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he local SPCA is seeking answers after discovering two large dumping incidents throughout the county over the weekend.

Anyone with knowledge is asked to come forward after two separate (but likely related, according to the SPCA) incidents were reported involving the dumping of a “large number” of rodents. The animals were dumped at two different locations: on Michigan Hollow Road in the Town of Danby, and on Caswell Road in the Town of Dryden.

In total, the SPCA stated in a press release that over 300 guinea pigs, rats, mice nd gerbils were recovered at the two locations, but that “many” of the animals were deceased by the time officers and others arrived on the scene. According to 14850.com, agency officials were able to save 213 of the assorted rodents, which are now being placed at safe locations.

The agency guesses the animals were placed there some time late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Those with information are encouraged by the SPCA to contact them to help with the investigation. The SPCA’s Humane officers can be reached at (607) 592-6773 or by email at investigator@spcaonline.com.

Director Jim Bouderau said the agency does not have many answers yet, but that they are investigating a few leads. Many of the rats have been found to be pregnant, he said, so donation supplies are welcome at gifts@SPCAonline.com..

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Tsialas Search

Deceased Cornell student’s family establishes reward for info on death

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he family of deceased Cornell University student Antonio Tsialas has announced a $10,000 reward for more information about their son’s October death.

Tsialas, a freshman, was reported missing on Oct. 25 after being last seen the night before. His body was discovered the next day in Fall Creek near Ithaca Falls. The reward, according to the family’s attorney David Bianchi, will be given to the first person to come forward with information that “will tell us about how he died,” subject to verification.

A dedicated phone number has been established to receive information about Tsialas’ death: (607) 280-5102.

Reportedly, Tsialas was seen leaving a party held by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity on campus the night of Oct. 24. Phi

Kappa Psi representatives did not respond to a request for comment. In the wake of the incident, the school’s Interfraternity Council voted to ban almost all social events held by fraternities until Jan. 1, 2020.

According to a report from the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell President Martha Pollack said there was “significant misbehavior,” at the party where Tsialas was last seen, including the fraternity providing drinks to underage people.

The family has retained Bianchi of Miami-based law firm Stewart, Tilghman, Fox, Bianchi & Cain to represent them in the matter. The firm’s website touts its extensive work on behalf of hazing victims, though in an interview, Bianchi would only say that the family believes there were people with Tsialas the night of his death,

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Antonio Tsialas’ mom, Flavia, was on campus visiting her son when he passed away after a party. (Photo provided)

and that they are looking for those people to come forward with more information. Bianchi said the family is not filing a lawsuit against the fraternity at this time.

“We don’t know what happened,” Bianchi said. “We are convinced that there are people at Cornell who were with him that night.”

A Facebook posting from Tsialas’ mother, Flavia Tomasello Tsialas, detailed the family’s emotions about losing her son and their desperation to uncover more information about what happened the night he died. She, too, alluded to people knowing more about his death than they were saying.

“We are very troubled by the lack of information about continued on page 7

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Housing

TCIDA developing new affordable housing requirements

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he City of Ithaca is working with the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency (TCIDA) to create an affordable housing incentive policy that would be incorporated into the Community Investment Incentive Tax Abatement Program (CIITAP), the city’s tax-break program for local development.

The combined policy is still under discussion, and currently exists in two possible options. The first would resemble what CIITAP currently requires, which is that 20 percent of a building’s units must be deemed affordable. Alternatively, a project’s developer could choose to not meet the affordability requirements, but would then have to pay a certain amount into a fund that would then be used to support affordable housing projects, according to TCIDA Administrative Director Heather McDaniel, who said a draft proposal could be ready as soon as January 2020.

The IDA has been examining this type of policy for a year or two, McDaniel said, after initially examining it several years ago without a plan coming to fruition. At that time, she said, the IDA came to the conclusion that tax incentives weren’t the best tool to promote affordable housing. Rather, they felt inclusionary zoning (which has seemingly stalled, at least at the city level) and supporting local affordable housing directors would be better for everyone. Now, though, they are looking at some of the finer points of the policy

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based off of the groundwork already established.

“Some of the challenges we’re looking at are what the right amount of affordable housing that a project needs to deliver and what’s the right amount of incentive to support the development of those projects,” McDaniel said. “We’re grappling with compliance and monitoring. [...] When you say affordable housing to a for-profit developer, it’s not just reducing the rent, it’s actually making sure people moving into the units are income-qualified and they fit within certain income ranges. So, the monitoring and compliance for that piece are complicated.”

Another reason for recognizing the IDA as the proper agency to create an affordable housing policy for CIITAP is that almost 40 percent of the housing units that the IDA has delivered incentives to have been for affordable housing units in the past five years. A majority of those projects were 100 percent affordable housing developments. Currently, tax incentives are officially granted by the TCIDA, though if projects qualify for CIITAP consideration, they contend for a valuable letter of recommendation from Mayor Svante Myrick.

In taking this on, the IDA would have to look into what the repercussions should be for not being in compliance, what’s the proper time requirement of the unit’s affordability (meaning how many years would it have to be affordable instead of

reverting to market rate) and the possible subsidy amount in total. During previous discussions on developing this policy, the IDA asked numerous affordable housing developers if an IDA subsidy would help them make more affordable housing, according to McDaniel. Most said no, citing that state and federal programs providing long term subsidies are primarily how affordable housing gets built.

Now McDaniel feels the climate is different since there has been some significant development downtown. But she has recognized the pressure is on, or what she described as the perception of the need for affordable housing has increased. Balancing the public’s desire, McDaniel said, is having to navigate developers who see less financial gain in affordable housing.

“I think it’s difficult because when you’re looking at developing a project, particularly a rental housing project, as a developer, you’re investing in that project because that’s your income, you need to make a return on investment,” McDaniel said. “Every project we’ve delivered incentives to, the financials barely work.

You have your project costs, then you have your projected income and projected expenses. The revenues after expenses are almost negative. So, there isn’t a return on investment for existing projects. And then, to ask them to reduce their rents just to generate less revenue only to have the same expenses or potentially higher expenses, the math doesn’t work. We’re in a really hard place. We want to support affordable housing and the City has said they want us to support affordable housing but if the numbers don’t work, we stand to lose a lot in the city.”

ith a great deal of snow already falling, and more on the way, the City of Ithaca has developed something that will come in handy when the trees blossom once more. A new app, developed by the City, allows users to take their own self-guided tours and to readily provide interesting information. City of Ithaca Forrester Jeanne Grace said the app was established to make the tours more accessible to the public. It can be found through the Parks and Forestry department’s page on the City of Ithaca’s website.

Prior to the app’s creation, there were three tree tours developed. One was for Stewart Park with the other two covering the Fall Creek and Southside neighborhoods. A new tour was created, which serves as a guide to the trees surrounding the Department of Public Works building.

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a demonstration site for trees that are low growing enough that you can plant them under power lines,” Grace said. “It had been there for a long time and people asked me about it. But none of the trees are labeled; there isn’t any information about them. So, we wanted to formalize that and make it available for people to come and check continued on page 11

Ithacans and those visiting can now take themselves around different parts of town. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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Speakeasy

Judge Scott Miller moves on to Tompkins County Court

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fter serving on the bench of the City of Ithaca Court for the last seven years, Judge Scott Miller will be moving on to a newly-created judge spot in the Tompkins County Courthouse after winning his uncontested election in early November. During his time as a City of Ithaca judge, he was a focal part of establishing the city’s mental health court and ensured people never were afraid of being in his presence. Since 2015, he has been an acting county court judge and is looking forward to taking on the task full-time. He spoke with the Ithaca Times about his life and experiences as an Ithaca City Court judge. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Ithaca Times: Have you enjoyed being a judge in Ithaca Court for the last seven years?

Judge Scott Miller: My seven years as City Court judge has been the highlight of my 23-year legal career. There is never a boring moment, and I still genuinely feel I can actually do some real good each day.

Even after more than 175 weeks of being on call 24/7 [Judge Rick Wallace and I rotate every other week] and often coming down to city court during the middle of the night, I can honestly say I am as enthused as I was on day one. I will miss Ithaca City Court. It really is the court that is closest to the people of our city.

IT: Tell me about some of the challenges you’ve faced in your time on the bench in the City of Ithaca Court.

SM: The single greatest challenge I’ve faced in City Court is the opioid crisis that is destroying young people and their families. We have scores of homeless young people in our community who are addicted. They come in front of me in the middle of the night on low-level nonviolent shoplifting or trespass offenses, and I have to make the decision of whether to put them in jail or release them.

