., Trumansburg | Based on the popular board game, audiences will delight in guessing “whodunit?”

Colonel Mustard in the Ballroom with the candlestick? Or Mrs. White in the Study with the knife? This comedy drama with MANY twists and turns

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features a talented cast of high school students, under the direction of Becky Baines. | $10 Magic Beyond Imagination’s Mental Madness Tour | 7:30 PM, 11/30 Friday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St, Ithaca | Features the World’s Greatest Magicians : Garrett Thomas, TV consultant to David Blaine, legendary street magician, Kozmo, and Joe Maxwell, who has appeared on SNL and Letterman. | $39 & $49 Elf the Musical | 8:00 PM, 11/30 Friday | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Through 1/6/19 Jazz Nutcracker | 8 PM, 11/30 Friday; 2PM & 8PM, 12/1 Saturday; 2PM ,12/2 Sunday | The Binghamton University Theatre Department will premiere its annual show in the Watters Theater, in the Fine Arts Building, on campus.

Incendiary Agents | 8:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday & 3:00PM, 12/2 Sunday| Morgan Opera House, 370 Main St., Aurora | A winner of the M.O.H.’s playwright competition. Set in the 1960’s, the play focuses on a small group of idealists, including two clergy members, who decide to protest the war

by breaking into a federal building to destroy draft records. | $12/10/8 Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol | 2:00 PM & 7:00PM, 12/2 Sunday | The Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Runs through 12/23. Contact theater for additional showtimes.

Dragons Love Tacos and Other Stories | 2:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | In their newest musical revue, Theatreworks USA rocks out with a rollicking interpretation of Dragons Love Tacos and four other beloved children’s books.| $12/$10/$8 Southern Fried Ithaca | 7:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | Kitchen Theatre The, Ithaca | Kenneth McLaurin, a North Carolina native, has long gone by the moniker, The Funniest Person You’ve Never Heard Of. Find out why at this one-night-only show! | $15-$20

Art Donovan, Markov, Mildenberg | Ongoing | Olive Tjaden Gallery, 815 University Ave, Ithaca | New work by artists Sean Donovan, Vladislav

Only Planet: Messages for a Warming World | Ongoing | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Exhibit of climate change related artwork by Christine Finnigan and Geraldine Keil will be on display for the month of November.

Luminous Lakes painting by Brian S. Keeler | Ongoing | 171 Cedar Arts Ctr, 171 Cedar St, Corning | A selection of Keuka and Seneca Lake paintings.

20th Mini-Print International | Ongoing| The Ink Shop Studio Gallery , 330 E.State / MLK Street Ithaca, NY 14850 , Ithaca | Thru 11/25.

Artworks Gallery Artist of the Month’s Show Closing Reception and Sale | 5:00 PM, 11/30 Friday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Beverly Lombardo, November artist of the month is hosting the reception and sale. The event is open to the public.

The Bright, The Bleak, The Enigmatic: Art of Haiti. | Ongoing | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Through November 30.

Urban Arts Crawl | 5:00 PM, 11/30 Friday | Downtown Corning, Corning | Photo Exhibit - Carl Schofield & Mark Sussman | Ongoing| Leidenfrost Vineyards, 5677 State Route 414, Hector | Exhibit on display through Dec. First Saturday on Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday | Art studios are open to you!

Film

top academic publishers rake in $25.2 billion a year, often making profits greater than tech giants? This film uncovers the hidden world of for-profit academic publishing and explores the open access movement that attempts to foster innovative alternatives and access to knowledge for all.

Three Identical Strangers | 11/29, 7:00PM; 12/1, 7:00PM; 12/2, 4:30PM| In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they’re triplets who were separated at birth. Then they discover why.

The Princess Bride | 11/30, 9:45PM; 12/1, 9:15PM| A young pirate must rescue his princess bride from countless perils in this touching, yet rather absurd comedy about the nature of modern-day fairy tales and True Love.

Bird of Prey | 12/3, 7:00 PM| *Free* (w/ filmmaker in person) The Philippine Eagle is a bird of extremes.

It’s the world’s largest and rarest eagle, found only in the Philippines.

Fewer than 800 individuals remain today, and the future of these iconic raptors—and of an untold number of other species—is tied to the fate of the Philippines’ last fragments of old-growth forest.

The Feeling of Being Watched | 12/4, 7:00 PM| *Free* * When journalist (and filmmaker, who will be present at screening) Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.

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Museo | 11/28, 7:00PM; 11/30, 7:00; 12/2, 7:00PM| *ITHACA PREMIERE * In 1985, a group of criminals mock the security of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City to extract 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from their showcases.