They are presumed innocent.

Often the alleged crime is not something they would ever face incarceration for. Yet I wrestle with the fact that I know this young person is going to continue to use. I am not permitted to incarcerate someone who is, solely because I know they are a drug addict. Yet I can think of two situations over the last seven years where I wish I could travel back in time and put those two young people in jail, because they’re no longer here now.

IT: What are some of the things you plan to do while on the bench for the Tompkins County Court?

SM: I intend to continue to be the same type of judge the community has seen for the last seven years. Litigants and attorneys who have appeared in front of me know that although they may be dealing with difficult issues in their lives, these issues will not be compounded by appearing in front of a difficult judge. My philosophy has always been that although the situation may be terrible, the judge shouldn’t add to the trauma of the situation. As a judge I value patience, empathy and a sense of humor.

IT: You’ve mentioned you wanted to set up a mental health court for Tompkins County; how would you go about establishing that?

SM: Ithaca’s mental health court, known as the Ithaca Wellness and Recovery Court [IWRC] has done amazing work since it began diverting people out of jail and into mental health treatment since May 1 of this year. As County Judge I will continue to supervise the development of this court.

By summer 2020 we will extend the availability of IWRC to all misdemeanor arrests outside the city of Ithaca, to all of the towns and villages.

In 2021, I would like to extend this court to felony level offenses in County Court.

IT: What are some of the things you learned from your time as an Ithaca City Court judge?

SM: There is power in listening. The most moving letter I ever received was from a young woman who nearly went to jail, but instead I gave her a chance at a diversion program called the College Initiative Upstate, where individuals get re-engaged with higher education, such as community college, as an alternative to incarceration. She wrote to me that no one had ever listened to her and everyone in authority had always told her what she had to do. She thanked me because I had listened to her when she asked for a chance to try college. It’s easier for a lot of people to just sit in the county jail and let time and life pass you by. But she chose the more difficult path and put in the hard work and completed CIU’s intensive two month curriculum and then went on to enroll in TC3. So what was the big lesson I learned from this? Well, I didn’t have to do much--all I had to do was listen and give someone back some modicum of power and control. So by listening to her, I learned that she really felt empowered because an “authority” figure heard her.

IT: What is advice you have for your successor?

SM: Get organized. The City Court judges hear more than 5,000 cases every year and there is no room for disorganization or procrastination. This is a team effort. Ithaca City Court has incredible clerks that make it possible for the two city court judges to manage the overwhelming caseload. Fortunately, the City Court staff under the leadership of our Chief Clerk Ronna Collins and Deputy Chief Sheryl Kumpf is superb. And our court attorney, Lisa Robinow, who is retiring after more than two decades, has been with me every step of the way helping guarantee the high quality of City Court’s written decisions.

And most importantly, she possesses the best qualify a judge could ask for in a clerk. She has never hesitated to tell me when I am headed down the wrong path and need to reconsider a decision.

A judge should not be the center of attention in the courtroom. The courtroom belongs to the people not the judge.

Your job is to provide a forum where the litigants can tell their stories fairly and completely.

And, have a heart. Be kind. Everyone who comes before you is struggling.

Oh, and for heaven’s sake, you better not take yourself too seriously. Don’t be afraid to admit you have made a mistake and reverse a decision if an attorney brings out a point of law you may have initially overlooked. Our system is about providing a fair forum where litigants in our community can obtain some measure of justice. The system has no room for a judge with an ego who can’t admit he or she is wrong.

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UPS&DOWNS Thumbs Up - Although the Lansing High School football team will not be advancing in the playoffs, it was a really big weekend for football in Ithaca. Beyond Ithaca College vanquishing rival Cortaca in New Jersey, Cornell University upset Dartmouth, the fifth-ranked team in the Football Championship Subdivision and owner of a historically good defense.

Perhaps this is the kind of win the Big Red can build on next year.

Thumbs Up - Congrats to the organizers of the Lantern Festival earlier this month. The event, held to benefit Second Wind Cottages, was the first of its kind and drew dozens of participants. It also raised nearly $1,000 to help the cottages, which provide sober housing for people recovering from addiction.

Seen- The Tompkins County Health Department is offering flu vaccinations, starting last week. The shots are available by appointment at the TCHD location at 55 Brown Road by calling (607) 274-6616. The department advises that everyone over six months of age, who is not immunocompromised, receive the shot. Medicaid, Medicare Part B and Medicare Managed Care Plan members will not have to pay at the time of the shot; others may have to pay $38, but will be provided a receipt for reimbursement.

IF YOU CARE TO RESPOND to something in this column, or suggest your own grievances or praise, write news@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

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OBITUARY

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Cyndi J. (Brong) Blaisdell

War No More

BY ST E PH E N P. Bu r k e

Following is the obituary for our beloved colleague, Cyndi, written by her family. Over the past 33 years, the publication of this newspaper every week, without inturruption was in no small part due to her dedication and effort. Many of you who worked for the Times at some point over the last several decades met Cyndi, at least briefly. If you did, you know her humor was always light, her calm demeanor constantly on display, and she made the workplace an easier, more relaxed place to be, day in and day out. We here at the Ithaca Times just wanted to say a heartfelt condolence to Rick, the Brong and Blaisdell families, and a sad farewell to our friend and coworker, Cyndi. yndi J. (Brong) Blaisdell, 65, of Danby Rd., Ithaca, passed away following a lengthy illness on Saturday, November 16, 2019, surrounded by her loving family.

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lare Grady of Ithaca is a member of a religious-based political group called the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who

in April of last year broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on the southern coast of Georgia to protest nuclear war.

The base is the Atlantic post for U.S. Navy submarines powered by nuclear reactors and armed with nuclear missiles.

The Plowshares group is part of a movement that takes its name from the Biblical injunction against war, to “beat swords into plowshares” and “study war no more.”

Since its beginning in the early 1980s, the movement has undertaken scores of protests domestically and internationally, generally involving non-violent trespass and symbolic destruction of weapons on military property.

The Kings Bay protest was timed to coincide with the birthdate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Among his many honors, Dr. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, and said in his acceptance speech: “I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“Dr. King spoke of ‘the triple evils’ of racism, poverty, and war, and that they’re tied together,” Grady said in a recent interview in Ithaca. (Her group was found guilty last month on all charges and she is home, heavily monitored, awaiting a sentencing hearing, possibly in January.)

“Nuclear weapons are a dehumanizing, lethal force, and not just when they’re launched,” Grady said. “We’re violated by their very existence.”

Along with the threat to people and the planet, Grady spoke of nuclear weapons as “stealing trillions of dollars” from essential needs.

“But in the jail cells,” Grady said, rather than any recognition of these wrongs, “instead you see scapegoating” of people of color and the poor. Blacks are less than 15 percent of the U.S. population, but the majority race in U.S. prisons.

A majority of prisoners of all races had annual incomes of less than $22,500 before jailing.

To Grady, as to King, the “triple evils” are entwined and clear.

“Nuclear weapons are state-sponsored

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violence and they’re above the law. Our action and the court trial are stages to examine the legal justice system and what it actually protects.

“Part of our witness is to bring to light what’s hidden in plain sight.”

Grady describes the Kings Bay setting as “a beautiful coastline, an idyllic town,” meanwhile “with weapons that could destroy the whole planet.”

She spoke of the “secrets” that make our society “sick,” which unless revealed can’t be healed.

The Plowshares movement is rooted in Catholicism, and Grady, a staunch IrishCatholic, spoke of its actions and tactics as “sacramental” in symbolism and goals.

In perhaps its most visceral gesture, at Kings Bay the group poured out small vials of their own blood. They hung crime scene tape, and “posted an indictment rooted in law,” Grady said, concerning what constitutes a war crime, saying the legal definition needs to go much further, to include possession (thus threatened use) of genocidal weapons.

Despite its perceived radicalism, Grady prosaically described the work of her movement as “public service.”

“What standing do these weapons have under the law?” she asked. “We’re trying to examine right relationships between criminality and the Doomsday Machine,” citing Daniel Ellsberg’s recent book of that name (subtitled “Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner”), which the New York Times called “a commendable and important effort to make vivid the genuine madness” of nuclear weaponry.

Grady’s group was forbidden by the judge to introduce excerpts from the book into evidence at their trial, nor any discussion of political, religious, or humanitarian motivations for their actions.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, the jury found them guilty on all counts, one misdemeanor and two federal charges, in about two hours.

Each of the group faces jail time of 25 years and two months.

Grady specifically asked the Ithaca Times, home paper to many of her friends, to tell readers she hopes for and expects considerably lighter sentencing.

“The judge has certain discretion,” Grady said. “She can consider certain things, upward departure, downward departure,” she said, in the argot of a veteran political jailbird.

To simplify the issue, she mentioned the guards at the base, who are authorized to shoot to kill. “But they see it is some people with a banner,” Clare Grady said, and act accordingly.

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In 1986, Cyndi began her career at the Ithaca Times, advancing through the years to her current position of Office Manager. She had also been employed at WHCU Talk Radio, where she formed lifelong friends.

Cyndi was a free spirit who loved art, butterflies and her pets, Socs and Lucy.

She is survived by her husband, Rick Blaisdell; a daughter, Liva Brong (Jonathan Robins) of Farmingville, NY; three grandchildren, Carmina Fisher, Alecia Robins and Samantha Robins; a great granddaughter, Sofiethia Gaumer; and a great granddaughter due anytime to be named Zayda Lee Gaumer. Also surviving is her sister, Karo (Peter) Billard of Remsen; brother, Walter (Marie) Blanden of Truxton; Rick’s family, Pamela (Charles) Mochamer of Okeechobee, FL; Reginna (Gary) McCormick of Elmira; Doro-

thy (Robert ) Bollea of Arizona; Sharon (Arthur) Yaple of Newfield and Richard (Jude) Rice of Groton. She was affectionately known as ‘Sergeant Cyndi’ to her nieces and nephews, Mikale (Tammy) Billard; Jessica (Travis) Rocco; Shawn Blanden; Adam (Melanie) Blanden and Zachary Blanden. Cyndi is survived by many cousins and great nieces and nephews as well.

Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 23, 2019 at the Donald L. Barber Funeral Home, 5016 US Route 11, Homer. Interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Homer, will be at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Cyndi’s memory may be directed to a local SPCA. Memorial condolences for the family may be left at www.DonaldLBarberFuneralHome.com

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what took place at the fraternity party that he attended at Phi Kappa Psi on the night he died and what happened to him after he left the fraternity house that night,” Tsialas said, mentioning that they want to know what happened at the party, who was with Antonio, and why his body was found so far from his dormitory. “We are asking anyone with information to please contact us and tell us anything they know about the events of that evening. We need to know. [...] There are individuals at Cornell who know the answers to these questions, and we are begging those who know anything regarding Antonio to please contact us.”

Bianchi said they have been in contact with the Cornell University Police Department, who he said are “working hard” on the case, but did not note any new information that has been uncovered from the

initial press release from the Ithaca Police Department. Cornell University’s Police Chief Dave Honan issued this statement: “The Cornell University Police continue to actively investigate Antonio Tsialas’s tragic death and the events of the night that preceded it. Over 150 leads have been received and are being followed up on, to include numerous personal interviews.

Cornell University Police also sought and obtained a warrant to seize evidence, which will be turned over to the New York State Police for analysis, and a number of subpoenas have also been issued. We appreciate the help from those who have come forward with information and continue to ask anyone else who may have information related to this incident to contact us at 607-255-1111. You can also email Cornell Police investigators at cupinv@cornell.edu or reach out through the Silent Witness Program.”

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One for the Ages Ithaca claimed the Cortaca Jug on a historic day at MetLife

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flowed throughout the parking lots. Tailgating was in full fledge as the smell of burning charcoal and the smell of sizzling patties, sausages and dogs filled the air.

The ground was littered with everything on tap that day – Bud Light, Modelo’s, Miller Light, Blue Moon. I was offered a cold one by a Cortland fan.

As fun as it would have been to indulge my inner Hunter S. Thompson, I kindly declined the man’s offering and continued my venture.

Fans from both sides offered their typical greetings to one another when they crossed paths.

“Ithaca sucks,” one Cortland fan said to an Ithaca fan while walking by.

“Hey, you suck,” the Ithaca fan replied.

And with that battle of wits concluded, both parties went on their merry ways. A heavyset man in a zebra camo bucket hat roused a nearby group of Cortland fans. Leading them in a cheer, the man began to chant, “Ithacaaaaaaa … Ithacaaaaaaa … Ithacaaaaaaa …,” followed by, “You can suck,” and, with a long pause, finished the sentiment with a directive that is biologically unfit to print. Most fans donned generic apparel supporting their home team, but there was one Cortland fan rocking a particularly unique T-shirt, apparently from the 2007 Jug game, that featured a “F--K ITHACA” message on its front. The words were accompanied by several images that, alas, were also unfit to print.

There were a few bald spots in the stands come gametime, but fans from both sides made up for those vacancies with their energy. The Bombers took the opening kickoff and drove the ball down the field for the first touchdown of the game on the legs of quarterback Joe Germinerio, the first of three on the ground for him that day, who muscled his way into the

woke up the morning of Saturday Nov. 16 with the feeling that probably most human beings across the globe were feeling that day – the desire to further sink into my mattress’s abyss.

But this was no ordinary Saturday. It was the day of the 61st Cortaca Jug game.

And to make it even more atypical, this year’s bout was being staged at the home of the New York Jets and Giants and stage for music icons like New Jersey deity Jon Bon Jovi. So I rose from the comforts of my bed and got myself ready, coincidentally fueled by Bomber-blue blueberry pancakes.

There was no time for morning fogginess, so I prepared myself for what was going to be a historic afternoon for Upstate New York football: the first ever Cortaca Jug game held off-site, as Cortland and Ithaca prepared to decide their annual rivalry at MetLife Stadium. The “biggest little game in the nation” had never had an opportunity like this to live up to its moniker, and another might never come again.

Stadium parking was a hellscape, with traffic as congested as expected. A recordsetting 45,161 fans for a DIII game packed the stadium while security and state troopers armed with automatic rifles were on alert. One would’ve thought the Royal Family was in town to catch the Jets game that weekend.

I finally parked, made my way through security and headed up to the sixth floor to the press box. After I found a seat and set my stuff down, I looked out the window at a bird’s eye view of the field where tiny figures dressed in either blue or red moved about. Though it was technically a neutral site for the contest, the fact that the two end zones were painted blue with the word “Ithaca” boldly written in white and Ithaca’s PA announcer was in attendance seemed anything but impartial. (That being said, it was Ithaca’s year to host the game.)

The field itself was part of the experience. Walking through the dim tunnel and out the entrance, a warm slap of sunshine lashed across the field, a blinding welcome to those touring the field and players going through pre-game warmups. Of course, there were plenty of other pre-game warmups taking place outside the stadium as well.

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end zone from a yard out.

When kicker Nicholas Bahamonde lined up for the extra point attempt, one Cortland fan shouted, “Don’t choke, b––h!”

Bahamonde split the uprights as Ithaca led 7–0 in the opening quarter.

Some fans enjoyed chumming it up with the state troopers and security guards throughout the game.

When a pass interference call was issued to the Bombers during one of their drives, one Ithaca fan yelled at a trooper,

“That’s illegal. You should arrest them.”

Even the stone-faced trooper couldn’t help but show a slight grin on that one.

Another Ithaca fan sporting a “F*CK CORTLAND” T-shirt jokingly asked a security guard how much the fine would be if he went streaking onto the field. (For those who are curious, it’s $5,000.)

The security guard chuckled, imploring the fan to go through with it.

“We’ll enjoy tackling you.”

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moment when Ithaca defensive back Khiry Brown stripped the ball from Cortland wideout Cole Burgess near the end of the first half. Down 13–6 with the ball on its own 45 yard line, Cortland quarterback Brett Segala completed a 25-yard pass to Burgess on the right sideline to Ithaca’s 30, inciting a roar from the Cortland faithful.

In an instant, however, the pendulum of elation swung to the opposite side of the stands when Brown ripped the ball out of Burgess’s hands, putting the kibosh on the Red Dragons’ drive.

But arguably the biggest play of the game came around the midway point of the fourth quarter. Once leading 26–6, aided by a touchdown from Germinerio to star senior wideout Will Gladney, the Bombers then saw their 20-point lead evaporate to six points after a Red Dragon rally.

With the ball on Cortland’s 46-yard line, Ithaca desperately needed a response to the Red Dragon’s surge. On third and six, Germinerio faked the handoff to Donte Garcia, faked the reverse handoff to Austin Hedglen and then fired a strike to Andrew Vito near the right side of the end zone, who ran it in for the touchdown.