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship | 11/29, 4:30 PM| *Free* How do

Week of Friday, November 30, 2018 through Thursday, December 6, 2018.

Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films are listed first*.

Burning (beo-ning)* | Based on the short story “Barn Burning” by Haruki Murakami. |158 mins NR The Happy Prince* | The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor. |105 mins R

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, BEGINS AT NOON

MOSTLY MOTOWN WINTER CONCERT

The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Join IU for their end-of-year celebration show.12 hours of music for a low price thanks to the help of generous contributions of local, similarly-minded organizations. Featuring milo (rapsmith), free cake for every creature, TRØN & DVD, DUMP HIM, Kilamanzego, Calicoco, La Llorona, Munki x Gutwich, field destroy, Damiano The Don/The Miserable Genius, dummy plug, Cammy Enaharo & more! (photo: provided)

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First Unitarian Church, 306 N. Aurora St., Ithaca | Terrific family entertainment featuring great songs

by The Four Tops, Martha and The Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, The Marvelettes and more. Special guest Mabel Welch will join them! (photo: provided)

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Border (Gräns) *| A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence. |110 mins R

Overlord | The story of two American soldiers behind enemy lines on D Day. | 109 mins R

Boy Erased | The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents. | 114 mins R

Bohemian Rhapsody |134 mins PG-13

Can You Ever Forgive Me? | 106 mins R Beautiful Boy | 120 mins R Free Solo | 100 mins PG-13 Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 11/28 through Tuesday, 12/4. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes.

Ralph Breaks the Internet | Six years after the events of “Wreck-It Ralph”, Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure. | 112 mins PG Robin Hood | A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown. |116 mins PG-13 The Front Runner | American Senator Gary Hart’s presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he’s caught in a scandalous love affair. |113 mins R Creed II | Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, light heavyweight contender Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago. | 130 mins PG-13 Green Book | A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. | 130 mins PG-13 Instant Family | A couple find themselves in over their heads when they adopt three children. | 119 mins PG-13

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | 134 mins PG-13

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Sixth Annual Festival of Trees | 10:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural and Country Living Museum, 6880 East Lake Road, Auburn |

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | 99 mins PG A Star Is Born | 135 mins R

Special Events Paywall: movie screening and panel discussion/Q&A | 4:30 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Willard Straight Theatre , Cornell University, Central Campus, Ithaca | JSee “Films” section for details.

Dryden Holiday Festivities | All Day 12/1 Saturday | Make a unique holiday ornament at the Southworth House (10AM), Santa arrives by Fire Truck to Light the Tree on the Village Green at 5:30, Santa Bob at the Southworth Library at 3, Holiday Open House at Arnoldís Flowers; Holiday Craft Fair, Dryden Agway; Reindeer 5K, Dryden Town Recreation Department; Living Nativity Play, First Presbyterian Church & more!

Ninja Warrior Challenge at The Strong Museum | All Day 12/1 Saturday and 12/2 Sunday| The Strong National Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square , Rochester | Put your athletic skills to the test! Build strength as you jump, spin, and hop through physical challenges. Also, meet a contestant from NBCís American Ninja Warrior television show.

Holiday Open Farm Days at Shepherd’s Creek Alpacas! | 10:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday | Shepherd’s Creek Alpacas, 5797 Stillwell Rd, Trumansburg | The alpacas will be greeting holiday visitors, posing for pictures & hoping for treats, every Saturday until Christmas from 10 -4! Visit our Farm Shop for Unique & Beautiful Alpaca Gift Items!

Holiday Shopping Spree - Cayuga Wine Trail Event | 10:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday and 12/2 Sunday | Travel

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Widows | Four women, with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities, take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. | 129 mins R

The Grinch | | 90 mins PG

winery to winery to sample their holiday-inspired dish and sip their fine wines. You’ll also leave each winery with a recipe card featuring that dish, and an ornament unique to that location.

Holiday Gift Market at Busy Bee | 11:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday | Busy Bee Market, 7930 County Rd 153, Interlaken | Join us for the first annual Holiday Pop-up Gift Market! In our cozy yoga barn, we will have local artisans & craft vendors - find that perfect holidayor hostess gift. Enjoy discounts in our wine shop and market all weekend as well. Wine, art, cards, bags, soaps & lotions, special “Bee items” and more!

Santa’s Arrival to Downtown Ithaca | 11:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | Enjoy a lively dance performance by The Next Jennaration, Fall Creek Brass Band, Santa and his elves will rappel down from the roof of Center Ithaca onto Trolley Circle, Santa will head inside for photos.