It was a ridiculous play call in more ways than one. Then it worked.

“I looked at our offense and told them, ‘This is what I want to call,’” Ithaca head coach Dan Swanstrom said. “I didn’t get a great response at all from it. I didn’t think anybody wanted to call it.”

When Ithaca took the final knee, Germinerio, who accumulated 410 all-purpose yards and five total touchdowns, ran over to the east end zone where he chucked the ball into the stands and the rest of his teammates flooded the field in celebration.

“Winning in college football is hard,” Swanstrom said. “It’s really, really difficult, and we never take it for granted. All wins are great. And sometimes, some are a little sweeter than others.”

it out.”

The app has been in the works for two to three months now. Though the weather is frosty now, Grace said there is a plan to re-release the app in the spring when the leaves are back on the trees, and people interested in doing the tours don’t have to face the biting cold temperatures. The other tours, the Fall Creek and Southside neighborhood tours, were developed as a collaborative effort with Bike Walk Tompkins who was looking to promote a cycling event. During the summer, Grace picked out some trees for cyclists to learn about and the tour was successful. Ultimately this led to the creation of the Southside neighborhood tree tour for the fall.

“Ideally, we’d like to keep working on this,” Grace said. “I’d love to do a tree tour for the city cemetery, which has some amazing trees in it. I’d love to do a tour for each neighborhood so Belle Sherman neighborhood, Downtown, every neighborhood would have its own little tree tour that people could walk.”

Grace’s personal favorite is the Stewart Park Tree Tour that she created years ago.

This tour has placards at each tree with more information available on the City of Ithaca’s website. With the app, this cuts out the inability to read the information about the tree unless using the city’s webpage.

For her, it’s a unique way to explore the park. Grace said some of the challenges associated with getting this project done, specifically ensuring the app was developed for the public.

“I think most of the time was put in by the GIS [geographic information systems] people,” Grace said. “My technician wrote up all the text and decided which trees would be on the tours but the GIS people took the skeleton of a tour app and basically just created it for us. They put a lot

of time into making sure it works, making sure the pictures loaded, making sure the text was reading properly and all the links worked.”

There are several factors that Grace considers important so people get the most out of Ithaca’s foliage. For her, the tours are about more than learning about the leaves of a tree but also the more minute details of tree species as well.

“We look at things like tree size, so obviously big trees are impressive,” Grace said. “People want to see them and learn about them, but we also picked a lot of native species that people might not be aware of. We also chose non-native species that we plant that are just interesting that may have an interesting flower, interesting kind of food, or an interesting cultural history.”

An example of a tree with a unique cultural history, Grace said, is a Japanese Pagoda tree in Stewart Park that has a lot of significance in Buddhism. It’s usually planted around Buddhist cultural and holy sites. Being able to share things like that is why Grace wants to see people be able to do the tree tours on their own. She does have a recommendation for a tree everyone should take note of, though she does have quite a few favorite trees in Ithaca.

“One of the best trees that people should check out is there’s one on the Fall Creek tree tour,” Grace said. “It’s on the 700 block of N. Cayuga Street and it’s an enormous sycamore. That’s just a super impressive one. That’s the one that got the initiative for the biking tree tours started.

It was like let’s put that one on the tree tour and then what can we build off of that. I think that’s a really cool tree.”

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ornell dropped a rushing yards. Cornell’s couple of closelyoffense produced 384 total contested key Ivy yards against the nation’s League games early on, and number 5 ranked defense. when Ithaca College lost On the defensive side of the to Union a few weeks ago, ball, Cornell seniors Jelani their hopes for a Liberty Taylor and David Jones League title vanished, but led the way. Taylor had 11 neither team gave up on tackles, while Jones had the their quest to make the clinching interception as the Cornell pulled off a big most of their season, and last defense held Dartmouth to 3 of upset this week, beating weekend, both stepped up with undefeated Dartmouth 14 on third down conversions. season-defining victories.

The win over a ranked in a road matchup.

For Cornell, it was a draopponent (Dartmouth was (Photo provided) matic win over undefeated ranked number 12) was CorDartmouth, pulled off as the nell’s first since they beat #13 visiting team. The Big Red were down Penn 69 years ago. And no player, coach at halftime, but they fought back to win or fan will ever look back at the 2019 20-17, and in doing so dealt the Big season without remembering that historic Green their first loss of the season. Senior win. Head coach David Archer told me, quarterback Richie Kenney threw for 267 “Season-defining… that’s a great term for yards on a 22-38 passing day, and reliable it.” He added, “For us, it was a very validatworkhorse Harold Coles pounded out 111 ing win. We know who we are, we know

how hard we have worked. We finally put it all together, and we beat a very good football team.”

For Ithaca College, the Cortaca Jug game is always a big deal, but given the Bombers and the Cortland Red Dragons would travel to MetLife Stadium and play in front of 45,161 fans added a layer of drama to the affair. The attendance shattered the previous Division III record.

Determined to win the Jug for the third straight year, Ithaca came out on top in several important categories: Total yards, passing yards, rushing yards, first downs and a couple of other stat lines. In terms of time of possession, the Bombers were nothing short of dominant, controlling the ball for an astounding 44:26 to Cortland’s 15:34. When one team had the ball for three-quarters of the game, the opponent faces a serious uphill climb. In this case, the Red Dragons could not make that climb and the most important number of all – the score – ended up 32-20 in the Bombers’ favor. ● ● ●

I promised to circle back around after last week’s column to share some insights and observations from my trip (with former ICSD Athletic Director Bill Bryant) to sit in Cleveland’s Dawg Pound to watch the Browns play the Steelers.

We arrived early so that our friend and host Jeff Grover could give us a tour of the stadium, including the suites, private clubs and several other off-limits areas that only those affiliated with the team can gain ac-

cess to. It was a great experience to see the inner workings of preparing to feed, entertain and manage 65,000 fans. By the 8:20 p.m. kickoff, given some of those fans had been tailgating for eight hours prior to the game, it got loud and crazy. The Browns beat their rivals 21-7, and by now virtually everyone knows that the game will be remembered for the brawl that resulted in heavy fines and suspensions. I was somewhat saddened by that, given the Browns’ fans had endured a dismal stretch a couple of years ago, and the team had been on an upswing on many fronts. The Browns still have a shot at the playoffs, and they would no doubt like to make a run and get back into the headlines for the right reasons.

As mentioned last week, I was very excited to watch JC Tretter, the Browns’ elite center (and Cornell grad) who just signed a much-ballyhooed three-year, $32 million contract extension.

Coach Archer was an assistant coach when Tretter played at Cornell, and he told me, “Watching JC develop into such a fierce competitor, a dominant player and a vocal leader has been a great experience.

In the NFL, he has become such a dependable player for two different franchises, and that’s great to point out to current players and recruits. People are not familiar with the guys coming out of the Ivy League because we don’t have a playoff, but it’s a fact that the best players in the Ivy League go to the NFL.”

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That’s part of the purpose of her business, Your CBD Store, in Ithaca on Seneca Street, which is celebrating its first year in business this month. CBD’s moving at a rapid pace these days, both legislatively and its public perception. Pastorello has even seen the changes in mindset among her own family.

“My mom got arthritis in her knee about five years ago, and found a CBD salve that was really helping her with the

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CBD entrepreneurship started as an almost-universally male field, something Pastorello know from her work in similar roles beforehand. But with the benefit of time, she’s seen that trend begun to turn.

“I used to work in the medical marijuana industry in California, and it was all men out there,” Pastorello said. “Once in a while, you’d see a woman. So that was a

bit challenging, but something I learned to navigate. Now, women are all over the industry.“ Your CBD Store, which sells SunMed products exclusively, has avoided selling its products at other local outlets yet, a conscious decision by Pastorello. She said that because it’s so early on and so many customers are experiencing CBD for the first time, she wants to keep her products in-house and have the opportunity to pass on some education to customers when they first buy CBD, especially if they are dissatisfied and want help choosing a different option. Education, Pastorello said, is likely the most effecitve way to get more people to try CBD options, and that’s what the staff has been aiming to provide.

“It’s really important to know what you’re doing to get the greatest amount of benefit,” Pastorello said. “The most rewarding part of the last year is seeing repeat customers come in and tell us their success stories. It’s been really fulfilling [...]

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ince opening earlier this fall, Angelhearts Diner has tried to make a name for itself as one of Ithaca’s several vegan eateries.