25th Annual Dickens Christmas | 12:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday and 12/2 Sunday | Various Skaneateles locations, | Charles Dickens and his cast of over 50 characters will interact with residents and visitors in the streets, stores, and restaurants.

2018 Annual Cops, Kids, & Toys No-Tap FUNd-raising Event | 12:30 PM, 12/1 Saturday | Bowl-O-Drome, 401 3rd St., Ithaca | A second round at 3:00PM .Any combo doubles teams.

All welcome! Door prizes every game of every squad ! 50/50 Raffle, Baked Goods, Silent Auction, Raffle in a bag, Elephant Sound DJ and more ! | $40 per team plus an unwrapped toy Temple Beth El Hanukkah Festival & Book Fair | 11:00 AM, 12/2 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Drop in and you’ll find a lively indoor market where the scents of savory potato latkes and sweet apple fritters mingle with the melodies of a special holiday concert and the beauty of handmade gifts for sale. NEW, this

year, will be a book fair of gently used books of Jewish interest.†There will be some very special demos, workshops and a concert.

“Bird of Prey” Movie Screening | 7:00 PM, 12/3 Monday | Cornell Cinema, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | See “Films” section for details.

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Pipeline Politics: Assessing the Benefits and Harms of Energy Policy | 4:30 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Mann Library, Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca | In a ”Chats in the Stacks” book talk, Madelon L. Finkel will present her new book.

Dr. Cheryl Finley - Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon | 6:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembrance.

Local Author Night with Cly Boehs and Gordon Bonnet | 6:30 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Adult Book Discussion: 1968 Love, War, and Rock & Roll | 7:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | The Vietnam War, ft. excerpts from Ken Burns’ film series The Vietnam War Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Andrew Moisey | The American Fraternity | 5:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A mysterious photo and ritual book that lifts the veil on Americaís most influential male tradition. The text comes from a real decaying ritual manual from a prominent national fraternity. Untold numbers of American leaders have taken arcane oaths of chivalry and allegiance like the ones it contains.

The Future is Feminist Book Club: Politics of the The Politics of the Veil by Joan W. Scott | 3:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The fourth and

State Theatre, 107 W. State St., Ithaca | When a boy throws his new dragon friends a spicy salsa taco party, red-hot trouble ensues. Also featuring performances of four other beloved children’s books: Interrupting Chicken, The Dot, Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, Cowgirl Kate, and Cocoa School Days. (photo: provided)

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Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 11/28 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Noah’s Ark Build an Animal Workshop | 3:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday & 11/30 Friday | Van Etten Library, 83 Main Street, Van Etten | Call to register (589-4755)- Program will fill up quickly.

Sciencenter Science Together | Weekly: 3:00 PM, Wednesdays and Fridays; 10:30AM , Tuesdays and Thursdays| Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers through self-guided, hands-on activities like playing with flubber, using tools to sift through sand, magnet fishing, and more! | General admission fees apply American Girl Book Club | 3:30 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | November: Addy Walker Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Comic Creation Workshop for Teens | 5:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 11/30 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 11/30 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Also one from 3:30 to 4:00 PM. TCPL Teen Writing Workshop | 4:30 PM, 11/30 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Workshops are appropriate for people in grades 6-12.

Photos with Santa in his Winter Wonderland | 10:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday & 1:00PM, 12/2, Sunday | Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown, 24 Port Watson Street, Cortland | Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown trans-

Puppet Show with Magic Garden Puppets | 10:30 AM, 12/1 Saturday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca | The Cat of Dovrefjell, a traditional Norwegian folktale, will be presented as an antique puppet show. Meet the marionettes after the show and see how the magic is made! | $8 - $12 Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Southside Community Center’s Ballet and Books | 12:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At this special performance, Ballet and Books students will perform various dance pieces they have been working on this fall.

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more. | General admission fees apply Winterfest Story Time: The Mitten | 7:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Breakfast with Santa | 8:00 AM, 12/2 Sunday | Candor Fire Station, 74 Owego Rd, , Candor | Kids get to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what they hope to get for Christmas. All proceeds support Candor Masonic Lodge, #411 Scholarship fund. | Donations Sciencenter: Chemsations! | 2:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate fun chemical reactions with color changes, bubbles, and light. | General admission fees apply Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 12/3 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Maker Mondays for Teens at TCPL | 4:00 PM, 12/3 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For ages 12 to 17 to becoming familiar with the equipment in the Libraryís Makerspace.

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Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 12/4 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

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Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 12/4 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Frank Einstein Book Club w/ Cargill Engineers | 3:30 PM, 12/4 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Experiments and activities in science, math, technology, reading, engineering and art using Jon Scieska’s Frank Einstein series. For grades 2-5.

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Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Dinner: Ciao, Ithaca Host: Hans F., RSVP: hansfleischmann83@gmail.com Science on Tap: Race and Recession | 7:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Casita del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca | How economic scarcity causes people to shore up their group boundaries and discriminate against historically marginalized groups.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | Current Trends in Job Searching | 9:00 AM, 11/29 Thursday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Staff will share current news articles and invite discussion between participants.

Community Game Night | 6:30 PM, 11/29 Thursday | First Presbyterian

Santa Run 5K| 9:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday | DeWitt Park, Cayuga St., |

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Trumansburg Winterfest 2018 | 4:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday | The Trumansburg WinterFest Returns for the 23rd Year! Meander through downtown and wander into our local businesses.

Enjoy food and beverages, handmade goods, live entertainment, and community merriment!

Black Diamond Trail Walk | 9:30 AM, 12/1 Saturday | Come explore this great natural resource! Meet at the Jacksonville Road parking lot near the top of Taughannock Falls entrance.

The hike will go out about 2 miles, and return to the parking lot.

Get Pumped! HeatSmart Community Meeting in Lodi | 10:00 AM, 12/1 Saturday | Elisabeth Garnsey Devalan Library, 8484 South Main Street, Lodi | Are you looking to save on your home heating and cooling bills? Do you want to improve the comfort and air quality in your home?

Saddle Up for Jesus Horse Riding Club | 7:00 PM, 12/1 Saturday | Brooktondale Baptist Church, 2311 Slaterville Road, Ithaca | Contact Lawrence Canfield at 607-539-6440.

Crafting Your 60-Second Pitch Workshop | 1:00 PM, 12/3 Monday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | How do you really introduce yourself to an employer? In this workshop, you will learn about the 60-Second Pitch, how to use it and begin creating and practicing your very own!

Lansing Senior Citizens | 12:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | All Saints Community Room, 347 Ridge Road, Lansing | This month will be an auction of collectibles, crafts, bric a brac, raffle baskets, a live and silent auction with all proceeds to benefit Hospicare.

Please join us by bringing a dish to pass and table service.

Metrix Overview | 9:00 AM, 12/4 Tuesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Metrix is an online skills and job-related training program that contains over 24,000 courses.

Comic Book Club of Ithaca General Meeting | 7:00 PM, 12/4 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | “Take that, Star Wars!” and Other Amazing Tales by, and of, Stan Lee. Bring your favorite Stan Lee stories to share, as we remember the co-founder of the Marvel Universe. As Stan himself would say, “Excelsior!”

Health S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | Classes held in T-burg, Brooktondale and Ithaca.

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Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Dr. Luvelle Brown, Ithaca City School District Superintendent will speak on promoting Culture of Love. | $15 ESL Talk Time at TCPL | 3:30 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites English language learners to attend a weekly, drop-in discussion circle.

Performing Arts (LTAPA) | 6:30 PM, 12/3 Monday | Lansing Central School, 6 Ludlowville Rd, Lansing | Come hear music by the 3rd and 4th grade Nutcracker Chorus, Middle School Ensembles and the High School Show Choir while enjoying holiday cookies and beverages in the Lansing Middle School auditorium. There will be raffles for valuable prizes including local area restaurant gift cards, sports tickets, holiday items and more. | $6

Yang style Tai Chi. | 2:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | Ideal for people of all ages.

TRUMANSBURG HS DRAMA CLUB PRESENTS: CLUE Friday, November 30 at 7:00PM and Sunday, December 2 at 2:00PM | Trumansburg High School Auditorium, 100 Whig St., Trumansburg | Based on the popular board game, audiences will delight in guessing “whodunit”? Colonel Mustard in the Ballroom with the candlestick? Or Mrs. White in the Study with the knife? This comedy drama with MANY twists and turns features a talented cast of high school students, under the direction of Becky Baines.. (photo: provided)

Home Inspection Class | 5:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS), 115 W Clinton St., Ithaca | $20 per person but is half price for anyone who has taken the homebuyer class.

Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A welcoming, inclusive gathering for people to play board games and card games. All ages are welcome.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Contact: Denice Peckins - denicepeckins@hotmail.com

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 12/1 Saturday & 12 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca |

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Community Soup: Storytelling Toward the Beloved Community | 6:00 PM, 12/3 Monday | Lehman Alternative Community School, | Monthly Dinner and Story Circles to Connect and Build Community Sponsored by the Civic Ensemble Cookies and Carols Fundraising Concert for Lansing Theater and

Transracial Adoption Support and Discussion: Ithaca | 6:00 PM, 11/28 Wednesday | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A place for parents who have adopted transracially to engage in lively discussion around the intersections of race and adoption. Please join us for this very special discussion on transracial adoption; we will be using clips from popular culture as catalysts for conversation with our amazing panel of inspiring members of our community!