Angelhearts owner, Kim Engelheart, considered the idea of starting the diner for years, though she moved away from Ithaca for several years, forcing her to put her dream on hold.

However, after moving back in 2017, she began working to ensure the restaurant would be a smashing success. The transition from revitalizing the location of Angelhearts, which housed Napoli Pizza for many years, was one of the more challenging aspects of getting the business prepared for customers.

However, since Engelheart has never run a business like this before, she is learning plenty on the job, like sourcing supplies and getting the correct inventory, all while trying to garner a consistent customer base.

“I just wanted to have a place where people could come and enjoy vegan food,” Engelheart said. “But food that everyone would feel welcome to enjoy.”

Engelheart chose the former Napoli Pizza location because she wanted Angelhearts to be centrally located in downtown Ithaca, making it easier for people to walk or ride their bikes.

Engelheart has found there are some crowd favorites for every meal.

During breakfast, people seem to like The Western sandwich, made of seasoned tofu patty, grilled peppers and onions, “cheddah cheese,” and a vegan sausage patty.

The lunchtime favorite has been the beet burger, a beet/quinoa blend and with coconut bacon made in-house, and the Philly.

The Philly is comprised of house-made seitan, high-protein vegetarian food made of cooked wheat gluten, steak mix with peppers/onions and a cashew cheese sauce on a sub roll, which is the seitan chees-

esteak. Recently, Angelhearts introduced “chicken” and waffles to their menu which has also found success.

The terms “comfort food” and “vegan food” might not seem to match for some, particularly with the opposite associations for each. “Comfort food” brings to mind

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Opening for dinner this December the menus are inspired by many travels and experiences in search of beauty and authenticity in a world increasingly congested with too much stuff, and too little substance.

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something fatty, sinful and warm, whereas “vegan food” has a far healthier reputation. Engelheart decided to serve comfort food matches the welcoming and comfortable atmosphere she is trying to create, an atmosphere reflected in the diner’s name.

“Our last name is Engelheart, so it’s the family name,” Engelheart said. “And to me, the Angelhearts meaning is that we’re a family business and a number of family members are working there. But also you have the heart of an angel because you’re putting animals first by choosing plantbased foods.”

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SewGreen BUILT AS A COMMUNITY FOR LOCAL SUSTAINABLE ARTISTS

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welve years ago, Wendy Skinner wanted to take her seemingly disparate set of skills and meld them with her new passion, sustainability. Over a decade later, she still comes into SewGreen each day, trying to “put on a show,” as she calls it, and preserve the family atmo-

sphere that Ithacans with an interest in knitting, sewing or materials have grown to know.

Skinner said she caught the “sustainability bug” about 15 years ago and was trying to determine a way to contribute to that via a business. Through a re-use business like SewGreen, Skinner found

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Wendy Skinner, owner of SewGreen, a re-use focused sewing shop on Cayuga Street. (Photo by Casey Martin)

what she was looking for: a mission-driven business that she could use to promote what she believed in. Skinner didn’t even know how to sew when she first started the business, though she has since learned and can teach it to others now.

“I was saying, ‘How am I going to be part of the sustainability movement with

my background, it doesn’t fit this,’” Skinner said. “A very wise person said ‘Take what you have and apply it to sustainability.’ I have a background in journalism, marketing, design, event management, and I just put it all together and applied it to this mission.”

The success so far has been obvious.

The store’s inital location was in DeWitt Mall, before moving to a storefront on Cayuga Street. Since then, SewGreen has expanded three separate times, and now occupies four joined storefronts.

Part of that space is so that the store’s inventory can meet demand, but part is also so that the staff can handle the sizable amount of donations that the store receives regularly. Skinner estimated that the store saves about 30 tons of usable materials from landfills each year.

“It’s a daily exercise of going through things, finding out what is sale-able, what to sell it for, it’s pretty tricky,” Skinner said. “It’s something somebody bought and thought they were going to make a project with it, and then years or even decades later, they realized they were not going to make a project.”

That type of work is actually what created SewGreen. Skinner said they organized a one-time sale of donated materials before the store even opened, with the goal of gauging local interest in buying material that had been preowned (not necessarily pre-used), and sold out in one day, with a line outside.

Since that day, the demand for a store like SewGreen, and the community that it fosters, has been clear.

The company has also started Knit Nights, a weekly event that allows customers to come to the store to learn with and from each other. Skinner said that kind of offering allows the store to dip into the experiential shopper market, or those customers who want more than just a retail experience if they’re going to a brick-and-mortar establishment. It also helps serve as an attraction to people who might want to learn about knitting before they start getting deeper into purchasing materials and the like. For instance, Skinner said that while the store’s customer base is mostly made up of women, quite a few men attend the Knit Nights.

Additionally, Skinner set out early on to include and employ younger people in the venture, something she’s been able to do with some success. Through that, she’s been able to create “tiered mentoring,” a system in which people who grew up learning at the store will, once they reach a certain age, be able to effectively hand down their lessons to younger kids to help them learn as well, hopefully even as employees of SewGreen.

“Providing these jobs, and meaningful, enriching jobs, is also part of our mission,” Skinner said, smiling. “We’ve always got teenagers around. Definitely keeps it lively.”

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in 2017. She has 11 years of experience in finance and banking. As Branch Manager for the East Hill Plaza location, she works with customers in all aspects of retail and commercial banking. Reinhart earned her Associates Degree in Business Administration from Tompkins Cortland Community College. She enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters. She is a certified notary and currently serves on the board of directors for IPEI and Kiwanis of Ithaca. She has served as past Committee Chair for Tompkins Relay for Life and was a committee member for the Trust Company’s most recent United Way Carnival for a Cause on the Ithaca Commons.

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ur superb Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, after highly acclaimed presentations of Puccini’s beloved opera, “La bohème” with Opera Ithaca, and an exceptional concert of music for strings, now provides the chance to hear pianist Shai Wosner, recognized worldwide for his brilliance and inventive pairings of classical and modern masters, performing two concertos. The concert, led by the orchestra’s musical director, Cornelia Laemmli Orth, takes place Saturday, Nov. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Ithaca College’s Ford Hall.

The program comprises two Mozart masterpieces, both in C major, serving as book-ends to two contemporary works, “out of the box,” as the conductor says. Opening with Mozart’s late Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467, with Wosner as soloist, the concert closes with the final Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 (“Jupiter”). In between are “Chamber Dance” by Joan Tower (b.

1938) and “The Air Suspended” for piano and strings by Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984).

Both composers are American.

When we talked last week, Orth said this would be a really busy time. She arrived on Monday, and spent Tuesday shopping and cooking a Swiss dinner for 12 people—part of the CCO annual fundraising Silent Auction. “I’m just busy enough,” she laughed. The rest of the week means rehearsals. As for the soloist, she has never worked with him, so this will be a “special treat.” They meet on Friday to talk over the music and then devote that evening to prepare for the final run-through on Saturday morning. When asked about the repertory, Cornelia played the Mozart concerto as a piano student in Switzerland and has conducted it and the “Jupiter” many times.

“It’s such a grand symphony,” and the idea of putting “two of the most famous works ever” on the same program is “simply amazing.” Her Musical Advisory Committee—the members are “so educated, so experienced”—also

scheduled the two modern pieces she does not know. When they meet about programming, she calls it “our war room.”

The soloist comes here with an outstanding reputation. Born in Israel, he studied there and at Juilliard with Emanuel Ax. Wosner performs with leading orchestras and in solo and chamber recitals around the world. The winner of many prizes, he has received rave reviews in the New York Times, and on NPR was praised for his “keen musical mind and deep musical soul.” One critic referred to his rendering of the solo opening episode of Mozart K. 467 as a “sparkling display of flawless technique with the nuance of moonlight on a rippling lake.” Now there’s something to listen for.

Both Mozart works are very familiar. Both modern pieces, virtually unknown, are 15 to 16 minutes long. “Chamber Dance” by Joan Tower, called one of the most successful women composers of all time, was written for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which premiered it at Carnegie Hall in May 2006.

Cornelia says it has never been done in Ithaca, and she is enjoying learning it, with its many little lyrical solos and duets. “The players have to dance with one another,” she adds.