Tai Chi | Classes held in Brooktondale, Lansing and Ithaca. Contact Lifelong for dates and times.

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 11/29 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Chair Yoga | 10:15 AM, 11/29 Thursday | Ulyssess Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Essential Oils for Natural Healing | 7:00 PM, 11/29 Thursday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | A series of classes on essential oils, their chemistry, how they work, using them for natural health care, and other topics requested by attendees. The first class topic will be on what essential oils are and the possibilities for their uses in the home. The class is free, opportunities to purchase oils will occur outside of class.

American Red Cross Blood Drive | 1:00 PM, 11/30 Friday | St. Catherine of Siena Church, 309 Siena Drive, Ithaca | Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 12/2 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 12/2 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | Dance Church Ithaca | 11:30 AM, 12/2 Sunday | Fine Spirit Studio, 201 Dey Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca | $5 suggested donation Ithaca-Cortland PFLAG Meeting | 4:00 PM, 12/2 Sunday | Interfaith Center, 7 Calvert St, Cortland | Parents, Families , Friends , and Allies. United with LGBTQ People to move equality forward.

Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 12/3 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 12/4 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Chair Yoga | 10:15 AM, 12/4 Tuesday | Ulyssess Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM, 12/4 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | !

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drainage

year-round in and Ithaca

snow removal

Can start immediately

Find us on Facebook!

Lansing Food Bank.

for over 20 years

We are selling raffle tickets for our

Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

Annual Grocery Store Run

Same Day Service Available

which will take place Wednesday, December 12

John’s Tailor Shop

7 pm at Lansing Market.

EACH DAY WE GET

AAM

The Lansing-Ithaca Rotary

Men’s and Women’s Alterations

Call 607-277-7000 ext 214

dumpster rentals

604 West Green Street, Ithaca, NY

John Serferlis - Tailor

Currently we are selling raffle tickets

TO BEGIN AGAIN!

102 The Commons

Start with 30 Days of

at the market on the weekends

273-3192

ALL ABOUT MACS

UNLIMITED Yoga for $40!

Macintosh Consulting

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NOW OPEN

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MIGHTY YOGA

YOUR CBD STORE

(607) 280-4729

Voted Best of Ithaca

The only dedicated retail store

on Saturday December 1 at 7:30 at

Visit www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682

for all things CBD

the Unitarian Church in Ithaca.

308 E. Seneca Street * Ithaca

Great songs by the Four Tops,

845-244-0868

Martha and The Vandellas, Smokey Robinson

* BUYING RECORDS *

Feel the heat with

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES

Trekker Pellet Stoves

PUNK REGGAE ETC

Trekker Cast Iron Pellet Stoves are the most

Angry Mom Records

powerful and efficient stoves

115 The Commons Basement

ever created by Quadra-Fire

319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com

Designed for easy use,

PEACEFUL SPIRIT TAI CHI Please join us for traditional Yang Style Tai Ji Quan (Tai Chi) FRIDAYS 7:30-8:30PM

the Trekker features a convenient Cayuga Lake Books Announces

Bluetooth thermostat with 7-day programming

Creative Prose Contest

EHRHART ENERGY

The Marelettes, The Shirelles, The Drifters Aretha Franklin and more.

Special guest Mabel Welch will join us! $12 at the door.

Centerline Fitness and Martial Arts

Who’s Fabulous in Your Life?

335 Elmira Road

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Wood Bricks * BioHeat Fuel Oil

ALL LEVELS WELCOME

Call Us Today 607-387-8881

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24/7 Emergency Response

admin@peacefulspiritacupuncture.com

for submission guidlines

www.ehrhartenergy.com

607-272-0114

Deadline: December 15th

will be performing their big winter concert

at

Propane * Wood Pellets

$1000 + Publication

The Mostly Motown Chorus

Fab 5 Young Professional Awards TompkinsChamber.org/fab5awards

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This year’s theme is “My Brilliant Solution”

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As tradition dictates, any interpretation of what this prompt means to you is fair and, of course, a wide range of submissions will be accepted–just as long as you stay under 600 words. Send your submissions to Attn: Readers’ Writes, the Ithaca Times, PO Box 27, Ithaca, New York 14850 or email them in with a subject line of “Reader’s Writes” to editor@ithacatimes.com.

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