Shai Wosner, renowned pianist, will be featured as a soloist in this weekend’s Cayuga Chamber Orchestra concert. (Photo by Marco Borggreve)

The younger, not-so-eminent Christopher Cerrone was educated at Yale and the Manhattan School of Music, and at present is visiting composer at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins. “The Air Suspended” was written for pianist Wosner, who just played the world première on Oct. 23 with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra in Memphis. He then performed it in Philadelphia and at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, which had commissioned it along with two orchestras. In his preface the composer explains that this work in three movements is inspired by changes in the weather and the enormous reserves of energy required to accomplish such a transformation. The solo pianist is the energy source and plays “highly kinetic music” throughout. The strings are instructed to increase bow pressure to cause a crunching noise among other sounds. Orth finds it a fascinating piece and “absolutely spectacular.” So come and hear the traditional and the new in one evening. The concert promises to be fabulous.

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“The Next Storm”

Tackling the era’s premier problem proves difficult

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otter summers and lesser snowfall aren’t the only signs of climate change in our area –– there are also the floods. Of 1935, 1956, 1972, and, according to “The Next Storm,” of 2022. This new play by local writer Thom Dunn imagines an Ithaca in the year 2030, when weather extremes (102 degrees in November!) have pushed residents to the brink.

The current production on Cornell’s mainstage—a collaboration of Civic Ensemble and Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts—is the result of two years of community conversations about the imminent dangers of climate change. Creatively directed by Civic Ensemble’s Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., “The Next Storm” shows numerous stakeholders (including “green” developers, residents, city officials, scientists and students) wrestling with what steps to take to best benefit—but there’s the rub. Who benefits and at what cost?

A proposed sustainable housing development, a series of verdant towers, would eradicate homes in Fall Creek and require blocking off the waterfall. The developer and his wife are at odds, the developer and the council leader are at odds, the council leader and her daughter are at odds, high school students are at odds with their teacher—in short, everyone’s at loggerheads with someone. The play opens on the large cast assembling, each person crying out an indecipherable grievance until there’s complete cacophony.

The point about climate change being a divisive issue is dramatically made, but the unfolding story of these characters doesn’t take us much further. It takes a while to discern the various relationships and the role of the much-invoked Percy, a young woman who died fighting the ecological fight.

The central storyline is carried by

Carley Robinson as the community leader trying to please everyone; Donna Acquavella and Karina Savillo as the squabbling contractor and activist wife; the grieving teacher (Rachel Gould), and the scientist (Jeremy Jimenez), who resorts to a sock puppet telling corny jokes to express his feelings. Unfortunately, many of the characters (however passionately acted) remain, for varying reasons, ultimately unsympathetic. And much of the action involves the different constituents arguing stridently with one another, which becomes more wearing than illuminating.

The realistic narrative is complicated by the presence of two surreal characters, larger-than-life metaphysical figures in flowing robes and elaborate hairpieces.

The blue-faced one in black Darth Vaderish headpiece (Levi Wilson) seems to be Self-Interest (though the program says “Phagos,” which suggests “The Devourer”); the other (Zachariah Menchaca), in long white dreads, is Hope (or Elpis, the Greek spirit of hope, an arcane bit of mythology).

One character, an elderly black woman (Rhodessa Jones) who recalls all the Ithaca floods, invokes this latter being (though the neighborhood kids thinks she’s babbling about Elvis, and until we peruse the program, so do we). This old sage (among other formulaic figures, like the petulant teen and the rigid teacher) connects the literal and spiritual realms. This otherworldliness is perhaps the play’s most interesting feature, giving us ritualistic moments that carry poetic emotion—the aged woman slowly raking leaves; a girl isolated, standing weeping amidst a storm.

This ethereal theme also inspires the absolutely brilliant stage environment, a collaboration of designers Sarah Lambert (set), Joey Moro (lighting), Warren Cross (sound), and Jeff Hodges and Nick Hussong (video). The backdrop screen is the most lyrical, fluid, and engaging aspect of

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the show: the two spirit-figures move silhouetted behind it; huge, stunning graphic titles flash across it; rain and lightning and flowing water wash over it. High movable blackboards are scrawled on in chalk, adding to the palimpsest effect. Two teens (Kriti Sinha, Isaiah Rosenstein) converse in real time on their e-tablets; their faces huge above us (ok, maybe this device is tech for its own sake).

Some history of Ithaca’s flood control is introduced, along with historical photos (a local gathering of the Klan); there’s an account of the 1779 Sullivan scorchedearth campaign against the First Peoples.

The implication is that once again nonwhites will be the ones to suffer: black residents living in downtown Ithaca’s flood plain. Throughout, we’re reminded that

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the adults have mucked up this world and the next generation (though here a far cry from Greta Thunberg) must spearhead change.

Agitprop theater can inform us or lead to action; but long and overly ambitious, “The Next Storm”—which ends on a forced show of communal allegiance—instead risks leaving us restlessly discontent.

Kiplinger Theatre “The Next Storm,” by Thom Dunn, directed by Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. At Cornell’s Kiplinger Theatre Nov. 2223. Tickets: schwartztickets.com.

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y any measure Caryl Churchill is one of our leading Englishlanguage playwrights, known for her ability to morph theatrical forms with every play she writes. Her haunting urban gothic, “The Skriker,” challenging to produce, is rarely cited. So big props for House of Ithaqua’s current production, smartly directed by HOI’s Artistic Director A. J. Sage.

Churchill describes the character of the Skriker as “a shapeshifter and death

portent, ancient and damaged,” and drops into her cauldron a twisted passel of monstrosities, creatures deeply rooted in British folklore and nursery rhymes: Yallery Brown, RawHeadandBloodyBones, Bogle, Black Annis, Kelpie, Spriggan, ghosts, etc. While more are at home in the underworld, they begin to pop up all over modern-day London, as the Skriker pursues two teenage girls: Josie, recently a psychiatric patient for apparently killing her newborn, and Lily, a pregnant runaway.

Churchill’s text is threaded with deliciously impossible stage directions, such as “There is a row of small houses. Spriggen and Rawheadandbloodybones tower over them,” that open up vistas of stage possibilities. Then there is the peculiar language of the Skriker, a vertiginous cascade of associative run-on phrases: “Open bluebeard’s one bloody chamber maid, eat the one forbidden fruit of the tree top down comes cradle and baby” that mangle and re-mix fairy tales and commonplaces.

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SHOW LOVE The liminal world thus conjured thrums with uncertainty and foreboding, and since the Skriker appears as anyone or thing (including a child, a homeless woman, a fairy, a sofa, a man), the play produces a field of paranoia. This Skriker is simultaneously needy and seductive, addiction personified. Motherhood itself becomes a potential threat; no accident that the story of Rumplestiltskin pops up early.

Strong ensemble work marks the many creatures (15 actors), imaginatively costumed by Elizabeth Kitney. Amanda Moretti has choreographed their movement in ersatz and fluid phrases, enhanced by the superb soundscape generated by Zaccharie Charvolin and Norm Scott.

While all the ensemble are spot-on, Dan Kiely’s Spriggan, Karen Koyangi’s Green Lady and Noah Elman’s RawHeadandBloodyBones stand out.

Sage has chosen a minimalist arena staging, mostly quick arrangements of chairs, with sound and Lea Davis’s evershifting lighting to mark place. The aesthetic makes sense, though it necessarily loses some of the uncanny juxtapositions Churchill invents (e.g., a Brownie working as a barkeep.) The mood achieved with the creatures is more melancholic Victorian gothic than savagely ancient. The pace is good, only sagging a bit at the two-thirds mark, when the actors also fall into a patch of shouting.

Maya Jones and Erin Lockett portray Josie and Lily respectively, with a tight, sinewy partnership. Jones is the more cynical, already part deadened by her life.

Lockett maintains an optimism which spars with the watchful in Lily, she acts with a direct simplicity that is both girlish and able to cut to the chase.

Barbara Geary astonishes as the Skriker. She alternately caresses and flings her phrases, a maker of stories with a circuit missing, never losing the thread of meaning. Protean physicality (bending, springing, shrinking, striking) and keenly etched characterizations propel the play forward.

Geary wheedles and rages, seduces and bullies in a furious whiplash that both terrifies and mesmerizes.

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The internal operation, however, is very different and quite appealing. It begins with the entrance itself. Lunch time, when we approach the main dining room, there’s a standing sign which informs that we may choose any table. I like that, as I think it’s customer friendly and means management has tasked servers to find us. And when the servers do arrive they pour a glass of cold water from a carafe containing a colorful tasty surprise which, on various visits, have included basil and mint leaves, cucumber and lime, and orange and cucumber slices. The carafe remains on the table for easy access. These two simple steps, seating ourselves and the creative water service, are a clear indication that Mix management is innovative and customer friendly. Although I’m not privy to the training program, it’s hard not to notice the service is incredibly friendly, helpful and efficient. If all the servers at Mix resemble Fio and Tristan, there is no better service in our area.

The menu has expanded dramatically since Mix’s opening three years ago. It begins with breakfast offerings that offer a variety of creative options, including a dozen interesting omelet combinations ($12.50-$13.50) plus a plain one with a group of a la carte items, which can be chosen to create your own. Omelet prep can be tricky: In an attempt to make sure all the ingredients are properly cooked it’s easy to overcook or undercook the eggs.

At Mix, the omelets are expertly prepared.

They are served with a ramekin of brown sugar oatmeal, which is too sweet for me, a biscuit, and some cheddar hash brown potatoes. There’s also an excellent selection of French toast, waffles, and pancakes.

At lunch I recently selected one of their fun sounding burgers. I ordered it rare but received it well done. It came as a double

The dining room at Mix during a recent weekend brunch. (Photo by Casey Martin)

patty, with an almost imperceptible thin layer of melted cheese and juicy, tasty shavings of fried onions piled high.

At dinner, a complimentary initial offering of homemade popovers with a tasty homemade tomato dipping sauce was most welcome.

One of their highlighted items is fried chicken. Four parts are offered: wing, breast, thigh, leg. Any three cost $14.95 and four cost $15.95. With that pricing It shouldn’t be a surprise that I always order four, even if I have to take some home.

The pieces are usually cooked just right although the breading is heavier than I like so I scrape most of it off.

Another of my favorites is the Duck Confit Grilled Cheese sandwich ($16.95).

I wouldn’t recommend Lobster Bisque Pot Pie simply because there’s so little lobster and the two tiny pieces I could find were cut so small my server and I had to actually search for them in the sauce. On the other hand, the Vegan Thai Noodle Bowl is beautifully seasoned with a generous portion of my selected protein, tofu.

Major categories include Butcher’s Block items, composed of steaks and chops. I very much enjoyed the lamb loin chops which arrived rare when ordered rare and yet were still beautifully seasoned. There’s a choice of sauces… I chose Bearnaise. I did wish there were accompanying sides other than a small stuffed half tomato. Mussels, Burgers, Sandwiches, Salads and Seafood are other major groupings. Fire Pot Seafood Gumbo can be ordered small or large. The description for small is that it serves 2-3, however I found it suitable for just one.

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concerti! The Cerrone was completed only months ago, and with his keen musical mind and deep musical soul Wosner’s interpretation of Mozart will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression. | $30 Adults / $10 Students Cosmic Joke Collective Presents Ithaca Free Clinic Benefit Show: The Beatles Tribute | 8:00 PM, 11/23 Saturday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Featuring members of Noon Fifteen, Thru Spectrums, The Uncommons, Vee Da Bee, Hollow Choir, and more. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ Abbey Road, the entire album will be performed, along with other popular Beatles tunes. | $10/$15 Cornell Wind Symphony and Chamber Orchestra | 3:00 PM, 11/24 Sunday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Symphony: Vittorio Giannini’s Symphony No. 3, Donald Grantham’s Louisiana folk celebration J’ai été au bal, and Patrick Williams’ An American Concerto with saxophone soloist Michael Titlebaum. Orchestra: Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 10, Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Dvo?ák’s Two Waltzes Op. 54, and Sibelius’s Rakastava.

David Chu, senior piano recital | 5:00 PM, 11/24 Sunday | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Exploration of Darkness, including Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 57 (Appassionata), Brahms’ Ballades Op. 10, and Thomas Ades’ Darkness Visible.

Cornell Jazz Combo Showcase | 7:00 PM, 11/24 Sunday | McCormick’s at Moakley House, 215 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Enjoy an evening of jazz to wind down your weekend. Join CU Jazz and director Paul Merrill for the jazz combo showcase.

Michael Plagerman, organ recital | 8:00 PM, 11/25 Monday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | An exploration of the registration conventions, sounds, and characteristics of the late 19th century Boston organ scene with focus on the works of Dudley Buck, Eugene Thayer, and George Whiting as they relate to performance of music on the American Classic organ.

Joe Crookston Thanksgiving Concert | 6:30 PM, 11/29 Friday | Unitarian Universalist Society, 306 N Aurora St., Ithaca | $10

Stage The Skriker by Caryl Churchill | 7:30 PM, 11/21 Thursday thru 11/23 Saturday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Inspired by British folklore and focused on disasters on both the macro and micro levels, follows a shapeshifting faerie who stalks two young mothers, adopting various personas as she attempts to coax them back to her home in the Underworld.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast | 7:30 PM, 11/22 Friday | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Through Jan 5. Spectacular costumes and fantastic sets combine with beloved songs in this classic story about finding the magic in love.

Head Over Heels | 7:30 PM, 11/22 Friday & 11/23 Saturday; 2:00 PM 11/24 Sunday| Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland , Cortland | A musical comedy that mixes a variety of genres in unique ways. Set in a 1980s-style VIP dance club and featuring the music of the Go-Go’s, actors deliver their lines in Elizabethan dialogue common in Shakespearean drama.

The Next Storm | 7:30 PM, 11/22 Friday & 11/23 Saturday; 2:00 PM 11/23 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Ithaca Falls provides the backdrop for this wry comedy about the local impact of climate change. The future is at stake in this communitybased play created by Civic Ensemble, Cornell University, and playwright Thom Dunn. | 18-Dec Daddy Long Legs - The Musical | 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM, 11/23 Saturday & 11/24 Sunday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | A heartwarming story about a witty young woman and her mysterious benefactor, based on the novel that inspired the classic 1955 film.

Proof | 8:00 PM, 11/23 Saturday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Nov 23 - Dec 15. Catherine has spent years taking care of her father, a famous mathematician. In the wake of his death, Catherine grapples with what she may or may not have inherited—from brilliance to madness.

With the appearance of Catherine’s estranged sister, an unexpected suitor, and a notebook containing a groundbreaking proof, Catherine’s

Artist Alley Open Studios | 5:00 PM, 11/21 Thursday | South Hill Business Park, 950 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Artist Alley Entrance is off the lower lot at the red doors. Up to 40+ studios!

Get Creative With ReUse! | 6:00 PM, 11/21 Thursday | Ithaca ReUse Center, 214 Elmira Rd, Ithaca | Join ReUse for one or all of these free Creative ReUse Workshops leading up to the Holiday season. Creative reuse is a great way to make a meaningful gift, holiday decorations, or creative expression, without making a negative global impact.

New Members Show | 12:00 PM, 11/22 Friday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | Four new members of State of the Art Gallery: Ed Brothers, Don Ellis, Patricia Hunsinger and Alicia Sangiuliano, will share the main gallery during November. On exhibit will be paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and a mobile. Thru Dec 1, 2019.

Film Cinemapolis Week of Friday, November 22 through Thursday, November 28, 2019. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first*.

The Irishman* | A mob hitman recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.| 219 mins R Pain and Glory | A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. | 113 mins R

Parasite | All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family takes a peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.|132 mins R The Lighthouse | The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. | 109 mins R Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

Malena Szlam: Inexistent Time | 11/20, 7:00 PM | w/ filmmaker Malena Szlam The Cave | 11/21, 7:00 PM; 11/22, 7:15 PM | **Free Screenings. For besieged civilians, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where pediatrician and managing physician Dr. Amani Ballour and her colleagues Samaher and Dr. Alaa have claimed their right to work as equals alongside their male counterparts, doing their jobs in a way that would be unthinkable in the oppressively patriarchal culture that exists above.

Reefer Madness | 11/21, 9:35 PM; & 11/22, 9:20 PM | This camp classic, an outrageous anti-dope propaganda film from the early days of the drug’s prohibition in the US, chronicles the depravity of an unlucky youth driven mad by the munchies.

Regal Ithaca Wednesday 11/20 through Tuesday, 11/26. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first*.

Jojo Rabbit | A young member of Hitler Youth finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.| 108 mins PG-13

Frozen II* | Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa’s powers in order to save their kingdom. | 103 mins PG

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Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W. State St., Ithaca | Buffalo’s Oats Holy Roller is the musical project of poet and existential songwriter Joe Murray Myers. Joining him on this bill are two local favorites. Alexander Bradshaw (pictured, Newman Brothers, Toto’s Magic Show, Ithaca Bottom Boys) and Wallace and the Apes

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a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.| 108 mins PG Knives Out* | A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family. | 130 mins PG-13 21 Bridges*| An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. | 99 mins R Ford vs Ferrari | American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966. | 152 mins PG-13 Charlie’s Angels | When a young systems engineer blows the whistle on a dangerous technology, Charlie’s Angels are called into action, putting their lives on the line to protect all.| 118 mins PG-13 Last Christmas | When a young woman is hired to work as Santa’s elf for a department store, her life takes

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Dickens Christmas | 12:00 PM, 11/30 Saturday | Various Skaneateles locations, |

Books Reading by Local Voices contributor Rob Sullivan | 6:00 PM, 11/20 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Known by many in the Ithaca community as a postal worker at the Tioga Street office, Rob Sullivan, since retiring, has written a series of poems tracing his work experiences, from the entrance exam to his final day. The carefully crafted poems in this collection, “Post Scripts: Behind the Counter at the

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The Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture by Richard Rambuss “Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Carnival—New Orleans Style” | 4:30 PM, 11/21 Thursday | Guerlac Room, A.D. White House, 27 East Ave, Ithaca | Free and open to the public.

For more information, visit english. cornell.edu/english-events.

Bilingual Storytime for Families and Children of All Ages | 11:30 AM, 11/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Both Chinese-speaking and nonChinese speaking families and friends are invited to gather and share songs, rhymes, and stories in Mandarin and English at this special storytime series.

Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to attend. (off 11/28)

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 11/22 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Ballet and Books | 12:30 PM, 11/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Ballet and Books is a community-based organization dedicated to strengthening children’s confidence and sense of community while building literacy skills and excitement for reading.

Drag Queen Story Hour | 12:00 PM, 11/24 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join Miss Coraline, Miss Tilia, and friends once a month for Drag Story Hour. Join our colorful and fun group for an hour of story time full of glimmer and more glamour than you have ever seen in the daylight!

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The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | “I’m going to be around when the world as we know it ends.” So says The Skriker, the eponymous character at the center of Caryl Churchill’s 1994 play. The latest production from House of Ithaqua sold out last weekend, so see it while you can! Contains adult themes, imagery, and language. (photo: Facebook)

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Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Family-friendly Concert & Musical Storytime | 4:00 PM, 11/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children and families will be treated to a musical performance of “Fiddle-I-Fee,” by Santiago Cohen. The storytime will include a quartet of CCO musicians.

The performance will conclude with an “instrument petting zoo,” an opportunity for young audience members to try out an assortment of instruments.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 11/22 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W.

Holiday Card and Ornament Making Program | 2:00 PM, 11/22 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At this festive drop-in program, children can create holiday cards and paint ornaments.

Each child who creates a holiday card will receive a set of 10 professionallyprinted cards featuring their design, along with envelopes.

Family Movie Night | 6:30 PM, 11/22 Friday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Come to the library for a free movie and popcorn!

Fall Harvest | 10:00 AM, 11/23 Saturday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Join Child and Family Resources and the Seneca Falls Library to celebrate Fall Harvest!

There will be activities, crafts and refreshments for the whole family!

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 11/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

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Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Ave., Cornell | A multimedia production combining elements from Indonesian traditions of gamelan music, dance, and wayang (shadow puppetry) with computer graphics, sound-oriented free-improvisation, and contemporary performance aesthetics. The production draws upon the 14th century Javanese story of Sutasoma, an incarnation of the Buddha, and his encounters with the human-eating King Kalmasapada. (photo: provided)

LEGO Building Program | 3:00 PM, 11/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The Library provides building bricks, and all creations are displayed at the Library for one week.

Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Pokémon Club | 3:00 PM, 11/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Enthusiasts are invited to bring in their Pokémon cards to battle, discuss, and enjoy with other fans. Beginners are welcome; an expert from TCGplayer will be available to teach the basics of the game and to provide decks for players to use. This program is geared towards youth and teens, but is open to all interested people. TCGplayer uses gaming to teach social skills, math, and vocabulary in a safe space free of judgment.

Read with Miss Martha | 3:30 PM, 11/26 Tuesday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Read a book to Miss Martha - She’s all ears!

This is a motivational reading program where kids read aloud to a friendly dog, Miss Martha.

Cosplay Couture | 4:00 PM, 11/25 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At these weekly Makerspace drop-in hours, teens ages 13 and up can focus on creating costumes, cosplay, accessories, props, and wearable garments of all types. No registration is required for this weekly drop-in program.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 11/26 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every

Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 11/26 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 11/27 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

Notices Ithaca Rotary Club Weekly Luncheon Meeting | 12:15 PM, 11/20 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Ithaca Police Chief Dennis Nayor will speak on “Policing in the 21st Century” | $17 Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 11/20 Wednesday | Dinner: Strand Café @ Ithaca Hilton Downtown.

Host: Joyce W., RSVP: joyceannewhite@icloud.com

November Science on Tap | 7:00 PM, 11/20 Wednesday | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N. Tioga St., Ithaca | ‘Smaller than the space between atoms.’ Learn how the world’s highest resolution microscopes are used to study how changes on the atomic scale impact the things we make, from cell phones to preserving great works of art.

Debate Watch Party | 8:30 PM, 11/20 Wednesday | Argos Warehouse Lounge & Event Space, 416 E. State Street, Ithaca | Join like-minded friends to watch the November Democratic Debate at Argos Warehouse!

Diversity and Housing in Tompkins County | 7:00 PM, 11/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Hosted by the Ithaca branch of AAUW with Liddy Barger of the Human Services of Coalition and Ellen Morris-Knowler, local realtor and board member at INHS. Holidays Shopping Spree Along Cayuga Wine Trail | All Day 11/22 Friday | Two weekends! Visit all fourteen Cayuga Wine Trail wineries for a season appropriate food and wine pairing, additional tastes,a souvenir ornament from each stop and a grape vine wreath to hang them on! Get your tickets today!

Harmony’s Craft Fair in Harford | 12:00 PM, 11/22 Friday | Harford Town Hall, 394 Route 38, Harford | Start your Christmas shopping with the many vendor tables. Prize Drawings, hot dogs, polish sausage, home-made chili, soups, and baked goods. Fun for all ages.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 11/23 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

For more information, go to the club’s website, http://www.cayugabirdclub. org/calendar Harmony’s Craft Fair in Harford | 9:00 AM, 11/23 Saturday | Harford Town Hall, 394 Route 38, Harford | Start your Christmas shopping with the many vendor tables. Prize Drawings, hot dogs, polish sausage, home-made chili, soups, and baked goods. Fun for all ages.

St. Matthew’s Fall Festival | 9:00 AM, 11/23 Saturday | St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 14 Church St., Moravia | Bazaar, luncheon and tours of the historic wood-carved church.

Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 11/24 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca |

Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Landlords Association of Tompkins County Monthly Meeting | 4:30 PM, 11/25 Monday | Hotel Ithaca, 222 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Speakers will be accountants David Sprague and Angie Jackson, discussing Qualified Business Income Deductions, and other tax strategies.

INHS: Home Buyer U | 6:30 PM, 11/25 Monday | Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS), 115 W Clinton St., Ithaca | Learn the steps to buying a home, get a free copy of your credit report and meet expert housing professionals. INHS offers down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time buyers in Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga, and Tompkins Counties -- come see if you qualify!

Free Adult Tutoring Services | 10:00 AM, 11/26 Tuesday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Learn reading, writing, math and job-related skills. Drop-ins welcome.

Teachers provided by the Literacy Volunteers of Seneca County.

French Conversation and Tutoring Sessions | 6:00 PM, 11/26 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Opportunities for

those in the process of learning French to attend conversation and tutoring groups. The conversation circle and tutoring group will meet on alternating weeks.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 11/27 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com

Health Men’s Group | 6:00 PM, 11/20 Wednesday | The LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Men’s Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m.

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, Tuesdays & Thursdays | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 11/21 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 11/24 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 11/24 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous | 4:00 PM, 11/24 Sunday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | FA is a free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating, or bulimia. foodaddicts. org. Additional meetings held Mondays @ 7pm and Saturdays at 8am.

Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 11/25 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 11/26 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield |

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The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Featuring members of Noon Fifteen, Thru Spectrums, The Uncommons, Vee Da Bee, Hollow Choir, and more. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road, the entire album will be performed, along with other popular Beatles tunes. Celebrate the fab four while supporting an important and benevolent local resource. (photo: Facebook)

McCormick’s at Moakley House, 215Warren Rd, Ithaca | Enjoy an evening of jazz to wind down your weekend. Join CU Jazz and Director Paul Merrill for the jazz combo showcase. (photo: Facebook)

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